Chapter 242: More People, More Troubles
In general, the relationship between mother and son is always good, while the relationship between father and son is debatable, whether in history book records or foreign epic legends, some father-son relationships even surpass hatred.
This kind of family bond entangled with hatred makes many people good at telling stories regard it as a treasure. In many beautiful stories passed down, this emotion of pain mixed with pleasure often makes the story more poignant and moving, lasting longer.
Think about it, the moment the son’s sword pierces into the father’s chest, the moment the father’s saber chops off the son’s head, it should be expressed with the most gorgeous aria.
Yun Ce really likes watching such plays.
Many times, he unconsciously puts himself into the plot, sometimes feeling great relief if he stabs a sword into Yun Linchuan’s chest, other times feeling immense pleasure if Yun Linchuan uses a saber to chop off his head.
After killing Yun Linchuan, he would immediately commit seppuku, using destruction to protest.
He also wants to see if, after Yun Linchuan chops off his head, he would show a pained, regretful expression for three lifetimes.
In short, this thought is very pervert, but others don’t know that this is a good story that Yun Ce has performed countless versions of in his mind before sleep in the past.
He knows it’s not good, but this kind of story is too addictive, making him unable to stop.
The larger the family, the thinner the family affection, mainly because there are more things in the family that need handling, so there’s no time to deal with emotions between relatives. After all, maintaining emotions requires a lot of time.
1 Small families are much better, of course, the small family can’t be poor, otherwise, the son will become natural labor.
1 Cao Kun’s problem is quite special; his father is too fertile. Every additional child born reduces Cao Kun’s importance by one level, and according to Cao Kun, he now has thirty-seven younger brothers and nineteen younger sisters.
1 The over seven thousand who fallen in battle are all father’s subordinates, not his subordinates, so he doesn’t feel heartbroken wasting them at all, even feeling it’s weakening the enemy’s strength.
1 Hmm, very similar to the mindset of Yuan Shao’s sons at the end of Eastern Han.
1 “While there’s a lot of wheat now, you should store more wheat. This thing, as long as piled in a dry place, even left for ten years, is still good military rations.”
1 “Hmm, are you also preparing to hoard grain?” Cao Kun asked in reply instead of answering.
1 “I’m currently just a poor wretch; the only thing I don’t lack now is grain. As for other things, I’m severely lacking them and must exchange the excess grain for other materials.
1 If you don’t want the wheat, I’ll take it out to exchange for materials with others.”
1 Cao Kun thought for a moment and said, “Good, I’m willing to take all your excess wheat, and I also want to take all the excess wheat north of the Great Wall.”
1 Yun Ce chuckled and said, “Your father is now fiercely attacking He Tian with your two younger brothers. So, you want to take advantage of them being busy with battle and unable to purchase military rations to pinch them on this matter?”
2 Cao Kun shook his head and said, “Absolutely no such intention.”
2 Yun Ce is unsure if Cao Kun has this intention, but after Cao Kun left, a buyer with a huge appetite appeared, not only buying up all the wheat from Yun Clan Villa but also acquiring all the wheat stored by other caravans.
2 Carts of wheat were transported away, boxes of gold were transported into the warehouse that E Ji set up at Jin Suo Pass. Huo Liao had to stop his work and continue chiseling the mountain to make more space for the subsequent wheat to be transported in.
2 After handling the wheat matter, time entered Suqiu Month. After Shehuo duly brought Autumn Rain, the temperature north of the Great Wall never rose again, cool and pleasant.
2 Possibly from exhaustion during wheat harvest, plus autumn grain not yet mature, people in Yun Clan Villa generally became lazy.
2 Compared to Yun Ce, who lounges on a recliner telling dirty stories to the Red Date Horse, Eagle, and Doggy when idle, E Ji is the busiest person in the family.
2 Mainly because many men come to the house looking for wives, many looking for daughters, and even more are whole families coming for their mother, sister, or younger sister, and all are men.
2 “Let me tell you, when looking for a mare, you must check if the buttocks are plump, if the coat is glossy; the most important is to check the teeth, don’t be fooled by a pretty old mare, it’s not good for offspring…
2 Also, why does the Thunder Smoke Beast’s mating period only last three days? It makes me suspect all that muscle on you is wasted.”
2 The Red Date Horse lay beside Yun Ce, using its horse head as a small table for Yun Ce, with a teapot on it. When Yun Ce took the teapot to pour tea, the Red Date Horse would nod, showing agreement.
3 Yun Ce put the teapot back, and the Red Date Horse stopped moving. Yun Ce grabbed the Eagle’s sharp beak, pulled it in front of him, and said, “Back then, you chased me relentlessly, leaving me no way to heaven or earth. Now, how did you become this dumb bird?
3 Your master is still waiting for you to grow up quickly to carry her flying all over the sky. If you keep just eating without working, mark my words, your master will sooner or later stew you in a pot.”
3 The Eagle broke free from Yun Ce’s hand and cried “caw,” as if protesting.
3 The Milk Dog hurriedly came over too. Yun Ce disdainfully glanced at it and kicked it flying with his leg.
3 E Ji returned from outside in a huff. An Ji and others accompanying her quickly removed their cloaks and set up a chair beside Yun Ce. E Ji took the teapot from the Red Date Horse’s head and drank from it mouth-to-mouth in one go. When she wanted to put it back, the Red Date Horse refused, lying down beside Yun Ce and deliberately stretching out its four legs, no longer wanting to be a table.
3 Yun Ce said discontentedly, “This is a teapot, filled with tea water. I want to use tea water to season the pot. Don’t always steal my tea dregs; this behavior back home would get you beaten to death.”
3 E Ji placed the oddly shaped clay teapot from her hand on Yun Ce’s belly and said, “Unhappy outside, and you won’t let me be happy when I return. Water from a few rotten leaves, only you treat it like treasure.”
3 Yun Ce said, “Shen Nong, who stood shoulder to shoulder with the Yellow Emperor back then, risked his life to find this treasure, and you call it rotten leaves. Truly a country woman who doesn’t value treasure.”
3 E Ji thumped Yun Ce’s head and said, “Now you’re impressive, they say you’re imperial family, still the first in line heir to the King of Changsha rank, but with the old man above not dying, you can only plant wheat in the wilds as King of Changsha.
3 Why don’t you go to Chang’an, take out the old man, and let me enjoy being King of Changsha consort for once. Anyway, a country woman like me has never seen such great wealth.”
4 Calling the High Priest Liu Changsheng an old man to die is no fun, and saying to take out the old man to inherit the King of Changsha rank is even more no fun.
4 The source of Han people’s high-level martial arts is Ancestral Fire and Shehuo. Baking Ancestral Fire and Shehuo for a long time, it’s said even stones can turn into spirits, and Liu Changsheng has been inseparable from Ancestral Fire and Shehuo since age five. In the world, who can kill him?
4 Yun Ce feels he may not outlast Liu Changsheng in this lifetime; the man has this name for a reason, maybe he really achieves longevity.
4 “Who outside made you unhappy? Why don’t I believe it?”
4 Yun Ce’s words naturally make sense. Speaking of it, the one truly wielding life-and-death power in Yun Clan Villa is E Ji, though Yun Ce has it too, with higher authority, but unused is as good as none.
4 “It’s those coming to find relatives. Brothers looking for sisters is fine; give them an identity and let them stay as labor. Parents looking for daughters can also be settled, no problem.
4 The problem is husbands looking for wives, but the wives have given birth to two children, and there’s still a man living at home. How am I, your concubine, supposed to arrange it?”
4 Yun Ce understands E Ji’s difficulty; she wants labor but doesn’t want to break Yun Clan Villa’s rules, so labor on one side, rules on the other, putting her in a bind.
4 “Are there many such cases?”
4 E Ji sighed and said, “Many, over one thousand seven hundred. The husbands come looking, the women just cry without a clear choice, and the men living at home won’t leave. Isn’t it chaos?”
5 Yun Ce said puzzledly, “Don’t we have family rules? Just enforce them.”
5 “I can’t bear to lose that much labor. Helping one side breeds resentment on the other, ending up messy and hard to manage.”
5 Yun Ce hadn’t figured out such matters even when he was village chief before; now it’s a large-scale event, of course he doesn’t want to touch it. No matter how handled, the one responsible takes the blame.
5 These women have already made great merits for Yun Clan, giving birth to so many children. Though not much childcare, Yun Ce had allowed them to visit the nursery or Youth Academy when idle. If barbarically cutting them all off, it would leave hidden dangers.
5 So, Yun Ce called Feng An.
5 “Have the two men fight; the winner gets the wife, the loser has no wife.”
5 Feng An gave the answer without thinking.
5 “Good, do that. Later, when that woman called Dong Lan has a man come looking, you go fight him. Winner takes Dong Lan, loser has no wife.”
5 Feng An immediately objected, “Lord, this method may not be appropriate. Allow me to think again.”
5 Yun Ce sighed and said, “That Dong Lan has a fiancé, right?”
6 Feng An said annoyedly, “Yes, betrothed in Chang’an. When her father was in trouble, that fiancé actively ran around for their family matters; he’s not a heartless man.”
6 Yun Ce looked at the troubled Feng An, then at E Ji watching the show beside, and irritably waved his hand, “Go on, handle such trivial matters yourselves, don’t bother me.”
6 Feng An cupped his hands and said, “Lord, we’ll handle this matter. But there are fully over thirteen thousand men coming to Yun Clan Villa this time; inevitably some spies are mixed in, and we’re hard to guard against.”
6 Also, please don’t forget to vote, thanks, kisses, rolling on the ground, anyway, just want monthly tickets.
