Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 70 What's going on?

Finally, everyone drew lots to decide who would throw the light ball. A fat man drew a bamboo stick, but he was too scared, so he pulled someone else from the roadside and said he could do it.

I heard this person is a gambling addict.

Yun Ce was very satisfied, Feng An was very satisfied, Liang Kun was very satisfied, and in the end, everyone was very satisfied.

As darkness fell, snow began to fall from the sky. The snow turned into water as it hit the ground, and because of the cold, there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the streets.

When the snow began to fall heavily, even the guards at the entrance of Anran Tower retreated into the gatehouse to warm themselves by the fire.

The fat man shoved a large wad of money into the gambler's hand and said menacingly, "Now."

Yun Ce bent down, lit the wick inside the lamp, closed it, and kindly handed it to the gambler, saying, "Just throw it into the hall once you get up the steps. Once it's in, run away quickly and don't come back."

As Yun Ce spoke, he took a handful of money from the communal money pile and stuffed it into the gambler's hand.

The gambler patted the money in his pocket, then looked at the nearby Anran Building, picked up the lantern, and went up the steps. The guard in the gatehouse shouted angrily, but the gambler did not retreat but advanced. The distance of a dozen steps was only a moment, and the gambler shouted. Just as Yun Ce and the others were waiting expectantly, he threw the lantern into Anran Building.

The gambler clutched the money in his arms and turned to run. The guards had just come out of the gatehouse when they heard a loud "boom" from Anran Tower. A ball of bright yellow flame shot into the air and instantly reached the roof. The bright yellow flame did not fall down; instead, it stuck to the roof and continued to burn fiercely, occasionally emitting bursts of explosions.

A dark figure darted out from the dormitory toilet, flicked his hand, and a grappling hook caught the eaves of the third floor of Anran Building. At the same time, seven or eight more dark figures were also flying towards Anran Building from all directions.

Arrows rained down from Anran Tower like locusts, and some of the shadowy figures were hit by arrows, while others managed to dart up and quickly disappear into Anran Tower.

Yun Ce's eyes narrowed sharply as he saw Zhang Min's figure suddenly appear on the fourth floor.

While everyone was still stunned by the lively scene before them, Feng An and Liang Kun had already disappeared. Seeing that the five guys were so engrossed in watching the excitement, Yun Ce left them without saying goodbye.

Before leaving, Yun Ce glanced at the flames on the first floor. These flames were insect flames that Yun Ce used specially. He had spent a lot of time in Hekou Village to find a few parasites, and after boiling them, he had only obtained this little bit. Today, he had completely wasted it.

He had originally planned to take advantage of the chaos to look at the exam questions, but now that Zhang Min was there, there was no doubt that he couldn't achieve that goal. However, burning down the building and forcing the government to set new questions was also a good thing.

Back at the inn, Feng An threw a pile of money on the bed and said to Yun Ce, "You went through all this trouble just to get this thirty-five taels of gold?"

Eji happily accepted the gold, and when she heard Feng An say this, she chimed in, "You were already more than satisfied with a thousand coins a month, but now you can't even be bothered with thirty-five taels of gold."

While wiping his face with the hot towel that Anji brought him, Yun Ce said, "Do more things that are beneficial to yourself, and do more things that are beneficial to the majority. Many times, you don't need to look at the pure result. Sometimes, the most beautiful time is when the flowers bloom."

Heaven knows what kind of flower will bloom from the seed you plant.

Liang Kun thought for a moment and asked, "Will Anran Tower be burned down?"

Yun Ce recalled the insect oil's property of being inextinguishable by water, and nodded, saying, "It will definitely burn down. With the burning of Anran Tower, this incident will surely become a landmark event in the Han Dynasty's examination industry. It can also expose many people's schemes, and if we're lucky, it might even uncover some of the dark secrets of the Han Dynasty's examination industry."

Overall, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Liang Kun continued, "You also took advantage of our sit-in protest and the fact that we were beaten, all of which ultimately led to the collapse of Anran Building."

Feng An sighed and said, "The three of us have already received recommendations for the competition, so the burning of the building has nothing to do with us, right?"

Yun Ce laughed and said, "Go wash up and go to bed. A simple event may bring about many new changes, but we don't know if they will be good or bad."

Feng An looked up at the sky and sighed, "I have a premonition that my life will be incredibly wonderful."

Liang Kun laughed and said, "It must be incredibly difficult."

After speaking, he turned to Eji, who had just put away the gold, and said, "Young Master Eji, a thousand coins are not enough."

Eji hugged her gold and went back to her bedroom without looking back, saying, "That's quite a lot."

When Yun Ce woke up the next day, it was still dark. However, when the weather was cold, the nights here would become shorter. This made Yun Ce suspect that the distance between the full moon and the planet controlled the seasons of this planet, rather than the sun that always hung red in the sky.

This discovery is hard to understand, since the sun is the heat source, and the moon is just a passive entity that receives heat and reflects it back to the planet.

Or, to put it another way, the amount of heat the sun shines on this planet is constant, and the seasons are regulated by the excess heat reflected by the full moon.

Yun Ce was happy that he could think as soon as he opened his eyes every day. He used to be too lazy to think when he was on Earth. As long as Yun Linchuan was around, it was useless for him to think.

Beside him, Eji was still asleep, her body damp with sleep, stray hairs sticking to her forehead. She really looked like a young Brigitte Lin. He pulled a strand of hair from the corner of her mouth, and she pursed her lips and continued sleeping. Yun Ce's movement of getting out of bed startled Eji. When she opened her doe-like, wet eyes, the Brigitte Lin look instantly disappeared, and she became Eji.

"Sleep a little longer." Eji looked beautiful with sleepy eyes.

"You continue sleeping, I'm going to check if the caravan has brought anything new."

Why go every day?

"Because there are new discoveries every day, as a human being, I should care about mulberry and hemp, value millet and grain, watch the carriages and horses go to distant places, and also watch the birds return from afar."

"That's well said. You can go now. I'm going back to sleep."

Yun Ce originally wanted to kiss E Ji because she looked so beautiful, but she turned around and turned her back to him. Although she was equally fair and beautiful, he decided not to kiss her.

When he went out with his basket, frost fell from the sky again, and there was a thin layer of frost on the stone slabs. He was the first person he was close to.

After carefully placing the first footprint on the stone slab, he didn't care whether the subsequent footprints were complete.

Arriving early, the caravans' stalls had just been set up. Yun Ce started looking at the first stall, which specialized in selling beans. These beans were quite different from the ones Yun Ce had found in the wasteland. However, they were all very large, and one type of bean even looked like a small baby, with complete eyebrows and eyes, and was round and plump. Yun Ce bought ten catties, intending to steam them and eat them with dipping sauce.

There is another type of bean that is entirely black; when you squeeze open the outer skin, the inside is also black.

The shopkeeper, unusually, recommended, "Nanwan beans. If you don't buy them this time, you won't see them again."

Yun Ce readily accepted the advice and bought all the Nanwan beans. As the shopkeeper helped him pack the beans, he said, "This is about ten catties. The weather is too cold, and many armored fish have gathered in Nanwan to sunbathe. People can't even get in."

Hearing what the waiter said, Yun Ce inexplicably thought of crocodiles, though he wasn't sure if that was the case.

"Crispy celery, crispy celery."

Yun Ce was drawn over by the shopkeeper's shouts. Before he even arrived, a celery-like stalk, as thick as half a human arm, was shoved into his mouth. Yun Ce took a bite; it was indeed crisp and sweet. Stir-fried with garlic chives and half-fat pork, it was E Ji's favorite. He decisively bought two stalks; if it weren't for their enormous size, he would have bought more.

Passing by a stall selling horse meat, which is also mutton, Yun Ce bought most of a rib and asked the shopkeeper to chop it into large pieces with the bones still attached. If this meat is boiled in cold water with fresh pine sticks, and only salt is added, no other seasonings are needed, it will be so delicious that people will faint.

The dragonfish, judging from its name, was not cheap. It was two feet long. Yun Ce offered the fish fifty coins, but the fisherman insisted on eighty. In the end, considering that the fish's mouth was still opening and closing, Yun Ce spent seventy coins to buy it, intending to take it back and steam it with the Azure Grass.

Two hours passed by in a blur before we knew it. The sky was already bright, but the sun hadn't risen yet. The snow from last night had no effect on the ground; the earth was still warm, so the snow couldn't stay.

As dawn broke, the market became more crowded. Yun Ce tossed heavy objects into the Dragon Ball, and arranged the beautiful vegetables and meats in a basket, making them look extremely attractive.

As the crowds grew, Yun Ce's good mood while shopping at the market gradually faded. He squeezed out of the crowd and planned to go back and cook for those lazybones.

In the Han Dynasty, there were few things that could bring Yun Ce enjoyment, but cooking was one of the most important. The people of the Han Dynasty lived a very rough life, and they did not even have a truly refined culture, so naturally they could not cultivate a culinary culture.

On the way back, the frost on the stone road was trampled black by other people's heels and wheel tracks. Fortunately, there were still some clean spots at the edges. Yun Ce happily skipped along, and many people thought he was a fool.

Zhang Min then saw Yun Ce jumping around and deliberately trampling the frost field clean.

A clean-cut young man, his face beaming with sunshine, is showing off his good mood.

"Liu Chang'an!"

Zhang Min stood in front of the ruins of Anran Building, calling out to Yun Ce.

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw Zhang Min smiling, realizing that she had seen his silly behavior just now.

The once elegant and tranquil Anran Building has collapsed, its blackened remains piled up, still emitting thick smoke and a foul smell of burning.

Zhang Min had clearly been busy all night, yet she still looked radiant.

She looked closely at the basket Yun Ce was carrying on his arm and smiled, "I want to eat too."

Yun Ce looked at the pile of ruins and asked, "What happened?"

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