Chapter 119: Inviting Wine

Hearing the three words "Suozi Rock" unexpectedly, the guide was stunned for a moment and opened his mouth.

He quickly reacted: "I know, it's very far, do you want to go now?"

But his surprise and hesitation had already been seen by Wu Shaoyi, and his face sank: "Tie him up."

The left and right swarmed up and tied the guide up tightly.

"What is the situation at Suozi Rock that makes you so shocked?"

The guide denied it repeatedly, but Wu Shaoyi couldn't be bothered to pay attention to him and patted the luggage on the horse's back.

The luggage actually moved a few times, and then a purple sable poked its head out.

It looked like it had just woken up, its small eyes sleepy, and it even used its front paws to wash its face.

Wu Shaoyi asked it: "I remember, you were born in this mountain forest?"

The purple sable nodded.

"Do you know Suozi Rock?"

The little guy nodded again.

The advisor hurriedly said: "Since the purple sable is out, why not explore County Magistrate Village as well?"

Wu Shaoyi also had this intention, so he took out two small pieces of dried meat as a reward and handed them to the purple sable.

The purple sable took them, chewed them, ate them, and then jumped off the horse's back and slipped into the grass.

It was extremely fast, and everyone only saw the grass leaves shaking, from near to far, and then it disappeared into the darkness.

The advisor offered another strategy: "While it's doing this, why not transfer some of the brothers down the mountain up, so it's easier to plan later."

Wu Shaoyi nodded: "Then transfer them all up."

His team was smaller than Lu Yao's, only one thousand one hundred people. He brought more than two hundred up the mountain himself, and only eight hundred remained down the mountain, so he just called them all up to deal with the unexpected.

Everything was silent, and Wu Shaoyi couldn't help but think of his grudge with Lu Yao again.

The two sides had long been enemies, and if it weren't for Pei Xinyong's repeated persuasion, he would have wanted to take this team back to his hometown.

Being a king on the mountain there, recruiting troops and buying horses, was also very happy.

Whether this was right or wrong, Wu Shaoyi wasn't sure.

The Grand Marshal started an uprising in the north, and the Yuan court was overwhelmed just dealing with him, so how could they have the energy to manage the south in a short time? So he, Wu Shaoyi, at least had some comfortable times.

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"The letter has been sent out for half an hour, right?"

After getting an affirmative answer, He Chunhua straightened his clothes and went to the village entrance surrounded by seven or eight people.

Mao Tao stood within the boundary line drawn by both sides and shouted toward the west of the village: "General Lu, come out and see!"

He shouted three times in a row, and the sound echoed throughout the village.

A bandit came out and asked: "What are you doing?"

Mao Tao said loudly: "Your general invited us to eat fish, so our lord wants to invite him to drink wine, twenty-year-old aged wine brewed from the Northwest Spirit Spring!"

The bandit sneered: "Who knows if there is poison in your wine?"

"The fish is not poisonous, so the wine is naturally not poisonous."

This bandit naturally couldn't make the decision and went to report it himself. Other companions came over, staring like tigers.

Along that middle line, the two sides confronted each other again.

The campfire by the lake had never gone out, and He Chunhua personally opened a jar of wine, let the personal guard fill it with a wine vessel, and placed it in hot water to warm it slowly.

Before long, the rich aroma of wine overflowed.

It just so happened that the wind was blowing from the lake to the village, naturally sending the aroma of wine in.

After half a stick of incense, Lu Yao came over leisurely, rubbing his eyes and saying: "He lord, such a good mood?"

He Chunhua knew he was intentionally late to leave him here, so he wasn't angry and pointed to the table moved by his subordinates on the middle line: "Courtesy demands reciprocity. This is a family recipe I brought from the capital, and then good wine brewed with the Xiyao Spirit Spring of Qiansong Prefecture. In the second year I arrived in Qiansong Prefecture, I personally sealed the first jar, and every year since then, one jar, twenty-three jars in total. Excluding the annual family sacrifices and guest hospitality, there are five jars left, all of which I want to take to the capital."

"When my family was still in the capital, we offered family brew to the palace every year." He Chunhua looked at Lu Yao with a smile. "Such good wine, doesn't General Lu want to taste it?"

He knew that wine, sex, and wealth were Lu Yao's three major hobbies, and he never refused anyone, and this person also claimed to be true to his nature.

Sure enough, Lu Yao swallowed a few times after hearing it, thought about it, and really said: "Good, since He lord has such elegant interest, Lu will accompany you! But let's say it first, I have had opportunities, and I have long been immune to all poisons. Even if you bring arsenic, I will eat it like sweet wine."

He Chunhua changed his expression: "What is General Lu saying, would I treat my own good wine like this?"

So a long table was pressed on the middle line, He Chunhua and Lu Yao sat at each end, and the former pushed a jar of wine over.

Lu Yao took it and smashed the seal, and sure enough, a mellow fragrance hit his nose, making him unable to help but take a deep breath, praising: "Good wine!"

He waved his hand again, and two bandits took the wine jar, first filled a bowl for him, and the rest went to warm up.

At this time, the servants in the He family team pushed the spectacular fish king over with a flatbed cart. The big fish had already been mud-removed, scale-removed, and cleaned, and was stripped naked.

That was the largest flatbed cart in the village, usually used to transport hay and grain, but it couldn't hold the fish completely, and half of the fish tail was dragging on the ground.

This was to be cooked on the spot.

Two people stepped forward, opened a small hole behind the fish gills, and actually pulled out a gray-white tendon from inside, thicker than chopsticks.

He Chunhua introduced: "Lake fish must first remove the fishy tendon, otherwise the earthy smell will remain in the meat."

Lu Yao drank a sip of wine: "Particular, worthy of being an official for twenty years."

He Chunhua looked sideways, Lu Yao laughed: "Why, regarding He lord, can't I know a thing or two?"

"A bit unexpected." After all, he was just a frontier official, He Chunhua pointed to the big fish. "When my subordinates cleaned this fish, they found it was unscathed. May I ask General Lu, how did you knock this fish unconscious?"

At that time, Lu Yao and this fish king floated to the water surface together, and the scene was quite shocking. Although the buoyancy of water is great, Lu Yao being able to lift it to the water surface was itself amazing divine power.

What He Chunhua cared about most was how he knocked the fish unconscious.

Look at its body shape, fish scales, it was at least nearly two hundred years old, Lu Yao was strong, but he was still a human, he didn't hold long weapons when entering the water, and almost got it out with his bare hands.

This was evil.

Moreover, not long after everyone lifted the fish to the shore, this big fish woke up, and it was so lively that half of the village heard it.

This matter was weird from beginning to end.

"I picked it up." Under his gaze, Lu Yao spread his hands. "Except for getting it up, I didn't do anything at all. Such a big bargain, can you resist not picking it up?"

"..." He Chunhua was speechless for a while. "Dark night and blind ground, how can you see the big fish fainting at the bottom of the lake?"

"This, you don't understand." Lu Yao was triumphant. "I was born with a pair of divine eyes, able to see what others haven't seen. Let alone lake water, even if there are treasures three feet underground, it is hard to escape my magic eyes."

He Chunhua smiled, knowing he didn't want to reveal it, and didn't ask any more.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 120 =====