Wine may be a dispensable thing, some people are addicted to alcohol, and some people don't drink at all, but it is undeniable that the history of wine is very long, so long that it is unimaginable.

Some people say that wine was first invented by apes and made from rotten wild fruits, while others say that Yidi made wine, or Du Kang made wine.

In any case, humans learned to grow, and from a primitive society to an agricultural society, winemaking technology has already begun to exist.

The literati and samurai, the commoners and aristocrats, no matter how antagonistic or disparate the group, seem to have one thing in common, that is, wine is indispensable.

The literati like and try new tea with new fire, poetry and wine take advantage of the youth, and the warriors also have a glass of peach and plum spring breeze wine, and the night rain in the rivers and lakes for ten years.

Drink when you're happy, drink when you're sad, drink when you're happy, drink when you're grieving, drink when you're together, and drink when you're breaking.

Wine has transcended its own utility and value, and it is not so much drinking wine as tasting wine culture.

At this time, the two sides were the same, Sun Youlin, who didn't drink a drop of alcohol, was not drinking wine, but recognition of Chen Mu.

"Tell me, what do you want?" Sun Youlan gently put down the wine bowl, and could see that his fair face was instantly flushed, as if the wine was surging, and it was all concentrated on his face, which was quite cute.

Chen Mu was not verbose, and said straight to the point: "I want to win." ”

Sun Youlin was slightly stunned, and then laughed: "Who here doesn't want to win?" ”

The men at the table also laughed, but their smiles and gestures were not as disrespectful as before.

Chen Mu shook his head: "No, you don't want to win, you just want to make profits." ”

Although Chen Mu said it straightforwardly and ruthlessly, it was true, although their faces were a little uncomfortable, they would not deny anything against their will.

Sun Youlin glanced at Chen Mu a few times, and showed no mercy: "You are richer than Tang Tingfang?" Can you offer a higher price? ”

Chen Mu shook his head and smiled: "Don't hide it from you, I can't shake out three copper plates when I hang my feet." ”

Sun Youlin's face became serious, and he said to Chen Mu: "The bowl of wine just now was not to honor you, but to give Hong Shuntang face, now that everything that should be said is finished, you can go." ”

Chen Mu looked around and saw that these men had different expressions, some resolutely supported Sun Youlin, some wanted to stop talking, and some were bored and drinking, with a posture that they had nothing to do with themselves.

Fortunately, they are not monolithic, otherwise it is really difficult to convince, and it is impossible for Chen Mu to leave, and immediately said to Sun Youlin.

"There are many kinds of profits, in my opinion, profits are nothing more than what they want, money is just a means to achieve, just like someone likes to drink and needs money to buy it, but I send a hundred years of wine directly, will you still ask for money?"

"I don't know anything about you, but I know that as long as you are human, you must have some dissatisfaction and demand, but in the end, what you want is not necessarily money."

Chen Mu was a little unsatisfactory, but Sun Youlin still understood, and asked with a little mockery: "So you mean, you don't have money, but you can give us what we want?" ”

"You said it yourself, you don't know anything about us, how do you know what we want?"

Chen Mu stared at Sun Youlin, leaned forward and said, "I really know what you want." ”

Sun Youlin frowned for some reason, and Chen Mu didn't wait for him to respond, looked around, and then said.

"What you want is dignity."

Everyone looked at each other, fell into a short silence, and then laughed one after another, and without waiting for Sun Youlin to speak, the bald brother said to Chen Mu.

"Do you know who we are? We can even exchange our lives for money, who cares about dignity? Dignity is worth a few dollars, if we want dignity, how can we give Tang Tingfang our lives? ”

"It's ridiculous, at a young age, talking about life here, which brother here is not older than you?"

In the face of everyone's ridicule and ridicule, Chen Mu still insisted on his opinion, shook his head and said: "I knew that you would definitely deny it, and I couldn't eat it with a cat's head, -, so be it, I'll give you a choice." ”

Chen Mu was originally a Sven person, and he couldn't say this kind of vulgar language in ordinary times, but when talking to these people and entering such an atmosphere, Chen Mu inevitably used all the vulgar words he heard from his uncles.

Sun Youlin laughed and said: "We don't need your choice, we can't afford this money, so don't talk about reasoning, if you think we are three-year-old children who can be fooled casually in a few words, then you are really looking at the wrong person!" ”

Chen Mu knew that these people wanted to save face, or if they had other considerations, they couldn't tell what they were talking about, so he could only put his own conditions on the table.

"Help me win, I'll let you join Hong Shuntang, that's my bid."

"Accept us into Hongshun Hall?" Sun Youlin showed a look of surprise, looked at his companions around him again, and then laughed, and finally covered his stomach and laughed so hard that he couldn't stand up straight.

"Hong Shuntang has fallen, even if it is still there, we are not necessarily rare, you really think we are stupid?"

Chen Mu looked at the people around him, did not sigh, nor was he disappointed, but stood up confidently and said to everyone: "This is my bid, you will not have a second chance, as for how you choose, you can consider it yourself." ”

With that, Chen Mu turned around and left, leaving only a table of people who suddenly became silent.

Chen Mu trusts his instincts and judgment, these people seem to be unscrupulous and lawless, they can do whatever they want in their position, they can be profligate and vulgar, they can throw miscellaneous things everywhere, but they never dare to step out of this corner, and they don't even dare to ask for anything from the foreign waiters!

Indeed, as they say, where does a person who can exchange his life for money have any dignity?

But do they really not want dignity?

This is not necessarily, it is really because I don't have it, so I try my best to fight for it, people who love money crave most is dignity, just to pursue dignity, but they have to sell their dignity.

Chen Mu had already memorized Hong Shuntang's roster, and when Captain Bertrand handed him the list of these people, he also compared that there was no one from Hong Shuntang.

Of course, maybe they are using pseudonyms or pseudonyms, whether they are Hong Shuntang people or not, hearing Hong Shuntang's name, it must be impossible to be nothing.

Although Hong Shuntang is not as good as before, he is still fighting the heavens and the earth, still disobeying the control, and still dares to fight with his life to bomb the warships of foreigners!

If you want authority, you want money, you want women, you want pleasure, maybe Hong Shuntang doesn't have it, but you want righteousness, you want dignity, you want to spill blood, you want to make a difference, join Hong Shuntang, it is definitely the first choice of people in the rivers and lakes, there is no one!

When Bertrand saw Chen Mu coming back, he hurriedly asked, "How is it, these people have agreed to your conditions?" ”

Chen Mu glanced back, and Sun Youlin also looked at him from afar, but his eyes were a little strange.

Chen Mu shook his head lightly at Bertrand: "I can't be sure ...... yet."

Bertrand sighed lightly and said: "There must be no room for uncertainty in the gladiatorial arena, the opponent is undoubtedly strong, but the ally cannot be sure, this is a very dangerous decision. ”

Chen Mu didn't think much about it anymore, and asked Bertrand: "Captain, could you please tell me in detail what the competition looks like?" ”

Bertrand smiled bitterly: "I don't know ...... either"

"You don't know?" This time it was Chen Mu's turn to be stunned, Bertrand was Isabella's henchman, how could he not even know the competition items?

"You don't have to be so surprised, the theme of the gladiatorial fight after each drinking party is different, this time the theme was set by Mr. Trio, and Miss Isabella couldn't ask about it, but just gave me a hint."

"What's the hint?" Chen Mu didn't expect the theme of the competition to be so mysterious, and it was clearly Miss Isabella's Knight Tryout, why did Mr. Trio set the theme himself, and even Miss Isabella had to hide it? Could it be that Monsieur Trio also meant to marry Mademoiselle Isabella to François?

"Yes...... It's Minoan's Labyrinth! Captain Bertrand's face seemed a little pale as soon as he finished speaking.

"Minoan's labyrinth? What does that mean? When Chen Mu encounters difficult questions, he usually subconsciously looks at his teacher.

Prussian also frowned when he heard these words, but he still patiently explained to Chen Mu.

"It's an old Greek mythological story."

"Minos was the son of Zeus and Europa, who was banished to Crete by Hera, but was married as queen by the king of the island, Asteriaus, and adopted Minos, who inherited the kingdom."

"Minos was righteous and wise, but he offended Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Poseidon cast a spell to make Minos's wife, Parsifal, fall in love with a bull and give birth to a monster with the head of a bull and a human body, named Minotaur."

"The monster Minotaur only eats human flesh, brutal and ferocious, and Minos imprisoned him in a labyrinth, and this labyrinth is the Minoan Labyrinth."

The story is a bit bizarre, Prussian was a missionary, and there are many stories in the Gospels, but this kind of mythological story is never mentioned, after all, the gods are different.

"What does this Minoan Labyrinth have to do with tryouts?" Chen Mu was also a little confused, Trio couldn't build a labyrinth, and there was still a monster with a bull head in it, right?

Prussian also shook his head, not daring to speculate, and after a moment of silence, Chen Mu asked again: "This story is over?" ”

Prussian continued: "The labyrinth was designed and built by Daedalus, an Athenian, but he was jealous of his genius nephew, fearing that he would surpass him in construction, so he killed him, and after the incident he ran to Minos to seek refuge. ”

"The Athenians hunted down Daedalus and killed one of Minos's sons, and for revenge, Minos prayed to Zeus, and Zeus sent a plague to Athens, and the Athenians could only choose seven pairs of boys and girls every year to be sent to the Minoan labyrinth to worship the monster Minotaur."

"In the third year, the Athenian prince Theseus volunteered to go into the labyrinth as a tribute, wanting to take advantage of this opportunity to kill the monster and prevent future troubles, and he made a promise with his father that if he won, he would hang the white sails on the returning ship, and if he failed, he would hang the black sails."

"Before the brave prince entered the labyrinth, the princess Eleadne fell in love with him at first sight, and gave him a ball of thread and a magic sword, the prince tied the thread to the exit, put the thread into the labyrinth, killed the Minotaur with the magic sword, successfully got out of the labyrinth, and united with Eleadne!"

Hearing this, Chen Mu also breathed a sigh of relief, this is a beautiful story, could it be said that the winner is Theseus, and Isabella is the legendary "Eleadne"?

However, Prussian seemed to see Chen Mu's thoughts, and continued: "Theseus left Crete with Eleadne, but Alysus was the daughter of Minos, and Theseus was afraid that his father would blame him, so he abandoned Eleadne on a desert island, and he himself was punished for it, because he was always thinking about it, he forgot to hang the white sail, and still hung the black sail when he set off......"

"His father stood by the sea, waiting for his son to return, but when he saw the black sail returning, he thought that his son had been killed by a monster, so he sadly threw himself into the sea......"

The story of Prussian is finally finished, and Chen Mu can't help but think, what kind of competition will such a theme be?

Wondering, Mr. Trio had tapped his glass, and when the room fell silent, he looked around and then announced in a loud voice.

"Gentlemen, ladies, exciting times, it's here!"

Everyone knew that the game was about to start, and immediately burst into cheers and cheers!