Chapter 3

Although it is spring, but there is still a hint of coldness.

Sima ShangDe was sitting in the study room, instead of throwing himself into reading books as usual, he stared at a charming and delicate rose outside the window, blooming with red beauty, just like the mysterious woman.

Ever since the good girl rescued him that night, this lifesaving grace has been in his heart for a long time.

He sent his men to look for the girl, but there was no news at all, as if that night was just a dream, and the mysterious woman was only his own imagination.

That night under the bright moonlight, she sucked the venom out for him with her small cherry mouth. He actually reacted impolitely, shamefully holding his male in front of the girl, even made him more embarrassed.

But he had the impulse to tell her that- if she could actually suck somewhere else?

Sima ShangDe quickly stop this idea of obscenity. How could you have such bad fantasies about her? This girl kind enough to rescue you.

Although she had to do so- in order to save him, but he would still had to be responsible for that. 

When she came near him, the girl's delicate fragrance with soft and beautiful small face; reached out her tender hand to touch his head, gently coaxing him had deeply shook his heart.

All the time, he had no luck with women. Even the only arranged marriage contract by family had failed too.

Although he is a famous landlord in the south of the Yangtze River, but these are all hard-earned by his ancestors, he was just lucky to be their children and grandchildren.

However, he also worked very hard, at least he won a good reputation for not being the black sheep in the family.

He doesn't have a handsome appearance, the dark skin was tanned by the big sun because he often out to the fields; he doesn't have a slim body size like ordinary women would like, but only forges lean muscles because of hard labor work; He doesn't have any literary talent that could even pass for a show, which made his mother unhappy.

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His mother also said that he looked like a farmer, not like a big landlord that collects rentals money.

In this case, how could he expect to have that fairy angel to like him?

    "Master, have you been up all night?"

A clear man's voice interrupted ShangDe's thoughts.

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    "Hmm... Think of something."

    "Thinking about the fairy angel who saved you?"

    "Everything just can't escape from Uncle Hong." ShangDe replied shyly.

    "Of course, I've been looking after you since you're young." Hong ZhengTian said with a smile.

ShangDe looked at the middle-aged beautiful man who looked like his father. This handsome, knowledgeable, white-faced scholar is exactly the type that every women would love; He is gentle and elegant, and definitely look like an elegant and outstanding sophisticated man.

As for himself, though he is in a Chinese suit, but do not have any aristocratic or noble aura like his uncle.

    "I have sent people to ask around, but it seems that there's no trace of the kind-hearted lady that you mentioned, and you said that her clothes were weird, maybe she's not local." Hong ZhengTian analyzed.

ShangDe thought: Yeah! She must be a foreigner, because he had never seen a woman wearing man's trousers, and her top is clinging to the beautiful curve, which makes people couldn't stop from imagining and not able to take the eyes off of her.

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Her hair was not tied or coiled up like an ordinary woman, but it was scattered behind her, showing a charming curl.

Unfortunately, she was with the backlight back then, otherwise he could see her delicate small face clearly.

    "Furthermore, you don't even know how the girl looks like. What if she looked scary? You still want to find her and marry her? Wouldn't it be better if you could just give her money?"  In Hong ZhengTian's mind, the woman who wanders out in the middle of the night, may not as simple as you think. What if she is a prostitute or some unruly girl, how can she be the wife of the Sima family?

    "Uncle Hong, I must marry her. This is the responsibility of being a man. Besides, I definitely not the kind of superficial man who judges people by their appearance."  She already had a S2S-(skin to skin) with him. She can't marry another man.

Hearing ShangDe's statement, it shows that the old incident still hurt him very much.

Hong ZhengTian looked at ShangDe's serious face and nodded, "That's right! This is the courage to be a Master of the Sima family. Not to mention that the woman is still your lifesaving benefactor, we must be graceful, know how to repay kindness as a human being. Uncle Hong will fully support you."

    "Thank you, Uncle Hong."

He believes that with the help from Uncle Hong, he will be able to find his fairy angel very soon. Then he would do anything and everything to make her like him, and they will stay together forever.

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    "Aa-chew─ !" Ding Xiang suddenly sneezed. 

Hmm.. Strange, someone talking about her? Or she couldn't withstand the wind and cold?

    "What's wrong?" Xiao San asked kindly.

    "Maybe it's a cold." Ding Xiang replied pitifully, touching her forehead. The temperature seemed to be higher.

    "Take the quilt cover properly." Said Xiao San, and then followed by silence ...

Oh that's it?

Without any actual action?

Like giving her a warm quilt or offer her a bed to sleep in?

Ding Xiang stared at Xiao San, who was sleeping in the bedroom cuddling with her beloved man. 

She almost forgotten how horrible Xiao San was when turning into giant ant, otherwise she would have drag her out of the bed and suffocate her.

Is this the ancients' way of hospitality? She was kidnapped all the way from her super convenient, super-modern, and super-warm home, and ended up sleeping on straw mat on the ground. Even the quilt that she covered was actually her own coat.

Obviously she's still a ghost. Why does she still need to sleep? Already with a cold body, covering with ten quilts will not even help to warm up. Then might as well, better to give the quilt to those who needed, example like.... ME.  Ding Xiang thought angrily.

But there's nothing can be protested also because the host family is not rich. Searching the entire house, you can only find one quilt, and Xiao San, whom pays more attention to her lover than friends, of course she will cover her Wen Xiong-ge with that one and only quilt.

And that Wen Xiong too! When seeing his beloved fiancée, don't care and don't even bother about anything and just listen to every single thing she said.

    Haven't you seen your fiancée, treating me- the poor little girl so badly? Are your eyes blinded by love too?!  Ding Xiang really wanted to scream in front of him.

Unfortunately she can't do that because Xiao San is next to him.

    Ugh! Blame myself for being too kind and agreed Xiao San allowing her to have a few more days, otherwise I can sleep peacefully in her quilt and be warm until dawn.

   "Who actually would choose to love a farmer, and not a landlord? Someone who has to work for other people..." Ding Xiang couldn't help thinking about it.

    "Shh ─!"

What!? No way! She can't even allowed to have own thoughts, and she got booed by an ant?

    "Shhhhh ─!!" Ding Xiang retorted back, feeling a little pissed. She rolled over, feeling the bones creaked all over her body. She thought she couldn't sleep tonight.

But after a while, she felt asleep. 

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The early next morning.

    "I want to go home." Ding Xiang said to Xiao San.

    "No." Xiao San shook her head.

    "Don't you be too much on this!"

    Xiao San suddenly knelt down, Ding Xiang's eyes widened and shocked, "W_ what happen to you?"

    "Miss Meng, I know you're very kind, have a beautiful heart just like your face. I know you're willingly to help me."

Oh! She actually greeted her 'Miss' , so polite ... And calling her beautiful .... There must be something fishy going on now..

    "Didn't I help you already? I let you talk to your lover for three days three nights and you still not satisfied yet?"

That Wen Xiong don't even bother to give any reaction..! This is called - The Power of Love.

    "I actually wanted to accompany Wen Xiong-ge back to his hometown. We have a busy life during our livings, and there was no time for us to go back to our hometown."

    "Then why did you guys leave the hometown?"

    "Wen Xiong-ge's family was against our marriage, because I'm just a little orphan, and he came from a big family. He sacrificed and leave everything behind just to be with me. Now, I no longer have a life that able to stand by his side and can only accompany him to return home and help him to regain everything he should have."

It turned out that a young master fell in love with a little orphan girl. For true love, the two desperately escaped for a thousand of miles away from their home ...

This is what we called : Legendary Elopement!

    "So, you want me to help to watch over your house?" Ding Xiang glanced at the broken house.

Is that necessarily? Why so afraid of other people would break in? Even thief would want to donate money seriously ...

    "Well .... Yes, until we come back." Xiao San nodded.

    "Can't I follow?"

    "It's going to be a long journey. If you really want to follow, I am fine."

    "Nah, forget it. I hate walking."  It's really inconvenient for ancient people to have no motor transportation.

    "Actually ... I'm quite worried too ..."

C'mon, what is there to worry about? She already knows what she's doing.

    "So I can go home after that?" Ding Xiang asked.

    Xiao San nodded again, "Hmm!"

Ding Xiang originally wanted to say No to her plan, but seeing Wen Xiong wandering outside the house, walking back and forth, as if Xiao San not talking to him or even looked anxious like waiting for baby to be born.

But these two ancients were really brave. In such a closed and conservative era, Ding Xiang had to admire their courage to elope.

In order to give a little encouragement to this pair of lovers desperately who fly forward for love.

    "Okay. I'll wait for you to come back."

She's best at looking after the house, because in modern days, she is simply a nerd, hardly step out of the house.

    "Thank you Ding Xiang, you are so nice." Xiao San said with a smile.

Okay, so polite ... Gratitude accepted.

    "Wen Xiong-ge, O-K ..."

The little ant actually keep up with the trend. Learning modern people to say okay is really amazing. Ding Xiang couldn't help but keep her eyes wide open.

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    "Is it really O-K ?"

Ding Xiang eyes opened even wider. No way? That Wen Xiong ancient guy also learned this word? Which means he really did listen to Xiao San for the three days and three nights' lectures.

    "Um!" Xiao San nodded coyly at Wen Xiong.

    "That─ " Ding Xiang wanted to speak but got interrupted by Xiao San.

    "Alright, goodbye!"

Ding Xiang stunned, seeing that Wen Xiong had already took a small bag with him and waited outside, and both were happily holding hands and ready to leave.

    "Wait! How can I eat without money?" Ding Xiang shouted at them.

    "There are silvers on the cupboard, use wisely!"

Xiao San is almost gone, is really amazing that still able to hear her voice.

    "Wohoo! Let's spend it!" Ding Xiang immediately prepare to go out and get some food. 

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    "Master, these are the surplus accounts of the tenants after harvest and the cost of the seedlings, please have a look."  In the quiet study room, a young housekeeper presented a pile of accounts to ShangDe.

    "Huh?" ShangDe carefully looked through those dense books and not being careless at all.

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    "Wen Xiong's field has not been planting anymore lately. If we let this go again, I'm afraid it will not only cause us losses, but other hardworking tenant farmers will also protest."

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Although ShangDe, as the landlord, controls the entire farmland within hundred miles of the whole *Hancheng but also understand without those hard-working farmers' help, they will not have a big harvest every year, so he will do his best to take care of those farmers.

- - [T/N: *Hancheng : 漢城 (Han City)
>> (In Korea pronounce as HanSeong; old name of Seoul as traditional capital of Korea and capital of South Korea)]


    "Is he sick?  ShangDe asked.

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    "I don't know." Everyone is busy these days, and don't even have time to see what the hell is Wen Xiong is doing now.

    "I'll go and see."

    "Yes." The housekeeper already knew that the master would say so. If he was a rich man like his master, he would not really care so much about the humble farmers.

With Xiao Li alone, ShangDe was walking in the land full of the earthy aromas. Watching at the newly planted seedlings. His heart was moved, just like watching his own child born and grow up healthily.

He loves this land, not only because it brings wealth to the Sima family, but also because it supports the big and small family in Hancheng. 

The farmers are working hard to cultivate their own farmland. The whole family is working together in a happy and peaceful atmosphere.

He walked to an acre of land that was different from other verdant fields, which was Wen Xiong's field. It was overgrown with weeds, showing that it had been abandoned for some time.

    "Master, you see, this is too much. If we don't plant the seed again, we will miss the growing season. Will see what that Wen Xiong takes to pay for that." Xiao Li said angrily.

    "I don't believe Wen Xiong is this type of person."

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    "Master, you are so kind that you can allow a foreigner with an unknown knowledge to farm in a field. I think Wen Xiong- that little fair face can't even bear the hardship. He's not farmer material at all."

    "I believe Wen Xiong is not this kind of person." ShangDe still insisted on his believing and decision.

    "Master, it's because you're too soft-hearted, and you don't know that people are dangerous. We servants are all running outside, seeing many people and there are so many weird things, so please listen to us, we can't be wrong."

ShangDe suddenly stopped and looked at Xiao Li with a cold face, without any expression or reprimand. He has made Xiao Li's mouth gagged open, like a dead fish, and never dared to say anything more.

    "Are we there yet?"

    "Master. This is it." Xiao Li answered respectfully.

    "It's dark inside, and it's seems no one is there."

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    "Impossible! I haven't heard that he goes go out of the city ...." Xiao Li stopped halfway, and then looked at the master as if he had something else in his mind.

    ShangDe's face sank, and he felt something not right. "Go knock!"

    "Yes." Xiao Li rushed to the door and knocked.

    "Hello! Wen Xiong, are you there?" Xiao Li shouted loudly.

ShangDe quietly walked into the house, smelling the moist smell in the air, and the surrounding was all in mess.

It seems that the owner of the house has been away for a while.

    "Master, I think he couldn't endure hardships and escaped."

ShangDe couldn't speak for Wen Xiong now. Seems that he must be arranged some other people to take over Wen Xiong' fields as soon as possible. It is not good if he missed planting seed season.

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Just as the two was about to leave, suddenly they hear a sound of crying kitten.

ShangDe immediately went to source for the sound.

Xiao Li couldn't help shaking his head. Here comes Master again, although he looks so powerful and brave, but sometimes his heart is as soft as tofu.

He saw a kitten just about to open eyes scurrying around, it is small and the little body shivered and called for its mother.

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ShangDe held out his big palm to pick up the little kitten, and lightly coax the kitten not to be afraid, and then put it into a denser grass.

The other kittens also poked their heads, comforting the kitten.

    "Be careful not to run out again, otherwise it will be dangerous." ShangDe's face was filled with a kind smile, gently said to the kittens that just returned its home.

Xiao Li is about to faint. The Master actually talked to a brute, no wonder the other family's daughter in Hancheng didn't look up on him. 

If you see him talking to a cat, even farmer- Ah Hua, will also run away!

Just as Xiao Li murmuring so much in his heart and was about to give some drama, he suddenly heard a tender woman's voice like a silver bell.

    "You are so kind!" 

*Hancheng : 漢城 (Han City)
>> (In Korea pronounce as HanSeong; old name of Seoul as traditional capital of Korea and capital of South Korea)

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