Chapter 110 - Lu Bu is Regarded as a Beggar; All of Patriarch Eat Beggar’s Food (1/2)
Chapter 110 – Lu Bu is Regarded as a Beggar; All of Patriarch Eat Beggar’s Food
Editor note: Changing “Chaotic times” or “Times of Chaos” to “Times of War”
Translated by Bloodfalcon, Edited by Krayto
Night fell slowly, the Wancheng city Administration Office is lit up brightly.
The new master of Wancheng city invited all of Lujiang’s n.o.bles to a banquet. One after another, these n.o.bles arrived, but they did not exchange greetings with their master and just kept going inside.
Lu Bu also ignored these people’s behavior. Above the table, good food was prepared for them. All of them are seated properly.
“Gentlemen, all of you definitely know why I invited you here!!!” Lu Bu went directly to the point. “I am asking for grain and provisions. Bu and Bu's Bing Province Heavy Cavalry is our Han Dynasty's protector. Therefore we will not make trouble to you. However Bu's Bing Province Heavy Cavalry grain and provisions is insufficient, therefore Bu asks all of the gentlemen here to help Bu!!!”
After Lu Bu said his opening speech, someone opened up the conversation “Thank you General Lu for being our protector. General Lu's accomplishment will definitely benefit all of us. We will definitely provide a good amount of grain and provisions for General Lu and will also give money to you in order to strengthen our Han Dynasty armed forces! However...” the head of w.a.n.g clan suddenly becoming embarra.s.sed “These are times of war, common people are dying one by one; even we are unable to sustain our livelihood. My w.a.n.g clan for example have dismissed all of our servants. In peaceful times, we definitely will comply with your request but for now, we are sorry, we are also helpless ourselves!”
The head of w.a.n.g clan is definitely a master of acting. He can change his expression from time to time, showing regret, grief, anger and sometimes frowning and eventually he showed that he had gritted his teeth and said “Very well then, due to General Lu and his Bing Province Heavy Cavalry are risking their life for our Lujiang, how can we let those soldiers hungry to death. Even though my w.a.n.g clan also suffers starvation. General Lu, I am willing to allocate 20-s.h.i.+ of grain and provisions to give to you!”
20-s.h.i.+?! Lu Bu's eyes flas.h.i.+ng dangerously. At the seat of honor, he unconsciously pinched his fist.
20-s.h.i.+ of grain and provisions, if those are given to commoner's family, they possibly can have one year, even one-and-a-half years of rations. But for these n.o.ble clans, perhaps their daily meal is worth more than 20-s.h.i.+ of grain, and maybe their delicacies are more than 10,000 taels of gold.
Now, they are sending 20-s.h.i.+ of grain and provisions. It’s like giving food to a beggar.
“Yes, General Lu. These times of war is truly uncomfortable, we are also affected by it! However, we absolutely will not let General Lu starve, my Li clan only can provide 30-s.h.i.+ of grain and provisions, in these times we already saving food for us to eat!” The head of Li clan suddenly stood up and said.
30-s.h.i.+? Lu Bu's heart began emitting killing intent.
“General Lu's work is very accomplished. Even if I have to sell everything in my house, I must help General Lu! I provide 10-s.h.i.+ of grains and provisions!”
Huh, selling everything in your house and you can only provide 10-s.h.i.+?!
“I provide General Lu with 50-s.h.i.+. I planned to buy a fat pig for my family. But now General Lu is in difficulty, we must help with whatever we can!”
While all of the clan head speaking in turn, the head of Zhou, Chen and Liu clan just kept silent and watching Lu Bu.
“I provide 200-s.h.i.+!” Finally the head of Liu clan opened his mouth.
“200-s.h.i.+? Brother Liu, you are really insane!” The nearby heads of clan also quickly acting as if they are truly surprised with head of Liu clan. “You give 200-s.h.i.+, what will your family be able to cook? How will you be able to survive?!”
“It is no problem at all for me, our home will just be reduced from eating two meals to one meal then! No matter what, General Lu's soldiers must not be hungry!!!”
“Yes, previously when General Sun is the master, we are unable to help him, we are unable to help our Han Dynasty. Now with General Lu here, we definitely can return our debt to our country. Even if we have to starve and thirst ourselves we will definitely help General Lu!” Chen Yao said raising his voice. In his words, General Sun and did not have opportunity to return a debt to the country. This is not demeaning Sun Ce, but being a cynic toward Lu Bu!
Lu Bu almost cannot hold his rage in front of these n.o.ble families. They are dominating 80% of Lujiang’s total wealth, their land amounted to ten thousand mu, but all of them are acting toward Lu Bu as if they are poor people. If they cannot eat until they are full and truly gave their own provisions to common people, then in this nation, there will be no one who starved to death.
Lu Bu quickly took a deep breath, he is truly afraid that he will be overcome by his emotion and cut down these people “So, Bu is very sorry now for forcing all of you to support Bu. Bu really did not know about all of your predicaments. Furthermore, these foods that are presented now, it is too extravagant. Bu did not know how many flesh and blood were sacrificed for the banquet tonight!”
“Yes! These foods are worth of one and a half year for my family to eat!”
“Yes, General Lu! We cannot be too extravagant! Eating until full is already a big blessing!!!” Those clan heads talked while looking at Lu Bu. At the surface they seem to be respectful but inside, they are sneering toward him.
All of them thought “You want us to donate food to you right?! OK, we donate to you, we give you 20-s.h.i.+ of grain and provisions. It’s not that we don’t want to donate, but instead we are also “poor”. We even told you that these meal is very extravagant even for us!!!”
“Servants, please remove these extravagant dishes! This time, the nation is still suffering, we should not be too extravagant and wasteful. Eating these foods meant eating the flesh and blood of common people, this act can be smitten by the G.o.ds! Send simple meals!” Lu Bu’s mouth is sneering and thought “Nice acting, eh? I will follow your train of thoughts now!!!”
All of extravagant dishes are quickly taken away and changed into simple meals. With all meals changed into Jiu Cai dishes, all of clan head brow wrinkled very much.
TL: Jiu Cai: vegetable that was eaten only by poor people cafenilson.com/wp-content/youchoyfresh.jpg
Three vegetables soup, one meat dish and two vegetable dishes. The vegetable are picked from wild herbs from the wilderness. The meat dish is only a few slices of meat added with wild mushrooms mixed into the dish. At that meat, it still had pig’s hair on it.
This is to let those haughty clan heads who are “starving” right now, to fill their belly.
And as for the rice, it is brown rice. White rice is very difficult to find. So brown rice is mixed with bran, chestnut sh.e.l.l and even small stones.
Those clan head currently swallowing their saliva over and over again. These bowl of foods also had burnt insect on it, they began to wonder, is this human food?