Chapter 33 Lijia Daokou Hotel
From the sixth day of the first month to Liangshan, unconsciously arrived at the end of the month. For a period of time, Gu Haotian and Wen Huanzhang and others worked together on the mountain to select team members, rectify military discipline, and resettle displaced people, and their lives were tense and fulfilling.
On this day, the wind and the sun are beautiful, it is a good spring, and Gu Haotian is in great interest. Under the pretext of looking for a place to build a school, he picked up Wen Huanzhang and took Lian'er, Bian Xiang and others to go out.
Everyone went out from the workshop steward's room where they were temporarily staying, and after a short time along the road to the south was the construction site of the council hall, the foundation of the hall was only nine feet high, and the main hall was not built but the momentum was already visible. Tao Zongwang happened to be at the scene, and when he heard that he was looking for a place for the school, he blurted out an address. It turns out that this Tao Zongwang has been entrusted with the important task of infrastructure construction since Gu Haotian, and he has walked all over the corners of Liangshan in the past month or so, where to build roads, where to set up cards, where to set up villages, and where to live, all of which have been imprinted in his mind, as if it is a living map.
"Little official, Mr. Wen, it's good to have a saddle on the south slope of Dongfeng, but it's a pity to use it to build a few schools." Tao Zongwang said immediately.
"It's okay, you can lead the way." Gu Haotian naturally didn't think about a few schools, he was actually choosing a site for the future Liangshan Military Academy.
A group of people followed Tao Zongwang to the east, along the way but saw the mountain flowers romantic, the warbler flying butterfly dance, only a moment to see that place, but it is a saddle land sandwiched between the main peak, the east peak and an unnamed peak, the bottom is a square three or four hundred meters of flat land, surrounded by gentle slopes, it is indeed an ideal place.
"This is it, you can design and see it with me first." Even if Gu Haotian was decided, although Tao Zongwang had doubts, he had no choice but to respond.
It was only at noon that the group returned to their residence, but they saw Du Qian, Song Wan, Zhu Fu, and Gu Song waiting for him.
As soon as he entered the door, everyone stepped forward to salute.
"A few days ago, the petty officials instructed me and his party in Hebei, these days I finally sorted out the trivial matters at hand, and handed over everything to the Song Wan brothers, and today I resigned to the petty officials." Du Qianyu reports.
"I am also begging for an errand below, the wine workshop has settled down, the winemaking business has been properly explained, and the petty official said that the errand of the Li Family Daokou Hotel ......" Zhu Fu couldn't hold it anymore, so he pulled Gu Song to report it.
"Since both of them have already given their errands, it is better to choose the time than to hit the time, it is better to get up now, Liangshan is not far from Lijia Daokou, and we will go to the hotel at noon for the Du Qian brothers."
Gu Haotian saw that it was only about ten o'clock, and there was nothing to do on the mountain, and he also wanted to go to the Li family crossing to have a look. took Bian Xiang and a few team members, Du Qian and Zhu Fu to the Golden Beach, got on Ruan Xiaoqi's boat and headed towards the Li family crossing.
The waterway from Lijiadaokou to Liangshan is a little closer than in other directions, but it takes an hour to travel by boat. So Gu Haotian has always had a question in his heart, when he used to read "Water Margin", every time someone went up the mountain, Zhu Gui shot an arrow into the reeds of the opposite port, and a boat came to pick it up, and he began to think that this arrow was shot at Liangshan, but now it seems that it is impossible, it should be the location of another hidden ship around the hotel. I didn't look at it carefully when I came here before, but I must find out this time.
Nearly noon, the boat docked at the port of Lijiadaokou Hotel. Gu Bai suddenly saw the little officials and his party coming in from the door, and hurriedly greeted them. He knew about changing his errand, and when he saw Zhu Fu coming over today, he had a number in his heart. While instructing his men to arrange wine and food, he led Gu Haotian, Zhu Fu and others around.
Lijia Daokou Hotel two into the courtyard, each into five or six houses, the front yard faces the road to buy wine, the backyard by the lake to live people, the surrounding group of bamboo fences, a wooden pillar by the gate obliquely hung a wine flag. Under the shade of dozens of ancient cypresses, the blue bricks and tiles are also a little different.
Standing on the lakeside in the backyard, Gu Haotian looked around, a stone's throw along the coast, that is, a dense reed bush at the back of the hotel, he immediately called Zhu Fu to let Xiao Qi row over to see what was going on. It turned out to be another river fork, but the boat was flat when it got into the river fork, and there was still a dilapidated thatched house on it, Gu Haotian had a number in his heart, and without saying much, he returned to the hotel. At this time, the meal was ready, everyone sat at two tables, Gu Haotian and Bian Xiang, Du Qian, Ruan Xiaoqi, Zhu Fu, and Gu Bai sat together, raising a glass for Du Qian, and raising a glass for Zhu Fu and Gu Bai to congratulate the handover of the two errands.
"Shopkeeper, what do you have to eat?" With the voice, a man came in from outside the door, but seeing that Wu was short and thin, his bones were thin, but his eyes under a pair of thick eyebrows were extraordinarily bright.
"I don't know what the guest officer ordered, although our shop is small, there are ordinary fish, meat and vegetables." Xiao Er greeted.
"Then let's make a dime of wine first, and cut two catties of cooked beef." The man chose an empty seat and sat down.
After only a few drinks, the man seemed to have something to say, but he turned his head and glanced at Gu Haotian first, but suddenly stood up and slapped the table and scolded.
"What kind of bird shop, dare to look at people with dog eyes, and use such broken wine to fool grandpa." It turned out that the man saw that Gu Haotian was drinking fairy drunk, but he was more than ten pounds of bad wine, so he became angry for a while.
Gu Haotian glanced at Zhu Fu, Zhu Fu understood, and got up and walked over.
"Here is this shopkeeper, I don't know what happened, I desecrated the guest officer, here I apologize to you, but please calm your anger."
Zhu Fu turned around and instructed the man to fetch a bottle of immortal drunkenness, and the man sat down again with a calm face.
"I didn't take a penny of wine and food before, and this bottle of fairy drunk only costs five dollars, which is considered to be a compensation for you, and the guest officer is willing to appreciate his face."
"I can't afford to pay for your wine." The man casually took out a piece of silver and threw it on the table, but his eyes fell on the wine bottle, "This is the immortal drunk of the ancient family village?" ”
"It's like a fake."
The man didn't say much, hurriedly opened the wine bottle, took a deep breath at the bottle, and muttered something after a while.
"Sure enough, I don't want to enjoy the happiness in this country shop."
It turned out that the fairy drunk has been on the market for more than a month, the supply is less and the demand is more, and it is controlled by agents around the country, the price has skyrocketed, and it has become the pet of dignitaries, and it is difficult to find a bottle on the market.
But I saw that the man was drinking slowly with beef, not at all like the first brother who could do it with a glass, but he was an experienced one, how could the degree of wine be too high, and he would talk a lot after a few glasses, but the man was alert after all, and stopped talking every time he glanced at Gu Haotian's side.
"Cousin, I'll wait for it to be used, let's go and rest first." Gu Haotian saw it in his eyes, so he left the table and retreated with the others.
"Okay, let's go to rest, and my cousin will make amends in the evening." Zhu Fu understood.
"Your cousin has a lot of people, what kind of business are you doing?"
"My cousin from Jeju is going to the north to do business this time, and I heard that it is not very peaceful over there, so I asked a few companions to accompany me and come by to see my cousin."
The man didn't squeak and ate a few more glasses.
"I heard that there is a boat called Liangshan in this water moor, which I have been famous for a long time, and the shopkeeper can know where to get a boat." The man asked abruptly.
"I've only been opening a shop at this crossing for more than a month, and I don't know where to get a boat. If the guest officer is not in a hurry, he can help to find out slowly. ”
"This immortal is drunk, I have traveled to many state capitals, and it is difficult to find a bottle, and I don't want to be the shopkeeper There are a lot of small rural shops, but there is a place nearby." The man's bright eyes were staring at Zhu Fu's face.
"It's really a fluke, I coincidentally have a brother who works under the agent Qian Yuan in Dongping County, so he asked for a few thin noodles and evened a few bottles. If it weren't for my cousin coming over today, it would have been killed and not sold, but the guest official had a good chance to meet him. Zhu Fu replied without leakage.
"I heard that the wine workshop of the ancient family village has been relocated, and your brother must have heard that since he works in the Qianren's house, he often drinks wine."
"I have never heard of it, my brother is also a subordinate, how can he know such important things." Zhu Fu was shocked, he didn't want such a secret as the relocation of the winery, and someone came to him in only half a month, and he was even more surprised when he thought that this man had just asked about Liangshan.
"I wonder where the guest officer found out?"
The man prevaricated for a while, no longer spoken, only said that if the ship was found, there would be heavy thanks, Zhu Fu thought for a while, and only said that he would go out to investigate, and there would be news in the evening.
"That being the case, I'll come back to hear from you in the evening." When the man heard this, he stopped drinking, picked up the bottle, got up and went out.
Gu Haotian and his entourage stayed in the backyard guest room for a while, only to see Zhu Fu come in, and after listening to the man's inquiry into the relocation of Liangshan and the wine workshop, he was sure that he must have obtained clues about the relocation of the wine workshop.
At the beginning of Shen Shichu, Gu Haotian and his entourage left the hotel, said goodbye to Zhu Fu and went north along the official road. After taking the pills of Erxian Mountain and practicing martial arts with Zhou Dong, Gu Haotian's six senses were extremely sensitive, and soon after he went out, he sensed that someone was watching, and he didn't act unusually, just talked and laughed freely, and after about an hour, this sense disappeared. When he met someone with a heart, Gu Haotian thought to himself, it was getting late at this time, so he simply went forward to find a market town to live in, and waited until after dinner before quietly returning to Liangshan with Bian Xiang and Ruan Xiaoqi.
And said that the man is also a cautious person, when he saw the fairy drunk in the hotel, he felt that the hotel shopkeeper and that group of people were related to Gujiazhuang or Liangshan, so he used the topic to make a fuss, and sure enough, the shopkeeper took out a bottle of fairy drunk, he affirmed nine points in his heart, and later said that he trusted the relationship between the money shopkeeper in Dongping County, and he was also skeptical. He knew how precious the immortal drunkenness was, and the man asked him to taste only two lamps. So he hid in an old tree on the side of the official road and observed the movement of the hotel and the gang. Seeing that the group of people lived in the north and left, he stared straight until the evening, and watched those people enter the market town from a distance before he settled a little, but for some reason he was a little confused.
At the Lijia Daokou Hotel, when the lights were lit, the man appeared in the store again.
"The guest officer can be regarded as coming, otherwise he will lose the money of the boat." Zhu Fu greeted him with a smile.
"I won't let you suffer, what about people?"
"That's not it."
The man turned around to look at Zhu Fu's line of sight, but saw a fisherman of about thirty sitting at a table by the window, sweating profusely in front of a bowl of pasta.
"Xiao Er, the owner has arrived, you can tell him the money for the boat." Zhu Fu shouted.
"One or two at night, seven hundred wen during the day, and half of it will be added to the return trip immediately, if you want to wait for another story." The man named Xiao Er answered, didn't raise his head, and only cared about eating.
"Five taels of silver, the boat will leave at the right time, and the return trip will be enough." The man took out a piece of silver and threw it in front of Xiao Er.
"Five taels." The little two put down the chopsticks in an instant, grabbed the silver on the table, bit it with his teeth, and stuffed it into his arms, "It's done, when to get up, the guest officer just commands." ”
At the end of the day, the man got a fishing boat on the port of the hotel, and the little two were a little longer and shouted: "Let's go." ”
A boatload of two sailed into the night.