- The rockery was built by the defeated monarch of the previous dynasty with a lot of money, and although the mountain is artificially shaped, the essence is a whole stone removed from Tianmai Peak. dm。

There is a record in the archives of the Ministry of Industry of the former dynasty, this whole solid mountain stone weighs more than 10,000 jun, 73 years ago when it was mined from the Tianmai Peak by the craftsmen, because the Tianmai Peak is extremely steep, it does not use the power of cattle and horses, and the whole process is carried by manpower, and the slave labor is used up to 1,000 people.

According to another historian's document, in the process of transporting this huge mountain rock, more than 20 slave laborers died because they stumbled and slipped down the steep rock cliff, and 14 people were disabled. In addition, when quarrying, he was accidentally chiseled through the palm of his hand with a chisel, his fingers were broken by a hammer and disabled, and he was killed by the sun and forced labor on the top of the mountain.

The number of sixty is exactly the length of the years when the last defeated monarch of the previous dynasty ordered the quarrying of stones until the death of the country.

Ironically, according to the records of the previous dynasties, the intention of the deceased monarch to pick this boulder is said to have been the result of the "Asking the Heavens" by the chief official of the Qin Heavenly Prison at that time. It is said that there is this megalith to guard the palace and protect the emperor.

Such a heavy boulder may still be able to be shaken in the slightest in the face of the change of earth cracking, but the monarch of the former dynasty did not have time to punish the chief official of the Qin Heavenly Prison for another heavy survey error.

Huyang County, where the new Kyoto is located, is now like a vast imperial capital, but its owner has already changed to another family. If the Tianmai Peak Boulder can really suppress and protect anything, it will no longer be for the monarch of the previous dynasty.

Unlike the pair of fierce lion stone carvings left by the previous dynasty were moved around, and finally lost to the gate of the Commander's Mansion to guard the door, this rockery, which originally landed in the prince's hall of the East Palace of the former dynasty, was only moved once after the establishment of the new dynasty, that is, it was moved to the front courtyard of Huayang Palace. Everyone who visits Huayang Palace, but who walks the main road of the vestibule, will inevitably be able to see it when they come and go.

When this boulder was moved more than 10 years ago, it was only carried on the ground. It was hard to imagine how many coolie slaves might be lost when this huge mountain stone was transported from the former emperor Jingye to Huyang, the new Kyoto.

You can imagine it. In the two preserved case files of the previous dynasty, it is likely that there are many details about this rockery that have not been recorded. At that time, for this piece of silent and unrelenting stubborn stone, I don't know how many fresh lives that were recorded outside the case were lost into it.

This boulder quarried from the treacherous Tianmai Peak on the mountain road itself was created by a group of skilled craftsmen collected by the monarch of the previous dynasty to create a prosperous market scene.

On the top of the rockery, there is a Taoist temple with a very fairy wind artistic conception, there is a silver-bearded Taoist who shakes the dust in his hand to pinch his fingers to measure the heavenly machine in the high pavilion of the view, and there is also a young Taoist priest who sits and plays against each other in the courtyard of the Taoist temple, and his face is contemplative.

In the dense forest on the mountainside, hunters carrying old branches and bows and carrying dead beasts can be seen faintly, as well as a few woodcutters who are cutting trees.

The mountain is facing the lake. When people gather into a town, the atmosphere of the market becomes stronger. The businessmen selling meat and vegetables and selling groceries on the streets of the town have different expressions and expressions, as do passers-by who are buying or just hanging out.

There are also a few children kneeling or lying on the ground at the bottom of the street, playing with iron beads, and other book friends are reading. The rockery landscape is carved according to one-third of the life-size ratio, but the scene of the children playing with iron beads is to carve the number of small iron beads rolling in two circles on the ground is clearly countable.

If you don't read the old archives kept by the Ministry of Works, it is really hard to imagine that such a thing, which seems to be rich in meaning and beauty on the surface, has been stained with the blood of so many coolie slave laborers, like an evil spirit.

This rockery will be cleaned every half a month by the palace maid with water, and the skilled craftsmen of the Ministry of Engineering will come to paint the paint color once a year. The rockery has been finished for so many years. Because the stone itself is of high quality, there is no loss in the stone carving, at most the paint color has changed somewhat.

Standing in front of this rockery, Hua Shixian, the imperial doctor who is good at silver needles, fixed his eyes on the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain, and his eyes were fixed on the eaves of the main building in the view, and he suddenly said with some puzzlement: "Although this rockery is shaped vividly. But when night falls, the delicate things on the mountain are blurred, and there is really no value in stopping and admiring them. ”

Imperial Doctor Feng, who was standing beside him, raised his eyes to find him, and his gaze was also looking at the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain, but his eyes stopped at the Taoist temple. Looking at the silver-bearded Taoist who was standing in the high pavilion and making a gesture of pinching his fingers to count the sky, he opened his mouth with Hua Shixian's words: "What do you mean by this." Are you wondering about the answer of the Second Highness just now? Walking around the mountain is not necessarily to see the scenery, maybe to grasp the distance, I heard the people from the Ministry of Industry say that walking twice on the cobblestone path around the rockery is a mile away. ”

Hua Shixian did not immediately respond to Imperial Doctor Feng's words, but Imperial Doctor Zhao, who was standing a few steps away from the other side, spoke at this time, and he said slowly: "Brother Shi Xian is referring to the slightly wet new mud on the soles of the prince's boots, right?" Yesterday was indeed not the day when the slaves and maids in the palace washed the rockery every month, and even if the prince had been near the rockery, it was impossible for him to get his shoes wet. What's more, even if you don't consider this, just say that the distance between this rockery and the dormitory, if the prince just has insomnia at night, it is just enough to sit up and read a book for a while, there is really no need to detour to the vicinity of the rockery. ”

Imperial Doctor Feng listened to Imperial Doctor Zhao's inference, and suddenly realized a problem, and immediately echoed: "That's right, with the prince's poor physique in recent days, the people in Huayang Palace will also dissuade him from going out of the house at night." ”

Once again, one of the three imperial physicians agreed.

But Hua Shixian quickly sighed again, and said leisurely: "But what can you do if you determine this?" We, the medical officers who are subordinates and have little power, cannot insist on seeking truth from a prince for this reason. The Second Highness is no different from a cold and a fever, but where exactly he went to suffer from the cold last night, we are powerless to ask......"

Hua Shixian's words fell, and the three imperial doctors looked at each other for a while, speechless.

Hua Shixian's words were full of helplessness, but the most helpless thing in the world was the most practical, and it was so practical that it was exhausting, because the helplessness was due to your inability to modify it.

"Rockery, rockery......" Hua Shixian raised his chin slightly, and his eyes seemed to fall on the Taoist temple on the top of the rockery, and it seemed to float to the sky of the unknown bottom with his thoughts. He put the next half of the sentence "meaning fake country? He swallowed back into his throat without leaving a trace, leaving only an empty and meaningless sigh.

After Hua Shixian became a famous family in the medical field, he came to Beijing alone seven years ago and was promoted to the medical officer, full of the willingness to serve the new dynasty with his own ability. And he will have that ambition. It is related to the place where the new dynasty was established, the new monarch released the medicine ghost Liao Shi who killed the former empress dowager in the prison, and many changes to streamline the medical staff of the Imperial Medical Bureau but improve the honorary status of the doctors.

With his reliable skills, the famous doctor Hua Shixian was successfully admitted to the Taiyi Bureau in one fell swoop when he first entered Beijing. As long as you have real skills. The monarchs of the new dynasty could get relatively equal treatment, which did not disappoint Hua Shixian's expectations.

When he first entered the Taiyi Bureau, Hua Shixian only worked as a student for two years, and then he was promoted to a medical worker, and after another year, he was directly promoted to the rank of the nine doctors of the Imperial Court, enjoying the qualifications of the medical reserve of the Taiyi Bureau, as well as the honor of the prince and marquis. Behind the rapid promotion of a newcomer's status, in addition to his own hard work. There is also the kindness of the son of heaven.

Meritorious rewards, those who can get it, Xinjun has achieved accurate division at this point, and the measures are very convincing.

But after seven years in such a Taiyi Bureau, Hua Shixian was a little tired of it.

Perhaps this state of his heart is made public. There will definitely be some people who accuse him of whether his life is too stable and carefree, so this kind of casual thought of not knowing how to repay the emperor's kindness will come up, and other book friends are reading:. But there are definitely some people who will echo this idea, because the canary in the cage will also have the desire to leap out of the delicate and gorgeous bird's cage, and give up a full stomach and delicious food, just to fly to the open sky and spread its wings to the fullest.

It's not just an imperial doctor who has this idea similar to Hua Shixian's heart, the difference is only that he thinks about it occasionally. Or gradually every day will think about the hour like this.

Joining the Imperial Palace Ouchi Imperial Hospital, the scope of activities is fixed, and you can't go wherever you want like the medicine ghost Liao Shi, who is currently only living in legends. And the potential of the medical Tao is obviously not only in the tens of thousands of words of medical books collected by the imperial medical department, but in the vast world. Kyoto healers are prosperous. But it is far from enough to summarize the energy of the entire medical industry.

As a royal honorary medical officer, he enjoys a dazzling status at the top, but it is not very convenient to accept apprentices at the bottom. Medical officers have to go through a set of more cumbersome regulations to accept apprentices, because of this threshold, although the character of the medical children who can enter is not bad. But it is inevitable that you will miss some seedlings who are from low backgrounds, but have a talented way of thinking and practicing medicine.

The imperial physician appointed by the emperor was not yet able to treat civilian patients, but from a side perspective, the complexity of the patient's procedures could improve the doctor's experience and medical skills. At present, Hua Shi is staying in the Taiyi Bureau, except that the medicinal materials are carefully selected before entering the palace, and even the objects of treatment services are fixed, and he can't have them, or he shouldn't think of new attempts at all, which really greatly imprisons his willingness to make progress.

And what annoyed him the most was that in this relatively fixed medical service group, there was an old patient like Wang Hong, the second prince.

The second prince's weakness has not been completely recovered, and the frequent recurrence of the illness has caused Hua Shixian, who is behind a famous medical family, to be very shocked.

Although the attitude of all the imperial doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau on this matter has gradually been put on a level, that is, the prince's deficiency is born insufficient, and the acquired medical skills can only be maintained as much as possible.

For example, many years ago, the medicine ghost Liao Shineng made the dying former queen mother wake up immediately, and her complexion was also vivid, but it became a trace of returning to the light, and within a month, the old queen mother died of complete illness.

There is a lesson from the previous car, so none of the imperial doctors can cure the prince's deficiency disease, although there is no merit, but it cannot be rated as dereliction of duty and can only continue to eat dry rice.

After the medicine ghost Liao Shi was released from the prison more than ten years ago, he has never been found back in Beijing. No one mentioned yì for him to give it a try, and after more than ten years, he has improved a lot of the method of healing the former dead ghost queen mother, and he can really cure the prince's deficiency and completely cut off the root of the disease?

No one mentioned it, which seems to prove that no one can change the status quo of the second prince lingering on the sickbed.

But Hua Shixian doesn't think so, he comes from a family of doctors, and the family concept of practicing medicine has been passed down from generation to generation for more than 100 years.

If it is a disease, there is a cure.

It may take more than one attempt before discovering a precise cure, and perhaps some of the wrong ways to correct it.

But now that he is in the Taiyi Bureau, he doesn't even have a chance to try, or is almost cut off. Many ideas were accumulated in Zài's mind, which made his mind swell and uncomfortable.

Three years ago, the second prince Wang Hong went to the east coast with the royal car to watch the spring shipping ceremony. When I came back, I was not surprisingly sick. But the result of that illness was a bit bizarre, because since the recovery from that illness, the prince seems to have drifted away from the deficiency that has plagued him for many years, and has maintained a relatively strong physical state, and this good state has not changed for nearly three years.

This strange incident naturally could not be avoided by the doctors of the Taiyi Bureau who occasionally talked about it after tea and dinner, and the reason why the prince's weak physique, which had been plagued by illnesses for many years, gradually surfaced on the fog......

It turned out that the reason why Imperial Doctor Ye, who was also among the nine doctors of the imperial court three years ago, resigned was not because he accidentally fell off a horse and injured his spine. can no longer stand for a long time, but because on the way back from that visit, he gave the second prince a dose of strong medicine without authorization, a good-looking novel:.

This fierce medicine is comparable to the medicine ghost Liao Shi's methods, and the second prince will fall ill that day, probably because of the use of this medicine. Otherwise, even if the second prince is physically weak. It's not just a gust of sea breeze that comes back and you're so sick.

- If that were the case, His Majesty might not have taken him to a windy place like the seaside at all!

This was an attempt by Imperial Doctor Ye, and overall, the treatment results were still very gratifying, but Imperial Doctor Ye paid the price of Yan Zòng because of this attempt.

Rao is majesty has obviously treated this imperial doctor with special treatment in the past, and this imperial doctor has always been mainly responsible for the daily healing of the second prince. But once the safety of a prince is in danger, His Majesty does not have much forgiveness for this person. His Majesty only forgave Imperial Doctor Ye for his serious injuries when he fell from his horse at that time, and did not accept the punishment, but there was no room for a slow turn in his will to remove him from the Imperial Medical Bureau.

However, when it comes to this matter, there are still two mysteries.

Why didn't Imperial Doctor Ye sooner or later. Just rushed to the slightly bumpy chariot of the honor guard who came back from watching the ceremony, and used such a fierce potion for the second prince? What if something goes wrong? It's too late to send it back to the palace where the remedial herbs are sufficient?

This may be the reason why His Majesty is really angry, Imperial Doctor Ye is not only bold, but also unrigorous, and has the meaning of treating human life as child's play. As long as there is a trace of this shadow, it appears in the process of treating the prince. It is enough to be convicted.

Another point of mystery is that although Imperial Doctor Ye was removed from the list of His Majesty's anger, the dazzling glory of the Imperial Doctor above his head has been reversed, turning into a black cloud of shame.

But after three years, Ye Zhengming not only did not stay away from Kyoto, the capital city full of right and wrong vision for him, and strolled to travel all over the world, but he also set up a fixed location of the medical center in Kyoto, which was named "Yiye Ju".

And in the "Yiye Ju" for nearly three years, he finally accumulated some good reputation, Ye Zhengming showed a kind of attitude of not cherishing his wings and face, and he became more and more picky about receiving patients, and many incurable rules.

I really don't know what this former Imperial Doctor's most trusted imperial doctor thinks. Could it be that people who are good at using fierce drugs and strange drugs are like the medicine ghost Liao Shi, whose thinking is too different from ordinary people? Or is it because His Majesty's attitude towards him changed dramatically three years ago, and under the pressure of this Son of Heaven, Dr. Ye's usual steady and mountain-like emotions were slightly distorted unconsciously?

In short, no matter what, looking at the events and the continuous changes that happened to Imperial Doctor Ye, they are as clear and firm as the words carved on the stone by a chisel. Don't try to try out the immature healing techniques on the princes and nobles, even if like that Imperial Doctor Chen, there are thousands of "monkey grasses" used, but because of a little mistake, it is almost equivalent to setting yourself on fire.

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There was no wine cup in front of Lin Shan, only a shallow white porcelain cup. Judging from the teapot resting next to the porcelain cup, the liquid in the cup is not old rice wine, but old tea soup, and the dark brown tea soup also proves that its taste is probably not very sweet and refreshing.

But in the face of such a strong aroma of wine wafting from a table away, even if Lin Shan didn't drink a drop, he was a little drunk.

If it weren't for the bottle of medicine that Liao Shi gave him before the banquet, he would have taken one pill immediately to support his spirits, otherwise he would have fainted from drunkenness by now.

When Chen Jiu just took out the wine jug, Lin Shan was still a little happy, not because he was also going to have a cup, but because he wanted to make Liao Shi drunk. It would be possible to delay the old man for another night. The parting is imminent, and the next time they meet I don't know if it will be three years later, or another five years, Lin Shan looked at Liao Shi as if he had not changed since more than ten years ago. Suddenly, I felt a deep sense of sorrow.

It took Liao Shi nearly ten years to heal the extremely vicious poison that the child brought out of the mother's womb, and after the toxin was lost, she also got a special physique that was invulnerable to all poisons. However, because he had always suspected that Liao Shi was inseparable from the poisoning of the child's mother, he couldn't gather too much gratitude to this elder.

Three years ago, when Liao Shi was in the most critical condition of his fire burns, he risked being surrounded and suppressed by hidden enemies in Beijing and returned to Kyoto, which he had not set foot in for more than ten years. Consultation, discussion of medical policies, dispensing and application...... The thin old man only slept for two hours a day, but he was still disassembled four times, and he sat down for a while with a slight bare eye, and pulled him back from the ghost gate.

He was grateful for it. But that gratitude has always been a little erratic, and it has only stopped at words.

His vague gratitude made him often say how to repay this old man with a rickety back and a somewhat ugly face, but he had never accomplished anything. This is not only because Liao Shi is not in love with power, and he is not short of money to spend. And giving him a woman is not only something he doesn't like, but also something that other women can force them to choose to hang to resist, and because he is too enthusiastic about his own things.

And he was not enthusiastic enough to prepare to repay Liao Shi, after all, it was because Liao Shi was not important enough to him, right?

But when Liao Shi was about to leave, his kind of gratitude, which had always been just a verbal one, suddenly fell into place, and a deep parting melancholy welled up in his heart.

He suddenly discovered that all along. It seems that you always take more from others than you give in return. The old man of the medicine ghost did a lot of things for him, not only did he not actually repay anything, but when the old man was about to leave for the last moment, he also had to ask the old man for a somewhat hasty departure time, just to ease the melancholy in his heart.

Lin Shan...... Lin Anyuan...... In fact, your heart is not as gentle as you see. It's a little ruthless, isn't it? No, it's very ruthless.

When the cherished person on duty is still around, you never know how much to cherish; It's only when you lose that you are disappointed...... This is a typical self-brewed bitter fruit and self-inflicted sin!

Thirty-five years of life, this is the bad nature of doing evil to others and sinning to oneself. It hasn't changed!

Liao Shi, who was sitting opposite, looked back from Chen Jiu, and didn't look at this side for a moment, the old man suddenly found that although the face opposite him was still relatively young, the man with a silver color had faintly appeared between the long hair behind his shoulders, and the hand that was just gently covering the edge of the tea cup just now suddenly clenched hard, and the slender fingers were so tense that the phalanges were stiff, and the green veins on the back of the hand were slightly protruding.

"Alas......" Liao Shi suddenly sighed and said leisurely: "The old man still doesn't drink it, if you drink it again, I'm afraid that you will be drunk and I will lose my life." ”

Following Liao Shi's words, Lin Shan retracted his thoughts that were gradually dyed with guilt, and after calming down slightly, he suddenly said, "Here, who dares to touch you?" ”

Liao Shi was slightly stunned.

"Regardless of what my uncle just said, whether it was just a joke that was slightly drunk, the foolish nephew put the words here first." Lin Shan grabbed the tea cup in his hand and drank it all with his neck up, although it was a bitter old tea soup in his throat, he drank the joy of spirits. Slapping the teacup on the table, he said, "Who dares to draw a knife against you?" If it was my subordinate, I would have him do a handstand on a wooden cart with one arm for three days and three nights; If it were someone else, I would have sent my subordinates to tie him up and put him on a wooden cart with one arm for five days and five nights! ”

Thinking of the kind of spinning wood car mentioned in Lin Shan's words, what exactly is the operation, Liao Shi only felt that the sky suddenly turned in his mind. He also climbed up to play with this kind of forest fir used to train soldiers, and the group of bored soldiers who had a bad taste were really hateful, and they didn't let him go down when they handed him up, so he kept turning on it for three hours......

Then Lin Shan learned of this, and found out the small group of wicked soldiers from the army of thousands of people one by one, and although it did not look cruel, it was actually extremely terrible punishment.

On that day, the 5,000 soldiers of the 19th Detachment of the Northern Third Route Army did not practice their schoolwork, but received another military order on the training of the mind. On the spacious training ground, all the soldiers stood up in a neat but thin phalanx, so that every soldier could watch the few soldiers spinning on the wooden cart as much as possible.

Normally, the soldiers only had to practice the whirlpool for an hour every day, but that day the little soldiers spun around all day, and immediately changed from hateful little soldiers to poor little soldiers, and went back to vomit for several days that day. After that, when the soldiers saw Liao Shi, they were like seeing a rapidly rotating thistle, and they fled far away just by touching their eyes, for fear that they would be stripped off a layer of skin if they got a little closer.

"Your subordinate is a three-day turn. There is still a difference between other people's subordinates and two more days. ”

Liao Shi originally wanted to say that if he followed Lin Shan's request and returned to Beijing to treat the second son of the sick son of the Wang family, a good-looking novel:. Then he accidentally killed the poor child, and when the child's emperor father called someone to cut him, could Lin Shan save him so hard.

But this thought turned around in the little old man's mind a few times, and finally he put it aside, and only picked out an insignificant sentence.

I can't pull the topic away anymore, I have to stop as much as possible, I really can't delay any longer, seeing that the sky is outside, and it has come to the time when I must start immediately.

Lin Shan's face slowly explained: "You can't be punished too severely, you may be injured and sick for half a year if you turn for five days in a row." Their own subordinates also have to be used. Other people's subordinates can't take care of it. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Liao Shi stand up. Realizing that the old man was really no longer stagnant, of course he also stood up, but he couldn't help shaking his shoulder.

Chen Jiu, who was sitting on the side of the tea table, had already stood up with Liao Shi's departure, seeing this scene. She immediately put down the gray wine jug she had been holding in her hand, walked briskly to Lin Shan's side, and held his arm.

Lin Shan's hand shook slightly, causing it to let go.

Chen Jiu glanced at him with a deep expression, both worried and slightly annoyed.

Liao Shi saw this scene and ignored this scene again. He has a pair of skillful hands, and he has prepared a variety of potions, and many poisons have become life-saving elixirs in his hands...... But this doesn't mean that he can match up on behalf of Yue Lao, he is still an old bachelor.

Ignoring the little affection that the pair of men and women in front of him, who were always unable to take the last step, just looked at each other, Liao Shi was silent for a moment, and a smile spread on his face. The skin on the face, which was so thin that the wrinkles were clumped, were narrower and deeper. He smiled and said, "Fifty years old! The continuous wars in the southern land more than ten years ago have prompted very few of this kind of superb products to exist. In the face of this alcohol, you can stay awake all the time, and it seems that the bottle of medicine I prepared for you has succeeded. ”

Lin Shan suddenly said, "That's the case. Can I have a drink in the future? ”

The smile on Liao Shi's face immediately disappeared, and he kept shaking his head and said, "This is a medicine of restraint, it only temporarily paralyzes your senses, and it doesn't have much healing effect." If you dare to drink alcohol, it is still similar to drinking arsenic water, which is extremely harmful to your body. ”

Lin Shan didn't seem to pay much attention to the old man's alarmist advice, still with a smile in his eyes, and said, "Okay...... But my uncle only kept one bottle for me, and it seemed that there was not enough to eat. ”

"Do you think this medicine can be eaten as a meal?" Liao Shiweishuang's sparse eyebrows raised, "Although the old man got together with you less and separated more in his early years, he didn't careless about your temper at all. If you leave a few more bottles, you won't be taking one pill at a time. ”

Having said this, Liao Shi frowned again, his eyelids pressed down slightly, making his eyes become a little narrow, and stared at Lin Shan with this extremely condensed gaze, which also gave people some stinging feeling, and then continued: "I can warn you, the name of the medicine ghost is not all cursed and belittled by others, my medicine is indeed poisonous, most people can't afford it, without me watching, don't mess around." ”

The words paused slightly, and the old man of the medicine ghost looked at the old wine beside Lin Shan. When his gaze fell on the face of this woman who did not have the slightest pink delicacy and was plain but still could not hide the soft arc of her eyebrows, nose and lips, the condensed sharpness in his eyes was naturally scattered on the surface of the lake like a microwave, and his eyelids were still pressed down, but it was caused by the smile on his face.

The old man smiled and said, "Wine girl, you give that pot of wine to Uncle, and Uncle will tell you later, which four places this madman is most likely to hide that bottle of medicine." ”

"He's not crazy, and you're not my uncle." Chen Jiu felt that when Liao Shi looked at her and said those words, the smile on his face suddenly became full of ill will, so although she had a faint smile on her face, the meaning of refusal in her words to the rickety old man was very clear, "Besides, I'm not good at stealing things, and I will only find what I want in person, or ask for it in front of people." ”

Liao Shi pursed her lips that had lost the elasticity of her skin and drooped her lips, realizing that there seemed to be words that offended this woman in her words just now, so she who had always had a soft temperament suddenly turned into a thorny rose, and other book friends were reading:. So unkind.

Since Lin Shan didn't want to be helped, Chen Jiu didn't care about him, walked back to the tea case, and stretched out his hands. He picked up the gray flask again, and his palms and fingers were slightly forced, as if he was afraid of accidentally breaking the unsightly flask.

When Chen Jiu went to fetch the pot, Lin Shan threw a brief order at a guard at the door, and the guard immediately retreated and went to the study next door to invite the young son of the Yan family.

Chen Jiu, who was holding the wine jug, turned around, looked at Liao Shi and said slowly: "It's not that Xiaojiu is stingy. Uncle Liao can taste the vintage of this wine by sniffing, and it must not be difficult to see the traces of old age on this wine jug. At that time, all the wine utensils were designed and fired by themselves, and this pot was my grandfather's work. Although it is compared to the pottery making process that has advanced to the present day. It seems that it can only be used as a children's urinal, but now there is only this pot left in this world.

It is not because the collection in the winery has been destroyed, but because there is actually a secret cellar that is well preserved. This is also the biggest secret of the Chen family's wine blending technology, and the aged puree has always been maintained in the three years of ten, twentieth and thirtieth. But speaking of which, this 60-year-old liquor puree is only one pot. Nor is it the most precious. ”

"You're only on this ugly pot." After sighing lightly, Chen Jiu continued: "This is the collection of the Chen family winery when the foundation was laid, in the early years, the original puree in the cellar was bought, and from this pot, the Chen family brewed and reserved. To commemorate the occasion, my grandfather pressed the thumb print on the bottom of the pot when my father was born. I also put my thumb print on my head, and finally me, even though I am a woman, I also put my thumb print on it, thinking that I can continue to inherit the winery as a woman when I am an adult.

I will not be stingy with the wine here for Uncle Liao to enjoy. Or in the future, when Uncle Liao has time to return to Kyoto, those aged purees in the Chen family's secret wine cellar can be dedicated to Uncle Liao to enjoy, but this pot cannot be given to you. Wine can be recreated, but the pot cannot, this pot has frozen the memory of three generations of my Chen family. But as long as it exists, the traces of my Chen family's walk in the world can always be there. ”

The smile on Liao Shi's face gradually retracted, his expression gradually became solemn, and he said seriously: "No wonder you didn't worry about putting this fragile object in that extremely secret cellar three years ago, and you must take it with you all the way to the bumpy road." ”

Chen Jiu explained a lot just now, and at this time, I heard that Liao Shi agreed with her attitude towards this wine jug, but she didn't say a word anymore.

At this time, Liao Shi suddenly raised another hand, and the mood on his face was also abruptly reversed, while swinging his withered hand rapidly, he said in a somewhat precursor tone: "No, no, I said that the Chen family girl, you don't want to give it to me, and you can't disgust me so much!" What is not good, you say that it is like a urinal, the spout is so small, can you pee in? ”

Lin Shan, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

"Now that you've seen that it can't be used as a pot, then you should assume that the word you just said was just a slip of the tongue." Because the words just now evoked a family unfortunate history, Chen Jiu's eyes were moist, and the tide had not subsided at this time, but she was amused by Liao Shi's words.

Chong Liao Shi blinked a little stubbornly, there were two drops of extremely fine Yingze hanging from the corners of Chen Jiu's eyes, and he smiled and said: "Only when the mouth of the pot is small enough can it be sealed and stored in the mud, which is a major feature of the old Chen family winery in the early years." There is also a little secret to tell you, the Chen family's wine is all skewered on the shelf, and the bottle is placed upside down, so that once there is an overflow, it means that the cellar has failed and will be picked out. Therefore, if Uncle Liao buys the old liquor stock solution that claims to be the surviving old liquor of the old Chen family in an unfamiliar wine shop in the future, he must use his eyes more carefully than looking at the mud sealing at the mouth of the pot to see if there are any scratches at the bottom of the pot......"

"Hey......" Before Chen Jiu finished speaking, Liao Shi suddenly sighed and muttered, "Can you stop mentioning the matter of the pot?" ”

Chen Jiu stopped talking, but in Liao Shi's opinion, her smiling face seemed to be full of sentences, and it spread out in front of his eyes, and he couldn't avoid it.

"I suddenly found ......," Liao Shi suddenly said after a moment of silence, "...... It only took less than three years for you to learn badly with this kid. ”

Hearing this, Chen Jiufu's supple gaze condensed slightly, she turned her head to look at Lin Shan, and then turned her eyes back to look at Liao Shi, although she didn't speak, her eyes were already full of the word "no".