"Meet General Qin below!" Li Xiu gave a deep salute to Qin Qiong opposite Ma Ye, he didn't expect that the guest invited by Ma Ye turned out to be Qin Qiong, but after thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is not surprising, Ma Ye's personal guard Lao Qi used to be Qin Qiong's personal soldiers, and this alone can know that the relationship between Ma Ye and Qin Qiong is not ordinary.

"You're welcome, sit!" Maybe it's because he doesn't have to act as a bodyguard by Li Shimin's side, Qin Qiong's words seem to be a little more than before, for example, this time he actually said five words in one sentence, which is really rare.

Li Xiu was not a polite person, he said hello to Ma Ye again and sat down, and then Ma Ye immediately spoke: "Boy, won't you forget to prepare the bar this time like last time?" Uncle Bao came to me today, but he didn't get drunk and didn't return! ”

"Don't worry, the wine and food are ready, I promise to let you and General Qin have a good time!" Li Xiu smiled when he heard this, patted the food box beside him, although he didn't like wine, he knew that Ma Ye had guests, so he specially prepared some "good wine" to entertain guests yesterday afternoon.

"Really, even if your little food box is full of wine, I'm afraid it won't be enough for me and Uncle Bao to drink?" Ma Ye didn't believe it at this time, he and Qin Qiong were both massive, and every time they drank until their stomachs swelled, they only felt a little drunk, so he was worried that Li Xiu would not have enough wine to prepare, and he also prepared a lot of good wine in advance.

"Uncle Ma, don't believe it, don't blame me if you're drunk for a while!" Li Xiu opened the food box as he spoke, and then took out the dishes inside and put them on the table, although he said that he was here to fish today, but Ma Ye asked people to prepare a few short, and the three of them sat on the ground like this, but they were quite free.

Ma Ye watched Li Xiu bring up the dishes in the same way, some of which he had eaten and some that he had not eaten, each of which was fragrant, but he wanted to see what kind of wine Li Xiu was taking, but in the end, Li Xiu took out a small wine jar from the bottom of the food box, which seemed to be only two or three catties, and this bit of wine was not enough for him to drink alone.

"Boy, you...... Who is going to drink with such a little bit of wine you have prepared? Ma Ye couldn't help but be angry when he saw this, he knew that Li Xiu hated drinking very much, and he didn't like others to drink, so he thought that he had deliberately prepared such a little wine.

"Hehe, Uncle Ma, don't be in a hurry to get angry, you can smell it and know the mystery of this wine!" Li Xiu smiled and opened the cork on the wine jar, and as a result, a rich aroma of wine wafted out, and even Qin Qiong, who had always cherished words like gold, couldn't help but praise at this time: "Good wine!" ”

"Huh? Why is this wine so familiar? Ma Ye twitched his nose vigorously, as if he wanted to suck all the wine into his stomach, but his face showed a puzzled expression, because he felt that the wine seemed to have smelled somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"Hehe, Uncle Ma, of course you will feel familiar, do you remember the alcohol I used to treat the princess's injuries when I was in Gyeongju?" Li Xiu said with a smile, after he made alcohol, the distillation equipment also became his personal belongings and was brought back, yesterday I heard that Ma Ye wanted to clear the guest, so he specially made some distilled liquor, of course, the degree is not very high, it is estimated that it is only thirty or forty degrees, for Ma Ye, who usually only drinks about twenty degrees of wine, it is already considered a high degree of wine.

"Isn't that for healing, can you drink it too?" Ma Ye said with a puzzled expression when he heard this.

When Li Xiu distilled alcohol, he did feel that the alcohol was very fragrant, but later he heard that it was used to treat the princess's injuries, and several large jars of wine were only made into a small jar, which made him completely dispel other ideas, and later the princess's injuries improved, he was also overjoyed, and alcohol was also left behind by him, after all, in his opinion, alcohol is just a special medicine.

"Of course you can drink it, in fact, distilled spirits are meant to be drunk!" Li Xiu said with a smile.

Compared to Ma Ye, who likes to dig into the roots, Qin Qiong is much more direct, I saw him pick up the wine jar and pour himself a bowl, and then drink it all, but he is used to drinking low-alcohol wine of about twenty degrees, and at this time, he suddenly drank such a strong wine, and for a while he only felt like he was drinking a stream of hot iron in his mouth, and instinctively wanted to spit it out, but Qin Qiong was not an ordinary person, so he suddenly swallowed this strong wine.

However, although the wine was swallowed, Qin Qiong's yellow face was flushed, and she felt as if her stomach was about to rebel, and after a while, she slowly recovered, and couldn't help but open her mouth and spit out four words: "What a strong wine!" ”

Seeing Qin Qiong's appearance, Ma Ye couldn't help but be curious, and immediately picked up the wine bowl and tasted it, because of Qin Qiong's previous experience, he only took a small sip, but as soon as the wine was in his mouth, Ma Ye's face was all wrinkled, and after a while, he also shouted excitedly: "Good wine!" Joyfully! This is the wine for people to drink, no wonder you kid was dismissive of the wine I drank in the first place, it turns out that you already knew that there was better and stronger wine! ”

After Ma Ye finished speaking, he laughed again, drank all the wine in the wine bowl in a few sips, his face was full of painful and happy expressions, and then he filled Qin Qiong and himself with wine again, the two of them raised their glasses almost at the same time and touched them, and then drank them all, although it was the same spirit, but as long as they were mentally prepared, it was not difficult for them to drink it all in one gulp.

"Uncle Ma, General Qin, drinking on an empty stomach is too hurtful, hurry up and taste how today's appetizers taste!" Li Xiu also beckoned the two of them to eat at this time, the two of them don't hold chopsticks, and he, a junior, is not easy to start, you must know that he hasn't eaten lunch yet.

Ma Ye heard this and hurriedly beckoned Qin Qiong to eat, some of the dishes he had eaten, so he was very enthusiastic to help him introduce, and asked Li Xiu if he hadn't eaten it, but Li Xiu didn't have time to pay attention to him, at this time he was munching on a braised lion's head with chopsticks, this is one of his favorite dishes, since teaching Yuechan, she has been making it more and more delicious.

"Boy, this distilled spirit is very much to my liking, how about we make it and sell it for money?" After three rounds of drinking, Ma Ye suddenly opened his mouth and proposed, during this time, the vegetables in the greenhouse could no longer be sold at a high price, and the income in the princess's mansion plummeted, which made him very uncomfortable for him who was used to spending lavishly.

"I can't sell it, it's too much food!" Li Xiu swallowed the lion's head with difficulty, and then immediately used chopsticks to fork one and continued to eat, there were four big lion heads on the plate, and he ate two by himself.

"Yes, I heard that the crown prince wrote to His Majesty and asked for a ban on alcohol, and it is estimated that after a while, he will not even be able to drink light wine!" Qin Qiong suddenly said a paragraph at this time, although this passage is not long, but for Qin Qiong, it can be regarded as a long speech.

"Don't be surprised, as long as Uncle Bao drinks alcohol, he will be able to speak normally!" Seeing Li Xiu's surprised look, Ma Ye smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and then frowned and said, "If you really ban alcohol, it will be really troublesome, but Li Xiu, you are right, now that there is a shortage of food, if a large amount of wine is made, I am afraid that the price of grain will be more expensive, and the lives of the people will be more difficult." ”

"In fact, there are good and bad sides to everything, for example, although alcohol is a waste of food, and it is easy to cause various problems when drunk, but at the same time it can also be used as medicine to treat wounds, so it is a bit arbitrary to ban alcohol." Li Xiu said while munching on the lion's head, chatting is nothing more than bragging, anyway, there is no need to be responsible.

"How does wine heal wounds?" Qin Qiong was also stunned when he heard this, he was not present when Li Xiu purified alcohol in Gyeongju City that day, so he didn't know about alcohol.

"It can indeed cure injuries, Li Xiu distilled alcohol from the wine at the beginning, and then healed the princess's injuries!" Ma Ye hurriedly said at this time, but he only knew that alcohol could cure injuries, and he didn't know how to treat them, because every time Li Xiu cleaned Princess Pingyang's wounds, Ma Ye and others had to avoid it, and Li Xiu couldn't tell outsiders that he washed the princess's thighs, otherwise he would have been cut by Princess Pingyang a long time ago.

"Hehe, in fact, it's nothing, the wine reaches a certain concentration, and it can be applied to the wound to prevent the wound from becoming inflamed, Uncle Ma, you just said that it is a little unrealistic to sell it with distilled liquor, but it can distill a small amount of alcohol for military use, although it will also consume some food, but it can also save the lives of many soldiers!" Li Xiu said with a smile.

"Boy, why didn't you ever tell me that alcohol prevents wounds from becoming inflamed!" Ma Ye's eyes suddenly widened when he heard this, and he stared at Li Xiu with an annoyed expression and asked, he had always thought that alcohol was just a medicine made for Princess Pingyang's injuries, but he didn't expect that it also had the effect of preventing inflammation of the wound.

"Didn't I tell you?" Li Xiu also asked in surprise at this time, he thought that Ma Ye knew the effects of alcohol.

"Of course I didn't say it, if I had known that alcohol had this effect, I would have reported it to the imperial court to make alcohol, do you know how many soldiers in the army die every year because of wound inflammation?" Ma Ye also shouted angrily at this time.

"Huh? This one...... Maybe I forgot! Li Xiu thought about it carefully, when he just distilled the alcohol that day, he originally wanted to explain the effect of alcohol to Ma Ye, but he was interrupted by Li Shimin, who suddenly appeared, and then forgot about it, so if you want to blame this matter, blame Li Shimin, anyway, he has too many sins on his body, and it is not bad.

"Stinky boy, you always do this kind of non-musical thing, where is that weird thing that distills alcohol?" Ma Ye reprimanded again, but he couldn't do anything about Li Xiu.

"At my house!" Li Xiu also knew that he had done something wrong, and replied very honestly at the moment.

Hearing his words, Ma Ye immediately ordered Lao Qi to fetch it, his face was still angry, and Qin Qiong next to him explained: "Brother Ma, don't blame Captain Li too much, it's just that it's been delayed for a few months, and there is no war during this time, and nothing can be missed, as for the alcohol military, it's not a matter of one or two days, don't be in a hurry!" ”

"That's it! Or General Qin understands things! When Li Xiu heard this, he immediately borrowed the slope to get off the donkey road, which made Ma Ye glared at him again.

Although Qin Qiong helped Li Xiu speak, he still felt a little weak-hearted, and then he was very attentive, and kept persuading the two to drink, Ma Ye slowly lost his breath, and Qin Qiong raised a glass to drink, and chatted about some old things, but Li Xiu listened more and more wrong, and asked very strangely at the moment: "Uncle Ma, General Qin, listen to the meaning of your words, you seem to have known each other for a long time?" ”

"Of course, Uncle Bao and I have known each other for twenty years!" Ma Ye's words also surprised Li Xiu, he never expected that Ma Ye and Qin Qiong would know each other so early!