Xu Zizhen originally smoked and drank twice, and after coming to the Northern Song Dynasty, the source of cigarettes was completely gone, but there is still such a thing as wine, but he has always been so poor that he has always been so poor, how can he have spare money to buy wine? The only time I enjoyed it was the wine in Taihu Lake Village.

The word wine cellar attracted him deeply, and it was much better than any cave farm to heal his wounds.

Rested overnight in Wang Si Winery, no one in the whole village except Wang Manfu and his wife and Cheng Bo knew the existence of Xu Zizhen, early the next morning, Cheng Bo took Xu Zizhen to the back door, where there were a large number of wine vats, most of them were half a person high, the two hugged so thick, one by one covered with bamboo strips and then sealed with yellow mud with bamboo leaves.

Xu Zizhen was looking at it freshly, but Uncle Cheng chose a cylinder, lifted the mud seal, revealing the empty cylinder, and said with a smile: "Engong, if you are wronged, please enter the urn." ”

This is a spacious wharf, surrounded by a fence, only leaving a hole by the river, obviously for the exclusive use of Wang Si Winery, Xu Zizhen understood at a glance, and said with a smile: "Just enter, don't set firewood below." ”

There were only three people in the whole wharf, Cheng Bo and Wang Manfu, and no one else was there, Wang Manfu helped him climb into the tank, and said when he closed the mud seal: "Engong, you should first cultivate in the wine cellar, and when this matter subsides, I will take Engong back to the city." ”

Xu Zizhen shook his head and smiled: "How can it be so easy, Hu Youzu Kong Qilin is still in Suzhou for a day, I can't come back, thank you Wang Shopkeeper, I have my own plans for this." ”

Wang Manfu was not reluctant, nodded and took out a small cloth bag from his arms and handed it over, and said with a smile: "Engong is ambitious in all directions, I'm afraid that I won't live in my wine cellar for a long time, be careful, and hope that Engong will not shirk." ”

Xu Zizhen was stunned, but he still took it, and said with a serious expression: "Shopkeeper Wang, thank you!" ”

He didn't say much, but Wang Manfu and his wife saved him this time despite the pursuit of the government, and helped him escape from the city, and now they gave him these silvers, which is especially affectionate at this special time, Xu Zizhen doesn't like to be lively, but just keeps this kindness in his heart.

The mud lid was pitch black in the vat, and there was a small hole in the bottom of the vat, which was used to circulate air, and a boatload of vats was mixed together, and it was impossible to find him unless they were opened one by one.

When all the wine tanks were set up, Cheng Bo called two boatmen, he personally sat on the boat to accompany him, the boat left the dock leisurely, and headed out of the city, Xu Zizhen sat in the tank, holding his breath and waiting to get out of the city.

After walking for half an hour, Xu Zizhen suddenly felt that the boat was slowing down, and someone shouted: "That boat is coming over, and you can't leave the city without inspection!" ”

Xu Zizhen subconsciously clenched his fists, this should be the water and land gate leading to the outside of the city, and it is expected that there are officers and soldiers guarding it, but as long as he passes this pass, he will be completely out of great trouble.

Then there was a jolt in the hull of the ship, and someone jumped on the boat and shouted, "What's in this tank?" Open quickly! ”

Uncle Cheng hurriedly greeted him, and said with a smile: "Master Jun, these are all new wines, which have been sealed, if you open them rashly, it will be wasted, this ...... I can't afford this loss! ”

The soldier said impatiently: "Lao Tzu cares so much about you, tell you to open it, where is there so much nonsense?" Who knows if Xu Zizhen is hiding from your boat! ”

Xu Zizhen's heart tightened, he didn't dare to move against the cylinder, quietly listening to the movement outside the cylinder, the soldier was like a tendon, no matter how Uncle Cheng smiled and said good things, he just had to check whether he was alive or dead, Xu Zizhen secretly gritted his teeth, he was ready, in case he really broke the cylinder to check, then he could only break through.

At this moment, a young woman suddenly came in the distance, wearing a water-green power suit, but it was Hu Qing, she glanced at the boat, and said, "What is the dispute?" ”

The soldier's tone had always been extremely hard, but then he suddenly softened and said with a smile: "It turned out to be the eldest lady, if this ship wants to go out of the city, the villain is just checking it as usual." ”

Hu Qing's eyes fell on the four words of Wangsi Winery on the bow of the boat, he groaned slightly, waved his hand and said, "I'll come, you go to those boats to check quickly, don't block the river." ”

This is the daughter of the current prefect, how dare the soldier disobey, so he immediately retreated, and went to the back of a few ships to shout five and six.

Xu Zizhen naturally heard Hu Qing's voice, he knew that it was not easy to offend this girl, not only teased her twice, but even took her hostage, if he fell into her hands, he was afraid that the end would not be much better.

Hu Qing did not ask to open the cylinder, but came to the side of the cylinder with a horsewhip, this knock and that beat, and asked Cheng Bo casually: "Where are you sending this wine?" ”

Cheng Bo said with a smile: "If you go back to the eldest lady, this is sent to Yanjiang County." ”

Hu Qing glanced at him sideways, noncommittal, but walked around the side of the boat for a small half circle, squatted down facing the outside of the boat, and knocked the board with the whip, looking serious, but her right hand suddenly took out a small embroidered bag from her arms, quietly threw it to a cylinder beside her, and said in a low voice: "Don't come back when you leave the city, remember to remember!" After a pause, he said, "Next time, if you hide like this again, remember to dry the yellow mud." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she got up and jumped back to the shore, shouting, "Release!" ”

Xu Zizhen was hiding in this tank, and when he heard this, a layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back, this girl actually had such a careful side, but he didn't expect it, but then he was a little stunned: What's the matter? She just let Lao Tzu go?

About two hours later, the boat finally docked, and Cheng Bo still sent the two boatmen away first, and personally broke the mud seal of the tank where Xu Zizhen was hiding.

Xu Zizhen stood up straight, took a few deep breaths of fresh air, in front of him was an extremely open farmland, not far away there was a hill that was not very high, at the foot of the mountain was a quiet lake, and a simple but extensive red mud brick house was built by the lake.

The scenery here is picturesque and the air is fresh, Xu Zizhen only felt that the stuffiness held out in the tank was suddenly dispersed at this time, Cheng Bo pointed to the house and smiled: "Engong, this is my owner's wine cellar, I am tired all the way, I will lead you in to rest first." ”

Xu Zizhen nodded, suddenly remembered something, turned around and squatted next to the wine vat where he was hiding, picked up a delicate embroidered bag from the board, opened it and saw that there were two small ingots of gold inside, and a note was attached, on which four words were written in Juanxiu's small letters: Wangjun is precious!

"This ......" Xu Zizhen held two ingots of gold in his hand, and was a little stunned for a while-

I'm so late for something today, sorry!