CHAPTER XXVII

Although the wine in the Tang Dynasty was brewed from pure grain, the wine was not expensive, and only a dozen copper plates per catty of wine. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info in later generations, there are not more than a few hundred yuan, if you want to drink pure grain wine, it is difficult to kick the sky.

There was originally a winery in Anhe's hometown, and when the winery was profitable, the profits of hundreds of millions of yuan a year, and more than 80% of the county's failed government income came from this winery.

In the 80s, this distillery advertised on CCTV, with the famous cross talk actor Ma Ji as the spokesperson, with a loud advertising slogan "East, West, South, North, Middle, Good Wine in XX". For a time, the popularity of this wine was well-known all over the country, and the convoy that came to pull the wine could be discharged for several miles, and some people could not pull the wine after waiting here for a week.

The streets of the township where the distillery is located are full of sake lees left over from the sake brewing, and you can smell a strong smell of sake from afar before you enter the town.

The men and women who go out of this town are very good at drinking, and it is known as "a thousand cups are not drunk, and a bottle is not poured".

If you see a table of people lying under the table at the wine table, and there is a sober person, which person is very likely to be someone from the town where the winery is located.

If you look at a table where everyone is eating and drinking, they will be happy.

There was only one person who was drunk under the table, and possibly from the township where the distillery was located.

Here's why:

If everyone doesn't know that this person is from the township where the winery is located, everyone drinks evenly, and no one pours anyone, and the people in the township where the winery is located often drink wine in the winery, which wine is large! Anyway, it's a flat drink, have I drunk more than you, I drink a lot, who is afraid of whom!

So all the people at the table were drunk by him, and where else did he pour himself to drink, and everyone was drunk and he woke up alone.

But anyone at the wine table knew that this person was from the township where the winery was located, so naturally became the focus of everyone's attention, so everyone unanimously pointed their heads at him, one person stood up and toasted a glass, and drank it, while the others toasted and didn't drink, and everyone said that you looked down on him, so he drank a circle.

Later, a few people saw that they were not busy drinking, and someone suggested that they should find someone who could drink to clear the customs!

Let's take a look, who can drink the most!

No need to ask, you are from the township where the winery is located, you must be the best to drink, you can clear the customs!

At first, I shirked it, but I couldn't stand the praise of so many people! Suddenly a little fluttery, just play a clearance!

In a piece, in the sound of "five hands, six or six shun eight horses", I drank more than ten cups.

Everyone saw that this guy had drunk so much and was not drunk, it seemed that a few of us were too incompetent, which aroused the anger of the public. So several people colluded together, thinking of ways to make him drink more.

At this time, usually a junior person will stand up and serve him a drink. Play a toast while serving it:

"You see, I am a junior, I have the honor to sit with you and drink with you today, if you don't give you one, even if you don't blame, others will say that I am not sensible, today I dare to serve you three glasses of wine, please be sure to catch it"

After the wine order was finished, he stood still wherever he stood, if you don't drink, he will always stand there and not sit down.

Toast people in other places, drink it first, the other party is free, not in eastern Henan, there is a rule here, when toasting others, serve wine, let others drink, don't drink yourself, others drink too much, where do you see the excitement, this is not a pit!

This one looked, he couldn't drink anymore, such a big young man, where he was standing respectfully, what kind of thing is this?

So he took it, tilted his neck, and drank. There were two more glasses, and I caught them and drank them. It's broken, this one just sat down, stood up again, and called the master directly:

"Master, don't mind, I didn't mean to pour you, which one was my uncle just now, he respected you, if I don't respect you, I can kick me to death when I go back."

Such a sensible junior can't let his uncle kick him to death no matter what!

If the rest of the people here are elders, it's fine, if a few more are juniors, everyone has to toast three glasses. No matter how much you drink, you can't bear it!

So he drank under the table, and everyone woke up to him alone.

Anyway, every year in this town, people die from drinking, as little as one or two, as many as three or four.

One year, a man who didn't usually drink much drank to death.

One day, this man went to a friend's birth party. Because I went late, the table where the people I knew was full, and I was arranged by the host's family to a table of people I didn't know.

Later, as soon as he was introduced, knowing that he was a person from the township where the winery was located, everyone was energetic, vying for him to drink, this person said that he couldn't drink, a table of people was unwilling, who are you fooling, I heard that the little worm (that is, the sparrow) flying out of the township where the winery is located can drink two taels, you say you can't drink, who believes it!

A stunned young man stood up and said:

"What's the matter, the people in the township where the distillery is located are all between cow A and cow C! Look down on us toiling people! ”

At this time, the matter of drinking alcohol has directly risen to the height of Guan Hu's personal quality.

No way, drink!

I didn't drink a few glasses and became numb, and I don't know how much to drink, anyway, the main family drove him back, and when he got home, he didn't wake up when he fell asleep, and the family didn't want to, so he had to find the person who poured him into the drink, where to find it, the person who drank to death didn't know a person who drank with him.

Later, I went to the master's house, and the master said: He is a guest, and I didn't force him to drink, what does it matter to me.

The family saw that there was no way, and directly carried the person who drank to death to the town government, anyway, you are a first-level government, and the officials are not in charge of the people, you might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes, on your territory, you have to take care of this matter, and directly go to the town government.

Don't you ask, it's so hot, the head of this person who drank to death is green, and a large number of flies are buzzing around it, and a foul smell can be smelled from afar, and a pregnant female cadre is about to be choked to give birth.

The master who cooked on the stove of the town government was still unwilling, and Ping no one ate at his place, so he took all the cooked food home and didn't feed the pigs.

You said that the town government was wronged, it was originally a matter that couldn't be fought with the town government, but it was glued, and it was not a way for this corpse to stop here all the time? The mayor of the town personally came forward to mediate, and in the end, the main family took tens of thousands of yuan, and the town government put 5,000 yuan on it.

Every year, people drink to death, the mayor of the town is very headache, as soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the New Year, he arranges for the cadres in his hands to go to the villages to publicize, and it is strictly forbidden to drink excessively.

They also made a lot of banners and hung them at major intersections, with very vicious and frightening language such as "persuading people to drink alcohol is heinous" and "excessive drinking is tantamount to suicide", but people still drank it.

At the end of the year, the mayor habitually asked his subordinates if they had drunk dead people this year, and his subordinates said no, the mayor was very happy, but he thought in his heart:

No, based on past experience, it should be two deaths.

Before Anhe crossed, the new mayor of the town where the distillery was located asked how many more people had drunk to death this year, and his subordinates said: six, the number has skyrocketed.

It turns out that the distillery at this time is no longer a winery in the real sense, all the liquor is blended, and the whole distillery has not seen anyone pull the lees out for a year, even if there are one or two liquor ponds making wine, it is purely to cope with the inspection and propaganda of the big leaders above.

This blended wine does not contain a little grain, it is made of edible alcohol and flavors and other things, and if you drink too much, it is strange that you will not die.

Not to mention this winery, except for a few wineries with ridiculously high prices, which have been far away from mass consumption demand and have become luxury goods, the rest, although the main raw materials are wheat, sorghum, rice, etc., are actually blended, but everyone tacitly agrees.

Anhe's third uncle drank this blended wine to death.

An He thought, it is still safe to drink the grain wine made from pure grains in the Tang Dynasty, although the taste of the wine is not enough, but it will not be good if you drink too much, and there is no danger to your life.

Looking at Lin Yishan, who had already drunk too much and climbed on the table, An He poured the unfinished wine directly into the bowl and took a sip.