Chapter 149
These past few days, Yan Chaoji has been avoiding Ying Ning, and even Granny Jin has noticed it.
"Ning girl, what's wrong with your brother?" Granny Jin asked curiously.
"I don't know, maybe it's because I'm getting old?"
Yingning glanced at Yan Chaoji not far away and replied to Granny Jin.
Seeing that the relationship between the two was a bit strange, Grandma Jin didn't dare to ask any more questions. At this moment, she suddenly remembered what the young wife of the Wang family at the village entrance had secretly told her yesterday. She looked Ningning and Zhaowazi up and down, and suddenly an idea came to her mind.
*
As dusk fell, three guests arrived at Granny Jin's house.
"Grandma, I've brought my sister with me," Wang's daughter-in-law happily introduced to Grandma Jin.
The people behind her were a woman with a dark complexion and a pointed face, and another person who looked somewhat like a scholar.
"This is the older sister you were talking about?"
Grandma Jin looked her over from all sides and exclaimed, "Big buttocks, good for childbirth."
"He seems like a reliable person," Grandma Jin said with great satisfaction.
Ningning had told her before that her life's ambition was to find a sister-in-law for her brother. Although the older sister of this Wang family's daughter-in-law was not very good-looking, how could one judge a person by their appearance when getting married and living together?!
Grandma Jin looked at it from left to right and was very satisfied.
Upon seeing Ying Ning, he immediately called out, "Ning girl, come quickly!"
Grandma Jin immediately pulled Yingning over and, before Yingning could react, immediately said, "Look at this girl, what do you think?"
"How about I become your sister-in-law?"
Yan Chaoji heard this voice as soon as he stepped into the house.
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Yan Chaoji glanced coldly at the fair-skinned scholar chatting and laughing with Ying Ning, while her soft laughter occasionally reached his ears.
Grandma Jin also chimed in enthusiastically:
"Chen Sheng, it seems you get along well with Ning girl." Granny Jin looked at Chen Sheng's appearance and thought he was the refined scholar from the picture book.
Upon hearing this, Chen Sheng's face flushed slightly: "It is Ningning who is very knowledgeable. I have heard some interesting things."
Grandma Jin was very satisfied.
Unexpectedly, the younger brother of this young wife of the Wang family got along well with Ningning.
Although she wasn't bad-looking, she was still somewhat different from Ning Yatou. However, looking at the people in the sketchbook, it was hard to find anyone who matched the appearance of Ning Yatou and Zhao Wazi, the two siblings.
Grandma Jin looked at the two silent people again and shook her head inwardly.
Yan Chaoji kept glancing at the scholar-man with Miss Zuo Ningning and Ningning You Ningning out of the corner of his eye. The icy coldness in his hawk-like eyes intensified, and his aura became murderous. Suddenly, he reverted to the regent who had slain enemy soldiers on the battlefield.
He didn't even glance at the sharp-faced woman beside him, his aura as solid as an ice cave.
The woman next to him was startled and looked at him timidly.
"Ningning, I'll come see you again in a couple of days when I have time." Chen Sheng and his group waved goodbye to Granny Jin.
As Granny Jin watched the group leave, she asked Yan Chaoji with some curiosity, "Zhaowa, what do you think of this Chen Sheng?"
"Is she a good match for Ning?"
Yan Chaoji looked up at Ying Ning, who was tidying up dried wild vegetables, and unusually, did not speak to Granny Jin. Instead, he silently returned to his room.
*
It wasn't until evening that Yan Chaoji came out of his room.
He went out wearing a black robe and a hunting bow at his waist. He returned a few quarters of an hour later, with several large wild animals tied up in his hands.
Her robes inevitably got stained with animal blood on the way home, which gave Granny Jin a big fright.
"Zhaowa, why are you hunting so late?"
"Look, he's covered in blood."
"Go wash up quickly!" Granny Jin pushed Yan Chaoji into the makeshift shed built outside the storeroom, urging him to wash himself clean.
"Wash yourself now, or you'll catch a cold," Grandma Jin said with concern before leaving.
After Granny Jin left.
Yan Chaoji soaked silently in the tub of water, and the smell of blood on his body gradually dissipated.
Even though I was already quite exhausted, I still felt a sense of suffocation in my heart that I couldn't let go of.
He investigated the reasons.
After much thought, the only difference between today and other days is that there's an extra person in my way.
Yan Chaoji suddenly realized that he seemed to care more about Ying Ning, who was talking to Chen Sheng, than he had imagined.
She chatted and laughed with the scholar, and he felt extremely depressed.
His hawk-like eyes were cold and stern, but suddenly he heard the sound of light footsteps.
Yingning placed the dried wild vegetables that Granny Jin had prepared in the storage room, then turned back and heard a loud splashing sound.
Turning around, I saw what appeared to be a tall, dark figure inside the shed.
"Yan Chaoji?" he heard her ask softly, but she didn't answer.
She seemed not to have seen him clearly, so she walked over cautiously. Just as she was about to speak again, she saw a dark figure emerge slightly.
His chest, brimming with hormones, bore several crisscrossing knife wounds.
Water droplets slid slowly down his body, gradually wetting the robe he was still wearing at the bottom. Hawk eyes darkened as he saw the girl who was making him uneasy.
Upon seeing him, Yingning wanted to turn around and leave.
Unexpectedly, a large hand enveloped him from behind.
Her back was pressed tightly against his naked body, and she could even feel his shallow breathing.
The man's large hand firmly encircled the girl's slender waist, and he suddenly leaned down and whispered in her ear:
"It's me."
The intense scent of hormones enveloped the silence.
Yan Chaoji sensed her struggle to break free, but he was unwilling to let go.
“Yan Chaoji”
"Let me go."
"You let Granny Jin see you..."
Yan Chaoji did not loosen his grip; instead, he led Ying Ning to the storeroom at the back of the courtyard, his expression showing a strange anger.
"I won't let you go," Yan Chaoji said coldly.
Yan Chaoji gets a headache whenever he thinks about this. He didn't know at the time that she would later be able to fabricate so many plays. If he had known earlier, he certainly wouldn't have called the two of them brother and sister.
"What are you doing?" she suddenly asked.
He turned and stopped her, not replying, but speaking in a somewhat somber tone:
"Since you enjoy writing plays, why don't you write one..."
"What?" she asked, somewhat puzzled.
He pressed his forehead against hers, causing her to tremble, before saying softly, "Just write one..."
"The affair between siblings".
"how?"
"Are you crazy?" Ying Ning took a step back, trying to break free from his restraints and leave the somewhat dark and cluttered storage room.
Thump.
The door was closed.
Yan Chaoji looked at her with a somewhat incredulous expression, raised his hand and slowly stroked between her eyebrows, trying to leave a mark on this vivid portrait of beauty.
"Am I crazy?"
Although he had never been involved in romantic affairs, he could read through military strategies and war books in a single day since he was young, and understand their profound meaning.
But after Yan Chaoji realized the stirrings of that night, he knew what was on his mind.
Now that he has recognized it, he is not a timid person.
"I had hoped to return to the capital peacefully with you, but it seems that's no longer possible."
His hawk-like eyes revealed undisguised aggression as he blocked all her escape routes. Suddenly, a swift sound came from nowhere, and Yan Chaoji immediately raised her hand to block it.
This scene is too much like that night at the moat.
But this time he was different. This time he gently grabbed her ankle, not to hurt her, but to slide up with her.
Seeing her strong sense of defensiveness, her phoenix eyes were full of dissatisfaction with him.
He gently pressed on her ankle, causing her to let out a soft, uncomfortable gasp.
Yan Chaoji leaned close, his fingertip touching her lips, a burning desire seemingly burning in his hawk-like eyes.
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