As soon as the words fell, Zhang Liunian immediately closed his eyes and stopped speaking.
Seeing that there was no movement behind her, Jiang Qingqing felt restless again. She had lain down and slept all day today, and now she couldn't sleep at all. She just wanted to talk to Zhang Liunian.
As for her refusal just now, it was entirely because she couldn't stand her husband's teasing.
"Liunian?" Jiang Qingqing called out softly. After waiting for a long time, there was no answer.
"Are you really asleep?" Jiang Qingqing murmured and turned around, only to meet a pair of smiling starlike eyes.
Zhang Liunian had originally intended to sleep, but hearing his wife calling him continuously, his sleepiness vanished.
"You… mmm!" Seeing that Zhang Liunian was deliberately pretending to be asleep and ignoring her, Jiang Qingqing opened her mouth to say something, but Zhang Liunian sealed it tightly.
"Ah… no."
"No what?" Zhang Liunian leaned into her ear and asked, his large hand becoming even more restless.
"You…" Jiang Qingqing was exasperated and reached out her small hand to push his large hand away, but it was caught by another large hand and pinned above her head.
Zhang Liunian curled his lips, scanning his wife's delicate body, his eyes becoming increasingly scarlet, his body tense.
"Ah, Liunian, we… mmm!" Jiang Qingqing, realizing she was naked, was so ashamed and angry that she writhed uncomfortably. However, these small movements were simply an invitation in Zhang Liunian's eyes.
"I want to." Zhang Liunian looked at the beautiful scenery in his arms, unable to resist his inner desires any longer. He lowered his head and kissed her cherry lips, which were still trying to speak.
At this moment, Zhang Liunian's mind was filled with the word "obtain."
Jiang Qingqing wanted to remind her husband that she had not yet recovered, but she couldn't say anything. Her small hands tried to push away the man pressing on her, but to no avail.
Just as Jiang Qingqing thought they were about to become completely one, Zhang Liunian stopped his actions at the cusp of entering the final stage.
Jiang Qingqing slowly opened her eyes and saw Zhang Liunian looking at her belly with immense heartache. "Qingqing, you have suffered."
That was close. Fortunately, he came back to his senses in time, otherwise Jiang Qingqing would have suffered secondary harm. Zhang Liunian broke out in a cold sweat, leaned down, and hugged his naked wife into his arms, looking full of lingering fear.
Jiang Qingqing had also thought Zhang Liunian would be unable to resist just now. Fortunately, he had stopped himself at the last moment. She reached out her small hand and wrapped it around the man on her, saying, "It's alright. I am willing to suffer even more to give birth to a child for you."
This child was the crystallization of their love. Even if she had to lose her life, she would give birth to it for Zhang Liunian.
Hearing this, Zhang Liunian's heart melted completely. He held his wife's head with his large hand and kissed her. "Have I ever told you that I love you?"
Jiang Qingqing's body trembled. What beautiful and intoxicating words of love! Even for just this sentence, she would willingly give her life. "I feel the same way."
"It's so good to have you." Zhang Liunian cherished his current life immensely. Holding his wife in his arms and falling asleep was truly the happiest moment in the world.
Jiang Qingqing snuggled softly into his embrace, the corners of her mouth turned up high.
Zhang Liunian felt the softness and milky scent in his arms and felt the urge again.
Jiang Qingqing also felt his ardor, and immediately dared not move, her small face turning as red as a ripe apple.
"Sigh, we'll have to endure a little longer." Zhang Liunian's large hand clasped the slender waist in his arms, and he sighed.
Jiang Qingqing heard the hidden resentment in his words and pursed her lips, stealing a laugh.
"Go to sleep quickly." Zhang Liunian's large hand gently clasped his wife's buttocks, causing her to exclaim, and only then did he close his eyes contentedly to fall asleep.
At the same time, at the entrance of the Zhang Family Pickles shop in Jiangcheng, several people with suspicious movements arrived with several bottles of gasoline.
Huang Da and Li Shu, who lived inside, were completely unaware of this until they felt heat all around them and smelled a pungent odor, which finally woke them up.
But by then, it was too late. The flames had climbed onto the roof, and thick smoke billowed from the shop.
Seeing this, Huang Da quickly woke Li Shu, "Wake up, wake up, Li Shu, it's on fire."
Hearing the sound, Li Shu opened his eyes and saw smoke everywhere in the shop. When he tried to get up, he found his limbs were weak, clearly a problem caused by inhaling the smoke.
"Let's rush out quickly, or we'll die here." Huang Da covered his mouth and nose and opened the window in the room.
Unfortunately, the window was too small for an adult to climb out.
"Wet towels with water, and we'll each take one to rush out. Let's make it quick." Li Shu had some experience with such matters and instructed Huang Da on how to avoid inhaling the smoke. Then, he slapped himself several times hard, tasting a metallic flavor in his mouth, and finally managed to stand up.
"Here, let's rush out." Huang Da pulled down two towels and threw them into the water basin, then handed a piece to Li Shu. The two of them then walked out one after the other.
There were no unexpected incidents during this process, but unfortunately, when they reached the shop entrance and tried to open the main door, they found that the door was blocked from the outside.
"This is bad. Someone wants to burn us to death and deliberately blocked our main door." Huang Da pushed for a long time but couldn't open the door, becoming extremely anxious.
The shop was about to be burnt down. If they didn't get out soon, they would really die here.
Li Shu was much smarter than Huang Da. Seeing that they couldn't push it open, he suggested, "Since we can't push it out, let's pull it inwards."
"Good idea." Huang Da's eyes lit up, and then he shouted "one, two, three" with Li Shu, and they exerted force together.
They failed on the first attempt, but succeeded on the second. Unfortunately, their success was accompanied by the fall of a heavy door frame.
At the critical moment, Huang Da pushed Li Shu, which saved Li Shu from injury, but Huang Da himself was hit squarely by the door frame.
"Da Zi?" Li Shu, who was thrown back, looked at Huang Da, who was hit by the door frame, his eyes splitting with rage.
"Da Zi, hold on. I'll save you now." Li Shu ignored his own pain, turned around, and rushed forward to rescue the burning Huang Da from under the door frame. However, because his clothes were somewhat scant, Huang Da was inevitably burned.
The next day, Zhang Liunian got up early and set off for Nancheng. However, it wasn't long before he received news of the incident involving Huang Da and the other person.
"Grandpa Tang, I'll leave the branch store to you. If anyone comes to cause trouble again, just have Master Huang and the others throw them out."
Since he planned to go to Jiangcheng, Zhang Liunian naturally had to make arrangements.
The construction site matters were temporarily in a stalemate, and he planned to wait for Fang Yan to make a move. The pickle market in Nancheng had also been recaptured, and two braised meat shops had been opened, one on each side of Nancheng, not interfering with each other, and business was good. These matters did not require his worry.
What worried him most now were Huang Da and the other person in Jiangcheng. He heard that they had encountered arson yesterday and almost died inside.
The goods sent to Jiangcheng today had also departed, and he had to go to preside over the overall situation.