Chapter 5: Confidants and Friends
"Humph! It's a barbaric lady who didn't discipline her father and mother! ”
When the girl left, Chunxiang said loudly, she looked at the young master again, and said, "Fortunately, the young master, you are fine, otherwise you will never let her go!" ”
When something like this happened, he was in no mood to hang out, so Guo Wendong walked back.
When he was about to walk to the front door of his house, he saw a young man walking towards him with a folding fan in his hand.
"Brother Wen Dongxian!"
The man waved the folding fan in his hand and said in a greeting manner.
Do I know this person? "Guo Wendong" is unlikely to have any impression.
Chunxiang knew that the young master had amnesia, so she shouldn't be able to remember this young man, so she lowered her voice and said: "Young master, this person's name is Hou Fangyu, the word Chaozong, you met three years ago, and you are confidants and friends. ”
Hou Fangyu? Guo Wendong is still a little interested in history, he has read a lot of historical online novels, and he has also looked up some history in the late Ming Dynasty in Du Niang, and soon remembered this person, he is one of the "Four Sons" in the late Ming Dynasty and one of the eight Yan of Qin Huai, Li Xiangjun's lover.
"Brother Wen Dongxian!"
Hou Fangyu said hello again and walked quickly to Guo Wendong.
He is of medium height, twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a Chinese face, white and clean, wearing a collared green robe and a square scarf.
"Wendong, let's go and have a drink at your house!"
He pulled Guo Wendong into the door, he is really a confidant and friend, entering my house is like entering your house.
Entering the courtyard, Mao Lingzhi learned that her husband was back, and quickly greeted her.
Hou Fangyu said to her: "Madam, I'll have two drinks with your father-in-law." ”
Mao Lingzhi had also met Hou Fangyu many times, and knew that the two had a good relationship, so she did not continue to follow.
Came to the east wing of the second courtyard, there are tables and chairs in the middle of the wing, this is Guo Wendong's residence before marriage, Hou Fangyu has been here many times.
Hou Fangyu's father, Hou Sui, was a Jinshi in the late Wanli period, and his father Guo Weihe was happy to see his son befriending scholars and never stopped him.
The two of them sat down in their chairs, and Haruka took a small pot of wine and poured it for the two of them.
Hou Fangyu said: "Wendong, seven days ago, you said that you would compose a poem after marriage, I don't know if you can make it?" ”
Guo Wendong didn't know anything about the past, and he couldn't recite poems against him, and he looked embarrassed.
Chunxiang said in time: "Hou Gongzi, my young master fainted yesterday, and after waking up, he can't remember the past, and I hope that Gongzi will forgive me." ”
Fortunately, I have amnesia, otherwise I really don't know how to deal with it.
Hou Fangyu looked shocked, a trace of grief flashed in his eyes, and said: "Brother Wendongxian, if you study a lot and remember a lot, you will definitely be able to remember the past again." ”
With that, he raised his glass and drank a glass of wine.
Guo Wendong took a small bite, and he felt tasteless from modern times.
"Let you taste the good wine brought by overseas friends!"
Guo Wendong walked to the small house next door, entered the space, came to the warehouse of imported red wine, and tore off the packaging of a few bottles of good red wine and brought them out.
Seeing the glass bottle of red wine, Hou Fangyu's eyes suddenly lit up.
"What is this?"
"It's a wine that only comes from overseas, and it's a special glass bottle."
Because he had seen the shower gel, shampoo, canned seafood, etc. that the young master took out, Chunxiang would not be as surprised as Hou Fangyu when he saw the bottle of red wine.
Guo Wendong opened the cap with a bottle opener, and the aroma came out, which made people feel refreshed.
He poured a third of it into Hou Fangyu and his own wine glass.
Hou Fangyu picked up the cup and drank it.
"Wow! It tastes great! There is such a good wine in the world! ”
Hou Fangyu gave a thumbs up and praised.
"Wine should be tasted slowly."
Guo Wendong picked up the wine glass, gently shook it clockwise to further release the fragrance of the wine, and then sniffed it into the wine glass to feel the rich floral and grape fruit aromas in the wine.
He had drunk some red wine before, all of them were ordinary red wines, and he had never drunk this kind of high-end red wine, and just smelling the taste could feel that it was very different from the red wine he had drunk before.
Guo Wendong swallowed another sip of red wine, but did not swallow it immediately, so that the senses fully experienced the smoothness of the wine, slowly felt its mellowness, and finally swallowed the wine, and a faint fragrance immediately lingered in it, which could not be dissipated in the mouth for a long time, giving him a sense of aftertaste.
High-end red wine is really different, in the space, there is a container of high-end red wine, all of which have a certain vintage.
"Brother Chaozong, this kind of highest-grade wine can't be drunk in one gulp like ordinary wine, you should taste it slowly!"
Guo Wendong instructed how to drink and taste wine again, and Hou Fangyu tasted it once according to his method, which made him deeply reminisce, and he was full of praise for it.
After drinking three glasses, Hou Fangyu picked up the wine bottle again and looked at it carefully, this kind of item called glass is not only transparent, but also extremely smooth on the surface, only a very high casting process can be made, it seems that there is no craftsman in the Ming Dynasty who has this technology.
"Brother Wendongxian, I really convinced you, you can actually buy this kind of best in the world, wine and glass are all superb, and it must be shipped from overseas, it must be very expensive, I don't know how much silver it costs?"
He looked admiring, not only admiring his friends for having this channel, but also admiring the brewing and casting process of foreigners.
Guo Wendong said briskly: "Don't worry about the silver, I can get a lot of red wine in the future." He was happy that all the goods in the warehouse belonged to him, and he didn't need a penny.
Hou Fangyu suggested: "If you don't get the goods too expensive, you can sell them in Nanjing to make the difference!" It's definitely popular. ”
Needless to say, Guo Wendong himself has plans to open another store to sell goods, and gradually take out the goods in the warehouse to sell.
After drinking another glass of wine, Hou Fangyu sighed.
"Brother Chaozong, why are you sighing?"
"Hey! Kaifeng was broken by thieves, and my father finally came back, but he couldn't stop the attack of the thieves, and he was dismissed again, and now he is hiding in Yangzhou, I don't know if the court will ask for guilt! ”
The army swept through the Central Plains and joined forces to besiege Kaifeng. Hou Sui, as a squire of the military department, was the governor of Baoding and other seven towns in military affairs to relieve the siege of Feng. Because he couldn't think of a countermeasure to lift the siege of Kaifeng, Hou Sui hesitated and looked across the river from Kaifeng. Soon, the Yellow River burst and Kaifeng fell. Hou Sui was dismissed again, and now he has fled to Yangzhou.
Guo Wendong knew about this, Hou Sui would soon be arrested and questioned, and imprisoned in the prison of the Beijing Division, and later Li Zicheng captured the capital, and Hou Sui was released and returned to his hometown of Shangqiu, Henan.
Hou Fangyu said again: "I think that at the beginning, Li Zicheng was beaten by the combined army of Sun Inspector and Hong Chengchou to only eighteen cavalry, but unfortunately there were Tartars entering the customs, and the imperial court withdrew troops to defend themselves, so that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had a chance to breathe and take the opportunity to sit big. The imperial court fought with the Tartars in Songjin, suffered heavy losses, and the thieves were aggressive, and the Ming Dynasty was in danger, hey! ”
He was worried about the country and the people, and the situation of his father and the court was not good, which made him quite bored, and he had another glass of red wine.
"Now, I can only rely on Inspector Sun to defeat the thief!" Hou Fangyu is self-comforting.
Sun Chuanting could only support it for a few months, and Chongzhen would quickly urge him to send troops, and finally died in battle.
Hou Fangyu glanced at Chunxiang, and Guo Wendong asked Chunxiang to go out.
"Don't talk about worrying about it!" Hou Fangyu approached Guo Wendong and said in a low voice: "How does the candle taste in the cave room?" ”
Even ask about this! Guo Wendong can be sure that the former Guo Wendong must have a very deep friendship with Hou Fangyu.
"Excellent! Very good! Guo Wendong smiled.
The two chatted further.
On the wedding day before yesterday, he and the other three of the four sons of the late Ming Dynasty (Mao Xiang, Chen Zhenhui, and Fang Yizhi) all came to drink the wedding wine.
Guo Wendong asked about the other people who attended the wedding banquet, Hou Fangyu told everyone he knew, and there was a name that surprised him, this person was named "Yan Yingyuan", one of the three princes who resisted the Qing Dynasty in the "Jiangyin 81st Day" in history.