The Female General's Little Childhood Sweetheart Chapter 5

   Just now, little overlord Lu who hadn't changed her name, in the blink of an eye was unwilling to admit her own name. This made everyone focus on her and Xu Mu.

    Li Shi glanced at the bright eyes of his excited son, and then looked at Lu Feng's back, and his pair of delicate eyebrows slightly raised.

    He knew his son's character the best. Having lived in Lingnan for so many years, he had never seen him have any close friends. They hadn't arrived at the capital for that long and it appears he was already familiar with Lu Feng.

    Ji Ruan secretly glanced at Li Shi, seeing him frowning and thinking, her heart suddenly jumped. Did Lu Feng bully his son?

    She looked at Xu Mu who ran to Lu Feng, and felt that the child's figure looked familiar, and seemed to have seen him somewhere.

    “Lu Feng.” Xu Mu ran to Lu Feng in three steps and two steps, he looked stupidly at her with his small white and tender face. Lu Feng's burning eyes could be felt across the skin on his face.

    Haunted!

    Lu Feng glared at him across his clothes, was it not enough that he robbed her of the candied fruits?

    Li Shi finally couldn't help but make a noise, came towards Xu Mu, and whispered: “Honey*.”

(*Mijian – food preserved in sugar or honey. Xu Mu's nickname)

    Xu Mu only realized that he had ignored his father and took the initiative to explain to him: “This is the jiejie* who gave me candied fruits yesterday.” 

(*older sister – does not have to mean they are related)

    Lu Feng looked at everyone's eyes, and feeling that she looked stupid, she put her clothes down in annoyance. Although she didn't know exactly what was going on, she had given her candied fruits to the little red coat, so she agreed with Xu Mu's words.

    Yesterday his son fell and Lu Feng gave him a bag of candied fruits. Today, the aunt and niece also helped out when he was in trouble. If he didn't say thank you, he really couldn't justify it.

    Li Shi spoke: “I don't have anything to thank you. Take some pastries back home.”

    How could Ji Ruan take it for free? Lu Feng slipped out while the two of them were talking and leaned against the door waiting for Ji Ruan to come out.

    She tinkered with the fringes on her waistband with her index finger, and saw Xu Mu leaning out the door to find her, her lips twitched and she gave him a sidelong glance, and crossed her arms.

    Seeing that she hadn't left, Xu Mu immediately lowered his gaze and came out of the shop to her side.

    Lu Feng looked at him and wanted to turn around and enter the store, but was stopped by his outstretched hand.

    Xu Mu stretched out his hand towards her, his little hand wrapped into a fist unfolded to reveal a few candied fruits lying on his white and tender palm.

    The candied fruit was more effective than shouting at Lu Feng, and immediately little overlord Lu, who originally wanted to get rid of Xu Mu, turned her gaze.

    Lu Feng stared at the candied fruits in Xu Mu's palm, and looked at his face to ask, “What do you mean?”

    “Please eat the candied fruits, yesterday you also treated me to some.” Xu Mu was too tired of her suspicion, and just raised his arms towards her.

    Lu Feng thought, I didn't want to treat you to candied fruits yesterday, but gave them to stop you from crying.

    Lu Feng with a light mouth stubbornly rejected: “Don't want.”

    Xu Mu didn't insist and stuffed one into his mouth, tilted his head and looked at her with a smile on his face, as if he couldn't look enough.

    Lu Feng: “…” Why didn't he know to insist more.

    Xu Mu seemed to know the thoughts in her heart, and raised his hand to her, his cheek on the side with candied fruit lifted into an arc. His voice a little unclear, “Try it, it's delicious.”

   Lu Feng reluctantly picked up a candied fruit and stuffed it into her mouth. The layer of sweet powder coating the candied fruit melted in her mouth, it was sweet but not greasy, and was really delicious.

    When Ji Ruan came out with the pastries, she saw her niece taking candied fruits from the young boy's hand, and suddenly felt embarra.s.sed.

    Afraid that Li Shi, who followed behind her, would come out to see Lu Feng “bullying” his son, Ji Ruan quickly whispered, “Lu Feng.”

    “Go back home.” Seeing Ji Ruan glaring at her, Lu Feng's expression was incomprehensible, and she placed the candied fruits in her hand and stuffed it into her mouth.

    Li Shi called Xu Mu to his side and stood at the door to send the two away. After entering the house, the father and son were the only ones left, Li Shi lowered his head and pinched his son's face, and asked him with a smile, “How are you so close with Lu Feng, I have never seen you close with anyone before.”

    Of course she was his wife and owner, naturally she was different from others. However, Xu Mu could not say these words. It was okay to say good things about Lu Feng in front of his father, but if he said it too deliberately, it would raise his father's suspicion.

    “I don't know anyone here, yesterday I went out and fell down. She gave me a package of candied fruits and I thought she was very nice.” Xu Mu downplayed the topic lightly and turned to ask worriedly: “Daddy, did someone bully you just now?”

    Li Shi smiled and touched Xu Mu's face and with a soft soothing voice, “Daddy is fine, don't worry Honey.” 

    Because his son was too young, Li Shi didn't want to tell him. Seeing the shop would probably not have anyone else come today, Li Shi led Xu Mu to clean the store so they could return to take care of Zhang Shi.

    Although Li Shi didn't say it, but now Xu Mu was not a nine year-old child. After a little pondering, he was able to pretty much guess what happened, and he couldn't help thinking.

    Daddy is young and beautiful, but also a widower. When he opens a shop outside, he will inevitably run into people with bad intentions.

    Thinking of his past life when he took over the shop by himself, he also met people who had ideas about him, but he was different from his father. At that time, Lu Feng always came over every day. When she sat in the shop, she emitted a kind of “this is the man I fancy" aura, and the intimidated women who came to the shop to buy pastries acted honestly, and didn't dare cause trouble.

    Daddy is still young, and the days ahead are long. In the future, when he marries, his father would be extremely lonely. If he had someone to accompany him, he would feel more at ease.

    Empathizing, Xu Mu still worried that his father would be unable to let go of his mother and would refuse to remarry……

    Xu Mu sighed and thought about something else, thinking about Lu Feng again, thinking that the relationship between the two today was better than yesterday, he felt a burst of happiness.

    In regards to his thoughts, Lu Feng did not know. She didn't even know Xu Mu's name, and she had told Ji Ruan this, but Ji Ruan did not believe her.

    On the way back to Lu manor, Ji Ruan suddenly remembered where she had seen Li Shi's son. Wasn't he the kid standing at the gate of Lu manor yesterday! She thought they looked very much alike.

    “Have you ever bullied family's Honey?” Ji Ruan shouted out Xu Mu's nickname without thinking, as if he were her son, and casually said, “I saw him yesterday standing at the gate of Lu manor when I returned home, you say who besides you could he possibly be looking for?”

    There was nothing wrong with this statement, but Lu Feng did not recognize this indescribable splash of dirty water.

    “I don't even know what his name is, how could I go over and bully him!” Lu Feng frowned, Ji Ruan had returned yesterday, then since she said she saw little red coat, it definitely must have been at the gate of the manor before she saw little red coat. 

    Like this she calculated the time, Lu Feng slightly squinted her eyes. Little red coat knew her, even knew where she lived, but she clearly had met him for the first time yesterday. She saw Li Shi's shop hadn't been open long at the capital, and she had never left the capital. Then how did little red coat know her?

     Lu Feng's mind thought over many times, but her complexion did not change in the slightest. She turned to look at Ji Ruan, the corner of her mouth smiling, suddenly staring at her to tease, “Aunt, you don't happen to fancy that family's father, right?”

    The more Lu Feng looked at it, the more she felt that Ji Ruan fell for that family's father, half-jokingly she said : “That gentleman is pretty good-looking, there's definitely a lot of people who like him. You should investigate his family's background, if clean, you should hurry and not delay.”

    Ji Ruan disliked Lu Feng, that little imp's, shooting glance but did not refute her words. When she first saw Li Shi, she felt he was breathtaking, her heart throbbed for a while, which she had never felt before. Afterwards, his son came out, she realized that he must already be married. The child was already this big, she had felt an indescribable loss in her heart.

    However, earlier that woman had wanted to disrespect him back then. Ji Ruan deduced Li Shi was probably a widower with a son, and immediately her dead heart came alive again.

     Ji Ruan thought about how Li Shi was like, if it wasn't already too late today, she would have liked to stay in the shop for a little longer.

    Since Ji Ruan was fond of Li Shi, naturally she had someone investigate his family background.

    The next day, Lu Feng came when Ji Ruan received the report to listen to the information found by her subordinates.

    Li Shi's family background was simple and clean. He was from a scholarly family, he married at the age of fourteen, his wife died three years ago, and he had just arrived at the capital not too long ago.

    Her subordinates were very thorough, they investigated Li Shi and his son in great detail, and they didn't even miss Xu Mu's serious illness when he first came to the capital. “The child was very ill, and almost didn't survive. Gentleman Li and his mother, Master Li, ran around through half of the capital, with great difficulty to invite a great doctor to look.”

    Hearing this caused Ji Ruan to be distressed, Li Shi looked so delicate and pitiful, and when his child fell ill he rushed to make it alright. Li Shi looked weak but was strong, and she was pleased he was such a worthy man to capture her heart upon first glance.

    Ji Ruan's thoughts were written on her sometimes tightly wrinkled and sometimes relaxed face, and Lu Feng merely glanced at her and looked away. She laid on the table, her slender fingers turning the tea cup in front of her, and mulled over the subordinate's words.

    Lu Feng was pretty certain she had never been to Lingnan before, so naturally she did not know the little red coat that was the Honey Ji Ruan spoke of. But yesterday, that Honey appeared familiar with her, and even went to her door to find her … … 

     In the winter, despite the brazier in the room, Lu Feng felt the chill on her back, remembering the moment she saw little red coat crying, she felt gooseb.u.mps.

    After having lunch in the afternoon, Ji Ruan suggested to Lu Feng if she wanted to go to “Sweet Taste”, her eyes catching a glimpse of something stuffed into her sleeve. She only had her mind on Li Shi, and didn't give it much thought.

    Lu Feng stuffed the talismans painted with black dog's blood in her sleeve, with her precaution she lifted her step to walk over.

    Thinking to herself, little goblin, look, I won't accept you!

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    The author has something to say: Little Theatre

    All the way crazy: Urgent urgent, by order of the law! You annoying little goblin, come into my arms!

    Honey: (dashing over) = v =

    All the way crazy: (satisfied) Later, I will go into battle.