As soon as Jiang Rui walked through the door, he saw Chen Chen smiling at him.
“What have you done to embarra.s.s me?” The man took the slippers in her hand and sat down on the sofa.
Chen Chen could not keep the smile on her face, clenching her teeth and thinking, “I don’t want to bother to argue with such an abnormal person as you.”
“No!” She flatteringly ma.s.saged Jiang Rui’s shoulders. “You have worked hard all day. Are you hungry? Thirsty?”
“Can you cook?” Jiang Rui raised his eyes and asked, and then the corner of Chen Chen’s mouth drooped. “Well, I’ll continue to give you a ma.s.sage…”
Jiang Rui squinted at the small hand on his shoulder. It was white and tender, with naturally pink nails. He couldn’t help putting it in his mouth and taking a bite.
“What are you doing?” Chen Chen didn’t dare to move. When did this man have the habit of biting people?
Jiang Rui held her on his knee and continued to nibble Chen Chen’s fingers, as if he had found out a new toy.
Chen Chen felt the weakness and numbness in her fingers, blushing and asking a pretty stupid question, “Do they taste good?”
Jiang Rui burst out laughing; Chen Chen looked at him in surprise, and then said with a dull look, “You should laugh more, because you have such a beautiful smile!”
Jiang Rui suddenly focused his eyes on her face, pinching Chen Chen’s chin and said, “When I fix the matter up, let’s have a date!”
Chen Chen nodded in a daze, and then reacted. She was about to ask why when the man kissed her lips.
After dawn, Chen Chen hid in the bathroom and refused to come out. It was a shame to lose consciousness because of his kiss every day.
“Mom, Dad is gone, and he asked you to drink up the soup.” Tuan Zi shouted outside, followed by Hei Zi’s barks.
Chen Chen casually washed her face and ran to the kitchen. She blushed again on seeing that a cup of papaya and hasam soup was warming in the pot.
“I see you always eat papaya, but it’s not necessary. They’re just enough now.” Jiang Rui said this morning while holding her white bubbies, “And eating papaya raw doesn’t work.”
Tuan Zi stared at her in doubt. “Mom, is it delicious?”
Chen Chen took the soup out and replied, “No, it’s just used to protect my throat.”
“You’re so silly.” Tuan Zi lay on the table, giving Chen Chen a pat when seeing her take a sip at one time. “Mom, you’ve been fooled by dad. He told me that, it was the soup that made your b.r.e.a.s.t.s bigger.”
Chen Chen almost choked to death. Then she covered her own mouth and glared at Tuan Zi. “If you talk nonsense again, no ice cream today!”
Tuan Zi left to play with Hei Zi downstairs, while Chen Chen drank the soup up. Thinking of Jiang Rui’s words about the date last night, somehow she felt that it must be a hint that something would happen that night.
In fact, even if Jiang Rui wanted to have s.e.x with her now, she would say yes. On knowing that Jiang Rui liked her too, Chen Chen had little energy to struggle. Moreover, for the sake of her own life, it would be better if Jiang Rui had s.e.x with her earlier.
Jiang Rui finally allowed her to go back to work after Chen Chen took advantage of her charming body. She especially spent the whole day preparing the lessons, but probably because she was too nervous, she kept having nightmares at night. When she woke up the next morning, Jiang Rui had returned after driving Tuan Zi to school.
“What’s wrong with Hei Zi?” She came out of the kitchen with a steamed stuffed bun and saw Hei Zi squatting at the gate and whimpering, with a cardboard box next to it.
Jiang Rui was reading the newspaper, and he replied without raising his head, “It thought it had been deserted.”
“Oh, it occurs to me that,” Chen Chen touched Hei Zi’s head and said, “you are going to get the training today.”
Hei Zi wagged its tail hard and wanted to lick Chen Chen’s face; on hearing Jiang Rui cough, it was scared to just lie on Chen Chen’s feet and whimper.
“Can it come back tonight?”
Jiang Rui pointed to the box. “No, Tuan Zi even specially packed up for it.”
No wonder Hei Zi thought it had been deserted…
Bear had arrived before Chen Chen finished her breakfast. He carried Hei Zi’s belongings into the car. Hei Zi barked while running into Tuan Zi’s room; although it refused to leave, it was finally taken by the tail and thrown out by Jiang Rui.
All the way, the poor Hei Zi kept trembling and clinging on to Chen Chen’s arm with its paws. When Chen Chen arrived at the school, it tried to follow her off the car but was ruthlessly blocked by the door. She looked back and saw Hei Zi scratching the window with its claws at a full speed.
“Poor thing, it must be scared almost to death.” Chen Chen thought. Hei Zi might think that it was going to be killed by those two men.
Everything was fine at school. She moved her office to the Laboratory Building for the convenience of making drugs. Chen Chen felt satisfied that no one disturbed her and the laboratory was also fully equipped. The only unpleasant thing was that she had to use the chemical instruments secretly. Fortunately, the physics lab was next to the chemistry lab, and no one would appear except for the students attending cla.s.s.
“Boss, do I need to pick up Mrs. Jiang for lunch?” Scar ran into the office.
Jiang Rui hung up the phone. “She is doing physics experiments, and she will not come over recently.”
“No wonder. My younger brother deliberately prepared unpleasant meals for Mrs. Jiang, just to let her have meals with you…” Scar suddenly covered his own mouth. “Boss, I didn’t say anything. I’ll go out now!”
Jiang Rui curled the corner of his mouth, and continued to look at the list presented to him. Then, he saw a familiar name.
“Bear.” Jiang Rui shouted.
Bear ran in from the door. “Boss, I’m here!”
Jiang Rui threw the list onto his face and asked, “What is this?”
“They are the recruits you have picked last time.” Bear picked it up. “Is there something wrong?”
“Just see it.”
Bear stared at the list and said in doubt, “f.u.c.k, why is Bai Ziqi on the list?”
“I’m asking you.” Jiang Rui’s face fell. “When can they intervene in my army?”
Bear said viciously, “I’ll find out why.”
Ten minutes later, he returned and seemed in a dilemma.
“Say it.” Jiang Rui knocked on the table.
Bear stammered the reason, and finally looked at Jiang Rui, asking, “How about… Accepting him?”
Jiang Rui stood up and left. Bear knew where he was going, about to drive the car.
“No, I’ll drive there myself.” Jiang Rui slammed the door.
In the Jiang family’s residence, Song Chunli was entertaining Bai Weirong who had just been discharged from the hospital.
“Alas, it’s all Jiang Rui’s fault to let you wronged.”
Wearing a blue skirt, Bai Weirong sat on the sofa with a piteous smile. “Grandma Jiang, please don’t say that. It’s not Jiang Rui’s fault.”
“Don’t put in a good word for him. Who else is to blame?” Song Chunli said coldly, “I heard that your father was arranging blind dates for you. The Jiang family is not lucky to have you as a daughter-in-law.”
“Grandma Jiang, don’t worry. I won’t go on a blind date!” Bai Weirong spouted. “You have let my elder brother join Jiang Rui’s army, but my grandpa didn’t even allow me to come for him.”
Song Chunli held her hand and said, “I really like you, but unfortunately… Even if Jiang Rui divorces, he won’t deserve you.”
“No!” Bai Weirong said excitedly, “Grandma Jiang, even if Jiang Rui does not divorce, I will be with him as long as he wants me!”
When the two women were daydreaming, the door was suddenly opened, and Jiang Rui strode in.
“Jiang Rui!” Bai Weirong stood up in surprise. “Are… Are you here for me?”
At a glance, Song Chunli found that Jiang Rui was angry. She naturally knew why he came there, and smiled sarcastically at Bai Weirong. “He came to settle accounts with me.”
“You go out first.” Jiang Rui glanced at Bai Weirong.
Song Chunli held her and said, “You don’t have to leave. This is the Jiang family, and I have the final say.”
“Grandma Jiang, Jiang Rui must have something to talk to you. I’d better avoid it now.” Bai Weirong knew that Jiang Rui has been in conflict with Song Chunli. Of course, she would listen to Jiang Rui now.
But she underestimated Song Chunli’s insistence.
“I said no.” Song Chunli made her sit down. “Jiang Rui, since you are here for Bai Ziqi, you don’t need to say anything. It’s me that let him in, and if you have the ability, you can refuse to accept him.”
Jiang Rui didn’t even sit down, staring at her and asking, “Does grandpa know?”
“Don’t press me in the name of your grandpa.” Song Chunli said in a sudden sharp voice, “I can do it without him.”
“Really?” Jiang Rui burst into laughter. “Huang Zhongyi, the staff officer in a certain group army. He hasn’t forgotten you after all these years. How spoony he is!”
Song Chunli turned pale when she heard the name. “What… What did you say?”
“You know what I mean.” Jiang Rui glanced at Bai Weirong. “Now you should worry about what will she say after she leaves.”
Bai Weirong quickly stood up. “I… I don’t know anything, Grandma Jiang…”
“Go back now.” Song Chunli said with stiff expressions and pushed Bai Weirong immediately outside.
Before Bai Weirong had time to say goodbye to Jiang Rui, she had been shut out.
“Jiang Rui!” Song Chunli shivered in anger. “How could you talk nonsense in front of others?”
Jiang Rui snorted and said, “You insisted on making her stay, so it has nothing to do with me.”
Song Chunli clenched her teeth. “Okay, I indeed asked for help from Huang Zhongyi. He was my cla.s.smate, so he agreed.”
“Cla.s.smate?” Jiang Rui looked at her coldly. “Grandma actually called the man who had s.e.x with you as a cla.s.smate.”
“Jiang Rui, shut up!” Song Chunli rushed up, but Jiang Rui dodged her. “Take it easy. That was many years ago; who will care about that?”
Song Chunli failed to stand still and fell down to the sofa, suddenly covering her face and crying.
Jiang Rui looked sideways, then turning around and saying, “Grandpa!”
“Xiao Rui, you’re here.” Jiang Min walked in and sat down opposite Song Chunli. “What’s wrong with you again?”
Song Chunli pointed fingers at Jiang Rui and said, “You can ask him why he came to question me? I just asked others to place someone in his army for my sake, why did he press me like this?”
“Place someone in his army?” Jiang Min frowned and suddenly stared at her fiercely. “Whom did you place into Xiao Rui’s army?”
“I…” Song Chunli dodged his stare, not daring to answer.
Jiang Min looked at Jiang Rui. “Tell me.”
“She placed Bai Ziqi, who came from the Bai family, into my force.” Jiang Rui said mockingly, “Even a fool will laugh on hearing this.”
Crack! A purple clay teapot on the table was thrown by Jiang Min on the ground.
“How dare you do such a thing without my knowledge?” The old man stood up staggeringly.
Jiang Rui quickly held him. “Grandpa, take care of yourself.”
Jiang Min pushed him away and pulled up Song Chunli. “Don’t you know the situations of the Jiang family and the Bai family in the military circles? How could you do that?”