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    Quote Originally Posted by smurf120 View Post
    "That's right," Wei Xiaobao said, "Pang Dashi [great master fat] is experienced and knowledgeable, you know about Zhenwu Sword Formation. At that time those thirty-six swords surrounded the young mistress, the swords flickered that even water could not splash through. The young mistress had a child in her left hand, her right hand was unarmed ..."

    The Fat Toutuo was greatly amazed. "She fought Wudang Pai with a child in her left hand?" he asked.

    "What's so strange about it?" Wei Xiaobao said, "Actually, she was carrying two little babies, both were boys, they were very fat ..." He deliberately exaggerated the martial art skill of the young mistress of the Zhuang family, so he doubled the number of child in her arm. He said, " ... with her mouth she was soothing the babies: 'Two sweet babies, don't cry, watch your mama doing some tricks', while seizing the swords in those thirty-six priests hands and sealed those priests' acupoints, so that all of them were frozen in place, just like clay Bodhisattva, without able to move at all. Carrying the babies, the young mistress let them grab the old priests' beard. The old priests stared in anger, but the two babies were laughing very happily."


    I almost fell out of my chair! LOL!
    This totally reminds me of the scene in Tropic Thunder where Ben Stiller's character is crazy and rambolike then fights evil aliens with 4 babies strapped to him! hahahah!!!
    LOL....."Who left the fridge open?"

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    Default Chapter 19 - Part 1

    Smurf, KChill, what movie was that? Ace, I'll make the correction. Thanks.

    Got some time this past weekend, enjoy!


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    Chapter 19 – Nine divisions[1] amass metal to be cast in a row, hundred-gold set up timber to provoke a flock of devils.
    (Translated by Foxs)

    The eighteen Shaolin monks, along with Wei Xiaobao and Shuang’er, went down the Jin Xiu Peak. Cheng Xin returned the sutra to Wei Xiaobao; he asked, “Will Benefactor return to Beijing immediately?”

    “Yes,” Wei Xiaobao replied.

    Cheng Xin said, “I received Yulin Dashi’s request to escort Benefactor until you arrive safely to the Capital.”

    Wei Xiaobao was greatly delighted, “That’s wonderful,” he said, “I was worrying that that bamboo-pole toutuo is not willing to give up and thus will come again to give me trouble. But if you all come with me, will someone protect Xing Chi Dashi?”

    “Benefactor may set your heart at ease,” Cheng Xin said, “Yulin Dashi has other arrangement.”

    Now Wei Xiaobao was in complete admiration toward the old monk Yulin. He was always sitting in meditation with his eyes closed, so much so that he would not even care if the sky collapsed, but without a word or movement, he had made appropriate arrangement for everything in secret. With the Shaolin’s Eighteen Lohan escorting him, there was no danger whatsoever along the way. Not only the tall and thin Fat Toutuo did not appear, they did not even meet a single Wulin character along the way.

    One day they arrived outside Beijing. The eighteen Shaolin monks bade their farewell to Wei Xiaobao. Cheng Xin said, “Benefactor has arrived at the Capital, the old monk and my brothers say our goodbye to return to our temple.”

    Wei Xiaobao said, “All the great monks have bore suffering to escort me to this place, I … I really can’t thank you enough, please accept my deepest respect.” While saying that, he kneeled down to kowtow.

    Cheng Xin busily helped him up, saying, “Along the way, Benefactor has treated us very well. From Shanxi to Beijing we were roaming the mountain playing on the water [i.e. going on a scenic tour], where is the suffering?”

    What happened was that as soon as they left Mount Wutai, Wei Xiaobao immediately hired nineteen large carriages. He and Shuang’er rode on one, each one of the eighteen Shaolin monks rode on one carriage. He ordered Yu Ba, on a fast horse, to go ahead of them, a day in advance, to arrange the lodging along the way, preparing tea, delicacies, vegetarian dishes, etc. Everything was top-notch. On each place they stopped, Wei Xiaobao always splurged on tips, so that the shopkeeper and the attendants treated the eighteen Shaolin monks as if they were deities Bodhisattva. Shaolin monks exercise self-control and lead ascetics life, they do not seek after these food and drink, but seeing Wei Xiaobao treated them with respect and looked very sincere, inevitably they were quite happy. Although Wei Xiaobao was glib-tongued, his natural disposition was friendly, easy to make friends, and contrary to what one might expect, he was sincere towards his friends. Along the way he chatted with the monks and got along very well with them. Now that suddenly they have to say good-bye, his heart ached and he could not stop the tears from flowing down.

    “Shanzai, shanzai! [good, peace]” Cheng Xin said, “Why is young benefactor grieving? If there’s karma, another day you can visit us at Shaolin Temple and we can chat.”

    With a sob Wei Xiaobao said, “Indeed I must come.”

    By the time Cheng Xin and the other monks had left and they entered the city, it was already late in the evening, hence it was inappropriate to enter the Palace. Wei Xiaobao went to a large inn at the Xizhimen[2] district, the ‘Ru Gui[3] Inn’. He asked for the best room, planning to spend the night there, and see Kangxi the next day, to report everything. He thought, “That thin and annoying Fat Toutuo is desperate to get his hand on my sutra, maybe he is still following me in secret. The eighteen Shaolin monks have already left, if he came back to get it by force, Shuang’er and I would not be able to stop him. I had better work a little bit to hide the sutra first. Tomorrow when I get to the Palace, I can take a large group of Imperial Bodyguards here to get it, then present it to the young emperor. This is called ‘not one in ten thousand failures’ [wan shi wu yi]!”

    Thereupon he ordered Yu Ba to make preparation and sent Shuang’er out of the room, bolted the door and closed the window, before making sure that the Fat Toutuo was not peeking outside. And then he wrapped the sutra in oilcloth, pulled the table, took out his dagger, and cut a hole on the brick floor underneath the table. The dagger was able to cut iron like mud, naturally it could cut mud effortlessly. After putting the sutra inside the hole, he put the brick back and mixing ash and water, he spread the paste over the brick slit. When the paste was dry, no one would ever find it unless one was deliberately looking for it.

    Early in the morning the next day, he ordered Yu Ba to hire a carriage, he wanted to take Shuang’er for a sumptuous light breakfast first. He wanted to spend a lot of money to let this little servant girl broaden her outlook. Afterwards, he needed to buy a set of eunuch clothes and hat before entering the Palace. But buying eunuch clothes and hat in the marketplace was not really easy. If he could not buy one, he thought he would wear Imperial Bodyguard uniform and a yellow Magua on top of it, then he would look very impressive as he swaggered into the Palace. Wouldn’t it be interesting to see the Imperial Bodyguards and the eunuchs’ dumbstruck expression when they see him? After all, his Deputy Chief of Imperial Bodyguards was bestowed personally by His Majesty, was it not? He said in his heart, “With this idea, why would I toil myself to become an eunuch? That’s it, Laozi will enter the Palace wearing the yellow Magua.”

    With Shuang’er he climbed into the carriage, bent his tongue, and spoke in Beijing accent, “We’ll go to the ol’ Kuixing [the great bear constellation] Shop in Xidan[4] first. Their deep-fried sheep tail and mutton dumpling are not bad at all.”

    “Yes!” the carriage driver respectfully said.

    With a straight back Yu Ba sat by the carriage driver. “Hey,” he said, “In the Capital, even the mule is standing out from the masses, not even one of such a pitch-black mule with large eyes can be found within our Shanxi province.”

    As he returned to the Capital, Wei Xiaobao’s heart had a different feeling of self-satisfaction.

    After traveling for a while, the carriage suddenly went out of Xizhimen. Wei Xiaobao said, “Hey, we are going to Xidan, why are we going out of town?”

    “Yes,” the cart driver said, “I am sorry Daye [big master]! Xiao Ren’s mule is stubborn, when we reach the city gate, he always wants to slip out of town.”

    Wei Xiaobao and Shuang’er laughed. Yu Ba said, “Hey, in the Capital, even the mules are putting on official airs.”

    As the large carriage left the city gate, it travelled straight to the north. After about a li, it still had not turned back. Wei Xiaobao knew something was amiss; he said sternly, “Driver, what trick are you playing? Quickly go back!”

    The driver repeatedly said yes, he shouted, “Go back, mule, hu, hu, mule, go back!” The cart driver lashed his whip randomly, but the mule forcefully ran to the north, it bolted faster and faster. The cart driver cursed, “Damn it stinky mule, I told you to go back! Mule, stop, stop! Your granny’s bastard mule!” His shout became more and more urgent, but how could the mule be willing to stop?

    Right this moment, there was sound of horse’s hoof, two riders from the side rushed over and rode close to the mule carriage. The riders were two tall and sturdy men. In a low voice Wei Xiaobao said, “Make your move!”

    Shuang’er leaned forward and stretched out her finger to poke the middle of the cart driver’s back. His body swayed, he fell down from the carriage with a loud cry, and was trampled by the rider head on. The rider flew up and landed on the carriage driver’s seat. Shuang’er stretched out her finger again. The man turned his hand around to catch her wrist. Shuang’er flipped her palm and slapped his face. The man parried with his left palm, while trying to grab her shoulder with his right hand.

    The two of them exchanged eight, nine moves, while the mule was still running fast. The rider on the left called out, “What happened? Why are you still playing?”

    ‘Bang!’ the man on the carriage got hit by Shuang’er right palm on the pit of his stomach, he fell down. The other man raised his whip to strike. Shuang’er reached out and caught the whip and in one fluid motion wound it around the carriage. The mule carriage was rushing forward, the whip was pulled, the man was immediately thrown down from the horse that he hastily let go of the whip and let out a loud ‘wah wah’ cry.

    Shuang’er picked up the reins. She did not know how to drive a cart, so she handed it over to Yu Ba and said, “You drive the cart.”

    “I … this I can’t,” Yu Ba said.

    Wei Xiaobao jumped onto the driver seat, and took over the taut rope; he did not know how to drive cart either, but he imitated the cart driver’s ‘mule, mule’ calls, left hand loosened the reins, right hand tightened it, just like riding a horse. As expected, the mule turned around; where had the stubbornness gone?

    They heard another sound of horse’s hoof, a dozen or more riders rushed over. Wei Xiaobao was greatly alarmed, he pulled the mule that the cart swerved in an oblique angle. The riders also turned their horse to pursue from behind. The horses were fast, the carriage was slow, not too long afterwards, those dozen or so riders had surrounded the mule cart.

    Seeing each one of the horse riders was holding a weapon, Wei Xiaobao called out, “Under the bright sunny sky, near the throne of the Son of Heaven, you want to cut our way and rob us?”

    A man said with a laugh, “We are envoys to invite you to dinner, not to rob you. Wei Gongzi, our master is inviting you to drink several cups of wine!”

    Wei Xiaobao was startled. “Who is your master?” he asked.

    The man replied, “As soon as Gongzi see him, you will naturally recognize him. If our master is not Gongzi’s friend, why would he invite you to drink wine?”

    Seeing these men acted strange, Wei Xiaobao knew that most likely they were harboring ill intentions. “How can there be such invitation?” he called out, “Excuse me, let me pass!”

    Another man laughed and said, “Let you pass? We’ll let you pass, then!” Raising the saber in his hand, he chopped the mule’s head; the mule’s body swayed sideways and fell to the ground, pulling the carriage along with it. Wei Xiaobao and Shuang’er hurriedly leaped down. Shuang’er moved like the wind, it’s just that the enemies were on horsebacks, while she was short, so she could not reach the enemies. One by one she jabbed with her finger, if not the horse’ eyes, then the acupoints on those men’s legs. Instantly there was a clamor of horses neighing in confusion. Several men jumped down from their horses, they charged forward with brandished sabers. Shuang’er was extremely agile and nimble, poking to the east striking to the west, she knocked down seven, eight men. The remaining four or five men looked at each other in dismay, at a loss of what to do.

    On the main road a small carriage galloped over, a woman’s voice from the carriage called out, “We are on the same side, don’t fight!”

    As soon as Wei Xiaobao heard the voice, his heart blossomed and his anger subsided. “Aha!” he called out, “My wife is here!”

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    [1] Referring to administrative division of China during earliest dynasties, or ancient China.

    [2] Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing, the main northwest gate of Beijing.

    [3] Ru gui means ‘as if returning’.

    [4] Xidan neighborhood of central Beijing.

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    Thanks foxs.

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    "The dagger was able to cut iron like mud, naturally it could cut mud effortlessly."
    Should mud be brick?

    Thanks foxs!

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    Tropic Thunder is Ben Stiller movie - its basically parody about making a movie - it even has fake trailers! The baby one starts about 0:30

    http://www.cinemablend.com/new/tropi...ers-10770.html

    You should watch the movie - its hilarious!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tweety365 View Post
    "The dagger was able to cut iron like mud, naturally it could cut mud effortlessly."
    Should mud be brick?

    Thanks foxs!
    It's some kind of mud that hold the bricks together. There were no such thing as cement those days I think.

    In the north, where wood is scarce, dwellings and walls have traditionally been made of stone, tamped mud or sun-dried bricks reinforced with straw. In the south homes have traditionally been made with wood, brick or woven bamboo.
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    Thanks foxs!

    I wonder what the mysterious Monk Yulin's relationship with the 18 Shaolin Luohan is that he can ask them for such favors to become bodyguards. Nice that WXB became friends with them.

    And seriously those stories about the Zhuang Third Mistress fighting Wudang Pai with 2 babies in her arms is too ridiculous She's Shuang Er's martial arts teacher right? And WXB is making up nonsense about her being his godmother?

    Ah, I guess it's Fang Yi inviting WXB for tea. I wonder how she'll take to Shuang Er...

    And thanks athlonkmf, you're so resourceful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by foxs View Post
    The names Cheng Yaojin and Xu Maogong were deeply etched in his mind. Actually Xu Maogong was the great general of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Xu Ji, who shared the same fame as Li Jing[13], the (National) Duke of Ying Li Ji[14];
    Some additional info on Li Ji.

    His real name was Xu Shiji. Maogong was his courtesy name. Changed to Li Shiji by Gaozu of Tang, Li Yuan. Omitted the character 'shi' because naming taboo with Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin.

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    Shuang'Er is WAYY too good for WXB.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wuxiagurl View Post
    Thanks foxs!

    Ah, I guess it's Fang Yi inviting WXB for tea. I wonder how she'll take to Shuang Er...
    I suppose it'll be OK as she already admitted that they are on the same side.
    But I thought her side's people will not resort to violence to invite WXB for tea....right ?

    Something fishy here.
    Again, Shuang Er's terrific....

    Thanks Foxs....did not expect an update so soon as you were saying you're busy...
    cheerio..

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    the Shuang Er/Fang Yi meeting is hilarious (even in the minford edition )
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    Quote Originally Posted by wuxiagurl View Post
    Thanks foxs!

    I wonder what the mysterious Monk Yulin's relationship with the 18 Shaolin Luohan is that he can ask them for such favors to become bodyguards. Nice that WXB became friends with them.

    And seriously those stories about the Zhuang Third Mistress fighting Wudang Pai with 2 babies in her arms is too ridiculous She's Shuang Er's martial arts teacher right? And WXB is making up nonsense about her being his godmother?

    Ah, I guess it's Fang Yi inviting WXB for tea. I wonder how she'll take to Shuang Er...

    And thanks athlonkmf, you're so resourceful.
    actually, shuang'er is the third mistress's shi mei, as you'll find out after a while... (and a mean a while, like in the 5th book in the chinese edition)

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    Quote Originally Posted by crazee View Post
    I suppose it'll be OK as she already admitted that they are on the same side.
    But I thought her side's people will not resort to violence to invite WXB for tea....right ?
    Hmm, that's true, huh? Maybe the Mu Palace people were afraid that WXB was with the Imperial Palace people

    Quote Originally Posted by athlonkmf View Post
    the Shuang Er/Fang Yi meeting is hilarious (even in the minford edition )
    Ah, looking forward to that then. I know we talked about who should be considered WXB's first wife. That Mu Jianping is the first one WXB met and who probably fell for him first. But that Fang Yi is the first one that WXB sorta forced into being his wifey, plus she's Mu Jianping's Shijie, so they'd probably feel she should have seniority. Meanwhile Shuang Er is the first one who called WXB Xianggong. Now... what is the meaning of this Xianggong? Is this like Husband? Or is this Exalted Mister? Or it could be interpreted either way?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lzydude View Post
    actually, shuang'er is the third mistress's shi mei, as you'll find out after a while... (and a mean a while, like in the 5th book in the chinese edition)
    Ah, I see. Thanks for the tidbit. Just to put things in perspective, what book are we at now? It's quite hard for me to imagine a 13 yr-old being a martial arts (somewhat) expert. She must have such discipline and patience to do so, which seems unusual at this young age.

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    we are towards the end of book 2. each book has 10 chapters, with 50 in total. the part where it is revealed shuang'er and the third mistress are shi jie/mei is revealed in chapter 40 or 41

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    foxs. i got the images belonging to each chapter. You want me to post them?

    talking about these images:
    $this->handle_bbcode_img_match('http://i53.tinypic.com/14ju3kg.jpg')
    $this->handle_bbcode_img_match('http://i52.tinypic.com/25khkbn.jpg')
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    Quote Originally Posted by wuxiagurl View Post
    Meanwhile Shuang Er is the first one who called WXB Xianggong. Now... what is the meaning of this Xianggong? Is this like Husband? Or is this Exalted Mister? Or it could be interpreted either way?
    Xianggong can be translated as 'Young Gentleman'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ace High View Post
    Xianggong can be translated as 'Young Gentleman'
    And in this case the meaning would be more like "master". Or for the otaku between us "ご主人様/ goshujinsama" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay_restaurant
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    Quote Originally Posted by athlonkmf View Post
    And in this case the meaning would be more like "master". Or for the otaku between us "ご主人様/ goshujinsama" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay_restaurant
    Maybe "Young Master" would be best then?

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    Default Chapter 19 - Part 2

    Sky, you are welcome. wuxiagurl, I am with crazee here, if they did not have any ill-intention, why chopped the mule's head? Why brandished their sabers to chase? I don't think those people were from Mu Palace. Tweety, the original word was 'mud'. Smurf, I don't know what's wrong, but the link does not have any 'link' to any clip. Ace, thanks for the additional info. KChill, FYI, xianggong and gongzi and shaoye are all 'young master', hence my 'reluctance' to translate it. Athlon, those are the pictures from the book. I have no problem, and I see that you have already posted it. Or perhaps you have something else in mind? With the caption translated, perhaps? Tell you what, if you could help me translating the captions, I will create pdf just like Trilogy. Lzydude, chapter 40 and 41 is still a long ways away ...

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    Shuang'er and the men immediately stopped fighting. Shuang'er was greatly puzzled, she did not expect this xianggong had already had young mistress. But at that time, marrying too early was prevalent, it was not uncommon for a fourteen, fifteen years old man to get married, it's just that Wei Xiaobao had never told her that he had a wife.

    The small carriage arrived, from inside jumped a person, it was none other than Fang Yi. Wei Xiaobao was grinning from ear to ear, he stepped forward and pulled her hand, saying, "Good Jiejie, I miss you very much, where have you been?"

    Fang Yi smiled and said, "We'll talk about it later. Why did you fight each other?" She saw a lot of men were lying on the ground, the mule's blood splattered everywhere; she was quite stunned.

    A man bowed and said, "Miss Fang, we are here to invite Wei Gongzi for a drink, I suppose our manner was not satisfactory and we have offended Gongzi. If Miss Fang could invite him personally, it would be best."

    Fang Yi was amazed, "Did you knock these people down?" she asked, "Your martial art skill must have been increased a hundred-fold."

    "Even if I made progress, it wouldn't be this quick," Wei Xiaobao replied, "It was Miss Shuang'er who protected me. She is young, but her skill is prominent."

    Fang Yi turned toward Shuang'er. Noticing Shuang'er was about thirteen, fourteen years of age, with gentle and shy appearance, she did not believe her martial art skill to be this superior. "Meimei, what's your surname?" she asked. When she was at the Zhuang's house, she did not see Shuang'er at all, therefore, the two of them did not know each other.

    Shuang'er stepped forward, kneeled down and kowtowed, saying, "Your maid servant is Shuang'er, paying her respect to the Young Mistress." Wei Xiaobao burst out in laughter.

    Fang Yi was so embarrassed that her entire face turned red; hastily she dodged and said, "You ... what did you call me? I ... I'm ... not."

    Shuang'er stood up and said, "Xianggong said that you are his wife, your maid servant is serving Xianggong, naturally I am calling you Young Mistress."

    Fang Yi cast a vicious glance toward Wei Xiaobao; she said, "This man's mouth always talks nonsense, don't believe him. How long have you been serving him? Don't tell me you do not know his character by now. I am Miss Fang."

    Shuang'er showed a faint smile and said, "In that case I won't call you that for now, but someday I will."

    "Someday you will call me wh ..." Fang Yi started, but then she blushed again, and swallowed the last word 'what'.

    Shuang'er looked at Wei Xiaobao, he was having an immensely proud of himself expression on his face, suddenly Shuang'er also blushed. She remembered how at Mount Wutai he had also told the Fat Toutuo that she was his wife. Turned out he had this habit of calling young ladies his wives. So that when she heard him laughing and then asking, "How's my young wife?" Shuang'er did not think differently.

    Fang Yi cast him another malicious look; she said, "We have not seen each other for such a long time, as soon as we meet, you did not speak decent words, but act garrulously instead." Immediately she ordered the men to tidy up to continue on their journey. These men's acupoints were sealed by Shuang'er, they were unable to move a single step, hence Shuang'er had to release them one by one.

    Wei Xiaobao laughed and said, "If I had known that you are inviting me for a drink, I would have wished I could grow wings and fly to you."

    Fang Yi cast him another malicious look; she said, "You have already forgotten me, naturally you would have not thought that I am inviting you."

    Wei Xiaobao felt sweetness in his heart; he said, "How can I forget you? If I had known you are looking for me, let's not mention to drink wine, even if you want me to drink horse's pee or poison, I would willingly come, without the slightest delay."

    Fang Yi's pair of beautiful eyes gazed at him; she said, "Don't just say things that are good to hear, what if I really want you to go to the ends of the earth and drink poison?"

    Wei Xiaobao saw that when she said those words, her expression was like smiling, yet she was not smiling, under the morning sun she looked unspeakably gorgeous; he felt his whole body was comfortably warm. He said, "Let's not mention the ends of the earth, even go up the mountain of blades or go down a deep fryer, I would still go."

    "Alright," Fang Yi said, "A real man gave his words, some horses cannot chase it."

    Wei Xiaobao slapped his own chest and loudly exclaimed, "A real man gave his words, some horses cannot chase it." The two of them burst out in laughter.

    Fang Yi ordered a man to get a horse for Wei Xiaobao to ride, she let Shuang'er sit on her own little carriage, while she rode another horse and travelled side-by-side with Wei Xiaobao. Facing the morning sun, they let their horses gallop leisurely. The men followed behind them.

    Fang Yi said, "Your talent is really good, you managed to pick such a powerful flower, obtaining a servant girl with such superior martial art skill."

    Wei Xiaobao laughed and said, "What do you mean picking such a powerful flower? It was her who is most willing to follow me." Wei Xiaobao then asked about Mu Jianping, Xu Tianchuan and the others' whereabouts. "In that haunted house," he said, "You were captured by those Shen Long Jiao fellows. Afterwards, how did you escape? Was it the Third Mistress of the Zhuang Family who sent people to help you?"

    "Who's the Third Mistress of the Zhuang Family?" Fang Yi asked.

    "She is the master of the Zhuang house," Wei Xiaobao replied.

    Fang Yi shook her head, "Master of the Zhuang house?" she asked, "All along we did not meet anybody. Shen Long Jiao only want you, but they did not have any ill-intention toward you. When that Zhang Laosan failed to find you, he let us go. Xiao Junzhu and the others are ahead of us, very soon you will be able to see them." Turning her head toward him, there was a sullen look on her face as she said, "In your heart you only have Xiao Junzhu; we have only met for a short time, yet you have already asked about her seven, eight times."

    Wei Xiaobao laughed, "When did I ask you seven or eight times?" he said, "I have really suffered injustice. If I saw her but did not see you, by this time I would have asked her seventy, eighty times."

    Fang Yi smiled and said, "Even if you grew ten mouths, you would not be able to ask seventy, eighty times in such a short time. But knowing you, one mouth is more formidable than ten mouths."

    The two of them chatting and joking, in a short while they already travelled more than ten li, winding around Beijing's city wall, and went straight to the east. "Are we almost there?" Wei Xiaobao asked.

    Fang Yi looked hurt, "It's still far away," she said, "Even if you are anxious to see Xiao Junzhu, you don't have to be this impatient. If I had known it, it would have been much better to let her to come and pick you up, so that you wouldn't be deeply worried."

    Wei Xiaobao stuck out his tongue and said, "Henceforth I won't ask another word."

    Fang Yi said, "Your mouth won't ask, but your heart is anxious; you will make me angry even more."

    It appeared that her vinegar [jealousy] was getting thicker; the more Wei Xiaobao listened, the happier he was. He laughed and said, "If I have just half a part of anxiety in my heart, I am not your husband, but your son."

    "Pfft!" Fang Yi stifled her laughter; she said, "Good ..." her face turned red, she could not push the following word 'son' out of her mouth.

    They travelled until noon, when they arrived at a small town to take a rest before continuing their journey to the east. Wei Xiaobao did not dare to ask where they were going anymore, he realized they had left Beijing far behind, and that he would not have time to hurry back to the Palace to see Kangxi that day, but he thought, "Xiao Xuanzi did not tell me when I should be back anyway, I could be delayed on Mount Wutai, or was captured and detained by that Fat Toutuo. What's the harm in returning to the Palace several days late?"

    Along the way Fang Yi kept him company by having idle talks with him. When they were together in the Imperial Palace, although the two of them were in the same room, a third person, Mu Jianping, was also present, so that Fang Yi was quite reserved. This time they were riding slowly side-by-side, she was talking and laughing eagerly and attentively. The rest of their party were being tactful, they lagged quite far behind.

    Wei Xiaobao was at the stage of 'first awakening of love'. When he called her 'his wife' at the Palace, he was 60% joking, 30% being frivolous and taking advantage of her precarious situation, only 10% was being driven by faint attraction between opposite sexes. Today they met again after separation, seeing sometimes Fang Yi was annoyed and angry, sometimes she was talking and laughing tenderly, Wei Xiaobao could not help but was aroused by passion. He saw after riding for most of the day, her cheeks were flushed, tiny beads of sweat appeared on her face, she looked unspeakably dainty and cute. He could not help but staring at her with a blank expression on his face.

    Fang Yi laughed and said, "Why are you staring with blank expression like that?"

    "Good Jiejie," Wei Xiaobao said, "You ... you look really pretty. I think ... I think ..."

    "What are you thinking?" Fang Yi asked.

    Wei Xiaobao said, "If I tell you, you must not get angry."

    "If you are speaking properly, I won't get angry," Fang Yi said, "But if you are being indecent, naturally I will get angry. What are you thinking?"

    "I think, if you really become my wife, I don't know how much happier I will be," Wei Xiaobao said.

    Fang Yi cast him a sidelong glance with a wooden face, and then turned her head away. Wei Xiaobao anxiously said, "Good Jiejie, are you angry?"

    "Naturally I am angry," Fang Yi said, "I am a hundred and twenty percent angry."

    Wei Xiaobao said, "But nothing could be more proper than this, I ... I spoke very sincerely."

    Fang Yi said, "In the Palace, I have already made an oath; I will follow you for the rest of my life, I will serve you. Do you think that was real, or fake? By saying that, aren't you thinking to cease being faithful?"

    Wei Xiaobao was ecstatic; if not for the fact that both of them were on horsebacks, he would embrace her immediately and kiss her tender and beautiful, desirable face. Immediately he stretched out his right hand to pull her left hand, saying, "How can I cease being faithful? A thousand years, ten thousand years, I will never cease to be faithful."

    "You are clearly lying," Fang Yi said, "How can a man live for a thousand years, ten thousand years? Unless you are a turtle ..." When speaking the word 'turtle', she broke into laughter, and turned her head away, but she still let him holding her hand.

    Holding her soft, warm and tender palm, Wei Xiaobao's heart was bursting with joy. He laughed and said, "With you treating me this well, I will never be a turtle." When one's wife is having an affair with another man, then the husband becomes a 'turtle'; Fang Yi also understood this sense of pride.

    With a sweet face she said, "Not three sentences of good words, a dog's mouth will never grow ivory."

    Wei Xiaobao laughed, "If you marry a chicken follow the chicken, if you marry a dog follow the dog," he said, "If you wish to see your husband grow ivory in this lifetime, it will be very hard to come by." Fang Yi bent over the saddle in laughter, her left hand tightly gripped his palm.

    The two of them chatting and laughing all the way until evening, when they lodged for the night in a large inn in a rather large town. The next morning Wei Xiaobao ordered Yu Ba to hire a large carriage, so that he could ride with Fang Yi inside. The conversation between them was thick with passion. Wei Xiaobao embraced her waist and kissed her face. Fang Yi did not resist, but she categorically forbade him to overstep the boundary. In the matter between male and female, actually Wei Xiaobao seemed to understand, but not really understood, so far he was quite happy. His only wish was that the large carriage would never stop moving, so that he could sit embracing a beautiful woman [orig. jade person], traveling to the ends of the earth, and then turn around, and travel to the other ends of the earth, that the road under the heavens would continue forever; or even if it ends, what's the harm of going anywhere on foot?

    Every day they would travel until night fall, where they lodged for the night, and then the next morning they would continue their journey. His only fear was that Fang Yi would finally say that they had arrived. In the middle of this cozy surrounding, the Emperor's imperial order, the Forty-two-chapter Sutra, the Old Emperor on Mount Wutai, everything was pushed away to the back of his mind. In his daze, he did not know how many days had passed.

    Toward the evening one day, the carriage and the horses finally arrived on the ocean's shore. Taking his hand along, Fang Yi walked to the seaside and softly whispered in his ear, "Good Didi [younger brother], what do you say you and I board a ship, roaming the four seas, passing the days just like deities?" While saying that, she held his hand and rested her head on his shoulder.

    Her body was so soft that it felt like she did not have any strength. Wei Xiaobao stretched out his left arm around her waist, to guard against her falling down. He felt her silky hair brushing against his cheek, her waist was so soft and tender, shivering slightly. Although the thought of boarding a ship and sailing to the sea was a bit too overwhelming, plus he had a faint feeling that something was not right, but at this time this place, how could he bear to say this one word 'no'?

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    Tsk tsk, having a beautiful woman seducing him like this, even the great mind of a genius like WXB fails to work properly.

    Thanks foxs!

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