allonlinenovel Chapter 1444 The Past, Even Thinking About It Makes My Heart Ache
Chapter 1444 The Past, Even Thinking About It Makes My Heart Ache
"I was speaking very softly," Mu Ning immediately retorted.
"..."
Zhuang Shiyuan frowned. Fine, he'd pretend he hadn't said anything.
The night was finally over. Mu Ning got up on time to continue her exercise routine; even without exercising, she had many things to do. Besides, she needed to go to school to register.
Graduate school starts late, it's already late October or November. Even if she took leave and had a legitimate reason, and reported her assignments to her supervisor every week, that can't be a reason for her to keep not showing up.
Mu Ning ran a few laps in the suburban resort in the morning and came back to take a shower, drenched in sweat. Zhuang Shiyuan was doing rehabilitation exercises. Mu Ning came out of the bathroom with a towel, drying her hair as she walked. She stood and watched for a while. She expressed her admiration for the young master's amazing knife throwing skills. How much skill does it take to be able to hit that red dot so accurately?
"Want to try?"
Just as Mu Ning was about to leave, Zhuang Shiyuan suddenly turned around and asked her a question. He had a small throwing knife, about the width of a finger, between two fingers, and the blade was gleaming coldly.
"Huh? Me?"
Mu Ning hesitated slightly and stepped back, shaking her head repeatedly, "I dare not, I used to cut my hands with the knife when I was chopping vegetables..."
"But I haven't seen you stop using the knife after that, have I? Come on, give it a try." Zhuang Shiyuan smiled at him, his eyes full of anticipation.
Well, Mu Xiaoniu couldn't refuse such expectations, so she walked over, and Zhuang Shiyuan naturally took the towel from her hand and leaned on the railing to step aside.
Mu Ning looked at the neatly arranged small throwing knives in the box. They were small but exquisite, and the thin blades were so sharp that a glance was enough to tell they were exceptionally sharp.
Mu Ning trembled slightly. She had actually cut her hand before, and the reason she continued to be active in the kitchen was that the blades of a kitchen knife were large, and her eyesight was good enough that she wouldn't cut herself. But she was inexplicably afraid of knives with small blades, such as fruit knives and pencil sharpeners. However, given that Mu Ning was no ordinary person, her logic wasn't so easy to understand.
"What if I get stuck in the wall?" Mu Xiaoniu suddenly asked.
Zhuang Shiyuan laughed, "That's a solid wall. If you can really smash your way through it, then you're quite capable."
"Hehe..." Mu Ning laughed awkwardly, gesturing left and right to indicate the direction of the knife. "Isn't this harder than shooting at a target? I've seen people practicing shooting in movies, and they can lie prone and stay still. That should be easy, right?"
“It’s far away,” Zhuang Shiyuan said.
Mu Xiaoniu'er's words suddenly reminded Zhuang Shiyuan of Zhuang Shijue, who was a highly respected marksman in the army. If he hadn't been so unruly, he would have been promoted long ago.
"Hmm? Oh, but I'm also afraid of guns." Mu Ning grinned foolishly, looked at the bullseye, and released the gun. It actually shot out in a straight line. "Ding—" A very thin and long, piercing sound followed, which startled Mu Ning so much that she quickly closed her eyes. After a while, she opened them and, sure enough, the knife had fallen to the ground.
"Um, slip of the hand... I told you not to try, but you insisted. Look at my skills, and your impressive record, you just want me to admire you even more, right?" Mu Xiaoniu squatted down, picking up the throwing knife and carefully checking for any chips or broken pieces, commenting as she looked.
Zhuang Shiyuan raised an eyebrow slightly. Oh, not stupid at all.
"What's this made of? It's pretty sturdy." Mu Ning said with a smile, taking the knife back and putting it back in its place. "Wash your face, let's go downstairs for dinner. I have to go to school today, I probably won't be back until the afternoon."
"What time is the class?" Zhuang Shiyuan asked her.
"Yes, my class is at 10:20 in the morning, so I have to leave at 9:00. It's too far from the school."
Mu Ning stuck out her tongue, helped Zhuang Shiyuan into the bathroom, wrung out the wet towel and handed it to him, saying, "So you have to be good when I'm not here, and don't get angry with Auntie."
"Okay," Zhuang Shiyuan agreed with a smile. "What was it you wanted to talk about yesterday?"
"What is it?" Mu Ning looked at him with the same puzzlement. What was it?
"I remember very clearly what you said that made you sad," Zhuang Shiyuan said seriously. Perhaps she said it casually, but he remembered it.
"What is it?" Mu Ning had forgotten about this. Just then, the housekeeper knocked on the door from outside, asking if they had finished getting ready. Breakfast was ready, and she was told to come downstairs quickly.
After Mu Ning retorted to Zhuang Shiyuan's question, she loudly replied to the outside, "Okay, coming right away!"
"You said something sad happened after you came back from Kyoto. Did my family make things difficult for you?" Zhuang Shiyuan had been remembering this reason. Could it be that you were wronged in front of his family?
She seems carefree, but she can actually be bothered by unintentional remarks. She was already afraid of his mother, and before his car accident, Mu Ning didn't get along very well with his mother, so it's inevitable that she would take it upon herself to think in that direction.
Mu Ning's eyes flickered, and she remembered, "Oh, no, your family is all very good."
She sighed again, "Yesterday I wanted to talk about my seventeenth sister; she's pregnant again. It should have been a happy occasion, but it seems like she can't keep this baby..."
"Huh? What happened?" Zhuang Shiyuan was slightly taken aback. Men's emotions are not as rich as women's, but after all, she is his own sister, and he cares more about things concerning his sister.
Mu Ning sighed again, "Because Seventeenth Sister gave birth to Little Bubble this year, and Little Bubble is not even a year old yet, so Seventeenth Sister cannot have another baby."
"Hmm?" Zhuang Shiyuan didn't understand the reason behind the two statements and expressed his confusion.
"Well, I had surgery on my uterus, and it will take two or three years to fully recover. Otherwise, if I get pregnant again, my belly will burst when the baby is more advanced, resulting in the death of both mother and child..."
This statement...
Zhuang Shiyuan's face turned completely black. Was he about to explode?
After a moment's thought, Zhuang Shiyuan understood the general meaning.
"There's nothing we can do about it. Safety comes first. Big Brother and Miss will decide for themselves, so you don't need to worry," Zhuang Shiyuan comforted him softly. It was indeed a regrettable and worrying matter.
Seventeen opened her mouth, hesitated, and then said as she carried Zhuang Shiyuan downstairs, "Seventeenth brother-in-law is so pitiful. You were unconscious and didn't know, but he cried so heartbrokenly when Seventeenth sister kicked him out..."
She cried secretly for a long time. She couldn't stand seeing others cry. If others cried, she would cry too, and once she started crying, she couldn't stop.
"Hmm," Zhuang Shiyuan responded, indicating that he had indeed missed a lot.
"Dr. Qiyao used to be Seventeen's brother-in-law, you know? He's Brother Kou Quan. When Seventeen found out, she was devastated and broke up with him. Little Bubble had just been born then. The nurses said that Seventeen's breasts were so engorged and painful that she cried but wouldn't feed Little Bubble... So pitiful..."
Tears welled up as soon as she spoke, and Mu Ning paused before continuing.
"Back then, my seventeenth brother-in-law knelt before my seventeenth sister, holding Bubble, begging her. Sigh, it was so heartbreaking and pitiful..."