Chapter Twenty-Four: It Seems to Be an Old Man

Mr. chatted with Lou's mother for a few more words and was about to go out, and Lou Shide also wanted to go out with him, so he opened his mouth and looked at his mother without speaking. Xiao Zheng saw Lou Shide's thoughts, and said to him: "If you want to go, go with us, don't be afraid, lead the way by the way." Lou Shide took a look at his mother and went out with his husband.

After walking for a while, I saw a few families in the northeast of the village, several houses were connected side by side, and before I walked into the yard, I heard the sound of clanging iron coming from the shed in the courtyard, through the fence wall, although it was a late autumn and the sky was slightly cool, but the men with sledgehammers were shirtless, with hot sweat on their foreheads and were knocking and beating, after seeing Mr. and Xiao Zheng clearly, they immediately threw down the sledgehammer in their hands and shouted and ran out, happily welcoming them into the yard.

Hearing someone talking outside, an old man who was a few years older than Mr. came out of the room and bent over, and the drowning baby followed behind, and after seeing Mr. Li and Xiao Zheng, he directly lay on the ground and kowtowed and said with tears in his eyes: "Little Lao'er, thank you two for saving my little grandson, if my grandson can't live, I will go with him." When this baby came back, I knew that the two of them had saved the little grandson by casting immortal methods, if it weren't for the little old man's body and bones and inconvenience, I would have gone to kowtow to Mr. to thank him." As he spoke, another woman came out of the room, and knelt down beside the old man, looking like the child's mother.

Pulled up the two people on the ground, and after a while someone went to the room to get a mat and wiped it and spread it under the big tree in the yard, the old man sat on the edge of the mat with Mr. Below, several men were very excited when they saw Mr. arrive, and at the same time the expression on their faces was a little restrained, seeing this Mr. smiled at these people and said: "You strong men even dare to fight tigers, and you are afraid that I will not be a teaching gentleman?" Sit down, everybody. Several of the men laughed when they heard this. The people sat down after a moment of humbleness, when a low table was set up. The man came over with the baby again, and the gentleman sat on the edge of the low table and checked the baby's pulse and said, "This child has nothing to do, just pay attention to it in the future." The child is also very grateful to Mr., respectfully kowtowed to Mr. a few more times, and after helping the child up, he turned to Jin'er and said: "We came this time to bring some gifts to this baby, you don't have to struggle, you must accept it." These men pushed back for a while and said that they could not accept Mr.'s things, until Mr. was a little anxious and threatened to leave immediately if he did not accept them, so everyone accepted Mr.'s gift with joy.

Seeing that noon was approaching, several men hurriedly called their respective mothers-in-law from their homes to help cook, and after a while, the kung fu rice was ready, although there were no delicacies and delicious but there were a lot of dishes, and the gang took out the tiger meat that was marinated last time and cooked a large pot. Before the meal, I saw two men come out of the house with four jars and put them on the mat, these men said to Mr.: "Sir, there is nothing good to eat in our peasant man's house, and when we have time, we will go to the headhunter bear to send a few bear paws to Mr. Hearing that these people still had some wine, Li Wenbo's eyes suddenly lit up and he smiled: "The old man is also a good wine person, and it is worth the trip to have such a good wine, so hurry up and serve it." When these men saw that Mr. was so straightforward and like-minded, they all smiled happily when they heard it. I saw that the baby's father said to a few people next to him: "Brothers, go and get a few bowls, let's let Mr. drink him today and not get drunk and not return." So saying, a woman placed several porcelain bowls in front of the crowd in turn.

Xiao Zheng also wanted to see what the legendary Sanle liquor in the Tang Dynasty looked like, only to see him a man patting the mud seal of the jar with his hand, and a smell of wine wafted out of the jar, Mr. first praised the good wine after smelling the aroma of the wine, and the liquor emitted a dark red luster when it was poured out of the jar, like grape wine, and he raised his nose and sniffed it carefully, the taste was warm and smooth with a hint of herbal fragrance, and it felt no different from the rice wine of later generations.

It seems that this wine has been stored for some years, after the smell of wine wafted out, the throats of several men have been swallowing saliva, and after the wine is full in the bowl, the child's father picked up the wine and said to Mr. and Xiao Zheng: "In Xia and these brothers have been under the control of General Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty in the past few years, and they have also accumulated some military exploits over the years. Besides, I'm getting older, and I can't live this life of licking blood with a knife, and many of the brothers who used to fight with us are now no longer in the world, and I can still eat and drink today and rely on my own life. After finishing speaking, he pointed to a few brothers next to him and said: "Dong Ershun, Rao Zhuzi, Meng Guang, Zhang Bing, these are all brothers who were born and died with me, and they were reluctant to part after they came out of the ranks, so they asked the court to give us the reward together, and we lived together so that we could take care of each other." In the family since childhood, the craft of blacksmithing was also passed on, so this blacksmith shop was set up, and when he was busy, he had to work in the fields, and in autumn and winter, he did some ironwork with several brothers to earn some hard-earned money. My children are also likable, usually these brothers are treated as their own sons, the last time I had an accident, I thought this baby would not survive, but was rescued by the two gentlemen, in the next ten thousand grateful, here first do it for respect! As he spoke, he picked up the bowl and drank it in one gulp.

After everyone saw this man go down with a bowl first, they couldn't wait to raise their heads and see the bottom of the bowl. Mr. first smelled the wine, then tasted it, and called out a good wine and drank most of the bowl, Xiao Zheng saw the master drink like this, so he took the bowl and drank it all, everyone saw that Xiao Zheng was young but so free and easy to applaud loudly, as soon as the wine entered the stomach Xiao Zheng felt a sweet heat flow in the stomach, but there was no momentum to drink spirits in later generations, so he had the bottom of the degree of this wine in his heart, and tasted it and felt that the taste was quite good is the taste he liked, so after the first bowl of wine was drunk, The man gave him a full bowl and didn't even stop him, which provoked these men to give Xiao Zheng a thumbs up again, praising Xiao Zheng for not being old but a good amount of wine, at first when Mr. looked at Xiao Zheng, he was worried that he was too drunk and afraid that he would get drunk, and reminded him that when he saw that Xiao Zheng was really fine with a bowl of wine, he ignored him, and turned his head to chat with the old man.

These men saw that Mr. drank more gentlely, and respected Mr.'s status and did not dare to persuade deeply, so they let Mr. drink at will, but seeing Xiao Zheng so arrogant, they were interested, and the man who retired from the army originally liked to drink a lot, so he let go and took turns to drink with Xiao Zheng, Xiao Zheng also did not refuse, and slowly he also found that his body was indeed born with a good amount of alcohol, except for feeling that his body was slightly hot and sweating on his forehead, he almost felt no discomfort, but the more he drank, the more energetic he became. These men saw that Xiao Zheng had such a large amount of alcohol at such a young age, and they admired his amount of alcohol even more.

As soon as the wine entered the stomach, everyone had no barriers, and a few men hooked up with Xiao Zheng and chatted, the baby's father saw that Xiao Zheng was wine to the bowl and cheered, and kept telling a few brothers to pour wine for Xiao Zheng, and the mouth was also Mr. Xiao Xiao short screaming, and finally Xiao Zheng really couldn't listen to it and said to this man: "There are masters and elders in front of the boy, and the youngest of you is the youngest, if you call Mr. Xiao Zi again, how can I let me drink this wine here, If you don't dislike it, just call the boy brother."

Those men smiled and said: "My brother has a cheerful personality when he sees you, then we will call you Brother Xiao." The father of the baby next to him said: "Actually, it's not Gao Pan Xiao brother in Xia, I have the same surname as you, and the surname Xiao is the same as you, and the surname Xiao Minghai is Xiao Minghai", Xiao Zheng was stunned when he heard it.