Chapter 241: Life Always Has A Great Victory Waiting For You
Cao Kun left, and Yun Ce also wanted to go home.
Zheng Tianshou guarded the gate, looking at Yun Ce and saying: “You know that recklessness can kill people.”
Yun Ce smiled and said: “I also know that if you all continue to ‘help’ Cao Kun like this, sooner or later he will become a person who only knows profit and loss, not what emotions are.
Do you really want a person like that to shelter you from wind and rain in the future?”
Zheng Tianshou did not respond, sighing and saying: “The eldest son has a reputation for wisdom, yet the father is still in his prime; disaster from within the family is just a flick away.”
“The Cao Clan has been devouring the four seas with big mouthfuls these days, their body robust like a pig. Even the Yun Clan sees it and drools, but being weak cannot scheme for it. What about others?”
“So, Cao Kun must lose?”
“Losing once can restore a man’s heroic spirit; there’s nothing bad about that.”
“This old man thinks He Yu is not worth mentioning.”
“Today it’s He Yu; tomorrow who will it be?”
1 Zheng Tianshou saw the Red Date Horse starting to exit the gate, so he stepped aside from the gate and said: “Aren’t you going to help the Eldest Son?”
1 Yun Ce placed his hand on the Red Date Horse’s back, shook his head, and said: “That’s his war, not mine. If he dies, it’s his bad luck; if he lives, he should be useful.”
1 Zheng Tianshou looked at Yun Ce’s retreating figure and said: “Pingzhou will have a great battle with Lingzhou; aren’t you preparing to profit from it?”
1 Yun Ce waved his hand and said: “Any profit taken now is fake. When the Gui Fang people come south, you will find that what you scheme for today is just a sandcastle by the waterside; when the flood comes, nothing will be left.”
1 Zheng Tianshou said no more, hands behind his back, and walked into the Pingzhou City Lord’s Mansion.
1 Yun Ce did not stay longer either. After Pingzhou City specially opened for him, he rode the Red Date Horse home.
1 “You say Cao Kun’s fiancée was steamed by her father and sent to Pingzhou?”
1 E Ji held her rice bowl, asking Yun Ce in disbelief.
1 Yun Ce nodded and said: “After being steamed, her appearance didn’t change much; I even saw tears on her face.”
1 “That probably wasn’t tears; it was steam.” Zhang Min nitpicked from the side.
2 Yun Ce sighed and said: “I’m telling a story; can you respect me a bit? Saying it that way makes that little girl’s fate seem even more tragic.”
2 Zhang Min sneered and said: “For her lover, she disregards her own parents and brothers’ lives? The Lingzhou Tiger Guards are the foundation of Lingzhou’s existence. Without the Tiger Guards, He Tian’s only fate is to be hung on a flagpole to dry in the wind until the new year.”
2 Yun Ce angrily said: “I’m telling a story; you have to set aside all that stuff. We only talk about the love between her and Cao Kun, nothing else.”
2 Zhang Min coldly said to E Ji: “In the future, if there’s this kind of person at home who can’t distinguish inside from outside, you must kill her immediately. Steaming her and feeding her to Doggy is fine too.”
2 E Ji swallowed a mouthful of porridge, shook her head, and said: “How to handle it is my business; it’s not your turn as a concubine to decide on handling people.”
2 Yun Ce felt that discussing love with his two women at home was like a donkey’s lips not matching a horse’s mouth. Compared to free, sweet love, the two of them seemed to value family profit more.
2 They had not the slightest pity for that little girl who was steamed.
2 “Cao Kun being able to lead troops out of the city to fight desperately for that little girl makes him a righteous and loyal man. Although he was beaten and lost helmet and armor in He Tian’s ambush, he at least did something a man should do.”
2 As he spoke, Yun Ce gestured at his waist and ribs and continued: “He took a hit from the Cold Beauty Saw here. If not for excellent armor, this guy would have been cut in half at the waist.”
2 Zhang Min looked up at the roof for a long time before strangely saying: “This doesn’t seem like the style of a scion of a noble family.”
3 After saying that, she looked at Yun Ce again: “This is more like your style.”
3 Yun Ce grinned and said: “So you know too, that I would fight desperately for you two?”
3 E Ji grabbed Yun Ce’s head, turned it seriously, and said: “I said it before: in the future, say that kind of thing only to me alone, no need to include others.”
3 Zhang Min paid no attention to E Ji’s words, put down her rice bowl, and wrapped her arm around Yun Ce’s arm, saying: “Saying one thing twice is quite tiring for husband.”
3 E Ji smiled and said: “Aunt Sun said what’s in your stomach is a girl; you must watch her well in the future.”
3 Zhang Min angrily said: “What you are carrying is the girl.”
3 Yun Ce sighed and said: “Actually, I hope you two can both have sons. You know, if a son grows a Dragon Claw, it can still be considered majestic. But if a perfectly fine girl grows a Dragon Claw, that’s a serious problem.”
3 Zhang Min laughed loudly: “During Fanzi Mountain, who told husband to be too greedy? Do you think the Dragon Pearl is something anyone can easily absorb? At the time, you should have let me take that Dragon Pearl.”
3 E Ji indifferently said: “A girl growing a Dragon Claw is pretty good too; at least she looks majestic.”
3 Yun Ce looked at E Ji and said: “The problem is, I hope the child you give birth to is entirely mine, not a child born after I cooperate with the dragon.”
4 “Hahaha…”
4 Whether E Ji or Zhang Min, seeing Yun Ce’s unwilling expression, they both burst into laughter together, seeming extremely pleased.
4 In the He Month north of the Great Wall, as long as there are twenty-nine days, the weather at this time should be dry, waiting for wheat and other early-maturing crops to become dry.
4 Shehuo naturally had nothing to do and rained, so when the wheat in the fields gradually turned golden yellow, Yun Ce led everyone from the Yun Clan Villa down to the fields.
4 The time for harvesting wheat cannot be long, or else the wheat grains will fall to the ground; it’s a matter with very strict requirements on the harvesting period.
4 The Yun Clan Villa sowed sixteen hundred thousand mu of wheat this year; standing at the edge of the field, you couldn’t even see the boundary.
4 For this, Yun Ce mobilized almost all the manpower available from the Yun Clan side, entering the wheat fields before dawn every day, not stopping until the moon rose. Of course, on nights with a full moon that didn’t affect harvesting, people would work even later.
4 Everyone at home was put to use: the elderly guarded the threshing ground and drove away birds; big-bellied women who couldn’t go to the fields busied themselves boiling soup for the laborers; children were scattered to pick up wheat ears; older ones, like Yun Ce, were strong laborers in the wheat fields.
4 The Red Date Horse carried a huge bundle of wheat to the edge of the threshing ground, shook its body, and the wheat mountain on its back fell onto the threshing ground. Zhang Min, holding a wooden fork, quickly spread out and sun-dried this wheat mountain.
4 The Red Date Horse snorted its nose, blowing out the wheat awns that had gotten into its nostrils, then stuck its long face into the wooden bucket, sucking up all the water inside in one go, before trotting off to find Yun Ce who was vigorously cutting wheat.
5 This might be the first farming season on this land of the Great Han. The little farm in Lantian County couldn’t even be called a farming season. Only in this vast expanse of cropland could one truly feel what farming season means.
5 Yun Ce held a wheat ear over half a chi long, his lips trembling for a long time. This wheat ear wasn’t even considered long; the wheat ears cut by those seven- or eight-year-old children with scissors were the real good ones—one chi long was not uncommon.
5 “This mu of land should yield at least six thousand jin of wheat, right?”
5 “Eight thousand four hundred twenty-seven jin.”
5 “Why is there a decimal?”
5 “I’m an AI; I could calculate to six decimal places, but afraid you’d think me long-winded, I just gave an integer.”
5 “The land here is truly fertile.”
5 “Correct, twenty meters of black soil layer; you don’t even need to fertilize.”
5 “Twenty meters?”
5 “Correct, it’s twenty meters.”
6 “Do you think the people from the ancestral land, arriving here, would turn this into a grain base?”
6 “No, that would make the people from the ancestral land seem particularly stupid.”
6 Yun Ce was chatting idly with Doggy entirely because two hundred meters ahead to the left, a man and woman were rolling in the wheat field, making a huge commotion.
6 Even as the master of this ground, Yun Ce couldn’t run over and ruin their fun. He just felt puzzled: with such heavy physical labor, how could it not dispel their desire to do bad things?
6 The Red Date Horse didn’t care; it deliberately ran over from their side, scaring the pair into fleeing everywhere without even time to put on their clothes.
6 Laughter immediately erupted across the fields.
6 Yun Ce looked up at the increasingly bright full moon in the sky and decided to extend the work stoppage time by two hours today; there was just too much wheat.
6 So much that it exceeded everyone’s expectations.
6 First, the Cao Clan’s transportation teams were far from enough to transport the threshed and sun-dried wheat from here in a short time. At the same time, Cao Kun didn’t have the financial power to buy all the wheat as previously agreed.
6 Worst of all, the Yun Clan Villa’s wheat bumper harvest caused wheat prices north of the Great Wall to plummet. The Cao Clan’s steward hoped to transact at current market prices, not last year’s prices.
7 This scoundrel behavior naturally didn’t work. Yun Ce sent a letter to Cao Kun, rebuking him for having no integrity.
7 Then, Cao Kun came riding an Albatross.
7 “To be honest, my mansion’s empty rooms are all stuffed full of wheat.”
7 The wound at Cao Kun’s waist and ribs hadn’t healed yet; the freshly changed dressing was seeping blood again due to the Albatross travel.
7 “What, thrown into the cold palace by your dad?”
7 “Yeah, he thinks my temperament is too volatile to achieve great things and believes my third and ninth brothers are talents worth cultivating well.”
7 “Do you regret it?”
7 “In the Laoye Ridge battle, I fought very refreshingly. My helmet was hit by an arrow, I wasn’t scared, and I personally led the charge. The old thief He Tian was right there; I charged to his front three times, but was beaten back by the Tiger Guards each time.
7 Still, I knew that old thief was afraid, especially after I was wounded by the Cold Beauty Saw. After wrapping the wound with a flag, I continued charging, and the old thief clearly retreated.
7 I’m certain that if Cao Ling and the others hadn’t desperately pulled me back to retreat, I could have torn my way to that old thief’s face.”
8 Yun Ce sneered upon hearing this and said: “With your newly broken-through Thousand-man General skill?”
8 Cao Kun smiled and said: “After the Laoye Ridge battle, no one sees me as a playboy or scion of a noble family anymore.”
8 Yun Ce laughed loudly: “How many did you lose at Laoye Ridge?”
8 “Seven thousand four hundred eighty-seven men; my dad was heartbroken to the point of bleeding.”
8 “So, in the Laoye Ridge battle, you actually won, right?”
8 The smile on Cao Kun’s face was very mild yet resolute as he nodded: “Correct, it was a great victory!”
8 Got up very early in the morning, went for a stroll and came back very sleepy, planned to take a short nap then get up to write, but ended up like this. Though embarrassed, the sleep was really sound. I’ll continue.
