"… "
What is she talking about.
So embarrassing.
Gu Jianian stood on his left foot, adjusting his center of gravity back and forth like a funny clown.
Then she watched Chi Yan stand up and walk towards her.
She wanted to explain a few more words about the dirty carpet, thinking she could take it home and have it cleaned.
Then she saw him walk up to her, and on his face, which was originally full of annoyance and a desire to stay away from strangers, a surprised smile flashed across his face for a moment.
Chi Yan reached out to steady her shaking shoulders and slowly helped her sit back on the sofa.
Completely ignoring the blood that had completely stained the carpet.
Gu Jianian sat there with her legs crossed, blankly, and saw him squatting down, observing her feet.
Gu Jianian uncomfortably pulled her feet back, but he rudely said "tsk" and raised his hand to hold her ankle: "Don't move, the more you move, the deeper it will clamp."
The skin on her ankle keenly felt the coldness of his fingertips, and Gu Jianian couldn't help but shudder, but he held her tighter.
"I told you not to move."
"oh."
Gu Jianian's face started to get hot for no apparent reason, and he tried his best to suppress the urge to curl up his toes.
Chi Yan frowned and looked at it for a while, then dragged a low table beside him to replace his hand and placed it under Gu Jianian's feet: "It's clamped very deep, and forcibly removing it will pull the wound. Keep this position and don't move. Wait for me."
"Um."
Gu Jianian reached out to wipe away his tears, enduring the pain and fear, and stared at the crab with a stiff posture.
Fortunately, the force of the crab claws seemed to have closed the wound, and the blood stopped oozing out, so it wasn't that embarrassing.
Chi Yan came back quickly, holding a wooden basin filled with water and a medicine box in his hands. He squatted down, lifted her feet from the low table and put them in the water. Then he took out a pair of tweezers from the medicine bag and gently tapped the crab's shell.
"Hold on."
Gu Jianian heard a rare comfort in his tone, and her heart inexplicably felt a little sour. She sniffed and nodded: "... Yeah."
The crab sensed the presence of water all around it and gradually relaxed its vigilance, and its stubborn claws gradually loosened their shackles.
Gu Jianian held his breath and watched it slowly crawl into the water. He found the right moment and quickly retracted his foot.
"Hiss..."
Without the restraint of the crab claws, blood spurted out from the wound and the pain came directly. Gu Jianian couldn't help but gasp.
Chi Yan quickly held her foot with a piece of gauze.
Then he asked her jokingly: "What happened? Where did the crab come from?"
“The fingers are connected to the heart” probably also applies to toes.
Gu Jianian was able to answer his question despite the piercing pain: "... I caught it in the river myself."
"So? You brought them here to read with you?"
He still has the mind to chatter
"No," Gu Jianian pursed his lips, "I wanted to bring it to you for dinner. I saw that you were in a bad mood, so I didn't tell you and just left it next to the sofa. Who knew it would crawl out by itself and set its eyes on my toes..."
"Then it's my fault?"
Gu Jianian said nothing.
But after a few jokes, I was able to successfully get through the most painful period. The wound began to gradually become numb, or maybe my brain had adapted to it.