FID – Chapter 250

To hell with it. That was what rankled Qian Wanjin the most. He swore while blushing, “Who is afraid of losing face? Who has lost face?! I am just afraid that you’ll eat my tofu! You were like this yesterday!”

Silence settled all around!

Looking at the woman crouching on the railing above with her shoulders shaking violently, Qian Wanjin realized what he just said, and his face turned black! What the hell did he just say?

Beside him, Liu Yusheng had already collapsed on Fu Yuzheng in hysterics.

As for Fu Yuzheng, she was not much better.

She castigated herself that she was a person with enough self-control, but she had to clench her teeth to stifle her laughter.

She knew Qian Wanjin.

He was from the second richest family in Nanling, the young master of the Qian family in the capital and the next heir to the Qian family.

How could she have imagined that such a wealthy family would produce an heir with this disposition?

He was so funny. 

Also, Shi Xianrou. 

The only daughter of General Zhennan was actually such a person.

She possessed the tiger spirit of the general’s family and was more uninhibited than men. However, she also has the sensitivity of a woman.

Rumors in the capital have it that she could fight tigers up the mountains and beat people down the mountains – these were clearly to malign her. She was deliberately portrayed as a reckless woman with brute strength and no brains.

Sure enough, knowing someone by repute wasn’t as good as meeting him in the flesh.

Qian Wanjin rushed to the ring towards Shi Xianrou, brandishing swords and waving spears, chasing her endlessly.

The two appeared fighting, when in fact, they were more like fooling around.

Shi Xianrou seemed to have infinite patience for Qian Wanjin, teasing him like a kitten, leading him to lunge at her with his shining claws.

Baring his fangs and brandishing his claws – making him look fried up all over.

Until almost at an opportune moment, with a word or an action, she would smooth down Qian Wanjin’s hair without a trace.

She was using her own way to attract Qian Wanjin towards her little by little.

“Black-bellied girl.” Liu Yusheng quipped with a grin and took Fu Yuzheng aside to sit down. “They are going to fool around some more so let’s take a seat.”

Afterwhich, she took out a few preserved fruits from her pocket.

Fu Yuzheng paused and hesitantly reached out to take it.

“What did you mean by black-bellied girl?” She asked in a whisper, putting a piece of dried fruit into her mouth and biting into it softly. The sweet taste of the fruit then filled her mouth.

Liu Yusheng laughed, “Black-bellied. I mean Shi Xianrou is like that. She obviously had a bellyful of schemes, but she’s pretending to be decent on the surface, posing as a person of high morals.”

Fu Yuzheng, “…”

After a fight, Shi Xianrou feigned making a mistake and let Qian Wanjin point his sword at her nose and succeeded in smoothing his hair. And then, she dragged him and jumped off the stage.

“Xianrou, how exactly did you practice martial arts? You can make a crowd of men sigh at themselves,” Liu Yusheng teased.

Qian Wanjin, one of the men who sighed to himself, snorted quietly but rarely did not lose his temper. 

He was in good humor now that his hair had just been smoothed.

Anyway, he would never admit that he wasn’t as good as Shi Xianrou; he just won.

So what if she secretly let him win? That was still a win, wasn’t it?

Shi Xianrou took a few steps for the seat next to Liu Yusheng and took two dried fruits from her hand, one for herself and one for Qian Wanjin.

“Perseverance and hard training. In addition to talent, martial arts practice also emphasizes hard work. There is no shortcut. I suffered a lot when I was a child.  Every time I came back from practice, I was bruised and battered all over. There wasn’t a nice spot left.”

Fu Yuzheng nodded in empathy. “It is indeed hard to practice martial arts. Even now I only follow the guards to practice some of the simplest self-defense moves, I will often get hurt and sprained. It’s painful.”

“You practice martial arts with the guards?” Shi Xianrou asked curiously.

Fu Yuzheng nodded, “Women are weak. If we can learn some moves, we might survive in a crisis. At least, the chance of survival will increase.”

Unfortunately, she was already ten years old when she arrived at the royal residence. She was long past due the best time to learn martial arts.

Moreover, she was still young back then and had just got a chance to survive. She was so terrified in the palace that she didn’t dare to say a word more. How could she have time to think about other means for survival?

It was only when she was almost fourteen that she gradually settled down in the royal residence. She begged a favor with the King and followed the guards to learn some simple martial arts.

So far, it has only been more than three years since she started learning.

She was only a bit stronger than the ordinary woman who lacked the strength to bind a chicken. However, if she were to fight with someone who was a real martial artist, she was far inferior.

Hearing her response, Shi Xianrou frowned. “Why don’t you practice the moves you’ve learned and I’ll take a look.”

Although Fu Yuzheng had doubts, she didn’t ask further. She walked aside as instructed and demonstrated all the various self-defense counterattacks she learned from the guards in order.

After finishing, she turned around and saw that Shi Xianrou was already walking towards her.

“Those moves you just did are moves that only apply to men. Men and women are born with different physiques, so there are differences in the use of moves.  If you practice forcibly, the effect won’t be useful, and it will also cause damage to your body.”

Fu Yuzheng froze at her comment. She didn’t understand this and always thought it was normal.

But indeed, when completing those movements, she found it strenuous. Either the movements were difficult to regulate or the force was not up to the requirements.

“Women are inherently weak. In times of danger, if we want to win, we can’t fight against others with strength. We have to be clever.” After speaking, Shi Xianrou repeated all the moves that Fu Yuzheng had just demonstrated and altered them a bit. They appeared much smoother, and the burst of her strength was not weak.

Fu Yuzheng and Liu Yusheng did not even blink.

Qian Wanjin frequently rolled his eyes. Women are inherently weak, snort. So this guy was reincarnated with the wrong body, she should have been a male, a man!

“Don’t worry, I’m a guaranteed female. If you don’t believe me, you can always check.”

Qian Wanjin buttocks plopped down to the ground. He fell speechless for a while with his mouth wide open. This dead woman, this damn woman…She’s flirting with a virtuous woman in broad daylight. Shame on you! What?!

The two other women were already laughing their heads off.

Shi Xianrou was simply a bad-ass!

Laughter echoed in the corner of the martial arts field. The bright sunlight sprinkled down overhead, seemingly illuminating the corners of the human heart that were shrouded in shadow.

It was warm.

Fu Yuzheng looked at the three people around her, and for the first time, indulged herself and let out her laughter.

She was merely a maid, but at this moment here, she seemed to forget that identity.

They made her forget this identity.

Because when they looked at her, it was like they were looking at a friend, not a servant.

The training on the other side came to an end, and the peals of laughter drew some people to their side. Those who knew Shi Xianrou raised their voices to greet her.

“Miss Shi is here again? Have a game with our instructor?”

Shi Xianrou tightened her wrist cuffs and replied, “Okay, come on!”

She turned around, winked at the three, and lowered her voice, “Watch how I beat him up.”

She also said to Fu Yuzheng, “Later, I will not wrestle with him and only use trickery. Observe carefully.”