Cheat Codes and Trip-Ups

Ji Panxi continued generously, "I learned how to make wine from my mother when I was little. If you like it, Captain, I can give you the recipe?"

Xia Chujian hurriedly waved her hands. "I don't like drinking. I was just asking. It's great to have a skill like that!"

Ji Panxi smiled. "Yes, especially winemaking... There were many children in my family, and Father couldn't help much. It was Mother's wine that kept the whole family fed and clothed without worry."

Xia Chujian said with feeling, "Being able to support a family and keep everyone fed and clothed is already remarkable."

"Come, a toast to Mother!"

Xia Chujian raised her glass in a gesture of goodwill toward Ji Panxi.

Ji Panxi smiled and lifted her glass, lightly clinking it against Xia Chujian's. "Thank you, Captain! My mother will definitely be very happy when she hears about this!"

The roasted meat was already delicious, and with freshly brewed wine to liven things up, everyone drank to their hearts' content.

By the time the moon hung high overhead, everyone was thoroughly drunk, so drunk that they could barely walk.

Ji Panxi pulled Li Fengqing along and competed in drinking with the three male officers. In the end, all of them collapsed drunk in front of Xia Chujian.

Only a few hundred people remained clear-minded, either because they could not drink for various reasons or because they had not drunk much.

Xia Chujian was one of them. The rest were ordinary soldiers.

She looked at the sky and thought that sleeping outside in the camp on a summer night might actually be cooler.

They had brought medicine to repel mosquitoes and insects, which they burned in the bonfires. Not a single mosquito appeared nearby all night.

So it should be fine to