Chapter 154: The King of Northern Liang on the Next Desk

The autumn winds are killing us, and green ant wine is becoming more and more popular. Outside the city on the two post road fork on the willow exceptionally thick, under the shade of the trees there is a store clean restaurant, selling wine is a fifty-year-old man, business is getting better, so let a pair of children and grandchildren of the busy farm here to help the business, originally this kind of work by the daughter-in-law to miscellaneous is appropriate, after all, the woman is good with the guests to pull down the face of the bargaining, the old man is simple, doing business for more than ten years, always thin-skinned, can not open the mouth, just a few years ago, the daughter-in-law caused a disaster, offending a group of drinking and trouble military masters. Some years ago, my daughter-in-law got into trouble, offended a group of drinking and trouble in the military, the old man would not dare to let her suffer this crime, now think of it is still palpitating, that storm if not thanks to someone way to the liquor store, really not used to that group of bright armor of the fopper, then out of the chivalrous help, or not to mention the money to eliminate, I’m afraid that my daughter-in-law’s innocence are going to be trashed, so far think of it, the old man is still guilty of uneasiness! I feel that I have no talent, and then heard that those who rely on the relationship to join the army to mix with the young military master, may be the Prince of Northern Liang’s personal guard battalion, the old man will be resigned to his fate, but it is a pity that the great general of the tiger’s father and dog’s son, privately drunk, will also curse a few sentences of the world of the son of a bitch, thinking of one day and so on the great general of the deceased, do not want to give that the son of the King of Northern Liang, they say that General Chen Zhi Bao Chen invincible in the field of sand, but treating the pawns and people but are kind, the old man said that the general of the army is the king of the Northern Liang. The old man and some of the neighbors about the same age of the old farmers also think that General Chen war can not be said, the future as a king of Northern Liang is really not bad.

Today the old man is in a good mood, out of their own are not willing to drink the home-brewed green ants wine, green ants wine is not expensive, the dignitaries can afford to drink, the people of the city is not bad wine money, unless the lard blinded by the heart of the black merchants, will only be drilling the money eye mixed with water, but authentic green ants wine is also divided into good and bad, the general bulk peddling according to the catties of two according to the bowl sale, the old man, although the generous, but also did not want to lose money and make money to take out of mellow wine, the main is Sitting there to drink the bowl of old rich Jia is his family grandfather, that year, if not the old brother stopped the lawless army master, daughter-in-law is afraid to give the gang of thousands of knife dragged to the barracks. Today this altar of green ants, no charge!

In the old man’s opinion, drinking Xu Lao brother will not be more rich gentry rich and powerful, black and thin, it is estimated to earn some hard money, but it is considered to be well dressed, at least it is damask silk satin molded clothes, look comfortable.

The old man dealt with a table of drinkers, it is not easy to find the time, will be a wet towel on the shoulder, sitting on the next table, laughed: “Xu old brother, how not to call Yuan nephew to drink a bowl? I haven’t seen you guys for two years, so what, are you still afraid to drink me poor?”

A good-looking tall man standing at the edge of the shade, the old man remembers clearly, it was he who taught those little bastards a lesson, and later learned that it was Xu’s brother’s righteous son, surnamed Yuan. The old man selling alcohol in this sell some years, come and go to see a lot of rich people’s children, but there is really no one comparable to this Yuan Gongzi, Xu old brother has such a character and appearance are to stretch out the thumbs of the righteous son, the good man has a good reward. However, today is not more than the past few times reunion, Xu old brother also brought a pair of characters around, a not very old scholar, a well-behaved little girl, strange, Yuan Gongzi do not sit on the table to drink, is that the scholar is Xu old brother’s own son of the pro-granddaughter, can not look like ah. However, the old man is not a talkative woman, did not mention this mouth.

The rich man waved his hand and laughed: “He doesn’t like to drink, and he has a big frame, even if I personally persuade him to drink, he said that greed for wine is wrong, the reasoning is always better than what I can say, I can’t say it, old man Huang, let’s let him go.”

Huang nodded with a smile, “It doesn’t matter, it’s better not to drink than to drink, unlike Mr. Yuan, my boy is not the material to do great things, always taking advantage of me not paying attention to sneak a few sips, I just don’t bother to talk about him. We are also a big age, think a lot more open.”

The old man surnamed Xu drank a mouthful of green ant wine, inhaled a breath, snorted, a face of intoxication, said: “Older brother said this openly.”

The old man was happy, laughed: “What is open or not open, all nonsense, we do not know what reason, is to live. My grandson went to private school literacy reading, I’m waiting for when to let him go to write that wine word on the sign, write a good-looking not to say, can recognize on the line.”

The old man thought for a moment and said, “My son’s writing is really good, why don’t we use it first, and then replace it when my grandson will write the Spring Festival couplets?”

Old man Huang froze for a moment, rubbing his hands together with an embarrassed face, “This is a good feeling, but will it not be too much trouble for old brother?”

The old man waved his hand and smiled comfortably, “It’s okay, I’m here today to wait for my son to come home, and then let him finish his drink, but it’s not just a matter of a stroke? Just no pen and ink.”

Huang old man patted his thighs and said: “There is no go get it, the village is not far, two miles, I let my grandson run to get it, this little boy legs are very good.”

There is only on the private school not two years of the child has been happily squatting nearby, resting his cheeks to peep at the little girl sitting on the table, think it is really good-looking. Hearing his grandfather praised his legs in front of the crowd, feel extremely dignified, but also smile open flowers, without the grandfather towards his command, stood up, whoosh a trace.

Huang old man greatly received Xu old brother handed over a bowl of wine, small sip, asked with a smile: “old brother’s son is to be examined to obtain the title of scholar?”

The old man shook his head and said, “Reading is not much, but these years are forced by me to run out of the country, run a long way, not a few days at home at the end of the year, there are times when I regret it.”

The old man lamented, “Xu old brother ah, young people should go out and experience more experience, or else can not support a family. A family business like yours is definitely not small, unlike us who spend our whole lives on that one acre of land, so it’s good that Mr. Xu definitely needs to suffer more as well.”

The scholar on the side who didn’t drink much laughed and looked up at the end of the stagecoach road.

Huang old man only drank half a bowl of wine, go to greet the other tables of drinkers, restaurants come and go to earn a thin profit running water business, rare to have repeat customers, so they are all new faces, a table of readers, voice is not big, but it sounds like they are pointing to the mountains of the grandiose words, Huang old man do not understand anyway, a table of walking in the jianghu, most of the simple and coarse attire, which there is also a relatively brocade expensive, talking voice is not small, the foreign accent, but also out of the countryside, the people are not a little. Foreign accent, but also relatively generous, in addition to two jars of green ants wine, but also called several pounds of cooked beef. Several tables of people do not offend the river water, the readers talk loudly, no one in sight.

Instead, the gang of jianghu people more than look at a few eyes such as a gun standing in the post road next to the Yuan son, eyes are some scruples, they know their own catty, is to come to the north of Liang to ask for a bowl of rice to eat the river dragon, want to open a dart board in the Liangzhou neighborhood, or not to throw a slightly larger gang also into the way they go on the far side of Liaodong, Liaodong side of the countryside from the countryside, the Commission is really over there was also surnamed Yuan’s mad dog to the bites all over, the original gangs are given to that boy, the original gangs, the same as the Yuan, the same as the original gangs are all the way out. The original gangs are to that kid with soldiers strangled, they certainly have the style, not the kind of village head to the end of the village east to the village west of the so-called invincible, not since the creation of a confusing set of ways to dare to go to the self-proclaimed master of the cheating boxer, the reason why the choice of Beilang as a landing place, because I know that the king of Beilang “Dragon Xing” in Liaodong, although the Beilang of the Jianghu suppression is not light. The jianghu pressure is not light, but at least there is a love, and then they are a few small fish and a few shrimp, and do not do things that violate the law, thinking of mixing a warm and full should not be difficult, but since life is not familiar with the place, be careful, a few more heart eyes, I am afraid of encountering the unreasonable turf snakes. That listen to the wine shop old man and the rich man in the talk of the Yuan Gongzi, so they are very on the heart, the reason why they speak loudly, deliberately say something heroic deeds in the jiangsu, it is want to see if you can get into the eyes of the rich man of the micro-limp, can get a drought and rainy days of the guardian of the head of the best, otherwise they are shy, not much of a long time ago, will not be swollen face to ask for more than a few pounds of beef. A penny is hard to die heroes, how dare they in the jurisdiction of that man slaughtered robbing money?

A scholar put down the bowl of wine, tsk: “Longxiang army alone, played out the momentum of the Northern Liang army, the great snow dragon rider is all the way to kill the northern barbarians of the Nanking House, this is not false, but here there is our son of His Highness what thing? I have heard that the son of the chest is very successful, the original is in the Liangzhou greenhouse in the head of the planning thousands of miles away it, great great!”

Another scholar who studied hard in the same classroom shook his head and laughed, “It’s the same thing, it’s all about killing on horseback, isn’t His Highness riding a horse to battle in a greenhouse girl’s body? Yuanliang, with these words, you are underestimating our hereditary and unrecognized Shizi Your Highness!”

A scholar with a jade pendant dangling from his waist sneered, “I’m waiting for this Shizi to go and ride the Northern Mang Empress, that would be the real deal. I’ll be the first to convince him then.”

The scholar who started this said conspiratorially, “Isn’t the age difference a bit much?”

The Hanging Jade Scholar asked in return, “Hasn’t His Highness the Shizi always been known to have no inhibitions?”

A table of worried readers laughed heartily.

The Yuan scholar standing quietly in the distance narrowed his eyes.

A thick murderous aura exploded out.

The three oldest and youngest at the next table, the most grateful little girl had an indignant face and vague tears in her eyes. Elderly rich man drank a mouthful of wine, smiled, surnamed Chen Xiliang from Jiangnan scholar also gently smiled.

Another table dressed in the most up to the stage of the fancy dress Jianghu grassy heavily put a bowl of wine, also did not point to who, tsk laugh: “I did hear that the son of the North Liang went to the city of Wudi, but also went up to the head of that city. Later on, he even followed the old Sword God on the side of the Guangling River and killed the King of Guangling all the way. I think I would not be able to do it if I had a hundred guts. If it were someone else, I’m afraid I would be scared shitless, not to mention doing it. Don’t talk to me about having an expert escort, to this level of grudges, it doesn’t matter if you are the son or grandson son, I don’t believe that a man who only bullies women can make Li Chun Gang this kind of sword fairy willingly escort a few thousand miles? Can he make the director of Wudi City, the second largest city in the world, walk up and out of the city by him?”

His friend beside him tugged on his sleeve for a moment, shaking his head slightly, signaling his own brother not to act out of anger.

Scholar Peiyu’s expression was calm as he slowly said, “How can a reckless man be worthy of talking about the world’s affairs? A toad opening its mouth towards the sky, swallowing the sun and eating the moon? The mouth is really big.”

When it came to bickering with people, how could a jianghu person compete with a scholar. That brocade-clothed jianghu person probably would have been indeed a reckless person with an impatient nature, hearing this kind of acerbic sarcasm, he gripped a knife on the tabletop and immediately gave a few people at the same table to hold it down.

Chen Xiliang finally opened his mouth and smiled: “Toad swallowing the sky and eating the moon, that’s called ambition, even if it’s hard to say, it’s just an eye on the sky. But a frog in the bottom of a well looking at the sky, that can be petty.”

A scholar glanced at this shabby Confucian scholar with white clothes and sneered, “And what are you?”

Chen Xiliang said flatly, “Not to mention me, even if you have read a few holy books, you are not even a thing. If I were your father, I shouldn’t have ridden your mother in the first place, giving birth to you, what’s the use?”

The little girl child covered her mouth and laughed, secretly giving a thumbs up towards brother Chen.

Chen Xiliang stroked the little girl’s head, no longer paying attention to the group of scholars who were so angry that they almost exploded their chests.

The rich man glanced at the gang of foreign jianghu people, greeted Old Man Huang, and laughed, ”Come add two jars of Green Ant Wine for these strong men, and five pounds of beef to my account. By the way, Old Man Huang, this money can’t be less in any way.”

The people at that table didn’t make any pretense, and clasped their fists and thanked them.

Dust flew on the stagecoach road.

The old man stood up and inserted his hands into his sleeves.

Gently looking towards the son who traveled all the way north, cutting off Xu Huainan’s head and then the fifth raccoon’s head.

Xu Fengyen rolled over and dismounted, the smile flickered at the corner of White Bear Yuan Zuozong’s mouth as he stepped forward and took the initiative to hold the reins of the horse.

Xu Fengyen smiled and gave a thank you, saying, “Have a bowl of wine with Second Brother Yuan later.”

Yuan Zuozong nodded.

The old man rubbed his second son Huang Ban Er’s head, then walked with his eldest son towards the wine table, saying softly, “It’s gotten a little darker again.”

Xu Fengnian hmmmed.

After the father and son duo sat down, the little girl doll knowingly moved to Chen Xiliang’s bench and greeted this brother who once picked up wishing money for him and also gave him a big watermelon, and somewhat blushingly called out to Mr. Xu, who reached out and pinched her nose and laughed, “Nowadays, but you’re much whiter than me. In the future, there will surely be a large number of handsome eunuchs lining up to adore you.”

At the table, the old man sat alone on a bench, Chen Xiliang and the little ninny sat on one, Xu Fengyen and Xu Longxiang sat together, Xu Beihao sat on the last bench, and Yuan Zuozong stood and drank a bowl of wine, then stood back up again.

Xu Snap asked with a smile, “By the way, dad boasted with the liquor store owner Huang Lao Di that you write well, this is not thinking of letting you write a wine character so that you can hang it on the pole to recruit guests, is it okay?”

Xu Fengyen drank a bowl of wine and wiped the corner of his mouth, “What’s OK with this.”

The boy hurriedly brought a pen and ink and a small piece of satin carefully treasured at home, Xu Fengyen raised his arm and wrote, but the writing was extremely slow and extremely neat.

Huang old man naturally satisfied with a mess, thank you, Xu Fengyen also pen and ink when he stood up and smiled and said no, no, and joked that the old man must have not come here to cheat the drink, a hand up, should be.

After the silence, Xu Snapdragon wanted to speak again and again.

Xu Fengnian lowered his head and drank, his lips touched the edge of the wine bowl, slightly raised his head and said, “I already know.”

Xu Snap nodded.

Xu Fengnian asked softly, “Are the men and horses ready?”

Xu Snapdragon smiled.

Xu Fengnian pursed his lips tightly, “I will not go to the city first, I will go later.”

Xu Snap sighed in his heart.

Xu Fengnian drank another bowl and gently got up.

Xu Snap raised his arm towards Yuan Zuozong.

Xu Beihuan bowed deeply towards this old man before taking his seat.

Between taking his seat and drinking, he and Chen Xiliang looked at each other almost simultaneously, exchanged glances, but quickly skimmed over.

After Xu Fengnian mounted his horse, he galloped towards the northwest.

Ahead, there were Feng Zi Battalion’s eight hundred white horse volunteers.

Intercepting Emperor Zhao Kai!

Xu Snap sat and drank, only then did old man Huang come closer and snickered and laughed: “Mr. Xu looks but really handsome, not like old brother Xu at all.”

Xu Snapdragon greeted Mr. Huang to sit down and laughed: “It’s good that he doesn’t look like me, it’s hard to find a daughter-in-law if he looks like me. He looks like his mother, lucky!”

The old man who sells wine looks deeply convinced.

Xu Snapdragon got up to pay the bill, and handed it over to the old man, and before he left, he said, “The people who caused trouble here back then were not the Feng Zi Battalion, so I have to tell you about this.”

Old man Huang laughed: “It doesn’t matter, our people can’t afford to mess with anyone, we just want peace and quiet.”

Xu Snapdragon said softly, “I don’t know if I’ll have the chance to drink here again.”

The old man said sharply, “That’s not fair, a few jars of green ant wine are always good for you.”

Xu Snap patted Old Man Huang’s shoulder and left the restaurant.

Old man Huang stood at the side of the wine shop, snapped out of it, turned his head to his son and shouted, “That wine character, replace the old one and hang up the new one!”