Chapter 335

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Chapter 335: Su Rui’s Past
Zhang Mu waited quietly, according to Hachikuju’s words, the other two City Masters would arrive at the branch city in about an hour if they weren’t busy. As for Su Rui, with such a big benefit, he would definitely come.
“An hour? Brother Hachikuju, there’s nothing much to do waiting here, why not take me to see what the grassland eagle looks like?”
Unable to wait, Zhang Mu turned to ask Hachikuju.
After careful thought, Hachikuju nodded and said, “Alright, but we can only take a distant look. If it notices us, it will make it harder for you, dear Zhang Mu, during the taming process later.”
It’s better to take a distant look rather than waiting bored here for others to come. It will take at least an hour, and if the two Sub City Lords are busy, we might have to wait longer.
“I’ll take my friend for a quick visit to the horse stable and be back soon. If the other two Sub City Lords arrive first, please entertain them and make them wait.”
“Red Blood, look after it for me. Remember, feed it with the horse grass by the Mohe River, and provide fresh water for it to drink.”
Hachikuju called over the man who was just in charge of urging the golden silkworms and gave instructions.
“Okay, we’ll take good care of your horse Red Blood. Everything you need is waiting for it in the stable.”
The man skillfully led Red Blood away, bowing to Hachikuju. Red Blood didn’t resist, knowing the man would bring delicious food. He let himself be led away.
“Let’s go, dear Zhang Mu, and this girl will show you the great grasslands of our capital city.”
Hachikuju watched the man leave and then led Zhang Mu and Obsidian Beetle deeper into the grasslands.
As they walked, Zhang Mu suddenly asked Hachikuju, “Hey buddy, I noticed how highly people think of Su Rui and his Grey Wolf Rider. Do you think Su Rui’s bad character is for some other reason, especially after the incident with his brother?”
If Zhang Mu didn’t know about Su Rui’s issues in the future, he might have suspected Hachikuju of being jealous.
Hachikuju shrugged the huge axe onto his shoulder and said to Zhang Mu, “Don’t be fooled by Su Rui’s appearance of decency. He is actually quite ruthless.”
“If it weren’t for his own strength and the need for people in the Inner Mongolia capital, the Eight Riders wouldn’t have joined forces with him. I wouldn’t associate with him otherwise.”
Hachikuju seemed extremely displeased with Su Rui, explaining the strong reaction to his name on the city tower.
But maybe she felt she was getting too emotional, Hachikuju’s tone softened slightly and continued, “Of course, it could also be different beliefs, you Central Plains people are relatively more profit-oriented.
Of course I’m not saying it’s you, Zhang Mu, you actually fit our Mongolians’ temperament very well, straightforward and loyal.
Actually, most Central Plains people who can live on the grasslands have already integrated with us, get along well with our temperaments, even if they value profit, I can accept it, but this Su Rui, is really extreme to the core.”
Zhang Mu noticed Hachikuju getting angrier, kept advising, “I say Brother Hachikuju, what on earth did Su Rui do to make you so angry? I thought I was quite easy to get along with.”
“Okay, Brother Zhang Mu, let me calm down and explain to you in detail.”
When Hachikuju thought about what Su Rui had done, she became extremely angry, gripping her huge axe tighter, took several deep breaths before adjusting her tone to continue speaking calmly with Zhang Mu.
Now Zhang Mu was really curious, to see Hachikuju, with her temperament, so angry that she wouldn’t forgive whatever Su Rui had done, it must be really serious.
“In the first few months, it was very difficult to form our cavalry, basically any horse that was willing to obey us was used as a war horse, this was how we painstakingly reclaimed our first capital city, our great Hohhot City.
That war was truly costly, taking many lives, both human and horse, to clear out the huge zombie horde gathered in the city, combined with the power of fuel and fire-type evolvers, we cleaned out the entire city.”
When Hachikuju talked about it, her voice became quiet and she started to feel restless again.
“After we took back Hohhot City, we got a lot of mutant warhorses without owners. The top contributors started to divide the rewards – lots of warhorses and lots of people.”
The Eight Riders split up at that time.
However, after the battle to retake the city, we had many injured soldiers and warhorses in our army. With limited food resources, the other seven riders decided not to disband them so that those who had contributed to taking the city could survive, instead they were assigned to logistics duties.”
Zhang Mu nodded gently and said, “That’s true, after all, without those people, the city couldn’t have been taken.”
“But Su Rui didn’t do it that way.”
Hachikuju gritted her teeth and said word by word, “Su Rui, in order to strike while the iron was hot and take another nearby outpost, gathered all his remaining soldiers and placed them near where regular people lived, separated them, and then selected qualified replacements from the new population of the captured city to fill the vacancies in his cavalry.”
He chose doctors and nurses from the survivors of the captured city to take care of them, giving them only half the rations of the original soldiers per day.”
Zhang Mu seemed a bit puzzled as he said, “Brother Hachikuju, although what he did hurt their morale a bit, it wasn’t so hard to accept, considering they still had doctors and nurses, and even with only half the soldiers’ rations, it should be enough to sustain them.”
“Yes, for humans, during wartime, to not let wounded soldiers hold back the army, they are directly removed from the troops, and continuously replaced with new recruits. In fact, there is nothing much to say about the care given to them.”
Talking about this, sparks were about to burst out from Hachikuju’s eyes.
“However, this is only for humans. Su Rui pretends to be compassionate but also fears criticism, intentionally providing some protection. But Su Rui no longer cares about the injured war horses, as they consume more food every day than humans.
On the second day after taking over the capital city, Su Rui, after replacing all his Grey Wolf Rider’s war horses, did something that I, Hachikuju, will never forgive him for.”
“Five hundred injured war horses in the Grey Wolf Rider, all were stewed by Su Rui.”