"Please protect me, young lady." The "bundle" behind him chuckled, tugging at her belt.
Volume One, Chapter Two
After the rain, the empty mountains are glistening with green leaves, as smooth as jade. A few cicadas chirp amidst the drifting clouds, sometimes high, sometimes low, sometimes intermittent, sometimes continuous, one singing and the other harmonizing.
"Ah Gui, are you happy today?"
A tall man carried the little figure on his back, swaying as he walked along the mountain path.
"How wonderful, how wonderful!" The little boy's dark eyes curved into crescent moons as he took a bite of the red bean cake, and then, not forgetting to stuff a piece into his father's mouth.
"Then, after we get back..."
"I won't tell Mother about Father peeping at the pretty sister." She was incredibly loyal and righteous.
"Cough...cough...cough..." The man finally caught his breath. "Father's idea is that if your mother asks when we get back, just say that you wanted to go down the mountain."
"oh."
"Also, your father absolutely did not peek at any other woman besides your mother."
"oh?"
"Ah Gui~" This drawn-out tone revealed his dissatisfaction with her suspicion.
“Father clearly saw the old lady selling red bean cakes.”
"..." Please, that's Grandma, okay?
"And there's the sister who walks the high rope."
"..." That girl is at most ten years old!
Hehehe~
"What are you laughing at?" someone asked, clearly annoyed.
"So Father was picking ears."
"You, you, you!"
Oh no, oh no! All she did was eat at a Sichuan restaurant, and she's already learned the dialect to humiliate her father.
The man angrily put his daughter down, took a breath, and struck a pose as if he were a pillar of strength: "Agui, do you think your imposing, tall, and heroic father is the type to be afraid of his wife?!"
"picture."
The answer was crisp and to the point, which provoked someone to put their hands on their hips and roar.
"Don't be afraid of her! Ah Gui, when we get back, just tell the truth: your father couldn't stand her lousy cooking, so he brought you down the mountain for a treat!"
"really?"
"really!"
"really?"
"really!"
"Father, you won't go back on your word?"
A gentleman's word is as good as a swift whip!
With dark eyes gazing into the distance, the little boy laughed heartily: "Mother, did you hear that? It really wasn't Agui's idea."
"Huh...what?" His neck stiffened as he turned, the flames that had been burning within him suddenly dying down. "Madam...Madam..."
"Peeping at a pretty lady?" A red mole between her eyebrows, with the appearance of a beautiful Guanyin.
"No... I wouldn't dare..."
"My cooking." After a pause, the beautiful woman smiled radiantly. "Rotten?"
"Who? Who spread this rumor!" someone exclaimed indignantly.
"My dear husband, let's go home and talk about it slowly, slowly~"
"Madam, it was actually Agui who was making a fuss about going down the mountain."
"..." Her tender little face twitched slightly.
"I was forced into this situation; I had no other choice."
She knew it all: the claims of "extraordinary bearing, tall and heroic" and "a gentleman's word is as good as a horse's whip" were all lies! If such rumors were true, it would only prove that it was a circle of lies.
The young heart was utterly shattered, yet it firmly remembered a seemingly true but ultimately false statement.
"Agui, today your father is teaching you by example so that you will understand that in the martial world, those who know when to yield are the heroes."
Wake up!
She lifted her eyelids and saw a pair of fiery, beautiful eyes.
"Ugh..." My cheek hurts so much. This female warrior must be trying to beat me into a pig's head.
"Really, she can still sleep even in this condition." The female warrior gave her a disdainful look.