Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 260 The Terrifying Lack of Attention
"In this world, only women can manage men."

Eji was a stubborn person; she never forgot a word her mother had told her and would resolutely carry it out.

Lying in Yun Ce's arms, her forehead rested against his chin, her small hands squeezing his arm, her much-swollen belly gently rubbing against his stomach...

Even Yun Ce, who is usually very opinionated, felt that what E Ji's mother said was right.

"Think about it, who are men showing off their glory to? Isn't it to women?"

"Men who acquire wealth eventually spend it on women."

"A man tidies himself up for the woman's benefit."

"It's not their fault that those people have lost their spirit. No matter who it is, it's pretty miserable to fall to the point where nobody wants you, especially for men like them who are almost unwanted by everyone. So they have to live for themselves."
Nobody wanted them, no women wanted them, so they lost the desire to make money and get themselves organized. They just thought about living one day at a time, and death didn't seem so scary anymore.

dont you agree? "

As Eji spoke, she placed Yun Ce's hand on her breasts, which had become larger due to her pregnancy.

“If those guys, like my husband, had a pregnant wife and a baby about to be born, and you let those thirty-six kids pressure them, they’d be lucky if they didn’t tear them to pieces.”

“In the past, the wounded men of Hekou Village were thrown into the village by the army. At first, they all wanted to die and made a fuss about not wanting to live. They were no better off than these people.”

They took advantage of the fact that there were no men in Hekou Village. The women had no choice but to stay with them. Later, as you saw, even after losing their legs, they still tried to protect the women of the village when trouble came, and they did it quite well.

"Husband, don't worry about those people. Just leave it to the women in the village to manage. Even though it's the dead of winter, the river network on our village hasn't been dug yet. Even if it's cold, I don't plan to stop this work."

Previously, I was worried that using the men on the estate too heavily would lead to complaints. Now, with these men, the men on the estate can be deployed to the construction sites at Jinshuo Pass and Jingkou Pass.

As he heard Eji's incessant chatter, the nameless anger that had been burning within Yun Ce gradually subsided. He realized that he had underestimated Eji, always considering himself her protector.

Now that she says this, it's hard to say who is whose protector.

Yun Ce reached out and embraced E Ji's thick waist, bringing her large belly closer to him. He could occasionally feel the baby's movements, and this interaction was even more heartwarming.

As dawn broke, the windows of Yun Ce's bedroom were roughly opened, and a biting cold wind immediately rushed in. Yun Ce covered E Ji with a blanket, got out of bed, and prepared to teach that extremely rude black eagle a lesson today.

Previously, the chestnut horse had the problem of opening the window, but later Yun Ce spent a lot of effort to solve the problem of the chestnut horse opening the window with its head early in the morning.

Now, they've replaced it with that black-feathered eagle.

After recuperating in Yun's territory for more than half a year, the eagle has finally regained some of its former kingly aura. In particular, the three golden feathers on its forehead are growing horizontally. It looks like the three feathers are about to gather into a ring. Once the ring is formed, there is no doubt that this guy is the true king of birds.

Yun Ce's hand moved with lightning speed, and it was about to strike the bird's head, but the bird nimbly tucked its head away. This trick, which always worked against the chestnut horse, actually failed against the black-haired eagle.

Not only did it dodge Yun Ce's attack, it also opened its mouth and let out a "quack".

Looking at the black eagle perched on the window, Yun Ce turned to E Ji, who was getting dressed, and said, "It listens to you now?"

Eji stretched out her arm, and the black eagle jumped down from the window, hopped over to the clothes rack, picked up Eji's vest, and excitedly brought it to her.

After Eji put on her armor, she sat on the edge of the bed. The black eagle immediately brought her embroidered shoes. Seeing that Eji wasn't wearing them, it brought her a pair of short boots from the shoe rack.

Eji tucked her feet into the boots, and the black-feathered eagle even used its beak to hold the back of the boots, making it easy for Eji to put them on all at once.

“They like to work, so why should you refuse them, husband? Even if they don’t do well once or twice, they will eventually do well in the long run.”

Yun Ce laughed and said, "Did it take my shoes before because it wanted to help me?"

Eji suppressed a laugh and said, "That's right. My husband always kicked it away. Later, it didn't dare to help my husband with chores anymore, so it could only help me with chores. Over time, it became very intelligent."

Yun Ce looked at the black eagle in the bedroom, which was jumping around happily because it had helped E Ji put on her boots, and couldn't help but shake his head. He felt that he had never been willing to consider things from the other person's perspective.

Whether it was Qin Shu's suggestion, He Qingfang's advice, or those useless fellows...

"Why did the chestnut horse always break through the window before?" Yun Ce rubbed his hands together, imitating how E Ji had rewarded the black eagle earlier, and touched the bird's head, but found nothing. "The chestnut horse likes you. When it sees that it should get up and eat grass or run like it when it gets light, it was eventually beaten by you and dared not come. It just waits for you in the yard."

Upon hearing this, Yun Ce immediately looked at the chestnut horse in the courtyard. Sure enough, the horse was still guarding the wall. Yun Ce waved to it, and the chestnut horse immediately ran over and stuck its big head through the window.

Yun Ce reached out and hugged the horse's head, tidying up its messy mane. He then patted the horse's head twice, and the chestnut horse snorted contentedly and rode away.

Clearly, this method of communication is far more appealing to Chestnut Horse than a slap in the face.

Eji hugged Yun Ce from behind, pressed her face against his back, and said, "These are just women's tricks. Husband, you don't need to care. A man should act like a man."

Just as the black-feathered eagle hopped out the window, Yun Ce was about to close it when he heard a sinister voice coming from the doorway.

"Husband, stay calm, don't be bewitched by this woman."

Eji, who was just enjoying a sweet moment with Yun Ce, immediately raised her head and gritted her teeth at Zhang Min by the door, saying, "You just can't stand to see me doing well, can you?"

Zhang Min, who was also heavily pregnant, pulled Eji away from Yun Ce and said disdainfully, "In Jin Suo Guan, out of sheer boredom, you were the one who, along with An Ji and a group of women, studied how to seduce men, right?"

You're the one who loudly proclaims that you want your husband to be infatuated with you, only to kick me out the door after I give birth, aren't you?
"You were the one who cursed me to have a daughter this time, weren't you?"

Seeing that Eji's face was flushed red, Yun Ce hugged her and laughed, "It's great, I'm enjoying it. It doesn't matter, I'm the one who benefits anyway."

With Yun Ce's support, E Ji's expression immediately brightened, and she pointed at Zhang Min and said, "You only have a pretty face. The important thing about a woman is that she can manage a household and have children, not that she can come up with ideas to slowly torture someone to death by sticking them in wooden sticks."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Min's face turned pale. She had just raised her hand to point at E Ji when Yun Ce pulled her into his arms with his long arms and gently patted Zhang Min's cheek, saying, "What you know, she doesn't know either."

He thought that his impartial behavior would quell the anger of the two women, but to his surprise, they both shook off his hands and stormed off.

The dog sighed in Yun Ce's mind, "What women want is always favoritism, not fucking fairness."

I don't know where the dog copied this line from, but it's really realistic and very true.

Even if no one paid attention to him, at least the chestnut horse remained steadfast in its devotion to Yun Ce. When it arrived at the resettlement camp again and saw that the camp was full of women, Yun Ce turned around and left.

It's not that I'm dissatisfied with the situation here, it's just that the place is unbearable to look at.

There were many women in Yun Family Manor, but their quality was generally not high. Later, many men came looking for them, and Yun Ce naturally helped them find love. As a result, many women found men and became couples, which was the envy of others.

Those who find partners first are undoubtedly the best among these women; as for the rest, there are many more.

Now, the remaining women are in the camp, picking men like livestock.

What Yun Ce couldn't understand the most was that these men actually stood there and let these women pick and choose them, and there were even scenes of several women picking a man and fighting over him.

Feng An slowly walked out of the camp with a book tucked under his arm. Seeing Yun Ce about to leave, he quickly caught up and said, "My lord, what brings you here?"

Yun Ce pointed to the camp, feeling that he couldn't describe the scene.

Feng An laughed and said, "The harmony between men and women is the natural order of human relations. Whether the woman is weak and the man is strong, or vice versa, it is a normal phenomenon. Your Majesty must have seen countless scenes of men choosing women. Now you can't stand seeing women choosing men?"

Yun Ce said, "I mean, are these men still of any use?"

Feng An raised a finger and said, “My lord, we need obedient subjects, and these people who don’t even know what resistance is are perfect candidates for obedience.”

The more compliant people a group has, the more stable the group becomes, which is good for us rulers, my lord. I have already sent men to the wastelands to find the same kind.”

Yun Ce nodded and asked, "Will this work?"

Feng An laughed and said, "Of course it works. When a cowardly group is broken up into countless small family structures, the family situations will become uneven. When they are given the opportunity to change their situation, the gap between these uneven situations will widen. The cowardice of a group of people is different from the cowardice of an individual. Individual cowardice can be saved, but collective cowardice is incurable."

It seems the group's spirits have been raised; they've found hope in being accepted. Haha, even if the one accepting them is an ugly woman, it doesn't matter. Let's break down their collective cowardice first.

(End of this chapter)