Chapter 258: Encountering the Dead
The shopkeeper looked at the two guest officers pointed out by the shopkeeper in front of him with interest. Looking at Feng Qi's high-spirited, righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, he could guess that he was from the barracks when he thought about it, and this amount of alcohol was naturally even more bold. But he looked at Zhinan, who was standing beside him, with a peach blossom face and a weak posture.
He was puzzled and walked to Zhinan's side. He is taller than Zhinan, he can be a head and a half tall, he bent down like a child, bent to the position where his eyes were level with Zhinan, looked at her, and said, "I heard that the girl is very happy and bold in drinking, it is better to see than to hear, I wonder if the girl and the brother next to her can enjoy their faces and drink a few glasses?" ”
Zhinan turned his head to look at Feng Qi, who squinted at the shopkeeper in front of him. He wondered in his heart if this man had other plans for his Zhinan, but if he didn't agree to come down now, he would still seem to be too petty and calculating.
He smiled at Zhinan, looked at the shopkeeper in front of him again, and said, "Okay, since you and I have met here and have common interests, you might as well have a good time, it's also fate!" ”
After hearing this, the shopkeeper was very happy, he hurriedly pulled out the chair under the dining table next to him, invited Zhinan and Feng to sit down, and he instructed the shopkeeper to present his own treasured good wine plus a few delicacies with wine.
Zhinan lifted the veil covering his head, took a sip of the tea that the shopkeeper had just poured, raised his eyes and carefully looked at the person opposite. The shopkeeper in front of him doesn't seem to be too old, maybe about the same age as Feng Qi and the prince, but the slight difference is that the temperament he exudes is a little more sassy and heroic of the children of the rivers and lakes.
In the years she spent in the Ning Heart Pavilion, she had seen countless people, and this naturally saw that people's abilities were better than anyone else's. The more she looked at it, the more she felt that there was something strange about this shopkeeper and ordinary people, and she couldn't tell what was different.
The shopkeeper didn't have much thought, although he also saw such a beautiful woman sitting in front of her, he also saw that Zhinan already had a place in his heart, and this person sat next to her.
He opened the jar of wine in front of him, poured some for himself, Zhinan and Fengqi respectively, raised his glass, and said, "Today, the three of us are fateful, and we can be regarded as the masters here, so let's give you a glass here." With that, he raised his head and drank the glass of wine. And then from time to time, there was a sound of aftertaste. He really seems to be a lover of alcohol.
Zhinan and Fengqi also picked up their wine glasses and drank them all to meet the shopkeeper in front of them. After drinking, Feng Qi put down the wine glass, and took the lead in reporting his family to ask curiously, "My name is Feng Qi, and I am the head of the guards of the Xuanwang Mansion, I don't know what your name is as the shopkeeper?" ”
The shopkeeper shook Fengqi's hand and said, "It turns out that you are the leader of Fengqi who has been famous for a long time, and the little one is really eyeless, and I haven't seen you come to our small shop." Under the name of Xubai, the surname is Chu. ”
Feng Qi picked up his wine glass on the side and said to him, "Then we will call you Brother Xubai." With that, he drank a drink. Zhinan was on the side, and also took a drink.
The shopkeeper looked at Zhinan, who was sitting next to Feng, and asked curiously, "What's the girl's name?" ”
"Zhinan." Zhinan shallowly burst out his name.
"What a gentle name, worthy of the girl's down-to-earth and generous temperament." Chu Xubai looked at Zhinan, then at Feng Qi, and said, "The two of them are really a good match." ”
As soon as she said this, Zhinan's face turned red with embarrassment, she didn't expect her relationship with Fengqi to be cut out so easily, and she was still a little shy as a girl. Feng Qi was very happy on the side, just now he thought that the shopkeeper looked at Zhinan's beautiful appearance, and he had some other thoughts about Zhinan. Now that he saw the relationship between the two of them, he could relax and drink with him.
"What are you two doing when you come to this southern city? Look at the appearance of the two newlyweds, but it doesn't look like you're here to play. Chu Xubai took a sip of wine and asked curiously.
Feng Qi took a sip with Chu Xubai, raised his cup and said to him, "Brother Xubai, you are a little clumsy, the two of us are indeed here to play in this southern city." ”
"Visiting Southtown?" Chu Xubai asked curiously, "This southern city is the most unornamental place in the whole of Kyoto, there are ordinary people's residences everywhere, you should have seen it, there is only our tavern inn within a radius of ten miles, there is not even a stall around here, the two of you come here to play?" What are you playing? ”
Zhinan, who had never spoken, replied to Chu Xubai with the intention of drinking, and she said, "This matter is also verbose, my family lived in this southern city when I was a child, but when I was young, there was a fire in my home, and my parents died here. The leader of Toyoki and I want to get to know each other better, and get to know each other better, so the two of us can come to this southern city. One is to see if I can remember the story of my childhood, and the other is to revisit the old place to show respect for my deceased parents. ”
As soon as Chu Xubai heard Zhinan lightly say these things about his childhood, he didn't know what to say for a while, the atmosphere was very embarrassing, he raised his wine glass and toasted Zhinan.
Then he said, "I seem to have some impression of the fire that the girl said. I remember that the family that caught fire at that time had a fabric shop in the market, and there was only one daughter in the family, and she lived in the same direction...... It should be given to the house in front of my house. ”
Hearing him say this, Zhinan's eyes couldn't help but light up. The words spoken by Chu Xubai can match the previous events of his family, isn't this that he has met his old friend. She nodded hurriedly and said to him, "I didn't expect to meet someone here who knows about this matter, and the house that Mr. just mentioned is the courtyard where I was a child." ”
Chu Xubai's eyes also flickered a little, he looked at Zhinan well, looked at her, and asked a little hesitantly, "That girl, have you changed your name?" ”
Zhinan couldn't help the worries in her heart at this time, she finally ran into the old man who knew what had happened to her family before, she immediately nodded, thinking to see if this Chu Xubai could know something.
"Is it Sister Xi'er?" Chu Xubai asked Zhinan with some uncertainty. But this question overturned the abundant vinegar jar.