Rabbits (continued)

"It's all the same, fatigue will just fly away in a flash anyway."

"I'm just worried that something else will fly out with a 'whoosh,' and I'll become even more tired."

Si Ming forcibly placed the person on a small stool in the bathroom, then started filling the bathtub with hot water. After doing this, he turned to leave, but Hongdou grabbed the hem of his clothes.

Turning around, I saw Hongdou pouting and saying, "If Xiao Ming doesn't shower with me, then... then I'll never take a bath again in my life!"

"Uh, what does my not showering with you have to do with you never showering again?" Si Ming couldn't understand the other person's logic.

"It doesn't matter whether it's related or not, anyway, I've made up my mind, that's it."

"Don't act like a little kid. You're an adult now," Si Ming quickly coaxed.

"He clearly treated me like a child, but now he's calling me an adult. Xiao Ming is so cunning."

"Because I'm an adult, and adults are cunning creatures."

"Then I want to be an adult too, and I want to be as cunning as an adult. If you don't shower with me today, I'll never shower again."

Si Ming thought for a moment and said, "If you don't bathe for a long time, your body will stink, and then I won't dare to come near you."

"No, no, that won't do!"

Hongdou was immediately caught in a dilemma. After thinking about it for a while, she suddenly relaxed her brows and said with a grin, "Then I won't eat anymore."

Si Ming rubbed his forehead and said, "What does my not showering with you have to do with whether you eat in the future?"

"I don't care, this is my decision." Hongdou thought for a moment and then added, "Something happened in the first year of junior high school. Xiao Ming probably doesn't know, but I actually hate eggplant. However, Auntie Liu told me that Non-Self ate eggplant, I wouldn't get any rice. Do you know what happened after that?"

"Since you're still alive, one side must have compromised."

Hongdou nodded and said, "Yeah, I also firmly said, 'Then I won't eat anymore,' and five days later, I was taken away by ambulance. Auntie Liu also promised never to force me to eat eggplant again, hehe..."

After saying that, she laughed triumphantly.

"What's so great about this kind of thing...?"

Well, it's certainly something to be proud of that you managed to force the strong-willed Auntie Liu to back down. I guess Auntie Liu realized that Hongdou is the kind of person who would take "foolish words" as a promise worth a thousand pieces of gold, and she really had no other choice but to compromise.

"So, you're saying that what you're saying now is serious?"

"I mean every word I say to Xiao Ming," Hongdou said seriously. "If you want to surrender, now's the time."

Si Ming and Hongdou stared at each other for a while, then Si Ming sighed, patted his forehead helplessly, and said, "Really, why do you insist on showering with a man?"

Knowing it was her victory, Hongdou giggled and grabbed Si Ming's hand, explaining, "I didn't want to shower with a man, I wanted to shower with Xiao Ming."

As she spoke, she casually took off her white pajamas, revealing her delicate, fair back to Si Ming. She was only wearing underwear, and it quickly transformed into a white butterfly and flew away.

Fortunately, by this time, Si Ming had already tasted the forbidden fruit and was no longer a boy who only talked big. He had developed some resistance, otherwise he might have had a hard time taking off his pants.

The two entered the bathtub together, and the water level rose slightly. Si Ming and Hongdou both let out sounds of pleasure. The bathtub in the public bathroom was as big as a public bathhouse, so it didn't feel crowded for the two of them.

Si Ming leaned against the bathtub wall, his upper arms resting on the edge, and squinted to rest for a while. When he opened his eyes, he saw the legendary sight.

"It can actually float on water."

"Hmm?"

Hongdou tilted her head and thought for a moment, then looked down and immediately understood what the other person was talking about. She then cupped it in both hands and asked, "Xiao Ming, do you want to touch it?"

"Although it's a very tempting offer, I really want to get some rest right now, so I'll decline."

As a mature man, Si Ming felt he should act with ease and confidence, unlike those pitiful magicians who blushed at the slightest trick and became incredibly nervous when being honest with a girl.

"Hongdou, did you know that Archimedes' principle is actually an important principle of fluid statics? It states that an object immersed in a still fluid experiences a buoyant force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object, directed vertically upwards through the centroid of the displaced fluid."

"Oh." Hongdou blinked, confused.

Si Ming also felt that the topic change was a bit abrupt, but it was really because Hongdou's white rabbit was too impactful. Although he had seen Murong Qing's rabbit before, Murong Qing's rabbit was the kind that was pointed and conical, and you could tell at a glance that it had a strong jumping ability, while Hongdou's rabbit was soft and round, and could probably only roll around, and its size was really exaggerated.

Although Murong Qing were not small either, exceeding the average, Hongdou's seemed to be several times larger, at least visually. The difference between the two was like that between a big-eared white rabbit and a giant Angora rabbit.

Of course, this comparison is a bit unfair to Murong Qing, since Big-Eared White is at least a bit bigger than Princess Rabbit and Mini Rabbit.

However, Si Ming found it incredible that a giant Angora rabbit could maintain a perfect round shape despite its weight and softness. He then thought that its soft appearance might just be an illusion caused by its shape, and since it could maintain a round shape, it shouldn't be too soft.

What is Xiao Ming thinking about?

"I'm thinking about the breed characteristics and individual differences of rabbits."

"Why did you suddenly think of rabbits?" Hongdou asked, puzzled.

"Probably because... rabbits have pink eyes."

"However, not all rabbits have red eyes; some have black or gray eyes."

"That's probably because it was touched too much, and its eyes got infected, so the redness gradually turned gray and black."

Hongdou thought for a moment, then asked suspiciously, "Xiao Ming, are you really talking about rabbits?"

Si Ming felt a sense of foreboding. "It's just Hongdou, how could she question me? Could it be that she secretly increased her intelligence points while I was away?"

"Ahem, of course. You see, there wasn't even a single 'beep' censored word in what I just said, which shows that I was indeed discussing rabbit breeding. Anyone who misunderstood is simply not pure of heart."

Fearing that Hongdou would see through his act, Si Ming quickly changed the subject. He scooped up hot water with both hands and poured it over himself, when he suddenly noticed that the water was a little unusual, turning a light green.

"Is there bath powder in this bathtub?"