Wang Butcher turned around, facing away from Ye Yang. "Didn't? Why do I smell smoke?"

"A hallucination, definitely a hallucination." I quickly said, "It's been scientifically proven that excessive suspicion can cause hallucinations."

"See, Ye Yang hasn't even made a sound. If I was smoking, he would have said something already."

Luckily, Ye Yang was usually quiet. If he was a chatterbox, he would have been exposed by now.

Wang Butcher looked at Ye Yang. "I still feel like something's not right!"

"What could be wrong?" I pointed to the ceiling and said, "If there was smoke in the room, you wouldn't be able to miss it."

I was deliberately diverting Wang Butcher's attention; smoke was coming out of Ye Yang's nose!

When Wang Butcher looked up, I quickly winked at Ye Yang, who struggled for a while before managing to hold the smoke back.

I immediately pointed towards the window, "What if I threw the cigarette outside..."

Wang Butcher sneered, "You don't have to try to distract me; you must have stuffed the cigarette somewhere. The cigarette butt hasn't been extinguished yet, that's why I can smell smoke in the room. I'm going to sit here and wait today, and if I catch you with evidence..."

"Your legs—will be—broken—"

I quickly coughed softly. "Okay, no problem!"

The cigarette was in Ye Yang's mouth, what was I afraid of?

Experts above the Xiantian realm (the day after tomorrow) could hold their breath for more than ten minutes without it being a problem.

In less than two minutes, I was dumbfounded—smoke was coming out of Ye Yang's ears.

I know it sounds crazy, but smoke was coming out of his ears.

A person's orifices are all connected. If you don't believe me, try putting some liquid in your ear, and see if your throat tastes bitter.

If someone who smokes takes a big puff and then covers their nose and mouth, forcing the air out, smoke can come out of their ears.

Was Ye Yang doing this on purpose?

I quickly rubbed my nose back and forth with two fingers, signaling: Hold on, two beggar's chickens.

Ye Yang pointed to the sky, then to the water glass on the table.

The sky, the water glass!

Crap, he wanted the divine wine I got from Ling.

What a loss!

To use the superb divine wine to cover up for smoking, wasn't that a huge loss?

But, Wang Butcher's fist was the size of a casserole!

She might really break my legs.

I closed my eyes and nodded. When I opened them again, I saw Ye Yang pointing at the cat food.

Did he want to eat cat treats?

No, the guy wanted to eat fish, the kind where people and cats share equally.

He wanted to eat fish with soft bones! People eat the fish meat, and the bones are for the cat.

This guy was trying to have his whole family eat me out of house and home!

Tears were about to come out of my eyes. Wasn't running into his room to smoke like walking into a trap?

Just as I was about to protest, I saw Wang Butcher lift her leg.

This woman always wears cheongsams no matter what. Wang Butcher's thighs look good, but getting kicked by them really hurts!

Last time she was out shopping, some oblivious guy came over to flirt, and Wang Butcher kicked him in the head. He didn't wake up for three days. When I took him to the hospital, I said he was kicked by a donkey, and the doctor didn't even suspect it.

Wang Butcher sat for a long time. "There really isn't any smoke. I'll trust you this time."

Wang Butcher stood up and said, "Li Xiaogou, just be more careful! You really can't smoke like that when you're recovering from an injury. Do you not want your lungs anymore?"

"Actually, I'm almost fully recovered," I muttered.

I always felt that Wang Butcher's approach was: the doctor thinks you're sick, but the patient doesn't feel sick at all.

At least I didn't feel anything wrong with my lungs. Not being allowed to smoke was what would really cause problems.

Wang Butcher shook her head and left like a teacher seeing a naughty child. As soon as she left, I quickly pried open Ye Yang's mouth, "Slow down, wait until I pinch you before you let go. Don't burn yourself..."

"The cigarette's gone!" I almost cried.

Wang Butcher sat in the room for too long, and the cigarette burned out.

Ye Yang spat out ash, "You're not allowed to go back on your word!"

I was on the verge of tears, not knowing what to say while holding the cigarette butt, when Ye Yang pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. "Take these and smoke them! Smoke them when you're making beggar's chicken. The smells will all mix together, and no one will be able to tell."

Brother!

That was brotherly love.

Those girls wouldn't understand.

My感动 (gan dong, moved/touched) didn't even last a day before my face darkened.

Ye Yang actually led a bunch of cats over to eat me out of house and home.

Ye Yang was a rice bucket, and his cats were rice buckets too.

We ate three beggar's chickens and five fish. I tried to persuade Ye Yang to eat some staple food, but he didn't even look at it.

To make Ye Yang eat less, I secretly added wine to the cat food, resulting in the yard looking like a crime scene, with cats lying all over the place.

Ye Yang ignored my pleading eyes, drank both bottles of divine wine without leaving a drop, and even swiped the crispy duck I had saved for a late-night snack.

The most hateful thing was that he didn't even call me when he was eating his late-night snack!

This was brotherhood?

To exchange a hundred times the price for a pack of cigarettes?

Why did I end up with such a brother? What sins did I commit in my past life?

I had to recover from my injuries quickly!

If this continued, I would definitely be ruined to death by Ye Yang.

I dragged myself through more than half a month like years, and finally recovered from my internal injuries.

Unexpectedly, my business came too.