When the
sound of birdsongs had just entered into ears early in the morning, an
ear-splitting noise already came through from next door, continuously, Xia
Fen’s alarm and anxious shouting resounded completely through the air of Xian
Yun manor.
“Adoptive
mother! Adoptive…mother…”
Xia Ling
Mei lifted her head in a daze, as if she still hadn’t woken up from her dream.
She was too tired, feeling like all her bones had lumped together, placed into
a cooker to boil for a night.
A hand
covered her ear, putting her head towards a chest, the person beside her softly
said: “Sleep again for a bit, it’s still early.”
Xia Ling
Mei responded in a daze, finally she couldn’t resist the tiredness, she
continued sleeping.
From the
beginning she didn’t think, who the person next to her was, why they were
sleeping on the same bed as her, to the extent that, she didn’t even think, why
she was this tired. What did she actually do yesterday? What time did she
sleep?
She
couldn’t ponder over it, she also didn’t feel like pondering over it.
w.a.n.g Yun
Feng hugged the woman in his arm, waiting for that shouting outside to get
further and further away before uncovering her ear. Seeing her
extremely tired appearance, he unexpectedly felt very satisfied.
He was also
very tired, but his mind nevertheless had never been this awake.
Pulling up
the embroidered quilt, he couldn’t help place his lower jaw on top of her
head rubbing against it for a little while, before he too fell asleep.
Bai Zi did
a flip from the beam of the roof, Hei Zi on another beam couldn’t help but fly
past, pulling the other person’s already half opened lapel close tidying up,
teaching him: “Were you sleeping or fighting, your clothes are in such
disorder.”
Bai Zi
scratched his chest, smacking his lips: “I didn’t sleep the entire night,
listening to the happily married couple tussle all night. I took a quick nap
for a moment with great difficulty, and had a wet dream.”
Hei Zi
shook out his frowning eyebrows: “Your desires are unsated?”
Bai Zi
immediately felt wrong throwing himself into it: “Wife, husband thought of you,
take a bite, `kiss`…”
“Get lost!”
a palm went flying.
“Ai, take
care. Bai Zi you dare to knock over w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s medicine, I’ll carefully
tear your skin apart” Ying s.h.i.+ pa.s.sed by through the corridor, almost being
knocked over by the flying Xiao Bai, while dodging with one hand she gripped Xiao
Bai’s earlobe and started scolding him.
Hei Zi was
above them: “Be quiet, the lady is still asleep.”
Ying s.h.i.+
moved closer to the window listening carefully for a while, looking at the
steaming bowl of medicine in her hand, again looking at the incessantly
struggling Xiao Bai, calmly and collectively said: “This medicine has to be
taken when hot, we can’t waste it.”
Hei Zi
silently looked at her, she looked at Xiao Bai.
Ying s.h.i.+
stood on Xiao Bai’s stomach with one foot, Hei Zi pinched Xiao Bai’s nose with
one hand, the other hand prying open his chin, a bowl of strong black, piping
hot, bitter and difficult to drink medicine, the whole thing was poured into
Xiao Bai’s stomach.
In the end,
Hei Zi closed his mouth, hinting at Ying s.h.i.+: “Lady likes silence.”
Ying s.h.i.+
understood, putting pressure on her foot, Xiao Bai who still had not had the
time the cry out for help, his spirit was already wondering the corridor.
“Amitabha
Buddha, excellent, excellent.”
Hei Zi: “…”
Ying s.h.i.+
clapped her hands together: “After waking up, young master Fen almost woke the
entire manor up, he actually didn’t know the lady is sleeping next door, he
really is too stupid.”
Hei Zi:
“The lady should have made him sleep by himself in another room ages ago. It
couldn’t be helped at sea, but spoiling him like this after returning home will
mean he definitely won’t grow up.”
Ying s.h.i.+
gave a side glance and laughed: “Whether young master Fen will return to the
Xia family is still not certain.”
“Young master
Fen’s surname is Xia.”
“Yet his
father’s surname is w.a.n.g.”
Hei Zi
crossed both his hands across his chest: “Lord w.a.n.g is only the adoptive
father.”
Ying s.h.i.+
still thought to dispute, pausing for a moment, before sighing: “The matters
between the masters, isn’t for us to discuss, everything will reign itself to
fate.” Picking up the still unconscious Bai Zi, confident and at ease she
turned, walking away.
Xia Ling
Mei’s maids and guards were truly worried for her. So many years of suffering,
at long last has changed with the return of the prodigal son Lord w.a.n.g, who
wasn’t happy for Xia Ling Mei, but apart from happiness there was
apprehensiveness.
Seven
years, how many seven years does an ordinary person have?
In the
seven years, even if Lord w.a.n.g had experienced tough times for a smooth sailing
in his career, Xia Ling Mei was also tossed about by the wind and rain, living
on the edge. The three years they were married, they were together, they had
experienced difficulty and distress also. But the seven years after, they were
apart. The difficulties after being apart, they did not get involved with each
other. In the seven years a lot of things happened, hiding so many choices and
misfortunes, later when the two’s feelings have eased, the truths concealed in
darkness will gradually surface, at that time, can one sentence `I understand
your suffering` really resolve it?
The people
of the Xia family were not stupid, what hasn’t the servants of the Xia family
not seen, what’s more they wouldn’t simply believe the saying ` A day together
as husband and wife means endless devotion the rest of your life`.
True fate,
then how can there be so many unhappy couples in this world.
Xia Fen
finally came back to the courtyard in his search, and saw the dazed Xia Ling
Mei who had just gotten up from bed.
He climbed
onto his mother’s body, moving her head looking left and right, as if he was
making sure his mother was intact. In the end, pointing at the pink mark on her
neck, he asked: “What is that?”
Puzzled,
Xia Ling Mei touched her neck, using her eyes to ask w.a.n.g Yun Feng.
w.a.n.g Yun
Feng just at that moment was calmly drinking his medicine, hearing the question
he rushed over to look at the mark on Xia Ling Mei’s neck. He knew, there were
a lot of this sort of mark all over Xia Ling Mei’s body.
“A mosquito
bite.”
Xia Fen
hurriedly pushed his collar aside, extending his fair neck for Xia Ling Mei to
see: “Adoptive mother quickly been I been bitten by a mosquito?”
Xia Ling
Mei who had cleared her head turned red, powerlessly she stared at w.a.n.g Yun
Feng, helping her own son to fix his clothes: “Yes, in a while mother will
bring you medicine to apply.”
The
numerous maids and guards inside and outside the house could not help but roll
their eyes, such martial harmony, they don’t even need to communicate to lie.
Teasing your own son, is it interesting!
What a
pity, regardless if it’s w.a.n.g Yun Feng or Xia Ling Mei they had an incomparable
honest expression, noiselessly stating: it really is a mosquito bite, which one
of you would say it’s not?
Ying s.h.i.+
turned her head, Xiu Yu pursed her lips; Hei Zi was polis.h.i.+ng his sword on the
roof, oh my, it’s so sunny.
Where was
Xiao Bai?
He was
dead!
Xia Fen was
not very fond of mosquitos, in a blink of an eye he was hugging Xia Ling Mei
asking: “Adoptive mother why didn’t you sleep with Fen Er last night?”
Xia Ling
Mei turned red, again shooting a glance at w.a.n.g Yun Feng.
The other
person could already no longer stand Xia Fen’s spoiled childish actions, he
grabbed Xia Fen’s collar ready to pull him off: “How old are you already, not
sitting properly, standing without posture. Stand up!”
Xia Fen
originally acted up for w.a.n.g Yun Feng, when did he agree to listen to the other
person, without wavering he clung onto Xia Ling Mei’s neck, firmly saying: “What
right do you have to control me, I don’t know you.” Aggravating the
situation even more, “Adoptive mother, he’s bullying me, beat him up for me.”
w.a.n.g Yun
Feng sarcastically smiled: “You really don’t know me?”
“I don’t
know you.”
Before Xia
Ling Mei had the time to convince him, w.a.n.g Yun Feng suddenly curled his arms around
Xia Fen’s waist, carrying the small wild leopard under his armpit, with a few
steps he was in the courtyard.
The sun
above his head was taking its time crawling towards the direction of midday, even
though it still wasn’t too warm, if you stayed under it for too long it would
cause people to feel dizzy.
w.a.n.g Yun
Feng was vicious. Before he was an upright person of n.o.ble character gentle
like jade, after becoming imperial censor he became a person who perverted the
law by playing with legal phraseology with wile and mischief, the people of the
imperial court didn’t dare to lightly offend him.
Xia Fen
with a child’s temperament, had completely forgotten about
falling into w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s small scheme yesterday after a day, right now being carried
under his armpit he couldn’t help screaming out loudly, as if he was being
taken to the guillotine by the other person. Until, he was standing under the
sun for a long time, his pressure points had been hit, his clothes were also
torn off, the small elephant nose between his legs swayed with grandiose under
the gaze of the older sister maids, he was resentful, he was spiteful, he…he
was made mute by his pressure point being hit.
w.a.n.g Yun
Feng made people bring a table, a low stool, the essentials of calligraphy and
scholars.h.i.+p placed in succession. Juan Shu swiftly grinded the ink stone, w.a.n.g
Yun Feng on a sheet of spotlessly white paper wrote in large, w.a.n.g Yun Feng,
three characters, afterwards he placed the writing brush into the claws of Xia
Fen who could only move his arms, callously saying: “As my son, if you don’t
know then you’ll learn, this is my name, write it following this, continue
writing until you know me.”
Xia Fen
opened his mouth, he couldn’t speak.
The sun was
heating up, his body was very cold, the wind blew his little elephant, there
was only one word ---- crisp!
Xia Ling
Mei finished was.h.i.+ng her face and rinsed her mouth and only saw Xia Fen in the
middle of the courtyard time and time again throwing the writing brush away,
Juan Shu at the start picked it up twice, the third time he paid no heed. He
waved a palm-leaf fan behind his head, once in a while he walked pa.s.sed Xia Fen
carrying light refreshments permeating the whole place with its aroma, again he
would be carrying past his eyesight a bright washed seasonal fruit, another
moment, a monotone celadon plate packed with all kinds of cold food, smell,
looked and tasted great slid under Xia Fen’s nose. Finally, Juan Shu holding a
chicken b.u.t.t as he chewed on it he also laughed at his expense completing two
laps around the table, before walking away.
“This
unruly nature of his going to Bai Lu academy would be a disadvantage to him,
taking advantage that he was still here I will firstly guide him a bit, tame
him first then send him to the academy to study, in order to avoid him ruining
the reputation of mine and yours two family’s reputation.”
Xia Ling
Mei endured the distress: “If he isn’t willing to write at all?”
w.a.n.g Yun
Feng smiled: “If he really doesn’t want to write then good. The sun will be
blazing at noon, there’s a scorching sun in the afternoon, in the evening there
are mosquitos, there’s cold wind in the middle of the night, cold dew in the
early morning, the day he doesn’t know me, he will spend that day outside; for
the time he can’t write my name, then he will starve for that time; if he
doesn’t listen for a moment, I will make him understand, in this world not
everyone will spoil him, pamper him, indulge him.”
Truly a
heartless daddy, there was also a group of servants helping the evildoer.
Tears
glistened in Xia Fen’s eyes, mother…
Xia Fen was
stubborn, he had firm willpower, furthermore the determination to resist
against the enemy, also a tenacious ability to resist.
All his
virtues were being used to resist w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s dictators.h.i.+p, overbearing and
cold-blooded heartlessness.
The maids
walked past, looking at that small baby with his chest puffed out standing on
the low stool, hand stained with ink, forehead covered in sweat, behind his two
naked round bottom were s.h.i.+ny basking in the scorching sun, also that s.h.i.+vering
small elephant nose from the wind, the maids bashfully, timidly, covered their
mouths laughing secretly as they pa.s.sed.
His bottom
was very hot, his little elephant was a little cold, standing there for just
over two hours, his stomach which hadn’t had breakfast was also so hungry it
was growling.
He
scratched his empty chubby claws, glancing at Juan Shu in the corridor enjoying
the cool air eating lychee, remaining silent, Bai Yan had finished practicing,
pa.s.sing by the courtyard, he stared at him for quite a while, kindly picking up
the writing brush and placing it in his hand, this time, Xia Fen did not throw
it away.
Not knowing
where Ying s.h.i.+ appeared from, she added water to the ink stone, grinding it,
then feeding him a cup of tea, looking at the slightly dizzy Xia Fen from the
sun, gritting his teeth, with deeply ingrained long-standing resentment he
began to copy the three large characters, with every stroke a drop of sweat
flowed.
Xia Ling
Mei stood in a hidden place, she almost broke off all her fingernails.
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T/N: These servants are the most entertaining thing in this book topped with XF's punishment hahaha