Chapter 35: The Beautiful Miss Hong
They’re about to rebel right away, but the rest of the people in the migratory camp still don’t know anything about it.
A few people with relatively strong martial power and high status can easily decide their fates. It seems like nonsense, but it is actually the predetermined fate of these refugees.
Perhaps, until the government officials drag them off to be beheaded, they won’t understand why they are being beheaded.
E Ji finished cooking, and there were still many children coming over. This time, they no longer robbed but learned to exchange things, like a handful of wild vegetable or a pretty stone.
Wild vegetable doesn’t taste good, so E Ji gave half a flatbread; the stone wasn’t pretty, so E Ji also gave half a flatbread. Everyone was very satisfied, but only Yun Ce stared at that shit-yellow stone for a long time.
This thing should be a natural nugget of gold. Weighing it, it should exceed five hundred grams. He casually tossed it into the Dragon Pearl. This thing is very precious and should be able to exchange for quite a few things.
Gold has been in use since the time of the Yellow Emperor. If that King Huo is indeed Huo Qubing, his understanding of gold should be even more profound, so this thing should be even more valuable, or it is money itself.
Thinking of this, Yun Ce shook his head. So far, he was still wandering around the wasteland. The people and events he encountered, even in this Great Han, were extremely low-level. He desperately needed a higher knowledge platform to understand this world and then make a relatively accurate judgment about this world.
Yun Ce sat on the high ground all day, watching the migratory camp entrance, waiting to see that Miss Hong. Unlike Pei Chuan, he had personally seen that rebel who liked to dance. They loved victory, feared no death, and when seeing off their fallen in battle comrades, there were no tears, only fervent song and dance.
One hero from a hundred men, one mighty from a thousand, one hero from ten thousand, a great hero from a million.
1 That Miss Hong could lead over a thousand people to fight to the death, worthy of the name of hero.
1 Unfortunately, by nightfall, he still didn’t wait for that female hero.
1 Tonight’s emerging moon was a blood moon. Due to the lack of clouds for thousands of miles, a dark red giant eyeball coldly gazed at the ground, making the people in the migratory camp go to sleep early.
1 E Ji had played too hard with those children during the day and was exhausted. Not long after dark, she lay in the sheep cart compartment and fell asleep. She didn’t like covering with a blanket and only liked Yun Ce’s sleeping bag. This sleeping bag could wrap her tightly, exposing only her head. She said it felt just like when her mother held her to sleep back then.
1 Yun Ce didn’t sleep. He used a knife to cut the bow he made himself. The bow arms of this bow weren’t long enough, yet its power was great, so Yun Ce planned to modify it into a crossbow.
1 The most important part of a crossbow is the bow mechanism. Yun Ce melted E Ji’s beloved green money and poured out a usable bow mechanism in a sand mold. Initially, he worried that the bow mechanism cast from this green money, with density similar to aluminum, would have strength issues. But after starting to polish it, that worry was unnecessary. Green money was a good thing, with merits in both strength and toughness.
1 It was just too little; otherwise, making some personal equipment with it would be great.
1 Yun Ce blew off the wood shavings on the crossbow, installed the bow mechanism coated with tree sap, roasted the bottom with fire while blowing cool air with his mouth to quickly solidify the glue at the top. Only by gluing it this way could the glue on the bow mechanism shell spread evenly, avoiding air pockets or glue leaks.
1 Pei Chuan had been there for a while. Seeing Yun Ce busy, he stood by and watched him work. Only when Yun Ce set down the crossbow did he say, “Miss Hong wants to see you.”
1 Yun Ce followed Pei Chuan to that thatched hut where someone had died. Upon entering, he saw Miss Hong, and after seeing her, he didn’t want to join their rebellion anymore.
2 Yun Ce admitted that, despite being a very objective person, he was still influenced by Earth films and TV shows. In those films and TV shows, whether female bandits, female robbers, female fly thieves, female rebels, or female knight-errants, they were all stunningly beautiful. Even those with bold personalities had pure-desire gourd-shaped figures that formally told you she was a real woman.
2 The woman in front of him was over one meter seventy-eight tall, with sturdy bones. Her ten exposed fingers were long, with distinct joints. Her face… how to put it, Yun Ce couldn’t capture any feminine aura on her face. It was square and solid, very much like a man from the Northern Territory.
2 She had no breasts, very flat. He couldn’t see her buttocks, but from the faint outline exposed from the front, the scale should not be small.
2 Perhaps Yun Ce stared at Miss Hong’s figure for too long, a hand full of old calluses came whistling toward his face.
2 The hand hadn’t touched Yun Ce’s face yet when it was firmly grabbed by Miss Hong. Releasing her indignant companion, Miss Hong said, “I am a woman. Things you men dare not do, I dare to do.”
2 Yun Ce chuckled and said, “I want to hear how the leader plans to lead us to do things, and what things.”
2 He originally thought such a question wouldn’t get an answer, but Miss Hong firmly said, “Occupy Pingyuan City.”
2 Yun Ce was stunned for a moment and said, “When?”
2 Miss Hong said, “Set off at dawn, arrive at Pingyuan City by nightfall and immediately attack the city. Pei Chuan says your martial arts are exceptional. If you can be the first to scale the walls, after the city is taken, you can take the daughters and jade silk in the city first.”
2 Yun Ce glanced at Pei Chuan, who had already drawn his knife, nodded and said, “I don’t want daughters and jade silk. If I luckily succeed, please give me all the silk manuscripts, bamboo slips, and wooden slips in Pingyuan City.”
3 Miss Hong frowned, then nodded seriously and said, “Fine. Go back and rest now. Set off at dawn tomorrow. We march on Pingyuan.”
3 Yun Ce smiled, cupped his hands to Miss Hong, and left. As a marginal person, he should have the awareness of a marginal person.
3 Out the door, he walked toward the sheep cart with hands behind his back, swaying leisurely. The shadows in the room were either assessing if he would betray them or cursing him. Probably after taking Pingyuan City, there would even be suggestions to kill him.
3 Just now, the reason Miss Hong so straightforwardly told him the goal was to test him. If he had dared to say half a no, Pei Chuan and their knives would certainly have fallen on his head.
3 These people were very arrogant, or rather, they had never seen good things or formidable people. As the rebel leader, Miss Hong dared to boldly meet a stranger. Wasn’t she afraid of death?
3 You know, just now, Doggy had already roughly analyzed the martial power values of the people in the room. The result was that if Yun Ce wanted to kill everyone in the room, it would probably take five minutes.
3 Yun Ce’s interest in the uprising process exceeded his impulse to kill. Back when the northwest had just been liberated not long ago, during the time when Yiguandao was rampant, mountain gullies often produced emperors, queens, crown princes, princes, prime ministers, supreme generals and such, who were all eventually dealt with by the township police station.
3 Yun Ce was born too late. By the time he went down to be a village director, such things no longer existed in the countryside, so he had always been curious how perfectly normal people could go so mad.
3 Given this, he now really wanted to study how Miss Hong went from an ordinary person step by step onto the path of rebellion. At the very least, he needed her complete thought process for a complete grassroots investigation report.
3 Even on Earth, the value of a high-quality local investigation report was still very high. One fallen leaf reveals autumn. If the quality of such reports keeps improving and more problems are discovered, it means the problems are severe and can influence high-level decisions to a certain extent.
4 This is about the overall situation, not individual issues. Even the most tragic individual issues, divided by a denominator of 1.4 billion people, amount to nothing.
4 Thinking and recalling like this, Yun Ce returned to the sheep cart side. E Ji was sleeping soundly, still wearing a monkey mask that Yun Ce had carved for her out of boredom during the day.
4 Helping E Ji remove the mask, Yun Ce thought for a moment, then found a piece of wood and started carving a pig head mask. Tomorrow evening, when attacking Pingyuan City, he didn’t want people to see his face clearly.
4 The night here was extremely long, so long it gave a feeling of wasting life. Yun Ce put the wood on his homemade wooden stove to burn for a while, then took it off and used a knife to scrape off the charred parts. Time flew by with burning and scraping.
4 Miss Hong came over. She came alone, and Yun Ce thought it was very unwise for her as a rebel leader to do so.
4 Yun Ce took out E Ji’s fried beans to receive her. She was very interested in these beans that could serve as military rations. After carefully asking about the making process, she said to Yun Ce, “You are a scion of a noble family, aren’t you?”
4 Yun Ce shook his head and took out the identity wooden slip Zhao Jin gave him and handed it to Miss Hong.
4 Miss Hong reached out to take it, glanced at it, and handed it back to Yun Ce, saying, “I am illiterate.”
4 Yun Ce continued cutting the wood with the knife and said lowly, “You must learn. A general must be literate, or it’s easy to be deceived.”
4 The firelight fell on Miss Hong’s face, illuminating her originally dark complexion red.
5 “It wasn’t that I wanted to be a general. I became one only because there was no other way.”
5 “Something happened at home?”
5 “It wasn’t home. It was me who had the change. I couldn’t stand seeing bailiffs bully people, accidentally killed a bailiff. With no choice, I had to flee. During the flight, I killed more bailiffs. After taking down a tune of regular soldiers from the government officials, I had to be this general whether I wanted to or not.”
5 Yun Ce stopped his work, looked up at Miss Hong, and said, “At that time, you were leading a group of long pole soldiers in the battle, right?”
5 Upon hearing this, Miss Hong’s originally somewhat soft gaze instantly sharpened. She placed one hand on her waist, pointed at Yun Ce with the other, and said, “How do you know?”
5 Yun Ce ignored Miss Hong’s dangerous movement and continued scraping the pig head mask, saying, “I saw it with my own eyes. In that battle, only the long pole soldiers you led were somewhat useful. The rest were just a rabble.”
5 Miss Hong frowned and said, “You’re not from the government officials?”
5 Yun Ce shook his head and continued working with his head down.
5 “Tomorrow attacking Pingyuan City, I have no confidence.”
5 “Have insiders been sent in the city?”
6 “No.”
6 “Then send more. During the attack, have them set fires everywhere to create chaos in the city, and also assassinate key officials and generals…
