Vol 9 Chapter 109 (1/2)

Chapter 109

VOLUME 9 CHAPTER 109: DON’T TELL ME THIS IS A RAID ON FAN CITY (13)

Yun Chang POV

“Lord Guan Yu! The enemy is retreating! Will we be chasing them?!” The 3,000-man general yelled as he ran over, looking haggard and having wounds all over.

“No, if the enemy were to go all out, we would suffer even graver losses than we already have.” I sighed, “What we need to do now is do a quick count and check what the situation is like on the other side of the forest. If my guess is correct, there should be another commanding officer leading an enemy unit on the other side and it should not have retreated yet. Go, quick! We need to reinforce them!”

“Yes!” She said as she hurried to the troops. I looked at them and began to pity them. They had just been through a difficult ordeal but now they still had to fight on.

But we are basically safe now. At the very least, half of the enemy has begun retreating so it should be simple to deal with the remainder, I thought as I looked at Guan Ping lying on the ground.

“Guan Ping, are you alright?” I asked as I slowly walked over but Guan Ping remained motionless on the ground as if she were dead.

“Oi, it’s about time you got up.” I said as I squatted down and lightly patted her before reaching out and flipping her over. After flipping her over, what greeted me was a smiling face that was covered in dirt.

As expected huh?

“Ah~” Guan Ping groaned as she stretched her arms and looked a little awkward, “I got seen through by mother in the end huh?”

“But of course…”

Back when Lu Xiang charged over, based on my understanding of Guan Ping’s abilities, she should have been able to avoid part of the attack at least just relying on her pure reflexes. And when I looked at Guan Ping’s body afterwards, there was no sign of blood pooling out even though she was supposedly stabbed through.

Therefore, it meant that she did manage to avoid the attack and merely acted as though she did not. Her trick may have been effective, but if Guan Ping would have been in danger if Lu Xiang were to stab her again just to be sure.

“As expected of mother, to have found me out…”

“That’s just a mediocre trick,” I said helplessly and reached out to help Guan Ping up, “Come on, we have to get to the other side as soon as possible.”

As I said so, I made my way to my horse. Luckily, it did not get hurt during the battle just now. When I looked at its wound, I saw that it did not worsen. It really is a good horse, I thought as I rubbed its mane before mounting it.

“Let’s go then, mother.” Guan Ping said as she too mounted her horse.

“Yes– Jia!” I yelled as I swung reins and galloped away with Guan Ping in tow. I looked at Guan Ping and saw that her clothes were tinged with red by her waist. Looks like she was not able to completely avoid the attack.

“Guan Ping, is your wound on your waist alright?”

“Un?” Guan Ping grunted in surprise and looked down. It seems like she only just realised that she got hit and touched it before looking up and smiling, “It shouldn’t be too serious as I haven’t bled much.”

So it’s a scratch huh?

“Even if it’s just a scratch, remember to have Lord Hua Tuo have a look at it when we return and get some medicinal cream.” I continued and thought back to what happened before, “But since Guan Ping was fine, why did you have to act like that and crumple to the ground?”

“That huh? I did have my own considerations for doing so.” Guan Ping began to explain as though

she was waiting for me to ask this and extended a finger as she continued, “I was going to get up but then an idea flashed in my mind.”

Guan Ping waved her hand as she said so. She might think she looks cool doing so but it just looks kind of silly to me.

“I wanted Lu Xiang to be sure that I was down for the count and continue walking ahead. Then, I would attack her when she least expected it.” Guan Ping said as she swung her glaive.

“Oh~” I gasped in amazement and nodded. I did not think that the usually empty-headed Guan Ping would be able to come up with such a thing on the fly.

“But why didn’t you get up in the end?” I asked. She did not move or try to get up at all after all for the entirety of the rest of the duel.

“Ah,” Guan Ping’s expression became serious and her smile diminished when she heard me say this, “That’s because of what mother said.”

“What I said?”

“The stuff that mother told Lu Xiang about honour and dishonour. Your child did not understand all of it but I feel that honour means being open and fair and dishonour means being sneaky and unfair.” Guan Ping said and looked at me, “From my point of view, attacking Lu Xiang from behind was dishonourable so I decided against it.”

“I see.” I nodded, feeling that she had done nothing wrong at all. However, if I were to praise her over a small thing such as this, I would be spoiling her too much.