Chapter 200: A Long Yellow Sand Road and a Wine Shop
Chapter 200 is a long road covered by yellow sand and a wine shop
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Few merchants in Lin'an like to come to the northwest to do business. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Even if the Yunwu tea from Yunwu Mountain arrives in the northwest, it will be several times the price, even if the craft brew from Baoerlou is transported to the northwest, it can sell a superb wine, and those merchants from Lin'an who are nourished by the mild and humid air of the south do not like to come here.
Just because of this road.
This long road covered the sky with yellow sand.
But like many things in this world, there are always people who don't like it, but there are always people who do it. There will always be people walking on this road. From southeast to northwest, from northwest to southeast, from daimyo to rin'an, and from rin'an to daimyo, this road is the only way.
The only way is the best way.
On such a long and almost desert yellow sand road, the most important thing for travelers and merchants is water, because people need to drink water, and the horses that transport goods also need to drink water, so the least on this road is a tea house, or even just a tea stall with two buckets of water.
Such a tea stall brings not only clear water, or a temporary coolness, but also an inexplicable and even somewhat absurd hope.
Experienced merchants even use the teahouses that are connected for 10 miles and 100 miles as marker coordinates to calculate how many points this long Huangsha Road has traveled.
There is also a liquor shop on this road, which is the only one on this road.
The liquor store is halfway down the road.
The "one" of a wine shop is not a measure word, but the name of the wine shop.
The name of the restaurant is "Ichi".
It's a funny name, even more comical than the one called Bao'er Building.
But who cares what the name of a wine shop on an official road with only yellow sand is?
Therefore, few people know the name of this liquor shop.
But he knew.
Who is he?
He's the shopkeeper of the liquor store, or rather the man's.
There is only one person in a wine shop, so he is both the shopkeeper and the man.
A wine shop has not only one person, but also a table and a chair.
There is only one yellow flag, and there is only one backyard, and the only backyard is only one room and a well.
Even the only liquor store has only one gourd.
More precisely, it is a gourd a day.
He looked north, as if he wanted to see something, but he could only see the yellow sand in his eyes, and he wondered if it was from many years ago, this road here could only see yellow sand, just like the grassland where he could not see the flowers for countless years, from the far, far away, very old times, one road was yellow sand, and a grassland was flowers.
He didn't know, so he guessed that he was a middle-aged man who was neither young nor very old, but from the surface, it looked a little vicissitudes, because the yellow sand storm in the past few years had blown him really old. But there is always a little flame of youth that has not burned out on his face.
Because he has bright eyes.
The bright and clean eyes are like those teenagers who are still looking forward to the end of the world with a sword.
There was only a stretch of yellow sand in those eyes, but it was not stained with a little dust, but it seemed to be a bright gem from the yellow sand.
It seems a little inaccurate to use gems to describe a man with a somewhat vicissitudes of life, but it is not very accurate to have such a pair of bright and young eyes on the face of such a vicissitudes of life.
In fact, his eyes were not like this in the past, his face was not yet vicissitudes, and there were no wrinkles from the yellow sand, and those eyes were as mature as his own age.
Knowing that he had come to this road a few years earlier, he had met a wine shop, and then he had become the owner of a wine shop, and his vicissitudes of life and bright eyes came with him.
There was also a shopkeeper in the past, but it seemed to have changed somewhat, but it still hasn't changed. He came, and the man was gone.
There is still only one person in the wine shop, a gourd of wine, a table, a bench, and a well.
That's all there is to a wine shop.
He's the only one guarding a liquor store.
He also has a funny name called Shouichi.
It was his name, a name that had been there since birth, and it seemed that he had been destined to be the shopkeeper of this only wine shop since birth, and to guard it all the time.
He didn't believe in fate, so he didn't believe that his name had anything to do with a liquor store, let alone that there was anything predestined.
His father was a scholar, and he gave him a name just to remember that he had to keep his heart all the time, which was very simple the love of the elders, and it was not very clever, let alone any superfluous fate.
This liquor shop is famous on this road.
Not because of the name of the winestore, nor because of the bright-eyed shopkeeper in the winestore, but simply because of the wine in the gourd.
The wine is just ordinary home-brewed and not special.
The special thing is that only one gourd is sold.
There was no jar or glass, only a gourd, and the old yellow gourd was full of wine, the only gourd in a liquor store.
Neither more nor less, a gourd wine that is neither new nor old. On such a yellow sand road, such wine is too precious and too beautiful.
Of course, he was too stingy, and even Shouyi, who had been guarding here for several years, felt a little stingy, especially when he knew that there were countless wine gourds under the only well.
Nevertheless, he followed the instructions of the previous shopkeeper of the liquor store, and sold only one gourd of wine a day, and if no one bought it today, he kept it for two gourds to-morrow, or drank it himself.
Fortunately, Shouichi is not a good drinker, so when he looks at the wine in the well, and the wine gourds behind the half-new wine gourds, which are even more wine and older, he just feels shocked, and he doesn't want to drink it, maybe this is why the owner of a wine shop is willing to give this wine shop to Shouyi.
If you were to become a general who was like a drunkard in the Daimyo's mansion, I am afraid that the wine in the well would only be left with some empty wine gourds.
Shouyi guarded a wine shop, guarded it for a few years, and will guard it for many years in the future.
A liquor shop only sells a gourd of wine, but sells tea, a lot of tea, tea made of clear water, tea is also the tea of ordinary people, naturally it is not comparable to the famous cloud tea in Lin'an City, just a clear water herbal tea used to quench thirst.
In this way, the wine shop is more like a tea house or a tea stall.
It's just that the recent wine of a wine shop has not been sold, and even the tea money has not been satisfied, perhaps because the summer in the north has been postponed, and the merchants who have run away this year have also come to postpone some, and the spring has passed, and there are still few people on this yellow sand road, even if they see it, they only drank a few bowls of tea and left in a hurry, and most of them are people from the northwest, and there are even fewer people from the south.
Shouichi knew what the reason was, but he didn't say it, because no one listened to him, he just looked, looked at the city in the northwest for a while, and then looked at the lake in the south, although all he saw was yellow sand, he didn't mind.
His bright eyes were very clean and calm, clean seemed to have seen through all the yellow sand, calm like a well in a wine shop with a wine gourd mountain.
In fact, he should be happy, because all the wine that he hoarded a few days ago was sold today, but all of them were bought by one person.
Of course, he was even happier that he happened to know the man, that he had known him before, that he had known that person before he knew a liquor store.
The man was his friend.
It's just that his friend is now very drunk, and he is sleeping on the only table in a wine shop, and there are many empty wine gourds on the table, and even the only bench where the drunk man is sitting is also wine gourds.
From tomorrow onwards, Shouichi will only be able to sell one gourd of wine.
Shouichi thought as he sat on a stone next to the liquor store that had been tormented by the wind and sand for many years.
Thinking of the wine gourd in the well, he naturally also thought of the original shopkeeper of the wine shop.
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Good luck to you, second more. The first update was written in the morning.,It's just that there was something wrong with the network today.,So I'm just sending it together now.,I'm sorry.