Chapter 71: Chapter 70: Are There Other Wild Horses? (Long Chapter)_2
“Fine!”
Steward Liu had tried other methods several times and, upon finding that Scarlet had indeed submitted willingly, he looked over in disbelief. “You, how on earth did you manage to do it?”
Using brute force on horses, he could understand, but a single slap had completely baffled him.
“This is my horse taming skill, I can’t share it for now…”
Zhang Xuan shook his head.
The Beast Pummeling Taming Method, even if he wanted to explain, he couldn’t; he could only gloss over it.
“Alright!”
Mentally chiding himself for his recklessness, Steward Liu did not say more and took out some banknotes to hand over. “This is the 10,000 Origin Currency payment for the beast taming just now!”
“Thank you!”
Zhang Xuan took them casually, and upon verifying they were real, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He had tamed just one horse and had already made so much money… It was indeed much quicker than making bets with people.
10,000 Origin Currency, enough to cover Dao Li’s fodder for a month, and still have some left over.
However, after paying, there wouldn’t be much left; he couldn’t just stop practicing and keep coming here to tame horses!
With this thought, he couldn’t help but ask, “Steward Liu, besides Scarlet, are there any other wild horses that need taming? I’d like to try taming a few more!”
…
In Baiyan City, the Chen Clan’s estate covered over a hundred acres, featuring seven courtyards in and out, grand and vast, brilliantly majestic.
In the last backyard of the residence was a large pond. Under the pavilion made of carved railings and jade, a middle-aged man was fish barefoot, lounging comfortably in an armchair with a jade fishing rod in his hand, quietly fishing.
Above the water surface, fish gently swayed, a koi circling around the bait, seemingly about to peck at it any moment.
Tap, tap, tap, tap!
Just then, a hurried series of footsteps approached from a distance; a subordinate dressed in brown hastened over.
“Elder…”
As the voice sounded, the circling koi flipped its tail, splashed, and disappeared.
The middle-aged man’s expression immediately darkened, as if dripping blood, “Haven’t I said not to disturb me while I’m fishing? Slap yourself twenty times!”
The brown-clad subordinate turned pale: “Yes!”
Slap, slap, slap!
After hitting himself until his face was red and ears were hot, burning in pain, the brown-clad subordinate finally stopped.
“What is it?”
Baiting the hook again and casting the line, the middle-aged man then barely lifted his eyelids to ask indifferently.
The brown-clad subordinate bowed: “Reporting to the clan elder, there has been an incident at the horse taming field!”
“Let Elder Chen Yun deal with it. Did you need to come find me?” The middle-aged man was unconcerned.
He was none other than the current clan head of the Chen Clan, father to Chen Hao—Chen Xiao.
The Elder Chen Yun mentioned was the First Elder, responsible for all matters of the horse field.
The brown-clad subordinate said: “Yes… Someone came to the horse taming field to tame horses and managed to subdue Wild Horse Scarlet…”
Hearing it was a serious matter, Chen Xiao’s anger subsided somewhat. “This is indeed worth reporting. Scarlet has Primordial Beast bloodline and has been the most defiant thousand-li horse in recent years. Many horse tamers have failed to subdue her. Who managed it, Zhou Qun, Wang Yuanzhao, or Shen Siping?”
Each of these three mentioned were the most renowned horse tamers in Baiyan City, each with ample experience and achievements in taming thousand-li horses.
“None of them…”
The brown-clad subordinate said, “It was a newcomer, quite young, about twenty-four or twenty-five.”
“Young people to be feared indeed!”
His eyes brightening, Chen Xiao exclaimed in admiration and nodded, “Young people have good strength and lasting stamina, indeed giving them a great advantage in taming Scarlet. Let me guess, this taming session must have lasted at least three hours, right?”
Subduing a horse like Scarlet without exhausting its strength was nearly impossible.
Scratching his head, the brown-clad subordinate said, “It took less than a tea’s time…”
“???” Chen Xiao was stunned.
A tea’s time is ten minutes, less than half a tea’s time is less than five minutes… Such a short time to tame the thoroughly wild Scarlet?
How does it feel a bit preposterous!
“It’s true!”
Seeing the clan leader’s disbelief, the subordinate in brown continued, “With one horse, he beat up Scarlet, then slapped Scarlet across the face, and then Scarlet… was tamed!”
“A horse beats a horse? Slaps?”
Apothecary Chen Xiao was stunned.
These words, he understood every one of them, but when put together, they seemed to make no sense.
The subordinate in brown: “Not only that, after taming Scarlet, this newcomer, not feeling satisfied, went on to tame other untamed wild horses. The horse taming field’s stock of 27 wild horses, in less than a short hour, were all successfully tamed…”
Apothecary Chen Xiao’s eyelid twitched.
Although these wild horses were far inferior to Scarlet, for one person to deal with all of them in such a short period… the more he heard, the more preposterous and eerie it seemed…
“That’s not right!”
Apothecary Chen Xiao puzzledly said, “To be able to tame these horses in such a short time, the horse taming skills of this newcomer surpass even those of Master Zhou and Zhou Qun! But, doesn’t the horse taming field have a reward? Just giving the money would do, even if this matter is shocking, Elder Chen Yun could handle it. It wouldn’t require you to come over specifically!”
As the head of the clan, he only managed major family affairs and strategic decisions; even if the specifics were complex, there was no need to involve him, especially not in such a rush.
“Yes…”
The subordinate in brown had a bitter smile, “The First Elder already gave the reward, but… no one expected that these wild horses were not just ordinarily tamed, but thoroughly tamed! Now, including Scarlet, all 28 thousand-li horses, dead set on doing so, refuse to stay in the horse taming field…”
“???”
Apothecary Chen Xiao was so shocked that the invaluable fishing rod fell to the ground unnoticed.
Earlier it seemed preposterous, but now it literally felt as if preposterousness had its door opened by Mom and came home!
To completely tame my 28 thousand-li horses, making these horses loudly clamor to go home with you… this isn’t helping with horse taming, this is outright inviting trouble!
Suddenly standing up, Apothecary Chen Xiao stood up with a start, his eyes glaring over, “How did Elder Chen Yun handle this?”
Although there were many fine horses in the horse taming field, the valuable ones were the thousand-li horses. These 28 horses, if sold well, were almost half a year’s profit for their horse taming field, a disaster must be averted at all costs.
“The First Elder forcibly locked these thousand-li horses in the horse taming field… and then, then…”
At this point, the subordinate in brown’s eyes filled with horror, as if the things he witnessed still seemed unbelievable.
“Then what happened?”
Seeing his hesitance, Apothecary Chen Xiao’s eyebrows furrowed, and he barked, “Speak quickly!”
The subordinate in brown had a face wanting to cry, “Then, these horses, they beat up the entire herd, and so… the horse taming field’s current three thousand plus horses, at this moment, have all submitted to that newcomer and, breaking the paddock’s fences, they want to follow him home, it’s already turned into a complete mayhem…”
“???”
Everything went dark before Apothecary Chen Xiao’s eyes, and he almost fainted.
After all this time, the situation was still understated. He thought it was just trouble; in reality, it was outright plunder!
I run a horse taming field… All my horses, all completely tamed… whose horse taming field is this really, yours or mine? How can I continue running it?
The Chen Clan relies on this horse taming field, relies on these horses. Once they run off with someone, what’s the point… might as well declare bankruptcy outright!
“With such a huge uproar, why didn’t you speak up earlier?”
No longer able to hold back, Apothecary Chen Xiao was about to explode with urgency.
After such a delay, who knows what else might have happened at the horse taming field…
The subordinate in brown: “Wasn’t the clan leader fishing…”
“Compared to this, it doesn’t matter if the fish die in the water, rot, or stink!”
With a cold snort, Apothecary Chen Xiao’s foot stomped, and he already charged out of the backyard: “Steward, prepare a horse, I’m heading to the horse taming field…”
Suddenly, his resonant voice echoed throughout the entire Chen Clan.
Only then did the subordinate in brown react, looking down, he hurriedly cried out, “Clan leader, your shoes…”
Earlier, while the clan leader was fishing, he had taken off his shoes. In his haste to leave, he hadn’t even had time to put them on…
(Is it long? Seeking recommendation tickets and monthly passes!!! It seems everyone is not enthusiastic, the monthly pass is now at 414. If it reaches 450 votes, the update at six in the afternoon will still be a long chapter. Before the launch, wasn’t it always a long chapter?)