The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 103 Entering the Camp
In the 22nd year of Jian'an (217 AD), the first month of spring.

Sun Quan raised his head from the mountain of official documents, put down the pen in his hand, and felt as if he had fallen into a hole in the ice. Unable to get up, the blood vessels at the temples were tense and throbbing slowly, and the corners of his eyes twitched involuntarily.

"Alas—" Sun Quan sighed a long time, patted his numb legs, turned his neck vigorously twice, and there was a clicking sound from the cervical spine, as if it was a rusty crossbow that might break at any time .

"Ali, rub it for me." Sun Quan groaned and closed his eyes: "It's really uncomfortable."

Gu Li walked quickly behind him, skillfully put his hands on Sun Quan's shoulders, and gently kneaded them.Sun Quan's shoulders were cold and hard, and his muscles seemed to have lost their elasticity.Gu Li sighed, and said softly: "My lord, you haven't slept all night, you'd better rest for a while, or you won't be able to stand it."

The corners of Sun Quan's mouth twitched, and he said nothing. After a while, he sighed: "I want to too, but I can't."

Gu Li didn't speak.As Sun Quan's personal attendant, he is very aware of the burden on Sun Quan's shoulders.Cao Cao's [-] troops are in the north of the Yangtze River, and the battalion is more than ten miles away. Yesterday, it was approaching Juchao, and the battle was imminent.The atmosphere in the camp was very tense. As the coach, Sun Quan's psychological pressure is self-evident.

"Lv Yi, is there any news from Jiangbei?" Sun Quan was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, his voice was a little dry and uneasy.

Lu Yi, who had been kneeling and sitting silently by the side, put down his pen in response, cupped his hands and replied, "Return to the Supreme, no."

Sun Quan raised his eyelids and saw that Lv Yi's face was exhausted and his eye circles were a little dark, but his eyes were still energetic, so he nodded in satisfaction.Suddenly his heart moved, he raised his hand and patted Gu Li's hand lightly: "Ali, bring some wine and food, and bring some for Bodao."

Gu Li hurried to go, not long after, followed by two servants, one of them held a table in his hand, each with a jug of wine, a cauldron of soup, and two plates of preserved meat, the aroma of hot meat soup immediately filled the air. The big tent added a bit of heating to the cold big tent.

Lu Yi looked at the food table in front of him, his nose sore, and he almost shed tears.He quickly bowed down on the ground: "I thank you for the food."

"Eat, you don't need to be polite, you have worked hard all night. Eat warm and go to rest for a while." Sun Quan waved his hand and did not say much. I felt a lot more comfortable, and a burst of rare pleasure emerged spontaneously.He sighed comfortably, then grabbed the bamboo chopsticks and paused on the table, picked up a piece of preserved meat and put it in his mouth, and then took a sip of the meat soup. It didn't take much effort, one pot of soup, two plates of dried meat After eating, the cold all over the body disappeared, and it was warm and very comfortable.He put down the bamboo chopsticks, took the towel handed over by Gu Li and wiped his mouth, then took a sip of the wine Gu Li had poured.

"Hahaha, carefree." Sun Quan patted his stomach and laughed loudly, "Bodao, eat quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold."

"Here." Lu Yi raised his sleeves, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and began to eat with sobs.

Sun Quan looked at Lv Yi calmly, until Lv Yi had enough to eat and drink, and blushed on his blue face from the cold, then he lit up the wine glass in his hand and smiled: "Bo Dao, is this wine selling well?" ?”

Lv Yi hurriedly bowed and replied: "Back to the Supreme, the sale is good." He smiled, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "This time, I got rich with Sun Xiaowei and made a small fortune. The supply of new wine is in short supply. Wu County sold [-] dou in three months, and last month alone it sold [-] dou."

"Then you really made a fortune." Sun Quan smiled, and said jokingly: "So, it's not a problem for you to sell [-] dou a year?"

"It's definitely not a problem." Lv Yi smiled lightly, and there was no nervous look on his face. It seemed that the person talking to him was not Sun Quan, who held the power of life and death, but just an ordinary friend. It's not Sun Shao who has been guarded by Sun Quan all the time, but just an irrelevant person.

Sun Quan was very satisfied with Lu Yi's attitude. He liked Lu Yi's point of view. Business was business, but he resolutely refused to say what should not be said, and he was selfless and magnanimous.He nodded slightly, pondered for a moment, and said, "How is Jianye's new wine selling?"

Lv Yi hesitated for a moment: "I just heard that the sales are pretty good, but I don't know the exact number." He seemed to have a regretful smile: "Jianye's new wine is all Mrs. Sun's. The exact number sold is only She just knew."

"Isn't Feng Xian at a loss?" Sun Quan leaned on Gu Li's lap, stretched out his numb legs, and put on a homely look, with an easy-going smile on his face: "He You must lose at least a hundred gold."

"Lieutenant Sun is rich now, so he shouldn't care about the hundred gold." Lv Yi laughed jokingly.

"Hehehe..." Sun Quan glanced at Lu Yi, stroked his thighs back and forth a few times, and said with a smile: "The new wine is selling well, if you want to increase the share, you have to tell him in advance, otherwise , but there is no part for you."

"Thank you for your reminder, I plan to wait for Sun Xiaowei to come to the camp, and act first." Lu Yi said solemnly.Sun Quan was amused by his seriousness. After laughing for a while, he shook his head and said angrily, "This Shuzi has made a lot of money, and he's too lazy. Ask him to come to the camp as a guard, but he still doesn't care. Didn't show up. Ali, when will he come?"

Gu Li shook his head: "I don't know, do you want to ask General Zhou?"

Sun Quan hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Go and call him here."

Gu Li went to the door and gave an order, and after a short time, Zhou Xun, the supervisor under the tent, strode in and bowed his hands in a vigorous salute: "General Chen Xun, pay homage to the Supreme."

Looking at Zhou Xun, who had red lips and white teeth and was full of energy, Sun Quan secretly praised him. This kid was exactly like his father. He was energetic just by looking at him, and he didn't feel tired at all after working all night.He asked Gu Li to take a seat, watched Zhou Xun sit down respectfully, and then asked: "Is Feng Xian ready for duty?"

Zhou Xun hesitated for a while, and immediately shook his head: "Return to Supreme, I haven't joined the job yet."

"Do you know what he's doing?"

"I heard... what kind of honeymoon is going on." Zhou Xun said with some embarrassment, his face flushed for a while.

"Honeymoon?" Sun Quan was stunned for a moment, a little puzzled: "What honeymoon?"

"Lieutenant Sun said that within one month of a wedding, it's called a honeymoon." Zhou Xun suppressed a smile and said lightly, "It probably means that the relationship between husband and wife is as sweet as honey."

"Pfft—" Sun Quan couldn't help but laugh, "This Shuzi, why didn't he join the job because of this? It's really unreasonable."

Zhou Xun didn't say anything.He felt that Sun Shao had gone too far this time.In the past, he wanted to be an official, but Sun Quan refused to let him be an official. This time, Sun Quan gave him a chance, but he kept procrastinating and refused to come to the camp, which seemed a little disrespectful.But what puzzled him was that Sun Quan didn't mean to blame him. It seemed that Sun Shao's donation of three thousand gold two days ago was very useful.Of course, Zhou Xun also knew that Sun Quan asked Sun Shao to be a personal guard, which was different from others. Being a personal guard meant becoming a close minister, and the chances of promotion would increase greatly in the future, while Sun Shao's being a personal guard only meant his Every move is in front of Sun Quan's eyes. It is still a dream to lead troops abroad in the future.

It's just that Zhou Xun felt that no matter what Sun Quan's intentions were, since you were asked to come, you should come immediately, and if you have any opinions, you can only keep them in your stomach and cannot express them.This is the duty of a courtier.

He was thinking about how to answer Sun Quan's words, when there was a commotion outside the tent, Sun Quan gave Gu Li a surprised look, Gu Li hurried to the tent, lifted the tent door to take a look, then turned his head and said with a smile: "My lord, Mr. Sun The captain is here, and so are the madam and miss."

"Let them in quickly." Sun Quan jumped up with joy, clapped his hands and laughed loudly, "Da Hu, Da Hu, are you here?"

"Ah Weng, I'm here." Sun Luban's delicate voice echoed, followed by the opening of the tent door, accompanied by a burst of clear laughter like copper bells, Sun Luban rushed into the big tent like a gust of wind, leaping He got up and threw himself into Sun Quan's arms.Sun Quan hugged him, and kissed Sun Luban's small face forcefully. The bushy beard scratched Sun Luban's face and made her giggle.

"Why didn't you come here until today?" Sun Quan said reproachfully, "I don't want Ah Weng anymore?"

"I think." Sun Luban replied loudly, and then remembered something, and broke free from Sun Quan's arm, stood a little further away with his hips crossed, and proudly said with his small chest: "Aweng, am I pretty?"

Sun Quan took a closer look and realized that Sun Luban was different today.She was wearing a delicate leather armor, the leather armor was made very close to her body, and it set off her small body neatly, giving her a heroic look.A wide belt was tied around his waist, and his waist was slender. The gold-plated double phoenix belt hooks were so shiny that they almost dazzled his eyes. About three feet or so, much shorter than the commonly used ring-shoulders, the black scabbard is painted with phoenix patterns in gold lacquer, and a bunch of red tassels is tied on the knife ring. A pocket version of Sun Shangxiang.

"Hey! Like your aunt?" Sun Quan opened his eyes wide in surprise, stretched out his hand and scratched the nose of the triumphant Sun Luban, and couldn't help laughing: "I finally got the leather armor, your mother is annoyed by you Is it too bad?"

"That's not it." Sun Luban turned his head, wrinkled his nose and said, "My mother is too stingy, she won't make me a leather armor, this is what my elder brother made for me, and this knife is specially made by my elder brother. Someone hit it for me, but it's sharp." Sun Luban said, pulling out the ring head knife as if offering a treasure, and looking around, seeing that only Zhou Xun had a knife in his waist, he ordered loudly: "Draw out the knife! Let me chop it."

Zhou Xun blushed, at a loss, and looked at Sun Quan for help.Sun Quan smiled and nodded, signaling him to listen to Sun Luban. Zhou Xun had no choice but to draw out his knife and made a parrying posture.Sun Luban worked hard, holding the knife in both hands, and stopped drinking, the short knife hit the knife in Zhou Xun's hand at once, with a "click", sparks flew everywhere.

"Huh?" Sun Luban seemed a little strange, looked at the knife in his own hand, and then at the knife in Zhou Xun's hand, with a puzzled expression on his face: "Why didn't it break?"

"Break?" Sun Quan looked at Sun Luban puzzled, "What kind of precious sword is your sword?"

"Of course." Sun Luban looked suspicious, his eyes turned back and forth on the two knives, and he said naturally: "Brother used this knife to cut off Auntie's knife at once, why can't I? "

"Really?" Sun Quan was angry and funny, took the knife from Sun Luban's hand, and signaled Zhou Xun to be careful.Zhou Xun didn't dare to be careless, and quickly clenched the knife with both hands.With a twist of Sun Quan's wrist, he flicked the saber, and slashed down with the saber. With a soft "cha", the ring-shou saber in Zhou Xun's hand snapped in two.

"Good knife." Several people in the tent praised in unison.

"Of course." Seeing that Sun Quan was looking at her saber in surprise, Sun Luban was afraid that Sun Quan would get angry, so he quickly snatched it and put the saber back into the sheath carefully. Then he patted the scabbard with confidence and raised his face. , The pride is beyond words: "How is it, is it amazing?"

"Awesome." Sun Quan laughed, and pinched Sun Luban's face affectionately: "Where are your mother and sister?"

"Outside." Only then did Sun Luban remember, and he dragged Sun Quan out of the tent.When Sun Quan saw it, he was immediately attracted by the scene in front of him, his mouth was wide open, and his eyeballs almost protruded.

Mrs. Bu, who was dressed plainly, pulled Sun Luyu and stood in the middle, looking at him quietly like an orchid in an empty valley, with a peaceful smile on her face.And behind them stood two warriors with full armor. Brand new black and red leather armors were worn on their uneven bodies. With serious expressions and hot figures, there are two completely different beauties of femininity and masculinity. Their bodies have been perfectly combined, making people imagine, pleasing to the eye, and reluctant to take their eyes away.

If there is anything bad, it is that Sun Shao standing between these two heroines is too ugly. Although he is also wearing a brand new battle armor with a ring sword hanging from his waist, his sleepy eyes His appearance makes people feel that he has really ruined this pair of fine armor, no matter how you look at it, he is not energetic.

"The concubine pays respects to the Supreme."

"Meet Your Majesty."

Sun Quan couldn't keep his eyes on Sun Shangxiang and Guan Feng for a long time, so he turned his head and said to Sun Shao who seemed to be awake, "Fengxian, are you finally willing to come?"

Sun Shao grinned and laughed dryly: "No, I came here early in the morning, and I'm still not energetic yet."

"Zhuzi." Sun Quan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he called him aside and reprimanded him in a low voice: "Do you have to make such a publicity? This is a military camp, let two women walk around in military uniforms?"

"What's wrong with the military camp?" Sun Shao rolled his eyes and said confidently: "It's the military camp that made them dress like this. Madam is a female family member, so of course they can wear ordinary clothes. They are the bodyguards protecting Madam, that is, sergeants, no What do you wear in military uniform?"

"Are you still reasonable?" Sun Quan shook his head helplessly: "Then what's the matter with the tiger, you also let her be a bodyguard? Thanks to you, you gave her such a sharp knife, in case she hurts someone what to do?"

"It's not what I want. She chased me for it. Madam nodded, and I agreed." Sun Shao jumped aside and looked at Sun Quan defensively: "If uncle disagrees, I will do it right now." It will cost me a lot of money to get it back."

Sun Quan was so angry that he couldn't speak, seeing how precious Sun Luban was, how could he get it back at this time?He raised his hand to Sun Shao, and glared at him: "Zhuzi, don't talk sweetly, the camp is not your home, let you do whatever you want."

"I can't say it, I'm not free." Sun Shao complained twice in frustration, beckoning to call Sun Luban, Sun Quan quickly stopped him, and said helplessly: "Okay, okay, we'll talk about this later. I Let me tell you the business first, last time you said you wanted to do business, I discussed it with you gentlemen, they have different opinions, you have to answer them face to face, and then make a decision, you prepare yourself."

"Oh." Sun Shao responded, opened his mouth wide and yawned: "My lord, is there anything else? If not, let me sleep for a while. I was woken up before dawn, and I was sleepy." me."

"You..." Sun Quan couldn't bear it anymore, and raised his hand to Sun Shao: "Are you still sleepy? I haven't slept all night, and I'm not as sleepy as you. Thankfully, you have the nerve to say it. It wasn't dawn before. Just get up and practice martial arts, it's better now, sleep until you wake up naturally?"

"Ah? Ah!" Sun Shao was stunned for a moment, then nodded in a daze, looked at Sun Quan stupidly with his mouth wide open, closed his mouth after a while, raised his sleeve and wiped the corner of his mouth, and explained : "I now find that I don't need to work so hard."

Sun Quan's expression darkened, and he felt a little unhappy. Sun Shao's words had some hidden meaning.

Sun Shao laughed, and said again: "I have already entered the realm of free-flowing, and I don't need to practice so hard."

Sun Quan frowned, looked at the sullen Sun Shao, and said nothing.He was trying to figure out whether what Sun Shao said was true or against his will.It's a pity that Sun Shao's face showed no other meaning except sleepiness. He felt bored, so he waved his hand and asked Zhou Xun to take them to the camp that had been arranged.

After three or four months in Jianye, this was the first time Sun Shao had close contact with Zhou Xun. Even on the day of his wedding, although Zhou Xun came to congratulate him, he didn't talk to him. He was too busy that day. Don't care about the cycle at all.It's just that Zhou Xun's expression was a little unnatural today, he glanced at him, and hurriedly led the way.

"Brother, what's wrong with him?" Sun Luban took Sun Shao's hand and asked softly, pointing at Zhou Xun's back.

"I don't know, probably because I was bullied." Sun Shao said casually.

"I see." Sun Luban nodded thoughtfully, curled his lips: "He must be sad because I cut off his knife. Well, a boy who looks pretty handsome is actually so stingy, He's still the son of the governor, worthless!"

"Pfft—" Sun Shao burst out laughing, squatted aside and coughed.Zhou Xun, who is regarded as a representative of the new generation of heroes in Wu County, was actually treated so badly by a little girl. I don't know what Zhou Xun thinks.

Zhou Xun was also very depressed, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only pretend not to hear, and walked forward with his head depressed.But Sun Luban jumped in front of him reluctantly, crossed his hips, stared at him with his face up and shouted: "Hey! Don't cry, at worst, I will pay you a knife. Make a sad face and let others Thought I bullied you."

Zhou Xun was extremely embarrassed, but he couldn't get angry with Sun Luban, so he could only glared at the subordinate who was laughing and enduring the pain: "What are you doing standing there, why don't you take the account first to check."

"Here." Several soldiers didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly agreed with solemn expressions, and quickly entered the big tent.

"Dahu, don't be presumptuous." Seeing Zhou Xun's embarrassment, Mrs. Bu quickly stopped Sun Luban, and then smiled apologetically: "I am incapable of teaching, general, please forgive me."

"Don't dare." Zhou Xun hurriedly returned the salute.

"Hmph!" Sun Luban was blamed by his mother, and subconsciously accrued hatred on Zhou Xun, glared at Zhou Xun, and walked into the big tent with his head held high.Zhou Xun smiled helplessly, walked to Sun Shao who was pretending to look at the scenery, and coughed dryly: "Brother, the tent arranged by the Supreme for the Xian couple is next to it, please follow me."

Sun Shao didn't speak, and pointed to Qiao Yue, Guan Xiaoqing, Shuai Zeng and others who were accompanying him, and asked them to follow with their luggage.The big tent that Sun Quan arranged for him was not too far from the big tents where Mrs. Bu and Sun Quan worked. Sun Shangxiang's big tent was next to it.Sun Shao was very satisfied and nodded repeatedly.

Zhou Xun didn't say anything until the arrangements were made and he said goodbye to the account, then at the moment of passing by, he said softly, "Thank you, brother, for your understanding."

Sun Shao seemed to have never heard of it.

(End of this chapter)