"What's wrong, uncle?" Tan Xiaotian asked strangely, his name should be considered decent, not special, the Great Zhou Kingdom has a large population, and it is estimated that there are many people with the same name and surname, shouldn't there be such a person among the people that this drunkard uncle knows?

Oh, nothing. By the way, how did I end up with you? Uncle Drunkard shook his head and said with a reluctant smile, obviously he thought of something, but he didn't want to say it to others, but Tan Xiaotian was just a child, where would he notice this.

"Oh, our horse was startled just now, and it hit you, and you didn't wake up at that time, so Brother Dong and Uncle Wei carried you to the car." Tan Xiaotian replied.

"Oh so," he nodded, and the drunkard finally understood why he was in the carriage.

"Uncle, that, that", Tan Xiaotian wanted to speak and stopped.

"Huh? What's wrong? Have something to say to me? The drunkard asked.

"Well, that, the horse was scared because I couldn't drive, I'm sorry I swear, I didn't mean to, really, I don't know that the horse was scared after the whip was drawn, uncle, can you forgive me? I will never dare to drive a carriage again. Gathering his courage, Tan Xiaotian begged the drunkard for forgiveness, his expression was depressed, and tears instantly filled his eyes, as if they were about to fall at any time.

"Heh, heh, good boy, don't cry, people are not sages, who can do no wrong, not to mention that you are just a child, am I not good now? It's okay, it's okay. "The drunkard has a good heart. He couldn't bear to see the child uncomfortable, he smiled and comforted.

"Is it really okay? But. But you can't even remember your own name. Tan Xiaotian asked with a sob.

"Well, if you can't think of it, you can't remember it. Isn't the name just a code name? If you can't let it, you can get another one, anyway, no matter what it's called, I'm not still me? The drunkard smiled calmly, he was very open-minded.

The carriage stopped in Qijia Township, a small town that is half the size of Meilong, and at least seven of the ten inhabitants of the town are surnamed Qi, which is said to have been a wasteland three hundred years ago. Later, to escape the war, a large family surnamed Qi migrated here and became the first batch of residents here, and then after nearly 300 years of construction and operation, it slowly became the current scale.

The place where you settle down is called the old store of the Qi family, which is said to be an ancestral industry, and has a history of more than 100 years. It's antique, and it does have a bit of a century-old store.

The smaller the business, the more enthusiastic the operator tends to be, perhaps this is the so-called 'big shopkeeper bullying customers.' The truth of the big customer bullying the store, the so-called harmony makes money, and the small business must be carefully calculated. I can't do this to press people, so I cherish every guest more. Don't want to miss out on any opportunity to make money.

"Two, stay in a hotel or eat?" The carriage had just stopped. The middle-aged man and a young man in the boss's costume trotted out of the store quickly, and asked Lao Wei and Sun Dong next to him with a smile.

"Stay. Are there any rooms available? Lao Wei asked.

"Yes, yes, good room, boiling hot water, and delicious meals, first have a hearty dinner, then take a hot bath, and then sleep beautifully, to ensure that you are satisfied, the next time you pass by, you must want to come again." The boss doesn't know if it's surnamed Wang or surnamed Qi, but his self-selling and boasting preferences are average, his tongue is full of lotus flowers, and he has the ability to say that the dead are alive, which is not inferior to Tian Dayi, who was separated not long ago.

"Every day, and this big brother, get out of the car." Jumping out of the carriage, Sun Dong turned around and shouted into the carriage.

"Hey, Uncle Drunkard, let's get out of the car." Tan Xiaotian's cordial shout came from the carriage, and it seemed that he had gotten along well with the drunkard along the way.

With the words, the curtain of the car was lifted, Tan Xiaotian and the drunkard came out one after another, the drunkard still looked down, but the big gourd that refused to leave was tied around his waist instead of holding it in his hand.

"Four, please." Seeing that the guests got off the carriage, the shopkeeper warmly greeted a few people into the house, as for the vehicles and horses, naturally there were shop guys to take care of them, and the guests did not bother.

After a day's journey, several people were a little hungry, although the car was equipped with dry food and water, but how could those things compare to the hot meal, when he entered the store, the first thing Sun Dong did was to ask the owner to hurry up and prepare dinner.

The meal is very fast, the words of the shopkeeper are not exactly bragging, three dishes and one soup, the staple food is pancakes, there are food and drink, it is very hearty, at least it can respond to the sentence, 'it is good to be full', although the color and fragrance are inferior to the serious big restaurant of the big restaurant, but it is enough to make people eat full.

"Boss, do you have any wine?" After eating a few bites of food, the drunkard habitually raised the wine gourd and wanted to take a sip, and raised his head for a long time, but only two or three drops fell into his mouth, as a person who was addicted to alcohol, how could this little wine be enough, he shook the gourd, it was empty, there was nothing, so he turned his head and shouted to the shopkeeper.

"Yes, yes, good shochu, wait a minute!" The proprietor replied hurriedly, took out a flask from the counter, opened another jar and filled it with a raiser, and finally took three more glasses and put them in a tray, and brought them to this table - four guests, children who don't know how to drink, so there is no need to prepare.

When he saw the wine, the drunkard's eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to grab the wine jug, and he didn't want to be polite to others, so he poured a full glass and drank it all.

Seeing this scene, Sun Dong and Lao Wei both shook their heads secretly, thinking, seeing that this person is not very old and his appearance is quite good, why did he fall into the habit of drinking? The so-called small drink is nourishing, and the big drink hurts the body, according to this drinking method, no matter how good the person is, he will be wasted.

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Before the two of them could finish sighing, the drunkard had already squirted out the wine he had just poured into his mouth, "Boss, what is this?" Have you forgotten to add wine to your water? While babbling, he hurriedly spit out the residual wine in his mouth.

"Uh, how could it be, objectively. You're kidding. The shopkeeper's expression was rather embarrassed, and he explained in a curt. It seems that the jar of wine was indeed mixed with water. It's just not as exaggerated as the drunkard says.

"Who is kidding, are you doubting my wine tasting skills?" The drunkard's face suddenly showed unhappiness, his eyebrows raised, and he asked in a deep voice.

"Ah, hehe, don't dare, don't dare, if you think this wine is not good, I'll change it for you." When I greeted a few people into the store just now, I could already smell the lingering smell of alcohol on this person's body. Dare to talk like this, it is estimated that there are indeed two brushes in wine tasting, and if you don't come up with something good, I'm afraid it's hard to fool the past.

After that, the shopkeeper also took back the wine, returned to the counter and got a new barware, opened another wine jar, and served it again after filling it.

"Guest officer, you taste it first. Look at the wine. He took the initiative to pour a glass for the drunkard, and the shopkeeper smiled kindly.

Picking up the wine glass, the drunkard was not so anxious this time, and put it in front of his nose and sniffed it carefully. I drank it in one gulp.

"How?" The shopkeeper asked again, his expression a little nervous, probably afraid that the drunkard would spit out the wine again, which had not yet had time to be mixed with the newly opened wine. If he doesn't, he won't have a mantra.

"So-so. It's reconciled. The drunkard shook his head, apparently not very satisfied with the quality of the wine.

"Ugh. Hehe, guest officer, you are a connoisseur of drinking, and there are many more to include. "The shopkeeper can't cry or laugh, he can't always argue with the guests staying in the hotel because of this kind of thing, the so-called praise and criticism is the buyer, people spend money to eat, don't people are allowed to comment?

Seeing the excitement of the two of them, Sun Dong also became curious, picked up the wine glass and poured himself a glass and tasted it, thinking that the taste was not bad.

"Big brother, I think this wine is okay, don't embarrass the owner." Seeing that the shopkeeper was very embarrassed, Sun Dong kindly played a round.

"Well, yes, forgive me for being such a small town, and there won't be any good wine, forget it, just make up for it." Sun Dong spoke, and the drunkard didn't want to say anything, so he waved his hand, not planning to embarrass the shopkeeper anymore.

"Guest officer, if you want to say that, I can't help but say it, although Qijia Town is small, it is not without good wine, the second master of Qifu likes to make wine the most, and there is a kind of wine he brews called 'through the bottle of incense', which is really 'ten miles of incense across the bottle, and ten years of drunk in one cup'." Perhaps it was the drunkard's words that aroused the sense of honor for the people of Qijia Town, and the shopkeeper said unconvinced.

"Oh, shopkeeper, are you telling the truth?" The shopkeeper's words obviously aroused the interest of the drunkard, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, with a little joy and a little suspicion in his tone, probably because he was afraid that the shopkeeper was deliberately exaggerating to bluff people in order to fight with himself.

"Of course, what am I lying to you about. Within a radius of thirty miles here, who doesn't know that there is a second master of Qi in Qijia Town, known as the best chess and wine. There are many people in the world who can play chess, more people who can drink, and many people who can play chess and drink, but how many people can play chess and make wine? The owner of the shop said proudly that there was such a celebrity in his hometown, and his face felt very bright.

"This place is called Qijia Town, and your store is called Qi's old shop, that second master Qi shouldn't be your home, right?" The coachman Lao Wei asked--he had passed by Qijia Town before, and he knew a little about the history of Qijia Town, and knew that seven or eight out of ten of the industries in Qijia Town were the property of the Qi family, and if the situation of this inn was the same, then the second master of Qi was the real owner of the old Qi family's shop, and it was normal for the owner to boast about it.

"Hehe, yes, Second Master Qi is my cousin, it's a little farther away, but he hasn't made five suits." The shopkeeper laughed.

"Didn't come out of five suits? Brother Dong, what do you mean by five suits? The child eats quickly, Tan Xiaotian has already eaten half a pancake at this time, drank a bowl of hot soup, heard a term he had never heard, and asked Lao Wei curiously.

"Oh, five clothes, five clothes are the system of mourning for the dead relatives in our country's rites, according to the difference in blood relations, the mourning clothes worn during the mourning are not the same, a total of five strokes, from the relatives to the sparse in order called 'cut decay, Qi decay, great merit, small merit, Qi decay is made of coarse linen cloth, the great gong is made of cooked linen, the small work is made of thinner cooked linen, and the hemp is made of slightly thinner cooked cloth, in short, the closer the blood relationship, the rougher the material of the mourning dress, and the more fine it is, outside the five clothes. There is also a lighter form of mourning called 'forgiveness'. That is the funeral etiquette between ordinary friends, not about blood relationship. Sun Dong replied that his cousin was also called cousin in a place. The so-called 'one table and three thousand miles', similar to this kind of village and town formed by the development of a family group, the people in the town are far or near, and they can always hang a little kinship, not to mention that this inn is still the property of the Qi family, and it is common sense for relatives to manage it.

"Oh, so to speak, if you don't come out of five suits, are you a close relative? How close? "Tan Xiaotian can't figure out such complicated interpersonal relationships. In the spirit of breaking the casserole and asking the question in the spirit that a child of this age has, he continued.

"It's close, I guess. As for how close it is, hehe, this, you will naturally know when you grow up. Along the way, Sun Dong didn't know how many questions he had answered Tan Xiaotian, he had answered a lot, and he had experience, he knew that once a child's question began, it would go on endlessly. Therefore, if you don't want to get into this kind of trouble, the best way is to stop in time and use the tried-and-true phrase 'when you grow up' to get out of trouble.

"The shopkeeper. That's what's wrong with you, right? If there is such a good wine, why don't you give it when you are asked to serve it? Do you think I'm a person who can't afford to drink and pay for it? The drunkard was dissatisfied again at this time, and reached into his arms. He took out a silver ingot from his bosom and slapped it on the table. Look at the shape and size, at least five taels.

This move made several people except Tan Xiaotian stunned - this drunkard was wearing it. The feet are pedaling, the heads are wearing very ordinary things, and the time of wearing the clothes has long been old, and they are sent to the pawnshop for fear that people will not even accept them, and the appearance seems to be a little more limited than that of beggars, and such a person makes a casual move, it is actually five taels of silver, which is too big a contrast.

"Don't dare, don't dare, guest officer, you have wronged me too much, if there is really a bottle of incense, can I not take it out and ask you to taste it?" In the end, it is a businessman who opens a shop to do business, receives merchants from the south to the north, and does the work of looking at people's eyes and recruiting people to make money, the so-called seeing people and talking about people, talking nonsense when they see ghosts, changing their faces faster than turning a book, and when they see that the drunkard takes out five taels of silver, then they know that this down-and-out scholar who is not amazing is a bun with meat - not on the fold, and immediately showed that iconic smiling face to explain to the drunkard.

"Then why don't you take it out? Aren't you the cousin of the second master of the Qi family? You're not going to tell me you can't get the goods from him, are you? "The drunkard asked--doing business is to make money and make a fortune, if you think you have no money to pay the bill and refuse to take out good wine, then when you show five taels of silver and say no, it is unreasonable, you must know that five taels of silver is not a decimal, even if the world-famous Shanxi Fenjiu, Sichuan's Gujing Gongjiu, these five taels of silver to buy two or three jars are enough, not to mention that this is the origin of 'through the bottle of incense', there is no long-distance transportation, storage and storage and so on cost problems, no matter how high the price can not be too outrageous, Silver is silver, the rich merchant's money is money, and the beggar's money is also money, and if there is silver, you will not make money, unless the shopkeeper is crazy.

"Heh, guest officer, I'm really ashamed to say it, although I'm very embarrassed, but I really let you say it right, the wine of the second master of the Qi family, I really don't have the ability to buy the goods, and it's not just a small shop, Yunfu Restaurant, that's the industry opened by the eldest master of the Qi family, the scale is big enough, and the relationship with the second master is close enough, right? But even he doesn't have the second master's 'bottle incense', let alone my cousin who is about to come out of five suits. The shopkeeper smiled wryly.

"What? It's kind of interesting, but why is that? Could it be that the relationship between the Qi brothers is not very good? Sun Dong asked curiously - the relationship between him and his eldest brother is like this, although they are brothers, but they are not much different from passers-by, from a certain point of view, they are not even comparable to passers-by, after all, there is no grudge between passers-by.

"No, no, how is that possible. The relationship between the eldest master of the Qi family and the second master is good, although they have long been separated, but the distance between the two families is only about 100 steps, and they will go to eat every three or five days, and the relationship is good. The shopkeeper waved his hand again and again to explain that he didn't want to cause misunderstanding among the guests because of his own reasons, in case it was spread to the two masters of the Qi family, and it would be regarded as a rumor that he had hurt the brotherly feelings of the two, then his days of managing this old Qi family store would come to an end.

Shopkeeper, don't sell it, ask a question and answer a sentence, tired or not. Can you hurry up? The drunkard was a little anxious, so he pulled a chair over and urged the shopkeeper not to be like the storyteller, who always dragged on some trivial things.

The shopkeeper sat down, "Hehe, you are not a native of Qijia Town, you don't know what is going on here, the so-called one dragon gives birth to nine sons, and the nine sons are different, although the two masters of the Qi family are brothers of the same mother, but their preferences are completely different." Master Qi has a bold personality, is obsessed with martial arts, and is easy to make friends, comparable to Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao, who 'beat the six prefectures of Sanzhou, stepped on both sides of the Yellow River, and made friends with Meng Wei', and it was very famous on the rivers and lakes" The shopkeeper didn't care about the urging of the drunkard, probably because he didn't know how many times he had said these words.

Sun Dong laughed in his heart when he heard it--Qin Qiong, who is that? The founding minister of the Tang Dynasty, one of the twenty-four generals of Lingyun Pavilion, brave and outstanding, with outstanding force, and Wei Chi Jingde are the same gods of the left and right doors, how famous is it, how can there be such a great god in this small town? No need to ask, he must be bragging for his people. (To be continued......)