The Foolish Husband of the Landlord's Family (GL)

Chapter 22: Red Envelope

Jiang Yuan: “...” It wasn't her fault!

Turning her head away, she explained, “You took them off yourself last night, don’t you remember?”

“Kong’er took them off herself?” Lin Kong was incredulous. She glanced at Jiang Yuan, who was fully dressed, as if Jiang Yuan had been the one to undress her. The thought left her momentarily stunned.

Did her wife really undress her?

Jiang Yuan had no interest in discussing this further. She quickly helped Lin Kong get dressed without even wrapping her chest bindings and then brought up last night’s events: “Kong’er, were you really hot last night?”

Lin Kong thought for a moment before nodding, “Yes, Kong’er was very hot last night.”

With Jiang Yuan’s prompting, she began to recall the previous night, though her mind had initially been reluctant to revisit it.

“Has this happened before?” Jiang Yuan asked, “Feeling so hot that it’s like you’re burning from the inside out, like last night?”

She wanted to determine whether it was a specific day causing this or if there was another reason for Lin Kong's unusual condition.

Lin Kong remembered last night, her face turning a bit pale, “Kong’er experiences this every year. You used to take care of me, but...”

She hesitated, looking at Jiang Yuan with a hint of fear, as if worried Jiang Yuan might get angry.

Jiang Yuan gently coaxed her, “But what?”

“Kong’er felt much more comfortable today. Unlike before...” Lin Kong tilted her head, thinking hard, “Before, I’d wake up all sweaty, but today I felt cool and comfortable, no sweat at all.”

But... being completely undressed was a bit embarrassing.

“Did I not wipe you down before?” Jiang Yuan wondered.

“Kong’er doesn’t know. You used to tell me to bathe the next day,” Lin Kong shyly admitted, “Wife, you never undressed me before.”

Jiang Yuan: “...” That’s not the point.

The point was that the original owner never wiped Lin Kong down during these episodes, letting her endure the heat all night while muttering those strange words.

What if it was a fever that made Lin Kong even more muddled?

Jiang Yuan suddenly considered something. Having taken over the original owner's body—who met an untimely death—she had assumed the original owner was a good person. After all, no one likes to think poorly of themselves.

But now she suspected the original owner. Could she have been a bad person from the start? Yet, she arrived at the Lin family at twelve—what kind of malice could a twelve-year-old have?

Could she have been influenced by someone else?

Jiang Yuan recalled the black-clad man's words and was secretly alarmed but felt powerless.

She didn’t know the original owner's purpose for coming to the Lin family or why she refused to hand over that thing, leading to her death by the master’s hand.