Chapter 39 Chapter 39 Beautiful and Strong Miserable Dad 9
The next day, Zhuozhuo woke up completely dazed. He looked at Feng Pansheng and said, "Daddy, the bed is moving. It's about to run away."
"Then why don't you come down quickly?" Feng Pansheng spoke a little slowly, but he often spoke like this when talking to Zhuozhuo, and Zhuozhuo didn't notice anything unusual.
After hearing this, Zhuozhuo hurriedly got out of the bed and threw herself into Feng Pansheng's arms, "Run, run, Daddy, run!" She stretched her little body towards the door, as if there was a monster chasing her from behind.
Feng Pansheng carried Zhuozhuo to wash his face. He pointed at the water in the basin and said, "Zhuozhuo, look! The basin is moving too. What should we do?"
Zhuozhuo stared wide-eyed and observed for a while. Seeing that the water had not spilled, he said with relief: "It's okay, the basin is playing with the water."
After saying this, Zhuozhuo was startled. He placed his hands on Feng Pansheng's shoulders and looked around like a vigilant little animal. "Daddy! The house is moving!"
She finally realized that this wasn't a room in the inn, and said in surprise, "Dad, did the inn give us our current room?"
Feng Pansheng couldn't help but laugh, "Yeah, should we go back and settle the score with the innkeeper?"
Zhuozhuo exclaimed, "No, it didn't agree to us staying in the inn. It didn't like us, so it sent us away."
Despite saying this, Zhuozhuo wasn't angry or sad, and said seriously, "From now on, we have to ask if a house wants us to stay before we go in and sleep."
"Okay," Feng Pansheng was overwhelmed by the cuteness. "Zhuozhuo, guess where we are now?"
Zhuozhuo got out of Feng Pansheng's arms and ran around, suddenly noticing the vast expanse of water outside the window. Shocked, frightened, and excited, she ran back to Feng Pansheng and hugged his legs with such force that his body swayed. "Daddy, we're on the water!"
"Yes, Daddy told Zhuozhuo last night that we were going on a boat today. Zhuozhuo, do you remember?" Feng Pansheng picked up Zhuozhuo and took her to the window to look at the water. "This is Dinghe River. The boat we're on is floating on it. We're going downstream to the capital, and it's very fast. Look at the shore."
Zhuozhuo looked at the houses, mountains, and fields that flew by quickly on the shore, and kept exclaiming, "The boat is going so fast, what does the captain look like?"
"After breakfast, we'll go to the deck and find out."
Zhuozhuo nodded, then suddenly opened his eyes wide and pointed at the water, "There's a fish! Daddy, a fish just jumped out of the water!"
"Daddy saw it. It was a really big fish, dark blue in color."
In order to go out and see the water, Zhuozhuo ate twice as fast. After finishing the last mouthful of soup, he rushed to the door, shouting, "Daddy, hurry up!"
Feng Pansheng walked over slowly and said, "Slow down, the boat is unstable and you could easily fall."
"But Daddy is so slow!" Zhuozhuo looked up at Feng Pansheng and suddenly realized something was wrong. "Daddy, are you sick?" Her eyes instantly filled with tears. "Daddy, your face is so pale. What's wrong with you?"
Zhuozhuo hugged Feng Pansheng's legs and pushed him onto the bed. "Daddy, go to sleep. I'll ask Uncle Baizhu to boil some medicine for you!"
Feng Pansheng wanted to bend down and pick up Zhuozhuo, but Zhuozhuo twisted her body to resist, "Daddy, don't play around. You're sick and need to rest."
"Dad is just seasick. He's already taken the medicine Baizhu prescribed." Feng Pansheng said, "I want to go outside for some fresh air. It's too stuffy in this room. Can Zhuozhu accompany me?"
Feng Pansheng is seasick, but he can't live without taking a boat for the rest of his life. Bai Zhu had already prescribed targeted medicine for him, but it couldn't completely eliminate the reaction, so he just had to endure it.
"Okay. You must tell me if Daddy is not feeling well."
Zhuozhuo stood on tiptoe and held Feng Pansheng's hand, trying to take care of him. When they reached the deck, Zhuozhuo was stunned by the endless water. She looked left and right, forward and backward, her little head spinning like a top, her eyes not enough to keep her eyes focused.
Even so, Zhuozhuo did not let go of Feng Pansheng's hand and run away happily. She took Feng Pansheng's hand and found a place with few people, sat on the deck and started looking at the water.
From time to time, fish leap out of the water on the river, birds such as cormorants fly by to hunt, and small boats are overtaken by large ships and then left far behind.
Zhuozhuo watched with great interest, unconsciously leaning into Feng Pansheng's arms, and excitedly crawling all over him like a monkey. Suddenly, Zhuozhuo stared in one direction and stopped moving, "Daddy, there's a person over there."
Feng Pansheng looked over and saw a person floating on the water. Normally, it would be a swollen corpse. He immediately turned Zhuozhuo around and said, "I can't tell what it is. Let's go find someone to pull it out and take a look."
Feng Pansheng ordered Bai Zhu to salvage it, and hinted that he should use something else to fool Zhuo Zhuo, and then took Zhuo Zhuo into the house to wait.
After a while, there was a commotion on the deck, and then Bai Zhu came to report. He glanced at Zhuo Zhuo, wanting to convey his wish to "report privately" to Feng Pansheng, but Zhuo Zhuo asked with concern: "Uncle Bai Zhu! How is that person?"
Bai Zhu subconsciously said: "Miss, I've been soaking for seven or eight hours and I feel a little weak."
Feng Pansheng looked over with sharp eyes and chuckled, "Oh?"
Bai Zhu said with a wooden face, "Master, the one caught was Xu Wenchang, and there was a big golden-red fish in his fishing net."
Feng Pansheng's eyes darkened, and he wanted Bai Zhu to throw the man back into the river.
Yesterday, after Xu Wenchang had tricked Zhuozhuo with his lies, he went home and went fishing in the river. But golden-red fish are so rare, and after struggling for most of the night, he still hadn't caught any. Instead, he was accidentally washed out in the middle of the river. He didn't have the energy to swim to shore, so he followed his grandfather's instructions, relaxing and floating on his back, hoping to be spotted by passing boats.
Unfortunately, no one noticed Xu Wenchang until daybreak. Perhaps someone saw him, but no one cared. Just as Xu Wenchang was trying to grab a small boat, the sound of water breaking approached, and then someone grabbed him by the neck and pulled him onto the boat.
Xu Wenchang thanked him weakly and found that a large golden-red fish had slipped into the fishing net he was holding tightly onto.
When Zhuozhuo saw Xu Wenchang, she didn't recognize him as the boy selling fish yesterday. Only after seeing the fish did she remember him. She happily hugged the fish in her arms, and after a flurry of activity, she kept shouting, "Daddy, give me money!"
The big fish was very lively and quickly jumped out of Zhuozhuo's arms. When Zhuozhuo squatted down to catch it, the fish's tail slapped her face.
Seeing this, Feng Pansheng stepped on the big fish, held his breath and observed Zhuozhuo. Seeing that she was not aware of the pain at all, he placed the unconscious big fish in her arms and asked with a smile: "How would you like to eat fish today?"
"I want fish head tofu soup! It has a big head!"
"good."
Feng Pansheng took Zhuozhuo to the kitchen to deliver the fish, and then asked Qiuyu Qiufeng to change her into clean clothes. By this time, the red marks on her face had almost faded, but he still felt it was extremely glaring, and he was very worried -
Zhuozhuo was having so much fun that she didn’t notice being sick or in pain at all. If she was bullied in the future, she wouldn’t complain!
Feng Pansheng said seriously, "Zhuozhuo, next time you go out to play, if you get wronged, you must tell Daddy."
"I know!" Zhuozhuo said, shaking her head like a student being spanked by her teacher. "Those who look at me with eyes that make me uncomfortable are bad guys. Those who say things that make me unhappy are bad guys. Those who hit me are bad guys." She waved her little fists and roared fiercely, "I'm going to beat these bad guys until they cry!"
Feng Pansheng squeezed Zhuozhuo's tiny fist, which was no bigger than an egg, and said, "You're still young. If you can't win, let Bai Zhu Qiuyu and the others do it. If the other side has more people, run away quickly. When you get home, tell Daddy, and he'll fight for you."
"Okay!" Zhuozhuo nodded obediently, "Let daddy beat the bad guy until he cries." Then Feng Pansheng rubbed something cool on his face.
"Hey?" Zhuozhuo looked at the ointment in Feng Pansheng's hand in surprise. "Daddy, what's wrong with my face?"
Feng Pansheng said helplessly: "The fish tail slapped you in the face."
Zhuozhuo touched his face blankly, then realized that it hurt. Tears welled up in his eyes and he said coquettishly, "Daddy, I want to fight back."
So Feng Pansheng took Zhuozhuo to the kitchen, found the fish head that was still hanging on to its death, and slapped it.
9972:[……]
It's difficult to comment.
After eating fish at noon, Zhuozhuo lay on the bed and dozed off. He vaguely heard Qiuyu say that Xu Wenchang wanted to see the young lady.
Zhuozhuo thought, "That young lady looks like her, but who is Xu Wenchang?" Then he heard Feng Pansheng ruthlessly reject him, asking Qiuyu to tell him that Zhuozhuo had been kind in saving his life and that he should return to support his family. Feng Pansheng also said he would send a small boat to take Xu Wenchang back.
Zhuozhuo thought, the boat is so small, what would it feel like to sit in it, and then slowly fell asleep.
Xu Wenchang, on the deck, listened to Qiuyu's message and suddenly realized that his grandfather was seriously ill at home. If he died, his grandfather would not survive. Zhuozhuo had saved both of their lives, and he would definitely repay her in the future!
After Zhuozhuo woke up, 9972 called out to her in her mind, saying that the person she saved was not an ordinary fishmonger, but the ungrateful Xu Dingshan.
In the original novel, the heroine, Liu Jiaoniang, is a character who thrives. She lost her mother at a young age and suffered greatly at the hands of her stepmother. At fifteen, she married Xu Dingshan, the grandson of her father's savior. After marriage, Liu Jiaoniang managed the household and, with her embroidery skills, supported Xu Dingshan's studies. Unexpectedly, he drowned while traveling to Beijing for the imperial examination.
Liu Jiaoniang went to Beijing alone to retrieve Xu Dingshan's body. She accidentally met Feng Huajun, who was hiding his identity, and was forced to be involved in various life-and-death crises and confidential events. Not only did she discover that Xu Dingshan had faked his death and married into the Prime Minister's Mansion, but it also broadened her horizons, awakened her personality, and found the direction of her life.
In short, Xu Dingshan is a very important character. I just hope that he can successfully marry Liu Jiaoniang after he returns.
However, in the original book, Grandpa Xu died when Xu Dingshan disappeared while fishing. Knowing that Xu Dingshan couldn't survive, he left a message for him to go to Liu Mansion. Now that Xu Wenchang has returned in time, Grandpa Xu should not die. Will he still use his grandson's kindness to repay his debt?
9972 was a bit conflicted. It worried that if something went wrong, Liu Jiaoniang wouldn't be able to leave her family and waste her life. But that was all it was. 9972 had seen countless people with tragic fates, but only Zhuozhuo had it moved its heart.
Zhuozhuo curiously asked 9972 what it was barking for. 9972 said it had just woken up and was having hysterics. Zhuozhuo then began to ask what hysterics were. After finding out, she enthusiastically performed for Feng Pansheng, scaring Feng Pansheng into thinking she was going crazy.
At noon the next day, after Zhuozhuo had finished her meal, Feng Pansheng pinched her little face to prevent her from sleeping. "We are about to get off the boat. Zhuozhuo, you can sleep when we get home."
Zhuozhuo hummed and acted coquettishly, "Daddy, hold me while I sleep."
At any other time, Feng Pansheng would have agreed, but Gan Song had sent word that the Imperial Guards were guarding the docks. He was worried that something might make a noise and wake Zhuo Zhuo, so he had to let her hold on for a while.
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