Chapter Seventy-One: Be Your Peasant Woman
A woman crouched on the ground with her forehead in her hands that seemed to be in great pain, and it was this woman who had just made the terrible howl.
Although Shi Lei is a little cunning, he is also a daring master, and when he saw that someone was injured by the stone he kicked out, he hurriedly ran towards the woman.
"Are you alright?" Running to the woman's side, Shi Lei bent down and asked with concern.
The woman covered her forehead, squatting on the ground with a painful face, Shi Lei was about to lean down to take a closer look at her, but she suddenly jumped up, pressed her forehead with one hand, and grabbed Shi Lei's neckline with the other hand, her eyes widened and she scolded angrily: "Did you attack me on purpose?" Walk! Come with me to Pei Gong's reasoning! ”
"I didn't mean to! It really wasn't intentional! Shi Lei, who was grabbed by the woman's neckline, wanted to break free, but he didn't dare, and begged with a bitter face: "Madame, spare me, I'm new here, I don't know the rules of the camp, if I knew that kicking stones in the camp is not allowed, I wouldn't do that!" ”
"New here?" After listening to Shi Lei's words, the woman let go of the hand holding his neckline, looked him up and down carefully, and asked, "Could it be that you are the hussar general Xiang Ye?" ”
"It's not! No! No! Shi Lei saw that the woman recognized the wrong person, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "I'm not Xiang Ye, I'm here with him, my name is Shi Lei, and I was just named General Wei by Pei Gong, but Xiang Ye has already cut my military power together with his own military power just now." I'm a wretched worm with a position but no real power, and Madame shouldn't be ashamed. ”
Shi Lei has never seen this woman, if he knew her identity, he would not have said so many words in front of her, this woman is Liu Bang's original wife Lu Pheasant.
After Lu Pheasant came out of the room, he withdrew from his entourage and went to Fan Xu's residence alone to find her sister Lu Xu. What she didn't expect was that she was walking, but she was hit on the forehead by a flying stone, and coincidentally, the person who kicked the stone was Shi Lei, who came to the barracks with Xiang Ye.
Lu Pheasant smiled at Shi Lei, and was about to speak, when a group of soldiers ran towards them.
Hearing the sound of someone running, Lu Pheasant turned his head and glared fiercely at the group of soldiers. The soldiers who were running in this direction saw Lu Pheasant glaring at them, and quickly stopped, stunned for a moment, and then ran in the other direction.
Shi Lei looked at the back of the group of soldiers, and said to Lu Pheasant with some confusion: "Madam, those soldiers seem to be very afraid of you, who are you?" ”
Lu Pheasant smiled sweetly at Shi Lei and said, "General Shi said that I am just the maid of General Fan's wife, how can they be afraid of me?" They ran away, they should be afraid of the general! ”
"Ugh!" Shi Lei scratched his head stupidly, and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, I forgot that I am a general, hehe, if anyone bullies you in the future, just come to me, I will give you a head, even if I apologize for hurting you today!" ”
"Okay!" The smile on Lu Pheasant's face was very bright, and then he lowered his head and pursed his lips, and said to Shi Lei as if he was shy: "General Shi, can you accompany me for a walk?" I wanted to go to the city to have a look, but there was a shortage of soldiers, and I didn't dare to do it alone! ”
After speaking, she turned her head and glanced at Fan Xu's barracks, the original idea of going to find Lu Xu was dispelled a lot because she met Shi Lei, and if she wanted to understand Xiang Ye, she had to start with the people around him. Shi Lei looked a little stupid, maybe he could get a lot of first-hand information about Xiang Ye from him.
Shi Lei was originally a person who was more than smart, but lacked scheming, not to mention that Lu Pheasant was born with good skin and bones, and when he spoke, he threw two amorous flattering eyes at him, his bones were already half crispy, where would he refuse, and quickly nodded in agreement.
Walking out of the camp, the two walked straight towards the center of the city. On the way, I also met some Chu soldiers, and these Chu soldiers saw that Shi Lei was wearing the general's armor, although they felt angry, they didn't come up to interrogate.
Due to the massacre that had just taken place in the city, many of the bodies had not been buried in time, and the stench was everywhere in the city.
Liu Bang's army was stationed in the west of the city, where the people were buried alive, and all the people who were killed were buried in the soil, and the air in the west of the city was relatively fresh.
In the center of the city, however, some of the corpses piled up under the city walls had begun to rot and stink, and the Chu army who buried the corpses in the city was also wearing a face towel on their faces.
A team of Chu troops dug a pit at the foot of the city wall and threw the corpses of the stripped naked into the pit.
Lu Pheasant covered his nose with his hands, looked at the Chu army on the side of the city wall with disgust, and said to Shi Lei: "These people are really boring, they didn't bury them when they killed people, they had to wait for a few days, and now they are full of stench." ”
Shi Lei glanced at Lu Pheasant with some surprise, but he quickly turned his gaze to the side, he who had no defense against Lu Pheasant before, raised a trace of vigilance because of her words.
Few women are so calm when they see a dead person, unless the woman is extraordinary.
Lu Pheasant's words were blurted out, and after saying them, she suddenly regretted it, and quickly diverted the topic and asked Shi Lei: "General Shi, can you see how many people are busy on the side of the city wall?" ”
Shi Lei knew that she was deliberately changing the topic, so he didn't say anything, and glanced at Chu Jun, who was digging a pit to bury the corpse in the distance, and said, "Nine soldiers, one Shifu commander!" ”
"Huh? How can you even see the Captain Shi? After Shi Lei's words came out, Lu Pheasant looked at him with a shocked face, as if he had seen a visitor from outside the world.
"He doesn't work!" Shi Lei shrugged his shoulders and muttered at the position where the group of Chu troops were.
"Oh!" Lu Pheasant exhaled a long breath and looked at the group of Chu soldiers, and sure enough, he saw a person with his hand behind his back pointing at the soldiers who were working, and couldn't help but smile knowingly.
The two of them walked around the city for a while, and the stench that permeated them everywhere made them feel sick. Lu Pheasant's mood of wanting to find out about Xiang Ye from Shi Lei was also dispelled by the stench, and finally he had to say to Shi Lei: "The city is full of stench, let's go back first." ”
Shi Lei answered, and walked side by side towards the barracks with Lu Pheasant.
He didn't know Lu Pheasant, but the other people in the barracks did. When the two left the barracks, someone had already reported the incident to Liu Bangyu.
After Liu Bang heard this, he just smiled faintly and didn't say anything. He had a lot of confidence in Lu Pheasant, although Lu Pheasant was nearly thirty years younger than him, she was a very scheming and ambitious woman, and if she hadn't found out that Shi Lei had something to use, she would definitely not have left the barracks with him.
After Lu Pheasant and Shi Lei returned to the barracks, they said goodbye to each other and went back to their residences.
Walking around with Lu Pheasant like this, Shi Lei felt as if he was pressed with a stone in his heart, heavy, but he couldn't find a reason.
When he returned to his residence, he found that Xiang Ye and Meng Su also didn't know where they went, and their rooms were all empty, so he asked the guards, and the guards only said that they had gone out together, but they didn't know where they went.
After Shi Lei went out, Xiang Ye and Meng Su sat face to face, silent for a long time, and finally Meng Su raised his head first and said to Xiang Ye: "Can you go out for a walk with me?" I want to blow the wind. ”
The dull atmosphere in the room made Xiang Ye feel a little unbearable, and when Meng Su proposed to go out for a walk, he agreed without hesitation.
Walking out of the room, Xiang Ye and Meng Su felt a little dazed again. The military camp was built in the west of the city, and there was little to go except for a cluster of houses.
The two walked silently in the barracks, and from time to time a pair of patrolmen or two passed by them. When they reached the westernmost corner of the barracks, Monsu stopped.
Xiang Ye saw her stop, looked back at her and asked, "Why don't you leave?" ”
Meng Su lowered his head, pursed his lips, and after a long time, he said in a voice as thin as a gnat, "Are you really going to leave me?" ”
Xiang Ye smiled, turned to face Meng Su, sighed and said to her: "Meng Su, there is something I want you to know, I brought you here because I hope you can be safe and sound in the future, now it is a troubled time, if you are always wandering outside, sooner or later you will be murdered by the minions sent by Zhao Gao." You are safe only if you stay here. And I don't like this place at all, and I don't want to be anyone's weapon to seize the country, I say that, you know? ”
Meng Su lowered his head, biting his lip tightly with his teeth, and after a long while, he shook his head desperately and said to Xiang Ye: "No! I don't understand! These days, if it weren't for you, I would have been killed, and I don't know how to protect myself when you're not there; If you're not here, I'll die. You don't want to go, or take me with you when you want to go, okay? ”
Xiang Ye stretched out his hand and patted Meng Su's shoulder gently, the corners of his mouth pulled up slightly, revealing a embarrassed smile and said, "I don't know where I want to go in the future, how can I take you with me?" ”
"I don't care!" Meng Su suddenly reached out and slapped Xiang Ye's hand aside, and when she raised her face, Xiang Ye saw a crystal teardrop hanging from the corner of her eye: "I just want to be with you, if you are a general, I will be a deputy general for you; If you are a swordsman, I will be your retinue; If you were only a farmer, I would like to be your peasant woman!" ”
Meng Su's words made Xiang Ye surprised that he didn't close his mouth for a long time, he took care of her with an attitude of fulfilling his promise all the way, what he didn't expect was that Meng Su would be so bold to say to him that if he was a farmer, she would be his peasant woman.
"Are you really only protecting me these days just to keep your promises?" Xiang Ye was silent, but Meng Su didn't intend to let him go, tears were already covering her face, and she said with a choked voice in her voice: "Commitment is really that important? Would you rather suffer Li Feng's sword yourself than protect me? Are you going to send me here safely, even with your own life? ”