(This story is purely fictional, please do not sit in the opposite seat.) ）

"Hey, drink, good wine!"

The sound of a strong voice pierced through the gusting wind, crossed the marble road, and reached the ears of a gray-haired old man.

The old man is nearly eighty years old, but his body bones are still tough, and the wrinkles are left on his face in the vicissitudes of life, but he can't hide the handsome foundation of his youth. The old man shrugged his shoulders, shook off the dust on the mink, and looked towards the place where the voice came from: "Come here to drink, and you are not afraid that Your Majesty will blame you." He laughed a few times.

I saw that the voice came from an old man with gray hair, but much younger than the old man in front of him, strode up to him, and said, "Your Majesty will never blame you." As he spoke, he untied the wine gourd at his waist and handed it to the old man.

"And, compared to this situation, you want to have a drink."

The old man took the gourd and sniffed it: "Well, passion grass, it's well-brewed." I didn't learn anything else, and I learned to make wine until I learned eighty or ninety. ”

After saying that, he turned around, looked at the high stone monument, opened the wine jug, and the aroma of wine overflowed the entire hillside in an instant.

The old man said: "I remember when I was a child, someone once said that the passion grass brewed by General Mu is a rare and excellent product. ”

The old man said, "I don't know if it's the old yellow calendar from decades ago." ”

A turn of thoughts, a thought to recover decades, that year, the general seventeen, there is a restaurant in the Southern Patrol Mansion, on the official road on the outskirts of Xiyue City, that world, ordinary people rarely drink, said that it is the official road of the imperial court, but the Southern Patrol King of the Great Zheng Princes Chun Yu Xianzhong is a cash cow for silver. Of course, it's just a small one.

However, at that time, the world was no longer as strong as the Ning Dynasty, the prosperity of Xuanning was only the story of the Central Plains population, Xuan's five hundred years of rivers and mountains were divided by the feudal towns with heavy troops, and were divided by the nomads in the north, the Qi Dynasty cleaned up the mess, but was soon defeated by Shan Xiao, who was good at using cavalry, but the revengeful Shan Xiao was not interested in the management of the Central Plains, so he supported the dynasty that was older than the Ning Dynasty on this continent——— and the Great Wei Bai clan was the co-lord of the world, that is, the Dazheng where the general was located. In addition, it supported various forces in the Central Plains, canonized the thirteen princes, but unfortunately this Shan Xiao is not the only empire in the grassland after all, Ning Shizong's Northern Expedition by Rui succeeded in allowing Shan Xiao to live in the eastern grassland, after hundreds of years of development, the eighteen departments of Gu Qing gradually unified the grassland of Rui, established the Gu Qing Khanate, and launched an attack on Shan Xiao, Shan Xiao was greatly injured, lost the deterrent power of the Central Plains, and the royal power was soon usurped by the Central Plains in Liaodong. The Bai clan Dazheng was able to be the real co-lord of the world, but he lost the deterrence of Shan Xiao, and the thirteen princes did not buy the royal power of Dazheng, so they fought against each other, and the eighteen departments of the grassland Guqing also fell into disputes again after defeating Shan Xiao, and the whole world fell into a war.

Of course, the causes of these troubled times were not considered by the general at that time, after all, he was only the adopted son of the shopkeeper of the restaurant at this time, and he did chores for the restaurant every day, although he was an adopted son, but the couple of the shopkeeper regarded him as their own, and it was accurate to say where he was fostered, it seems that General Mu's parents needed them to help take care of them as the old friends of the shopkeeper of the restaurant because of something, and the two sons of the restaurant were surnamed Gu, and the person in charge of the family was called Gu Laosan, who was said to have been a soldier under the king of Hengzhou. After being discharged from the army, he toured the south on foot to avoid the war. It is also the way that the people take food as the sky, and in the surrounding markets, peddlers and pawns, and the people always have to eat when they go back and forth on the official road. Before Gu Laosan joined the army, he was originally a cook, and at this moment, he set up this small restaurant on the official road outside the city of Xiyue to make a living. I don't want to have a few years to live, but I have a surplus of money, and my life has my own surplus. From a distance, this is a good family, and General Mu is no different from the half-sized child of ordinary people, except for the eagle-shaped birthmark in the palm of his hand.

On that day, it was raining lightly, and there were almost no pedestrians on the official road. There are some brokers and dealers in the tavern who are sheltering from the rain. These people, exposed to the wind and sun during the day, or extorted by the soldiers of the city gate building, drenched in the rain, went to Gu Laosan's shop to go to the cold. However, in this year under the King of the Southern Tour, not many people can drink. As a result, except for some good business, most people just come to eat warm rice cereal sake lees. But when it comes to wine, this official shop has a bit of a character. It is said that the proprietress of the Gu family worked as a cook for the prince of Hengzhou when she was young. After learning the skill of brewing wine, the home-brewed rice wine is so fragrant that people are often hooked when they smell it on the official road. It gets dark early on a rainy night, and the evening is no different from the middle of the night. I only heard the diners in this restaurant say:

"The days are short in this month, and you can rest after five hours of work every day. It's going to be a hot month, and I don't know how long it will last. ”

Another diner at this table replied, "You guys are not good at that job?" With Zhang Da, the rich man has a meal of wine on the fifteenth day of the first month of each month. Alas, I heard that the rich man's newly married little wife looks like a Peugeot, and is said to be the village flower of which village. ”

"What a village flower, that's a tenant farmer, the distant cousin of my seventh master, pitiful, the year before last was not good, the rich man Zhang took a fancy to their daughter, and intended to increase the rent for their family. Okay, this year, the palace said that the tax would be raised to build what Wangyun Tower. His family was dragged down alive, which was what the rich man wanted. It's a pity, the rich man's wife is a Hedong lion, I'm afraid that the girl will have a hard time. ”

"You kid, you don't have a place and you still have time to take care of other people, it's really salty and don't worry about eating turnips." These people, you and I, are talking about the affairs of the neighborhood. At this time, the voice of the proprietress came from the house, "Boss, go out and see if the canopy of the pheasant outside the door has fallen, this rain, don't get drenched, catch this meat after four or five days." ”

I saw that the curtain was opened, and a young man walked out, it was General Mu. General Mu's name is Mu Qinghan, which is said to be the name given by his biological parents. This Qinghan said as he walked: "It's okay, A-Niang, I'll go to the mountains to hunt a few wild boars when I go back." So saying, he went out, and went to the chicken coop to inspect it and cover it with some thatch. I looked left and right, and when I left, I looked back again, and I was really relieved to go back.

When I walked to the door of the store, I suddenly saw a person leaning against the eaves at the door. Mu Qinghan hurriedly stepped forward and leaned over to take a look, and probed his nose first, it was fine. I rolled my eyelids again, and it was fine.

"No need to flip it, it's obviously hungry."

"Huh?" As soon as Mu Qinghan looked up, he saw Gu Laosan bending over and looking at them. The sea of faces was very close, and Mu Qinghan was so frightened that he sat on the ground: "Daddy! Why are you coming here silently? ”

Gu Laosan ignored him, and just grabbed the arm of the man on the ground: "What's the matter, let my old man lift it alone!" ”

"I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming." Mu Qinghan hurriedly took his other arm, and the two of them saw this person on the big wooden table in the store. When the diner next to him saw this, he was not surprised, and the guy who followed him said: "Look at it, there is another hungry one, you said that this day is good, alas." "Well, who's to say it isn't." The diners next to him also echoed. Hearing the two of them calling out to the family, Aunt Wang, the proprietress of the Gu family, and another pair of children in the family came out to see the situation.

"Look, Old Man Gu's baby girl has come out!" The diner assassin next to him stared at the girl behind Aunt Wang with greedy eyes, and naturally ignored that there was a half-grown boy next to the girl.

The girl was dressed in a cloth gown with a foot of red rope tied to her hair. Her face was beautiful, but her demeanor was very sharp, and Aunt Wang was still asking about the situation. She had already put away all the extra dishes and chopsticks on the table.

The diner next to him looked at it and joked, "Looking at the girl, she is good-looking and diligent, I don't know which old man Gu will be cheaper in the future." On the side, his daughter-in-law said, "Which one is cheaper, isn't there a ready-made child?" said and pointed to Mu Qinghan over there.

Listening to the diner touching his chin, he took out a regretful tone: "Yes, it's so good to raise a godson, don't you go with your son-in-law, otherwise this fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, not only does not go to Luo's house, but she doesn't go out of the backyard much these days." ”

"People don't go out because of this? It's not because there are always girls in and out of the city who disappear for no reason these days. The skinny guy at the other table said.

When the diner heard this, he said, "I have heard about it, but I don't know what is going on." ”

"Who knows?"

Gu Laosan's family didn't care about these diners chatting, they just helped the big man in front of them to lie down. Looking at the man lying on the wooden table, Gu Laosan said, "Boss, feed him some rare food, let him ease up first." This Mu Qinghan answered, but the half-grown boy next to him muttered: "It's like what our family has done." The girl touched the boy's head: "Tomorrow my sister will go to the market to buy rice and noodles, and then there will be it." Then he turned his head to Mu Qinghan and said, "Big brother, I'll go and serve some porridge to this strong man." You can go to Lijia Village to borrow some food, this is hungry for a long time, it is not a problem to eat rarely, tomorrow I will go to the market to buy you and then change it. ”

"Okay, Xiaowei, I'll go now." He turned around and was about to go out. Aunt Wang stopped him from behind: "Bring your father's hat, it's raining a lot." After speaking, he motioned for the kid to fetch it, and he skillfully took it and handed it to Mu Qinghan. He said, "Brother, make me a bow tomorrow, I also want to go out with you to hunt wild boars." After saying that, he smiled flatteringly. The eldest brother took the line and put it on: "If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'll make it for you, Xiaogu will definitely be a dozen." He smiled and touched Gu Gu's head.

"yes, speaking of which." Gu Laosan ran to the firewood room to get a bow and arrows and a firewood knife. "Although the road is not far, after all, it is dark, bring something to defend yourself."

"Alas!" After answering, he took the guy and went out. Lijia Village is not far from the official road, and it is only five or six miles away from the Gujia Restaurant, according to Mu Qinghan's footsteps, it will take half an hour to go back and forth. A few teas are here. Originally, this man did not have enough food in his family, and he did not give to anyone at will. But Mu Qinghan often came to the nearby mountains to hunt for the supply of the store. Sometimes he asked the villagers for help, and often sent back some prey, and over time everyone became acquainted, and when they saw him coming, they got together and gathered some rice and cabbage. After Mu Qinghan thanked him, he walked back.

The rain was still falling, and the dark night made the roads even more muddy. Mu Qinghan wrapped the grain in the placket of his clothes and hurried back. Suddenly, I heard a burst of footsteps in front of me. It is said that there are often bandits in this area of Lijia Village, so several nearby villages spontaneously formed a group of crops. Let's fight bandits or something.

This big night is messing around, maybe it's a bandit. Thinking of this, Mu Qinghan slowly lowered his steps and hid behind a big tree to spy quietly. Coincidentally, the rain also stopped, and the moonlight slowly appeared.

Looking at it by the moonlight, it was indeed a group of ragged bandits, with about a dozen people in their heads. There was a girl in a cloth dress around. Looking at it from afar, "Isn't this Uncle Li's Xiaocui!" "Then I remembered that Uncle Li said just now that Xiaocui was in a hurry when he didn't go home, and it turned out that he was targeted by the bandits." Gotta find a way to save her. ”

But I heard the thief say, "I finally caught you, you little girl is too good at running!" ”

"What are you going to do!" The girl clutched her chest in horror and screamed.

One of the big thieves said angrily, "What are you doing....... You can't do anything! Alas! If it weren't for what people wanted that they hadn't touched, they could let you go, hum, take it away! "I'm going to take it away. Suddenly, an arrow flew and struck the bandit in the arm. The bandit couldn't help but shout: "Who is it! Who is it! He shouted as he waved the rusty knife in his hand.

Mu Qinghan didn't make a sound, hiding in the dark and swishing a few arrows. Several bandits fell in response. Mu Qinghan has not learned much martial arts, but he is naturally stronger than others, and he is not very old, but he pulls a fifty-pound bow, and his arrow goes out, and the power should not be underestimated. And because most of the meat in this restaurant was hunted by him, he hunted for food all year round, and he also practiced a good archery. But after all, it was close, and after a few arrows, it was exposed. The thief saw him: "The one who released the cold arrow is here, on!" "There were seven or eight bandits left, all of whom rushed forward with knives. Mu Qinghan has run out of arrows in his hand, and there is only a firewood knife, where is the opponent. Seeing this situation, I immediately wanted to slip away. Where are the thieves willing to give in, take three steps and make two steps, and cut them as soon as they grab the cloth.

Mu Qinghan hurriedly tore off his coat, staggered and rolled on the ground three times before he could barely hold on. This thief is estimated to have been in the fight for a long time, watching Mu Qinghan fall, he came up with a kick, and then caught up, stepped on his right arm and raised the knife: "Boy, I'll teach you now, don't worry about what you shouldn't care!" Several other bandits also rushed over and hugged him, unable to move.

Looking at the butcher's knife of the bandit, Mu Qinghan, who was originally very strong, was a little stunned, and his arm couldn't break free. At this critical moment, Mu Qinghan slapped the ground with his right hand and said, "Why haven't you come yet!" Why haven't you come yet! ”

Just as the bandit was about to cut it down, Mu Qinghan suddenly felt a surge of blood in his hand, as if there was boundless strength condensed in his palm. The blood veins on the arms turned bright red, and the birthmarks spread outward as the lines spread outward to the birthmark on the palm. Mu Qinghan thought to himself: "It's finally here." ”

Then he let out a loud shout, broke free, and threw a few of the thieves out of the way. Mu Qinghan, who stood up, had slightly red eyes, and he picked up the firewood knife and killed the bandits. Mu Qinghan was menacing, and his momentum had already overwhelmed the bandits, and they were so frightened that they couldn't even hold the knife steadily.

But Mu Qinghan was very energetic, and he fought with several people in a row, and he didn't learn martial arts, but he even played a few decent knife tricks, and cut down several people one after another. When the remaining bandits saw this, they immediately dispersed as birds and beasts.

Mu Qinghan saw the thief go away, and then he felt his strength unloaded, and he was a little tired. After taking a few deep breaths, I adjusted. And Xiao Cui, as early as when he was just fighting, Mu Qinghan made a gesture and fled first. Mu Qinghan immediately saved his strength and walked back to the restaurant step by step. By this time it was getting late. Mu Qinghan, who was walking on the road, had been thinking about what had just happened, and he vaguely heard that the thief said: "If it weren't for people's wants, they hadn't touched it." This sentence, as in the past, these bandits are also outlaws who can't survive, how can they sympathize with robbing homes and houses, this time just to arrest people is really a bit strange. Thinking about it, I saw the candlelight in the restaurant. I walked back to my house, and it was getting late, and all the customers in the store had left.

When Gu Laosan saw his son, he only asked why he had been gone for a long time. Mu Qinghan told him about the thief he had just met, and everyone seemed to be surprised, only asking if he was injured, and the others didn't say anything. It's just that Mu Qinghan saw that the hungry strong man had already woken up and sat up, and was drinking porridge in a big gulp, so he hid the birthmark attack, but he was panting, and Gu Laosan knew it in his heart. Gu Xiaowei took the borrowed food and went to the kitchen to cook, firstly to satisfy the hunger of this strong man, and secondly, to suppress the shock of his brother.

After the strong man took a sip of a pot of porridge, he finally raised his head, and saw the Gu family members hurriedly clasping their fists and saying, "Thank you for saving me." Gu Laosan nodded, and only said, "It's okay." ”

Mu Qinghan was a lot more enthusiastic, and when he arrived at a bowl of water, he brought it to the strong man. "Strong man, why did someone faint in front of my shop?" In fact, it can be seen that he is hungry and faint. But Mu Qinghan saw that although this person was a little yellow and thin, he was tall, although his eyes were tired, his eyes were still like torches, and his whole popularity was high, and he always felt that he was not an ordinary man, so he only fainted because of his face. When you open the door to do business, you always have to think more about the feelings of the guests, Gu Laosan is a stuffy gourd, and he usually greets the guests with Mu Qinghan.

But hearing this, the strong man laughed, took the water in the bowl and drank it all, and laughed in a tired voice: "So embarrassed, of course I'm hungry!" Those who have walked thousands of miles to come here are starved here because they are entangled. Eun Gong can be blunt. A hearty laugh followed. Then he said, "I don't know the name of the Engong family." ”

Seeing that this person's words were refreshing and direct, and he had indeed fled to this point, he was not a bad person, so he said: "I am a guy from this family, called Mu Qinghan, this is my father-in-law Boss Gu, and our family." ”