Wife, I Want to Eat Meat

Chapter 67

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To Xia LingMei, if it was a trivial thing, the more w.a.n.g Yun Feng refuted it the morereliable it is; by contrast if it was truly a huge matter, he would not utter aword and take it on by himself. To know what truly is going on in the bottom ofhis heart, you can get it from going in a roundabout way and pry it open fromother people.

Right noww.a.n.g Yun Feng knew how to be afraid, it wasn’t like it was big issue.

Xia LingMei put down half her mind. But, regarding the Hua family’s young lady, shewould not be so easily swayed, no matter what she had to cause w.a.n.g Yun Feng tohave some fear in his heart.

It was rarefor Xia Fen to be honest so said nothing, he had already earlier sneakilyclimbed up the room’s roof beam with Xiao Bai. In pa.s.sing as well fishing up abag of snacks preserved in honey from Hei Zi’s hands, the three of them ate insilence watching a play.

Xia LingMei had already taken out the long whip.

w.a.n.g YunFeng complexion paled, he hurriedly poured a cup of tea for her: “First don’tbe angry, truthfully you can’t blame me for this, that Lady Hua…”

“Aiyo, LadyHua is it, calling her so intimately.”

w.a.n.g YunFeng choked once, correcting himself: “Hua Bao Xia…”

“So you’reeven very clear about her full name, Lord w.a.n.g do you also know her pet name?”Xia Ling Mei stepped forward, looking down disdainfully out of the corner ofher eyes at the hard-pressed w.a.n.g Yun Feng leaning on the back of his chair.

w.a.n.g YunFeng coughed, quietly saying: “Mistress, let’s talk about it inside.” w.a.n.g YunFeng tried hard to recall some trick for coaxing a wife inside, there was onemove called `fighting at the headboard and harmony at the end of the bed`. ToXia Ling Mei this trick, ought to work right?

Who knew,the other person simply didn’t give him the opportunity: “I don’t want to talkwith you right now. To me, when a certain person isn’t honest, the best thingis to beat him up, one this woman anger has been released, anything is good totalk about.” As she spoke, she brandished her whip, w.a.n.g Yun Feng was alreadyguarded, with a twitch of his foot, in a flash he had dodged.

He had nochoice, he had a wife with outstanding martial art skills, he was no match forher, at least he could run. It looked like he secretly practiced qing gong usually, at the most crucialmoment it was still very useful.

w.a.n.g YunFeng used martial arts very little, before he dabbled at it, now at most he wasmore powerful than a dabbler by a little bit.

The husbandand wife, one was running in front, while he ran he also panted out inconfession every encounter he had with Lady Hua; one was chasing from behind,she didn’t put too much power behind the whip, each time it landed by w.a.n.g YunFeng’s foot it had lost its strength, the owner looked fiendish, only there wasthe slightest inability to sense a murderous aura.

Xia Fenwatched for quite a while, feeling mother’s martial arts had been setback.

Xia LingMei grabbed w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s ear, loudly teaching: “You can’t go and see her in

the future!”

“Yes, yes,yes.”

“From nowyou can’t go to the Hua residence.”

“I’vealready said, from now on it’ll be Juan Shu going to handle matters.”

“She cannever step over our doorway.”

w.a.n.g YunFeng laughed softly, powerlessly leaning against the side of a pillar: “I’vealready presented an imperial edict to the emperor, not long after someone willbe sent to replace me. So long as we leave this place, the Hua family will alsonot bother me again. Lady Hua after all is a lady kept at home, no matter whatshe would not be willing to become a concubine.”

Xia LingMei exhaled a breath, considering it for a while: “It was a huge thing for youto come to this disaster relief, returning to Beiding city half way through,wouldn’t that be giving the credit to someone else?”

w.a.n.g YunFeng pulled on her hand, stealthily putting her long whip away. Xia Ling Meiclearly saw it but pretended to not notice, only hearing him say: “The emperorsent me here, it was actually to prevent me from being in a dispute with otherinfluential families in the Imperial city. You didn’t also think, why theempress hurriedly sent the crown prince on a journey at the end of October? Totravel is the truth, even more it was to protect the crown prince invisibly.Anyone knows I’m the emperor’s person, the crown prince is heir to the throneand therefore my second master. Even though it’s not clearly spoken, but if thecrown prince succeeds to the throne, my mind would belong to the crown prince.”

“You’re saying,the emperor is preparing to make a move against the eldest prince and the

second prince? The officials you’ve been investigating this last half a year isdirectly affiliated with the two princes?”

“All inall, the first prince is older than the crown prince by five years. The princesstarted to learn about leading at the age of twelve, even though the firstprince is not the son of the first wife, the second prince is close andaffectionate with the first prince. The emperor’s sons are complicated, regardingage, even if the youngest the crown prince wants to unite everyone, to succeedthe throne smoothly is also a little trouble, even if he succeeded, but theprinces’ powers are too great and is likely to cause instability to the empire.The emperor did not want the crown prince and his brothers to ma.s.sacre eachother, this would give the other princes a chance to take advantage, the bestmethod is to first eradicate the families behind the two oldest princes, makethem into simple officials.”

“The crownprince leaving at such a time, could avoid his brothers’ jealousy, afterwardsthe princes also wouldn’t resent him.”

w.a.n.g YunFeng sighed: “I left in October, return in December. Two months, according tothe emperors usual methods, the matter ought to have been almost dealt with.Even though the accounts books were presented by me, but I left the centre ofthe stormy sea; the matter of making arrangements for the people after adisaster, there is a lot of profit, all the fractions are staring at it wantinga part of the profits, if I also give up half way through to avoid peoplegetting information that can be used against be in the coming days, can Igenuinely be an honest imperial censor, leave behind a legend about a ruler andhis ministers in the annals.”

Xia LingMei hmphed: “In better words, in truth you’ve done every bitter and tiringthing and offended people, then put all the credit into someone else’s hands.”

w.a.n.g YunFeng couldn’t help hug her, just like how the two of them had just been`bantering flirtatiously`, Xiao Bai stealthily closed the door, not afraid ofpeople seeing.

“It isn’tgood to be an imperial censor, I only want our whole family together peacefullyand safely.”

A lumpappeared in Xia Ling Mei’s throat. He really needed his family the most, he hasbeen alone for such a long time, on the contrary he exhausted all his strengthand talent to strive for a simple life.

In Xia LingMei’s mind she understood that Lady Hua was her wishful thinking, w.a.n.g Yun Fengalways turned a blind eye to people outside of his liking, she simply did notneed to be worried. Flaring up a little bit, knowing they were to leave here,her mind was calm and steady. Waiting until she relaxed, she then called downthe three people who had been watching from the roof beam for half the day.

“In thekitchen there is food I prepared earlier, Xiao Bai go bring it. Xia Fen go washyour hands. Hei Zi go bring some dim sum back from the city.”

w.a.n.g YunFeng knew anything he ate here he had to avoid a taboo, afraid he would becompared to. He was indifferent when he was on his own, Xia Ling Mei never wrongedherself, she always allowed Hei Zi to sneakily buy good food to eat,occasionally she also made cakes herself. Since his mother arrived Xia Fen, hestarted to become piglet, growing horizontally.

There wasfish and soup for the evening meal, white radish and tofu was placed inside.The fish was a silver carp enriched with blood, and was not sure where Xiao Baigot it from, the tofu was grinded by a nearby villager and delivered here, thewhite radish was brought from the city, cooked together for an afternoon,waiting for the father and son to eat. Since the time Xia Fen ate roasted sweetpotato he was not willing to eat rice, Xia Ling Mei was at a loss, she startedto wash clean sweat potatoes and cut into small pieces to be placed in rice tobe boiled together, turning it into sweet potato rice, both fragrant and sweet,the two father and son could eat at least two bowls every meal.

Enteringwinter, there were less vegetables, back and forth it was only these severalkinds, it was wax gourds, sprouts, Chinese cabbage, red and white radish.Fortunately there were victims and merchants together continuously returning towhere their original homes were, otherwise they might not even be able to eatsprouts and white radish.

Xia LingMei cut up minced pork, using soaked white bean thread noodles and shreddedsprouts she stir-fried it together to become a dish of ants climbing a tree, and a dish of braised beefwith Chinese spices, some villagers presented their own marinated tofu milk andchili radish, cuc.u.mber and other such things, she put them together into anafter dinner cold dish, barely enough to make up a three dish, one soup for thefamily of three to eat together.

Perhaps shewas too tired, Xia Ling Mei drank two mouthful of soup then didn’t drinkanymore.

w.a.n.g YunFeng was afraid she was too tired throughout the day, after all she was a younglady of an influential family, previously if she had something to do she onlyhad to tell a subordinate to hurry along, when she sometimes wondered into thekitchen there were numerous people helping her wash vegetables, chop vegetablesand light a cooking fire, where was she like now where everything had to pa.s.sby her hands, w.a.n.g Yun Feng always worried she would become exhausted, and fromtime to time paid attention to how much she ate, seeing she didn’t eat much hewould urge her to eat a little more.

Xia LingMei drank two more mouthfuls with difficulty, finally she couldn’t help spit itout, scaring Xia Fen so much he jumped up, his shout of `mother` carried a toneof alarm.

w.a.n.g YunFeng immediately made someone go and get the physician, Hei Zi appeared from anunknown nook, holding her wrist to feel her pulse. Quite a while later, hiscomplexion was unsettled. Juan Shu still held a rice bowl in his hand, a largepiece of radish could be seen in it, as he chewed he yelled: “Who is unwell,I’ll take a look.”

Hei Zimoved out of the way, Juan Shu went again to feel her pulse. Feeling for sometime, his complexion also began to change.

w.a.n.g YunFeng had appeared calm, he angrily said: “Why don’t the two of you quackdoctors move aside!”

A genuinephysician had already been invited in by Bai Zi, it so happened to be a personfrom the Xia family. The physician had thought it was actually w.a.n.g Yun Fengwho finally fell ill, and pondered whether the most recent prescription had tobe changed, in the end it was Xia Ling Mei, he was so scared cold sweatemitted. Lord w.a.n.g falling ill was better than Lady w.a.n.g falling ill! Right nowthe Xia family clan leader knew of Xia Ling Mei’s whereabouts, but the secondmaster and mistress did not know, if something happened to

Xia Ling Mei in thedisaster area, wouldn’t the physician’s life be asked for? At once thephysician also raptly took her pulse, him going into battle, he looked happyand anxious, he didn’t speak for quite a while

w.a.n.g YunFeng’s hands and feet were cold, instinctively he grabbed hold of Xia LingMei’s other hand. His parents had pa.s.sed away many years ago, his son also justrecently got close to him, if at this time Xia Ling Mei also…he didn’t know ifhe could carry on.

Thephysician asked how much Xia Ling Mei recently ate, again looking at the fishsoup on the table, after considering he finally opened his mouth, to ask XiaLing Mei if there was something different with her body.

Xia LingMei sensed w.a.n.g Yun Feng’s nervousness, and the increasingly gloomy atmosphereby her side, the bottom of her heart was restless yet he still forced a smile:

“There’s nothing different, I just don’t feel like eating too greasy foods, Iget tired lately.” She

wasn’t willing to say anything more.

Thephysician stroked his beard looking at her complexion, then did he smile andsay:

“Congratulations Lord w.a.n.g, the mistress is pregnant.”

And notknowing which chair, fell to the ground with a bang, w.a.n.g Yun Feng stood up,shaking he asked: “Seriously?”

Juan Shualso smiled: “Master, it’s true. Just now when I took her pulse, because Ihaven’t met a joyous pulse before, I couldn’t determine it at the time. But,the mistress’ body is very healthy.” Hei Zi had already returned to the shadowsagain, clearly he also had the same answer.

w.a.n.g YunFeng temporarily felt dizzy with the news. Xia Fen was an unexpected child ofhis, before they met he simply didn’t know about the other person’s existence.Maybe, in his unconscious mind, this was actually the first time he felt that,he was a father. The joy came too quickly, too abruptly, turning the usuallymaintained calm Lord w.a.n.g into a spinning top which only knew how to spin.

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