"Okay, whoever finishes the drink first will be the eldest brother."
Xu Ran rolled his eyes, suddenly snatched the wine from Xiang Yu's hand with lightning speed, drank it down, and said with a smile: 'Now, you are my little brother.'
Xiang Yu frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
Xu Ran shrugged and said: 'You are seriously injured and cannot drink, so no matter what, I will win, so just be my little brother.'
Xiang Yu was so angry that his tooth ached, and he said angrily: "I don't accept it."
Xu Ran immediately raised his eyebrows and said: "A man who keeps his word, how can he keep his word?"
Xiang Yu suddenly stopped talking.
In this way, Xiang Yu was deceived into becoming his younger brother by Xu Ran, but Xiang Yu was convinced but not convinced at all. The next day, Xu Ran asked seriously: "Xiang Yu, do you know where Liu Bang is hiding?"
Xu Ran did not forget the purpose of coming to Wuxian County, but it was to kill Liu Bang.
"Liu Bang, that treacherous villain, left me the next day after he tricked me. I don't know where he is hiding." When Xiang Yu heard about Liu Bang, he was filled with hatred.
Liu Bang led his remnant army to seek refuge with him, and he treated him sincerely. However, he did not expect that Liu Bang told the Qin army that he was going to rob grain and grass, and he was ambushed by the Qin army.
After returning, he found that Liu Bang had started to instigate his men to rebel against him, and also said that he would avenge himself. Xiang Yu was so angry that he would have killed Liu Bang directly if he had not been seriously injured that day.
But now that Xiang Yu heard Xu Ran talking about Liu Bang, his teeth itched with hatred.
"However, I can find him as long as he is in Kuaiji County. After all, the three thousand people he brings with him have to eat anyway. Give me two days and I will be able to find his hiding place," Xiang Yu said.
"If you find it, tell me and I will take action myself," Xu Ran said calmly.
"Don't be careless, Liu Bang still has two or three thousand troops no matter what." Xiang Yu said: "When I find Liu Bang's hiding place and recover from my injuries, I will lead the army to crush him."
"Haha, your elder brother and I can handle this matter alone." Xu Ran said with a smile: "At least, I, the elder brother, have to convince you, the younger brother."
"You have to go alone?" Xiang Yu's eyes widened.
"That's natural." Xu Ran nodded.
Xiang Yu stared at Xu Ran carefully, feeling that the other person was even more arrogant than him. He looked at Xu Ran and said, "If you really can kill Liu Bang among thousands of people without any soldiers or horses, I will be convinced by you as a big brother."
oral".
"It's a deal." Xu Ran smiled.
"It's a deal." Xiang Yu nodded.
Later, Xiang Yu ordered people to search for Liu Bang's traces. Liu Bang and his two to three thousand men and horses. With so many people, Liu Bang needed a lot of food every day.
Therefore, as long as you investigate those mountain villages near the mountains that can hide thousands of people, and see if they have been robbed, you can narrow down the scope of the investigation.
Not to mention, if you really wanted to find Liu Bang's hiding place, you would have arrived two days early.
According to the information brought back by Xiang Yu's men, there is a stretch of mountain forest fifty miles east of Wu County. Several small villages at the foot of the mountain forest have been frequently robbed for a long time.
Moreover, according to people in the village, thick smoke would rise in the middle of the mountains and forests at noon every day, so Xiang Yu's men guessed that people hiding in the mountains and forests should be making fire and cooking.
Xiang Yu conveyed the news to Xu Ran, so Xu Ran set off, led by one of Xiang Yu's soldiers. Within an hour, he arrived at the place where Liu Bang was suspected to be hiding.
There are two large mountains around here, covered by dense vegetation, with an endless radius of several kilometers. Thousands of people are hiding inside, and it is not difficult to find them.
There are many villages around.
"It's right here, right?" Xu Ran asked.
The soldier replied: "Sir, this is it."
"Let's go into the village," Xu Ran said.
The two rode horses and slowly entered the village. The village was not big, only about a hundred households, including young and old. When the two entered the village, the people in the village looked at them warily, as if they were not welcome.
outsiders.
"Go and ask around where the thick smoke is coming from the forest," Xu Ran ordered.
The soldier took the order and immediately went to ask. After a while, he ran over and said excitedly: "Sir, they said the place where the smoke is coming from is on the mountainside."
As he spoke, he pointed to the forest next to him.
"Stop it, you bandits"
"I will fight with you"
Just then, a shrill scream came, heartbreaking. Xu Ran heard the sound, rode over, and saw about twenty men robbing a house.
Some people hold rice in their hands, and some hold poultry.
A middle-aged woman held on to the robber, but was kicked away mercilessly. The middle-aged woman groaned and fell to the ground.
There were people around who came out to watch, but when they saw this group of looters, they were angry but dared not speak.
"If you come after me, I will kill you." A man glared fiercely.
"horse..."
"There are two horses ahead"
"These two horses are enough for us to have a full meal."
The twenty people were preparing to leave with the food in their hands, but suddenly they found two horses in front of them. When they saw these two horses, they looked as greedy as a hungry wolf looking at a sheep.
There was a strong look of greed in these people's eyes, and they even licked the corners of their mouths.
When these people were screaming when they found the horses, Xu Ran was also looking at these twenty or so people. They all looked similar, with unkempt hair, sallow complexion, and sunken eyes.
It looked like he hadn't eaten in several days.
Next, more than 20 people rushed over in a swarm, holding various weapons in their hands, and immediately slashed at the horses. In their eyes, the horses were food.
Xu Ran opened his fingers, and suddenly a violent wave of air appeared out of thin air. If there was a storm, it would directly knock more than twenty people off their feet.
Ignoring these people, they got up and rushed towards the two horses again. Xu Ran shook his head, and then used his inner strength to condense into Finger Wind Energy, which instantly penetrated the eyebrows of these people.
Blood holes appeared between his eyebrows, blood flowed out, and he fell straight to the ground.
The soldiers next to him were stunned and had no idea how these more than 20 people died.
These more than twenty people had been dehumanized by hunger, so Xu Ran killed them all.
Xu Ran dismounted, picked up a bag of rice and a few poultry on the ground, and said in front of the middle-aged woman in the aisle: "Auntie, return these things to their original owners."
"Thank you, thank you, benefactor." The middle-aged woman took it and cried with joy.
"You should go back and recover, it's enough for me to go into the mountain alone." Xu Ran turned around again and said to the soldier.
The soldier nodded and said, "Sir, the younger one will go back first."
Next, Xu Ran went into the mountains alone, walking on flat ground in the mountains and forests, walking towards the destination. After about ten minutes, Xu Ran found someone.
In a valley, there are all people, about one or two thousand people, each one of them is hungry, cold and depressed.
These people are the remnants of Chen Sheng's army.