Chapter 90: Melting Snow
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"I heard that Your Excellency not only has a good amount of wine, but also has excellent resourcefulness, so I came to visit today, and by the way, I brought two pots of wine to drink with you, I don't know if you can appreciate your face." Ma Hong said with a smile, he didn't look at Shangguan Qian's eyes when he spoke, but looked inside along Shangguan Qian's neck, Shangguan Qian's skin was white and delicate, Ma Hong really doubted whether he was a woman disguised as a man, and when he saw the Adam's apple on Shangguan Qian's neck, he dispelled this idea.
"As long as there's good wine, I don't care who I'm drinking with." Shangguan Qian slowly tidied up his clothes, glanced at Ma Hong, and said.
"Very good, very good." Ma Hong responded.
Immediately after that, the two of them drank the wine one by one, no one was talking to anyone, and they drank until the wine jug was empty, and Ma Hong said: "Dare to ask Your Excellency, how is this wine?" ”
"Wine is good wine, but the owner of the wine does not let the guests drink to their heart's content." Shangguan Qian replied.
Ma Hong smiled slightly and said: "Your Excellency is wrong, now this wine club is your Excellency's, then Your Excellency is the master, and we are the guests." ”
Shangguan Qian admitted Ma Hong's words with a slight smile, and then said, "Then you came to get this wine club back?" ”
"I also want to make a bet with Your Excellency and make Your Excellency a friend." Ma Hong Road.
"What's the stake?" Shangguan Qian asked.
"Then it depends on your Excellency, what are you betting?" Ma Hong asked rhetorically.
Shangguan Qian slowly licked his lips, and after tasting the taste of wine, he said slowly: "For the sake of good wine, I will give you a chance, I will let you do one thing, if you do it, I will return this wine club, if you can't do it, you will give me ten more vats of wine like that just now, how about it?" ”
"Tell me, I'll do my best." Ma Hong Road.
"Oh, I promised so quickly, dare to ask Your Excellency, is the snow white or black?"
Ma Hong smiled and said: "Snow is white in my eyes, but it is not white in my heart, because snow is meant to cover up dirty things." ”
Shangguan Qian clapped his hands and praised: "Well said, now I will let you do one thing, let all the snow in the backyard melt within an hour, but there must be two prerequisites for doing this." First, the position of the snow cannot be moved; Second, you can't melt the snow with fire, and third, you have to do it alone. ”
Ma Hong stood up and opened the window to look at the snow in the backyard, the snow was more than half a foot thick, and there were snowflakes floating in the air. Ma Hong then turned around and walked into the kitchen, where there was enough dry wood to boil ten pots of boiling water, and the snow in the backyard only needed five pots of hot water at most to melt.
Chopping wood and fetching water were not easy things for some noble children, but they were simple things for Ma Hong, after all, he was poor in his last life. The water does not need to be boiled, forty degrees of water is enough, and Ma Hong boils three pots of water at one time, and an hour's time is enough to melt the snow in a yard. After a stick of incense, when Ma Hong was about to walk out of the kitchen with a hot water bucket, Shangguan Qian stopped him.
Shangguan Qian took the hot water bucket in Ma Hong's hand and poured the hot water into the cauldron, and said with a smile: "If you pour hot water into the yard, it will be even more difficult to walk when it freezes, so it's better to let me take a hot bath, isn't it?" ”
Ma Hong smiled and said, "My nose tells me that you really should take a bath." ”
Maybe when Ma Hong first met Shangguan Qian, Shangguan Qian just wanted to take a hot bath.
The war drums in the north have been beaten, the war between Cao Yuan and the two has slowly heated up, this war is like charcoal in the brazier, when the bystanders just put their hands close to the "brazier", because the charcoal fire is slightly hot, warm and pleasant, the onlookers will not feel the crisis, but once the charcoal fire is hot, the bystanders will be forced to hold their hands away, if the flame is ignored, the flame will sooner or later burn to those bystanders. Now all the heroes in the world are bystanders, presumably it won't be long before Jingzhou will be surrounded by this blazing flame, Ma Hong thought to himself.
"What do you think of the war between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao?" Ma Hong turned his head and asked Shangguan Qian, Shangguan Qian's fine white skin was red from the flames, and his palms were slightly sweaty.
Shangguan Qian retracted and wiped the sweat from his palms with his sleeve, sinking his head as if he was thinking about something.
Ma Liang, who was sitting on the side, saw Shangguan Qian and speak, so he replied: "Brother, I think Yuan Shao has a great chance of winning, from the perspective of comprehensive strength, Yuan Shao is stronger than Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao also has General Liu's ally, General Liu is likely to attack Cao Cao's rear while the two are fighting." (General Liu here refers to Liu Biao.) )
Shangguan Qian raised his head at this time, squinted his eyes and said, "Liu Biao will not send troops. ”
"Which of them does the brother think will win?" Ma Liang asked.
Ma Hong, who knew the answer to this historical battle, smiled slightly and said: "I think Cao Cao can win." ”
Shangguan Qian opened his eyes and looked at Ma Hong who was smiling, then suddenly stretched his hand out of the brazier, quickly took out a piece of charcoal that was about to burn out, and shook the whole piece of charcoal with a hard grip, and the floating sparks flew in front of him.
Ma Hong looked at Shangguan Qian, who seemed to be smiling, and raised his hand in front of him, and then motioned for himself to stretch out his hand. Although Ma Hong was a little puzzled, he still stretched out his hand to catch the charcoal ash that slowly leaked from Shangguan Qian's fingers, and the residual heat of the charcoal ash made Ma Hong couldn't help frowning.
"It's just a piece of burning charcoal that makes you look like that, so how do people who are really in the middle of war feel? You have been involved in war, but you may not really understand the cruelty of war. Shangguan Qian suddenly raised his voice and increased the speed of his speech, changing his way of speaking slowly.
Ma Hong secretly thought to himself: In this way, he must also be a person who has been devastated by the war. After considering the language, he said, "What do you think of our dynasty?" ”
"I'm running out of gas." Shangguan Qian put the charcoal ash in his hand into Ma Hong's hand and said with a trembling voice.
Ma Hong smiled and said: "Han, the number of qi is exhausted, and anyone with a discerning eye can see it, doesn't Zhiyuan think that the next world is more exciting?" ”
Shangguan Qian nodded and said, "It's not early, and I'm a little tired below." We'll talk about that another day. ”
Ma Hong nodded and made a gesture of invitation to Shangguan Qian.
Shangguan Qian is a native of Shangtai in Tianshui County, and the Shangguan clan was originally a big family, but during the reign of Emperor Zhao of the Western Han Dynasty, Shangguan Ji and his son Shangguan An wanted to plot against the nine clans, and the Shangguan clan declined since then. Shangguan Qian is a vein of Shangguan Ji, when Shangguan Ji and Shangguan An were beheaded, Shangguan An's wife Huo Shi (Huo Guang's daughter) was pregnant at the time, so she left a bloodline for Shangguan An. Shangguan Qian's ancestors once left a word that future generations were not allowed to be courtiers of the Han emperor.
Shangguan Qian has been smart since childhood, rarely famous in Tianshui County, likes to make friends, prefers to travel everywhere, three years ago Shangguan Qian had traveled to Xuchang to study, and then returned home, but when Shangguan Qian returned home, he found that he had nothing, only a few lonely graves and empty houses. It turned out that not long after Shangguan Qian left home, his home was ransacked by bandits, who brutally killed all the men and raped his mother and thirteen-year-old sister. After being ransacked by bandits, Shangguan's mansion was ransacked again by the gangsters in the township, and Shangguan Qian's relatives and friends buried Shangguan Qian's relatives without waiting for Shangguan Qian's return because they could not get news of Shangguan Qian for a long time.
Shangguan Qian returned home on the 154th day after the disaster at home, and because he was 154 days late, he kowtowed 154 times in front of his parents' graves, and then left his hometown to wander around.
On the last night of the fourth year of Jian'an, Ma Hong went back to his room to rest after eating with his family, lying on the bed and thinking about the problem slowly, he is a variable in this world, but I don't know if this variable will turn into the joy or sorrow of this world. Ma Hong thought about it and opened his mouth in the dark, smiling unscrupulously, whether it is to bring happiness to this world or disaster, I have to live for myself once.
Before dawn, the snowflakes were still drifting, and the snow on the earth reflected a faint light, and a young man in a felt hat and a brocade robe rode a horse in the snow. The young man was hurrying with the reins in one hand and a pot of wine in the other, and this person was Shangguan Qian. Shangguan Qian turned his head to look behind him, there was a black expanse behind him, Shangguan Qian looked at the darkness behind him, smiled, and said, "What an interesting person." ”
For Shangguan Qian's farewell, Ma Hong felt uncomfortable in his heart for a few days, Ma Hong had a good impression of the young man from the bottom of his heart, and wanted to take the opportunity to win over Shangguan Qian to become his helper, but unexpectedly, Shangguan Qian did not say goodbye, and did not even leave a letter, this man who did not leave any traces in history, only left a few empty wine jars in this restaurant, and also left a wisp of doubt in Ma Hong's heart.
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