Chapter 54: Lend a Hand

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Li You did not abstain from smoking in his past life, but the hall was truly too choking, so he sat at a table by the door with Wang Qiong and the Thin Monkey; he could hear amidst the noise from the kitchen the sobbing and screaming of women, so he turned to Wang Qiong beside him and asked: "Why does it sound like there are many female cooks?"

"Heh, what do you call female cooks? Those were originally hostages who were brought in along with their wives and children!"

The Thin Monkey, admiring Li You's prowess, hurriedly replied: "So when their families' shopkeepers came to ransom them, they haggled and only ransomed the children, not the wives, so some wives just stayed... but there were also twelve women captured from Lueyang last time... actually, they lived a life worse than death, making me feel it would be better to die!"

Li You glanced at the Thin Monkey and asked no more.

Moments later, Niu Jinku called for a group of mountain bandits to clear the card tables and prepare to eat. This main hall was truly enormous; setting up twenty or thirty tables with two or three hundred people sitting would be absolutely no problem.

Niu Jinku also specifically rearranged the tables and chairs into two rows, with the head seat set at the very northern end of the main hall.

Before long, Wu Zhuge arrived at the outer courtyard hall with Da Yun'er; the moment Da Yun'er stepped through the door, her eyes burned fiercely and pinned themselves onto Li You.

Li You acted as if he had not seen it, and along with everyone else, he shouted and rose to pay his respects.

Wu Zhuge walked straight to his seat and sat down, only then waving his hand, and the crowd quickly took their seats.

Li You scanned the room and did not see the Four Hall Masters Shi Dayong and the Three Great Hall Masters Zhang Zhuanggen, feeling somewhat regretful, as this was a very good opportunity for socializing.

Before the food and dishes were served, Wu Zhuge naturally recounted the events that happened at Mao'er Ba during the day with embellishment, and then vigorously praised Li You's deeds.

Hearing the Liu brothers' arrogant provocation, bandits like Niu Jinku and Shi Dayong roared in anger; later, when Li You won back the face, many in the hall suddenly felt relieved, instantly gaining immense goodwill.

Of course, many others opened their eyes extremely wide, went over to quietly ask the Thin Monkey and Wang Qiong, and then stared at Li You with even more vacant eyes.

"Arrows can turn? What a damn stinking fart!"

"Damn it, I think our Hall Master has grown senile in his old age, fell for this big headscarf's trick, and was all deceived into a daze!"

"You dog, if he can snap Guan Mu, then I'll believe his arrows can turn... hahaha..."

A few even grew more disgusted with Li You; these were the archers under Zhang Cang's command. Archers have always held a very high status in feudal armies, so they were used to being arrogant, especially the three men from the border soldiers who defected from Shi Dayong: Kong Xiu, Zheng Daniu, and Cui Sanzao.

"Come, I will pour wine for everyone!"

After Wu Zhuge finished speaking, Da Yun'er rose, lifted the wine jar, tilted her body, and first poured wine for Wu Zhuge; she seemed to have just washed, still carrying a body scent, and was not wearing a padded jacket but a thin floral skirt; whether intentionally or not, while pouring the wine she faced Wu Zhuge, so her back naturally faced Li You.

"With a wife like this, goji berries are hard to cure."

Li You sighed the sentence, then like a ghost reincarnated, lifted a large coarse bowl of rice, wrinkled his nose, chewed wildly with slices of fatty meat, and drank down two big bowls in one go; only when his forehead was covered in sweat did he feel comfortable all over.

Although he had eaten millet rice at noon at Mao'er Ba, he was truly terrified of hunger; the body's memory made him completely disregard any demeanor of a scholar.

After the big meal came the big drinking; the hall was full of chewing sounds, and the wine bought here was Luzhou Daqu.

In Li You's view, this wine was just the baijiu of his past life; Li You drank five or six times and felt his head getting hot, but Wang Qiong under Wu Zhuge and Zhang Cang at the grain station had not yet been matched for drinking, so he had no choice but to drink several more times.

Then, as if drunk, he chatted nonsense with them, slung arms and shoulders, and made a scene until the hour of Zi, when Li You's eyes finally cleared; he secretly thought drinking delays matters, hurriedly went to find Wu Zhuge, as tonight he intended to get some grain for Nanshan no matter what!

By then, a small number of people had left the hall, but most were sleeping with their heads down in this hall; looking around, he suddenly realized Wu Zhuge was still here, but he had long since fallen asleep dead on the table; Da Yun'er's watery eyes met his...

"Mr., the Great Hall Master has been very weak, extremely weak lately; sleeping here won't do; I alone cannot support him, lend me a hand, let us together help him to bed... roll!"

"To bed? Roll?"

Li You was a bit confused, feeling that the woman's words contained... tigers and wolves!

So bold? So terrifying?

Li You, single since the womb, felt a bit cowardly in his heart; previously flirting with Da Yun'er was also a matter of necessity; seeing Da Yun'er keep looking at him, he thought this handsome face should not go to waste and climbed up the nose to the face.

At that time, he only wanted to survive, sacrificing his beauty was also unavoidable; now that the life-and-death crisis was eliminated, how could he still have so many dirty thoughts?

"Good!"

Li You's spirit suddenly felt strangely tense and exciting; his instinctive reaction was to agree directly first.

He could only walk forward, pull Wu Zhuge's right arm, and hoist up half his body; Da Yun'er supported his left elbow and armpit, and the two left the hall, walked along the dark corridor, and headed toward the inner courtyard.

Under the corridor, the moonlight was also shrinking its head and hiding its nose.

Although Wu Zhuge was fat, Li You was strong, so he bore almost all the weight.

"Ouch, the Hall Master's nature of loving wine like life, when will it ever change? Once he drinks, the night shakes the earth and the bed collapses; even shaking won't wake him, and by the time the sun is three poles high tomorrow, he probably won't get up!"

Da Yun'er said coquettishly.

Li You's heart beat a bit fiercely; for a moment he did not know what to say.

Da Yun suddenly let go of Wu Zhuge's left elbow and armpit, ran directly to Li You's right side, and a scent of soap and women's body odor rushed into his nostrils one after another...

Da Yun'er was dressed thinly, pressed tightly against his right side, and skillfully reached out to grab; immediately her expression was somewhat surprised...

"Oh..." Da Yun'er's small mouth opened slightly.

"Mm..." Li You frowned.