Wife, I Want to Eat Meat

Chapter 15

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Speaking ofthe Zhao Princess, the influential families of Dayan did not know whether tocry or laugh, not because of others, only because she had a nickname `Goldensnub-nosed monkey`.

Before shemarried, she was considered to be the best of the numerous honourable daughters,a lively temper, cleverly eccentric, entering the prince’s mansion throughmarriage, that was like a monkey entering deep into the mountains, becoming a strangespirit, more and more of her fantastic oddities at every description werethrown at people, but still you couldn’t find a fault, you could only longafter the house of gold that Zhao Prince had built, restricting her within soshe couldn’t go out and harm the ordinary people.

Speaking ofthat it was also strange, why did it have to be such a woman be doted on deeplyby the Zhao Prince, giving all he has through his lifetime to her, no taking aconcubine or have close female friends.

It seems asif there was simply nothing else but for it to be this way, and she had to havea younger sister who was the Imperial Consort, a respectable position, even thecurrent emperor avoided her to some degree, afraid the golden snub-nosed monkeywould get angry, together with the cold-hearted Imperial Consort they cooked upa dragon claw stew to drink.

Such women,were envied and hated by the beautiful women of the land.

Fromchildhood and growing up Xia Ling Mei, using her status as older female cousincould supress one or two people, until the other person became the ZhaoPrincess, Ling Mei’s status dropped a lot, involuntarily she was shunned anddistanced from her, that w.a.n.g Yun Feng back then had wanted to marry no one butXia Ling Wo, and joked on the night of his new marriage he wanted the folly ofeloping, making Xia Ling Mei hate him to the bones and broke out in anger.

In a shorttime, Xia Ling Mei eyes vaguely saw the pair of red celebratory words duringthe wedding night from many years ago, illuminated by a flickering candle, thelight veil hanging still on her head, everything was clearly so enthusiastic butshe couldn’t stop worrying, she waited, and waited, for the elderly nurse whoaccompanied her to arrive and whisper in her ear. Carrying a bundle, the manwho had taken off his marriage garments under the moonlight seemed lonely andresolute, he was also waiting.

The weddingnight, the bride waited for the groom, and who was the groom waiting for?

The doorsto the main hall were pushed open, light glaring, she blinked, she only saweveryone crowded together as a pregnant woman dressed in splendour slowly walkover.

Xia LingMei lightly breathed out: “Fortunate.” She said. Where was the fortune, who wasit good for, no one asked, she would not have answered.

ZhaoPrincess with a l.u.s.trous smile, reached out her hand: “Older sister.”

Xia LingMei bowed down low, softly saying: “Welcome Princess.”

ZhaoPrincess hardly stopped to rest, easily grasping her hand to stop the formalities:

“We’re sisters, no need for such formalities.”

Xia LingMei made an effort to focus, meticulously examining this thriving and pamperedflower of a younger cousin.

Compared tothe hardships she had suffered from drifting about for seven years, ZhaoPrincess’ cheeks were rosy, eyes clear and bright, her whole body bursting withlife, apart from being somewhat more calm and bright than she was before shemarried, she had a heavenly beauty, charming and graceful.

Even thoughthe princess wasn’t an outsider, in the end she had to follow the rules ofconduct to the imperial family, there were other strict rules on words andmanners.

w.a.n.g YunFeng had left before to the vestibule to welcome Liu Ling Mo, Zhao Princess wasa woman, she was directly taken to the rear court, and Xia Ling Mei stayed inside.

Xiu Yu andYing Shi were born in the Xia family, they were extremely aware of the matterbetween their own lady and Zhao Princess, right now inside the w.a.n.g residence, itwas difficult for a few not to know, everyone in the w.a.n.g residence rushedabout with a mind to attend to guests.

“I’m onlytemporarily staying here for three days, everything doesn’t need to bemeticulous.” Zhao Princess said, and sat with Xia Ling Mei, she alsoattentively looked this older cousin who she only saw once a year up and downfor a while, before lightly exclaiming: “I heard from Zhao Prince that w.a.n.g YunFeng had already found you, I only thought you would already be ready, rightnow there appears to be still a few problems.”

Xia LingMei was startled. She had not socialised with women from a wealthy family in along time, usually when travelling around the Jianghu she would only meet crudemen and women haggling over every ounce, suddenly seeing Zhao Princess shestill couldn’t think of how she should confront it, she didn’t expect the otherperson to be so much more magnanimous, saying whatever she wanted bluntly,compared to her she was still somewhat more straightforward. Ridiculing her ownhumble mind secretly in the bottom of her heart, with somewhat reservation, sheonly smiled: “Did you actually come to see him, or did you come to find me?”

ZhaoPrincess giggled: “Why would I visit him? If my black bear found out I came tosee another man, wouldn’t he have run out here from w.a.n.gyan city, tying up myhands and feet locking me up in the house not letting me out.”

ZhaoPrincess and Zhao Prince were a quarrelsome but loving couple, from childhoodthe two found each other disagreeable, Zhao Prince used to love to tease Xia LingWo calling her `monkey`, Xia Ling Wo always looked down on Zhao Prince as `blackbear`.

These twopeople never avoided using the nicknames in Xia residence, no less they werediscussed about by the elders, sweetly and grumbly also, but never actually correctedthem.

“I wasscared he’d bully you again, pa.s.sing through Chenzhou, especially for thisreason to see.”

Xia LingMei smiled, brows raised, rather somewhat proudly: “Us Xia women, who can bullyus.”

ZhaoPrincess only laughed, her laugh making Xia Ling Mei embarra.s.sed, suddenly sheclosed her lower jaw, a flicker of coldness in her eyes, she crooned: “Before Iused too much emotions, exhausting all my sincerity on him. Now, he walks hisdifficult path, I walk my bright path, no one dares to block the other’s way.If he really provokes me, I will whip him until he’s barely alive.”

ZhaoPrincess suddenly realised, sighing: “Poor Lord w.a.n.g.”

Apparentlyshe had already imagined the indescribable suffering spectacle of Lord w.a.n.gunder the long whip.

Xia LingMei could not help push her: “Which way does your elbow bend?”

ZhaoPrincess giggled: “Of course towards our family’s lioness.”

“Aiya,you’re laughing at me.”

Xia LingMei was stingy, poncing on her to kneed her into a dumpling, like they hadreturned an unconstrained time when they were younger. The two were laughingand noisy, a little girl who didn’t look older than ten came over rubbing hereyes, calling: “Mother.”

Xia LingMei looked, smiling: “Oh, our little monkey has also arrived, quickly come letyour aunt look at you.” As she spoke, she herself stepped forward pulling thelittle princess left and right looking at her, after the other person gave hergreetings, before grasping the princess’ chubby hands to examine: “She’s stillpracticing martial arts?”

ZhaoPrincess nodded: “Zhao Prince will always be afraid his daughter will bebullied, she hasn’t adopted well to martial arts. She can’t even grasp a longsword well in both hands, she also can’t learn the feminine arts no matter howshe’s taught.”

Xia LingMei couldn’t help smother a smile: “Learn martial arts well. Afterwards if yourhusband bullies you, with a sword make him into a honeycomb, let your fatherfind you another new husband.”

The littleprincess blinked, nodding seriously: “I’ll listen to auntie”

Thisserious mood actually shocked the Zhao Princess, the two women again arguedwithout giving way to the other, for a moment it was actually unusually lively.

Liu Ling Mowas a feeble headed youngster, because of the responsibilities on hisshoulders, his usual baby face cheek fat had already slimmed down, his greatspirit had become meek, somewhat resembling the cultured and refined w.a.n.g YunFeng when he was younger.

Right now,the jaded child had already grown up, w.a.n.g Yun Feng had already met withmisfortune repeatedly, no longer gentle, the jealousy of the imperial censorreflected vividly on his body, his cold expression virtually gave people a lotof pressure: “This time I’m merely here to escort the princess back to ZhaoPrince’s territory, on our way we heard Lord w.a.n.g was here, so we took a detourto visit, there’s no other reason.”

w.a.n.g YunFeng drank his tea, Liu Ling Mo muttered to himself irresolutely, from hischest he took out a letter: “Before we left, the emperor told me to personallyhand this to you Lord w.a.n.g”

w.a.n.g YunFeng took the letter, but did not look at it, continuing to taste his tea.

Liu Ling Moadam’s apple moved up and down a few times, taking a deep breath: “The

ImperialConsort also has an order for me to convey. The consort said `congratulationsto

Lord w.a.n.g for his instant success`.”

w.a.n.g YunFeng glanced at him, looking at the tea leaves sinking and floating in his teacup, not saying a word, Liu Ling Mo dully scratched his head, doing his job: “Okay,actually the Imperial Consort also said something else `if Lord w.a.n.g cannoteven persuade his wife to return himself, then you don’t have to return everagain either`.”

w.a.n.g YunFeng held his breath, kneading his tea cup.

“Theconsort also said `a man who is able to support both heaven and earth wouldstop at nothing, if you know you’re wrong you can make it right. You need toget back your wife, determination is not enough, you need to be aware, you muststrictly implement and abide by the Confucian moral injunctions for women. Youmust follow your wife when she leaves, you must obey your wife’s orders, ifyour wife is wrong you must follow her blindly; you must wait for your wife toget ready, you must be willing for your wife to spend money, you must endureyour wife’s beating and scolding, you must remember your wife’s birthday…`”

Liu Ling Modisregarded w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s pale face, continuing: “The emperor also said `ashis subject, you must nimbly put the Thirty-Six Stratagems to use, handsome manplot, empty city stratagem, stratagem of sowing dissension, trick of injuringoneself to gain the enemy’s confidence, interlocked stratagems, so long as it’suseful then use it. Oh, by the way, act first, report later this is the mostprofound understanding, execute thoroughly, raise one and infer three. If ittruly won’t work then arrange a marriage following a pregnancy, although thistrick is underhanded, but it has been well-tested on the daughters of theinfluential families, after using it you’ll still want to use it`.”

`Hiccup`,with this, w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s complexion had changed from white to red beforeturning black.

Liu Ling Motouched his nose, looking at the sky, looking at the ground, looking at thedoor, just not looking at the husband of his older cousin.

“Right, thesecond uncle of the Xia family also had something he wanted me to say to you.”

w.a.n.g YunFeng gritted his teeth: “Say it.”

“Seconduncle said `if the daughter of the Xia family is childless, Lord w.a.n.g can have

another marriage`.”

w.a.n.g YunFeng suddenly stood up, the already ice cold tea spilling over the back of hishand, a glistening cold puddle, the two words `childless` weighed heavily onhis heart. Married for ten years without children, to the influential familiesthis was the most important of the seven ground, based on this ground alonepeople could urge w.a.n.g Yun Feng to take marry another woman.

Xia LingMei’s father’s words were undoubtedly reminding him, this was the last chance,if he can’t obtain Xia Ling Mei’s heart, the Xia family will urge them to part.

It doesn’tmatter if the divorce doc.u.ment is fake, childless is true; it doesn’t matter ifyou

w.a.n.g Yun Feng love Xia Ling Mei, it’s possible for Xia Ling Mei to not loveyou; even more it doesn’t matter if you don’t marry another woman, Xia Ling Meimust absolutely remarry. Can it be matters have already reached to the point ofno return? Can it be everyone is forcing him to leave Xia Ling Mei? Can it be,he’s destined to be alone for the rest of his life?

The Xiafamily was thinking of their own daughters, regardless if it’s Zhao Princess,or the Imperial Consort or Xia Linng Mei’s own father, right now, even theemperor was compelled to teach him to demeaning tricks, they’ve all decided XiaLing Mei won’t return, all understand he is unable to let go of his dignity, moreoverthey knew seven years ago they had already headed down the end of the road.Every word had an earnest urging behind it, it was their tranquil faces.

Allappearing to say `you’ve wasted so many years, how can you still be obstinatelypersisting in going about things the wrong way?` Or maybe laughing `You Lordw.a.n.g am a man of honour, how can you face your father in your next life,putting aside your dignity for a mere woman!` even more it was urging him `letgo, Xia Ling Mei isn’t fit for you, let go of her, you will be free`.

“No!” w.a.n.gYun Feng spat out this word from deep in his heart.

No matterwho he fell in love with, eh would not easily give up. He didn’t have parents,no relative, if he didn’t even have Xia Ling Mei, he didn’t know what he woulddo. These years, when he faced the large w.a.n.g residence by himself, he had atype of illusion, as if he could see Xia Ling Mei’s lively shadow in theofficial residence. Every blink, every smile, every stillness, every movement,her hair flying around, her splendid skirt, clear and bright laughter, in thesilence all rushed into his eyes and ears into his brain, keeping him companyas he pa.s.sed the endless night.

He, won’tlet go, absolutely not! Even if, he really had to do as the emperor says, usingthose crafty machinations, he absolutely will have Xia Ling Mei in his armsagain.

Suddenly,again remembering something, he abruptly turned his head to stare at Liu LingMo, pointedly asking: “Zhao Princess truly is simply pa.s.sing through?” She alsowas not optimistic Ling Mei would return to his side, is that right? She alwaysthought he was too weak, incapable of protecting any women of the Xia family.She…also came to break up him and Ling Mei, is that right?

w.a.n.g YunFeng could no longer remain silent, almost aggressively tearing the youngsterin front of him open, charging into the rear courtyard.

Xia LingMei is his, even if the Xia family s.n.a.t.c.hes her away from his side.

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