I became the Counterpart of the Winner in a Period Novel-Chapter 184 - 181: Devilish Relationship

Spicy rabbit cubes, roasted chicken in pine needles, pine needle roasted rabbit, ten live chickens, ten live rabbits, and then a tank of fish and twenty jars of buckwheat wine, it seems someone had something to say again.

"That’s too little, bring some more. Your brother needs it for entertaining friends and giving gifts."

Jiang Mingyue: "..." Endure! Then she went back and grabbed twenty more jars of corn liquor, a jar of plum wine, and a jar of grape wine.

"More plum wine and grape wine."

"They’re not ready to drink, they need to continue fermenting, these two jars are leftover from last time."

Thinking about it, Jiang Mingyue left him some apple jam, strawberry jam, yellow peach preserves, and a basket of morels.

"Morels? Good stuff! Why didn’t I get any before?"

Jiang Mingyue then told him about the magic of the mountains and forests.

"Alright, remember to send some to your brother whenever you can. Yueyue, I’m thinking, these things are only enough for half a month. You need to come see me at least once every half month, otherwise your brother will run out of food. Of course, I don’t mind if it’s once a day, after all, it’s convenient for you."

Jiang Mingyue: "..." Look at this greedy face, how did she put it? This brother is basically leaning his mouth on her shoulder, asking her to feed him.

Once the things were delivered, Jiang Mingyue didn’t linger, her older cousin escorted her downstairs, conveniently slipping her a greaseproof paper package, the kind used for wrapping roasted chicken. She looked at the oil seeping through and thought, could it taste better than her pine needle roasted chicken?

However, she trusted her older cousin; he has a picky palate, if he thought it was good and brought it back, then it must be absolutely delicious. It’s just the feel was different since it was tied with twine, Jiang Mingyue decided not to open it now, and instead threw it into the basket casually.

But at the entrance, someone was already waiting.

"Ahem... Mr. Jiang, you can’t blame me, it’s my wife who insisted on coming to see you when she heard you were here."

Jiang Mingyue wasn’t paying attention to what Manager Zhuang said. Her attention was on the smiling woman in front of her. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

This... someone who didn’t know better might think she’s a favored daughter-in-law!

"So this is Auntie, so young! If Manager Zhuang hadn’t said, I’d think she was an older sister!"

It’s proven that no matter the era, women enjoy being complimented as young.

Just then, Auntie smiled even more kindly, "Such sweet talk! I like it, girl, you know, my eldest son has been married for five years."

Jiang Mingyue pretended to be surprised, "Really? Wow, I really couldn’t tell. Auntie, how do you maintain yourself? You look like you could be my sister."

"Oh my, I guess it’s because I wash my face with rice water every day. At first, it was to save water. Later, I heard from a friend that rice water can be used for face washing and vegetable cleaning, that washing your face with it long term can improve skin, and vegetables become cleaner, with better taste after being washed with it."

"I think so, I’ll have to get my mom and my third sister to wash with it every day back in the countryside, maybe they can get skin as good as Auntie’s with all the sun and wind exposure they get."

"Oh my, this sweet little mouth!"

"Auntie, I’m just stating the facts."

"By the way, Old Zhuang said you had family matters today?"

"Yes, Auntie."

"I originally wanted to take leave to bring you over to have fun, but since that’s the case, it’ll have to wait. Come over on the weekend, Auntie will make something delicious. Oh, Yueyue, do you have any food aversions, or any preferences?"

Jiang Mingyue: "... Auntie, I’m not picky, I like whatever you make."

"Oh my! Look at this sweet little mouth. Alright! Auntie will prepare it. By the way, my last name is Fu, you can just call me Aunt Fu from now on."

"Okay, Aunt Fu!"

Manager Zhuang, who couldn’t get a word in edgewise, went from jaw-droppingly surprised at the beginning to simply shrugging his shoulders by the end: He was nothing more than a useless background prop.

As they were leaving, Aunt Fu handed her another big package: There! To give gifts was the real intention!

Jiang Mingyue politely declined and then accepted it.

She needed to hurry back now since she was the only one in the family who appeared to be idle, she still had to make an appearance.

Arriving at No. 42 Magpie Street, Jiang Mingyue glanced at No. 43 next door, quite the choice of location, the doors were right next to each other. But that door indeed looked like her older cousin said, as if it could succumb to age at any moment.

Should she go in and have a look?

Jiang Mingyue pulled out the key her older cousin just gave her, and moved to the door of No. 43. Tsk! Even the entrance wasn’t as high as hers, if you’re buying a house and raising a wife, at least buy a better one, right? Besides, Xie Yunhai didn’t seem like someone who doesn’t care.

Ahem... what was she thinking? Her older cousin already said he wasn’t marrying anyone; he wants to marry a rich, pretty woman and have kids!

Jiang Mingyue only blamed herself for a second, then regained her confidence. Isn’t all of this because of that bite mark? I mean, in a normal relationship, would you bite someone in their most sensitive spot? No, right!

After some mental adjustment, Jiang Mingyue would no longer attribute the topic of a sister-in-law to that Xie person, but rather shifted her attention elsewhere effortlessly.

How nice! From now on, her older cousin won’t be alone anymore, someone will even warm his bed at night.

It didn’t count that her thoughts went astray, and she engaged in wild imagination.

After sending his sister off, Jiang Ming’an also headed upstairs to pack his luggage, but that pestering dog latched on again.

"Brother, why can’t I come with you?"

Jiang Mingyue couldn’t be bothered to deal with him: "Let go."

"Brother, do you think my sister has sensed something between us..."

"Shut up! What’s going on with us? Don’t spew nonsense, those who don’t know might think there’s something real between us. Say one more absurd word, and you can leave."

"Come on, brother, we even slept together, why don’t you admit it?"

"You..." Jiang Ming’an was really surprised there could be such a shameless person in the world, "I said, don’t talk nonsense, what you’re saying is misleading, I’m not into that. It’s you who wouldn’t go next door and insisted on squeezing in with me. But ask yourself, have I ever done anything to you?"

"Yes, brother behaves with integrity, you’re immaculate, it’s me who has done everything to brother."

"You..." Jiang Ming’an’s head was throbbing, this scoundrel was just unbelievable.

"You rascal! Stop your nonsense."

"I can hardly control myself, brother might as well take me along?"

"Is that a threat?"

"How dare I threaten you, brother? I just don’t want to be apart from brother, your warmth is perfect as a pillow, without one I can’t sleep."

Jiang Ming’an: "..." What did he do in his past life to deserve crossing paths with such a clingy dog?

"It doesn’t matter what you say, I’m going for work. Also, aren’t you working? Director Jian treats you like a son-in-law, and Jian Nanqing seems to have taken a liking to you, seizing the opportunity could be beneficial."

Jiang Ming’an genuinely considered for the other, but the focused person looked sinister-faced.

Jiang Ming’an didn’t feel like entertaining him: the priority is to quickly send him away.