Zhan Zhao Adventures - Chapter Seven (Part VI)

Chapter Seven: Mulan Flowers Slow (Part VI)

Huo Linglong's head had already lowered down.
——Could it be that she also felt, she in reality owed him too much? Betrayed and disappointed his deep affection too much?
 
She also did not dare look at him.
——Could it be that having seen him, she then would bear the pressure brought by him?
 
For a time she did not know what was good to speak, her heart already tangled into a hemp bundle.
 
"What I owe you, bound to definitely return and repay to you!" Not knowing whether it was to argue and explain for herself, or whether wanting to let Shao Jizu's heart feel a bit better, she in a small voice again said: "It is only that you must understand, that I at present go to the capital city is also absolutely not to go find him."
 
Shao Jizu's eyes finally recovered his all-along-as-usual freezing coldness, resilience, and composure: "If you are not going to find him, then the thing upon that Zhan Zhao's body is precisely entrusted to you to bring to Kaifeng, is it or is it not?"
 
After this light, light turn of words was spoken, Shao Jizu was already unspeakably regretful——
 
Although this turn of words was light, in Huo Linglong's listening, it however within an instant appeared like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, shocking her into a single stumble, retreating back one step. Her face color suddenly then became pale and bloodless.
 
All ignorant tenderness, all unawakened foolish dreams, all remaining and surviving illusions, all hope deeply hidden in the bottom of the heart, were all within this one flash of an instant, by this not light and not heavy turn of words, crushed and powdered to pieces. It just appeared as if it were unfeeling destiny, forcing her to open up the eye of the bottom of her heart, to look a single look at this human world's deception and unfeelingness.
——"Originally you coming still was because of this!"
——"Originally you still have not changed!"
 
Inside her eyes, there was already filled with disappointment and fear. Could it be that she feared the maliciousness, evil, and complexity within this human nature, or feared that everything that had once been beautiful within memory in the final result broke and shattered cleanly and purely?
 
It was only that amidst the disappointment and fear, unexpectedly there possessed a thread of relaxation: he and she, after all, were without lingering and remaining, and no longer possessed attachment and nostalgic longing.
 
Shao Jizu's heart was already cold. Cold to the point of every single inch of flesh and skin.
——He originally ought to have been more careful.
 
He said anxiously: "Linglong, you listen to me speak. I all along the way pursued down, only then to know that you upon the road met onto him. That person all along uses a portion of false benevolence and false righteousness to buy up people's hearts; I am worried that you would be by him so deceived, and fall into his trap."
 
Huo Linglong word by word repeated his words: "By him so deceived? You might as well honestly tell me, the one deceiving me, in the final conclusion is it you or is it he?"
 
Her eye-expression already possessed how much heartbreak: "I all along the way from the Xiqiao Ferry crossed over, these words of yours can still deceive whom!"
 
Shao Jizu was without words.
 
Having spoken to here, her voice had already unconsciously and slightly trembled: "What about him?"
 
Shao Jizu said: "You speak of who it is?"
 
Huo Linglong said: "You do not need to again deceive me, and additionally do not need to pretend not to know. When I passed through the Xiqiao Ferry port, I had already asked. He, he has already fallen into your hands."
 
Shao Jizu struggled, saying: "Linglong, you listen to me speak——"
 
Huo Linglong however appeared as if she had not heard, saying word by word: "What I ask is you, how he in the final result has turned out. What have you done to him."
 
Tears, appeared as if within her eyes rolling to and rolling fro.
 
Beneath the evening sun, the crystal-clear tear-pearls flashed light.
——For whom was she shedding tears?
 
Shao Jizu let out a long sigh, and said: "You merely along with him spent these few days, and then so concern yourself with him, to the point where unexpectedly even your Huo family's Linglong Honey, which everyone upon the martial forest dreams of and seeks after, unexpectedly all was given to him. ——I also did not do anything much to him, it is merely that at present the human and horse forces of the Jinshi Hall and Jun Mountain are precisely in the middle of escorting him upon the road toward Xiangyang."
 
Huo Linglong wondered: "How again were you able to look out that he had once taken the Linglong Honey?"
 
Shao Jizu slightly sighed: "One is afraid mostly it still is not limited to one taking; if it were not your Huo family's Linglong Honey, with his body, at that Xiqiao Ferry port forcedly using that Crane Soaring to Heaven, one is afraid that Crane Soaring to Heaven upon the spot would have wanted his life!"
 
He spoke to here, looking at Huo Linglong, the sorrowful and merciful facial expression was concern toward her: "Linglong, I indeed am for your good. The Prince of Xiangyang's formidableness is already not what you are able to imagine! Just like Zhan Zhao, even if being in person a generation's Southern Hero, and additionally possessing peerless martial arts and wisdom, this turn having jumbled your Prince of Xiangyang's mansion into a heaven-turning and earth-upsetting state, at the Prince's place here, it then already is a single capital crime. And let us not speak that he in the Xiqiao Ferry port single battle additionally used out the Crane Soaring to Heaven, even if having taken your Huo family's miraculous pellet and medicinal herb, at present even whether he can stiffly endure through these two days' road journey cannot be guaranteed; even if returning to Xiangyang, the Prince's rules are stern and solemn, and he absolutely will not let pass this single life of his. Linglong, therefore I with true facts inform you, the thing he handed over to you is not different from a disaster-star that beckons trouble to come onto the body; you must not mistake one time and mistake again, again opposing the Prince, you had better hand that thing back over to me, and from this time on not manage this turn of affairs of the Prince of Xiangyang's mansion."
 
Huo Linglong gave a cold laugh, and said: "If it were not that Zhan Zhao along this way, early and late with the Xingyun Manor and the Hanshui Palace successively connectedly traded hands, you, apart from those filthy and dirty ghost-tricks, again possess what capability to be able to at the Xiqiao Ferry port catch and grasp onto him? Why should I additionally believe your words? No matter how formidable that master of yours is, that which his actions and doings harm, can it be it is not the commoner hundred surnames of the world? Why again should I bend and submit toward him?!"
 
Shao Jizu bit his teeth and said: "The affairs of the Prince of Xiangyang, were they also told to you by him? Could it be that you would rather believe a person whom you have known for not up to three days, yet do not believe my words? You believed his words, opposing the Prince, could it be you do not fear regretting?"
 
Huo Linglong lofted up her head, and said: "Even if it is merely two or three days, then it also already is sufficient, why should I regret?"
 
She looked at him, inside her eye-expression there already possessed a thread of slight contempt: "I believe him, and do not believe you, only because you yourself, how again can you compare up to him!"
 
Shao Jizu's anger rushed upward. Huo Linglong's words were just like a freezing cold sword, suddenly then piercing and stimulating his pride, his majesty, his wild ambition.
 
He did not understand, he did not believe! His face color turned harsh, and he proudly said: "I, Shao Jizu, am a top-tier standing pillar between heaven and earth; literary talent and martial arts, which single point cannot compare up to him. If one is to speak of official merit and fame, he is no more than a fourth-rank sword-bearing guard before the Emperor's carriage, I however am the Commander of the Prince of Xiangyang's mansion. Why would you rather believe his words, yet do not believe my words?"
 
Huo Linglong's eyes no longer looked at him, his words beside her ear were just as if a clear wind blowing past. Only after a long time did she then slowly say: "You are wrong. He is precisely he. I believe his words is not because of his literary talent and martial arts, and is additionally not because of his official position height or lowness. His conquering and surpassing you is in being open, bright, and upright, is in the chivalrous heart and mind that takes the world as one's own responsibility. Although you are a top-tier standing pillar of a hero, although you are a person whose use of affection reaches the deepest point, you however eternally cannot compare up to him."
 
Inside Shao Jizu's eyes, again it appeared as if there were raging flames leaping up, he however gave a cold laugh and said: "You originally spoke to the utmost of Little Zhao's good points, I originally did not mind it, that was no more than because his status is honored and noble, and additionally accords with your temper and nature. At present you unexpectedly speak onto Zhan Zhao——"
 
Huo Linglong said in a faint and distant voice: "Even if it is Little Zhao, he also already cannot compare up to him.”