Chapter 184: Please Stop (Ⅲ)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
It resembled the wind blowing off the mist, and she found that many things started to clear after she walked out of a dead end.
It was true that there was a gigantic gap distinguishing the people between the two eras, but human nature never changed. She indeed ran into a dead end.
While she was thinking, Xu Ke grinned and jumped on the chance to make fun of her. “It’s rare that there is sothing you don’t know about, Langjun.”
Jiang Pengji didn’t feel offended. No one was perfect. Speaking of shortcomings, she was full of them and she wouldn’t deny it.
“No one knows everything and no one is capable of doing everything. I had a lack of knowledge about it and misled myself onto the wrong path. It is totally normal.” Jiang Pengji looked at Xu Ke with a pair of crystal clear eyes and said, “Let make another example. You have never stopped absorbing unknown knowledge dedicatedly, right?”
Xu Ke almost choked. Those were not entirely the sa at all.
He wouldn’t have teased her like that if it wasn’t for her being outstandingly knowledgeable. She seed to know everything.
It was rare that soone like her would admit her shortcomings and didn’t mind others taunting her. That was the reason she was superior.
Everyone had knowledge about the well-known pri minister who contributed to the founding of the country and also happened to be the teacher of Emperor Gao––and everyone knew about how he was killed by Emperor Gao.
That pri minister was simply dedicated to completing the commitnt he made to the previous emperor, but his ending turned out to be him being killed brutally.
The higher the position people were in, the less tolerance they had with others who focused on their weaknesses. So people took it as a forthright admonition, while so took it as good, but harsh, advice. Either way, it was all up to the people who looked at it.
If the master was the open-minded kind and was willing to listen to different voices, naturally he would take the advice wisely from his subordinates and rectify himself. On the contrary, if the master was narrow-minded and he had a hard ti taking unpleasant words from others, even if he was not going to blast the person bringing up the advice, he would stab the person in the back. That would make everyone around him feel jittery... How many people would actually swear their loyalty to him?
That was why Xu Ke was impressed to see Jiang Pengji take it so easily. She didn’t make a fuss about admitting her own weaknesses.
Jiang Pengji had no feelings about Xu Ke being impressed about her, though.
While they had been talking, ng Hun had helped all of his people settle and his face bead with delight. He went to see the rooms of his buddies. There was a dry and neat sleeping quarter and the bedding for each of them was comfortable and decent. They wouldn’t feel damp or cold with their bedding.
ng Hun was rather satisfied with the arrangent.
There were not too many of the tenant farrs in the cottage. Most of the rooms were vacant and they used the rooms as storage every now and then; they just had to do a little clean up and dry out the dampness in the room for people to move in. Xu Ke had also considered that there would be an increasing number of troops. That was why he made the arrangent to empty out an extra large size room, which was perfect for the current situation.
ng Hun would be able to move into a place that Xu Ke had ordered the servants to tidy for him ahead for that night.
“Thank you, Langjun.” ng Hun gave Jiang Pengji a proper salute right after he ca to see her. He was stopped by Jiang Pengji before he knelt on the ground.
“This is what we are supposed to do. I have to at least guarantee your basic life supply since you chose to follow ,” Jiang Pengji said blandly. She asked ng Hun to be seated. “About transferring the managent of the troops... You can talk to Xiao Yu about it. I will co to visit the cottage every now and then. You can always inform about what supplies you are short of. The situation might beco tense in a couple of days and you have to make sure to stay discreet.”
ng Hun understood what Jiang Pengji ant about the tension. The ng’s were not going to keep calm when they learned about ng Liang being abducted.
“Right. After I get back to the Lius’ place, I will send my servant girl here.” Jiang Pengji said suddenly and it almost made Xu Ke choke from the tea he was drinking.
ng Hun freaked out. His face turned to red first and pale after. He faltered, “Thanks for the good intention Langjun––I really appreciate it. It’s just... I am not ready to accept any other won since my wife just passed away. I’m not ready to make the commitnt to soone else yet...”
It was Jiang Pengji’s turn to be puzzled. She looked at ng Hun and turned to Xu Ke, and then her lips twitched.
She scolded them. “What dirty mind do you guys have?” What dirty things were they thinking in their brains?
Neither of them had quite grasped the aning of “dirty.” Xu Ke felt like he was being wronged by Jiang Pengji. I didn’t do or think anything.
Jiang Pengji gave an explanation before they even opened their mouths. “My servant girl will be here to practice martial arts. What else could it be?”
ng Hun and Xu Ke were both in a daze and they lowered their heads together.
It wasn’t that embarrassing for Xu Ke, considering he knew well about what kind of person Langjun was. But ng Hun couldn’t help blaming himself for forgetting about the fact that Langjun was only a twelve-year-old boy.
According to the rules in the gentry clans, he was still too young to have any experience in his bedroom.
ng Liang was an exception in that. He had the experience when he was only eleven and his precedent could not be the criterion to evaluate the other young clan mbers. He assud that Langjun might have no clue how misleading those words he had just said were.
There was a slight embarrassnt between ng Hun and Langjun. ng Hun coughed with an awkwardness. He couldn’t admit that he misunderstood and thought that Langjun intended to give his servant girl to him.
It would still be wrong, however, to leave his servant girl in the cottage to be trained with the troops for martial arts.
Jiang Pengji had her own plan. It wasn’t that she didn’t have ti to coach Nongqin, it was more like she didn’t have the patience to educate others.
The basic physical training could be done with the troops for Nongqin. ng Hun was a reliable person, so Nongqing wasn’t going to be taken advantage of by others under his surveillance. Jiang Pengji herself would give so personal tutoring to Nongqing and it wouldn’t be long before she could kick those power level fives’ a**es.
Whoever even had the thought of taking advantage of her would have to be prepared to have their nuts squashed.
“That servant girl likes playing with knives and daggers. It is too boring for her to be trapped in the backyard all day long. I find it is beneficial for her if she is fond of doing martial arts, just in case she is bullied after she gets married to soone in the future.” Jiang Pengji was being serious and she asked, “So what do you guys think?”
ng Hun and Xu Ke were both baffled. What else could they say?
Langjun looked after his own servant girl out of concern and he was afraid of her being pushed around after she got married. A normal person would instil a proper theory that a woman should assist her husband and bring up her children. They would bring her to a girl and ask her to take so ti to study needlework and female virtuousness instead of sending her to practice martial arts.
What was the point of that? Using a fist to solve dostic disputes?
Xu Ke acted like he had just stepped into a different dinsion, but ng Hun couldn’t agree more. “Langjun’s idea is definitely brilliant.”
He had a daughter before she was killed in a cruel way. She would have been considered eligible to talk about marriage in so years if she could have grown to the age. As a father, the last thing he wanted to see was his own baby girl being bullied. That explained why he was supportive of Langjun’s idea, even it was strange.
Xu Ke was startled and stared at ng Hun. He felt like he was an outsider and he was being excluded by the other two.
“But...” Xu Ke twisted his body anxiously and said, “But it will be inconvenient for her to be in the troop and be surrounded by a whole group of guys. What if it ruins her innocent reputation?”
Jiang Pengji kept quiet but ng Hun stood up for her. “The forr dynasty Xia had female generals that helped him found the country. Why is it an issue for a girl to practice martial arts?”
Xu Ke had no argunt for that. He’d better just shut up.
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