Chapter 12: The Warlord and the Wine
Presumably constrained by the Qin army, the vendors' tents did not appear chaotic, with large and small vendors separating their tents, and the sidewalks remained three meters wide, with two meters in between.
I don't know who wrote this kind of military-colored planning, but it shows a problem, the distance between the tents is for fire prevention, even if one tent catches fire, it will not quickly implicate the others, at least two meters away so that people have enough time to react.
Shuttling through the crowd, Lu Zhe soon came to the tent with a cloth strip hanging the word "wine" in oracle bone inscriptions, and he found that the quadrangular white tent was slightly larger than the others. The four corners were five meters long, with two sides blocked, leaving a three-meter-wide gap in the middle, and a gray cloth was straightened to block the sky, and the wooden planks inside were made into several cabinets, on which were filled with jars of different shapes.
Several Xiao Si in red short-rest linen shirts were warmly greeting the guests, a middle-aged man in his forties, he was wearing a black tight-fitting power suit, not just a cloth wrapped in his hair, but wearing a leather helmet, looking cool to stand aside.
Lu Zhe's eyes scanned the jars on the table and found that there were very few porcelain jars, most of them were a kind of wooden barrel jars. However, this is also true, porcelain is fragile and difficult to carry and transport. Most of the words are written on the jars, and what does the meaning seem to be to those fonts that are also "wine" but are written in a different way?
The middle-aged man in the strong suit glanced at Lu Zhe, who was in the officer's attire, and his eyes seemed to stay for three seconds, mainly looking at the catkins on his head and upper body armor, and then at the other Qin soldiers who came over.
Although it was only three seconds, he was very embarrassed by that scrutinizing look, and took advantage of this effort to put the pot helmet and the bamboo pipe with the plug lid into the skin.
What is Lu Zhe dressed up now? The front half of his hair was combed in the middle to look very smooth, and the back hair was coiled and raised high from the diagonal right side, and then stood up in regular circles of red thick hemp rope; The armor on the body is made of linen with a black background, some leather armor, and copper sheets are sewn on important parts, and the leather and copper sheets are sewn with red hemp rope; On the right side of the belt around his waist hangs a bronze sword about 85 centimeters long, and on the left is a leather pouch about 45 centimeters down.
It was a dress that all the grassroots officers of the Qin Army had, the difference was that there was an extra red catkins without any metal ornaments on the chest than the officers without military merits, and this catkins were about three centimeters long, and they would be blown up and fluttered when walking or when the wind blew.
The catkins seem to be the special items used by the Qin people to distinguish the military merits when they wear armor? And there seems to be a rule that you can't be an officer without a military merit?
The first duke (ten people long) wears armor without catkins, the second lord (fifty people long) is red and three centimeters long, the third lord hairpin (one hundred people will be) is red with a length of about five centimeters and has a ring of copper pendants, the fourth lord is not more (five hundred lords) is leather armor with two white velvet hangings on both sides, and the fifth lord doctor (1,000 people long) is two white velvet hangings with copper pendants.
These are the decorations that Lu Zhe can distinguish, and he has never seen more than a thousand officers.
The middle-aged man in the power suit frowned as if he saw something, then smiled, raised his arm and bowed before he could take a step, and walked out with a humble gesture.
Lu Zhe was just about to step when he was blocked by a middle-aged man in a strong suit who was going straight forward, which made him frown, and looking in the direction where the middle-aged man was walking, it turned out that a hundred people were coming to patronize.
The conversation between the two was nothing more than a compliment, a full acceptance and a compliment to the wine.
The soldiers who had been in a circle had unconsciously moved out of the way, and looked at the hundred generals who had been welcomed into the tent with envy.
Of course, Lu Zhe also got out of the way, and after waiting for the hundred people to enter, he leaned back and looked at the wine cans in different fonts very seriously, not knowing how to choose.
All kinds of fonts are sleek and vigorous, and Xiao Si came to introduce him before he could ask.
Lu Zhe didn't understand what Xiao Si was saying, and without waiting for him to speak, the clever Xiao Si decisively changed to a Qin accent: "Do you want Qin wine?" Zhao wine? Swallow wine? Chu wine? ”
At present, Lu Zhe has only drunk mash bran, and he originally wanted to buy this, but listening to Xiao Si's introduction aroused curiosity.
Xiao Si is like singing: "Qin wine is astringent and bitter, Zhao wine is as strong as a horse, Yan wine is like a throat, and Chu wine is like water." ”
Touching the knife coins in his arms, he didn't know what the purchasing power of these currencies was: "What is the price?" ”
Xiao Si said, "Please wait." He walked to the counter with a small table about forty centimeters square, positioned according to his own observation of the guests, and poured a little of the wine from several barrels into a small bamboo cup, and walked back with the small case after all this.
If I'm not mistaken, Xiao Si didn't do this when he introduced the wine to the soldiers, and it seems that tasting it was the prerogative of the officers?
The gesture of bowing and inviting wine was very smooth in Xiao Si, he made a gesture similar to raising his eyebrows in greeting, and then his waist was upright and he leaned forward slightly and raised his arms to send it forward: "Guests, please drink." ”
Lu Zhe held a small bamboo cup, he looked at Xiao Si and then at the yellow turbid liquid in the bamboo cup, and put the bamboo cup to his lips.
"You're drinking Handan wine now."
If you don't understand it wrong, it should be Zhao wine? Lu Zhe didn't know that Lu Dao Zhao wine was now recognized as the strongest wine, and he only felt a little light after drinking a little.
Pick up another glass......
"You're drinking Lanling wine now."
A poem by Li Bai suddenly popped out of Lu Zhe's head, and after drinking, he read it out casually: "Lanling wine tulips, jade bowl with amber light." As for the taste, I haven't really tasted which of the six national liquors I haven't tasted.
This is not the era when poetry is popular, naturally no one shouts "good poetry, so wet", even Xiao Si is just surprised to return to normal.
After trying several in a row, Lu Zhe was a little embarrassed in Xiao Sijiong's blazing eyes: "Qin Bar? ”
There are many kinds of Qin wine, Xiao Si asked again to be sure, but how many wine names can Lu Zhe name? In the end, he paid two knife coins in a daze, and the leather bag was poured into a liquid that was still slightly cloudy and yellow in the form of rice paste.
When he left the restaurant, Lu Zhe didn't go far before he took a sip expectantly, and he tasted it back: "Didn't you say that Qin wine was bitter?" Why is this so sweet? ”
I didn't think it was Xiao Si fooling, but I didn't understand it.
In fact, the kind of wine he bought is called thick wine in modern times, and it is called millet wine at this time, and this wine is still very popular in northern Shaanxi in modern times. However, during the Qin Dynasty, thick liquor was made from a type of millet, while thick liquor was brewed from yellow rice, grain rice, and corn.
Waiting for Lu Zhe to leave, the hundred people just now walked out.
The hundred people looked around and returned to the tent, facing the middle-aged man in a strong suit: "What is the Yujin that Shangzao said just now?" ”
The middle-aged man in the power suit has a good memory, and his ear power is also beyond ordinary people: "Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls with amber light." ”
"Oh ......" There was no appreciation or disgust, and the handsome hundred generals shook their heads: "I don't know if it will be a family?" I don't know it. After saying that, he shook his head again, as if he felt something interesting?
Don't be surprised, in the era when the literacy rate was pitifully low, it was impossible to read without a certain inheritance, they didn't say that they could read this kind of sentence, they just wanted to know literate people, and literacy is very important today.