Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes Chapter 16 (1/2)

Chapter 16

That night, s.h.i.+fu didn’t come back to Fengxueshan manor. For most of the night, I sat at the manor’s front door, while holding my knee. The cold mountain air felt like needles p.r.i.c.king my bones. My heart also turned cold.

The stars in the sky flew above my head. I stared blankly at the road outside of the manor, hoping that s.h.i.+fu will appear inadvertently, pinching my cheeks and yelling at me to go back in the manor to sleep.

But s.h.i.+fu didn’t appear. The one that appeared was Zihui. He put a coat on me.

“Go back to sleep, I’ll look out. When your s.h.i.+fu comes back, I’ll go wake you up.”

I stubbornly shook my head. Zihui no longer tried to persuade me. He sat down next to me. Together we stared at the long road before us.

“Zihui, why do you want to be my husband?”

Since there’s nothing else to do, I opened my mouth and said: “Even though I and the people of Shenling sect know each other so well, still no one wanted to marry me.”

“En, it’s probably because I like you more than I fear your s.h.i.+fu.”

“Why do you like me?”

Zihui paused for a moment and then said: “Guess.”

“I’m stupid, I can’t guess it.”

I put my head on my knees. I really want to sleep. Slowly my eyelids turned heavy.

I honestly said: “I always felt that there’s something strange in your eyes.”

“Ah?”

The person beside me seemed somewhat agitated.

“Where is it strange?”

“I don’t know, but I think…in your heart you are probably not willing to be my husband.”

I closed my eyes. My head turned to a side, resting on a thick shoulder.

“Actually…if you are not willing, we can cancel it….I don’t force you.”

The person beside me didn’t say anything and I slowly fell into sleep.

(Actually, I felt that Xiao Xiang Zi isn’t so stupid here. She saw right through Zihui. She’s just simple-minded)

The next morning, I heard a “sha sha” sound of someone cleaning the floor. Confused, I rubbed my eyes. I took a closer look. It’s Zihui cleaning the stair made of stone, with a broom.

The air has a strange smell. I vaguely remembered the butcher once told me that this smell is called wine. It’s a wonderful thing, but the butcher never lets me touch it. He said that when a girl drink it, she’ll become crazy. Now, I’m a little stupid, but I’m still rational. If I touch that kind of thing and become silly and crazy, by that time s.h.i.+fu will really not want me anymore. So I’ve been keeping that kind of thing far away from me. In Fengxueshan there’s also no wine. I scratched my head and asked: “Zihui, how come wine has been spilled on the ground?”

Zihui looked at me, smiled and said: “s.h.i.+fu just came back. Seeing us sitting at the front door, he slipped. A bit of the wine spilled out of the jar in his hand.”

“s.h.i.+fu is back!”

My ears only heard those words. The others have become smoke.

“Where is he?”

“Now he must be in his room…..”

Not listening to till he finished speaking, I quickly stood up and wanted to run inside the manor. Curling my legs the whole night, stood up too quickly, my legs went numb. My eyes went black and I fell onto the ground. My nose hit the ground really hard. A flow of nosebleed dirtied the ground. My head turned dizzily, my eyes were blurry. I only heard Zihui’s panic voice yelling: “A Xiang lady, a Xiang lady!”

“All is alright.”

I strongly stood up and wiped my face. Seeing the nosebleed on my hand, I was a little scared. I couldn’t keep standing by myself. Zihui, who was holding me, fell on top of me. He used his sleeve to wipe my face for me. Not even carrying that it was dirty, he also wiped my nose.

“Where else does it still hurt?”

I looked up and said with a m.u.f.fled voice: “Nowhere else, I’m thick-skinned.”

Zihui looked at me for a while. Suddenly he shook his head and laughed out loud.

“Really.…..really dumb.”

This sentence is truthful. I couldn’t deny it, so I looked up at the sky in silence.

Zihui helped me stood up, then his hand slightly loosened. He leaned in and carefully took a look at my face.

“En, it doesn’t flow anymore.”

With his arm on my shoulder, he whispered: “Do you want to go inside?”

I glanced at his hand on my shoulder. A little uncomfortable, I twisted.

“Yes, I need to go to s.h.i.+fu first.”

While saying that, I ran for two steps. I thought for a moment, looked back at ZiHui and said: “Thank you, husband!”

Zihui was a little startled. He didn’t even come back to his senses, when I turned and ran inside to go look for s.h.i.+fu.

I looked everywhere in the manor and still didn’t even see s.h.i.+fu’s shadow. I scratched my head and said to myself: “Zihui lied to me. s.h.i.+fu obviously hasn’t come back.”

Those words were just out of my mouth, when a jug fell from above and hit the ground with a “pa” sound. It broke on the ground. The smell coming from it is the smell of wine.

I sniffed. It’s the same smell as the one at the front door.

I took a few steps back and lifted my head. I saw s.h.i.+fu sitting on the roof tiles, carrying a jug and staring at me blankly. I happily waved at him. I looked around. I moved the ladder on the corner, to where s.h.i.+fu is. With shaking legs I climbed.

“s.h.i.+fu! Why are you here?”

s.h.i.+fu answered me in a voice full of weird emotions: “Standing high, seeing far.”

I walked carefully to s.h.i.+fu’s side and sat beside him. I looked at him for a while and saw that he’s isn’t angry, did I asked: “Why didn’t s.h.i.+fu come back last night?”

He didn’t even look at me and said while looking in the distance: “Isn’t it good that I didn’t come back? How are you getting along with that husband?”

Hearing him asking that, I nodded.

“Good, very good.”

I held out my hand and was prepared to tell him everything I did with Zihui. I haven’t even opened my mouth, when s.h.i.+fu suddenly pulled me and shoved me. I lay on the roof. s.h.i.+fu was lying on top of me, blocking all my sights.

A few roof tiles fell off and broke on the ground.

I blinked and looked at s.h.i.+fu’s somewhat reddish eyes. He smelled of wine. I was little panicked.

“s.h.i.+fu, what’s the matter?…….Didn’t they say that only if a girl drinks it, she’ll become crazy?!”

“Cra…, “s.h.i.+fu whispered with half closed eyes. “I’ve probably gone mad.”

He smiled coldly.

“Forget the past lifetime. This lifetime, this lifetime……b.a.s.t.a.r.d Heavenly emperor Li, didn’t you say you like the play of the little wife chasing the husband?!”

“s.h.i.+fu?”

He’s saying those words, I don’t understand again. I shook his shoulder. I felt speaking with be being on the bottom and he being on the top, was a too constraining.

“Let’s get up and speak.”