Three Kingdoms: Ten Times Speed, Diao Chan Says I'm Too Fast

The curses behind her made Diao Chan's delicate body tremble.

A middle-aged man with a red nose, dark face, and furrowed brows emerged from the best and largest mud-brick and thatched house in the middle of the courtyard.

The middle-aged man, who was just over 1.6 meters tall, walked with an unsteady gait.

His eyes were also very cloudy.

He also had a sheepskin wine pouch hanging from his waist.

Diao Chan stood still, her hands clasped tightly together behind her back.

Like a child who has made a mistake.

"Today...today...there's only one today," Diao Chan said, her head bowed.

"fart."

No sooner had Diao Chan finished speaking than the middle-aged man shouted sharply, "There are always two of you on weekdays, why is there only one today?"

"Also, I have a question for you: why is there less rice in the rice jar?"

"Where are the clothes I asked you to take off yesterday?"

Diao Chan became even more flustered in the face of numerous questions.

The middle-aged man pointed at Diao Chan with an angry look in his eyes and said, "Fine, fine, I understand."

"You brat, still being stubborn!"

"It must have been given to that wild man!"

"I...I didn't..." Diao Chan protested.

Ignoring Diao Chan's explanations, the middle-aged man turned around and picked up a vine from the ground.

Then he glared fiercely at Diao Chan.

"Come here, kneel down!"

The middle-aged man angrily retorted, "I've raised you for so many years!"

"But you betrayed your own people and gave the things to some random man."

"I'll deal with you first, then I'll deal with your bastard!"

"Come here, kneel down!"

The middle-aged man shouted angrily.

Diao Chan's eyes welled up with tears of grievance.

Have you raised her all these years?

Is that right?

If it weren't for her aunt, would she have stayed in this house?

Everything in this house—the food, the things they use, the clothes they wear—wasn't it all earned through her hard work?

She carried the water she drank from the river.

The rice she ate was obtained by trading firewood and charcoal.

The clothes she wore were hand-washed and discarded by wealthy families.

Even those two chickens were raised by her from a young age.

Seeing that Diao Chan did not move, the middle-aged man's anger intensified, so he took the rattan cane and walked towards Diao Chan.

"Alright, alright, you've become disobedient after seeing some random man, haven't you?"

"I'll beat you to death today, so you don't end up with some random guy who benefits from you later."

"Chan'er..."

A woman's voice echoed from inside the thatched hut.

"Auntie..."

Diao Chan raised her head.

"Chan'er, come here, come here..."

The woman's voice was weak.

Diao Chan's uncle, Li Gou'er, glanced back at the thatched hut and angrily threw away the rattan cane in his hand.

Then he glared at Diao Chan and said fiercely, "You just wait!"

After saying that, Li Gou'er picked up his wine bag and walked out of the courtyard.

Diao Chan took a deep breath, wiped away her tears, and walked towards the middle room.

Upon entering the room, Diao Chan frowned.

Simply because of the smell inside the house.

The smell of alcohol was mixed with an unpleasant, pungent odor.

A gaunt woman lay on the bed.

“Auntie..…”

Diao Chan walked closer and then knelt by the bed.

The middle-aged woman stared at the ceiling with cloudy eyes; her pupils were unfocused, indicating that she was blind.

The woman stretched out her withered arm and tentatively reached out to touch Diao Chan.

Her voice was filled with remorse as she said, "Chan'er..."

"It was your aunt who ruined you."

“Auntie…” Diao Chan quickly shook her head and said, “Auntie, please don’t say that. Chan’er is fine.”

The middle-aged woman shook her head, two tears streaming from her cloudy eyes, flowing down her wrinkled and sunken cheekbones.

"Chan'er, your aunt thought you had lost your parents and had no children, so she brought you to live with us as an adopted child."

"But who would have thought that my aunt's health would be so poor, and she has been ill for so many years."

"Not only has it burdened the family, but it has also caused you to suffer as a result."

"Chan'er, it's all my fault."

The woman said regretfully, "Your uncle..."

“Uncle is doing well,” Diao Chan interrupted her aunt, saying, “Aunt, things will get better, and your illness will also get better.”

“A few days ago they said that the Taiping Dao had come to Jinyang City to widely distribute talisman water.”

"Tomorrow is the third day of the Lunar New Year. Chan'er will go to the city to ask her aunt for some talisman water."

"As long as Aunt drinks it, her illness will be cured after the spring."

The woman lying on the bed nodded through her tears and said, "Good child, good child..."

"Did you hear yesterday, Aunt, that you rescued a man from outside?"

"What about that man?"

The woman held Diao Chan's hand.

Upon hearing Duan Yu mentioned, Diao Chan immediately blushed.

"Auntie... Brother Duan... Brother Duan is very good."

"He went into the mountains to hunt, saying he wanted to hunt pelts and then exchange them for money to buy medicine for his aunt," Diao Chan said softly.

Although the woman had been ill for a long time and could not see, Diao Chan's voice was still audible.

"Chan'er," the woman said, holding Diao Chan's hand tightly, "I have burdened you for so many years."

"I can't drag you down any further."

"If Chan'er feels that person is someone she can entrust her life to, then let him go."

As she spoke, the woman groped around the headboard.

He pulled a hairpin from under the mattress and said, "Chan'er, this is what your mother gave me before she died."

"This is your dowry."

"Your aunt is incapable and cannot help you."

"Take this hair ornament and use it to pay back the money and earn some money for household expenses."

"Auntie believes you won't misjudge someone."

The woman placed the hairpin into Diao Chan's hand.

Diao Chan took the hairpin, her pearly teeth biting her red lips.

The image of Duan Yu kept appearing in his mind.

........

Outside, Li Gou'er was leaning against the window.

Listen carefully to the sounds coming from inside the room.

"Damn it, I knew I remembered having a hairpin, but it turns out this blind woman hid it."

Li Gou'er's eyes were gloomy.

"I've raised him for so many years, and now you want to give him away for free?"

"It's better for me to benefit from this opportunity than for some random man."

Li Gou'er let out a cold laugh.

I could hear footsteps coming from inside the house towards the outside.

Li Gou'er lowered his body and immediately walked towards the outside of the courtyard.

..........

After leaving Wucun Township, Duan Yu walked along the mountains that could be seen in the distance.

Wucun Township is located just over ten miles away from Jinyang City in Taiyuan, right next to Jinyang.

Jinyang was the capital of Bingzhou and was also located in Taiyuan County, the most prosperous county in Bingzhou, so it had a large population.

When Duan Yu heard Diao Chan's name yesterday, and when he mentioned Taiyuan and Jinyang, why was he so certain that the Diao Chan who found him was the most beautiful woman in the Three Kingdoms period?

It was because of the Wang family of Taiyuan.

That's right, it's the Wang family of Taiyuan associated with Situ Wang Yun.

Legend has it that Diao Chan was a dancer in the household of Wang Yun of the Wang family in Taiyuan.

Duan Yu is still unaware of how Diao Chan ended up as a dancer in Wang Yun's household.

But something must have happened afterward.

The timing was basically right, the location was right, and then there was Diao Chan's beauty.

That's why he was so certain that the woman in that dilapidated house was Diaochan, the most beautiful woman in the Three Kingdoms period.

We walked down the mountain.

Duan Yu took the longbow off his back.

"It's time to see how this system works."