Before entering the border town, you passed by a lonely inn, with a wrinkled and shabby wine shop hanging outside.
Chen Pingan swayed the wine gourd for a while, and then decided to add some wine. Chen Pingan could taste the quality of the wine. He had tasted the Wangyou wine from Huangliang Paradise and the pure brew from Osmanthus Island. , I even bought a lot of drinks from the roadside corner wine shop, so I didn’t care about it that much.
A thin pole-like native dog was lying outside the inn, basking in the bright sun. When they saw Chen Ping'an and the others from a distance, they started to jump up, grinning and roaring.
What kind of hospitality is this?
A little cripple ran out with a knife, pointed the tip of the knife at the dog, and said angrily: "If you yell again, I will take your dog's head!"
The native dog is sick. Lying back on the ground.
The little lame man looked up and saw three rare customers. He quickly hid the knife behind his back and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, sir. We are not a black shop here. We guarantee that it is made by an honest family." "Business!"
The limping and skinny young man seemed to be worried that the guests would turn around and run away, so he acted preemptively. He turned to the lobby and shouted: "Boss, there are guests, please clean the table quickly." , you have your favorite, handsome young man, and a scholar!"
After the shop assistant announced the good news to the landlady, he quickly turned his head, bent down and stretched out his hand, "Guests, please sit inside, our landlady has passed down the ancestral tradition here! Green plum wine made with local methods, and my master’s specialty roasted whole lamb, this is the only one with no branches across the country!”
Chen Ping’an and the other three walked into the inn.
There are not many tables for drinking and dining in the lobby on the first floor. I guess it is because of the lack of business. People can live on the second floor. There are no guests in the lobby at the moment. There is only a woman with her feet on the bench, eating melon seeds and glancing sideways. She didn't have any hope of being called a scholar by the little cripple at first. The little cripple was like a little maggot soaked in a manure pit. He had no knowledge. He would never know how to write the word "handsome" in this life.
The woman was wearing a red-bottomed yellow tulle-flowered robe with double front and wide sleeves. The robe was of good quality and good style, but it was a bit old and seemed to be covered with a layer of grease.
The woman has a plump and rosy face, a graceful figure, and her beauty covers all her ugliness. What’s more, she is not ugly in the first place. She is already a woman in her thirties, and she still will not lose to those fifteen or sixteen years old. beautiful girl.
Her eyes lit up, she let out a delicate and charming ouch, threw a handful of melon seeds on the ground, picked them up casually with her embroidered shoes, pulled them under the table, twisted her slender waist vigorously, and followed a Like a snake, he twisted towards Chen Pingan, slapped him, and gently put it on the shoulder of the handsome young man in white robe. He squeezed it easily and couldn't tell. I found a treasure. Isn't it nice? He said that he never thought he was a person with strong body, not one of those useless embroidered pillows.
Chen Pingan saw that she was taking advantage of the situation and wanted to slap him on the chest. Then he took a step sideways and let her slap the air in the air. He said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, I want to buy three to five kilograms of wine. No. We didn’t have accommodation but bought wine and left. I heard from the waiter that there is ancestral green plum wine here, but I didn’t know.What's the price? "
The woman retracted her palm angrily, "Master, are you going to that fox town in such a hurry? It's really not just to attract business to scare the young master. There are often ghosts and monsters there, which can harm people and make people crazy. This year, it's even worse. Many merchants and travelers have suffered disasters, and there have been unprecedented deaths. But there are crazy people there, and a pair of hands must get it. Yes. So, sir, you'd better stay at our inn. We need several jugs of green plum wine. It's not expensive. The best five-year-old wine only costs one tael for two jugs. We'll also have a roasted whole lamb. Eat and drink well in the evening. Just stay here with us. When the time comes..."
After saying this, the woman raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "Sister, I will personally bring the water for the young master's feet. "
Pei Qian was drooling on the side. After hearing the words "roast whole lamb", he couldn't walk.
She wiped her mouth and gently pulled Pulling Chen Pingan's sleeve
Chen Pingan thought for a while and asked Wei Xian, "Can I drink?" "
Wei Xian nodded and said: "A huge amount.
Chen Ping'an turned to the landlady and smiled: "I won't stay here, but you can have a meal at the inn. In addition to the wine at the dinner table, prepare five kilograms of green plum wine for me." , I want to take it away.
The woman waved her hand to the little lame man and said, "Choose a sheep for your old hunchback master. Remember to make it fat and thin properly and eat some snacks. Don't think about a cheap master falling from the sky all day long." Your peerless martial arts skills, such a good thing cannot hit you. Get out now. ”
The young man muttered and ran away.
The three of them sat down, and as soon as a bench became empty, the woman went to the counter and took a few broken plates. He ate the food with his mouth, put it on the table, and sat across from Chen Ping'an, "Young master's accent doesn't sound like our Daquan family? Is he the scholar who is on a study tour? From the Northern Jin Dynasty? "
Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "Some are from further south. ”
The woman leaned forward, bent over and grabbed a handful of dried fruits bought from
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With her heavy chest pressed heavily on the table, she found that the young man was always looking at her face with a smile and his eyes were clear. This made the woman a little surprised. Is there a cat in the world that doesn't eat fish? She asked with a smile. Said: "Let's have a drink first? I can accompany the young master to drink leisurely, and when the roasted whole lamb is served, I will be slightly tipsy. When the time comes, I will tear off the golden and buttery lamb leg. The taste is really amazing. ”
Chen Ping’an nodded and said yes.
The woman went to get a jar of wine and four large white bowls stacked on top of each other. The wine was amber in color, especially clean and not turbid. Just by looking at it, a wine-loving person would probably be a little intoxicated. The woman smiled and introduced this ancestral green plum wine, which is brewed in half a year and three years. After five years of brewing, it is the worst half-year brew. There once was a hero who traveled here in the capital, leading a tall horse. After drinking, he would give his thumbs up and praise him. He said that Daquan had never been brewed in the capital. This wine.
Pei Qian looked innocent and asked: "People from the capital only drink wine for half a year?"
The woman choked and quickly made up for it, "The hero just wanted to taste it at first." After a while, like your son, he bought several kilograms of green plum wine that had been brewed for five years." Pei Qian smiled and pretended to be surprised: "So that's it, Daquan. People in the capital are really not generous. They just buy some drinks and have to taste them first. How about I... Dad, if you want to buy something, just buy the most expensive five-year-old wine..."
Chen Ping'an smashed a chestnut. In the past, Pei Qian was so smashed that he held his head in his hands.
Chen Ping'an moved the large bowl of green plum wine in front of Pei Qian to Wei Xian on the other side, allowing the self-proclaimed "massive" founding emperor of the Nanyuan Kingdom to drink two bowls per person. That’s all, I guess it’s nothing to worry about.
Pei Qian rubbed his head and said aggrievedly: "Can't I take a sip? After walking such a long way, I'm thirsty and my throat is about to smoke!"
The little girl's lips were chapped, almost bleeding. If it hadn't been for the demon-suppressing talisman on her forehead, which gave her amazing physical strength, she would never have been able to walk to this inn.
Money can make the world go round. A talisman can help her hurry. After all, it’s still because of money.
Chen Pingan smiled and said: "Who drank with you to quench your thirst? I'll ask the landlady for a bowl of water later."
Pei Qian glanced at the fancy old lady. , snorted coldly, crossed his arms across his chest, turned his head, and didn't even look at the woman.
The woman didn't take it seriously, got up and brought a bowl of tea over, and gently placed it in front of Pei Qian, "Drink it, no charge."
Pei Qian immediately He held the bowl with both hands, drank it in one go.
If you don’t drink it, it’s useless. She hates this old woman, but it’s not that she hates the bowl of tea in front of her.
Chen Pingan and Wei Xian looked at each other.
Chen Pingan sighed, thinking that this shopkeeper is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He likes to hold grudges, and is no worse than Pei Qian. This was not the case in the bowl of tea just now, when she turned her back to the three of them. He secretly spit in it, twisted his wrist, swung the tea a little, and put it on the table without leaving any trace.
However, the taste of green plum wine is really unique. Apart from not containing spiritual energy, it is not inferior to the sweet-scented osmanthus wine on the island ferry. You must fill it with sword-raising gourd afterwards. If it doesn’t work, then Ask Wei Xian to carry a few jars with him. Since he dares to say a large amount, he must be a wine lover.
Chen Ping'an took a sip of the green plum wine that was so amiable and cute. It felt like burning coals in his throat and warmed his stomach when it entered his stomach. He felt better and asked: "Shopkeeper, what are you doing?" Have you ever heard of the Yao family's border troops?"
The woman said casually: "Of course, they are just living on the border. Who doesn't know the reputation of the Yao family's cavalry? I'm not bragging to you, sir. This is my inn. Once upon a time, there was a young general named Yao who, with his entourage, ate a whole roasted lamb before leaving, leaving a large silver ingot on the table. However, these soldiers fighting in the war, even if they just eat and drink. , it’s scary, I don’t even dareWhen you get closer, you always feel that they carry murderous intent. "
The woman patted her chest gently, but she felt sorry for the tight clothes, which were a little overwhelmed.
Chen Pingan asked: "The reputation of the Yao family's border army very good?
The woman smiled and said: "Okay, how do we ordinary people know that we have no chance to deal with these noble people? However, the reputation is not bad, it counts. After all, I am working here." Inn, it has been more than ten years, and I have never heard any rumors about the Yao family bullying anyone. The ones I have heard the most are the Yao family. So and so made great contributions, received rewards from the court, and was promoted to high officials. So and so died in the battle in the south and north. What happened to the Kingdom of Jin? His daughter-in-law turned out to be a widow again. It was just such gossip that I got really tired of hearing about it. ”
Chen Pingan nodded and had a general impression of the Yao family that migrated from Lizhu Cave to Tongyezhou.
Wei Xian had already finished his drink. A big bowl of wine, this is the second bowl now, my face is flushed, no
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But his eyes are bright, "Bian Jun is neither It was a wise move to disturb the people and not to raise hopes. It was clear that he wanted to express his stance to the emperor and had no intention of separatist vassal towns. Otherwise, there are emperors from other places just outside the bed, how can you rest assured? "
The woman was stunned for a moment, "Master, what are you talking about?
Wei Xian took a sip of the bowl of wine and slapped the table, "Wherever the horses' hooves go, there is the country. This wine is delicious!" ”
The emperor of Nanyuan Kingdom, who claimed to drink a lot, turned into a puddle of mud after saying some heroic words. He lay on the table and passed away drunk, snoring like thunder.
Now he was drunk. It was better to stay in an inn.
Afterwards, the little lame man and a hunchbacked old man brought a large plate of roasted whole lamb to the table. It was rare for Chen Pingan to be so full, and Pei Qian was even more satisfied. I was so full that I almost tore off the mutton and stuffed it into my mouth. Chen Pingan chewed slowly and drank slowly.
The boss lady was sitting at the counter, and Chen Pingan had invited her before. She politely refused to eat with her. It would be okay to have a drink with her, but it would be too rude to eat with the guests shamelessly. Pei Qian had to eat to fill up his stomach and go around. He started walking around the table, otherwise he would feel uncomfortable.
Chen Ping'an asked for three adjacent rooms upstairs, with Pei Qian in the middle, helping Wei Xian upstairs and throwing him on the bed. Fortunately, he couldn't drink enough. Pei Qian went to his room, closed the door, and started to burp when he was drunk. He went to bed when he was drunk and went out to go downstairs. Ask the landlady about the customs of the Daquan Dynasty.
Chen Pingan found a guest coming to the inn. He was a scumbag, wearing a blue shirt and robe, about thirty years old, sitting there. On a table, a cripple looking at the cold-faced woman at the counter was sitting on the table. There was no wine or food on the table, not even a plate of food. Sitting at the entrance of the stairs below was the crippled waiter with a look of disgust on his face. To men.
On the other side of the curtain hanging at the door of the kitchen in the lobby, a hunchbacked old man was sitting on a bench with his legs crossed and smoking a dry cigarette.
Chen Pingan went downstairs in no hurry and lay on the railing.
The sword cultivator who previously blocked the two assassins who were chasing the Yao family's border troops clearly had a back-up plan. Chen Ping'an noticed the looming violent aura in the distance. It should be a Taoist warrior. The great demon was at least as good as a sword cultivator, but it suddenly appeared and disappeared suddenly in the end. It was forcibly suppressed by a powerful force of righteousness, so the middle-aged sword cultivator retreated in a hurry, wearing nectar armor. The martial arts followers had no choice but to flee for their lives together.
When Chen Pingan saw the disheveled man in green shirt, his first impression was that this person was him. He might be the hidden figure who instantly killed the great demon, or he was a genius monk from the sect with the prefix Tongyezhou Sect. Or... like Zhou Juran, he was born in a Confucian academy!
But Chen Pingan soon became unsure, because the man was annoyed by the landlady, looked down upon by the little cripple, and ignored by the hunchbacked old man. He was also short of money, and the inn knew all about it, so he wanted to slap him in the face. The fat man didn't even have a chance. He felt sad for a moment. He looked at the woman and said infatuatedly: "Jiu Niang, I don't dislike you for being a widow and having children. Really..."
Chen Pingan said Slapping his forehead, not to mention the identity and cultivation of this man, but just saying that when it comes to love between men and women, he is worse than him and deserves not to be welcomed. How can anyone talk to a woman like this? There were no words of love, they were clearly stabbing the woman in the heart.
Sure enough, the woman who was just showing off her indifference raised her head, stared at the bastard, gritted her teeth and said, "Believe it or not, I'll go to the sheepfold and get a dustpan of dung and pour it on your head." ? ”
Chen Pingan looked at the woman again.
The man in green shirt was lying on the table, his hands and feet dancing wildly, especially his hands, which were like rags. He was so sad that it hurt his lungs. "Jiu Niang, how can you be so heartless? How can I live with this? Isn't that right?" Are you poor? But the articles are life-affirming. Scholars must be poor, otherwise they won’t be able to write wonderful articles for the ages..."
The little lame man spat hard, "Your uncle, the articles for the ages, Those limericks of yours are disgusting even to me who have never read a book."
The hunchbacked old man seemed to be choked, and he was obviously frightened by that person's eternal articles.
The man in green shirt suddenly became enlightened. He immediately sat up straight and looked at the woman with a smile, "Jiuniang, are you afraid of delaying my bright future? That's why you don't want to be with me? It doesn't matter, it's secular. I don’t care about the eyes...”
The woman really couldn’t bear it and said coldly: “The little lame, old hunchback, knife, whoever can chop him to death, I will give him ten taels of silver! ”
The old hunchback did not move, and the little cripple was already running wildly to get the knife from the kitchen.
The man in green shirt stood up, straightened his clothes, then turned around quickly and ran away.
Chen Pingan stopped going downstairs and returned to his room. After closing the door, he took out the second scroll and put it on the table.Crazy Zhu Lian.
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