His tentacles were indeed a bit dry, so he rolled up his chicks and prepared to lift them up by the river before calling it a day.
Chirp was happily rolled up and lifted up.
After lifting the object, Bazai, who was about to go into the water, glanced at it unintentionally. Floating in the water was a person with a full head of long hair, the hair scattered everywhere, creating a rather horrifying visual effect.
Ba Zai: "!"
The little tentacle loosened its grip, and Chiu Chiu, who was still wrapped around it, fell into the water with a splash.
Ba Zai: "!"
Eighty jumped down in terror, afraid of being discovered by his elder brother.
But the sound of falling into the water was hard to ignore, especially after Qiuqiu fell into the water and immediately cried out for her older brother.
Yu An, who was forehead to forehead with Xie Chiyuan, stood up abruptly upon hearing the sound.
Xie Chiyuan: "?"
A few minutes later.
Yu An patted Qiu Qiu's back with a dark face, while Qiu Qiu spat out water.
The guilty-looking Eighth Brother, seeing his older brother's gloomy face, desperately tried to divert his attention.
That way he won't get beaten up!
After settling Qiuqiu in, Yu An wanted to settle accounts with Ba Zai.
He turned around and his vision was suddenly met by the back of a head with long, wet hair hanging down.
Yu An: "..."
Yu An nearly fainted!
Chapter 102
Xie Chiyuan didn't expect Ba Zai to be so fierce. He quickly tried to get rid of the person Ba Zai had dragged over, but as soon as he made a move, his expression changed slightly.
"There's still a heartbeat."
Although the heartbeat was weak, it was still there, beating again and again, indicating that the owner could still be saved.
Xie Chiyuan laid the person flat and quickly began to perform first aid.
Yu An also recovered. His pale face, which had been terrified, slowly regained color after he saw the woman's face on the ground.
fine.
It's a living person.
Eight-year-old didn't expect that he would scare his older brother, and now the whole fish was completely wilted.
Sigh, I guess I'll just have to accept the beating.
After spitting out all the water, Qiuqiu nestled in her older brother's arms and watched Xie Chiyuan save people.
The long-haired woman on the ground had pretty features, but her complexion was so bad that it detracted from her beauty. She seemed incredibly lucky; after being massaged for a while, she actually started to respond slowly.
Seeing this, Yu An breathed a sigh of relief.
"Cough, cough, cough—"
A violent coughing fit ensued, and after the woman finished coughing, her heartbeat returned to a normal rhythm. However, she may have had other health problems due to the drowning, and after a brief period of consciousness, she fainted again.
Before she fainted, her gaze swept over the people surrounding her.
Finally, her gaze settled on Yu An's face: "Yu An."
She called out Yu An's name.
Yu An: "?"
Yu An was stunned: "You know me?"
He had already seen the woman's face; he didn't recognize her.
Before the woman could say anything more, she could no longer hold on and closed her eyes again.
Xie Chiyuan made a quick decision: "Let's take her away first."
The woman was soaking wet; we couldn't just leave her by the river and wait for her to wake up.
Yu An nodded.
They're going to take the woman away, but who should take over the house they were watching?
Yu An thought for a moment and then called over Ba Zai.
"Eight-Hey, come here."
Bazai walked over dejectedly with his head down.
Yu An pinched his little tentacle, but instead of disciplining him, he gave him a task: "How about you keep watch for your big brother?"
Without a second thought, Bazai agreed: "Okay!"
Yu An had Ba Zai keep an eye on the house, and they moved to the nearest house and put the woman on the bed.
The woman was soaking wet, and in her current condition, she undoubtedly needed to be given a clean change of clothes.
But since Yu An and Xie Chiyuan were both men, they couldn't touch her too much. In the end, Xie Chiyuan went to call Ba Zai, who used its little tentacles to quickly change the woman's clothes.
The clothes she changed into were also found in the closet.
Yu An, on the other side, changed Qiu Qiu's wet clothes.
While changing clothes, Yu An couldn't help but ask Qiu Qiu, "Qiu Qiu, do you know the person we just rescued?"
Chirp shook its head.
He sneezed, his voice a little hoarse: "I don't know him."
Yu An frowned; this was strange.
Why would the other person know him?
The woman was still asleep, and Yu An had no way of knowing the answer to the mystery for the time being. He and Xie Chiyuan went to the kitchen to busy themselves. There was a vegetable garden in the yard, so they could barely pick some edible vegetables.
"An'an, don't you recognize that person from earlier?"
Xie Chiyuan asked the same question while washing the pot. He felt that the woman's gaze towards Yu An earlier wasn't entirely innocent.
"I don't know him."
Yu An searched for a lighter, but after a long time, he couldn't find it. He only found a box of matches.
He sat behind the stove, lighting the fire, his face full of frustration: "I don't know her, and neither does Qiuqiu. I feel like I've never even seen her before. Who knows how she knows my name?"
Upon hearing this, Xie Chiyuan didn't press him to think it over, but instead said, "If you don't know him, that's fine. Don't overthink it."
Time passed little by little.
Qiuqiu cried while playing with Bazai, but now that Bazai is going out, he's followed him.
The two little ones weren't there; only Xie Chiyuan and Yu An were in the kitchen.
They made a vegetable soup, waiting for the woman to wake up so they could give it to her.
"An'an".
Xie Chiyuan picked a clean chair and sat down. He pulled Yu An closer and had Yu An sit on his lap facing him.
Their eyes met, and without Xie Chiyuan saying anything, Yu An leaned in and kissed him on the lips.
Xie Chiyuan chuckled softly, "Good boy."
He held Yu An's head and deepened the kiss.
In the quiet, undisturbed space, an ambiguous atmosphere silently fermented. Kissing lips gradually spread downwards, leaving little hickeys on the fair skin.
People in love seem content just to look at each other's faces, even without saying a word.
Until Yu An groaned.
His face flushed, he rested his head on Xie Chiyuan's shoulder, his voice barely a whisper: "No."
Xie Chiyuan pinched him lightly, and said with a hint of resentment, "You've met the parents, why can't you?"
Under the old rogue's subtle influence, Yu An already knew what he wanted to do.
He was afraid.
Xie Chiyuan continued to ask him, "Sweetie, tell me, when are you finally going to consummate our marriage? Is it because you think I didn't buy you the three gold pieces? Or is it because you think my property deed doesn't have your name on it? When we get back, I'll buy you a gold bracelet and give you half of my assets in advance, no, all of them."
Xie Chiyuan said this, but his hands didn't stop moving.
Yu An was quickly overwhelmed.
He didn't understand the joke about the "three golds" and the property certificate, nor did he know that these are now the standard requirements for getting a wife.
All he knew was that his whole body was trembling slightly.
Xie Chiyuan, though seemingly unserious, was actually observing Yu An's reaction. Perhaps, as Yu An said, he had been ill for too long, so his reactions to this kind of intimacy between lovers were somewhat different from normal people.
He's clearly sensitive; his skin turned red after just a few kisses.
But besides that—
Xie Chiyuan glanced down, but still didn't react much.
"An'an, what illness did you have before? Who was the doctor who treated you? The medical level in the West District is quite good, we can do another physical examination."
Yu An opened his mouth blankly and replied, "I don't know what disease I have. I only know that it is a genetic disease that I inherited from my mother, and my mother is no longer here."
Xie Chiyuan: "..."
Xie Chiyuan hadn't expected to find out about his mother's situation and immediately felt apologetic: "I'm sorry, I didn't know about this."
Yu An didn't care: "It's okay, I'm not that easily saddened."
His mother has been gone for so long that he doesn't really remember anything.
However, he knew that his mother was a very gentle and beautiful woman!