[R18] Will drink wine – “About Wine” Chapter 256 [English]

Chapter 245, Station

At two o’clock in the morning, the stars hung over the plains.

Xiao Chiye stood on the sand dune, drinking the rest of the drink and going immediately.The strong liquor rushed down his throat, and he swallowed slowly, letting the spiciness stay in his mouth for a long time.The wind will intensify after nightfall, and the yellow sand buries the horses’ hooves in the waves. After two moments, Xiao Chiye sees Hai Rigu returning.

Hai Rigu dismounted, took off the veil covering his mouth and nose, turned his head and spat a few mouthfuls of sand, and said, “Dalantai agreed.”

Xiao Chiye didn’t speak, but Chen Yang from behind asked, “What conditions did you say?”

“We gave him the grassland east of Suotian Pass. That is the homeland of the Bear Tribe. Dalantai wants to go back.”

“You gave them a broad field of grass.” Xiao Chiye said repeatedly.

Hai Rigu raised his hands slightly and said to Xiao Chiye: “The master wants to give the territory to the Bears and Snakes. It is more fertile. I think my negotiation is more cost-effective.”

“The Territory of the Viper Tribe is close to Libei, and it will be easier to control the Bear Tribe there. This is the result Lan Zhou wants, but you pushed them back to the east side of Xuefeng.” Xiao Chiye tightened the wine bag and threw it to Chen Yang next to him, “There are no eyes on the east side of Xuefeng to keep an eye on them.”

Hai Rigu chased for a few steps, followed Xiao Chiye, and said: “As long as the Bear tribe is nostalgic, no matter how fertile the territory of the Viper tribe is, it will be difficult to shake their determination. Second Master, only the east side of Xuefeng can impress Dalantai. Besides, the grass there is almost disappearing, and they will still have to move north after all.”

“You are playing tricks,” Chenyang leaned sideways and blocked Hairigu with his chest. He raised his arms to keep the distance, preventing Hairigu from continuing to chase Xiao Chiye. “You didn’t talk to Dalantai about the territory of the Qing Mouse tribe.”

As a bait, the territory of the Green Rat Tribe was also a bargaining chip for Zhongbo. In Shen Zechuan’s budget, Hairigu should first discuss the Territory of the Green Rat Tribe with Dalantai, and finally throw out the Territory of the Viper Tribe, but Hairigu did not do this.

Xiao Chiye was already on his horse, but Chenyang was still blocking Hai Rigu.

Hai Rigu couldn’t push Chen Yang away. He walked around irritably on the spot. He opened his arms helplessly to Chen Yang and said, “You should go and chat with Dalantai yourself to see if he will follow your guess.”

Chenyang straightened Hai Rigu’s crooked sword and said, “He has left as you guessed. If you want the territory of the Viper Tribe, Lord Fu will naturally give it to you, but not in this way. You have been with Lord Fu for so long, but you don’t understand your master at all.”

Hai Rigu seemed not to want to argue with Chen Yang, so he turned around and turned his back to Chen Yang.

Chen Yang took a few steps back to chase Xiao Chiye’s horse.

Hai Rigu faced the plains and said in Biansha at this moment: “You act very pious like a dog.”

After he finished speaking, he turned around and smiled at Chenyang, as if nothing happened.

Chen Yang stepped on the saddle and smiled at Hai Rigu. When turning the horse’s head, he also replied in Biansha dialect: “The envious eyes of a bastard are also very pious.”

Fuck!

Hai Rigu was startled by Chen Yang’s Biansha dialect, which was close to the accent of the Viper tribe. Before he arrived here, no one in Zhongbo could understand his Biansha dialect.

“There’s nothing outstanding about me, except that I learned Biansha dialect very quickly. The accent you learned in Gedal is the Yingying tribe’s accent, which is actually not very nice.” Chen Yang said politely, “If you bark again, I’ll smash your head.”

Hai Rigu was caught off guard and nodded obediently, watching Chen Yang ride away with dust on his face.

* * *

Xiao Chiye returned to the border county and did not find Qi Zhuyin in the tent. He walked around and saw the commander in another tent.Qi Zhuyin just woke up. Hearing the noise, he turned around and whistled at Xiao Chiye.

Xiao Chiye held the Langlu Dao, neither advancing nor retreating.

The rouge between Qi Zhuyin’s lips was half-painted, and the pads of her two little fingers were stained with red. However, she was not applying it herself, but leaned over and handed it to Hua Xiangyi.Hua Xiangyi raised her body and carefully applied the rouge on the Marshal’s lips evenly.

“…This color is really nice,” Hua Xiangyi’s voice was soft and gentle. “It matches the handsome man just right. It’s not conspicuous at night.” She applied the last bit and asked Xiao Chiye with a sideways smile, “Does it look good?”

Xiao Chiye crossed his arms and looked at it for a long time. He rarely hesitated and said, “…it’s okay.”

It’s not that Qi Zhuyin has never put on makeup. She always puts on makeup when she is at home or in court uniform when attending banquets. However, despite Xiao Chiye’s excellent eyesight, he could not tell that this rouge was any different from what the Marshal usually wears.

“You don’t understand.” Hua Xiangyi used her slender fingers to open the veil on her knees. Inside was a small hollow mirror with beads. She picked it up and showed it to Qi Zhuyin.

Qi Zhuyin wiped her hands with the handkerchief. In the mirror, she could only see her lips and chin. She smiled and said, “It looks good.”

Xiao Chiye waited for a moment, and then Qi Zhuyin lowered the curtain and came out.

“The eldest lady is here to settle accounts with me.” Qi Zhuyin said.

Xiao Chiye coughed into the empty night and said, “Oh…”

Xiao Chiye looked sideways at Qi Zhuyin.The handsome man is young, but not young anymore. At least for a woman, she has long passed the marriageable age.Xiao Jiming and Lu Guangbai had a good relationship with her, but they never asked about her marriage because everyone knew that Qi Zhuyin could not marry.

“Third Miss is very good at mental arithmetic. I heard about it when I was in Qudu. The accounts in your house are complicated, and having her help is like a tiger’s wings.”

“The Queen Mother has fallen. She is not as good as before in Qidong. After Xue Yan’s investigation, Trent City is Dicheng. The Hua family is in danger. I won’t let her stay by my side. I’m afraid that my aunt at home will make trouble.” Qi Zhuyin still smelled of powder. She did not continue with this explanation, but joked, “Besides, I like girls so much.”

Xiao Chiye stood still, and the two of them had already climbed onto the city wall.

“Your scorpion is back.” Qi Zhuyin said.

Xiao Chiye pointed to the southeast and said: “There are bears willing to make way for you. They want to retreat to the grassy fields east of Suotian Pass and return to their original place.”

Qi Zhuyin’s raised face was reflected in the firelight. Hua Xiangyi was right. This color of rouge was inconspicuous and was stained by the night, just like Qi Zhuyin’s original color.She looked playful and said, “Dalantai is stupid.”

Abandoning the territory of the Blue Rat Tribe and returning to the east side of the snow wind that had been buried by the yellow sand was something only a fool would do.

“He is not stupid,” Xiao Chiye said, “he wants to make way for you and wants you to go around to Gedal. When you get to Gedal, he will be the hand blocking your retreat. At that time, he can make any demands on you.”

“Dalantai is still a fool, because both you and I can see such a simple and easy-to-understand tactic.” Qi Zhuyin tapped the side of her arm with her fingertips, and she looked into the depths of the night. “You have been hanging out with Lu Guangbai for a long time, and you have learned all his ‘rustic’ ways. You want to dig three feet deep when you stand on the ground. You wish you could remember the terrain of thousands of miles around, but ignore the tribe itself.”

Qi Zhuyin walked around Xiao Chiye, supported the wall stack, climbed up lightly, stepped on the gap, and bent down to inspect the crossbow on the wall.

“Dalantai will make way for me. I guess he won’t stop me. There are not that many soldiers in the Xiong tribe, so Dalantai can only choose to concentrate his troops, otherwise he will not be able to withstand attacks from either side.”

Xiao Chiye thought for a moment and said, “Are you saying that Dalantai will concentrate its forces to attack other places?”

“When I leave the border county, half of the 40,000 garrison here will leave. Without Lu Guangbai, there will be no generals who can fight back and forth with them. How long will it take if we don’t attack now?” Qi Zhuyin said.

“That’s not cost-effective, sister,” Xiao Chiye said, “Since Dalantai doesn’t have enough troops, if he defeats the border county, you will return soon. He will also be attacked by the Cangjun garrison in the rear, and will not be able to defend the border county at all. He went through all the trouble to get here, not just for food like Hasen.”

Qi Zhuyin straightened up and his hair was messed up by the wind when he turned his head.She did not continue the deduction like Lu Guangbai did, but said: “Then let’s try it.”

* * *

After Xiao Chiye left the battlefield, Li Bei showed signs of fatigue. However, Hasen’s fierce attack did not weaken. Lu Guangbai could only hold back the order and let Luoshan step up his guard.Duanzhou’s eagle eyes could not see the Chashi River, and Huo Lingyun quietly left Duanzhou at this time.

Huo Lingyun’s team consisted of very few people. They were all Jin Yiwei. They were taciturn, carried simple luggage, and rode ponies captured from Achi.They rested at sunrise and moved after sunset, heading north along the Tea Stone River.

The wind was very dry tonight, and Huo Lingyun drank the last drop of water in the water bag.He wiped his mouth, sat on the horse and looked forward.

It would be nice if that annoying guy Fei Sheng was here.

Huo Lingyun hung the water bag back on the horse. He didn’t have Fei Sheng’s insight and seemed very slow in the dark, but he could only move at night.

“Where are we going?” The Jin Yiwei who followed Huo Lingyun took off his wind collar and drank water. “We have been walking north for five days.”

“We will stay here,” Huo Lingyun said, “until we can walk out with our eyes closed.”

When they go north to a place close to Shasanying, they will turn back, but they will not return to Duanzhou. Instead, they will continue north along the original path, and so on.The Jin Yiwei were silent. They had been scolded by Qiao Tianya before leaving, so no one refuted Huo Lingyun on the way.

Ponies have great endurance and can walk in the Gobi Desert for several days without getting tired.Their thick necks look awkward, but Jin Yiwei has become accustomed to its speed that doesn’t match its appearance. These are good horses.

At dawn, Huo Lingyun stopped by the river, let his horse drink water, and squatted beside him to wash his face.

The cold river water in the early morning is refreshing when it hits your face.

Huo Lingyun opened the water bag and pressed it into the river. Amid the “gurgling” sound, he suddenly saw the dark red rolling out.He pressed his fingers down and touched something cold but soft, followed by dark red and black hair.

“Dead man!” Jin Yiwei, who was also washing his face, shouted, pulled his hair and pulled the body out of the water.

Huo Lingyun turned over the corpse. The corpse’s face was swollen. He wrung out the mud and identified the corpse.

“The armor has been taken off,” Jin Yiwei said quickly, “people die in the upper class.”

Huo Lingyun pulled off his clothes, stood up suddenly, and said, “…This is a cavalry.”

* * *

On the horse road connecting Luoshan to Shasanying, Mercedes-Benz rode an iron horse. It was teetering on the bumps, leaving long blood stains on the ground where the horse’s hooves passed.The helmet obscured his face, and he was just an unknown soldier.He moved his lips, but could only make breathy sounds.

“Horse…”

The horse galloped into the post station fifty miles away to the south of Shasanying, and he fell down and hit the ground.

“The racecourse please…”

He persisted until this point and died before he finished speaking.As long as he reaches here, it is a victory. The cavalry at the post station will immediately pass the news to Shasan Camp, and reinforcements will go south.However, there was deathly silence in the inn. There were corpses everywhere, including the eagle in the eagle room. There was no one alive here.

The heat wave floated, and there was not even a bird chirping.