Chapter 76: Consequences Are A Very Unpleasant Fruit
Yun Ce left early in the morning and returned early too. E Ji guarded the guesthouse gate, waiting eagerly for a long time. When she saw the figures of Yun Ce and the red date horse appear, she immediately led a group of little girls to welcome him.
Yun Ce dismounted and threw them all onto the red date horse’s back, then led it by the reins back to the guesthouse.
E Ji secretly glanced at Yun Ce’s expression and saw that his neither sad nor happy demeanor made it hard to guess whether he had obtained the desired rank on this trip to the Captain’s Mansion.
Back in the room, after serving Yun Ce to finish washing up, E Ji cautiously said: “Just say if it worked or not, I’m anxious about it.”
Yun Ce took a sip of water and said: “It worked, but I didn’t get the Zan Niao you wanted, only a Shang Zao. Are you satisfied or not?”
Hearing Yun Ce say this, tears immediately welled up in E Ji’s eyes. She didn’t speak, just silently lowered her head, went to the bedroom, knelt in the corner facing the wall, and then the teardrops started falling pattering down.
Regarding his low martial power value and being suspected of obtaining the Dragon Spirit, these two things made Yun Ce’s heart feel like it was frying in oil.
Martial power was the foundation of his survival in this world. He really wanted to improve it but had no way to start. Even the smartest Doggy was the same as him, only awakening after arriving in this world. Truly speaking, they were still babies just a month old.
After thinking for a long time, Yun Ce still felt that asking Zhang Min to find him a good teacher to practice martial arts fiercely for a while was the way to go.
When it came to science, Earth was naturally more advanced, but when it came to physical training and the use of cold weapons, the Great Han side was naturally much stronger.
1 At least on Earth, Yun Ce had never seen anyone who could fight a wild boar as big as an elephant with cold weapons and still win.
1 If he could have Doggy learn the martial arts here and then scientifically simplify them, it should be a good path for practicing martial arts.
1 Yun Ce didn’t lack strength; he even had preliminary blade and spear immunity. What he needed to practice was just the method of killing, which shouldn’t be difficult.
1 Once Yun Ce figured it out, he turned his head to look around but surprisingly didn’t see E Ji. This girl always appeared in his sight whenever he was home. What was wrong with her today?
1 A whimpering cry came from the room. After going in, he found E Ji kneeling facing the corner, crying alone.
1 Yun Ce dragged her out from the corner and said: “Who upset you? Tell me, I’ll go beat them.”
1 E Ji hugged Yun Ce tightly and cried: “Don’t abandon me.”
1 Yun Ce puzzledly said: “Of course I won’t abandon you.”
1 E Ji wiped her tear-streaked face that looked like a flower cat with her sleeve, squeezed out an ugly smile, and said to Yun Ce: “It’s fine now.”
1 Yun Ce didn’t let go of E Ji. He quickly recalled: when he left in the morning, this girl had clumsily danced a send-off dance for him, looking very happy at the time.
2 When he returned, the girl was still very happy. So, when did she become unhappy?
2 “Stupid pig, when E Ji was concerned about you, you said she only cared about nonsense rank.”
2 Doggy’s explanation made Yun Ce suddenly remember what he had said when his soul was wandering in the clouds. He had indeed said the wrong thing and was about to apologize.
2 His mind turned, he grabbed E Ji’s shoulders, lifted her up, and gently shook her: “This time, learn your lesson. From now on, no matter what happens, care about me first: ask if I’m injured, if I got beaten, if I’m full, if I’m unhappy.
2 Once you’ve figured those things out, then talk about other crap matters. Otherwise, I’ll think you don’t like me as much as yesterday, and my heart will feel cold.”
2 Seeing Yun Ce somewhat exasperated, E Ji for some reason burst out laughing with a puff. Her big eyes refilled with light—this was the usual E Ji.
2 E Ji was just about to pour out her love for Yun Ce, stirred by his cheesy sweet talk, when she heard Yun Ce pretend to dry heave while walking out.
2 “Too disgusting. Did I really say that?”
2 “You never treat me well…” E Ji cried again.
2 This time, it was ordinary crying, no need to coax.
3 It wasn’t mealtime yet, but Zhang Min had already come. Upon learning that E Ji was angry today and everyone could only eat bean porridge and cold wild vegetable salad, she left. Yun Ce didn’t even have time to mention finding a martial arts teacher.
3 Zhou Chengming was actually a very good teacher. Yun Ce wanted to apprentice under him, but he wouldn’t accept. He even felt that Zhou Chengming seemed distrustful of him for some reason, very suspicious.
3 E Ji was angry, so today’s bean porridge was overcooked. Yun Ce held a big bowl of burnt-flavored bean porridge and looked up to see if others needed any, but found that except for E Ji still viciously drinking her porridge, the other big and small girls were all looking at him hopefully.
3 “Drink your own, no looking at others.”
3 With E Ji’s angry shout, the big and small girls buried their heads into their porridge bowls like quails and drank diligently. Today, Feng An and Liang Kun had gone for the exam and hadn’t returned, so Yun Ce had to drink two extra bowls.
3 Until the afternoon when the sun was about to set, Feng An and Liang Kun finally returned from outside, drunk and staggering.
3 Seeing Yun Ce, Feng An grabbed his hand and said: “I passed, Liang Kun passed too. The teachers looked at our submitted papers, read the opening, and praised us two as rare talents to benefit the world.”
3 Yun Ce pushed away the two drunken idiots. If they had stayed to listen, they would surely hear that teacher say the same to all the passed candidates.
3 The spots for the civil competition had long been allocated. Their two spots were forcefully obtained by Zhang Min relying on Panxing Tower’s fierce reputation. Which teacher could afford to offend such candidates? Even kneeling and saying nice things was only right. Who made him naturally like currying favor with the powerful.
3 Upon learning that Yun Ce had already obtained the Shang Zao rank and was just waiting for the official document, Feng An and Liang Kun wanted to drag him for another drinking session in the guesthouse.
4 Yun Ce grabbed them by the collars and sent the two drunks to bed.
4 Yun Ce didn’t sleep; instead, in the courtyard, he repeatedly practiced the horse spear as Doggy instructed, for a full four hours.
4 Snow started falling from the sky at some unknown time. Today’s snowflakes were exceptionally large and crystalline. They melted immediately upon falling on Yun Ce’s bare back, mixing into his sweat and dripping to the ground.
4 E Ji hugged the clothes and stood under the eaves, just watching Yun Ce thrust the horse spear out again and again, each time identical to the last, each strike accurately hitting the suspended green money.
4 Miss Hong was also watching Yun Ce practice the horse spear. She had moved into this guesthouse called Gao Lian Sheng yesterday, with the money paid by Yun Ce. For some reason, spending money on these pure rebels didn’t pain him at all.
4 He had initially thought Zhang Min and her group were a large rebel force, but after testing with soap, Yun Ce realized their power wasn’t big, even just in the budding stage.
4 To be honest, an organization that couldn’t even secure soap profits—joining it would only make one cannon fodder, dying without a burial place in the end.
4 Miss Hong and Pei Chuan’s group were different. Joining now would surely mean being cannon fodder, but the good thing was everyone was cannon fodder, no distinction. When they died, everyone died, which seemed very fair.
4 As Doggy said, power starts from the feet, issues from the waist and kidneys, travels through the arms, pours into the spear shaft, and finally exerts at the spear tip—nothing it couldn’t break.
4 These words sounded reasonable, but putting them into practice revealed they were nonsense. No matter how hard Yun Ce tried, he couldn’t pierce the green money tied to the rope with the horse spear.
5 After thrusting over three thousand times in a row, Yun Ce slowly put away the horse spear, letting the goose-feather heavy snow fall on him. Having sweated all over, his whole body felt much clearer.
5 Because of bare-chested snow exposure, Yun Ce unsurprisingly fell ill.
5 And seriously ill: not only high fever unrelenting all over, but also shivering, foaming at the mouth. If not for E Ji holding him down desperately, Yun Ce would have shaken off the bed to the floor.
5 Zhang Min came to see him during the day and left with a grim face.
5 Miss Hong came at night to see him and also left with a grim face.
5 Zhou Chengming asked Zhang Min: “Is he really sick?”
5 Zhang Min answered: “His whole body is hot like charcoal fire.”
5 Pei Chuan asked Miss Hong: “Is he really sick?”
5 Miss Hong answered: “Really sick, shivering, foaming at the mouth, very serious.”
5 After Miss Hong left, Yun Ce no longer had fever, no shivering, and certainly no foaming at the mouth.
6 E Ji hugged Yun Ce’s head worriedly and said: “Why do they all want to drag you into the water?”
6 Yun Ce bit off the head of a baby bean, sucked hard on the neck, and the slightly salty soup juice went into his mouth.
6 This was Yun Ce’s new way of eating: first steam the baby beans half-cooked, then cut them open, pour out the steamed fat, fill with prepared meat soup, steam again in the steamer until fully cooked, and delicious stuffed baby beans were ready.
6 Yun Ce, being sick, skipped dinner. After eating a steamer of stuffed baby beans, he still felt not full, but E Ji wouldn’t let him eat more because this stuff caused excessive farting.
6 Feng An worriedly said: “Though I don’t know what the two sides are plotting, I feel it’s unrelated to us.”
6 Liang Kun smacked his palm with his fist indignantly: “This is forcing good men into prostitution.”
6 Yun Ce gave the two guys a white-eyed glance, took a sip of warm water, and smiled: “I’m sick. The doctor saw me and said this wind-cold has entered my bones. Without three or two months, don’t think of getting out of bed.
6 So, no one can do anything to me.”
6 E Ji worriedly said: “We can’t delay that long. Without Young Master’s Shang Zao rank coming down, we can’t move an inch.”
6 Yun Ce smiled: “Zhou Chengming will set off in ten days. Once he’s gone, neither Zhang Min nor Pei Chuan can beat me.
7 At that time, if I’m unwilling, can they bite off my dick?”
7 Hearing Yun Ce start talking nonsense, Feng An and Liang Kun left Yun Ce’s bedroom. They planned to carefully observe this Chuyun City and see exactly what was off that made these two groups so invested.
