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“Have I met the three of you before?” Li Qianqiu was a little suspicious upon meeting the three emaciated men in front of him.
In his eyes, most Great Xia people were emaciated.
To put it simply, in the eyes of the aboriginals, any other race looked as if they were as feeble as a little chick.
“General, we three were among those who wrote the announcement just now.” The three of them scowled miserably.
“According to what you say, the three of you are fated with us.” Li Qianqiu was thrilled.
The three of them couldn’t even shed a tear.
Fate my foot. Nobody wants to be fated with you! “Tomorrow, you’ll set off with us. I want you to lead us to Yechi City. I’m sure that you all know the location, right?” Li Qianqiu asked in a deep voice.
“Great General, we don’t know…” The three of them immediately shook their heads because this was about acting as guides for the Dayao aboriginals. Even if writing announcements for the aboriginals was pardonable, as long as they proceeded to guide them, the three of them would die a tragic death.
The entirety of Yechi City would hate the three of them to death.
As for the imperial court, they would inevitably behead the three of them to appease the commoners.
This might even implicate their entire family.
“Oh!” Li Qianqiu nodded and casually replied, “Behead them then!”
“Spare our lives, Great General!” The three of them broke out in cold sweat.
“Behead them!” Li Qianqiu ignored the three scholars. Since they were useless, he might as well behead them. As for whether they knew the way or not, he didn’t care anymore.
Yao Zhengyan used his last bit of strength to struggle, but the guard had an iron grasp on him, and he couldn’t move a single bit. His face was also drenched in cold sweat as he shouted out, “Sir, let me lead the way. I’ll head over to make some inquiries about Yechi City and certainly won’t make any mistakes.”
It was a fact that he had never been to Yechi City before. However, he couldn’t care less about this fact because he needed to protect his own life now.
“Oh! In that case, behead the other two. Keep this guy,” Li Qianqiu said coldly.
“Sir, I suddenly recalled that I have heard of Yechi City before and roughly know where it is located,” Li Mengyuan yelled at once.
“Sir, spare my life. I have also recalled where Yechi City is located,” Xu Pingzhi shouted at the top of his lungs too.
This was exactly the scenario of when scholars encounter soldiers. Regardless of the scholars’ decision, the other party completely ignored them. Once the other party opened his mouth, it was always about beheading the scholars. In the afternoon, the scholars had also seen a bloody head exhibited to them and were really spooked.
“Ha!” Li Qianqiu laughed grimly. That was why he hated these scholars. They had many dirty tricks up their sleeves as well as absolutely no integrity.
Yechi City was located near Jinyu City. Getting there would take about a day’s march from Jinyu City. Li Qianqiu despised them because the scholars even beat around the bush while they were pleading for their own lives.
“Tie the three of them up onto poles. Bring them along tomorrow. Immediately kill them if they try anything funny!” Li Qianqiu left after instructing his subordinates.
In no time, they erected three poles and tied one scholar up on each pole, respectively.
The three scholars were tied to the poles as the cool breeze blew gently. They felt desolate and were up a creek without a paddle.
Running into a bunch of “death gods” left the three of them clueless.
“If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have entered the city.” Li Mengyuan sighed.
The three of them spent a night at a farmer’s house outside the city and arrived at the city early this morning. To their horror, they actually encountered such a tragedy.
“What should we do next?” Xu Pingzhi’s face turned dark.
“Take it one step at a time. If we bring them to Yechi City, I’m afraid that our names will go down in history for thousands of years and bear uncountable infamy.” Li Mengyuan grieved.
After Li Mengyuan spoke, the three of them became silent.
The three of them were very clear about that sort of situation.
However, their heads had nearly rolled just now.
“Even if we don’t lead the way, they would get someone else to do so.” Yao Zhengyan was trying to justify their actions.
The three of them could comfort themselves, but this reason wouldn’t make the imperial court and the commoners forgive them.
The next morning, Li Qianqiu instructed someone to get the three scholars down and threw them into the crowd to walk with everyone.
No one was afraid that they would run away. If these three scholars could run away from the aboriginals, that would be the greatest joke of the century.
The next day, the Dayao soldiers successfully attacked Yechi City. They grabbed Yechi City’s food, grabbed the food, and only grabbed the food… This was slightly different from their original plan. At present, grabbing the food became their main mission.
Yechi City was slightly smaller than Jinyu City. Even though there were two practitioners who came from Jinyu City to warn them, Great Xia still could not obstruct Dayao’s iron hooves.
In the blink of an eye, Yechi City was conquered.
The only thing that made Li Qianqiu a little annoyed was that many of the wealthy merchants in the city had run away. In three days, two of Great Xia’s cities were suddenly attacked by Dayao’s army. Great Xia felt a huge shock!
Xia Bailong threw countless cups that day. He vomited blood and fainted once again.
Currently, it was evident as to how things were developing among the commoners, but he didn’t have sufficient military strength to stop the Dayao troops which appeared out of thin air.
If this continued, Xia Bailong was afraid that during his term as Great Xia emperor, he would be the only one that allowed an enemy to roam around freely in his borders.
How could he accept this.
…
“Your Majesty, this bird can speak!” Ren Baqian carried a birdcage and rushed to the palace hall.
It wasn’t strange that birds could speak. There were many birds that could, for example, the parrot, crested myna, and so on. However, this bird was extremely spiritual, as if it had a mind of its own. Thus, Ren Baqian felt that it was rather strange.
In the hall, the empress had returned to her life of lying on the couch and binge watching television series.When the empress saw Ren Baqian, she only shot a glance at him before shifting her gaze back onto the laptop.
“When will my wine pool be constructed?”
“I’m afraid that it’ll take some time,” Ren Baqin replied. He could only bring back about 300 kilograms worth of items each time. How long would it take him to fill up an entire pool with wine?
He had better find a way to obtain ingredients to brew wine on his own.
“Come, give me a smile!” Ren Baqian squatted on the sofa and carried the birdcage with one hand. He then used his other hand to poke the small, ugly, and dirty looking bird inside.
That small ugly bird widened its soybean-sized eyes and started scolding, “Smile my foot. Do you think I’m a prostitute from a brothel? You are asking me to smile? You should self reflect on your morals and conduct…”
Ren Baqian’s face turned black.
When I bought the bird just now, it wasn’t like this! It was rather well-behaved and adorable!
Damn it! I was fooled! He put his hand into the birdcage and pinched the wings of the bird that was flapping around. After that, he exerted strength in his thumb and forefinger.
Snap! The entire world became peaceful.
Ren Baqian conveniently threw the birdcage to one side and cursed a few times, “Damn it!”
That silly bird actually thought that it was a big deal?
The empress turned around and snickered, “I saw that. Indeed, that bird can speak!”
“All-rounded education. Nowadays, it’s not only humans who have no morals, even birds don’t have them either.” Ren Baqian thought for a while and then regretted. That bird was indeed rather spiritual. If he placed a knife at its neck, he would definitely be able to train it well.
Unfortunately, he didn’t have the chance to train it anymore.
Forget it, there were so many interesting things in this world.”Does Your Majesty want to go out for a walk?” Ren Baqian looked at the empress and asked. The past two days, he had gone to the Ministry of Works to find Tong Zhenye and discussed the blast furnace issue as well as the issue of expanding the cement factory. After all, they were about to start repairing the roads and had to expand the cement factory.
When the cement factory was completed and everything was ready, they would only require the labor from the Yun Nation. Apart from that, he roamed around the city and would frequently discover some amusing items from the indigenous people. In particular, the booths in the Yiwulu District sold many interesting items. He had purchased that little black bird from an indigenous person’s booth.
“No, thank you. I want to complete this television series,” the empress immediately declined and diverted her vision back to the laptop’s screen.
“Your Majesty… you have changed…” Ren Baqian looked at the empress’s otaku appearance and was infuriated.
