Chapter 29 (2/2)

“No.” Long San had pounded the medicine until there wasn’t much left, poured medical powder in, and turned around. Feng Ning stared at the dark, sticky, gooey like it would stick on your tongue medicine, and alarmingly asked, “What does that do?”

“It’s to apply on your legs to get rid of the swelling.” He carried the medicine basin closer to her, and hinted at Feng Ning to roll up her trouser legs.

Feng Ning’s face was scrunched up because of the stinkiness, and she rapidly shrunk back into the bed. “No, no, my legs will be fine after eating a few more meals, and sleeping twice. You mustn’t let that touch me by all means.”

Long San’s faced stiffened, and in a calm voice said, “It’s already become swollen like this, and the blood vessels are blocked. If you don’t apply medicine to it, it will leave behind a lingering pain. Try moving a little and see for yourself. Doesn’t it hurt tremendously?”

Just now when Feng Ning shrunk back she already knew that her own legs hurt a lot more compared to before, but that medicine was really just too smelly*. But right now, even more terrible* was Long San’s face. He said, “Come down, sit on the edge of the bed, and roll up your trousers.”

*The word used to describe these two instances is the same one, which can mean smelly, or terrible depending on context. Feng Ning is making a play on words lol, like his face looks even more “stinky” than the medicine.

His voice was not very loud, but was strangely imposing. Feng Ning curled her lips, but didn’t dare disobey, and very slowly s.h.i.+fted over to the edge of the bed. In the middle of the process her legs truly hurt so much that she took in a sharp breath, then afterwards when she rolled up her trousers, she was frightened into taking another breath. These were her legs? They were green and swollen, and bulged like they were going to explode.

As Long San saw her legs, his eyes darkened. He quickly placed the medicine basin beneath her legs, and then used his hands to grab the medicinal powder and spread it over her legs.

Feng Ning was hurting so much that she pulled her leg back, but Long San held it down. The stench of the medicine rapidly rose, and it a.s.saulted her nose until she didn’t even dare to breathe. After a while, she could no longer endure it and started to complain, “Long San, I’m going to die from the stench soon.”

“Endure it.” Long San’s face was closer to the medicine basin, where the smell a.s.saulted him even more, and he didn’t even say a single thing. What was she complaining about?

“This way of dying is too tragic.” Feng Ning’s mouth didn’t stop.

Long San really wanted to reply to her, but it was really too smelly, and he could not follow up. Holding his breath, he quickly and carefully applied the rest of the medicinal paste on her legs. However Feng Ning once again displayed a spirit of not giving up, and suddenly said, “Long San, I’ve just remembered something.”

This phrase made Long San lift his head, “What did you remember?”

“When I was very young, I had once let out a really, really smelly fart, and it a.s.saulted the noses of the entire house of people, and everyone then chased after me to kill me. I ran and ran, ran all the way into the melon field to hide.”

Long San astonis.h.i.+ngly looked at her, and asked, “Are you telling me a joke?”

Feng Ning glared at him, “What joke, I’m serious. Didn’t you say if I remembered anything I needed to tell you? This stench is so stinky that it made me remember.”

“You farted, and then everyone chased after you to kill you?” Long San tried really hard to control his facial expression; can’t laugh, must endure.

Feng Ning nodded, “Yeah, and they also carried sticks. That time a few of us kids were sleeping together in one room, so how were they able to see that I was the one who did it?” Feng Ning held onto her chin and tried really hard to remember. “Did I return from the melon field afterwards? Where was that place? I think I also let out another big, smelly fart at the melon field.”

As Feng Ning was deeply immersed within her own memory, Long San really couldn’t hold back any longer and loudly ‘haha’ laughed out. He laughed to the point that he couldn’t squat anymore, and his b.u.t.t fell onto the floor. He simply sat on the floor like that, and ‘hahaha’ laughed enjoyably.

Feng Ning saw him laugh, and was annoyed. “How could you not have some compa.s.sion towards this? I was embarra.s.sed and bullied, and you’re actually laughing.”

Long San was really laughing so much that he couldn’t close his mouth, “Then what should I do?”

“You should at least express some sympathy.”

“Alright, I really do sympathize with you.”

“Yeah, really, how pitiful I was, being chased out of the room by my young companions, and crouching outside unable to sleep.” Feng Ning was being long-winded, but Long San thought there was something a bit off. Feng Ning was the only daughter, and as a child her family was well off. From the way she was speaking, it seemed like she had lived in the countryside, slept with other children in one room, and there were even melon fields? Long San lowered his head and continued to apply medicine on Feng Ning, and his mind nevertheless started to deliberate. They really should make a trip to the Feng family.

But Long San didn’t expect that he didn’t need to go to the Feng family, that they would take the initiative to send themselves over.

When he had settled things, he took Feng Ning and rushed back home. This trip was really delightful, and Feng Ning had quietly, bit by bit, knocked open his heart. He was a bit perturbed. In the end, what should he do?

Feng Ning also felt that this journey was wonderful. Luckily she didn’t want to go home at the time, and thinking in a very simple manner had followed Long San the entire way. She was not stupid. She was aware of Long San’s feelings towards her, and was also able to tell from experience that he still held some reservations. Even though she had repeatedly said she didn’t want to be a pig, but she couldn’t deny that she liked Long San, liked him more and more, and that he was the husband she would be glad to have. She felt that she needed to put in more effort to win him over. Long San treated her so well, and the way he looked at her was so gentle. If she added more enthusiasm, she would definitely be able to get rid of his misgivings, and make him forget about the bad things of her past.

When they returned to the Long family, just as they entered the house, an announcement was made at the door, “Lord Feng and Lady Feng have arrived.”

Feng Ning’s heart stirred, and as she looked over at Long San, sure enough his complexion was not good. He nodded his head at her and said, “It’s your father and mother.”

Feng Ning was a bit nervous. She pulled on Long San’s hand and said, “I don’t remember them, what should I do? What should I say? Long San, you need to accompany me over there.”

Long San patted the back of her hand, and holding her, walked together through the manor. On the way, there were already servants who reported to Long Er that Long San returned to the manor, so Long Er had sent some people over to guide them over to see the Feng family’s married couple.

Walking into the reception hall, Long Er was sitting directly across from the Feng family’s married couple drinking tea with an atmosphere that couldn’t be called harmonious, but he still carried a smiling face. Feng Ning looked, and the Feng family’s married couple seemed to both be around forty years of age or so. The man’s appearance was upright, but his tightly knit brows made him appear slightly severe. The woman was as beautiful and alluring as a flower, but her countenance nevertheless expressed a bit of craftiness.

Feng Ning stared, and had an indescribable feeling in her heart. This, was her father and mother?

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