MHNEB 31

Book 2: Generals die after a hundred battles; heroes return after ten years’ time.

Chapter 31: His Guardian Angel

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A-Dan Zhuo was given a shock by Hua Mulan. 

Anyone who sees a person who suddenly clenched his fists at his chest and collapsed suddenly would be at a loss. Let alone a person whose face is full of sweat and appeared to be in pain, but the person is still smiling and conversing with you. 

What he viewed in his eyes is too strange, and A-Dan Zhuo did not dare to take another glance. 

"I'm doing very well, but Aunt Hua, you look very uncomfortable. Do you want me to call elder uncle Hua?" A-Dan Zhuo stood up and was about to go out and to call for him. 

"No, I just had a headache. I will be fine in a minute. You can take a seat." He Mulan inhaled and exhaled slowly. After doing this several times, her headache was relieved.

He Mulan rubbed her head and indulged in the memories of Hua Mulan. What she had seen felt illusory yet real at the same time. 

She did not know if other people occupied the body of the original host would experience this, but she was very conscious of the fact that what she possesses belongs to another person. She could only control the body but could not occupy the emptiness where the soul should fit in. 

Since her childhood, Hua Mulan had been He Mulan’s idol. Before this, she very appropriately used this body. She exercised for a long time every day and carefully maintained the figure of Hua Mulan. Even though she can freely use a large number of Hua Mulan's possessions, she seldom uses the possessions in the warehouse except for buying some rice, flour and food;

She did not dare to inappropriately give Hua Mulan bear the burden of emotional ties and never caused trouble with the rich “capabilities and assets” that this body possessed.

He Mulan had read many transmigration stories when she was bored when she was working. She has always been afraid that Hua Mulan is still in this body, but Hua Mulan is being repressed. 

She is also afraid that because of some strange reason, Hua Mulan’s soul was seized and would return eventually one day. So, she is akin to a “storehouse keeper”, trying her best to maintain everything in the storehouse, waiting for the real owner to return to use her possessions. 

She is like all the brain-dead fans in the world. If Hua Mulan appeared now and says that she wants to get her body back, she would obediently hand out everything that she had with both hands.  

After all, He Mulan herself knew very well that she had been electrocuted by a kind of high-voltage electricity in modern times and everything about that situation points to disaster. It is heaven's favour for her to experience such an unordinary adventure. So, how could she ever vainly attempt to substitute Hua Mulan?

That is not how she would behave. 

But she has been here for so long, not only has she not felt that there are other people's souls in her body, she had not even felt any unease as well. When memories with regards to A-Dan ZhiQi returned, she felt a faint sense of perturb. 

Why did Hua Mulan disappear? 

What was she thinking when she disappeared? 

Right now, she thirsts for the answer to these questions. 

Is it possible that she would return when all her memories are recovered?

He Mulan self-mockingly smiled. 

Even in the history of romance novels, in all kinds of stories about transmigration, it should be rare to find a transmigrator like her who can’t wait to find the original host of the body so that she could virtuously abdicate from her body, right? 

A-Dan Zhuo looked at Hua Mulan who had momentarily frowned and momentarily giggled strangely. He cannot help but feel perturbed. 

He imagined “General Hua” in all manners and ways, but he didn't expect that she was such an ordinary-looking person with strange mannerisms. 

In the past ten over years, he has sketched many images of this hero that he had imagined. In his childhood days that seemed endlessly long, he did not even dream about what his father would look like but took Hua Mulan, who had been taking care of the mother and son pair, as what his father would be like. 

He was only three years old when his father left home, and his father died before he could remember anything. 

And they could continue to live on under the envy gazes of their neighbouring villagers, relying on the help of this "Hua Mulan". When he was young, when people talked about his family, they called their family as "the family that HuaiShuo Hua Mulan took care of" and not "the son of A-Dan ZhiQi".

He had once imagined whether his father had saved General Hua Mulan, which was why he had sent his personal guards to send a soldier’s food and pay to his home for ten over years. 

But what his mother had inquired was that his father was not in the same army as Hua Mulan when his father died.

Everyone told his family that when his father was surrounded during a siege, and Hua Mulan risked his life and to kill the people surrounding his father to rescue him. However, in the end, Hua Mulan’s efforts were in vain. 

There is no such thing as a life-saving grace that was laughable or a piece of news worth crying for. Even if there is a life-saving grace, it’s how Hua Mulan had rescued his father. 

The reason why Hua Mulan would take care of his family is probably that his father was her captain. 

It's said that only a few of Hua Mulan's recruit comrades on the same team survived, but only their family was being taken care of. 

This matter left his mother silent for a long time, and she even sent a letter to tell General Hua that he didn't need to send any more things and asked him not to visit them in the countryside.

His mother belonged to a good Xianbei family. She also has her self-esteem and good conscience.

After that, Hua Mulan has never come, so that in all his memories, what remained of the impression of Hua Mulan was only the back image of him driven out by his mother when Hua Mulan reported his father's death. 

His monetary possessions were still sent to the countryside every once in a while. 

Because they were under the care of “The Valiant General”, Hua Mulan over ten over years, no one in the countryside dared to bully them, and no one urged his mother to remarry or talk bad about them behind their backs. 

In the eyes of these villagers, their family is almost sacred and detached from mortality. Under the exaggeration of countless people, his family had changed into a family where a general had promised their family with the death of his companion to help his family regain their glory, and they were different from countless of soldiers who had passed away in the battle with other tribes under the command of the Son of Heaven. 

This person is an invisible guardian angel and he had his own way of protecting them.

His mother did not write another letter "please do not continue to send things" after that because they led a bitter life. Within a month or two after that letter, his mother knew that when a woman had to raise a child to adulthood, besides having the possessions to do so, she needed so much more. 

But his paternal ancestors died in the war, his father died in the war, and his uncle died in the war. When his uncle reached the age of enlistment, at this time, they could only rely on Hua Mulan, who had never appeared again, as their support. 

Later, he grew up as time passes. Because of Hua Mulan, he is able to learn some skills from a retired general and became a warrior in his countryside that could only be defeated by a few others. Before he enlisted, many generals had already shown interest in him. Before the edict of enlistment was passed, there were already many places that he could go into. 

But he has not chosen to go to any camp, he has been waiting, waiting for the "General Hua’s” honorary award so he could establish his General manor, and he will work under him. 

But, he didn't manage to wait for the day when "General Hua’s Manor" was established, but what he waited for had become a rumour that General Hua is actually a woman.

The dream of this youth had suddenly shattered.

What height of eight chi, having a majestically powerful voice……

What ape arm and bee waist, having a strength of ten thousand over men……

His General Hua, the elder that he had never been acquainted with, the father-like figure that he had imagined for over ten over years……

Is actually a woman?

So. he shamefully hesitated. The desire to see him for more than ten over years was suppressed in his heart with his greatest perseverance, and he did not dare to think about it. 

A-Dan Zhuo spent a long time immersed in all kinds of nightmares. There were times when he had built his career on the battlefield with the 30-year-old young general galloping on the battlefield. It appeared to be like a dream that everyone would wish for. But what happened next was that the admirable general suddenly turned into a graceful and gorgeous woman. She came to him and told him that she was his father.

He was so embarrassed, scared and waiting for her to appear. He went through such torture for a long time. 

That was until Hua Mulan’s items had stopped delivering to him. 

A-Dan Zhuo knelt on the ground, his dark face appeared to be in a shade of maroon. 

But him blushing is not very visible, because his skin is too dark. 

He simply shyly opened his mouth.

"For the past ten over years, you have been taking care of our family. It's just that I haven't seen you send things to us again even when winter arrived from this year onwards…… "

He Mulan gave a dry smile guiltily.

"Aha, about that……I had a cold before. After I got well, my mind was not clear. I could only remember some stuff in the past vaguely. Do you have any difficulties now? Aunt Hua will open my treasure boxes for you to…... "

It was during the time when Hua Mulan had a cold when she transmigrated. She was really confused for a long time and it scared her family.

After that, she was not in the right mood or behaved weirdly. The Hua family treated her warmly with the greatest patience.

"No, no, no, no!" A-Dan Zhuo waved his hands as if he had met something terrible.

"I didn't mean that! I'm not short of money!"

He was almost flustered: "I can support myself now! I occasionally go to the blacksmith's shop to help out with the blacksmith’s work! I am-I am-I am a very powerful warrior now! E-Everyone wants me! No, I mean that everyone wants me to work under them!”

"Ah, you are that powerful now…..."

He Mulan looked at this face which was no different from that of A-Dan ZhiQi. She sighed and had a look as if he saw a kind younger generation lad who she had never seen before. 

With He Mulan's sigh, A-Dan Zhuo tears “rolled” down suddenly. 

In his dream, in his imagination, he simulated countless times what General Hua would look like when he saw him for the first time.

He would be happy to see him grown up, or to think of him as the son of an ordinary comrade……

He may not even remember A-Dan ZhiQi's children, let alone know who A-Dan Zhuo is.

He may take him as his adoptive son and treat him as his real son……

Either way, he thought about it over and over and even childishly giggled as he hid in the quilt secretly as he imagined.

But now he found that he had been waiting for so many years, only to hear this exclamation of "you are that powerful now".

He thought that he was going to follow the greatest general of all time, so in the past decade, he had been very careful and very hardworking, and because he was so careful and hardworking, he was shocked only to hear such a compliment when they first met. 

‘You are that powerful now.’

This is the best compliment to him.

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Fleur's Corner:

This is a rare relatively short chapter. As all of you might know, this is a slow burn story. The next few chapters will be a little more boring, but after that, all of you might be looking forward to it because (MAJOR SPOILERS; highlight the next few words to see it) Mulan's probable love interest would be appearing!

I'm taking a short break from translating MHNEB, so there will be no updates this Sunday. The next chapter update would be on 27/4. 

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