Vol 8 Chapter 30 (1/2)

VOLUME 8 CHAPTER 30: DON’T TELL ME THIS IS THE NAVAL BATTLE AT JIANGXIA (1)

Liu Bei POV

“Got it.” Good thing I managed to find that small object. I waved at Zhou Cang, “Come over here and give me your hand, Zhou Cang.”

“Un? What is it?” Zhou Cang didn’t understand what was going on but she still obediently came over and extended her hand to me.

“Good, here.” I took out that small object from my sleeve and placed it on Zhou Cang’s hand.

“Un? This is…”

“A hair band,” I smiled as I said, “Back when I saw you on the battlefield a while ago, I saw that you cut your own hair with your blade so I’m giving you a hair band so you can tie it up.”

I may seemed very casual and decisive when I said this but this was because I left out the lengths I had to go before deciding on this. I’d spend a very long time thinking and browsing to find a headband that matched Zhou Cang and finally settled on one with a peach flower decoration on it. Honestly, I’m rather confident about this choice of mine.

“Un…” Zhou Cang stared fixedly at the headband in her hands wordlessly for a long while which made the atmosphere a little awkward and dented my confidence.

“Umm…”

“Ah, un. Thanks my lord.” Just as I was about to say something to dispel the awkwardness, Zhou Cang suddenly spoke up and addressed me as lord. She then very swiftly swung her hair back and tied it into a ponytail.

Though her hair was a little dirty, it still didn’t hold back Zhou Cang’s beauty with her new ponytail.

“Un, looks good.” I hurriedly swallowed back the words I was about to say and changed it to a word of praise.

“Un.” Zhou Cang was still stiff and her eyes were glazed over. She didn’t blush nor did she fidget about and all she did was nod. This made me a little disappointed but it was better than having her throw it away.

“Ah right. I got 1 for Chen Gong and Chen Dao as well.” I said as I took out another 2 hair bands from my sleeve, 1 was a willow leaf and 1 was a plum flower, “But Chen Gong often wears hats so you probably won’t use it much.”

“Ah!! Thanks my lord! I’ll definitely keep it safely!”” Chen Dao grabbed the plum flower one and very exaggeratingly raised it above her head as she bowed and thanked me.

That’s a little too much…

“Yeah, I do indeed have few opportunities to wear it.” She said as she shrugged. I thought that she would turn it down, but she took the willow leaf hair band, “But aince you’re giving it to me, I can only accept it.”

From the way you said it, it’s as if I ought to thank you for accepting it.

But…

“We’ll be going into the decisive battle soon and this could be the last opportunity for the 3 of us to speak with each other.” I said slowly, hoping they could understand how I was feeling, “I’m really grateful and thankful to the 3 of you for your help this expedition. If it weren’t for the 3 of you, I wouldn’t have…”

“You don’t need to continue any further, Imperial Uncle.”

Eh?

Just then, Chen Gong interrupted me. I looked up and saw Chen Gong with her head turned away from me with no intention of listening or looking at me at all.

“It’s a little too early to be saying that. If you really want to thank us, do it when we get back safely to Xiangyang city.”

“That’s right, that’s right! Saying them now makes it sound like a will.”

“It is indeed a little too early for that. We don’t even have food and wine.”

What does that have to do with this…

Hahaha, I couldn’t help but to laugh as I looked at them. It is indeed a little too early for saying such things. There are a lot of things to do after this expedition.

“Alright, I’ll do as you all say.” I said softly and tidied my clothing as I got up before continuing in a loud and clear voice, “Let’s go! To the battlefield!”

The battle came just as expected.

Gentle waves ran across the surface of the waters but there were no big waves or strong winds. And the enemy was not too far away.

The s.h.i.+p we were on was on the left side while Huang Zu’s s.h.i.+p was on the right, with the rest of the s.h.i.+ps between us, spread out in a crane wine formation.

Back when I first saw the s.h.i.+ps, I didn’t realise it, but now that I had come onboard, I found that the s.h.i.+ps were not small at all when compared to the ones I came on. Some were even taller by a whole storey than the 3-storey flags.h.i.+p we first took.

Looks like Jing state’s s.h.i.+pbuilding industry is just as advanced as Jiangdong’s.

“Imperial Uncle, they’re here.” Zhou Cang first spoke up with a serious look on her face.

I looked out into the distance and concentrated to control my nausea as I stood at the bow.