The Male Lead (Revised Edition)

The veins in Gu Yanqing's forehead throbbed. "Qiao Wanqing, stop being so unreasonable."

"Not only am I unreasonable, I'm cruel and heartless too." Xu Han used one of Grandma Qiong Yao's classic lines. Koukou, probably startled by the two of them arguing, cried even harder in her arms.

The two of them: "..."

Both of them awkwardly fell silent. Seeing Koukou cry so miserably, Xu Han's heart ached. She pressed her face to his and softly soothed him.

Gu Yanqing took out his phone and searched Baidu for ways to calm a startled child. There were all sorts of suggestions online. After filtering out the more reliable ones, he found that giving the child some calming medicine, gently massaging him, and increasing skin-to-skin contact with his mother could effectively boost a baby's sense of security.

They had no calming medicine at home, so Gu Yanqing drove Grandma Qiao to the village clinic to buy some. Xu Han was responsible for massaging the baby, and Koukou gradually quieted down as expected.

After drinking a little milk, Koukou fell asleep.

Seeing Koukou's peaceful sleeping face, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sorry about earlier."

Seeing Xu Han's exhausted expression, Gu Yanqing somewhat regretted his earlier attitude and apologized like a gentleman.

It was quite novel to see the lofty Gu Yanqing lower his head and apologize. But Xu Han was exhausted in both body and mind, so she did not dwell on it. She waved a hand. "Get some rest early."

It was nearly midnight. Everyone had been through a whole day of turmoil and was exhausted, so they washed up quickly and went to bed.

Although Xu Han was extremely tired, she did not dare sleep too deeply. From time to time, she woke up to check on Koukou.

However, this was destined to be an unsettled night. In the middle of the night, she suddenly heard quite a commotion outside.

Author's note:

(~￣▽￣)~Actually, Grandma Qiao's method was the kind of method people around here used for frightened children. People here were especially superstitious about such things...

The Male Lead (Revised Edition)

She hurriedly got up and listened closely. The noise did not seem to be coming from her doorstep, and at the very least, it was not in her yard. So she turned on the light, grabbed a flashlight, and prepared to go out and see what was happening.

After thinking it over, Xu Han also gripped a stick from beside the bed.

The moment she opened the door, she saw a shadowy figure and reflexively wanted to swing the stick at it. Her hand was caught, and Gu Yanqing's voice came from beside her ear. "Shh, it's me."

Damn it, why hadn't she beaten him to death with that stick?

But with Gu Yanqing there, Xu Han immediately felt safe. For the first time, she felt that having a man in the house could be such a reassuring thing.

The noise was coming from the vegetable garden beside their house. Gu Yanqing took the flashlight from her and said, "Go back inside first. I'll take a look."

Just as Xu Han was about to say she was going too, a scream came from over there. Amid the chaos, she seemed to hear someone yell that there was something under her feet, that it stank, that there was some kind of monster. The flashlight beam swung wildly. Xu Han and Gu Yanqing exchanged a look, and Xu Han went into the living room to turn on the yard lights.

By the light, they saw two figures scrambling over from the vegetable patch. There was only one path from the vegetable patch to the road outside, and it passed by her yard. Xu Han immediately opened the yard gate and blocked the path outside.

Before long, the people from over there ran up, only to be caught red-handed—it was Qiao Wanqing's paternal uncle, Qiao Xinde, and his wife, Luo Yangxiu.

Luo Yangxiu looked terrified. "What the hell do you people keep in your house?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Han saw Yellow Immortal suddenly dart out from behind them. Luo Yangxiu screamed in fright, while Qiao Xinde picked up something in his hand and threw it at him, but Yellow Immortal nimbly dodged every time.

Yellow Immortal's eyes glowed pale green under the lights, looking utterly terrifying. Seeing that Qiao Xinde had angered him and that he was about to pounce on him, Xu Han finally called out, "A-Huang, come back."

Hearing Xu Han's voice, Yellow Immortal cast Qiao Xinde a hostile glance, then obediently walked to Xu Han's feet and rubbed against her trouser leg as though asking for credit.

"It's actually a weasel! You people actually keep a weasel!"

A faint, indescribable stench still lingered in the air. Xu Han said, "What, Auntie? Is there some law saying we can't keep weasels?"

Luo Yangxiu said nothing, looking embarrassed.

Looking at the pair, who were still visibly shaken, Xu Han smiled. "Uncle and Auntie came to visit my vegetable garden in the middle of the night. Here to admire the moon?"

Luo Yangxiu stubbornly replied, "We couldn't sleep, so we came out for a walk. Is that not allowed?"

"Then do you think the Police Officer might also be unable to sleep in the middle of the night and come out for a stroll?"

Luo Yangxiu's expression changed. Then she noticed Gu Yanqing beside Xu Han. The man's presence was imposing, and she was already in the wrong, leaving her speechless.

Xu Han glanced at the thing Qiao Xinde had just used to hit A-Huang. It was a small sprayer. Their family had one too, used for spraying pesticides. But Koukou's urine had such strong pest-repelling effects that they had never needed to use it.

"Uncle and Auntie were planning to poison our whole family with pesticides." Xu Han's voice was icy. She had not expected them to scatter pesticides in her vegetable garden.

"How could that be?" Luo Yangxiu secretly glanced at the silent Gu Yanqing, her voice somewhat guilty. "It's just... just a little Paraquat."

Paraquat. They were trying to poison all the vegetables in her garden.

They clearly still had not given up on their family's plot of land. They had planned to sneak over in the middle of the night and scatter some Paraquat, quietly killing all their vegetables. Since they could not have the land, they did not want Xu Han to have an easy time either.

But they had not expected the family to keep a Yellow Immortal, who had ruined their plan.

Xu Han was so angry that she laughed, though her voice had never been colder. "Auntie, don't you know Paraquat can kill people too? If I happened to pick some vegetables from the garden tomorrow morning, our whole family could end up dead."

"Don't try to scare me. You aren't immortals growing vegetables. You only planted them a few days ago—the vegetables have barely sprouted, right?"

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