Chapter C344
Posted on March 22, 2019 by AzureOrchid92
Shao Xuan stayed in the wine house for four days . In these four days, he also learned a lot of things directly from the three wine house slaves . They were also part of the few people with a little bit of small rights near the city’s main palace . Naturally, their knowledge were more than those lower slaves .
Soon after returning from Beast City, Snowfield City went to war with Fire Hill City . The slaves who hunted the tribesmen were also called back to fight, but their number of defeats was more frequent . Once in a while, when they were about to win, the people of Rock Tomb City would add their own attack, turning the situation around . Then, Snowfield City would be defeated again .
In about twenty days, the number of people in this snowy plains has been reduced by more than one-third, which was only a rough estimate . The specific number was even a lot more . However, for the slave owners, the life of the slaves was not an important life . When it decreased, they could make up for it later . The important thing now was to turn things around .
“I heard that the king’s lost treasure was still not found,” said a slave, lowering his voice .
“I heard that the people of Fire Hill stole it . Perhaps, there are people from Rock Tomb involved . ”
“Alas, when will this war stop? I don’t want to go to war,” sighed the slave who had been silent .
If it continued like this, the three of them would be transferred . The situation now was getting more and more serious . The defeat has left the Snowfield King with no light on his face, his anger soaring everyday . There were slaves who had been implicated, getting killed because of his wrath, that bodies were being carried out of the palace constantly .
Just then, someone from outside came looking for them .
The faces of the three slaves became tight, afraid that it was a messenger about to make them go to war . Fortunately, when they returned after going out for a while, their expressions were much easier .
“It turned out to be an order to send wine . Ah, that scared me…”
“Just send the rest of the wine to the palace tomorrow . No, I have to drink a little . Send it away after we drink, then I want to drink again . I don’t know how long we could wait for our next one . ”
The man who had just sent the message asked them to send the rest of the wine to the palace tomorrow . The king would reward the wine to the guards of the palace .
“Being a guard of the palace is good . I hear that they can eat and drink a lot of good things . ”
“Good is good, but recently, a number of people have also been killed by the king . There are also many guards who have died as a result of his anger, which has given the slave guards more or less some other thoughts in their hearts . This time, the king had the wine house send the rest of the wine to the palace in order to appease the guards’ feelings . ”
The trio were drinking and talking, while Shao Xuan, who was hiding in the cluttered room, was also in a deep thought . So far, he had been waiting for an opportunity . Finally, this chance was worth a try, otherwise, he might miss it, not knowing how long it would take to get another opportunity .
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Before night came, the three slaves put all the big and small barrels of wine into two large wooden boxes . Since they had drank some privately, the amount wine in several barrels was different . Anyway, these wines were to be given to other slaves . There was no need to pay more attention to it .
After the wine was loaded, the three slaves went to bed . Shao Xuan added something inside their house while they were sleeping to make them sleep more soundly . Fortunately, in order to sneak into the city, Shao Xuan had prepared a number of desert medicinal plants along the way .
When the three people were finally asleep, they only made slight movements but did not wake up . Hence, Shao Xuan went to the box with the wine on the other side, took out the wine placed inside, then cut the wooden board to make room of a suitable size . He put barrels of wine inside the free space to check it out until he was satisfied .
He put in the bottles on top of the board again and Shao Xuan himself stood inside the wooden box, then held up the wooden board with the wine bottles . Something like this was nothing to Shao Xuan . It was much lighter than the stones he had lifted before . [E/n: I’m not quite sure what he did here, but I tried to edit what I understood from the MTL . ]
He slowly squatted down, then using his hands and feet, he carefully placed the wooden board on top .
After hiding inside, he also put the planks and bottles in place . Shao Xuan moved a finger and the sound of a thread tweaking followed . The box cover has now accurately covered the wooden box .
Taking back the silk thread, Shao Xuan took a little rest, waiting for tomorrow to come .
The next day, the three slaves were still sleeping . Because of Shao Xuan’s doings, the three not only slept soundly, but also woke up later than in the past . Therefore, when the handlers came over, the three slaves inside the wine house were still sleeping .
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Some of the slaves who moved the wine were the guards of the palace . It was rare to hear that the king would reward them for something, so naturally, they were feeling very positive and specially brought their own people over to move the rewards . Seeing that the three people inside the wine house were still sleeping, they gave a kick to open the door, rudely waking up the three . Regardless of the confused looks on the three, they directly went to the area where the wines were placed to look . Seeing the already prepared two large boxes, they were satisfied, but also opened the lid to take a look inside . They then complained that the wine was a little less than expected . Eventually, the wine the three people hid were turned over and all were thrown inside the wooden box . Soon, the wooden boxes were stuffed full .
When the guards took the wooden box away, Shao Xuan could not see the expressions on the faces of the three people from the wine house . However, he thought that the three people must be sad and disappointed . They had tried hard to hide a few of the bottles, but it was unexpectedly discovered and taken away .
Because it was the guards of the palace carrying the wine, the palace gate guard had not strictly checked the boxes . Instead, they also laughed together with the guards carrying the wine, discussing when to split the wine .
The wooden boxes were carried to the storage room . Although the guard slaves were eager, they knew that the reward was still to be arranged by the slave owners . They would be scolded if they arranged it themselves, though they did secretly took two small bottles of wine from the box and hid those in their clothes and left .
When the porters left, Shao Xuan listened to the movements outside . Once he was sure no one was around, he then came out of the box .
It was difficult to sneak out from under a box that has wine bottles stacked on top, but Shao Xuan’s strength was enough for it . The bottles remained stable, which could not be achieved if one changed the balance of even a small point of force .
However, when he came out, a bottle nearly fell to the ground . Shao Xuan, with his quick eyes, used his foot to cushion the fall and let the bottle safely land with no big sounds .
Although the time he had used to get out of the wooden box was not much, the difficulty was quite large . After he was out, Shao Xuan had a sheen of sweat .
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He put the planks in an inconspicuous corner, returned the bottle inside the wooden box, then covered the box with the lid . Shao Xuan slipped out the room afterwards when there were no guards outside .
The palace of Snowfield City was larger than that of Luoye City’s . The layout was not clear to Shao Xuan, so he just walked around, avoiding the patrolling slaves . For those areas that have layers of guards, Shao Xuan temporarily avoided them . Those places should be where the slave owners were .
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Observing the layout of the palace, he knew that basically, only a few places have key guards . In other places, only a small number of slaves were there to guard . They were also guarding loosely, with weak morale and no spirit .
Where there were few guards, Shao Xuan found a small circle of people . He heard a young man and woman whispering about the stone chamber with records inside it . Shao Xuan quietly followed them .
The two were not husband and wife, but they behaved intimately . They did not let their slaves follow them all the times they went to the stone room where the records were placed .
This place was supposed to be something like a book house . By the stone room’s door, there were three slaves guarding, two were relatively young while the other was old and blind .
“Second Young Master!” The trio bowed respectfully .
The man, known as the second young master, waved his hand, referring to the blind old man, “You stay, the others get out . ”
The three slaves seemed to have known that this would happen . Without the need for the second young master to say more, the other two hurried away, leaving only the old blind slave to follow the man and woman into a room past the stone room .Please download our sponsor's game to support us!