Chapter 646: Got Angry

San Lang was taken aback: "Why do you ask?"

Jinli said: "Don’t you think you were too nice to me tonight? You did everything yourself, even warmed water for me and handed me a cloak. If you need something, just say it. With our friendship, I will definitely help you."

She looked insistently as if she was certain he needed a favor.

After a while, she added: "I will try my best to help you, but if I can’t, you can’t blame me."

San Lang couldn’t help but laugh: "Why would you think that?"

He sat on a stone bench, his movement with the cloak was so natural that he wrapped it around her.

For a moment, the two were very close to each other, which made San Lang freeze... His actions were too natural, it even startled himself.

Jinli pointed to the cloak on her and then to his hand that still hadn’t drawn back from wrapping the cloak on her: "See, you still say you need nothing from me, if there is something, just hurry up and say it, no need to be so nice to me."

San Lang looked at her, as she spoke, her mouth moving made her look... appetizing.

But he soon calmed down, reluctantly withdrew his hand, and said: "I don’t need any favor."

Jinli looked at him suspiciously: "Really? Then why are you blushing?"

She leaned in, poked his cheek with her finger, and said: "Look, your face is all red, you must have done something guilty."

Hearing this, San Lang’s face turned even redder, he didn’t know why, although he had trained for several years, he still couldn’t help blushing in front of her.

San Lang ignored the tingling sensation her soft finger poking his face gave him and said earnestly: "Xiao Yu has been good to me, I also want to be good to you, I haven’t done anything guilty, and I have no favor to ask."

If there was really something he wanted to ask her for, it might just be...

"Really nothing?" Jinli said: "I’m giving you a chance, if you miss it, I won’t help you anymore."

San Lang heard her, turned his head to look at Jinli, they were even closer, causing her to falter momentarily and even blink.

San Lang said looking at her fluttering eyelashes: "Since Xiao Yu has said so, then I will ask for something."

Jinli’s mouth twitched: "I was just teasing you. Don’t take it seriously."

You look like you’re going to ask for something big, making me feel like I will definitely lose out, so just think of it as a joke.

San Lang: "..."

Suddenly felt sad.

Jinli seeing San Lang slowly lowering his head, her heart softened: "Alright alright, just say it, even if you ask me to climb a knife mountain, I will."

San Lang heard this, laughed again, raising his head to look at her: "No need to climb a knife mountain, just agree to help me with one thing."

Jinli: "What is it? You’re not going to sell me, are you?"

San Lang laughed: "No."

If anyone was going to buy, he had to be the buyer.

"What is it then? Just say it," Jinli pressed.

San Lang said: "I haven’t thought of it yet, just remember that you owe me a favor."

With that, Jinli slapped the top of San Lang’s head: "Where did you learn this cliché? Can you come up with something new? What is it, come on, or I’ll hit you."

Promising to do something later, those clichés from TV shows, I’m tired of hearing them.

"Say it quickly, or it’s null and void." Jinli picked up a roasted chestnut, peeled it, and ate: "I hate these old clichés so much."

San Lang, seeing she seemed genuinely a bit angry, thought for a moment and said: "If you talk about marriage, you have to consult me first. After I check someone and think it’s okay, then you can agree. That’s what I am asking."

He added: "We grew up together, I am worried about you, afraid that you might meet the wrong person, so I want to ask this of you."

Gu Jinli laughed: "Then you’re asking in vain. I had no plans to get married."

San Lang’s expression changed: "Why? A girl, once she grows up, is supposed to get married."

Gu Jinli: "Other people getting married is their business, what does it have to do with me? I’m so rich, why would I want to take all my money to marry a trashy man?"

"Trashy man?" San Lang was puzzled.

Gu Jinli: "It’s the kind of man who after getting a wife, still takes on a concubine and keeps a maid."

San Lang said, "My dad set a family rule that the Qin family men shouldn’t take concubines or keep maids. I’ll adhere to the family’s rules."

He knew Xiao Yu didn’t like men taking concubines; she had said so three years ago, and he had always remembered it.

Gu Jinli glanced at him: "Then you’re a good man. But I prefer money."

Bang bang bang!

"Second Sister, Brother San Lang, are you inside? Open the door for me quickly." Brother Cheng was pounding on the Qin family’s big door, shouting.

San Lang looked at Gu Jinli and without continuing the previous topic, he got up to open the door for Brother Cheng.

Brother Cheng came running in with Xiao Tuan, looked at Gu Jinli and said, "Second Sister, you’ve made tasty food for Brother San Lang again, you’re too biased; I’m your real younger brother."

Gu Jinli smiled: "You’ve got it wrong, tonight Brother Qin is roasting fish for me."

Brother Cheng frowned, turned his head to look at the approaching San Lang: "Brother San Lang is so good to Second Sister, but Second Sister isn’t Brother San Lang’s sister."

He tilted his head and then asked: "Does Brother San Lang want to become sworn siblings with Second Sister, taking her as a sister?"

San Lang: "In the rules of my Qin family, a man cannot become sworn siblings with a woman of a different surname."

What sister, he definitely didn’t want Xiao Yu to be his own sister.

Hearing this, Gu Jinli glanced at San Lang; was the kid angry? But she ignored him, continuing to brush sauce on the roasted fish.

Soon, the roasted fish were all done, she picked up one, handing it to San Lang: "Here, eat up."

San Lang looked at her, her face had a pleasing smile, even if he felt like getting angry, he couldn’t muster it, only taking the roasted fish, he took a bite, the sauce mixed with the charred flavor and freshness burst in his mouth, making him smile happily: "Delicious."

Seeing him smile, Gu Jinli’s smile transformed from pleasing to relaxed: "Of course it is, I made the sauce myself."

Brother Cheng clamored: "Second Sister, I want to eat too."

Gu Jinli glared at him: "It’s almost bedtime, you shouldn’t eat anymore; you can only have some roasted chestnuts."

Brother Cheng was upset, pointing at San Lang who was eating the fish heartily: "Brother San Lang can eat roasted fish, why can I only eat roasted chestnuts?"

Second Sister is really unfairly biased.

"Because you’re a child and Brother Qin is an adult." Gu Jinli passed him half a bowl of roasted chestnuts: "Here, take it or leave it."

Brother Cheng: "..."

Hmph, could only take the roasted chestnuts and peeled them to eat on his own.

And his sister even said: "Only eat this much, the rest will be taken to the Military Office for Brother Qin; you can’t eat anymore."

After hearing this, Brother Cheng felt that even the roasted chestnuts didn’t taste sweet anymore.

Gu Jinli then took another bowl of roasted chestnuts for Xiao Tuan, letting him eat too.

After the four of them sat around the stone altar eating for a while, they stood up to go home.

San Lang walked them out, not leaving until he saw Gu Jinli enter the Gu Family’s big door.

Behind the door, Gu Jinli watched the tightly closed door, listening to the footsteps of San Lang fading away...