Chapter 268: Children Are A Man’s Ambition
Having a son, the father feels he should do something.
This is a very common mindset in the ancestral land.
Many times, the motivation for men to do something actually doesn’t come from themselves, but from seeing if they need to do something. No matter what they do, there always needs to be some driving force.
The child is precisely the best driving point.
Yun Shuo and Yun Tui, the two children, have just been born. They are soft, weak, tiny, with cries not even as loud as a puppy’s. They can’t leave the adults’ care for even a day. Yun Ce suspects that with just these two little things, if he doesn’t work a bit harder, they might not even be able to find wives.
He had made some plans before, but those were all step-by-step plans, steady and solid, not seeking speed or adventure, only that the plan keeps advancing. As long as there’s enough time, the plan will eventually be completed.
He Tian’s Tiger Guards, Yun Ce had paid attention to them before. Later, at Cao Kun’s engagement ceremony, seeing that little girl who was steamed to death, Yun Ce dispelled the idea. At that time, he was single-mindedly wanting to remove his own animal nature, thinking that removing the Dragon’s Brand imposed on him was key. He felt that dealing too much with the Tiger Guards might make his animal nature problem even more serious.
Now, the Dragon’s Brand has finally been removed by Shehuo. Yun Ce feels relieved. At the same time, he discovers that his animal nature seems to have nothing to do with the dragon. After the Dragon’s Brand was melted by Shehuo into the most basic energy becoming part of his strength, his moral bottom line seems even lower.
He himself is a devil, yet going around shouting about exorcising demons—that’s absurd in itself. But doing so also gives him a layer of hypocritical veneer, which is pretty good.
E Ji is great, Yun Ce loves her very much. Zhang Min is also good, Yun Ce likes her too. Whether love or like, neither compares to those two little things just born.
1 Even though they haven’t called out “Dad” yet, and the father-son bond hasn’t been established, Yun Ce has already started giving unilaterally.
1 The Tiger Guards are pretty good—a group of walking corpses that only know killing and fighting, without any emotional color of their own. Actually pretty good. What Yun Ce fears now is a group of people coming to destroy the relatively simple world he has painstakingly built.
1 Using them to protect the Yun Clan Villa, which hasn’t grown up yet, is pretty good.
1 While waiting for Liu Changsheng’s letter, Liang Kun returned with the children. This trip to Lingzhou City was originally for study tour, to let the children see a big city, meet more people, experience more human relationships and social graces, and know how to deal with outsiders.
1 Unexpectedly, a simple study tour let the children experience real war for the first time.
1 After talking with the children, hearing their insights from this trip, supporting, criticizing, and encouraging their insights, Lei Ming couldn’t wait to pull Yun Ce to see their spoils of war.
1 Six wooden boards had six great Han tied to them. They traveled six days on the road, and during those six days, the ropes never loosened, so the wooden boards were filthy.
1 After washing with water, Yun Ce could finally see clearly these six standard Tiger Guards.
1 Tall and burly figures, developed muscle groups, hands the size of palm-leaf fans, and long, powerful legs—indeed living up to the name Tiger Guards.
1 The term Tiger Guards originates from the Zhou dynasty’s palace forbidden guards, Tiger Guards Division, specifically responsible for protecting the monarch’s safety.
2 Logically, Zhou dynasty history has nothing to do with Great Han history here, because up to now, Great Han has only had two monarchs: one is the Yellow Emperor, the other is the Emperor.
2 However, the name Tiger Guards Army is very common in Great Han, basically every prefecture has them.
2 “Lord, I want a group like this as subordinates.” Lei Ming looked at Yun Ce, eyes full of hope.
2 “Oh? Why do you want that?”
2 “Because I can’t risk my younger brother and sister’s lives to test my command ability.”
2 “How did you get this idea?”
2 “Cao Kun in Lingzhou City pitted one younger brother to death and crippled another’s two legs. Cao Kun thinks nothing of it, might even be happy. Not me—my younger brother and sister grew up with me, I can’t bear it.”
2 “Not necessarily. Maybe Cao Kun is also in pain, but things can’t be both ways.”
2 “If we don’t take the city, don’t we avoid choosing?”
2 Yun Ce patted Lei Ming’s head and said, “Being too emotional isn’t good either.”
3 Lei Ming said puzzledly, “So, is being emotionless better, or being emotional better?”
3 Yun Ce smiled and said, “This is the most interesting part of being human. Wild beasts’ environment isn’t as good as humans’, so they can only rely on instinct. Humans have better circumstances; many times, we actually have choices. That’s where humans surpass wild beasts.”
3 “Lord, you haven’t said how we should choose yet.”
3 Yun Ce raised his hand and patted his chest, saying, “This, no one can tell you. You have to ask yourself.”
3 Before, Yun Linchuan never gave Yun Ce any direct answers his whole life. He had to figure everything out himself. If he thought casually, he’d get beaten. If he thought wrong, he wouldn’t point it out, just let cruel facts make him realize.
3 According to Yun Linchuan himself, this was cultivating his independent thinking ability, the foundation for foresight and insight.
3 Yun Ce had suffered this, why should Lei Ming this child avoid it?
3 He will undoubtedly become a high-level in Yun City in the future, needs to learn independent thinking, needs to have foresight and insight.
3 So, Lei Ming got kicked in the buttocks and flew out the door.
3 Seeing Lei Ming land on his buttocks and slide a meter on the ground, Yun Ce satisfactorily closed the door. Back then, when Yun Linchuan kicked him, his buttocks only slid half a meter on the ground.
4 As soon as Lei Ming left, Doggy couldn’t wait to appear. The originally finger-thick tentacles, after touching the Tiger Guard, began to rapidly thin. When the tentacles became only needle-thick, they suddenly stabbed into the Tiger Guard’s thigh veins…
4 At first, the Tiger Guard felt nothing. Gradually, his face became ferocious, his thick arms and legs straining, making the leather straps binding him creak.
4 Seeing the large blood vessels on the Tiger Guard’s neck about to burst from under the skin, Yun Ce clearly saw a small bulge slowly advancing along the large blood vessel in his neck.
4 Yun Ce didn’t understand these things, so he put the bracer aside and let Doggy do as it pleased. He hadn’t seen his son for over three hours.
4 Yun Shuo had just finished nursing, but this child was like a scumbag: fierce when hungry, swiftly leaves after eating full, not lingering at all.
4 E Ji wiped with a soft cloth while saying to Yun Ce, “He eats too much, I can barely keep up.”
4 Yun Ce looked at the two full rice bowls and said, “You still need to eat more stewed pig trotters with beans.”
4 E Ji dry-heaved, patted her chest and said, “Don’t mention stewed pig trotters with beans, I’ll never eat that again. Husband, go check if Zhang Min has any left over. Hers are big to begin with; maybe our son can have some.”
4 Yun Ce poured E Ji a bowl of water, watched her drink it, shook his head and said, “Don’t think big means better, yours are actually fuller. People say you’re sturdy as an ox, unlike her who was depleted too much before.”
4 E Ji was about to get angry, but suddenly thought she might not like Zhang Min, but Yun Tui this child isn’t from Zhang Min. Even if she gave birth to him, he’s Yun Clan offspring. When Yun Shuo does big things later, he needs his younger brother to help—no way can he be like her husband, doing everything alone on horseback.
5 The vast Yun Clan has nearly 70,000 under it; two children are still too few. At least like Cao Kun, with over a hundred younger brothers and sisters.
5 “Husband, go hug little Tui’er over; I still have some here…”
5 Hearing E Ji’s words, Yun Ce felt for the first time that coming to Great Han wasn’t too unlucky. At least, in marrying a wife, he really didn’t choose wrong.
5 When Yun Ce returned after seeing the children, Doggy had thoroughly entered wise man time. The bracer lay quietly on the nearby table. The Tiger Guard tied to the wooden board had a bluish face, looking dead for a while.
5 “How? Not successful? Logically, the medical technology here shouldn’t be on the same level as yours.”
5 Doggy’s voice lazily sounded in Yun Ce’s mind: “Any physical things, scientific things, they naturally aren’t as good as me. For example, that needle in this Tiger Guard’s brain is actually a very crude blocker. It separates the human brain’s cognition part from the linkage part, thereby making these guys who have developed muscle instinct, after receiving a clear order, activate muscle memory to fight and kill.
5 After I tried removing this needle, I found it had some energy fluctuations I didn’t understand. I analyzed this energy and finally found it completely different from known energy.
5 It’s this energy wrapping the needle that prevented brain death. At the same time, this needle is probably the receiver for orders.
5 When I pulled out this needle, this Tiger Guard died—instant brain death. I even suspect that after this needle pierced their skulls, these people were already dead.
5 Yun Ce, I can handle physical and scientific things, but for divinity and unknowns, I really can’t help.”
6 “No problem, I’ve already written to Liu Changsheng. He should know more about the Beast Supervision organization.” After comforting Doggy, Yun Ce had Lei Ming and them carry the dead Tiger Guard out to bury.
6 Watching this guy being buried, Lei Ming said, “Lord, no solution?”
6 Yun Ce shook his head: “Needle pulled out, person dies instantly, no delay, not even giving any chance to remedy.”
6 Lei Ming inhaled: “There must be a way, right?”
6 Yun Ce suddenly looked at Lei Ming: “I want you to make a trip to Chang’an. Will you go?”
