Chapter 72: Chapter 71 Compensation?
Outside the Chen Manor, a young student had just arrived at the gate when he heard the furious sound of galloping hooves that quickly ensued, followed immediately by a middle-aged man bursting out from within and sprinting madly into the distance.
Brushing off the dust raised by the hooves on his clothes, the youth frowned deeply and flicked his sleeve, “What poor manners!”
This was the Chen Clan, one of the Three Premier Clans, and yet it harbored such ill-mannered people, disgraceful!
Shaking his head, he approached the gatekeeper and bowed with his hands clasped.
“Excuse me, could you please announce that Zhou Qingkai, a student from Baiyan Academy, has been entrusted by Young Master Chen Hao to meet Patriarch Chen Xiao…”
The gatekeeper pointed, “That was him, just ran past!”
“???”
Turning his head toward the man and the wildly sprinting horse, Zhou Qingkai’s face turned ashen, “My words just now… the Patriarch didn’t hear them, did he? No, I must go and check, and clarify things as well.”
With that thought, he couldn’t hold back anymore, turned around, and rushed in the direction where the horse had disappeared.
…
At Baiyan Horse Farm, Chen Xiao finally found a pair of shoes, although they were a bit small, they spared him the embarrassment of being barefoot.
Hurrying forward, he hadn’t yet reached the site when he saw the First Elder, Chen Yun, standing helplessly in front of a fence. Not far away, a twenty-four or twenty-five-year-old youth was pointing at a Scarlet and over twenty thousand-li horses, berating them loudly and fiercely as if venting his frustration over their failures.
“Can you be more reliable? Did I ask you to tame them? All I said was that I came here to earn some bounty, and this is the mess you’ve made. Who is going to tell me what to do now!”
Zhang Xuan grew angrier as he spoke.
To tell the truth, he was really frustrated.
He thought that coming here was not easy, if he could tame a few more horses, he could earn some extra bounty, buy more fodder to avoid the hassle of back and forth. He had never dreamed that the Beast Pummeling Taming Method would be too overbearing… 28 thousand-li horses, all tamed in a short time.
In fact, taming them was no big deal, his team also tamed horses, but his method turned them into completely subservient beast pets, and which beast pet doesn’t follow its master?
So… when he decided to leave, these thousand-li horses wanted to follow as well, which led to the scenario the subordinate in brown clothes had mentioned…
Unable to refuse, he simply had to lock these creatures up. Little did he know, they all learned from Dao Li, attacking other horses at once…
Wild horses are unyielding; even if beaten into submission, they are still outwardly compliant but inwardly alienated. Ordinary horses are different, straightforward, and will follow a lead horse…
Thus, he was just here to make some quick money, but in the end, he nearly uprooted the entire horse farm…
Anyone would be anxious in his place!
“Hiss hiss hiss~~”
Scarlet stuck out its tongue, trying to appease him.
“Shut up!”
Zhang Xuan pointed at its nose, his saliva almost splashing onto its face, “You still dare to stick out your tongue. You are most to blame for this situation!”
Previously, this creature had shown some backbone, but now it was just groveling, having been the happiest to jump around when locked up. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been possible to lead over three thousand horses to break out of their enclosure in such a short time.
“Hui hui~~”
Scarlet turned its head away, ashamed.
“Now is not the time to point fingers,
let’s figure out what to do next?”
Seeing this scene, Elder Chen Yun held his forehead.
He had seen strong beast tamers, but never this powerful… in less than two hours, every horse in the farm had been tamed, something unheard of before.
Even witnessing it with his own eyes, he could hardly believe it.
If it weren’t for these horses, each standing in front of him, taking scolding like a mere child, not daring to move, he would still think what he had seen was all a dream.
“These horses are all yours now, I naturally can’t take them away… don’t worry,
I’ll make sure they peacefully return to the ranch, not hindering your sales…”
Zhang Xuan was embarrassed.
Elder Chen Yun snorted coldly, “Now all these horses obey your command, they would rush into battle at a single command from you, let alone leave home. How can you expect me to feel secure?”
“First Elder is right, this issue must be resolved, or else, if everyone tames our horses, there’d be no need to keep the horse farm open!” Steward Liu interjected.
“This… it wasn’t intentional…”
With a face full of grievance, Zhang Xuan turned his head to glance at Dao Li, baring its teeth, and slapped it on the head, “It’s all your fault! If you could tame Scarlet, would I have needed to intervene?”
“Hiss hiss hiss~”
Dao Li also seemed embarrassed.
“That… give me some time, I’ll operate on them, make them stop being submissive to me…”
After reprimanding Dao Li, Zhang Xuan looked over apologetically again.
During his time in the Master Teacher Continent, he only studied how to tame beasts,
not how to undo it… which really gave him a headache.
Elder Chen Yun shook his head, “They’ve already submitted, it’s not that easy to just say stop and expect them to comply…”
Zhang Xuan: “Then what should we do?”
“How about this,”
Elder Chen Yun hesitated before speaking, “Since these horses are all fully submissive to you, you should just try to buy them all! I just did a rough calculation, around 20 million Origin Currency…”
“Can’t afford it!” Zhang Xuan felt like crying.
He came here because he was short on money, hoping to earn some feed money,
but instead of earning, he was now in the hole for 20 million, not to mention had to feed over three thousand mouths…
What a joke, might as well kill me!
“Then what else can we do? All these horses have been tamed by you,
how can we sell them to anyone else…”
Just as he was about to continue, Elder Chen Yun heard a stern voice rise.
“Enough! Let’s end this matter here.
Not only can we not blame this young friend, but we should also thank him for his magnanimity!”