Chapter 6 The Price of Keeping Promises
As soon as it was dawn the next morning, Wang Mingzhi woke up, washed his face, brushed his teeth, and washed up, and was about to go out after breakfast to tell his family that he had to run errands today, and that he didn't have to wait for him for lunch, and that he would solve it himself.
"What's wrong with Mingzhi, I got up so early today, I wouldn't get up when the sun was shining high on holidays, and I got up so early today, and I said that I wanted to do something." Mother nagged.
"What's so strange about this, your son doesn't have a proper line all day long, either going out to fool around or climbing trees to dig out birds' nests, how old are you and digging birds' nests is really not like words, these days have not practiced calligraphy and have not learned to improve, I really wonder if he is my own son." Father said angrily.
Wang Mingzhi's mother was not happy when she heard the royal father say this: "Don't you know if I explain it to your own son?" What you sow and what seedlings you plant, people say that the son is not the fault of the father, you tell me that you yourself except for writing and talking with a few so-called celebrities, have you ever managed Mingzhi?"
"You just protect him, why didn't I care about him, didn't I teach him to write so well now? Mothers are so defeated, hum! The royal father shook his head and walked into the study.
Wang Mingzhi went out of the house and didn't bother to go shopping, went straight to Laolongkou, there were not many pedestrians on the road, maybe it was relatively early, and it was lively after walking for a while, and there were more pedestrians in the morning market, and there were even talking about their school yesterday, and after the morning market, I turned around an alley and saw the three big characters of Laolongkou.
"Laolongkou" was built in 1662, that is, the first year of Kangxi. Because it is located at the east gate of Shengjing Dragon City, the east gate of Dragon City is the mouth of Dragon City, so it is named "Old Dragon Mouth". "Laolongkou" liquor pays tribute to the Qing court, and has been the imperial tribute wine of Kangxi, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang for 10 times in the eastern tour of Shengjing, which is called "imperial court tribute wine". During the Qing Dynasty's conquest, it was used as the Qing soldiers' heroic wine and expedition wine, and it was said that "Feizhen had drummed eight banners bravely" at that time.
There is also a legend in Laolongkou that a Shanxi merchant Mencius Jing came to Shengjing City to visit his uncle, and saw that Shengjing City was prosperous, so he bought a vacant land outside the small east gate and built a wine-making workshop.
There is a deep well in the courtyard of his workshop, but the well water is bitter and astringent, which is not suitable for winemaking, because "water is the blood of wine", so Mencius does not feel that it is difficult. Coincidentally, at this time, an Ao Gongzi who had received his favor came to visit and said that his ancestors would read feng shui, so they came to the door of the workshop together. Ao Gongzi said: This is the east of Tianzhu Mountain, which is the tail vein of Changbai Mountain.
Changbai Mountain is the birthplace of the Qing Dynasty, just use "Wanlong Spring" as the name, in addition, here is the east mouth of Shengjing City, it is the mouth of the dragon, and it is the "old dragon's mouth" as the brand! They came to the deep well again, and Ao Gongzi took a look at it and said, "This is obviously a sweet well, wait for me to scoop a bowl of water for you to taste!" After speaking, he jumped into the well, suddenly heard a loud noise in the well, and then a column of water gushed out, straight into the sky, and gradually turned into a white cloud. At this time, a ribbon floated down from the air, which read, "The third prince of the East China Sea, the little dragon king of the Liaohe River, is grateful to get rid of the calamity, and repays Wanlong Spring".
Seeing this, Mencius realized that Prince Ao was a dragon seed, and his "Wanlong Spring" was "a dragon spitting out heavenly syrup"! Since then, the bitter water well has become a sweet water well, and the "old dragon's mouth" has used this sweet well water to make wine for generations. Of course, this is just a legend, and it is unknown whether it is true or not.
Wang Mingzhi walked into the restaurant, because it was still early, so there were not many drinkers, he looked around and walked towards the account counter, and the boss brought me a jar of "Old Dragon's Mouth"
The boss looked at Wang Mingzhi: "The young man costs a lot of money for this jar of wine."
"Well, I know," Wang Mingzhi said, took out the money and asked the boss, "Do you think these are enough?" ”
The boss took the money and counted it: "Young man, you didn't have enough money, but today you were the first to buy a jar, and this wine will be sold to you."
"Thank you, uncle," Wang Mingzhi said happily!
The boss smiled, and hurriedly asked the guy to get the wine, and the idle boss looked at Wang Mingzhi and asked, "Young man, I think you look like a student going to school there." ”
"Uncle has good eyesight, I am a student, and I go to school in Dezhong Middle School," Wang Mingzhi replied.
"Oh, did your school get into a fight with our Japanese students yesterday? What the hell is going on? Hehe~ Uncle has also heard a lot of words, and today I want to hear from the people in the school about what is going on. The boss asked with interest.
At this time, some drinkers also stopped drinking and chatting, and they also wanted to hear what was going on with their ears sideways, Wang Mingzhi looked at this posture today He has to say it, okay, since they all want to listen, then I will talk about it.
"Here's the thing........................"
"Oh, I see" "That's" Wang Mingzhi said that the spit was flying, and it was a boring group fight, and it was shocking to cry ghosts and gods, which was really tearful for the hearers and sad for the listeners.
"It turns out that our students are so ambitious, they quit when they heard that they were going to sing in Japanese, and they fought and finally won more against the Japanese students, which is really amazing," said the drinker. "Yes, yes, these students are really amazing, they have given us Chinese a long face," Drinker B also said. "Little brother, you are also amazing, seeing that you are so weak that you can defeat two Japanese students who are taller than you, you are really unseemly" The drinker C praised Wang Mingzhi.
At this time, Wang Mingzhi had already gathered a lot of people around him, and he found out. The owner of the restaurant also said: "Young man, you are really ambitious for our old and young masters, come to this jar of wine and give it to you without charging money, it has not been so happy as today for many years, everyone said yes." "Yes", "Yes, yes", "It's been so many years that I've finally breathed a sigh of relief," everyone said.
He was a little ashamed to hear that the boss was going to waive the wine money, the matter was similar, but he also bragged about it and changed a lot. Busy said: "Uncle you have to take the wine money, I can't take your wine for nothing"
"Why is it for nothing, don't you also contribute to the big guys, uncle is happy today, haha, so I see that your young man is not a child who takes advantage, come to Uncle There are roast chicken, beef and peanuts for you, and I will charge you this money, what do you think."
"This! Thank you, uncle."
After saying goodbye to the restaurant owner and drinkers, Wang Mingzhi hurriedly took a rickshaw and rushed to the broken temple in the east of the city.
When he arrived at the broken temple, Wang Ming thought to himself, this old man can be picked up today, and there is wine and meat to see that he will not be happy today, so he said that he walked into the broken temple.
Entering the temple gate, the statue of Gong in the temple was already dilapidated, I don't know the god of Gong, he looked at no one, "strange no one", he shouted No one responded to him, not even the slightest sound.
He looked at it, found a clean place and sat down, and thought that perhaps the old man had gone out, but when it was almost noon, there was still no one. Wang Mingzhi was in a hurry, thinking to himself what was going on, the old man asked me to come to the broken temple in the east of the city to find him, why didn't there be anyone when I came, could it be a mistake? No, I also asked the eldest brother who pulled the cart about this broken temple in the east of the city, what's going on............
Haha, "Wait a minute, you kid is so patient, how can you do big things in the future?" With the sound of a man jumping from above the ruined temple, he saw that it was the old man.
He rolled his eyes: "I said, old man, why are you so willing to climb high, is it so fun every time?" ”
"Why are you waiting impatiently? Old man, I practice my muscles and bones and stretch my legs, and I am idle, and I am idle, you care about me? Then the old man went to turn over the wine and meat.
"I don't have the heart to care about you, I'm here to fulfill my promise today. You see the wine I brought, and I brought you roast chicken, beef, and peanuts, how about I treat you well."
"Not bad, not bad, haha~ You kid is interesting enough" The old man opened the lid of the wine jar, just wanted to drink it and put it down and asked: "You kid didn't put sweat medicine on me, you take a sip first" and then handed the wine jar to Wang Mingzhi
"I'm going to take sweat pills? If you don't believe it, don't drink it" Wang Mingzhi looked at the old man with disdain, but the old man still looked at him, "Okay, okay, I'll drink it, you can see it" Wang Mingzhi took the wine jar and took a sip and handed it to the old man
"You see I've drunk" After a while, the old man looked at him and said with a smile: "I already knew it would be fine, just try you, ha~ha" said and drank happily.
"You come to eat too, come on, let's have a good drink today," the old man said to Wang Mingzhi.
So he and the old man ate and drank, the wine was good wine, the food was good food, and they ate and drank happily. Wang Mingzhi's amount of wine is not good, and he can't find the north without a few drinks.
After being full of wine and food, the old man asked Wang Mingzhi to follow him, he followed the old man to the back of the temple in a daze, it turned out that there was a small forest behind the temple, through the grove to a place like a garden, to a rockery The old man stopped, looked at Wang Mingzhi: "Today I want you to promise me one thing" Wang Mingzhi said with a big tongue: "What is it, what I can do will be done for you, who is with whom in our relationship haha," "Hiccup" and then he hiccuped.
The old man looked at Wang Mingzhi and said, "I want you to worship me as a teacher and be my only apprentice." And then help me go kill someone" "What? Wang Mingzhi woke up in fright!
"No, no, no, I won't do this, you can find someone else," Wang Mingzhi shook his head like a rattle and was about to leave.
The old man looked at Wang Mingzhi coldly and said, "You can go, but I will definitely kill you, you can try." You have two choices now, one is to be my apprentice, and the other is to let me kill you, you can choose yourself."
"Is there a third choice?" asked Wang Mingzhi with a bitter face.
"Yes, you don't need me to do it, you can finish yourself by yourself" The old man stared at Wang Mingzhi and suddenly seemed to be a different person.
Wang Mingzhi is bitter in his heart, this is to force Liangshan, I am a promising young man, let me kill people, just kidding, I haven't even killed chickens, this is the rhythm of playing to kill me. But now I don't agree to this old man, he really won't let me go like this, I have long thought that this old man is strange and not simple, but I didn't expect this old man to be a "habitual offender". Now what? Why don't you promise him first and then make a calculation?
"Okay~ Okay, I promise you that I will be your apprentice" Wang Mingyi's face was reluctant.
"I want you to make a poisonous oath now to be my apprentice for the rest of your life, to kill someone for the old man, if you violate the oath, you will not be able to die."
Dizzy! Wang Mingzhi woke up early now, he regretted coming over to fulfill his promise, but now it was too late to regret it, so he gritted his teeth and said: "I, Wang Mingzhi, wish to be your apprentice, act for the master's order in this life, and make an oath here!" If you violate this oath, you can't die well!! ”
After listening to Wang Mingzhi's oath for a long time, the old man suddenly helped Wang Mingzhi up and cried and laughed: "I, Feng Haotian, finally have an apprentice, I have an apprentice, hahahaha!" ”
Wang Mingzhi was stunned: "Feng hate! Feng hated the sky! When he was young, in order to avenge his family, he shot and killed a Japanese officer, and Feng hattian made a storm in Fengtian City? ”
"Yes, it's me, that's all when I was young, and things are not as simple as they are as rumored outside. Since you have worshiped me as a teacher and a teacher, I will tell you the ins and outs, but now is not the time for you to come with the teacher first" After Feng Haotian finished speaking, he walked to the back of the rockery and pulled the mechanism, the rockery slowly moved away, revealing a stone staircase below............