Chapter 22: Sleepless Tonight
February 206 BC
On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the 30th lunar month, Yu Ji and I asked the cooks how many scoops of rice and some meat.
It is now the period of marching. Many soldiers can only eat some sweet potatoes and wild vegetables. They haven't touched rice for a long time. Today is Chinese New Year's Eve. The cooking soldiers sent a lot of roasted meat and wine into the big tent. But he squatted back by the stove with very dry and hard dry food. Yu Ji and I couldn't bear it, so we boiled such a big pot of porridge for the soldiers. And told the cooking soldiers to boil a few more large pots of porridge according to the way I and Yu Ji made this pot of porridge. Be sure to ensure that every soldier can eat it. Xiang Yu deeply agreed with this.
Chinese New Year's Eve was supposed to be a day to reunite with family and relatives, but now in troubled times, being able to have friends to accompany you can be regarded as filling a big regret in life.
The night was dark, Yu Ji and I whispered and laughed, and before I knew it, I drank a pot of peach blossom wine.
Like us, the men in the tent were a little drunk, laughing and urging each other to drink, but the bowl of wine still went into their stomachs.
"I just can't do it anymore." Changxi waved his hand weakly." I'm no better than you martial arts practitioners, but this is the only liquor you don't dare to touch."
"Don't say these useless words.On weekdays, if you say this hypocrisy, I can still open one eye and close one eye and let you go.But today is the New Year's Day.You kid don't want to fool the past easily." Xiang Yu put a small pot of wine in front of Changxi, glared and said, "It's my brother, I'll drink it today, don't make some miscellaneous excuses, I'm annoyed to listen to it."
Changxi looked at the pot of wine in front of him, smiled bitterly and shook his head.
I know that this pot of wine is in my stomach, Changxi doesn't want to walk back to the camp, he has been drinking too much, and now that he has poured so much liquor in one go, he must be carried back by Qin Yuji or Gao Xiran.
And so it was, and it hadn't been long since I drank the jug of wine, and I saw that my face was red, my eyes were blurred, and my hand was stretched out for a long time, but I couldn't lift the chopsticks.
"Sister, I've drunk too much, I'm going to send him back." I leaned into Yu Ji's ear and whispered, "If His Highness stops me, you can help me say a good word to Changxi, otherwise Changxi won't be able to go back today."
Yu Ji looked at Changxi, who was almost sleepy, chuckled a few times, and then nodded in agreement with my request, and asked me to take good care of Changxi tonight.
The drunken people were heavier, and I could barely hold on, but the tents weren't far apart, and I barely managed to drag him back.
I lit the brazier and went out with the basin to find hot water. The soldiers all gathered together to talk, and when they saw me come out, they all laughed and said, "Happy New Year, Mrs. Ji."
"Okay, you too, Happy New Year." I saw that they were boiling water from the campfire, so I went over and sat down next to them, and I smiled and asked, "What are you talking about?"
"It's nothing, it's just a visit to my hometown, and my parents, wife, and children." One of the soldiers saw the basin in my hand, and hurriedly turned the campfire a little more with a branch, and said with a smile: "Madame, wait, this water will be boiled in a moment."
"It's fine, I'll wait here." I rubbed my hands together and asked them, "Where are you all from?"
"Nope." The soldier smiled heartily." We are Koreans, not Chu."
"South Korea." I was stunned and smiled, "That's a coincidence, I'm also Korean, but it's a pity that I grew up in Xianyang, and I don't know what my hometown is like.
When I say this, the soldiers immediately boiled, chattered about their hometowns, and did not want to stop, and the light of the fire illuminated their faces, which shimmered with hope, and made me feel as warm as the spring sun.
When I finally returned to the tent with the basin, the tent was already warm from the brazier, and I knelt down beside Changxi, and took a hot cloth towel and carefully wiped his face.
"Cher......" He reached out and grabbed my wrist, his eyes were blurred from drunkenness, and he looked at me from the corner of his misty eyes, and muttered, "Promise me."
"Why." I didn't hear him. I leaned in to him and asked, "I don't hear you."
As he was so close, I could feel his burning breath with the smell of alcohol, and the tingling itch on his face, like a cat rubbing it.
"Good Cher......" He reached out and put his mouth on the back of my head, opened his mouth to cover my lips, and kissed me repeatedly as if I was tasting some kind of food.
But that's not all, he put his other hand around my waist and rolled me down.
Although Changxi is thinner than Qin Yuqi and Gao Xiran, it is not thin.
"Changxi." I pushed his head away, his face was hot, and he panicked, "What are you doing, let go of me, you should get some rest now."
"No rest......" he muttered as he gently bit my nose, "No rest...... Thou shalt not rest......"
"No breaks." I was amused by his appearance: "What do you do without resting?"
"Give me ......," he whispered, leaning down and kissing my neck, "Give you to me...... All right...... Cher......"
Only then did I understand what he meant, and my face became hotter and hotter, and I shook my head again and again: "No...... No......"
"No......" he paused, suddenly increasing the strength of the hand on my waist, and said angrily, "No...... You have to do it......
He untied his belt, and one hand slowly went up the filthy garment, and then reached into my garment, and the hand shrank as it touched my skin, but it continued.
I understand that it is useless to say anything to the present Changxi, he has been blinded by the wine, everything is just his instinct now, his longing is transmitted from his fingertips into my heart, it is so real and eager, there is not the slightest doubt about it.
This is a man I love, and I'm finally relenting at what he wants.
It was very warm, I don't know if it was because of the brazier, or because of me and himself, and I was sweating a thin layer of sweat, and my clothes were disheveled, and there were sleeves hanging from my arms, and I could see it almost in front of him, and he held up his naked/naked body, which was slightly red from the yuang, and looked at me by the fire.
"It's beautiful......" His long hair scattered on the sides of my cheeks, isolating me from the world.
Tonight, destined to have no sleep.