After My Death, The Villain Blackened Again: Chapter 19
ARC 1: THE EMPEROR SCHEMES TO GRAB A MAN’S WIFE (16)
The people in the army had gone through life and death with her for so many years, yet this was the first time they saw her ‘run on the eve of a battle’. They asked her jokingly: "Boss, did you get a little sweetheart? Which family’s little widow did you climb over the gate for? "
This trip was smooth and although Yan Ge was in a good mood, she still had to maintain her austere King of Hell expression in front of these guys. Glancing at them, she said: "I bought a few jars from a renowned brewer in the capital and thought to let you all have a taste, but now it seems that it’s best to keep them for myself to drink. "
When everyone heard this, they suddenly brightened: "General, we didn't say anything just now. A great man would not stoop to pettiness.”
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The journey was long, but it passed by quickly with laughs and jokes. When they arrived at the border, everyone was immediately thrown into battles of varying magnitudes.
The common people had a bumper harvest in the fall and the barbarians liked to burn and plunder at this time in preparation for their own winter food stock.
Yan Ge fought against these barbarians every day along with everyone else. After exterminating them a few times a row, the barbarians seemed intimidated. There were no movements as of late.
Everyone in the army sighed in relief and joked about scaring them off, but Yan Ge knew a schism was beginning to form in the barbarians’ tribe.
After this internal strife lasts a month, a new barbarian chief would appear and the largest war in recent years would begin.
During this month, Yan Ge secretly led a team of Ming Army soldiers disguised as businessmen and spurred their horses at full speed to the affluent province of Jiangnan where they planned to collect provisions.
In the previous life, the prolonged war depleted the army’s rations and it led to more soldiers dying from starvation than from the actual battlefield.
The host does not want this to happen again, and Yan Ge didn't wish to see such a scene.
She was a tree and so did not like to use her brain or hands. Most of the time, she would not complicate matters if she could complete a host’s wish in a simple manner.
This was the first time she encountered a host like Ming Lan. It was also the first time she received a mission from a mighty person.
The two tasks overlapped, and it was unprecedented.
Every day she racked her brains trying to stay alive on the battlefield, and every day she cursed the bird beast that was always eating. She would not have gone down this path if it wasn’t for that certain beast that always ate her.
She had always been satisfied with just getting by. This time, she secretly made up her mind to become stronger. When she gets an opportunity to meet that beast, she was going to give him a taste of his own medicine and swallow him without leaving a skeleton behind.
At first, Yan Ge thought she could simply use Ming Lan’s fortune to buy rations. Although it wasn’t much, the amount should have been considerable.
Unexpectedly, a county in Jiangnan was flooded, and the price of grain doubled in one day.
Ming Lan’s money was not enough.
What could be done?
On the way back, they encountered bandits. As she watched these guys who had eyes but failed to recognize Mt. Taishan1, she suddenly got an idea.
What kind of existence was the Ming Army? They were the kind of fiends that would kill gods and ghosts should they encounter them. Although there were not many people following Yan Ge at this time, eliminating a robber’s den should be a simple matter.
Everyone was interested in the small capital and high profit-making business of moving the wealth from the bandits’ dens into carts. They made inquiries about the next bandits' lair and went straight for it.
The size of the mountain bandits’ stronghold was relatively large this time, and the group was infamous for terrorizing the poor and committing evil.
After discussing with the Ming Army members, they made a plan for her to first infiltrate their lair and explore the mountain’s topography. Then they would coordinate outside and inside forces to exterminate the bandits. Once they scored this big ticket, they could go back with a full load.
- Have eyes but fail to see Mt. Taishan (有眼不识泰山—yǒu yǎn bù shí tàishān)idiom that means not being able to recognize a famous/great person↩︎
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