Chapter 73 - I feel like slapping you
Chapter 73: I feel like slapping you
The sky was clear and blue, with clouds drifting leisurely.
The season had entered early summer. The peach blossoms in the courtyard had all fallen, leaving the verdant branches to start bearing small peaches. This peach tree had been in Chu Xianning’s yard for many years, but the peaches it bore were always unusually sour. When Jiang Huai was twelve, he used grafting techniques on the tree, and now the peaches it bore were large and sweet, which Chu Xianning liked very much.
Under the lush peach tree, Jiang Huai moved a recliner there and lazily basked in the sun. Chu Xianning sat quietly to the side, flipping through The Melody of Warm Jade in the pavilion. Jiang Huai watched her snow-white profile without blinking.
Because the master was dressed particularly beautifully today, Jiang Huai liked the way Chu Xianning looked in that cheongsam, especially the smooth and delicate beauty of her back beneath the cheongsam, slender and straight, her fair neck as graceful and elegant as a swan’s.
“Master,” he suddenly called out.
“Hmm?”
“Shall we practice swordsmanship?”
Jiang Huai looked at Chu Xianning with anticipation.
Chu Xianning paused, slowly closed the book in her hand, and hesitantly lifted her leg to undo the buckle of her high heels. She slipped off the jade-colored high heels and stepped onto the ground with her feet clad in Evil-Repelling Ice Silk White Socks. The thin white socks, like a layer of gauze, made her feet look hazy and soft. But in the next instant, Chu Xianning’s hand firmly grasped the Su Xue sword.
Jiang Huai’s eyes twitched slightly, reminding her.
“Master, change to another sword. If Su Xue pokes me, I’ll die.”