Chapter 69: Both clumsy and loves to play!

The Milky Way sparkles brilliantly.

In the past, Chen Weifang felt the universe boundless, her own self like a small boat drifting.

Today, Chen Weifang felt that the sky full of stars...

Clearly, it is her own Dao-heart that is shattering!

What makes people be buried together! What makes people shake the box!

Haven't heard it, truly haven't heard it!

Chen Weifang felt anguished and vexed, yet she heard Chinu give a scornful laugh, lazily draping an arm over her and saying:

"Go inquire, who can shake a box for two hours straight?"

When Du Shanü spoke those wild words, she hadn't thought much; at this moment she hadn't reacted yet, and blurted out subconsciously:

"I spend silver to hire people to shake the box for me; why can't they do it?"

Although two hours sounds like a lot, it's much easier than ordinary work outside!

It's just a mere two hours...

Wait, something seems off?

She was talking about the people who shake the box, while Chinu was talking about what kind of people...

Du Shanü belatedly realized what was wrong, but she dared not admit her mistake.

She, she has always relied on mere talk!

How would she know how long one can shake it!

Du Shanü curled her toes, acting as if nothing happened, and asked softly:

"Oh?"

"Then, good slave says, how long should one shake it appropriately?"

Right!

Exactly like that!

With that answer, she directly tossed the problem back! Moreover, she looked like a seasoned hand, not losing face at all!

Chinu, being called out, had her long fingers that were lazily resting on her own arm gradually tighten, and she remained silent for a good while.

One breath, two breaths.

Du Shanü suddenly came to her senses:

"Oh! I remember now!"

"Earlier, Hei Lao Daifu said you have repressed lust and are still someone who hasn't experienced human relations...... Ah ya (? `?? Д? ′)!! Don't hit! Don't hit! Why do you always get angry from embarrassment! Afang's parents are still in my hands! Afang! Afang! Save me!!!"

Chinu laughed in anger, and searched around for small stones:

"Ask Afang if she can save himself!"

With such a temperament, who wouldn't be afraid!

Du Shanü's head was flicked by several stones, and she was completely convinced.

She protected Chen Family's parents in her embrace, retreating while bidding farewell:

"Afang, I'll leave first; I'll leave this place in your hands for now!"

If I don't leave now, I'll end up with a swollen head!

Under the vast canopy of heaven.

The silhouettes of a girl and a youth, one fleeing and one pursuing, flashed past the end of the long street.

From beginning to end, Chen Weifang also did not answer.

He merely stood alone in place for a long time, a long time.

Until a gust of night wind rose again, this pale-browed scholar finally revealed a barely perceptible smile, murmuring:

"Food and sex...... a match made by heaven."

Chen Weifang's muttering, Du Shanü naturally didn't hear.

Of course, even if she heard it, she wouldn't acknowledge it, and might even have to stomp her feet for a while.

Du Shanü returned to Hei Lao Daifu's clinic with a cloth bundle, found a suitable wooden box, moved Chen Weifang's parents to a new position, and incidentally paid the medicine money for that woman earlier.

That woman's forehead injury was extremely gruesome, but Hei Lao Daifu's medical skill was evidently a notch higher.

Unknown what medicine was used, the woman's head was wrapped up like a big zongzi, and miraculously she managed to save her life.

After most of the night had passed, when Du Shanü went to see her, the woman could still blearily open a slit, panting with difficulty as she gazed at the person before her.

Du Shanü placed the other's hand, which had tried to grasp hers, back onto the bedding, and instructed:

"Just rest and recover; as long as you're fine, any amount of grain can be earned back."

The woman is no longer young, and in her life she has experienced some storms.

Yet when Du Shanü spoke, she still couldn't help but redden her eyes.

A tear fell from the woman's eye corner, and with a hoarse voice she difficulty called out:

"Er, Er Ni'er......"

Du Shanü vaguely felt the name was somewhat familiar, but couldn't recall where she'd heard it; she then took out a few copper coins she carried and gave them to Hei Lao Daifu's little grandson.

"Perhaps this Er Ni'er is her daughter? But I don't know many people in town, and I can't notify her family."

"Let Xiao Hei go ask? I'll treat you to candied haws!"

Xiao Hei usually dared not take money past his grandfather, but hearing about candied haws he was genuinely pleased and eagerly agreed:

"Great! I happen to know Er Ni; she's the fiercest girl on the street!"

"The fiercest......"

Du Shanü shook her head helplessly, gave a few more instructions, and then left the clinic with the newly organized box.

In just one night, Cang Cheng lay in ruins.

However, with the break of dawn, signs of life appeared once more.

The night's wailing, akin to ghostly weeping from the netherworld, had dissipated; the dawn light pierced the remaining blue haze, spilling across the streets of the county town, riddled with wounds.

The night's clamor and firelight faded; increasingly, people wiped their faces clean and began to clear away the devastation wrought by the fierce fire.

Under the shattered walls and crumbling ramparts, people worked together to move the collapsed wooden beams and bricks, trying to open a path.

Someone held a broom, sweeping bit by bit the ash, wood shavings, and miscellaneous litter on the ground, moving slowly but firmly.

Someone stooped to rummage through the wreckage for anything still serviceable, be it an intact tile or a half‑burned piece of clothing, gathering them with care.

As the sun climbed, it drove away the lingering chill of the autumn night and lit up the faint light in people's eyes.

Though their homes were shattered, they still stood upon the rubble, bit by bit gathering hope for life.

Perhaps it was because the woman survived, or perhaps because they saw tenacity in these common people.

Du Shanü's heart gradually calmed, and her steps became noticeably lighter.

Chinu lingered not far, not close at her side; upon seeing this, he spoke up abruptly:

"... That woman is of no use to you."

That woman is truly just an ordinary woman.

Last night, watching her not avoid danger but instead get into a scuffle and argument, obstructing the bandits, I'd say it wasn't very smart.

For a grand cause, such a woman would certainly be of no use.

But he still wondered why Du Shanü, when rescuing others, gave her all, flared with anger for such a person, even declaring she would slay the false dynasty's emperor......

Is it worth it?

He wanted to know—was it worth it?

Everyone knows that the life of an ant is as fragile as a swan's down......

"It's all right; I'm willing."

Du Shanü didn't turn her head, still protecting that little wooden box, her voice unusually earnest:

"Good Chinu, to me this woman and Yu Baobao are really the same kind of person."

"No distinction of status, no difference in wisdom......"

"Just a person."

"That's all."

"When one saves another, where does the idea of saving in hope of return come from?"

"If there is no reward, should we then refuse to save them?"

"That is utterly unreasonable."

Furthermore, from her attire, her countenance, and the sorrowful gaze she cast upon that sack of food, she is hardly a great wicked person.

If she felt no anger and refused to help, that would not be Du Shanü's style.

Du Shanü marched forward with her head down, and only upon reaching the mountain trail did she seem to remember something, then she said:

"Good Chinu, a person's life is not measured by usefulness or uselessness, nor by how many mistakes they make."

"To me, a lifetime does not require excessive rationality, nor must one do only what is correct."

?? Drink and food, male and female: from the Book of Rites, 'Music and Conduct' chapter, the original text reads: 'Eating and drinking, male and female— therein lies humanity's greatest desire. Death and poverty— therein lies humanity's greatest evil.' 'Eating and drinking' refers to appetite, 'male and female' to lust; collectively they denote humanity's craving for food and sex, our innate nature— that appetite and the love between men and women are our strongest desires, this is human nature.

? Speaking of which, Shasha is actually the type who is both clumsy and loves to play...... 【the whole section crossed out】