CH 19.1

Chapter 19: Bump into Each Other (1) Original translation is from tenderflower's blog.

Zhu’s family had a special pig house next to the town which was managed by servants every day, but Zhu Laicai liked to feed the pigs himself, so he built a pigsty in the corner of the backyard. He cleaned and fed them himself. In his own words, if you didn’t listen to a few pig snorts before going to bed, you wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.

After eating the mung bean cakes in three or two bites, Zhu Yuanbao took Shu Lan to the edge of the pigsty. The two climbed up the wall, sat down side by side, and looked at the seven fat pigs inside together.

“The seven of them are brothers. How are they, are they fat? My father is the best at raising pigs and everyone in the town is not as good as him!” Zhu Yuanbao said proudly and his eyes were sparkling.

Shu Lan looked at the seven, big, white pigs lying side by side on the lime ground below, and nodded earnestly: “The mother pig can really give birth and seven of them are born at once!”

Zhu Yuanbao snorted: “Seven is nothing. I have seen sixteen piglets once, so rare and strange!” His tone was very proud. He suddenly thought of something. He patted his thigh furiously, his face was full of excitement, and said: “Wait here, I’ll go get a knife and let you see how I kill pigs!” He turned around, jumped off the wall, and ran towards the back door.

Shu Lan opened her mouth wide and stared blankly at his back. Why did Brother Yuanbao want to kill pigs?

Looking back at the big, white pigs lying on their sides in the sun, Shu Lan’s eyes were full of sympathy. It was so pitiful. They were going to be killed when they were sleeping. If they were awake, they could avoid Brother Yuanbao. Alas, these big, lazy pigs, what were they sleeping in during the day!

“Ah, what a rotten father, he actually bolted the back door!”

Zhu Yuanbao tried several times but couldn’t open the door. He couldn’t help but slam the door and shout. If they didn’t look like each other, he really doubted if he was picked up by his father!

Shu Lan was overjoyed and took one last look at the pigs. With her hands supported, the person fell to the ground.

“Brother Yuanbao, since your door is bolted, why don’t you go to my grandmother’s house to play. There are cherries there, red ones, and they’re delicious.” Shu Lan ran to Zhu Yuanbao and invited him warmly.

When she said this, Zhu Yuanbao really felt a little thirsty, but he thought more than Shu Lan, and hesitantly said: “What if your grandmother knows?”

Shu Lan blinked indifferently: “If she knows then she knows, my grandmother likes children, she definitely won’t say anything about you!”

“Who is a child?” Zhu Yuanbao glared at Shu Lan. He compared the size of the two and raised his chest: “I’m 13 and I can marry a wife in two years!”

Shu Lan had been glared at by him several times today. Seeing him glaring at her again, and pretending to be a little adult, he didn’t want to play with her, so she pouted and said: “Like to go or not, if you don’t want to go, I’ll go back!” Regardless of Zhu Yuanbao, she turned her head and ran to the corner of the room, exerting force with her arms and legs, and in a blink of an eye, she stood on the top of the wall. She looked back, she was about to jump off.

Zhu Yuanbao hurriedly shouted: “I’m coming too!” He hadn’t drunk water for a long time. Anyway, the relationship between the two families was good. He would explain the reason later. He believed the old madam of the Qin family would not be angry.

Only then did Shu Lan smile, move to the side, and wait for him to come up obediently.

Zhu Yuanbao could climb walls, but he must step on a high stool until his chest was level with the wall before he could climb up.

Therefore, when he stood on the ground and looked up at the smiling Shu Lan, for the first time, he thought his fat body was in the way.

After trying several times in a row, he fell and his buttocks were about to turn into four petals. Zhu Yuanbao finally couldn’t help and burst into foul language: “Even if I don’t go, I don’t believe I can die of thirst without drinking water!”

Shu Lan saw him fall several times with her own eyes and felt a slight pain in her buttocks. At this time, hearing he was about to give up, she couldn’t help but hurriedly said, “Try again, you almost came up just now or I’ll pull you up!” She said as she leaned on the wall with her bent legs and stretched out her right hand to pick him up.

Zhu Yuanbao’s expression softened. He shook his head and said: “Forget it, you don’t have the strength, be careful to be dragged down by me.” He looked like he didn’t want to try again.

Shu Lan couldn’t bear to see him trapped in the yard alone. She suddenly had an idea and smiled at him: “Wait, I’ll go inside and move the stool!” After saying that, the person jumped down.

Zhu Yuanbao only heard the sound of her landing, and the sound of a “thud” seemed to reach his heart directly, causing him to have an indescribable emotion. It was just like a heavy rainstorm in summer, cool and wanton, dispelling the irritability after repeated failures.

Calming down, Zhu Yuanbao leaned against the wall, waiting for Shu Lan to come back.

Instead of waiting for Shu Lan, he waited for a sturdy yellow-faced old woman.

At the moment when he was pulled up by the old woman, Zhu Yuanbao made up his mind. He must get rid of this fat as soon as possible which was too embarrassing!

“Young Master Zhu, our old madam is waiting for you in the living room, please go with this old servant!” The yellow-faced old woman said expressionlessly.

Zhu Yuanbao knew Shu Lan must have been discovered, so he smiled helplessly, and had to follow behind the old woman. When he was about to enter the door, he caught a glimpse of the red cherries under the eastern wall, and suddenly he was not so nervous. Nervous for what? He had been beaten by his father and he was used to it!
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