Chapter 4: Husband and Wife (Revised Draft)

  Holding Yan'er, thinking of Fei'er who was just a step away, I walked back to Yan'er's mosquito net with heavy footsteps.

  I know I've lost Fei forever, but unfortunately she's still there waiting for me foolishly. How can I explain to her?

  Actually, the mosquito net of Swallow and the one where Feifei lives are quite different. Swallow's mosquito net is small and delicate, not tied to a tree, but supported by several short poles, and it's rather low. My mosquito net is tall and big, almost twice as large as hers, how come I didn't notice at all? Fate plays tricks on people! It seems that Feifei and I are really not destined to be together!

  I put Yan'er on the ground, and she wrapped her arms around my neck, refusing to let go. Her mouth was still muttering: "Why? Why do you want to ruin my body?"

  I'd better tell the truth: I came to the mountain with Feifei to visit a weapons expert named Lin Yan, and I also set up a mosquito net for Feifei, just like yours. When I was about to leave, she asked me to come back after a while and sleep together in the mosquito net. It was too dark to see clearly, so I mistook you for Feifei inside the mosquito net.

  She was so angry that she cried and laughed at the same time, and hit me with her small fists again, but this time it didn't hurt at all, instead it felt a bit like caressing. She pouted and said: "I'm really unlucky, my heart wasn't even in it when I slept with him, not even a little bit of love, is he that bad? Alas, I suppose this is also fate!"

  As she spoke, tears flowed down her powdered face, and her delicate chest trembled slightly, making people feel pitiful. I hastily hugged her into my arms and comforted her, saying: "Although I was mistaken at the time, it can also be considered a lucky coincidence. Now I really like you, don't cry, let's go back and get married, I promise to love you for a lifetime, take good care of you for a lifetime, and never leave you! My heart promises to always be with you!"

  She rubbed her face against my chest, muttering to herself: "This is really fate, I just got the Xuan Yuan Wu Gong secret book yesterday, and last night you broke through it with me, and you're still with the woman you deeply love, isn't this exactly what the book requires? Is it the heavens that brought us together? Otherwise, how could you have slept with me?"

  "Looking for you?" I was surprised again, she - could it be that the military expert Lin Yan - Lin - Yan? I knew I must have misunderstood the name at first, when I heard "expert" I thought of an old comrade with glasses, researching military equipment must be a male comrade, so I misheard "Yan" as "Yan"! This is really a case of searching everywhere but finding it in the most unexpected place! I asked: "Are you the military expert Lin Yan?"

  "What an expert, just knowing a bit more about weapons! Alas, who knew having knowledge of weapons would bring such big trouble and let you bully me for no reason?! I've always wanted to be like Lin Qiaoqi, a career woman, never thought of getting married, but you slept with me, what am I supposed to do? Is this my fate?" Lin Yan said, tears streaming down her face again.

  My heart was filled with joy, and I teased her saying: "What to do? Then marry me! Hehe, it seems that this trip wasn't in vain after all. I found a weapons expert and also got a beautiful wife. Foolish people have foolish luck, and my good fortune is not small!"

  She punched me and said, "Your good fortune doesn't stop there!" As she spoke, she lit up the charging lamp, pulled out a jade pendant from under the pillow, and a yellow silk cloth. She carefully took out a small handkerchief to wipe the jade pendant clean and said: "Yesterday, I accidentally fell into an ancient cave while exploring over there, and inside, I found these two things. This is the Xuan Yuan Plate, used for detecting treasure; if it detects treasure, it will heat up. This is the Xuan Yuan Clan's Shu Tian Jue, the most powerful internal martial arts secret in the world. If you practice it well, you can become younger and more vigorous with age, have a body as hard as diamond, improve your lightness skill, increase your strength, change your physical quality, and help you cultivate the most superior martial arts in the world!"

  I let out a "heh" and laughed: "Can I become Zhang Wuji?"

  The swallow nodded: "It's almost! Or I'd say you're lucky! Don't believe me, take a look at it, it's all written here!"

  I took the jade pendant and saw a vividly carved jade dragon and two jade phoenixes on it, with the dragon and phoenix tightly entwined together, embracing each other in a ball.

  The swallow said, "This is a jade pendant for men. It must be grasped after mastering the Shu Tian Jue in order to make it work! Come here, I'll put it around your neck, and you won't take it off for the rest of your life!" After putting it on, she spread out the yellow cloth and said: "Look at this Shu Tian Jue. It requires a man and two women to form a couple and practice the three-refining skills together!"

  I was stunned when I heard it, I saw Jin Yong's couple practicing martial arts together, but I've never heard of a husband and wife having three wives? Besides, the marriage law doesn't allow one husband to have two wives either?

  Swallow smiled and said: "Looking at this Shu Tian Jue, I now understand that it was the heavens that brought us three together. You broke my body and brought a woman you deeply love, isn't this just one husband with two wives? Isn't this exactly in line with the numbers of the prior heaven?"

  Look at the swallow, is she sick or something? And you believe this deceitful thing? What antique? Take a good look at that yellow cloth, it hasn't changed color at all. I think it's probably just one or two years old!

  She watched me staring at the yellow cloth, she didn't say anything, picked up the lighter and lit it. I rushed to grab it, even if it was fake, there's no need to burn it, let's study it, see how they cheated! But I was blocked by Yan'er.

  It's strange that the yellow cloth was burned for half a day, but it didn't change at all, still bright and beautiful!

  I took that yellow fabric over and examined it carefully. It wasn't fabric, but silk brocade. That made it even more incomprehensible - it shouldn't be afraid of fire!

  "It's the same as the thread on your jade pendant, made from the heavenly silkworms of ancient people. It's fireproof, arrowproof and wear-resistant. Don't look down on its thinness, your spear may not be able to pierce it!" Yanyu said in a sweet and mellow tone.

  This time I really believe it, at least modern people can't make this kind of heavenly silk, it's probably real! Then the secret recipe on it shouldn't be fake either! Wow, Yan'er and I are going to become great heroes!

  I took the secret book and saw that it was densely filled with plum blossom seals, the first line read: This skill must be practiced by a husband and two wives together to achieve great success! Is there really such a skill in this world?!

  I spread the secret book on the ground, and two people lay on it, head to head, like guessing a riddle, looking at the secret book once, roughly understanding it. In general, when practicing this skill, you need to absorb and supplement while operating, making yin and yang interact, transforming into true energy, enhancing men's internal strength, and then relying on ***, transferring internal strength to women, forming a result of three people jointly improving their skills. Because the posture taken during practice must be practiced by three people together, two people cannot practice it! I think the ancestors who invented this martial art must have designed it according to their own situation of having one wife and one concubine, in order to achieve joint improvement among three people. It seems that modern people want to practice this skill, they still need to hurry up and find a mistress! Ha, isn't this good too? Practicing extraordinary martial arts and enjoying the blessings of all people!

  "Husband, is that Feifei of yours a martial arts prodigy?" Yanner asked, staring at me.

  My face turned red as I said, "How can you say that Feifei is mine? Now only Yanner is mine, no one else can belong to me! However, she really has the makings of a martial artist. She's currently the women's sanda champion in our province! Don't look at how gentle and elegant she looks, when she fights, it's ruthless and cunning, all deadly moves, not like a girl at all!"

  "That's great, you must bring her in, the three of us will practice the Shu Tian Jue together today! Let the country's precious martial arts heritage flourish! This is the arrangement of heaven, it is the arrangement of fate!" Yanyan said with a sharp tone, carrying a few parts of command and a few parts of overbearingness!

  "Are you practicing today? Are you bragging? Do you think others are easy to deal with, just because I want to collect them in? They look so good and have such high qualifications, do they even like me? It's not that easy to get them on board. Besides, this isn't something that can be done with just a few words, even if she agrees, who knows when it'll happen, it's not like you think, practicing today and getting results immediately?" I clearly have no confidence!

  "You're stupid, why not just tell her the secret of turning uncooked rice into cooked rice like I did, and let her know that it's fate that brought us together? If she doesn't love you, she wouldn't follow you to the mountains in the middle of the night to catch frogs, or squeeze into a mosquito net with you! You really don't understand women's thoughts, so stupid!"

  "But that was in the past, now I have a wife, will she still follow me?"

  "You're so stupid, can't you take the initiative?" He said, pulling me along: "Let's go, now you go to her mosquito net and bring her back to our Dragon family. We'll start practicing the Shu Tian Jue in the mountains right away. Whenever we master it, that's when we'll come down from the mountain! If we don't master it, you can just stay here with me, anyway, we won't go hungry or thirsty here!"

  She dragged me to the front of Feifei's mosquito net, and before I could react, she used her hands and feet to push me into Feifei's mosquito net.