[R18] Will drink wine – “About Wine” Chapter 118 [English]

Chapter 114 The Fire

Lei Jingzhe squatted beside the pig pen with a bowl in hand. After being hungry all day, he stuffed all the hard-earned rice noodles into his mouth and swallowed them hard.There was a subordinate squatting next to him. He was a kid about the same age as Ding Tao, but he was as strong as a calf, and he ate as fiercely as Lei Jingzhe.

A man stuck his head out of the open window of the kitchen, tapped the edge of the pot with a frying spoon, and shouted: “There is still some soup left, do you want to eat it? If you do, just come and pick it up!”

“Eat, eat, eat!” Before Li Xiong could swallow the corn noodles in his mouth, he hurriedly got up and ran to the window. Wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, he put the bowl to the side of the pot, his eyes never leaving the clear soup.

“The appetite is so big,” the cook scraped the bottom of the pot, “If your brother can find a job, he won’t be so hungry!”

“My brother is going to do something big!” Li Xiong saw that the soup was about to leak from the edge, so he wiped it around with his fingers, put it in his mouth and sucked it clean.

The cook was also a strong man. He pulled off his apron and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Seeing that he looked like a tiger, he wiped it with him, and said disgustedly: “His face is as dark as the bottom of a pot, and there is no one to take care of him at home. Hey, what are you busy with all day long? Clean up the children too!”

Lei Jingzhe showed an honest smile to the cook, chewing pickles in his mouth.Li Xiong trotted over, poured the soup into Lei Jingzhe’s bowl as if offering a treasure, and said enthusiastically: “Brother, you eat!”

“Good boy!” Lei Jingzhe was not polite, raised his head and drank it in one gulp.After he finished drinking, he looked at the sun above his head, making him sweat.He squeezed his stinging eyes, moved his feet, and cursed in a low voice: “Fuck you mother!”

“Fuck you, mother.” Li Xiong followed suit and stood up to shield Lei Jingzhe from the sun.

Lei Jingzhe put his arms on his knees and asked, “What’s it like outside?”

Li Xiong stretched his neck and looked around, and whispered: “Still checking!”

Lei Jingzhe looked irritated, he lowered his head, revealing a scorpion tattoo on the back of his neck, sweating.He dispersed after escaping from Cizhou. He only took a stupid boy he raised by himself to the towns along the official road. He sat and watched the imperial troops being walked away, waiting for Xiao Chiye to lose patience and disperse his troops to chase him.Unexpectedly, Xiao Chiye was not impatient at all, but instead set off this fire along the road, causing people everywhere to panic.

“Brother, the reward from the Forbidden Army is so small,” Li Xiong wondered, “It’s not even enough for brothers to eat and drink, so why are there so many people going!”

“It’s just because there are so few,” Lei Jingzhe said, with bright eyes under his sweaty eyebrows, “the price offered by this person is just right.”

If Xiao Chiye directly reduces the reward to a few taels of silver, ordinary people may not be willing to pay for his eyes.Zhongbo has been plagued by disasters in recent years, and the bandits are overbearing. The higher the price, the harder it is to do it. If you don’t guarantee it, you will lose your life, but a few coins are worth it.As long as you find traces of bandits and inform the Forbidden Army, no one will know about it.A few handfuls of copper coins, it’s normal to spend them later. Even if these bandits turned back to seek revenge, they couldn’t find anyone.

“Then what should we do?” Li Xiong was covered in sweat from the sun, and he looked at Lei Jingzhe, “Brother, why don’t you do it! There are only 20,000 people.”

Lei Jingzhe was also anxious. He knew Xiao Chiye’s intentions very clearly. Xiao Chiye just wanted to force them to be restless and could no longer hide them.But he was very clear-headed. He knew that the people he brought with him were all fought against the mob in the two eastern states. They had not received the training of the regular army. Once the existing advantages were abandoned, they would be beaten to death by the well-equipped Forbidden Army.However, hiding is no longer an option. If Lei Jingzhe can hide, can those subordinates who are used to yelling and drinking be able to bear it?

Lei Jingzhe was sweating, staring at the dirt at his feet, and said: “This guy is a bit shady, and he won’t play with me according to the set of benevolence and morality. I think he didn’t set up defenses to the north at all, just to squeeze us through. He knew that the north was Libei, so he was betting that we wouldn’t dare to go.”

But hey mom!

Lei Jingzhe spat in frustration,

He really doesn’t dare to go!

“Wait one more night,” Lei Jingzhe suddenly stood up and said, “Go and tell Liu’er to inform the brothers who are still in the town tonight. If the situation is not right, we will leave. At worst, we will retreat to Luoshan first. I have plenty of energy to waste with Xiao Chi!”

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Xiao Chiye was eating. He ordered some steamed buns, which were also served with pickles.The man sat on the wooden post where the horse was tied and watched the soldiers hand out notes in exchange for copper coins to the people who came to report the news.

“Master,” Tantai Hu came over and said, “he is really good at scattering people everywhere. How do you make orders? You can’t knock on the door one by one.”

“As a bandit leader, he naturally has his own tricks.” Xiao Chiye said, scratching his shoulder, “Haidongqing, who was raised in Libei, can also quickly convey military information.”

“A lot of people have been arrested,” Tantaihu said, “What should we do with them?”

Xiao Chiye said: “Kill.”

Tantai Hu turned around and looked at the other side, then looked at Xiao Chiye, and whispered: “But I heard that some of them are sons of good families. Kill them all?”

Xiao Chiye looked at Tantai Hu and said, “Since we went to Luoshan and joined Lei Jingzhe’s command, we should have thought of such a day. I am here to suppress bandits, and there is no reason to be merciful to the enemy. Besides, let me ask you, everyone has the same mouth, and they all say that they are from good families. Which one do you believe and which one do you not believe?”

Tantaihu remained silent.

Xiao Chiye stood up, looked at Meng Fei away, and said, “I know you are thinking of the Biansha Cavalry, but tiger, please don’t use your benevolence and righteousness in the wrong place. You have been in the army for a long time. I don’t need to say these words specifically. Can’t you understand it yourself?”

The tiger in Tantai is hanging down and its head is kneeling.

“Stand still,” Xiao Chiye patted He on the shoulder, “You are a general leading troops now, not a flag guarding the city gate at the gate of Dengzhou. Don’t put yourself in the wrong place.”

Xiao Chiye is very generous, but he is also quite harsh.The guards around him know how to advance and retreat. The last time Chen Yang sat back and ignored him, he could make Chen Yang feel more uncomfortable than being whipped.However, guards and generals are two different things. Why doesn’t Xiao Chiye let Chen Yang lead the troops?It was obvious that Zhao Hui beside Xiao Jiming was a fierce general, but he obviously had other considerations.

Xiao Chiye didn’t get angry or change his expression, but Tantai Hu already looked ashamed.None of them could figure out Xiao Chiye’s true mood and anger, but in such a relaxed tone, he had already begun to reflect on himself.