Vol 10 Chapter 7 (1/2)

Chapter 7

VOLUME 10 CHAPTER 7: DON’T TELL ME THIS IS THE CALM AFTER THE BATTLE OF FAN CITY (7)

Liu Bei POV

“Ah, I look forward to working with you as well.” I hurriedly replied and bowed.

Only after I bowed did I realise how weird it was to do so and nodded at her stiffly. Luckily, her eyes were still closed so she did not see it and it seems like she’s satisfied with my reply and fell asleep soon after she finished.

As I stepped out of the room, I looked back at the mess and wondered if I should clean up but decided against it as I did not want to wake her up and closed the door as I left the room.

“Hu~” I heaved a sigh of relief, feeling at ease after seeing that Yuan Zhi was well on the road to recovery. Like I said before, I did not expect that she would talk that much and she really is expectant about the future.

Un… But why do I not remember anything about Xu Shu and Liu Bei after Xinye? Is it because of my lack of knowledge?

Un~ As I pondered this, I went to the courtyard and sat on a stone seat. Well, this battle has finally come to a close. I do not know what kind of ending Yuan Zhi had heard about but the ending is an overall positive for us. We managed to hold on to Xinye and we also occupied an enemy city.

Now the issue is… What next? What do we do from here on out?

My knowledge of the Three Kingdoms is blank at this point. The only thing I knew would happen soon after this was the Battle of Red Cliffs but I had no idea what would happen between Xinye and Red Cliffs nor when it would happen. For all I know, Red Cliffs could happen tomorrow.

I do know for sure that there is 1 more important event I have to get through though, I thought as I reached behind and took out an object I could not be more familiar with, my feather fan. The feather fan which has been following me for over a year now. I flipped it around and saw that the paper which had ‘Return to owner’ written on it had almost faded away. It was clear by now that this was Zhuge Liang’s feather fan. I have confirmed this with both Sima Hui and Yuan Zhi after all.

But… The problem is, when should I go and look for her? And where is she? How much does she know? And why am I here?

All these questions have been swirling inside me the whole time I have been here and I am beginning to get really vexed about this. But I should be able to get some answers to these questions soon. I hope.

“Xuan De, you’re here huh?”

Wu. A voice came from some distance away and gave me quite the fright as I was deep in thought about my own secrets. I hurriedly kept the piece of paper and began to fan myself with the fan like a real refined scholar and looked up.

“Ah, it’s Zi Long huh?” She said relaxedly as she smiled.

“All done with military administration work?”

“Ah, I finished it all rather quickly soon after Chen Dao brought me the name list.” Zi Long said as she shrugged, “Giving honours and rewards is not a difficult thing to begin with. Besides, we won so there’s no point in being stingy with those who survived.”

“Yeah, you’re right.”

It took me a few moments to understand what she meant. It was not easy for any of them to survive this battle after all and they ought to get some rewards even if they are just promotions in name.

“But the bad thing is that our troop numbers have greatly diminished so a lot of appointments are not real appointments.” Zi Long added as she smiled bitterly., “But after we get to Fan city and have a celebratory banquet, we can start drafting troops from the local populace.”

“Drafting from Fan city huh? How many troops can w

e gain from Fan city? Those that have not joined us of their own accord already, that is.”

“Un, I’ve been discussing this with Guan Yu these few days and it seems like the city was robbed recently by some bandits just a while ago.” Zi Long said as she thought back and rubbed her temples, “So the situation in the city is still a little unstable.”

“Bandits huh?”

“Yes,” Zi Long nodded, “It seemed to have occurred about a dozen days or so before the enemy arrived in Fan city. We’d also heard news that the city was virtually unguarded and were wondering if we ought to seize the initiative and take the city first.”

“Then why didn’t you?”

Zi Long immediately sighed in irritation when she heard my question, “Well because we weren’t around back then. n.o.body had the mood to think about anything then.”