Taotie wanted to pounce on the plate of pastries and devour them.
But when it thought about the possible consequences, Taotie gave up on the tempting idea.
Taotie knew that if it ate the pastries meant for the guests, this human would get angry.
Given its current situation and the lessons it had learned time and again, Taotie had no choice but to admit, reluctantly, that for now, it couldn't afford to provoke this lord.
Since it couldn't set its sights on the pastries on the plate,
the only thing it had any hope of eating... was the pastry in this human's hand.
Xiao Xiao didn't disappoint Taotie.
Hearing Taotie's hungry cry, Xiao Xiao raised an eyebrow, finding it a little amusing.
He reached out.
Taotie's eyes lit up at once.
"Awuu~"
Taotie swallowed the pastry in Xiao Xiao's hand in one bite.
Zhang Bo blinked.
Had his eyes just played tricks on him?
The pastry in Third Brother's hand... had suddenly disappeared?
He shook his head.
He must have imagined it.
And even if he hadn't... what was so strange about something strange happening to Third Brother?
Third Brother himself was the strangest thing around.
Zhang Bo didn't stand on ceremony.
He'd grown tired of sitting on the stone stool.
So he lay down on the lounge chair beside it.
The view shifted.
Interlacing branches came into view.
White plum blossoms dotted them, as if meticulously carved from the finest mutton-fat jade.
The pale winter sunlight fell upon them.
Each petal seemed almost transparent.
Faint glimmers of light shimmered within.
Like...
stuffed candy...
A flash of inspiration struck Zhang Bo.
Then he grimaced.
That comparison...
Had spending so much time with that child lately made his imagination run wild too?
Stuffed candy,