Reborn as a Merchant Girl, the General's Beloved

Anan lazily put his arms around his neck, still without opening his eyes. He just used his fingers to occasionally fiddle with his earlobe and yawned.

He smiled and said softly, "I had something to do today, so I stayed in the Prince's Palace for a while longer and drank two more cups."

He laid Anan on the bed, took off her embroidered shoes, pulled the quilt over her and covered her with it. He touched her cheek, leaned over and gave her a kiss on the lips, then stood up and left.

Anan grabbed his sleeve, opened his sleepy eyes, and asked unhappily, "Where are you going again?"

Seeing that she was angry, he sat back down, stroked her hair, and said with a smile, "I've been practicing today and I'm all sweaty. I'll go take a shower and be back soon."

"There's no hot water in this room. Don't take a shower in such a cold day!" Anan came closer and leaned on his arm, smiling silly. "Besides, you're the one who smells good or bad. I don't mind you anyway. Besides, you're not at home all day and you don't have time to accompany me. It's getting late now. I have to go out to court soon!"

"I'll be back soon." He could no longer suppress the smile on his face and comforted his wife.

"No!" Anan started to act like a spoiled child and reached out to untie his belt. However, he was not familiar with the structure of a man's belt and could not untie it no matter how hard he tried.

He was still amused, so he sat down beside her, leaning against the headboard, letting her play with his waist. He stretched out his other hand to gently pat her back, wanting to wait until she fell asleep before doing so.

Anan was very sleepy at first, but suddenly he thought of something and sat up abruptly, which startled him. He couldn't help but frown and said, "What's the big deal?"

"Let me ask you something." Anan came closer and stared at him with a serious expression.

He was amused, nodded, stroked her cheek, leaned back, looked at her nonchalantly as she came closer, and said in a low voice: "Madam, if you ask me anything, I will tell you everything I know."

"The day I left Xinyun Manor, I left a wooden box in your room. Did you see it?" Anan's eyes widened and she used her hands to measure the size in front of him. She hadn't thought of it when she was packing up the medicine box before. Now that he came back, she suddenly remembered where the other box had gone.

A sense of foreboding came over her, instantly making her lose all sleepiness.

"Yes, there is such a box." He nodded in agreement and added, "It is made of rosewood, painted red with water paint, and there is a bird made of shells on it."

Anan slapped her forehead and her face immediately turned red. Thinking of the two bottles of life-saving medicine lying quietly in the identical water-lacquered box in the cabinet, and thinking of all the hints from Nanny Su today, she now just wanted to dig a hole and crawl into it.

"Where is the box now?" Anan still held on to a glimmer of hope. What if he didn't open it? He knelt in front of him and looked at it with great piety.

Bai Shao was a fool, she brought it here without thinking, she was also a pig, she gave it away without thinking, and she didn't even think of opening it to check what was inside! It was all because she left in a hurry, she just thought that he was in danger every day, so it was good to leave a pill for him to protect himself.

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He couldn't help but smile, and reached out his hand to pull her closer to him, so close that he could hear her breathing.