"Wife, I want to eat meat” 《娘子，我要吃肉》Chapter 79

Wang Zi Feng walked around the house several times, touching the all around the walls, fragments of sand and stones with dried mud stuck to his hands, there was a little pain like having been pin cushioned.

He lifted his head to look at the roof, it was very high, it was somewhat difficult to use the walls to jump up there, this room was like an atrium, there was only one small window, the dark night penetrated through, no starlight could be seen, just like the future he was about to face, pitch-black without hope.

“And not know whether or not he would survive.” Wang Zi Feng subconsciously mumbled. 

There was no one else in the room, he simply did not know he was talking to himself.

At noon he was tied up and brought here, taken away from his dad’s severe and cold gaze. Before he left, he heard his dad say to that blind man who had suddenly appeared: “None of you are allowed to touch a single hair on him.”

Wang Zi Feng had a dim impression of that blind man, he had seen him at Xian Yun manor, many people respected him. Wang Zi Feng at that time was fearless, and had sought the other person out to compete in martial arts, he seems to be called Jiu Fang Xi?

Wang Zi Feng couldn’t remember much, but his father Wang Yun Feng was fairly afraid of the other person. Since when Jiu Fang Xi had suddenly appeared in their restaurant room, his dad no longer had any kind of emotion, like many, many years ago, the expression when the father and son first met.

Indifferent, estranged, not a single thought of his could be made out. But Wang Zi Feng knew relying on his wild animal instincts, all the muscles in his father’s body was tensed like a drum, this thin and weak yet strong man used his own power to stop Jiu Fang Xi from sizing Wang Zi Feng up.

That blind man had no eyes, but his entire body emitted a feeling like it was his eyes, able to see clearly and distinctly everyone inside their room. Wang Zi Feng thought he could smell blood, this smell of blood was the aura of death of someone who could only have rolled about in a pile of corpses all year round, this Jiu Fang Xi was a person who used the blood of living people to bathe, it’s reckoned those who act against him would become the corpse beneath his feet.

At that time Wang Zi Feng’s blood vessels were immediately stimulated, something was hidden inside him, blood-thirsty, a reckless ferocious animal tore at his heart, wanting to rush out to decide who was superior with that Jiu Fang Xi.

His father was blocked in by two people on his sides, noiselessly struggling with Jiu Fang Xi for a very long time, finally allowing Wang Zi Feng to leave the restaurant by himself.

Wang Zi Feng knew, this was a way of survival won by Wang Yun Feng for him. Even though it wasn’t necessary, what he needed was to charge in and recklessly behead the enemies, he was very unsatisfied.

Before he left his hands clutched on to the door frame rigidly, staring at this father.

Wang Yun Feng threw him the coldest glance, coldly saying: “Fen Er, leave here, kill everyone who stands in your way.”

Wang Zi Feng was eager: “You won’t scold me, won’t hit me.”

There appeared to be a trace of bitter smile at the corner of Wang Yun Feng’s mouth: “Son, remember, the necessary requirement for me to scold and hit you, you need to stay alive.”

Wang Zi Feng glanced at Jiu Fang Xi: “Then can I kill him?”

Wang Yun Feng stood motionlessly on the spot.

The sun on the Dragon Boat Festival was already very hot, coming through the horizontal bamboo hanging screen, cutting up the person’s body into numerous light and dark strips. The brightest strip in the room was on the blind person’s Jiu Fang Xi’s eyes, the darkest strip was on that little spot in the pit of Wang Yun Feng’s stomach. With this sentence, the two people on the roof held their breaths, all the people outside also gasped for breathe deeply, a struggle could happen at any moment.

Wang Zi Feng licked the corner of his lips, both hands hanging down, a kind of position appearing to be doing nothing but in fact at any time could strike out. Under his long gown, his pair of knees sunk down a little, one foot outside the door, one foot inside the door, his eyes sharp and slightly golden reflecting the sunshine, like a wild animal.

Wang Yun Feng suddenly smiled, his face with the sun at his back became increasingly gloomy until it was at its gloomiest: “Foolish son, there’s no way of surviving here for you. Go, don’t make dad say it twice, and don’t always be so incorrigible.”

Wang Zi Feng pursed his lips, seeing that blind man was unconcerned, then did he slowly walk out.

The door, in a flash was closed.

Outside the room, stood an upright and straightforward Zhuang Hei Zi.

Wang Zi Feng forgot to ask: “Killing mother’s old friend, is also not a problem?”

Sadly, Wang Yun Feng would not give him an answer.

The beast inside Wang Zi Feng again hibernated after leaving the room, he calmed down, alone following Zhuang Hei Zi he left the restaurant, leaving the bustling dragon boat competition. He was too quiet, that’s why no one suspected.

Zhuang Hei Zi knocked him unconscious half way, again waking up he was here in this oddly lofty, four blank walls room.

He had hit all around the walls, there was only an echo from one wall, indicating there was a hidden room, or another room, only at this moment he could not find the switch.

And not knowing when it was, that heavy metal door was opened, someone threw two plump things in, rumbling they rolled to his feet.

Those things got up, one was the crown prince Gu Qin Tian, one was the young princess Shang Jin.

Three children, six eyes, looking at each other.

The crown prince raised his hand in greeting: “So you’re also here.”

The young princess had already patted her clothes and sorted out her clothes, setting her hair bun right: “There’s only three of us, is there anyone else?”

Wang Zi Feng asked: “How did you get here?”

“We were tied up.” The young princess said, already familiarly starting to look around their surroundings, in this dark place, the greatest source of light was the gold sparkling necklace on the young princess’s neck.

“Elder brother invited us to watch the dragon boats, on the way we were separated. On our way back we were besieged on, the forbidden guards are dead, we came here.” The crown prince finished speaking and shrugged his shoulders, “I wonder if my two brothers are still alive.”

The young princess smiled yet not a smile looking at him.

The crown prince spread out his hands: “Fine, maybe, this was all premeditated. My two elder brothers may still be rampantly arrive, perhaps have returned to the palace at an earlier time, to complain to emperor father and empress mother, saying I only wanted to have fun and had disappeared.”

The young princess reached out her hand to poke the crown prince’s forehead with all her strength, poking the crown prince so hard his head rocked back and forth, his whole body almost like a roly-poly toy.

Wang Zi Feng couldn’t put up with it any longer, suddenly helping the young princess by pushing him once, the crown prince hit the ground with a bang, crying out sorrowfully: “You bully me together! Seeing I’m on my own you think I’m easy to bully? Believe that if I die you will have a good life?”

Wang Zi Feng simply did not know where the unfathomable fury came from, the young princess actually knew, laughing she said: “You’re two elder brothers are very stupid, maybe they have been exploited by others.”

The crown prince smiled, with a trace of sinister evilness: “Maybe they are also using someone to do their dirty work, eager for someone to kill us, they just sit to gain from others work.” He thought about it, turning around he jumped up, patting the dust off his clothes: “Forget it, I’m used to it. It’s better for us to think about how to get out of here.”

As he spoke, that wall with an echo slowly lifted up, exposing a cage behind it. The cage was somewhat familiar, the three children were even more familiar with the thing inside the cage.

“It’s the lion.” The young princess’s eyes glowed, almost rushing head first over, the crown prince had already held her back: “Slow down, something’s wrong”

The lion had clearly been caged for a very long time, it was slightly lazy, lying inside the cage weakly and without strength. When he saw the three children, that wild animal actually got up, slowly walking to the cage opening. His head knocked against it, the cage door actually opened up just with that knock.

The crown prince pulled the two children back a few steps, watching the lion salivating with its bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl: “It must be hungry.”

“Moreover its been starved for a very long time, exactly the same as when my Tibetan mastiff was starved for three days and three nights.” The young princess said in hindsight, “it wants to eat us!”

The crown prince wordlessly rolled his eyes, Wang Zi Feng subconsciously searched around everywhere, wanting to find a weapon close to hand, sadly there was nothing here.

The lion was completely aggressive staring at them, the sole of its paws soundlessly touched the ground, heading drooping down slightly deep, this made the children shiver uncontrollably.

The young princess first showed her teeth: “I, I’m a beautiful girl, you, you need to protect me.”

The crown prince look at her in disdain: “I’m still the heir to the throne, you first feed it until it’s satisfied, then it might not eat me.”

Wang Zi Feng tilted his head, deciding to also be a little selfish, muttering: “I’m the youngest.”

The two big and small children in front of him together turned their heads, `pei`: 

“Shameless.”

Wang Zi Feng felt he had been treated unjustly, aren’t they the ones who are shameless, how did it become himself: “You are very hateful.”

“You’re the most hateful!” The two honourable incomparable big and small children also spat at him.

The three people unwittingly had withdrawn into the corner of the walls, the lion stopped three paces before them, as if considering which of the mischievous children out of luck would best to bite first.

The young princess was already trembling from head to toe: “What, what to do?”

The crown prince pulled on the jade pendent at his waist, with a light sound, there was actually a secret box inside: “I only have five poison needles. It is too big, the toxicity may not be enough.”

The young princess clenched her teeth, pulling out the gold pin from her hair, pulling apart one of the prongs: “I have poison, antiaris toxicaria, but how do we make it eat it?”

The crown prince said: “It can take a bite of you, we’ll throw it in.”

The young princess grinded her teeth: “Your flesh is the most tender, it’s best to eat you.”

Wang Zi Feng had already noiseless drew out a flexible double-edged sword, this was a gift his father had given him, he had always worn it next to his skin hanging from his waist. 

Under a circumstance without a weapon, even though he didn’t like the flexible sword it can face a struggle.

The crown prince handed the concealed weapon to the young princess, taking Wang Zi Feng’s flexible sword: “I’m better at the sword than you, I’ll do it.” Saying this he placed Wang Zi Feng behind him.

Wang Zi Feng stared blankly, looking at the short figure in front of him. The young princess also stood by the crown prince’s side, figuring out the opportunity to attack with him

The lion’s front paw scratched the ground in front of it, very impatient. It had indeed been starved for several days, it already didn’t have any trace of patience, it also did not have much strength, it directly leaped up, pouncing at the crown prince who looked the most delicious.

The young princess rolled from her spot, moving to the side. The crown prince resisted the lion with the sword, Wang Zi Feng who was behind him simply jumped without the slightest thought, directly flying over the back of the crown prince to behind the lion, with one hand he grabbed its tail. The lion was angry, turning around to pounce on him.

The crown prince’s flexible sword was very good to use, the young princess was waiting for the right time all along, two silver needles already wedged between her fingertips, Wang Zi Feng was very nimble, holding the lion’s tail he ran and leapt about, like a monkey bullying a lion.

The two boys often competed with people in martial arts, regardless if it was at the Xia residence or the palace, there would be a sparring partner, and on top of that the martial arts experts at the academy and amongst the people, the two children had ample experience in sparring. The young princess also did not have a delicate temper, when she was in her Prince father’s territory she would already pick fights with people on the main streets, not scared of whoever acting like an overlord, coming to the Imperial city, she also spent quite a lot of time bullying people with the crown prince. Dragging it on for a few moments, the three children slowly had a mutual understanding, their former experience facing enemies also made them be a little bit less afraid, seemingly if they rely on each other they will definitely survive.

The people outside strained to hear the sound of activity in the room, once in a while the cry of fear from a child could be heard, as well as the loud roar of the lion, every person controlled their legs from weakening. Usually they were in charge of the lion’s food and drink, they had a profound fear of the lion’s sharp teeth and sharp claws.

All of them were certain, the three children would not survive.

The smell of blood gradually emitted from the room, those guarding outside the room listened against the wall for a while, each one rubbing the goose bumps which had appeared on their bodies, looking at each other, everyone saw the alarm from each other’s eyes. However, they weren’t going to say anything, they were already used to using the method of destroying the body and obliterating the evidence, numb, even if this time it was three innocent children inside…

When Luo Luo quietly came with a food basket, she appeared to be somewhat depressed. 

One of the guards puzzled smiled and said: “Lady Luo why are you here?”

Luo Luo lowered her head: “Everyone is very busy, I’m the only one idle, that’s why I want to help by doing something within my power.”

The guard took the basket from her hands, there was a very uncommon chicken leg inside: 

“There’s also wine!” Another guard called out, “Thank you for Lady Luo’s generosity, there’ll be extra food tonight.”

Luo Luo smiled drily, her eyes falling onto the key hanging on the guard’s waist, noncommittally she nodded: “Enjoy your meal, I still need to deliver food to other people.” She took two steps forward, seeming to hear the blood-curdling screech of a girl, he entire shoulders trembled: “Inside is there…someone?”

The guards raised their heads from the chicken leg, looking at each other, one person laughed heartily: “How can that be, the lion king is trapped inside, we just fed it, it must be very happy. You don’t know, when that wild animal chews on bones, the creaking noise is as scary as a ghost, not less people, even a tiger would not dare to approach it.”

Luo Luo dubiously looked at the sturdy wall, pulling at the corners of her mouth she reluctantly said “That’s true”, not saying any more, she walked round the corner of the room, quietly standing where no one was motionless for quite a while.

The sky was completely dark, starlight simply could not be seen, there wasn’t even wind.

Luo Luo stood there soullessly for a while, again when she regained her senses she saw that familiar figure walking over from the door. She was a little flustered, it was not good to continue hiding, yet she didn’t dare to leave, she could only pretend to have been passing by, kneading her handkerchief she came out, calling out in a whisper: “Brother Hei Zi.” 

Pausing, her mouth opened several times, unable to spit out another word.

Not knowing since when, she already did not know how to speak with Zhuang Hei Zi 

properly, speaking loudly and laugh, act like a child openly and without fear. Most of the time she stood silently behind him or five steps beside him, watching his body shining with warm sunlight or starlight, her heart soured in distress.

Sadly, Zhuang Hei Zi was even more quiet, this was a maturity which saw through this mortal life. He only paused in front of her for a while: “What are you doing here?”

Luo Luo relying on her feeling that something was wrong, tears hung on the corner of her eyes unseen: “No, nothing.”

“Then don’t linger here, go back to your room.”

Luo Luo was still not ready to move, Zhuang Hei Zi deeply `en-----` once, Luo Luo’s shoulders subconsciously trembled, leaving far away under the gaze of Zhuang Hei Zi, returning to her own room.

Closing the door, the door opened again, more than an hour passed, Luo Luo under the heavy darkness once again left. What she didn’t know was, the darkness was also alive, with a movement, those shadows also noiselessly drifted along, sometimes close, sometimes far, like they were stuck onto her back.

The side courtyard was already completely quiet, the two guards at the door were lying on the ground, the remaining wine in the wine pot also stained the ground, a sticky puddle.

Luo Luo with the tips of her fingers and standing on tiptoe took the key from the guard’s waist, several times she couldn’t open the lock. She irritably swung her hands, looking left and right, again trying once more, finally she opened it.

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T/N: Quite a long chapter but it's building up to the final chapter tomorrow ^_^