Chapter 9

As Qin Muye was about to rush into the kitchen, he saw Jiang Muning, who had been choked by the smoke, anxiously running out.

He placed his hands on her shoulders, anxiously checking her up and down to see if she was injured.

If she saw the full of concern in his eyes, Jiang Muning would definitely be surprised.

Qin Ye rushed in to put out the fire, but saw that it was just a lot of smoke, there was no fire.

Wang Guifen was coughing constantly from being choked. After she came out, she kept scolding: “Jiang Muning, do you want to burn down the house?!”

Jiang Muning finally came to her senses, she blinked her eyes innocently and said, “Mom, I said I don’t know how to start a fire, you didn’t believe me, you said it was an excuse. And you pulled me out of bed, I haven’t woken up yet, I’m still sleepy.”

With that, her eyes, which were sore from the smoke, welled up with tears. Jiang Muning turned to look at Qin Muye, as if accusing him: See, I’m being bullied again.

Qin Muye looked at her messy hair, her fair smiling face obviously hadn’t been washed after being pulled out of bed, his brows furrowed slightly, he didn’t agree with Wang Guifen’s actions.

“Are you a pig? You don’t know how to do this or that? It’s already so late, why don’t you get up, when Li Hua first came in, she would go to work before dawn.” Wang Guifen stood with her hands on her hips and scolded.

Jiang Muning supported her waist and retorted, “It seems like Mom doesn’t understand a man’s stamina, we were busy until four or five in the morning last night. Oh, my waist still hurts.”

“Oh, right, Mom has been a widow for so many years, she doesn’t understand. If she did, it would be a big deal.”

Qin Muye’s face turned red, Wang Guifen also blushed with anger, speechless.

“Second son, don’t you control your wife!” Wang Guifen angrily looked at Qin Muye.

“Enough.” Qin Muye said in a deep voice, “Didn’t I just say that I wanted her to sleep a little longer?”

Jiang Muning spoke at the right time: “This is called lip service, you agree on the surface, but when you’re not home, you make me do all the work. Washing clothes, cooking, doing farm work, not a single one is missed.”

“I’m your mother-in-law, it’s only right that I make you do whatever I want.” Wang Guifen put on her mother-in-law’s authority.

Qin Muye didn’t say anything, but his fist clenched.

Seeing his gloomy expression, Qin Ye, who had cleared the smoke from the kitchen, worried that he would hit someone, quickly pulled Wang Guifen away: “Mom, we’re about to starve to death, let’s cook quickly.”

Wang Guifen was about to call Jiang Muning to help, but seeing Qin Muye’s chilling gaze, she decided to let her off for now. When Qin Muye left tomorrow, she would deal with her properly.

Qin Muye took Jiang Muning to the yard, where there was a large water tank with a pipe connected from the mountain.

He turned on the faucet, soaked the towel in water, and wiped the dust off her face.

“Qin Muye, are you really going to leave me here?” Jiang Muning’s face lost its charming smile, she just looked at him.

Qin Muye didn’t say anything, he just pursed his lips and helped her wipe her face.

Jiang Muning pushed his hand away: “Then you just wait, a few years later, you’ll receive news of my death, and you can collect my body.”

With that, Jiang Muning turned around and left without looking back.

Qin Muye’s hand holding the towel tightened involuntarily. Thinking about her words, his eyes turned red.

Would it really be like that? In fact, he also wanted to be selfish and take her with him to follow the army, but the winter on the island was very harsh.

The temperature was below minus ten degrees Celsius, the air was humid, and there was very little charcoal for heating. Even their soldiers couldn’t adapt well, let alone a delicate girl like Jiang Muning.

Jiang Muning returned to the house, she was so angry that she punched the air.

She didn’t understand this man, Qin Muye.

She clearly felt that he was good to her, but he was stubbornly unwilling to take her with him to follow the army.

“The heroine is in the army, could it be that he actually has feelings for the heroine all along?” Jiang Muning wondered curiously.

She had already thought about it, if she couldn’t follow the army, she would fight wits with Wang Guifen. If she couldn’t win, she would run away, she would never sit idly by.

When it was time for dinner, Jiang Muning consciously came out to eat. She had no choice, she had exercised all night, and she hadn’t eaten breakfast, she was already dizzy from hunger.

But when she saw the dishes, she instantly lost her appetite.

Boiled cabbage, string beans, two unknown wild vegetables…

And the dishes looked very plain, without any oil or water.

Qin Muye sat next to her. Seeing that she hadn’t touched her chopsticks for a long time, he asked in a low voice, “Don’t you like it?”

Jiang Muning didn’t say anything, she picked up a string bean and put it in her mouth.

The rice was already hard, and Wang Guifen’s cooking skills were not good, making it even harder to swallow.

She was used to eating Wuchang rice, she couldn’t eat this kind of hardship, a tear fell into her rice without warning.

Qin Muye, who had been watching her, saw that she was crying, his hand holding the bowl involuntarily tightened, his fingertips turned white.

Jiang Muning had only eaten a few mouthfuls, only a few minutes, and the food was gone. Jiang Muning didn’t want to eat plain rice, so she put down her chopsticks.

“Don’t expect to eat white rice at home, if you don’t cook, then wash the dishes.” Wang Guifen ordered, “Second son, don’t protect her, if a woman doesn’t work, then get a divorce.”

Jiang Muning hummed: “Okay, then let’s get a divorce.”

Qin Muye said in a deep voice, his eyes sharp: “I said, military marriages are not allowed to be divorced, do you think the army is a place to joke around?”

Is he yelling at her? Jiang Muning glared at her with her apricot eyes, turned around and ran back to the house.

“Look at her…”

“Enough.” Qin Muye reprimanded, “Not only can’t you divorce, if you deliberately bully her, the army can arrest you and send you to jail.”

Wang Guifen stared in horror: “Jail, jail?”

“Yes.”

Wang Guifen was scared. She didn’t know that even military wives couldn’t be bullied. Didn’t that mean she had to serve that living ancestor?

Qin Muye got up and strode towards the room.

Seeing the closed door, thinking that she hadn’t eaten much just now, he guessed that she must be hungry.

Thinking about this, he finally pushed the door open.

Seeing him, Jiang Muning glared at him resentfully, shook her head, and didn’t want to pay attention to him.

Qin Muye had never coaxed anyone since he was a child. Seeing her like this, he didn’t know what to do.

“Military marriages are not allowed to be divorced, that’s the rule.” Qin Muye said in a low voice.

Jiang Muning stubbornly tilted her head and didn’t look at him.

Qin Muye was having a headache, worried that he couldn’t coax her, he decided to take a different approach: “Let’s go.”