sbdcsierra Chapter 114: The man has feelings, but the woman has no feelings
Chapter 114: The man has feelings, but the woman has no feelings
Zhou Zhou thought to himself, "Aunt Ji is indeed a heroine among women. Even at her age, she can still wield her big knife."
After returning home, she tried to persuade her mother to stop worrying unnecessarily.
When they arrived, the others were already waiting.
Ma Liangcai didn't see any prey on their horses and assumed they hadn't caught anything, so he happily jumped off his horse.
"Oh! The two young ladies haven't even caught a single prey."
"What's going on? This isn't like you two. You're not deliberately going easy on us, are you?"
"Don't you agree?"
Everyone else, who was sitting on horseback, laughed when they heard Ma Liangcai's words.
You should know that among this group, the two of them have always been the leaders.
Although we all get along well, we still occasionally have some disagreements.
Therefore, they often held hunting competitions, and whoever won the competition could become the leader the following month.
However, neither of them has ever lost a match so far.
The person with the biggest complaints was Ma Liangcai, who kept clamoring to have a competition almost every month.
But they lost every game, and everyone got used to it.
He was finally about to win, so everyone naturally celebrated with him.
Ji Fu felt ashamed looking at Ma Liangcai's smug expression.
That guy is completely unreliable; he's always the one shouting the loudest.
She wasn't worried at all if Ma Liangcai really won. With his mediocre skills, how dare he point fingers at them? She would definitely beat him senseless.
She dismounted, walked up to Ma Liangcai, and kicked him.
What do you want to do?
"Let me see what you've hunted, you're so smug."
Ma Liangcai stumbled after being kicked by her. He managed to regain his balance and straightened his tall frame, trying to overwhelm the petite woman who only reached his shoulder with his imposing presence.
To everyone's surprise, the young woman glared at him, and his imposing manner immediately weakened.
The people around them were already used to it.
Ma Liangcai pointed at the horse behind her and said, "Don't worry about how many I hunted, it's still more than you didn't hunt any at all."
"Who told you I didn't hunt anything?"
"How could Miss Ji possibly leave empty-handed?"
"Besides, I'm with Zhou Zhou, what are you thinking?"
"Then why haven't you caught any prey yet?"
Ji Fu rolled her eyes at him. "Just you wait."
Zhou Zhou kept watching her friend and Ma Liangcai from horseback.
Ma Liangcai grew up with them. When he was a child, Ma Liangcai was not as tall and strong as he is now.
When he was a child, he was dark-skinned and thin. Although he was two years older than her and Ji Fu, he was not as tall as them.
He was so thin that a gust of wind could blow him over.
At that time, his grandfather brought him from the border to the capital.
Many young masters from wealthy families bullied him.
Once, Ji Fu saw it. That girl had always been fierce, and she went up and beat up that group of young masters all by herself.
Everyone's face was covered in scratches and blood.
She herself was also injured, but she still held onto Xiao Ma Liangcai's thin little hand, saying, "Aren't you ashamed? A group of people bullying a little girl."
“From now on, she will be my best friend. If you dare to bully her, you are going against me, Ji Fu.”
"If I see it again, I'll beat it every time I see it."
After she finished speaking, she raised her chubby fist and blew away non-existent dust.
The group of men were beaten so badly that they all ran back to their mothers.
From then on, Ma Liangcai became a good friend of hers and Ji Fu.
Of course, a few years later, she also learned that Ma Niang was actually Ma Liangcai, and that he was a little boy, not a little girl.
As for when Ji Fu found out, it seems it was not long after she found out.
During that time, Ji Fu and Ma Liangcai had a falling out, and Ma Liangcai went to Ji's house every day to find her, and it took him a long time to coax her back to normal.
From then on, if Ji Fu said east, he dared not go west.
After waiting for a while, Ma Liangcai saw Uncle Ma driving a oxcart carrying goods over.
The oxcart seemed to be full of prey.
Uncle Ma walked up to Ji Fu and said, "Miss Ji, we've finished hauling everything. Would you like to take a look?"
"Thank you, Uncle Ma. You've worked hard. You don't need to order."
Ma Liangcai looked at the oxcart behind Uncle Ma in disbelief and walked up to Uncle Ma.
"Uncle Ma, where did you get such a large cartload of prey?"
"Young Master, this is what Miss Ji instructed us to do when she returned half an hour ago. These are the prey that Miss Ji and her team hunted."
Ma Liangcai looked incredulous. "You mean, these are all things that the two of them hunted?"
Uncle Ma nodded.
Ji Fu was very satisfied with the expression on Ma Liangcai's face. She pointed proudly to an arrow on a deer and said, "You can see for yourself by looking at the words on the arrow."
Their arrows are specially made, and each arrow is engraved with its own unique mark.
Ma Liangcai pulled out the arrow, and sure enough, the character 'Yuan' was engraved on the arrow shaft.
Yuanyuan is Ji Fu's nickname.
Ma Liangcai looked at the pheasants and rabbits tied to his horse and lowered his head resignedly.
Well, another month's work wasted.
Ji Fu jumped up and locked Ma Liangcai's neck.
"What, you're getting too big for your britches and dare to be my boss? You still need to train for a few more years."
Ma Liangcai, whose neck was locked by Ji Fu, was stunned at first. He did not expect Ji Fu to hug him.
He remained stiff and allowed Ji Fu to do as she pleased, appearing completely calm on the surface.
But his slightly red neck and ears gave him away.
Zhou Zhou noticed that something was wrong with Ma Liangcai, but she discovered that her friend Ji Fu didn't seem to notice.
She shook her head; it seemed the man was interested, but she wasn't.
She had an air of knowing everything, chuckled a few times, said goodbye, and then rode her horse home.
She remembered that her father was missing a pair of knee pads, and she happened to have hunted two yellow weasels today, so her mother could make a pair of knee pads for him.
Having taken her things, I certainly wouldn't have the heart to punish her severely.
Hey.
Oh right, her grandfather will be back soon too, she can't show favoritism.
Perfect, now I have a reason to go out again in a few days.
Thanks to the snacks and sauces prepared by Shen Cao, Grand Tutor Zhou did not go hungry along the way.
The journey was so bumpy that even with thick bedding, his buttocks still went numb from the jolting.
In addition, he is getting older and has become quite haggard along the way.
The closer it is to the capital, the more prosperous it becomes.
This was Shen Chen's first time traveling so far from home, and he was very excited. Apart from being a little thinner, there were no other noticeable changes.
Long before he recovered from starvation, his younger sister hired a master to teach him boxing.
He gets up early almost every day to do it, and he's always covered in sweat afterward.
By persisting for a long time, he not only became stronger, but his health also fully recovered.
Having witnessed the eloquence of scholars from the capital during the provincial examinations, he had longed for the capital ever since. Now, he himself was about to go to the capital to study.
His excitement replaced his fatigue, so he didn't feel anything special when he went out for the first time.
Moreover, the scenery along the way showed him how vast the world is.
This filled him with great ambition for his future.