Reborn: Revenge of the Concubine's Daughter

Chapter 156 Who was relentless? And who was injured?

Their breathing was gently and intertwined. Then they saw what their most concerned things from each other’s eyes. When they found the exact feeling, they closed their eyes and kissed at the same time.

Their hearts were so warm that they didn’t want to move or have further actions. It was better to snuggle up to each other like this all the time and feel each other from the soft lips. In the past three years, they must have experienced a lot. Now they stood in front of each other undamaged, so they enjoyed the chest closed to each other. And their hearts must be melted. Everything could be forgiven.

It had better be dark, so that he could hug her all the time, and not go anywhere.

Suddenly, his hands moved on her, from the neckline to the shoulder, to the chest, to the girdle, and then to the skirt. When his hands tried to continue moving down, it was out of reach. So, he had to leave her lips and gentle eyes for a while, and then he leaned over her slender legs. His Xiaoyi had grown up.

“Master, I can dry the clothes and warm myself.” He left suddenly, which made He Danggui’s tone cold.

“You do yours, and I’ll do mine.” He began to take off her embroidered shoes and white socks. He seemed to warm her feet.

“I don’t need to take off my shoes and socks. My Zhenqi has reached Guanyuan acupoint and Zusanli acupoint, so my feet will warm up soon. My shoes and socks will be dried.” she restrained, “You should stand up quickly. Now we are at the top of bamboo. What if you fall down accidentally? What if you drop my shoes?”

“What? Your Zhenqi has reached Zusanli acupoint?” His actions were ceaseless, but his tone was harshly, “Stop! Your Zhenqi can’t go down. You just need to warm your upper body. I’ll warm the lower body.”

“Why?” She had never seen him speak so harshly before, so she took Zhenqi back.

Meng Xuan said seriously, “I only taught you the Methods for circling Zhenqi in the upper body, but not in the lower body, so you can’t warm your feet. Let me help you.”

He Danggui was puzzled, “But…you taught me that martial artists should learn to draw inferences. You only taught the left part of the upper body in that year and let me explore the right part by myself. According to your instructions, now I can circle the Zhenqi to my whole body.”

Meng Xuan shook his head and said, “Xiaoyi, I trust you, but Zusanli acupoint is very important. It needs to be used under the instruction of the Master. It’s dangerous to use it by yourself. So, before I teach you, let me warm you up. You’re so cold. Don’t try to be brave.” He took her delicate feet into his arms and held them to his chest. He contentedly pasted his face on the beautiful leg and rubbed it gently. His chest was cold, but his heart was warm, as if he held the warmest sun in the world.

He Danggui had no strength in the air, and there was nothing to support her. She only relied on him to support her feet, so she said uneasily, “Please hold steady. Don’t drop me. Why do we have to stand on the top of bamboo? Let’s go down.”

“…” Meng Xuan took her delicate feet and pretended to be asleep for a moment. Then he opened his eyes and looked up at her face as if admiring a goddess. He said, “You answer my question first. If I am satisfied with the answer, I will take you down. If not, you will still stand in my chest.”

He Danggui frowned and said, “Don’t joke around. They are waiting for us. Don’t you say the official will arrive soon?”

“I lied to them. It’s early. Let them wait.”

“…”

Meng Xuan lowered his head. He looked at the delicate legs and couldn’t help kissing them. When he closed his eyes, his tears fell on them. He Danggui shivered slightly with surprise. Meng Xuan kissed the beautiful girl, and his pain and affection flowed to her at this moment,

“Why didn’t you tell me once you saved me? Why were you so calm when I mentioned that the Taoist nun who saved me and even married me as a concubine? Why didn’t you explain anything to me? Why didn’t you go to Chang Ye Pavilion to see me off? I waited ten hours for you, so I was late for the calling roll in the morning and was punished with two hundred sticks. I wrote that I was dying to see you for the last time. Why didn’t you come to see me? Why are you always so mysterious? Why can you predict? Why do you have wisdom and eyes that do not belong to your age? Why?”

“I’m sorry, Xiaoxuan.” He Danggui lowered her head and gently stroked his forehead. She said, “I’m sorry to disappoint you.”

Hearing her gentle tone as if she was comforting a child, he did not ease, but became more irascible. He took a deep bite on the delicate leg, and looked at the two red marks on it. Then he said with a deep voice, “This is not the answer I want. I never accept others’ apologies. I think since you have the sincerity to apologize, why did you choose to hurt? Why couldn’t you feel it when I was sincere to you?”

He Danggui stared at Meng Xuan in a trance, who seemed to have never been worried and always unconsciously helped her out of trouble. But now, he had such a fierce and hurt look. She hesitated for a moment and said, “I’m sorry. I didn’t expect it would hurt you. I thought we were friends. I never knew…you love me.”

“You don’t know?!” Meng Xuan sneered and said, “I saw Duan Xiaolou around you every day, and you always smiled at him. However, I insisted on climbing over the wall for four months. I avoided the guards of Luo’s Mansion and went to your room to teach you martial arts. I told you all about my background and experience. I even shared my deepest secret with you. Is it just because we are friends?”

“I’m sorry to make you sad. At that time, my thought was not clear.” He Danggui looked down at him, and her eyes reflected the Bamboo Grove swaying in the wind below. She said, “Although I know you are good, I dare not to confess to you as I did to Qing. One day you suddenly told me that you were very busy and would leave after two months in Yangzhou City, so I thought you were just a passer-by and would not stay in my life for too long. So, I chose to keep silent for many things.”

Meng Xuan said angrily, “I said that deliberately because you held Duan Xiaolou’s hand during the day! Then I stayed for another two months!”

He Danggui was puzzled, “Holding his hand? He stabbed his hand, so he held up the injured hand and waited for me to cure him. He waited for more than two hours. Could I ignore him? And you said that you would stay for another two months because Zhou Yi Can Tong Qi taught by Bai Yangbai had not been finished. You wanted to hear it out before you leave.”

“I don’t care about his lessons!” Meng Xuan angrily pinched her delicate legs and said, “Why did you go to his room for four hours every day after school, and even spent the night with him once?”

“You were following me, weren’t you?” He Danggui was shocked and angry, “I told you that I was looking for a medicine!”

Meng Xuan kneaded her legs to let out his anger. He said, “This is a pretext! Is there any medicine you can’t make in the world? Is it Elixir of Life? Why did you spend the night with him?!”

He Danggui frowned and recalled, “It was late when I got out of the bath, and I had already told Madam Luo that I would stay at Qing’s room, so I would not go back to Luo’s Mansion. I stayed in that old liar’s room for a night. He only had one quilt in his house, and he even wrested the quilt with me. I was sick from the cold. Later, I went back to Luo’s Mansion and waited for you to cure me in the evening. I waited you for two nights but didn’t see you. Then, I sent you a letter by a carrier pigeon, but you didn’t reply. It turned out that you were angry about it.”

Meng Xuan bit her leg fiercely and didn’t loosen his mouth. He even wished he could inhale her into his stomach, so that he had been with her and didn’t have to worry about her so much.

He Danggui hit the back of his head angrily and cried, “What are you doing? You are hurting me!”

Meng Xuan raised his head and showed his white teeth. He said, “What’s the relationship between you and Bai Yangbai? Why did you take a bath and sleep in his room? You said that you only treat Duan Xiaolou as a brother and a friend. Why did you let him hold you? You let Peng Jian carry you to the Wangyue Restaurant, and you went to Taibai Restaurant with Gao Jue. Under your pillow, there was the jade pendant of Lord Ning! What’s your relationship with each of them? Why did you provoke so many men!”

He Danggui was so angry that her shoulders trembled. She beat his forehead hard and said angrily, “Let me down. I don’t allow you to warm my feet. I have nothing to do with you. I will pretend that I don’t know you in the future! Why are you full of complaints? That’s all my business, and I never provoked you. Why are you following me? Meng Xuan, let me go!”

“You never provoked me?!” Meng Xuan shook the leg in his hands and shouted angrily, “How can you say that! You made me almost die, made me crazy for you, and made me wait three years for you. You said that you didn’t know I love you, but everyone around you could feel it clearly. Why couldn’t only you feel it? Or did you have someone you like long ago? Did you like Zhu Quan who gave you the jade pendant?”

“Let me go. I don’t want to talk to you!” He Danggui scratched his face and shouted, “I don’t want to talk to you. Let me down. I want to go home! I don’t know you!”

“No! If you don’t make it clear, you can’t leave here! You owe me an explanation and worry of the three years!” Meng Xuan kneaded her legs even harder.

He Danggui was crying, “If you want the explanation, why didn’t you come to me during the three years? You’ve forgotten me for a long time! Whimper…”

Hearing her sobbing, Meng Xuan immediately became nervous. He stood up with her feet in his arms. Then she let her slip down with holding her waist, and let her bare feet step on his feet. He asked anxiously as he wiped her tears, “Did I hurt you? Did I press the key acupoint? What’s matter with you?”

He Danggui shook her head and wept. She just felt a lot of grievances in her heart, but she didn’t know how to say it.

Seeing the girl who made him both love and hate crying so sad, Meng Xuan didn’t have any pleasure after revenge. He was usually smart and calm, but now he was so anxious. He put one hand around her waist and put the other hand made a bow to her. He said, “Xiaoyi. Don’t cry. It’s all my fault. Where do you hurt? Have I pinched your Xuehai acupoint and Qimen acupoint? Have I pinched your hamstring? Can you still bend your knees?” She bent her knee and gave him a kick. Then she cried even more heartily and let out her sadness like a child.

Meng Xuan had no choice but to kiss her as before, so she could not cry. But her tears still flowed down, so he put his mouth in her eyes to suck all her sadness. It turned out that she blamed him for not coming to her for three years. Was she waiting for him? She must have had a bad time in Luo’s Mansion. It was his fault that he didn’t come to take her away.

His kiss was deep and shallow. He wanted to take away all her unhappiness, and let her remember him as well as his tenderness. Gradually, she stopped crying. Seeing the effect, Meng Xuan looked for her mouth under the cute nose to ask for some rewards. He cured her grief, so now it was her turn.

But this time he didn’t touch her soft lips. He only kissed the back of her tight hand.

He tried to move her hand twice, but he failed, so he complained again, “The night before I left, I heard that Duan Xiaolou invited you to go to see the flowers on the next day. So, I specially left a letter saying that I would go to the battlefield to fight a cruel battle tomorrow, which would probably be the end of my life. I asked you to sing and see me off in Chang Ye Pavilion. On the next day, I was waiting for you in Chang Ye Pavilion from dark to dawn, and to noon, but you never showed up. I went back to the army disappointedly, and my head was full of your smile when you and Duan Xiaolou were enjoying flowers. I was impatient to answer master’s questions, so I only said that I missed the call the roll in the morning because I overslept. He was so angry that punished me with a hundred army sticks. The generals came up to plead for me. One of them was surnamed Duan. When I saw him, I was angry, and my words offended my father. In addition, my brother of the concubine Meng Xian instigated him. So, he wanted to punish me with two hundred army sticks on the spot personally. I got the two hundred sticks because of you, so you should let me kiss you twice for compensation.”

He Danggui covered her mouth tightly and shook her head. She said, “Didn’t you kiss twice just now? You are so powerful, and the two hundred sticks won’t hurt you. Moreover, I didn’t mean to break my appointment, and I didn’t go to enjoy flowers with Duan Xiaolou that day.”

“The first time I admit it, but the second time I only touched your lips, and then I turned to help you treat your eyes. So, you still owe me once.” Meng Xuan haggled and bit her earlobe while trying to find out if she would relax her vigilance. However, she still covered her mouth and didn’t give up, so he continued to tell about his sadness, “Your ruthlessness made my heart ache as if I had been stabbed by a poisonous arrow. So, I thought that if my father had killed me, I would have been given birth again and become the wolf cub of the white wolf under your feet. Then I would be held in your arms every day. Therefore, I sealed all my significant acupoints and lay down to be punished without saying a word. While my father thought that I was not satisfied with him, so he beat me harder. After receiving two hundred sticks, I was seriously injured and was carried back to the camp. But I still though about you. I sent a letter saying that I was dying to see you for the last time. Why didn’t you go to see me? I even drew the map for you!”

He Danggui covered her mouth and quickly explained, “I’m sorry. The letter was put in my schoolbag when Chan Yi cleared my bed. At that time, she didn’t know that it was the letter you sent to me because she was illiterate, but now she is literate. You know I never opened my schoolbag and didn’t read my textbook, so I saw the letter two days later. As for going to see you in the army, it was even more impossible. Yangzhou City was far away from Shanhai Pass, and it would spend four or five days to go back and forth. How could I go out for such a long time? First, I had to salute Madam Luo every morning. Second, my nephew, Shizhu, did his homework in my room every afternoon. Third, I often skipped class, which made many teachers be dissatisfied. Thanks to the mediation of Bai Yangbai and Duan Xiaolou, they didn’t come to my home to complain about my absence. Later, I came up with a reason that I wanted to go to Sanqing Temple to see my mother. I went to take a leave with Madam Luo, but she said that she had just sent someone to Sanqing Temple to take my mother home to attend the ancestor worship ten days later, and I also needed to attend it. I thought that you have the internal force of Changfeng Formula, and you wound surely recover in ten days, so I gave up.”

Meng Xuan stared at her and said, “I wound surely recover in ten days? What you think was too easy. You just didn’t worry about me! I wrote a dozen letters to you. Why didn’t you reply me?”

He Danggui explained again, “Your carrier pigeon flied away every time when I open a letter. At that time, my arts of lightness couldn’t catch up with them, so I didn’t reply you. The carrier pigeon you left me before you left was kept by Huai Hua. I asked her to take special care of it, but she misunderstood my meaning. She didn’t know that the pigeon was used for sending letters, so she fed it as a chicken. When I went to see the carrier pigeon, it was already too fat to fly. After a few months, you hadn’t written to me for a long time when the carrier pigeon could fly.”

Meng Xuan looked at her bitterly and said, “You always have a lot of reasons. I was sad because I couldn’t receive your reply. I was so angry, so I didn’t write to you. Couldn’t you take the initiative to write me a letter?”

“Sorry.” He Danggui apologized, “I didn’t know if you were still in the army. I was worried the carrier pigeon was in the wrong place. In a word, I’m sorry, Xiaoxuan. I didn’t know that you would be angry for several letters and won’t come to me for three years. I didn’t know that I always in your heart.

“You’re so heartless. You are not just in my heart!” Meng Xuan stared at her and said, “You don’t understand me at all. Give me the kiss you owe me!”