Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 380: Sweet words

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TN: Thanks for all the wonderful comments, everyone! I have some good news (for me at least), I got the job I applied for! It’s my dream job working for a wildlife refuge, so I’m super siked and will start next month.
This does mean that I will likely have less time for translating, so I will be moving to a once a month, ten chapter update, starting in November.
Thanks for sticking with my translations all this time, it wouldn’t be as fun without you guys!

“Why are your words sweeter than my Qing’er!” Lian Fang Zhou laughed.

Ah Jian raised his hand to straighten her wind-blown hair buns.
Lowering his head, he smiled: “I am only this way in front of you.”

She laughed again, thinking that he had already shown this expression twice in front of Lian Ze and the others.

The two lingers together for a while before Lian Fang Zhou gently pushed him to stand up straight.
Smiling, she said: “Let’s finish the work quickly.
If we can pick a dozen catties today, we can send it to Su Zi Ji! It would be great if he could finish the equipment for removing seeds and spinning threads today.
Waiting for the cotton to come in large quantities, I can’t afford to delay!”

Ah Jian nodded, humming lightly.
He looked down at Lian Fang Zhou and whispered: “Fang Zhou, this cotton is not as important as your health! You don’t need to be so anxious and nervous; we are patrolling every day and there are traps all around.
We taught the Zhao family a lesson, I don’t think anyone else dares to have any ideas.”

Hearing this, Lian Fang Zhou’s eyes were bright.
Smiling, she said: “You don’t have to worry about me! What I am nervous about is what needs to be nervous about and what I worry about needs to be worried, I still have a sense of measure! After all, I have spent so much effort on this! This is the last and most critical stage; how can I not be nervous or worried?”

Ah Jian was speechless and laughed helplessly.
Sighing, he said: “Fine, since you say so, let’s just do it! Only, if you are tired, have others do it!” He hugged her tightly, “Fang Zhou, otherwise I will feel bad.”

The couple shared a tender smile and then went to find more cotton.

Lian Fang Zhou wanted to look around with wide eyes, but she had only looked once before Ah Jian was already pulling her firmly in one direction.

Startled, she laughed and let him pull her.
He was a martial artist, after all, and his eyesight was naturally much stronger than hers.
She only needed to follow him to have peace of mind.

Her thoughts turned out to be true.
Under Ah Jian’s guidance, their basket was quickly filled with cotton.
In just an hour, the basket couldn’t fit anymore, even when they pressed it.

Lian Fang Zhou smiled, content.
“Ah Jian, you are the best! It’s getting late, let’s go back.”

She took the basket from him and weighed it, it should be seven or eight catties.

Taking the basket back, Ah Jian agreed and asked: “Shall we come back this afternoon?”

His tone was not really a question.

Instantly, Lian Fang Zhou’s face was hot and she scowled deliberately.
In the end, however, she nodded.
“Mm, this is not enough.
Naturally we need to come back.”

Ah Jian didn’t care about her scowls or even the amount of cotton.
As long as she was willing to come back, they could walk alone like this for a long time.
Hearing what she said, the corners of his mouth rose, and his eyes were gentle.
He didn’t know when to stop and asked, “Shall we also come tomorrow and the day after?”

“…” Lian Fang Zhou narrowed her eyes and smiled.
“Cotton picking is done by women.
You, a big man, coming here so often, are you not afraid of people making jokes?”

“I’m not afraid!” Ah Jian said immediately.
Then he paused and sighed: “Alright, let’s discuss it tomorrow.”

He had never been a person who cared much about how others saw him and when he was with her, he didn’t care about anyone else.

It was just that the two of them going out alone more often than normal would be too eye-catching.

Not to mention outsiders, even Third Aunt wouldn’t be fooled.
There were also the three little siblings, it was inevitable that they would be suspicious.

He knew how much Lian Fang Zhou loved and protected her family and he also knew how much they loved and protected her, he can’t let them change their views of her for his own benefit.

However…

“Fang Zhou,” Ah Jian said, suddenly taking Lian Fang Zhou’s arm, “tell me, where should we go if we want to speak alone in the future?”

Speak alone? Lian Fang Zhou opened her eyes wide and moved her lips.

Ah Jian added, voice dull: “If I can’t say a few words after not seeing you all day, I’m afraid I won’t be able to restrain—”

When Ah Jian had first assured her that he definitely did not have a wife and children, Lian Fang Zhou had still been a little skeptical.
Now, however, there was no doubt at all.

A person with a wife and children would definitely not act like he was in this moment.
This was clearly the reaction of a man in his first love who spent all his time thinking about and wishing to be with his love.

Lian Fang Zhou felt even sweeter in her heart and her face flushed again.

Seeing this, Ah Jian’s expression became more gentle.
“Fang Zhou, before we get married, I won’t— I just want to talk with you, want to give… give you a hug.
You should accept me, alright?” Of course, he also wanted to kiss her but Ah Jian couldn’t say this out loud.

She wanted to refused but where could she bear it? After thinking about it, she pretended to be distressed.
“But… I don’t know where we can go! Our house is just a little place.”

Listening to this, it really is—

Thinking of Lian Ze and the others, Lian Fang Zhou felt a little guilty for no reason.

Seeing that she was not opposed in her heart, Ah Jian was delighted.
“I think the water source in Sanchakou is very good and clean.
Fang Zhou, let’s meet there every day and say a few words, alright? Or we could go every two or three days…”

Once the gate of affection was open, the full might of love and desire would pour out like a turbulent river, unstoppable.
It was not enough to see her every day! He really wanted to be as intimate with her as possible.

She smiled.
“Let’s talk about it later!”

On normal days, when Lian Fang Zhou spoke, not matter how secretive, Ah Jian would understand her meaning.
But at this moment, even though her words were clearly a promise, Ah Jian did not understand and still stubbornly persisted in persuading her: “Fang Zhou, you have to agree!”

Lian Fang Zhou stared at him.
She would have never expected that this person’s IQ could plummet to such a point! Still, she couldn’t be entangled by him and only smiled vaguely.

Ah Jian seemed to accept this.
Smiling, he said: “Then it’s settled.
It’s not early, let’s go back! You follow behind me, don’t let the branches scratch you.”

Lian Fang Zhou agreed out loud but inside, she was rolling her eyes secretly.
It turned out that all men were like this, even him.
After the benefits, the treatment would change immediately!

In other words, they had walked through the cotton so many times in the past, why hadn’t he cared if the cotton branches scratched her before?

The two of them walked out of the cotton field and dumped the cotton into a sack they had brought with them.

While they had been picking cotton, Ah Jian’s entire attention had been on Lian Fang Zhou’s body, where would he have time to care about the cotton? Now, though, he finally took a good look at the plant that Lian Fang Zhou had been praising all this time.
For the first time, he finally saw its true value!

The cotton was freshly picked and as light and soft as clouds.
However, inside the wool were tiny black seeds the size of grain, destroying the purity of the whiteness and greatly affecting the cotton’s visual beauty.

TN: I think its interesting that Ah Jian insists that he doesn’t have a wife and children because he feels that he would know if he did, despite not having his memories.
Does this also expand to other people in his life? Would he know if he had siblings? Friends? That one or more of his parents died?