Heh, heh, heh, with System Sis's personality, she shouldn't screw me over!
[Ding, Great Love Without Borders Mission Ring 1868 Issued!]
[Help Old Ma Tou cure his foot corns!]
[Mission Countdown: 1800 seconds!]
This mission was a bit disgusting, but Fang Er didn't plan to do it himself. After leaving the outhouse, he handed the mission over to Wang Xuance.
He stayed at the manor for half a month, with dozens of missions appearing every day.
But as he kept grinding through them, Fang Er started to feel something was wrong.
This thing was like it had been injected with steroids, growing several millimeters a day.
After half a month, it had increased by seven to eight centimeters. Measured in its combat state, it was nearly a foot long.
It was no less than Lai Yifa's corn on the cob~~
After a long period of contemplation, he finally made a decision: he had to fail a few occasionally, otherwise, he'd end up killing someone sooner or later!
But with over ten thousand missions, and more than seven thousand rings remaining, at one mission every half hour, who knew how long it would take.
He had no choice but to negotiate with the system: "Sis, how about you relax the countdown and give me a few more at once?"
We have plenty of people, so we can do them faster, right?
[How about a hundred at a time? I can extend the countdown to an hour.]
Hahaha, Sis is still the best to me, I love you to death, mua mua~~
*Zzzzzzz*
With an explosion of hair, Fang Er walked out of the house, telling Wang Xuance to call Qi Sui over via walkie-talkie.
Along with them came the two thousand guards.
It was just a few trivial matters, he'd treat it as mutual aid between the army and the civilians~~
Digging wells, excavating canals, building outhouses
Catching chickens, finding dogs, catching rats
~~~
The system dumped out a hundred missions in one go.
After assigning them all, Fang Er looked at the remaining thousand-plus people and smiled, asking the system for more missions.
The two thousand people turned Fang Family Manor upside down.
The villagers suddenly found that these guards, who guarded the workshops day and night without moving, had suddenly become diligent.
As long as there was anything to do at home, before they could even lift a finger, the guards would find them and get the job done without a word.
Fang Er lay in the rocking chair in the courtyard, a faint current constantly running through him.
His expression of drunken bliss caused Motorola, who was standing beside him, to feel a knife twisting in his heart.
Cheating! This was definitely cheating!
But why hadn't he thought of this before??
With two thousand people helping him at the same time.
Let alone ten thousand missions, even a hundred thousand would only take a few days!
From noon onwards, he had the guards start working. By evening, the mission progress had reached 5800+.
Fang Er sent Xiao Huan and Xiao Mi out. He couldn't help it, he was too terrifying right now.
When undressed, he could reach his knees. If the two young girls saw him, wouldn't they think he was a monster?
He bolted the door from the inside, played with his big snake for a while on the bed, and then fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, Fang Er was shocked!
His combat state had doubled in size!
Truly, three legs!
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the quilt lifted a meter high. Just as he moved, he felt a strong wave of dizziness.
Damn it, could I have been drained dry?
With hollow eyes staring at the ceiling, would people laugh to death if they knew how he died?
System Sis, hurry and send missions, thirty of them!
In this situation, there was no other way but to fail the missions.
The system, as always, doted on him, throwing out thirty missions consecutively.
Lying in bed, watching the countdown tick by second by second, Fang Er had never felt time pass so slowly.
Five minutes later, the mission countdown hadn't ended, but the effects of the morning elixir had subsided.
The quilt also fell back onto Fang Er.
A surge of vital energy quickly returned from his lower abdomen to his entire body.
Comfortable! Energized!
An hour later, the system began to announce mission failures, and currents once again surged from the back of his head to his abdomen.
Fang Er happily jumped out of bed, finally back to being a normal person, damn it!
With this lesson learned, when he issued missions again, for every hundred missions, he would hold one back.
No increase, no decrease. After finishing the missions.
The villagers of Fang Family Manor, from the moment they opened their doors in the morning, sat by their doors, happily waiting for the guards to arrive.
They helped them with laundry, cooking, and cleaning.
They did a better job than any mother.
By around three in the afternoon, the ten thousand missions were all completed!
Fang Er exchanged a large amount of food from the system and had Qi Sui take it back to distribute as rewards for them.
He also established a new rule: the last day of the first lunar month would be designated as Military-Civilian Mutual Aid Day.
Counting the days, Xiao Ya was almost a month old, so Fang Er sent someone to call Old Ma Tou and inform the entire village of a grand banquet.
A thousand tables of flowing banquet were once again set up throughout the manor.
After the feast, Fang Er had several carts of wine brought and went to the cemetery.
As soon as he entered, he heard a woman's voice from within the cemetery.
"You little brat, get down here! These are all the brave men from our manor, how can you play on top of the graves?! And you lot, with so much space outside, why are you flying kites here? See if I don't break your legs! You disrespecters of ancestors, get out of here!"
Fang Er followed the sound and indeed saw a group of naughty children roughhousing in the cemetery. Some were flying kites, while others were using tombstones as horses.
Seeing this, he also became a little angry, but before he could speak, an old soldier guarding the cemetery walked over.
He smirked and scolded the woman, "What are you fussing about! My old comrades followed the Duke through countless battles, all for the sake of their descendants being able to play happily every day, right? I'm telling you, they'd love for these kids to play here every day! It's only you women who fuss too much, forbidding this and that. If your father-in-law saw his grandson like this, he'd be grinning ear to ear!"
As he spoke, he picked up the child who was climbing on a tombstone, put him on his shoulders, and patted his legs, saying, "Your grandpa can't carry you anymore, I'll carry you!"
The woman fell to her knees before her father-in-law's grave: "I know, I know, but I'm just afraid they'll disturb the ancestors~"
The old soldier grinned and said, "There's nothing to disturb! As long as no one has designs on the Great Tang, or on our Fang Family Manor, no one can disturb them! That being said, we still need to teach them manners!" Fang Er said, walking towards them.
He had heard everything the old soldier and the woman had said. Looking at the mounds of graves before him, his heart was filled with nostalgia.
"Duke!" The old soldier quickly put down the child and bowed to Fang Er.
Fang Er smiled, pulled the child closer, and patted his head, asking, "Whose child are you, and what's your name?"
The child looked up at Fang Er and said in a childish voice, "Reporting to the Duke, my father is Ma Shui, and my name is Ma Miao!"
Fang Er froze upon hearing this. Ma Shui was a battalion commander under Liu Meng. Ma Shui's father, Ma Jiang, was the first to follow him and died in battle outside Pyongyang. Afterwards, Ma Shui took his father's place.
Turning around, he saw Ma Jiang's grave right beside them.
"Do you want to ride a horse?" he asked Ma Miao.
"Mhm! I want to learn to ride a horse, and become a battalion commander like my father!" Ma Miao nodded firmly.
Looking at the child's innocent expression, Fang Er had an idea.
"Alright, tell your little friends, if you want to learn about military strategy, come to the workshop and find Commander Qi. He'll start a class and teach you!"
Qi Sui, who was following along, immediately walked over.
"Did you hear that? From now on, come find me at the workshop."