Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 121 There really are people who would risk everything for love.
Yun Ce has been busy with farming lately and is not very clear about what's going on outside. Hearing Feng An say this, he immediately became interested.

Although Yun Ce had foreseen Lin Weizhou's fate after he started competing with the emperor for women, he did not expect the end to come so quickly and so violently.

This was his first close encounter with the so-called "confiscation of property and extermination of the clan" system of the feudal dynasty. Therefore, his main focus today was to analyze this system, which was closely linked to the fate of his family and whether it was a blessing or a curse.

When Yun Ce and his two companions rushed to Lantian County, the sales event had already ended, and the last old woman with white hair had been bought by a woman as strong as a mountain.

Firstly, the imperial court rarely has good opportunities to sell government slaves. Secondly, the quality of the men and women in Lin Weizhou's family is really high. Among them, Lin Weizhou's eldest son, Lin Ping, and eldest daughter, Lin Shuying, fetched the highest prices. The son was bought by Hu Sheng, the registrar of Lantian County, to be his son-in-law, and the daughter was bought by Hou Gui, the county magistrate, to be his daughter-in-law.

Lin Weizhou's wife, Qin, was bought by the madam of Chunfanglou for a high price. According to the idlers on the street, the madam of Chunfanglou had prepared a hundred plaques for Qin.

There was no way to not be anxious. Qin was already thirty-two years old and had three children. She was a prime example of someone whose beauty had faded with age. The madam of Chunfang Tower was well-versed in the ways of the pleasure quarters. The reason she spent a lot of money to buy Qin was because of her title as the wife of a county magistrate.

Lin Weizhou served as the magistrate of Lantian County for five years, during which time he naturally made countless enemies. Now that Lin Weizhou has been taken to Chang'an, if people want to take revenge on him, they can only start with his wife.

Therefore, the Qin family is buying something new, and at this time, they must sell in large quantities.

Enraged, Feng An immediately dragged Yun Ce and Liang Kun to Chunfang Tower, fearing that if they were late, Qin Shi would not be able to survive.

When the three of them arrived at Chunfang Tower, it was packed with people. Yun Ce assumed that everyone had come for Qin Shi, but after getting closer and asking, he learned that the madam of Chunfang Tower had suffered a huge loss this time.

Qin jumped to her death.

While the madam was pulling her with one hand and introducing her benefits to the client with the other, she jumped from the third floor and fell headfirst to her death.

Upon seeing the corpse with its brains spilling out, Liang Kun was enraged. He took off his clothes and covered Qin's head and face with them, then picked up the body and prepared to find a place to bury it.

But he was stopped by a burly man as big as a black tower, who grabbed Feng An by the collar and said that he had already bought Qin Shi's virginity at Chunfang Tower, and that she should belong to him, even if she died.

Unable to bear it any longer, Yun Ce raised his hand and slapped the filthy man's face, crushing half of it. He then slapped him again, crushing the other half of his face. The burly man with the leopard-like head and round face immediately transformed into the long-faced Shen Gongbao. Of course, Yun Ce didn't leave him with a single tooth.

Feng An placed Qin's body on the carriage, turned around, and pointed a trembling finger at the onlookers, roaring:

"You beast!"

Seeing Feng An's excitement, the crowd not only showed no remorse but also burst into laughter.

On the way back to the Yun family estate, Liang Kun looked at Yun Ce and said, "I wonder if Lin Weizhou will regret this."

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of the last one whose entire family was exterminated. He even said he had no regrets."

Suddenly, he heard a "crackling" sound of teeth clashing together. Yun Ce turned his head and saw that Feng An and Liang Kun were not only sweating profusely, but their teeth were also clashing so hard they looked like they were about to break.

Thinking that Qin Shi had come back to life, Yun Ce looked at Qin Shi lying quietly in the carriage, then at Feng An and Liang Kun, and couldn't understand where their fear came from.

"Don't be foolish. We two aren't afraid of death. If we die, so be it. Anyway, you were the one who saved us from the pile of corpses. If Eji and Anji had suffered the same fate as the Qin family, we would haunt you even as ghosts."

"No, that woman Hengji isn't that powerful. I can't even remember what she looks like right now. Let's hurry home; the Qin family is attracting a lot of attention."

Feng An and Liang Kun didn't hear a word of Yun Ce's assurances; all they heard were bursts of farting.

There was no other reason than that a luxurious carriage was parked on their way home, and when the curtain of the carriage was opened, a woman as dignified as a saint was sitting inside.

Yun Ce let out a strange cry, snapped a bamboo stalk in half by the roadside, and threw it at the carriage opposite. The bamboo flew like a dragon, and it looked like it was about to skewer the beauty inside the carriage into a meat skewer. But then a little Taoist boy jumped out from beside the carriage and swung his sword wildly. In the blink of an eye, the bamboo stalk, which was more than ten feet long, was cut into sections by the little Taoist boy's sword.

Yun Ce roared and left the carriage, using his fist to clear a path, aiming straight for the little Taoist boy's face. The little Taoist boy stood to the side, and seeing Yun Ce coming, he flicked his long sword, creating a sword flower as big as Yun Ce's head to meet the attack.

The fist and the sword flower did not touch, because Yun Ce had already changed his fist into a grab and firmly grasped the little Taoist boy's long sword. The little Taoist boy was stunned for a moment, and the sword had already been bent to a certain extent. With a "bang", the sword broke, and the broken blade spun and flew towards the beauty in the carriage.

A tall figure appeared in front of the carriage, spreading his arms to block the broken sword blades with his body.

Yun Ce's hand climbed up the broken sword, grabbing the little Taoist's arm. He stomped his right leg on the ground and used his right arm to swing the little Taoist around like a windmill, slamming him to the ground. He slammed him twice, and the little Taoist not only didn't die, but also glared at him fiercely with his big eyes.

Just as Yun Ce was about to smash the young Taoist boy onto a roadside rock, Heng Ji inside the carriage laughed and said, "My lord, you're not giving the High Priest any face at all."

"What high priest?" Yun Ce asked, carrying the little Taoist boy whose bones were probably broken in countless places.

"High Priest of the Divine Dragon Palace, weren't you having a pleasant conversation just a few days ago?"

"You mean Liu Changsheng, Old Liu?"

Hengji clapped her hands with a smile and said, "You are the first person who can make the High Priest humble himself and befriend you. I heard that the High Priest howled three times in your Yun Family Manor. Tell me, I have seen your house, stayed there, and done a lot of work. Why didn't I find anything special about you?"

Yun Ce frowned, shook the little Taoist boy in his hand, and asked Heng Ji, "There were two little Taoist boys with Elder Liu at the time. Where was the other one?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a young Taoist boy, also carrying a sword, emerged from behind the carriage and bowed to Yun Ce, saying, "Qingfeng greets Young Master Yun."

Yun Ce shook the young Taoist boy with broken bones and tendons again and said, "You are Qingfeng, so this in my hand should be Mingyue, right?"
"Do you expect me to let you go for the sake of the High Priest?"

Qingfeng shook his head and said, "We have already been expelled from the Divine Dragon Palace by the High Priest. From now on, we will be responsible for everything we do. Lord Yunlang, you don't need to worry. Kill if you want."

Why do you always change the subject? Don't you want to take a good look at me, a woman who is more beautiful than any other?

Amidst the frenzied shouts of Feng An and Liang Kun, Yun Ce slowly raised his head, stared at Heng Ji, and said, "You're so slutty."

Hengji sighed and said, "Back then, the women of Guifang relied on this skill to keep the bodies of Han men; otherwise, there would be no Guifang people today."

Hearing Hengji say this, he simply stepped forward and threw the nearly dead Mingyue to Qingfeng. Before figuring out the thoughts of the High Priest of the Divine Dragon Palace, it was not advisable to kill these two Daoist boys.

"You're actually a member of the Guifang tribe? The finest men of the Han Dynasty are currently fighting the Guifang at Tiewei Pass, and you're a Guifang woman?"

Heng Ji gritted her teeth and said, "I am the Imperial Noble Consort whom Emperor Liu Mu of the Great Han sought to marry. No one in the entire Han Dynasty has ever dared to look down on me as a woman from the Gui Fang tribe."

Yun Ce took another step forward, gazing into Heng Ji's bright, star-like eyes, and waved to Feng An and Liang Kun, saying, "Come and see, there's a Gui Fang woman here with eyes like glass flowers."

Feng An and Liang Kun kept their eyes tightly shut, not daring to look at them even once.

Heng Ji angrily said, "Are you trying to strengthen your resistance to me by humiliating me?"

Yun Ce smiled and shook his head, stepping over the still-breathing man on the ground, and approached Heng Ji, saying, "You didn't resist, and you don't need to resist anymore. Ever since I found out you're a Gui Fang woman, you've ruined my appetite for pretty women."

After saying that, to Heng Ji's horrified gaze, Yun Ce punched Heng Ji in the lower abdomen. The punch was so powerful that it pierced through the carriage and sent Heng Ji crashing to the ground.

Just as he was about to step forward and crush the ghost woman to death, he heard Heng Ji, who was spitting blood, shout loudly, "I am still Huo Qubing's wife."

Yun Ce froze, turned to look at Qing Feng and asked, "Is what she said true?"

Qingfeng nodded and said, "The couple you saw were Huo Qubing's son and daughter. You can ask the High Priest to confirm this."

Yun Ce kicked Heng Ji's plump buttocks, sending her rolling several times. He couldn't understand how a guy who had been dead for six hundred years could get this woman pregnant.

Countless bizarre images flashed through my mind, but ultimately felt too fantastical. Finally, considering the strange people, monsters, and strange things that happen on this planet, I reluctantly accepted this answer.

However, if given the chance, he would still like to ask Huo Qubing in person how he was defiled by a woman from the Guifang tribe.

Watching Yun Ce send Heng Ji flying, Feng An and Liang Kun forgot to cover their eyes. It wasn't until Yun Ce dragged them onto the carriage that the two pointed at Lin Weizhou, who had just helped Heng Ji block the shards of the short sword and was already dead, and said, "Should we bury them together? After all, they were husband and wife."

Yun Ce shook his head decisively, covered Qin Shi, whose face was pale and miserable from the bumpy ride, and said to Feng An and Liang Kun, "Qin Shi may not want to."

(End of this chapter)