Chapter 232: More Difficult to Serve Her
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“Do you have a name?”
The Green Guardian shook his head. “Green Slave doesn’t have a name.
Everyone in the city doesn’t have a name.”
“Do you know how to laugh?”
The Green Guardian was stunned for a moment. He pulled up the corners of his mouth awkwardly. His smile was truly uglier than a crying face.
“How about crying?”
The Green Guardian tried his best to purse his lips. A strange little emotion rose in his heart. Inwardly, he felt that the City Lord in front of him was even more difficult to please than the previous Empress. What laughing and crying… They… had long forgotten how to do all these.
Su Ying looked at him with a hint of sorrow in her eyes. Other than an expressionless face, he could only display negative emotions. He was even worse than a puppet. When the strings of a puppet were pulled, at least it was still possible to make the puppet smile.
“Come here and sit down.” Su Ying turned around and returned to the palace hall. She bade the Green Guardian sit down and extend his hand.
Green Guardian did as he was told without any question.
Su Ying reached out to check his pulse. She wanted to know why these people turned into a pool of blood after they died.
After a round of examination, Su Ying looked at him with an even more perplexed expression. “What else do you guys give the children during training other than the dry food?”
“Holy water.”
“Anything else? Bring some and show me.”
“Yes, City Lord.”
The Green Guardian excused himself after responding. Not long after that, he came back with a palm-sized clay jar.
“City Lord, this is the holy water.”
Su Ying reached out to take it. She looked inside and saw that the water in the jar was glowing with a faint blue light. There was also a sweet and unctuous smell to it.
She reached out to dab her finger in it before putting the finger in her mouth for a taste. It was still sweet.
“Do you guys drink this every day?”
“Yes. Her Majesty personally made this for us. As long as we drink it, we won’t fall sick.”
Su Ying gave a scornful sneer. “The most vicious poison has already entered your bodies. What else can invade your bodies?”
Su Ying simply couldn’t imagine just how many innocent people these three depraved empresses had killed. How was this bullshit considered holy water? It was clearly a drug that contained all the most toxic poisons. Although the amount of poison was very, very low, it could still be fatal.
“Did many people die not long after drinking the holy water?”
“Yes. Her Majesty said that it was because they were not pure enough, so they were taken away by the gods.”
Su Ying smiled in disdain. They used this kind of poison to train up a person to become immune to poison. It was no wonder that tranquilizer drugs were ineffective against them.
Due to many years of drinking this stuff, it was almost impossible for these people’s bodies to return to normal. The poison had already penetrated their bone marrow and completely fused with their bodies.
“Don’t drink anymore in the future.”
“Yes, City Lord.”
“Do you still have this holy water?”
“No, this is the only one left. Previously, Her Majesty would give it to the slaves regularly. This is the last batch.”
After that, Su Ying left the palace with the intention to take a look at the residential area. However, as she passed by the training grounds, she thought of the wild beasts in the forest.
“How do you feed those wild beasts?”
“We will release them outside at regular intervals and summon them back after they have eaten their fill.”
“They won’t kill each other?”
“They do. But they can’t eat each other, or they will die.”
Su Ying nodded in realization. She had forgotten that the poison in the bodies of those wild beasts was even more potent than in these people.
The residential area was on the east side, separated from the palace by very high walls.
Su Ying hadn’t come to this place to take a closer look before.
After going through the gate on the wall, Su Ying was swept away by a lively atmosphere.
This time, there were quite a number of people who followed her to this place. In the few days that she was sick, everyone had cleaned up the previously empty houses and moved in.
The houses here were mostly built with stone or green-fired bricks. Although many of them were quite old, they were still much more sturdy than the wooden houses they lived in before.
Tiger Might himself had located a relatively large house in this residential area and settled down. His people also settled down around the big house.
Su Ying walked up to that house and raised her head to see a horizontal signboard hanging on the house. This signboard seemed to have been cobbled together hastily and looked rather comical. “Qiao Residence? Shouldn’t it be the Tiger Base?”
“Madam Su…No, that’s not right. It should be ‘City Lord.’ City Lord, you’re here. Please come in quickly.” Qiao Yang had received the message from the guard and ran out anxiously from inside.
Su Ying nodded and followed him into the house.
The floor of the house was paved with green-fired bricks. Although some places were damaged, it was not difficult to tell that this was definitely the house of a wealthy family.
Tiger Might also limped out of the main hall, smiling as he welcomed Su Ying into the house.
“City Lord, have you recovered from your injuries?”
“I’m fine now.”
“City Lord, it’s good that you’re fine. I wanted to visit you earlier, but Xiao Jin stopped me and refused to let me in. He’s downright despicable.”
Tiger Might glared at Qiao Yang. “The City Lord is injured. Why did you go and bother her? It is right to stop you.”
Qiao Yang pursed his lips. His big brother simply loved to side with outsiders.
“City Lord, you can go back after having lunch here. I’ll get the men to slaughter two chickens.”
When Su Ying heard that there was chicken to eat, she couldn’t move her legs anymore. Xiao Jin hadn’t allowed her to touch any meat or fish in the past few days of recuperation, and her mouth had almost become bland from eating vegan dishes. If it weren’t for Uncle Hea and Uncle Murong’s good cooking skills, she would have gone to slaughter some pigs and sheep personally.
“Alright. Let’s have chicken.”
“Everyone has settled down over these few days, so you can rest assured, City Lord.”
Su Ying nodded. Right now, it was still snowing outside, so she couldn’t go out and check out the surrounding terrain. She could only wait until spring to take a look. Su Ying was still very adamant about doing her own planting and livestock breeding.
The reason Sky Alpha City had been able to survive until now was that they had been plundering from all over the northern wilderness. She didn’t want to do such a thing. She needed some activity that could be developed on a long-term basis or something that couldn’t be replaced by other places.
However, before that, they still had to achieve self-sufficiency.
“Mm-hmm. Although we have moved to Sky Alpha City, the rules set in the Tiger Base cannot be broken. Everything still has to be done according to the earlier rules.”
“Yes, City Lord.”
The previous Tiger Base also had a chef. Although his skills were not as good as Uncle Hea and the others, the food he made was delicious nonetheless.
Qiao Yang had asked him to catch two chickens. One was used to make soup, and the other was used for braising. When the dishes were served, Su Ying could feel her saliva secreting wildly.
She was extremely satisfied with this meal at the Qiao residence.
After leaving the Qiao residence, Su Ying returned to the training ground where the captured children were settled.
They had been staying in the houses for the past few days, and Xiao Jin had not thought of how to deal with them.
The children ranged from three to seventeen or eighteen years old, and there were quite a number of them. Most of them were boys, so it was indeed a big problem to settle them down.
“Get someone to do a count. See how many of these children remember where their homes are. Those who remember and want to go home will be recorded and arranged to stay in the same place. When spring comes, get someone to send them back.”
“Yes, City Lord.. Then what about the rest?”