Chapter 13 (1/2)

Chapter 13

s.h.i.+fu Says We Must Get Along

The night is very cold.  Feng Yi's slightly heavy breathing is the only thing she can hear.

He is injured and has to sleep in a long couch, he naturally will feel uncomfortable.  Hu Sha crouches on her bed-side, unable to sleep.

She is no longer innocent!  Hu Sha tearfully and grievously laments over her predicament.  Is spending the night with a man in the same room considered the same as tarnis.h.i.+ng one's virtue?  Dear G.o.ds, her Second Senior Brother must never let this out!  They must pretend nothing ever happened, or else, she will get scolded by her s.h.i.+fu and Eldest Senior Brother!  Never mind the scolding, her father will definitely give her a good slap while her mother will howl in the ancestral hall a whole night.  As for her peerlessly handsome husband, he will definitely abandon her!

The consequences will be really grave.

Hu Sha's forehead is full of sweat.  She gets up, suddenly has the impulse to secretly smuggle him out.

She secretly walks over to him.  His face is glowing under the moonlight; he looks like a ball of light wrapped in a white gauze.  Hu Sha cannot help but look at him longer; her heart that has harden earlier on has now turns soft.

His injuries are quite serious; the wound is around four inch long, just under his ribs.  It seems to have been inflicted by something sharp.  There is another wound on his left elbow, it is deep that she can see his bone.  A few package of her ordinary Jin Cang Paste is of no help.

It will be too inhumane of her if she kicks out an injured person in the dead of the night.  Hu Sha can only mumble to herself as she crouches down.

The sound of breathing suddenly stops, plunging the room into deep silence.

Hu Sha looks up in shock.  Feng Yi's face is blue, his face looks like it is carved out of jade, under the moonlight.  He is cold and pale and is not breathing.

He has stopped breathing again!

Hu Sha's heart shrinks.  She slowly place her hand on his face; it feels cold, definitely not like someone who is alive.

Second Senior Brother…. is dead.

Hu Sha stiffens; her compa.s.sion earlier on suddenly turns into fear.  She has a secret with a jiangs.h.i.+?

(TN: Jiangs.h.i.+s are Chinese zombies.)

Is he really dead this time or is he faking it again?  Will he suddenly comes back to life, just like before?

She pats Feng Yi's cold cheeks, softly saying, ”Second Senior Brother…. Second Senior Brother…. Are you still alive?”

There is no reply.

The pitiful Hu Sha wants to call for help, but is stopped by the thought of her ruined reputation. Her forehead is full of sweat.  Under the complex situation, she coils herself on the floor and falls asleep.

Someone is scratching her face with their hair.  It feels very itchy.  Hu Sha sneezes and wakes up in a daze.  The moment she opens her eyes, the first thing she sees is Feng Yi's smiling eyes.

”….. Second Senior Brother…..” She instinctively calls out.

”It is almost 3 am, I need to leave.” Feng Yi pats her head before he stands up from the long couch.  He doesn't look like someone who has been injured at all.

Hu Sha gets up, finally remembering the fearful incident last night.  ”Second Senior Brother!  Y-You are still alive?” She follows him and grasps his hand.  It feels warm and soft.

Feng Yi laughs, ”Silly child!  Did you have a nightmare?  Of course I am still alive!”

Hu Sha anxiously says, ”But, you clearly was—-”

”Did anything happened last night?” Feng Yi looks surprised.  ”I don't remember a single thing.  Don't tell me I spent the entire night in the same room as Junior Sister without wearing any clothes.  No way, right?”

Hu Sha's face turns green.  In the end, she grits her teeth while nodding, ”….. Right.”

Feng Yi gives her a warm smile.  This time, he does not pinch her cheeks or ruffle her hair.  He caresses her face; his slight touch feels like a spring breeze.

”Hu Sha is really good.”

The lights of the dawn outside the window are acc.u.mulating in his eyes.

———–

As usual, the Eldest Senior Brother comes at 3 am.  He does not say anything, he simply waits for Hu Sha to finish running and doing the horse-squats before finally opening his mouth, ”Although Feng Yi appears frivolous and dandy, he does not harbor ill-intention.”

Hu Sha wipes her head while nodding; she naturally knows that her Second Senior Brother is not evil.

Feng Di glance at her, his expression gradually turning warm, ”Work hard, Hu Sha.  You will definitely surpa.s.s me and Feng Yi.  You will become s.h.i.+fu's most prized disciple.”

Hu Sha slips on the ice.