Chapter 20, second update...

Chapter 20, second update...

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Because Ye Anguo had no idea that his earlier embarrassment was due to this pot of water, he was completely natural and innocent as he handed Jiang Lai a pot of water with added substance, and was also very puzzled that Jiang Lai was thirsty but didn't drink the water.

Jiang Lai: "…………"

Forget it, don't be angry. Ye Anguo doesn't know anything, and Jiang Lai doesn't intend to let him know either. After all, even if she said that the water was drugged, she couldn't explain why she would know that the water was drugged. Besides, Ye Anguo couldn't explain why the water, which hadn't been touched by anyone else, would be drugged.

So Jiang Lai took the water bottle that Ye Anguo had held up for a few seconds, pretended to be thirsty, and drank it in big gulps. Of course, Jiang Lai had replaced the spiked water with spring water from the secret space. Jiang Lai had no interest in experiencing the fun Ye Anguo had just had by jumping into the river and swimming.

Since Ye Anguo had left more than half a pot of water, Jiang Lai naturally wanted to drink it all, so she pretended to be extremely thirsty and drank the water in large gulps.

As a result, when Jiang Lai was drinking water, some water accidentally slid down her chin and onto her fair, delicate, and slender neck. Ye Anguo inevitably saw it, and his Adam's apple bobbed. The place where he had just calmed down was now ablaze again.

Ye Anguo felt like a beast. Jiang Lai had spent a lot of money to prepare food for him, but all he could think about were beastly things. He felt like he wasn't even human.

Ye Anguo adjusted his posture, his face looking unnatural, and his voice slightly hoarse as he said to Jiang Lai, "Let's go back quickly. My clothes are wet, and I want to go back and change."

"Okay." Jiang Lai naturally had no choice but to hurry up. She knew Ye Anguo's situation and was also embarrassed.

Besides feeling awkward, Jiang Lai also wanted to go back and check whether Su Erniu had put the medicine directly into the large porcelain kettle that the Ye family used to cool boiled water, or only into the military water bottle in Ye Anguo's hand.

This is a very crucial issue. If there's still some water in that family's kettle, and the rest of the Ye family drinks it, there will definitely be problems. That's the real reason why Jiang Lai is in such a hurry to go back.

Ye Anguo was unaware of Jiang Lai's thoughts, but he was just as eager to go home. He was already in an awkward situation, and now that his clothes were still wet, any movement would be even more noticeable, making things even more embarrassing.

Their luck was neither good nor bad. It was bad because when they returned to the Ye family, the Ye family had already left with a jug of cold water. It was also bad because they happened to run into the Ye family right next to their house.

"Jiang Lai, you and An Guo are back? Oh! An Guo's clothes are wet. Did you fall into the Gan River?" You Maidong said in surprise.

You Maidong was just joking when Ye Anguo lied with a straight face: "Yeah, I slipped and fell down just now because I didn't have a good footing."

"Huh? Weren't you the king of soldiers in your unit before? You actually slipped and fell into the Gan River?" Ye Anpeng looked incredulous, thinking that Ye Anguo had made a huge joke.

Then Ye Anpeng's face immediately contorted with disbelief and pain as his wife, Li Qingqing, pinched him hard: "What are you saying? Even a king of soldiers can't make mistakes. Shut up and save your energy for harvesting rice later."

"Cough cough cough..." Jiang Lai knew the reason, coughed awkwardly a few times, and said awkwardly to Ye Anming who was carrying the water bottle, "Uh... I'm a little thirsty, could you pour me some cool boiled water from your water bottle?"

"Of course." Ye Anming immediately picked up the kettle and poured her some water. Jiang Lai pretended to take a sip, then realized that she had really underestimated Su Erniu's character and morality. The water had indeed been drugged.

Or is it that Su Erniu hates the Ye family so much that she would poison them to embarrass them? It's the busy farming season now, and the adults of the Ye family all have to go to work. This drug is particularly potent; is she trying to make the entire Ye family look bad in public?

Moreover, has Su Erniu considered that the Ye family also has children besides adults? Today, the Ye family's children are not at home, but what if they are at home and get poisoned?

Jiang Lai's face turned green with anger at Su Erniu's wickedness. Damn it, when she watched "Little Stepmother of the 70s," she didn't think Su Erniu had any flaws in character or morality. Otherwise, she wouldn't have watched it from beginning to end. How come everything she had seen before has been overturned now?

"Jiang Lai, we have to harvest rice today so we don't have time to spend with you. I'll come to the city to see you next time." You Maidong really liked Jiang Lai, his future daughter-in-law, and was thinking of visiting her in the city next time.

“Okay, Auntie, you can go ahead and do your work. There’s plenty of time later, so there’s no rush.” Jiang Lai said to You Maidong while changing the water in the kettle Ye Anming was carrying, marveling at how powerful her personal space was.

"Alright, we'll be going now. It's getting late. Let Anguo keep you company." You Maidong left reluctantly.

After walking a distance, Ye Anpeng asked Li Qingqing with a bewildered look, "Qingqing, why did you pinch me for no reason just now?"

"Twisting you is too lenient. Do you even have a brain? Why did you bring up the Anguo Soldier King just now? And make fun of him. All you do is laugh, laugh, laugh. What's so funny?" Ye Anpeng should have said something, because as soon as he did, Li Qingqing pinched him again.

“That’s true. How could a top soldier like him slip and fall into the river? There are so many trees along the riverbank. It would be a joke if he could slip and fall in like that,” Ye Anpeng argued.

"Yeah, you already know the reason. How could so many trees slide down? It must be that Anguo wanted to show off in front of Jiang Lai, but things went wrong. If that's the case, he was already embarrassed, and you're still making fun of him. Do you still want Anguo to get married?"

These weren't Li Qingqing's words. You Maidong kicked him as she spoke. Seriously, how could her eldest son be so tactless? He didn't inherit any of her traits; he's just like his father.

"When I ask you to speak, you're like a gourd with its mouth sawed off. But when I don't want you to speak, you keep babbling on and on, as if you have a mouth, right?" You Maidong got angrier and angrier as she spoke, and finally kicked him. Ye Anpeng didn't dare to say anything anymore. He felt particularly wronged, but Ye Anming was still standing next to him saying that he deserved it.

The Ye family left as they were talking, but Ye Anguo and Jiang Lai, who remained behind, heard everything they said clearly.

Ye Anguo: ………(皿｀) Awkward, he looked left and right but didn't dare to look at Jiang Lai even once.

Jiang Lai: ………Jiang Lai was embarrassed on behalf of Ye Anguo.

"Hey, didn't you say you were going to change your clothes? Hurry up and go, or you'll catch a cold," Jiang Lai said.

"Oh right." Ye Anguo finished speaking and walked away at lightning speed, almost bumping into the door in the process, which amused Jiang Lai.

Hearing Jiang Lai's laughter, Ye Anguo turned around in time, grabbed Jiang Lai's hand, and led her into his home.

Ye Anguo went back to his room to get a set of clothes and said to Jiang Lai, "You can sit for a while and look around. I'm going to take a shower first."

"Is there anything we can't watch?" Jiang Lai asked.

“No, you can look wherever you want,” Ye Anguo said.

"Okay, go take a shower." Jiang Lai was just asking, but she was quite curious whether every soldier really knew how to fold paper into neat squares at home.

So when Ye Anguo went to take a shower, Jiang Lai stood at the door of his room and looked inside. Sure enough, the blankets on the bed were folded neatly into squares, and the room was quite clean, unlike the messy boys' dormitories that Jiang Lai had seen online before.

Ye Anguo's room was sparsely furnished, or rather, his home was quite empty, probably because he rarely stayed at home while serving in the military. Ye Anguo's room contained only a bed and a cabinet, making it look more like a hotel than a hotel.

Jiang Lai wandered around Ye Anguo's room and found that it was really too empty. There wasn't even a chair, so she had nowhere to sit if she wanted to.

Jiang Lai looked around and was about to leave when she suddenly saw Ye Anguo standing at the door, having already showered and still damp from the water.

"Huh..." Jiang Lai was startled, truly startled, and jumped up: "You showered so fast! It hasn't even been 5 minutes! And how come you didn't make a sound? You scared me to death!"

Jiang Lai took a breath and couldn't help but pat her chest; she was genuinely so frightened that her heart skipped a beat.

Ye Anguo turned and left. He felt he needed to take another shower. He had lived for 28 years and had never considered himself a beast.

Jiang Lai reached out and grabbed Ye Anguo's hand: "Hey, where are you going? What are you doing?"

As a result, the hand that Jiang Lai grabbed was burning hot, like a hot iron, so hot that Jiang Lai thought he had a fever: "Have you caught a cold?"

To Jiang Lai's surprise, Ye Anguo hugged her with a single round of applause, which was quite different from the honest and simple image she had previously imagined.

However, after feeling the heat in Ye Anguo's body a second later, Jiang Lai remembered that he was still under the influence of aphrodisiacs. However, she couldn't say for sure what would happen in this situation.

However, this is a good opportunity to get to know Ye Anguo's character. Not to mention that Jiang Lai is so carefree as to be alone in a room with a man who has been drugged with aphrodisiacs. This is a very dangerous situation that tests a man's self-control. If this man has bad intentions, then the girl with him will be in danger.

But Jiang Lai is different. She has a cheat code. Everyone else might get into trouble, but she won't. If she didn't have the secret space, she would never be able to share a room with a man who uses traditional Chinese medicine.

Jiang Lai was not disappointed by Ye Anguo's reaction. She could feel that Ye Anguo's body temperature was getting higher and higher, and a certain part of his body was getting hotter and hotter. But Ye Anguo just held her tightly. Later, when he realized that she was having a reaction, he changed his posture. He only held her with his upper body, while his lower body moved further and further away from her, forming a very strange posture.

"Ye Anguo, what's wrong?"

"I'm fine, I just suddenly realized I'm a bit of a beast."

"Huh?" Does anyone say that about themselves?

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Author's note: More to come this afternoon; I'll post whatever I write today.