The shopkeeper was not very old, but he was very oily, so he did not answer Li Jing positively, but introduced him to the wine and rice in the store with a smile.

"Childe, the shop has a good Chang'an 'Earth Kiln Spring', as well as a fat sheep growing on the grassland outside the Guan, you can drink wine, do you want to drink two bowls to warm your body?"

Li Jing took advantage of the situation to look at the young shopkeeper with a suspicious gaze, and said: "I grew up in Chang'an since I was a child, and I have also been to Guanwai, and I will know if this 'Tuyao Spring' is true or false when I drink it, even if I eat mutton, I will know if it is from outside the Guan, you can't blind me." As he spoke, he raised his leg and was about to go to the back kitchen to see the reality.

The young shopkeeper didn't know that Li Jing was taking the opportunity to probe the truth in his shop, so he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, patted his chest and said: "If what the little Fang just said is not true, he will only treat this wine and meat as a free gift to his son, and he will not take a penny." How about it, the little one ordered the guys to serve wine and food, and when the young lady had finished bathing, the mutton was also roasted, and the son accompanied the young lady to drink the 'earth kiln spring' and eat the roast fat sheep, which was called a cool. ”

Li Jing deftly bypassed the shopkeeper, walked straight through the hall, walked into the backyard, and explained to the young shopkeeper: "You don't know the shopkeeper, my sister has long been clamoring to taste the roast fat sheep outside the Guanwai, if she knows that the sheep in your store are not from the grassland outside the Guanwai, I have to be nagged endlessly by her, where is the back kitchen, I still have to go and see for myself." ”

He came to the backyard and looked around, but he couldn't see a little light in the guest rooms downstairs and upstairs, so he turned around and asked the young shopkeeper dissatisfiedly: "The rooms in your store are obviously empty, why don't you want us to have more private rooms?" ”

In order to make Li Jing believe that he had not lied to him, the young shopkeeper took him to the back kitchen, pointed to the two pots of boiled and boiling mutton soup in the room, and said to Li Jing: "That group of distinguished guests went out to discuss business after dawn today, and they have not returned, Childe, look, this is not the mutton soup prepared for them?" There is mutton piled up on the cutting board over there, and if the son can't rest assured, he can get closer and look carefully, but he said that the shop deceived the customers. ”

Li Jing pretended to walk to the soup pot first, observed the soup, and then walked to the cutting board, picked up a piece of mutton with chopsticks and put it under his nose and sniffed it, frowned, turned around and walked out of the back kitchen, and said critically to the palm behind him: "Your sheep is indeed a species outside the Guan, but it didn't grow up by eating the grass on the grassland outside the Guanwai, and you can eat it on the ground." In this way, you can bring me two pots of 'Earth Kiln Spring', and then roast two plates of fat sheep, and it will be done tonight." ”

The shopkeeper didn't know the details of Li Jing, and when he saw that he only walked around the back kitchen, he had already seen that the sheep in his store were actually lambs bought from outside the customs and raised in the store, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and followed Li Jing back to the front hall with a smile, and immediately ordered the man to serve a pot of wine, and said to Li Jing: "Son, please taste it first, this is the authentic Chang'an 'Tuyao Spring'." ”

Li Jingtui said that he wanted to wait for Feng Xiaoxi and Manniang to eat together, and instructed the shopkeeper to put the wine on a few cases, and politely asked the shopkeeper to get busy, so he didn't have to accompany him anymore, and then sat down next to a few cases, poured a bowl of wine out of the pot, and took advantage of the fact that the shopkeeper and the guy in the store no longer paid attention to him, and quickly pulled out the silver hairpin with the bunched hair and inserted it into the wine bowl to test whether the wine was poisonous.

Before Li Jing could pull the silver hairpin out of the wine bowl, he suddenly heard a hearty laugh not far behind him: "I have already drunk this wine, it is indeed the authentic Chang'an 'Tuyao Spring', the wine is non-toxic, General Li can drink it happily." ”

Li Jing was taken aback, stood up, turned his head to look, and saw a high-roller standing at the entrance of the hall, dressed in a brocade robe, with a red face, and a beard on his sideburns, looking at him with a smile.

"Dare to ask this brother Taigao's surname, do you know Zaixia?" Although Li Jing has never seen Zhang Zhongjian, he has heard people say that this "Wild Goose's Nest" killer, who was famous in Chang'an as early as the early years of the emperor, has a beard, and his appearance is different from ordinary people.

The high-rollers didn't answer, and said to the shopkeeper in the hall: "The shopkeeper, temporarily borrow your hall for use, and all the idle people will retreat, and I want to talk to the famous General Li Jing of the Jin Palace." ”

The young shopkeeper recognized this Jianghu high-roller at a glance as the leader of the group of distinguished guests, and heard that he was going to talk to Li Jing alone in the hall, without saying a word, he beckoned a few guys to exit the front hall.

"A certain line does not change its name, does not change its surname, Guangling Zhang Zhongjian, has long admired General Li's name, has prepared wine and fat sheep in this store in advance, and wants to be close to General Li, I don't know if General Li can appreciate his face?" Zhang Zhongjian walked slowly towards Li Jing, still with a smile on his face.

It's not good, I fell into Zhang Zhongjian's trap! Li Jing heard Zhang Zhongjian calmly report his name and reveal his identity, a thought quickly flashed in his mind, and instinctively turned back to look at the guest room on the second floor.

"General Li, please rest assured, I Zhang do things, it is not difficult for others, a few years ago in Xinzhou, a certain has made an agreement with Xiao Xi, the two of us will choose a secluded place to practice swordsmanship, live in seclusion, and never ask about worldly things again." Zhang Zhongjian seemed to be sure of victory, walked to Li Jing's side, sat down steadily, and explained his intention to him, "But a few days ago, I got the news that General Li was about to marry Feng Xiaoxi as his wife, which made me puzzled, since ancient times, there has never been a precedent for a woman to marry a second husband, so I made a special trip to this store to wait for the two, I want to ask Xiao Xi in person, she promised me before whether she has done a count, and I also want to see, what kind of character General Li is, can win Xiao Xi's heart?" ”

Li Jing guessed from Zhang Zhongjian's act of appearing alone to see him that this "Baishun old store" was under Zhang Zhongjian's control inside and outside, and he was really concerned about the safety of Feng Xiaoxi and Manniang, lest Zhang Zhongjian's subordinates take the opportunity to rob her two, so he ignored Zhang Zhongjian and shouted upstairs: "Xiaoxi, Manniang, are you all okay?" ”

To Li Jing's surprise, upstairs only Feng Xiaoxi replied calmly: "Li Jing, I'm hungry, so I'll come down." ”

Immediately, I saw Feng Xiaoxi helping Manniang out of the upstairs guest room.

Zhang Zhongjian, who was sitting next to Li Jing, looked at the surprised expression on Li Jing's face, laughed, and looked up at Feng Xiaoxi and shouted, "Xiaoxi, the eldest brother has come to see you." ”