Chapter 293: Sneak Attack

Xu Shiji sat cross-legged on the ground in his tent, with three things in front of him, and he hung his head and looked at those things in a daze.

A jug of wine, a knife, a letter.

The knife has been unsheathed, the blade is very bright, and there is a trace of blue brilliance constantly flickering under the reflection of the oil lamp, obviously Xu Shiji has carefully wiped it before, this knife is not long, it is a short knife of only about one and a half feet, with two blood grooves on one side, it looks sharp. The wooden handle of the knife is engraved with the character Xu, which shows that this is Xu Shiji's personal weapon.

The letter was not a letter, but a very small note. There are only a dozen words on the note, and the handwriting is a little hasty, so it doesn't look like the font is very beautiful. Xu Shiji has identified that this is not Li Xian's handwriting, although Li Xian is good at using a variety of pen styles, but Xu Shiji has carefully observed and can still find that Li Xian has inherent habits in some subtleties, Xu Shiji deduced that this note may have been written by Pei Renji, and it can be inferred from the hasty handwriting that this note must have been written in a hurry before Pei Renji escaped.

Staring at the knife and a note, Xu Shiji suddenly smiled, picked up the pot of wine in front of him and poured it on his neck, and then smashed it and smashed his mouth as if he was tasting the taste of the wine, but the wine was not very far away, and the more he tasted it, the more astringent it was, and the taste was slightly bitter.

"It's a pity ......"

Xu Shiji sighed softly after taking a sip of wine, and his face became a little lonely.

"It's a pity that there was no good wine before leaving."

At this time, the soldiers who were on duty in the army happened to pass outside his tent, Xu Shiji listened attentively, and found that it was already time before he knew it, and it was only an hour before the agreed time on the note. He picked up the note and read it carefully, then suddenly put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly, and then washed the note down with a sip of wine and ate it into his stomach. With a note to accompany the wine, there is still a smell of ink on it, but it seems that Xu Shiji eats it with relish.

After drinking all the wine in the jug, he inserted the short knife back into the scabbard and tied it to his waist, only to tie it up, as if he suddenly remembered something, he untied the short knife and removed the scabbard, wrapped the short knife in a piece of arrowroot cloth and put it in the cuff, and tried to reach the handle with the palm of his hand, and then he put his heart down.

After eating the note and drinking all the wine and hiding the knife, Xu Shiji got up, looked at the familiar things in his tent and sighed slightly, and then walked out. When he was about to go out, the curtain was suddenly opened from the outside, Xu Shiji took a step back and got out of the way, and saw that it was Cheng Zhijie, Wang Bodang, and Xie Yingdeng who entered the door.

"Mao Gong, you want to go out?"

Uncle Wang, who was walking in the front, saw that Xu Shiji had changed into clean clothes, and then smiled and asked,

Xu Shiji's face changed slightly, but he quickly covered it up with a surprised expression: "It's so late, how did the three of you get together?" ”

Xie Yingdeng said with a smile: "Originally, he was biting Brother Jin's tent and drinking, who thought that he was so stingy, he only drank a pot and said no, saying that he would never bring wine to us to drink again, and he was in a hurry, he said Mao Gong, you must have stored old wine here, and even dragged him to come to you to beg for wine, do you say he is stingy or not?" ”

Cheng Zhijie was the last to come in, and after hearing Xie Yingdeng's words, he pretended to be angry and said, "Obviously the two of you drank all the wine in my account, and you still call me stingy?" Mao Gong, you are judging and commenting, where is there such a thing as a wicked person suing first. ”

The three of them were talking, but they happened to block the door of Xu Shiji's military tent. Xu Shiji had something in his heart, but at this time, when Cheng Zhijie and the three came, he could only make a gesture of please, and said: "If the three of you talk to me, it will be just right to come, and it just so happens that I also feel stuffy and can't sleep, and I want to go out for a walk." If you want to drink......"

Xu Shiji pointed to the empty wine jug at his feet and said apologetically: "It's really unfortunate, the wine in my account is even less pitiful, only one pot, and it has been drunk by me, even a drop can't be poured out." ”

"No alcohol?"

Wang Bodang said with annoyance: "It turns out that Mao Gong is really stingy!" ”

Xie Yingdeng smiled and said: "Brother Biting Jin has no wine there, and Mao Gong has no wine here, let me think about where there is still good wine in this camp?" Or...... The four of us will be snitches and go to the baggage camp to steal a few jars of wine to drink? ”

"Why steal!"

Wang Bodang said with a smile: "I know a place, naturally good wine is indispensable, that is, the four of you and I can drink enough until dawn, and if the four of us go and drink as much as we want, it is expected that the wine owner will not say anything." ”

"Where is such a good place?"

Xie Yingdeng asked curiously, "It's in our camp?" ”

"Naturally, it's in the camp."

Wang Bodang smiled and said, "If we go to the eldest brother's tent to beg for wine, can he still not allow it?" ”

"Haha!"

Xie Yingdeng laughed and said, "It's really a good place!" ”

Xu Shiji raised his eyebrows, and then smiled bitterly in his heart, it turned out that the three people who came tonight were all peacemakers, and they wanted to drag themselves to Zhai Rang's big tent to drink, and by the way, explain the misunderstanding during the day. He glanced at the three of them, his heart was warm, and the brothers still remembered this affection, that is, the eldest brother was only afraid that he was angry for a while, and he didn't really hate himself, maybe as long as he followed the three of them, maybe he would be able to reconcile with the eldest brother. As soon as he thought of this, he felt a little reluctant in his heart.

"Mao Gong, let's go together?"

Wang Bodang asked with a smile, his face full of hope.

Xu Shiji looked at Wang Bodang, looked at Xie Yingdeng, and then looked at Cheng Zhijie, who spoke very little after entering the door, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, let's go together!" ”

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In the middle of the night, the Junozawa water pool seemed quiet and deep and serene, and the more empty the place, the more intense the night became, so even if there was a slight sound of water paddling from the water pool, it was difficult to make out that the sound was coming from the east, west, north, south, and north directions.

A large grain ship snatched by Yanyunzhai people from Liyang broke the tranquility on the water, broke through the water surface like a mirror from east to west, and moved forward quickly. The big ship was lit with lanterns and torches, so the people on the boat could see it very clearly.

A large man with a large body leaned on the side of the ship sat on his knees, looked up at the moon looming in the clouds in the sky, took a sip of wine, and then nibbled on a chicken leg in his hand. The drumsticks looked a little cold and greasy, but he didn't seem to care.

"Grandpa!"

A petite and lively girl jumped out of Lou Chuan's room, and her voice was as crisp and pleasant as a silver bell: "Why are you still drinking so late, and you haven't gone back to sleep!" ”

The big man who drank was Zhang Zhongjian, who was known as the bearded guest on the green forest road, and the one who naturally snatched the wine jug in Zhang Zhongjian's hand and threw it aside, who else could it be besides his beloved daughter Zhang Xiaodi?

"If you don't go to sleep, you take care of your grandfather's drinking!"

Zhang Zhongjian pretended to be evil and said fiercely, but he had long known that he didn't dare to really kill himself, how could Zhang Xiaodi be afraid of him? The little girl, who was already twelve and a half years old, pinched her slender waist and glared at her eyes and said, "Brother An Zhi said that drinking after midnight and in the morning is the worst, can't you remember that you are such an adult?" ”

Zhang Zhongjian smiled wryly and said, "Isn't An Zhi not here, it doesn't matter once in a while." ”

"Brother Ann is not here, but I am here!"

Zhang Xiaodi waved his little fist and said: "It's not that you won't be allowed to drink, it's just that you are not allowed to drink late at night and in the morning, if you offend me again, I will ...... I'll just ......"

Zhang Xiaodi frowned and thought about it, and suddenly her eyes lit up, and she came up with a good way to threaten her grandfather: "I also get drunk every day!" ”

Zhang Zhongjian was stunned and said with a wry smile: "You are a girl, how can you get drunk?" ”

"You are a big husband, how can you talk without words!"

Zhang Xiaodi was-for-tat.

Zhang Zhongjian shook his head helplessly with a wry smile and said, "The wine has already been thrown away by you, so don't teach your grandfather a lesson, okay?" Anyway, I'm still your father, can't you save me some face? You see, Grandpa is okay to you, you said you were going to find An Zhi, I will find a boat to take you there overnight, you don't even say a word of thanks, but you don't want to be so fierce, can't you? ”

"No shame!"

Zhang Xiaodi said: "Obviously, I begged Sister Ye myself, how did it become that you took me to Brother Anzhi?" ”

Zhang Zhongjian said with a headache: "Actually, you should call her aunt." ”

"I don't!"

Zhang Xiaodi pouted and said, "Sister Ye asked me to call my sister, why do I have to call her aunt?" ”

"Huh?"

Zhang Zhongjian was annoyed and thought that this Ye Huaichong seemed to know that Xiao Di was going to marry An Zhi sooner or later, so he asked Xiao Di to call her sister, which was to make a good relationship in advance...... But An Zhi's stinky boy is good luck, his mother's Lao Tzu must have a big bride price in the future, but thinking of this, Zhang Zhongjian thought with annoyance that An Zhi's things are also his things, and he took things from his own house and gave them to his family, which didn't seem to have earned anything at all.

was thinking about it, but saw Ye Huaisleeve, who was dressed in white, slowly walking out of the shipbuilding.

"Sister Ye!"

Xiao Di screamed, "Why haven't you fallen asleep yet?" ”

Ye Huaisleeve took Xiao Di's hand and said with a smile: "My sister can't sleep, so she came out to breathe." ”

Zhang Zhongjian looked at Ye Huaisleeve, and suddenly felt uneasy in his heart.

"Did the spy hear something?"

He couldn't help but ask.

Ye Huaisleeve shook his head and said, "No...... It's just that I don't know why, this time Anzhi went on an expedition, I have always been a little unsteady in my heart...... If I don't go along and have a look, I don't feel at ease. ”

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Wang Bodang and others really didn't expect that Shan Xiongxin was still in Zhai Rang's big tent at such a late hour. There were leftovers on the table, and it was clear that the two had been talking for a long time. And the surprise on the faces of Zhai Rang and Shan Xiongxin when everyone entered the door, especially the little panic in Shan Xiongxin's eyes, made it easy to guess what the two of them were talking about.

"It's clear that there will be a big war, why don't you sleep to recuperate?"

Shan Xiongxin asked after coughing.

Wang Bodang thought about it or decided not to tell the truth, but said with a solemn face: "Just now I discussed with Yingdeng about the strategy of breaking the enemy, and the more I thought about it, the more headache I had, so I pulled the military advisor and Brother Jin together, I want to ask the eldest brother, how to fight this battle?" ”

"I'm also discussing with your second brother, since you're all here, let's go together."

Zhai Rang said with a smile.

"Mao Gong, you don't have a good rest, why are you here?"

Shan Xiongxin glanced at Xu Shiji and asked in a somewhat unkind voice.

Xu Shiji thought for a while, then nodded and said, "I'm about to go back to rest, eldest brother, second brother Shan...... Leave. ”

He said a word, turned and walked out. Cheng Zhijie sighed, turned around and followed. However, Wang Bodang and Xie Yingdeng looked at each other, not knowing how to play this round.

After going out, Xu Shiji walked straight to the direction of his military tent, Cheng Zhijie chased after him and comforted him, Xu Shiji just smiled and nodded and then said something inconsequential, when the two of them walked to a remote place, Xu Shiji suddenly looked ahead and asked, "Second brother Shan, why are you here?" ”

Cheng Zhijie's face changed, and he immediately looked forward.

Xu Shiji suddenly went around the back of Cheng Zhijie and cut Cheng Zhijie on the back of his neck with a palm. Cheng Zhijie glanced back at Xu Shiji, and then fell down softly, looking at Xu Shiji before falling into a coma, his eyes were full of incredulity.

"I'm sorry!"

Xu Shiji said softly, helped Cheng Zhijie to fall down and put him on the ground, and then he took a slow breath and strode towards the northeast of the camp.