A large wind blew in Deereast Mound.
The rainwater this year was less than the previous, so even after the large wind, the sky of this backward city was still grey.
A carriage that had just changed its wheels appeared from an inn in the west of Deereast Mound. After spending half a day’s time, it crossed over the entire Deereast Mound, to the east city gate, and continued heading east, eventually disappearing in the sights of the armed soldiers at the city gate.
Other than the fact that the carriage driver was a young girl of 16 years of age, there was nothing surprising about the carriage, hence it did not draw further attention.
The Deereast Mound Mansion was like an inner city, it’s outer walls which were made by burning mud bricks reached 16.7m. The Office for the officials of the Deereast Mound only took a third of the space, the rest were military camps or practice fields.
This was nothing special as since the establishment of the Yun Qin Empire, all of the designs had the same layout, except that it was up to the Mound Lord to decide the area it covered.
At this moment, there were many large candles lighted at the north of the Deereast Mound Mansion.
These candles chased off every trace of darkness in the deep, serene Main Hall that had green stone slabs as the flooring. But the flickering candlelight shone upon Li Xiping’s face, coincidentally showing his flickering emotions.
As the highest official of the Deereast Mound, ruling over a population of 4 million, he was unexpectedly short with a slender face, having an average appearance.
Although the cuffs of his robe had oil stains, this average looking, 50-year-old old man exuded an aura like a heavy mountain, making people feel suppressed and unable to breathe just by looking at him.
“Lord..” A middle-aged man with thick eyebrows, standing firmly and wearing a black leather suit could not stand this long-term quietness and pressure, but he only bowed to this highest commanding official and addressed him. Before he could say anything substantial, the average looking Li Xiping’s eyebrows twitched. He took a deep breath and looked at the man with the thick eyebrows, saying:”You go and bring Zhang Zhendong to Liu Knifescar, go to Black Water Swamp.”
“Black Water Swamp?” The middle-aged man with bushy eyebrows stood upright out of habit, but a shocked expression immediately appeared on his face. He hesitated, saying:”Lord, wouldn’t this be too cruel?”
“Cruel?” Li Xiping’s face sunk. The moment his face sunk, it was as if the smell of blood and slaughter permeated in the Main Hall. “If not for him and me staying at the Frontier Army for two years, with this kind of thing happening, I don’t even need the upper echelons’ order to send him to the death house!” Li Xiping looked at the middle aged man with thick eyebrows and chided him harshly:”A severe illness requires strong medicine, think about the current situation of our Yun Qin Empire! If I don’t send him to that kind of place, I will not only be unable to quell the anger of that person, he will die a worse death, even implicating us!”
The middle-aged man instantly felt a chill in his heart He was very clear of Li Xiping’s strong willpower as he had fought his way out of the Dragon and Snake Frontier Army, and in this eight years in Deereast Mound, he had never once seem Li Xiping have such a dark look, using such a fierce tone to talk.
“Who is ‘that person’, even a servant girl has such a countenace?” He nodded his head and could not help but ask.
“Servant girl?” Li Xiping instantly sneered, his eyes becoming more vicious, “You also stayed at the Frontier Army, so you should know, the less you know, the less you will think, and the easier it is to survive.”
“Understood, my Lord.” This middle aged man with thick eyebrows felt a chill in his heart again, and bowed, preparing to leave, but at this moment, Li Xiping pondered for a while before saying: “Help me to arrange for it, Let Uncle Liu drive the carriage, I will go to Deerwood Village personally.”
This middle-aged man with thick eyebrows was shocked again, but this time he did not say anything, humbly bowing before leaving.
After this middle-aged man left the Deereast Mound Manor, Li Xiping took the teacup at the front of his table, his hands pausing in mid-air for a while before he could not control his anger. With a PA! sound, he threw the teacup on the ground harshly, causing it to shatter.
What could compare to seeing a brother who went through thick and thin together with you degenerate and personally sending him to his death? This made him have an unspeakable anger, even Li Xiping who was unable to remain unmoved after being spat on at the Frontier Army could not control his feelings, causing his chest to move up and down vigorously.
However, in a matter of about ten breaths, he calmed down. He did not change his robe that had been splashed with tea, simply walking out of the Deereast Mound Mansion.
After he walked out of the door, two soldiers who wore yellow clothes quickly walked into the mansion, cleaning the mess in a jiffy, yet he already walked up a carriage that was long prepared outside.
This carriage was driven by an old man with white hair. It moved out of Deereast Mound, passing through 30 li of beach meadows and Black Water Crossing, finally reaching Deerwood Village.
Very quickly, Li Xiping strode to the mound the carriage carrying the girl previously passed by. This Mound Lord that looked older than his age looked at the sky above, broke a twig from the roadside and used it as a walking stick, slowly walking to the other town. As he continued to walk, he back looked straighter, and the twig in his lands looked more and more like a knife or a sword that was dragged on the ground.
. . . . . . .
The carriage driven by the old man from Deereast Mound Mansion stopped ay Deerwood Village for a day, then slowly traveled out of Deereast Village the next morning.
A short, plump middle-aged man and a woman with nice looks held a beautiful girl who had red eye circles, until the carriage went to the village gate, an old yellow dog slowly followed behind the trio.
Lin Xi sat on the soft cushion in the carriage, waving his hands at the trio which still wanted to follow him. His eye circles were also red, :”Mum, Dad, Sis please go back… Dad, your missing wine was hidden under my bed… I made it all into medicinal wine… If you miss me then drink some everyday… Mum, you have to take care of your body… Be careful not to catch a cold…. And Sis, be more obedient… Bro will bring lots of cool things back… And Yellow, don’t even think about those two birds.”
“Wah…” Lin Qian was originally okay, but after hearing Lin Xi’s farewell words and looking at the carriage that was speeding up, she could not help but start crying.
The tears of the woman with above average looks instantly poured out. “You bastard!” The middle-aged man who looked like a merchant looked like he wanted to scold Lin Xi, yet after scolding him, he secretly wiped the corner of his eyes. Looking at the carriage which was getting further and further, this short and plump merchant also shouted, “Bastard, when you go out stop talking gibberish, the outside world cannot be compared to Deerwood Village!”
“Dad, isn’t the furthest you travelled in your life the adjacent Mound?” Normally, Lin Xi would say something like this, but today, Lin Xi nodded, using a voice loud enough for the trio to hear, saying “Understood, my Father.”
“Bastard.” the middle-aged merchant murmured while scolding, yet his eyes were already blurred.
The carriage went straight north, until the figure of the trio and the dog could not be seen in the far horizon, even the contour of Deerwood Village could not be seen, then Lin Xi closed the curtains and lay on the cushion in the carriage.
Although he had never been out of Deerwood Village, but he was not in a hurry to look at the scenery along the way. He was sure that with the current speed of the carriage, in this equally vast world, in the coming days, he would see so many different places he would puke.
Although in these two years, he had completely integrated with the world, accepting his current identity, but this scene led him to think about many things.
Previously when he traveled to school, stepping up the train that the people of this world could not fathom, he was alone. His father who often traveled for his tea leaves business only gave him four years of living expenses. And his mother was compulsive gambler, having divorced with his father for about six years, she probably didn’t even know he was a university student.
One only learns to treasure what one doesn’t have. After finding that he transmigrated into another world, became another person, and had special abilities, he did not have any urge to see the outside world and carve a name for himself. Even towards Yun Qin Empire, his understanding to it was only limited to an Empire where the rule of law was enforced, occupying the entire Central State, establishing Villages, Mounds, Towns and Cities as administrative units.
He had a man with great wealth, not needing to worry for food and drink, being a cunning businessman, yet he can kneel down at a temple for two days and nights to pray for his sick son, promising to donate half of his fortune as his dad, a clever and obedient cute little sister, a stern-looking, but in reality soft and gentle on the inside mother, living in an isolated peaceful Village, he was very satisfied with his current life.
But this two carriages, disrupted his peaceful and fulfilling life.
Although he did not know the status of the girl who was younger than him, but it was evident that she was closely related to this carriage.
“What kind of place is Qingluan Academy?”
Just thinking about how horrifying the girl with a serious expression was, a strange expression appeared on Lin Xi’s face.
Subsequently, he took a long cloth bag out of his backpack and opened it.
Inside it was a sharpened, dangerously glinting dagger.
He took this gleaming dagger and hid it under his sleeves, gently opening the front curtains of the carriage.
The old man’s hair was very white, looking as if it had never been combed, like a ball of cotton. As the bumpy ride continued, this old man who sat at the front of the carriage looked like he was asleep.
Lin Xi kept silent, and did an incomprehensible act.
His face was calm, even having expressions of curiosity and expectation, as he took the dagger and silently stabbed the old man’s back.
“SHUA!”
The peaceful atmosphere of the carriage suddenly became chilling. The old man did not turn back, but Lin Xi’s heart suddenly contracted vigorously, a chill ran over his whole body. It was impossible to see what happened as he suddenly flew out of the carriage and landed on a bush at the roadside with a thud. This fall made him unable to catch his breath, making him feel like his body broke, making him very miserable.
“What are you thinking of doing?” The carriage stopped, the old man looked at Lin Xi’s miserable plight, his face looking chilly. The dagger which Lin Xi used to stab him was now grasped between his fingers, twisted in a strange way.
“PU!”
After much effort, Lin Xi finally caught his breath, spitting out a dead leaf and dust in his mouth. Facing the fearsome old man, Lin Xi looked as if he found his answer, solioquizing: “So there are really Masters in this world.”
“Can you fly? Do you have flying swords? Spells?” in the old man’s astounded gaze, this blood stained youth which finally managed to get up asked him this question seriously.
“Get in the car. The next time you do something like this, I will break your arm.” the old man stared ar Lin Xi for a while, before turning around and simply said.
Lin Xi, who did not get his answers shook his head helplessly, and gently said: “Let’s go.”
Subsequently, Lin Xi really went back to the carriage, returning to where he took out his dagger. He laid on the soft cushion with clean clothes, no bloodstains were seen on his face.
The bent dagger lay in his bag, and that old man who released a fearsome aura of bloodshed was still like a normal dirty old man, sleeping from time to time, looking absolutely harmless.
In the beautiful rays of spring, this carriage where nothing happened continued to go straight north.
TLN:It may not seem like it, but translating this took me a very long time. There are just so many commars in the raws and irrelevant description which I hesitated to translate. Should I continue to translate redudant details or should I just filter them out as it may get annoying (thick eyebrow middle aged man). Please give me your suggestions in the comments!
Also, I might switch to translate another novel as this one is too lengthy for beginners like me. Feel free to give suggestions for novels (preferably short) you would like to read.
A large wind blew in Deereast Mound.
The rainwater this year was less than the previous, so even after the large wind, the sky of this backward city was still grey.
A carriage that had just changed its wheels appeared from an inn in the west of Deereast Mound. After spending half a day’s time, it crossed over the entire Deereast Mound, to the east city gate, and continued heading east, eventually disappearing in the sights of the armed soldiers at the city gate.
Other than the fact that the carriage driver was a young girl of 16 years of age, there was nothing surprising about the carriage, hence it did not draw further attention.
The Deereast Mound Mansion was like an inner city, it’s outer walls which were made by burning mud bricks reached 16.7m. The Office for the officials of the Deereast Mound only took a third of the space, the rest were military camps or practice fields.
This was nothing special as since the establishment of the Yun Qin Empire, all of the designs had the same layout, except that it was up to the Mound Lord to decide the area it covered.
At this moment, there were many large candles lighted at the north of the Deereast Mound Mansion.
These candles chased off every trace of darkness in the deep, serene Main Hall that had green stone slabs as the flooring. But the flickering candlelight shone upon Li Xiping’s face, coincidentally showing his flickering emotions.
As the highest official of the Deereast Mound, ruling over a population of 4 million, he was unexpectedly short with a slender face, having an average appearance.
Although the cuffs of his robe had oil stains, this average looking, 50-year-old old man exuded an aura like a heavy mountain, making people feel suppressed and unable to breathe just by looking at him.
“Lord..” A middle-aged man with thick eyebrows, standing firmly and wearing a black leather suit could not stand this long-term quietness and pressure, but he only bowed to this highest commanding official and addressed him. Before he could say anything substantial, the average looking Li Xiping’s eyebrows twitched. He took a deep breath and looked at the man with the thick eyebrows, saying:”You go and bring Zhang Zhendong to Liu Knifescar, go to Black Water Swamp.”
“Black Water Swamp?” The middle-aged man with bushy eyebrows stood upright out of habit, but a shocked expression immediately appeared on his face. He hesitated, saying:”Lord, wouldn’t this be too cruel?”
“Cruel?” Li Xiping’s face sunk. The moment his face sunk, it was as if the smell of blood and slaughter permeated in the Main Hall. “If not for him and me staying at the Frontier Army for two years, with this kind of thing happening, I don’t even need the upper echelons’ order to send him to the death house!” Li Xiping looked at the middle aged man with thick eyebrows and chided him harshly:”A severe illness requires strong medicine, think about the current situation of our Yun Qin Empire! If I don’t send him to that kind of place, I will not only be unable to quell the anger of that person, he will die a worse death, even implicating us!”
The middle-aged man instantly felt a chill in his heart He was very clear of Li Xiping’s strong willpower as he had fought his way out of the Dragon and Snake Frontier Army, and in this eight years in Deereast Mound, he had never once seem Li Xiping have such a dark look, using such a fierce tone to talk.
“Who is ‘that person’, even a servant girl has such a countenace?” He nodded his head and could not help but ask.
“Servant girl?” Li Xiping instantly sneered, his eyes becoming more vicious, “You also stayed at the Frontier Army, so you should know, the less you know, the less you will think, and the easier it is to survive.”
“Understood, my Lord.” This middle aged man with thick eyebrows felt a chill in his heart again, and bowed, preparing to leave, but at this moment, Li Xiping pondered for a while before saying: “Help me to arrange for it, Let Uncle Liu drive the carriage, I will go to Deerwood Village personally.”
This middle-aged man with thick eyebrows was shocked again, but this time he did not say anything, humbly bowing before leaving.
After this middle-aged man left the Deereast Mound Manor, Li Xiping took the teacup at the front of his table, his hands pausing in mid-air for a while before he could not control his anger. With a PA! sound, he threw the teacup on the ground harshly, causing it to shatter.
What could compare to seeing a brother who went through thick and thin together with you degenerate and personally sending him to his death? This made him have an unspeakable anger, even Li Xiping who was unable to remain unmoved after being spat on at the Frontier Army could not control his feelings, causing his chest to move up and down vigorously.
However, in a matter of about ten breaths, he calmed down. He did not change his robe that had been splashed with tea, simply walking out of the Deereast Mound Mansion.
After he walked out of the door, two soldiers who wore yellow clothes quickly walked into the mansion, cleaning the mess in a jiffy, yet he already walked up a carriage that was long prepared outside.
This carriage was driven by an old man with white hair. It moved out of Deereast Mound, passing through 30 li of beach meadows and Black Water Crossing, finally reaching Deerwood Village.
Very quickly, Li Xiping strode to the mound the carriage carrying the girl previously passed by. This Mound Lord that looked older than his age looked at the sky above, broke a twig from the roadside and used it as a walking stick, slowly walking to the other town. As he continued to walk, he back looked straighter, and the twig in his lands looked more and more like a knife or a sword that was dragged on the ground.
. . . . . . .
The carriage driven by the old man from Deereast Mound Mansion stopped ay Deerwood Village for a day, then slowly traveled out of Deereast Village the next morning.
A short, plump middle-aged man and a woman with nice looks held a beautiful girl who had red eye circles, until the carriage went to the village gate, an old yellow dog slowly followed behind the trio.
Lin Xi sat on the soft cushion in the carriage, waving his hands at the trio which still wanted to follow him. His eye circles were also red, :”Mum, Dad, Sis please go back… Dad, your missing wine was hidden under my bed… I made it all into medicinal wine… If you miss me then drink some everyday… Mum, you have to take care of your body… Be careful not to catch a cold…. And Sis, be more obedient… Bro will bring lots of cool things back… And Yellow, don’t even think about those two birds.”
“Wah…” Lin Qian was originally okay, but after hearing Lin Xi’s farewell words and looking at the carriage that was speeding up, she could not help but start crying.
The tears of the woman with above average looks instantly poured out. “You bastard!” The middle-aged man who looked like a merchant looked like he wanted to scold Lin Xi, yet after scolding him, he secretly wiped the corner of his eyes. Looking at the carriage which was getting further and further, this short and plump merchant also shouted, “Bastard, when you go out stop talking gibberish, the outside world cannot be compared to Deerwood Village!”
“Dad, isn’t the furthest you travelled in your life the adjacent Mound?” Normally, Lin Xi would say something like this, but today, Lin Xi nodded, using a voice loud enough for the trio to hear, saying “Understood, my Father.”
“Bastard.” the middle-aged merchant murmured while scolding, yet his eyes were already blurred.
The carriage went straight north, until the figure of the trio and the dog could not be seen in the far horizon, even the contour of Deerwood Village could not be seen, then Lin Xi closed the curtains and lay on the cushion in the carriage.
Although he had never been out of Deerwood Village, but he was not in a hurry to look at the scenery along the way. He was sure that with the current speed of the carriage, in this equally vast world, in the coming days, he would see so many different places he would puke.
Although in these two years, he had completely integrated with the world, accepting his current identity, but this scene led him to think about many things.
Previously when he traveled to school, stepping up the train that the people of this world could not fathom, he was alone. His father who often traveled for his tea leaves business only gave him four years of living expenses. And his mother was compulsive gambler, having divorced with his father for about six years, she probably didn’t even know he was a university student.
One only learns to treasure what one doesn’t have. After finding that he transmigrated into another world, became another person, and had special abilities, he did not have any urge to see the outside world and carve a name for himself. Even towards Yun Qin Empire, his understanding to it was only limited to an Empire where the rule of law was enforced, occupying the entire Central State, establishing Villages, Mounds, Towns and Cities as administrative units.
He had a man with great wealth, not needing to worry for food and drink, being a cunning businessman, yet he can kneel down at a temple for two days and nights to pray for his sick son, promising to donate half of his fortune as his dad, a clever and obedient cute little sister, a stern-looking, but in reality soft and gentle on the inside mother, living in an isolated peaceful Village, he was very satisfied with his current life.
But this two carriages, disrupted his peaceful and fulfilling life.
Although he did not know the status of the girl who was younger than him, but it was evident that she was closely related to this carriage.
“What kind of place is Qingluan Academy?”
Just thinking about how horrifying the girl with a serious expression was, a strange expression appeared on Lin Xi’s face.
Subsequently, he took a long cloth bag out of his backpack and opened it.
Inside it was a sharpened, dangerously glinting dagger.
He took this gleaming dagger and hid it under his sleeves, gently opening the front curtains of the carriage.
The old man’s hair was very white, looking as if it had never been combed, like a ball of cotton. As the bumpy ride continued, this old man who sat at the front of the carriage looked like he was asleep.
Lin Xi kept silent, and did an incomprehensible act.
His face was calm, even having expressions of curiosity and expectation, as he took the dagger and silently stabbed the old man’s back.
“SHUA!”
The peaceful atmosphere of the carriage suddenly became chilling. The old man did not turn back, but Lin Xi’s heart suddenly contracted vigorously, a chill ran over his whole body. It was impossible to see what happened as he suddenly flew out of the carriage and landed on a bush at the roadside with a thud. This fall made him unable to catch his breath, making him feel like his body broke, making him very miserable.
“What are you thinking of doing?” The carriage stopped, the old man looked at Lin Xi’s miserable plight, his face looking chilly. The dagger which Lin Xi used to stab him was now grasped between his fingers, twisted in a strange way.
“PU!”
After much effort, Lin Xi finally caught his breath, spitting out a dead leaf and dust in his mouth. Facing the fearsome old man, Lin Xi looked as if he found his answer, solioquizing: “So there are really Masters in this world.”
“Can you fly? Do you have flying swords? Spells?” in the old man’s astounded gaze, this blood stained youth which finally managed to get up asked him this question seriously.
“Get in the car. The next time you do something like this, I will break your arm.” the old man stared ar Lin Xi for a while, before turning around and simply said.
Lin Xi, who did not get his answers shook his head helplessly, and gently said: “Let’s go.”
Subsequently, Lin Xi really went back to the carriage, returning to where he took out his dagger. He laid on the soft cushion with clean clothes, no bloodstains were seen on his face.
The bent dagger lay in his bag, and that old man who released a fearsome aura of bloodshed was still like a normal dirty old man, sleeping from time to time, looking absolutely harmless.
In the beautiful rays of spring, this carriage where nothing happened continued to go straight north.
TLN:It may not seem like it, but translating this took me a very long time. There are just so many commars in the raws and irrelevant description which I hesitated to translate. Should I continue to translate redudant details or should I just filter them out as it may get annoying (thick eyebrow middle aged man). Please give me your suggestions in the comments!
Also, I might switch to translate another novel as this one is too lengthy for beginners like me. Feel free to give suggestions for novels (preferably short) you would like to read.
