Chapter 21, Third Update...
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Well, the person he liked was in his arms, and he was under the influence of drugs. Although Ye Anguo himself was unaware of this situation, this was indeed his reaction, and Ye Anguo did not disappoint Jiang Lai's expectations.
No matter how much pain Ye Anguo was in, or how hard he had to endure it, he simply held Jiang Lai in his arms, without making any unnecessary movements. To be honest, Jiang Lai was growing to like him more and more.
Jiang Lai felt like a bad person because if Ye Anguo did anything inappropriate at this time, Jiang Lai would definitely say goodbye to him without saying a word. Anyway, she cared more about her own happiness than people's livelihood. It wasn't that she didn't care about reputation, but reputation was insignificant compared to true happiness itself.
"I'm sorry!" Ye Anguo didn't hug Jiang Lai for long. Although Ye Anguo was a person with strong self-control, he didn't want to challenge his limits. What if he really became a beast?
"It's nothing." Jiang Lai really wanted to say, "Do you want me to take care of this?" but after thinking about it, she decided against it, not wanting to scare him.
"Wait a minute, my stomach hurts and I need to go to the toilet. Can you sit here for a while longer?" Ye Anguo said to Jiang Lai, his face flushed.
"Then hurry up and go." Jiang Lai coughed, trying to keep her face calm, and then she saw once again how fast Ye Anguo could run. In a flash, he disappeared.
Once Ye Anguo left, Jiang Lai couldn't help but smile silently; this man was just too adorable.
That's right. With Ye Anguo gone, he's been quite bored here all by himself. He's been waiting for more than half an hour, and without a phone or computer to pass the time, Jiang Lai can only sit there in a daze.
Fortunately, she had brought pencils and notebooks with her in her space, and when she had nothing to do, Jiang Lai took them out.
As a homebody, Jiang Lai used to work as a writer, having published several best-selling books and also writing online novels. However, she also has other hobbies, namely sketching. She is not particularly proficient in it and has no talent for it. Although her teacher criticized her for being too crafty, she is first-rate at sketching figures. Give her a pen and she can draw the whole world.
Jiang Lai is skilled at sketching and fast. Although she can't reach the professional standard of three drawings in half an hour, she has completed a very complete drawing in that half hour.
The scene Jiang Lai painted was when Ye Anguo walked towards her from the field when she first arrived in Aoli Village. The scene of other people working in the fields was also included in the painting, but the main focus was on Ye Anguo. In the painting, Ye Anguo's sleeves and trouser legs were rolled up, and he was covered in mud and dirty, but that did not diminish his handsomeness.
In the eyes of the viewer, this painting depicts people working diligently in the fields, a man walking towards you with deep affection in his eyes, making the viewer (specifically Jiang Lai) feel their heart race, as if they can see his feelings for you through the painting.
This is a painting that instantly conveys emotion!
Jiang Lai clutched her chest. This was the first drawing she had ever done that conveyed emotion. If her teacher were to see it, he would surely say that she had improved and had reached a higher level.
This is her first painting that doesn't feel contrived.
"Jiang Lai, can you give me this painting?" Ye Anguo's voice rang out behind Jiang Lai.
To be honest, Jiang Lai was reluctant because this painting had a different meaning; it was the first painting she had painted with emotion. However, after seeing Ye Anguo's delighted face after seeing the painting, she couldn't bring herself to refuse.
Jiang Lai wanted to say no, but she heard herself handing all the notebooks to him and saying to Ye Anguo, "Sure, but I hope you'll keep these paintings safe."
Jiang Lai: ...Her mouth and hands have their own thoughts and don't care about her brain anymore.
"Thank you!" Ye Anguo accepted the notebook rather carefully, unable to hide his joy, holding it with obvious delight.
Jiang Lai's reluctance vanished upon seeing Ye Anguo's behavior: "It's just a painting, is it really necessary to be so cautious?"
“That’s different. This is the first thing you’ve ever given me,” Ye Anguo replied without looking up, his eyes glued to the painting.
"Why is this the first thing? You ate plenty of lotus root slices at noon, and there's still braised egg and braised beef in your lunchbox. Do you think these things are worthless?"
Jiang Lai looked angry, but she was just pretending. She wasn't really angry; she just wanted to see how Ye Anguo would respond after hearing her say that.
Then Jiang Lai noticed that Ye Anguo immediately slid down to his knees: "It's all, it's all. I misspoke. I'm sorry. I meant that this painting is something I can keep for a lifetime."
Jiang Lai was fairly satisfied with his answer: "Alright, but don't look at it anymore, put it away quickly. I should go back now, don't you have to go to work this afternoon?"
"I'm not going. My mother already asked for leave for me to go. I'll take you home later," Ye Anguo said.
"Huh? When did Auntie tell you he asked for leave? I didn't see it." Jiang Lai was completely bewildered. She had been with Ye Anguo the whole time and hadn't noticed You Maidong telling him he was asking for leave.
"While you were drinking water, um, my mom told me she had already asked for leave for me," Ye Anguo answered honestly.
"So, will you take me back and then come back to pack my things? No need, it's too much trouble. You pack your things first, and I'll go back by myself. You go catch your train." Jiang Lai thought for a moment and felt it wasn't convenient to refuse.
"No rush, it's only a little past 2 o'clock, there's still plenty of time, and it's still hot. Do you want to stay here a little longer?" Ye Anguo was about to return to his unit, and he couldn't bear to let his new girlfriend leave. He wanted to spend as much time as possible with her.
Jiang Lai understood Ye Anguo's thoughts to some extent. Although she didn't have much experience, she had at least seen how things worked. As an author, Jiang Lai had written romance novels before.
"Then what else can you do if you don't let me leave?"
"Well... how about I show you around?" Ye Anguo suggested.
"Didn't we already go there? Or do you want to take me somewhere else? Do you have any other scenic spots around here?" Jiang Lai asked deliberately.
Unexpectedly, there really was such a place in Aoli Village: "Yes, there used to be a very famous marriage temple in our village, but it was on the other side of the village, about three or four kilometers away from our home. However, there was a section of the road that was difficult to walk on, so you couldn't ride a bike there and had to walk."
"Three or four kilometers is too far. Forget it, by the time we get there and back we won't be able to catch your afternoon train." Jiang Lai refused without thinking. She didn't want to walk the mountain road. She hated climbing mountains and was afraid that if she went, she would end up blacklisting him.
"How about I take you to pick jujubes? I know a place where the jujubes are big and sweet." Ye Anguo tirelessly offered suggestions.
"Is it far?" You could tell from her expression that if you said it was far, Jiang Lai would definitely not go. For a homebody like her, walking, especially climbing mountains, was absolutely impossible.
"It's not particularly far, just over two mountains."
"Then forget it. Just tell me what you're doing at home." Seeing Ye Anguo racking his brains to find a reason to keep her here, Jiang Lai found him inexplicably cute. She softened and agreed to let her stay, which made Ye Anguo so happy that his face lit up with joy.
However, Ye Anguo was too happy too soon, because there really wasn't anything going on at home that would be suitable for the two of them, a single man and a single woman. In the end, he could only cautiously suggest, "Why don't you paint for a while longer?"
To Ye Anguo's delight, Jiang Lai agreed: "Okay."
Ye Anguo happily busied himself, moving tables and chairs to the best-lit spot, and diligently serving tea, water, and fruit. However, this time he remembered that Jiang Lai didn't like his favorite sour tangerines, so he took a pomelo and sat down to peel it.
However, while Ye Anguo was quite happy peeling the pomelo, Jiang Lai, who was assigned to draw by Ye Anguo, was actually a bit confused and didn't know what to draw. In the end, she just drew Ye Anguo next to her.
After observing Ye Anguo for a while, Jiang Lai began to write. She pretended to smuggle the notebook from her bag, but actually from the secret space. Ye Anguo had already taken the previous notebook, so Jiang Lai had to take out another one. Fortunately, her secret space had plenty of supplies.
Jiang Lai becomes completely absorbed when she's writing or painting, as if she can't hear anything else going on outside. So all Ye Anguo can see is Jiang Lai engrossed in her painting, and she doesn't even hear him calling her or talking to her.
Eventually, Ye Anguo stood next to Jiang Lai and watched as she worked quickly, soon filling the blank notebook with his own image—a picture of Ye Anguo peeling a pomelo.
Ye Anguo watched from the side and felt very proud. Such an excellent and talented girl was now his girlfriend. He felt that it was a blessing he had accumulated in his previous lives.
Ye Anguo watched Jiang Lai paint, but his mind wandered, even though Jiang Lai was sitting right next to him. He started thinking about the day he first met Jiang Lai.
Before that day, Ye Anguo never knew he would like a little girl. Yes, in Ye Anguo's eyes, Jiang Lai, who was 8 years younger than him, was a little girl. Even now, he still thinks he is quite a beast for liking such a young girl.
To be honest, it wasn't that no one introduced him to potential partners before. He was already a regimental commander at such a young age. Even though he had three adopted sons and seemed unpopular in the dating market, he actually had quite a few people trying to introduce him to potential partners.
After all, Ye Anguo was already the regimental commander. His salary of 159 yuan was two or three times that of an ordinary worker. With that salary, he could support not only three adopted sons but also three more. Moreover, a regimental commander at the age of 28 was very rare and young. Everyone knew that he had a bright future.
Moreover, in his case, the military leaders were actually more concerned about his personal situation than he was. The leaders themselves had arranged matchmaking several times, with doctors, nurses, and members of the performing arts troupe making several introductions.
Whether they were ladies from noble families or young women from humble backgrounds, or independent and strong women, beautiful, charming, or spirited, of similar age or even younger than Jiang Lai, Ye Anguo felt nothing.
Looking back now, it wasn't that those people were bad, nor that his standards were too high; it's just that none of the people he encountered were what he wanted. But when he met Jiang Lai, everything about her seemed pleasing to the eye.
When Ye Anguo and Shi Cheng rescued Jiang Lai and Su Erniu from the river, Jiang Lai slapped Su Erniu without saying a word. In fact, he knew from the beginning that there was no hope for her. She was obviously arrogant and domineering, but Ye Anguo's first reaction was not that this girl was too fierce. Instead, he subconsciously wondered why she would hit the other person. Did the other person do something to wrong her?
Although subsequent events proved that Jiang Lai was not an unreasonable person, Ye Anguo stood on Jiang Lai's side for no apparent reason at the beginning.
What did he feel at that moment? He felt that even when the other person was angry, their sparkling eyes were exceptionally moving, those shining eyes were too dazzling.
When they met for the second time, Jiang Lai made Ye Anguo feel that this young girl's rational, straightforward, and outspoken personality was exactly to his liking. In the words of his partner Zheng, she was practically dancing to his aesthetic standards.
In short, Ye Anguo never imagined that he would fall for a girl who was eight years younger than him.
Ye Anguo thought of his married comrades in the army. Many of them had become henpecked after marriage, always listening to their wives and doing whatever they were told. Some of the heavy smokers had quit smoking and the heavy drinkers had quit drinking. He hadn't really understood why his comrades would do this, why they were so obedient, and why they would give up their own hobbies and interests for others.
But now he seems to understand a little. Ye Anguo also smokes and drinks, but very rarely and he's not addicted. Now that he thinks about it, if Jiang Lai can't stand the smell of smoke, it seems like it's not impossible to get her to quit smoking.
Ye Anguo felt as if he could hear the sound of slaps in the face, but he was still trying to find excuses for himself: Anyway, he didn't have much of an addiction to alcohol or cigarettes, so he might as well quit smoking and drinking sooner rather than later, then people wouldn't say that he was afraid of his wife. Yes, he wasn't afraid of Jiang Lai at all, he just felt that cigarettes weren't very good to smoke and alcohol wasn't very good to drink. Besides, they weren't married yet, so there was no question of him being afraid of his wife.
As mentioned before, Jiang Lai draws quite quickly. This time, with fewer background figures, she drew even faster, finishing the painting in about 20 minutes.
Jiang Lai thought her drawing was pretty good, but it still didn't look as pleasing or as good as the first one.
Turning around, she found Ye Anguo with a mysterious smile on his face, looking extremely excited. If this were a police drama, Jiang Lai would probably suspect he was on drugs.
"Hey... Ye Anguo, what are you thinking about? Why are you so happy?" Jiang Lai poked Ye Anguo's back with her finger, but the next second Ye Anguo threw her over his shoulder.
Ye Anguo had already regained his senses when he threw Jiang Lai away, but by then the force of the throw was too great to be reversed. Ye Anguo could only quickly flip his body to cushion Jiang Lai's fall. Even so, Jiang Lai was still seeing stars from the impact.
Suddenly, Jiang Lai remembered a trending topic she had seen a few days before she transmigrated here: What is it like to marry an action star?
Jiang Lai has already experienced this before she's even married!
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