At the camp site, in General's quarters. Guoqiang receives two letter. He had already dismissed his soldiers from his tent, so he could have some privacy read the letter. With anticipation he open the letter his wife, Wei wrote, it read :
'Husband,
I hope things at the campsite are going as planned. Things at house are going smoothly. The house was cleaned and garden completely weeded out. During the cleaning of the house, I realised that there is no kitchen in the mansion. If the general finds it permissible then we can built a kitchen attached to reflection mansion."
Lu Wei.'
General read the second letter from Fei, it read :
'General, I believe Madame hasn't told you the whole truth in her letter. Madame hired helpers to clean the house during the period of one week the helpers were here but the kitchen refused to provide food for the helpers so Madame send me to take them to restaurant. Meanwhile Madame was treated poorly as her food quality degraded from aristocratic to beggars. They pulled the last straw when they tried serving Madame a one day old rice. Next day Madame went to the main house and it is then, we got to know that Madam's allowance was taken by two servants. They were also responsible for switching Madame's meals. Madame went to Madame Xu and asked her to not continue with the allowance and neither meals, that reflection mansion should be independent.
We have purchased a table with an ash pit in the centre for cooking. Madame makes really delicious food! You are missing out on her cooking General. On the first day, for such we had hotpot and in the night, Madame made, minced meat dumpling, tofu in chicken stock and seasoned lotus root, mixed greens and noodles. Madame also made fruit tea. But the noodles Madame made were the best! General when you come back you would have a feast here.
Chen Fei.'
General thought to himself, 'looks like Fei is having the time of his life eating the food my wife is cooking. That glutton.' General writes back to his wife and goes to to send the letter.
Meanwhile, the soldiers that were dismissed were spying through the tent cracks. They saw everything general did in the tent. When General read the first word, 'husband.' An uncontrollable smile spread on his face. "General, smiled!" Said an astonished commander Chu. Commander Yang : "Shhhh, keep it down!"
Commander Yan creeps from behind to catch the two infiltrators, "Are you'll done spying?"
Commander Chu : "You want to look too? General is smiling happily, I wonder what his wife wrote to make him smile like that…Ah look he keeps his wife's letter in a box and now he's reading Fei's letter, (snickers) he crumbled and threw it.
Commander Yang : "That idiot must have written something nonsensical… I really want to read what Madame and general, exchange in letters."
Commander Chu : "I feel like if we ask anything to him now he will approve happily, after reading Madame's letter. He's always happy after her letter.
Commander Yang : "Oh look look look! General is leaving the tent."
At the same time after General left the tent, commander Yan sneaked in
"Huh? who is this soldier? Commander Yan when did he go inside." Said a confused commander Chu.
He and commander Yang also followed pursuit. "You were all righteous earlier, now you are here to read the letter yourself!" Said commander Yang, while commander Chu managed to find the box that contains letters of Madame. Commander Yang, took the crumbled letter that General threw of Fei's. "Look at this this, Madame has been cooking meals, and that glutton Fei has eaten everything and praising it. No wonder General got upset and crumbled this paper. It is a pity that his Aide gets to eat his wife's cooking. While General is here and haven't even had a glance of his own bride. What a pity"
"Am I that pitiful commander Yang?" Asked General. A shrill went down commander Yang's spine and he squeaked like a rat "General…!"
"Run twenty laps of the camp site." Commanded a furious General.
In his defence, commander Chu spoke, "I haven't touched anything General." "I was here to give General the letter from General Han."
"All three of you will also hold the plank for an incense stick (time)." In a low grunt General spoke, and then screamed "NOW!"
The three of them dropped everything they had and ran. Later that evening when the three tired souls returned, they fell down to the ground, extremely tired. Commander Chu instead of taking rest took a paper and brush to scribble something. Concerned soldier Yi came in the tent with a bowl of hot water for them to soak and revive soreness. Soldier Yi saw commander Chu doodling, he came behind the his shoulder to see. And saw a terrible drawing. "What is that creature?" asked Soldier Yi.
"Genera." Said Commander Chu with uncontrollable laugh. Commander Yan snatched the paper from him and say a creature that is bald with one eye on the left and four teeth. He looks at Chu with a questionable expression.
Commander Chu : "Madame is really humorous! I couldn't get the time to read the letters General kept of his wife, but I got one in which Fei described that Madame illustrated this image as General." And roll over and laughed. Yang pulled himself up to see the amusement himself and joined Chu, "I want to see Madame now, she is at least not a stoic character like General." Yan left the tent with an unchanged expression, but the other two couldn't stop laughing, while soldier Yi only stood there confused.