Feng Yu Jiu Tian vol.29 ch.6/1

Translator: churnie

This chapter 6 is very long and has 5 parts! I post 2 parts first.

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“It doesn’t make sense.”

“It doesn’t make sense at all.”

“This is the most nonsense thing in the world!”

Under the scorching sun, the peasants are like densely packed ants, carrying heavy stones on their shoulders and wooden crossbar in their hands, sweating and muddy back and forth between the quarry and the city wall.

The peasants work very hard, and the officials who supervise the work also look anxious, as if there were hundreds of thousands of ants crawling in their hearts.

It’s been working day and night, but it’s still almost impossible to complete the construction of the city walls of Shugu city before the date appointed by the great king.

But if this matter cannot be done well and the great king gets angry, not only the lord garrison will be in trouble, but even the small officials below will be implicated in trouble.

“Hurry up! Anyone who dares to be lazy will be beaten to death!” Thinking of their worrisome future, the officials wave their whips fiercely again.

“It doesn’t make sense… Aiyoo!”

Su Jin Chao who is carrying a piece of wood on his shoulder while muttering and venting, is suddenly kicked on the butts, he is caught off guard, he unfortunately falls flat on his face, turns around suddenly, and stares angrily at the direction behind him, “Why are you kicking people?!”

Just as he fell to the ground, a whip swept across the top of his head.

If he hadn’t fallen, I’m afraid the whip would have been whipped on his body, leaving another bloody and burning mark.

“Seeing that you are so stupid, I want to kick you to be smarter.”

Mian Ya doesn’t bother to explain to him, so he kicks him lightly, urging him to get up from the yellow mud.

Seeing Su Jin Chao being slapped miserably that the rough cloth on his body so dirty that it can’t get any more dirty, Mian Ya shakes his head, he holds the heavy basket that was originally carried on the back with both hands, and holds it in one hand, leaving the other hand free, and bends over to pick up the wooden stake that Su Jin Chao accidentally drops by mistake just now.

The stake is not light, no wonder this dude is carrying it desperately.

But to Mian Ya, who is used to hard work since childhood, it’s nothing.

“You! What are you doing standing there? Being lazy?” There’s a roar in his ear suddenly.

A small officer in charge of overseeing the work strides over, swinging his whip.

Everyone is working desperately, but this dirty and skinny boy is empty-handed and has a stupid face, making people want to beat him up when seeing him.

“Sir, he wasn’t lazy, he accidentally fell down just now. Look,” Mian Ya immediately hands the wood to Su Jin Chao, and says with a flattering smile, “Isn’t he working?”

“Hmph! A slave is a slave, lazy and cheap.”

Su Jin Chao’s eyes are suddenly filled with anger.

But the small official doesn’t notice, cursing, and even spatting on the ground contemptuously.

The beads of sweat that drip into the yellow mud when he lowers his head make the small official can’t help raising his head and looking at the hateful sun in the sky.

The big sun at noon is really terrible.

He fans desperately, but the oil is still squeaking on his neck.

Instead of standing under the fierce sun beating and scolding these stupid things, it’s better to go under a slightly shady shed and drink a cup of water.

The small official mercifully decides to let this lazy guy go.

“Let me see you slacking off again, and I’ll smash your cheap skin! Pig-like slaves!” With an imposing warning, the official turns and leaves.

“Thank you, my lord, this small ones will work hard to repay your kindness.” Mian Ya nods and bows completely.

Su Jin Chao stands still angrily, ever since he arrived in this poor place, he had learned from his own experience and all kinds of intimidation by Mian Ya that showing his noble status to the poor small officials who didn’t know what a noble family meant was, would not bring me any benefits, and it might also bring danger.

For the sake of a bright future, he must bear the burden of humiliation and find a chance to escape, wait until he returns to the capital city of Xirei and meets the great king, he must settle all this humiliation.

But today, he was insulted in public, and also called as slave, this is the word he used to say to the people who he looked down on the street, when he was proud of himself, led his followers, rode a big horse.

For some reason, he can’t stand it all of a sudden!

Su Jin Chao explodes violently, smashes the wood in his hand to the ground, and yells with his hands on his hips, “Cheap cheap cheap! You are cheap! You are cheap! Who do you think you are? Why…”

Before he finished speaking, Mian Ya, who had left the basket behind, rushed forward, covering his mouth quickly.

He drags Su Jin Chao into the corner fiercely.

“Woooo! Woo! Wooo!”

Let go of your hands! So dirty! It’s all dust!

“What did you just say? What cheap? All right, you idiot, how dare you insult a state official?” Although the small official walks away a few steps, he doesn’t go far enough, Su Jin Chao roars so angrily that a deaf person can even hear it.

He immediately turns back, and fiercely stops in front of the two of them.

“My lord, how dare I scold you?” Mian Ya holds down Su Jin Chao, who is dancing and resisting, with a pair of big hands covered in dust while raising his head and smiling innocently, “Although he is a fool, at least he knows good and bad. See My lord is young and handsome, with an extraordinary look, so he admires him. What he said was… My lord, everyone loves you when they see you, and flowers bloom when they see you.”

“What?”

“Everyone loves you when they see you, and flowers bloom when they see you.” Mian Ya smiles all over his face, “I heard from the teacher at the school in the village that this was passed on by Xiqin’s people, it seems to be what Duke Ming said, in short it is a good word.”

The small officer is taken aback for a moment.

Duke Ming had always been a great person who is loved and supported by the people of Xirei, and they loved to talk about him, there were endless rumors about him in the market, and there were even scoundrels who made a lot of strange words and copied them into pamphlets, falsely claiming that it was what Duke Ming said, selling to people to cheat money, it was so popular back then, and his wife even bought a copy.

This ‘everyone loves you and flowers’ something something, he doesn’t know if it’s in the pamphlet.

“You stupid bastard, you also know what Duke Ming said…” In the middle of speaking, he remembers that the current situation in Xirei is no longer what it used to be, and he feels a sudden fear in his heart, and hurriedly looks around.

Fortunately, the men nearby are sweating and bowing their heads to work, so no one pay attention to what happens in this corner.

The small official’s face darkens, and he reprimands in a low voice, “Bold and ignorant slave, this treacherous official Feng Ming is instigating the traitor Rong… cough… the traitor Rong Tian, ​​shaking the foundation of my Xirei kingdom, is my whole Xirei’s enemy, cough cough cough…”

These are all orders issued by the court, the new great king issued a strict order, officials from all over the country, no matter big or small the official position, must read it by heart and memorize it, so as to distinguish between the enemy and themselves.

Poor these small officials, they used to treat Rong Tian as if he were a god, and the image of Duke Ming was also shining, their mouth was full of praise and admiration, and now they suddenly wanted to treat them as the biggest enemies who could not share the sky, and they had to express that they incomparably eager to whip these two people to death, how could he hold back for a while?

Some officials didn’t dare to speak up for the old great king who had lost the throne, but the old habits were still there, when they mentioned Rong Tian and Feng Ming occasionally, they would speak with respect, which greatly touched the new great king’s bad luck.

In recent months, many officials who had committed such mistakes had been denounced by the Diligent Army, which was favored by the new great king, and had ended up decapitated in different places.

So when this small official heard “Duke Ming”, he was immediately very nervous, in order to show his position that he did not want to be beheaded, he immediately stammered and recited an order, but the psychological pressure of scolding the old Great King and Duke Ming was really too great, just a short sentence, he was coughing continuously, and suddenly found that the corners of Mian Ya’s mouth curled up slightly as he was kneeling at his feet, as if he was snickering.

The small official is furious, “You’re looking for death!”

He raises the leather whip in his hand and swings it down.

Mian Ya doesn’t dodge, his body remains calm and collected, he happens to protect Su Jin Chao, and the whip falls on his right arm and chest.

The sound of the whip breaking the wind rings out relentlessly, and Mian Ya’s already tattered clothes are opened a few more holes.

Su Jin Chao’s mouth and nose are tightly covered, his nose is full of dusty smell, remembering that the filthy mud is making intimate contact with his sacred and delicate lips, he is so angry that he cursed Mian Ya asshole! Just for this, when I regain my status as the young master of the Su family in the future, I will beat him up severely!

Pull this pig rolling all over the floor! I pull it myself!

Just as he was imagining in his mind the scene of Mian Ya being pulled into a gourd by himself, hugging his thigh and begging for mercy, his cheeks suddenly felt hot.

It wasn’t that he blushed from excitement, but that something hot accidentally splashed onto his face.

Su Jin Chao subconsciously wipes it with his hand, glances at the cuff, and struggles to distinguish a spot of bright red on the black and dirty fabric, and his heart tightens suddenly. 

Blood!

The whip doesn’t hit him, so the splashed-blood certainly isn’t his.

Su Jin Chao turns his head, his nose bumps into Mian Ya’s nose.

From the day he was born, young master Su, who had been served tenderly and carefully by countless maids, had always been extremely sensitive to pain. Probably the recent experience has tempered him, at this time, he only frowns at the pain at the tip of his nose, on the contrary, Mian Ya, who is so close to him, suddenly opens his mouth, revealing his white and beautiful teeth, and then he purses his lips, taking a deep breath on the tip of his bumpy nose.

But Mian Ya is always Mian Ya, even while doing caring actions, the corners of his eyebrows are still raised slantingly, full of arrogance and mischievousness.

Su Jin Chao is slightly moved by his chuckles, but when he looks at his need-a-spank expression, his emotion disappears immediately, and at the same time, a black shadow comes across the sky in his field of vision.

Condensed into a violent attack, it hit Mian Ya’s right arm, which is deliberately sideways to block his head and face, and also block Su Jin Chao.

Shua!

Su Jin Chao’s heart skips a beat, as if the whip had been whipped in his heart, and in a trance he can’t tell how distressed he is, it’s just a burst of rage for no reason.

The person I haven’t pulled yet, will it be your turn to pull him?!

Su Jin Chao’s eyes are already red when he’s scolded as a slave, now listening to the sound of breaking wind and looking at Mian Ya’s mottled whip marks like red fishing nets, his big eyes suddenly turn bloodshot, he tries to break free from Mian Ya’s control and jumps up from the corner of the stone pile.

Why should be beaten?

We eat less than you and work more than you!

You drink cold water under the pergola, we bask in the sun, sweating hotly, having blisters on the palms and soles of our hands, carrying heavy stones, we will break our arms and legs if we accidentally fall off the wall, and sometimes even lost our lives, just for you to complete the construction, just for you to compete with your superiors!

Why should we still be beaten?!

What’s more, this man has fed me food, seen my body, bit my ass, kissed my lips – only I, Su Jin Chao, can beat him!

Don’t beat him!

Stop it!

Stop! It!!!

“Stop it!” An imposing shout finally rang out.

Of course it wasn’t Su Jin Chao who could yell out this sound, although he wanted to yell so much, Mian Ya sharply discovered his intention, covered his mouth three times more tightly, and glared at him viciously.

A man comes over, quickly glances at the few of them indifferently, and asks the small official with a frown, “What are you doing?”

The small official doesn’t know this person, but he has been an official for more than ten years, so he has naturally developed a little eyesight, he can see that the man looks calm, and that although the robe he is wearing is an unremarkable gray, it’s faintly made of silk. Xirei’s silk products are very expensive, far beyond the affordability of ordinary officials like him, it can be seen that the man who suddenly appeared must be wealthy and respectable people.