Chapter 123: A Day with Long Huang-er (Part 2) (1/2)

Long Huang-er raised her nose, unwilling to show weakness, and softly snorted. She concentrated all her attention to catch a fish. The fish were moving around this area, and Long Huang-er quickly found her target. She was just about to rush over with all her effort, but her foot slipped and she fell into the water.

Ye Wuchen laughed heartily. Long Huang-er sprung out from the water in a very embarrassed way. With the greater part of her clothes dripping wet, she might as well not raise her skirt anymore. She tried to wipe off the water droplets from her face and disagreeably, she said, “Hmph! I was not being careful, I will not lose to you.”

“I have already caught two of them.” With that Ye Wuchen showed her his left and right hands, each holding a carp. He dumped the fish behind him and sat himself on a rock beside the creek, beaming at Princess Fei Huang, who was still in the middle of the stream. He was completely unafraid that the two fish he had just caught would run away.

Long Huang-er had eventually found a new target. She walked quietly on tiptoes, then her hands suddenly swiped forward. With a loud bang, the water splattered everywhere while the fish had already escaped and was nowhere to be found. Long Huang-er pouted and stamped her feet, yet she did not give up and continued on to find her new target.

The sky was cloudless and the wind blew gently. Ye Wuchen lifted his head to look at the sky, then mumbled softly, “Is it going to rain?”

“I got it, I got it… Ah!”

After cheering for a moment, as Long Huang-er had captured her prey, the small slippery fish had easily escaped from her hands, falling back into the water and quickly swimming away.

“ Waa… I am so pitiful. Always unable to catch it. You didn’t help me either.” Long Huang-er finally admitted her defeat, her heart was full of sadness.

“Under your feet, there’s a very big fish.” Ye Wuchen told her indifferently.

“Ah?” Long Huang-er quickly looked at her feet. Indeed she found a big fish, its length two times longer than her small feet. It motionlessly floating near her with its mouth is continuously spat out bubbles. Long Huang-er cautiously bent her waist, her hands slowly approached, then suddenly launching forward to tightly grab it in her hands.

“I got it, look!” She excitedly cried out. To prevent the fish from escaping again, she cleverly used all her strength to throw it to the grassland beside the creek. But because she had exerted too much energy, she slipped once again, falling down into the water. She exerted all her effort to climb out, laughing like a hundred flowers in full blossom, completely disregarding the pain in her body.

Ai… It is really tiring to amuse a child. Having need to use spiritual powers, Ye Wuchen secretly laughed. He stood up, carrying all three of the fish in his hands, he swung them around twice and he said, “Come, let’s have our lunch.”

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This area was a hill beside the official road… It could be considered as a huge mound full of green grass. Beside the bonfire where wood fragments were piled up, Long Huang-er held a roasted fish skewed on a tree branch. She devoured it ravenously, for she never knew that fish from a creek could be so delicious after only setting it on fire. It was many times more delicious than the exotic food that she had already been tired of eating.

“Is it delicious?” Ye Wuchen skewered another fish on a clean tree branch, then set it on the fire.

“Yes, its really delicious.” Walking for so long and having fun for almost the whole day, her stomach had been rumbling with hunger. In addition to her mood, which had never been this free from worries, her appetite was naturally this good.

“You are really awesome. Even the food you roasted is so delicious… From now on, can you roast food for me to eat everyday?” Long Huang-er tore the fish meat while she asked with her blinking eyes.

Ye Wuchen said while jokingly, “Xiao Huang-er, I am considered as your future husband. Things like preparing meals should be done by you.”

Long Huang-er blushed. Bit by bit she chewed the fish meat, then she said in a low voice, “But I don’t know how.”

“It can be learned.” Looking at the fish in her hands being stripped clean, if she were to continue, she might chow down the entire branch. He placed another roasted fish beside her arms. “Come, eat now. Before Xiao Huang-er learns to cook, I will humble myself and prepare meals for you everyday.”

Long Huang-er took it, then naughtily stuck out a tongue. Her mind was thinking that she would never learn so as to be able to taste the food he prepared everyday.

Very quickly, the second and third fish was consumed by Long Huang-er. She threw out the fish bones, patted her small belly satisfyingly, before she realized that her future husband had not yet eaten. Suddenly she felt ashamed. “This… It seems like you haven’t eaten yet.”

Ye Wuchen used his sleeves to gently wipe the corner of her mouth, then he said laughing, “You have already taken my share into your stomach, so I am not hungry now.”

His actions, smiling expression, and voice were so gentle, Long Huang-er suddenly felt her nose become sore and something began to form around the corners of her eyes. From childhood up to this moment, he was the first person who had been willing to play with her and the first person to gently wipe her mouth. These were the things that were full of warmth that she could only dream of before.

Rumble.

Cool wind rose, the originally clear and bright sky suddenly filled with dark clouds while sounds of thunder slowly approached. Ye Wuchen pulled Long Huang-er up, “Huang-er, it’s going to rain, let’s go to the small temple to hide.”

Standing in an elevated and spacious place during thunder was equivalent to risking death. The two of them ran to an obviously abandoned temple nearby. By the time they pushed the shabby wooden door open, raindrops and the wind had forcefully landed, they quickly became swift, accompanied by the sound of thunder which grew louder and louder along with the sound of rain.

“Hold me.” Long Huang-er spreads out her arms towards him with something flickering in her eyes.

Ye Wuchen did not hesitate to hugs her. Drawing her towards his bosom, he used his hands to gently comfort her.