Chapter 203: Useless Emotions Like Shame Shouldn’t Appear On You
“If you’ve got the skills, slap me dead with one palm!”
Yun Ce looked at Pei Chuan who had rushed over from thousands of miles away, really wanting to slap him dead with one palm.
Never seen a beggar who, after getting food, still complains that the food isn’t good.
“If you can’t slap me dead, then bring out the real good bombs, don’t fob me off with this inferior stuff.”
Yun Ce glanced at Feng An, Feng An shrugged, indicating it wasn’t him who leaked the secret that the Yun Clan still had big bombs, Yun Ce then looked at Liang Kun, Liang Kun spread his hands, indicating ignorance.
“Don’t look anymore, just from the disdainful look on your vassal’s face when he gave me the bombs, I knew you had good stuff here.
Yun Ce, bring them out! It’s come to this point, if you don’t bring them out, just wait to collect the corpses for me, Miss Hong, and my son. I bet you don’t want to see the corpses of our family of three, right?
Chuyun Prefecture has improved now, damn it, now someone’s eyeing it again. We fought them twice, with over ten thousand casualties. They have large trebuchets and ballistae. Hong Niangzi felt we couldn’t fight the enemy head-on in the corridors, so she withdrew to defend Chuyun City, and dug many tunnels, preparing to use the abandoned Chuyun City for close combat with the enemy.
The bomb secret recipe you gave is very good, some bombs are very powerful, but most bombs aren’t that good. If every bomb in our hands could be effective, Hong Niangzi says she has the confidence to turn Chuyun City into a meat grinder, so no one else dares to covet Chuyun Prefecture.
Just say it, are you giving the real stuff or not.
1 By the way, my son is named Little Bomb.”
1 Yun Ce sighed and said: “For Pei Bomb’s sake, I can give you a hundred big bombs. The problem is, how are you going to transport this stuff?”
1 Pei Chuan laughed heartily: “We have albatrosses, we can fly to Chuyun City in two days.”
1 Yun Ce said in surprise: “Where did you get albatrosses from? Those things are like thunder smoke beasts, they can’t be controlled by outsiders.”
1 Pei Chuan’s smile grew even brighter.
1 “You don’t know how miserable the lives of the bird slaves are, and how much we respect the bird slaves. To be honest, this time Chuyun Prefecture was attacked, the main reason is related to the great bird slave rebellion.
1 We now have sixteen albatrosses, not sure if any more bird slaves have defected recently. If more come, Hong Niangzi plans to form a transportation squadron of twenty albatrosses.
1 Those idiots don’t even know how to use albatrosses properly, they even make albatrosses carry warriors into battle, standing on the birds’ backs ‘whoosh whoosh whoosh’ shooting arrows. It’s stupid just thinking about it.
1 After our albatross squadron was established, we just drop bombs downward, bombing those fat-headed beasts to death.
1 Also, it’s not like we’re taking your bombs for nothing, here’s this thing for you.”
2 Pei Chuan fumbled in his bosom for a long time before tossing a pale blue crystal-like object to Yun Ce.
2 “This was searched from an inspector’s corpse. That guy guarded this thing like his life. Hong Niangzi said it’s useless for us to keep it, so she gave it to you.”
2 The thing felt heavy in his hand. Though it looked like glass-type, its quality was much heavier than glass. Yun Ce turned his wrist, and the thing went into the dragon pearl.
2 Then, it was wrapped by Doggy’s tentacle for detailed research.
2 Pei Chuan himself rode a bluebird here, enjoyed a day of food and hot spring therapy at the Yun Clan Manor, and like everyone else, he couldn’t stop praising the Yun Clan’s scrubbing technique, especially that card-brushing motion—even a rigid person like Pei Chuan got lost in wild thoughts.
2 “Where did those poor ghosts get so many albatrosses from? Even Cao Kun’s family can’t come up with twenty albatrosses.”
2 Once Yun Ce returned, E Ji returned to normal. After the couple performed the rites, regardless of any lingering atmosphere, she nestled in Yun Ce’s arms and started coveting others’ property.
2 “This is the result of her mass line approach. But from this, it shows Hong Niangzi has spread her network wide—not only can she directly contact so many bird slaves, she can even win them over.
2 On this point, our family can’t do it.”
2 “Otherwise…”
3 Before she finished speaking, Yun Ce slapped her on the buttocks. E Ji shrank back, pressed her ear to Yun Ce’s chest, and continued: “Who would’ve thought, one day the poor ghosts would have something to envy.
3 Young Master, can the bird you brought back carry people flying in the air?”
3 “Yes, once it grows up.”
3 “Then raise it well. If it lays eggs, we’ll hatch them, raise lots of eagles, and our family will prosper.”
3 Yun Ce didn’t know if the eagle, which had been irradiated by the radiation source and mutated, could still have biological activity, let alone lay eggs—that was a big question.
3 All he could say was that E Ji’s dream was good; the rest was up to heaven’s will.
3 The next morning, twelve albatrosses descended on the Yun Clan Villa like a dark cloud. The rough Pei Chuan laughed heartily, hugging all the dwarves who rode albatrosses here, even tossing one skinny dwarf into the air and catching him again. Those dwarves laughed like idiots, each eager to be tossed by Pei Chuan.
3 “Their lives are linked to the albatrosses; if the albatross dies, they die too.” Pei Chuan made a nail shape with his finger and poked his head, and Yun Ce immediately understood—this was another beast supervision technique.
3 Watching those dwarves eating like crazy, Yun Ce said: “Aren’t you afraid they’ll eat themselves into pigs and reduce the albatrosses’ payload?”
3 Pei Chuan laughed: “Without them, we have no albatrosses. Three feet tall, even if they get fat, how fat can they get? This group has only this bit of fun.
4 By the way, I want them to try your Yun Clan’s hot spring therapy too.”
4 As he spoke, he made a card-brushing motion.
4 When the twelve shy dwarves came out from the hot spring villa side, the albatrosses’ backs were already loaded with bombs. Pei Chuan took off first on his bluebird, then those clumsy albatrosses began flapping their wings, huge wings stirring up gales that blew sand and stones across the ground.
4 Watching the albatrosses stumbling on the ground, running while flapping wings, taking off one after another—it was quite like bombers lifting off, though two albatrosses probably overloaded, lifted off briefly then fell back to run again.
4 “Five thousand small bombs taken, two hundred big bombs taken. Lord, our stock is running low.” After seeing Pei Chuan off, Feng An opened the account book to show Yun Ce the remaining stock.
4 Yun Ce didn’t think it was a big problem. Doggy was fascinated by the crystal Pei Chuan brought; Yun Ce asked, and Doggy answered, but the answer made Yun Ce so angry smoke came out of all seven orifices.
4 “In your eyes, this is a gemstone. In the eyes of the wise, it contains supreme wisdom.”
4 “I don’t care about wisdom or not. The gemstone in your hand was exchanged for my bombs. Now no stock left, and the raw materials from Chang’an are enough to make more—isn’t it time to produce some more bombs?”
4 “The bombs are mine too. Using my bombs to exchange for a gemstone—what’s it got to do with you?”
4 Yun Ce saw cracks appearing on the crystal held by the tentacle and carefully reminded Doggy.
5 “Your wisdom has cracked.”
5 Doggy suddenly retracted the tentacle into the dragon pearl and ignored Yun Ce.
5 The Yun Clan Villa now had a shehuo temple. Inside the temple was a small fire pit, with flames always burning in it.
5 Called a temple, it was really just a hall that looked a bit taller and larger than other houses. Many elderly people afraid of the cold would gather there when they didn’t need to go to the fields or the wilderness, warming by the fire while chatting. The fire in the pit burned quietly, and the elders spoke slowly, which made everything feel peaceful.
5 Today it was time to irrigate the bean seedlings; the elders each tossed a piece of charcoal into the fire pit, knelt devoutly, and drew out their tones to tell their requests to the fire in the pit.
5 Before nightfall, raindrops began falling scattered from the sky. After everyone was asleep, the rain grew heavier; by dawn, dark clouds drifted away, rain stopped, and the sun rose.
5 After reading the secret letter, Cao Kun sighed to the old butler Zheng Tianshou: “Not shehuo, yet better than shehuo.”
5 Zheng Tianshou opened his eyes and said: “How do you know that’s not shehuo?”
5 Cao Kun said: “The fire in the fire pit went out twice.”
5 Zheng Tianshou said: “Was it you who did it?”
6 Cao Kun said: “I did it. Thought it would cause chaos, but unexpectedly, a child got fire seed from the kitchen lady and relit the fire in the pit. Then those people continued their normal lives. When they needed rain, they prayed again, and in the end, the rain surely came.”
6 Zheng Tianshou pondered for a long time before saying to Cao Kun: “Send more people to investigate Yun Ce’s past. This time send some elite soldiers. If it still doesn’t work, go ask Panxing Tower—paying some price is acceptable.”
6 Cao Kun gritted his teeth: “I always thought Yun Ce staying north of the Great Wall could only be our vassal, a force to help my Cao Clan grow stronger.
6 Uncle, I don’t see it that way now.”
6 “You mean, him escaping with his life from Yu Sang’s hands?”
6 “Yeah, I’m very sure Yu Sang already died at Yun Ce’s hands. Most importantly, old Zhao Shu who just took Dong Quan Pass actually says Yun Ce personally killed Lian Cheng Bi to help him take Dong Quan Pass.
6 From this, it seems Yun Ce also has ambitions to continue expanding.”
6 Zheng Tianshou waved his hand: “Zhao Shu is a stinking man; whoever gets involved with him has no good end. That set of deceptive words he spread from Dong Quan Pass couldn’t fool even street kids. Dong Quan Pass falling into his hands isn’t bad for us. After we secure Yujin Pass, this old man should make a move to test Zhao Shu’s skill as a martial arts expert.”
6 Cao Kun added: “I feel like I have no face to see Yun Ce now.”
6 Zheng Tianshou laughed: “You’re still too kind-hearted in the end. Interactions among nobles look at profit, not friendship. As long as profits are bound tightly enough, friendship will come even without it.
7 Shame is a feeling that shouldn’t be on you.”
