Double Box Record

Chapitre 101

Shu Yang said, "Dad and Mom always bicker over trivial things, it's so annoying to watch. I'm not stupid, why can't I be a great hero and make money at the same time? Dad always says martial arts are unreliable, but I think his skills are better than Mom's. If his skills weren't so good, the money wouldn't have gone into his pocket for nothing. In the future, I'm determined to be a great martial artist and a very wealthy man, and I'll marry a wife as good as Mom. I'll never lose to him."

Yi Chun was stunned for a long time. Suddenly, he heard a faint laugh coming from above the snow pit. He looked up and saw Shu Jun and his daughter lying on the edge of the pit, laughing at them. Shu He's pastry crumbs fell all over Shu Yang's head.

Shu Jun clicked his tongue a few times, propped his chin up, and said with a half-smile, "Xiao Ge, your son has spoken up. He thinks you're being unreasonable."

Yichun glared at him: "What are you so smug about? Aren't you being unreasonable? Saying that people who know martial arts are all brutes and fools, you're the brute of the brutes!"

Shu Jun still laughed: "I'm a brute, and you're a foolish woman. A broken pot with a broken lid, yet we've produced an exceptional son."

Yichun was amused by his words, jumped out of the pit, landed beside him, and tugged at his sleeve: "Come, come, Master Shujun. It's been a few years since I've sparred with you. Let's have another go and see who is the brute and who is the fool."

Shu Jun hadn't stretched his muscles with his wife in a long time, so he went along with her suggestion and walked with her to a flat area. He asked with a smile, "Then we should have a contest, but there has to be a wager. What if I lose? What if I win?"

Yichun had been married to him for many years, and just by looking at his darting eyes, she knew he was up to no good and was thinking some kind of scheme.

She suddenly felt a sense of vigilance and stared at him with wide eyes.

As expected, Shu Jun didn't say the rest of his sentence. He just smiled at her, as if to say, "I'll settle the score with you later."

Yichun kicked him in the face, but the next moment her ankle was gently grabbed by him.

Shu Yang had already climbed out of the pit and sat on the ground side by side with Shu He, watching their parents fight. After a while, Little Pumpkin also heard the commotion and dragged Little Winter Melon to come and see what was going on.

Yichun no longer enjoys dressing like a man as she did when she was a girl. Having spent her life at home taking care of her husband and children, she has long been accustomed to wearing traditional Chinese dresses adorned with pearls and flowers.

Her movements were light and swift, like a swallow flitting about. All that could be seen was a sapphire blue beaded flower by her ear, swaying in the wind.

Little Pumpkin whispered, "Although my sister is much stronger than before, she is still no match for our master. She will definitely lose this match."

Shu He was closest to him, and upon hearing him say this, she said calmly, "How do you know my mother is inferior to my father? When did my mother become your sister? You're always trying to get close to me."

Little Pumpkin wasn't annoyed at all, and replied with a smile, "I've been calling you 'sister' since before you were even here, so I've known you for longer than you have. There's also some history between you calling me 'uncle' and 'young master'."

Shuhe frowned: "Who's related to you? You stay on the mountain all day, just slacking off and talking nonsense, not doing any serious work. Your father has spoiled you for nothing."

Because she disliked Little Pumpkin, she spoke with particular sarcasm and bitterness. Shu Yang couldn't stand it, so he quickly tugged at her sleeve and changed the subject with Little Winter Melon: "Hey, why does it look like Dad is about to lose? What do you think, Brother Winter Melon?"

This really stumped Little Winter Melon. His eyes were blurry, and he couldn't tell who was who at all. He could only laugh awkwardly and reply, "Yes, yes, it looks like Master is about to lose..."

Little Pumpkin wasn't going to accept Shu Yang's favor. He just chuckled and said, "When I was doing things for my master, the young lady was still sleeping. She's not feeling well, so she should be careful not to catch a cold sitting on the ice for too long. Why don't you go back inside?"

Shuhe wanted to say something more, but seeing Shuyang desperately pulling at her, glancing between her parents and herself, she knew what he meant. Her parents sometimes disliked her bad temper, especially her mother, who had once severely reprimanded her. She smiled slightly and swallowed the rest of her words.

Caught off guard, Yi Chun fell slightly behind by half a move, and the next moment, Shu Jun gently removed the pearl hairpin from her ear.

He stuffed the beaded flower into his bosom and said with a smile, "Little Ge, give me the beaded flower."

Yichun competed with him for a long time and clearly realized that he was letting her win. There was no point in continuing the competition. She was always straightforward and never cheated when she lost. So she said, "Fine, I lose. Call me a fool if you want, I don't care anyway."

Shu Jun walked over and put his arm around her shoulder, just smiling: "Still as childish as before. You lost, so you have to do one thing for me. Do you agree?"

Yichun nodded: "Okay, go ahead."

She thought Shu Jun meant he would take responsibility for Shu Yang's education from now on, but to her surprise, Shu Jun whispered a string of words in her ear. Yi Chun was stunned for a long time, then suddenly realized what he meant, her eyes widening like a cat's. After a while, she suddenly asked, "Are you sure you want to go?"

Shu Jun raised an eyebrow at her, as if to say, "It's up to you whether you go or not."

Yichun shoved him and ran out of the village. Shujun laughed and turned back to instruct, "I won't be back for dinner tonight. You'll have to fend for yourselves."

After saying that, he quickly chased after them.

Shu Yang asked his younger sister in a low voice, "Xiao He, why did Dad and Mom suddenly stop competing? Where are they going?"

Shu He is usually extremely intelligent, but she didn't know this at all. She also liked to show off, pretending to know everything, and told him in a serious tone: "It's to find us younger brothers and sisters."

Shu Yang was taken aback: "Were your younger siblings found by searching? Then...where did your parents find us?"

Shuhe chuckled: "I don't know myself. As for you, your father must have dug you out of the cesspool. You stink all day long."

Shu Yang looked down and smelled himself. He really did smell of sweat. He touched his head and laughed, feeling embarrassed. But he was secretly worried that his father might have picked him up from a cesspool. That would be terrible.

Little Winter Melon overheard their children's conversation and couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

As for where Yichun and Shujun went, only he knew the answer; even Little Pumpkin probably had no idea.

At that time, Yichun was newly pregnant. In the first month or two, she didn't want to eat anything else but drink sour plum soup. Shujun didn't trust the ones sold outside, and Xiaodonggua didn't know how to make it, so he had to find a chef to humbly ask for advice. He spent the whole night making a bowl of soup for his wife.

Since then, whenever the two of them have a fight, one of them will always say, "How about we go drink some plum juice to cool down and refresh ourselves?"

At that time, even the greatest anger would dissipate, and Shu Jun would take Yi Chun to find inns and taverns to borrow their kitchens to make a few bowls of plum juice, which everyone would drink to cool down.

As for what to do after drinking it, that's a secret.

Since they went up the snow mountain, this was only the second time they had gone down to find an inn to make sour plum drink. Shu Jun had married a wife, but he hadn't learned anything else except how to make sour plum drink to perfection, even better than the classic old shops.

After the two main characters left, Little Pumpkin cleverly tried to run away, but just as he turned around, he heard Shuhe behind him instructing, "Little Pumpkin, I want to eat cherries. Go down the mountain and buy some for me."

He inwardly groaned, then turned around and said with a smile, "Girl, it's winter now, there are no cherries for sale outside. Just bear with it for a few more months, and I'll buy you a whole truckload when the cherries come into season."

Shuhe pouted: "I don't care if it's on the market or not, I want to eat it, so get it for me."

Little Pumpkin gritted his teeth, scratched his head, and laughed, "Alright, wait for me, young lady, I'll go down the mountain to investigate."

He'd better go down the mountain and hide until his masters return; he really didn't want to provoke this willful and unruly girl.

Shuhe snorted, then turned around and condescendingly ordered Xiaodonggua, "I'm hungry, go and make me something to eat."

Little Winter Melon was quite honest; he agreed and quickly ran to the kitchen.