Chapter 38: Daddy, You’re So Handsome!
The grain in the dark room is about 25 shi. (1 shi = 120 jin), which is not a lot, and that’s without the husks.
After all, they wouldn’t dare to transport too much grain and salt brazenly near the border of the Tianqi Dynasty, right under the nose of the border army.
“Hehehe… this salt is enough for us to eat for a while, Wanwan did a good job!”
Qin Wanwan, who was praised: Happy~
“How did you find it?”
Qin Wanwan took out the small snake on her wrist: “Wanwan and Xiao Hei were playing, and when they touched that vase, it made a ‘crack’ sound, and a hole opened up here.”
Very good, as a reward, Xie Chong directly stuffed two good-looking silver ingots into her hand.
“Take it and play.”
Occasionally, one can be willful. These things were all found by his daughter, so what’s wrong with giving them to her!
Everyone present naturally had no objections, and even felt that their general had given too little.
“General, don’t be stingy, give her more.”
That was too direct, and Xie Chong’s dark expression made him want to kick the speaker.
“Isn’t such a large silver ingot heavy?”
He did want to give more, but carrying such a heavy thing around would be too much trouble.
Qin Wanwan hugged the two silver ingots and cherished them for a moment, then put them in her sachet, which became heavy.
One silver ingot is five taels, so two is ten taels. Too much would be uncomfortable to carry at the waist.
Xie Chong thought of the gold he had plundered from the bandits and decided to melt some of it down to make a small peace lock for Wanwan to wear.
He had seen noble children in the capital wearing them on their necks. Why shouldn’t his own daughter have one?
“Here you go.”
A small hand was extended to Qin Wanwan, and in the palm lay a handful of delicate and exquisite gold melon seeds and gold peanuts.
The color was much better than silver, bright and golden!
Qin Wanwan’s eyes lit up, and even Xie Chong looked at them a few more times.
The color was truly beautiful.
“Is this for me? Brother Yuanli is really giving it to me?”
Yin Yuanli held her small hand and gave her everything in his palm.
“Yes, it’s all for you.”
After all, she had saved him, so it was just a small token.
His sachet was found on the head kidnapper.
“Thank you, Brother Yuanli~”
Qin Wanwan gave Yin Yuanli, who was a head taller than her, a bear hug.
Yin Yuanli: …
Xie Chong: …
He felt that his daughter was becoming distant from him.
It turned out Wanwan also liked these shiny things, and he liked them too. She was naturally suited to be his daughter, no wonder she took to him so quickly.
If others knew what he was thinking, they would be speechless.
Come on, who wouldn’t like shiny gold!
After waiting for two hours, the scout reported that the people had arrived.
“General, they are wearing clothes of the Western Qiang tribe.”
The Western Qiang tribe, a tribe skilled in commerce.
Also, because they had not gone to war with Tianqi, the border army’s attitude towards them was quite good.
When there was no war, they even had commercial transactions with the Western Qiang tribe.
Xie Chong: “Scout again.”
The Western Qiang tribe had no friction with them, so why would they specifically come to buy children from Tianqi?
“Yes!”
When the people were almost at the village entrance, the attendant returned.
“General, the weapons in their hands are Tartar weapons!”
A cold, sharp glint flashed in Xie Chong’s eyes: “Are they all here?”
“They are here, these people form a merchant caravan of twenty, carrying a lot of horses.”
Xie Chong couldn’t help but smile inwardly. This was like sending them equipment.
After arranging Qin Wanwan and Yin Yuanli, he led his soldiers out.
Not long after, the sound of clashing cold weapons and shouting could be heard from outside.
Although Qin Wanwan was sitting in the room, she stretched out her little neck to look outside.
Yin Yuanli: “Those few people won’t be able to hurt General Xie.”
Qin Wanwan nodded: “I know, Daddy is very powerful.”
“I just want to see.”
Yin Yuanli said like a little adult: “It’s not good to watch, there’s a lot of blood.”
Not only blood, but possibly severed heads, and not intact ones either, along with dismembered arms and legs on the ground.
Although he wasn’t afraid, he still found it a bit disgusting.
Qin Wanwan said “oh” and yawned.
Today was so tiring.
About half an hour later, it became quiet outside.
Xie Chong, covered in blood and still emanating a sharp battle intent.
Qin Wanwan ran over and circled him: “Does Daddy hurt? Are you injured?”
“I’m not injured, it’s all enemy blood.”
“Hug.”
Xie Chong squatted down but didn’t hug her.
“No, I’m covered in blood. I’ll hug you after I wash up.”
There was water in this village, but he didn’t ask anyone to heat it. He just rinsed himself with cold water, changed into clean farmer’s clothes, and then came.
He hadn’t brought any spare clothes. This outfit was clean clothes he found in the village.
A dusty, patched coarse cloth shirt, but it didn’t look bad on him.
Xie Chong, who trained daily for military campaigns, had a height of nearly 1.9 meters, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and long legs, making him a walking clothes hanger.
Even a piece of cloth on him would look particularly handsome and wild.
Xie Chong, with his long, jet-black hair tied in a high ponytail, walked over, and Qin Wanwan scampered towards him.
“Daddy, Daddy, you’re so handsome!”
The tall man bent down and picked up the soft, milky-white bundle.
“Let’s go, let’s go out and see.”
The aftermath of the battle outside had already been cleaned up. Although there were still many bloodstains, at least there were no more broken heads or limbs.
“General, we captured a total of twenty horses, three thousand taels of silver, some Tartar weapons, and five prisoners.”
“Take it all.”
“Yes!”
Finally, they could go back. Today’s harvest was pretty good.
As soon as Qin Wanwan got on the horse, she fell asleep in her daddy’s arms.
Great General Xie lowered his eyes to look at her, wrapped the little girl in his cloak, slowed down his horse’s speed, and rode more steadily.
It was late when they returned to Shahe City. Xie Chong didn’t rush to deal with the kidnappers and Tartar prisoners. Instead, he took Qin Wanwan and Yin Yuanli, the Crown Prince, back to the General’s Mansion to rest well.
He hadn’t slept for two days.
Only after sleeping well would he have the energy to interrogate the Tartar prisoners.
As soon as they returned to the General’s Mansion, Lang Ya appeared.
A pair of blue eyes nervously gestured with his hands upon seeing the person in Xie Chong’s arms.
Xie Chong: “She’s fine, she’s asleep.”
Xie Chong was actually quite surprised by this mixed-blood from the Wolf Tribe that he had bought.
It was true that this guy was a bit undisciplined, but he had great talent for martial arts.
However, what surprised Xie Chong was his loyalty to his daughter.
When Wanwan was first kidnapped and he hadn’t returned yet, this guy had already caused a commotion in Shahe City, fiercely and wildly searching everywhere for those kidnappers disguised as acrobats.
Later, because the commotion he caused was too big, he was captured by the border army.
“The person has been found, you can go back and rest too.”
It could be seen that this young man hadn’t slept since Wanwan went missing.
Although he didn’t listen to him, as long as he listened to his daughter, that was enough.
