She Rebuilt Her Fallen Country With Storage Space-Chapter 78 - The Efficacious Little Crows Mouth
Chapter 78: Chapter 78: The Efficacious Little Crow’s Mouth
Chapter 78 -78: The Efficacious Little Crow’s Mouth
Xiang Ying dragged a stool over and sat down without losing her presence.
She looked at Lu Feiyi: “I’m here to discuss a cooperation with you.”
“Cooperation?” Lu Feiyi laughed, picked up the alcohol jug, and took a couple of big gulps. “I’m not interested.”
Xiang Ying raised her eyebrows: “Don’t you want to listen before deciding?”
Lu Feiyi leaned his head on one hand, his tone somewhat languid.
“You’re just going to say, my third brother betrayed the village, right? Nothing new, he’s done this kind of thing before.”
Xiang Ying was taken aback.
By his words, had that Third Master betrayed them before?
She was about to speak, but then she saw the Second Master storming in with a fierce demeanor.
Second Master: “Big brother, I’ve brought the person over to you. This guy was hiding in the bushes on the back mountain, almost tried to escape!”
Saying so, he threw the thin-faced man down to the ground.
The thin-faced man cried out in pain, scrambled up and pleaded, “Big brother! This woman attacked me, she knows martial arts!”
Second Master spit on him: “You coward, always blaming the women when things go awry.”
“Big brother, I found his Jade Pendant under the treasury, the granaries exploded, and the treasury was robbed—all definitely his doing, he’s the only one with the keys.”
“San Mazi! Previously, you colluded with the Xizhou officials, exposing our village’s location, but big brother forgave you then. Yet you dare to conspire with outsiders again? You’ve emptied the treasury and now the granaries exploded, leaving nothing behind, what are the folks in the village supposed to eat? How heartless are you!”
“I heard that Nanyue ships are anchored in the river and not moving, perhaps it was you who colluded with them to move the goods. Tell me the truth!”
The thin-faced man wiped his face, smeared with spit from the Second Master.
He couldn’t even cry, just desperately slapped the ground.
“It wasn’t me who stole them, besides, how could I have the means to blow up the granaries?”
Second Master, furious, glared with bulging eyes: “I don’t believe your nonsense, big brother, you decide how to deal with him!”
Lu Feiyi finished the last sip from the jug, pulled out his long sword, and walked step by step towards the thin-faced man.
The thin-faced man trembled in fear: “Big brother, big brother what are you going to do? Big brother! I was wrong!”
Lu Feiyi grabbed him by the hair on his head.
“San Mazi, I don’t like owing others, and I don’t like others owing me either. Remember this in your next life.”
With that said, he drove his long sword directly through the chest of the thin-faced man, while Xiang Ying narrowed her Phoenix Eyes.
This man, righteous and passionate, yet why does he also seem so ruthlessly cold?
The thin-faced man lay motionless in a pool of blood, life fading in the blink of an eye.
Second Master was startled: “Big brother, why did you really kill him!”
Lu Feiyi used his robe to wipe the blade: “Drag him out, hang the body upstairs, give the people in the village an explanation.”
“Yes…” Second Master did not question, and immediately carried out the orders.
After he left, Lu Feiyi turned his gaze back to Xiang Ying.
“San Mazi betrayed the village years ago, I was lenient and spared his life, now I’ve killed him in front of you, I’m curious to hear what kind of cooperation you can still discuss?”
Xiang Ying pursed her red lips, the flickering candlelight on the table reflecting brightly in her Phoenix Eyes.
“What I meant had nothing to do with this San Mazi, but I heard your Master intends to sell the group of people you’ve kidnapped.”
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“Your Master just heard as well, Nanyue ships are anchored mid-river not moving, it’s because we, the kidnapped ones, are the criminals the Nanyue Emperor has specifically ordered to be returned alive.”
After finishing the liquor, Lu Feiyi’s bronzed skin flushed slightly.
His thick eyebrows carried a trace of carefree ease.
“I know, you are the Heavenly Royals of Xizhou.”
Xiang Ying nodded, and the next second, she heard Lu Feiyi earnestly say, “How coincidental, I also despise you Xizhou nobles.”
Xiang Ying’s heart skipped a beat.
Listening to Lu Feiyi’s tone, he might not easily let them go.
“The Master is a righteous person, you can disregard your own life and death, but what about the villagers and your brothers in the village?”
“Now that your grain storage is destroyed and the treasury has been looted, you certainly won’t be a match against the strong and well-equipped escort soldiers from Nanyue.”
Lu Feiyi’s eyes were dark and deep.
The grain storage was blown into a pile of ashes, and such explosive force did not seem like ordinary gunpowder.
Lu Feiyi had also suspected that the woman before him was responsible.
But she was brought here tied up, and she did not seem to have gunpowder on her.
Furthermore, Lu Feiyi had his men turn the village upside down immediately, and they found no inside help on her part.
So, it must have been San Mazi who blew up the grain storage.
And the looted treasury, so many weapons were stolen.
If the soldiers from Nanyue attacked now, they wouldn’t have enough proper weapons and would be defeated in a few rounds.
Lu Feiyi: “You’ve said so much, what exactly do you intend?”
Xiang Ying slightly raised her head: “If you send us prisoners back, I can speak well of you. Nanyue’s soldiers are in a hurry to escort us and won’t trouble us excessively.”
Lu Feiyi laughed, that expression, as if mocking that Xiang Ying’s request was just that?
“Why do you still want to go back, knowing you are a prisoner kidnapped from the Capital, shouldn’t you be asking me to help you escape?”
“I don’t want to escape,” Xiang Ying’s phoenix eyes were pitch black, her tone sincere, “On Nanyue’s ship, people serve me every day, why would I want to run?”
Lu Feiyi showed a slightly astonished expression.
This was the first time he had heard such an odd statement.
After pondering for a long time, Lu Feiyi suddenly raised his eyebrows and said: “I can agree to your request, but on one condition.”
After speaking, he had the Water Bandits carry in ten jars of strong liquor.
“I have two principles: first, I don’t deal with people from the Western Zhou Imperial Family; second, I don’t make things difficult for women, but you happen to fall into both categories. To be fair, if you finish these ten jars of liquor, I will agree to send you safely out, otherwise—”
Lu Feiyi’s words paused, and the long knife that had just been used to stab a thin-faced man was resoundingly sheathed.
Its implication was clear.
“Okay.” Xiang Ying did not hesitate and agreed decisively.
Lu Feiyi had the Water Bandits watch her drink it all while he went outside to discuss something.
The Water Bandits stared straight at Xiang Ying: “Drink quickly! Don’t try any tricks in front of me.”
Xiang Ying eyed the wine jar, estimating that each jar was about one jin.
She opened a wooden stopper and sniffed, the strong alcohol scent wafted out.
So, the tough task Lu Feiyi set for her was to drink all ten jin of strong liquor!
Anyone with a low tolerance for alcohol would be down after just one jin.
To make her drink ten jin and say he doesn’t make it difficult for women?
Xiang Ying sneered inwardly: “I’ll drink now.”
With one hand she lifted her sleeve to cover her nose, and with the other hand, she lifted the wine jar and tilted her head back to drink.
In a spot the Water Bandits couldn’t see, Xiang Ying secretly poured all the wine into the jars in her space.
After “finishing” the first jar, she put down her sleeve, and the Water Bandits peered doubtfully at the bottom of the jar.
“You really finished it,” looking at Xiang Ying’s unchanging expression, the Water Bandits scoffed, “Hurry up and drink, there are still nine jars to go, if you can finish them, you’re my granny!”
Xiang Ying smiled, her radiance blossoming: “That’s what you said.”
She liked it best when others called her granny.
