zChapter 895 - Hundred Herb Fragrance (1/2)
No matter how strong and unreasonable the civilians were, they could not endure an actual suppression by the military. Xuan Tian Ming’s side did not even touch a single hair on them. It was left to He Gan, as he directed the Divine Archery Group to shoot toward the sky for a while. The civilians that had gathered around to cause a commotion and refuse to cede an inch of Gu Shu’s territory became frightened. Nobody dared to step forward, and they closed their mouths. The cleavers and axes were also put down, as they withered away and returned to their own homes.
Feng Yu Heng snorted coldly: “Spineless.”
Xuan Tian Ming had already begun directing the soldiers to have the entrance of the government office cleaned up. The front yard would be a court, and the backyard would be used as a residence. Once again, the army left through the southern gate and set up camp outside the city. They prepared to fight off the heat that would quickly be assaulting them.
They moved very quickly and proficiently because they had gained experience from Sha Ping City. They all knew roughly how long it would take for the heat to overwhelm their bodies. They would do their best to finish everything that needed to be accomplished within half a day.
Their expectations were correct. During that evening, Jue Ping City caused even more people to collapse than the heat in Sha Ping City. The majority of them were soldiers that had come from Qian Zhou. Fortunately, Feng Yu Heng was present this time. From a psychological perspective, it was far more comforting than the previous time. They were not particularly afraid. They all knew that regardless of how severe the illness, Imperial Daughter Ji An could cure them. They just needed to wait a bit.
Of course, Feng Yu Heng did not disappoint. Before moving into the government office, she brought Song Kang’s group of military doctors to the military camp to the South. Inside the city, things were left to Xuan Tian Ming and the soldiers who were still in good health. When she arrived in the military camp, the sun had not yet gone down. There was a certain time difference between the desert and the lands in Da Shun. Feng Yu Heng figured that it was around a two-hour difference. The sun went down relatively late, and the day was much longer than the night.
The soldiers setting up camp immediately set up a medical tent after setting up the general’s tent. Feng Yu Heng went inside the medical tent first to bring out all of the necessities before calling in Song Kang and the others. Everyone was provided with more medicine. There was Chinese medicine and Western medicine. They were told make use of it to treat the patients by severity. As for themselves, they would go around to the various tents with the sick soldiers and set up infusions for them. At the same time, diarrhea medicine was handed out. Fearing that the soldiers would be unable to become accustomed to the food in the area, as well as the heat being unbearable, one could easily come down with diarrhea.
With Feng Yu Heng present, the symptoms affecting the soldiers in the military camp were quickly contained. There was no need for Xuan Tian Ming to worry about it. It was just that inside Jue Ping City, the civilians continued to remain resistant to Da Shun’s governance. They did not cause a commotion, and they returned to their regular lives in the city; however, they used a different method to express their opposition to Da Shun, for example: “This fragrance will only be sold to people of Gu Shu. The facial creams here will only be sold to people of Gu Shu. If you Da Shun people want to come into our shops, I won’t stop you, nor do I dare to stop you, but these things belong to me. I have the right to choose whether or not I will sell it to you.”
Today, Feng Yu Heng had just come to Jue Ping City to wander around, and she happened to see a shop selling fragrances. Wanting to buy some stuff, she went inside to take a look. Not to mention the extreme heat of the desert, but the sunlight was also extremely bright. The skin had already begun to peel from the faces of a number of soldiers. There were even some that had begun to get hurt from the sun. They had heard that the people of Gu Shu had researched a sort of facial cream that was specifically used for protection against the sun. It was very effective. Of course, there was no need for men to use that sort of thing, and it was all sold to girls. She thought that if she could buy some more to be distributed to Da Shun’s soldiers, they should be able to recover a bit. Her space did have sunscreen, but taking it out would be too conspicuous. Also, she wanted to see which one was more effective between the one produced by Gu Shu or the one from the modern world.
Unfortunately, upon entering the door, she was met with resistance. The business owners of Gu Shu had never been willing to sell things to the people of Da Shun. They also said: “Unless you people of Da Shun came to steal it! But that would be just like how you stole our Gu Shu’s city. What’s the difference from a robber?”
Huang Quan laughed in anger, “Since you people are so set on viewing Da Shun as robbers, even if we did not rob your store, we would not be free of our titles as robbers. Thinking about it like this, it would be better if we just robbed you!”
Wang Chuan was also very angry, agreeing with this and saying: “Gu Shu’s army could not hold its own city was a result of it not having any ability. You, as civilians, should just live your lives. Where did such nonsense come from? Our army hasn’t even slaughtered the city yet. This can be considered as sparing your lives. Shouldn’t you show a bit more restraint?”
Seeing the two grow fierce and that they were both carrying swords, the people of Gu Shu knew that the two servants might be girls, but they also knew martial arts. If it really came to a fight, they definitely could not win. Moreover, they recognized the young miss at their side. It was Da Shun’s Imperial Daughter Ji An. She could set foot on the battlefield and throw heavenly lightning. If these people really were offended, not to mention running a business, but even their lives would be lost.
Thus the people of Gu Shu became horrified once more; however, it was done in a very awkward manner, as they adopted an attitude of “ignoring” them. The shopkeeper and clerks hid to the side with an appearance of “steal it if you want.” This put Huang Quan and Wang Chuan in an awkward position.
The two cast inquisitive glances toward Feng Yu Heng to ask: “Do we steal it?”
Feng Yu Heng, however, shook her head: “What is there to steal. It’s just some shitty fragrances and facial creams. I recall that the neighboring shop’s original owner was the prefect’s madam, right? Now that the previous prefect’s entire family has died for the country, we might as well just also open up this sort of shop. We’ll let the people of Jue Ping City know what Da Shun’s fragrances and facial creams are like!”