It was midnight.
Creak…
The door of Cao Cao's camp slowly opened.
An eight-foot-tall, ten-girth-sized, and strong-looking man quietly opened the door of the kitchen.
He hadn't eaten his fill for dinner tonight, but the battle was so tense that he couldn't blatantly ask his subordinates to send supper to the tent. He might as well sneak into the kitchen and prepare to sacrifice his five internal organs.
"How dare you! Who dares to barge into the kitchen at night!"
In the kitchen, a spirited young man of sixteen or seventeen suddenly stood up from the stove. He held a wine bottle in his left hand and a drumstick in his right hand. There was still oil on his mouth.
This thunderous shout startled the burly man.
When he saw that the person who spoke was a harmless youth, he chuckled and said,
"You don't know me?"
The young man seriously sized up the burly man in front of him.
F * ck, he's so strong and he speaks so confidently.
Emmm, he was most likely a general.
The young man put down the chicken drumstick and wine pot and said with a smile,
"Familiar, familiar. May I ask which battalion centurion elder brother is?”
The hell did he know her? The young man was just a cook. He usually didn't go anywhere else other than the kitchen.
In this camp of seventy to eighty thousand soldiers, a cook would not dare to run around. The highest ranking officer he had seen was a centurion.
"Centurion?" The brawny man looked like a young man who had failed to recognize Mount Tai. He said coldly,
"I'm the Lord…"
I almost forgot that I'm here to steal supper. It's best not to spread this matter, lest I get scolded by my lord and laughed at by my colleagues.
"Lord what?"
"I…I am the main registrar, Old Xu. Don't you know me?”
The registrar?
He was responsible for distributing military rations and logistics. Strictly speaking, he was the boss of the kitchen.
The young man wiped the oil from his mouth and smiled even more brightly. It seemed that he had nothing else to do in the kitchen at this time. He was most likely here to eat secretly. It was easy to please.
"So it's Lord Xu who came to visit in disguise. There's also some wine and meat here. Take it as a small token of my appreciation.”
As he spoke, he took out a plate of mutton, a plate of roast chicken, and two jugs of wine from the stove.
Old Xu did not stand on ceremony. After sitting down, he rubbed his hands and began to eat heartily.
The three people's portions were actually cleaned up by him in the time it took to brew a cup of tea.
Fortunately, he was the registrar. If it was an ordinary soldier, with this appetite, he would have been chased out of the military camp.
Old Xu, who was full, leaned back in his chair and patted his bulging stomach with a satisfied smile, but his eyes were gloomy.
"What's wrong, Lord Xu? You seem to have something on your mind. Is there not enough food?”
With the intention of currying favor with his superior, the young man took a pot of wine from the stove and placed it in front of Old Xu.
Old Xu saw that the young man did not care about the battle, but was concerned about whether there was enough food. He could not help but laugh, thinking that this young man was quite interesting.
"Little brother, don't call me Lord Xu. Just call me Old Xu.”Old Xu took a sip of wine and said dejectedly,
"You don't know, but that damned Lu Bu has made the walls of Xiapi City two feet thick and more than three feet high. With the protection of the rapid flow of the Si River, we've already been here for half a month, and we still don't know when we'll be able to conquer Xiapi.”
The young man nodded and heaved a sigh of relief.
So it wasn't because there wasn't enough food, so he didn't care.
However, seeing Old Xu's worried look, he couldn't bear it and comforted him,
"Old Xu, do you miss your wife? Don't worry, you'll be able to return to Xuchang to see your wife soon.”
Old Xu glanced sideways and laughed disdainfully. What did a cook know? He imitated Cao Cao's worried look in the tent during the day and said,
"Not only is Xiapi's defenses strong, but Lu Bu has also stockpiled a hundred days 'worth of rations in the city. In my opinion, it will be difficult to break through the city in less than three months.”
What did a small cook know about military affairs?
However, after being laughed at by Guo Jia and the others for being a brave but tactless general, Old Xu also planned to act like an expert to satisfy his little vanity.
"You're wrong about that." The young man also took a sip of wine and said lightly.
What was that?
You're just a cook and you're in charge of shouting 666. You're acting even more annoying than Guo Jia!
Old Xu was immediately unhappy. He said coldly,"How is it wrong!"
Today, if you don't say something, Old Xu's fists will teach you a lesson.
The young man moistened his throat, put down the wine pot, and straightened his posture, looking like he was going to start acting tough. He said,
"Old Xu, we need to know how to look at the big picture, not just the present.”
"Think about it. Sun Ce of River East has long had the intention of going north to the Central Plains. Ma Teng and Han Sui of Liangzhou have also been restless.
If the lord really surrounded Xiapi until the rations were exhausted, Xuchang would have been taken care of long ago.
So don't worry, the lord won't stay here for too long.”
Old Xu raised his thick eyebrows. He held the wine jug in the air, unable to move it up or down, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Why was this kid's words exactly the same as what Guo Jia, that drunkard, said?
Could it be that he had eavesdropped on the military discussion in the main tent during the day?
Old Xu looked at the young man suspiciously, but he quickly rejected this idea.
A mere cook could not move more than a hundred steps from the kitchen. How could he pass through the layers of defense and run to the central tent to eavesdrop?
Moreover, from the looks of it, he did not know martial arts at all.
Impossible, absolutely impossible.
Could it be…Could it be that Guo Jia had also come to this kitchen?
"Then, according to what you said, wouldn't our army be in a dilemma?”
Old Xu no longer had the thought of making things difficult for the youth. Instead, he wanted to verify his guess.
Because Guo Jia did not come up with a solution to this problem when they were discussing the military during the day.
The young man looked outside the window and the tightly shut door. He leaned forward and said mysteriously,
"Old Xu, don't worry. It's not difficult at all. In three to five days at most, our lord will be able to invade Xiapi City.
At that time, we can also return to Xuchang.”
Five or six days?
Old Xu sighed in disappointment. He had thought that it was some kind of otherworldly expert, but it seemed that it was just an ignorant kid who only knew how to talk nonsense.
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