Don’t Try To Corrupt Me

Chapter 107

General Yu’s eagle eyes carried a sense of intimidation. According to the Sheng Kingdom’s records, insulting the Sheng Army should be punished by execution.

But now he had to keep this man alive.

His dark eyes narrowed dangerously.

—The day the war ends will be your death sentence.

Officer Sheng didn’t care about life and death. As long as he could live one more day, the present was the most important thing.

His time hadn’t come yet. Even if the King Yama arrived, he will only ask, “Have you eaten?” and turn back.

In the evening, Officer Sheng had someone find him some clean clothes for changing.

As he wandered around the camp, he casually approached a soldier.

“Where is your bathhouse?”

“Five hundred meters outside the camp, across a small hill, behind a stone cave.”

Officer Sheng: “Your Sheng Kingdom is really strange. You built the bathhouse so far away.”

The parrot: “Really strange!”

Soldier: “There is no bathhouses.”

Officer Sheng: ?

Soldier: “But there is a river.”

“…”

The Xia Kingdom was inferior to the Sheng Kingdom in terms of military and resources, but at least their camp had a bathhouse for daily showers. On the other hand, the Sheng Kingdom only had a river, living more roughly than their smaller kingdom.

Indeed, the army doesn’t pay attention to such things.

Before, in the Xia camp, he was the backbone, strategizing and skilled in warfare. He lived and ate just like the soldiers, but he liked cleanliness. Every day they went out of the camp to fight, and he would go to the mountains to gather firewood and come back to boil water for a bath.

Previously, he was a civil official. This was his first time on the battlefield, so there were not many problems except for cleanliness, of which he could handle it without much trouble.

However, in the Sheng Kingdom, being unfamiliar with the place, if he wanted to go out and gather firewood…

“You want to go out and gather firewood!”

Officer Sheng silently pushed aside the big knife at his neck.

“Exactly.”

The knife was put back.

“You’re not thinking of sneaking away, are you?!”

Officer Sheng: “…”

No one would believe that.

He pushed away the knife. “I want to go out and gather firewood for a bath. Otherwise, I feel uncomfortable.”

“What’s there to wash? Men like us can endure being rough. We only go to the riverside every few days. Just bear with it.”

Officer Sheng stared at him for a few moments.

The soldier thought there was dirt on his face. “What’s wrong?”

Suddenly, the fair hand grasped the knife handle and lifted it up, hanging it back around his own neck.

The soldier was astonished. “What are you doing?”

“I will kill myself.”

Parrot: “Kill myself!”

“…”

If no bath was given, then he’ll kill himself.

Truly shameless.

In the end, someone was sent out to gather firewood and come back to heat the water for him to bathe.

There were no bathhouses in the military camp. Each tent had its own people, but there was no suitable place. So they had to move the bathtub to the main tent and set up a folding screen for privacy.

General Yu looked at the soldiers laboriously carrying the bathtub inside and felt the urge to kill them.

Officer Sheng was now happy, but his unhappiness had transferred to every person in the Sheng army.

“Do you know how arrogant that officer we captured today is. He ate and drank well and even wanted a bath.”

“More than that! I heard he will stay in General Yu’s main tent tonight.”

“This is unacceptable. Isn’t it a clear humiliation to our Sheng Kingdom?”

“Why don’t we just kill him?!”

“At present, we can’t kill him. We have no way to deal with him.”

Discussions spread within the army, and Attendant Zheng, who had come out of the kitchen, was shocked.

“The general is going to sleep with that dog-headed strategist?”

“I heard he refuses to leave and there’s no other choice.”

“What about the general’s innocence?”

They hadn’t even mentioned the marriage proposal yet, and now General Yu’s only advantage was his purity and innocence. Attendant Zheng sat on the ground, worried.

Some felt sorrow, while others felt joy. Officer Sheng finished his bath, changed his clothes, and walked out from behind the folding screen wearing a light yellow undershirt. It was already late, and It was time to rest.

He walked confidently to the bed and looked at the bedding with satisfaction. It was clean enough. The parrot on his shoulder also shook its head in a good mood.

He placed the parrot on a nearby shelf, instructing it to sleep there tonight, then kicked off his shoes and rolled onto the bed.

He lay back on the bed, and closed his eyes contentedly.

Comfortable.

Candles burned in the main tent, casting a golden glow. Officer Sheng let out a yawn.

“Hey.”

General Yu sat at the desk, unmoving, writing. His calligraphy was unrefined, but he practiced writing a page of characters before going to bed every night. There were many illiterate people in the army, but because of the marriage issue, he was ordered to improve his writing skills so that he could write love letters that would satisfy the other party.

But he was not a patient person at all. He grew increasingly annoyed as he looked at the characters on the paper. At this moment, someone called him, and it was no different from igniting the gunpowder in his heart.

Yu Zuojin put down his brush, coldly staring at the person on the bed.

Officer Sheng changed his posture. “It’s so late, aren’t you coming to sleep?”

General Yu frowned. He didn’t expect the other party to call him for the sake of resting.

“Stop practicing. It’s late. Go to sleep early. Isn’t the Sheng army supposed to train every morning? Don’t exhaust yourself.”

This cunning officer could indeed say heartwarming words.

But in the next moment, Officer Sheng opened his mouth again. “Your candle has been burning, and I can’t sleep.”

General Yu: “…”

He wasn’t concerned about his rest; he was interfering with his sleep.

General Yu didn’t give him a good look, but he still put down his brush and walked to the side of the bed. The officer was wearing only a light yellow undershirt, and his exposed wrists and bare feet were slender. He had a tall figure, but he didn’t seem to have much flesh. It was unclear if his legs were as thick as his arms.

General Yu stood expressionless by the bed and began to undress. He usually slept in his trousers, and he undressed while Officer Sheng watched.

The officer praised his figure without holding back. “You must have trained a lot for this body.”

General Yu ignored him. He was about to climb into bed when a fair hand stopped him.

“What are you doing?”

Officer Sheng pushed his shoulder away. “You haven’t bathed yet. Take a bath and then come up.”

General Yu was extremely annoyed, not knowing where the other person found so many matters to annoy him with.

“Go.”

The tone was not forceful, and it didn’t evoke much resentment in the listener’s heart. General Yu gave him a glance and went behind the folding screen. It was too much trouble to have someone boil water again, and he used to wash in the river before. He’ll simply wipe himself with the leftover hot water. This was his biggest compromise.

When he walked behind the folding screen, he saw the clear water in the wooden tub. The officer used to wash every day in the Xia camp, keeping himself clean without any dirt or mud. So after taking a bath, the water remained clear.

General Yu took a piece of cloth to wipe himself and then returned to the bedside. Officer Sheng shifted slightly to make room for him.

It was the first time in recent years that someone slept by his side. The last time was years ago before his promotion and had to squeeze into a bunk in the barracks. He lay down on his side.

“Why are you sleeping on the edge? Aren’t you afraid of falling off?”

A hand reached out and pulled him. The soft and delicate palm didn’t exert the same force as the soldiers.

He was turned around by the person, and when he opened his eyes, he was met with a face that had remarkable features.

His eyes flickered as if he had fallen into a bewitching sinkhole. He closed his eyes directly, thinking that ignorance is bliss.

The next morning, he was awakened by a weight on him. When he opened his eyes, he saw a pair of fair legs resting on his waist.

In the entire Sheng military camp, there was no one with skin as fair as this. With the marching, fighting every day, and eating sand, everyone’s skin had roughened.

The person beside him slept soundly. Their arm was draped over his chest, their breath falling irregularly into his ears, making it ticklish and itchy.

That face didn’t possess any feminine traits, yet it was exceptionally elegant and beautiful.

General Yu lifted the person off with a cold expression, but as he sat up, he noticed that something was amiss.

Seeing the situation below his waist, veins bulged on his forehead.

“Someone, boil water! The general wants to bathe!!!”

Attendant Zheng heard the commotion among the guards and hurriedly ran to the kitchen to boil a large pot of water.

As he boiled the water, he wiped away tears that didn’t exist.

Early in the morning, the general was in a rush for water. That brute of a man would bathe in the river, so it was obvious that he had been defiled by that cunning dog-headed strategist.

Now the general’s greatest advantage for the blind date was gone.

Attendant Zheng was on the verge of tears as he tirelessly boiled the water.

His world would never be bright again!!

General Yu’s complexion improved after taking a bath in the morning. At this moment, he wished he could strangle the person beside him. The morning incident had brought him great shame.

However, Officer Sheng paid no attention to his murderous aura. He leisurely sat by his side, having breakfast.

Eating in the army was always hurried, to the point where they had developed a bad habit of eating hastily even when not on the march. Seeing the person beside him holding a piece of bread and about to stuff the whole thing into his mouth, Officer Sheng couldn’t bear it and snatched it away.

“Take small bites.”

General Yu was the highest-ranking officer in the army, and even the court officials dared not meddle in his affairs, let alone the emperor who relied on him for military matters. No one dared to interfere with his private affairs, let alone his meals.

General Yu grew impatient and snatched the bread back, intending to stuff it into his mouth.

But Officer Sheng didn’t allow it. His fair fingertips pointed at General Yu’s nose and said, “Take small bites.”

General Yu’s anger flared, and he took on a confrontational stance.

“Give it to me.”

Officer Sheng brought the bread close to his mouth and insisted, “One bite.”

He reluctantly yielded, but his attitude remained unchanged. General Yu was taken aback; the other person truly understood how to manipulate one’s emotions and feelings.

He stared at the meddlesome officer in front of him and took a ferocious bite of the bread, as if he were devouring his adversary. However, it didn’t intimidate the officer.

“You even spill water when you drink.”

“Lower your bowl.”

“Chopsticks! Chopsticks!”

“Wipe your mouth with a handkerchief, don’t smudge it on your sleeve.”

The meal left General Yu seething with anger. When Attendant Zheng entered, he saw the general holding a small bowl and drinking meat soup, then turning to take a bite of the bread in the officer’s hand.

General Yu had never been close to his family since he was young. He ventured out into the world at the age of fourteen, and no one had ever managed him so intrusively. He was annoyed, but he reluctantly followed the officer’s instructions.

Even the parrot was hungry and flew over to perch on Officer Sheng’s shoulder.

“I’m hungry!”

“Give me a bite!”

“Give me a bite.”

General Yu’s bread was almost finished, so Officer Sheng handed it to the parrot.

Suddenly, an arm swiftly passed in front of him, and a large hand instantly gripped the parrot.

“Squawk!!!”

General Yu held the parrot tightly, his voice icy, “Spit it out.”

The parrot squirmed frantically, “Spit, spit, spit!!!”

His bread was his.

Once the parrot spit out the bread, he released it. Some of the parrot’s feathers were plucked in the process, but it was of nothing serious.

“Squawk!!!”

The parrot was furious, spreading its wings and perching on Officer Sheng’s head, squawking and screeching at General Yu.

“Give me bread!”

“I curse you!”

“I curse you!”