Chapter 8 When I become a martial arts master, will you marry me? 05
"Jingjing... this could be fatal. You, don't come over here, ah - help!" Gu Rong turned and ran, wishing he had more legs.
Su Jingjing loosened the chain, and the dog's barking echoed throughout the early morning suburbs. She stood on the hill, looking at Gu Rong who was being chased all over the hill, and nodded with satisfaction.
Although Su Jingjing had good intentions, it made Gu Rong suffer. He thought that he would not have to endure the inhumane shoulder throws and hand grabs anymore, and today should be a day worth celebrating, but Su Jingjing borrowed this black hound from the neighbor's house overnight. It is estimated that Su Jingjing did not feed it last night, and it was so hungry that its eyes lit up when it saw Gu Rong.
Gu Rong ran while looking back at the distance between himself and the black dog. Seeing that the dog was getting closer and closer, his legs couldn't help but go weak. "Don't come over here, don't come over here..." He kept repeating to himself along the way.
The distance between him and Gu Rong gradually narrowed. The black hound ran towards him with its scarlet tongue hanging out, its eyes filled with the excitement of seeing its prey. The man and the dog crossed the hills and the woods, one exhausted and the other excited. Seeing that the dog was about to catch up with him, Gu Rong gradually became panicked. He turned his head and looked forward, but saw a tree that was thicker than his arms standing in front of him. He ran over without thinking, and climbed up desperately, and only stopped when he reached a safe position.
The black dog barked a few times under the tree. Perhaps it felt that Gu Rong was too cunning, so it scratched the tree trunk with its claws in dissatisfaction, causing Gu Rong to tremble while holding onto a branch.
"Brother, why are you so persistent? Stop turning, I won't come down." Gu Rong looked at the black dog that kept circling under the tree, and began to persuade it and negotiate with it in a friendly manner.
The hound ignored him completely, staring at Gu Rong with its dark eyes, showing no intention of letting him go.
After about half an hour, Su Jingjing ran over and saw Gu Rong lying on the tree. She was quite surprised: "How did you climb up the tree?"
"If I don't climb up the tree, it will eat me." Gu Rong pointed at the dog under the tree and said, "Take it away quickly, or I won't climb down."
"Come down, it won't bite anyone. Right, Amao?" Su Jingjing squatted down and stroked the black dog's fur affectionately. The black dog no longer looked ferocious, but became docile, rubbing Su Jingjing's face gently.
Gu Rong hugged the tree trunk tightly and shook his head: "That's because you are a girl. They may also respect women in the dog world. If I go down, it will eat me alive."
"You can't come down, you can't come down?" Su Jingjing said as she jokingly kicked the tree trunk twice.
The branches collided with each other and made a rustling sound. Gu Rong felt uncomfortable watching Su Jingjing and A Mao getting close, so he hugged the tree trunk tightly and refused firmly: "This is intolerable. Either it or I today."
"How long have you been there? You can't stay there forever." Su Jingjing tied up A Mao and then pulled him back. "If you don't come down, I'm leaving."
"No, no, no." Gu Rong jumped down from the tree and hurried to Su Jingjing.
A Mao barked at Gu Rong a few times, but Gu Rong took advantage of the fact that he was tied up and deliberately provoked him: "Bite me!"
Su Jingjing watched Gu Rong's actions silently, and said leisurely: "A Mao once broke free of two chains."
Gu Rong immediately changed his expression and looked at A Mao flatteringly: "Brother Mao, I'm a good person, please don't bite me."
Seeing this, Su Jingjing secretly covered her mouth and laughed.
Gu Rong followed Su Jingjing back, and the sun had already moved to the middle of the sky. Su Jingjing was only as tall as Gu Rong's shoulders, and she had to look up at Gu Rong every time she spoke. Whenever Gu Rong lowered his head, he could see the brightest and softest light in Su Jingjing's pupils.
"How long have you been there?" Su Jingjing asked Gu Rong.
Gu Rong slapped his thigh and regretted his decision: "How can you be so sure that I can outrun this dog?" Ah Mao seemed to understand and kept barking at Gu Rong. Gu Rong quickly changed the topic, "Outrun Brother Mao... Brother Mao."
A Mao closed his mouth intelligently again, and walked on the left side of Su Jingjing, wagging his tail.
"I'm not sure. You ran too fast and I couldn't catch up. I looked in many places and even fell down." Su Jingjing casually showed the wound on her palm to Gu Rong, not taking it seriously at all.
Gu Rong was shocked. He held Su Jingjing's hand and looked at it carefully: "How did you fall like this? Did you wash it?"
"I just rinsed off briefly in the creek, and I'm fine."
Su Jingjing wanted to withdraw her hand, but Gu Rong pulled her back: "How come you're okay? What if you get tetanus? The water in the stream is not clean enough to clean the wound." Gu Rong said seriously, "Let's go back quickly. I'll help you disinfect and bandage it."
Su Jingjing didn't think so. She smiled at Gu Rong and said, "These are just minor injuries. I've been injured much more seriously before. It's really okay."
"What kind of injuries have you suffered in the past?" Gu Rong asked about Su Jingjing's past for the first time.
Su Jingjing was a little surprised that Gu Rong was curious about her past, but she still told him: "For example, when I was five years old, I broke my leg while practicing martial arts. Later, when I grew up, I would get injured during training and competitions. I injured my ribs, arms, and neck... In short, I have been injured all over my body since I was a child."
Su Jingjing said it calmly, but Gu Rong felt uncomfortable. He remembered that once when Su Jingjing was applying medicine to him, she said that he overreacted. At that time, he didn't think it was a big deal. Today, when he heard Su Jingjing talk about her injury history, he suddenly felt that he was indeed too hypocritical.
"Have you ever thought about not practicing martial arts?" Gu Rong asked with his head down, his eyes extremely gentle.
Su Jingjing shook her head honestly: "I haven't thought about it."
"Why?"
Su Jingjing said as she led A Mao by the hand, "Because everyone should have their own responsibilities. My father has always wanted me to become a martial arts master, and I want to work hard to show him."
"But don't you feel a little bit unwilling?" Gu Rong was a little puzzled, because Su Jingjing's experience was so different from those girls he had known before.
Su Jingjing still shook her head: "No. I think everyone should have their own responsibilities. It is our duty to protect the people we care about and make the people we care about happy."
Gu Rong fell silent for a moment, chewing over Su Jingjing's words carefully in his heart -
It is our duty to protect the people we care about and make the people we care about happy.
Gu Rong suddenly understood many things about Su Jingjing that he did not understand in the previous twenty years. Perhaps this is the important reason why Su Jingjing attracted him.
