Translator: churnie
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The funny thing is, don’t know which quick-witted person, they unexpectedly go so far as to use materials at hand to pick up several kinds of edible wild fruit back from the mountain, each one was piled up on the gra.s.s.
Feng Ming looks at it and laughs, he calls out to everyone to sit down for a picnic. Rong Hu, Luo Yun, Qiu Lan and the maids, they naturally sit in a circle with him. Hong Yu is full of the urge to start work as soon as possible and was planning to go back and continue to supervise the clean-up work, but he caught by Feng Ming, “if you want to work you must also eat something then you can go. Hurry up and sit down, I will continue to discuss armor with you?”
Hong Yu has to sit back, he shakes his head and says. “There’s really no way, I thought about this thing carefully. There is really no method at the moment. Alas, the sovereign Kings of the world under the heaven nowadays are thinking about how to make lethal weapons, where is there the time to care about the soldiers’ lives?” He talked to Feng Ming about two or three times, he spoke directly, his personality is frank and straightforward, Rong Hu slowly became familiar with him.
When he heard Hong Yu was talking about lethal weapons, Rong Hu intervenes and asks, “the most lethal weapon in the world under the heaven nowadays? Is that really there?”
“This question is too difficult and I can only talk about my own opinions.” On Hong Yu’s young face there’s a professionally serious expression. “If you use the sword theory, the most lethal in the world under the heaven, of course, it is only Dan Lin Royal Family’s secret double-edge sword, it’s long and sharp and not easy to break, but this kind of double-edge sword is more suitable for a.s.sa.s.sination, the situation on the battlefield is chaotic and the enemy is a large group in distant. Oh, I haven’t been on the battlefield, just guess according to the master said. On the battlefield the weapons that can kill enemies from afar are good things, such as spears, when the other party’s sword haven’t close to ourselves, the spear in our hand can stab them. But the spear also has its disadvantage, its use is not as flexible as the sword, it’s often can’t protect ourselves timely in spite of stabbing and the spearman is p.r.o.ne to injury. Also, the spear tends to be broken, I remember i’m talking about this problem to Feng Ming.” Feng Ming nods.
What Hong Yu says is that the weapon casting problem is the longer the weapon is, the easier it will be broken.
Hong Yu says, “The farther is the archery, in recent years, a lot of powerful people spent a lot of money to ask the famous craftsman to study the archery manufacture, from the selection of bows, curvatures, to the number of feathers and slopes, and so on, there are a lot of secret improvements. However, in archery manufacture, I only know a little one or two about the casting of the arrows, I don’t understand the others.” Feng Ming feels the same way. “The powerful archery attack power is really strong, at Aman river the last time, we have so many masters on our fleet, still it wasn’t enough to be overwhelmed by He Di’s archers.”
Luo Yun gives a light cough at the side. Feng Ming froze for a moment and immediately understood. This guy Luo Yun, who regarded the Xiao family’s reputation as heavier than the Mount Tai, must not like this ‘outsider’ Hong Yu to know about the things of Xiao family’s killer group was beaten by He Di’s fleet.
(t/n: ‘heavier than Mount Tai’: means favoritism over something,
complete explanation “heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than Hong Mao.” To die for the benefit of the people; to fight for fascism, to die for those who exploit the people and oppress the people)
Feng Ming spit out his tongue in secret and quickly remedy it very seriously. “But later they were beaten badly by our Xiao family, we also signed a contract that will make a lot of money, heheh.” He suddenly pats his head and shouts, “Oh right, when it comes to He Di, I think of Zi Yan. Why did when he was sent over there he only sent back a letter saying that he wanted to continue the discussion and there’s no other news? Is there so much to discuss? Even when we live in Tong An inner courtyard, he can’t go back to sleep?”.
Rong Hu says, “I also asked the person who sent the letter about this, they said that He Di very valued regarding the things about the dual-luminous sand s.h.i.+pping route. These days he was trying to discuss with Zi Yan which route to pick first, and the port for loading and unloading is also needs to be agreed, that things are trivial and complicated. They talk about it until the wee hours everyday and they slept almost at the same time.”
Feng Ming knows that he doesn’t have to worry about the authenticity. “Call Zi Yan to not to try too hard, his personality is too serious. Everything has one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music, in order to complete the task he can’t ignore his body, the route is important, but when he discuss it, he still have to eat well and sleep well. Oh right, is Qing Li gives him a hard time? This is what worries me the most.”
(t/n: 一板一眼 one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); to follow a prescribed pattern to the letter; scrupulous attention to detail)
Rong Hu laughs and says, “How can Qing Li gives him a hard time? I heard that Qing Li was very respectful of He Di and he did not dare to offend him. Presumably he won’t offend Zi Yan in courtesy of He Di. Beside, I heard the messenger said: Zi Yan was arranged by He Di in a small courtyard used by He Di himself. If Qing Li wasn’t invited he couldn’t enter.”
“So, the Prince He Di was actually very sincere to us.” Feng Ming slightly reliefs and he apologizes. “Zi Yan will follow He Di back to Dan lin! It won’t be easy to meet him across the sea in the future.”
Conveniently playing with the gra.s.sroots on the meadow, bite randomly as he pleases, it doesn’t seem he thinks of any idea, then he talks to Rong Hu again, “Rong Hu, you find someone to send a letter to Prince He Di to ask Zi Yan to not be in a hurry to discuss about the route matter, anyway he and He Di can have discussion time later, while i’m still in the Tong pond, find time to come out and meet, otherwise, when I left the Tong pond and He Di back to Dan Lin, i don’t know when we can meet again.”
