The General Loves to Collect Little Red Flowers-Chapter 44
Edited by Noks and Wiji
At midnight, Yan Jie, who was holding a mini prison in his hand, exclaimed, “Mr. Xiao Le, isn't it too small?” He had thought the prison would at least be bigger than a shoe box, but it turned out to be just the size of his two fists put together.
“This is to save some resources. It’s all resized once it reaches the Underworld anyways,” Le Yao replied and looked at the small paper prisons that had been placed in a large cardboard box and were separated by partitions. He continued, “There are twenty prisons in total, which should be enough. Oh, I forgot to get something. Please wait for me.”
“What is it?” Xu Yao asked.
“There are still a few soldiers who haven’t remembered their birthdays. I can’t ignore them. It would be too miserable for them to watch others eating the incense but having none for themselves,” Le Yao said and picked up an envelope. It looked heavy, but it didn’t contain any letters, “I asked Leslie to find pictures corresponding to those people’s information and printed them out. Later, I'll use these for the offerings instead of their birthdays.”
“You've worked hard,” Xu Yao helped him bring the large cardboard box outside and asked, “Should we go to the same hillside as we did last night?”
“No, I have to find a flatter place today to call those souls with special cases. By the way, can we also bring a table?” For burning offerings using the pictures, he would have to put the incense sticks in a rice jar in front of the photos on a table. He couldn't lay out the photos on the ground.
Xu Yao ordered Yan Jie to carry the folding table. This folding table was a standard supporting device available in every movable house. It was the size of a single desk and very convenient to carry.
Le Yao glanced at the time, it was just a few minutes past midnight.
Since the amount of information that needed to be inputted into the light brain today was huge, Xu Yao had joined the data reading team. Three people read together, and finally managed to convert the birth data of 8000 soldiers into the required eight characters before midnight.
For this night, they had brought with them fifty large cones and twenty prisons to Mount Fuhe. They didn’t release the incense cones immediately, but instead they first dropped off Le Yao at a cave located on the side of the undead Flying Wolf Army. This cave had been blasted during the war. Actually, it shouldn't be called a cave. Le Yao thought it was more appropriate to call it a 'mountain pit'. What was even more convenient was that the rubble in front of the mountain pit had been cleaned, and there were several trees growing around it, which would shield Le Yao from being discovered a little.
Carrying a small bag in his hand, Le Yao jumped down and said to Xu Yao, “Give me the box and the table.”
Xu Yao jumped down with the box and the table.
Le Yao: “Aren't you going to go shoot?”
Xu Yao: “The goal is right next to me. What am I going to do by being so far away?”
Le Yao: “How can you say that?! Be serious!”
Xu Yao: “Obviously, you are the one thinking of strange things.”
Le Yao: “You!”
Xu Yao set up the table and said with a smile, “It’s alright. I only have to demonstrate that kind of thing once. There's no need to do it twice. If I do everything, what will they do?”
Le Yao hummed, and with a little contempt, smugly said, “If you want to do it with me, just say it, I won’t laugh at you.”
Xu Yao rubbed Le Yao’s neck slowly.
Le Yao dodged his hand after a while, and then put all six bowls on the table. He poured rice into the bowls, and inserted an incense stick in each bowl. Then he divided the six bowls into three groups, with two bowls close to each other. He placed the pictures of the two dead souls, who were to be provided with incense back to back, and sandwiched them between the bowls.
Xu Yao helped take out the paper which had printed on it the list of the eight characters of the remaining undead Flying Wolf army. Le Yao looked towards the battlefield and saw Ji Fengyu and the other ghost brothers begin to float above the undead army. They were positioned higher than the Flying Wolf Army, and the colour of their spirit bodies was not the same as that of the Flying Wolf Army, so they were easy to spot.
Yan Jie sat in the military hovercraft and started to aim at the targets.
At this time, Bei Hongli and Song He arrived at their location with six undead who couldn’t remember their birthday. When the six 'out-of-form youths' saw Xu Yao and Le Yao, they all held a military salute and shouted, “Hello, General! Hello, Madam!”
Xu Yao nodded in return and Le Yao said gently, “Hello. I’ll give you the incense first. You can inhale it and then I need you to help me for a while.”
Amongst the six young undead soldiers, the platoon leader who had the highest ranking asked, “What do you need us to help you with?”
Le Yao held six talismans of the same kind in his hand, ones that Xu Yao had never seen before. This type of talisman was half the size of his palm, and he had a dozen of it in total, “This is a talisman, once you have finished the incense, take it with you. When you see a full prison, you should stick it to the door of that prison.”
The platoon leader looked at Xu Yao to get confirmation on these orders.
Xu Yao said, “Do as the Madam says.”
The platoon leader nodded and answered, “Yes!”
Le Yao started to light up all the incense sticks in the rice bowl, and at that very moment, the sound 'Shoo shoo shoo!' was heard. The sound of air flow being slashed reverberated throughout the battlefield, and silver 'shells', just like those of the previous day, were shot to the ground again.
“Ahhhhh!!” The undead orcs obviously no longer found this incident strange. They frantically rushed to the shells and tried to pull them out, but it took a long time for them to succeed, while subsequent shells were still landing on the ground one after another.
Le Yao quickly lit the three incense sticks again, and chanted rapidly, “Today, I am going to worship eight thousand dead brothers of the Flying Wolf Army with fifty incense sticks. May your souls be peaceful forever!” After that, he burned the paper with the eight characters list of the second group of soldiers.
Xu Yao: “Yan Jie, light up the incense cones.”
Yan Jie answered, “Yes!”
Then, the explosives hit the 'shells' accurately. A moment later, incense smoke slowly arose. The hungry Flying Wolf army that could only smell the fragrance last night, finally got the chance to taste the real thing on this day!
Yesterday, only five thousand Flying Wolf soldiers had consumed incense and then managed to suppress the orc army with their 'pricked with chicken blood' fervour. But today, more than thirteen thousand Flying Wolf soldiers had ingested incense, and the result of that could easily be imagined.
By this time, Le Yao had already given the dozen talismans he had to the six young undead soldiers. He then burned the twenty prisons at the same time the incense was fired!
'Boom!'
The sound rang out loud all of a sudden, 20 huge prisons appeared in the battlefield!
The undead orc leader, with a huge beast horn, finally located the anomaly on the battlefield, and flew towards Le Yao.
His speed was so incredible, that in a blink of an eye he reached Le Yao. Fortunately, Bei Hongli and Song He had faster reactions and blocked the orc leader in an instant. As for Xu Yao, he was even more alert and immediately protected Le Yao in his arms.
Bei Hongli and Song He slammed into the orc leader's attack. The leader shouted something that Le Yao didn’t understand as soon as he got blocked. Then, he saw all the orc soldiers rush towards them. Fortunately, the Flying Wolf army was not vegetarian. They knew that the prisons had been created by the General and his wife, so they rounded up the orc undead in groups of twenty. After consuming the incense, they all felt as strong as Superman. Wherever we go, there's nothing left!
The orc leader saw that his men were being locked up one after another and roared angrily. His shrill cry resounded throughout the sky.
At the beginning, Le Yao had felt a little uncomfortable about doing such a thing. But after some consideration, he realized that these orcs had come here first to rob them of their territory, and had killed many excellent Flying Wolf soldiers, so he shouldn’t sympathize with them at all!
“Let’s go,” Xu Yao probed Le Yao to move. He didn’t want Le Yao to see this brutal scene. Although the war among the undead had not seen any 'bloodshed', it was still heartless.
“You should ask them later, check to see if anyone wants to be reincarnated. The people on our side, I mean… There may be people who want to end their current life, and I think we should respect their decision,” said Le Yao.
“Alright, I’ll ask them later,” Xu Yao climbed aboard the hovercraft with Le Yao. “Is it hard on you?” Le Yao’s expression, after burning the prisons, had not looked so good.
“Just a little,” replied Le Yao.
“Then take your gland nutrition and go to sleep. After falling asleep, you won't think about anything,” Xu Yao rushed to take the gland nutrition out.
“Wait!” Le Yao suddenly remembered that he had something to tell Xu Yao, “Yes, General Le called me this afternoon. He wants me to go back.”
“Go back?” A sharp light flashed in Xu Yao’s eyes, “Why does he want you to go back all of a sudden?”
“I don’t know. He asked me about how I had resolved my previous debt, and I said that I had borrowed the money from you. Then he asked me how much money I had borrowed, and I said thirty million yuan. He actually sent me 30 million yuan and asked me to return the borrowed amount to you. He also said that he would send someone to pick me up in two days and asked me to find any excuse to go back with the person he is sending.” When Le Yao thought about his father's orders, he felt very unhappy. He was living very well here at Planet Huaxia, he had realized that he liked Xu Yao and so didn’t have any intentions of returning to his father's home.
“Did he ask anything else?”
“Oh, he also asked me if I am pregnant or not,” replied Le Yao.
Xu Yao thought for a moment, all the while holding Le Yao’s hand tightly and stroking it back and forth gently. At the same time, he commanded Leslie to remind him to contact Commander Guan Xuefeng as soon as it struck six o’clock the coming morning.
“Why do you want to contact Uncle Guan?” asked Le Yao.
“There are only two possibilities why General Le wants you to return at this time. One is that he may know that you have special abilities and doesn’t want to offer you cheaply to the 12th Army. The other is that, possibly, there might be some problems originating from my side.”
“Anyways, I don't want to go back. If they want to come here, let them come.” Le Yao frowned and added, “If they annoy me, I will make it so that they will never come back!”
Xu Yao slowly continued to rub Le Yao’s palm with his thumb as he said, “Don’t worry. As long as you don’t want to go back, no one can force you.”
Xu Yao’s voice was deep and powerful, and caused Le Yao’s heart to regain its stability. He took the gland nutrition and soon fell asleep.
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It was really late into the night, but General Le had no intention of sleeping. Lying beside awake.
“Why did you transfer 30 million yuan to Le Yao if you are letting him return?” Jiang Xinduo continued posing questions, “After Xu Yao led his soldiers to capture the two mining planets, the military department decided to share 10% of the bonus they earn from the mines with his Flying Wolf Division, which they have done for the past three years. That is a great amount, so why would he still be concerned about 30 million yuan?”
“What do you know?” It was rare for Le Feishan to look at his wife sternly, “This time, Le Yao must get out of there cleanly.”
“Do you really want Le Yao to divorce Xu Yao?” Jiang Xinduo’s eyes brightened as she continued, “If that’s the case, can Tianyu and Xu Yao get in touch with each other later? You know, Tianyu has been lost in thoughts of Xu Yao ever since he visited ours house.”
“No.” Le Feishan answered immediately, without even needing time to think, “If Xu Yao was so easy to manipulate, this father-in-law would have many soldiers under his control. Outsiders may not know what he's like, but the old men on topare very clear on what Xu Yao is. Do you think it’s easy to wield him?”
“… Then why do you want Le Yao to divorce him?”
Le Feishan didn’t answer that question. He had overheard his superiors talking about how his eldest son actually had a special ability. Although he hadn’t confirmed the existence of this ability with his own eyes, his superiors had confirmed that the news was true. So, he had to make sure Le Yao came back to him. In fact, he didn’t want a divorce, but an Omega would be deeply influenced by their Alpha after being marked. For Le Yao to work for him without any influence from Xu Yao, Le Yao had to leave Xu Yao and the 12th Army.
Now, he was worried that Le Yao would still fight against him as he did before. The more he asked for something, the louder he would fight against him.
“When you contacted him last time, did he really say he was having a good time with Xu Yao?” Le Feishan asked Jiang Xinduo.
“Yes. But this child has always been hard-mouthed, and you haven't realized that.” Jiang Xinduo added, “He has been used to being pampered since he was a child. You know, he has brushed stones under the hot sweltering sun there. Can he really say that he has a good life there? It’ll just be his words against ours.”
“Un.” After a pause, Le Feishan said, “Tomorrow, let Tianyu move out from Le Yao’s room.”
“Why?” I have just gotten a comfortable life after the hectic renovation! I can’t accept this!
“Why do you ask so many questions?” Le Feishan said, “Naturally, it's because I have the intention to do so.”
Le Feishan had always hoped that there would be an Alpha born in his family. However, all the children from his two wives bore for him were Omegas. He appreciated Le Yao’s wild energy, but the child always funneled it in the wrong direction, just to annoy him. Previously, he had thought that if Xu Yao could tame Le Yao, he wouldn't force him to come back. After all, Xu Yao was a strong son-in-law. But in contrast, he still hoped to have a promising child within his own family line.
Between a powerful son and a powerful son-in-law, of course, the powerful son is better.
Jiang Xinduo waited in indignation for a long time but Le Feishan didn't seem as if he would take back what he had just said. She almost fell back into bed in anger. When Le Feishan spoke again, instead of answering to her, he was ordering his subordinates to not wait, but to hasten their departure in collecting Le Yao from Planet Huaxia!
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Frozenmirage: Psst, one more chapter and…
