Chapter 115 This is what kissing feels like
After nightfall, the bandits launched another surprise attack.
The Southwest Army reacted quickly, but the bandits, like mountain rats, scattered and disappeared in an instant.
The relentless pursuit left the Southwest Army exhausted.
He Ran got up countless times throughout the night, but was always left out until the very end, where he could only rage helplessly at the dark and empty forest.
She returned to her tent and angrily crumpled the note on the table that read "hide-and-seek" into a ball.
"He Xun! You even guessed that these bandits would hide and go into hiding, but you didn't even give me a suggestion!"
Early in the morning, Jiang Xingyao arrived at the camp outside the city.
But they found that many people were yawning.
His brows furrowed. Wasn't the Southwest Army supposed to be disciplined? Why were they all like this?
He was stopped as soon as he reached the main tent.
"Lord Jiang, the General said that everything is up to the young master."
Jiang Xingyao pursed his lips. How could General He let a young woman make such an important decision? Did he take Ding County for a joke?
He turned and walked toward the tent next to him.
He Ran, with his hair in a mess and still wearing his light armor, was fast asleep, slumped over the table.
Jiang Xingyao stepped forward with an unfriendly expression and tapped the table.
“Miss He, if you think bandit suppression is child’s play, please go back and play. The people of Ding County are not your games.”
He Ran hadn't slept well to begin with, and anyone who woke her up would get scolded.
"Are you trying to call back my soul?! I haven't slept a wink all night! Who are you to nag me like that!"
She slammed her hand on the table, grabbed Jiang Xingyao's collar across the table and pulled him over, then deftly grabbed his arm with her other hand, twisted it, and strangled him.
Jiang Xingyao's vision blurred, and he was pinned to the table, unable to move.
He Ran gripped his arm with one hand and braced himself against the edge of the table with the other, slowly leaning forward.
"Open your dog eyes and take a good look at my black eye! They're from catching thieves at night!"
Suddenly, his face loomed large before him, and he noticed that the girl was a bit dark-skinned, but her features were delicate, and her pretty nose made her look even younger.
Perhaps when he first met her, he thought she was only fifteen or sixteen years old.
Little did I know she was an eighteen-year-old young woman.
A girl?!
Jiang Xingyao's face flushed instantly. "What kind of behavior is this, a young lady like you..."
"Click!"
His words came to an abrupt end.
The fragile little wooden table couldn't bear the weight of two people and collapsed.
"What's wrong? What happened?!"
"Third Miss, please don't do it..."
Use your mouth...
The guards standing outside the door hurriedly lifted the curtain.
After swallowing hard, the two silently lowered the curtain.
"Brother, it seems like it's my turn to stand guard today."
"Brother, you've got it wrong, it's my turn today..."
The sounds outside the tent grew fainter and fainter.
The two people inside the tent remained in their original positions.
Jiang Xingyao's eyes were wide open like copper bells, and the warm touch on his lips made his brain freeze.
He Ran hadn't expected the table to be so fragile.
I never imagined that kissing would feel like this.
When she was little, she accidentally saw her eldest brother and sister-in-law kissing. She wanted to take a closer look, but her second and third brothers dragged her away.
Looking at Jiang Xingyao, who seemed terrified, she suddenly felt playful and stuck out her tongue to lick the corner of his lips.
Jiang Xingyao felt as if he had been struck by a needle, and suddenly jumped up, covering his lips and backing away repeatedly!
"You, you, you!!—"
His face turned as red as a boiled shrimp, and his eyes were filled with horror!
"What do you mean, 'you'?!" He Ran sat on the ground with one leg bent. "You took advantage of me, and you still look like you've suffered a great humiliation?!"
Jiang Xingyao was utterly devastated by such an impact.
"The world is going to the dogs, the world is going to the dogs..."
His lips trembled as he muttered to himself as he left the tent.
They almost bumped into General He, who was looking for his daughter.
"Lord Jiang, what's wrong? Your face is so red..."
General He watched as Jiang Xingyao walked in, looking as if he had been chased by a ghost, with a bewildered expression.
"Just two days ago, he seemed like a very composed and self-controlled young man. What happened to him today?"
He turned his head and saw his daughter sitting on the ground, looking dazed.
Why is your face so red?
He Ran snapped out of her daze, touched her burning face, and looked away guiltily.
"Oh, we had a little argument! I just got the bookworm to leave."
General He had no doubts. "How well have you figured it out?"
He Ran got angry when this was mentioned. She rummaged through the broken pieces of the table and found the brocade pouch that her elder brother had given her.
"Dad, look, my eldest brother even anticipated that the bandits would play hide-and-seek with me, but he didn't even give me a hint. What a useless plan he has!"
General He stood with his hands behind his back and said, "Suppressing bandits is no small matter. If you can't give your father an answer before noon today, you can go back to the capital with your mother and prepare to get married."
He Ran gritted her teeth and took back the note. "I'm not going back!"
"I promise I'll give you a feasible solution by noon!"
She watched her father's departing figure.
She scoffed, "Isn't it just about finding a smart person? A bookworm is readily available."
The county government office was too dilapidated.
He Ran was quite disgusted, wondering how the bookworm could live there.
Before she could even dismount, she saw a young woman with a stern face walk out.
Zhou Congxian followed behind, holding the hand of a little girl who looked exactly like him.
Um?
Zhou Congxian was unmarried, so how come he has a daughter?
I haven't figured this out yet.
Then another servant came out, carrying a chubby baby who looked exactly like Zhou Congxian!
He already has two children!
He Ran gritted her teeth. How could her father have fallen for such a scoundrel?!
After looking for so long, this is all I saw?!
Not even as good as a single hair on a nerd's head!
He Ran was angry for a long time, but she still thought that the matter at hand was more important, and she would settle accounts with her father later.
Following the instructions of the yamen runners, she found no one in the front office, the council hall, or the study.
Finally, following the sound of running water, we arrived at the backyard.
Achoo!
Jiang Xingyao stood shirtless beside the well.
Although he was a scholar, he had done a lot of physical labor. He was certainly not as good as a military officer like Zhou Congxian, who had practiced martial arts since childhood, but he was not as weak as an ordinary scholar either.
He Ran leaned against the threshold with great interest.
Surprisingly, Jiang Xingyao wasn't a skinny man with no flesh at all.
Although they didn't have the muscular build of the men in the camp.
But its advantage lies in its good figure; it looks slim when dressed and muscular when undressed.
Tsk.
He Ran understood now.
No wonder she looked down on all the deputy generals in the camp; it turns out she preferred this kind.
It's still early spring, yet they dare to get soaked naked.
A bookworm can be a real man too.
"bookworm."
Jiang Xingyao was so startled that he dropped the bucket of water in his hand; he almost thought he had misheard!
"He Ran, you're a young lady! Don't you know anything about propriety, righteousness, and shame?!"
He hurriedly grabbed his outer garment and put it on.
"We've already kissed, what's there to be afraid of looking at each other?"
He Ran crossed his arms and said, "Besides, there are plenty of shirtless men in the military camp. I've seen them since I was a kid!"
When she was little, she didn't understand things, and her father didn't care.
Later, when she grew up, her father forbade her to wander around the camp, so she would sneak around with her maid.
"Watched from childhood to adulthood?!"
Jiang Xingyao's hand trembled as he put on his clothes. "The world is going to the dogs! This is immoral and corrupt!"
He Ran was displeased. "You're the one who's not wearing clothes, so how come I'm the one who's indecent!"
Jiang Xingyao: "I won't argue with you."
He walked past He Ran and was about to leave.
But she grabbed him by the back of his collar and pulled him back.
She approached him menacingly, "Aren't you scholars supposed to be the most virtuous and shameless? You've taken advantage of me, and you don't want to take responsibility?"
Jiang Xingyao's ears burned again. "You... you've seen so many people, how can you possibly take responsibility for them all?"
He Ran, "..."
Her ears turned slightly red. "You're the only one who's ever kissed me, so you have to take responsibility."
Kissing...
Jiang Xingyao's face flushed red again, the scene in the tent flashing through his mind from time to time.
The softness at the corners of the lips seems to be an indelible mark.
He Ran stared at the lips so close to his eyes, then suddenly tugged at his collar, tiptoed, and gave him another quick, fleeting kiss.
This is the second time; you must take responsibility!
"We can put the matter of marrying me on hold for now. Right now, I need you, the smart one, to help me solve a problem!"
Jiang Xingyao has been taking care of his younger sister since she was a child.
Therefore, he never thought that young girls were difficult to deal with.
Now, he has met his nemesis.
It is also a nemesis that does not play by the rules.
What kind of girl is so bold and reckless as to look at a man's naked body and then grab him and kiss him!
This was the third time Jiang Xingyao's mind wandered.
He Ran twisted his ear and turned him around. "Jiang Xingyao, if you don't give me a feasible plan to suppress the bandits before noon, I'll tell my father you kissed me!"
Jiang Xingyao, "!!"
"It was clearly you... how can you turn the tables and blame me!"
He looked at her furrowed brows and then sighed.
"You said that bandits launched attacks everywhere last night, and you chased them all night but caught nothing?"
He Ran was kept in the dark all night, and only managed to doze off for a short while at the table when Jiang Xingyao woke him up and started yelling at him.
Jiang Xingyao looked at the three flamboyant characters on the note and suddenly laughed.
“Come here, I’ll tell you…”
He Ran smiled and his eyes narrowed. "Bookworms are indeed clever."
She cupped his cheeks and quickly kissed him again.
"A reward for you!"
"He Ran!"
Jiang Xingyao's cheeks burned again.
As He Ran went out in high spirits, he ran into Zhou Congxian, who was returning.
Her expression froze instantly, and she snorted coldly, "Shameless scoundrel!"
Zhou Congxian, “??”
"Someone like you wants me to marry you? Keep dreaming!"
"You? Marry me?"
Zhou Congxian glanced at her and said, "I don't want to marry her either. I'm not interested in women who act like men."
He Ran: "You're not even a fraction as good as a bookworm. Is my father blind?!"
bookworm?
Zhou Congxian understood immediately, "Oh, Jiang Xingyao."
“You’re interested in Jiang Xingyao, and I’m interested in his sister. We’re completely unrelated.”
"The bookworm's sister?" He Ran immediately thought of the young and beautiful woman from earlier.
"That young woman was the bookworm's sister, and she gave you two children?!"
Zhou Congxian's lips had just curled up in a smile.
He Ran instantly flew into a rage, clenching his fists and lunging forward, yelling, "I'll beat you to death, you bastard!"
She had quickly identified the nerdy sister with her own sister.
Even though this younger sister is more than three years older than her...
"Your sister has given birth to two children, and you still won't marry her! You want to find another wife?!"
"If I don't beat you to death today, I'm not surnamed He!"
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