Chapter Seventy-Seven: The First Taste of Spirits
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The weather was really bad on this day, but Suzaku Street was still bustling.
A horse-drawn carriage hurried through the long street, the horses' hooves staggering, and the hail squeaked under the wheels.
The carriage was covered with expensive and exquisite silk on all sides, and the gold-inlaid windows were covered by a curtain of moon-white crepe, so that no one outside the carriage could see what it was, but the distinguished guests inside could catch a glimpse of the pedestrians outside.
Passers-by were amazed and envious when they saw this luxurious decoration.
But there was an old man who was half-bowed, shaking his head and smiling disdainfully.
A good shopkeeper next to him happened to see it and asked him, "Old man Wang, what are you laughing at?"
"I laugh at the nouveau riche. ”
Xiao Er couldn't help but sour him: "Don't talk nonsense, how do you know that he is an upstart, and a carriage alone is worth a lot of silver, enough for you and me to eat for most of my life, I think you are jealous, right?"
Old man Wang looked like he "knew it in his heart" and said with a smile: "Look at the big families in Bianjing City, which family uses such a carriage? I wish I could turn the inside out for others to see, it is full of nouveau riche, it must be someone over there!"
As he spoke, he pursed his lips in the direction of the northeast.
Xiao Er comprehended: "Liao's?"
"Well," the old man nodded, and continued: "The people there love to show off the most, the old man, when I used to follow the master, I saw a lot, and the women over there are also like this, a few stinky money would like to put all the jewels on their heads, very vulgar." ”
"Okay, okay," Xiao Er said sarcastically: "I know that you used to be in charge of the car for the Duke of Yiguo, and you are well-informed, but you don't want to show off anymore, you are really as virtuous as a Liao dog as you said." ”
Old man Wang snorted dissatisfiedly and said, "If you don't believe it, you go and ask him if he is from Liaoguo?"
"What do you ask, the carriage has gone so far. ”
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Just when the old man Wang and the shopkeeper were chatting about right and wrong, the carriage had already arrived at the door of the Babao Teahouse.
The charioteer let out a soft cry, and the horse's nose rattled, spewing white gas, neighing, and stopped.
It was Zhan Xiaoyi who got out of the carriage.
He hurriedly walked towards the Babao Teahouse, and as soon as he entered the store, he asked about a very special aroma of wine.
Looking around, there are people drinking at almost every table.
Staggered, lively and noisy.
Zhan Xiaoyi was about to find someone to ask carefully, but it happened that the shopkeeper Shi Chang recognized that this was a frequent guest, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Master Zhan, I haven't seen you for a few days, and you are still radiant and radiant." ”
Zhan Xiaoyi nodded, and he answered.
Shi Chang asked earnestly: "It's still a private room on the second floor, a pot of high-grade silver, right?"
"Oh, do you remember?" Zhan Xiaoyi glanced back at him.
"Master Zhan is a distinguished guest of the shop, so I naturally remember it. ”
Half a year ago, Shi Chang was still the unlucky shopkeeper of the Babao Building that was on the verge of bankruptcy, and due to a change in the owner, Babao Lou became "Babao Fast Food", which can really be described as a resurrection.
Subsequently, this "Eight Treasures Teahouse" was opened, and the door was full of seats.
Later, the proprietor asked him to serve as the shopkeeper of the Babao Teahouse. On that day, when he happened to meet the ungrateful Huang Hongfu of Yunlai Pavilion at the entrance of the street, and saw that he reluctantly congratulated himself with hatred and jealousy in his eyes, Shi Chang really felt unprecedentedly happy.
Since then, he has been more dedicated to the affairs of Babao Teahouse than before, and has managed it as if it were his own heirloom.
Zhan Xiaoyi saw that he was sincere, couldn't help but glance at him, and said with a smile: "The shopkeeper has a good memory, and it is still a private room on the second floor, but there is no need to use the silver quill today." ”
Shi Chang hurriedly asked, "But what's wrong with the tea in the shop?"
Zhan Xiaoyi didn't answer, went upstairs, and sat down in the usual private room by the window, before he said leisurely to Shi Chang, who followed closely: "I heard that you have a new good wine here?"
"It turned out to be for this!" Shi Chang breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Master Zhan is really well-informed!"
Zhan Xiaoyi was not polite to him, and laughed at himself: "Shopkeeper, you are really good at laughing, you are almost about to have a bottle of wine in Bianjing, I am well-informed, you go to the bar quickly." ”
"Okay! good!" Shi Chang replied busily, turning around and about to go downstairs.
Zhan Xiaoyi stopped him: "Slow!"
"What else does Master Zhan command?"
"One cage of barbecued pork buns and two cages of phoenix feet. ”
"Got it!"
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In a moment, the food and wine were all ready.
Zhan Xiaoyi looked at the wine bottle carefully.
On weekdays, the restaurants of the Song Kingdom use exquisite white porcelain and celadon to serve wine. However, the bottle of wine in front of me is made of simple clay pottery, only a layer of brown glaze, and the bottle body is also very clumsy in shape, larger than ordinary wine bottles, which can be regarded as a small wine bottle.
To be honest, Zhan Xiaoyi doesn't like this little wine too much, it's too poor and sour.
He sniffed the mouth, different from other wines, mellow and rich, the taste of this wine is refreshing at first smell, and then smelled, spicy and sweet.
Along with the food and drinks, there are also two wine glasses.
Zhan Xiaoyi turned a blind eye, picked up the small wine and poured it into his mouth.
He was most tired of watching the Song people drink, what kind of wine glass did he use?
Sissy.
If you drink alcohol, you have to take a big gulp to be happy!
"Ahem, ahem!"
As soon as the wine reached his throat, he couldn't help coughing it out.
It's so spicy!
What kind of wine is this!
He was not convinced, so he poured another mouthful, held back his cough, and swallowed hard.
In an instant, the smell of wine rushed like a raging wave.
It seems that there is a fire flowing down the throat, burning all the way to the internal organs, and the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys are smoking.
The whole body is burning, only the mind is clear.
After that, only the mind is not clear, the whole body feels clearly, only the head is dazed.
It's so exciting!
It's more ecstatic than lingering with spring peaches for three days and three nights!
It is more enjoyable than riding horses and galloping for ten days and ten nights in the endless prairie of Bai Dadan!
Zhan Xiaoyi couldn't help but pour it one bite after another.
After a while, the wine was empty.
"Shopkeeper!
He shouted loudly.
When Shi Chang heard this, he went up to the second floor with a puff, and saw Zhan Xiaoyi's face flushed, knowing that he was also drunk like other alcoholic guests.
He shook his head and sighed in his heart, not knowing whether this "horse fur wine" was good or bad?
Indeed, this wine has brought a lot of business. However, he was still very distressed by receiving these drunken guests every day.
When Zhan Xiaoyi saw Shi Chang coming, he shouted happily: "Palm, shopkeeper!"
"Whoa!"
"Again, come again......" Zhan Xiaoyi felt that his tongue was hot, and he couldn't even speak clearly, but he still insisted on finishing his words: "Three more Cheng, no, no! Ten Cheng! No, thirty Cheng! Another thirty Cheng, shopkeeper!"
Shi Chang stepped forward to help him and persuaded, "Master Zhan, you are drunk." ”
"you!" Zhan Xiaoyi waved his hand and was about to stand up, but he couldn't hold it, and he reflexively fell on the table.
But he still muttered in his mouth: "Our Khitan Han ...... Men, they are all good men, good men! Do you know ?...... It's not like your Song people's mother...... Sissy, not so easy to get drunk......"
Shi Chang listened carefully, and was a little surprised in his heart: is he from Liao?
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