The Liu family elders seemed to be accustomed to this phenomenon. No one got involved and just calmly ate their own, leaving the squabbling to the juniors.
The dining table should be this lively for the food to taste delicious.
As for the several good-for-nothing foodies, they made Qian Wanjin explode in anger, but each let their chopsticks dance.
Qian Wanjin saw that he couldn’t clip the only remaining chicken wing – Yan Hongs hands were faster than him! He wailed in pain. That was his favorite! More than drumsticks!
But then, look.
A pair of chopsticks, picked up the chicken wing a step faster than Wei Hong and then put it into his bowl.
“Sorry, Qian Wanjin loves to eat chicken wings.” The woman spoke blandly and nodded apologetically to Wei Hong. She then turned to the dazed Qian Wanjin and curled her lips, “Let’s eat.”
“…” Qian Wanjin’s ears suddenly became hot.
He buried his head and gnawed on the chicken wing, shutting his mouth in a rare moment.
He must have heard it wrong. Absolutely. His ears have gone out of kilter!
Otherwise, why did he feel like the woman’s word “eat” sound doting?
Do-Doting, my ass! I’m a man!
Young Master Qian almost buried his head into his bowl and failed to see the table full of people holding back their laughter.
Shi Xianrou regarded this with equanimity.
Then, she repeatedly grabbed food in the mouths of several foodies. Thus, the picked delicious dishes gradually piled up in Qian Wanjin’s small bowl.
It took Wei Hong a night abandoned in the cold to return to the dinner table after being identified as a traitor by the Liu family. Wei Hong has been well-behaved since then and only ate in silence at all meals. But this time, she couldn’t hold herself back.
She has been robbed by the woman three times!
The speed of her hands took her breath away!
“Miss Shi, have you learned martial arts?”
“Yeah.” Shi Xianrou smiled. “I have no other hobbies. I have liked to dance with swords and sticks since I was young. I have studied with my father for a while.”
She learned for a while and got faster than a hidden guard like her who crawled out of death training?
“Shall we have a sparring session later?”
“Sure.”
Liu Zhiqiu shook his head and sighed, “Xiao Jinzi, when you marry later on, tighten your skin.” Those who have the courage to take on Yan Hong’s challenge definitely weren’t worse off!
Feng Mohan nodded, “Seconded.”
Qian Wanjin, “…” That was why wasn’t it good for women to indulge in embroidery and poetry? Why did they have to learn to fight?
Wait, why should he tighten his skin?
He wasn’t going to marry Shi Xianrou!
With a gasp, he ate even faster.
“Eat slowly, lest you choke,” the woman beside him reminded softly.
Mind your own business! Qian Wanjin was dying to retort, but upon looking at the pile of dishes in his bowl, he swallowed the words back.
For the next meal, he had to rely on her to grab food, so he could eat!
Under circumstances where he was weaker than others, he must endure!
After dinner, the Liu family would sit in the courtyard or hall. They would chat for a few minutes, have a cup of tea before washing up and going to bed.
However, since Wei Hong and Shi Xianrou agreed to have a sparring at the dinner table, the family abandoned chatting and took their stools to the yard. They sat in a row neatly, ready to watch the performance.
Liu Zhiqiu also carefully hung windproof lanterns in several places in the courtyard as bright as possible.
They had heard of martial arts fighting performances in theaters, but had never really seen it with their own eyes, so they were excited!
Qian Wanjin also sat in the audience, feeling uneasy from head to toe.
One of the fighters was his nominal fiancee.
How tough! So tough that his cheeks were shaking!
Now he could foresee what people would say when he took a stroll in Xinghua Village and met the villagers.
Just now, Liu Zhiqiu told him to tighten his skin in the future. How could the villagers’ rough jabs sound better than Liu Zhiqiu’s?
He didn’t believe it!
“Who do you think will win?” Sitting at the end of the line, Liu Yusheng whispered to the man sitting behind her.
“Shi Xianrou.”
“She’s that powerful?” Liu Yusheng was astonished. She really couldn’t tell. Although Shi Xianrou didn’t appear delicate or weak, the aura she exuded was too calm. Compared to Wei Hong’s stern, forbidding look, she lost a lot in momentum.
The man was amused. He didn’t expect that his Shengsheng was also gossipy at times. “Shi Xianrou is deeply secretive and reserved, but still doesn’t lose her momentum. Wei Hong’s aura is imposing, could crush dry weeds and smash rotten wood. However, Shi Xianrou’s aura is harmonious and could hold a hundred rivers.”
Wei Hong’s murderous aura was bare. In comparison, Shi Xianrou wasn’t devoid of murderous aura, but she concealed it completely.
The way they both showed it was due to their character and environment.
“Ahem!”
The two, who were whispering, immediately sat up straight.
Liu Yusheng didn’t dare to look back at the man’s face.
She was sitting next to her father, tightly guarded…
So thinking, a touch of warmth suddenly covered her fingers outside.. Liu Yusheng was jolted and almost jumped out!
He actually held her hand!
On the side was her father who was dead set on keeping an eye on her, and behind her was the man who refused to keep still.
Liu Yusheng sat upright, not even daring to move a little. She feared that a move would draw her father’s attention. They’d be finished.
Feng Qingbai felt really powerless.
Looking at the young girl’s stiff waist, he needn’t guess how nervous she was.
Partially resistant, but wouldn’t refuse him.
To comfort his loss.
Helpless doting surfaced in his eyes. He quietly withdrew his hand, but the girl unexpectedly tightened her palm and held him in a firm grip.
In a moment of silence, Feng Qingbai’s lips slightly curled up.
A whistle blared from the audience.
The two women, standing opposite each other in the middle of the courtyard, instantly leaped and started the battle.
Both sides moved dazzlingly fast, leaving layer upon layer of void shadows.
The Liu family’s attention was all drawn away. Their eyes widened, and frequent gasps of amazed would frequently sound.
Liu Zhiqiu felt his blood boil while watching, but at the same time, his legs felt like jelly.
Oh, holy mother, it turned out that this was how masters fight. They looked murderous, and a second slower would end up in one cutting the other’s throat!
Qian Wanjin was initially nursing a grievance, but at this moment, that fiery figure in the field also attracted his attention.
Her strokes were smooth and neat, swift and fierce.
Her red skirt fluttering between her flips was gorgeous as hell!
To crown all, the woman’s eyes were sparkling as bright as stars in the fight. Her willpower was soaring, displaying her unique heroic spirit to the fullest!
He actually vaguely felt that the woman’s indifferent stance and effortless tricks were more beautiful than a dancer’s charming dancing posture.
With a bang, two figures, one red and one black, made contact and parted, each back to the position where they stood at the beginning.
Wei Hong took a slight half step backwards.
“Miss Shi hides deep. I concede defeat!”
“Aunt Hong has backed down.”
With a kung fu salute, they left the field.
The sparring match ended there. The Liu family audience was still unsatisfied, their hearts still thumping.
“It was wonderful!” Liu Zhiqiu murmured.
Grandma Liu patted her chest, and her dangling heart fell back in place. “Oh, my heart was thumping from the beginning to the end. So fights are like this. It scared me!”
“Grandma, then do you think it’s good?” Feng Mohan teased.
“Very good!”
“Pfft!”
Laughter burst out in the courtyard. Grandpa Liu razzed, “Old lady, you said you got scared, then you also said it’s very good. You’re really…”
“I can’t be scared when I’ve never seen it before. Their fight was too realistic. I was afraid they would get hurt several times!”
“Yes-yes, you’re right. You’re right!” The old man bowed his head and appeased his wife.
The younger generation, who have been stung, “…” picked up their stools and slipped away.
Peek-Aboo 
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