Song Jiayan didn’t return from town until noon.
He was drenched in sweat, his clothes completely soaked through.
Under the scorching sun, Song Jiayan took off his wet shirt, scooped up a basin of cold water from the water jar, and poured it straight over his head.
Lu Mosheng was speechless when she saw what he was doing.
She grabbed a dry towel and walked over to help him wipe himself down. “If you keep pouring an entire basin of cold water over yourself like this, even a body made of iron won’t be able to take it forever.”
Song Jiayan turned around and looked down at her speechless expression.
“I’m fine.”
Lu Mosheng rolled her eyes. “Just because you say you’re fine doesn’t mean you are! I’m telling you, if you do this again, I’m not going to bother with you anymore. Turn around.”
Song Jiayan obediently turned around again.
Lu Mosheng used the towel to dry the water on his back. Once she had finished, she turned him around and began wiping his front.
However, as she continued, something felt wrong.
When she lowered her gaze, she noticed that he was…
Lu Mosheng’s ears immediately burned red.
“I’m not doing this anymore. Dry yourself off!”
She tossed the towel at him.
Just as she was about to leave, Song Jiayan suddenly grabbed her wrist.
He scooped her up into his arms and strode toward the small house.
After setting her down on the bed, Song Jiayan leaned over her.
“Mosheng.”
Lu Mosheng could tell that something was very different about him.
She placed both hands against his chest and said, “You’ll make the baby uncomfortable if you do this.”
“I know.”
His eyes burned with an intense desire, and his voice came out low and husky.
“Mosheng, help me.”
“How am I supposed to help you?”
Song Jiayan took her hand and gently guided it downward…
Almost instantly, Lu Mosheng understood what he meant.
Half an hour later…
Lu Mosheng emerged from the small house with her face completely red. Looking at her own hand, which was now rubbed raw and flushed, she wished she could find a hole in the ground and disappear into it.
Even though she and Song Jiayan had been married for quite some time, and she had lived through two lifetimes, she still couldn’t bring herself to face such intimate matters without embarrassment.
Especially when Song Jiayan had asked for her help in that hoarse, husky voice…
A short while later, Song Jiayan also hurried out of the small house.
His upper body was still bare, revealing his well-defined muscles, smooth contours, and sun-kissed skin.
Ever since leaving the military, he had maintained the habit of exercising regularly.
As a result, he was in excellent shape. He certainly didn’t resemble those married men who spent their days smoking and drinking until they developed large beer bellies.
“Put some clothes on!” Lu Mosheng said.
She simply couldn’t bring herself to look directly at him right now, especially when he wasn’t wearing a shirt.
Perhaps it was because he had finally relieved his pent-up desire.
Song Jiayan was surprisingly obedient. He took a clean set of clothes and put them on before eagerly pulling something out of his pocket and holding it out to Lu Mosheng.
“Here.”
“What is this?”
Lu Mosheng took it and read the instructions on the packaging.
“Scar-removal cream?”
Song Jiayan nodded. “I bought it at a pharmacy in town. Do you remember when we first got married? You banged your knee against the corner of a table and were left with a huge scar. You cried for several days because you thought you wouldn’t look good wearing skirts anymore.”
Having been reborn, she was no longer the Lu Mosheng who would cry for days over a scar on her leg because she couldn’t wear pretty skirts.
What surprised her, however, was that this man remembered everything.
“The new clothes I asked you to buy… You didn’t buy them, did you?” Lu Mosheng asked.
Song Jiayan shook his head. “I have enough clothes to wear. I don’t need any more.”
Honestly, this man…
Forget it. She would just buy some clothes for him herself the next time she went to town.
“This is the money from selling the grain. One hundred and eighty yuan in total.”
As he spoke, Song Jiayan handed her the money he had earned.
Lu Mosheng took one hundred yuan and tucked the remaining eighty into his pocket.
“You can’t go around without a single cent in your pocket, either.”
“Oh, right.”
Remembering the important matter she had wanted to discuss, Lu Mosheng said, “Mr. Shen came to see me today.”
She told Song Jiayan how popular the baical skullcap toothpaste had become and explained that Shen Dusong’s friend wanted to purchase all the baical skullcap they had left.
She also told him about her plan to ask Shen Dusong for help with cultivating lingzhi mushrooms.
After listening to her, Song Jiayan nodded.
“I have something to tell you, too. I ran into Zhao Xiuli in town today. She was released from the police station.”
At the mention of Zhao Xiuli’s name, Lu Mosheng narrowed her eyes.
She had expected Zhao Xiuli to find a way to avoid prison, but she hadn’t anticipated that the woman would be released so quickly.
Good people never seem to live long, while troublemakers can plague the world for a thousand years.
Although the Song family wasn’t wealthy, their ancestors had accumulated good karma by once saving an extraordinarily powerful figure.
That person had promised that if the Song family ever encountered difficulties in the future, he would certainly come to their aid.
More than ten years had passed since then, but if Lu Mosheng remembered correctly, in her previous life, the Song family’s third son had gotten into trouble. The family had contacted that influential figure for help, and in the end, the third son had been released just as quickly as Zhao Xiuli had been now.
At present, Lu Mosheng didn’t have the time or energy to deal with Zhao Xiuli.
But once she and Song Jiayan truly became powerful, crushing Zhao Xiuli would be as easy as crushing an ant.
“I understand,” Lu Mosheng replied.
Song Jiayan also had a pretty good idea of why Zhao Xiuli had been released.
Hearing Lu Mosheng’s response, he said, “Knowing her personality, she’ll probably cause trouble again. Be careful in everything you do from now on.”