Vol 6 Chapter 11 (1/2)

VOLUME 6 CHAPTER 11: DON’T TELL ME THIS IS A LONG JOURNEY (7)

Yun Chang POV

To summarise what happened, we were able to easily capture Chen Gong who was caught completely unawares. The surrounding militia were all shocked, and some actually charged up and tried to save Chen Gong but Liao Hua was able to stop the human flow in time so we remained in control of the situation.

On the other side, Lu Bu had an even easier time. It seems like that Zhou Cang fellow had acceded to Lu Bu and Zhou Cang actually stopped her troops calmly from trying to save her when Lu Bu captured her.

I then ordered Chen Gong to return her people to the village town, and for Zhou Cang to get her people to withdraw as well, leaving only the 2 leaders of each side and our people. After discussing with Lu Bu, we decided on our beachside camp as the negotiation point and separately headed there.

Chen Gong wasn’t someone we could lower our guard against so Liao Hua and I maintained vigilance along the way back. After we caught a few scouts, Chen Gong finally relented and ordered them to all withdraw.

“I’m really impressed at you lot. To think you actually managed to capture the overall commanders of both sides at once. I don’t think there’s ever been such a precedence.” Chen Gong was still calm as ever, but her voice lacked a fair bit of the usual steel.

“But now can you finally see that we aren’t with the refugees?”

“Indeed, I must concede that point,” Chen Gong sighed and then turned to me, “Then why do you lot have to do such troublesome things if you’re not with them?!”

I smiled when I heard this and looked at Liao Hua, who had a similarly hateful expression as Chen Gong. She looked at Chen Gong and slowly said, “Wasn’t it you who got us involved?”

When she finished, Liao Hua walked over to Chen Gong and began to search her.

“Oi oi! You— Ah~ What are you trying to do?!”

“Find my whetstone and books.

“How could I possibly be carrying those things~”

Chen Gong began to moan as she was felt by Liao Hua in a complete turnaround from her att.i.tude before and after a while, she began to gasp with a reddened face. I didn’t think that Chen Gong had so many ticklish spots.

(TL: MC isn’t the only dense one…)

As for whether Liao Hua was actually finding her things, I felt that I shouldn’t ask about this, and just walked behind them and smiled.

When we returned back to camp, I saw that Lu Bu and the rest were already back and they saluted us from afar.

“Big sis~”

“Sister Guan, this disappearance of yours really worried us.”

When they saw us, Gan Qing and Mi Zhen came up to welcome us. I didn’t see Hua Tuo but she should probably still be sleeping at this time.

“Lord Guan Yu got sucked in as expected.”

“After being by our lord (Liu Bei)’s side for so long, it looks like you have gained the ability to get entangled with troublesome things.”

Lu Bu and Wen Yuan said sarcastically when they saw how bedraggled I was.

*w.a.n.g*! Red Hare too barked when it saw me.

Do you have to say that the moment you see me? And you even said it as if it was a matter of fact.

“Give me a break you 2. I’m exhausted in both body and mind.” I said as I rubbed Res Hare’s furry head, and wondered just how did this all come about.

“Is your big brother a G.o.d of misfortune?”

Don’t be misled, Liao Hua!

But instead of this, the more critical issue at hand is how to solve the Chen Gong-Zhou Cang conundrum.

I turned and saw that Chen Gong and Zhou Cang were sitting at a table across each other. Zhou Cang looked grim while Chen Gong was calm and composed.

Now then…

I steeled myself and stepped into the camp, but just as I placed 1 foot in, the 2 of them started bickering.

“Negotiations are of no use whatsoever when you refugees are so vile. It’s the truth that you committed robbery so what else is there to say?”

“Refugees too have their dignity. Not only have you not shown compa.s.sion to us, you even speak to us coldly and arrogantly as though we are your inferiors! How can we possibly cross the Yellow River if we don’t have boats and 3 days’ worth of provisions! Are you telling us to die then?!”