Chapter 123: Wasteland

Da Wang at night still hugged White Marsh, forcibly giving someone a grooming, and incidentally analyzed the matter of everyone being enfeoffed as king, '... Chang'an definitely has something happening that I don't know about!' This guy's physique suddenly sped up, Da Wang couldn't hold him anymore; speaking of it feels heartbreaking. Adding Winnie and the Little Fat Bird together, he's the slowest to grow.

White Marsh asked him: 'In the whole court, there isn't even one of your people?'

Da Wang exclaimed: 'I have no one, only Zhao Bao—didn't he come with you to Youzhou?'

White Marsh: 'Stop pretending.'

Da Wang: 'Alright, I get it. But who would want to befriend Youzhou? Looking at it, there's no prospect; bribing them would surely have profit, but I have no silver at all, nor anything else... Thinking about having to spend silver on this, I'm not that curious either~'

White Marsh, frustrated, said: 'Who says befriending Youzhou has no benefits? The Guangling King, who cares about your face, has coal carts, while the Jing King only has an empty candy box.'

Da Wang: ……

Can this page still be turned over?!

After thinking, feeling it lacks momentum? Da Wang declared grandly: 'Someday they'll be the ones sucking up to Youzhou!'

That day, Wei Shen followed the scout cavalry to the northern border line to practice horsemanship; returning, he passed through the military camp and saw the soldiers' barracks nearly finished, with many off-duty personnel busy in the fields, full of a different kind of vigor.

This sort of self-sufficiency could also be learned by the southwest border troops; they could plant crops suited to the southwest, after all they're also poor—providing military rations is such a hassle it's not even worth mentioning.

He rode all the way over, the fields were a sea of green, looking at it made one feel cheerful.

As he ran, Wei Shen suddenly reined in his horse and burst out laughing.

He had never seen so much green, dark light light light intermingled. Da Wang had planted several kinds of things, made zones and markers, now all covered by surging wild grass, they've mixed together.

Wei Shen barely managed to suppress his laughter, rode back to find Da Wang.

He hadn't been to the Year Feather Hall in a long time; every day he saw Da Wang at the North Camp. Today, upon just entering the main hall, he saw a white fluffy thing spread out on the mirror-like floor tiles.

'Scared me half to death—where did this huge dog come from!'

White Marsh, speechless, got up and turned its head; it just lay on the tiles to cool down, and now you don't recognize it when it's sprawled out? You can even mistake it for something else!

When it turned its head, the long-grown horn let Wei Shen recognize it: 'Ahhh, you're White Marsh! When did you get this big?!'

White Marsh: ……

Da Wang soon heard the commotion and rushed out, 'Cousin, you came to find me, right?'

Wei Shen kept staring at White Marsh, 'What exactly is this White Marsh of yours? When did it get this big? It's so majestic, completely unlike before!'

Da Wang finally found a kindred spirit: 'The bigger it gets, the nicer it looks, right? But once it grows big, I won't be able to hold it…' Like a puff of air, there's also Winnie; his arms simply can't match the speed of those two.

White Marsh doesn't like to follow the road, spending more time at the Year Feather Hall; unlike the Little Fat Bird, which is always on Da Wang's shoulder, Wei Shen hasn't seen it for a while.

Now looking at it simply makes one drool; that horn is too distinctive, paired with this silky fur, it has an air of not stirring up dust—quite removed from the mundane world.

Hearing Da Wang complain about not being able to hold it, the cousin foolishly wiped his mouth, 'You're silly—why bother holding it? If it grows a bit bigger you can ride it, more majestic than riding any horse! Your heavenly horse-like Little Date and my White Gold can't compare!'

Da Wang suddenly understood, White Marsh suddenly rose!

You haven't been topped by the horned auspicious beast, right?

Wei Shen, very timid, shrank back, 'One proposal, one proposal!'

White Marsh aimed its horn at Da Wang, shoved him forward, 'Don't get smug, don't even think about it!'

Da Wang: 'Mm-hmm, I'm not too moved either, hahaha…'

White Marsh: ……

Da Wang happily daydreamed a while, then remembered the cousin, 'The cousin came just to see White Marsh, right?'

The cousin had already been captivated by White Marsh, 'Oh no, I meant to have you go look at your two mu of land, which is growing exceptionally splendid—I came to call you to go see it.'

Da Wang upon hearing that, 'Exactly!'

Busy with closed-door cultivation to finish the mission, after suppressing bandits he was busy with the mine affairs, Da Wang still hadn't gone to his land.

Thinking about having completed task three, Da Wang also remembered his reward for this round hadn't been drawn yet, mainly discovering the mine was too exciting.

Wow~ the things planted in his land have grown up, plus there are four draws; now all good things have piled together, Da Wang is overjoyed, waving a hand, 'Cousin, stay for dinner tomorrow, I'll take you to see my land~'

Wei Shen: ……Go ahead and eat; tomorrow, seeing the land, I probably won't be able to eat either.