The matter of the salt lake, from the Yang family's perspective, was wealth.
But could they handle this wealth?
This naturally required capability.
"We, perhaps, cannot force this, can we?" Su Muxian asked.
Ye Tiancheng smiled, "Why me? My relationship with the Yang family is established. Using their name, we can open up our market. In Duogongla City-state, we can first establish ourselves, and then expand our commercial empire."
"In this barbaric era, with advanced knowledge, why not become king?"
"Not interested."
Wang Dahu had no interest in establishing a nation.
"Hmph! By the time you are interested, you might not have the chance. If you don't seize the opportunity, you'll be finished," Su Muxian said.
Ye Tiancheng smiled indifferently.
He wasn't interested in those things anyway. Being able to do what he wanted was already his limit. Not being a salted fish was already quite good.
Ye Tiancheng was very interested in these matters.
"Alright then, I'll pretend I never said anything." Su Muxian smiled strangely, her tone carrying a hint of resentment towards Ye Tiancheng.
Upon hearing this, he could only smile faintly.
Indeed, women were troublesome. But it was good that Su Muxian was here.
He reached out and hugged Su Muxian, saying, "We..."
"Oh. You want to eat me?"
"Yes. In that world, we didn't get married. In this world, if we can, it means our fate, even after many traversals, can still connect us. It cannot be severed."
"I like it when you say that." Su Muxian naturally looked forward to love.
He had too many things he had to do and must do.
In Ye Tiancheng's opinion, this was at least enough to make him happy.
As long as he was happy, anything was fine.
"Everyone hopes for the future, but doesn't know how to grasp the present. Why think so much? The reason we can't think so much is because what we can't do, we can't do."
He smiled as he said this.
Su Muxian also felt it was very true.
But she fell silent.
Duogongla City-state was a place of shifting fortunes.
It looked simple, but in reality, it was very complex.
Because everyone had a path in their heart that was incomprehensible to others, yet they desperately wanted to understand.
At this moment, Ye Tiancheng looked over there, his attention focused on someone he shouldn't be focusing on.
Time for him was something that came and went.
"Strange... why are we so attached to each other?" Su Muxian suddenly asked.
"Don't say it, we are meant to be this way." Ye Tiancheng's mind was blank. Nourished by love, he naturally felt different.
He couldn't say how others felt, but he had to express his own thoughts.
Love, wasn't it warm?
Ye Tiancheng's several elder sisters watched him happily, unsure if they were happy or something else. In any case, people's spirits were like this; they only knew what to cherish after losing it.
"Regarding salt, I don't know what you think, but I feel it will definitely cause a lot of trouble. In the face of profit, everyone is competing. If you're not careful, it will definitely cause a lot of trouble." How could he have expected Su Muxian to say this that day? These were things he should worry about, not things she should worry about.
As someone who desperately wanted to make a name for himself.
As a salted fish, this idea was actually a way to deceive others. He didn't want to make things like this.
Therefore, the models were diverse.
One could not be limited to a single pattern.
"Your five elder sisters are stunningly beautiful."
"My five elder sisters are beautiful, but beautiful women can often have a poisonous effect." He had quite a few opinions on this.
If a person's mood isn't great, it means there's a problem. One's own thoughts often dictate their decisions, closely linked to fate.
However, in this strange world, the feelings he experienced were naturally different from Su Muxian's.
"Do you have any issues yourself?" At this point, he couldn't help but laugh. He found him somewhat unbelievable; how could he be so unaffected in front of so many women?
Ye Tiancheng's words naturally had their meaning.
Su Muxian shook her head upon hearing this, "I don't believe you have no feelings for your elder sisters."
There was a reason why she didn't believe him.
Even at this moment, her mood became very gloomy.
The reason was that she didn't know how to communicate with Ye Tiancheng. Perhaps she was overthinking, and he didn't know that she actually liked him and had no ulterior motives.
The Yang family had already begun their actions, and Ye Tiancheng naturally couldn't just wait to be defeated.
He understood very well that to establish himself in Duogongla City-state, he had to increase his strength.
In the eyes of everyone, only strength could conquer all.
Whether you liked it or not.
Facts were facts, no matter how much one wanted to be a salted fish...
Ye Tiancheng sighed inwardly.
Su Muxian said, "Then what are you thinking about?"
"Nothing."
"I don't believe you." Su Muxian shook her head and looked at Ye Tiancheng, feeling that he wasn't going to tell her the truth.
How could she tell Ye Tiancheng the truth?
For this, she had a purpose, and this purpose seemed destined from the moment of his birth.
"Judging the current situation, I believe we will definitely control them with salt! Once it becomes their necessity, then the world will be ours... right?" Su Muxian then asked.
Ye Tiancheng shook his head and said, "Who knows what the future will hold? But if we don't work hard now, we will truly get nothing."
"I think the key to the problem lies with you?"
"Yes." Ye Tiancheng did not shy away at all. In his opinion, the present was the most important moment. The past was gone, and the future was unpredictable. All he could grasp was the present.
Ye Tiancheng saw that it was getting late and went back to rest.
His five elder sisters were unusually quiet today and did not disturb Ye Tiancheng.
This allowed him to sleep soundly.
Slowly opening his eyes, he felt the aura of this other world. At this moment, an idea surged in Ye Tiancheng's heart; he had to turn his thoughts into a decision.
"Let's go see the salt lake!" Ye Tiancheng's thought was followed by a happy decision.
To transform this desolate land into something he liked, he had to pay a great price, and Ye Tiancheng seemed ready for this price.
No matter what others said, if he could accomplish it, he must accomplish it.
It seemed that in the eyes of others, Ye Tiancheng was an anomaly.
But in the eyes of his five elder sisters, he was a person with great potential for achievement.
"Are we really going like this? Without breakfast?" Sister Si asked, looking at Ye Tiancheng with a strange expression.
It seemed to carry an infinite sense of longing.
Seeing Sister Si's appearance, Ye Tiancheng instinctively jumped up.
"Sister, what are you doing? That look is truly terrifying."
"Terrifying? What am I to you?"
"Sister?" Ye Tiancheng looked at her with a smile, finding her appearance truly beautiful and feeling a bit strange.
Beautiful women, no matter the environment, always appeared beautiful.
Because beauty is the best thing in the human world, and in her worldview, in most cases, it would appear different from others.
"I'm going to the salt lake, will you come with me, Sister?" Ye Tiancheng asked.
"Of course, I must go with you." In Sister Si's view, she had to follow him; if this kid got into any danger, she would be the first to protect him.
In Sister Si's eyes, Ye Tiancheng was the perfect man.
At this moment, her mind was filled with infinite fantasies.
Fantasies of a prince charming.
"We all come from the same world, so we should stick together, right?"
"Yes."
Ye Tiancheng agreed with this idea without much thought.
This idea combined strangely in Ye Tiancheng's mind; he didn't want it at all, because what would this bring?
No one could imagine the future...
"You are truly timid."
"What?" Ye Tiancheng was surprised that Sister Si would say that and was stunned.
If she said anything else, he wouldn't have any thoughts, but at this moment, he felt he had to make Sister Si understand why he was a timid person.
In her opinion, Ye Tiancheng was a timid fellow, and that feeling made her heart churn.
No matter what, love was a very boring thing.
Once you fall in love with someone, everything becomes chaotic.
Even, you might feel like you are being controlled by some mysterious force.
The salt lake was about five kilometers away from the villa.
Soon, Ye Tiancheng and Sister Si arrived there. The scenery of the entire mountain was breathtakingly beautiful.
Looking at this scene, Sister Si's heart was filled with infinite joy.
"It seems like we are waiting for a miracle?"
"What?"
"Fool," Sister Si wanted to say, but it was suppressed at this moment.
Because she didn't make him understand, she could only smile awkwardly.
Facing being ridiculed, Ye Tiancheng could only accept it.
Could he only accept it?
Of course, he had thought of everything he could, and everything he couldn't. What else could limit him at this moment?
Because he was already married to Su Muxian.
Nominally, it was a legitimate marriage.
In Sister Si's heart, that bitterness was only understood by her.
She desperately wanted to explain, but she couldn't.
Sister Si's heart was filled with bitterness, which she could only bear herself.
She couldn't tell Ye Tiancheng.
She couldn't, because that might make their relationship awkward.
Ye Tiancheng knew, but he pretended not to know anything.
Only by remaining ignorant could the current situation be maintained.
Ye Tiancheng understood, so he didn't say anything. He only observed the environment, worried that the Yang family or other families might cause trouble.
This was the foundation of his livelihood.
He couldn't let others destroy it.
Thinking of this, his mental state completely changed.
At this moment, he naturally focused his attention on observing.
Suddenly, Ye Tiancheng discovered a huge rock at the water outlet that was blocking the flow of the salt lake's water to Sister Si's villa.
"Damn, there's a giant rock!" Ye Tiancheng's first thought was that someone was sabotaging it. But after carefully examining the terrain, he realized it was a misunderstanding.
"There was a heavy rain yesterday, the giant rock must have rolled down from the mountain?" Sister Si said.
Ye Tiancheng shook his head, "The giant rock has already been cleared. It shouldn't be appearing on the channel we opened..."
Sister Si said, "Then what do you think?"
"Of course, we need to investigate before making a judgment."
So he headed upwards.
Because it had rained, it was very muddy.
Sister Si slipped accidentally, so he instinctively rushed forward and put an arm around her waist.
This touch gave Ye Tiancheng a silky feeling.
Warm, intimate... a psychological feeling that made him tingle all over...
"You..."
Although Sister Si outwardly and verbally refused, in her heart, she savored that feeling and wished it could continue indefinitely, allowing her to feel this warmth infinitely.
Unfortunately, their moment could not last.
For Ye Tiancheng, he could not develop feelings for Sister Si.
What would that mean for Su Muxian?
He could only like one person in this lifetime. Otherwise, he would be called a philanderer.
He did not want to bear this reputation...
Ye Tiancheng, who was investigating the situation on the mountain, found the surrounding conditions very strange. Rather than the rocks being loosened by the rain, it seemed to be unnatural, because the huge rocks in the vicinity had already been broken by Ye Tiancheng when he was excavating the channel earlier.
There were only small stones.
He had previously considered that large rocks might fall and block the channel.
Therefore, he had already crushed the giant rocks before.
Why was there such a massive rock?
This reason must be investigated.
His greatest fear was that other families were playing tricks.
That would be troublesome, but after patrolling for a while, he found no abnormalities, which he found very strange. Such a situation should have a problem somewhere, but he couldn't figure it out at all.
Ye Tiancheng could not be stuck here.
Sister Si saw his silent expression and the distressed look on his face, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know what's wrong, but I just can't figure out the situation. I feel so stupid."
At the same time, among the four major families, many people had begun to realize that the salt Ye Tiancheng was producing would become a necessity. In other words, whoever controlled the salt controlled money. In this barbaric era, without salt.
Ye Tiancheng knew what was good, but the key problem was to thoroughly investigate this matter to find the instigator.
"Actually, I suspect someone from the four major families is causing trouble, but you don't believe me..."
"Those families should have seen my capabilities. They shouldn't be trying to stir up trouble. That would lead to the destruction of their families."
Sister Si quickly laughed. She found this guy truly strange; he could never feel others' pain, only his own. She worried about Ye Tiancheng too much, which was why she cared about him every day and every moment.
Unfortunately, it's often the case that when others care too much about you, you don't care about them.
The most painful thing in this world is to treat others' concern as worthless. Ye Tiancheng was such a person, so he never truly understood what Sister Si was enduring in her heart.
Moving forward, he saw no clues because the rain had washed away all traces. Because the riverbed was flooded, the salt-making process today was impossible.
The situation had become completely beyond their expectations.
"I didn't expect that nothing we do goes smoothly."
"This is very normal. If you go further down, you will encounter even stronger opponents. Duogongla City-state is already like this. If you go to other big cities, our initial path will encounter even more obstacles."
"Should we, as traversers, unite and resist together?"
Sister Si asked quickly.
"This issue has been considered many times," Sister Si shrugged and smiled.
Ye Tiancheng smiled helplessly.
He knew that none of the four major families were easy to deal with.
What they wanted was not just salt.
There was likely something else, but Ye Tiancheng had not yet detected it.
"First, let's remove the giant rock from the channel, and then we need to assign people to manage the channel's water flow."
Sister Si strongly agreed with Ye Tiancheng's words.
"We traversers must form an alliance, otherwise we cannot get what we want." Sister Si really wanted to establish a Home for Traversers.
"Distribute flyers? Summon them?" Ye Tiancheng smiled.
"Paper has already been manufactured, so naturally, we will adopt this strategy."
In his opinion, this was not a problem at all.
Therefore, he felt it was very good.
Since it was a good choice, then so be it.
No matter what others thought, her thoughts were naturally different from theirs.
Ye Tiancheng thought that such a grand promotion would surely pose a greater threat to those families that were already uneasy.
They would definitely not agree.
"In that case, won't those families strongly oppose it?" Ye Tiancheng said.
Upon hearing this, Sister Si nodded, "Otherwise? What do you think will happen if you do nothing? Will they let you go?"
This statement was very accurate.
Even if they didn't do anything to you, they would absolutely not let Ye Tiancheng and the others off easily.