w.a.n.g Yun

Feng’s trick of injuring himself to gain the other’s confidence, seemed to have

scared people, in fact he actually wasn’t seriously injured.

After his

wound was bound up, by the Dragon Boat Festival his skin and flesh had knotted

together. Xia Ling Mei relaxed, setting her heart on taking care of the

arrangements for the celebrations at the small courtyard. Originally she

intended to take Xia Fen to see the dragon boats, but she didn’t bring it up

taking into consideration w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s condition.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng was forced to stay in bed by Xia Ling Mei for two days, at the same time

the tiredness built up over the past days were all swept away, although he had

free time his relations.h.i.+p with the imperial court however was not severed.

Having been

schemed against Zhuang Sheng, was increasingly not seen. Contrary the drunkard

dropped by for a day, yelling and demanding to drink with w.a.n.g Yun Feng. Juan

Shu by chance came in with a bowl of medicine, seeing the jug of wine he

drooled, rolling up his sleeves he said: “You a man of the Jianghu how can you

do something hitting a man when he’s down. My master had his stomach ripped

open, a jug of wine going down will only be spilt in vain, a waste, if you have

the courage then have a drinking compet.i.tion with me a person with a good

stomach, I guarantee I will drink you away.”

The

forthright drunkard, also didn’t say much, immediately asking someone to bring

ten jugs of wine, with Juan Shu the two people sat on the floor, unrestricting

their belly and starting to drink.

Juan Shu was

no good at martial arts like w.a.n.g Yun Feng, ordinarily he was responsible for

being a personal servant waiting upon him, working a little as an a.s.sistant and

an attendance in pressing matters, occasionally subst.i.tuting as a wine and meat

boy, taking the place of the master in blocking wine, blocking meat, blocking

beauties, his belly capacity was absolute not like the gentle and feeble

external appearance that can easily be bullied. 

An entire earthen jar went

down, his face flushed, eyes misty, a bit more naïve and innocent looking.

“Drunkard,

I tell you ah, I was not a servant before, I was a Buddhist monk.”

The

drunkard was steady, and b.u.mping into Juan Shu’s shoulder: “Hehe, young brother

you’re the same as me, before I was a Buddhist monk of wine and meat. When I

was at the small temple I would stealthily drink alcohol, when I reached the

big temple I would stealthily eat meat, afterwards I was discovered by the

Buddhist abbot, I ran to the Anguo Buddhist temple’s kitchen, getting drunk for

several days on the roof.

Juan Shu gave

an alcohol belch: “Anguo Buddhist temple is great ah, daughters of influential

families, young ladies of officials, ge, once in a while you may also see a

princess or lady, ge, you young fellow has a lot of luck with women.” Two,

three jugs of wine down the belly, Juan Shu had already started to babble

nonsense, his whole body leaning on the drunkard: “Say, have you broken l.u.s.t!”

The

drunkard was also faintly intoxicated, having heard what was said he laughed mischievously:

“What do you know. I’ll tell you, those dignified princesses and ladies are all

fake, what female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts are all

nonsense.”

Juan Shu

again opened a jar of wine, suddenly taking two gulps, obscurely asking:

“What?”

“Actually

that isn’t right, there was simply a seven, eight years old little girl

stabbing a small monk to death, that imposing manner, hahaha…”

“Did he say

the family name of that girl?” w.a.n.g Yun Feng sat on the couch, with Xia Fen in

his arms as he held his hand forcing to correct his writing technique.

“No.

Afterwards Juan Shu tried to probe once more, the drunkard changed the

subject.”

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng did not ask again, waving his hand to signal the secret guard to leave.

Xia Fen sat

in his arms, it felt like there were nails under his b.u.t.t, wiggling about he

couldn’t get comfortable. w.a.n.g Yun Feng wound was not completely healed, but

did not bring it up, letting his restlessness open up his wound once more,

soaking through his clothes.

Dragon Boat

Festival, the weather was very hot, Xia Fen’s stomach burned with rage, he

thought the wetness behind his back was sweat, reaching out his hand to wipe

it, blood covered his entire tiny hand. His small sensitive nose sniffed,

turning his head to look at the indifferent w.a.n.g Yun Feng.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng held his hand, still steadily putting pen to paper, only saying:

“Concentrate.”

Xia Fen did

not listen, instead pressing his claw into his wound with all his strength, thinking

w.a.n.g Yun Feng would release him from pain, how did he know the other person was

very stubborn, clutching him even tighter within his arms: “If your writing

technique does not improve today, don’t think about visiting the night market

tonight.”

Xia Fen snorted

with boredom, unable to tell whether the other person was in pain or not, wiggling

about for a while he well behaved began to write characters.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng’s hand was different from General Xia’s. A scholar’s palm was colder, ten

fingers slender, no coa.r.s.e skin from cutting people, only the three fingers

which held the writing brush had thick callous, they looked like the clear

shoots of white bamboos, a bit cold, not weak. Xia Fen’s small claws looked

chubby, in fact his palm was coa.r.s.e, it was a pair of small hands that held

weapons all year round. A martial artists body temperature was unusually high, being

held by the large hand of a scholar, it was a little cold, a little soft, the

big hand covered the small hand, for no reason at all he felt he could depend

on it, displaying some stamina when it came to his temperament.

The father

and son joint together practiced writing characters for the afternoon, half way

he let go off Xia Fen to do it himself, Xia Fen knew being raucous had no

effect on w.a.n.g Yun Feng, w.a.n.g Yun Feng was even more not afraid of a fight, he

had tried all kinds of thick skinned shameless acts, all useless, finally he

could only temporarily comply.

To a

soldier, switching to another barrack meant kind of changing a way to exist. He

Xia Fen feared nothing in Heaven or Earth, w.a.n.g Yun Feng was nothing.

When the

colourful sun slowly climbed down the high mountain, w.a.n.g Yun Feng changed his

wrappings once more, one hand pulling at Xia Ling Mei, another hand being pulled

by Xia Fen, swaying leisurely walking out of the manor.

En route,

by chance they ran into the martial arts leader Jiu Fang Xi. Xia Ling Mei

entered the carriage first as if to avoid arousing suspicion, Xia Fen already shook

off w.a.n.g Yun Feng jumping onto a steed, almost s.n.a.t.c.hing the horsewhip to leave

wanting to abandon w.a.n.g Yun Feng at this point.

People of

the Jianghu and officials throughout history minded their own business, however

Jiu Fang Xi had taken over the position of martial arts leader, probably

knowing the relation between the former martial arts leader and the Xia family,

he also did not speak lowly to w.a.n.g Yun Feng, not cold not hot. Greeting him

simply, he smiled: “Tonight the manor has prepared wine, this owner invites

everyone to celebrate together, I wonder if Lord w.a.n.g has free time?”

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng coughed once, right hand pressing at the wound on this abdomen, expression

pale: “The owner has requested, w.a.n.g will certainly return soon.”

Jiu Fang Xi

nodded his head, quite without thought he glanced at Xia Fen on the horse,

dropping his head he turned and left.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng got into the carriage, pulling close the curtain, grasping both of Xia

Ling Mei’s hands tightly: “Have things been sorted?”

“Yes.”

“Then let’s

go, don’t return.”

Xia Ling

Mei suddenly smiled: “Okay.”

The tens of

li of land around Xia Yun manor was

the manor house’s property, wanting to go the closest small town for a wander would

at the quickest on horseback take over an hour. From the surroundings around

the carriage, only a deeply sleeping Juan Shu and Bai Yan urging on the horse

can be seen, no other servants. Xia Fen the wild animal like nose however had

long ago smelled the numerous familiar scents on the road, not only the secret

guards of the w.a.n.g family and Xia family, even Kong Xian and Wu Sheng charged

with accompanying him were also hiding in the surroundings.

Xia Fen was

extremely strange, growing up from a young age he had been protected by General

Xia’s people, knowing no matter where he went he didn’t have to worry about

being alone, however the amount of people tonight seemed too much. He sat on

the belly of Juan Shu who was sleeping like the dead, not feeling the b.u.mping

of the carriage at all, every now and then he would take out a small stone

throwing it at the birds who flew overhead, gathering a few things unfamiliar

things beaten to death, the carriage flew by during the whole journey, there

dead bodies of birds in the surrounding area. Not long after, Fei Dao could be

seen flying in the sky in a circle over the carriage, finally landing on his

skull, he killed another bird, Fei Dao would stretch out his neck calling out

once, with a hint of using powerful connections to intimidate people.

Wujia town,

was surrounded by mountains, a brook divided the small town in half, a great

number of stores stood by the sh.o.r.e. Because it was close to Xia Yun manor, a

lot of people of the Jianghu came and went, making the small unknown town

unusually lively, during the holidays it was even more busy.

River

lanterns, fragrant wine, handsome and clever women and crude and violent people

of the Jianghu brought out the best in each other, a harmonious and happy

group.

It was the

first time Xia Fen stopped over in a small town, seeing the completely distinct

liveliness by the seaside, his childish nature slowly appeared. Seeing children

sitting on the shoulders of their father, he didn’t even ask, doing as he liked

he flew on top of Bai Yan’s shoulders, with his two short legs wide open he

prompted the other person to buy this, buy that, even in his hand he held roast

meat saliva splattering everywhere. Behind him swaying side to side as if very

drunk, was Juan Shu carrying numerous delicious foods and fun things, again

behind him was w.a.n.g Yun Feng and Xia Ling Mei.

These two

people’s cold war had lasted nearly ten years, today was the first time they

held hands having fun in the streets.

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng rubbed her slender fingers, light emotions, the corner of his mouth held a

slight smile, his relaxed expression held a bit of content. Xia Ling Mei

followed by his side, no longer the arrogantly reckless and valiant posture as

before, actually becoming a lady who held her husband as the sky, refined and

proud.

The night

breeze was cool and refres.h.i.+ng, willows everywhere, lights waning, just like a

loving married couple made by Heaven and arranged by Earth, along the way

unware of how many red eyes they attracted.

However,

the happier they are now, the easier it was for former pains to arise.

As Xia Ling

Mei walked along she suddenly said this: “I remember one year, by every

possible means you ditched studying to go outside to play. I thought you were

being bullied, I secretly followed you, how was I supposed to know you entered

a gold and jade filled hall.”

The gold

and jade filled hall was a famous gold and jade store in Beiding city. Every

year it would release the newest style ornament, it was very much loved by the

married women of the influential families. w.a.n.g Yun Feng remembered the time

she spoke about.

“I bought a

jade hairpin, isn’t it now in your accessory box?”

Xia Ling

Mei snorted: “When did you buy it for me, it was a birthday present you bought

for Ling Wo, I demanded it.”

w.a.n.g Yun

Feng bitterly smiled, back then he had given a lot of things to Xia Ling Wo, many

of those were in Xia Ling Mei’s hands through different methods.

Even if

this small town had a gold and jade store it would not have the same elaborate

jewellery as Beiding city. w.a.n.g Yun Feng thought about it, taking Xia Ling Mei to a painting and calligraphy store,

finding the shopkeeper he asked for first-rate paper and writing brush, not

looking at anything else, lifting his hand drawing the outline of a flying

woman’s beautiful body.

White jade

cheeks, supple waist, flying red whip, a body of red moving in a dance in a

bamboo forest. The woman in the middle, light green bamboo leaves followed,

faintly a grey clothed man quietly watched.

The stores

waiter rushed over to take a look, he couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration,

again raising his head to look, amazed: “Isn’t the woman in the painting the

lady?” The grey clothed man naturally was w.a.n.g Yun Feng.

In a short

while everyone stood in a circle and watched inside the store, even the bitter

scholars recited poetry: “I'd been looking for her for thousand times. When I

looked back, I just found that she is just there where the lights are s.h.i.+ning.”

Xia Ling

Mei couldn’t help but blush at such words, only hating from now to the dawn of

time, there was a manner in the way he put brush to paper, able to remember the

other person deep in his mind.

That night,

Xia Ling Mei was perfectly content, Xia Fen propped up his round as a ball

belly, w.a.n.g Yun Feng seemed to have long ago forgotten his arrangement with the

martial arts leader, taking his wife and child to stay at the best tavern in

the small town.

In the dead

of the night, it was darker than ink.

Opening the

window widely, Fei Dao flapped his body rus.h.i.+ng in.

Inside the

hall, Kong Xian and Wu Sheng pairs of eyes were already flickering with a

blood-thirsty radiance, Hei Zi and Bai Zi, one leaned against the window, the

other stood by the door, Bai Yan kicked the sleeping like a pig Juan Shu awake,

everyone’s gaze looked at the ruthless and indifferent w.a.n.g Yun Feng.

“Come,

kill!”

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T/N: WYF knows how to woo a woman and XLM knows how to get what she wants haha