Chapter 144: Chapter 145

Before breakfast, Huali had asked the waiter to find them a carriage.

As soon as they finished their breakfast, the waiter walked over and said, “My apologies, Sir! But I can’t get you a carriage! The road was frozen with rain and snow last night, and there was a little chance that a horse could walk on it, so no groom was willing to drive out of the city!”

“How did this happen? The road had not frozen over during the daytime yesterday!” Zixiu did not believe it. He rose to his feet and was about to have a look outside.

Huali quickly stopped him and pressed him back into the chair. After expressing his thanks to the waiter, he turned to Zixiu and gently comforted him, “Don’t worry, I’ll go out and have a look!”

After a few minutes, Huali came back and confirmed that the waiter did not lie. On the slippery road, even a person might fall at any time, let alone a horse! Looking at Zixiu’s big belly, he was aware that they could not take the risk. It seemed they were trapped by the once-in-a-decade blizzard and had to stay at the hotel for the time being!

When they came back to the guest room in the backyard, Zixiu threw himself onto the bed and covered his head with the quilt. He couldn’t help but feel restless. What was going on? How come he was so hapless! Even God did not like him and was always against him!

“Damn it!” he roared indignantly. Then he kicked the quilt away by stepping hard on the bed. Managing to calm himself down, he asked, “Senior Brother, when can I give birth to the baby?”

There was still lingering fear in his mind when he thought of his massive haemorrhage a few days ago. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have agreed to stay in the hotel. When Huali heard what he said, he almost spat out a mouth of tea. Did Zixiu really think he would give birth to a baby?

“Come on!” After Huali’s confession, Zixiu realized that his senior brother was not as honest as he had imagined, so his attitude towards him was not as respectful as before.

Huali came back to his senses. He calculated for a while before replying, “If we start in June… You’ll have to wait until next April…”

“F*ck!” Zixiu couldn’t help but curse again while kicking the bed hard angrily.

Huali knew that he was upset because he could not go to Luanzhou to save his dad right away. It was good to vent his anger, but he was still a little worried, so he walked over to the bed, trying to comfort Zixiu. “Don’t be like this. We can think of another way!”

“Really?” Zixiu said grumpily. He was aware that even in the 21st century, highways would be closed and flights would be delayed due to bad weather!

“Master Yan will send me the letter through a homing pigeon soon. Let’s wait a little bit longer!”

A homing pigeon? It reminded Zixiu of a LAN instant messaging software before he thought of a natural communication method. However, though he had heard of it before, he had doubts in his mind. “It’s winter. Don’t pigeons need to hibernate?” he blurted out.

“Hibernate?” Huali was stupefied.

“Forget it!” Zixiu felt that something was wrong with his brain. “I just flipped out!”

Huali, however, did not think that Zixiu was self-mocking. Startled, he hurriedly sat down and helped Zixiu up. “Zixiu, don’t worry. Uncle Liu will be fine!”

“How do you know? Can you guarantee that my dad won’t be in danger? You don’t know how vicious Nangong Du is! That pervert! Asshole…” Zixiu suddenly lost his temper and started cursing again. He was so angry that he even threw the pillow onto the floor.

Huali held him tightly and kept on comforting him. “Zixiu, calm down. Nothing will happen. Isn’t Liuxu the princess of the Wen Kingdom? She won’t put your dad in danger!”

“Liuxu can’t even protect herself. How can she protect my dad?”

“Master Yan and Lingxiao will find a way to help your dad out!”

“But, what if my dad…”

“Impossible! There are not so many ifs! Zixiu, don’t think too much. It won’t be as bad as you think. Trust me, Zixiu! Don’t scare yourself!”

After Zixiu finally calmed down, he found himself in the arms of his senior brother! Feeling embarrassed, he started complaining, “Why are you holding me?”

Huali grew shy again. “My apologies! I, I…” he stammered awkwardly and even blushed.

“Forget it! What’s done is done. Look at the dark circles around your eyes! Come on, get onto the bed and take a nap!” Zixiu said as if he was very generous.

Huali immediately came back to his senses. “Zixiu, you…”

Zixiu chimed in before he could finish his words. “Can’t you see I care about you?”

“I appreciate it!”

“Forget it!” Brothers could also care about each other! “When will the homing pigeon arrive?”

“If nothing happens, tonight!”

As it was snowing outside, it got dark early.

When they lit up the oil lamp, Zixiu could not stand the cold anymore. He got on the bed and slipped under the quilt to warm up.

Huali was a man of martial arts, so he had a better tolerance for cold. Besides, charcoal was burning in the brazier and he had napped for two hours before noon, so he was in a good mood and now was reading a medical book by the oil lamp.

Lying on the bed, Zixiu stared at him. Now he knew why they had so many superb physicians in the Valley of Fallen Blossoms! Indeed, it was exactly as Edison or Einstein had said ‘Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration!’

However, he was not sleepy now. How come his senior brother left him alone?  “Senior Brother, reading books in dim light is bad for your eyes. Don’t you know?”

“Huh?” Huali looked up, feeling a little confused. “Really?”

“Of course! Take my word for it!”

“All right! I’ll stop reading right now.” Huali was very pleased with Zixiu’s concern for him. He put away the book immediately and asked, “Zixiu, are you hungry? Would you like a snack?”

“No! I have no appetite!” Now he had finally had someone talk to him, but Zixiu felt low again.

Seeing that, Huali racked his brains, trying to cheer him up. After a while, he suggested, “Zixiu, let me play a tune with the leaf for you!”

Blowing a leaf? Zixiu looked up at him. Listening to music could make people relax, but…

“The guests next door will find it too noisy, so I don’t think it’s a good idea!” Zixiu did not want to disturb other people’s rest.

“It won’t disturb their rest! This room is in the corner of the hotel and our next door is the fence. Besides, playing a tune on a leaf doesn’t make a lot of noise.”

“All right! It’s up to you!”

Hearing that, Huali quickly took out a small wooden box from his pocket.

“This is…” Zixiu suddenly figured out there must be some tree leaves in the box. As he expected, when Huali opened the wooden box under his curious gaze, he saw some green leaves in it. “You have specially preserved these?” Zixiu couldn’t help but secretly praise Huali’s thoughtfulness. Unlike the south, there were no evergreen broad-leaved forests in the north, so there was no way that they could find such leaves here in winter!

“Zixiu, which song do you want to listen to?”

“Whatever!” ‘Even if I told you, you wouldn’t know how to play!’ Zixiu thought. However, to his surprise, the next second, he suddenly heard the song that he could not be more familiar with!

“Chrysanthemums Terrace!” After freezing for a while, he slapped his thigh and shouted out. He jumped out of the bed swiftly, not at all like a “pregnant woman”! Rushing over to his senior brother, he grabbed the latter by the shoulders with trembling hands as if he had just run into an old acquaintance in a strange land! “How did you know this song? I remember the first time I met you, you were playing the tune of this song. Could it be…you also came from the 21st century? ”

“? ? ”

“Why don’t you answer me? Or, you learned it from someone? Come on, tell me now! ”

“I heard you sing it once in Prince Mu’s Mansion, and I memorized it.”

“Oh…”

“Zixiu, what’s wrong?” Huali felt that there was something wrong with Zixiu. He seemed so different from the nervous excitement of a moment ago! Was there anything special about this song? What did he mean by “you also came from the 21st century?”

“I’m fine!” Zixiu was extremely depressed. “There’s a noise outside. Is it the pigeon?”