Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 698: Grand Finale (2)
Fan Ji’ao shifted his eyes, still silent, quietly listening to Wa Keluo’s conversation.
"Gentlemen, Xueyan Country may seem like a major power, but it’s all a paper tiger, all bluff. Sunset Kingdom’s treasury is drained, its food supplies nearly exhausted, and they are now relying on the provisions from Xueyan to survive. Though Xueyan did not suffer much damage from the recent drought, by aiding Sunset Kingdom, they have stretched their own food reserves thin. At the present, they likely face a similar crisis. If we attack Sunset Kingdom now, by the time we have finished, Xueyan’s reinforcements would only then be arriving, by which time it would be too late for them to change anything, hahaha," Wa Keluo said with great pride, but to others, his words seemed quite sinister.
After listening to this lengthy discourse, Anuli twitched his brows in confusion, asking the smug man, "Wait, how do you know Sunset Kingdom’s treasury is empty? And how do you know Xueyan’s food supplies are nearly exhausted? Such confidential matters, how did you come to learn of them?"
Caught off-guard by Anuli’s retort, Wa Keluo appeared flustered, his gaze flickering. Others, though silent, looked at him with solid determination.
After a long pause, seeing their apparent curiosity about the news he had just revealed, and remembering the words of his mysterious master that gave him chills, he blinked, cleared his throat, and responded, "Hmph, of course, it’s the information sent by my spies. Without full confidence, I would not dare challenge Dugu Chen’s authority." 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
"Are you sure the information your spies sent is true? What can you guarantee, that you will certainly seize Sunset Kingdom?" Fan Ji’ao quickly retorted, yet in his heart, he still did not believe the words Wa Keluo had spoken.
"Don’t end up with nothing for your trouble," Shi Kedan said sarcastically.
Anuli looked at him as if he were a fool. Although Sunset Kingdom had been weakened by the drought, the timely arrival of grain supplied by Xueyan had not diminished the soldiers’ morale. If they were to attack now, relying on the information from those spies, they feared it would not be Sunset Kingdom that was destroyed, but their own tribe. Yet, seeing him looking as if he held all the winning cards did not seem false; after all, who would gamble their own tribe? Where then was the problem? Could there be an issue with his spies? Or was there someone behind all this?
Upon hearing this, Wa Keluo glared angrily at Shi Kedan, "I was merely sharing this news with you out of good intentions. After all, we have lived here for hundreds of years since our ancestors’ time. Now, we face an excellent opportunity to seize Sunset Kingdom. We won’t have to herd sheep everywhere looking for grass, won’t have to sleep in such tents in the cold winter, won’t have to sell our laboriously woven woolen blankets for cheap in exchange for a mere pinch of ’salt’, and will not allow our tribe’s men to share a single wife, or fight over women. You hesitate at such an opportunity, no better than cowards. I truly despise you for it."
"You bastard, you’re the coward...," Fan Ji’ao stood up, marched forward, and grabbed his collar, his eyes bulging with threads of ruthlessness, veins standing out on his hands, his face turning crimson.
"Hehehe, it’s laughable. We’re not at each other’s throats yet, and here you’re already turning on one another, huh, how utterly ignorant," Shi Kedan watched, his lips curving into an ironic smile as he coolly observed the two.
Fan Ji’ao looked at Shi Kedan, then turned away from Wa Keluo, thinking that what Shi Kedan said made sense, so he let go, patted down the creases on his collar heavily, and said in an unfriendly tone, "Anyone might turn out to be a coward in this world, but it will never be me."
Shi Kedan and Anuli looked at Fan Ji’ao at the same time, scoffed disdainfully, and each lowered their heads again, pondering the recent discussion.
