Because they couldn't get enough information for everyone to analyze the identity and origin of that Xu Xinsheng, although Wang Kunjun and others admired the character of Xu Xinsheng and Xu Zhuangshi, who "roared when the road was uneven, and shot when it was time to shoot", for the sake of team safety, after crossing the Yellow River, Zheng Zhiwei and Chang Shengjun and others no longer tried their best to understand each other's details as before, but communicated with Xu Xinsheng with a normal heart. Unexpectedly, this will be rewarding. Although Zheng and Chang still didn't get any more useful information, they became good friends. Several people even made an appointment to go to the Bianhe River together to have a good time after entering Kaifeng City.

On the evening of the eighteenth day of the lunar month of the second year of Xiande, the crossing team "went south to meet the delegation" and the master and servant of the Zhao family finally arrived at Chenqiaoyi, which was only forty miles northeast of Kaifeng City. Seeing that it was getting late, it was impossible to enter Kaifeng City before dark, so everyone decided to rest here for one night and continue to move forward the next morning.

Since this group of people, including Zhao Anyi, were not officials of the imperial court, it was impossible for them to live in the post station. Therefore, it is said that it is an overnight stay at Chenqiaoyi, but it is actually living in a town near the post station. Fortunately, Chenqiao is the only place where Kaifeng City leads to the northern states, and there are many inns and restaurants, so there is no place to live.

After everyone settled down, Zhao Anyi proposed to invite Wang Kunjun and others to express his gratitude. Wang Kunjun and others repeatedly prevaricated, and when they saw that Zhao Anyi insisted on inviting, they accepted his invitation. That night, the eleven brothers from the "delegation" plus Chang Shengjun came to the largest restaurant here for a banquet. As soon as they entered the private room chartered by Zhao Anyi, everyone found that in addition to Zhao Anyi and Steward Sun of the Zhao Mansion, that Xu Xinsheng Xu Zhuangshi was also sitting inside. It seems that Zhao Anyi invited the two life-saving benefactors together this time, but he did not favor one over the other.

After greeting each other and greeting each other, everyone officially took their seats. As various dishes were served in the same way, everyone began to push the glasses and change the glasses, and the atmosphere at the banquet gradually became warm. Zhao Anyi, as the host, naturally continued to toast to the benefactors, and the "benefactors" were also very happy to drink to the glass, and everyone drank very happily.

Because Kaifeng City is already in sight, everyone's journey of thousands of miles is coming to an end, and after these days of getting along, everyone is very familiar with each other, and they are very relaxed and engaged in drinking. As the saying goes, "there are fewer than a thousand glasses of wine for a confidant", once you drink this wine, it is naturally easy to drink too much. Although the alcohol content of this era is generally low, this restaurant provides home-brewed rice wine, although the degree is not high, that is, more than 20 degrees, but the stamina is not small. When everyone first drank it, they all thought it tasted good, especially the people who traveled through it, and they all felt that this wine had no degree, and it tasted similar to the wine of the previous life, so everyone drank a lot. As a result, by the end of the banquet, except for a few people who had drunk a lot of alcohol -- such as Zeng Zhilin, Xu Shao'an, Zheng Zhiwei and others -- the rest of the people who attended the banquet -- including Zhao Anyi and Xu Xinsheng -- were basically in a drunken state. Fortunately, although they were drunk, they had not completely drunk themselves and lay down, and most of them were able to walk out of the restaurant by themselves and staggered towards the inn.

Among them, Zheng Zhiwei, Chang Shengjun and Xu Xinsheng walked together. The three of them hooked their shoulders and staggered towards the inn, while borrowing the strength of the wine, the world and the north and the earth were nonsense. The three of them talked and talked about the wine they had drunk today. Chang Shengjun said with a big tongue: "I want to ...... To say, this wine can be ...... today But it's really hard. It was still ...... at the beginning I haven't felt anything yet, but I can drink it...... After drinking it, it really got up. ”

Zheng Zhiwei also echoed when he heard this, thinking that rice wine is delicious to drink, but it has more stamina, and people who don't understand it are easy to get drunk.

After listening to Chang and Zheng's arguments, Xu Xinsheng waved his hand and said, "You guys are really not ...... I don't know. This wine counts...... What's it, it tastes like sweet water, brother, I've drunk much stronger than this wine before. I think at the beginning, I drank with my friends...... After drinking Hengshui once, Lao Baigan, that ...... That's really wine. I...... I tell you, the wine is on fire. And, ...... After that, there is no watermark at all, and that is a good wine. ”

Hearing Xu Xinsheng say that there is wine that can be lit with fire, Chang Shengjun, who has never seen or even drank a high degree of alcohol, naturally didn't believe it, and while he said that Xu Xinsheng was bragging, he began to show off his previous glorious drinking history. Chang Shengjun could think that Xu Xinsheng's words were blowing nonsense, but Zheng Zhiwei next to him couldn't help but believe it, because he had personally done it in his previous life to use Lao Bai to light a fire. At the same time, out of the needs of his work, he once spent a lot of time to ask Zhang Weixin many historical questions, including the situation of wine in this era. ,

According to Zhang Weixin, in this era, because of the imperfection of distillation equipment, it is impossible to make high-grade liquor. Therefore, when the matter of "lighting the fire with Hengshui Lao Baigan" came out of Xu Xinsheng's mouth, Zheng Zhiwei, who was not really drunk, became more sober.

Because he was afraid that he would misunderstand the meaning of the other party's words, Zheng Zhiwei also pretended to drink too much, and asked Xu Xinsheng several times about "Lao Baigan" and the ignition of liquor, and Xu Xinsheng's answer was yes, this guy repeatedly said that he had indeed drunk such a strong wine, and he did use that wine to light the fire, and he definitely did not deceive his brother.

By now, Zheng Zhiwei can finally be sure that Xu Xinsheng is not making up stories to deceive people, not to mention that it is impossible for people in this era to make up stories that they have never seen before. While making sure that Xu Xinsheng was telling the truth, a thought also appeared in Zheng Zhiwei's mind - the drunk man in front of him should be a traverser.

With this thought, Zheng Zhiwei began to further probe Xu Xinsheng's details, hoping that this guy could confess the truth after drinking and reveal more personal information to himself. At first, this Xu Xinsheng could still ask and answer, but it didn't take long for the strength of the wine to come up, and this guy's answer began to be incoherent, and then the answer began to talk to himself. Fortunately, although what he said was not a question asked by Zheng Zhiwei, it was related to his recent experience. Through Xu Xinsheng's intermittent narration and incomprehensible preface, Zheng Zhiwei finally figured out some of his origins, and strengthened his judgment that this person was a traverser.

According to this guy himself, he was originally the nursing home of a large family in Qingzhou, Shandong, and later got tired of the work of taking care of the family, so he said goodbye in the middle of this year, planning to go all the way north to the sixteen states of Youyun to beg for a living. As for Weishenme, who abandoned the relatively prosperous Central Plains and went to the north, it was because he knew that in a few years, the Central Plains would enter a dynasty with a very serious ideology of civility and martial inferiority, so he felt that a rough man like himself, who did not have much knowledge and only knew kung fu and knew kung fu, was more suitable to live in the Liao State, which advocated martial arts.

Xu Xinsheng's words not only explained the questions that the "delegation" had about him before, but also provided more evidence that he was a traverser. Being able to discover a traverser in person gave Zheng Zhiwei a sense of accomplishment. He really wanted to wake up this Xu Zhuang and talk to him properly, if only he could do a "traverser final test" for him right away. It's a pity that Xu Xinsheng has completely entered a drunken state at this time, if it weren't for Zheng Zhiwei and Chang Shengjun supporting him, this guy would probably be drunk and lying on the street. Xu Xinsheng's current state is definitely unable to participate in the test, and Zheng Zhiwei cannot decide to conduct the final test for him without the consent of the committee. Therefore, Zheng Zhiwei had to suppress his excitement, and together with Chang Shengjun, who was still a little sober, he helped Xu Xinsheng back to his own room in the inn to rest.

After settling Zheng Xinsheng, who was already drunk and unconscious, Zheng Zhiwei immediately went to Wang Kunjun and others to explain the situation and listen to their opinions. At this time, although most of the traversers still felt dizzy in their heads, after hearing that they had found a suspected traverser, they still aroused a warm response from everyone.

Although the information obtained from Xu Xinsheng's "drunken confession" is not perfect, at least it can be sorted out the general trajectory of his life after the crossing. From this, the traversers can at least judge that he is not comfortable and comfortable after the crossing, and there is no strong shili support behind him, and he is currently running for a living, judging from his current situation, he can be accepted into the traversing team. Of course, these judgments are all based on what he said after drinking, and it is not enough for Wang Kunjun and other committee members to make up their minds to accept him, and the final result needs to be further examined by Zheng Zhiwei before it can be decided.

However, Xu Xinsheng's experience made Zhang Wei feel confident. As soon as he thought about it carefully, a name popped up in his mind - Xu Shanduo. At the beginning, when Jia Run'an introduced his travel experience to the brothers, he once told the story of a time-traveler named Xu Shanduo who crossed with him.

In the story, the traveler named Xu Shanduo traveled to the foot of Mount Tai with Jia Run'an, and was later rescued by Cui Yongnian from the robbers, and returned to his home in Qingzhou with Cui Yongnian, and he also did the work of nursing home under Cui Yongnian. Later, it was also because he was tired of the work of the nursing home, so he left the Cui family in the middle of this year without saying goodbye and went to other places to earn a living. In addition, these two people are surnamed Xu, maybe this Xu Xinsheng is the Xu Shanduo who changed his name.

Of course, all this is speculation, and it needs to be verified through further understanding of Xu Xinsheng. Therefore, after some discussion, the three committee members decided to appoint Zheng Zhiwei to be fully responsible for the examination of Xu Xinsheng, and to make use of the good personal relationship between the two sides to try to investigate the details of Xu Xinsheng before the "delegation" left Kaifeng and returned to the north, so that the committee could make a timely decision on whether or not to accept this person.

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