Vol 6 Chapter 7 (1/2)
VOLUME 6 CHAPTER 7: DON’T TELL ME THIS IS A LONG JOURNEY (3)
Yun Chang POV
I was actually a merchant in the past, and I sold dates and meat with my father, and had even managed a stall before. Business was decent and we got by since people had to eat even if the world was in chaos. I’d heard that cases where merchants were murdered and robbed were increasing but thanks to my good luck, I’ve never met with such incidents before.
But here I am now, being robbed.
“How is it, is there anything good?”
At this time, Liao Hua and I were tied to a tree while the woman called Chen Gong had some female thieves search us in the hopes of finding some valuables, with Liao Hua being the one searched first.
“Only 1 whetstone and 2 books.” The female soldier reported with disappointment on her thin face. She was clearly expecting more.
“Wu…” Liao Hua closed her mouth and sighed unhappily. She frowned slightly but didn’t say anything.
“I didn’t think you carried a whetstone along with you.”
“It’s just my hobby. I feel very uncomfortable when I see blunt blades.”
Such a hobby exists…
“Alright. Then when my glaive becomes rusty, I’ll leave it to you.” That saves me a good deal of trouble, and Liao Hua’s techniques should be excellent.
Liao Hua gave me a look that said ‘what are you talking about at this time’, and twisted her arms but the ropes were tied well and weren’t the sort that could be easily struggled out of.
I’d tried it before already but though the ropes weren’t thick, they were tied tightly, and the coils weren’t many so they dug into the flesh, which made it hurt when you tried to struggle, making it difficult to put in strength.
“Don’t bother. It’s unsightly of you lot to even think about escaping under these circ.u.mstances.” Chen Gong said as she sat on a stool in front of us with her arms folded across her chest. It was dark now but I could see a look of disgust on Chen Gong’s face.
The traps from before were probably designed by her. But there’s no point in looking so pleased about your victory at us…
“Umm, I think you are having a misunderstanding. We’re not with those people from before.”
“What? You’re still trying to quibble your way out of this?” Chen Gong said, “Alright, let’s say you’re not 1 of them, how do you even know that they belong to an organisation? And why are you here?”
“After we crossed the Yellow River, we set up camp by the sh.o.r.e. We came to investigate what happened after we heard some commotion.”
“Hahaha, what a coincidence. Those thieves seemed to have come from across the Yellow River as well, and they came to our village town to steal provisions.”
Steal provisions… Looks like these people are the villagers huh.
“We have not stolen any provisions.” Liao Hua said in a low voice.
“I’ll decide whether you have stolen them or not.” She gestured with her right hand as she said so and summoned another female soldier, “You, go and search that green robed woman.”
Green robed woman, that name is a little hurting.
“U, umm, I apologise for this.” The female soldier came forward and bowed.
Her hair was tied back in twintails, while she wore a set of short robes made from coa.r.s.e cloth. You could tell from 1 look that this person was very poor. When she came up to me, she didn’t know where to search first and her big beautiful eyes wavered about.
“It’s fine, go ahead and search.” I’m not afraid of being searched since I actually had nothing on me and the results of the search could prove my innocence anyway.
The female soldier withdrew a bit at first, but she soon began to search me carefully.
“Why are you showing pity to these thieves…” Chen Gong was displeased at this but she didn’t say any further and took out a fan and began fanning herself.
“May I ask if your village is up ahead?”
“Didn’t you come and steal provisions just 2 days ago?”