Chapter 237: Your Old Man’s Brain Isn’t Working Well
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“This place has never been used before?”
The Green Guardian shook his head. “City Lord, the slaves rarely come here. It has always been empty.”
This farm was in the residential area. The Green Guardian and the others were mostly active on the training ground. It was not strange that no one came here.
“Go. Look for someone to clean up this place and repair the damaged places. I want to use this place.”
“Yes, City Lord.”
By the time Su Ying returned to the palace, it was already past noon. The two little ones were still practicing writing and reading with Chu Yun every day. This time, there were quite a few children and teachers who came with them. Chu Yun intended to resume classes after a month.
However, because of the group of children that Wei Ji had captured, the number of students attending classes had increased significantly, and there were insufficient teachers to a certain extent. Su Ying had asked Chu Yun to think of a way to deal with this matter. After all, she had already given him full responsibility for the children’s education.
“Mother is back.”
When Su Ying walked into the inner hall, the two little fellows were just about to take an afternoon nap. When they saw Su Ying enter, they perked up at once.
Su Ying took off her frosty coat and walked up to the two of them. “Aren’t you two going to sleep?”
“Mother, can you sleep together with us?”
“Ling wants to sleep with Mother. Mother’s body is so warm.” The younger toddler Ling simply got up from her small bed and spread out her arms to allow Su Ying to pick her up.
In reality, Su Ying didn’t want to sleep, but she didn’t want to reject their request either. There were too many things to do recently, and she hadn’t been able to spend time with them for a long time.
Forget it. There would always be a time to get things done. She had to spend more time with the children.
“Alright. Mother will sleep with you for a while.” Su Ying carried them to her big bed and laid them down. She lay in the middle, and the two little fellows clung to her on either side.
“Mother, Ling wants to practice martial arts with you. In the future, I can become as powerful as Mother.”
“You can’t even write well and you still want to learn martial arts from Mother.” The older toddler Ji’s tiny face was filled with indescribable disdain.
Ling felt aggrieved. She opened her eyes wide and argued back, “Big Brother, you’re talking nonsense. I know how to write! Mother, don’t believe what Big Brother says.”
“Ling, you want to learn martial arts from Mother? But didn’t you say that you were tired when your father taught you previously?”
Ling thought of the hardships she had experienced when she was doing the martial-art squat and shrank back a little. “Mother, do we have to do the martial-art squat when learning martial arts?”
“It’s not that you have to do the martial-art squat to learn martial arts, but those who are good at martial arts will definitely be able to do the martial-art squat very firmly. However, you guys are still young, so it might be difficult for you guys to persist in the martial-art squat. How about this? I’ll make a target for you guys, and you guys can practice shooting darts. It won’t be so tiring.” However, it was a good way to train their concentration.
It was difficult for young children to persevere if they found martial arts too difficult to learn. In that case, it was better to let them learn how to control themselves first.
“Okay, okay, okay. I want to practice shooting darts.” Ling jumped out of Su Ying’s arms happily and spread her legs. She made a gesture of shooting out a dart, making Su Ying squeal out how adorable she was!
Ji also stood up, unwilling to be outdone, and displayed his surefooted martial-art squat to Su Ying on the bed.
The three of them fooled around for a while before falling asleep one after another.
Su Ying hadn’t planned to fall asleep, but as she lay there, she couldn’t keep her eyes open.
When Xiao Jin returned, he saw the three of them sleeping soundly on the bed.
He walked to the bed and covered Su Ying with the blanket. She wasn’t a child anymore, yet she still liked to kick off the blanket.
As soon as Xiao Jin moved, Su Ying woke up with a start and grabbed his hand that was covering her with the blanket.
When she saw that the other party was Xiao Jin, she let go.
“You’re back.” Su Ying released her hand and carefully got up from the bed.
Xiao Jin nodded and followed Su Ying to the outer chamber.
“I brought back about 3,000 people.”
Huh!
Su Ying almost spat out a mouthful of saliva in shock. Good heavens! He brought back so many people in just one trip.
That was almost 3,000 mouths to feed!
“Are they all your men?”
Xiao Jin nodded and briefly explained what happened in Jin City to her.
Su Ying shook her head. “Your old man’s brain isn’t working well.” The matter of Xiao Jin being framed was still full of loopholes even at this point. Couldn’t the Emperor of the Chu State see through it at all?
Or could it be that he had seen through it, but he still pretended to be dumb?
Xiao Jin was a person who had made great contributions to the Chu State. The Emperor had exiled him just like that without any room for negotiation. Perhaps in his opinion, not taking Xiao Jin’s life was already an act of compassion after taking into account their father-and-son relationship.
A hint of viciousness flashed in Xiao Jin’s eyes. “It is indeed not working very well.”
Su Ying raised an eyebrow. “Then how do you plan to settle them?”
“Form an army, with half farming and half armed troops. What do you think?”
There was no war to fight now, but they had to eat every day. Although they had a certain amount of food stocked up, it was not easy to feed so many mouths all at once.
“Mm-hmm. You can handle this yourself.”
Xiao Jin nodded, turned around, and left the palace. It was getting dark, and he needed to settle the men down as soon as possible.
For the next few days, Su Ying and the others busied themselves in Sky Alpha City. It was only when the end of the month approached that everyone’s lives gradually got back on track.
“City Lord, the people who want to purchase the medicine have arrived.”
Su Ying, who was sitting cross-legged on a chair, slowly exhaled the true energy that had flowed down into her dantian before slowly opening her eyes.
“In the past, the other party always came at this time?”
The Green Guardian nodded. “Yes. They typically arrive around the end of January.”
“Bring them in.”
“Yes, City Lord.”
Su Ying lowered her legs and waited for a moment. A person wrapped in a fox fur coat, with only a pair of eyes exposed, followed the Green Guardian in.
When the other party entered the hall and saw Su Ying’s appearance, he was utterly stunned.
Su Ying noticed the change in his expression. “It seems like you know me.”
At first, she thought that he was so surprised because he saw that the person on the throne had been replaced. However, the surprised and shocked expression in his eyes was not simply the result of seeing the replacement.
Xu San came back to his senses and realized that he had lost his composure. “Please forgive me, Your Majesty.”
Upon hearing his voice, Su Ying felt that this voice was familiar. It was if she had heard it somewhere before, but she couldn’t remember where for a moment. “When you traded with her in the past, you didn’t show your face?”
Xu San thought for a moment, then took off his hat and face scarf, revealing his appearance in front of Su Ying.
Su Ying looked at his face and furrowed her brows, seemingly trying to recall where she had seen him before.
“Your Majesty, do you still remember that piece of white tiger skin?” Xu San smiled when he saw Su Ying’s reaction.
When she heard him say this, Su Ying remembered at once. “You’re the owner of that pawnshop.”
“Your Majesty, you have a good memory,” Xu San said respectfully.
“It’s quite surprising to see you here.”
“I am also very surprised..” How could he have imagined that in just a month, the Empress of Sky Alpha City had turned into the idiot princess consort of the Chu State!