In the late spring of March, the land of the Central Plains is a good season when the sky is blue and the trees are verdant, but the grassland is still a remnant winter scenery with withered grass and withered trees. The north wind, which came down from the cold poles, though far less unscrupulous than in winter, still seized the last chance to wreak havoc on the desolate meadows with no end in sight, blowing down the grass, scraping the trees, and whining and whining in the dust of the grass. The bleak white sun resides in the deserted sky. Scattered snowflakes were mixed in the fine rain, and they fluttered loosely with the wind. The lead-gray clouds were driven by the unwilling cold wind, moving slowly; The dark clouds in the distance kept falling, and the mist that permeated the great meadow was melted together, and it was no longer clear where the sky was and where was the earth, and everywhere was gray and wet......

It wasn't until noon that the rain stopped and the fog faded a lot, and the grassland gradually revealed its true appearance. On the rain-washed grassy beach, gray and yellow are still the protagonists, but among the large areas of decayed dead grass, clusters of green can be faintly seen in the east and west. Green shoots have been hung on the old trees at the head of the nameless small town on the left bank of the ferry on the left bank of the black water, and in the military camp standing on the gentle slope of the Luhe River, there are countless wildflowers that bloom suddenly after the rain. The originally solemn and quiet military camp was also a little restless at this time, and the soldiers who had been locked up by the mildew rain for a few days were breathing greedily at the door of the cowhide tent. The military order is like a mountain, but no one dares to walk around, and those who are not greedy for rarity just stare twice, and turn around and do whatever they want; There are also immortal men, who whisper at the door of the tent and shout to the acquaintances on patrol duty to help catch two handfuls of grass and pinch two flowers, one by one, for nothing else, just to pass the difficult time when there is no war to fight and nothing to do.

“…… Fragrant! Sun Huan, the commander of the former army, was holding a handful of wildflowers that had just been pulled from outside, and his big red nose was a little red and sniffed vigorously on the flowers, and his voice shook so loudly that the tent seemed to tremble a little, "It's so fucking fragrant!" How do you say that," he scratched his ears and cheeks, twisted his brows, and thought for a long time without a clue, and suddenly poked Zheng Qi beside him, "What does that poem say?" ”

Zheng Qizheng was squatting on a broken wooden bench and chatting nonsense, boasting about the achievements he had earned along the way since he marched into the army, pointing fingers and talking about foaming at the mouth, and he was caught up by Sun Huan, and fell on the spot, causing laughter in the tent. He is a giggling person, he likes to be lively by nature, and he is not annoyed, he got up and patted the soil on his buttocks, and scolded with a smile: "Sun Dazui, who suffered from the plague, is it because he robbed you of your credit in front of him, and didn't leave you a soup to moisten your throat, so you hold a grudge against me?" He pointed his hand at Sun Zhongshan, who was sitting on the other side with a smile and no words, "If you want to hate you, you have to hate him." One by one, he is a brigade commander and a pioneer of Zhengyin, and I am just a deputy commander, so I have to obey his command? I can only fight whatever he says......"

"Who told you this! I'm asking, what does the verse that describes flowers say...... Is it spending that or something, and then what? ”

"Huh?" Zheng Qi narrowed a pair of slender eyes, stared at Sun Huan left and right, until he looked at Sun Huan a little uncomfortable, twisted his body on the chair to check whether his armor and robes were not properly and neatly, he sneered and exclaimed loudly, "Good poetry, good poetry!" Even the poet immortal Li Taibai, I'm afraid he can't write such a good poem as General Sun! 'Spend what, then what', good poetry, good poetry! What a swan song! When you return to Yanshan, you must remember to ask Lord Lu to splash ink for you, find someone to frame it carefully, and then pass it on to your children and grandchildren......" Before he finished speaking, the officers in the first tent were all laughing wildly, and even the soldiers on duty outside the tent were shrugging their shoulders and laughing non-stop.

Sun Huan is a veteran, licking blood on the head of the knife and crawling in the pile of dead people I don't know how many times, Zheng Qi and the little jokes he made are not worth it in his eyes, so he doesn't take it to heart at all, and asked Sun Zhongshan again: "You read a lot, what does Xiucai among us say in that poem, what is the flower drunk or not, what is it?" ”

Sun Zhongshan and Sun Huan are a bit of a hanging, they are both Chinese characters, with thick faces, small eyebrows, small eyes, cheeks, beards, short and strong figures, and they are also the same surname, people who don't know the roots may only think they are brothers. They are indeed the uncles and brothers of the Lianzong. However, this joint sect is also last year's thing, otherwise, although the ancestral homes of the two people are in Dingjin, one is the Weiping Sun family, and the other is the Shangchuan Sun family. The temperaments of the two people are even more different. Sun Huan is nicknamed "Sun Dazui", short-tempered and ambitious, and he can't have anything in his heart, but Sun Zhongshan is steady and wise, round on the outside and square on the inside, and is quite praised for rectifying military affairs under the rule of others; Moreover, this person dares to fight tough battles, is the best at running, is the fastest rising general in the Yanshan Guards in the past two years, and is also the only brigade commander awarded the rank of general among the brigades of the three armies of Yanshan. It was already rumored that after this battle, he would be promoted to the rank of Sima of a certain army; At least a Sima Governor......

Sun Zhongshan touched his chin, which had not shaved for a few days, and asked with a smile: "There are so many Tang poems in Hanle Mansion, how do I know which sentence you are talking about?" ”

Sun Huan was speechless.

Zheng Qi, who pretended to avoid the limelight and ran away just now, slipped over again at this time, squatted on the wooden bench like a monkey, and interjected: "It's 'flowers are not drunk, everyone is drunk', right?" ”

"That's right! Right, right! That's it! Sun Huan slapped his thigh vigorously and said repeatedly, "That's it!" I didn't know where I heard who I said once, and I didn't remember what it was when I went home and thought about it for a long night, but this time it's okay, I finally remembered it! He recited "flowers are not drunk, everyone is drunk" back and forth a few times, and suddenly glared at Zheng Qi, "You know and don't tell me?" ”

This time Zheng Qixue was clever, Sun Huan raised his hand, he had already jumped up, stepped on the mud with one foot, and hurriedly said: "General Sun, slow down!" There is also the next sentence one by one" He jumped a few steps before he smiled and said, "It is a poem chanted by the general in the Yanshui military camp on the New Year's Festival, the original words are 'Wine is not drunk, everyone is drunk, flowers are not charming, people are self-obsessed', I don't know which fool translated it as 'flowers are not drunk, everyone is drunk'......"

Sun Huan didn't pay attention to the laughter around him, thought about it, and said, "It's better to use the word 'wine'." You can get drunk by sniffing a flower, that's something that only mothers-in-law and aunts can do. I'm afraid there aren't many such mothers-in-law. But the general's poem doesn't seem quite right. The rice wine and fruit wine in front are not intoxicating, that's the real thing, who can't drink two or three jars in this tent? But who wants the water is not intoxicating with the current liquor, then I don't believe it. I have a personal soldier, and I can still drink a few cups of fruit wine in front of me, but this liquor, when you smell the wine, you can be drunk and fall to the ground...... Don't laugh, this is a real thing, if you don't believe me, call him over, and as soon as you ask, you will know if I am telling a lie! ”

At first, a group of officers listened happily to his indiscriminate evaluation of the general's "poems", but later they all came to the momentum, and you and I mixed in every word. This one said that "the liquor is different from the previous wine, and it is strong", the other said that "it is forbidden to drink it in the army", and some people said that it is simply inconsiderate to the soldiers that they are not allowed to drink alcohol when it is cold and cold. There are also fair speakers, praising how many soldiers' lives have been saved by this wine, who was slashed on the arm and sprayed with white wine and rescued, who who crossed the river with ice water when he hit this small town by the black water, and was frozen and shrunk into a ball at that time...... simply praised Huo Lun, who had already made a fortune from the liquor business, to the sky.

Sun Zhongshan knows the origin of liquor. When others were talking nonsense, he didn't say anything, but sat silently and listened. As early as when Shang Cheng was still the direct commander of West Malaysia, he had mentioned this matter to him, but the local conditions at that time did not allow it, so the brewing of high-concentration liquor could only stay in words. To be honest, although he echoed it at the time, he actually didn't believe what Shang Cheng said: It's not that he hasn't seen winemaking when he was in his hometown, and it has been brewing sour wine and turbid wine and fruit wine for thousands of years for generations, who has ever seen someone who takes a pot to steam wine? Steamed wine is better than brewed wine, who would dare to believe this? It wasn't until he received the ten jars of liquor from Huo Lun that he knew that what Shang Cheng said was not false. After talking to Huo Lun, I learned that most of the craftsmanship of this wine-making vessel came from the guidance of Shang Cheng...... Shang Cheng knew how to make baijiu, and he was not too surprised—perhaps Shang Cheng had seen this craft somewhere in his early years; Shang Cheng became a fake governor, and he was about to be promoted to general, and he was not surprised that the history books of the 1135 battle from a soldier to a general were all recorded, and Shang Cheng's promotion was not very rare; Shang Cheng was able to govern Yanshan Yiwei smoothly, and he was not very surprised, although there are few people who can be civil and martial, but it is not nothing, such as Ximen Sheng, who stayed in Fangzhou to make a feint attack and containment, that is a person who can come to both civil and martial arts. Shang Cheng has been a monk, and has traveled in the Quartet for many years, has insight and insight, and has a ravine's ambition in his chest, and he has a great plan to travel thousands of miles, as a friend and subordinate, he is sincerely happy for Shang Cheng. He was amazed that he had heard some words from Shang Cheng, some truths he had heard, and maybe things that he had never heard of, such as this sentence "If wine is not drunk, everyone is drunk, and if flowers are not charming, everyone is obsessed", if Shang Cheng suddenly had inspiration at the military banquet, then he would not believe it anyway. Oh, by the way, there is also this phrase "clever hands", which seems to have been heard from Shang Cheng......

In the midst of the noisy discussion, someone suddenly said, "...... I've heard a news, this liquor, the fact is not really from the hands of Yixian Huo Lun, the person who created this craft is actually someone else! This immediately aroused everyone's interest, and they asked:

"Who is it?"

"Who has the skill to make this thing?"

"Speak quickly, don't go around in circles! Who the hell is it? What's the saying? ”

Zheng Qi is a sober person, he has been with Sun Zhongshan for more than half a year, and he probably knows the story of Huo Lun's winemaking, so he stood up and looked at the sun outside the tent, as if asking others and saying to himself: "Where did Wang Bao's bastard die?" It's about wine here, he, Yan Shanwei, is famous for being drunk and immortal and not coming to the wine fairy, the big guy is talking about bullshit here! ”

Wang Bao is also an officer of the Yanshan Chinese Army, and he has just been promoted to Captain of the Seventh Rank Guide after the year, and has not yet been awarded the equivalent of the Captain of Guide, and temporarily leads three battalions stationed in Yanzhou. These three battalions are the only all-armored non-commissioned battalions of the Yanshan Chinese Army, all of which are 57 pounds of heavy armor, equipped with iron helmets, heavy crossbows and straight knives, and are the main force in the main field forces of the Chinese army. In addition to the armor soldiers, there are also two sentry heavy cavalry specially designed for rushing through the enemy during the confrontation. The impact of these heavy horses is good, but they move slowly and have extremely poor maneuverability, and the first few admirals have fought a few small battles in the small plain of Yanzhong when they were there, and they have never been used since Shang Cheng took office. It is said that Shang Cheng wanted to cut off the heavy cavalry of these two posts several times and free up food and salary to raise more light cavalry, but unfortunately every motion was rejected by the Wei Fu or the Ministry of War......

"Wang Bao can't come." A well-informed officer said, "He violated military law the day before yesterday and was whipped 20 lashes, and now he can't get up and be bed." ”

Zheng Qi originally casually said something to divert the topic, but after listening to the man's words, he asked in surprise, "What's the matter?" ”