After Wang An finished speaking, Mu Xueqing blinked her watery eyes and said
"What's there to fear? Anyway, you've already got several sweethearts on the side, right? One more doesn't make a difference, and one less doesn't either. Besides—"
Before Mu Xueqing could finish, Wang An interrupted her
"Don't say another word. I definitely won't touch Xiao Li. She's just a young girl; it'll be great for her to marry someone and start a family in the future. What kind of business would it be for her to follow me around in an ambiguous relationship? The main thing is, I don't feel anything for her. She's so small, she's barely got anything on her body."
As he spoke, Wang An shook his head.
Mu Xueqing curled her lip and said with a face full of disdain
"I don't believe you. Then why do you have feelings for Sister Shen Wei, Fang Xiu'e, and Sun Nian? Oh right, and that Lu Yueyue too."
Because Mu Xueqing had interrupted him—and mainly because her body truly couldn't take any more—Wang An lost the desire to continue doing *that*.
Lying back down on the kang, Wang An looked at the ceiling and said
"How can that be the same? As for Sister Shen Wei and Lu Yueyue, I just felt sorry for them. I thought it was just a matter of lending a helping hand; who would've thought they'd just stick to me?"
In truth, Wang An wanted to say that if he hadn't been reborn and intervened, both Lu Yueyue and Shen Wei would have long since committed suicide because of that idiot Niu Dali.
In his previous life at this time, Lu Yueyue had already hanged herself, and Shen Wei had thrown herself into the river while holding little Lai-zi.
Mu Xueqing immediately pressed further
"What about Fang Xiu'e and Sun Nian? What happened with them?"
Wang An knew that Mu Xueqing mainly wanted to ask about Sun Nian. In Mu Xueqing's view, given Sun Nian's looks, figure, status, and position, she shouldn't have taken a liking to an old peasant like Wang An.
Of course, it wasn't just that Mu Xueqing thought this way; any normal person would.
Everyone knew that the drama of a princess falling for a mud-leg peasant simply didn't exist in reality.
Wang An didn't hide it and continued
"Fang Xiu'e is similar to Shen Wei. Didn't I help those two sisters find jobs at the county hospital? Afterward, Fang Xiu'e felt she had nothing to give back to me, so she just let me sleep with her."
After a pause, Wang An said
"That woman Sun Nian was fond of someone named Chen Tianyu. But that Chen Tianyu didn't care for her, so she used me as a substitute for him and insisted on getting on the kang with me. Now, you tell me, she's already quite exciting to look at, and I'm a normal man, so we just... did it."
As soon as Wang An finished, he felt a pinch in the flesh of his waist, and he heard Mu Xueqing say dissatisfiedly
"You wasteful man! Just because someone seduced you, you just slept with them? How can you be so inhuman?"
Wang An knew he was in the wrong, but he still forced a defense
"You didn't seduce me, but I still want to get on top of you right now. She seduced me so hard, how could I possibly resist?"
Mu Xueqing's hand slid down gently and grabbed a certain restless thing, her teeth gritted as she said
"Why do you have no depth? The moment someone seduces you, you're on board. Why on earth couldn't you resist?"
As she spoke, Mu Xueqing's hand continued to apply pressure.
Wang An hurriedly begged for mercy while adding a threat
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, wifey, everything you say is right. It's all my fault, all my fault. Now, can you let go first? If you provoke it into getting fired up, won't you be the one suffering in a bit?"
Hearing Wang An's tactful yet threatening words, Mu Xueqing didn't dare continue her boldness. She released the pressure and complained
"Why is Sun Nian so slutty? She has no sense of womanly virtue at all. A young maiden like her seducing another woman's husband to mess around—doesn't she find it shameful? Moreover, doesn't she think about how, after being ruined by a big donkey like you, how will she ever marry anyone in the future?"
Still under her control, Wang An didn't dare talk back and agreed
"Mm-hmm, wifey, you're absolutely right. It's been weighing on my mind too."
Mu Xueqing: "..."
And so, the young couple chatted about useless things for a while before hugging each other and falling asleep.
***
The next day, around 4 AM, the biological clock inside Wang An woke him up very punctually.
Although he had gone to bed very late yesterday, Wang An was still full of energy, not looking like he lacked sleep at all.
After practicing his martial arts and eating breakfast, Wang An gave Wang Yi and Huang Zhong some pointers on how to ride motorcycles and how to shift gears without squeezing the clutch. Only then did he drive the double-row Jinbei van—with the truck bed loaded with plenty of delicacies—toward the county seat.
Actually, after Wang Li and Mu Xueli brought the things back yesterday afternoon, Wang An had already taught the four of them how to ride motorcycles.
However, since Wang Li and Mu Xueli already knew how to ride, they fully grasped it after a brief explanation from Wang An.
As novices, Wang Yi and Huang Zhong learned a bit more slowly.
Especially Huang Zhong; because of his small stature, he could only touch the ground with the tips of his toes, which caused great inconvenience while riding.
Even so, Huang Zhong's interest in riding motorcycles didn't diminish in the slightest; he wished he could weld his backside to the seat.
When Wang An arrived at the County Public Security Bureau, it happened to be the time Sun Nian was leading people on a mission. The two simply exchanged greetings before Sun Nian left with her team.
Wang An transferred the items from the truck bed—mainly cream cakes, cream bread, chocolate, red sausages, and candied haws—to his own gas-powered tricycle. He then carried about half of the things and the car keys to Zhang Shuya's office.
As soon as Wang An entered the office, he saw that Zhang Shuya's desk was covered in interrogation transcripts and case files. Wang An instinctively asked
"Big sister, what are you doing? What are you looking at with all this stuff? If they get mixed up in a pile, won't it be a total mess?"
Hearing Wang An's words, Zhang Shuya immediately said
"Quick, quick, Xiao An, come over and help me look. I feel like all these cases are connected; they should have been done by the same gang, but I just can't find the clue."
Hearing this, Wang An casually picked up a file and began to read. After a quick scan, he immediately picked up the second one. After reading four or five, Wang An said very calmly
"Mm-hmm, big sister, you're right. Most of these cases were done by the same gang. If I'm not mistaken, it should be the group from the sand quarry in the far north of the county town..."
As he spoke, Wang An picked out a few files and said
"Then these few probably weren't them. I reckon they were done by Bei Mazhi's subordinates."
After a pause, Wang An added
"Although both groups are in the north, they aren't the same gang, and they're quite far apart."
Hearing this, Zhang Shuya asked Wang An with a face full of doubt
"How do you know it was them?"
Wang An really wanted to say that these cases had also happened in his previous life. It was just that the sand quarry gang had been very meticulous in their crimes, leaving almost no clues. It wasn't until two years later that a police officer accidentally followed the trail and solved all the cases.
He remembered that police officer had even received a great commendation.
After thinking for a moment while looking at the files, Wang An widened his eyes and lied
"Big sister, look at what I used to do. I've dealt with people like them and fought with them. Don't worry, what I say is guaranteed to be correct. Just send people to arrest them, and you definitely won't be wrong."