Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 722: Chapter 559: The Professional Ethics of Bandits

This battle was fought without suspense!

The conclusion that Xia Ruyan must win could be guessed even with one’s toes!

And Gu Changsheng agreed that she could join the Dark Night Army in Red Sun City if she won.

Having traveled a great distance, Yuan Bao was still puzzled by his wife’s immense divine skills, who silently killed Huaheng Mantian and also incidentally wiped out her entire Allied Forces of over a hundred thousand taels!

”Wife, since Xia Ruyan has troops at her disposal, why didn’t you let her pursue her victory, but instead had her retreat to Red Sun City?” Yuan Bao fully displayed his curious nature, insisting on asking when he didn’t understand.

What Huaheng Mantian brought today was the Allied Forces of both Huaheng and Xiangka Clans, a force of a hundred thousand but only a small part, with the real main army still behind the mountains!

According to Yuan Bao’s idea, it would have been great to have Xia Ruyan fight a decisive battle with the Allied Forces of the two clans!

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng glanced at him and said spiritedly, ”Xia Ruyan’s Northern Great Camp only has a hundred thousand troops, while the Xiangka Clan has gathered several hundred thousand troops surrounding Red Sun City! The Dark Night Army’s ability to defeat a larger force is not by chance, but the result of a year of hard and exceptional training. However, the soldiers of the Northern Great Camp are different. I cannot expect that they could also win against greater odds!”

Gu Changsheng never fought battles he wasn’t sure of!

”Moreover, Xia Ruyan’s Northern Great Camp, once under the command of the Huaheng Clan, is now estranged from the Huaheng Clan, and their supply and military needs are unresolved. Yuan Bao, even if divine weapons descend, going to battle on an empty stomach would turn them into mere ornaments!” Gu Changsheng, held in front of Zhou Mu on a horseback, still twisted his neck to look at Yuan Bao. ”These are two reasons, but the most important reason is that the Dark Night Army needs training, and by Xia Ruyan retreating into Red Sun City, she has cleared the way for tens of thousands of Allied Forces, starting the siege of Red Sun City!”

”Yuan Bao, from the time the Dark Night Army set out until now, things have been too smooth. Comfort breeds complacency; if they don’t experience the fear of an enemy at their gates, they won’t understand the severity of their situation! Think about it; tens of thousands of troops surrounding Red Sun City, it’s going to be spectacular, a spectacle evidently fated not to involve us!”

In the end, Gu Changsheng sighed with some regret.

Upon hearing this, Yuan Bao was suddenly at a loss for words!

As several fast horses proceeded, Yuan Bao and Si Xi looked at each other, speechlessly watching the woman comfortably nestled in her man’s arms ahead, their mouths twitching collectively.

His wife, strategizing behind the veil, was supremely scheming!

Look how she manipulated Xia Ruyan, knowing the Northern Great Camp would be poisoned, a problem she could have easily solved with a word of warning. Instead, she dragged it out until the camp was in critical danger before appearing as the Savior.

Appearing at that time was quite mean. Xia Ruyan has loyalty, but her loyalty was to a surname, never precisely to a person. Now that Gu Changsheng has appeared, portraying himself as the savior of the Northern Great Camp, given Xia Ruyan’s nature to repay kindness, she will surely be deeply moved!

By gaining loyalty, she also used Xia Ruyan’s hands to eliminate Huaheng Mantian.

With Huaheng Mantian gone, the names of the Allied Forces of Xiangka and Huaheng existed in name only, making it difficult for Xiangka’s army to claim the moral high ground in Red Sun City.

The incorporation of Xia Ruyan’s Northern Great Camp of a hundred thousand soldiers meant the stabilization of Red Sun City and provided an opportunity for real combat drills for the Dark Night Army!

How many birds with one stone was this?

Quite crafty!

Thinking it over all the way, Yuan Bao finally figured it out with his not-so-bright mind. After understanding it all, Yuan Bao truly felt like kneeling before his own wife!

Not human! This isn’t human! How can a human concoct such scheming plans?

And as his fiancee, his wife had no clue about concealing her scheming nature!

And his master, with that proudly contented expression, what was he trying to incite?

This isn’t how one should spoil their wife! This could end up causing real problems!

Yuan Bao really felt like smacking himself. Tell me, what was he doing teaching his master ways to please a woman? Now great, he used everything he taught, even adding plenty of his own wife-doting actions...

”White Dragon Horse, hooves toward the West, huh...carrying Tang Sanzang follow by his three disciples...” Gu Changsheng sat in Zhou Mu’s embrace, holding some dead grass, tapping on the horse’s head playfully.

After singing through, Gu Changsheng felt something was off, glanced back, and puckered his lips, ”These disciples are a bit too many...”

Melancholic...

And many of those disciples were female!

Looking at the six beauties behind him like blossoming flowers, Gu Changsheng felt, fortunately, Monk Tang didn’t have such disciples, or else, he might never have reached Western Heaven or fetched the true scriptures...

Having left the battlefield of the Northern Great Camp for two or three days, they finally found their way back to the main route and embarked on their journey southward again.

But this time, after Dudu Zhi, Gu Changsheng lamentably didn’t encounter a single obstacle!

This isn’t scientific, ah, has Xiangka Tianji given up on treating me? Has she decided to stop bothering me?” After safely crossing another mountain, Gu Changsheng spoke sheepishly, ”Is she giving me a green light, letting me pass unobstructed?”

This would be a stroke of luck others could hardly dream of; in the Southern Border, no one wishes to encounter a master of Gu insects!

But clearly, Gu Changsheng didn’t think so!

She still had a Dandan Bug! She had promised the Dandan Bug to gather some Gu insects for it, not to dishonor her heritage as a descendant of the Phoenix Clan and the identity of the King of Witch Gu’s Feeder!

Yet, along this route, she had barely collected a single Little Snake, and not even at its own will!

Now, since no one dared approach, what the hell could she collect!

”Godfather, someone coming to rob or seduce would even be good! Days like this, so melancholically solitary as snow, if I continue this way, I will doubt if I am touring around the Central Plains instead of being in the Southern Border!” Gu Changsheng lay on the horseback and spoke with boundless melancholy.

”Wife, don’t talk nonsense, lest good things stop working...” Yuan Bao immediately objected upon hearing this.

But he had only gotten halfway through his sentence when Yuan Bao’s eyes, as big as drops, stared ahead, stunned, and he stuttered to finish his incomplete words, ”Good things stop working, bad things begin...”

Well, things just got real!

Gu Changsheng sensed something odd about Yuan Bao and laboriously climbed up from the back of the horse, raising her head to look forward, and she too was stunned!

On the mountain road ahead, about twenty sturdy men were spread across the middle and sides of the road, each with an unfriendly face!

”This mountain was opened by me...” The man in his forties at the front, grinning with yellow teeth and slapping the nine-ringed saber in his hand, arrogantly began to speak.

”Hold up, hold up!” Gu Changsheng quickly interrupted upon hearing this.

Her reaction left the robbers taken aback, the leaders exchanging glances, understanding each other without saying a word.

These folks were not very cooperative!

”That line, I know it, I’ll say it for you!” Gu Changsheng, acting as if she had everything under control, leaned in front of Zhou Mu, patted her chest, and grandly gestured as she began, ”This mountain was opened by me, this tree was planted by me! If you want to pass this road, leave some money behind!”

What does it mean to perform with perfect emotion and imitation?

What does it mean to execute so vividly, almost perfectly?

Having the opportunity to relive this familiar line, Gu Changsheng felt very happy and satisfied.

However, the twenty or so burly men in front of her were dumbstruck.

This felt...

A bit off!

Why did they feel like their roles had been swapped?

After all, they were the ones supposed to be robbing, right?

Faced with twenty pairs of incredulous eyes, Gu Changsheng quickly regained her senses and hastened to wave her hands, saying, ”Ah, sorry, sorry, I went off-script, don’t mind me, carry on, carry on!”

It must be because she’s been having some peaceful days lately that she would slip up like this!

Forget about witch gu insects, she hadn’t even encountered a single gu hair, though she was nearly growing one due to inactivity!

In conclusion, Gu Changsheng even gestured invitingly with her hand, her face the picture of sincerity.

Zhou Mu looked down at the woman in his arms, who was greatly amused, and shook his head helplessly, his indulgence clear in his eyes.

The robbers, hearing this, had their faces cycling through a burst of colors and were left speechless, very much wanting to cry!

Have you ever seen a robbery victim inviting the robbers to continue robbing?

This woman was deviating from the script! Now they were all jumbling up the roles too!

With just a few wisecracks, this woman had shattered their usual robbery routines; now they really didn’t know how to carry on with this act!

”Eh? Forgot your lines? Do you want me to remind you?” Gu Changsheng, ever so generous, having stolen their lines, sincerely felt guilty and kindly spoke up.

The robbers’ faces immediately darkened.

Yuan Bao and Si Xi, meanwhile, lay on their horses, heads down, refusing to look up as their trembling shoulders betrayed their mood.

They had heard from Xiao Cui that their mistress was a notorious enemy of thieves!

A total nemesis! Truly formidable!

Robbing their mistress was like asking for a whipping — a sure way to get beaten!

The robbers, made miserable by Gu Changsheng, felt like crying without tears. As robbers, to be coached on lines by a woman...

This... if this got out, they’d have no face left to mingle around Red Rock Mountain!

”Enough of the nonsense, bring out all your food, drinks, goods, and money, or don’t blame me for getting tough!” After a while, the robbers finally found their voices again, summoning the courage to speak, but the quivering in their whiskers revealed their indignation.

Gu Changsheng, upon hearing this, immediately grimaced and, extending her finger, began to inquire, ”Food?”

”Yes,” the robber leader nodded.

”Drinks?” Gu Changsheng extended another finger.

”Yes,” the robber nodded again.

”Goods?” Gu Changsheng raised an eyebrow to continue.

”...” The robber looked down.

”And money?” Gu Changsheng asked further.

The robber no longer responded to her.

However, clearly, Gu Changsheng was not ready to let it go, and holding a dead twig in her hand, she pointed at the robbers in front of her, her tone full of pain and sternness as she began, ”You guys, this isn’t how to rob! This is clearly plunder! What happened to professional ethics of robbers?!”

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