Chapter 9: A Jar of Wine

The bluestone lane of Daye Fang, with the big fight in the imperial city for a long time, slowly stopped in March, but there are still more people in the alley than in the past, and the drinkers walking shoulder to shoulder are talking about the big and small things in the rivers and lakes.

Since the Son of Heaven prepared to determine the ten martial arts, the Investigation Department released the news and selected a few bandits for the Jianghu people to fight for. At present, the results of the killing are almost out, who can become the first candidate of the Ten Wukui and the first person of Zhaohong Bamei, are all topics that Jianghu drinkers talk about.

Around noon.

Xu Buling has already taken the frame to the Furong Temple outside the city, the Furong Temple is a little far away from Chang'an City, and it is obviously not appropriate to run back and forth every day, Mrs. Lu said hello a few days ago, and asked the shopkeeper Sun to prepare two cylinders of broken jade burning, and pull it outside the city to drink slowly.

The two guards led the carriage, and Lao Xiao walked slowly into the alley with a cane.

In the wine shop, the shopkeeper Sun was a little busy, and while greeting the drinkers, he heard the sound of the carriage, glanced at it, and said with a smile:

"Coming? Why didn't you go to the backstreet to tell a story today......"

Lao Xiao stopped at the door of the wine shop with a cane:

"I want to go out of the city and run to the old life, I can't ......"

"Huh...... The wine was there, ready for ......."

Shopkeeper Sun pointed to the two large wine tanks in the corner of the wine shop, and the family ran in, carried the wine tanks and loaded them into the carriage.

After chattering for a long time, Lao Xiao jumped under the carport and sat down, driving out of the city.

Although it was raining lightly, Zhuangyuan Street was still bustling, with merchants coming and going back and forth under the eaves.

As soon as the carriage came out of the alley, Lao Xiao suddenly heard the sound of selling on the street, and his accent was obviously a barbarian outside the plug:

"Outside the Seyser wine...... Let's take a look at ......"

In a blink of an eye, on the small street outside Qingshi Alley, a bearded man in strange clothes stood under the eaves to hide from the rain, pushing a small cart, which contained a lot of wine jars, and the faint aroma of wine could be smelled in the distance.

"Heh......"

Lao Xiao is also a frequent customer in the wine, and he knew that the thing was good when he smelled it, so he immediately asked the eldest and second to stop the carriage, jumped down and walked to him with a cane, and looked at the car a few times:

"Housheng, how can I buy this wine? What's so important, let's hear about it......"

The man standing under the eaves to hide from the rain, with brown hair and beard, and colorful clothes, there are quite a few foreigners in Chang'an.

Seeing that a guest came to the door, the man said politely with an exotic accent:

"The old man is a connoisseur at first glance, this wine was brought over from Mobei, with Tianshan Snow Lotus, Changbai Mountain Ginseng, plus tiger whip, deer whip ......"

There's a lot of chatter.

Lao Xiao smacked his lips and glanced at the wine jar:

"Whipped?"

The foreign merchant smirked, "...... The whip is a money-making thing, and it will definitely not be brought out...... Why don't you take a bite of it? This wine is the only one, and the man drinks the woman......"

Lao Xiao sniffed it carefully, and the wine was indeed okay, so he asked the vendor to take a sip, felt it a little, and pouted:

"Tiger bone wine is tiger bone wine, what tiger whip deer whip...... Bullying the old man, I'm old? ”

The peddler smiled, raised his hand and said, "The old man is really an expert, and he must have been a wine fairy when he was young." If you want a good one, there are small ones here, but they don't sell ......."

When Lao Xiao heard this, he understood the meaning, and raised his chin: "It's a mule or a horse that comes out for a walk, it's really good wine, you will eat and drink spicy food in the next life." ”

The peddler first looked at the carriage in the distance, and then looked at Lao Xiao's dress, the gloomy wooden wolf-headed cane in Lao Xiao's hand, but it was given by King Su, just looking at the color and texture, he knew that it was not an ordinary color.

After making sure that he had really come to buy good wine, the peddler nodded, squatted down like a thief, rummaged in the cart, took out a wine jar, carefully placed it on the car, and wiped his hands before opening the stopper.

Lao Xiao got closer and sniffed, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he wanted to appreciate it carefully, when the vendor covered the wine jar, as if he had lost two catties of meat: "Uncle, this is a 10,000-mile road, transported from the Western Regions, the only one in the world, I am reluctant to drink it if I keep it, and I don't sell ......it."

Lao Xiao was really interested in this wine, and chuckled with a cane: "Make a price, if my son-in-law likes it, you will be rewarded." ”

As soon as the hawker saw this posture, he immediately became a little serious, holding the wine jar full of reluctance, and he was entangled for a long time, and Lao Xiao couldn't stand it anymore, so he gritted his teeth and stretched out two fingers:

"Twenty taels!"

Lao Xiao sighed, raised his hand and nodded: "If you give you a chance, you won't be useful, just ......" said and took out a silver ingot, picked up the wine jar and left.

The peddler was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Master, you misunderstood, twenty taels and one catties, and this jar is three catties......"

"Businessman, integrity-based, a fixed price is a fixed price......"

Lao Xiao held the wine jar with one hand, opened it and sniffed it, nodded with satisfaction, and looked back.

The peddler was holding the silver and sending it to his mouth, and when he saw it, he hurriedly smiled, kicked the silver into his arms, and pushed the cart away, looking afraid of returning it.

Lao Xiao sighed, jumped back into the carriage, and headed out of the city......

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The imperial tomb of the first emperor is in the eastern suburbs outside Chang'an City, and there is a Zhuangzi where the mausoleum keepers live nearby, and several old concubines of the first emperor also live in it.

A few days ago, the queen mother greeted the palace, and wanted to go to the imperial mausoleum to live for a few days with the boredom of staying in the palace, the original intention was to save Xu Buling, live in the imperial mausoleum for a few days, and then take poison and commit suicide.

As for the posthumous physical examination, it will definitely be found that she is not a virgin, but this kind of thing is related to the face of the Xiao family and the Song family, and no one dares to say it, at most she will scold her secretly a few words and it will be over.

But now there is a 'non-one-day cold', the queen mother has lost her body, she can't die, she can't live, where dare she run to live in front of the tomb of the first emperor openly, and she doesn't dare to sleep at night.

So, the queen mother, who was in a state of turmoil, could only sleep with Qiao'e outside the imperial mausoleum for a night, and then left in a hurry, asking her brother Xiao Chuyang to deliver a message to the palace, and went to the summer resort under Yufeng Mountain on the grounds of praying for the Song family.

The Queen Mother was originally an outsider, living alone in Changle Palace, and the background was terrifying, knowing that the Queen Mother was bored in the palace, the Song clan didn't say anything.

On the first day of March, Shunfeng Mountain was shrouded in misty smoke and rain.

The Guanjia's summer resort is located in a col behind Shunfeng Mountain, and the scale is very large, while the Furong Temple is on the top of the mountain, which is far away and can be seen from afar.

The Queen Mother was dressed in a red dress and stood in the viewing pavilion of the villa, with 10,000 colorful koi swimming around the lakeside, but she didn't have the heart to look at it.

At the end of the field of vision, at the foot of the low Shunfeng Mountain, a convoy slowly passed through the market under the mountain under the rain curtain, and gradually arrived outside the Taoist temple with white walls and blue tiles.

The Queen Mother clenched her hands tightly, her face involuntarily began to turn red and hot, and she remembered what a ridiculous night......

"Twist your waist...... Good ......"

"Good Brother ......"

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