girl riding a horse

Chapter 19
As soon as Shen Liuzhen arrived at the training ground, he saw Xie Yuan holding an epee in both hands, chopping down the wooden stakes for practice.

The waist-thick hard wooden stake has already been cut in half by her, and she doesn't know how long it took.

At first, the rhythm of her swinging the sword was normal, but then she chopped faster and faster, as if she was slashing hard, and the sawdust fell down with a "crash".

Just as Shen Liuzhen was about to walk over to say hello to him, she saw her turn around beautifully, and the heavy sword drew a circle around her, and hit the gap of the wooden post with a "slap".

The stake broke completely, and a piece of stubble flew over, poking straight on the ground not far from him.

Shen Liuzhen's legs went limp in an instant...

Before he realized why his legs were weak.

"Ah...Ah Yuan...the teacher calls you home for dinner." He called to Xie Yuan from a distance.

Xie Yuan had seen him a long time ago, that's why he chopped so vigorously just now.

She walked over dragging an epee that was higher than her waist, and the point of the sword was sharpened on the ground, drawing a clear gully.

Shen Liuzhen suddenly felt that the place where he was beaten this morning was in severe pain again, so he couldn't help but took two steps back and looked at him timidly.

Xie Yuan stood still, staring fiercely at Shen Liuzhen with a pair of Danfeng eyes, and shouted:

"Don't look at me with a pitiful look. Your trick doesn't work here. You'd better act it out for my dad!"

Shen Liuzhen took another two steps back in fright, staring at the sword in her hand, fearing that Xie Yuan would be angry and kill him with the sword, and stammered:

"Ah...Ah Yuan, I was wrong. I will never sue you again, nor will I try to trick you in any way...you stay calm."

"Do you think I'm a fool? Will you believe your nonsense?" Xie Yuan said angrily.

Shen Liuzhen looked at Xie Yuan and was silent for a while, then said in a low voice: "What I said is true. Let me tell you my reasoning."

He looked at Xie Yuan's face and saw that he was willing to listen.Can't help sighing in my heart: Although Xie Yuan is like his father, he is a master who can do things, but one thing is excellent, that is, he is willing to reason with you.

"Look... If I provoke you again, you will no longer care about the constraints of the teacher and the teacher's wife. You will definitely beat me up like today, right?" Shen Liuzhen asked cautiously.

Xie Yuan frowned, with his red phoenix eyes raised at the corners of his eyes, looking at the power, he shook the heavy sword in his hand and said, "Yes, I've had enough of you, I won't bear anything!"

"I know, look at how you beat me," he said, pointing to his own injured face, "if I try to play tricks on you again, what good will it do me?"

Xie Yuan stared at him, and asked: "Could it be beneficial for you to be against me before? Didn't you still get beaten by Master? Since when did you take beating seriously? You are not afraid of pain, but others are too!"

Shen Liuzhen tilted his head, and said a little dejectedly, "How can you tell that I'm not afraid of pain? I'm also made of meat, so why shouldn't I be afraid of pain?"

Xie Yuan didn't believe it, and turned his head away with a "cut".

Shen Liuzhen shook his body, and said with some embarrassment: "You don't understand, I was beaten on my father's shoulders because he always wanted me to practice martial arts. As long as I make him think that beating me is useful, then I will definitely continue to do so in the future." If I continue to be beaten, there will never be a peaceful day, so I just bear it and keep silent, in fact, I also hurt. If you can not be beaten, who would want to be beaten?"

Shen Liuzhen spoke sincerely, with an expression of begging to believe.

Xie Yuan watched him silent for a while, finally let go and threw the sword on the ground, saying, "Tell me to my father, I'm not hungry!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and sat by the wall, and then...

A "gurgling" sound came out of her stomach in good time, and it was unusually loud.

Xie Yuan's face turned red all of a sudden, and she bit her lips resentfully, tears were about to come out of her aggrieved eyes, she raised her hands to cover her face, put her elbows on her knees, and did not move anymore.

Shen Liuzhen saw that her hand covering her face trembled a little, probably because she had been chopping stakes here all morning and was tired...

Can you not be hungry?
He walked slowly, imitating Xie Yuan and sat down at the base of the wall, leaning against him and cautiously said:
"A Yuan, I'm serious... I will never sue you again."

He paused, then quickly waved his hands and added: "It's not because you beat me up, absolutely not! You know me, I have never surrendered to being beaten like that by my father." This is a bit of an understatement...

He calmed down and said: "... I suddenly figured it out. If we sue each other, it will hurt both sides, and no one will be better... Just like this time, if you beat me up, your father will definitely beat you up too. Don, why bother?"

"Stop coming!" Xie Yuan put down his hand, turned his head and said angrily:

"Is it because I want to sue you? Your father beat you several times because he didn't like you. Treat me like I don't know!"

Shen Liuzhen felt guilty when he saw Xie Yuan's eyes, and said falteringly: "Then...then why does my father dislike me? Isn't it because you work too hard to make me look bad?"

"Am I working too hard or you are too weak?! You blame me for being lazy and unwilling to work?!!!" Xie Yuanqi's eyes were red, "Why don't you be lazy and memorize less, write less! Don't beg me Father's favor?!"

Her words were like a cannonball, fierce and fast, but at the end her stomach growled uncontrollably for a while.

"Gollum..."

Shen Liuzhen glanced at his stomach unconsciously, Xie Yuan quickly covered his stomach, and looked ahead angrily without speaking.

"I was wrong about this...I apologize to you. In the future, I will never sue you again, and you don't sue my father, so that we can both suffer less beatings. Actually, think about it , my father likes you, your father likes me, we two are actually very fair, there is no need to make it so stiff."

Xie Yuanhong stared ahead with his eyes still silent.

"Go back to eat, the teacher and the teacher's wife are very worried about you."

"I won't go! I won't accept it when I go back to get fifty boards, I'd rather starve to death!" Xie Yuan said bitterly.

"I'm going to admit my mistake and plead for you, so the teacher won't beat you? ... Look at my face, being beaten like this by you, just treat me as a show of sincerity first, how about we two settle down? "

Xie Yuan's stomach growled again in a timely manner.

She was so hungry, she hadn't eaten since morning, and took a wooden stake to vent her anger all morning...

……

Shen Liuzhen finally took Xie Yuan... through the main entrance and returned to Xie's mansion.

The two stood in front of Father Xie together.

Shen Liuzhen raised his face, opened a pair of innocent round eyes, and said pitifully:
"Teacher, I was wrong in this matter first. I was lazy and was arrested. I refused to obey the supervision. It is reasonable for him to want to beat me. Besides, I agreed to a martial arts competition, but I didn't admit it because of selfishness and treachery. The student deserves to be punished, but after being beaten by A Yuan, it's either... just... that's it."

(End of this chapter)