Ruan Xiao Jiao was absent-minded, but the County Magistrate’s family didn’t notice.
Perhaps it was because she usually put on such a good act, always looking so calm and unruffled.
In truth, the bigger reason was that this reunion between her and Mu Dade ca more than ten years after she got married.
Who would ever suspect anything, when a woman married in her teens.
Then, more than ten years later, she actually runs into her childhood sweetheart again, and can’t hold the line of morality, doing that kind of shaless thing!
...
After the al, the servants of the County Magistrate’s house were in charge of cleaning up.
Ruan Xiao Jiao really did as the County Magistrate’s wife said and took Mu Shuangshuang around the residence.
After eating, it was actually already late; if you called it sightseeing, there wasn’t really anything fresh to see.
Ruan Xiao Jiao had been guarded against Mu Shuangshuang all along; along the way, other than glancing at her own belly from ti to ti, the corner of her eye was always on Mu Shuangshuang.
It was actually Ruan Xiao Jiao’s maid Taohua who, because of their ti together in the back kitchen earlier, still treated Mu Shuangshuang with a gentle, pleasant attitude!
"Miss Shuangshuang, this is your first ti in the county, right? Do you have so business here?"
Ruan Xiao Jiao still couldn’t hold back and took the initiative to ask about Mu Shuangshuang’s situation!
There was a smile in Mu Shuangshuang’s eyes; she knew Ruan Xiao Jiao couldn’t possibly hold herself in!
People with a guilty conscience don’t have much patience!
"Nothing much, I’m just here to pick up a friend!" Mu Shuangshuang said.
"Oh? What kind of friend? From our village? I heard Da... heard people say you’re already engaged. I don’t seem to have seen him this ti, where is he?"
Ruan Xiao Jiao was saying quite a lot, and what she asked was rather private.
But her tone wasn’t friendly.
Rather than saying she was talking intimately with Mu Shuangshuang, it was more like she was ordering Mu Shuangshuang to answer.
Mu Shuangshuang naturally wouldn’t tell her!
"Aunt Ruan, have you been back to the village since the New Year?" Mu Shuangshuang shifted the topic.
"A lot has changed in the village. I heard my eldest uncle has already received his appointnt as county magistrate, and he’ll take office in the ninth month!"
"There are quite a lot of people visiting my eldest uncle’s ho every day, saying they want to bask in his good fortune!"
Mu Shuangshuang deliberately put on a look of envy.
Every other word out of her mouth was about Mu Dade.
And when Ruan Xiao Jiao heard Mu Shuangshuang call him "eldest uncle" and talk about Mu Dade, she unexpectedly quieted down.
She listened carefully to Mu Shuangshuang talking about Mu Dade!
In her eyes was that sa burning heat that Mu Shuangshuang had once seen in Lu Yuanfeng’s eyes!
At that mont, Mu Shuangshuang suddenly felt that Ruan Xiao Jiao was pitiful too!
Maybe—
She was deceived by Mu Dade?
Mu Shuangshuang didn’t know why she would have that thought; she felt Ruan Xiao Jiao wasn’t a bad person.
Of course, that doesn’t erase the fact that what she did was wrong!
Mrs. Jin is no good thing, but that doesn’t an anyone can just trample her!
"Why did you stop? I think what you’re saying is quite nice. I haven’t gone back in a long ti either, I also want to hear about what’s going on in the village!"
Pretending to want village news was fake; what she really wanted was to know what Mu Dade was doing!
Since Ruan Xiao Jiao had spoken, Mu Shuangshuang continued, only this ti, she no longer talked about Mu Dade.
At first Ruan Xiao Jiao still waited patiently, but seeing that Mu Shuangshuang had no intention of ntioning Mu Dade,
she yawned deliberately. "Miss Shuangshuang, it’s so late, aren’t you tired? Do you want to go rest?"
Mu Shuangshuang naturally nodded. "I am a bit tired. If there’s ti tomorrow, I’ll co visit Aunt Ruan again!"
From that short period of observation just now, Mu Shuangshuang could basically be sure that Ruan Xiao Jiao really was pregnant.
When she ntioned Mu Dade, Ruan Xiao Jiao not only listened intently, she would also unconsciously caress her belly from ti to ti.
Generally speaking, that’s sothing only pregnant won do.
To tell the truth, Mu Shuangshuang rather wanted to warn Ruan Xiao Jiao to know when to stop, but she was afraid things would backfire!
She returned alone to her own quarters, and her mind once again drifted to Lu Yuanfeng.
She didn’t know if the dry rations and jerky she’d prepared for that kid were enough.
She didn’t know if it was raining out there.
Whether he had enough clothes...
Mu Shuangshuang’s head was full of Lu Yuanfeng.
Out in the wilds, Lu Yuanfeng, who was crouched by the fire, seed to have a kind of telepathic response as well.
He raised his head to look at the sky; at the mont the stars were scattered and bright, but in his mind there was only Shuangshuang’s face.
Ti really flew; in a blink, quite a few days had passed.
He wondered if that girl was rembering to rest, and whether she was getting soone else to do the dirty and heavy work!
And with that stubborn, never-suffer-a-loss temper of hers, he didn’t know if she would go look for Wang San alone to demand justice.
Lu Yuanfeng was full of worry, full of sorrow!
Xing Beichen stood next to him and called him several tis, but he didn’t respond.
In the end, Xing Beichen decided to tease Lu Yuanfeng.
He suddenly launched a sneak attack on Lu Yuanfeng. He’d thought he could pin Lu Yuanfeng down, but instead he was the one controlled by Lu Yuanfeng!
His wrist was twisted tightly behind his back, and he couldn’t move at all.
"Ow, ow, ow... Fengzi, ease up, it’s , Beichen!"
Xing Beichen cried out in embarrassnt, and only then did Lu Yuanfeng realize he’d grabbed the wrong person.
"Sorry, I didn’t know!" Lu Yuanfeng said with a face full of apology, and let go of Xing Beichen’s hand once he finished.
Xing Beichen rolled his shoulders and stretched his joints; after a long mont he said, "It’s fine, it’s fine!"
"How are you so alert, kid? I’d been calling you for so long just now and you didn’t answer. I thought you wouldn’t notice!" Xing Beichen said.
"I... I don’t know either, it’s just my body acting on its own! Especially after Elder Cheng’s training, that feeling of a stranger..."
Lu Yuanfeng had originally wanted to say "stranger"; realizing that Xing Beichen wasn’t a stranger, he changed his wording. "Anyway, sotis you might think I don’t react, but if you try to attack , my body might move before my brain and knock you down!"
Xing Beichen was stunned listening to this.
It took quite a while before he fully accepted what Lu Yuanfeng said.
"This round of training was really worth it for you; I didn’t get that kind of result at all!" Xing Beichen muttered.
"Brother Beichen, that’s not how you put it. The reason I can be like this today is actually the result of a lot of accumulation.
I grew up in the mountains, then later went to the army camp; after I ca back, I was hunting in the mountains all the ti. Just like Shuangshuang says, practice makes perfect. I’ve been through more, so my skills are naturally a bit better than yours!
But that’s not absolute. If you’re willing to work hard, one day you’ll catch up to !"
Lu Yuanfeng said with firm conviction.
Hearing this, Xing Beichen felt much better.
"Thank you, Fengzi! Don’t worry, I won’t slack off in the future!" Xing Beichen thumped his chest in promise!
"Mm! I believe you!"
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