GTB Chapter 134

Chapter 136: But They Are Husband and Wife

A stick of incense later, Green Willow walked out from behind the screen. As she was taking a set of clothes from the cabinet and passing the round table, she saw Shí Yan reaching out to her, gesturing with his eyes for her to leave.

Green Willow paused, then handed her young lady’s clothes to Shí Yan and silently retreated.

Behind the screen, Jiang Jiuchu, completely unaware that Shí Yan had come to her, was leaning her head back against the edge of the tub, playfully tossing flower petals onto her face.

She loved taking flower petal baths, not for the fragrance, but simply because she loved flowers. She felt happy watching the petals floating on the water while she bathed.

So, whenever she took a bath, Green Willow and Green Intent would scatter flower petals picked from the yard into the water.

But ever since she went to Shí Yan’s residence, she had not had a flower petal bath again.

After all, such a large pool would require so many flower petals to fill, and the flowers in his yard were only planted later and couldn’t withstand their tossing.

As soon as Shí Yan came in, he saw such a sensual scene, and he couldn’t help but feel his throat tighten.

He felt that Jiang Jiuchu at this moment was truly an enchantress, a pure yet seductive enchantress. The leg resting on the edge of the tub was even whiter, more delicate, and longer than he had imagined.

Jiang Jiuchu seemed to sense his gaze. She casually turned her head and saw Shí Yan, not knowing when he had come in, staring straight at her.

Startled, she threw the flower petals in her hand and hurriedly tried to pull her leg back into the water.

Shí Yan was shocked. He quickly stepped forward and grabbed Jiang Jiuchu’s ankle. “You can’t touch the water.”

Before Jiang Jiuchu could open her mouth, she instantly lost her balance because Shí Yan suddenly raised her leg. She slipped into the bathtub, with only the leg Shí Yan was holding still exposed.

Shí Yan was shocked again. He quickly lowered Jiang Jiuchu’s leg, stretched out his long arm, quickly grabbed Jiang Jiuchu’s flailing hand, and pulled her out of the tub.

“Cough, cough…”

Jiang Jiuchu choked a mouthful of water into her nose, coughing with her little face flushed, and it took her a long time to recover.

“Are you okay?” Shí Yan asked Jiang Jiuchu guiltily.

Jiang Jiuchu looked at Shí Yan unhappily. “Who told you to come in?”

Shí Yan said innocently, “I came to bring you clothes.”

Jiang Jiuchu sank back into the tub, thinking that it was a good thing she had scattered a lot of flower petals, otherwise, wouldn’t she have been seen completely by Shí Yan?

“Isn’t there Green Willow! Where’s Green Willow?”

Shí Yan replied without batting an eye, “Green Willow had something to do and went out.”

The corners of Jiang Jiuchu’s mouth twitched. How could she not believe it! Green Willow was clearly going to get her clothes, how could she have something to do and go out? Besides serving her, what else could Green Willow do?

She suppressed the anger in her heart and pointed to the clothes rack on the side. “Okay, then put the clothes down!”

“Your foot is not good for standing up, I’ll help you.” As Shí Yan spoke, he was about to bend down to help her.

“No, I can get up myself, I don’t need your help.” Jiang Jiuchu immediately retracted her arm into the water, looking at Shí Yan with a guarded expression.

She thought, could this person be any more obvious? She was stark naked! Let him help her? What was he thinking!

Shí Yan looked at Jiang Jiuchu’s expression, turned around and put the clothes in his hand on the clothes rack. “Then be careful yourself, call me if you can’t.”

“Okay.” Jiang Jiuchu watched Shí Yan walk out of the screen and breathed a heavy sigh of relief. She quickly supported herself on the edge of the tub and got out. She was really afraid that Shí Yan would suddenly disregard everything and carry her out of the tub.

While quickly putting on her clothes, she thought that Shí Yan seemed to be getting more and more out of line lately.

Sure enough, no man is not lustful. But they are husband and wife, what can she do?

Jiang Jiuchu walked out of the screen and saw Shí Yan leaning on the bed, flipping through her storybook in his hands. She wondered where he had found it.

Seeing Shí Yan engrossed in reading, she sat down and lowered her head slightly to look. When she saw the cover clearly, her little face instantly turned red.

Oh my god! This seemed to be the storybook about forced love that she had finished reading. She remembered putting it in the drawer of the short table next to her. How could this person rummage through her things!

Watching Shí Yan flipping through the pages one by one, she swallowed her saliva and had the urge to get up and snatch it back.

It wasn’t because she was embarrassed to be discovered reading this kind of book, but because she felt that this book was really not suitable for Shí Yan to read. It was full of the male lead’s forced love plot for the female lead, with constant displays of affection.

She thought it was very good when she read it at the beginning, but if Shí Yan… treated her like this, she would collapse.

The more Jiang Jiuchu thought about it, the more restless she became, but she really didn’t dare to go over and grab it. She had seen how fast he was.

If she went over, she was afraid that not only would she not be able to grab it, but she would also have to give herself away. Forget it, it was just a storybook.

Jiang Jiuchu got up and lay down on the chaise lounge. After taking a bath, she quickly fell asleep until Green Willow came in to deliver dinner at sunset, and she woke up.

Jiang Jiuchu yawned and looked at Shí Yan, seeing that he was still reading a book, and there were already several storybooks on the short table next to the bed.

She was slightly surprised, could this person have taken out all her storybooks to read!

After the two had dinner, Jiang Jiuchu saw that it was still early, so she asked Shí Yan, “I want to go see my sister-in-law, do you want to go with me?”

“No, you go by yourself!”

“Okay.” Seeing that Shí Yan wasn’t going, Jiang Jiuchu went to her brother’s yard alone.

In the room, Shí Qingya saw Jiang Jiuchu and quickly pulled her down to sit down and asked, “Are you okay! I wanted to see you this afternoon, but I heard that you were bathing and resting, so I didn’t go.”

“Tell me, what exactly happened this afternoon?”

Although Shí Qingya and Jiang Jiuche heard Madam Ye say that they were fine, they still felt a little strange, after all, Jiang Jiuchu had an accident at the palace banquet last time, and now she had an accident at the horse race again.

But after listening to Jiang Jiuchu’s account of what happened, the two couldn’t find any faults.

Shí Qingya looked at Jiang Jiuche and asked for his opinion, “Husband, what do you think?”

Jiang Jiuche shook his head. “I just think it’s a bit too frequent, but there doesn’t seem to be any suspicion. That horse may have come from the north and was used to eating that kind of grass. It’s normal for it to be unable to resist the temptation when it suddenly smells the scent.”

Shí Qingya had been to the royal gardens countless times since she was a child, and she had never heard that there was any kind of formation there. “That’s true, but how could there be a formation in West Ring Mountain?”

“Sister-in-law, maybe it was naturally formed! After all, no one has ever entered the mountains and forests before, so it’s normal not to know the special features inside.”

Jiang Jiuchu felt that the formation inside had nothing to do with her. The problem was that piece of purple flower grass. If there was no purple flower grass, the horse wouldn’t have gone in, and there wouldn’t have been this accident.

Shí Qingya nodded. “You’ve really had some bad luck recently. You should go to fewer banquets that you can avoid next time!”

“Okay, I understand. Then, brother and sister-in-law, rest early, I’ll go back first.”

Jiang Jiuchu originally wanted Jiang Jiuche to go out so that she could chat with Shí Qingya alone about Shí Yan, but in the end, she didn’t say anything.

Shí Qingya sent her to the outside of the house, watched her and Green Willow’s backs, and asked Jiang Jiuche, “Chuer seems to have something on her mind, could there be some trouble with Seventh Brother?”

Shí Qingya felt that it was possible that Jiang Jiuchu came to them alone for this reason.

“Don’t think too much. I think she’s fine. Besides, your Seventh Brother is very good to Chuer, they won’t have conflicts.”

As a man, Jiang Jiuche could feel Shí Yan’s kindness towards Jiang Jiuchu, and he believed that his sister was good in every way. Any man who wasn’t blind or heartless wouldn’t be willing to be angry with his Chuer.