readx;? In the bustling city of Jinling, there are countless wine shops and tea shops. The literati of the pen and the www.biquge.info often go to the teahouse to dance and make ink, while the martial arts cultivators prefer to go to the wine shop and find three or five friends of the same sect and sect to drink a special drink together.

The so-called family has a scripture that is difficult to read, in fact, everyone has countless sorrows and anxieties, and drinking alcohol is the best way for people who practice martial arts to vent. A drunk relieves a thousand sorrows, as long as he is drunk, he will fall asleep, and other things will be annoying and sorrowful, just wait for tomorrow to sleep until the third pole of the day and then say that it is not too late. If the bitterness is still there, just bring another jar of spirits.

And between being half-drunk and half-awake, it is also the time when people reveal their hearts most thoroughly, and if they are drunk and say the truth, if they are drunk, it can only be said that this person is not drunk. And if a person doesn't want to get drunk, then even if he is poured a thousand cups, he will not get drunk, but will only be numbed by the strong wine and fall asleep.

Therefore, when drinking and drinking the Tao is the most enjoyable, you must drink alone from time to time, and it is not a toast at the banquet, but you can chat with three or five confidants and friends without defense, the more you talk, the more wine you will naturally drink, and the more you drink, the more you will not sleep, but will say more words. Therefore, the real purpose of drinking happily is to speak, cry or laugh happily, and only in this way can you not drink in vain.

Beard Tavern is a very inconspicuous tavern in Jinling City, although it is inconspicuous, there are many customers here, and they are all regular customers. Legend has it that the first shopkeeper of this tavern was a drunkard with a Lothar beard, known as Winebeard. Mustache is a hospitable man who opened this tavern not for business, but for his friends to get together and drink every day. Later, Winebeard died, and the tavern was taken over by his son, who opened the door and started a liquor business.

In order to commemorate the original intention of his father, Beard, and opened this tavern, the new shopkeeper set an interesting rule, that is, whoever comes alone, the Bearded Tavern will not accept it, and only two or three friends who come together can drink at the Beard Tavern.

Because the Beard Tavern is located in the middle of nowhere, and the place is not large, the people who know this place and the people who often come here are roughly the same people, that is, the regular customers of the Beard Tavern. In other words, people who don't come here to drink probably won't know that there is such a special tavern in Jinling City.

Today, as usual, the small tavern was densely packed with groups of three or five drinkers, and in the midst of the shouting, the men in the bearded tavern were also very busy, and the fifty jars of wine that were newly filled this morning under the east wall were now only four or five jars, and the west wall was already full of empty wine jars, two or three teenage men were busy picking up the empty jars from the west wall roots, filling them with new wine from the large wine vat behind the tavern counter, and then using red linen to hastily pile them under the east wall roots.

Alcoholics are generally less particular about it, so as long as the jar is full, they don't care who has used it before.

At this moment, at a wine table in the southwest corner of the Bearded Tavern, two men in their thirties were drinking one bowl after another, and there were already seven or eight empty jars on the table of the two of them, which showed how amazing the amount of wine the two of them was.

One of the men in a gray robe, his eyes straightened, and his scarred face was even redder at the moment, this man was of ordinary appearance, the kind of mediocrity that would not be noticeable at all if he was still in the crowd. But behind the mediocrity, if you observe carefully, it is not difficult to find that this person's hands holding the wine bowl are vigorous and powerful, the joints on the hands are extremely large, and the wrists are as thick as small tree trunks. And this person has a long breath, although he is drunk and drunk, he is still full of confidence when he speaks, and his body is exuding an extremely strong momentum all the time. This person is not only powerful in external strength, but even his soul power must not be weak.

Sitting opposite him was a handsome man in white, who was much more eye-catching than the gray-robed man, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a straight nose and a wide mouth, a fair and ruddy complexion, and his face was not as scarred and rough as a gray-robed man, but was no less delicate than a woman.

Compared to the gray-robed man, the man in white was much calmer, although he was also extremely excited with a wine bowl talking and laughing, but in fact, his eyes always showed a trace of reason, but the strong smell of wine in the bearded tavern and the dim light did not attract anyone's attention.

"Brother Xuanfang...... Come, come, drink, drink...... I'm so glad to meet you today......" The gray-robed man greeted the man in white warmly as he brought the wine bowl to his mouth, "We must have not seen each other for ten years, right?"

"More than that!" the man in white who was called Xuan Fang pretended to be drunk and laughed, "I see that I haven't seen Brother Xuan Zheng for twenty years, let alone you......" Xuan Zheng is the name of the gray-robed mediocre man.

"Nonsense!" Xuan Zheng waved his hand, and when the wine bowl in his hand swept in front of Xuan Fang, the bowl was already empty, "Xuan Fang, you like to exaggerate when you are young...... I was seventeen years old when I came down the mountain, and I have been dead for 12 or 13 years...... Twenty years...... Ha ha...... You're exaggerating......"

"Separated from Brother Xuanzheng, I am living like a year...... Don't say twenty years, even if it's thirty years?" Xuan Fang didn't drink the wine in his bowl, but stood up again and poured another bowl for Xuanzheng, at this moment, these seven or eight jars of wine are only afraid that there are five or six altars that Xuan Zheng drinks, and Xuan Fang, who has always been sensible, doesn't drink much, "Back then, you and I begged for food together at the foot of Xuanzong Mountain, went up the mountain together, apprenticed together, cultivated together, and broke through the soul master and soul together...... You just don't change your nature, but you want to go against the master, you always run down the mountain to play without permission, and later you were found by the master to be severely punished, but you were not only not punished, but in order to retaliate, you also secretly broke the master's favorite jade bottle, and then was expelled from the sect by the master in a fit of anger...... Do you think it's worth it for this little thing?"

"It's worth a fart!" Hyun Zheng laughed at the back of his slurred voice, "I didn't know the sky was high at that time...... I thought I was invincible...... I thought I could go out and make a difference, but what was the result? Hehe......" Xuan Zheng said as he reached out and patted his scarred cheek, and then laughed self-deprecatingly, "It turned out to be the way it is...... I won't hide it from you, I don't have a single piece of meat in my body that is intact right now...... It's all hurt...... I can't remember how many times I've almost died over the years......"

As he spoke, Xuan Zheng's eyes suddenly became a little ruddy, but he didn't cry, because years of life and death experience had already wiped away his tears.

"Xuan Zheng ......" Xuan Fang also seemed to be moved, reached out and firmly grabbed Xuan Zheng's wrist, and raised the wine bowl in his hand with a slight red eye, "You have suffered all these years...... Come, brother, I salute you with a bowl ......"

"Come!" Xuan Zheng proudly picked up the wine bowl and bumped it with Xuan Fang, and then poured a bowl of spirits into his stomach again, and then let out a comfortable sigh from his mouth, "Good wine, good wine! haha......"

"Actually, I've been asking around about your whereabouts all these years...... Back then, you left in such a hurry that I didn't even have time to take a good look at you, brother......" Xuan Fang said sadly, and as he spoke, he pulled up his white sleeve robe and wiped the corners of his eyes, "Later, I heard that you came to Jinling City, so I hurriedly ran to Jinling City hoping to meet you, but I didn't expect ...... I didn't expect to find you in front of this bearded tavern!"

"I can't forget!" Xuan Zheng laughed and patted Xuan Fang's shoulder, "When we were only eight years old, we begged for food together and went to this bearded tavern, at that time, the shopkeeper of this tavern was still a wine beard, he saw that we were about to freeze to death in the ice and snow, so he invited us in and gave us a jar of wine, wine that didn't need money...... It was the first time we've ever drunk in our lives...... Do you remember?"

"Remember!" Xuan Fang laughed loudly, "I still remember that at that time, Winebeard said that we were brothers in life and death who were in trouble together, and if we wanted to come to this bearded tavern in the future, we had to come together, and he wouldn't give him any wine to drink......"

"Haha...... So I haven't drunk at the Beard Tavern since then...... Until today......" Xuan Zheng leaned back in his chair with empty eyes and laughed wantonly, "I never imagined in my life that more than twenty years later, we would still be able to sit together in the bearded tavern and have a drink......"

"I can't think of it either!" Xuan Fang nodded in agreement.

"No, you've thought of it......," Hyun Zheng laughed, "if you hadn't thought of it, why would you have come all the way to the door of the Bearded Tavern to find me?"

After that, Xuan Fang was stunned for a moment, but then he and Xuan Zheng looked at each other, and then the two of them looked up to the sky and laughed.

"Fate! It's all fate! This shows that the fate of you and my brother is not over!" Xuan Fang smiled, "You and I met today, and in the future, you and my brother will go through together......"

"There's no chance...... You are now the registered elder of the Xuanzong, the number one sect in the Holy Domain, and I ...... Maybe he'll die one day...... Hehe......" Xuan Zheng shook his head with a wry smile, and then put a bowl of wine into his mouth again.

"I heard that ......" Xuan Fang's eyes tightened suddenly, and then asked tentatively, "Brother Xuan Zheng, you are now also attached to a powerful person with an extremely high status...... Is that the case?"

"Hehe, so what? After all, it's not like a dog?" Xuan Zheng smiled bitterly, and then he pulled Xuan Fang down in front of him in a drunken daze, and then put his mouth full of wine to Xuan Fang's ear, and said vaguely, "You are my brother...... I'll tell you...... My current master is...... The Holy East King Yan ......"

"Shhh

"You're actually on an errand under the King of the Holy East?"

"It's not an errand!" Xuan Zheng smiled mysteriously, then gently put the wine bowl in his hand on the table, then pulled Xuan Fang's arm, and said word by word, "You and I are from the same sect, and I won't hide it from you...... I'm actually the one who works secretly for King Shengdong...... Secretly doing things...... Do something that is inconvenient for him to do on the surface...... Hehe......"

"Oh?" Xuan Fang pretended to look at Xuan Zheng in surprise, and then asked curiously with the strength of the wine, "Then what ......are you doing in Jinling this time?"

"I'll tell you secretly...... This time, it wasn't just me, but King Shengdong was also here...... The four princes are here...... They all came by secret order of the Emperor......"

"Then you have received some extremely secret mission this time?" Xuan Fang asked tentatively, but as soon as his words fell, he suddenly waved his hand, took a few sips of wine, and pretended to excuse himself, "You better stop talking...... Don't break your rules......"

"Huh!" Xuan Zheng heard Xuan Fang say this, even his face sank, and then he rebuked with displeasure, "I treat you as a brother of life and death, how can you recognize life like me like this? This matter has nothing to do with you and Xuanzong, so what's the matter if I tell you?"

"This ......" Xuan Fang still hesitated.

"Come, come, come, I'll tell you......" The drunken Xuan Zheng put his arms around Xuan Fang's head, and then leaned into his ear and whispered, "I have been ordered by the emperor this time...... I want to go to the northern Xinjiang to capture a beast domain powerhouse alive...... Help the emperor find out if there is anyone in the court who is secretly communicating with foreigners......"

"There is such a thing in Northern Xinjiang?" Xuan Fang looked at Xuan Zheng with a shocked expression, his face full of disbelief.

"It's not just me who shot this time, there are also a few other brothers...... Xuan Zheng picked up the wine bowl and drank it again, and said with a smile while drinking, "Xuan Fang, you have been cultivating in the sect all the year round, how can you know how dangerous it is outside?

"Since I was a child, I have not been as good as Brother Xuanzheng, you dare to fight, and you are used to being comfortable...... Where do you know anything sinister!" Xuan Fang smiled bitterly.

"God knows this, you know and I know......"

"Brother Xuanzheng, don't worry! I'll forget it all as soon as it's over today!haha......" Without waiting for Xuanzheng to finish speaking, Xuanzheng took the lead in guaranteeing, "Come on, come on, keep drinking...... We're going to have a good drink today......"

"Yes, you and I don't know if there will be a chance to see each other again in the future, our brothers will have a good drink today......" Xuan Zheng picked up the wine jar and poured it directly into his mouth, and after drinking, he didn't forget to greet him, "Xiao Er, serve the wine again!"

In this way, Xuan Zheng and Xuan Fang, two childhood brothers who have not seen each other for twelve years, drank freely in this small bearded tavern.

And the thing that Xuan Zheng didn't expect the most was that the life and death brother he met by chance today was actually not a chance meeting under some fate, nor was it Xuan Fang who came thousands of miles to find for some brotherhood, and all of this was actually a long-lost reunion scene that Xuan Fang had carefully arranged for several days!

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