#81 - Wu Yanhan, this is my name

"Damn it, it's really not easy to get this wine."

"Tell me about it? I spent a military merit point just to get these ten jars of Osmanthus Wine from Drunken Immortal Pavilion!"

"Speaking of which, are ten jars enough? Otherwise, I'll use my military merit to exchange for some more?"

"It's not a matter of military merit or not, it's that if you exchange for too much, Wang Meng that guy won't be able to turn a blind eye anymore."

At night, inside the tent of the 484th Battalion, Xiong Hai Zhi and Li Han cursed and grumbled as they carried in jar after jar of wine.

Li Han placed the wine jars down and arranged the wine bowls. Guang Yin also took out meal boxes one by one, filled with dishes like roast duck, beggar's chicken, and soy-braised pork knuckle to go with the wine.

Opening a jar of wine, the fragrance of osmanthus and the aroma of the dishes mixed together, floating in the tent.

Li Han wiped his saliva: "Where are those two little brats, Xu Ming and Wu Yanhan?"

Guang Yin shook his head: "I don't know."

Xiong Hai Zhi waved his hand: "Need you even ask? Wu Yanhan must have gone to find a mountain spring to take a bath. He never goes to the bathhouse. As for Xu Ming, Xu Ming must have gone to secretly practice, but he'll be back soon."

Li Han plopped down on the bed: "That kid Xu Ming has so much talent, and he still works so hard at practicing his fist techniques. Does he even let people live?"

"Come on, let's not compare ourselves to geniuses." Xiong Hai Zhi smiled, "Back when I was studying at the Zhi Xing Academy, that kid beat me up. The three of us were all two or three years older than him, and we still couldn't beat him even when we ganged up on him."

"Couldn't beat who?"

Just as the three of Li Han were talking and laughing, Xu Ming and Wu Yanhan walked in together.

"Why did you two come back together?" Li Han smiled, "You guys didn't go and do some butt-trading, did you?"

Wu Yanhan frowned and walked over, ready to kick him.

Li Han quickly stood up: "Brother Wu! I was just joking! Really just joking! If you kick me with that foot, I guarantee you'll be kneeling on the ground begging me not to die."

"Alright, alright, it's just your mouth that's running wild." Xu Ming pulled Wu Yanhan back, "What's with all the wine and meat? What's going on?"

"Hehe," Li Han rubbed his nose, "Isn't this a farewell for you? You're going to take office in the palace tomorrow, so we have to have a good drink."

As he said that, Li Han raised a jar of wine and tossed it towards Xu Ming.

Xu Ming caught it and sniffed it: "Osmanthus Wine from Drunken Immortal Pavilion?"

Li Han nodded: "As expected of the Fifth Young Master of the Xu family, you really know your stuff."

"But I don't think it's much fun eating and drinking in the tent. Let's move it outside." Xu Ming said.

Xiong Hai Zhi thought for a moment and slapped his thigh: "Alright! We'll move it outside to eat. If we get caught, we get caught. At worst, we'll just be punished tomorrow."

"Damn! Xu-ge is leaving, so we're the only ones getting punished!"

Li Han cursed, but he still didn't have any objections, and moved the table, wine, and meat all outside.

The five of them found a small mountain peak and moved to the top, drinking wine while overlooking the First Army Barracks from the peak.

The night sky was very cooperative tonight. The moon was bright, and there were many stars in the sky, like the Milky Way hanging in the sky.

"Xu-ge, I heard that you're going to participate in our Wu Kingdom's Imperial Examination next year, right?" Li Han asked Xu Ming.

"Yeah." Xu Ming nodded, "I should go."

"Can you do it?" Xiong Hai Zhi smiled, "Scholars study hard, day and night. I haven't seen you read a book in the past few years."

Xu Ming also smiled: "You guys are just asking if I'm going, I didn't say I could pass."

Guang Yin took a sip of Osmanthus Wine, his honest face flushed red: "Xu-ge, you're really amazing. You're so good at martial arts, and you're so good at literature. If Xu-ge, you are successful in the imperial examination, wouldn't you be the first person in Wu Kingdom's history to be proficient in both martial arts and literature?"

"Need you even ask?" Xiong Hai Zhi raised his head and took a sip, "Damn it, let those civil officials say we're simple-minded. We martial men can also pass the imperial examination!"

"Xu-ge, will you come back to the Blood Floating Pagoda in the future?" Li Han took a bite of a chicken leg and looked at Xu Ming.

Everyone also looked at Xu Ming.

"Not sure, let's see." Xu Ming took a sip of wine.

"What about you?" Xu Ming looked at them, "What about you? What are your plans for the future?"

Xiong Hai Zhi smiled, took a sip of wine, his eyes full of expectations for the future: "My father is the Minister of War, I definitely have to establish military merit in the Blood Floating Pagoda. With my own strength, I'll be granted a title and become a high-ranking official!"

Li Han smiled: "I probably won't stay in the Blood Floating Pagoda for the rest of my life. When I've accumulated enough military merit, I'll exchange it for an official position, and then marry a wife and have a few fat sons."

Guang Yin scratched his head: "I don't know... I should stay in the army, I don't have anywhere else to go."

After the three of them finished speaking, the eyes of Xu Ming and the other four all turned to Wu Yanhan.

Wu Yanhan, who had been silently drinking wine without saying a word, was stunned for a moment, his beautiful eyes blinked, and he asked coldly: "What?"

"What about you? What are your plans for the future?" Xu Ming asked.

Wu Yanhan put down the wine jar, pinched his sleeve and wiped his mouth: "No plans. The Blood Floating Pagoda doesn't have anything for me to learn anymore. It's just training every day. I'll leave in a few days and walk around this world."

"Sigh, I didn't expect today to be just a farewell for Xu-ge, but also a farewell for Wu-ge. Forget it, all good things must come to an end, come on! Have a drink!"

Li Hu raised the wine jar, and everyone was very cooperative, even Wu Yanhan coldly raised the wine jar, the jars collided, and everyone took a big gulp!

"I'll come to see you in the future." Xu Ming put down the wine jar, "Before that, don't die."

"Don't worry, even if you die, we won't die." Xiong Hai Zhi drank a mouthful, "On the contrary, it's you, serving a ruler is like walking on thin ice, be careful."

Xu Ming nodded: "I know."

The five of them drank until midnight, and all ten jars of wine were completely emptied before they staggered back to the tent.

The wine from Drunken Flower Pavilion was extraordinary. Xu Ming and the others were really a little drunk, but Wu Yanhan was completely sober.

Xiong Hai Zhi, Li Han, and Guang Yin walked forward with their arms around each other's shoulders. Wu Yanhan walked in the middle, and Xu Ming walked at the back.

Xu Ming and Wu Yanhan were a long distance away from the three of them.

"Wu Yanhan."

Looking at Wu Yanhan's back, Xu Ming remembered the scene he had seen by the river a few years ago and called out.

"What's wrong?" Wu Yanhan turned around.

"Wu Yanhan, is that your real name?" Xu Ming asked, slightly drunk.

Wu Yanhan was slightly stunned, not expecting Xu Ming to ask this.

"Uh, if it's inconvenient to say, then forget it." Xu Ming shook his hand and walked forward, "Pretend I didn't ask."

"Wu Yanhan."

"Huh?"

"Wu from the Wu Kingdom, Yan from fireworks, Han from coldness, that's my name."

【I worked very late today, there is one more chapter, I owe it, I don’t have to go to work tomorrow, update in the morning.】