Wife, I Want to Eat Meat

Only, theheavens do not allow people to do as they wish, at Xian Yun Manor where the twomartial arts leaders of past and present lived, you had to pay particularattention when climbing walls.

ZhuangSheng shamelessly raised his hands: “Oh, Hero Han also came to bask in themoonlight?”

Han Yi Fan raisedhis long pipe, taking two breathes, he cracked seeds between his teeth on theedge of the roof: “Hero Zhuang also came to admire the moon?”

ZhuangSheng awkwardly laughed twice, in his heart he already knew not to trifle withthe other person.

The head ofa famous righteous sect, he ought to be solemn, honest, a person whose wordsand manners should not be easily swayed for personal reasons, this sort ofperson could not stand a word of slander by someone else, unable to crack alittle bit of a smile. As an old fox of the Jianghu, Zhuang Sheng can veryeasily provoke a man of honour’s weakest nerve casually, then using his styleof fallacious reasoning he could confuse the other person so that they wouldn’teven remember the name of their parents, this previous martial arts leader alsowas not solemn at all, you call him hero, he naturally also addressed you ashero, you say you’re basking in the moonlight, he says the moon is great, notwarm, not cold, calm and collected, with one glance you would know he’s a man whohas circled the edge of h.e.l.l, tasted blood and suffered injuries.

This sortof person, appeared to drift with the waves and go with the flow but in facthad quite a bit of principle, their favourite thing to do is to persist untilsuccess is achieved. If you say they didn’t have any internal heat, the fire intheir heart is fairly exuberant. Looking at that smoking pipe, glowing anddimming, it can sufficiently show their true state of mind. This sort of personalready had practiced into a refined monster from an ordinary person, thehardness of their heart is even harder than that of the pangolin in the oldforest deep in the mountains

Han Yi Fanwas not only smoking a pipe, he was also drinking. When Zhuang Sheng had satdown, he pulled a wine pot from somewhere: “A toast to the bright moon, to theshadows of three people. Hero Zhuang, want a sip?”

ZhuangSheng again forced a laugh, where were there three people? He thought in hishead, his mouth already replied: “Refusing would be impolite.” Reaching out hishand to take it, under the clear, bright moonlight, he clearly saw the distinctpattern of the intoxicated immortal Li Bai on the wine pot. His complexion didnot change, in addition he genuinely took two mouthfuls, and giving it back.

Han Yi Fansmiled: “Great courage. You’re not scared of me poisoning it.”

ZhuangSheng touched his mouth: “As a flower thief well versed in letters andmilitary, my biggest wish is to die under the skirt of tree peony flowers;right now it’s very late at night, the flowers aren’t open, I can onlytemporarily be a drunkard. A close friend of mine said before, live in themoment, if there’s poison in the wine, then you need to wait until you’ve drankit, before you can speak maliciously of the wine, that way you won’t disappointthe kind feelings of the person who brewed the wine.”

Han Yi Fantook a long mouthful of the pipe, the tip of his foot taping on the roof tiles:“Then the wine has been drank now, do you not need to start appreciating theflowers?”

ZhuangSheng choked. As expected, Hero Han deliberately came to catch a flower thief,was he worth being pursued relentlessly and beaten! He clearly hadn’t startedpicking flowers, even if he wanted to pluck them, it also depended on whetherXia Ling Mei underneath the roof was compliant to the scheme, clothes halfuntied, lying on the bed waiting for him to come in. (┬＿┬)

Before heleft the house he should have checked the almanac, today must be a bad day todo anything.

ZhuangSheng considered for quite a while, before saying: “I’m not going to hide fromHero Han, no matter how people obstruct, Xiao Sheng aspires to have Lady Xia.”

Han Yi Fansaid indifferently: “Speak.”

He musthave come to Xia Ling Mei’s roof to bathe under the moon because he was bored?Listening to his tone, speak! An expression to allow you to do whatever youwanted, like it’ll come in my left ear and leave my right ear, it really madepeople want to use his pipe to scald his nose.

“Then I’llhave to speak from my background, I am qianshi tong,and my father is wan shi tong.My mother, is the daughter of a small family, my father was away all yearround, more than half the year my mother watched over the empty house. She wastoo weak, like a coloured gla.s.s bottle placed in an extravagant house, althoughshe was very beautiful she was very weak. When father thought of her he wouldreturn home `appreciate her beauty and have a bit of fun`, tired of her, hewould again leave the house to travel around. 

Beautiful things always attractpeople’s gaze, she was too easy to entice, also beautiful and weak things areeven easier to destroy. She wandered between father and her lover, after shegave birth to me, father asked her `who’s child is this?`, the next day, shetook her own life.

Pity on myfather, he knew the parents of all the children in the Jianghu, in the end hedidn’t know if he was the father of his own son.

I roamedfar and wide with him, after I understood a bit more, I then became aware notevery man will only have one wife and child, and not every woman is loyal totheir husband.”

“That’s whyyou became a flower thief?”

ZhuangSheng spread out his hands: “Have I really plucked flowers?” He asked, tiltinghis head looking into the distance. A thread of smoke twisted and turned in theair dissipating, like the struggles in someone’s life time, in the end stillturning into dust and returning to the dirt.

“Iapproached those women’s bedroom, hearing their first involuntarily shrieks,the second time losing their heads out of fear, the third time they werealready capable of talking to me, the fourth, fifth, sixth times, after ten,twenty times, they are certain I am a man of honour. 

Amongst them, some peoplewould utter my name in their sleep, some people would light a 

lamp every day,every night, waiting for my figure to fly past their windows; some people, theircomplexions would contain l.u.s.t, promptly waiting on their beds enthusiasticallyand bashful, waiting for me to once again open their window…” Zhuang Shenglaughed bitterly. 

“Those were some frail flowers!”

Han Yi Fanlifted his clothes arranging them, his entire body lying down on the roof, theflame in his pipe seemingly roaring more and more.

ZhuangSheng on his own initiative took the wine pot from his hand, taking largemouthfuls: “I originally thought, women in the entire world were the same, howdid I know, during a dark and windy night, a not too big, not too small nail would almost crack my skull open. Imet the shrewish, outspoken, brave and scheming, wise and resolute Lady Xia.”

Han Yi Fanasked him: “Where did you make out she’s resolute?”

ZhuangSheng made a fist: “Since I’ve known her, she has rejected Lord w.a.n.g’sproposition to be together one hundred and fifteen times.”

Proposition?How did Han Yi Fan not know of w.a.n.g Yun Feng was so shameless.

“She evenrejected the hundred and forty eight marriage proposals introduced by thematchmakers.”

How can the criteria for a daughter of the Xia family to choose a husband be so easilyattained. That year, w.a.n.g Yun Feng even if his head smashed open still onlywanted to marry Xia family’s second wife’s daughter, he didn’t even have thequalifications to marry the third wife’s.

“That’sit?”

“No.”Zhuang Sheng looked up at the sky sighing deeply, “when she rejected otherpeople, she also rejected my love, three or four times! That sort of unwaveringwoman is rare in this world, I want to have her! Ah----“ just as he finishedspeaking, his head was in great pain, the end of Han Yi Fan’s pipe even-handedlyhit him right on the forehead.

“Just onthose basis, it’s far from enough.”

ZhuangSheng in unbearable pain covered his head spoke with melancholy: “I know it’snot enough, that’s why all along I’ve never asked anything of her.”

Han Yi Fanunderstood very well: “You want her to repay you for saving her.”

“Right.”

“The onlyway to repay kindness is by devoting their live to you.”

“Right.”

“But you’reafraid she’ll refuse, so you want to confront her improperly at the manor, thenwhile everyone is watching you will declare with the dignity of righteousnessyou won’t 

marry anyone but her. Under the situation of where her reputation maysuffer she can only marry you with deep gratefulness.”

“Right.”

“Oh dear,”Han Yi Fan heaved a sigh, “Youngster, you’re dreaming.”

ZhuangSheng could not help but jump up: “Excuse me, hero, don’t use such a calm and 

collected appearance to say such cruel things!”

Han Yi Fancontinued calmly: “The truth is cruel.”

“Then Iwill continue to persist with great effort, until she promises to marry me.”

Han Yi Fancontinued unhurriedly: “You should wake up from your dream.”

ZhuangSheng dejectedly said: “I’m going to rest.”

Han Yi Fannodded: “Lady Xia is just underneath, aren’t you going to go and greet her?”

“Oh, no!” ZhuangSheng refused to listen in pain.

Down below,Xia Ling Mei sat in the middle of the garden, Xia Fen filled with suspicion thewild leopard’s eyes revealed an ominous glint as he stared at him.

ZhuangSheng, could he live to see another day?

ZhuangSheng wanting to live buried his head in the sand and pretended to have seennothing, stealthily climbing down from the back of the house, the mother andson in front of the house had already coldly said together: “Flower thief, comedown.”

ZhuangSheng covered his ears: “Xiao Sheng is not a flower thief.”

Together:“Come down!”

ZhuangSheng looked to the left, looked to the right, wanting Han Yi Fan to help himexplain, looking attentively, a cold wind rustled through the roof top, wherewas the silhouette of that previous martial arts leader’s pipe smoke.

The heavenswant me to die!

Just as hetouched the ground, the small leopard Xia Fen bared his teeth, yelling at him:“Beast!”

If the twowords `hat and clothes` were added in front of that, Zhuang Sheng’s position inXia Fen’s heart would be on par with Jiu Fang Xi. But, what made him moredepressed was, he had personally taught Xia Feng that phrase dressed up animal.What goes around comes around, appropriate retribution.

Xia LingMei stood up, fixing her eyes on him: “Zhuang Sheng, can I trust you?”

ZhuangSheng forced a smile: “To say the least, up to now I haven’t done paid you anylip service, never hurt you, what’s more never hurt your heart.”

Xia LingMei pacified the restless Xia Fen in her embrace, muttering to herselfirresolutely: “That’s because I never placed my heart in your trust. Withoutthe heart, naturally you cannot be broken-hearted.”

ZhuangSheng stubbornly kept smiling for a while, involuntarily recalling the time atw.a.n.g residence. The him at that time, all that was in his eyes was hersilhouette, and yet her heart still remained with w.a.n.g Yun Feng. Before fallingoff the cliff, the two people in the confusion had seen w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s alarm, comparedto his and Xia Ling Mei dying together, w.a.n.g Yun Feng must be very unsatisfied?This time it happened like this, what about next time?

Maybe, thepeace Xia Ling Mei had felt after arriving at the manor, is also because she’sthinking over the same question.

w.a.n.g YunFeng and Xia Ling Mei, skimming over their complicated status, with regards to 

their natural talent, are they really incompatible?

One was theWei Zhengof the cultured government officials, the other is the Mu Gui Yingof the rich young ladies; one shifted with the movements of the imperialcourt, one was the phoenix of the highest heavens in the gra.s.slands. Theirtalents were as different as the sky and earth, even though they wouldeventually meet, but no one could truly enter into the other’s embrace.

“Maybe, youcan experience a bit of change.” Zhuang Sheng said, the opposite of his usualsloppy self, a sincere and concentrated expression: “Although I cannot reachyour high expectations in choosing a husband, but I can accompany you to travelthe world. If you’re happy, I’m happy; if you’re sad, I’ll make you happy; ifsomeone bullies you, I will stand up for you; if you bully others, I will beyour hands and feet; if you want elaborate clothes and gourmet food, I will robthe rich to aid our deficiencies; if you want to be free and at leisure, I willtake you to the gra.s.slands to graze livestock, catch fish in shallow seas, settraps deep in the mountains to catch tigers; if you miss your relatives, I willhold your hand home even if its tens of thousands of miles away; if you preferhandsome and talented men, I will build an enormous Epang Palace for you, ifyou want to dally with anyone then dally with anyone. 

Debauchery doesn’tmatter, it doesn’t matter if you blow hot and cold…”

“What aboutXia Fen?”

“Ao----“thesmall leopard had taken a bite of the other persons shoulder, his whole bodywrapped around his head as if he was continuing to think where the most tendermeet is.

“He,naturally is my lifeblood. Ao----ao, ao” Zhuang Sheng lifeblood hurts so much. %>_