When Duke Chen came to his senses, he realized that he, at his age, had almost been tempted by a little meat offered by his rival, and he immediately felt a little embarrassed.

With a sullen face, he refused with great pride: "Take these away. The men of the Chen family do not accept charity. We have no need for your sympathy!"

Ji Chenhai smiled and shouted loudly, "You men of the Chen family certainly don't lack this little bit of food, but your soldiers need to eat."

When I came over just now, I saw several soldiers on sentry posts with their entire bodies hanging from their gun barrels. If they didn't eat something soon, they would be in grave danger.

"What a waste it would be if they didn't die at the hands of the enemy, but instead starved to death trying to preserve the honor of you and your sons."

Hearing these words, even the most patient Duke of Chen was enraged.

He spoke slowly and deliberately, his teeth clenched, and growled, "Lord Anping!"

"Oh, are you afraid I'll tamper with these pieces of meat?" Ji Chenhai pretended not to understand and turned to the soldiers outside, saying, "Just cut me a piece of meat."

One soldier did as instructed.

Ji Chenhai took the meat from the soldier, put it in his mouth and ate it. He even smacked his lips and praised, "Hmm, it's tender and crispy, roasted very well."

They've already gone to such lengths, and then they said those things earlier.

Duke Chen knew that if he refused the meat offered by Ji Chenhai, word would get out and his soldiers would lose heart.

"Alright, old Duke, you don't need to be embarrassed. These are all gifts from me to the soldiers below, not to you," Ji Chenhai said, turning around with an "I understand" look on his face, and calling the soldiers who had brought the meat to leave.

The three members of the Chen family, father and sons, stood in the tent, watching Ji Chenhai's departing figure, filled with suspicion, and remained silent for a long time.

a long time.

Chen Shiyu waved his hand and said to the soldiers beside him, "Alright, distribute all this meat to the soldiers below."

Chen Xiaoyi's pressure points were released, and he said angrily, "Father, elder brother, those bandits robbed us, they certainly wouldn't be so kind as to bring us meat, they must have some kind of conspiracy!"

“He sent the meat so openly, he probably wouldn’t dare to do anything underhanded, otherwise he would be implicated as well,” Chen Shiyu said hesitantly.

He also found it hard to believe that Ji Chenhai would be so kind as to send meat;

He simply couldn't figure out what Ji Chenhai's purpose was in doing this.

at this time.

When the soldiers of the Chen family heard that there would be meat to eat today, they excitedly gathered around the twenty-odd large wooden crates, waiting to be divided up.

To everyone's surprise, the cooks were dumbfounded when they opened the box.

Except for the first box, which was full, the other boxes contained at most thirty pounds of meat!

A large box, big enough to hold two or three adults, with thirty pounds of meat inside...

The cooks' eyes welled up with tears as they watched!

They'd already taken their pants off, and this is what the Duke showed everyone?

Is it asking everyone to use their imagination to fill their stomachs with the thought of meat?

"Damn it, I can't divide this meat, I'm not dividing it anymore, waaaah..." The cook threw down the meat-slicing knife in his hand and ran away crying.

"It's freezing cold, this is too much! I'm quitting! Waaah..." The cook also dropped his weapon, wiped away tears, and turned to leave.

The soldiers who were waiting to get their share of the meat were confused when they saw what had happened. When they saw the huge box containing only a pitiful little lump of meat, they were filled with resentment, their faces darkened, and they all turned and left.