The Emperor is Above

Chapter 120: Can't Provoke the Tuan Family
I heard someone trip behind me and the ground was shaking slightly.

Qing Yi looked back and immediately reminded: "Brother Shi Gu, don't provoke these chickens."

But his reminder was a little late. Tu Shigu was holding a chick in his two chubby hands. His chubby fingers gently stroked the chick's long tail and asked, "Brother, why is your chick's tail so long?"

At this time, even the big guy was reminding: "Don't mess with these little chickens!"

"Don't mess with them?" The two people reminded him in succession, which made Tu Shigu shudder. He asked in surprise, "Are these chicks Dahong's offspring?"

When he said this, he suddenly looked up and saw a huge rooster over four feet tall in front of him, staring at him fiercely, ready to pounce at any time.

"Hey, don't mind me, Dahong. I'm just taking a look!"

Tu Shigu smiled apologetically to the big rooster, put the chick in his hand on the ground, nodded and bowed, and backed away in the direction of Qing Yi. He couldn't afford to mess with someone who could fight with the seventh-grade exotic beast, the civet cat.

"Chi chi chi chi——"

The frightened little chick ran to the big rooster and cried childishly in grievance.

"Oh oh oh-"

When the big rooster saw that his child was wronged, he immediately flapped his wings and chased after Tun Shigu, wanting to avenge his child.

"Ah, brother, help me!"

The strength of the seventh-rank vicious bird forced the ninth-rank Pig Master Gu to flee for his life. He ran behind Qing Yi, yelling and screaming, looking frightened.

"Oh oh oh-"

When the big rooster saw Qing Yi blocking him, he stopped chasing him. He looked at Tun Shigu with contempt in his round eyes, then swaggered back to the chicks and took them to the woods to find food.

"My goodness, brother, I am a little afraid to come to Lonely Hill. In the past, I couldn't afford to offend the big cat, the little fox, and the big rooster, but now I can't even afford to offend the little chicken."

Tun Shigu felt like crying but had no tears. He was not injured just now, but the back of his clothes was torn by the sharp claws of the big rooster, revealing his white back and white buttocks.

"Daniu, go home and get a coat for Brother Shigu!" Qing Yi couldn't help twitching his mouth when he saw the private soldiers and militiamen covering their mouths and laughing secretly.

Because of Tun Shigu's chubby body, he couldn't wear anyone else's clothes. Only Daniu, who was tall and strong, could lend them to Tun Shigu temporarily.

"Meow-"

"Ah wu——"

While Daniu was going home to get his clothes, the civet cat and the little fox came back from playing outside the hill. When they saw Qingyi was about to go out, they immediately surrounded him.

"Oh, I almost forgot about the little fox. With its magical power of illusion, we can save a lot of trouble on our way through the wilderness!"

He smiled and picked up the little fox that looked like a white ball of fluff, ready to take it with him. However, the civet cat was not happy. It stretched out its two cat paws and grabbed Qing Yi's trouser legs and refused to let go, as if it would never agree unless the fat cat was taken with him to play.

There was no choice but to take the civet cat with him. The mound was guarded by the dragon-clawed locust tree spirit anyway, and the fat cat could just stay on the solitary hill and play around.

After Daniu came back and changed Tushigu's coat, the team set out again.

Qing Yi had a little fox on his left shoulder, and a civet cat on his other shoulder. Fortunately, he was very strong now, otherwise these two fat guys alone would be able to crush a normal person.

"--Um--"

There were more and more herds of animals foraging in the wilderness. Even terrifying beasts like the woolly rhinoceros and saber-toothed elephant, which were four or five meters tall, appeared in the wilderness to forage. It was very funny to see their huge bodies shaking their small tails.

"Brother, the little fox is only an eighth-grade exotic beast. Although its magic power of illusion is very powerful, it certainly cannot be hidden from these woolly rhinoceroses and saber-toothed elephants."

Tu Shigu quickly followed Qing Yi, carefully looking at the giant beasts a hundred feet away, muttering in a low voice.

"It is said that woolly rhinoceros and saber-toothed elephants have the strength of fifth-grade exotic beasts when they grow up, and they like to move in groups. Even other high-level exotic beasts and fierce birds that hunt them rarely attack them."

“Brother Shi Gu, rest assured. As fifth-grade exotic beasts, the woolly rhinoceros and saber-toothed elephant can certainly see through the little fox’s magic. But we are not provoking them for no reason, so they will naturally not attack us.

As for the strange beasts and fierce birds below the seventh rank, they basically cannot see through the little fox's illusion, so they are still safe along the way."

As expected, the team had a smooth journey without any accidents, and there was no delay from the convoys. By noon, they had crossed forty miles of wasteland, ate some dried meat they had brought with them, and at one o'clock in the afternoon, they could see the burial mound of Tushigu - Tuqiu.

Having returned home safely, Tun Shigu seemed very excited.

He pointed to a mound not far away and introduced it with pride: "Brothers, you see, that is my family home. Although it is not as good as a solitary mound to support people, it is at least our hereditary fiefdom."

Qing Yi carefully observed the dolphin hill and the surrounding environment.

This is a very typical hilly terrain, a very common terrain in the capital of Xing State. There are many trees growing on the mounds with a radius of one mile. The terrain on the west is undulating and there are other mounds. On the east is a flat swamp wasteland.

A newly built corporal's house stood on top of the mound.

As you get closer, you can see that the entrance gate is very imposing. The wall is built with bluestone to form a foundation ten feet high, and a three-foot high wall is built with rammed earth. Several ordinary young Chinese people are standing guard at the gate.

When entering the Tuan family's house, Qing Yi couldn't help but sigh that it was true that Tun Shigu was not short of money.

The house of the Tuan family had walls built of fired two-foot-high blue bricks and a colonnade made of logs over five feet high. There were many exquisite carvings on the wall, including exotic beasts, ferocious birds, flowers and birds, fish and insects.

There are many carvings on the doors, eaves, and window frames, as well as exquisite stone carvings that were transported from the Tuan family's home. The only thing missing is the three words "Not Short of Money" engraved directly on the gate.

"Tsk tsk tsk, Brother Shi Gu, you really want to abandon such a beautiful house and move to Guqiu?"

Qing Yi looked at the house that cost a lot of manpower, material resources and money, and confirmed with Tu Shigu again, "It must have cost a lot of money to build this house. I feel it's a pity to see it."

"Hehe, this house is just for comfort. Anyway, the house is here and it won't go away. Even if it is destroyed by the people of the Daze, at worst we can just rebuild it later."

Tu Shigu smiled and explained, "Besides, I am also worried about living in this place. Although there are other fiefs five miles to the west and south, there are vast swamps and wastelands to the east, northeast, and southeast.

Watching tens of thousands of beasts migrating back and forth every day, not to mention my anxiety, even the child and his mother haven't slept well for a long time. After all, I am the only ninth-grade warrior in the entire fiefdom."

When mentioning Tu Shigu's family, Qing Yi couldn't help but ask: "Brother Shigu, the guarding of your Fengtu home is too lax. We have come in, but why are there only a few young men guarding the entrance, and no one in the house?"

Tu Shigu's face was not looking good either. He asked the four soldiers around him to go and look for him quickly. After a while, he heard a child's voice: "Dad, Dad, many people said yesterday that you were going to take everyone to Guqiu to die. More than 20 people ran away last night. My mother was so angry that she fell ill."

(End of this chapter)