The door of the Cheng family politely invited Xue Rengui and his party into the mansion and opened the side door.

This is already a very high treatment, after all, they are walking through the main gate, although they do not enter from the middle gate, but such as the Cheng family, the gate of their house is not for anyone to walk, that is, the emperor is here, or several prime ministers in the center have arrived, so that the Cheng family can open the middle door to greet them.

Ordinary civil and military officials, as long as they are not wearing purple and crimson official uniforms, are not even qualified to enter through the side door of this gate.

When Li Xiao sighed at the vermilion lacquer door of the Cheng family, the big copper nail bubble on the door, and the two rows of halberds in front of the door, a long laugh was already ringing in his ears.

"Hahahaha!"

"The old general is here." Xue Rengui turned his head and reminded Li Xiao, and greeted him with a big smile.

The second-generation general of the Tang Dynasty approached, and then Cheng Yanjin directly crossed Xue Rengui and walked over.

"Xiao Xue said that he brought the person who brewed the burning knife, well, he brought two people today, it can't be Xue Xiaowu, it must be this one. But at such a young age, how is it possible, Xiao Xue, you won't be playing tricks on me, right? ”

Xue Rengui, the first royal thug in front of the emperor, was actually called Xiao Xue by Cheng Jin, but Xue Rengui was not at all unhappy, and he kept a smile on his face.

"I don't dare to deceive the old general, this is my little friend, and he is also a friend of Goro, a wonderful person in the mountains at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains in Lantian. The burning knife that the old general drank before was brewed by him, and revealed a little secret to the old general, and now the frosting candy that you have newly received from the palace in your house is actually improved by this little friend's secret recipe, otherwise how can it be so white. ”

"Hey, it's really unseemly!"

Cheng Yanjin listened and circled around Li Xiao, a pair of eyes looked to the left, and while looking at it, he shook his head and said, "Young, it's too young, the frosting candy given by the palace recently is indeed whiter than before, but there is no basis for words, and there must be empirical evidence." ”

Li Xiao was also looking at Cheng Yanjin.

Guozi face, red face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a little collapsed nose, a big mouth, a handful of old teeth are still very neat and white, the key is that his face and beard are still a little golden.

I don't know if this is a lack of trace elements, or because of a bit of Hu blood, after all, since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the northern Hu is very powerful, especially in Hebei and Henan at that time, Han and Hu intermarriages, and there are many cases of mixed blood.

Cheng Biting Jin is tall and strong, as if he has a big belly, I heard that the general Wang Shiji in the Sui Dynasty had a bigger belly, known as the waist circumference of ten belts.

"Boy, what's your name?" Cheng Yanjin asked.

Li Xiao smiled and bowed his hand, "Boy Li Xiao, the third in the family, a native of Lanxi Township, Lantian County, Guanzhong, a rural idler, today with the help of General Xue, I was able to come to visit the world-famous General Cheng, it is really a blessing for three lives, it is really better to hear than to see, the boy has heard many of the prestige deeds of the old General Cheng when he was young, and he can't imagine that the old general's body is still so strong now!" ”

"Don't say what about the wine?" Cheng Yanjin doesn't have the slightest frame of imperial generals and ministers, but looks like an old drunkard.

How can there be such a host, the guest comes to the door, and he is anxious to ask for the gift that the person brings.

However, the status of the family is noble, which can be called free and easy.

Xue Rengui seemed to have long been accustomed to all this, and directly took out the prepared bottle of burning knife. The wine was brewed by Li Xiao, but the wine vessel had been replaced.

When Li Xiao made wine, he directly took a gourd and packed it, which was grown in the countryman's own land, and he didn't need money at all.

In the hands of Xue Rengui, of course, it is impossible to use such a vulgar thing to give a gift, he changed the precious white porcelain bottled wine produced by the white porcelain workshop of Xingyao, Hebei, the porcelain bottle is very white, and a picture of a lady is painted on the bottle.

At first glance, the high-end atmosphere is much more graded.

However, Lao Cheng is obviously not a person who loves this mouth, and when he saw this porcelain bottle, he was still dissatisfied and said, "Didn't the burning knife last time be filled with a gourd, why did you change this porcelain bottle this time." ”

"The wine is still the same as burning knives, like fire." Xue Rengui, the white-robed general who was famous on the battlefield in Liaodong and shocked the Goguryeo people, was as polite as a disciple at this time.

Cheng Yanjin took it and opened it.

Suddenly, the smell of wine came to my face.

He couldn't help but perk up, "Good wine, that's the taste!" ”

Li Xiao laughed beside him, in fact, this is just a wine steamed by the simplest distillation method, named Burning Knife, because this wine has not been stored in the kiln, the wine is very heavy, it is generally said that this wine is raw wine, and the wine has to be stored in the kiln before it can precipitate and become fragrant.

The real good wine is not the kind of strong wine that is raised on the surface, but it should have a good taste when drinking, not spicy, but after drinking, it has its own stamina mellow and fragrant, that is a good wine, and it can't be drunk, and there is no headache the next day.

And Li Xiao's current burning knife is only the most basic version of liquor. Originally, he didn't plan to use it to drink, but the original purpose was to steam some soju out and use it for disinfection and brewing some toilet water, so he didn't pursue any taste or anything like that.

Who would have thought that he would be bumped into by Xue Wu, and he gave a bottle to Xue Rengui, and Xue Rengui was bumped into by Cheng Yanjin again.

After a sip of wine, the hot sensation rises.

The wine entered the throat and flowed into the abdomen, and it felt like a fire rose from the dantian and rose straight up.

Cheng Yanjin's face turned even redder.

He took a long breath of wine and patted his thigh, "Yes, that's the taste, it's like a knife in your stomach when you drink it, it's cool!" ”

"Old general, this wine is strong, angry, and has great stamina, you have to drink it slowly, don't be greedy for a cup."

Lao Cheng ignored it and took another sip.

While drinking, he still frowned and had a bitter face, but despite his expression, he was happy in his heart.

Sigh deliciously.

"This wine is so strong, you have to drink such a strong wine to drink. Men, especially generals like me who are in the army and fight on the battlefield, have to ride strong horses and drink strong wine. Boy, you are a talent, first figured out the secret recipe for whiter frosting, and now you have figured out a way to make the water and wine stronger, you know. Simply, come to my cantonment camp as an errand boy, I will guarantee you a flying cavalry officer, you don't have to worry about hardships and fatigue, when you arrive at the cantonment, you will be responsible for instructing the wine. ”

Before, Xue Rengui said that he would accept Li Xiao as his personal guard and arrange for him to enter the right leading guard. Now Cheng Yanjin spoke again, and as soon as he spoke, he asked him to enter the cantonment camp to be the Imperial Forest Army.

"Thank you for the kindness of the old general, I was supported by General Xue before, Your Majesty has already let me receive the ministry of the history of the government in the Shaofu Temple, I am afraid that I will not be able to receive the support of the old general."

"Shaofu Temple? It's just a place for artisans, what's the point. If you want to come, you will come to the camp, the Son of Heaven will personally guard, and in the future, you will make meritorious achievements, and you will be sealed in a hundred battles, isn't it painful? ”