After passing the alley that Wang Yi pointed to, there was a small crossroads. The winter days are short, but it is just the right time, but the heavy twilight is gradually enveloping it. On the left and right sides of the intersection are also quiet and deep alleys where carriages can cross, and at this moment most of the people in front and near have closed their doors, and the wide and narrow wooden doors and wooden walls are gradually disappearing in the dim twilight, and there seems to be no end at all. There was a faint afterglow of cooking smoke in the air. There was a man talking in the wooden-walled tiled house beside him, and he couldn't hear it clearly; A woman answered from the back of the house, as if to answer his words. In the distance of the alley on the right, another shadowy figure came out, and shouted in a loud voice, and two half-grown men wearing sheepskin jackets came out of nowhere, and promised to run in a panic in front of the two men; A black dog with a smooth diet followed the feet of the two dolls, chasing and jumping back and forth with joy......

Shang Cheng still didn't see any painting buildings and carved pavilions anywhere. It is said that it is a wine shop with black trees and green steps or a flying pig with pink walls and peppers, and even the wine and rice flags that are picked out have not been seen. He was puzzled and was about to ask a question, when he saw Wang Yi jump off the horse, and two people came out of a room at the head of the alley opposite.

Shang Cheng also dismounted. Only now did he see clearly that the place where the two people came out was a carriage and horse shop, but they didn't pick out the pretense of trading, so at first glance, they couldn't see what was going on. There were already a lot of horses parked in the dozen or so open houses, and some people were dressing the horses and linen by the oil lamps in the alcoves.

The two men probably knew Wang Yi, and bowed to him from a distance, and when they approached him, they did not say a word, and one of them happily took the reins and whips. Wang Yi stretched out his hand and took out a handful of copper coins from the big coat hanging on the saddle of the horse's back, and without counting them, he stuffed them all into the man's hand, turned his head and wanted to greet Shang Cheng, but saw Shang Cheng looking at him with an embarrassed face with empty hands.

He took out the copper coin again and handed it to Shang Cheng, and asked casually: "You haven't changed this problem?" ”

Shang Cheng gave the money to the guy who led the horse for him, and said, "Didn't you say you wanted to have a treat?" ”

"Last time you said you had a treat in Yanzhou, I paid for it in the end."

"I don't remember." Shang Cheng said without changing his face. He followed Wang Yi into the alley. This alley is no different from other alleys, they are all wooden doors and houses with uneven heights, and there is nothing special to see. After walking a little further, I saw two lanterns hanging under the eaves of the house on the left and the right beside the road in front of me. The lantern is not big, but in the silent night, the two yellow lights reflected by the swaying wax fire in the lantern are unusually eye-catching. On the lantern, there are two Yan Kai characters written upright, one by one, "Liang Feng".

"This is it." Wang Yi said.

I don't know what kind of means were used in the carriage and horse shop, but there were already people standing under the two lanterns, and when I saw them from afar, I greeted them. These two are women, and they can't see the color of their faces in the dim light, so they avoid the side and bow their heads to say hello: "Yigong is here." The voice was soft and low, as if someone was whispering in the ear, but he could hear it clearly, and it made people feel good when he landed.

"There's no one in Xinlin Xuan, right?" Wang Yi asked.

"Nope." The leading woman said in a low voice with her head down.

Wang Yi smiled and nodded without saying a word, and with a wave of his hand, he led Shang Cheng into the path between the two lanterns, and said, "This Liangfeng is the best banquet in the capital. When it comes to the ability to prepare fine dishes, there are many examples of Miyagi Ouchi. When the first emperor was there, he often drank with a group of close ministers. One by one, the slender lady, am I talking about it or not? The two bowed their heads and followed one of the women next to them with a soft "yes", and then there was no more to follow.

Hearing her answer so simple, without the enthusiasm and noise of soliciting guests in ordinary taverns, Shang Cheng couldn't help but glance back at the woman. With the yellow light of the lanterns on the two walls of the path, he saw clearly that behind this slender lady was a little girl who had just drawn a strip, and more than half of them were the maids and maids of the slender lady. The age of the slender lady is not very good, there are thirty upwards, but it is not clear if it is not over forty.

This wall path is not deep, and it will come to the end in a short time, and an inconspicuous small courtyard gate is hidden in a shadowy area of jujubes, plums, peaches, and apricots. The radius in this courtyard is about extremely wide, the quiet silk bamboo seems to be intermittent and ethereal, and it is difficult to distinguish its traces when listening attentively. The place here is vast, there is neither any yellow bricks and blue tiles flying each other, nor do you see any stacked pavilions wrapped around the fence, the eaves hang yellow lamp poles to pick paper cages, far and near large and small clusters of halos, only clusters of distant dust realm comfort annoying and annoying Chongkuang Jingsha between the staggered Chen. Wang Yi is familiar with the road here, and took Shang Cheng to go around the corner to Xinlinxuan, and said as he walked:

"This is the place where the first class of the Kyoshi is located. The name also has a history, from the Book of Poetry......"

Shang Cheng looked at him in surprise. He also thought that this Liang Feng was a personal name, but he didn't know that there was such a big origin. But it's not that he hasn't read the "Book of Songs", the style of the fifteen countries, and he has never heard of any "Liang Feng".

“…… During the Warring States Period, the Wei State was also known as the Liang State, and the Wei Feng in the Book of Poetry was also called Liang Feng. Wang Yi continued, "Because the previous owner of this place felt that using 'Wei Feng' as a store was too ostentatious, so he switched to 'Liang Feng'. ”

Shang Cheng grinned. The signboard is called "Liang Feng", so it is not swaggering? Wang Yidu said that Liang Feng is Wei Feng. But the owner of this house is also such an interesting person. The national style of the "Book of Songs" is full of folk songs, and the narrative is simple and unpretentious, and has nothing to do with "elegance". This wine shop is ingenious and elegant everywhere, but it has a store name signboard that is not elegant, which can be seen to be the essence of the "vulgar and elegant" technique of the national style......

Wang Yi smiled. He and Shang Cheng are familiar with each other, and they know that Shang Cheng likes to joke, so he doesn't care. The two women also lowered their heads and smiled softly. The laughter is not loud, but it can teach Shang Cheng to listen to it really; The laughter was sincere, obviously inspired by the heart; The shallow smile just arouses the idea of people talking......

Wang Yizheng wanted to say a few words along the topic of Shang Cheng, but a person hurried up from behind, glanced at a few people as he passed by, and then stepped into a courtyard in front of him, and then came out again, and asked, "Xiande, is it?" ”

"Brother Shaoquan," Wang Yi arched his hand to the man and said with a smile, "You are in such a hurry, I was afraid that you would have some urgent official business, so I didn't stop you." ”

As he spoke, the man had already walked over, holding Wang Yi's hand and smiling: "Look at my eyes, I came over just now and was still chattering, why does this person look the same as Xiande, I will tell you when I turn around." Half a day is really you. Then he asked, "Aren't you in Arashi, and when did you come back?" ”

"I've been back for two or three days." Wang Yi also smiled and said, "I'm coming back to report on my work." In fact, he came back to be scolded. After being reprimanded in the military department for two days, and standing in the prime minister's office for half a day, I didn't bother to look for you for a while. ”

The person who looked like Shaoquan was about the same age as Wang Yi, and when he heard what Wang Yi said, he smiled indifferently and said: "Those Shangshu waiters in the military department are like that, they take a chicken feather as an arrow, and they don't scold people in advance." However, you can also be punished by the Prime Minister's office. How many people sharpen their brains and want to stand there for a while, but they can't find their way. Then he looked at Shang Cheng with a fresh face. Seeing Shang Cheng's black gauze head Shu blue silk long jacket and cowhide boots, his outfit seemed to be rich or not, and his face was very hideous, so he asked tentatively, "This is ......?"

Wang Yi glanced at Shang Cheng and said casually: "It's my colleague in the army." He saw that Shang Cheng's expression was stable and didn't seem to have the meaning of acquaintance, so he didn't even bother to introduce the name list.

Shaoquan also thought that Shang Cheng was the rising general of the Wang family in the army, Wang Yi brought him over, one was to let him see, and the other was to connect with each other, so he no longer cared about Shang Cheng, so he said: "You came back in time this time!" Today, Su Zi'an is on his birthday, originally he was holding a banquet at home, and there were too many people for fear of arguing with Uncle Su, so he changed it here temporarily. One by one, it's really a coincidence, the first two or three I was still talking to them, and you were the only one in our group of brothers who was not in the capital, and you came back! Let's go in together. As he spoke, he was about to pull Wang Yi into the courtyard.

Wang Yi stood on his heels and said embarrassedly: "Shaoquan, this, I ...... this"

Shaoquan also reacted, and said to Shang Cheng with a smile: "Brother, forgive me!" Forgive me. My brother also went with us. It's more lively to be able to have more than one person. ”

Wang Yi's face was a little ugly. He had only been in Beijing for three days, and he didn't have time to greet and meet friends from all walks of life, and the changes in Beijing were not clear, so he would have expected to encounter such a situation in Liang Feng. He was embarrassed. He had already said that he would invite Shang Cheng to eat and drink, but when it came to the end, he bumped into a friend's birthday banquet. Shang Cheng's intention was obviously to avoid this kind of lively scene, but if he walked to the door of the banquet and didn't go in, it was obviously not polite......

Shang Cheng understood his thoughts, so he solved the problem for him and said, "Then go in and have a drink." ”

Wang Yi breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Then my treat has to be another day." ”

"Of course I'm here for a treat." Shang Cheng said with a smile.

Shaoquan looks like a big grinning person. He couldn't see the depth of Shang Cheng, nor did he notice that Wang Yi deliberately lagged behind Shang Cheng, let alone notice that at the moment when Wang Yi stopped and lagged behind, the slender lady and her maid buried their heads lower almost at the same moment. He smiled and stood side by side with Wang Yi, and asked in a low voice, "Who is this brother?" ”

Without Shang Cheng's permission, of course Wang Yi couldn't tell Shang Cheng's identity and origin, so he had to laugh and laugh indiscriminately. Seeing that Shang Cheng had stopped waiting for him, he had to take two quick steps to catch up.

At the entrance of the courtyard and on the steps of the lobby house in the courtyard stood a low-browed maid. I don't know how this wine shop communicates the news, Shang Cheng and they are still three or five steps away from the courtyard gate, and a large group of people have already poured out of the hall in a chaotic manner. Since they are Wang Yi's friends, of course, most of them are children in the army, and perhaps many of them themselves hold positions in the army, so there is not too much restraint, you and I will talk to Wang Yi word by word.

"Xiande, when are you coming back?"

"Xiande, this time you are showing your face, the court is celebrating the victory of Lanzhen, and you will probably be promoted to one or two levels. Say, when will you celebrate with a drink? ”

There are also well-informed people who asked him bluntly: "Xiande, I heard that General Xiao personally named you and wanted to transfer you to Jiazhou to camp." I'm afraid you're going to have to make a consultant and join the army this time, right? ”

There were also six or seven young women in the group dressed as gentlemen, about the sisters and sisters of the families who came to celebrate the birthday, although they were not all embarrassed to stand up and greet Wang Yi, but this did not prevent them from getting together to judge Wang Yipin, and surrounded a woman to make her face full of delicateness.

These people immediately saw Shang Cheng who was following Wang Yi and that Shaoquan. To them, Shang Cheng is an unfamiliar face, and this person has a fierce face, which is incompatible with the elegance of this Liangfeng wine shop, just like someone is secretly giving orders, and no one has a word in an instant. There were two women who were not too afraid, one holding the other, hiding on the green steps behind the crowd and whispering to each other.

Shang Cheng also recognized that the woman who looked at him with burning eyes was Xiao Cicada, the smart daughter of Poyang Hou Gushi. He smiled and nodded to the girl.

It's not that the crowd is completely unrecognized. In the strange silence, the man in his thirties, who was surrounded by everyone, walked out first, and then another young man also came out. In front of everyone's eyes, the two people stood up with their legs together and gave a military salute with their arms, and reported in unison:

"Your subordinate Su Po (Hou Ding), see the general!"

Shang Chengleng paused. He had no impression of the two people who saluted him in front of him. Because he had come to this wine shop for dinner, he was wearing ordinary clothes, and it was not easy to return the military salute, and it was even more difficult to teach two officers who were also wearing homely clothes that they could not salute under such circumstances, so he had to put aside the topic and ask curiously: "Do you know me?" ”

"Yes!" Su Zi'an's rank was half a level higher than Hou Ding's, and he said first, "In August of the 19th year of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty, Su Poyu fought in Mogan under the command of the general!" ”

"In August of the 19th year of the Eastern Era, the post of Hou was scheduled to fight in Mogan under the command of the general."

Shang Cheng understood. Both of them should have seen themselves when Mo Gan broke through and turned back to rescue the army, and they were both old comrades-in-arms who fought side by side. When old comrades-in-arms meet, of course, they have to drink. It's just that there are so many people around, and this meal is really impossible to drink. Moreover, he didn't even remember the faces of Su Po and Hou Ding, and of course he couldn't remember their titles, but he had never heard their names mentioned in the past two years, and he didn't even think that he was a middle-level general at the military level. The difference between him and their rank and title was too great, and the two of them were respectful at the wine table, and this wine tasted nothing, so they simply forgot it. smiled and said: "Look, I originally said that I had a meal of wine and food, but I don't have to drink it now......"

Su Po was overjoyed, and couldn't help but interject: "If the general doesn't dislike ......"

"Forget it, I'll talk about it another day." Shang Cheng said with a smile. He greeted Wang Yi, "Let's go, or you take me to find a place to drink." Let's not disturb other people's feasts here. ”

…… Walking out of the distance, the two of them could hear the guy with the word Shaoquan shouting:

"What are you talking about, that's Shang Yanshan?!"