T/N: Sorry guys just an early update nothing special >_

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When the

last thread of sunlight pa.s.sed through the backbone of the mountain range,

several silhouettes one by one dropped into the abyss.

As Xia Ling

Mei was falling down, she had brandished her scarlet long whip, hoping to catch

the tiniest bit of a ledge as she pa.s.sed through the violent waters of the

waterfall. Again lifting her head, she saw Xia Fen that tiny body rus.h.i.+ng down,

she sucked in a breath, wrists trembled, body half leaning to shake off Zhuang

Sheng who was leaning on her body, the end of her whip wrapping around Xia

Fen’s waist.

Through the

screen of water, the baby finally b.u.mped into her embrace, the two people fell

down even quicker. The large sized Wu Sheng looked like a huge hard sh.e.l.l

turtle, coming down covering his head. Xia Ling Mei felt, that the speed they

were falling had increased again?

Luckily,

Zhuang Sheng was beneath her feet.

Everyone as

if like a human pyramid, plopped into the abyss. Zhuang Sheng bared the brunt,

Wu Sheng turned to fly into the water on his back, Xia Ling Mei stood on his

belly, Xia Fen was protected in her embrace.

Apart from

the white foam at the top of her head, there was an endless darkness at her

side.

Xia Fen

raised his head apparently crying out something, Xia Ling Mei rubbed his head noiselessly

comforting him. They were people who had fought fiercely in the ocean before,

they were good at swimming. Wu Sheng firstly found them, pulling Xia Ling Mei

to the surface, Xia Fen coughed twice, stretching out his hands to tightly holding

Xia Ling Mei’s neck.

The rush of

a split life or death frightened the baby quite a bit, firmly holding onto his

own mother not willing to let go.

With the

turtle like Wu Sheng, the mother and son on the back of his sh.e.l.l safely and

steadily burst out of the torrential current and whirlpools, paddling all the

way.

Their

surroundings were completely dark, the trees were blown by the wind crazily

like the shadows of ghosts. It was very warm under the water, but the water

surface was completely cold. Xia Ling Mei already used all her strength to

carry Xia Fen, the baby’s teeth still trembled. They had to get to sh.o.r.e, the

question is whether there were any remaining soldiers chasing after them, deep

in the mountains and old forest there were many places everyone you could hide,

getting ash.o.r.e and suddenly facing a.s.sa.s.sination. By herself Xia Ling Mei was

not afraid, she had countless courage and valour, and was willing to use her

own body to pull a snake out of its hole, right now she didn’t dare.

Xia Fen

depended on her she didn’t dare to do anything that would over step the

boundaries, he was her scabbard, only making all her daring rudeness and

impetuousness be relentlessly buried.

The three

people, quietly followed the river meandering down.

Xia Ling

Mei grabbed a handful of hair, suspiciously asking: “Did I forget something?”

Xia Fen in

her arms grabbed her tightly even more. Fine, whoever I forgot doesn’t matter,

it’s fine as long as her son was by her side.

Like this

they drifted in the middle of the night, don’t know when the boundless rain

which had been going on for a day and night had stopped, as far as the eyes can

see there were no stars in the sky, Wu Sheng also could not distinguish

directions.

Finally, when

Wu Sheng’s body had completely swollen up, they decided their surroundings were

relatively even enough to come ash.o.r.e. There was only a small grove here, the

huge thicket had already been left far behind. Wu Sheng carried the two of them

on his back patrolling the grove once over, not discovering any a.s.sa.s.sins who

had tracked them here. 

On the way, the people with great practice picked some

not too dry branches, catching a few hares, Xia Fen did not see a rat, but

actually skewered a few peeping squirrels he had jumped down on, wanting to

have more food.

During the

time they had spent travelling from the coast to inland, Wu Sheng and Kong Xian

had taught him very well. These people treated people like gra.s.s on the

battlefield, their survival consciousness was much greater than ordinary

people, obviously the skills they taught Xia Fen were naturally practical

abilities, nothing fancy, nothing unconventional.

Wu Sheng

was in charge of building the fire, Xiao Xia Fen agilely broke the necks of the 

small animals, with familiarity opening their chest and breaking their belly,

pulling out their intestines and skinning them, swallowing his saliva he used a

stick ridding it of bark and pierced the small squirrels into a skewer, placing

it on the fire as it `zhi, zhi` while it roasted. 

Xia Ling Mei created an

additional fire, undoing her outside garment to dry, she cleaned up the Xia Fen

who was focused solely on dinner, bundling him with the outer garment before

chucking him by the side of the fire again.

Wu Sheng

stripped off to only a pair of underpants, he reclusively went around the area

setting up traps by himself, when he had put up the majority of the traps, he again

came back carrying several pheasants with their heads snapped. At this time,

Xia Fen’s entire outfit had been heated up warmly by Xia Ling Mei and he was

wearing them, as he was handing a roasted rabbit leg to his mother, he himself

took a bite of half of a squirrel, ripping the bones so it made a crunching

sound, both cheeks bulged out, every now and then he licked his lips, smiling

with satisfaction.

The animals

on land were comparably much tastier than the fishes in the sea.

The three

were full, Wu Sheng moved the fire away, where it was originally he laid his

outer garment on the ground, Xia Ling Mei laid on top of it with Xia Fen. Wu

Sheng himself climbed on top of a tree trunk, from time to time his bear like

eyes would open, silently surveying the slightest movement in the area.

Just as Xia

Ling Mei was about to fall asleep she again thought aloud: “I feel like I truly

forgot something?”

Xiao Xia

Fen grumbled `mother` turning over into her embrace, like a cub seeking a sense

of security.

At daybreak,

the small cub was truly a carnivore waking up at the aroma. His little bottom waving

about on his bed covered in gra.s.s, eyes still not open, he had already stood up

in a daze, sniffing at the smell of meat and yelling: “I want to eat the most

tender bottom.” It attracted several unfamiliar hearty laughs.

Someone

said: “Then I’ll set aside that fowl’s bottom for young master Fen.”

Xia Fen

quivered as he trembled, swiftly opening his eyes, with rapid speed, he

vigilantly swept his eyes over everyone in the surrounding once. Xia Ling Mei

was already wrapped up in a new cloak, sitting beneath that person, calling out

to him: “Quickly go wash your face, then come and meet your Han maternal

uncle.”

Han Yi Fan

nodded his head deeply having seen Xia Fen’s getting into an attack position in

a flash: “This child’s apt.i.tude is pretty good. No wonder your fifth uncle did

not allow him be seen by outsiders all these years, he must have spent a lot of

mental and physical efforts training him?”

Xia Fen had

a special life experience, only a few of the older generation of the Xia family

knew the truth about Xia Ling Mei herself. Kong Xian and Wu Sheng were

specially a.s.signed bodyguards to Xia Fen, knowing the truth but did not speak

about it. To outsiders, Xia Fen was only Xia Ling Mei’s adopted son, he was the

Xia family’s fifth master, Xia Xiang Min, General Xia’s deeply nurtured child,

because his apt.i.tude was out of the ordinary, he was intentionally given the

surname Xia. Xia Ling Mei is his adoptive mother, Xia Fen’s position in the

family hierarchy naturally followed down, becoming one of the young masters.

Xia Fen

grew up in the barracks, when he saluted his tiny body followed a prescribed

pattern to the letter, a little bit of a hint of a small adult. Han Yi Fan’s

hidden abilities were out of the ordinary, he especially liked children who

were obedient and highly skilled in martial arts, he couldn’t help knead his

bones, Xia Fen knew this was the time when an adult was testing the abilities of

a child, he clenched his teeth enduring all the pain. Not long after, he could

feel a lot of sweat on his forehead and the palms of his hands. Xia Ling Mei heart

hurt and hurt, until she got used to it. A Xia family mother, have great hopes

for one’s offspring, their heart is tougher than steel.

“Not bad,

pretty good.” Han Yi Fan continued to praise him twice more, finally patting

the child’s already stiff back: “Go eat breakfast, we will set out in a bit.”

“Right,

when I was looking for you, we also rescued someone from the river, see if you

recognise him.” When several people carried over a person who was half dead,

Xia Ling Mei then cried out: “He is my… en, my lifesaver.”

And she,

when she saw Xia Fen, without hesitation threw away the seriously injured

Zhuang Sheng.

She didn’t

feel guilty at all, really = =

“You’re so

cruel ----!” Zhuang Sheng had already walked around the gates of h.e.l.l numerous

times. He originally thought his hero rescue the beauty act, in any case Xia

Ling Mei would gratefully remember it in her heart, how did he know that after

falling into the water, her heart only remained on that brat who suddenly

appeared from nowhere, and toss him her lifesaver to the back of her head.

Did she

know, how long he struggled after dropping into the water seriously injured?

Did she

know, when he was drifting with the waves and going with the flow, he wanted to

cry for help at the woman who didn’t even turn her head back, how long he

shouted for?

Did she

know, he followed the river down, seeing their warm open fire on the sh.o.r.e, how

long he stared fixedly at it?

He almost

shouted himself hoa.r.s.e.

Unfortunately,

a telepathic connection between Xia Ling Mei and his heart did not exist at

all, looking at that pain intertwined with grieve, pain penetrating the heart

expression, silent face, pretended to happily say: “It’s good you’re alive.”

Zhuang

Sheng wanted to burst into tears, he really forgot, Xia Ling Mei this woman did

not treat men with an ordinary heart of stone.

“Be at

ease,” Xia Ling Mei continued, “I know how to repay favours.”

Zhuang

Sheng’s heart warmed up, very good, those were the words he wanted.

The current

owner of Xian Yun manor, Jiu Fang Xi pa.s.sionately received them. Han Yi Fan was

the previous martial arts leader, his connections were vast, Jiu Fang Xi just

recently took over, he still had a lot of things he needed Han Yi Fan’s help

with, naturally he welcomed the people he bought along. Of course, when he

heard that the only woman there was Xia Ling Mei, the smile on his face again

expanded somewhat.

Jiu Fang Xi

was a typical person of the Jianghu, he stood tall and straight and sat

upright, smiled clear and bright, when he spoke his tone was deep and low, eyes

focused, and his face filled with honesty, appearing as a complete sincere person.

It was precisely this honest person, who surpa.s.sed countless deceitful people,

winning the position of martial arts leader.

Xia Ling

Mei this woman of an influential family, since birth has not known the purity

of matters, naturally she did not easily get confused over an idea. On the

contrary Xia Fen was quite hostile towards the other person, that night while

staying at Xian Yun Manor, with a whistle, he called over countless birds to

attack the other person’s bedroom, bird excrement fumigated that courtyard that

it was inhabitable for a month.

Zhuang

Sheng is a martial artist, even though he was seriously ill, luckily inside the

manor the medicinal herbs were very good, not long after a few days he was able

to get out of bed and move around.

Xia Ling

Mei treated Zhuang Sheng clearly not as well as w.a.n.g Yun Feng. w.a.n.g Yun Feng

was attacked because of her, she waited upon him by his bedside for many days;

Zhuang Sheng saved her life, yet she only sent Xia Fen to visit him once or

twice a day, absolutely not doing anything unnecessary.

Zhuang

Sheng was also not worried, after he was again able to practice martial arts

again, every few days he would find and excuse to compete in martial arts

against Jiu Fang Xi. Perhaps, enemy of an enemy is a friend, under such a

strange atmosphere, Xia Fen unexpectedly was on the same page as Zhuang Sheng,

together against outsiders, becoming a way to torment Jiu Fang Xi.

There

wasn’t any less provocation on the face of it, the secret struggle also

continued to escalate.

That night,

Zhuang Sheng again started doing his shameful shady business, taking advantage

of the night he, once more climbed onto the roof of Xia Ling Mei’s bedroom.

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T/N: Poor Zhuang Sheng hahaha forgotten and abused.