Chapter 137: Drinking
It turned out that tonight's Xiaohan solar term, Huang Wen couldn't bear to be alone with Zhou Hou, and specially invited her to have a banquet with Wu Yingying, Wu Yingying planned to rescue Cai Yu with the camera in the future, so that he could reunite with his husband and wife, so in order to prevent others from gossiping, he deliberately avoided the opportunity to be alone with Zhou Hou, so he called Xin Gu together, so as not to let people guess that he had the heart of Long Wangshu for no reason, and also preserved Zhou Hou's reputation.
He first accompanied Huang Wen and Zhou Hou to chat casually, and when he saw Xin Gu striding in, he stood up and laughed: "Brother Xin, I can be regarded as looking forward to you." ”
"The commander summoned the last general, I don't know what?" Xin Gu asked as he saw that there were no other generals present. This question made Wu Yingying a little embarrassed, he coughed dryly, leaned closer, and said in a low voice: "Captain Xin, you know, this will be the same as the soldiers, and he has not tasted meat for ten days, today it is easy to open a meat, it is not good to waste the best fresh mutton, I specially invite Captain Xin to come over for advice, you don't need to do it, just give advice on the side." After speaking, Xingu came to a charcoal fire, and a good leg of lamb was placed next to it, with all kinds of ingredients ready, just waiting for the chef to barbecue.
Xin Gu didn't feel it, and said in a deep voice: "It's better to let the last general come to roast it himself, and the adults only need to accompany the master mother." Although he is a Khitan and has been in Han for a long time, he probably knows that the Han people are very strict, but he doesn't realize that it is a humiliation to barbecue meat with the dignity of a general, so he has this proposal. Wu Yingying waved his hand again and again: "How can this be born, the rumor will go out, won't it make the brothers chill." Regardless of whether Xin Gu understood the relationship between barbecue and cold heart, he pushed him to the side and handled the leg of mutton by himself, Xin Gu had no choice but to patiently explain the barbecue method to him next to him.
In the flower hall not far away, Huang Wen pursed her lips and smiled and watched her husband carefully roast the leg of mutton, but Zhou Houjian felt a little inexplicable, not to mention the matter of the respect of the family of a feudal town as the cook, but also to bring a general to accompany him, this person is fortunately not the emperor, otherwise he would not know how to be written in the history books. But there are all kinds of weirdos in this world, and in the Jin Dynasty, didn't there also be the prince Sima Shu who set up a stall in the palace to cut meat and sell wine.
As the saying goes, it is not difficult for those who will know, but it will not be difficult for those who are difficult, with a great expert like Xin Gu to guide him, Wu Yingying's leg of lamb is also roasted to look like it, the outside is charred and tender on the inside, the color is golden, and Xin Gu brushes some spices on the side from time to time, it is so delicious that people even swallow their tongues. Wu Yingying cut four portions of the good meat on the leg of mutton and gave it to Huang Wen, and after a week, Xin Gu each had a share, and he also kept a share.
The servants in the house brought up the side dishes and wine, and stepped back by themselves, and lowered the thick curtain outside, and the cold was completely isolated from the flower hall, and the charcoal in the copper furnace burned very strongly, and the flower hall was as warm as spring.
Seeing that everyone was seated, Wu Yingying picked up his wine glass and said to Zhou Hou: "Queen of the country, this is General Xin Gu under the command of the last general, and he is the one who beheaded the king of money." He said to Xin Gu: "This is the queen of the country." Xin Gu didn't think clearly about what was going on with the queen for a while, and when he saw that Wu Yingying was very respectful to the queen of Zhou, he stood up and bowed to this noble lady according to the etiquette of the Khitan people during the banquet. Zhou Hou was a little angry, men and women did not kiss, Wu Yingying asked him to sit with me as a rough general, is it to show off, or to intimidate? If it were not for the fact that he did not come to harass himself during this period of time, he would have to leave the table.
Wu Yingying didn't know what she was thinking, he picked up the wine glass, Huang Wen and Xin Gu saw him pick up the wine glass and also held it at the same time, only to hear him say in a deep voice: "Lanzhou is bitter, it is rare to feast today, this first cup of wine wishes Your Majesty to escape from the hands of Bianliang traitors as soon as possible and reunite with the queen of the country." After saying that, Zhou Hou was shocked when he heard the words, his beautiful eyes widened, and he looked at Wu Yingying in disbelief, could he have misunderstood him, seeing that the other three people drank the rice wine in the cup, they all looked at themselves intently, Fang Jue felt that he was out of shape, raised his hand to pick up the exquisite silver cup, and took a shallow sip of his lips. Xin Gu also finally understood that the noble lady sitting next to him was Jiangnan Guo, who was rescued in distress, and Wu Yingying intended to let him know the identity of Zhou Hou, one to show his confidant, and the other to entrust him with things that he needed in the future.
Seeing that everyone had already drunk, Huang Wen stood up and filled the wine glasses in front of everyone, Wu Yingying raised the wine glass again and said: "Next, madam, I salute Captain Xin with me, Captain Xin is the person that my Wu Hero respects, the righteousness of comrades, brotherhood, come, let's toast three times in a row." After speaking, he tilted his neck and poured the wine into his throat, Huang Wen drank a glass with Wu Yingying, and filled his wine glass. Xingu Khitan horse thief was born, he was a bloody man, he raised his wine glass and drank it with his neck tilted, he didn't want Huang Wen to pour wine, he filled it himself, and drank two more glasses, his eyes were full of emotion.
Zhou Hou silently watched Wu Yingying and Xin Gu drink each other, and was a little moved in his heart, Cai Yu had all the literati and scholars in the early days, and there were Lin Zhaoren, Huangfu Jixun, Lu Jiang, Zhu Lingyun and other generals in Jiangnan. The friendship between Wu Yingying and Xin Gu is like a brother, and the first lord of Shu Han and the second general Guan Zhang entrusted the righteousness of the monarch and the ministers outside, and the relationship between flesh and blood is nothing more than that.
After drinking three glasses with Xin Gu, Wu Yingying filled his wine glass with the intention of drinking, and said to Huang Wen: "In this third round, I want to thank Madame, who did not avoid hardships and dangers, and helped me clean up people's hearts. Huang Wen said to him with a shy face, Xia Fei smiled, picked up the wine glass and took a shallow sip. Zhou Hou looked at it in his eyes, remembering the old things in Jinling back then, and couldn't help but feel sad.
Wu Yingying's three rounds of toasting temporarily relieved Zhou Hou's sorrow, Huang Wen was happy and shy, Xin Gu no longer cared about the difference between the upper and lower, and the atmosphere in the banquet suddenly became lively. Wu Yingying and Xin Gu felt that the toast to each other cup after cup was not enjoyable, so they called the servant woman to change the big bowl, and later felt that the rice wine was not strong enough, so they replaced the whole altar with a knife. Huang Wen was eating with Zhou Hou in small bites, chatting about some interesting things about Jinling, and listening to the usually taciturn Wu Yingying and Xin Gu with their tongues staggered, and Zhou Hou sat with them helplessly and listened to their drunken words.
"I haven't eaten meat so much in days, Grandma's. This is the high-drunk Xin Gu who has a horse thief temperament, "Brother Xin, you are the commander of my Lanzhou Left Army, in the future, our brothers will eat meat in large pieces, drink wine in big bowls, and big... Weigh the gold, you are a Khitan, I am a Han, what does it matter, we work together, what is the son of the Song Dynasty, what is the Khan of the Great Liao, you have to kneel down and beg my brother. Wu Yingying said loudly, who expected that his words would make Xin Gu's face gloomy, pour down a glass of wine, and said drunkly: "Really? What about the emperor of the Han Dynasty? Let so many of my brothers go hungry and do hard labor, and the most unimportant thing is this emperor." Wu Yingying said angrily: "When the time comes, call him Tsing Yi and a little hat, and serve the wine to make amends!" Xin Gu smiled and said, "Okay," his face changed, and he said loudly: "The emperor is not a good thing for his grandmother." Wu Yingying was already drunk, and he echoed drunkly: "Yes, his grandmother's." Xin Gu said again: "Lao Xin's hands, he has already cut off an emperor and a prince, hahaha, hands, hands, you are really lucky." As he spoke, he raised his fan-sized palm and waved it proudly, Wu Yingying continued: "There are many people who are kings and hegemons in this world, Lao Xin, you have cut off their heads for me." Xin Guhu was stunned and said, "Okay! The emperor doesn't have a good thing." Wu Yingying continued: "It's not a good thing to want to be an emperor, you cut off their heads." Xin Gu said again: "Okay!" Then he frowned and said: "Others are easy to do, what if you want to be the emperor one day?" Wu Yingying was drunk, stretched his head in front of him, and said: "Then trouble you, and cut it off." Xin Gu looked at him in disbelief, and suddenly laughed and said, "My lord, you are drunk!" Wu Yingying said loudly and dissatisfiedly: "I'm not drunk!"
Huang Wen and Zhou Hou saw that the two of them were more and more speechless, they both frowned, and Zhou Hou secretly thought, if he is a traitor, it is really not like it, there are a few traitors who dare to get drunk like him, and let his generals cut off their heads, which is really ridiculous. This Captain Xin is too bold, if any emperor listens to your drunken words, I'm afraid that the first thing to fall off is your own head.
These two people were disrespectful to the emperor, and they didn't think it was embarrassing to call Huang Wen, after all, Cai Yu had also been called the emperor, she looked at Wu Yingying with some annoyance, and thought, this person is usually rigorous and moderate, how can he be so indulgent today. But I don't know that people are flesh and blood, with Wu Yingying's current status, it is no exaggeration to say that more than 20,000 lives in Lanzhou are tied to him, not only to plan with great effort on weekdays, but also to bring out the majesty of the lord to give confidence to subordinates, many ordinary people should have decadence, frustration, worry, fear and other negative emotions are suppressed in their hearts, today while drinking with Xin Gu to vent these things, otherwise, those who have been in the top position for a long time will either suffer from a hidden disease like a head wind like Emperor Wu of Wei, or like Shang Xia Wei, Han Wu Sui Yang, as well as many Zhu family emperors in later generations, had serious psychopaths.