Chapter 72: The Woman Who Eats The Most
The purpose of today’s meal is very clear: it’s to take a shortcut for Feng An, Liang Kun, and the others through Zhang Min. Yun Ce thinks Zhang Min should understand.
This is inherently a rotten deal. When talking about such a deal, it’s best not to mention bright and great things, or people.
Even if Yun Ce has thick skin, he can’t withstand Zhang Min treating him like this.
Seeing Yun Ce throw down his chopsticks and leave, Zhang Min smiled and gave her empty bowl to E Ji, wanting her to refill it with rice. E Ji ignored her, but Liang Kun, who was always tough, took the rice bowl and filled it full for Zhang Min.
This time, Zhang Min ate even more. She ate like she had never had a meal before. Even after being full, she kept eating, as if after this meal, there would be no more rice to eat in the future.
When E Ji ate three or four bowls, she was very angry. When Zhang Min reached the eighth bowl, she started to worry for Zhang Min. When Zhang Min reached the twelfth bowl of rice, E Ji reached out to grab her rice bowl.
After swallowing the food in her mouth, Zhang Min said to Yun Ce, who had walked back, “Do you believe I can eat twenty bowls of this food?”
Yun Ce frowned and said, “If you like it, there will be more tomorrow.”
Zhang Min said, “I’ll come eat more tomorrow.”
“Aren’t you afraid of bursting?”
1 Zhang Min suddenly became excited and patted her chest twice, saying, “I’m not afraid of bursting to death!”
1 Yun Ce signaled everyone at the table to leave entirely and sat across from Zhang Min, saying, “What exactly have you been through?”
1 Zhang Min raised her hand and pulled open her clothes. Her clothes were thin, and she was only wearing a red stomach band inside. Large patches of snow-white skin were exposed to the air.
1 Her chest was very full, stretching the stomach band like a tent. Yun Ce’s gaze was not attracted by that pair of full female features; he was more concerned about the numerous scars that cut Zhang Min’s snow-white skin into countless sections.
1 Yun Ce couldn’t understand how she had so many scars on her body. Just above her chest and below her neck, there were cutting wounds, stabbing wounds, flame wounds, arrow wounds. On her belly, which was bulging from the food but still full of blocky abs, there was a clear scar from being clawed by a wild beast. From the scar tissue around the wound, it seemed her belly had been torn open at the time.
1 “For you to survive until now is indeed not easy.”
1 Yun Ce stepped forward to help her close her collar and put away the rice bowl in front of her, saying, “There is still opportunity to eat. If you eat more, it won’t be enjoyment, but pain.”
1 Zhang Min straightened her clothes and said indifferently, “I once went fifty-six days without a single proper grain of food, surviving only on grass roots and ice water. At the time, I felt like I was a horse or some other livestock—anything but human.
1 After that, whenever there was food, I would eat like crazy. These two years I’ve gotten better, not so greedy, but yesterday and today’s two meals have stirred up my hunger again. I just want to eat more, as much as possible, thinking there won’t be a next meal after this one.”
1 Yun Ce didn’t speak. He could see that Zhang Min had a strong desire to confess today. He just needed to listen, and incidentally, he was very curious why this woman, who seemed pampered, had gone through so many cruel things.
2 Zhang Min lifted her skirt, revealing a new wound on the upper part of her knee that hadn’t fully healed, and said to Yun Ce, “Familiar?”
2 Yun Ce nodded and said, “I did that.”
2 Zhang Min sneered and said, “This is a small wound.”
2 Yun Ce pondered for a moment and said, “No matter the reason for this wound, I can promise to help you strike once.”
2 Zhang Min smiled and said, “Do you think I’m pitiful?”
2 “No one dares to pity you.”
2 “Then sleep with me and give me a son.”
2 “Ah?”
2 Zhang Min looked at Yun Ce calmly and said, “I’m a woman, at the age to have children, so I need to have one. Didn’t you say back then you would fuck me to death?
2 Come on, see if you have the ability.”
3 Yun Ce shook his head like a rattle drum. The things he wanted to do back then, he didn’t want to do at all now. Given the fierce state Zhang Min had just shown, who knew who would be sleeping with whom.
3 “If you’re afraid of the scars on my body, you can cover them with a blanket. My face is still very pretty.”
3 Facing Zhang Min’s oppressive gaze, Yun Ce shook his head repeatedly. He sighed inwardly once again: ever since he came to this world, aside from E Ji, nothing has been a normal event he could handle.
3 Seeing that Yun Ce was a very uninteresting and unforthright person, and with the meal on the table taken away by E Ji and the others, Zhang Min left a sentence about participating in the martial competition tomorrow and walked off carrying her knife.
3 Yun Ce turned back to look at the three faces of the rebel descendant, corrupt official descendant, and evil thief descendant leaning on the doorframe watching him, suddenly feeling like the entire world was against him.
3 Earlier, those baby beans shouldn’t have been steamed in the steamer basket; he should have been the one steamed.
3 No matter what, Yun Ce wanted to climb to a higher platform to dispel the mist before his eyes and see this unfamiliar world more clearly.
3 “Get ready. Feng An, Liang Kun, tomorrow participate in the grand competition; it’s guaranteed pass. I’ll participate in the martial competition tomorrow. I don’t know the result, but it should also be guaranteed pass.
3 We urgently need more resources, a higher platform, to properly experience Great Han.”
3 Feng An said, “How is it guaranteed? Are you going to help her have a child?”
4 Yun Ce irritably waved his hand and said, “You can’t tell me you didn’t see the scars on that woman’s body.”
4 E Ji smiled and said, “I have no scars on my body.”
4 Liang Kun sighed and said, “No matter what caused her so much harm, I think this woman is very formidable, and it makes me admire her.
4 Most importantly, having paid such a heavy price, I saw no regret or reluctance in her eyes. I don’t know why she pays so much attention to the young master, only that her favors are easy to take now, but later we might pay an even heavier price.
4 Whether to accept her help or not, please think it over, young master.”
4 Yun Ce said coldly, “Climb up first, then talk about other things. At that time, there might be other choices. For now, this is the smoothest path.
4 E Ji, prepare my bow and arrow and horse spear. Tomorrow I’ll go find her.”
4 Feng An said, “I didn’t prepare for the martial competition before and don’t know about things there. I’ll go out now to scout.”
4 E Ji pouted and said, “Young master is the most powerful.”
4 Yun Ce sighed and said, “I used to think that way, that no one in the world was more powerful than me. Whether in Pingyuan City or Sheyang City, I could act as I pleased.
5 E Ji, do you remember the scene when that Pig King was killed?”
5 Hearing Yun Ce say this, E Ji immediately recalled: a Pig King as sturdy as a mountain, chased by two squads of cavalrymen until it was killed. After death, it was completely dismembered, and they didn’t even want the pork; they just wanted to kill the Pig King.
5 “The invincibility I thought I had wasn’t even that stable in Sheyang City. After encountering the Pig King and Bear King on the wasteland, plus two very terrifying people, I realized I have no confidence in defeating them—not the Pig King, not the Bear King, nor those two people.
5 So, let’s be more cautious for this period. Once we see the true face of this world clearly, we can continue living such carefree days.”
5 E Ji knew this was said to her, so she softly agreed.
5 Zhang Min stepped into the captain’s mansion in Chuyun City. Zhou Xiaowei, reclining on a brocade couch, saw Zhang Min through the hall from afar, along with her bulging belly. His originally handsome face immediately clouded over.
5 When Zhang Min walked in, he said angrily, “You’ve started binge eating again?”
5 Zhang Min rubbed her belly and said, “The meal he made was too delicious. If I could eat a meal like this at Iron Enclosure Pass, even falling in battle on Gui Fang Plain would leave no regrets.”
5 “You’ve used up your trial qualification. Don’t always bring up Iron Enclosure Pass.” Zhou Xiaowei vacated the brocade couch for Zhang Min to lie on and prepared to press her abdomen.
5 Zhang Min immediately raised her hand to stop him and said, “I can’t bear to vomit it up. Iron Enclosure Pass will lack strength without me. I want Liu Chang’an to fill in; he’s stronger than me.”
6 “You didn’t mention Iron Enclosure Pass to him, right?”
6 “No.”
6 “Good. We’ll go fight desperately; let them continue living in drunken dreams.”
6 Zhang Min bit her lips and said, “I don’t understand. Iron Enclosure Pass is blocking Gui Fang. Over the years, they’ve grown stronger and stronger, more of us have fallen in battle, and the replacements are worse than the last batch. Now, even your Black Armored Army, not fully trained, has to be sent up.
6 If this continues, Gui Fang entering Great Han is inevitable.”
6 Zhou Xiaowei shook his head and said, “Not necessarily. The grandmaster has gone to Gui Fang to see if everyone can sit down and negotiate. Over countless years, we’ve suffered heavy losses, and so have they. Mutual ceasefire is the best outcome.”
6 Zhang Min gave a miserable laugh and said, “Even if the grandmaster has unmatched eloquence, he can’t persuade those guys on the Gui Fang side. You know, this land originally belonged to them. It was our ancestors who rode dragons, with the Divine Dragon’s help, who drove them out and occupied this land.
6 Tell me, can such hatred be resolved?
6 Their sole purpose in existing is to exterminate us completely.”
6 Zhou Xiaowei smiled and said, “You always worry needlessly like this. Didn’t you say you’d have a child after returning from Iron Enclosure Pass? Changed your mind?”
7 Zhang Min sighed and said, “Worry needlessly—can you tell me where the people of Qi are from? From the place where King Huo comes from?”
7 Zhou Xiaowei continued smiling and said, “See, that’s your habitual anxiety. We’ve lived on this land for thousands of years and will inevitably continue forever.
7 Gui Fang has only grown strong in the last century or so; we can deal with them.”
7 Zhang Min smiled too and said, “The Divine Dragon doesn’t go to Chang’an but appears at Tianzhu Mountain. You telling me you’re not worried?”
7 Zhou Xiaowei spread his hands and said, “Abandon the Divine Dragon and decide our own fate—isn’t that what His Majesty demands? Now abandoned by the Divine Dragon, isn’t that just as he wishes?”
7 Zhang Min showed a confused expression and murmured, “Is the Crown Prince really better than Your Majesty?”
