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Chapter 216 - Bandit Suppressing: To Kill Or To Capture? (VI)
Chapter 216 - Bandit Suppressing: To Kill Or To Capture? (VI)
Chapter 216: Bandit Suppressing: To Kill Or To Capture? (VI)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Astrology? Is it fun seeing all the stars in the sky? So, what do you get from those?”
Things like astrology and divination were nonsense in Jiang Pengji’s mind.
Wasn’t it fun to talk about ghosts and immortals with a woman who had been fighting and jumping from planet to planet?
Xu Ke didn’t know Jiang Pengji’s thoughts. He said honestly, “I’m not good at astrology. So, I can only see that the Purple Star looks different today.”
Unlike children from royal families, he didn’t have enough educational resources or books to read, nor did he have the opportunity to get an education from prestigious teachers.
It could be said that during his stay of more than a month in the Liu Mansion, the number of books he had read was dozens, or even hundreds of times, more than before!
How could the education of a student from a poor family be compared with that of the students from royal families?
Xu Ke was not even a student from a poor family; he could only be regarded as a citizen of low status and penalty.
“The Purple Star looks different? What does that mean?”
Jiang Pengji looked up at the stars in the sky, unsure of what he was talking about.
Xu Ke held his knees, raised his finger and pointed to a very bright star in the sky. He said, “Langjun, look––that is the Purple Star. Its color shifts from dark to bright. There’s a flickering star around it, namely a jinx star. It’s flickering, which means there is a hidden danger around Ziwei Emperor.”
Jiang Pengji laughed and said, “They are just a few stars! Those little stars have something to do with human’s life and fate? That’s nonsense.”
Xu Ke was shocked by his words. Why did she always think differently from others? He tilted his head slightly out of shock, and saw his Langjun sitting next to him with her arms around her knees.
Her side face looked a bit fuzzy because of the night, but the light in her eyes was extraordinarily bright in the dark.
Jiang Pengji said in a gentle voice, “For me, astrology has no basis. Those sparkling things are all celestial bodies. For example, the sun seems to be far away from us now, but it may get closer to us one day. It’s hard to say... You told me that the Purple Star symbols emperors. But now, the whole country has been divided into five parts with five different emperors. Xiaoyu, which emperor does the so-called Purple Star symbolize from your perspective?”
Xu Ke suddenly lost his tongue because of her question. After thinking for a long time, he said, “I don’t know why you think so! But astrology is not nonsense. Outsiders can only see the very superficial side, but the insiders can get into the point of things. As for the Purple Star... for me, it only symbolizes one real emperor, for the others are fake. ”
Jiang Pengji listened to him so severely that Xu Ke even thought she had been convinced. However, she abruptly giggled. She then tried very hard to keep from laughing, which made her look like she was in a bit of pain.
“Xiaoyu, this is the very first time that I find you a bit cute.” Jiang Pengji laughed for a long time, which almost annoyed Xu Ke.
He secretly gritted his teeth, suppressed his temper, and asked, “Langjun, are... you teasing me?”
“No, no... I never meant that.” While she spoke, Jiang Yanji continued to laugh, which made her words unconvincing.
After she had finished laughing, she said, “The emperor will never be defined by a little star, nor will a human’s fate.”
She believed that Master Liaochen could see the auspicious air of emperors, but not that the air could prove something. Even Master Liaochen had said that the auspicious air couldn’t ensure her future fate of becoming an emperor. After all, those things were all imaginary.
After a while, Jiang Pengji said, “Xiaoyu, is it hard for children from poor families to get a good education?”
Xu Ke found her question both funny and annoying. “Langjun, why do you still have to ask the question when you already known the answer?”
Jiang Pengji replied, “Maybe, in the next ten, twenty, or even thirty years, anyone will be able to get a good education. It will no longer be the privilege of a small group of people.”
He didn’t think she was going to say that, so he had no idea how to respond at first. Then he said with hope, “If it happens one day, that will be a peaceful era that everyone yearns for.”
Laosiji Lianmeng: “I’ve already got the presentiment that this stream will last for a very long time––maybe for a lifetime. I am a person who has no perseverance––perhaps I will give up after a month or two––but for now I feel that I will continue to watch it, maybe for a lifetime. It’s not for any other reason except that the streamer said, ‘It will no longer be the privilege of a small group of people.’ I want to see that peaceful era.”
Pai Daxing: “This proves once again that the streamer has a lot of positive energy, even though she also has abnormal values toward everything.”
Shitang Dafan Ayi: “@Laosij Lianmeng, you obstinate people! That’s my confession to the streamer!”
Nongfu Shanquan Youdianxuan: “Hey! 911? There’s a group of obstinate people who want to share the streamer’s love with me! Reward them with one strip of red cloth each to hang themselves!”
“Yes, there will be.” Jiang Pengji looked at the sky to reckon the time. “But we have to go step by step! If we proceed too fast, we will get hurt one day. After all, Rome wasn’t built in one day! To make the ambitious dream come true, we have to destroy the bandits’ village first.”
Xu Ke was confused. “...”
Laosiji Lianmeng: “A pity for Xu Ke, as usual.”
Yaoyaoling Shushu: “Pity+1! I always feel that the streamer likes to be a buzzkill and destroy the atmosphere when Xu Ke gets cheerful or tearful because of her words. What a bastard! Ordinary people would get cancer from the awkwardness.”
Tao Daniao: “I believe that that’s her disgusting love for Xu Ke.”
It was unknown if it was love, but it really was disgusting.
“Hey, put it on. Don’t catch a cold.” Jiang Pengji threw the cloak prepared by her maid to him and let him put it on.
The temperature had risen, so many people had already put on their light, spring clothing––as had Xu Ke; however, he still underestimated the coldness of the deep woods. The air, mixed with the dampness, was still a bit freezing.
Xu Ke hesitated with the cloak in his hands for a long while, then he put it on. The lining of the cloak was sewn with rabbit fur. It was not heavy, but very warm. It suddenly blocked the dampness and cold air from his body, and his arms and legs stopped quivering.
“Langjun, are you not afraid of cold?” Xu Ke asked.
Jiang Pengji smiled and said, “The temperature is not low at all. Why would I get cold? I am not a spoiled and fragile little boy.”
Xu Ke looked down at his tightly wrapped body, and then looked at his lightly and neatly dressed Langjun. He fell into silence suspiciously.
“No more talking. It’s the time now.”
After her words, Meng Hun secretly led one team within the troop to hide in the shadows. They approached the entrance of the village with their bodies low. The leader of the team was to Nongqin.
Jiang Pengji held a crossbow in one hand and a narrow in the other, revealing her fair-skinned wrists which looked extraordinarily tender under the cold moonlight.
She easily drew the bow, aiming at one lookout tower nearly 300 meters away.
Swoosh...
The arrow spurred out, and a slight break sounded. She put on another arrow as agilely as always. The arrows dashed forward one after the other, the time between them lasting only one second.
The two bandits on the lookout towers were killed by arrows shot through their hearts. Their dead bodies were hung over the horizontal bar, their blood rushing out.
At the same time, the team led by Nongqin started to act.
In an instant, three corpses with remaining warmth were lying by the feet of Nongqin.
She smiled at the her team members bashfully.
She didn’t want to kill people, but what she had learned were skills geared towards assassination. Thus, she could break the neck of a person within one second.
The team members were speechless.