“Do you think… if I ran to pick leaves to eat, would I be able to suck out some juice?” Xu Xian’en shook her head in confusion. “I’m so thirsty…”
“Stop joking around, okay? If you really go to pick leaves to eat, I’ll call you Little Monkey from now on.” Shen Ben tapped her forehead, bent down to retrieve the water bag, and handed it to her. “If you’re thirsty, drink water, don’t think of weird things.”
Xu Xian’en quickly opened the water bag. “No, no, no, don’t tempt me with the water bag, we only have this one left, and we don’t even know when we’ll reach Yiguo, we need to conserve it!”
“It doesn’t matter, you drink.” He pushed the water bag towards her again.
“No way!” Xu Xian’en’s face scrunched up, her small fists hidden behind her back, refusing to let him place the water bag in her hands.
Shen Ben laughed helplessly, took a gulp of water himself, then with one hand pressed behind her neck, bringing her face close to his, and forced the water from his mouth into hers.
“Ha! Now we both have had some, right?” Shen Ben smacked his lips, looking at her with satisfaction.
“You’re insane!” she hit him. “There’s not much water left, we should conserve it, your way will leave us with no water to drink later.”
“You’re the one who’s insane.” He tapped her forehead again. “Water is meant to be drunk. If you’re all about conserving water and not willing to drink it, I bet even if we both die of thirst, there would still be this much water left! Isn’t that a terrible way to conserve water? Drink when you’re thirsty, don’t drink if you’re not, and if we really run out of water, we can think of a solution then.” “I just wanted to save some water so you wouldn’t have to suffer from thirst…” she said softly, her expression full of gentle submission.
“No need to save it like this; we’ve been on the road for so many days already, and we only have a few days left to go. Besides, it’s not like we’re walking, which would be more exhausting; we have transportation…”
