Chapter Seventy-Five: The Arsonist in the Barracks

Shi Lei and the soldiers lay side by side in the grass, and the stars in the night sky were like naughty children winking at them.

The two of them fought for half an hour, and apart from the many bruises on their faces, neither of them got any benefit.

"Boy!" Shi Lei lay on the ground, turned his head sideways and panted and said to the soldiers: "Good skills, where did you learn it?" ”

"Whew!" The soldier pursed his lips with disdain, looked sideways at Shi Lei and said, "The eldest son has never seen the world, right?" Can this also be considered a skill? My grandfather is much better than me! If he's here, three punches can knock you home, and even your own mother won't recognize you! ”

The soldier's words made Shi Lei feel very funny, he called the soldier "boy", but the soldier called him "big son" in turn, obviously not taking him as a general seriously at all.

Coupled with the fact that the soldier said that his grandfather was very capable, Shi Lei's interest had been aroused, and he turned over and crawled in front of the soldier, his face almost on his face and asked, "What is your name?" Who is your grandfather? ”

The soldier pursed his lips, glanced at Shi Lei and said: "If my son doesn't change his name, he won't change his surname, Li Xinpeng is also!" Well, by the way, the folks used to call me 'wood'. As for my grandfather......"

Speaking of this, the soldier's face darkened, and he said a little sentimentally: "Anyway, you don't believe it, don't say it!" ”

"How do you know I don't believe if you don't say it?" Shi Lei was lying on the ground with his chin on his hands and listening energetically, but Li Xinpeng suddenly swallowed the second half of the words, almost choked him, raised his hand and slapped Li Xinpeng on the top of his head and scolded: "Finish speaking, damn, let's go. The fart didn't go half of it and then held it back, hurry up! ”

Li Xinpeng was slapped on the top of his head, quickly turned over and sat up, and shouted at Shi Lei in a posture of wanting to fight: "What are you doing?" Why? Still want to fight? My grandfather is Zhao Mu, the general of Zhao Guoda, what's wrong? Do you believe it or not? ”

"Believe!" Shi Lei nodded, and said with a sincere face: "You are so good, of course you may be the descendant of a famous general." It's just that how did you get mixed up to this point, and you actually became a big soldier in the Chu army! ”

Li Xinpeng glanced at Shi Lei and said: "When the people of Chu come here, I will become a soldier, anyway, I will starve to death as a soldier." The people in the army can't beat me, and the commander doesn't allow me to contact the generals, so what can I do if I'm not a big soldier? Uh, by the way, aren't you a general? How about getting me an official? ”

Shi Lei was about to be angry with Li Xinpeng, he didn't expect that there would be such a heartless person, who had to arrest people before, and he would ask someone to get him an official, and he suddenly said angrily: "You just wanted to arrest me to invite merit to Pei Gong, why did you let me get you an official?" ”

"You're a general!" Li Xinpeng stared at Shi Lei with round eyes and said, "I didn't arrest you to invite credit. I don't care which you stole from, I caught you because I pulled. You affected me when you, you made me uncomfortable, I naturally wanted to catch you! ”

Shi Lei glanced at Li Xinpeng, this big kid who looked like he was only sixteen or seventeen years old really made him cry and laugh, he felt that he was already very capable of tossing, but he didn't expect to meet a master who was more unreasonable than him today.

In the big tent of the barracks, Xiang Ye was lying straight on the ground, if he hadn't snored like thunder from time to time, people would definitely think that he was a dead body.

Meng Su sat next to Xiang Ye, and since Xiang Ye was carried back by the soldiers, she hadn't left a single step.

Drunk people are the most likely to lack water, and after Xiang Ye came back, she had already fed him water twice, but Xiang Ye's lips were still very dry, and he would definitely have to find water to drink at night.

She couldn't leave, and he needed her at this time.

Xiang Ye was carried back by the soldiers, and Xiang Yu was not much better. When he left Liu Bang's barracks, Xiang Yu was carried back by four military men with a wooden shelf like a slaughtered pig.

Meng Su sat beside Xiang Ye, his eyes obsessively looking at the sleeping Xiang Ye. Since leaving Xingyang, she has become more and more dependent on Xiang Ye, she believes that Xiang Ye is the only person in this world who can protect her, and she is also the person who should be by his side for the rest of his life.

"General Xiang!" Meng Su was watching intently, and Shi Lei's strange scream like killing a pig came from outside the tent, which startled her.

She hurriedly got up and walked out of the tent, only to see two soldiers guarding the tent standing in front of Shi Lei and a young soldier, not allowing them to enter the tent.

Meng Su glanced at Shi Lei fiercely and said angrily: "What's the name of the ghost?" General Xiang had already slept. ”

"Oh!" Shi Lei nodded, turned his head and shrugged his shoulders at Li Xinpeng, who was standing behind him, with a look, "It's not that I don't help you, it's that you are too lucky."

"What are you doing here to find General Xiang so late?" Meng Su frowned, Shi Lei's quarrel outside Xiang Ye's tent made her feel very unhappy, she was admiring this Ye's sleeping state, but she was disturbed by this black man.

Shi Lei muttered at Li Xinpeng and said: "Just now I was outside the barracks, I met this kid, I had a fight with him, and I found that this guy is really good at fists and feet, so he made a special trip to introduce him to General Xiang, but I didn't want him to sleep." Forget it, come back tomorrow! ”

It wasn't until Shi Lei said that there was a fight outside, that Meng Su found that he and Li Xinpeng on the side had a blue nose and swollen face, and their faces were bruised, and the clothes on their bodies were torn and tattered, so they couldn't help but laugh and said to the two: "You go back first, General Xiang was dragged by General Xiang Yu to Pei Gong's tent to drink today, and now he is unconscious, you will come back early tomorrow morning." ”

Shi Lei had to turn around and shrug his shoulders at Li Xinpeng, and left with him helplessly.

After sending away Shi Lei and Li Xinpeng, Meng Su returned to Xiang Ye's tent. Xiang Ye is still asleep, his posture is strange enough when he sleeps, and most people sleep either lying flat or lying on their sides, but after Xiang Ye falls asleep, he always puts on some strange and varied shapes.

Meng Su just came out of the tent and said a few words to Shi Lei, and his sleeping position was changed to his head on the ground, his ass was pouting, and the corners of his mouth were drooling, and he chirped a few times from time to time, and then snorted one or two with a unique style.

Looking at Xiang Ye's unique sleeping position, Meng Su smiled helplessly, she gently pulled Xiang Ye's chest, turned him over, and let him lie down and sleep.

The night was getting deeper and darker, and Meng Su gradually felt a little sleepy, she lay beside Xiang Ye with her clothes, closed her eyes, and a thick sleepiness swept towards her, and she fell asleep after a while.

"Be careful, set this fire, and the task given to us by the general will be completed." In her sleep, Monsu faintly heard a voice coming from outside, and she flipped up, drew her long sword, and rushed out of the tent.

As soon as Meng Su rushed out of the tent, a wisp of night wind rushed towards him, and two bright lights shook not far away, and there were three or four figures swaying in the bright light.

"Who?" Monsu let out a shout at the figures and rushed towards them.

The figures were taken aback when they heard someone shouting and asked, and hurriedly dropped their torches and jumped out into the grass outside the barracks.

Meng Su's loud shout alarmed the soldiers who were patrolling the night, and in a short time more than 100 people ran towards this side.

The weeds on the ground were quickly ignited by the torches dropped by the black shadow, and the weeds "beeped" and burned, and they were about to spread to the nearby tents.

After the flames burned, many officers and soldiers who had fallen asleep were also startled by the noise outside, and many of them did not even have time to put on their clothes, and ran out of the camp shirtless to participate in the firefighting.

Meng Su wanted to chase those black shadows, but the military camp was in chaos, and the chaotic crowd obscured her vision, and she could only watch the arsonist escape.

After the chaos in the barracks, she was a little worried about Xiang Ye, so she hurriedly turned around and ran back to Xiang Ye's camp tent, only to see that Xiang Ye was still asleep, and the firelight outside and the bustling sound of the crowd did not have any effect on him.

Meng Su shook his head helplessly, and sat beside Xiang Ye with a long sword in his arms. She doesn't care what will happen to the barracks, she is not from the Chu country, she doesn't have the passion of the Chu people to restore the country, even if the entire barracks is burned down, it has nothing to do with her.

She only cared about Xiang Ye's safety, if it weren't for Xiang Ye, she would never stay in Liu Bang's military camp. She didn't know the trend of future historical development like Xiang Ye, all she saw was that in the current situation, the Jiangdong Xiang clan was the force that could really protect her.

Here in Liu Bang, there will be people who want to kill her at any time to take her life. But for the sake of Xiang Ye, she is willing to stay.

The fire outside was not fierce, and it was extinguished by the awakened people after a while, and Meng Su finally failed to resist the invasion of sleepiness, and slowly fell beside Xiang Ye and gradually fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Liu Bang asked people to invite Xiang Ye and Meng Su.

Someone set fire to the barracks at night, and Liu Bang naturally couldn't sleep all night. When he learned that it was Meng Su who first found someone setting fire, he hurriedly ordered someone to summon Meng Xiang and the others into the tent.

When Meng Su recounted the events of the previous night in detail, Xiang Ye's heart suddenly shook, and he remembered the conversation he overheard after the guards outside Xiang Qing's tent disappeared inexplicably. At the beginning, the guards outside the account were secretly killed by a person called "Niu Qianhu", could this arson in the barracks be the same "Niu Qianhu" again? If it was him, who was the general behind him? Why can't you get along with the Chu army?

This question lingered in Xiang Ye's mind, but he didn't tell Liu Bang, who was frowning and pondering. He hadn't figured out what the other party's identity was, and he rashly proposed to let Liu Bang know that he had been in the rebel army, and it wouldn't do him any good.

Liu Bang thought for a moment, and finally slapped his thigh, as if he suddenly understood, and said: "In my opinion, there is no second person to do in this matter." Two generals, you wait and go back to prepare, today our army will advance to Puyang and fight a decisive battle with Zhang Han! ”