Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 122 Every day starting from waking up the lord?
The next day, early in the morning.

Yuanye was sleeping soundly when he suddenly heard Aman's voice beside him, "My lord, it's dawn, time to get up!"

He didn't react for a moment, and after waiting for a while, he heard A-Man calling out from outside the door: "My Lord, it's dawn, time to get up!"

This time he was completely awake. He sat up and glanced out the window. He found that it was only just getting light, but the voices in his ears continued. A-Man outside the door was like a broken tape recorder, repeating the same words. He couldn't help but wonder, "What time is it? Why are you yelling so early in the morning?"

The door was opened, revealing A-man kneeling at the door.

She scratched her face and said uncertainly, "This is my first time being a retainer too. I heard that it's like this. I have to wake you up at dawn, and watch you eat breakfast, read, practice martial arts, etc. Anyway, I have to follow you all the time and help you be a good lord."

What a mess. Is he a retainer or a eunuch? Are you going to wrap a woman in a quilt and carry her to my room in the future?

Or is this the job of the attendant? Starting from waking up the master every day?
Yuanye had never been a lord before, so he had no idea how a lord and a retainer should live together and how they should get along with each other on a daily basis. After a moment of wandering thoughts, he waved his hand, lay down again, and said directly: "We don't have those trivial matters, so just forget it, and do what you need to do! Yayoi will wake me up at the appointed time, so you don't have to worry about these trivial matters."

"Well, I called you anyway." Ah Man was not sure how to serve the master, and she did not force him, but she had just taken office and was full of energy. She turned and went to the kitchen, "I'll go see how the breakfast is prepared. You should get up and eat quickly."

Yuanye didn't care about her and lay down to take another nap. It wouldn't be too late to get up at seven o'clock, but there was no nightlife in this unfortunate era, and there was no urgent work that required him to stay up late to work overtime. He read for a while last night and then fell asleep. He went to bed very early, and now he woke up without any residual sleepiness.

He lay there for a while but couldn't fall asleep, so he had no choice but to get up and get dressed. It felt like he would have to do this for two more days - Aman had a lively personality, and now that he had just changed his identity, he would have to be excited for two days, jumping up and down for a while before he could calm down, so he might have to get up at dawn these two days.

He went to the washroom, washed his face and brushed his teeth with the help of the maid - he had made the toothbrush and tooth powder when he was free, and he didn't want to regret it when he had a terrible toothache someday in the future. After all, it was not easy to find a dentist in that era - after he finished washing, he went to have breakfast.

A'man and A'qing were already waiting for him. Even though they used to have breakfast together every day, which was a common scene in their daily lives, today was obviously different. A'man did not lie on the floor with her feet up and chat with A'qing, or complain about why he hadn't come yet. Instead, she knelt there upright and waited patiently. At the same time, she was dressed differently.

Yuan Ye had just woken up and hadn't noticed it before, but now he realized that she was dressed neatly and had a new hairstyle. She no longer had bangs in her hair, but had started to comb her hair back like an adult, and had made a short tea whisk on top of her head, like a little samurai who had just come of age, except...

She has a small round face, and without bangs to cover it, her two round, short, black eyebrows become more conspicuous. If she had some yellow hair on her face, she could really pass for a Shiba Inu, which would make people feel complicated.

But she can behave like a human being and sit upright without leaning over, which is pretty good. However, it will probably only last for two days. Once her excitement is over, she will probably return to her original state.

"My lord, please enjoy your meal!" Aman was very polite today. He didn't say anything like "A dung beetle can roll a dung ball faster than you." Instead, he personally handed him a pair of bamboo chopsticks and asked him to take the first bite.

"Oh, thank you." Yuan Ye said politely. Even though he was mentally prepared and knew that she was in an abnormal state, he still felt uncomfortable with her behavior.

He casually picked up a piece of scrambled eggs with chopsticks, indicating that it was time to eat. He glanced at Aqing again and found that Aqing did not change into a warrior outfit. Her hair was still casually tied with a headscarf, and her clothes were the same as usual. At most, she seemed to be in a good mood, and the corners of her lips were relaxed, as if there was a slight smile - Aqing did not have many expressions, and most of the time she looked very cold, but Yuanye had lived with her for a long time, and could more or less judge her current mood through some small details.

For example, this expression she has now is only when she is playing with little monkeys, little donkeys, and calico mare.

Yuanye felt relieved to see Aqing hadn't changed at all. Aqing was like a piece of platinum, so stable that it made people feel at ease. He was much better than Aman, that wild child, who got excited at the slightest provocation and was almost like cesium, which would explode on its own for no reason. He had liked Aqing's cold and aloof personality since the first time they met, and now it seemed that he was indeed foresighted.

And although I didn't notice it before, her hair seemed to have started to grow longer. When she lowered her head, the hair on both sides of her temples fell down smoothly. Coupled with her slender neck and the faint smile at the corners of her lips, she looked more gentle and girlish, which reminded people of Xu Zhimo's poem.

Yuanye habitually let his thoughts wander and finished his breakfast unknowingly. After breakfast it was his working time, so he got up and walked out.

Ah Man quickly swallowed the food in his mouth, picked up the sword and put it back on his waist and followed him, asking him, "Where are you going? Is there something special?"

"Nothing special, just going to the blacksmith's workshop to check on the progress." Wanjin is now running normally. It has everything except population and has entered a stable accumulation period. Yuanye said casually, "You don't have to follow me, go and do your thing!"

A-Man had just become a retainer and was feeling fresh about it. He didn't want to leave for the moment. "Everyone was gone yesterday afternoon, and I have nothing to do right now. Can I go with you to the blacksmith's workshop to take a look?"

"It's up to you, just don't delay your work." "Don't worry, I won't delay."

"Let's go then!"

Yuanye didn't care. He used to hang out with A-man all day anyway. Besides, as the newly appointed "lord", he was quite interested in the new things and didn't mind taking his "retainer" for a walk early in the morning. But as soon as he walked out of the door and into the yard, he saw an old hen foraging for food. He thought the early bird catches the worm. Now all the chickens here are free-range. It's not that he wants to eat "free-range chickens" for health or taste, but because there are no veterinary antibiotics in this era. If chickens are locked up and fed with feed, they will die very easily. He can only let them be free.

This was the result of an experiment he personally sent his maids to perform. The mortality rate was seriously exceeded the standard, and a large number of people died at once. He had no idea how other colleagues dared to open large-scale chicken farms in ancient times. It was probably made up by some writers who had never even raised chickens. They definitely had never traveled through time and were simply deceiving others. They had never thought about whether others would be deceived to death if they really traveled through time.

Anyway, before veterinary antibiotics were developed, he didn't dare to lock up a large number of chickens together and feed them to produce meat and eggs. That would be a real loss. So he let them roam freely at home or even in the village. As long as they could return to the nest to lay eggs, he would feed them regularly and he didn't care about anything else.

He took a look at the old hen, feeling sorry for the chickens he had raised and killed before. He was about to walk around it, but he didn't expect Ah Man to rush forward and kick the old hen, sending it flying on the spot. He cursed angrily, "Asshole, don't you want to live? Didn't you see the lord coming out? How dare you block the road?!"

Yuan Ye was speechless for a moment. It was just a chicken. Why did you kick it? But she had good intentions. She was... loyal. There was no need to take it too seriously.

It's probably an expression of loyalty, although it's a bit redundant, there's no other explanation.

He watched the chicken fly away... Well, chickens in this era can fly, but they can't fly far, usually only a hundred meters or so, so there is no need to worry about losing it.

He was a little worried that it would affect the old hen's egg production in the next few days, but he didn't say anything and continued to go out. However, he didn't walk far before he saw his second-hand donkey strolling towards him.

This donkey is considered a veteran in the Nohara family. It is an "old man" who started the business with Yuanye and is also a good friend of Aqing. Now it is not too hard-working. It can only do some light work and has a certain degree of freedom. It may be habitual to leave the stable early in the morning to find Aqing to feed it, but unfortunately it ran into Aman before it found Aqing. Aman went up and kicked it in the butt, holding the handle of the knife and scolded: "Asshole, are you tired of living? You dare not avoid the master when you see him, believe it or not, I will kill you!"

Even though Yuanye had a good temper, she couldn't stand it anymore. She pulled her around the donkey and continued walking forward to prevent the second-hand donkey from kicking her. As the conflict intensified, the two of them really started fighting. Yuanye said angrily, "Why are you arguing with a donkey? It doesn't understand anything. Hurry up and walk properly."

Ah Man was not convinced and said unhappily, "I am thinking about you. You are now the proper Lord of Wanjin. No chicken or donkey dares to block your way. You have no dignity at all. If you are not decent, then I am even more disgraceful. How can I not teach them a lesson?"

"I don't need this kind of decency, and neither do you. Hurry up and leave, and don't kick anything anymore!" Yuanye pushed her out of the house and onto the dirt road of Wanjin Village, holding her collar tightly all the way to prevent her from kicking anyone who dared to block her way to the ground.

We must be on guard, this wild kid can do anything when he gets excited. If we let her kick him all the way, he will have "respectability", but one day he might be shot in the back... No, he will be shot in the back by two arrows.

Ah Man still felt unhappy. When she was a member of the Koga clan, she couldn't run rampant in the village, bully men and women, and exploit the common people. Now that she is a samurai, she still can't run rampant in the village, bully men and women, and exploit the common people. Doesn't that mean she has been a samurai for nothing? How boring!

She had been serious for less than half an hour when her nagging habit came back and she started to mutter again: "You should at least show some pomp, right? In the past, you were a head of a family without any pomp, and there was nothing you could do about it. But now you have retainers, and powerful retainers like me, so you should at least show some pomp, right? You don't look like a big shot at all. If you don't show any pomp, we will lose face!"

"No means no!" Yuan Ye grabbed her collar and continued to walk towards the blacksmith's workshop, still lecturing her, "I understand that you are too excited about becoming a retainer, but no matter how excited you are, you still can't do anything reckless. Anyway, you are not allowed to kick anyone in front of me!"

He was a benevolent lord. What was the big deal if he kicked people all over the territory? Wouldn't his reputation be ruined? Even if he really needed to kick someone, she would have to get his consent before he could kick them. After that, he would have to punish them to maintain the rules and regulations.

Of course, just make her drink three cups of wine as punishment and don't do it again. It doesn't matter anyway as she likes to drink a little.

In the past, it was not convenient for him to give such a direct order to Aman. After all, they were friends then, and Aman could leave at any time if she was unhappy. But now the situation is different. He is the "king + godfather" and Aman is the "subject + goddaughter". It is natural for a father to teach his daughter a lesson. Now, even if he kicks Aman's butt hard, Aman cannot resist, let alone run away, otherwise she will be worse than pigs and dogs, and everyone will despise her.

Retainers have no human rights. In the past, he really had no way to deal with this wild child, A-man. But now, she has fallen into the trap. From now on, he can deal with her at will. He just needs to be careful not to make her angry.

Aman was very dissatisfied, thinking that Yuanye had no idea what it meant to abuse his power and that his status was wasted. However, there was nothing he could do but continue to grumble. The excitement he had just felt for becoming a retainer had subsided a lot, and he was not as excited as before. Just as he was bored and accompanying Yuanye to watch the progress of the iron cannon and armor production, a Lang gang came over.

(End of this chapter)