After a while, our carriage came to the entrance of the village, and there was a huge archway erected at the head of the village, on which the three big characters of "Duanjiazhuang" were written. Seeing a few old men standing under the archway, Yuan Zhao hurriedly got out of the car to greet him, and I also jumped out of the car and looked curiously at these old men with white hair.

"Uncle Cui, how are you doing?" Yuan Zhao shook the hand of an old man led by him and greeted him warmly.

"Master Qin, didn't the master come back?" the other party asked.

"The master didn't come back, the young lady came back. Yuan Zhao turned around and pointed at me.

The old man was obviously confused by my man's outfit, pointed at me and asked suspiciously, "Is this Miss Feng?"

Yuan Zhao explained with a smile: "Exactly, the master was worried about the safety of the young lady, so he asked the young lady to go out dressed as a man. ”

"Ouch, Miss arrived, rude and rude. The old man was about to kneel on the ground as he spoke, and I hurriedly helped him up.

"Uncle Cui, you are so old, you are killing me. "I'm embarrassed that the old man did it.

"You are the master, I am the servant, the rules. The old man didn't think there was anything wrong with it. "Fugui, lead the horse to the stable. Bring some fresh grass from Lao Liutou's house, mix it with beans, and serve the young lady's horse well. The old man commanded.

"Hey, okay. A young man emerged from the crowd and led his horse to the east of the village. "Miss, please come into the village. With that, I entered the village with the crowd gathered around us.

The houses in the village are basically adobe houses, and there are few stone and wood buildings. Sitting in the lobby of Cui Bo's house, Yuan Zhao and I drank tea and enjoyed a short break in the tiring journey.

"Miss Feng, is this tea good?" Cui Bo asked me. With my experience of making tea for the old man for more than a month, I guessed that this should be a tea tea produced in the Wuyi Mountain area. After expressing my opinion, the old man rubbed his hands excitedly: "Miss is really proficient in the tea ceremony, this is what I specially asked someone to buy from Jiangdong, just waiting for the master to come back and taste it." The villagers gathered around were also amazed.

I laughed in my heart: This is the kind of tea that the old man drinks every day at home, how can I not taste it? Inadvertently, I saw a child in the crowd, who looked like he was three or four years old, with a doll's head shaved, looking at us both in a straight and stunned manner.

"Kids, come here. I beckoned to him, and he took two steps forward with his fingers in mind.

"Miss, this is the old man's little grandson, called Dan'er. "Trebo told us.

Yuan Zhao saw that he had been looking at me, so he pointed at me and asked him: "Dan'er, do you think this is brother or sister?" Dan'er shook his head, and held back the word "sister" for a long time, which made us laugh. "How can you call my sister, it's not big or small...", I hurriedly persuaded Cui Bo: "Children, children's words are unscrupulous." "I went up and took him in my arms, tickled him, and he giggled and scratched.

"Uncle, the feast is ready and ready to be seated. A young man shouted from outside the house.

"Come on, miss, please take your seat. "We went to the threshing floor in the village with the villagers. A large threshing floor was already full of tables, and the women were busy serving up the plates.

"Uncle Cui, I'm really bothering you..." Cui Bo interrupted Yuan Zhao's words: "Miss came to our Duanjiazhuang for the first time, can you not entertain you well?" As he spoke, Cui Bo pushed away the chair and invited me to sit down.

"Miss, things are in a hurry, and we haven't prepared early, I hope Miss will forgive me. As soon as I looked at the table, wow, there was no shortage of chicken, duck, fish and meat, so how could I prepare? So I quickly got up and said, "Uncle Cui, I am really flattered that I can be treated so courteously by a junior." Thank you very much for your hospitality!"

"Miss, please take a seat, don't see outside, this family village is your home, as long as you come back, we are always welcome." With that, Cui Bo raised his wine glass and said, "Come, first glass of wine, we welcome Miss Feng!" Everyone present raised their wine glasses, and I took the wine glass in front of me and drank it all.

Before I knew it, I had drunk three or four glasses of wine in a row, and the sky had inadvertently darkened. Taking advantage of the time when Cui Bo got up to light the candle, Yuan Zhao, who was sitting next to me, asked in a low voice, "Are you okay with drinking?" ”

I patted him on the shoulder heroically and said, "Don't worry, my sister is fine." "Suddenly I noticed that the women were all standing on the side, and no one was at the table. In fact, in normal times, I am used to it, after all, in ancient times, the status of women is not very high. But today, with the strength of the wine, I said to Cui Bo, "Cui Bo, let the sisters come and drink two glasses too!" As soon as I finished speaking, the originally lively wine table immediately quieted down, and everyone looked at me stunned.

"This... Well..."Old man Cui didn't know what to say.

My brain was stimulated by the alcohol and was very sober, I slapped the table and stood up and said, "Since Duanjiazhuang is my family, then today's wine feast is a family banquet, how can the family banquet be without all the sisters?"

"Okay!" Cui Bo shouted to the women beside him, "Then all the mothers-in-law and aunts should come up!" At first, the women were still a little hesitant, hesitating not to know whether to go up or not, but a few bold people came up and sat down next to their husbands, and the others followed suit.

With the addition of women, the banquet suddenly became a lot more lively, I also held a wine glass everywhere to push the glass to change the lamp, I have loved to be lively since I was a child, I have not participated in any large-scale activities since I came here. As the saying goes, the mood is the amount of alcohol, although I drank a lot, but until the end I was very conscious, but Yuan Zhao was a little drunk, and the banquet was noisy until midnight.

Maybe it was the stimulation of alcohol, I woke up early in the morning, and together with Yuan Zhaoyi, I was ready to set off to Luoyang immediately, and strive to play in Luoyang for half a day before leaving. Cui Bo and the villagers sent us one ride after another. Before going on the road, Yuan Zhao found an opportunity, called Cui Bo aside, and muttered something, I didn't hear it clearly, but after a while, the old man Cui's loud voice came: "How can we do it?"

"I just told him what Master meant, but I didn't want him to be annoyed, thinking that Master was looking down on them. Cui Bo said that they had prepared ten carts of grain, special products, medicinal herbs, and animal skins, and were waiting for the dart bureau to send them over on his wife's birthday. ”

"Why don't they send it over themselves, but also look for a dart board, are they afraid that they won't be able to meet the robbers?" I asked, puzzled. Cui Bo just said that it was because there was a forced labor in those days, and the young and middle-aged men in the village had to go to repair the river embankment, so they could only be sent by the dart bureau. ”

"I had so much fun last night! I really want to play for a few days before leaving. "I am fascinated by the simple folk customs and leisurely rural life here.

"I can't tell you how much you drink. "So-so. "What a drunkard...""You're a drunkard!" "That's it, Yuan Zhao and I fought and headed towards Luoyang.

"There are too many sentry posts!" "There are still seven or eight miles away from Luoyang, and we have already encountered five sentry posts, although Yuan Zhao has the invitation letter of the posterity conference in his hand, and he will not encounter any trouble during the inspection, but too many inspections still slow down our progress, originally thought that we could rush to Luoyang at noon, but now it seems that lunch has to be solved on the road. Fortunately, there was a basket full of hard-boiled eggs given to us by the villagers of Duanjiazhuang, and we ate pancakes all day long, and Yuan Zhao and I were a little tired of eating.

Seeing that there were more and more checkpoints passing by, my good impression of the city of Luoyang in my heart was gradually eroded, and I couldn't help but complain to Yuan Zhao. "Originally, there weren't so many checkpoints..."Yuan Zhao also seemed surprised. "Hey, don't you know?" said a pedestrian who was waiting in line in front of us for inspection looked back at us in amazement.

I muttered to myself: What do you see, do you think we ran out of the zoo?" "You're from out of town, aren't you? I'll tell you, now the nine princes are all in the capital, and even the king of Hanzhong, who guards the southwest, has returned. The other party suddenly lowered his voice, leaned next to Yuan Zhao's ear and said, "It is said to be related to the matter of Prince Li..."

I secretly complained on the sidelines: I originally wanted to play in the capital of the empire, but now it seems that it is all in vain. At that time, I was angry that the establishment of a prince must have nothing to do with ordinary people like me, but a series of events since then have proved that my idea is completely wrong...