The Deer and The Cauldron

[foxs]

Gubrak, Sky, wuxiagurl, you are welcome. Athlon, I think you are right, when he first appeared, Jin Yong said he was about twelve, thirteen, and by this time of the story, at least a year has passed. Crazee, Smurf, those two girls were lurking around the temple for a month, I wonder what they did for a living ...

Short update, all I have amidst the busyness of packing our worldly possession.

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Chapter 23 - Scholars with innate talent have a lot of hobbies, the Lord made pictures to convey a message.
(Translated by Foxs)

Cheng Guan said, "If I want Shishu [martial uncle], the Senior and Jing Ji and the others, four people to go out and fight those two Nu Shizhu [female benefactor], to have them break your hands and feet. If they break your limbs really bad and cannot be cured easily, you will be crippled for life; won’t that be a pity? Moreover, if the two Nu Shizhu are too ruthless and unexpectedly kill the five of you, won’t that be dangerous?”

Wei Xiaobao was puzzled, “Why would you want us, five people, to fight?” he asked.

Cheng Guan said, “I am sure these are not the only move those two Nu Shizhu learned. Shizhi [martial nephew] does not know what other moves they have, naturally I cannot devise a technique to counter them. If the five of you do not go up to take a beating to test their moves, how can I investigate and find out?”

Wei Xiaobao roared in laughter. “So that’s how it is,” he said, “I have an idea: as long as you can fight with them, it won’t be a pity, and there won’t be any danger.”

Cheng Guan’s expression became awkward. “Those who left homes must not get angry,” he said, “We must not fight other people without rhyme or reason; that would be greatly inappropriate.”

“I got it!” Wei Xiaobao said, “The two of us can go out the Temple to take a walk. If the two Nu Shizhu have already gone far away, nothing could be better than that. This is called ‘if you don’t offend me, I won’t offend you’. Whatever other moves they might have, we don’t have to pay them any more attention.”

“Absolutely right, absolutely right!” Cheng Guan said, “But Shizhi has never gone out the Temple gate. As soon as go out deliberately creating trouble seems to be ill-will. When my master first taught me Buddhist teaching at the Luye Garden, he taught me about the Four Noble Truths and Eight-fold Noble Way. This ‘righteous intention’ is one of Eight-fold Noble Way …”

“We don’t need to go far,” Wei Xiaobao cut his discourse, “Just take a stroll around the Temple. It would be best if we do not meet them at all.”

“Exactly, exactly,” Cheng Guan said, “Shishu has a virtuous heart, unwilling to strife and struggle against other people, it could be considered ‘righteous intention’. Shizhi definitely must follow your example.”

Wei Xiaobao was secretly amused, taking along his hand, he went out Shaolin Temple via the side door. Cheng Guan had never seen even the forest by the Temple; seeing a vast stretch of pine trees, he could not help but clucking his tongue in amazement as he praised, “Those many pine trees grow together, it’s quite a spectacle. In our Bo’re Hall courtyard there are only two …”

Before he could finish, suddenly they heard female voice from behind, “The little bald thief is here!” Followed by white ray flashing, a steel saber chopped down on Wei Xiaobao.
Cheng Guan said, “This is the Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain from Five Tiger Breaking Gate’s Saber Technique.” Reaching out, he grabbed the saber using ‘grabbing blade from someone’ technique, but then he suddenly recalled that the move he used was from the ‘Picking Flower Grab and Capture’; which was too difficult to learn. “It won’t do!” he said, and hastily pulled his hand back.

The ‘one using the blade’ was precisely the woman in blue; seeing Cheng Guan withdrew his hand, she swiftly flipped her willow-leaf saber and swept toward his waist. Right this moment, the girl in green dashed out from among the pine trees and brandished her saber to chop Wei Xiaobao. Wei Xiaobao hastily dodged and hid behind Cheng Guan, thereupon the girl in green’s saber chopped down on Cheng Guan’s shoulder.

“This is Taiji Saber move,” Cheng Guan said, “There is no simple and easy way to neutralize it …” Before he finished speaking, the two women’s sabers attacked him together, the sabers swung faster and faster, Cheng Guan shouted, “Shishu, it won’t do, it won’t do! The two Nu Shizhu are moving too fast, I can’t … I can’t think fast enough. Please … please ask the two Nu Shizhu not to be impatient, ask them to chop slowly.”

The girl in blue sent out ruthless moves in succession, but all along she failed to chop the old monk, several times she almost had her saber snatched away by him. Hearing making such a big fuss, she thought he was deliberately mocking her. In her fury, she chopped even more violently.

Wei Xiaobao laughed and said, “Hey Miss, my Shizhi is asking you not to be impatient, to execute your moves slowly.”

“Exactly,” Cheng Guan said, “My brain is not that quick, I can’t think of this many way of neutralizing your moves in such a short period of time.”

The girl in green hated Wei Xiaobao to the bones; after several times trying to chop Cheng Guan to no avail, she swung her saber onto Wei Xiaobao. Cheng Guan stretched out his hand to block, while saying, “This Nu Shizhu, my Shishu has not learned the technique to neutralize this saber move of yours; don’t chop him now, wait until he has learned it and know how to block your move. It won’t be too late for you to chop him again. Ay, my moves won’t work. Shishu, forget everything you see, the moves I am using right now are quite useless. After we’re back, we will slowly think it over again.” While his mouth was prattling incessantly, his hands did not stop grabbing and snatching, poking and striking, tightly entangling the two girls; how could the girl in green kill Wei Xiaobao?

Seeing he was out of danger, Wei Xiaobao giggled happily as he leaned against a tree to watch the fight. His eyes feasted on the girl in green’s face, body, hands, feet, and back to her face again; he looked very satisfied and extremely happy.

When the girl in green did not see Wei Xiaobao anymore, she thought he had run away; when she found out that he was watching her closely, her face blushed. Without giving any thought to Cheng Guan, she turned around with raised saber and rushed toward Wei Xiaobao. Who would have thought that right this moment, Cheng Guan was aiming his finger toward her flank? He intentionally moved his finger slowly; she could have been able to evade it, but in her excitement to kill Wei Xiaobao, she was hit by the finger and fell down to the ground with a shriek.

“Aiyo!” Cheng Guan hastily said, “I am so sorry. The finger power behind Lao Seng’s [old monk] move, ‘laughing finger southern sky’, was not too formidable, Nu Shizhu must use one move from the Five Tiger Breaking Gate’s Saber called ‘vicious tiger blocking the road’. By slanting your saber slightly, you could have parried it. Although Nu Shizhu had not used this move, but that Nu Shizhu in blue had used it; Lao Seng thought that Nu Shizhu must also know how to use it; who would have thought … Ay, I have committed an offense, I have committed an offense.”

The girl in blue was fuming mad; her steel saber swept horizontally, swiftly and fiercely, but her martial art skill was much too inferior to Cheng Guan’s, all along she was unable to even touch the corner of his monk robe. Cheng Guan’s mouth was mumbling nonstop, he was trying to memorize all her moves. Since he was unable to find a simple and easy way to break her stances on the spot, he had no choice but to understand clearly her saber techniques, so that he could consider it in detail later.

Wei Xiaobao went toward the girl in green; he praised, “This kind of good-looking little beauty, throughout the world there’s only you, one person, tsk, tsk, tsk! Just by looking at you my soul is flying up to the sky.” Stretching out his hand, he lightly caressed her face.

The girl was shocked and angered, her breath failed to flow, she fainted immediately. Wei Xiaobao was startled; he no longer dared to be frivolous and reckless. Standing up, he called out, “Cheng Guan Shizhi, seal that Nu Shizhu’s acupoint as well; we’ll have her explain her moves slowly later, so that we won’t harm our friendship.”

Cheng Guan hesitated. “Don’t you think it will be rather bad?” he asked.

Wei Xiaobao replied, “By exchanging blows and kicks right now, it is already too unsightly. Asking her to talk is fairly more refined and in good taste.”

Cheng Guan was delighted. “Shishu is right, exchanging blows and kicks is not the ‘just way’.”

The girl in blue knew that as soon as this old monk went all-out, she would not be able to withstand even his single move or half a style. Right now her martial sister was captured; if she also fell into his hands, nobody would report their capture and ask for help. Thereupon she leaped back and called out, “If you harm a single strand of my Shimei’s hair, I will burn your Shaolin Temple to the ground.”

Cheng Guan was startled. “How can we dare to injure this Nu Shizhu?” he asked, “If she sheds a single strand of her own hair, are you going to set our temple on fire?”

The girl in blue had already rushed several steps; she turned her head around and cursed, “Old bald thief is oily-mouthed and smooth talking, little bald thief …” She was going to say ‘obscene, heretic and lecherous’, but felt it was inappropriate to say those four words. Stomping her foot, she disappeared into the forest.

[smurf120]

This scene is hilarious! Cheng Guan must seem so condescending to the girls!

[SkyWalker]

Thank you foxs. Good luck with the packing!!!

Cheng Guan is so naive!

[crazee]

Thanks Foxs,
Really wonder if the Green girl is worth the trouble. But as it is, there is no way out for XB. The 2 girls are bent on killing him I suppose.
Your mean it's 1 year later? Yeah, where on earth do they get money to eat or sleep ? They don't need to change ? If they do not bathe and change .....imagine the smell.....

Well that part of the story anyway, if every detail is to be explained, I supposed it'll be so boring......

[athlonkmf]

Thanks Foxs,
Really wonder if the Green girl is worth the trouble.

Apparantly she's worth to give up a whole country for

[smurf120]

I never understood WXB's fascination with Ah Ke until now...

So far he has been "locked up" at the monastery for months, no alcohol, no meat, no dice, too lazy for kung fu, and he's undergoing puberty with hormones raging when he first lays eyes on Ah Ke. He couldn't stand a chance....

[ah-gi]

What a great man! With all the packing and moving and you still found time to translate. Wow!

[foxs]

Smurf, are you saying that this was the first time his hormone was raging? How about Fang Yi earlier? Sky, thanks, I need it. Crazee, the girls were lurking for more than a month. But this story happened more than a year after WXB was introduced as a 12, 13-year-old boy at the beginning of the story. Athlon, is that a spoiler? Ah-gi, thanks, but I do need a break now and then, right? So I simply use my 'break' to do something useful, like maintaining my interest ... If I stopped too long, I might lose interest in continuing this story. I must say that I agree with some of you: this encounter with the girls is too long.

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Wei Xiaobao gazed on the girl in green lying on the ground, her white jade-like tender face on the green grass, her white jade-like pair of hands truly looked like the white jade image of Guanyin sitting on an emerald pedestal; he could not help but staring blankly at her.

Cheng Guan said, “Nu Shizhu, your Shijie [older martial sister] has left. You’d better go as well, don’t let a single strand of your hair falls, otherwise, your Shijie will come and burn our Temple.”

Wei Xiaobao thought, “Good opportunity must not be missed. Since this little beauty has fallen into my hands, whatever happens, I must not let her go.” Putting his palms together he said, “This is our Buddha’s blessing. Cheng Guan Shizhi, our Buddha wants you to expand Shaolin’s martial art study, to uphold our Pai’s thousand-plus years of martial prestige; you are indeed our Pai’s greatest contributor of meritorious service.”

Cheng Guan was puzzled, “Shishu, what are you talking about?”

Wei Xiaobao said, “We were concerned over what other moves those two Nu Shizhu might have. It is very fortunate that our Buddha has pity on us, by sending this Nu Shizhu to honor our Temple with her presence, so that she can explain everything one by one.” Finished speaking, he bent down to carry the girl and said, “Let’s go home.”

Cheng Guan was astonished and puzzled; he only felt that there was something greatly amiss in this matter, but what exactly was wrong, he could not tell. After a while he said, “Shishu, inviting this Nu Shizhu inside the Temple does not seem to follow the rule.”

“What do you mean not following the rule?” Wei Xiaobao asked, “Hasn’t she been in the Temple before? Fangzhang [Abbot] and Jielu Courtyard Head both said nothing was wrong, clearly it was in accordance with the rule, wasn’t it?”

The more he talked, the lower Cheng Guan hung his head; he only felt that each sentence cannot be disputed. He saw the little martial uncle took off his monk robe and wrapped it around the girl’s body, and carried her into the Temple via a side door. Cheng Guan had no choice but to follow behind him. He looked lost, his brain was in confusion.

Wei Xiaobao’s heart was pounding; although from head to toe the girl was covered by the monk robe and nothing was visible from the outside, but if any monk in the Temple saw them, unavoidably they would raise some suspicion. He was carrying a warm, fragrant, and tender jade, in his bosom, but in his heart he was afraid. Fortunately, Bo’re Hall was located in a secluded area at the back of the Temple; while he was hurrying toward the Hall, they did not meet any other monk.

When he entered the Hall, the monks on duty saw their grand-martial uncle personal visit, with their chief following behind him, they all stepped aside respectfully to let them pass. By the time they entered Cheng Guan’s meditation room, the girl had not regained her consciousness. Wei Xiaobao put her down on the couch. His hands were wet with cold sweats, he wiped his palms on the side of his legs and heaved a deep sigh. “There!” he said with a laugh.

“We are going to invite this … this Nu Shizhu to stay in here?” Cheng Guan asked.

“That’s right,” Wei Xiaobao replied, “This is not the first time she stays in the Temple. Previously, when her neck was injured, didn’t she stay at the Eastern Courtyard?”

Cheng Guan nodded. “Yes,” he said, “But … but that time it was to treat her injury, it was a matter of life and death; we did not have any choice but temporarily take care of her.”

“That’s very easy,” Wei Xiaobao said. Pulling the dagger from his boot, he said, “I only need to ruthlessly cut her once, so that her life will be in danger, and then we won’t have any choice but temporarily take care of her.” Finished speaking, he stepped toward her and raised his hand, poised to make a cut.

“No, no,” Cheng Guan hastily said, “That … that won’t be necessary.”

“Alright,” Wei Xiaobao said, “I will listen to you then. But you must not let anybody know. After she finishes explaining all kinds of moves and styles, we will quietly escort her out. Otherwise, I have no choice but to slash her.”

“Yes, yes,” Cheng Guan said, “I won’t say anything.” He only felt that this young martial uncle’s conduct was really strange; but recalling that he was his superior from the ‘Hui’ character generation, his knowledge and experience must be superior to his own. Listening to his order, he did not have the slightest inclination to question it.

“This Nu Shizhu’s temperament is strong,” Wei Xiaobao said, “She is determined to snatch the Bo’re Hall Chief position from you, I must advise her well.”

Cheng Guan said, “If she insists, Shizhi will let her have it, and that’s the end.”

Wei Xiaobao was taken aback; he did not expect this old monk to have a very simple character, without any desire to compete at all. “She is not a monk of our Temple,” he said, “If she took over the Bo’re Hall leadership, where would we put our Shaolin Temple’s face? If you harbor that kind of mindset, you are letting down Shaolin Pai.” While saying that, his expression was grim, so that even Cheng Guan was also scared into thinking that that was the truth.

“That’s right,” Wei Xiaobao said with wooden expression, “Get out now, wait for me outside, I must persuade her.” Cheng Guan bowed to comply, walked out of the meditation room, and closed the door behind him.

Wei Xiaobao untied the monk robe wrapped around the girl. The girl was about to scream when she saw a dagger, glittering like frost and snow, right in front of her nose. Her mouth was opened wide, but she did not dare to make any noise. Wei Xiaobao giggled and said, “Little Miss, as long as you obediently listen to me, I won’t harm a strand of your hair. Otherwise, I won’t have any choice but to cut your nose before letting you out of the Temple. When one lacks a nose, one can’t smell fragrance or stench, not a big deal, isn’t it?”

The girl was scared and angered at the same time; her face was devoid of any color even more. “Are you going to listen to me?” Wei Xiaobao asked.

The girl was extremely angry. “Quickly kill me,” she said in a low voice.

Wei Xiaobao sighed and said, “You have a countenance of a flower, face like the moon; how could I bear to kill you? Yet if I let you go, from now on day and night I will always miss you, and then I will die from lovesickness; that means I am spoiling the virtue given to me by the Heaven.”

The girl’s face turned red, but immediately turned back to white. Wei Xiaobao said, “There is only one way: I must cut your nose, then your appearance won’t be beautiful anymore, hence I won’t die of lovesickness.”

The girl shut her eyes tight, two drops of clear tear seeped through her long and beautiful eyelashes. Wei Xiaobao’s heart softened; “Don’t cry, don’t cry!” he said consolingly, “As long as you listen to me nicely, I would rather cut my own nose than yours. What’s your name?”

The girl shook her head, more tears flowed from her eyes. Wei Xiaobao said, “Oh, so your name is Yaotou Mao [shaking-head cat]; that’s not a nice name.”

The girl opened her eyes; with a sob she said, “Who’s Yaotou Mao? You are Yaotou Mao.”

Hearing her reply, Wei Xiaobao was ecstatic. “Alright,” he said with a laugh, “I am Yaotou Mao. Who are you, then?”

The girl angrily said, “I won’t tell you!”

Wei Xiaobao said, “Since you don’t want to tell me, I’d better give you a name. How about … how about Yaba Mao [mute cat]?”

“Rubbish!” the girl said, “I am not mute.”

Wei Xiaobao was sitting on a stack of books on Shaolin martial art, crossing his leg on top of the other, and was swaying gently back and forth. Seeing her angry look on her beyond-compare-beautiful face, his heart was excited. He laughed and said, “What is your honorable surname and your great name, then?”

“I said I won’t tell you, I won’t tell you,” the girl replied.

“I have something I’d like to discuss with you,” Wei Xiaobao said, “If you don’t have any surname and have no name, it’s going to be awkward. Since you are unwilling to tell me, I’ll have to give you one. Mmm, what name should I give to you?”

“I don’t want it, I don’t want it, I don’t want it,” the girl repeatedly said.

Wei Xiaobao laughed and said, “I got it! Your name is Wei Menyao[1].”

The girl was startled. “How quaint,” she said, “I am not surnamed Wei.”

Wei Xiaobao grimly said, “Emperor of Heaven above, Empress of Earth below, in all my life I will climb the mountain of sabers, or go down a deep fryer, to be cut into pieces, to be executed along with my whole family unto the third generation, committing heresy and treason, with dozen unpardonable evil crimes, let my sons be robbers, my daughters be prostitutes, let me be without sons without grandsons, beaten by the sky stricken by thunder, my entire body covered with 1001 big and deep boils, I must take you as my wife.”

Listening to him uttering that many heavy oaths in one breath, the girl was dumbfounded. But when suddenly she heard the last sentence, she could not help but blushing deep red. “Pei!” she spat.

Wei Xiaobao said, “I am surnamed Wei, and thus you are already decreed by fate to be surnamed Wei as well. I don’t know your surname, and you always shake your head, thereupon your maiden name is Wei Menyao.”

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[1] Orig. ‘Wei Menyao Shi’, shi – maiden name. Menyao –shaking/rocking the gate.

[crazee]

err...am I first,....I'm really the first one ??? Don't believe I'm first.....

Anyway, thanks for clarifying, 1 month, enough to make one stink!!! hah hah hah but maybe in those area ...cool and lots of natural streams to wash up.....

Yes! Foxs, Yes, you must not forget that this is your interest...( my interest is opposite...read what you write ) if you give up, many of us will be left wondering what XB will be up to next...... Thanks, thank a lot.....

[aliderhamy]

err...am I first,....I'm really the first one ??? Don't believe I'm first.....

Anyway, thanks for clarifying, 1 month, enough to make one stink!!! hah hah hah but maybe in those area ...cool and lots of natural streams to wash up.....

Yes! Foxs, Yes, you must not forget that this is your interest...( my interest is opposite...read what you write ) if you give up, many of us will be left wondering what XB will be up to next...... Thanks, thank a lot.....

let me know how it feels.

[tweety365]

WXB is a crazy stalker. Nowadays, he'll be slapped with a restraining order and/or shoved in jail . The girl in green is evil as well. WXB is a pervert, but he hasn't intentionally done anything to offend her. From the beginning to now, she and her martial sister are the caused of their own embarrassment. All 3 are annoying.

Thanks for the update, foxs. Hope all went well with your move and you are all settled in.

[SkyWalker]

Thanks much foxs.

[KChill]

WXB is a crazy stalker. Nowadays, he'll be slapped with a restraining order and/or shoved in jail . The girl in green is evil as well. WXB is a pervert, but he hasn't intentionally done anything to offend her. From the beginning to now, she and her martial sister are the caused of their own embarrassment. All 3 are annoying.

Thanks for the update, foxs. Hope all went well with your move and you are all settled in.

Agreed. "OMG...he stared at me!!!! He must die for the insult, or my virgin purity will never be the same!"

Thanks, Foxs!

[crazee]

let me know how it feels.

errr....Grrreat.....It's a little game we ppl play to liven up the forum.....

Do I get a prize ? Hope not a date with the green girl....might end up getting chopped for staring at her heh heh heh

[SkyWalker]

Do I get a prize ?

You get to read the next post of the translation!

Hope not a date with the green girl....might end up getting chopped for staring at her heh heh heh

If WXB got a date with her, he would gladly die a thousand times over!

[foxs]

Crazee ... finally! Congratulations on being No. 1. Ali, you are just being jealous. Sky, KChill, I don't think I want to be too close to those girls either. Too creepy for me. I'd rather look at them from a distance. Tweety, thanks for asking, we are leaving this Saturday, and will drive through Huntington Beach ... not really, I think I will take 210 to bypass downtown LA, going north.

Tentatively, this will be my last post until we arrive in Washington state, so don't expect anything for a week, maybe two. One more thing: the Jin Yong's Condor Trilogy site will be down until I can arrange to have it moved to my new ISP. I don't know when. If any of you want to download the files, please do so within these next few days.

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The girl shut her eyes and angrily said, “There has never been a crazy and unfounded ravings monk like you on the earth. You have left home, yet you want to take … take something … Aren’t you afraid Bodhisattva will punish you, when you die you will enter the eighteenth level of hell?”

Wei Xiaobao put his palms together and threw himself prostrate on the floor. When the girl heard the noise of him kneeling, her curiosity was piqued; she opened her eyes and saw him facing the window, kowtowing several times while saying, "My Tathagata Buddha, the merciful Buddha, Bodhisattva Guanyin, Bodhisattva Manjushri, Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, the Jade Emperor, Four Great Vajrapani, King Yama, the underworld judge, Little Demon Wuchang, please listen to me. I, Wei Xiaobao, simply must take this Miss as my wife. Even if after I die I will enter the eighteenth level of hell, have my tongue pulled out, my skull sawed, will not reincarnate for ten thousand years, it's not a big deal. When I am alive, I don't care about anything, when I am dead, I am not afraid of anything. Taking her as my wife has been decided."

The girl noticed how resolute and decisive he was [orig. 'chop the nail and slice the iron'], without the slightest hint of frivolous attitude; she knew he was not joking. She began to feel afraid and begged, "Please stop, please stop." After a brief pause, she said bitterly, "I don't care if you kill me or beat me every day. I hate you to the death, I will never ... will never comply."

Wei Xiaobao stood up and said, "I don't care if you comply or not, in brief or at length, from now on I will spend the next eighty years with you. Even if you have changed into a 100 year-old woman, if I don't succeed in taking you as my wife, I will not die with my eyes closed."

The girl angrily said, "You have disgraced me like this, there will come a day that you will die in my hands. I am going to kill you first before I'll kill myself."

Wei Xiaobao said, "You can always kill me, but that means you are committing a premeditated murder against your own husband. If I cannot be your husband, I won't die that easily." Speaking to this point, he could not stop his voice from trembling.

Seeing him gnashing his teeth with the blue vein on his forehead stuck out, the girl was scared and closed her eyes again. Wei Xiaobao wanted to take several steps toward her, but his entire body went weak, his hands and feet trembled, suddenly he had a strong urge to kneel down and prostrate himself in front of her, to plead with her sincerely; but as he took another step toward her, his throat emitted a low growling noise like a wounded beast, followed by a desire to strangle her to death.

As the girl heard the strange noise, she opened her eyes and saw the strange gleam on his eyes; she shrieked. Wei Xiaobao was startled; he withdrew several steps and sat down dejectedly, thinking, "In the Imperial Palace I called Miss Fang and Xiao Junzhu my first and second wife. We were laughing hee-hee ha-ha, so relaxed and unrestrained. When I wanted to embrace them I just embraced them, when I wanted to kiss them I simply kiss them. This little girl's acupoint is clearly sealed by the old monk, she is unable to move a single step; how come I do not dare to even caress her hand?"

He saw her beautiful and delicate hand was peeking underneath the monk robe; he only wanted to hold her hand gently, but he did not have any courage to do so, and could not help but swearing, "Hot piece mama!"

The girl did not understand; she stared at him. Wei Xiaobao's face blushed; he said, "I was cursing my own cowardice and uselessness; I wasn't cursing you."

"You disregard the law and natural morality, yet still saying that you are a coward," the girl replied, "If you are truly a coward, I should really thank the Heaven and thank the Earth."

As soon as he heard this, Wei Xiaobao's spirit soared. He stood up and said, "Alright, I want to disregard the law and natural morality. I want to strip you naked." The girl was so shocked that she almost fainted.

Wei Xiaobao walked near her and saw the deep hatred in her eyes; he said in his heart, "Forget it, forget it. I, Wei Xiaobao, am a turtle son of a b1tch. I surrender to you, I don't dare to make a move." In a gentle voice he said, "I have always been afraid of my wife since I was born. I will let you go."

Only now did the girl's fright diminished; but her anger flared up again as she said, "You ... in that town, what kind of rubbish did you tell those ... those bad women? You said my Shijie and I ... are ... are your ... whatever. You said we were going to seize you and take you back. You ... you are an evil man ..."

Wei Xiaobao laughed aloud and said, "What do those bad women understand? Later on, after I take you as my wife, the hundred thousand prostitutes of a thousand brothels in the world lining up in front of me, Wei Xiaobao won't even cast a glance with the corner of my eyes. From morning till night, from night till morning, twelve sichen a day, I will only have eyes for my beloved wife."

The girl said, "If you call me one more time as your ... your ... whatever, I will not speak to you again, ever."

Wei Xiaobao was greatly delighted; he hastily said, "Alright, alright, I won't call you out loud, I will only call you in my heart."

The girl said, "You must not call me in your heart."

Wei Xiaobao smiled and said, "I will secretly call you in my heart, you won't know it."

"Humph," the girl said, "How can I possibly not know? Looking at the weird expression on your face, I know you are calling me in your heart."

Wei Xiaobao said, "When Mama gave birth to me, my expression has already been weird like this. Most likely it was because ever since I was in my mother's womb, I have already known that in the future I am going to marry you as my wife."

The girl shut her eyes and no longer paid attention to him. Wei Xiaobao said, "Hey, I have not called you my wife, how can you ignore me?"

"You haven't?" the girl said, "You lie to my face. You said you were going to marry me as your ... whatever; that was it."

Wei Xiaobao laughed and said, "Alright, I won't say it. I was only saying that in the future I will be your husband ..."

The girl was extremely angry; she shut her eyes as tight as she could. Afterwards, no matter what Wei Xiaobao said to her, whether he was rambling incoherently or teasing her, she did not respond at all.

Wei Xiaobao was at a loss; he wanted to say, "If you ignore me, I am going to kiss your face." But as the word was at the tip of his tongue, he swallowed it back again, thinking that by coercing this fairy-like beauty, he would actually be profaning her. He sighed and said, "I only have one favor to ask you. If you tell me your name and surname, I will let you go."

"You deceived me," the girl said.

"I deceived a lot of people in the world," Wei Xiaobao said, "You are not the only one. This is called being a real man, whatever I say, dead horse cannot chase it. Little wife does not say anything, a live horse can chase it easily."

The girl was startled; "What dead horse cannot chase, a live horse can chase easily?" she asked.

"It's our Shaolin Pai's saying," Wei Xiaobao said, "In short, I am not deceiving you. Just think, I single-mindedly want your grandson to call me yeye [paternal grandfather]; if I deceived you today, your son won't call me Dad, and then where can I get the grandson?"

At first the girl did not understand his rambling about grandson, grandfather, etc. After thinking about it, she understood he was saying the same thing in a roundabout way. She said in a soft voice, "I don't want you to let me go, you have bullied me like this, I have already decided I don't want to live. Just kill me quickly with your blade!"

Wei Xiaobao saw the blade's scar on her neck was still new; a long red scar remained visible. Feeling deep remorse, he kneeled down on the floor, 'Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!' he knocked his head heavily in front of her. "I have offended Miss!" he said. With both hands he slapped his own cheeks heavily left and right more than a dozen times, his face immediately turned red and swollen. He said, "Miss, please don't be sad; Wei Xiaobao, this son of a b1tch, indeed deserves to be beaten!" Standing up, he opened the door and said, "Hey, Old Shizhi, I want to unseal this Miss' acupoints. How do I do that?"

Cheng Guan had been standing outside the door, waiting. His internal energy was deep, although Wei Xiaobao and the girl were talking in low voices, nothing escaped his ears. He only felt that the way this little martial uncle's 'persuaded' the female benefactor was a profound mystery. All those 'husband, wife, grandson, grandfather' and so on did not seem to have anything to do with martial art, the little martial uncle's wisdom and witticism were too deep to comprehend, his own cultivation in the teachings of Buddha was inadequate so that he failed to understand. Later on he heard the little martial uncle kneeled down and kowtowed, and struck his own cheeks; Cheng Guan could not help but feeling even more admiration.

In Zen Buddhism, when a master passes on the Buddhist doctrines to his disciples, if the disciple did not understand the subtlety of the master's magnificent teaching, the master oftentimes beats the disciple with a stick and shouts at him. Using the stick to pass on the doctrines originated from De Shan Chanshi [Dhyana Master Virtuous Mountain(?)] of the Tang Dynasty; the shout was supposed to urge the person to come to see the truth, it was also originated from a Tang Dynasty dhyana master. The saying 'stick and shout on the head' [i.e. 'severe warning'] came from this custom.

Cheng Guan thought that the eminent monks of the past were using a stick to enlighten people, his little martial uncle was slapping his own face to enlighten the female benefactor. It was an act of abandoning self for others, his heart of mercy surpassed those of his predecessors; he could only admire with gratitude and sigh in admiration. Hearing him asking about how to unseal the acupoints, Cheng Guan hastily replied, "The Nu Shizhu's acupoints being sealed are the 'Da Bao' [large bundle] acupoint belonging to the Foot Taiyin Channel of the Spleen. Shishu only needs to 'push the blood to the palace' (?) of the 'ji men' [winnow basket gate] and 'xue hai' [blood ocean], two acupoints on her leg; that should unseal it."

"'Ji men' and 'xue hai' acupoints, where are they located at?" Wei Xiaobao asked.

Cheng Guan lifted his robe and pointed to the inside of his knee to show him the locations of the acupoints, he let Wei Xiaobao to run his finger on the acupoints to verify that he got the correct ones. He also taught him how to 'push the blood to the palace'; saying, "Shishu has not practiced internal energy, the way you unseal the acupoints will be somewhat slower. But after massaging for about an hour, the acupoints will definitely open." Wei Xiaobao nodded, closed the door, and returned to the couch.

[SkyWalker]

Thanks for the update foxs. Once again, good luck with the moving!

[crazee]

Yeah..Foxs, Thanks for the long translation.

Do take your time off for the big big shift....
Don't know much about US, no luck to visit there, missed a trip to go there on company trip in the early days.

I can understand the time and trouble to move...did that once moving I changed my job from Malaysia to Singapore and it was real hectic....took me quite some time to settle down.

I'll be waiting patiently for your updates, don't worry! ....singing "right here waiting for you "...

[Lzydude]

which part of WA are you moving to? cause i'm moving to UW in a month for college

[Gubrak]

Thanks Foxs for working hard on the translation although you're moving.
Don't worry, we will faithfully waiting for you until the end of the world if it is a must .....