When

building a manor house it was the similar to the emperor building a palace for

the people of the Jianghu, the more respected you were the more aloft you would

like to live, enjoying looking at all living things disdainfully out of the

corner of your eye with a feeling of supremacy. In a carefree mood you can look

down with an evil and charming smile, in a gloomy mood you can raise your head

shouting aloud, enjoy life while you can! Xian Yun manor was several hundred li from Chenzhou, between there are

numerous thickets of lofty mountain ranges, waterfalls, streams, uninterrupted

undulation of mountain peaks forming a hidden dragon, and the manor house was

at the highest peak of the dragon head, for ordinary people it would take them

at least a day to get up there. For the people of the Jianghu, it depended on

their qing gong. ╮(╯▽╰)╭

When Xia

Ling Mei received the news the Zhao Princess was safe, she could already see in

the distance the eaves of the paG.o.da on the fat dragon’s head, countless black

birds circled down from the top of the paG.o.da, with a somewhat sinister

feeling.

Behind her

there were still a.s.sa.s.sins, following her was Zhuang Sheng who she did not know

of his loyalty, although she did not have many guards she did not have a lot

either. As a chess piece of the Xia family placed in the Jianghu, Xia Ling

Mei’s safety was not as significant as other t.i.tled women, and she was

exceptionally skilled, apart from the two years right at the beginning where

she stirred up trouble, the last five years she never made the family worry, as

a result, even if she was suffering, she was not too anxious and afraid.

“As for

that martial arts leader Jiu Fang Xi, he was also a legendary person, when he

was still an infant his mother had died of illness, he was bought up by a wet

nurse. His father is said to have fame and prestige in the country, yet always

left him at the villa, never bringing him into the official residence.

Afterwards, his father because he was set up by an official of power his whole

family were executed unto the third generation, he survived as he was protected

secretly, after he had a fortuitous meeting, he was guided by a very able

person to become a rare young talented man of the Jianghu.”

Xia Ling Mei

was not interested in that martial arts leader, the person she genuinely wanted

to look for was not Jiu Fang Xi. However, letting Zhuang Sheng misunderstand could

dispense a lot of inconvenience, she and Hei Zi wisely decided to let that

misunderstanding carry on beautifully.

“Jiu Fang

Xi is the martial arts leader that rarely sees the relatives of the imperial

household.” Zhuang Sheng said thinking rather deeply.

“So?” Xia

Ling Mei raised her eyebrow, “just because he sought my hand in marriage? I’m

only a daughter of the Xia family, not the sole daughter. Although the Imperial

Consort comes from my family, it still does not mean any in-laws can easily be

promoted to a high official position.”

Zhuang

Sheng mischievously laughed: “What you want to say, favouritism towards

relatives, friends or a.s.sociates are unacceptable, right? But, having this

marriage is better than not having it. Moreover, this martial arts leader

martial art skills can barely match up to mine, with him as my rival in love, I

have seventy percent success.”

“Hey, you

are boasting a bit too much?” Hei Zi finally could not bear to carry on

listening, he really has never seen such a brazen person. What sort of person

is that martial arts leader, what sort of person is that Zhuang Sheng, he actually

dared to say the martial arts leader couldn’t match up to him!

Xia Ling

Mei smiled and asked: “Have you forgotten the most important factor?”

“What?”

Xia Ling

Mei insipidly said: “My feelings.”

Zhuang

Sheng blanked for a moment: “Don’t you women from influential families only

choose based on family background and the other person’s characteristic and

talent? When was the women’s opinions considered!”

Xia Ling

Mei urged her horse on twice the speed: “Originally it’s like that, but I don’t

like it.” She turned back to look at him, “Have you heard about a lady who

picks her own husband? Have you also heard of an unmarried woman waiting to be

married off taking her own initiative to marry if she wants to, not marry if

she doesn’t? Have you also heard of a woman of the influential family wandering

the Jianghu recklessly? You haven’t, but now you’ve seen.”

She raised

her head, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were arrogant and wilful: “I can

tell you, apart from me, in this world there are no women who dare to say `no`

against her own marriage.”

“Even if

they have a good family background, a man with talent and good looks, if I

don’t love him, I won’t marry him.”

“If I am

truly moved, no matter who the other person is, whatever his status, I can be

his good wife at ease, for this lifetime struggling against the family because

of his career and status.”

When she

was saying this, Zhuang Sheng appeared to have heard the sound of a waterfall

far away flowing down, beating onto a boulder. The sweet-sounding and

resounding words of the woman tinkled and thudded as it beat on the stone gate,

word by word splas.h.i.+ng inside the gate, flowing into the heart. Popping

through, a small rabbit leapt out, a jubilant small deer followed closely

behind, a flying fish, a wild goose formed a large crowd, momentarily

dominating his ash-coloured sky.

As if he

could hear his own breathing: “I think, finally I know why Lord w.a.n.g is

obstinately persisting in the wrong way with you… be careful!”

Quick as

lightening, Zhuang Sheng in a flash flew himself at Xia Ling Mei’s back,

countless hidden arrows came rus.h.i.+ng in from all directions.

“`Jia!`”

Zhuang Sheng grabbed hold of a lot of arrows in a flurry, flinging his long

whip on the horse’s bottom, very quickly breaking out of the enclosure of

screaming secret guards.

In a split

second of palpitation, w.a.n.g Yun Feng opened his eyes. It seemed like he had

fainted just now.

“Master,

you haven’t rested in two days and one night, it’s better to go back. I will

bring the mistress back.” Xiao Bai rode his horse up to his side,

singlehandedly holding up his back.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng shook his head, looking at Xia Fen in front of him lying on his stomach on

Wu Sheng’s shoulder, inquisitively looking at him, seeing him awake, his mouth

twitched up: “You’re so weak!” Xia Fen said, “If you dosed off on a

battlefield, in an instant your head would be rolling on the ground.”

“You’ve

been on a battlefield with General Xia?”

“Of course,

a man who is scared to go on a battlefield is not a man, he is a coward.”

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng slightly frowned: “Who taught you that phrase?”

“The

soldiers all say this. Adoptive mother says, a battlefield is the best place to

toughen your courage, also only on a battlefield can a man of indomitable

spirit be born.”

Xia Fen

perhaps felt it was too boring, since there was someone who was willing to

speak to him his manner was also somewhat good-natured. Of course, his tone was

still fairly disdainful: “You’ve never been on a battlefield, you’re a weakling.”

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng sat upright, again grasping the reins firmly, only saying: “In ancient

history, a great general still dies by the hands of a civil court official.

You’ve been on a battlefield, at most you’re considered to be a boorish fellow,

but still the smallest.”

Xia Fen

furiously waved his fists: “Wait until I’m older, I will beat the c.r.a.p out of

you. I won’t allow you to bully the Xia family.”

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng snorted, sure enough he was a child of the Xia family, the deep-rooted

family ideology, must not allow anyone be rude towards the Xia family, even if

it’s just words. Only, he unexpectedly called the Xia family’s fifth master as

General Xia, clearly he had grown up in the barracks from childhood. The Xia

family never pampered the younger generation in their upbringing, at home and

in the imperial court were entirely two types of manners.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng was quite tired, he felt teasing the baby a little would freshen him up:

“Who is your adoptive mother?”

Xia Fen

turned his head: “I won’t tell you.”

“Then who

is your birth mother?”

“Adoptive

mother.”

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng corrected him: “Adoptive mother is adoptive mother, birth mother is birth

mother.”

Xia Fen

still only said two words: “Adoptive mother.”

As expected

he’s a child, w.a.n.g Yun Feng thought. Moreover he only had a crude mouth,

terrible upbringing, a stubborn tempered stupid child.

The stupid

child wrinkled his nose: “There’s a smell of blood.” Wu Sheng immediately

gathered him into his arms from his shoulder, like a lofty orangutan holding a

small monkey.

Kong Xian

asked him: “From which direction?”

Xia Fen

extended his head, like a beast looking for his prey sniffing in each direction

one by one, pointing at a road no one had walked down. Kong Xian did not dare

to be careless, again sending two vanguards to scout it out.

Xiao Bai

someone what imitated him puffing out his nose and sniffing everywhere, he

couldn’t smell anything. Bai Yan urged his horse to the side of w.a.n.g Yun Feng,

with Xiao Bai protecting w.a.n.g Yun Feng in the middle. w.a.n.g Yun Feng asked:

“This is a mountain forest, could it be hunters hunting wild animals?”

Kong Xian

cast a glance at him, from his brocade pocket he took out an embroidered

handkerchief, placing it under Xia Fen’s nose.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng was a bit too far away, only feeling that embroidered handkerchief was

somewhat familiar. Bai Yan softly said: “This child is a dog? He actually gave

him a woman’s embroidered handkerchief to smell.”

Xia Fen

again pointed in the direction before: “Adoptive mother’s smell.”

Kong Xian

took the lead rus.h.i.+ng forward, the other secret guards of the Xia family

immediately followed after.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng was somewhat distrustful, there wasn’t much difference between the

direction they rushed in and the direction Xia Fen had pointed, Xia Ling Mei

was being pursued and attacked, there was a possibility halfway she had to

change her direction…

“Adoptive

mother, adoptive mother.” Xia Fen repeatedly cried out.

“Young

master Fen, this is another battlefield.”

The Xia Fen

far away immediately shut up, unconsciously in the air there was a smell of a

ma.s.sacre to happen at any moment.

“Follow

them.” w.a.n.g Yun Feng said.

Just at the

right time the secret guard’s scouts also had news, “The mistress is under a

surprise attack!” Bai Yan said.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng had already followed Kong Xian, he didn’t hear him.

Brambles

were everywhere, sc.r.a.ping people’s faces, the back of the hands were very sore,

like small needles were sliding in for the whole journey.

Xia Fen was

protected very well by Wu Sheng, w.a.n.g Yun Feng urged on his horse following

behind, his temple throbbing, now and then lifting his head he could see Xia

Fen’s pair of black eyes gazing out from the crook of Wu Sheng’s arms.

Not knowing

how long they had travelled, w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s face was sticky, not knowing

whether it was from the rainwater on the branches or his cheeks had been cut

up. Faintly, he could also finally smell blood. He travelled even faster for

another ten zhang,

seeing the first corpse, he died from a random arrow to the heart, at one

glance that outfit was of a secret guard of the Xia family.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng heard his own heartbeat, his palms were sweaty.

On the way

from time to time the direction changed, everything was based on the small Xia

Fen’s nose. General Xia’s subordinates all believed in this child, the people

of w.a.n.g family under the pressures of reality also had no choice for the time

being but to believe him.

Everyone

was sweating.

There were

more and more corpses, there were people dressed in black, there were also

secret guards. On the tree trunk, on the gra.s.s, everywhere there was the

remains of horses and people, the scent of blood came with the wind as it blew

through.

Everyone

was used to seeing corpses, they did not falter at all, with the daytime

twilight gradually descending when they finally reached the mountain top, everyone

already heard the sounds of weapons in conflict Water covered w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s

eyelashes, he saw a red silhouette, those clothes seemed more vibrant than

usual, it was Ling Mei.

She had

already been surrounded by a group of people to the edge of the cliff, further

behind her was a waterfall splas.h.i.+ng into an abyss. Behind her was a man in

white, his shoulder still had a broken arrow stuck in, messy hair, his white clothes

almost dyed red.

“Adoptive

mother. ---“The young and tender voice of a child broke through the air, Xia

Ling Mei struggled to lift her head from being attacked from all sides.

Blood

covered her face.

w.a.n.g Yun Feng

nearly also cried out in fear, he could not call out, he saw an arrow, fly over

extremely quickly from the dense forest by his side, the silvery light of the

arrowhead was too dazzling, too sharp, too abrupt, making all his actions come

to a spontaneous end.

He saw the

arrow charge towards Xia Ling Mei.

Behind the

arrow, his figure reflecting in her eyes;

In front of

the arrow, Xia Fen ran quickly as if he was a flying wild leopard, hurrying

past everyone.

She was

knocked in the back by someone, Zhuang Sheng that cheeky face appeared in the

centre of everyone’s field of view.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng heart was being pulled by an immense hand.

Xia Ling

Mei fell down, the arrowhead pierced into the arch of Zhuang Sheng’s chest,

everyone held their breath.

Xia Ling

Mei was slightly shocked, her body leaning, again leaning, Zhuang Sheng’s

entire body was pus.h.i.+ng down on her shoulder blade…The two of them together

fell into the waterfall, falling down, apart from the sparkling and translucent

water rising high into the air, there was only darkness.

“Mother!”

Xia Fen again cried out, his tiny body could not stop his momentum, and he too

fell down. Next, Wu Sheng that huge body also took his own initiative and

followed jumping down.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng’s horse also soared in the air, he needed to find Xia Ling Mei.

Bai Yan

with a keen eye deftly held onto his belt, at the moment of life or death he

pulled him back.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng’s body had left h.e.l.l, his heart however had already fallen into the

eighteenth floor of h.e.l.l, not knowing when it could climb back out again.