The three jars of Jiuquan wine brought by Li Xuan this time are about two or three catties per jar, and the alcohol concentration is about 40 degrees.

This is a high-concentration fruit wine that Li Li led the craftsmen of the Ordnance Department to spend more than a month carefully brewing, which is brewed by a mixture of grains, flower petals and fruits, with a rich fragrance and a good taste. A pound of wine is worth one tael of gold, and the price of Jiuquan wine sold to the counties of the Central Plains is doubled, and a small jar of two and a half catties of fruit wine costs five taels of gold.

Nowadays, in the states and counties of the Han Dynasty, 40 degrees fruit wine is definitely regarded as a high-concentration spirit, and a small jar of wine is enough for a drinker to drink five meals, which is equivalent to three jars of water wine.

Now the three small jars of Jiuquan wine have been drunk by Li Li and Guo Jia to the point that only half of the jar is left, but the first jar of wine still has a share of Li Xuan, which is considered to have been drunk by the three of them, and the remaining jar and a half are just drunk by the two of them.

"Wow!" Zhen's mother and daughter were already about to go downstairs, but as soon as they reached the staircase, they heard a man named Fengxiao mention themselves, so Zhen immediately stopped, and the mother and daughter stood at the staircase and listened quietly.

Unexpectedly, Li Li and Guo Jia lost their words after drinking, thinking that they had gone away, and they still made a big statement without scruples.

When Zhen heard that Guo Jia mistook her for Li Li's wife, her pretty face was crimson, her cheeks were hot, and an indescribable complex emotion appeared in her eyes. Therefore, she subconsciously ignored Guo Jia's next comments, and her thoughts were chaotic, which inexplicably touched the emotions of being autistic for many years.

Immediately afterwards, when she heard Guo Jia say the words "the best joy in the world", her delicate body trembled, and her jade legs were soft and almost fell. Immediately, an indescribable long-lost feeling came to her heart, and suddenly her face was red, and she was so shy that she couldn't help herself, and she was embarrassed.

Subsequently, after hearing Li Li's denial. Zhen's mind suddenly relaxed, and he gently exhaled a mouthful of aroma.

However, when Li Li said the words "It's a pity that she is already a wife, and she hates to meet late", the emotional shackles that had been imprisoned for many years in Zhen's heart were suddenly deeply pried, and an inexplicable feeling rushed through the shackles and poured into the heart.

Suddenly, feelings of bitterness, misery, loneliness, and loneliness surged into Zhen's heart, causing her to have a sour eyes and two strings of sad tears in the corners of her eyes. Immediately, she hurried downstairs. Just when she was about to lose sight of the scene upstairs, she glanced back inexplicably, glanced at Li Li with a complicated look, and then turned her head and left the tavern straight with her four daughters.

The footsteps of Zhen's mother and daughter going downstairs did not affect Li Li and Guo Jia at all Yaxing, who was talking about women. Still in high spirits.

"It turns out that those five women just now are not Brother Wenchang's wives and concubines! This is good, it shows that the little brother still has hope to get a piece of the pie! Guo Jia said with a big tongue without hesitation.

Li Li leaned against the window with a flushed face. He asked casually, "What does Brother Xian mean by this?" Could it be that you also have a crush on the daughter of the Zhen family? ”

"Brother Wenchang guessed it right and had excellent eyesight, so he really knew it!" Guo Jia nodded happily and said eloquently: "There are clouds in the Book of Poetry: My Fair Lady, a gentleman." The younger brother has not yet married a wife, and he is still a humble Confucian. I am fortunate to meet such a beautiful woman today. How can you not want to get into the wrong and fall in love! ”

Li Li was stunned: "This is difficult. Virtuous brother, it's not a secret, four of the five Zhen's mother and daughter have famous flowers. Now you have to step in too, brother Xian. That's not good! Although I fell in love with my virtuous brother at first sight, I have to be a man of my word and believe in it, and I can't break my trust and go back on my word. I don't know which woman the virtuous brother has a crush on? ”

"It's the little lady behind Zhen!" Guo Jia said directly without concealment.

"Zhen Jiang!" Li Li immediately said his name, and then sighed and smiled: "Good, very good, very good!" Zhen Jiang is the eldest daughter of the Zhen family, not biological, but inherited under the name of the Zhen family, a famous lady, a virtuous brother with good eyesight! Hehehe??????"

"Brother said that, there is still hope!" Guo Jia said with a look of surprise.

Li Li nodded and smiled: "Of course there is hope!" However, whether the virtuous brother can win the hearts of beautiful women is not something that the brother can control, if you want to hold the beauty, you have to rely on the virtuous brother's own efforts. My brother can help you talk about matchmaking, but I can't guarantee that Miss Zhen will definitely agree! Brother Xian said, isn't that so? ”

"Haha! The elder brother is quick to talk, and the younger brother respects the elder brother! In the sound of daxiao, Guo Jia and Li Li raised their lamps to drink together.

After drinking, Guo Jia leaned over to Li Li and asked in a low voice, "Does my brother like Zhen?" But my brother himself said that she was a widow, and that her daughters were so old. Since then, is it a little inappropriate for my brother to still remember her? ”

"Haha!" Li Li heard the words daxiao: "Brother Xian doesn't know. The four daughters behind Zhen are not her biological daughters, they just regard her as their mother and want to be a descendant, that's all. In fact, Zhen is only twenty-nine years old, which her youngest daughter Zhen Mi secretly told me. The reason why the virtuous brother asks this question is that he wants to say, widow Kefu, widow is an ominous person? ”

Guo Jia nodded stunned and said, "Brother Mingjian, the younger brother has this intention. The widow is ominous, this is a precept since ancient times, not my Guo Jia's self-guessing, strange power, please don't blame my brother. ”

"Hehehe! A virtuous brother doesn't have to be like this, and being a brother is not a stingy person. Li Li smiled happily and said: "The ancient precepts are naturally reasonable, otherwise they would not have been passed down to this day, which is known to my brother." However, I believe that things are man-made, and people will win the day!

What about widows? Widows are lonely, but they can better understand the heat and coldness of the world, and they know how to cherish the hard-won happy life. What's more, Zhen is still a beautiful woman in her prime. Others are afraid of the widow's ominousness, because he is not confident enough, has no guts and no strength to deter strange forces and chaos, but I am not among them! ”

"So, my brother wants to rise to the challenge?" Guo Jia asked curiously.

Li Li's expression was slightly shocked, his red eyes opened slightly, and he smiled meaningfully. Then he said vaguely: "Brother Xian knows it in his heart, don't say it, don't say it!" Come, brother Xian, let's continue to drink, and after drinking this half jar of wine, we will go back to the inn to rest! ”

Then the two talked about the wind and the moon, talked about the world, talked about the past and the present, without scruples, and unrestrained. Until the three jars of Jiuquan wine were drunk cleanly, the two were already drunk and fell asleep on the wine table.

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A trip to the great mountains and rivers.

A chance encounter stirred up the vicissitudes of the world.

A soft sentence that stirs the heart of a beauty.

A hangover, how many clouds of smoke are set off.

It is rare to get drunk a few times in life, and it is dawn to wake up from a good dream.

The sun shone in front of the window, and when Li Li opened his eyes, he saw Ma Yunluo standing in front of the couch, looking at him with confused eyes.

Looking at Ma Yunluo's beautiful face, Li Li smiled at her, and then shook her head, the sequelae of the hangover were still there, her head was very heavy, and she felt a kind of muddy.

"Did Guo Jia get up, did you say anything?"

Hearing Li Li mention Guo Jia, a trace of gloom suddenly appeared on Ma Yunluo's face, and it seemed that she was still angry about Guo Jia's comments about Li Li's treachery last night, and she was still holding a grudge against Guo Jia. "He's just gotten up and written a letter, and he should be ready to go by now. Childe, I still can't figure it out, he's just a poor scholar, why do you take such care of him. What's more, he didn't know what to do, and last night in front of you, he judged you and scolded you; If it weren't for the fact that you seemed to be very polite to him, I would have thrown him out of the window last night and killed him! ”

"Hehehe!" Li Li said with a smile: "Yunluo, you can't just look at the surface, nor can you judge people by their appearance, you should rationally look at some people who behave perversely, this kind of people are often very introverted and talented." Now, Guo Jia, who you hate very much, happens to be this kind of person. This person has extraordinary knowledge, perverse behavior, and uninhibited, but he is extremely talented, and his talent is probably no less than that of the military advisor Jia Xu. So, from now on, you can't lose your temper with him, play tricks, and even more so get angry. In addition, from today on, you will be my Li Li's woman, the ninth concubine, call me Wenchang directly, and don't wear men's clothes anymore, and when the caravan sets off later, you will ride in a carriage with Zhen. I had already instructed Yuan Zhong to prepare these yesterday, and he must have done it now. ”

Hearing Li Li's words, Ma Yunluo's face suddenly turned crimson, and she lowered her head shyly, not daring to look up at Li Li. In fact, long before the departure of the trip, her status as Li Li's concubine had already been decided, which was something that Li Xin and other eight wives and concubines agreed on. It's just that she and Li Li are not husband and wife yet, so she has been following Li Li as a personal maid, but she has long regarded herself as Li Li's woman in her heart. It wasn't until Li Li now personally confirmed her name that her long-suspended heart finally landed.

After the wash, Li Li ate Ma Yunluo's breakfast that had already been prepared, and then strode out of the East Cross Courtyard and went straight to the caravan in the backyard of the inn.

"Brother Wenchang, did you sleep well last night? Now you're late, and you sleep until you wake up naturally, which is enviable! Seeing Li Li walk into the courtyard, the energetic Guo Jia greeted him and said with a smile.

Li Li smiled and nodded: "What Feng Xiao said is extremely true. In the troubled times, it is a blessing in life to be able to have no worries about food and clothing, be safe, and sleep until you wake up naturally! I was drunk last night, and Feng Xiao got up this morning and was full of energy, and he didn't see a hangover at all, he was really a stranger! Hehehe??????"

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Brother Wenchang and I are really like-minded people, if we talk about drinking, this may be the only difference between me and Brother Wenchang." I used to drink and get drunk, and over time, I woke up with a hangover and was fine. ”

While talking to Guo Jia, Li Li nodded to Zhen's mother and daughter with a smile on his face, and then the group drove two carriages and five wagons against the rising sun and set off again.

―――――――――――― (To be continued)(To be continued......