ebookland Chapter 682 Meeting Friends (1)
Chapter 682 Meeting Friends (1)
Chu Xiaomu took a closer look and saw a handsome man in a green general's robe standing in the camp. It was Yu Aqi, his good friend whom he met in Jiaoshan.
He was immediately overjoyed and shouted back: "Aqi, I received your letter!"
Yu Aqi walked over without stopping and held Chu Xiaomumu's hand tightly.
Xiaoying frowned and said, "Aren't you ashamed of two grown men pulling each other?"
Ah Qi didn't take it seriously and said to the gatekeeper, "This is my good friend Chu Xiaomu. You are not allowed to embarrass him."
When the soldier saw the deputy commander Yu Aqi, he immediately became submissive and bowed to invite Chu Xiaomu and Xiaoying in.
Aqi led the two to his central army camp. As they walked, he said, "The soldier guarding the gate is called Mei Dengzi, a new recruit. He has never heard of your name, Xiaomu, so please don't blame him."
Chu Xiaomu hurriedly said that he would not mind, and that a soldier with this kind of personality was just right for guarding the gate.
When Xiaoying heard that the soldier's name was "Mei Dengzi", she couldn't help but burst out laughing and said, "This guy's name is really interesting."
Chu Xiaomu couldn't help but smile.
Aqi said that it was the custom in their village. If a family was short of something and wanted it very much, they would give their newborn child a name like that. Mei Dengzi's family not only lacked stools, but also a table.
Xiaoying burst into laughter when she heard this.
Soon, the three men arrived at Aqi's central military camp. Aqi ordered his men to take their horses to the stables to take good care of them, and then invited the two men into the camp.
As soon as he entered the tent, Ah Qi bowed to Xiaoying with a smile and said, "I guess this is the girl Xiaoying that Xiaomu has been thinking about all the time."
Xiaoying replied, "I am Xiaoying," and turned to Chu Xiaomu and said with a smile, "You stinky wood, all of your friends are prettier than you."
Chu Xiaomu asked Aqi, "How do you know her name? I never mentioned it to you." After thinking about it carefully, he realized that he had never mentioned her to anyone before Xiaoying came, whether he was in Jiaoshan or in Bicheng Army, and he had not even told anyone about her in Baihuading.
Aqi said, "You didn't tell me, but you were unconscious when you first arrived at Jiaoshan. You may have yelled in your sleep for at least eighty times, if not a hundred times."
Chu Xiaomu blushed. She didn't expect that she said that when she was unconscious. No wonder Aqi knew it.
This was awkward, so he changed the subject and asked Aqi with a smile, "Mei Dengzi said you are a busy man, but I don't think you are that busy. You actually have time to hang out in the barracks."
Ah Qi smiled and said, "I observed the sky at night and saw a blue star hanging in the sky. Then I counted with my fingers and calculated that an important person would appear today, so I am waiting here."
Chu Xiaomu punched him lightly, then laughed and said, "You just like to talk nonsense. If you can really figure it out, why don't you come out to meet me?"
Aqi laughed and said that only Huang Tianxiang had that kind of ability, and he was still far from it. He didn't expect that Xiaomu would come by that path.
It was already evening, and it was time for lunch in the military camp. Aqi asked the guards to bring more food to eat with Chu Xiaomu and Xiaoying. He also asked the guards to get three empty bowls, and he was mysterious about what he was doing.
After the guards left, Aqi carefully closed the curtains, took out a sheepskin water bag from the corner of the bed, and said with a smile: "How can good friends get together without wine? Let's drink to our heart's content today."
Since the Red Army broke through the Green City Army, Bi Ye had issued an order in the army, strictly forbidding the heavy army to drink alcohol. After all, everyone couldn't even afford to eat, so how could they have extra food to make wine? Although the Dongzhong Army was more than a thousand miles away to the east of Green City, it must have received the message from the flying eagle in the main city.
That's why Aqi acted so secretive and didn't even dare to let his own guards know.
Fortunately, the Dongzhong Army had the support of Yutuo City, so they had no worries about food and grass, unlike the Xiyi, Beicheng, and Zhongjing armies, which could not even afford food. However, after the Dongzhong Army retreated to Yashan, it was helping Yutuo City defend the city in disguise, so it was reasonable for the Lulin family to provide food and grass.
When Chu Xiaomu saw Ah Qi secretly taking out a sheepskin water bag, he knew that he was hiding wine, and said with a smile: "The last time I drank with you was in Zhongjing Army, and the next day I was caught by Zhou Zhongjun and beaten with dozens of sticks. If I drink with you today, I won't be caught by Ding Zhongjun and beaten again, right?"
Ah Qi quickly scolded him, "You have a bad mouth, can you stop saying these unlucky words?"
It has been nearly two years since the two of them fled from Jiaoshan in Jinyang City to the respected Bicheng Army. Unexpectedly, when they meet again, not only has Bicheng been occupied by the Red Army, but the Bicheng Army has also been in disarray.
When talking about Yingdan's disappearance and Zhou Weide, Zhang Hou and others' tragic deaths on the ancient black miasma road in Beast Mountain, the two of them sighed in grief, and Chu Xiaomu couldn't help but shed tears.