Chapter 80: What Utter Peace And Tranquility
After Yun Ce took over the Royal Hunting Ground, aside from killing twenty-nine people, he didn’t touch anyone else in the hunting ground.
The place where Wei Dun’er lived was called Wei Family Village. There was no such place before; it was Wei Dun’er who gathered many refugees and scattered slaves, and it took sixty years to openly put Wei Family Village on the government officials’ map, and become a subordinate of the Royal Hunting Ground.
As for the original people in the Royal Hunting Ground, the place they originally lived was called Hunting Ground Camp. Wei Dun’er used gradual encroachment to turn Hunting Ground Camp, which was originally an officially registered village, into a refugee camp with no status whatsoever.
Feng An felt that Wei Dun’er’s group probably couldn’t continue coming to the Royal Hunting Ground to work, so he recruited a full staff from Hunting Ground Camp.
These matters seemed very complicated, but in fact, he and Liang Kun sorted everything out in one day.
Next, the people of Hunting Ground Camp, who had turned things around again, would little by little take back what they had lost, while the decline of Wei Family Village was imminent. For a village of just over a hundred people, losing twenty-nine strong laborers at once meant they were powerless to do anything, even if they wanted to.
For local evil forces, back on Earth, the official attitude was that they must be eradicated. Not only eradicated, but their roots dug up, severely punished, until the black and evil forces completely disappeared, and then observed for a few more years.
Once local black and evil forces infiltrate the government, especially the initial township-level government units, it seriously damages the government’s credibility and digs at the foundation of the government’s public trust.
If it weren’t for the fact that you can’t just kill people randomly on Earth, and Yun Ce didn’t have that much ability, if he could, he would have already picked up a knife and started killing.
Especially thinking about how on Earth, shit splatters had once hit his own face, after Yun Ce met Wei Dun’er and heard their grievances, he had no intention of letting them continue living to harm people.
1 Anyway, Great Han is not a rule-of-law society, so Yun Ce settled his grudge on the spot.
1 That old woman who kept saying “Wei Dun’er is not here” and “Wei Dun’er will come back” turned out to be the wife of the earliest Chief Manager of the Royal Hunting Ground. She had been the communal wife for Wei Dun’er’s group for a full twenty-three years, giving birth to seven or eight children. If you include those not born and the ones who died young, the number was no less than twenty. Can you believe it?
1 Many evils seem insignificant, but when examined closely, even dismemberment by five horses would be considered light.
1 The Royal Hunting Ground covers more than five hundred mu. The Great Han-style buildings inside aren’t particularly impressive. Most houses have a huge roof that turns black and dirty after wind and sun exposure. There are many pillars under the roof, the doors are tall and large, the windows are mostly lattice-shaped, also extending up to the roof, and the colors are mainly red, black, and gold, or mixed.
1 There aren’t many decorations, but cloud patterns, thunder patterns, and Kui dragon tiger patterns are present. The tile ends have the words: Eternal Joy Unending.
1 The originally equal-status Azure Dragon, Black Tortoise, White Tiger, and Vermilion Bird four divine patterns are here with the Azure Dragon pattern obviously used more, and mostly on the front face.
1 The foundation of the main hall in the very center is raised very high. Yun Ce walked around it and felt it was fifteen meters high. The main hall’s name didn’t dare to use the words “Unending,” and instead used “Eternal Joy.”
1 After opening the hall door and walking in, he found the entire main hall empty. The long-necked bronze crane palace lamps commonly used in main halls were absent, and even the throne was missing; it was just an empty main hall.
1 The house was already sixty years old, some old houses. Perhaps because of solid materials, they only looked old on the outside. Up close, they still exuded a sense of grandeur and oppressive momentum from inside out.
1 E Ji picked a courtyard she liked in the hunting ground for herself. Although she really wanted to live inside Eternal Joy Palace, she was firmly dissuaded by Feng An and Liang Kun.
2 Yun Ce decided to take E Ji camping in Eternal Joy Palace at night. He liked E Ji’s completely fearless demeanor.
2 When Yun Ce returned, Peng Zeng was lying on the floor, surrounded by a group of girls of various ages watching him. A few of the younger ones occasionally poked Peng Zeng with their fingers or pulled his hair.
2 “Young Master said this person can’t be beaten to death, and it seems true. Look, he’s moving again.”
2 “Don’t touch him, be careful he bites you.”
2 “He can’t bite…”
2 For this level of humiliation, Peng Zeng no longer cared much. What was truly terrifying was waking up from unconsciousness to find his body pinned down by seven or eight men with all sorts of wretched appearances, and he himself was completely naked.
2 What was hardest for him to accept was that before passing out, he had just bathed under the service of beautiful maids at Duke Yu’s Mansion, and upon waking, every part of his body was filthy black, who knows how many dirty hands had carefully stroked him.
2 Peng Zeng remembered clearly that after waking up, he killed all those people. Among them, the guy who had been tightly hugging his back was torn open by him from the middle.
2 That day, Peng Zeng bathed for an entire day, vomiting while washing, crying while washing…
2 Today, being watched by a group of pretty girls was nothing.
3 E Ji shooed away the girls watching him and brought him a large bowl of rice, placed next to Peng Zeng’s head. She originally gave him chopsticks, but later changed them to a spoon.
3 Today it was rice, the kind with very large grains. The rice was topped with a thick layer of minced meat, the meat broth soaking the grains through, with a fragrant aroma assaulting the nose.
3 With breaks in both rib cages, Peng Zeng could only lie on his side, padding one arm under himself, and use the other hand to scoop and eat bite by bite.
3 The food was really delicious. Peng Zeng chewed slowly. When he finished the top layer of rice, a one-inch square piece of dark red meat suddenly appeared at the bottom of the bowl.
3 For some reason, Peng Zeng’s nose soured, and tears fell. Hiding meat at the bottom of the bowl—in his memory, only his mother had done that… He bit into the meat piece with tears… As expected, it was the most delicious thing in the human world.
3 E Ji swallowed a piece of braised pork in one bite. The piece was too big to turn in her mouth. Her cheeks, tongue, and jaws all worked together to squeeze it into shape, allowing her to swallow.
3 Yun Ce waited until she swallowed before saying: “That piece that fell on the ground earlier got dusty. I told you to throw it away—did you secretly eat it?”
3 E Ji shook her head: “I gave it to Peng Zeng. Afraid he’d notice the dust on it, I specially buried it at the bottom of the bowl and poured some colored meat broth over it. He won’t realize it’s bad meat.”
3 “Mm, then treat him well. See if you can win his heart. His martial art is very good. He just can’t beat me or Zhou Chengming. Against Feng An or Liang Kun types, he could take on a hundred alone.”
3 “I told Liang Ji to help him bathe after he finishes eating. We have wound medicine at home that’s never been used—perfect to use on him. Liang Ji said this guy is very sturdy and will make a good livestock later.”
4 “Such a precious livestock—let him eat more now, cure his illness, so he can earn money later.”
4 “Liang Ji hasn’t said things like ‘Wei Dun’er will come back’ anymore?”
4 “No. After two days and nights without seeing Wei Dun’er and his group, she seems to know Wei Dun’er won’t come back.”
4 “I’m going out tomorrow morning.”
4 “Mm, Young Master must be careful. If something seems off, just run.”
4 “That’s exactly what I’m thinking. Tomorrow early morning, first go check the terrain, find the escape routes, then see if there are any opportunities to get rich.”
4 After eating, E Ji went to prepare her big box. That’s right, Yun Ce’s set of camping gear was now all in E Ji’s hands. Once taken out before, it couldn’t be put back into the Dragon Pearl. But Yun Ce had another simple tent, which with his current physique, he could fully use without worrying about freezing.
4 Hijacking the imperial carriage—Cheng Yajin has done it, the Water Margin crew has done something similar. Those two groups were rebels when doing it. Yun Ce felt that as a descendant of rebels, he should participate in something like this at least a bit.
4 Yun Linchuan spent his life robbing. He robbed the Northwest Ma family, the Shanxi Yan family, the Jiang family, the Song family, the Li family, Japanese, Soviets, Americans, robbed… In short, the old man said that if there’s something to rob, you must rob it—that’s what heaven gives. Not robbing would be letting yourself down, and heaven down too.
4 Yun Ce felt he was absolutely right. Things robbed don’t hurt to use.
5 For example, this time robbing the imperial carriage—even if E Ji used it to build her dream big house, he wouldn’t feel bad.
5 Camping in a place where only the Emperor can live feels great. Even with the darkness around them, their moods were good. If not for E Ji saying that camping here could produce an emperor child, Yun Ce’s mood could have lasted until dawn.
5 E Ji’s age is actually off. She said she was fifteen before, then sixteen later. These past two days, seeing that he seemed to like older girls like Zhang Min, she said she was already twenty.
5 Yun Ce, who was very familiar with E Ji’s body, knew full well she just looked tall with a big frame— if she was over fourteen, he’d cut off his head for her to kick like a ball.
5 At dawn, Yun Ce left, riding the red date horse with E Ji’s longing for wealth.
5 Mo Yan Ridge is further east of the Royal Hunting Ground, less than two hundred li apart, part of Gaoliang Mountain’s spurs. Perhaps ancient glaciers existed, and during the glacier’s movement process, that area was carved into jagged strange rocks.
5 The main road from Chuyun Prefecture to Chang’an passes right through the middle of Mo Yan Ridge. There, with jagged rocks and crisscrossing gullies, it could easily hide a hundred thousand troops.
5 Two hundred li was just an hour for the red date horse galloping freely. Before even entering the Mo Yan Ridge area, Yun Ce let the red date horse go free, allowing it to move on its own.
5 The red date horse isn’t afraid of beasts—or rather, the Thunder Smoke Beast is one of the most powerful beasts on the wasteland. It usually likes eating beans and grass, but when truly hungry, it can eat meat too.
5 Mo Yan Ridge is twenty-two li east-west. On the left is a Gaoliang River originating from Gaoliang Mountain running through the middle, and the main road follows the canyon area cut by the Gaoliang River along the river.
6 The river channel is on the left of the main road, so it can’t be used for ambushes. The focus for ambushes can only be on the right side of the main road, which hugs low mountain cliffs full of openings everywhere—a perfect spot for banditry.
