Great Sui Storyteller

Chapter 372 371.7 million heads cannot be less

into the night.

Huozhou.

It was obvious that the Sui army was outside the city, but Wu Duan'er, who was still smelling of alcohol, returned to his city lord's mansion.

When he arrived at the door, he waved to several generals who helped him back:
"Let's send it here, let the brothers work harder tonight, and don't relax the patrol. If there is any change in the Sui army, let me know as soon as possible!"

"Yes, chief!"

Several generals led the order and left, and Wu Duan'er, who was shaking after drinking, stepped into the door of the backyard, and the original drunkenness disappeared with the wind.

Although his face was still a little red and his breathing was a little heavy, at least he didn't look drunk when he walked.

Enter the door, enter the house.

The house was dark.

Unlike the situation where there are a few bed-warming women in each room under his subordinates, there is not even a maid in the back house of the huge mansion.

It was dark and lonely.

But in this solitude, he did not hold a lamp, and walked to the table with the help of the moonlight outside, picked up the teapot and was about to pour himself a cup of tea, but suddenly realized that the pot was not cold, but warm, His expression froze.

"..."

Amid the stiffness, he heard an old voice:
"Drinking alcohol hurts the body. If you drink some cold tea, you will worry about the wind and cold. The weather is not warm yet. This old man helped the commander change the temperature of the herbal tea without authorization. I hope the commander will not blame him."

The voice came along with a masked old man stepping out of the darkness.

The old man was not tall and tall, and he was dressed in night clothes, with a black scarf covering his face.

He walked out step by step in the darkness, and sat opposite Wu Duan'er.

Wu Duan'er said nothing.

Just watching this uninvited guest come in front of me...hesitated for a while, and took a second cup from the tea tray.

The sound of water passed, and the teacup was filled.

"Please."

As he spoke, he didn't care whether the other party drank or not, he raised his head and drank a cup of warm tea by himself.

But because he poured too much tea, when he was holding the cup, a lot of water was spilled, it fell on the armor on his body, and got into his clothes along the gaps in the iron plates.

And the old man's calm voice sounded again:
"It is forbidden to pour tea full because the tea is boiling hot. If it is too full, it will easily burn you if it is spilled. And because if you don't want to spill it on your clothes, the only way is to lower your head and drink some, and then pick it up again. However, heaven and earth In the meantime, only livestock bow their heads to drink water, so if the tea is too full, it is considered humiliating. But it is a big faux pas." (Note 1)

Hearing this, Wu Duan'er suddenly showed a somewhat sarcastic smile.

He picked up the cup of tea that he had given to the old man, poured it all into his own cup, then picked up the teapot and refilled a cup of tea that was [-]% full.

Then, for some reason, he made a movement.

His fingers circled around his neck, as if describing a rope around his neck.Then he grasped it in the void, and made a pulling appearance.

I don't know what it means.

Then he drank the tea in his cup in one gulp, and let out a breath of alcohol heavily.

"call……"

Alcohol gushed out.

He didn't even look at the old man. After he got up, he didn't even take off his armor, and went directly to the bed and lay down. The whole bedroom suddenly became quiet.

The old man doesn't mind either.

He took off the face towel on his own.

The face of Li Zhong, the housekeeper of the Minister's Mansion, was revealed.

Holding the teacup, facing the bed sideways, he said in a flat voice:
"If you fail today, to boost morale tomorrow, you will send your own soldiers to fight against each other. At the same time, you will send [-] infantry to fight against you. At that time, a battalion of people will fight with you. These people are all rich and hungry, and your personal soldiers will fight in an hour. Kill them all within one day. Afterwards, the Sui army will call for gold and withdraw, and your name will spread throughout the north and south of the river."

"..."

There was silence in the room.

Li Zhong continued:

"The battle of Huozhou, at least, you have to fight for 20 days. During these 20 days, the two sides will win and lose each other. The 20 soldiers under your command will be consumed to only [-] soldiers in these [-] days. By then I will come and set a date with you to win or lose."

"..."

After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for Wu Duan'er to respond, and even ignored whether the other party was asleep, and got up to leave.

But at the moment when his hand was about to touch the door, in the room, a voice that could clearly perceive something suppressed in the darkness sounded:

"Could it be that [-] lives were needed to achieve this victory! This is different from what was said at the time!"

Li Zhong's hand that had been placed on the door slowly let go.

Turn your head.

There was a look of sarcasm in the eyes of the old man:

"What? The Commander thinks it's too much? ... Oh, that's right, my lord once agreed with you that at most 1 people will die, right? But you disobeyed orders and recruited another [-] soldiers without permission. How to deal with it?"

After asking this question, there was a low growl that suppressed the anger to the extreme:
"They took refuge in me themselves!"

"Own?"

The sarcasm in the old man's eyes turned into a mockery:

"Your soldiers are rioting in the east of the river, robbing food and money. During the spring plowing, seven out of ten grains in Hedong County have been turned into your army rations. Except for Chai Baochang of Jiangzhou, the Hejin generation The land is barren this year because there are no grain seeds, and it is already a certainty.

Everyone understands the principle of exhausting water to catch fish, but it is also an iron fact that no one will care about the life and death of others for the sake of the one bite in their own bowl.Without grain seeds, no grain can be grown, and before the autumn harvest, these more than 2 farmers who were suffering from haha ​​will starve to death!Is there any other way besides relying on you? "

"..."

In the darkness, the beast's breathing became heavier and heavier.

Anger, unwillingness, and killing intent mixed together, filling the entire room.

However, the ridicule in the eyes of the old man grew stronger:

"Before my lord left, I had three letters with you, telling you all the ways to recuperate. The reason is that after your death, the people in Hedong will not have the scene of starving and dying. Can you read it? Can you use it? The land is not like this, in order to maintain stability, do you know how much effort the adults have expended, just to give you the name of an uprising hero on the side of the people? When you die, let the people support you from the bottom of their hearts and pay homage to you , remember you, even sad for you, shed tears for you!
The results of it?You forcibly transformed yourself from a hero to a bandit leader who everyone wants to eat flesh and blood!Not to mention the waste of our hard work, yes... more than 2 more mouths to eat, more than 2 soldiers, the grand commander's momentum is more than monstrous?It's just...you've forgotten one of the most basic truths.It was the oath I made when I knelt down and repented in front of my lord. "

Looking at the figure sitting on the bed in the darkness at some time, a murderous intent that was more angry than angry, and more brutal than murderous intent lingered in the bedroom:

"Commander Wu, if you do something wrong, you will be punished. You can't restrain the personal morality of your subordinates, and turn a blind eye to the people who are harmed by these moths in a county, but now, you are like a saint. The pickled thing is begging for forgiveness? The matter that could have been solved by killing more than 1 innocent people, but because of your connivance, it has now become impossible to stop if you don’t kill enough heads. You short-sighted and stupid people Do you regret it now? It's too late!"

As the word "too late" came out, amidst the creaking sound of the wooden beams of the house because they did not see the pressure, Li Zhong said word by word:

"7 heads! One head must be lost! Otherwise... you will wait to meet your wife and children under the Nine Springs."

"you dare!!!!!"

"Boom!..."

At the moment when Wu Duan'er came out in anger, and was about to slash horizontally with a weapon in his hand, the teacup that had only taken a sip rose up without wind, and hit Wu Duan'er's chest in an instant.

Protected by armor, Wu Duan'er was not injured, but was hit by the cup on his chest, flew upside down on the spot, and hit the bed heavily.

And the tea in the cup happened to be splashed on his face.

Turned into a piece of ice cold.

Quenched the anger in his heart.

Looking at the house...

Where is the shadow of Li Zhong?
"..."

Regardless of the dripping water on his face, Wu Duan'er stared at the empty room in a daze.

But the strange thing is...

From the beginning to the end, whether it was the sound of drinking or the sound of the cup falling, it should have been extremely deafening in this quiet mansion, and the soldiers guarding the mansion outside should have come in long ago.

Rather...

They looked calm around outside the city lord's mansion.

It was as if nothing had been heard.

After a while...

In the mansion, there was a sad smile first, and finally turned into a suppressed sob.

At last……

nothing left.

……

Jiangzhou.

In a seemingly elegant courtyard.

Xue Rulong leaned against a wooden pillar in front of the corridor, looking at the woman sitting on the roof drinking wine and admiring the moon, her eyes were full of pity.

After looking at the sky, he hesitated for a moment, and took a few steps forward:
"My lord, the night... is getting late."

"..."

The woman in the room was speechless.

Just leaning against the bricks and tiles and continuing to drink without sip.

Seeing this, he had to increase the volume:

"My lord, it is late at night."

"..."

The woman in white glanced at him and waved her hand.

meaning is:

"You can go to sleep."

But Xue Rulong didn't seem to understand, and cupped his hands:

"It's time to rest!"

"..."

The woman in white immediately ignored him.

But Xue Rulong seemed to have committed a crime today, and his voice was three points louder:
"Your Excellency has not slept for four days. It is already late at night, please rest."

"Xue Rulong."

"……exist."

"If you continue to be so wordy, I will find you a random woman in Jiangzhou to marry."

"..."

The man said nothing.

It's just that the eyes are extremely firm and reveal a meaning:
"It's time to rest!"

One on top and one on bottom.

The people above continued to drink, while the people below continued to watch.

After a while, it seemed that she couldn't resist the complaining eyes of the other party, or maybe it was because the jug was empty, and the woman in white, who was sure that there would be no more drop, glanced at her subordinate again.

Obviously... Just looking at the other party like this, wanting him to add another pot to me is probably just a dream.

Shaking his head helplessly and regretfully, the white clothes fell down.

The woman who hadn't closed her eyes for four days seemed extremely reluctant to part with the gentle moonlight in the sky. After standing and watching with her subordinates for a while, just when Xue Rulong couldn't help but speak again, he heard a sentence:
"You said...that Taoist went day and night to be a cow and a horse for the people of the whole county, but he didn't leave any reputation. He made an appearance of a god in vain but didn't know who to worship. Why?"

These words seem to be chatting with the other party.

But Xue Rulong didn't understand the slightest bit of amorous feelings:
"My lord, it's late at night, please go to rest."

"..."

At this moment, a little dissatisfaction finally appeared in the woman's eyes.

But Xue Rulong couldn't see it at all, but his eyes were full of persistence.

"...Come on, let's go. It's really playing the piano to the cow!"

The self-defeating woman flicked her sleeves and went straight back to the house.

for a long time.

A sigh in the courtyard:
"Ugh……"

(Note 1: The rules of drinking tea were actually improved little by little later. Strictly speaking, our current way of drinking tea started in the Ming Dynasty. Tang and Song Dynasties also played with the practice of sencha. But this book is an empty book Well, everything is based on me, you don’t have to be serious.)
(End of this chapter)