The Tang Family’s Seven Os

When Song Xiao Bai saw the two beds close to each other in the ward, his expression also stiffened for a moment, but he didn’t say anything, just gave a faint frown and then calmed down.

There is a small garden downstairs for the patients to rest in.
New branches are growing out from the green tress and the colourful flowers in the flowerbeds are standing in the wind, with a vibrant energy that makes people forget their worries.

Tang Wu Yuan pushed open the window and the breeze blew through, bringing with it the fragrance of flowers.
He closed his eyes and sniffed, stretched out his hand through the window, opened his fingers, and felt the slow breeze coming through his fingers.
With a refreshing coolness, the corners of his mouth unconsciously raised in a pleasant arc.

Song Xiao Bai walked next to him, his hands in his pockets, his eyes quietly looking out of the window.
This is the second floor, the garden below can be seen clearly.

Tang Wu Yuan recalled his last comment about being able to smell something, he inadvertently touched the barrier patch on the back of his neck and moved backwards, moving away from him without making a sound.

Tang Wu Yuan hesitated for a moment and asked: “Can you smell the flowers?”

Song Xiao Bai shook his head, his eyes clear and cool, there was no superfluous emotion on his face when he brought up his failed sense of smell.

“What a pity……” muttered Tang Wu Yuan in a low voice.

He looked at the gorgeous flowers blooming downstairs, this time he sincerely felt sorry for Song Xiao Bai.
For food, Song Xiao Bai could use his mouth to discern the taste, but for flower fragrance, Song Xiao Bai could only rely on his nose to smell, flower tea or flower cake more or less lost the original taste of the flowers, so Song Xiao Bai might never know what real flower fragrance smells like.

Especially this exquisiteness in front of him, paired with the scent of flowers, only then can you feel how beautiful this place was.

Tang Wu Yuan pursed the corners of his lips, looked at Song Xiao Bai and asked tentatively: “What about the pheromones? Can you smell pheromones?”

Song Xiao Bai shook his head again, “No.”

Tang Wu Yuan withdrew his gaze, his stiff body becoming a little more at ease, and moved again, leaning back into his position by the window.

Song Xiao Bai was an Alpha yet he couldn’t smell his mate’s pheromones, it was pretty miserable when you thought about it.
Tang Wu Yuan couldn’t help but feel a little sympathy, but was soon drawn away by the view downstairs.
There was a tender yellow bird resting on the branch in the big tree downstairs, it was chirping while jumping around the branches, it was adorable.

“It’s so cute……” Tang Wu Yuan couldn’t help but marvel.

Song Xiao Bai Bai sniffed and turned his head to look at him, lowering his head, the sunlight spilling right over his soft head, casting a light golden glow, his eyes lowered as he looked at the flower bed downstairs, his eyes moving, full of novelty and excitement, his dark eyelashes slightly upturned, a bit like the butterflies fluttering among the flowers downstairs, fanning gently.

Song Xiao Bai shifted his eyes for half a second, withdrew his gaze, half curved his lips a little, and turned to walk out of the room.

The flowers downstairs were really beautiful, he heard that the flowers were very fragrant, and each type of flower had a different smell, but unfortunately he had never smelled them.
After so many years, he had already adapted to a world without scent, but looking at Tang Wu Yuan’s delighted eyes, he was surprisingly curious.

Tang Wu Yuan was still concentrating on the birds and the scenery downstairs, not noticing when he left.

Song Xiao Bai took the lift to the sixth floor of the hospital’s outpatient department and knocked on the door of one of the doctors’ rooms, and only after a while did he get permission to enter.

The doctor sitting in the room was staring at the medical records on the computer screen, looking at them carefully, as soon as the doctor looked up and saw it was him, he immediately let go of the mouse in his hand and smiled happily, his voice pleasant, “Xiao Bai, you’re here?”

“En, Uncle Tong.” Song Xiao Bai nodded gently.

Dr.
Tong was also on that boat back then, someone who had been saved by his father, so over the years, Dr.
Tong had been very concerned about his loss of sense of smell and had searched for many ways to cure him.
Unfortunately, after all these years, there was still no progress, and Song Xiao Bai’s sense of smell still had not returned.

“Sit down quickly, why haven’t you come over recently?” Dr.
Tong asked with concern.

“I’ve been a bit busy lately.” Song Xiao Bai sat down in the seat opposite Dr.
Tong, he had been busy dealing with Star Pirates and the spy recently, so he had no time to come to the hospital.

He whispered: “Uncle Tong, I seem to have smelled a smell some time ago.”

When Dr.
Tong heard his words, his spirits were immediately lifted and he looked a little excited: “Great, how many times have you smelled it? Is it the same smell?”

Song Xiao Bai looked down and thought for a moment before replying: “I’ve smelled it twice in total, and it should be the same smell.”

“What kind of smell?”

“A little sweet……and a little fragrant……” Song Xiao Bai thought carefully, then shook his head, “I’m also not sure what that smell is.
”

“Could it be the smell of pheromones?” Dr.
Tong’s eyes were expectant.

Song Xiao Bai shook his head again, “I can’t be sure.”

Dr.
Tong nodded happily, “It’s always good when you can smell, this is the first time in years that your sense of smell has responded, which is good progress.”

Song Xiao Bai asked: “Could it be that all those years of treatment have done the trick?”

“I can’t be sure, next time if you smell this smell again, remember to make sure to look for the source of the smell properly to see what smell you are reacting to, if you find that it is the smell of pheromones, you let me know immediately.”

Song Xiao Bai’s mind unconsciously recalled that the two times he had smelled the smell, he had seen Tang Wu Yuan, he pursed his lips and said: “It shouldn’t be pheromones, the person I was with when I smelled it is a Beta.”

Dr.
Tong’s face could not hide his disappointment, but he still nodded happily, “No matter what the smell is, it’s a good sign.”

Song Xiao Bai nodded lightly, “En.”

Dr.
Tong saw that he didn’t have too much expectation and said comfortingly: “Xiao Bai, don’t worry, I’ll definitely think of a way to cure you.”

“Thank you, Uncle Tong.” Song Xiao Bai knew that Dr.
Tong had been working hard for his illness all these years, even when he wanted to give up, Dr.
Tong did not give up and kept trying to cure him.
He did not want to disappoint Dr.
Tong’s expectations, so he kept trying to cooperate, but after so many years, he did not have much hope after all.

Song Xiao Bai chatted with Dr.
Tong for a while longer, until a patient came in, then he left and went back to the ward.

He pushed open the door of the ward and saw at a glance that Tang Wu Yuan was eating a watermelon, which was very big and round, bigger than Tang Wu Yuan’s small head.

Tang Wu Yuan was holding a piece of bright red watermelon in his hand and was eating it with his head down, his whole face was almost buried in the watermelon, which was red and bright, making his little face even whiter, not at all like a soldier in the wind and sun, but more like a little nobleman.

Song Xiao Bai remembered all of a sudden, Tang Wu Yuan seems to have always been unafraid of the sun.
When he was training in the past, everyone was bronzed or even tanned, but he was the only one with a white, clean face wandering around.

Song Xiao Bai walked in and asked: “Where did the watermelon come from?”

“I ordered takeaway with my Intelligent Brain.”

The military hospital was different from the inside of the army, it was possible to order takeaway here, and now that technology was advanced, takeaways were delivered by smart machines, which was very convenient and fast.

Tang Wu Yuan looked up at him, then pushed a piece of watermelon over and said in a cold voice: “Give you a piece.”

Song Xiao Bai looked at the red, watery watermelon in front of him and moved his fingers, taking it over.

The flesh of the watermelon was fresh and sweet, and the juice was refreshingly sweet in the mouth.
After taking a few bites of the watermelon in a proper posture, Song Xiao Bai looked up and saw Tang Wu Yuan’s neat, white teeth nibbling on the watermelon, his lips as red as the watermelon.

“I know, I’m a soldier.” Tang Wu Yuan took the initiative to take over his words, and could’t help but look up and glare at him, can’t a soldier just nibble on a watermelon comfortably?

Song Xiao Bai pursed the corners of his lips for a moment, then suddenly lifted his finger to wipe the corner of Tang Wu Yuan’s mouth and whispered: “You’ve got watermelon seed on the corner of your mouth.”

If it were anyone else, Song Xiao Bai would not have wiped the corner of his mouth with his own hands, but when he looked at Tang Wu Yuan’s clean, white face, he did so unexpectedly1, without the slightest discomfort in his heart, and even he himself was a little stunned.

Tang Wu Yuan inexplicably had an urge to blush, he paused in his movements and said in as cold a voice as possible: “…… Oh, thanks.”

Nemesis, please pay attention to your identity as a nemesis, do not move your hands and feet2!

Song Xiao Bai looked at his somewhat awkward expression and abruptly reddened earlobes, could not help but smile a little, lowered his head and ate a mouthful of watermelon.

The sky outside the window was dark and dreary and it looked like it was going to rain soon, but indoors, the bright colours of the watermelon made it seem a little lighter and not dull, but rather brisk.

Song Xiao Bai looked relaxed for the first time, but he couldn’t help but frown when he saw the hospital bed next to him.
He’s staying here tonight……the bed sheets are newly washed and changed, but they should have been used by many people……

Tang Wu Yuan looked at Song Xiao Bai’s eyes and understood that Song Xiao Bai’s mysophobia was acting up, he could not help but let out a laugh, the pain of his nemesis was his greatest joy.

He drew a tissue and wiped the corner of his mouth, jumped onto the bed in a flash and lay on the pillows, his mouth held a lazy smile, deliberately let out a comfortable sigh and gave Song Xiao Bai an oblique glance.

Song Xiao Bai was expressionless and finished eating the watermelon in his hand.
After washing his hands, he sat on the stool and took out his Intelligent Brain to deal with his official work.

Tang Wu Yuan was lying on the bed, originally wanting to anger him, but the pillow turned out to be too comfortable, he rubbed it a few times and fell asleep unconsciously.
When he opened his eyes again, the sky was already dark.

It started raining outside the window at some point, the sound of water pitter patter outside the window and inside the bathroom, it echoed loudly.

It was the nemesis taking a shower in there.

Tang Wu Yuan pursed his lips and rolled around on the bed.
On the bed next to him, the sheets were still neat and tidy, without the slightest wrinkle, and at a glance no one had ever sat on it.
He was a little impressed by Song Xiao Bai and could not help but wonder if Song Xiao Bai would have to sit on the stool all night tonight in order not to go to bed.

Tang Wu Yuan imagined his nemesis sitting next to him for the whole night while he slept, and he shuddered.

He picked up his phone and the message bar was bouncing.
There was a group chat at the military headquarters and he clicked in to see that everyone was really active, all talking about wanting to visit Tang Wu Yuan and Song Xiao Bai in the hospital.
Although it was a bit disgraceful that the two officers had beaten and injured each other, they were all worried about their health.

Song Xiao Bai had already told the Liaison Officer early on that no one was allowed to visit at the hospital, so the Liaison Officer relayed Song Xiao Bai’s message in the group chat, only then did everyone finally quieten down.

Tang Wu Yuan put his heart down and quit the group chat, if people came to visit them, the fact that they were not injured would have to be exposed.

He opened the dialog box with Tang Liu Yuan and typed in the message: “Are you coming to the hospital today?”

Tang Liu Yuan had studied medicine and had worked in the hospital since graduation, and was now working at this very military hospital.
If he remembered correctly, Tang Liu Yuan happened to be on duty tonight.

Tang Liu Yuan quickly replied, “I’m on my way to the hospital, brother, what’s the matter?”

Tang Wu Yuan said he was staying at the hospital tonight, then said: “Buy me two sets of bed sheets and covers when you come.”

“Okay, I’ll be there later.”

Tang Wu Yuan put down his phone just as Song Xiao Bai finished his shower and walked out, rubbing his hair.

Tang Wu Yuan looked at Song Xiao Bai’s dripping hair and suddenly remembered that he was now in the same room with Song Xiao Bai.
Since the barrier patch was not waterproof, he must take it off when he takes a shower later, and in the meantime , if the pheromones in his body were accidentally released, it would be somewhat dangerous.
Although Song Xiao Bai’s nose could not smell it, Song Xiao Bai’s reaction last time made him wary.

Tang Wu Yuan looked at Song Xiao Bai with apprehension, if Song Xiao Bai could really smell the pheromones on him, it would be bad, he had to be careful.

Song Xiao Bai stood at the bathroom door, raised his head slightly, looked at him and asked: “Do you want to take a shower now?”

Tang Wu Yuan shook his head without hesitation, “No, I’m not taking a shower.”

Song Xiao Bai casually turned off the shower heater and said without much thought: “Then I’ll turn it off first, turn it on yourself later when you’re taking a shower.”

“No, I mean I’m not taking a shower tonight.”

When Song Xiao Bai heard his words, he looked back at him in surprise, his gaze full of disbelief, as if he had heard something incredible, he was silent for a moment, his face hesitant as he asked: “……are you sure?”

Tang Wu Yuan nodded: “Sure.”

Song Xiao Bai’s gaze swept from his head to his toes, and finally from his toes to the top of his hair, not even a single strand of hair was spared, and finally Song Xiao Bai gave a difficult expression and took a step back without hesitation, as if he wanted to get away from him.

Tang Wu Yuan：”……” So angry ah.

 

melon: sorry for the super late update! I missed Mon and Tue’s post but I’ll make up for it when I have more time, maybe this weekend. 

1

鬼使神差 (guǐ shǐ shén chāi): an idiom, means seemingly the doings of ghosts and god, unconsciously doing things that were not expected to be done before.

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don’t be touchy