"Three heroes stay!" Meng Su and Shi Lei had already gotten on the horse, Xiang Ye was about to turn over and get on the horse, Xiahou Ying trotted to the servants and grabbed Xiang Ye's horse reins and said to the three of them: "Fang Cai Pei Gong is unreasonable, and now he is annoyed, and he is specially ordered to come down and ask the three to return, he is waiting in the hall!" ”

Xiang Ye waved his hand towards Xiahou Ying and said: "That's it, that's it, I've heard about Corporal Liu Bang Lixian for a long time, so I have the intention to pay a visit, and I'll see you today, but that's it, Mr. Xiahou doesn't have to bother to speak, I'll say goodbye, and I'll meet in the future!" ”

After that, he turned over and jumped on the horse, but Xiahou Ying pulled the reins of his horse, looked at him with eyes full of longing and said: "Three heroes, Pei Gong is naturally a corporal of Lixian, but the three are not corporals, but dragons among people, so when they met, they were casual in order to show their closeness, but they didn't want to anger the three, and I hope to forgive me, please be sure to return, if Pei Gong is as unreasonable as before, it's not too late for the three to go!" ”

After listening to Xiahou Ying's words, Xiang Ye couldn't help but feel a little funny, and it was also a shame that he could think of such a far-fetched reason, and it was not easy to refuse for a while, so he had to turn around and look at Meng Su, who saw him looking at himself, shrugged his little nose slightly, snorted lightly and turned his head to the side.

"Okay!" Seeing that Meng Su had no objection, Xiang Ye turned over and jumped off the horse, and said to Xiahou Ying: "Since Mr. Xiahou said so, I can't say anything about forcibly leaving again, so what if I go with Mr. again?" ”

Seeing Xiang Ye's promise, Xiahou Ying was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly ran to Meng Su Ma to give Meng Su a hand, and said: "Please also ask Meng Hero to dismount, if Pei Gong is unreasonable this time, Meng Hero will be okay even if he reprimands Pei Gong in the face." ”

Meng Su is her daughter's family after all, and seeing Xiahou Ying so low, her heart softened a little, so she had to reluctantly jump off the horse.

Xiang Ye and Meng Su dismounted, Shi Lei naturally would not not follow, and the three of them walked towards the main hall where Liu Bang was again under the leadership of Xiahou Ying.

This time, before they arrived at the door, the three of them saw Liu Bang waiting barefoot outside the door, and when they saw the three of them returning, he hurriedly greeted him, clasped his fists with both hands and said to Xiang Ye and the others deeply: "The three of them came, there were rudeness before, I hope you will forgive me, please come in!" Please come into the hall and talk about it! ”

Xiang Ye and Meng Su saw Liu Bang greet each other barefoot, and the previous unhappiness was much less, and the three of them gave him a salute back, Xiang Ye said: "We are all rural grass people, how can we withstand Pei Gong's footsteps to greet each other, it really frustrates us and others!" ”

"Huh!" Liu Bang smiled, stepped forward very affectionately and hugged Xiang Ye's shoulders and said: "Mr. Xiang's presence has made our army shine, I don't want to talk here, please enter the hall to talk!" ”

After Liu Bang led Xiang Ye and the others into the main hall, the guests and hosts sat down, Xiahou Ying sat at the accompanying table, and in a moment, a soldier put wine and meat on the table, obviously Liu Bang secretly ordered to prepare when Xiahou Ying went to chase Xiang Ye and others.

"Thanks to a few people who saved Dr. Xiahou outside the city, I am very grateful, and I would like to express my gratitude with this wine!" After the wine and food were served, Liu Bang scooped out a spoonful of wine from the wooden barrel on the side, mixed it in the big bucket in front of him, and then raised it towards Xiang Ye and the others, and said very enthusiastically.

Xiang Ye and the others also scooped up the wine one after another, and raised it together and said to Liu Bang: "Xie Peigong's delicacies are entertained!" ”

Everyone was a little drunk after even drinking a few drinks, Liu Bang and Xiahou Ying first pulled the topic to Tiannan and Haibei, and told some anecdotes that Xiang Ye, Meng Su, and Shi Lei had never heard of, so as to make the environment more harmonious.

I have to say that Liu Bang does have a hand in attracting people's hearts, after Xiang Ye and others turned back, not only did he not show a little rudeness, but he was polite, if he didn't know the details, it would be impossible to see that he was originally just a scoundrel, but he would mistakenly think that he was a descendant of nobles.

Xiang Ye and the others have been listening to Liu Bang and Xiahou Yingtian's nonsense, and they have drunk more than a dozen wine syrups unconsciously.

Seeing that the three of them were already drunk, Liu Bang smiled slightly, and said to Xiahou Ying: "It's getting late, the three heroes should be tired, please ask Dr. Xiahou to arrange a place for the heroes, and I will arrange a breakfast dinner early tomorrow morning." ”

Xiahou Ying bowed slightly to Liu Bang, bowed in response, stood up and greeted Xiang Ye and the others, and led them out of the main hall.

After Xiang Ye and the others left the main hall, the corners of Liu Bang's mouth tugged, revealing a strange and somewhat gloomy smile.

I don't know if it's because of the wine, Xiang Ye slept very soundly this night.

When the sky was slightly bright, the two soldiers carried a bucket of water into Xiang Ye's room, put the water down and retreated lightly.

If someone entered the sleeping room on weekdays, Xiang Ye would definitely wake up, but on this day, he slept like a dead pig, and when the soldier carried water into the room, he didn't hear any movement at all.

It wasn't until three o'clock in the morning that the sound of soldiers training came from outside, and Xiang Ye sat up with his sleepy eyes. He slept very comfortably, he had never slept so comfortably since he fled Xingyang with Meng Su, even on the banks of the Yellow River, in Wei Xuan's hut, he had not slept so deeply as this night.

After sitting up, Xiang Ye saw a large bucket of water in the room, and was stunned for a moment, he remembered that there was no such bucket when he moved in the night before, so he quickly got up and walked to the bucket, picked up the water in the bucket, scooped it up, and poured it back into the bucket.

The sound of Xiang Ye scooping water alarmed the soldiers guarding at the door, and a soldier hurriedly ran into the room, and when he saw that Xiang Ye had already gotten up, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "Mr. Xiang, please wash, Pei Gong has prepared breakfast and is waiting for Mr." ”

"Ugh!" Xiang Ye responded, nodded and said to the soldier: "I know, you go and get busy first, and I'll go see Pei Gong soon." ”

Seeing that Xiang Ye wanted to wash up, where was he willing to go out, the soldier hurriedly found a pottery bowl in the room, scooped a scoop of water from the bucket, bowed down and lifted the water above his head and handed it to Xiang Ye.

After coming to this era, Xiang Ye had never received this kind of treatment, and he was a little flattered for a while, and he took the pottery bowl and was stunned for a long time without thinking of rinsing his mouth.

"Mr. Xiang, please wash up!" The soldier saw Xiang Ye holding the pottery bowl in a daze, bowed down and made a gesture of invitation to him, and said cautiously.

"Oh!" After being reminded by the soldiers, Xiang Ye came back to his senses, picked up the pottery bowl and walked out of the door, as soon as he went out, he was about to rinse his mouth, only to see Meng Su and Shi Lei also walked out of the other two rooms with stunned faces.

Shi Lei may have never enjoyed this kind of treatment, and in addition to being stunned, his face was still a little proud and happy, while Meng Su frowned and didn't know what he was thinking.

They looked at each other, didn't say anything, just shook their heads, and went to wash up.

Liu Bang had already set up wine and food in the barracks and waited for Xiang Ye and the others, and after they washed, some soldiers led them to Liu Bang's residence, and the main hall where Liu Bang received them yesterday was already full of many people.

Among these people, there are some people wearing long robes and civil official attire, and there are also some military generals wearing armor, although it is early in the morning, but at the banquet prepared by Liu Bang, all the barrels full of wine are placed in front of this group of people.

After Xiang Ye and the others entered the main hall, Liu Bang led a group of civil and military officials to greet them, and after these people came up, they all gave a salute to the servants, and the servants also hurriedly returned the salute, not knowing what medicine Liu Bang was selling in the gourd for a while.

"The officials in the camp heard that after the three of them saved Dr. Xiahou, they all wanted to come to see the heroic appearance, and they made their own decisions and gathered them here, please forgive me!" After Liu Bang saluted the servants, he said very humbly: "Early this morning, I ordered the military to prepare some wine and food, and I want to have a banquet with the three of them, but I hope it will not be shabby." ”

The three of them returned the salute to everyone, and Xiang Ye smiled at Liu Bang and said: "Pei Gong is so kind and everyone is so wrongly loved, it really makes me feel ashamed, a little trivial, but with a gesture, the three of us just planned to leave after visiting Pei Gong, but I didn't want to be treated so favorably, it can be seen that the name of Corporal Pei Gong Lixian is not groundless." ”

"Hehe, since you think Pei Gong is good, how about a few people stay and work with us?" As soon as Xiang Ye's words fell, a rough voice came from the crowd.

Xiang Ye followed the voice and looked over, only to see a big man with a hairy beard on his cheeks, wearing armor, and a height similar to Xiang Ye, stretching his neck to look at them.

After the big man shouted, a scribe on Liu Bang's left side turned his head and glared at him and shouted: "Fan Xu, Pei Cheng is just talking to distinguished guests, don't be rude!" ”

Xiang Ye saw that the scribe called out Fan Xu's name, and immediately guessed his identity, in Liu Bang's military camp, there was only Xiao He who dared to speak to Fan Xu like this in Liu Bang's military camp, except for Zhang Liang, according to the time calculation, Zhang Liang should be busy recovering Korean land by Han Wangcheng's side at this time, and only Xiao He must be the one who scolded Fan Xu.

Xiang Ye was naturally impressed by Fan He, he also knew that Fan Xu was not as rough as he looked, his scheming was not even much less than Xiao He, coupled with his seemingly rough appearance, it was easy to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, make the opponent relax his vigilance, and then swallow the opponent in one bite.

It was precisely because Fan Hao suddenly shouted loudly, coupled with Xiao He's reprimand, that Xiang Ye understood that Liu Bang's next step was naturally to keep the three of them.

Thinking about this, he couldn't help but secretly feel a little funny, originally he just wanted to entrust Meng Su to Liu Bang, and was struggling with how to speak, but he didn't expect Liu Bang to suddenly put on such a battle as a corporal of Lixian, which was right in the middle of Xiang Ye's heart, and it just saved him a lot of troubles.

If you want to take refuge in someone, you will definitely not have the same face as others who try to keep them, and the people who are retained are definitely more valued than those who take the initiative to send them to your arms.

Thinking of this, Xiang Ye couldn't help but smile slightly, arched his hand to Xiao He and said, "Sir, don't blame that general, what the general said is true, but he is used to being at ease, and I am afraid that he will not be constrained by the army." ”