Chapter 53: Rich People Are Always So Afraid Of Death
“I am a pig demon?”
Zhang Min’s continuous words finally pulled Yun Ce back from his furious emotions. The red in his eyes gradually receded, and his left hand, which had turned into a dragon claw, also quickly recovered.
Picking up the horse spear discarded by Zhang Min from the ground, he held it across his chest and said, “What is a Dragon Spirit?”
Zhang Min’s hand emerged from beneath her purple cloak. Her hand was truly beautiful, but the unfortunate part was the sword grasped in it.
The sword looked rather delicate, half as narrow as Yun Ce knew swords to be, and a foot longer than any he had seen. Zhang Min’s hands were steady, yet the sword moved as if by itself, with no wind.
“Every three hundred years, the Divine Dragon would come to the Great Han once. In the past, when it came, the Divine Dragon’s form would appear in Chang’an, accepting the worship of all the people and bestowing Dragon Spirits.
This time, the Divine Dragon did not come to Chang’an, but appeared on Tianzhu Mountain. The Dragon Spirit it bestowed must have fallen into your hands, transforming you from an ordinary pig into a Pig Demon.
Tsk, tsk, you’re still one who doesn’t forget his roots. The Divine Dragon clearly gave you a handsome face, but you insisted on wearing a Pig Head Mask. Honestly, a wild beast is still a wild beast. Even when it transforms into human form, it’s still a wild beast.
Yun Ce looked around and found Sheyang City to be noisy and full of flames everywhere. He said expressionlessly, “You are destined to bear me a litter of piglets.”
After speaking, he thrust his horse spear towards Zhang Min’s chest. This time, he used all his strength. He realized Zhang Min was a very dangerous woman, and he had been too complacent before. It wasn’t just him; it was likely Miss Hong and Pei Chuan who had also fallen into this woman’s trap.
After all, the noble district where Duke Yu’s Mansion was located had no disturbance and no fire, which meant they had concentrated all their strength in the noble district, just waiting for the rebels to come.
As for the fact that many slaves would die, they didn’t care at all, and were even somewhat pleased; the old tools were severely damaged, and it was time to replace them with a new batch of tools.
At the customs, Yun Ce thought his disguise was excellent, but unexpectedly, others were also acting. Zhang Min and Peng Jing’s relationship was not one of elder and junior, but of superior and subordinate, with Zhang Min being the superior. He endured for a while, leading Yun Ce to believe he had controlled the situation.
Yun Ce’s only hope was that E Ji and the others had been overlooked by Zhang Min, otherwise, Sheyang City would be their burial ground.
One Horse Spear thrust forward, Zhang Min’s long sword coiled around the spear shaft like a snake. She didn’t compete with Yun Ce in strength but used the momentum to pull to the side. Yun Ce’s Horse Spear deviated from its intended direction and pierced the Flower Wall.
Before Yun Ce could withdraw his Horse Spear, the long sword wrapped around its shaft, as Zhang Min stepped forward, spiraled along the spear shaft. Seeing the long sword about to strike his fingers, Yun Ce dropped the Horse Spear and raised his right fist, punching towards Zhang Min’s face.
His fist, heavy and powerful, made Zhang Min dare not meet it. She retreated two steps backward, and Yun Ce stomped his feet on the ground, then flew out towards the rear house on the left.
“Fire the arrows!” Peng Jing shouted.
Yun Ce, having taken dozens of arrows in mid-air, finally rolled into the back quarters of Duke Yu’s Mansion, he did not forget his purpose for coming here today.
Zhang Min saw Yun Ce enter the inner chambers but did not pursue; instead, she and Peng Jing worked together to readjust the defenses of the front house.
Peng Jing asked in confusion, “The Pig Demon went to the back house, Duke Yu cannot be harmed.”
Zhang Min smiled and said, “Pigs go into heat every twenty-one days, and tonight is the Blood Moon, which is precisely the day pigs go into heat.”
Peng Jing smiled upon hearing this and began to deploy his troops, preparing to deal with the rebels who were about to break down the gate.
Yun Ce fell behind the rear building, feeling as if he had just been cut into a thousand pieces, with pain everywhere on his body. He pulled an arrow from his crotch and threw it on the ground. Although he was thick-skinned now, when the feather arrow shot towards that spot, his heart couldn’t help but feel a chill, it was just half an inch away.
Listening to the screams coming from the front courtyard, Yun Ce shrugged his shoulders. There was nothing he could do, he had already done his best to help Pei Chuan and the others clear the obstacles.
“Help me find Duke Yu.”
Yun Ce said something to the doggy and then saw a silver thread appear on his wristband, pointing to the front left.
Walking inward along the small path, his footsteps landed silently, not because Yun Ce was being careful, but because the ground was already covered with a thick layer of blanket. The blanket should have been treated to be waterproof, and walking on it felt soft and yielding.
Walking through the vibrant central garden, ahead were rows of vermilion buildings, likely the residences of Duke Yu’s concubines. Seeing their sheer number, Yun Ce estimated it would take half a day to search them one by one.
Duke Yu was one who knew how to enjoy himself. In his rear estate, there was a small river that wound its way past each vermilion building. And on the window of each building, there was a Beauty leaning against it, resting her chin in her hand, yearning for her lover.
They are all truly beauties, each more stunning than E Ji, though none possess her vivacity, appearing like artificial beauties. Among them were two women of voluptuous figures, with eyes as blue as the sea, who must be the beauties from the Ling Kingdom that Feng An and the others spoke of.
The women of the Ling Kingdom are truly beautiful, mainly because they have such charm. Even though she was just sitting by the window with a blank expression, her eyes cold, the more she acted like this, the more one wanted to melt this iceberg.
Yun Ce also saw a fat woman, sitting by the window like a mountain of flesh. Seeing Yun Ce looking at her, she stood up. Then, Yun Ce understood why such a fat woman would be collected by Duke Yu; she was too tall, and because she was so tall, her chubbiness became the ultimate voluptuousness.
Yun Ce could even imagine that collapsing into the embrace of such a woman would be like collapsing into the clouds, with every touch to his body being well cared for.
As a scion of a noble family, Yun Ce, though he had not indulged in the company of women, had long since transcended the base tastes of judging beauties by their faces, chests, or legs.
Several times, Yun Ce was curious and wanted to enter the small building, but he was dragged by the uninteresting Doggy towards a particularly exquisite-looking small building.
This building is not by the waterway, surrounded by clumps of short, pale purple plants, which makes this small building appear shorter than the others.
A small, six-legged snake, the color of jade green, mischievously climbed onto Yun Ce’s leg. It found a hole in his clothes, torn by a crossbow bolt, opened its tiny mouth as wide as it could, and bit down hard.
Yun Ce’s skin was thick, and arrows couldn’t pierce it, so naturally, it wasn’t something a delicate little snake could chew through. However, even though he couldn’t chew through it, Yun Ce could still feel two streams of hot liquid flowing down his skin.
He plucked the little snake off his leg like picking beans, carefully placed it on the flower tree beside him, and gestured for it to run quickly, otherwise, he would change his mind.
The small snake was not very grateful and bit his finger again. Helplessly, Yun Ce crushed its head into pulp.
The gardener at Duke Yu’s mansion did not tend to the grass and gardens properly, resulting in many snakes. These snakes, without exception, all had many legs. Yun Ce estimated that the more legs a snake had, the more poisonous it should be.
Overwhelmed by the endless troubles, Yun Ce took out the venom of the centipede snake from the Dragon Pearl and sprinkled some on the ground. As a wisp of pale purple green smoke rose, Yun Ce saw countless small, exquisite-looking snakes rapidly burrow into the small building.
Immediately, screams echoed from the small building and, in a moment, it fell silent.
The silver thread pointed straight at the small building, and Yun Ce confidently stepped onto the path in front of the small building, which appeared ordinary but was in reality luxurious. After walking a few steps on the path, Yun Ce suddenly stopped and took out the sack tied to his waist.
His feet stomped hard, making the ground tremble, and many plain gold beads jumped out from the blanket, which Yun Ce caught in a sack.
Unfortunately, the sacks had long since been riddled with holes from the arrows, and the gold beads spilled out from the tears, tinkling as they fell all over the ground.
Yun Ce did not want to chase after and pick up the gold beads; it would not look good. Therefore, he planned to ask Duke Yu for one or a few sacks later. Anyway, with the red date horse’s help today, taking more would prevent E Ji from always nagging him about not knowing how to manage the household’s finances and establish industries.
Yun Ce took a few more steps forward, and felt dizzy for no reason.
Just as he was about to ask the doggy, the doggy spoke on its own, “The plant that can release neurotoxins through the air is nearby.”
Yun Ce looked at the light purple shrubs around him, thinking they must be good things. He held his breath and began to pull up the shrubs. For every one he pulled up, he threw it into the Dragon Pearl. In less than ten minutes, the diligent Yun Ce had cleared all the small trees around the small building.
Qing Feng came slowly, Yun Ce began breathing, and felt the air here carried a sweet, cloying scent of powder.
“If there’s danger in the future, tell me in advance. Look at how pathetic I am today, I almost couldn’t keep my descendant root safe.”
“You are afraid of danger, why don’t you ask? If you don’t ask, how would I know you need help?”
“Alright, can I step on the stone slab by the gate?”
“It’s safe there, you can step on it, but a metal net will fall from the roof.”
Yun Ce walked out again, pulled off a relatively straight unknown small tree, and casually stripped its branches. He returned to the steps, stepped on them, and indeed, just as Doggy said, a metal net fell down. Before the net could unfold, he smashed it aside with a single blow.
Yun Ce was about to push open the gate when he heard Doggy say, “There’s a ballista inside the gate. If you touch the gate, crossbow bolts will shoot out.”
Yun Ce pushed the gate with a stick and saw three crossbow bolts shoot out from the gate, buzzing far away. He vaguely heard a woman’s scream.
The gate collapsed. Yun Ce poked his head in to look at the furnishings inside the house, but instead of furnishings, he saw a floor littered with blackened corpses. He even saw the half-exposed tails of some reckless little snakes as they hastily tried to hide their bodies.
For some reason, the ceiling of the house was very low; if a strong man of Yun Ce’s height, one meter eighty, entered the house, his head would brush against the roof.
Wearing cotton pants over leather pants must have a reason. Yun Ce did not force his way in and consulted the doggy again.
“After scanning, it was discovered that the entire building is a semi-underground structure, with its main body cast from metal similar to green money. It was also detected that the entire building is covered with slide rails and tow ropes, from which it was judged that this is a house that can be freely assembled, and you are likely to face certain death after entering.”
