Before he could finish his question, her face turned red and she choked on her rice. He calmly passed her a bowl of heated broth and stroked her back reassuringly as she tried to clear her throat of residual rice.
She had to take three gulps of the broth before she could swallow her food with difficulty. She looked at Youyou who seemed to know something.
Why did he ask this question out of the blue? Did he detect something…?
He saw how panicky and helpless she was and gave her a reassuring smile; he did not know anything.
She slapped her forehead in horrid realization!
When Youyou was much younger, he used to ask her this question. She had lied to him to satisfy his curiosity, but she could no longer recall what she had said to him back then.
If her reply was inconsistent with that one from before and he still remembered what she had said at that time, he would find out that she had lied to him!
