When the sun rose, the forest mists dispersed; when the clouds returned, Heaven-Serving lay hidden.
King Qinguang said, "Throw in a corpse."
That day, the sky was bright, the air clear, and the breeze gentle. The three Yamas traveled through Obedient Heaven Prefecture.
King Qinguang said, "Throw in a corpse."
I beheld the grand spectacle of Dao Mausoleum: Lofty Luan Lake, clasping distant mountains and swallowing the Long River, with fish darting like shuttles and passenger boats flying like arrows.
King Qinguang stood upon the deck of a towering pleasure barge and said, "Throw."
In the span of a single day, they had fled from Heaven-Serving Prefecture to Obedient Heaven Prefecture, then run on to Dao Mausoleum Prefecture... The cold and ruthless King Biancheng remained silent throughout, while the sharp-tongued King Qinguang kept things brief and to the point.
King Wuguan, who had always toiled without complaint, finally could not keep at it any longer. Remembering how vicious their target was, she decided to put it more tactfully. "When King Biancheng and I entered Jing from Sheng, we blended into a caravan purchasing wool. I heard the people in the caravan say that sheep are generally sheared twice a year—once from the fourth to fifth month, and once from the ninth to tenth month."
Perhaps the journey with King Biancheng had been too boring. She seemed to have genuinely studied sheep shearing, and now she spoke with great fluency. "Shearing too early can leave sheep chilled and sick. Shearing too late is no good either—the wool will be too short to protect them from mosquito and fly bites, making the sheep restless. If the wool is not long enough, it cannot be sheared. Pregnant sheep should be sheared after giving birth whenever possible, lest the unborn lamb die young..."
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