Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside Chapter 1712: You’re About to Get Beaten

Use the long canal to breed poisonous insects, preventing the Rong bandits from stepping out of Daokou Gully again!

Everyone hearing this understood that the battle of Long’an Prefecture had come to an end. General Xu would no longer engage the Rong bandits.

"San Lang, you finally woke up? What happened? So young, yet your physique isn’t even as strong as your uncle’s, hahaha!" Niu Dabao was delighted upon hearing General Xu’s military order, relieved that the fighting was over. He felt too old to endure such a battle style anymore.

So pleased was he that he couldn’t contain himself, hastening to announce the good news while teasing Qin San Lang, yet with care: "You’ve certainly been exhausted lately, you’ve even lost weight."

General Xu, having learned that Qin San Lang had successfully ambushed the vanguard army of the Rong bandits, killing the great general Hu Helu, decided to keep him outside Long’an Prefecture for specialized raids on the Rong bandit camp.

San Lang performed excellently, using poisonous insects to make the Rong bandit camp suffer and earning substantial credit.

However, he was indeed overworked. Not only did he have to devise surprise attacks on the Rong people, but he also had to find ways to send messages to Long’an Prefecture and manage the daily lives of the soldiers who were raiding with him.

He, Xie Cheng, and Zhang Yan were all outside with San Lang, witnessing firsthand his exhaustive efforts. Niu Dabao sometimes worried he might collapse from exhaustion.

Thus, when they woke up in the afternoon and learned he was still sleeping, they instructed the nearby camp soldiers to keep quiet and not make any noise, allowing San Lang to have a sound sleep.

After Qin San Lang had a good rest, he said, "Uncle Niu is in his prime, strong and hardy."

Niu Sanjin laughed heartily, "Brother San Lang, don’t flatter my dad. Earlier this afternoon, when he just got up, his legs were so sore that he fell to the ground as soon as he stood up, mouthful of dirt, so funny."

Thud, Niu Dabao kicked Niu Sanjin, scolding, "You brat, is this how you mock your old man?"

Niu Sanjin’s behind took a kick, nearly landing face-first, but was caught by Qin San Lang.

Yet Niu Sanjin acted up, turning back to Niu Dabao and laughed, "Old man, you wanna kick me into the dirt too? Dream on. Brother San Lang’s got my back!"

After saying this, he ran away quickly, waving to Qin San Lang, "Brother San Lang, I’m off to seek news from the main camp. I’ll tell you when I return."

Thud!

Niu Dabao’s boot hit Niu Sanjin square in the face.

Ugh!

Niu Sanjin nearly puked from the stench of the boot, shouting as he ran, "Please wash your feet, you stink; the brothers in your tent sleep with cloth over their faces, they can’t take it anymore!"

"You stinking boy, when you come back, I’ll skin you alive!" Niu Dabao shouted, adding, "Behave yourself, don’t cause any trouble; there are many officers here who could easily do away with you!"

Niu Sanjin waved without looking back, indicating he’d be careful.

Niu Dabao picked up his boot and took a sniff—ugh! It indeed smelled quite strong.

Qin San Lang laughed at the sight; Uncle Niu was from Chicheng.

"Brother Zhang, Brother Xie." Qin San Lang saw both of them coming over as well and asked, "How are your injuries?"

Both had suffered arrow wounds, but fortunately, their battle armor was thick, and the arrow tips, after penetrating it, couldn’t inflict fatal damage.

Xie Cheng laughed, "Just a scratch, nothing serious."

Zhang Yan nodded, indicating he was fine, then asked, "San Lang, should we go see Vice General Ma to find out when we’ll start digging the canal? Best to know so we can plan."

Qin San Lang replied, "No need to ask; the order flag should arrive here quickly."

The canal digging needs fast resolution. Although divided into batches, each batch won’t be fewer than ten thousand men. And given how General Xu valued them, they’d be assigned to dig in the first half of the night. The latter half was more arduous, usually left to the non-preferred troops.

As expected, within a quarter hour, a small Section Leader, a confidant of Vice General Ma, arrived, giving him an order flag: "Company Commander Qin, this is your side’s order flag. In an hour, lead your troops to assemble under the Ma flag."

He added, "General Xu orders that every Company Commander camp leaves behind a Section Leader to watch over the camp."

"Understood, thank you." Qin San Lang accepted the order flag, sending off the small Section Leader.

Upon returning, he promptly instructed Zhang Tu to send messages to all the small camps.

Upon receiving the news, the Company Commanders and Chief Commanders from each small camp immediately had their soldiers hurry with cooking, boiling water, and once finished, pack dry rations and water to accompany Qin San Lang to assemble under the Ma flag.

They hadn’t been there long when soldiers from other small camps arrived too. Seeing them carrying the Military Flag of He’an Prefecture, they proactively greeted, "Are you the ones from He’an Prefecture who made the Insect Attractant?"

"Indeed!" Niu Sanjin said proudly, pointing to Qin San Lang, "The one who made the Insect Attractant is Brother San Lang’s wife, and Brother San Lang also killed the royal general of the Rong bandits!"

Quite impressive, according to his mother, they were an unstoppable couple.

"Niu Sanjin, shut your mouth!" Niu Dabao felt like kicking Niu Sanjin to death, this boy couldn’t keep a low profile? What was he trying to say, did he want to arouse envy toward San Lang?

The main camp had many jealous of San Lang’s remarkable achievements at such a young age.

However, Vice General Ma seemed to have admonished his subordinates, as the soldiers gathering under the Ma flag showed no sour grapes.

Yet soldiers from other camps passing by sneered coldly, "What’s the big deal about major achievements? I heard a certain great hero has a loud mouthpiece nickname—Qin Ruofan!"

Hearing this, Niu Dabao felt despair... He’d warned Mrs. Kuang to mind her words, not always giving San Lang nicknames. Now it’s come to haunt them; the nickname Qin Ruofan had spread to the main camp. How was San Lang supposed to hold his head up now?!

Qin San Lang stood straight, head held arrogantly, looking down at those passing soldiers, pointing to the one who spoke and asked, "What’s your name? Which area’s soldier are you?"

The soldier was a brash person, holding his head high with a cold smile, "I am a small Section Leader under Vice General Wang of Long’an Prefecture. I’ve slain twenty Rong bandits already; what of it? Do you want to take on me, Qin Ruofan? Think you can win?"

Qin San Lang replied, "Just want to remind you, you’re breaking military law."

In the army, insubordination is punishable by death or a light penalty of twenty lashes.

Clap clap clap!

Vice General Ma rode over to witness the scene, rage mounting, swinging his horse whip at the soldier, bellowing, "Insubordination! Drag him down, twenty lashes to serve as a warning!"

Vice General Wang?

That buffoon’s troops dare act rampant here, it’s sheer foolishness.

And this small Section Leader seemed familiar as if he came with Vice General Wang before... He’s Vice General Wang’s clan nephew.

Seems Vice General Wang was dissatisfied with General Xu relying on southern troops, sending his clan nephew to find fault.

In that case, it called for severe punishment to set an example!

"Yes, Sir!" Vice General Ma’s squad of personal soldiers swiftly seized the small Section Leader, pinned him to the ground, and struck twenty military lashes until the Section Leader fainted.