Chapter 11

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Can she threaten him with such a small amount of skill? However, Zhu Yan was very angry and shouted in a loud voice, “If you dare to hit me, I will scream for indecent assault! I’ll call everyone out here, to come to assist! With so many people around, will you still dare to hit me in public?”

“…” Shi Ying’s face sank and the jade bamboo slip stopped in mid-air.

“If you don’t believe me, why don’t you try? Let me go! Or I’ll call someone over!” When she saw her Master hesitating for the first time, she felt overjoyed, and couldn’t help being even more arrogant. “Somebody! Not…”

Before she could finish her words, the jade bamboo fell heavily on her back! The pain made her bend over and she began to cry loud suddenly, trying to beg Yu Fei and Yun Man to come in and help her, but she found that her mouth was sealed by something invisible, and every word she tried to uttered disappeared behind her tight lips and turned into a very light raving. Knowing that the Master had instantly released an enchantment, she was shocked and struggled as hard as she could to break the bondage, but it didn’t work at all. The jade bamboo strokes fell one after another, exerting great strength and showing no mercy. She only grinned in pain, screaming and struggling desperately, but the more she struggled, the tighter the rope became. She has never suffered such a beating since she returned to the palace at the age of 13. She still wanted to hold on, but he hit her so hard that she rolled to the ground in pain, embarrassed and angry, and scolded him as hard as she could: damn guy, he really hit her?! Back then, she saved his life! If she had known he was so ungrateful, she might as well let this inhuman guy die early!

In that moment, the jade bamboo suddenly stopped.

“What did you just say?” Shi Ying seemed to hear the curse that she was muttering into her heart, looking at her, cold and silent, but with a terrible expression in his eyes. “Ungrateful? Inhumane? Die early?”

What? He… He used mind reading spell to peek into her thoughts? Taking advantage of the gap at that moment, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and tried her best to make a sound, but only managed to ask for mercy trembling: “Don’t… Stop beating! Master, I got it, I know I was wrong!”

Yes, she has always been obedient, knowing that she can’t fight and can’t escape, what else can she do if not immediately accept it? Knowing that the Master can read her mind, she didn’t even dare to slander him secretly, so she could only immediately beg for mercy and admit her mistake.

In response he stopped his hand and looked at her coldly: “Where was your mistake, do you want to talk about it?”

Zhu Yan collapsed on the blanket of white fox fur, feeling a burning pain on her back, mixed with shame, anger and pain. However, knowing that Master was really angry, she had no choice but to turn her face and reluctantly say: “I … Can’t run away from my marriage?”

“Is that all?” Shi Ying sneered, but didn’t let her off easily.

“What else?!” She finally couldn’t help being filled with grievances, and yelled like an eruption: “I didn’t commit a crime, I didn’t murder anyone and didn’t start a fire, I didn’t betray my country and didn’t surrender to the enemy! I just didn’t want to get married. But you beat and scolded me to death! What else did I do wrong?”

He raised the tip of his eyebrow and sighed; squatted down to look at her, and lit her forehead with the jade bamboo slip: “Feeling entitled? Well, let me tell you what you did wrong…”

His voice was low and cold, as he spelled one word at a time: “As the Princess of the Red Clan, she is usually supported by her clan and enjoyed the blessings of thousands of people, but she does not care about the duties of the Royal Family. But when she encounters something undesirable, she just thinks about herself and wants to run away! This is the first of them!”

Every time he said a word, he tapped the palm of her hand with the jade slip. She wanted to scream in pain, but she could only hold back her tears abruptly, for fear that he would’ve beaten her even more if he had seen her cry.

“Despite causing so much trouble in Susa Haru and countless deaths and injured, you didn’t write to your family in time to let your parents know about you and worry about what is going on here, you even thought that was better if they believed you were dead. The lamb kneels and the crow feeds back.* As the daughter of the Royal Family, you are really ungrateful! That’s the second one!”

The second hit was heavier, and she finally gave a “wow” crying softly, tears dripping and falling on the back of his hand. Shi Ying frowned, his voice was as cold as ice water, as he continued: “After making mistake after mistake, you did not thought about correcting them even for a second, you didn’t want to listen to your Master teachings, and even dared to intimidate and slander him. This is the third! Do you know what you did wrong now? Are you convinced now you deserved this beating? Don’t cry!”

She shuddered, stifled her tears and quickly said: “I know I was wrong! I’m convinced, I’m convinced!”

Shi Ying looked at her coldly: “Your speech was too smooth, it’s not sincere.”

Zhu Yan was about to cry again, and shook her head desperately: “This disciple really dares not…really! I know I was wrong, please let me go!”

Shi Ying put down the jade tube, glanced at her, and said: “Do you still want to curse me to death?”

“No… I dare not.” She shivered and continued to shake her head like a rattle… just a moment ago, she was so anxious that she didn’t know what else to say. He looked at her, his expression suddenly softened, and he sighed: “However, you did save my life… If it weren’t for you, I would have died in the Abyss of Cangwu that time.”

She didn’t expect him to say these words, she was stunned for a moment with tears on her face. Five years ago, when she pulled the unconscious Master out of the Cangwu Abyss, she was shocked and frightened, and her face was full of tears like now. The 13-year-old girl was carrying him on her back shivering, running through the deep forest, falling down and getting up again and again. They got lost in the dense forest as he was in a coma the entire time. It took her a month to walk through the Nightmare Forest and drag him back to the Jiuyi Temple, taking care of him as he was dying. It’s hard to say a word about the indescribable hardships she went through, but she, who was so young at that time, never gave up on him, even when she was on the brink of death.

After that, he gifted her the Jade Bone. At that time, she had just turned thirteen and began to change from a child to a girl. After five years of absence, she has grown into a slim and graceful girl. When the long knife was about to slash his head, the girl still rushed up without thinking, desperate to hold the blade that cut into his throat with her bare hands! In that moment, the power of her outburst was almost exactly the same as it was many years ago.

Shi Ying sighed, helped her up, looked at the tears on her face, and suddenly felt unbearable: is this his own problem? For so many years, he has been a loner. He has never learned how to get along with others. He has always been very strict with himself and with the others around him. How unreasonable could he have been, to force a good disciple to curse him to death?

Seeing that Master’s eyes softened, Zhu Yan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and had a small fluke. Master’s heart is softened! It seems that this time I finally don’t have to be beaten anymore… But she will never forget this account!

“Does it hurt?” Shi Ying sighed and asked.

“No… it doesn’t hurt.” She cursed in her heart, but she dared not say a word.

“Don’t be ignorant.” His face softened, but his tone was still stern. “You are already eighteen years old, and as a Princess, you can no longer focus only on yourself.”

“Yes…I understand.” She nodded repeatedly. After a pause, she asked cautiously: “Then… can you let me go now?”

Who told her that she was inferior to others? She was beaten, and she didn’t even dare to lose her temper… she vowed that from today on she would practice hard and learn the skills well. Next time, she would never be trampled like this again! Shi Ying glanced at her, and she hurriedly put up a meek and innocent expression then looked at him tearfully: “It really hurts!”

He pondered for a moment. With a movement of his finger, the rope that trapped her fell to the ground instantly, but then he circled his finger and surrounded the golden tent with a streamer.

“Ah!” she cried out in exclamation, full of disappointment: this guy loosened her tie, but immediately set up an enchantment!

Shi Ying stood up and said: “The situation here is under control. I asked general Jiang Chen from Kongji camp to come with an elite troop and take over Susa Haru for the time being. The rest will be dealt with when the Red King arrives. He went out of the tent and gave orders to the servant. Then turned around and said: “You just stay here. Yu Fei and Yun Man can come in and serve you. No one else is allowed near you.”

She was shocked and couldn’t help asking: “Ah? You…you are leaving now?”

“Yes. The clues I am following are interrupted here. I have to go back right away. There are still many things to be done later.” He packed his simple luggage without looking up, and said: “You stay here for now. When your father arrives, this barrier will naturally vanish.”

“I… I can’t bear to see Master leave!” She tried her best to hold back her anger and smiled flatteringly at him. “It’s been five years since I saw Master last time, why do you want to leave after meeting for so short? Why don’t you let Ah-Yan come with you? Right… no matter if it’s the end of the world, I will follow Master!”

“…” He glanced at her, and he seemed to hesitate slightly.

There is a chance! She was overjoyed and hurriedly showed a more pitiful look. Regardless of three, or seven, or twenty-one, let’s talk about it after passing the test. In any case, it is better to go out with the master for a while than to stay here and be escorted back by the father.

However, Shi Ying pondered for a moment, but shook his head: “No way. The next thing is too dangerous to take you with me. You should go back to the Red King’s Mansion first! We will meet again.”

Zhu Yan knew that Master would say exactly what he said, and she was expecting to be beaten again. After thinking about it for a moment, Zhu Yan could only ask worriedly: “Then… You, in your letter, didn’t tell my father that I was going to run away that night, did you?”

He glanced at her lightly and said, “No.”

“Great! I knew it Master, you are not that kind of talkative person!” She was relieved and almost clapped. However, she saw that he took out a book from his sleeve and solemnly handed it to her: “Take this. In the past five years, your advancement in spells has been too slow. With your talent, it shouldn’t be like this… If you study carefully the notes I wrote, you should be able to make some breakthroughs.”

“Thank you, Master!” she had to take it and put on a smile.

“Practice hard and don’t be lazy.” He finally assigned her a task, touched her head, and said solemnly: “When I meet you next time, I will test your homework.”

“Yes…Yes, I will.” She nodded cheerfully, but complained a thousand times in her heart.

Shi Ying glanced at her, hesitated for a while lost in thoughts, then took back the book and tore down the last page with a “brush” saying: “Forget it. You’d better not learn this last item.”

“Yes!” When she heard that she could learn less, she was naturally full of joy, and did not ask at all what he just torn off.

“You…” Shi Ying looked at her, still seemed a little worried, but in the end, he just sighed slightly, and didn’t said any more words. He opened the umbrella, turned and walked out of the golden tent, snow falling on the painted white rose.

The divine bird Chongming descended from the sky and landed on the snowy field.

*The lamb kneels and the crow feeds back. – “Compendium of Materia Medica” refers to the crow as a kind bird: “This bird was born, mothers feed for 60 days, and the elderly feeds back for 60 days. It can be said to be kind and filial.” Is another say of “filial piety”.

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