T/N: Sorry guys just an early update nothing special >_
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When thelast thread of sunlight pa.s.sed through the backbone of the mountain range,several silhouettes one by one dropped into the abyss.
As Xia LingMei was falling down, she had brandished her scarlet long whip, hoping to catchthe tiniest bit of a ledge as she pa.s.sed through the violent waters of thewaterfall. Again lifting her head, she saw Xia Fen that tiny body rushing down,she sucked in a breath, wrists trembled, body half leaning to shake off ZhuangSheng who was leaning on her body, the end of her whip wrapping around XiaFen’s waist.
Through thescreen of water, the baby finally b.u.mped into her embrace, the two people felldown even quicker. The large sized Wu Sheng looked like a huge hard sh.e.l.lturtle, coming down covering his head. Xia Ling Mei felt, that the speed theywere falling had increased again?
Luckily,Zhuang Sheng was beneath her feet.
Everyone asif 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 hisbelly, Xia Fen was protected in her embrace.
Apart fromthe white foam at the top of her head, there was an endless darkness at herside.
Xia Fenraised his head apparently crying out something, Xia Ling Mei rubbed his head noiselesslycomforting 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 Meito the surface, Xia Fen coughed twice, stretching out his hands to tightly holdingXia Ling Mei’s neck.
The rush ofa split life or death frightened the baby quite a bit, firmly holding onto hisown mother not willing to let go.
With theturtle like Wu Sheng, the mother and son on the back of his sh.e.l.l safely andsteadily burst out of the torrential current and whirlpools, paddling all theway.
Theirsurroundings were completely dark, the trees were blown by the wind crazilylike the shadows of ghosts. It was very warm under the water, but the watersurface was completely cold. Xia Ling Mei already used all her strength tocarry Xia Fen, the baby’s teeth still trembled. They had to get to sh.o.r.e, thequestion is whether there were any remaining soldiers chasing after them, deepin 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 wasnot afraid, she had countless courage and valour, and was willing to use herown body to pull a snake out of its hole, right now she didn’t dare.
Xia Fendepended on her she didn’t dare to do anything that would over step theboundaries, he was her scabbard, only making all her daring rudeness andimpetuousness be relentlessly buried.
The threepeople, quietly followed the river meandering down.
Xia LingMei grabbed a handful of hair, suspiciously asking: “Did I forget something?”
Xia Fen inher 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 thisthey drifted in the middle of the night, don’t know when the boundless rainwhich had been going on for a day and night had stopped, as far as the eyes cansee there were no stars in the sky, Wu Sheng also could not distinguishdirections.
Finally, whenWu Sheng’s body had completely swollen up, they decided their surroundings wererelatively even enough to come ash.o.r.e. There was only a small grove here, thehuge thicket had already been left far behind. Wu Sheng carried the two of themon his back patrolling the grove once over, not discovering any a.s.sa.s.sins whohad tracked them here.
On the way, the people with great practice picked somenot too dry branches, catching a few hares, Xia Fen did not see a rat, butactually skewered a few peeping squirrels he had jumped down on, wanting tohave more food.
During thetime they had spent travelling from the coast to inland, Wu Sheng and Kong Xianhad taught him very well. These people treated people like gra.s.s on thebattlefield, their survival consciousness was much greater than ordinarypeople, obviously the skills they taught Xia Fen were naturally practicalabilities, nothing fancy, nothing unconventional.
Wu Shengwas 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 astick ridding it of bark and pierced the small squirrels into a skewer, placingit on the fire as it `zhi, zhi` while it roasted.
Xia Ling Mei created anadditional fire, undoing her outside garment to dry, she cleaned up the Xia Fenwho was focused solely on dinner, bundling him with the outer garment beforechucking him by the side of the fire again.
Wu Shengstripped off to only a pair of underpants, he reclusively went around the areasetting up traps by himself, when he had put up the majority of the traps, he againcame 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 waswearing them, as he was handing a roasted rabbit leg to his mother, he himselftook a bite of half of a squirrel, ripping the bones so it made a crunchingsound, both cheeks bulged out, every now and then he licked his lips, smilingwith satisfaction.
The animalson land were comparably much tastier than the fishes in the sea.
The threewere full, Wu Sheng moved the fire away, where it was originally he laid hisouter garment on the ground, Xia Ling Mei laid on top of it with Xia Fen. WuSheng himself climbed on top of a tree trunk, from time to time his bear likeeyes would open, silently surveying the slightest movement in the area.
Just as XiaLing Mei was about to fall asleep she again thought aloud: “I feel like I trulyforgot something?”
Xiao XiaFen grumbled `mother` turning over into her embrace, like a cub seeking a senseof security.
At daybreak,the small cub was truly a carnivore waking up at the aroma. His little bottom wavingabout on his bed covered in gra.s.s, eyes still not open, he had already stood upin a daze, sniffing at the smell of meat and yelling: “I want to eat the mosttender bottom.” It attracted several unfamiliar hearty laughs.
Someonesaid: “Then I’ll set aside that fowl’s bottom for young master Fen.”
Xia Fenquivered as he trembled, swiftly opening his eyes, with rapid speed, hevigilantly swept his eyes over everyone in the surrounding once. Xia Ling Meiwas already wrapped up in a new cloak, sitting beneath that person, calling outto him: “Quickly go wash your face, then come and meet your Han maternaluncle.”
Han Yi Fannodded his head deeply having seen Xia Fen’s getting into an attack position ina flash: “This child’s apt.i.tude is pretty good. No wonder your fifth uncle didnot allow him be seen by outsiders all these years, he must have spent a lot ofmental and physical efforts training him?”
Xia Fen hada special life experience, only a few of the older generation of the Xia familyknew the truth about Xia Ling Mei herself. Kong Xian and Wu Sheng werespecially a.s.signed bodyguards to Xia Fen, knowing the truth but did not speakabout it. To outsiders, Xia Fen was only Xia Ling Mei’s adopted son, he was theXia 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 thesurname Xia. Xia Ling Mei is his adoptive mother, Xia Fen’s position in thefamily hierarchy naturally followed down, becoming one of the young masters.
Xia Fengrew up in the barracks, when he saluted his tiny body followed a prescribedpattern to the letter, a little bit of a hint of a small adult. Han Yi Fan’shidden abilities were out of the ordinary, he especially liked children whowere obedient and highly skilled in martial arts, he couldn’t help knead hisbones, Xia Fen knew this was the time when an adult was testing the abilities ofa child, he clenched his teeth enduring all the pain. Not long after, he couldfeel a lot of sweat on his forehead and the palms of his hands. Xia Ling Mei hearthurt and hurt, until she got used to it. A Xia family mother, have great hopesfor one’s offspring, their heart is tougher than steel.
“Not bad,pretty good.” Han Yi Fan continued to praise him twice more, finally pattingthe 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 yourecognise 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 injuredZhuang Sheng.
She didn’tfeel guilty at all, really = =
“You’re socruel ----!” Zhuang Sheng had already walked around the gates of h.e.l.l numeroustimes. He originally thought his hero rescue the beauty act, in any case XiaLing Mei would gratefully remember it in her heart, how did he know that afterfalling into the water, her heart only remained on that brat who suddenlyappeared from nowhere, and toss him her lifesaver to the back of her head.
Did sheknow, how long he struggled after dropping into the water seriously injured?
Did sheknow, when he was drifting with the waves and going with the flow, he wanted tocry for help at the woman who didn’t even turn her head back, how long heshouted for?
Did sheknow, he followed the river down, seeing their warm open fire on the sh.o.r.e, howlong he stared fixedly at it?
He almostshouted himself hoa.r.s.e.
Unfortunately,a telepathic connection between Xia Ling Mei and his heart did not exist atall, looking at that pain intertwined with grieve, pain penetrating the heartexpression, silent face, pretended to happily say: “It’s good you’re alive.”
ZhuangSheng wanted to burst into tears, he really forgot, Xia Ling Mei this woman didnot treat men with an ordinary heart of stone.
“Be atease,” Xia Ling Mei continued, “I know how to repay favours.”
ZhuangSheng’s heart warmed up, very good, those were the words he wanted.
The currentowner of Xian Yun manor, Jiu Fang Xi pa.s.sionately received them. Han Yi Fan wasthe previous martial arts leader, his connections were vast, Jiu Fang Xi justrecently took over, he still had a lot of things he needed Han Yi Fan’s helpwith, naturally he welcomed the people he bought along. Of course, when heheard that the only woman there was Xia Ling Mei, the smile on his face againexpanded somewhat.
Jiu Fang Xiwas a typical person of the Jianghu, he stood tall and straight and satupright, smiled clear and bright, when he spoke his tone was deep and low, eyesfocused, 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 LingMei this woman of an influential family, since birth has not known the purityof matters, naturally she did not easily get confused over an idea. On thecontrary Xia Fen was quite hostile towards the other person, that night whilestaying at Xian Yun Manor, with a whistle, he called over countless birds toattack the other person’s bedroom, bird excrement fumigated that courtyard thatit was inhabitable for a month.
ZhuangSheng is a martial artist, even though he was seriously ill, luckily inside themanor the medicinal herbs were very good, not long after a few days he was ableto get out of bed and move around.
Xia LingMei treated Zhuang Sheng clearly not as well as w.a.n.g Yun Feng. w.a.n.g Yun Fengwas 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 ortwice a day, absolutely not doing anything unnecessary.
ZhuangSheng was also not worried, after he was again able to practice martial artsagain, every few days he would find and excuse to compete in martial artsagainst Jiu Fang Xi. Perhaps, enemy of an enemy is a friend, under such astrange atmosphere, Xia Fen unexpectedly was on the same page as Zhuang Sheng,together against outsiders, becoming a way to torment Jiu Fang Xi.
Therewasn’t any less provocation on the face of it, the secret struggle alsocontinued to escalate.
That night,Zhuang Sheng again started doing his shameful shady business, taking advantageof 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.