When we arrived at Brother Wei's house and poured tea, Brother Wei said that he would take us to the winery of mutual aid, and the three of us simply had a meal and went straight to Weiyuan Town.

The Xinyuan Distillery in Weiyuan Town is quite famous, and the three of them went in after buying tickets. The wine inside is free to drink, of course, it is unpackaged, there are tasting points in many corners, a stack of disposable cups, and a switch similar to a faucet can be turned on on the large container next to the wine, and you can fill as much as you want, and you can't waste it or take it away.

Generally, when you go to a tasting point, you will drink half a tael, and then go to the next tasting point after tasting.

The wine is very fragrant, it is a fragrant liquor, I am not used to drinking it, I still prefer to drink strong aromatic wine. After walking around the winery for almost two hours, I couldn't taste it, so I felt that I had drunk more than half a catty, and my head was a little dizzy, and the master was also so drunk that his face was red, and he asked Brother Wei with a smile: "What is the way of the kid who played chess with you in the morning?" ”

Brother Wei took out a cigarette and wanted to smoke one, and when he saw that smoking was not allowed in the winery, he put it on his ear and said, "Old Wu, you don't know, he is the one you asked yesterday, Lao Zhang, an old bachelor in our village." ”

I thought it was strange when I heard it, in Brother Wei's words yesterday, that Lao Zhang is a "lazy old bachelor", he is almost forty years old and has no daughter-in-law, I think Lao Zhang is a sloppy and idle second-rate son, and it is better to have a few abscesses on his head to be more in line with this temperament. I asked Brother Wei my question.

Brother Wei said with a smile: "You kid is too taken for granted, in the countryside, it's not that the old man can get a daughter-in-law if he looks good, the key is to be able to work, Lao Zhang's parents died early, and he didn't work, the land was sold, and he stayed at home as a whole, and he didn't go out to work. ”

The Master then asked, "Why do you stay away from him?" ”

Brother Wei made a gesture, meaning that let's go out of the winery first. Out of the winery, the servants sat on the ground, smoking cigarettes, and listened to Brother Wei's speech.

"A long time ago, before I was born, I listened to my parents and the elders in the village. At that time, Lao Zhang was still Xiao Zhang, a teenager, in elementary school in the town, Xiao Zhang was very strange when he was a child, there were a lot of balls, and he fought with a child who was a few years old, and when he fought, Xiao Zhang said, 'Don't you fight with me, your house is on fire, why don't you go back to fight the fire', where does the child care, thinking that Xiao Zhang lied to him, he beat Xiao Zhang, and when he went home, he found that the house was really on fire. ”

"Another time, Xiao Zhang was naughty in class, and the teacher punished him, ready to teach him a lesson, Xiao Zhang smiled and said, 'Don't teach me a lesson, go and see who your mother-in-law sleeps with', because there was the previous time, this teacher also heard about it, and went back immediately, and really found that his mother-in-law was stealing men."

This kind of thing happened a few times, people think that Xiao Zhang is a little scary, no one wants to play with him, he has been staying at home since graduating from junior high school, and after a few years, Xiao Zhang's parents have died one after another, this Zhang family is a foreign family, no one knows where his hometown is, and no one has seen any relatives in his family.

Xiao Zhang has been staying at home, no, from Xiao Zhang to Lao Zhang, he went to the county seat for about a month to buy some clothes and food, but where his money came from, no one knew, and no one dared to ask. ”

Speaking of this, Brother Wei lowered his voice and said, "But I heard the old man say that Lao Zhang has things at home. ”

Master and I were very interested, and hurriedly asked, "What do you raise?" ”

"I don't know, once there was a family in the village that the sheep ran away, that day it was also a coincidence, Lao Zhang wandered around the village, did not close the door, the man ran to Lao Zhang's house, Lao Zhang's family is not big, the structure is similar to ours, but there is no sheepfold, just three houses."

Saying that, Brother Wei lit a cigarette again and continued: "The man looked for his sheep and didn't see his own sheep, but found that the door of the old Zhang's west house was half hidden, and the east house and the hall house were not found, so he pushed the door into the west house, and before the door was fully opened, the sheep he lost was thrown out, and it was already out of breath, and there was a blood hole in his neck, and it was stabbing blood with hot air outside. ”

"The man was very angry, thinking that it was Lao Zhang's dog or something that bit the sheep to death, and he wanted to pick up the guy, at this time Lao Zhang came back and pushed the man, the man was pushed away, Lao Zhang's eyes were green, staring at the man, the man was a little scared, but his sheep were bitten to death, and he was not reconciled, it is not easy for our croppers to raise a livestock, I want to reason with Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang didn't say a word, took out a stack of tickets and handed it to the man, and quickly closed the door of the West House, stared at the man, and told him to get out."

"Later, the man drank too much wine to tell the matter, but it didn't take long for the man's whole family to move away, and no one knew what Lao Zhang's family raised."

After Brother Wei finished speaking, he added: "Don't mess with Lao Zhang, you two, this person is evil, and the ball is dead." ”

I glanced at Master and nodded, indicating that I would not provoke Lao Zhang.

Brother Wei asked again, "Have you found the answer?" ”

I didn't drink much, and I never mentioned the "answer" to anyone, except for the living Buddha I once asked in the Ali Temple, Brother Wei, and friends of the temple management committee, I didn't mention the "answer".

I asked Brother Wei: "Brother Wei, what is the answer, what do you know?" ”

For a while, I suddenly realized that my friends around me seemed to know that I was looking for "answers", that I was looking for Qu Zhen, and even that they knew something about Qu Zhen, but they refused to tell me.

Brother Wei shook his head, sighed, and said: "You believe me, I am hiding some things, but it is all for your good, don't ask me how I know the 'answer', and don't ask me Qu Zhen, I really want to help you, but I can't do anything." ”

Obviously, Brother Wei knew a lot of things, perhaps more than his friends in the temple management committee, but he didn't say it. I looked at Master, who was leaning against the wall, his eyes staring into the distance, blank, as if he was deliberately avoiding me.