"Snow Goose girl, you still can't listen to my persuasion...... Yes, I sometimes miscalculated, but do you know why I miscalculated? ......" The white-eyed monk sighed, shook his head, and put the copper coin away again.

"Heroic Beauty...... It's really hard to break the love barrier......" Ming Xuan smiled and sat down again.

At the end of the long street is an extremely large courtyard. The gate was open, and Wang Shizhen, who had finished the camp, led several subordinates to arrive, and a small slave who had already welcomed the guests ran over to pick up the horses. A bluestone road stretches out, and the sandwich road is two rows of thin pine. Wang Shizhen and his entourage walked quickly through the courtyard and stopped in front of the living room. The plaque at the head has two big characters "too white". When he got here, Wang Shizhen didn't speak, but followed Liu Ruitang and said calmly: "Sister Lanlan, we are here." ”

When no one arrived, a faint aroma wafted out first. The woman in the dark red horse skirt went out, and her eyes smiled into two moons: "I know, I know, I heard the sound of hooves and drums from afar, isn't it who else among you?" As he spoke, he glanced at Liu Ruitang.

"I'll send the pheasant to the kitchen." Liu Ruitang didn't dare to look at Lan Lan squarely, and said to Wang Shizhen, his already red face was now as red as a pig's liver, even if his face was tanned, it was so black that it couldn't be covered, and he hurriedly ran away with his prey.

Lan Lan didn't look at him either, raised her sleeves and bowed halfway: "Ladies and gentlemen, please go upstairs." ”

Wang Shizhen took the lead and walked in, and the other two subordinates Xu Guodong and Ma Yunshou walked in without hurry, and Ma Yunshou always fell half a step behind Xu Guodong. Lan Lan peeked at Wang Shizhen again, the young man changed into a moon-white robe, and tied his long black and shiny hair with a hosta. The demeanor has its own free and uninhibited bearing. He seemed thoughtful. Keep looking ahead and be distracted. Lan Lan's bright eyes couldn't help but darken.

"Taibaiju" is a wooden and stone structure, and there is no lobby. Each room was silent and empty, surrounded by a veil of smoke and clouds. The open flame is lit on the stone wall, which is mottled and old, and many exquisite figures and beasts are carved. People are among them, looking through the window, the moon is like a bud blooming in the middle of the sky, and there is a bit of desolate taste.

Xu Guodong seemed to understand Wang Shizhen's thoughts. As soon as he sat down, he asked, "Is your sister not there?" ”

Lan Lan accompanied her and replied with a smile: "My sister will go back to the mountains to do errands before noon today." ”

"Oh." Wang Shizhen smiled, but his expression was a little lonely, and then asked, "Who went with Ma Gongzi?" ”

"He is the son of Lord Daotai, where do you have time to go to the mountains to see the mountain people." Lan Lan tore the words away: "The autumn cold is pressing, Ma Daotai's old cough has been committed again, and the son has been waiting at home." ”

Wang Shizhen sighed again, frowning slightly: "This Su Yue, the matter of returning to the mountain, is not in harmony...... Let's talk about it. ”

Lan Lan smiled but didn't answer. Xu Guodong glanced at Wang Shizhen and said, "Lord Daotai's illness." Does it matter? Should check it out another day. ”

"It doesn't matter, how do we know now?" Lan Lan said with some disgust. The eyes, which were originally very round, are much bigger.

"You little girl, your speech is becoming more and more impertinent." Ma Yunshou scolded her with a smile: "Is there any wine?" Too white to burn. ”

"How can there be no wine in the opening industry?" Lan Lan said.

"Then hurry up. This town is practiced in the suburbs, think hard. ”

In the past, there were travelers who got lost at night, and there was no moonlight in the dark night, and the horses hesitated. At the juncture of life and death, I went around a hill, but I saw a sea of fire in the distance, dense as a star. The traveler was overjoyed and urged the horse to run, and finally when he got closer, he realized that it was actually a strange city, which was Shanhaiguan. The traveler was originally a wine-making expert in the south, and he learned the essence of wine-making in the south and Beijing, but because he had learned too much, he could not make fine wine, so he wandered all over the world, looking for the elixir of enlightenment. This dangerous way to survive is like a light in the vast night in terms of brewing skills, and he has come up with an excellent brewing method. He retreated for several months, personally made sake lees, one process after another, the day of the opening, the aroma of the wine overflowed, the tasters all praised this wine strong with softness, strong but not violent, it is the best product, there is the wind of ancient Li Taibai, since then it has been named "Taibai burning".

Later, Ma Mingyi, the son of Lord Daotai, and Su Yue, the daughter of the mountain people, came by chance to bring water from the mountain stream to brew, which made the taste of Taibai roast to a higher level. The wine is like a fierce woman, in the mouth of a person who understands wine, and it seems to exude all kinds of delicacy when she is warm with her husband, which is endlessly evocative. Since the opening of "Taibaiju", it has been a lot of business, but these two owners are weirdos, and they have a lot of choices for drinkers, and not everyone can drink it.

The maid brought the warm Taibai roast, and everyone drank it, and Lan Lan asked, "Is this wine still delicious?" ”

Ma Yunshou praised the wine and asked: "So many people go to catch the caravan's set, why don't you go?" Little girls are known for their love of pretty. ”

"Go, don't say good things in your old horse's mouth." Lan Lan patted Ma Yunshou on the shoulder: "My sister said that my daughter's family should be serious." ”

"You can't follow the trend, you can speak so elegantly." Ma Yunshou laughed: "Lanlan, this little girl has also grown up." ”

"Good wine, good." Xu Guodong cherishes words like gold and refuses to say more.

"How can there be wine and no songs?" Wang Shizhen patted the table and said.

"Rest assured." Lan Lan winked at him: "The gentlemen next to me are all good singers, you just wait." ”

There's no need to wait, someone in the neighboring room is singing.

"The yellow leaves are falling, and the old people are leaving. High wind Hanyang crossing, the first day of Yingmen Mountain. A few people are on the river, and the end of the world is lonely. When we see each other again, the bottle of wine comforts the face. ”

It was a desolate old song, and the man's voice echoed under the moonlit sky, full of nostalgia for the things of men and women. At the end of the song, there was a long sigh from there, and the hearts of the people trembled when they heard it.

With loud applause, Wang Shizhen took the lead in applauding.

"The rhyme is beautiful, but unfortunately the words are not very neat. However, I have heard a few people say that the way of lyrics and songs, the first thing to take is the artistic conception, which is indeed good. Xu Guodong made a comment and applauded a few times.

"Medical scriptures? What kind of bird scripture is healed? Recipes can also be seen. Liu Ruitang's broken gong suddenly floated over, and the person had already rushed in with a few dishes: "Come and taste the ...... I made" Before he finished speaking, he saw that Lan Lan had not left. The big black face that had returned to normal turned red again: "You...... You...... I haven't left yet. ”

Lan Lan nodded: "Chat with the sons." It's all interesting to say. As soon as you come. All interest is gone. She bowed again and said, "Sons, please use it slowly, Lan Lan will retreat first." If there is anything to say, a summons will come. ”

Wang Shizhen followed her words and said with a smile: "This time, whether it is a medical scripture or a recipe, it is not your Lao Liu's share." ”

"Yes, as soon as the beauty leaves, the fun is ruined." After Lan Lan left, Liu Ruitang let out a sigh and sat down. Lift a flask, open the lid of the jug and pour the wine straight into his stomach, and wipe his mouth after drinking: "Slander me to death." ”

Liu Ruitang's cooking skills have mountain flavors, spicy and rough, and quite appetizing. Even Xu Guodong frequently raised chopsticks. Wang Shizhen had something on his mind, he didn't have much appetite, he barely ate a few bites, he got up and walked to the stone wall. There are many weapons hanging from the boulders, of different styles, and they are all covered with rust. Shrouded in the lights of this spacious stone chamber, there was no longer any murderous atmosphere. However, the workmanship of these weapons is very exquisite. The style is also unique, and it is indeed a good decoration.

"Here are a few more artifacts." Wang Shizhen was a little surprised: "Su Yue didn't come back in the mountains, where did she get these things?" ”

"I'll see." Liu Ruitang approached, took out a bow and pulled it. This bow was relatively intact, and the strings were stretched and stretched by him, popping out a lot of dust, Wang Shizhen waved his hand in disgust: "What are you doing?" ”

"It's quite a good idea." Liu Ruitang grinned and said, "Okay! Looking back for Xiao Su to come, my bow should have been changed a long time ago. ”

"I've seen this bow before." Ma Yunshou sat on the round stool and turned around, drinking and saying: "These are all old antiques, but they are just a lot of old weapons in the warehouse, and they are just used to change the decoration on the wall." ”

The weapons decorated on these walls came from the handwriting of local skilled craftsmen in ancient times. The emperors and generals of the Shu and Qian, after subduing the Quartet, all had the idea of subduing the people of Changbai Mountain by force. But the elite army entered the mountain, and as soon as the tail of the team entered the mouth of the gorge where the smoke was shrouded and the birds flew back, they never came out again. In the depths of the dense forests of the vast Changbai Mountain, I don't know how many ethnic groups are hidden. They drank blood, ate the ancients, adhered to the traditions of their own tribes, and never interacted with the people of the interior, including many brutal and bloodthirsty barbarian tribes. In the Great Qian Dynasty, even if they were equipped with elite ordnance bought from foreigners, when the battle-hardened soldiers walked into the mountains, no one thought that what awaited them would be a catastrophe.

Since the two armies disappeared into the Changbai Mountains, few of the later emperors have ever thought of conquest again. It's not that you can't be suppressed, it's that you can't do it. There is a shortage of food and clothing in the mountains, tigers and wolves are rampant, and it is not a place for people to live at all. It is impossible for the army to be stationed for a long time, and once it is withdrawn, a large number of mobs will return to their nests, and as usual, they will go down the mountains to harass the people everywhere, making the people's livelihood miserable and greatly unable to get there. Later, some ministers admonished, changed the suppression to fu, and divided and ruled. Only then did the bandits in Changbai Mountain gradually subside. The tribe of the Su Yue family was voted over after the imperial court tried to appease them.

When the mountain people hunted and cultivated, they often dug up some weapons of the army. Since Su Yue opened this "Taibaiju" tavern with the funding of the Daotai Gongzi, she often used some for decoration, and I heard that this is the case with the rich and noble families of foreigners. These things, in addition to swords, bows and spears, also have all kinds of native guns and foreign guns, which can be described as varied.

"If the weapons collected are carefully repaired, I am afraid that they can arm a team." Xu Guodong said.

"What kind of collection, there has been no movement in this mountain for more than 100 years. Let's not go to suppress it, the mountain people are full and have nothing to do. If you really want to go out of the mountain, you can't tell who is digging the grave for whom. Liu Ruitang put away his longbow, returned to the table and grabbed a chicken leg and gnawed it.

"Not necessarily." Wang Shizhen walked to the window with his hands in his hand, looking at the moon sky and looking at the sky: "If the world is really peaceful, what else are we going to practice?" The cockfighting cockfighting, the lackeys of the lackeys, the soldiers in the army, who is the fuel-efficient lamp in the Taiping world? ”

Xu Guodong stopped listening carefully, shook his head at the end and said, "Appointment secretary, you may not think too bad about the situation. ”

"He's not wrong." Liu Ruitang opened his mouth, and there was still some chicken left on his teeth: "Just during today's drill, the city guards caught a mountain man. ”

"What?" Wang Shizhen and Xu Guodong asked in unison.

The mountain people in Changbai Mountain have been living in tribes since ancient times. The mountain god they believe in is a three-eyed, two-headed, bear-like and lion-like god god of chaos. In ancient legends, the mountain god eclipsees thousands of cattle and sheep. After you've eaten your fill. Two heads with three giant eyes fought each other. The exhaled heat turned into lava and poured it into the Changbai Mountains. Many years passed, and the lava solidified into fiery red agate, which spread all over the mountains and under the trees.

The mountain people drank too much of the lava springs, and their tempers were as hot. How many times there are tribal strife, there is never a history of submission, and the defeated will be tied up in front of the idol of the mountain god and executed en masse. Because of this, the Central Plains dynasties have treated the mountain people with great tenderness. I am afraid that once these wildfire-like men are ignited, they will burn the fertile soil of the Central Plains.

The mountain people never go out of the mountains easily, and once they come out, they are carefully received by the cities along the way, and this rule has been observed for hundreds of years. During this period, there were occasional conflicts between the mountain people and the mainlanders, and the officials who decided the case were generally afraid that if they were in trouble, they would also favor some mountain people to some extent, but now one of the mountain people was arrested by the soldiers. Xu Guodong pondered for a moment and gently held Liu Ruitang's wrist: "What is the reason for the defenders to arrest people?" ”

"That guy is crazy. He ran out of the mountains and wore a thong and went straight to the fields to disturb the people. When you see a man, you fight. When I see a woman, I touch it, and I don't finish it. It happened that a few patrolling soldiers passed by and saw it. Go up and stop it. As a result, he took out a knife from the back of his buttocks, and before the soldiers could see it, he had already stabbed someone else in the stomach. ”

"Did anyone die?" Xu Guodong asked tightly.

"Probably not." Liu Ruitang stretched out his other hand coated with chicken fat and scratched his head, "I was locked and taken on the spot." The wounded soldier was immediately taken to the infirmary, where he was still humming. ”

"Yo, I know it very well." Ma Yunshou said with a smile: "People hum and let you listen to it." ”

"Where, where." Liu Ruitang's big slippery hand grabbed Ma Yunshou's shoulder, but he dodged it: "I listened to the cooks." When the head of the city guard received the prisoner, he was bitten by the mad dog a few times. When I was drinking here today, I complained a lot. ”

"Even if you hurt someone, as long as you don't die, it's better not to provoke this conflict. After all, I don't know the identity of the other party. Xu Guodong raised his eyebrows: "Do you know which battalion of sergeants took the person?" ”

"Left Battalion of the Infantry Army." Liu Ruitang didn't laugh when he said this.

"Han Shichuan? When the army crossed the square bridge at dusk, he didn't show a single tone. Xu Guodong's eyebrows skimmed out a sword pattern, and then disappeared.

"The left battalion of the infantry army is all from the mountains, and if they have enmity with the mountain people, they are either relatives. What are you talking about? Liu Ruitang patted his stomach when he was full and burped a long wine.

"It's Han Shichuan, it's strange. The mountain people catch the mountain people, I'm afraid it's not so easy to pull it out clearly...... Yunshou, let's go. As soon as Xu Guodong's words landed, Ma Yunshou had already stood up with a knife.

"Where are you going?" Liu Ruitang looked at the backs of the two people and asked.

"The Castle Guard." When Xu Guodong's words came, Lan Lan's voice outside the courtyard exclaimed, "My lord, are you leaving?" No one answered her, only the sound of hooves poured down on her.

"Your mother. It's like a monkey, and I can't hold my breath. Liu Ruitang picked his teeth: "Lao Wang, what were you just going to ask me?" ”

Wang Shizhen had been standing by the wall, and raised his head sharply after listening to his words: "Nothing." ”

"Your mother!" Liu Ruitang roared and said with a wicked smile: "I think my old Liu is a straw bag, are you worried about Su Yue?" That's why I'm going to talk about what it means to care is chaos. Su Yue's father is the owner of the Black Wind Village in the mountains, what is that? That was the bandit leader who could be counted in the Changbai Mountain. Besides, can Ma Gongzi let Su Yue go like this? At least half of his cronies went to the guards. Worry about her, or worry about yourself. ”

"Are you finished?" Wang Shizhen slapped his palm on the wall, but the light in his eyes sank without speaking.

"Okay, good," Liu Ruitang waved his hand and said, "My old Liu is kind-hearted and doesn't get angry with you." I'll go back to the camp to practice knives, so why don't you like it? ”

I don't know how Liu Ruitang left, and when Lan Lan came in, I only heard her shallow voice floating over: "Lord Wang, why bother?" ”

Wang Shizhen's anger had long since disappeared, and a layer of imperceptible sorrow was enveloped in his eyes, he looked at Lan Lan and smiled miserably: "They are all subordinates, what is the difference between you and me?" ”

"That's why I'm drinking with you." Lan Lan laughed, and there was a plowflower-like dimple on the left side of her face, which made Wang Shizhen feel that she was still a child who had not grown up. She stretched out her hand from behind her back and held the blue and white porcelain wine jug: "This is a treasure, I usually don't want to drink it." ”

"Another day, I'll drink with you another day." Wang Shizhen lowered his head and lowered his eyes into the invisible shadows: "Now, I want to find a place to be quiet and ...... Think about it. ”

At this moment, Liu Ruitang returned.

"What's going on?" Wang Shizhen noticed Liu Ruitang's solemn expression and immediately asked.

"Lao Wang, the one you said...... Lord Lin Yiqing, who wants you, is here, and is now in Lord Ye's camp, drinking with Lord Ye. Liu Ruitang sighed, looked at Wang Shizhen, and said with a wry smile, "I don't know where he took a fancy to your old Wang, but he was afraid that Lord Ye would not let him go, so he came over to ask for someone in person." ”

After listening to Liu Ruitang's words, Wang Shizhen calmed down.

"This Lord Lin came to Shanhaiguan, I'm afraid it may not be for me to be a small flag leader." Wang Shizhen shook his head and said, "He has a silver token given by the emperor, and when he comes to the place, he must have something important to do......

Wang Shizhen suddenly thought of Su Yue's hurry to return to the mountain, and couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart. (To be continued......)

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