Chapter 36: Strange Things in the Wilderness
The rich aroma of rabbit meat attracted the old man and Xiao Er in the wine house.
The old man's body was dry and thin, his face was wrinkled, and there were only a few silver whiskers left under his chin, but the hair on his head was not white, he walked to Huaiyu tremblingly, looked at the rabbit on the grill, and stopped talking.
"This little Langjun ......"
How could Huaiyu not guess what he was thinking, smiled knowingly, and said, "Meeting is fate, how about the old man eating this rabbit meat with us?" β
The old man couldn't help but be overjoyed, and before everyone could react, he had already sat down in front of the grill with his eyes shining, and kept rubbing his hands: "In this way, I'm not welcome, old man!" β
"Ah Wei, cut a piece for this old man first!"
Ah Wei responded, raised the knife in his hand, cut most of a rabbit and handed it to the old man, and then cut the remaining small half finely, put it on a plate, and handed it to Huaiyu.
Huaiyu took it and pushed it in front of Duan Qinqin and Xiaoliu.
The old man was unceremoniously, took the wine jar held by the little second-hand behind him, ate meat and drank a lot, caught a glimpse of the plate in front of Duan Qinqin, and praised: "Xiao Langjun came from afar, traveled a long way, and in this wilderness, he can eat so finely, it is really enviable!" β
Huaiyu lowered his eyes and looked at this plate, he hadn't paid attention to it before, but when he took a closer look, it was actually an agate petal tray, and Huaiyu felt violent to eat with such a plate in the General's Mansion, let alone in this wilderness.
Huaiyu knew that this must be Zhao Yan's arrangement, but he never thought that he would arrange it so thoroughly, and there were many things stuffed in the small carriage, even spices such as salt and peppercorns......
Thinking of this, Huaiyu's heart warmed, and he shook his head and smiled: "Let the old man laugh." β
"Hey, Xiao Langjun, don't say that!" The old man rolled up his sleeves and wiped the corners of his mouth, "Little Liu, go get a few more jars of wine, I want to drink with this little Langjun!" β
Xiao Er, who was called Xiaoliu, said "hey", swallowed the rabbit meat in his mouth, got up and ran to the wine house, and after a while, he walked over with two jars of wine and a few bowls, "Master, the wine is here." β
"Come on, come on, Xiao Langjun, come and don't be rude, you invite the old man to eat meat, and the old man invites you to drink!" The old man poured a few bowls of wine and served them to Huaiyu.
Huaiyu didn't shirk it, and was about to drink the wine handed by the old man, but was intercepted by Awei, Awei smiled and said to the old man: "Old man, my son-in-law is young and not good at drinking, how about drinking this wine from the next generation?" β
The smile on the old man's face froze, paused, and said, "It's okay!" Also available! β
Ah Wei drank the wine, raised the bowl to the old man, and said with a smile: "Good wine!" I can't imagine that there is such good wine in this wilderness, and your wine house is also enviable! β
"Hey, let Lang Jun smile, the old man is a mountain and wild villager, relying on this winemaking skill to fool around, I can't afford Lang Jun's envy!"
"Really?" Awei seemed to be smiling.
"Oops! This rabbit meat is delicate and delicious, come and come, if you don't eat it, it will be cold! β
Huaiyu spoke up, diverted the hidden edge between Ah Wei and the old man, and said to the old man: "Old man, thank you for your wine, but I am really not good at drinking, but I have lived up to the old man's kindness." β
Ah Wei looked at the old man, and there was a chill in his eyes: If you want to play tricks under my nose, it's not okay to be old.
The old man was stared at by Ah Wei and shook the bowl in his hand, and the wine was about to spill out, but Ah Wei quickly caught it and handed it back to the old man: "Alas! Old man, what a pity it was to spill such a good wine, you can't waste it, huh? β
"This ......"
The old man held the bowl and hesitated not to drink.
"Why don't the old people drink it?" Ah Wei asked lightly, "I drank the bowl of wine just now, but the old man didn't drink this wine, is it because he doesn't look down on the subordinates and doesn't want to accompany him?" Or is there something in this wine that can't be done? β
Ah Wei's question was aggressive, the old man was asked in a cold sweat, he put down the wine bowl, ripped off the human skin mask on his face, and revealed a face in his forties: "This son is serious, serious...... It's the villain who doesn't know Mount Tai because he has eyes, and he offended a few nobles, and he wanted to ......"
"I wanted to overturn me and others, kill people and rob money, but I didn't expect to be recognized?"
"No, no, no, Gongzi Mingjian, the villain has no intention of killing, even if he borrows ten more guts from the villain, the villain will not dare to do the murderous deed!"
Ah Wei extinguished the firewood under the rack a few times, and sneered: "Then why are you young, but here you are pretending to be old and weak, robbing people's money?" β
"Alas! Son, you are full and don't know that hungry men are hungry. In this world, what's the use of being young? He sighed: "My surname is Wang Mingwu, this Xiaoliu is my child, and both of us are from Pingzhang County, if we weren't forced into a desperate situation, we wouldn't have come here to do such a thing that violates our conscience." β
Huai Yuqi said: "Listening to what you say, is there something hidden?" β
"Xiao Langjun doesn't know, since Yundu was broken by the Yan army, the county towns and cities within a radius of hundreds of miles in Yundu, the people are dead, wounded, countless people are displaced, homeless, and my father and mother also died tragically under the Yan saber, Xiao Liu and I wanted to join the Gu family army, go into battle to kill the enemy, and avenge my father's mother, but I heard that Gu Yanhe's old thief actually flooded Yundu for military meritsββ"
"Bold!"
Ah Wei heard the word "old thief" spit out of his mouth, and the sword in his hand was unsheathed in an instant, Wang Wu only felt a little white light flash in front of him, and there was an extra sharp sword on his neck, which frightened him to kneel on the ground.
"Childe spares his life! Villain...... The villain is stupid and can't speak, and he collides with the nobleman, and the villain ......"
Huaiyu shook his head at Ah Wei with a calm face, pushed the sword on Xiao Wu's neck away, and said coldly: "You go on." β
Wang Wuzhan sat down tremblingly and wiped the fine sweat on his forehead: "Although Yundu has been recovered, the people of Yundu are really miserable, and it can be said that they are in dire straits......
"Getting to the point! Speaking of Pingzhang County, what are you talking about!? Awei snapped.
"Hey, yes, yes. Pingzhang County is just a small county town with less than 1,000 households, and after General Gu flooded Yundu, all the bandits and robbers on the widow's mountain said that General Gu was going to rebel and the world would be in chaos. Half a month ago, they actually infiltrated the county office, killed the county magistrate of Pingzhang County, and forcibly occupied Pingzhang County! β
"What? How could there be such a daring bandit? Could it be that the county government of Pingzhang County couldn't be made of mud, and the county order was killed so easily? β
"Who's to say it isn't!"
Wang Wu sighed and said: "Pity me Pingzhang County, first killed by the Yan army, and then forcibly occupied by bandits, I and Xiaoliu's parents died tragically, and I have no long things, I really had to come here to do such a thing." β
After listening to him, Huaiyu asked in a deep voice: "Wang Wu, I heard you speak in a reasonable and orderly manner, and you can speak well, and you must also be literate and hyphenation." β
"It's not a secret, the villain does know a few words." Wang Wudao, "Before Wang, he was the county lieutenant of Pingzhang County!" β
At this moment, Huaiyu and his party were all shocked!
The county lieutenant of a county also came to rob the house?
It's ridiculous!