Chapter Thirteen: The Soaring Dream

  Cha Hongying slept through the night for the first time and woke up naturally, although she hadn't eaten dinner, but she felt that this was the most stable sleep in recent years. So much so that when she woke up, she was still a little dazed and disoriented, then panicked and rushed out of the door.

  It's all over, I forgot to fetch water for the mistress to wash her face, today is going to be a disaster!!

  Good grief!!

  Zha Hongying had just stepped out when she bumped into someone. She lifted her head and exclaimed, "Big Madam!!!" Big Madam had actually come to her shabby building in person! Heaven, she must be furious!!!

  She hastily wanted to kneel down and kowtow to admit her mistake, Za Hongying had already gotten used to being beaten and scolded over the years, her only concern was her son. She didn't want her own mistakes to make her son bear undeserved blame.

  But the madam knelt down even faster, and before Cha Hongying could react, she knocked her head heavily on the ground. "Hongying, I beg of you, please save my two precious daughters! Please, it's all my fault, I'm to blame for everything, I've wronged you and your mother, I deserve to die. Lin'er and Jun'er are innocent, they're just spoiled by me. Please, Hongying, help me, save them!"

  "!!!!!!" Cha Hongying was completely stunned, what on earth is going on????

  What made her even more stunned was yet to come, a group of people waiting on the side, all of whom were maids who usually served the first and second madams with her. At this moment, they swarmed over, their hands holding various things, mostly jewelry and ornaments that only the first and second madams could use, as well as fine silks and cosmetics... In an instant, without saying a word, they lifted Cha Hongying back into the room and began to bustle around her. Cha Hongying couldn't even speak.

  After the maids finished their work, Cha Hongying looked at the mirror they had brought in front of her and could hardly believe that the person inside was herself. That noblewoman's attire was something she didn't even dare to imagine in her dreams.

  "What... you... what's going on here? Is there anyone who can tell me?"

  "Madam, the master is waiting for you in the main hall. You'll understand when you go." The maids giggled, perhaps because they were too familiar with her, and even had the mood to tease her.

  In the hall, Qin Lan sat quietly beside him, lost in thought, with an attitude of not being concerned about anything, and treating everything as if it didn't exist. Huang Ka Xia Hou stood behind him, vigilantly watching everyone, he had received orders to strictly prohibit anyone from disturbing Qin Lan's thoughts.

  It's about thinking, in fact Qin Lan has already entered the game.

  Since crossing over, this mutated version of the Three Kingdoms game and the computer that had merged with his body gave him an uncertain future. Qin Lan, who had struggled for thirty years, didn't say he was disillusioned with life's mundane affairs, but he did have his own insights on life. As a middle-aged man, he always felt time was passing too quickly; he was tired of diligent studying, tired of working from nine to five, and tired of the hypocritical socializing. In the end, all he wanted to do was be himself. All he wanted to pursue were his own dreams.

  Qin Lan has always been fascinated by the Three Kingdoms, admiring Guan Yu's solo conquest of the world, Lü Bu and Diao Chan's Phoenix Pavilion, Zhuge Liang's Seven Captures and Releases, and Zhou Yu's Talk and Smile... He often fantasizes about what it would be like if he were born in that time and space, whether he would go with the flow, choose a monarch to help him conquer the world, or recruit his own followers to compete with Cao Cao and Liu Bei for control of the rivers and mountains.

  It's obvious that the latter is not easy to achieve, he has nothing, it's hard for him to make the famous generals of the three countries loyal to him, and without those strategists and brave generals, it's hard to compete with Shu, Wei and Wu, probably ending up like Huang Zu of the mountain barbarians, Meng Huo of the southern barbarians, or Kebineng of the Xianbei, maybe even worse... Of course, the most important reason is that he can't go back to the world of the three countries.

  So he wandered repeatedly in the game world of Three Kingdoms, repeatedly building his own country from scratch, recruiting strategists, capturing brave generals, and immersing himself in this pleasure again and again.

  This time, heaven gave him the opportunity, not only did he have his own unique Three Kingdoms game world, but also crossed into a war-torn world. He can search for and recruit his ideal famous generals in the Three Kingdoms game, then summon them to this real world, help him establish a foothold, and complete an alternative conquest game!!

  This unprecedented challenge made Qin Lan's morale soar, and compared to this, the trivial matters at home were not even on his mind. At this moment, he was in the city lord's mansion, watching Huang Card Tianfeng handle government affairs... This wasn't because he had nothing better to do, but rather Qin Lan was following Tianfeng to learn about internal politics.

  As a super classic three kingdoms game, the learning and training system of the generals in the Three Kingdoms is very perfect. It was fortunately incorporated into this variant of Hot Blooded Three Kingdoms. As long as it is a general in the Three Kingdoms, when the friendliness exceeds 80, you can learn from each other to cultivate, to achieve this goal, two generals need to interact many times, and there should be no conflict in interests and ambitions to improve friendliness. However, in Hot Blooded Three Kingdoms, friendliness does not exist, it becomes another attribute, loyalty.

  And all the generals drawn from the card will have 100% loyalty.

  So, Qin Lan can directly follow Tian Feng to learn, but although Tian Feng's internal affairs and wisdom are not bad, the top-level Qin Lan at level 120 has also increased her wisdom attribute to 69 points, which is not far from Tian Feng's 88 points. The effect of following him to learn is not as obvious as that of internal affairs. Qin Lan's current internal affairs only have a pitiful 10 points... while Tian Feng, who has already been promoted to the sixth rank, currently has 89 points of internal affairs attribute, with a difference of 79 points!!

  What made Qin Lan feel collapsed was that after talking to Tian Feng and asking him to practice internal affairs, Huang Ka Tian Feng readily agreed. However, from then on, his body became uncontrollable, and every move he made followed Tian Feng's actions. Moreover, this process allegedly lasted for three hours...

  So, when Hong Ying walked into the grand hall with trepidation, what she saw was Qin Lao Ye, the man who had taken her by force, sitting listlessly in the main seat, his eyes vacant and bewildered. His facial expression, however, was rich and varied, sometimes filled with regret, sometimes anger, and sometimes... sadness. Her precious son was also sitting beside him, staring blankly into space, with a stern-looking man standing behind him, vigilantly watching everyone, exuding an aura of authority just like the strange person who always followed her closely.

  Are they all under Ling Er's command? What is going on here?