I became the Counterpart of the Winner in a Period Novel-Chapter 154 - 151: Regret We Couldn’t Bathe Together

Chapter 154: Chapter 151: Regret We Couldn’t Bathe Together

"Yan Jinzhi, upon hearing this surname Gong, I instinctively feel he is not a good person, but my spiritual power cannot attack him."

"Hmm, if he were the former Gong Qingge in his past life, then he wouldn’t have any issues either."

"Hmm?"

"The Gong family had three brothers back then. The eldest, Gong Qingge, was honest and open-minded.

The second, Gong Ling, was the biological father of the Gong Boyan siblings. He was treacherous and deceitful, quite the scoundrel.

The youngest, Gong Ming, was a playboy concerned only with eating, drinking, and having fun. The three brothers: the eldest was born to the legitimate wife, while the second and third were born to a mistress.

Back then, Mr. Gong didn’t want his two sons to be left outside, so he got his wife’s consent to bring them back. However, the mistress, under the guise of visiting the children, would often come over, and over time she became brazen, frequently saying unnecessary things in front of the legitimate wife when Mr. Gong wasn’t home. The legitimate wife, being gentle and forbearing, became increasingly sullen and melancholic after repeated provocation, and passed away from illness a year later.

After his wife left, Mr. Gong was deeply grieved, but the family couldn’t be without a female head, so Mr. Gong planned to marry the mistress as a successor. But this was thwarted by his eldest son with a pile of evidence. Hearing about this, the mistress came to cause trouble for Gong Qingge but accidentally fell into the estate’s natural deep lake and died. From then on, the younger ones and the eldest were like the Weihe River and Han boundary, not fighting openly due to Mr. Gong still being alive, but secretly each wanted the other dead.

So, it is highly unlikely that Gong Qingge would be in cahoots with those siblings."

Jiang Mingyue was listening with interest but then suddenly felt it vanished, she pouted but said nothing.

"Let’s go, you lead the way, I’ll follow."

Jiang Mingyue indulged him, suddenly becoming someone with empty hands.

This feeling was quite... special.

Yan Jinzhi followed her all the way, and upon seeing this round bright moon almost reach the educated youth point, he made him turn off the flashlight, grabbed the previous snakeskin bag, and just like instructing Xiao Ran, "Wait here for me, I’ll be back quickly, remember, don’t make a sound."

Standing by the roadside, Yan Jinzhi felt some regret looking at the night sky tonight.

Shortly, Jiang Mingyue returned, and after coming over, she took out a bicycle, "Yan Jinzhi, get on, I’ll take you."

Yan Jinzhi looked at her, not moving, while Jiang Mingyue felt a bit uneasy being stared at, deliberately saying, "What? Feeling embarrassed? Come on, I’m strong, if you don’t get on soon you’ll have to walk back by yourself."

Yan Jinzhi, helpless, had to follow the little lunatic’s intention and sit on, but his legs were really long, if not curled up a bit, they’d drag on the ground.

"Do you have to work overtime tonight?"

Yan Jinzhi laughed, "No need."

"But I often find you working overtime."

Yan Jinzhi: "...Not tonight, tonight I’m accompanying you."

Jiang Mingyue was speechless at this. What does he mean by accompanying her tonight? Yet if she responds, the awkwardness would only double.

At the educated youth point, Zheng Honglian, who was returning from visiting around, lit a candle. She didn’t like living with others, just as there were still plenty of rooms available here, she managed to pick one she fancied.

Even though she didn’t like living with people, regular social interactions were still necessary, she just went to connect emotionally.

Prior, she boiled water and took a bath, now she directly went to bed to sleep.

Only...

"Ah!" A scream echoed through the entire educated youth point, the other youths who hadn’t slept yet were curious about what happened and came over room by room to find out.

When they found Zheng Honglian, they saw she was already so scared she stood in the yard, trembling all over, face pale as paper.

"What’s wrong?"

"A snake! A snake crawled into Mr. Zheng’s room. No wonder the village warned us to keep doors and windows closed, are there so many snakes?"

"Scared to death, I’ve been afraid of snakes since I was a child."

Each of them was engrossed in talking, seemingly forgetting the protagonist of the incident was still shaking.

As for Jiang Mingyue, once she got home, she released her spiritual power to monitor the educated youth point. Until Zheng Honglian’s scream, she swept her gaze over her shivering, pale appearance, feeling somewhat satisfied.

Didn’t Zheng Honglian like throwing soap bars to make others slip into the river to drown? Didn’t she like pushing people? Then let her taste fear first.

With such a fright tonight, she probably wouldn’t dare sleep in that room again, as for other rooms, given her hypocritical temperament, nobody should invite her.

No matter, the first gift pack has been delivered.

Returning home, the courtyard was bustling with flames, it turned out the third sister had set up a fire waiting for her.

Seeing her return, they finally felt at ease.

"Yueyue, where did you go? Mom and the others went out looking for you."

Jiang Mingyue: "..." Feels quite guilty.

Just as Yan Jinzhi was about to enter the door, he halted.

Seeing his action, Jiang Mingyue knew what he was up to.

"Don’t go, if you go, we’ll have to go find you later."

Yan Jinzhi: "..."

Jiang Zhenmei then noticed the person at the door, "It’s Mr. Yan, come in and warm yourself by the fire, it’s a bit cold tonight. Yueyue’s right, better come in and wait."

Yan Jinzhi, suffering a double injury: "..."

Fortunately, before they could leave to look, the Jiang family returned.

"Yueyue, where did you go? You can’t go off like that without saying a word."

Knowing she was wrong, Jiang Mingyue immediately begged for forgiveness and promised repeatedly.

Only then did Mrs. Jiang urge her to wash and sleep, naturally still most concerned about Yan Jinzhi, asking if he needed a late-night snack.

Walking up the stairs, Jiang Mingyue: "..." Lemon to death, as soon as this person arrived, he stole her popular figure in the family.

Of course, Yan Jinzhi didn’t trouble Mrs. Jiang and likewise returned to his room.

However, both of them implicitly closed their room doors and entered the space.

In the Bamboo Garden, Jiang Mingyue greeted then went to take a bath with her clothes.

Watching Jiang Mingyue’s departing silhouette, Yan Jinzhi felt a bit of regret: actually, they could have bathed together.

After both finished bathing, they sat together to review the night’s events.

"Why does Gong Qingge live in the woods? Seclusion? Or avoiding something? No, I must go see my uncle tomorrow."

"I’ll go with you."

"As long as you have the time."

Yan Jinzhi laughed, "I’m not a robot, I have to rest. I’ll use my rest to accompany you, perfectly reasonable."

Here we go again!

Accompany her? No need at all!

It’s been a day, Jiang Mingyue still remembered she could harvest her grain.

Soon there were another two thousand pounds of rice and three hundred pounds of soybeans in the warehouse.

The paddy continued to be planted, that one mu of land changed to potatoes.

After watering, she patrolled the orchard and discovered a strange phenomenon.

"Yan Jinzhi, of the fifteen fruit trees I’ve planted, only five are bearing fruit, the others just flower without fruit."

It’s quite ridiculous!

Yan Jinzhi: "..." He wanted to say, it was the problem he set initially; so the first batch she planted with fifteen types of fruit trees all bearing fruit was quite unexpected. The initial design was backed by data, that there would be four types of fruit trees, bearing fruit four times a year, in tune with the four seasons.

Four!

Now there’s one more type, he suspected the next batch would revert to the original four types, as to why the discrepancy occurred, it could be the alternation between two worlds, the lingering aftereffects of this temporal oscillation.