"Wife, I want to eat meat” 《娘子，我要吃肉》Chapter 69

For the first time Hua Bao Xia fell asleep listening to guqin, in a daze she felt strange.

She felt someone lifting her up, she couldn’t help frown. She was an invaluable young lady, that would be it if she was touched by a common son of an influential family, if an attendant or the likes of that lend an arm for her to support on, she would very easily lose her innocence.

Fortunately, when someone had held her waist just now, someone had said: “Men and women should not touch, I don’t want to marry her.” It was the sound of a youth, even though it still carried the hoarseness of someone who’s voice had just changed, his voice was deep and low, and the strength on her waist was steady, it could be assumed it was someone who was reliable. Just like, the feeling from that day when Lord Wang offered her support, making her heart jump.

There was a vague sound of a child piercing through: “Then what’s to be done?”

“You carry her on your back.” Subsequently, Hua Bao Xia felt herself suddenly rise in the air, before she could even scream she was on something very hard, like a very small table? This stupid person, how could he throw her onto a table, later she will admonish him to death. She tried with all her strength to open her eyes, but her mind was fuzzy, only feeling the small table underneath her move several times, then her forehead `peng`, she wasn’t sure what she hit, she fainted.

Xia Fen carried Hua Bao Xia on his back, moving left and right a little, again `peng`, Hua Bao Xia’s leg hit the stool, he couldn’t help complain: “She’s too long, not good to carry.”

Indeed she was too `long`, Xia Fen was like an ant squished by a white cat, he looked pitiful but also ridiculous. Fortunately Xia Fen was quite strong, it wouldn’t be a problem for him to carry two more girls.

Xiao Bai rubbed his nose under the cloth. It was a little cold today, when speaking under a mask, the heat rose to the nose making it itch and uncomfortable: “You can fold her up.”

Xia Fen suddenly realised, that’s right, if he threw the unconscious Hua Bao Xia onto the floor, fold her legs up into her stomach, then put both her arms around her legs, then her entire body would be rolled up into a fat and plump steamed bun. Wrapping that top rate rabbit fur cloak on her from head to toe, she would become a small rabbit covered in rabbit fur pouch. Xia Fen tied some of the corners of the cloak into a knot and hung it on his neck, he jumped on the ground several times, he was simply too small, with just a bounce, his cloth pouch hit the ground with a dull noise.

“Let’s go!”

One big, one small, two shadows carrying a huge parcel on their back left the guqin schoolroom, and did not go to the Hua residence, and not outside the city, they headed to the flourishing district, going to the west city walls. There were deep mountains there, according to the information Xiao Bai gained from sacrificing his sex appeal, the place where Hei Zi got the bear gall from was the deep mountain behind the west city walls.

Out of the city, Xia Fen then threw the bundle to Xiao Bai. He gradually had recalled he was the young master of the Xia family, which young master carry things on their backs, and their bodyguard is empty handed, this wasn’t a battlefield where it was each man for himself.

It was soon going to be December, there was a cold wind in the mountains, most of it was sheltered by the trees, but small breezes still bore through the small cracks of tree trunks, sticking onto people’s faces like the pain of scraping a bone.

Xiao Bai simply took off the cloth which had covered his entire face, poking out two holes in the middle, he put the mask on his head. Looking straight ahead, only a black forest could be seen, black truncheons, a pair of black eyes inside two black caves, suddenly it was like seeing a ghost, really terrifying. Xia Fen imitated, he became a small ghost.

The two people relying on Xia Fen’s dog like nose found the black bear’s cave, there was nothing they could do, now most of the animals were hibernating. Only following the most fishy smell through the forest, then can you very easily find animals who were still active.

They threw Hua Bao Xia into that bear’s cave.

If the crown prince was there, he would definitely make fun of these small and big idiots, who destroys someone’s innocence like this? Should it not have been taking off the clothes of that invaluable young lady throwing her into a liquor fragrant room, then grabbing a coachman, gatekeeper, older cousin, younger cousin, even a county magistrate or a male prostitute from the brothels would be fine, also stripped naked and throw them on one bed, then early morning the next day send someone to knock on the door, afterwards screeched loudly in alarm to attract even more people to watch, hahaha, at that time…

It could only be said the crown prince had too black a heart, and Xiao Bai and Xia Fen were a little foolish, neither of the two of them wanted to take Hua Bao Xia’s clothes off. Xiao Bai has never done a thing like this before, in the words of Juan Shu, Xiao Bai was still a virgin, Hei Zi you have to protect him properly yo = =’, that’s why Xiao Bai didn’t do it. Xia Fen also didn’t do it, he has only ever taken off boys’ trousers, he had never taken off girls’ clothes, moreover Hua Bao Xia had the stink of a vixen, he really didn’t like it. If he took off her clothes, then that smell would seriously injure Xia Fen’s nose, he wouldn’t do it no matter what.

Therefore the two pure hearted `young virgins` thought of Hei Zi. Hei Zi this person was full of evil tricks, on the outside he had an honest and serious fake ethical appearance. Hearing the two of their retaliation methods, he finally only said one sentence `there’s a black bear deep in the mountains, do you want to know the location? If you want to know, Xiao Bai what will you exchange for the information?`

The two of them threw Hua Bao Xia inside the black bear’s cave, originally they wanted to quietly wait for the black bear to wake up, but it was very dark outside, if they don’t return soon, when father’s itchy pressure point is undone, he would definitely go everywhere to catch Xia Fen, he should rush to his mother’s embrace for protection before cheap father flips out, boo hoo, Xia Fen pulled on Xiao Bai reluctant to go home.

What they didn’t know was, Hua Bao Xia, after the drug lost its effectiveness Lady Hua, waking up to find herself in a place blacker than the depth of winter, that screech, that terror, that helplessness. She struggled out of the cloak pouch, raising her eyes she saw a pair of dark blood-thirsty animal eyes, she restrained herself, she felt suffocated, she looked left and right, she screamed `ah----!` once, slapping the black bear. The black bear roared, the black bear growled, the black bear beat it’s chest with power, Hua Bao Xia was like a little wild fox about to be set on by a big wild beast, with a ring, she again fainted rigidly.

Everyone knows, bears don’t eat people to death.

Xia Fen and Xiao Bai also did not consider it, how an extremely delicate little girl peacefully coexist with a true wild animal!

Maybe, they only wanted to destroy Hua Bao Xia’s innocence, but whether the one to ruin 

her innocence was a man or animal, their stupid melon of a brains simply did not consider it. Or better to say, Xiao Bai blindly listened and obeyed Hei Zi’s words, a bear can `sort out` Hua Bao Xia, how it was done Hei Zi did not say, Xiao Bai also didn’t think about it, at certain times, Xiao Bai in front of certain people truly was not generally `Bai`[1]. Xia Fen basically didn’t know what was destroying innocence ah! Throwing Hua Bao Xia to the black bear, it was basically the same principle as throwing a pirate to the sharks, either way they would die, if they died then they have no innocence right! What was the difference? To Xia 

Fen, there was nothing different = =

Hua Bao Xia was very cold, she shivered with cold clutching the cloak to her she shrank into a corner of the cave no daring to make a noise.

That bear left the cave every day before noon, it would piss at the opening to leave a mark, then go to the river which had not yet dried up to fish. On several occasions it had seen Hua Bao Xia with shaking eyes peeking at it. Very strangely the black bear did not attack her, only every time before it left, it stood above her using his more solid than a rock fists to beat its chest, the striking `bang, bang` sound scared Hua Bao Xia to not dare to make a sound, at an earlier time she had already fainted many times from fear, she was a little numb.

When the black bear came back and saw Hua Bao Xia was still there, it would throw a remaining fish to her to eat, the fish was alive, ice-cold, and flapping with its remaining breath it used its white fish eyes to gaze at her, as if it was looking at a demon from hell demanding its life. As far as Hua Bao Xia was concerned, the black bear was also a demon hanging above her head demanding her life. She didn’t eat fresh fish, even if it was boiled fish she was still very picky. She starved for several days, not eating anything, the fish was again snatched by the black bear and torn apart, bite by bite eating it up. The bloody smell of fish spread throughout the cave, pasting the black bear’s claws and the fur around its mouth, giving the impression that what it ate wasn’t fish, rather human flesh.

Hua Bao Xia weakened day by day, she didn’t know who those two people who carried her here that day was, and she didn’t know how far away this place was to the Hua residence. She had thought about secretly running away, but not having gone far she had heard the roar of a tiger in the mountainous forest, it didn’t matter how far she ran, the black bear would still be able to find her.

She was a smart woman, she considered how weak her body was, and the dangers of the mountain forest, she knew for the moment she was unable to leave. Luckily, she had gotten to know clearly the bear’s character.

If the bear got angry, she would immediately act dead, completely able to escape a calamity. During the time she spent in the mountain, she did not make any progress, apart from perfecting the art of pretending to be dead. The black bear had just raised its claw the sound of `ao----` did not even spread throughout the cave, she had already `aiya` made her body limp, closing her eyes, holding her breath.

As time passed, the black bear appeared to find it amusing as well, from time to time raising both claws flashing his teeth, back facing the mouth of the cave, huge body blocking any light, towering above with teeth, Hua Bao Xia immediately became frail and soft unable to wake up. Afterwards that black bear lovingly pick up that woman pretending to be dead and sat on hay spread out as a bed, puffing out its chest, putting the woman on its belly, one hand holding her waist, another hand forcing down her shoulders, snoring it began to sleep.

Xia Fen was a child, very forgetful. One day, he then suddenly thought he had not blocked that vixen’s path for quite a while, where did the other person go?

Xiao Bai was very busy, under pressure from the heavy workload. Ever since Lord Wang found out it was Xiao Bai who had misguided Xia Fen, he `loved` him specially, making him so busy his feet did not touch the ground. For this reason, the idle Hei Zi also gradually forgot to ask, if Lady Hua’s `innocence` was given to the bear or to the tiger?

Misunderstanding is beautiful, the Wang family was good-hearted!

Utter rubbish, to the numerous influential families and officials in Zhuozhou, Wang Yun Feng was a well-groomed beast!

After all the merchants filled with confidence had discussed suitably the distribution of benefits for the disaster reconstruction, after all the officials took back the accounts books of their receipt of bribes, and after all the influential families also agreed and signed a series of mutually beneficial clauses, the court issued an order, recalling Wang Yun Feng back to Beiding city.

All the influential, rich and powerful people in Zhuozhou, broke the plates in their hands to pieces on that day.

Wang Yun Feng you scoundrel who is even more savage than a wild beast, you played with us!

They had fought with him in a major struggle for three months, unexpectedly just before the battle the general changed, all the efforts was irrevocably lost, flowing with the tide and dissipating. They needed to to once again assign benefits with the new official, once again go through the crucial points. It is said that, the person taking over Wang Yun Feng’s position, is even more honest than Wang Yun Feng, even more stubborn, an uncorrupted person even more devious and crafty.

The corrupt officials unanimously shouted: they hate the uncorrupted to death!

In any event, Lord Wang’s family was finally sitting in a carriage, swaying all the way home.

They forgot Lady Hua placing her in the back of their heads, they did not look at the distant mountain top, a bear holding a woman standing straight gazing into the distance, looking at that neat and tidy procession of carriages leaving Zhuozhou’s territory.

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[1] Meaning `stupid` in this sense.

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T/N: I was not expecting that O.o