Chapter 140: Burning Smile

The sky was clear and cloudless after the snow.

White walls and black tiles.

A young man in a green shirt with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes stood on the wall with a smile on his face.

Like pine and bamboo.

The green mountains are handsome.

Pei Shu looked up at the boy's smug expression and really wanted to press his face into the snow.

When she and her mother went out to attend banquets, if they occasionally met young men from other families, they would always be polite to them.

She had never seen any young man as noisy as Xue Yuzhuo.

Because their two yards happened to be adjacent to each other, Xue Yuzhuo would lie on the wall every now and then to "provoke" them.

Pei Shu knew that her younger brother had a very good relationship with Xue Yucheng, the second son of the Xue family next door, and they were always together.

My younger brother often goes to play at the Xue Mansion next door, and when he comes back he always says that the eldest son of the Xue family is humble and generous.

Pei Shu thought her brother was such a fool.

"I still have to practice painting. I don't have time to play with you." Pei Shu turned and walked into the house.

Xue Yuzhuo called out from behind: "I have something serious to say."

Pei Shu turned around: "What's the matter?"

Xue Yuzhuo pointed at a few soft dates scattered on the ground beside the wall:

"All the soft dates in my yard have fallen into your hands."

There were several sturdy old trees in Xue Yuzhuo's yard. The crowns of the locust trees and jujube trees stretched over the wall, and half of them grew above the Pei family's yard.

The jujube tree bears fruit in spring and matures only when the fruits shrink into small black fruits during the severe cold of winter. Indeed, many of them fell into Pei Shu's yard.

Pei Shu: "If you don't like fruits falling into other people's yards, then just have someone cut off the overhanging branches."

Xue Yuzhuo: "That won't do. My grandmother likes to eat the jujubes from this tree. If we cut it down, she'll be heartbroken."

Pei Shu bit her lip. The old lady of the Xue family was very nice and kind to her.

"Then I'll have someone pick out the dates for you."

"That's best."

Pei Shu called someone to clear the snow by the wall first, and picked out all the soft dates and packed them up.

The servant came to clean up, and after clearing away the top layer of snow, he actually took out a kitten.

A white cat, its body almost blending into the snow.

A cat came from nowhere, its leg was injured and it couldn't move. It was trapped in the snow and was almost frozen to death.

"Let me see it." Pei Shu took the cat from the servant.

The moment she hugged the cat, her eyes turned red with heartache, as red as the rabbit's eyes.

Pei Shu looked at Xue Yuzhuo with moist eyes.

It suddenly rained in the boy's heart.

Xue Yuzhuo put away his playful expression:

"Give it to me. My steward Zhang knows how to treat animal diseases."

Pei Shu asked the servant to climb the ladder and hand the dying cat to Xue Yuzhuo.

Xue Yuzhuo ran away with the cat in his arms.

For several days afterwards, Pei Shu did not see Xue Yuzhuo.

She couldn't concentrate when writing or painting, as she always thought of the cat curled up in her hands.

Until one day, after the snow had stopped, the sound of a cat's meow was heard outside the house.

Pei Shu immediately went out to see.

Under the warm winter sun, the young man on the wall held the cat in one hand and waved at her with the other:

"Pei Jiaojiao, look, Uncle Zhang said this cat will be fine in two months."

Pei Shu was delighted and asked someone to go up to the wall to get the cat.

"Xue Yuzhuo, thank you for your help." Two small boys were reflected in Pei Shu's clear pupils.

When she smiled, it was as if spring had arrived early, and the scenery of the whole yard became brighter.

Xue Yuzhuo's eyes seemed to wander for some reason, and he stammered:

"I'm going to practice."

Pei Shu carried the kitten into the house and saw that there was a splint on the kitten's left hind foot. Its pair of jade-like eyes looked at her, which was very adorable.

Meow--

The kitten meowed softly.

Pei Shu put the kitten on the couch: "Are you hungry?"

She took out the goat milk cheese she usually ate and fed it to the kitten.

As I watched the kitten lower its head to eat, I suddenly remembered that I didn’t know its name.

"I'll go ask him."

Pei Shu went to the courtyard wall again, stepped on the ladder for the first time, and tremblingly climbed to the top of the wall. Two or three maids supported her fearfully from below.

"You are not allowed to tell anyone, otherwise my parents will punish me." Pei Shu lowered her head and warned.

The maids nodded their heads in agreement: "Miss, we will never tell anyone."

Just as Pei Shu put her hands on the top of the wall, she saw a figure leaping into the air.

The boy next door is really practicing sword.

When he swung his sword, it was as smooth as flowing water and full of vigor and vitality. The long sword split the east wind, startling and falling all the plum blossoms in the courtyard.

The trees, the ground, and the lapels are all covered with cinnabar plum petals, dotted with red.

But no matter how red the petals are, they are not as red as the boy’s ears.

He didn't even look at the wall, but he had already noticed that there was someone there.

After Xue Yuzhuo finished practicing a set of sword techniques and took a long breath, he asked with his cheeks burning:

"Ahem, have you seen enough of me?"

Pei Shu was so mesmerized that she forgot why she climbed up the wall in the first place. She nodded blankly.

"Xue Yuzhuo, your swordsmanship is amazing."

Xue Yuzhuo received the compliment, and the corners of his lips couldn't help but rise, and he couldn't hide his pride:

"You're too kind. I'm only average. The Zixiao Swordsmanship in the martial arts world is the most powerful."

Pei Shu: "Have you learned Zixiao Sword Technique?"

Xue Yuzhuo pursed his lips and said, "To learn Zixiao Sword Technique, one must leave home and seek a disciple. I have never learned it."

Pei Shu's eyes showed admiration: "I have never seen Zixiao swordsmanship, yours is the most powerful swordsmanship I have ever seen."

Xue Yuzhuo's hair was blown by the winter wind, and it glowed warmly under the sun:

"Did you climb up the wall just to watch me practice swordplay?"

Pei Shu shook her head: "Of course not. I came to ask you what the cat's name is. You saved the cat, so I asked you to name it."

Xue Yuzhuo: "Today is the ninth day of the lunar calendar, so let's call it the ninth day of the lunar calendar."

"Okay." Pei Shu jumped down the ladder excitedly.

She returned to the house, held the kitten in her arms, and lovingly stroked its fur over and over again:

"Chujiu is really greedy."

"The ninth day is really adorable..."

"The ninth day of the lunar calendar, how wonderful."

The ninth day of the first lunar month is a good day. The cinnabar plum blossoms are in full bloom, like the love and affection of young people.

Her young man, whose sword energy was as frosty as frost, was standing under the tree with flowers all over his body, his smile radiant.