The level of Martial Dao in this world seems to be quite high!
Ling Yi suppressed his Shang-Chi, touched his stomach, got up and walked out of the room.
The original owner only drank a bowl of thin porridge in the morning and ate two flatbreads with cold water at noon.
Those who practice martial arts already have a huge appetite and expend a great deal of energy; this little bit of food is simply not enough to sustain them.
The main problem was that the original owner of this body was poor.
The people in the Prince Qin's Manor are extremely harsh on their subordinates. A spy of his rank only receives less than two taels of silver a month.
There were no allowances or bonuses when completing the tasks.
The original owner had worked for the Prince Qin's Manor for almost ten years, and had saved less than fifty taels of silver.
Normally, fifty taels would be enough, but he had traveled thousands of miles from the Da Wu to Pengjiang County, where he had to eat, stay at inns, and arrange official positions.
The fifty taels of silver have long been spent.
If Ye Fan hadn't been so generous with the money today, the original owner of this body probably wouldn't even be able to afford food.
"Judging from this, the Prince Qin's Manor and the Martial Marquis's Manor will probably just be cannon fodder in the future!"
Ling Yi walked out of the courtyard and came to the front hall. Apart from Gao Dazhuang practicing martial arts, he did not see any other Brocade Guard.
"Where are the others?" Ling Yi asked as he approached Gao Dazhuang.
"We just got paid, and the brothers, who usually live a frugal life, are finally indulging this time. They've all gone drinking and visiting brothels!"
A brothel? Ling Yi's interest was piqued.
I didn't mean anything by it, I just wanted to see for myself.
As for actually taking action, Ling Yi neither had the guts nor dared to.
Conditions were very poor in ancient times. In modern times, many people would get sick because of this. Ancient brothels would probably be even more frightening.
But Ling Yi was also genuinely curious about ancient brothels.
"Why aren't you going?" Ling Yi asked Gao Dazhuang.
"My father said, 'Wine is poison that burns through the intestines, and lust is a knife that scrapes the bones.' Before I achieve the Sixth Pin, I must never touch either of these things."
Ling Yi gave Gao Dazhuang a thumbs up.
"You have a good father. You go ahead and practice. I'm leaving now." Ling Yi patted Gao Dazhuang on the shoulder, turned around and walked out.
"Brother Ling Yi, where are you going?"
"A brothel!" Ling Yi waved his hand and said without turning his head.
Watching Ling Yi's departing the Back, Gao Dazhuang shook his head and said, "Father said that those who can't manage their subordinates are unfit for important tasks and unlikely to achieve Great Accomplishment. It's best to stay away from them in the future."
Ling Yi didn't know how Gao Dazhuang would evaluate him. After becoming the Chief of the Brocade Guard, he started wandering around.
Pengjiang County is located on the southernmost border of the Da Wu Empire.
It is separated from the Southern Barbarians Kingdom by only a river.
At its narrowest point, the river is said to be less than thirty paces wide.
Any Martial Practitioner of the second or third rank could easily cross that threshold.
As a result, Southern Barbarians Martial Practitioner, especially Southern Barbarians merchants, frequently appear in Pengjiang County.
The Southern Barbarians region is mountainous, so its goods are mostly mountain products, furs, and wild game.
If the North and South could engage in trade and exchange goods, achieving mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.
Pengjiang County had long since become prosperous.
Unfortunately, the Southern Barbarians were arrogant, brainless, Bahu barbaric, looking down on the people of the Da Wu Empire.
Sometimes they don't even treat the people of the Da Wu Empire as human beings.
He is quick to kill, and his methods are ruthless.
In addition, the inaction of the former Brocade Guard and government offices in Pengjiang County led to the increasing arrogance of the Southern Barbarians barbarians.
Ling Yi had only been strolling for a short while when he Encounter three Southern Barbarians barbarians harassing a girl in the street.
Many people were watching, but they only watched from a distance, pointing and whispering, and dared not approach.
The three Southern Barbarians barbarians all had the label "Cannon Fodder Level 1" above their heads.
The girl also had a "cannon fodder" label on her head, but this "cannon fodder" label was different from the others.
It appeared and disappeared intermittently, flashing incessantly.
This was the first time Ling Yi had ever seen anything like this.
However, now is not the time to study these things.
" The Brocade Guard are here! Barbarian Tribe, do not be so presumptuous!" Ling Yi roared, drew his Embroidered Spring Saber, and slashed out from ten meters away.
A semi-transparent Saber Momentum descended from the sky, instantly slicing the two Southern Barbarians barbarians standing in a straight line in half.
The scene was left covered in Masai.
The girl seemed to be terrified by what she saw; she rolled her eyes and fainted.
The remaining Southern Barbarians barbarian was dumbfounded and it took him a long time to come to his senses.
But instead of fear, he was filled with anger.
[Ding! Cannon fodder killed, Cannon Fodder Points +2, Reward: Wind Momentum Mastery x1, Saber Momentum Mastery x1!]
" Da Wu, the Brocade Guard? Haha, a bunch of trash! How dare you lay a hand on us Southern Barbarians?" The Southern Barbarians pointed at Ling Yi and laughed arrogantly.
Ling Yi swung his blade, severing the Southern Barbarians barbarian's left arm at the root. The man let out a miserable scream, clutching his arm as he collapsed to the ground.
"Ah, you're dead, you're dead!" Even at this moment, the Southern Barbarians barbarians were still arrogant.
"Brush!"
Ling Yi swung his sword again, this time severing the Southern Barbarians Barbarian's legs.
It wasn't that Ling Yi was ruthless; in the original owner's memories, the evil deeds these Southern Barbarians barbarians had committed against the people of the Da Wu Empire were far more heinous than what Ling Yi was doing now—they were simply too numerous to recount.
Every year, tens of thousands of people from Da Wu die at the hands of the Nanman ( Southern Barbarians).
Ling Yi was influenced by the original owner's memories, which is why he acted so ruthlessly.
Seeing the Southern Barbarians barbarians act this way, the surrounding people showed no fear whatsoever; on the contrary, they all revealed expressions of satisfaction.
Ling Yi did not kill the Southern Barbarians immediately.
Instead, they let it wail in the streets.
It wasn't that Ling Yi was cruel, but rather Ling Yi he wanted to use this Southern Barbarians barbarian as bait.
At the same time, I also took the time to check out the storyline of that girl and this cannon fodder from the Southern Barbarians.
The storyline involving the cannon fodder from the Southern Barbarians is quite short, only two or three hundred words.
This Southern Barbarians, in the cannon fodder plot, was also caught by Ye Fan for forcibly abducting a woman on the street, but the incident happened three days later.
However, unlike Ling Yi, Ye Fan did not kill the three Southern Barbarians directly, but instead took them directly to the General Headquarters' prison.
After a severe beating, they learned that the Southern Barbarians were colluding with several Martial Dao Sect sects and that Southern Barbarians army would soon be heading north to raid the border.
Afterwards, Ye Fan personally killed this Southern Barbarians, ending his cannon fodder storyline.
Ling Yi wasn't surprised by this cannon fodder plot.
What truly surprised Ling Yi was the girl's fate as cannon fodder.
The girl's Cannon Fodder Level is only lv2, and there are actually two versions of the cannon fodder storyline.
This was the first time Ling Yi had ever seen anything like this.
In the past, cannon fodder characters only underwent further Changes after being rescued.
However, this Changes is a manifestation of the butterfly effect.
However, the two versions of the cannon fodder storyline are vastly different.
In the first version of the cannon fodder storyline, this girl dies tonight, and her death is quite tragic.
However, the second version of the cannon fodder storyline is much longer, totaling over 500,000 words.
This girl, named Ye Qingqing, was actually Ye Fan's older sister, born to Ye Fan's biological mother.
Ye Fan's biological mother, Zhao Ruanyun, gave birth to her first child, not Ye Fan, but this Ye Qingqing.
After giving birth to Ye Qingqing, Zhao Ruanyun fainted on the spot due to overwork.
Ye Qingqing Ye Qingqing then taken away by Qin Huiru, who was Ye Fan's concubine at the time and Qin Huiru's second mother, under the pretext that Zhao Ruanyun had given birth to a stillborn baby.
Originally, Qin Huiru had instructed that person to kill Ye Qingqing.
But at the last moment, the man took pity on her and secretly placed Ye Qingqing on a merchant's carriage heading south.
That's how Ye Qingqing survived.
In this version of the cannon fodder storyline, Ye Qingqing was rescued by Ye Fan and followed Ye Fan until he returned to the capital and became the commander of the Brocade Guard Ye Fan before dying.