At this time, a pair of young men and women walked in outside the door, although the two of them were dressed ordinarily, with tired faces, and looked dusty, they naturally exuded a gentle and elegant temperament, which made Xia Chen can't help but take a few more looks.

The guy stepped forward and greeted: "The two guest officers live in the hotel or do you have a meal?" ”

The man looked embarrassed and whispered, "We...... Dinner. ”

"This way, please." The guy took them to a vacant seat next to Xia Chen, and introduced them from time to time: "The pork slices and Dongpo meat in our store taste excellent, and the sweet and sour fish is freshly caught live fish from the river, which is fresh and fragrant, and there are all kinds of lo-mei, what do you like to eat." ”

The woman coughed lightly twice: "A bowl of vegetarian soup and two scallion pancakes are fine." ”

The guy promised to go to the kitchen.

The man sighed deeply: "I didn't expect there to be so many people in the store. Su Su, it's really hard for you these past few days, your feet hurt, right? ”

The woman smiled slightly: "What are you talking about, you and I have already been engaged, we are a family, and you have worked harder to take care of me along the way." With that, his face flushed slightly.

The man said: "The coil was stolen, how can the money for clothes and accessories be enough for us to go to Ningjiang, I heard that there is a Jiang Zhuang owner in the west of this Xichun City, who is a great and good man who responds to requests, so we are not as good as ......."

Before he could finish speaking, the woman shook her head and interrupted him: "Where in the world can there be such a good person? Now it is said that although we are fleeing, we are different from those displaced people, as long as we save a little, we can go to Anyang, have you forgotten that my third uncle has a small hotel in Anyang? ”

When Xia Chen heard this, he finally understood why there were no refugees in this city, and he thought that he had gone to seek refuge with the Jiang Zhuang owner. But the number of refugees is not small, what does this Jiang Zhuang owner do, how can there be so much money, food and local resettlement?

At this time, the guy brought the food, Han Ran went to fetch the wine and didn't come back, Xia Chen continued to listen to the two chatting.

The man patted his forehead: "Look at me, I forgot about it in a hurry, but if the remaining money is hired for a carriage, I can't stay in the hotel for dinner, and it's not enough to go to Anyang, but if I use it, I have to support it for at least five or six days, which is not enough." ”

The woman pondered for a moment: "Let's hire a car to go, I'm not afraid to be hungry for two days, if you and I go on like this, it will be really troublesome if something happens." ”

The man said, "You are already sick, how can you be hungry again." ”

Xia Chen secretly sighed when he heard this, it is good to be at home for a thousand days, but it is difficult to go out for a while.

Han Ran held the wine jar and said before he sat down: "Yo, the dishes are all up." ”

Xia Chen chuckled and said, "Second uncle, if you don't come back, I'm going to look for you!" I thought you wouldn't be in a hurry to get drunk. ”

Han Ran said while removing the mud seal from the wine jar: "I didn't expect to meet an acquaintance here. ”

Yueniang said in surprise: "Really? Are we from Qingzhou? ”

Han Ran shook his head: "He is a local, doing jewelry trading, this year when he enters and exits the customs, he will go together on the way, and he can take care of it more than once, and he walked with us for half a month last year." ”

Xia Chen smiled: "This is called relying on your parents at home and relying on your friends when you go out, right?" ”

"Of course!" Han Ran opened the wine jar and took a deep breath: "Well, it's really fragrant." ”

Xia Chen also found that the aroma of this wine smelled very good, rich but not cold, mellow and long, with a faint wisp of flower-like and fruit-like aroma, even if she didn't have much research on wine, she was a little scented, and even wanted to take a sip, of course, she knew very well that there was another taste in the mouth.

The people in the hall gradually fell silent, and many began to sniff violently.

"It's pretty!"

"What does it smell like?"

"It's wine!"

"It's wine." A middle-aged man who was drinking put his wine glass on the table and said loudly: "Shopkeeper, I just asked you to bring the best wine, but you took this kind of wine with me, are you afraid that I won't be able to pay?" ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "Ouch, the wine I got for you is really the best in the shop, as for this wine, ......" He took a deep breath and stopped his gaze on the wine jar in front of Han Ran: "It was brought by this official and guest." ”

The middle-aged man is also a lover of wine, and he walked over and said to Han Ran very politely: "Dare to ask Brother Tai, what kind of wine are you?" ”

Han Ran only looked at Xia Chen and said, "This wine was given by a friend. ”

Xia Chen said: "Open the altar for ten miles, and get drunk before you drink!" This wine is called Champion Red. ”

The middle-aged man swallowed: "Champion Red? Sure enough, it's not ordinary, it's also lonely and unheard of, the first time I've heard of it, it's also the first time I've seen it, and the elixir jade liquid is nothing more than that. ”

Han Ran looked at the middle-aged man and said with a salivating expression: "I only have this altar, otherwise I can invite my brother to drink two cups." The implication is: I don't have much, I don't have your share.

The middle-aged man had the intention of begging for a cup or buying a cup to taste, but when he heard Han Ran say this, he was embarrassed to speak again, and smiled dryly: "I am also very satisfied to be able to smell it." With that, he returned to his seat, picked up his glass, but felt bored, and began to eat in a big gulp.

Han Ran carefully poured a small glass, immediately covered the wine jar, and then took a small sip of the wine glass, closed his eyes and savored it, and took another small sip, looking really like he had to drink the fairy syrup jade wine.

Xia Chen looked at the faint amber liquor in the wine glass, and felt a little regretful in her heart, if she had known that this wine was so good, she must have asked the shopkeeper of Qilixiang who was surnamed and where he lived.

No matter what era, there are countless people who love wine for the sake of wine crazy, any banquet party is also no wine or joy, and there are many people who collect wine as a treasure, in short, as long as it is good wine, no matter when it is not worried about not selling, and it is worth a lot of money.

The owner of Qilixiang runs the shop left by his ancestors, and he doesn't have much pursuit, he just wants to be stable and stable, and the family business is undefeated in his own hands. Just like many people in modern times who have a stable job, they will get used to comfort, after all, not everyone has the courage to fight against the water.

In this kind of era, many people attach importance to ancestral secret recipes or something, but if there is something like this, they will not take it out and share it with others, for fear of being learned.

Because of this kind of wine, this wine has been buried in that town, and this wine can obviously be fragrant for thousands of miles, but just like the name of the small shop, it can only be fragrant for seven miles.

Yueniang saw that Xia Chen was absent-minded, so she put some vegetables into the bowl for her: "Chen'er, what are you thinking?" ”

Xia Chen said: "I'm thinking about the shopkeeper of Qilixiang. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the young man at the table next to her said, "Does the little boy know his father?" ”

Xia Chen was a little surprised: "Qilixiang's shopkeeper is your father?" ”

The young man's expression was a little sad: "When I smelled the aroma of this wine, I wanted to ask, but I heard that the little boy said that this wine is called Zhuangyuanhong, so I didn't have a good mouth." ”

Xia Chen smiled and said, "Zhuangyuanhong is an agreement between me and the shopkeeper. Is he okay now? ”

Tears flashed in the young man's eyes: "A few days ago, we were in a war on the way back to our hometown, and my father unfortunately died. ”

Xia Chen's heart trembled when he heard this, it seems that it is a matter of the front and back of the feet, it is really changeable, and the scene of laughing and talking with the shopkeeper and giving him wine is still in front of him! She even thought that one day, if she really won the top prize, she would definitely inquire and see what kind of expression the simple and kind shopkeeper had.

She sighed lightly: "It's a fate to be lucky enough to meet two people here. I just heard the two of you talk about going to Anyang first, and we happen to be on the way, so it's better to go together. ”

The young man's face suddenly showed joy, and he looked at Han Ran expectantly.

Han Ran was still a little confused, but when he heard that these two people were the shopkeeper's family, he regretted that the person who made the good wine was dead, and nodded: "As long as the two of you don't dislike it." ”

The woman said, "The two of us are so grateful that we dare to say that we dislike it." ”

Yueniang smiled and said: "It's not easy to go out, so don't be polite to the two of you." I think this must be the shopkeeper in heaven, with the wine he gave us, to get acquainted with the two. ”

After dinner, Xia Chen invited them to the room for a while, knowing that they were shy in their pockets, so he asked Han Ran to book a room for the woman, after all, they were not rich, so let the man live with Han Ran.

The man is nineteen years old, the woman is eighteen, the two were engaged three years ago, they should have been married, they didn't want Chen Susu's mother to die of illness, the people of Dayun Country have the custom of keeping filial piety, so the marriage date was postponed for a year, and this time Lu Ji's father died, and the marriage date was postponed again.

Xia Chen had a vague idea in his heart, so he asked Lu Ji: "Will Brother Lu reopen Qili Xiang in the future?" ”

Lu Ji smiled bitterly: "How can you be in the mood to think about these things now, let's go back to my hometown and settle down before making plans." ”

Chen Susu said: "No matter what, we always have to do some business, we are all merchants, and we don't have much land. ”

Xia Chen said: "Does Brother Lu know how to make wine?" ”

Lu Ji said with self-reproach: "I like to read, I don't know anything about running a shop, and as for winemaking, I learned it from my father, but it is far from being as good as my father's skills." As he spoke, his eyes turned red again: "I never thought that my father would go like this, I would have persuaded him to go back to his hometown a long time ago, but he was reluctant to go back to Qilixiang." ”

Xia Chen felt that mentioning these at this time would inevitably arouse Lu Ji's homesickness, so he talked about something else.

Lu Ji said with admiration: "I didn't expect Chen'er to read so many books at such a young age. ”

Xia Chen smiled: "I have slept in the study since I was a child, and I can't read it if I don't want to." ”

Han Ran said: "I didn't read a lot of books, but he read them crookedly." ”

Lu Ji asked, "Can Chen'er participate in the children's test?" ”

Xia Chen said: "I am ready to participate this year." ”

Lu Ji said: "I hope to arrange a qiē properly, I still have time to participate." ”

Xia Chen was a little surprised: "Brother Lu has extraordinary knowledge, why did he take the children's exam?" ”

Lu Ji was a little ashamed and said: "I haven't passed the exam twice." ”

Xia Chen was stunned, she always thought that the children's test was very good, and it seemed that she really couldn't take it too lightly.

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