Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes, All Thanks to a Single Moment of Impulse - Chapter 14

Chapter 14

Edited by renderedreversed

Chapter 14

In a split moment, Shifu made a slight turn . The sword landed on his left shoulder . Blood flowed out, but Shifu didn’t seem to feel the slightest pain . His body sank . I didn’t know what force he used next, but he then flew past the men and made the slightest stroke . They shuddered and instantly collapsed, blood flowing out of their mouths as they fainted .

Zihui, who was leaning on me, went stiff . I didn’t care if he went stiff or not, pushed him aside, and ran to Shifu . Seeing Shifu’s wound on his shoulder, I didn’t know what to do or what to say .

“Scared?”

Although Shifu was pale, his voice was no different from usual .

“Next time, if you dare to run around…”

He turned and left . He must’ve had some anger he hadn’t vented yet .

I grabbed his right hand and asked in fear: “Shifu…wound, does it hurt…”

“I won’t die,” he coldly said . “Humph, now you see me as your Shifu? I didn’t let you eat ginseng chicken soup, so you ran away to search for mushrooms to stew with the chicken . Did you find any?”

I obediently admitted my fault: “Shifu, I was wrong . I’ll never run away again . ”

I was scared . My voice couldn’t help but shake . “Don’t be angry…Do not not want me . ”

Hearing this, Shifu turned around to look at me . His voice sounded a little strange: “Oh, who was the one who shouted she didn’t want Shifu anymore . ”

“I was wrong . ”

“Well, since Shifu is a narrow-minded person, I’ll not accept your apology . ”

“I was wrong…”

This was the only sentence that kept repeating in my heart, like a cold wind whistling around in it . I thought that this time, Shifu really didn’t want me anymore . I lifted my head and looked at him in tears . Shifu also looked at me . After a while, he blinked, and looking somewhat startled and agitated, he said: “Hey!”

His expression changed as he said, a little dumbfounded: “Stupid Xiang Zi, I was playing with you . There’s nothing to cry about . ”

Big tears kept uncontrollably rolling out of my eyes . Shifu’s figure turned blurry . I grabbed his hand as tight as I could, afraid that when I let it go, he’d run away and leave me .

“Don’t…don’t not want me…”

Shifu sighed loudly: “You’re really stupid . ”

“You can’t dislike me . ”

I couldn’t stop sobbing .

“I don’t dislike you!”

He impatiently said those words and was silent for a long time . I only kept sobbing . Suddenly Shifu pulled away his right hand . My heart was empty . But in the next instant, suddenly my palm felt warm . Shifu was holding my hand like he used to when we were kids and climbing the mountain .

He wiped my tears and bent his lips in frustration: “Forget it, let’s go back to Fengxueshan Manor . ”

Obviously, his tone was that of disdain, but to me Shifu’s voice felt warm like his palm .

“Shifu…wound, hurt . ”

“Wound of the flesh . It just looks scary . ”

Shifu, holding my hand, managed to walk two steps before I stopped and pointed at Zihui, who was sitting on the side and said: “Shifu…there’s one more . ”

Shifu’s body stiffened . He turned and looked at Zihui from head to toe . He wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at me .

“Oh, you really did find chicken mushroom stew . Is he a chicken essence or a mushroom essence?”

I grabbed Shifu’s hand really hard and swore: “I don’t want any essence! I only want Shifu!”

Seeing me with this expression on my face, Shifu hesitated and looked away . He grunted softly: “It’s good that you know . ”

At that moment, silent Zihui suddenly said: “Little… a Xiang lady, go back with your Shifu . I’m not really hurt . ”

I blinked and looked at him . I felt that saying those words with his pale face, he really had no persuasive power .

Leaving such a weak person alone in the woods was a little… Besides, we could say that we depended on each other…

I was still not finished thinking when Shifu mercilessly pulled me away .

“Stone essence of ten thousand years, this brat’s cultivation is much higher than yours . There’s no need for you to worry about him . ”

“Is it higher than Shifu’s?”

Shifu was silent for a while . Suddenly he squeezed my face really hard .

“If it wasn’t for you, would I be in this state right now?!”

Shifu’s squeeze was really painful . I blinked in order to keep my tears from falling out . Otherwise, if Shifu couldn’t vent his anger, he’d abandon me again…

The hand that was squeezing me slowly released . Shifu sighed: “Forget it…you don’t know anything . ”

I went back with Shifu to Fengxueshan Manor .

For several months, Shifu used the excuse that his shoulder was injured to order me to do all sorts of things . Even turning the page of his books was my job now . Almost all of my time was spent under Shifu’s eyelids (she was always in his sight) .

But Shifu looked very comfortable . I took it as my atonement and very seriously took care of him .

On one afternoon, Shifu was taking a nap . I was sitting on a stool beside the bed, fanning him . While I was fanning, something fell on the floor with a “dongdong” sound .

I blinked and hazily looked . It was a thumb-sized crystal clear stone . I picked it up and looked at it through the sunlight . There was a speckled purple light around it . It was very beautiful .

“When we go down the mountain on another day, I’ll let the craftsmen make a ring out of it . It’ll certainly look beautiful on Shifu . ”

After I said those words, I didn’t know why my hand shook . The stone fell on the ground and rolled over to I don’t know where . I bent down to look for it, but Shifu, dissatisfied, hummed twice: “Xiao Xiang Zi! Fan; don’t be lazy . ”

I was busy fanning Shifu . I thought that I’d come back later when it was empty, but no matter how hard I searched later, I couldn’t find the stone . Over time, I forgot about it .

It was another winter . Fenxueshan’s snow was now knee deep . Shifu seemed to hate the snow since the day he was born . If it was windy and snowy outside, no matter how many important things he had to do, Shifu would sit by the fire in the house and read books all day .

Charcoal, incense, and meals . These I needed to prepare for him .

That day, after I had a meal with Shifu, I did the dishes and went to clean the yard . I took the broom, swept a few times, sat on the snow, and then dozed off .

Yesterday, Shifu taught me a new formula . I didn’t memorize it . He trained me for most of the night . Today I needed to wake up early, but I was very sleepy . Drowsily lying on the snow, I fell asleep .

In my dreams, a man in purple called my name: “A Xiang lady, a Xiang lady . ”

I resented him for breaking my beautiful dream . I muttered a few words and didn’t want to bother with him, but he called and called . At last, he said with a smile in his voice: “If a Xiang lady still don’t wake up, your Shifu will beat your butt . ”

The word “Shifu” stung my nerves . I opened my eyes just in time to see Shifu standing in front of me, holding a large banner with bamboo printing on it . He frowned and looked at me with tension: “Get up, you’re not allowed to sleep in the snow . ”

Shifu rarely spoke to me in such a serious tone . I was scared and surprised for a moment, forgetting to react . Shifu was too lazy to say it a second time . He pulled me up from the snow .

“If you’re tired, go sleep in your room . ”

After he finished talking, he walked away . With the wind blowing, I wasn’t sure if it was an illusion or if he really said these words: “Someone closed her eyes in the snow . They never opened again . ”

I couldn’t understand this sentence, just as I couldn’t understand why Shifu occasionally looked at me in trance . He seemed to be looking at me, but he also seemed to be looking at another person . Sometime he would even whisper: “Fucking hell… The more she grows, the more she looks like her!”

From when I was little, Shifu always said some sentences that I didn’t understand . I didn’t even bother to care about them anymore . Actually, since then, I often saw a man in purple in my dreams . He always stood in the darkness, looking at me and calling me…a Xiang lady .

At the beginning, I didn’t dare to speak to him . After seeing him for a few times, I picked up my courage and asked him: “Who are you?”

He answered lightly: “The person of your dreams . ”

The next day I woke up and run to ask Shifu: “What is the person of your dreams?”

Shifu yawned on his bed . He lazily answered me: “Ghost, demons . Monsters that don’t even live in this world . The demons that make your mind a mess, causing you to think about the times you were together . Well…which do you think fit? Which is the person of your dreams?”

I scratched my head . I felt that none of them fitted .

After some days, I took advantage of when we went to Shengling Sect to gather food and asked the people of Shengling Sect the same question . They all gave me strange answers . None were the same .

Hujiao uncle patted my head, looked at me comfortingly, and said: “Xiao Xiang Zi has grown up . ”

Tangzhu sister stared at me like a scholar and told me: “Heart and soul requested for a beautiful dream of the other half . ”

The butcher told me: “Ah, you’re already old enough to have spring dreams! Well, when you search for a husband, find someone who looks like the person of your dreams . ”

After saying that the butcher touched his chin, thought for a moment, and whispered to himself: “Shiiiii… . it won’t be good if Shaozhu heard my words…”

I blinked for a moment and then asked: “What is a husband good for?”

“What is a husband good for…” the butcher laughed . “Earning money for the family to let the wife live a good life!”

My heart was happy, my eyes glinted . I asked: “Then can I find a husband and be his wife?”

This way, I could let husband do all the work Shifu ordered me to do: doing the laundry, making Shifu’s bed and massaging Shifu . I could finally enjoy a better life!

I didn’t know why that after I asked that question, the butcher looked really awkward . He scratched his head and said: “It’s not that you can’t…but…you have to ask your Shifu first . ”

One more person to serve Shifu . Shifu will certainly be happy . There’s nothing bad about it . Shifu will surely agree .

I happily carried the food back to Fengxueshan Manor . After we finished dinner, seeing that Shifu was in a good mood today, I excitedly asked: “Shifu, do you want one more person to serve you?”

Shifu drank a gulp of tea, turned, and looked at me for a moment .

“One stupid disciple is enough . I don’t want one more to cause me more headache . ”

“It’s not a disciple,” I said . “I’ll find a husband for myself . Then bring him back . Together we’ll serve Shifu . What do you think?”

I counted on my fingers . One, two, three, four, five; I counted the benefits of a husband .

“When I do the dishes, he’ll sweep the floor . When I make the fire, he’ll cut the firewood . When I do the laundry…well, he’ll do the laundry with me . The work will be certainly done faster and better . ”

I turned and looked at Shifu with a face full of hope .

“Shifu, isn’t that really beautiful?”

Shifu turned the cup quietly, without speaking a word .

He must have not heard me . So, I asked in a louder voice: “Shifu, what do you say about me looking for a husband?”

With a “pa” sound, the cup in Shifu hand broke . The tea dropped on his body . I was shocked and heard Shifu laughed out loud .

“Good, this is excellent . One more person coming to serve me . How is that not good?!”

As he was saying that, his expression was somewhat insane . I wanted to say “Shifu, your expression doesn’t match your words . ” But before I could say anything, Shifu stood in front of me and fiercely pinched my face again and again .

“Really great courage, huh? Ah, Xiao Xiang Zi, already thinking to look for help, together dealing with me . ”

“Serving you,” I corrected him . But apparently Shifu didn’t listen .

“Good, mortal women will get married after they get the hairpin . There’s still one more year . If you find the right person after a year, then you go and marry him . ”

Shifu almost stared at me with his nostrils .

“If that time comes and no one wants to marry you, you can’t come crying to me and complain . ”

I scratched my head and said very puzzled: “Shifu, if you don’t want me to look for a husband, I won’t look for one . Don’t be angry . ”

I didn’t know how these words poked at Shifu’s nerves . His body went stiff . He loosened his hand, turned, and said: “Humph, who cares if you look or not, it’s just…it’s just that you’re my disciple . If at that time no one marries you, I’ll lose face!”

Shifu is really someone who cares about face . I sighed and said: “Shifu, you don’t need to worry . I already have a target . I’ll do my best . ”

I picked up the dishes and went out of the room . Shifu was left frozen inside . Only when I was going to go around the corner did Shifu’s dark voice come from behind: “Hey . ”

His shout made me stop . It took a moment before he continued: “Who is it that you fancy?”

I looked at the sky and thought for a moment before I replied: “The person of my dreams . ”

After I turned around the corner, I heard the table being kicked .

Shifu began practicing after a meal…really hard working, ah .

I also had to work hard on finding a husband . Then I could help Shifu and would cause him less trouble .

Since then Shifu ordered me to do more and more things . Even while he was sleeping, I needed to sleep next to his bed on the floor .

Every time, we went to Shengling Sect to gather food, Shifu would walk behind me leisurely . Initially, everyone treated me as they usually did, but gradually the males didn’t speak to me anymore . Not long after, even the butcher didn’t speak to me anymore . So, after some time, I was a little unhappy . I felt that they probably disliked me because I did something wrong . Whenever Shifu saw me unhappy, his face would turn darker . Occasionally I could hear him say to himself: “Damn it, he really is someone from Shengling Sect…”

Comments:

I really like Chu Kong . I think that he hates the snow because of what happened to Yun Xiang . It really affected him . He’s so cute when he’s jealous and so considerate even when he’s bullying her . Chu Kong is the person of my dreams <3