Chapter 51: Drinking and Mishapting
Then let a few clansmen lead them to move tables and chairs, and he led Wu Yunlin, Dumb, and Zhao Kuo into the hall, bypassed a screen, and sat down at the banquet in the inner room, while listening to the slight noise outside, chatting, and waiting for the clansmen to serve the meal later.
At the same time, Wei Qi and Wei Xie hurried and finally rushed back to Zhuangzi, while the second child took the forged documents to fool the Diao Min representative who was still waiting for the county officials in Zunyi County to take office and was ready to file a complaint.
"Big ..... Big.... Eldest brother. Wei Xie gasped, leaned on a crooked-necked tree on the side of the road, and asked the eldest brother:
"I don't understand, such a big thing, why hand over Wei Xin's guy, aren't you afraid to mess up, let that group of Diao people know that they are here, and then come here to complain? Shouldn't the eldest brother personally come out of this matter? ”
Wei Qi was also out of breath, waved his hand at Wei Xie, signaling that he didn't need to worry, then breathed a sigh of relief, calmed down his demeanor, and then said:
"Although the second brother is usually unruly and full of thorns, it is not a wine bag and rice bag, and when he arrives in Zunyi County, he lights up the paperwork and reads it again, and those bewitched villagers naturally understand that the county lord is biased towards our side, so it will naturally disperse, it is not a trouble, and it is ......"
He looked up at the brightly lit place of Zhuangzi and said worriedly:
"Compared with going to the county seat to read the manuscript, the twenty soldiers in Zhuangzi are a big problem, although it is not a problem for henchmen, but if it is not handled well, it will inevitably lead to a fight, and even the death of a few relatives, so I have to come in person to ensure that there is no mistake in the previous plan, and I can clean up the group of soldiers without blood."
Wei Xie listened and nodded, he somewhat understood, that is, the eldest brother's task now is more important than the second brother, and the second brother is to read a manuscript, not a big task. He completely underestimated the difficulty of relying on a forged document to fool a group of Diao people, although the second Wei Xin has no pen and ink, but he likes to be with some land without laziness on weekdays, and he is reckless, so it is also handy to intimidate and clean up a group of Diao people.
The two of them rested for a while at the entrance of the village, and after a good breath, they immediately hurried to the manor.
As soon as they arrived at the gate of the compound, a disciple of the Wei family saw the two of them, and hurriedly greeted them, and then pulled the two to the corner of the door and whispered:
"Two cousins, those soldiers are really good at drinking, and a few of the leaders are even more drunk, saying that it is the practice of lodging, to leave a few sober vigils, we can't get them drunk like before, what can we do?"
"Don't drink?!" When Wei Xie heard this, his head turned sideways, and he said stiffly:
"I'll go in and find those soldiers to toast, I still don't believe it, in my Wei family's territory, he dares not to drink."
Then he patted his chest and promised his eldest brother:
"Big brother, don't worry, even if it's a bowl for a cup, I promise to get them drunk!"
Wei Qi didn't take Wei Xie's suggestion, and he wouldn't adopt this kind of stupid trick, but put his hand on Wei Xie's shoulder, patted it hard, and said: "Don't be impulsive, I know that you can drink, but it's really useless to let you out now, don't worry, my brother has already planned for this, look at it." ”
In addition, most of the soldiers in Zhou Bingtou and his party were veterans, and for the veterans, the most important thing was the word "stability", so on the first day of lodging, even in the courtyard of the village sage, the first few soldiers of Zhou Bing restrained themselves with great perseverance, did not drink alcohol, and remained sober.
It's just that Zhou Bingtou looked at the big bowl of wine that the soldiers around him were calling friends, and the slight aroma of wine drilled directly into his nostrils, which stimulated the wine worms in his stomach to crawl, and his heart was itching, although on the first night of the stay, someone needed to keep vigil to stay awake, but there was always a voice in his mind that kept echoing, "Drink a glass, just drink a cup, a glass of wine can't spoil anything." ”
The dog next to Zhou Bing's head had sharp eyes, and saw that Zhou Bingtou was still ashamed, so he deliberately poured a glass of wine, put it under his nose and sniffed, nodded, and then took a sip, and kept talking to Zhou Bingtou:
"Tut-tut, Zhou Bingtou, don't say it, it doesn't smell very good, but when you drink it, it's very enjoyable, it's really good wine."
"I'll you!" Zhou Bingtou scolded with a smile: "A hillbilly who has never drunk alcohol looks stupid, and he still tempts your Grandpa Zhou." ”
He sniffed hard, sniffed the faint aroma of wine in the air, and then put on a look of having seen a big scene, and said:
"Old boy, let me tell you, when you mixed the capital, you also mixed the scene, not to mention anything else, when the Beijing held a fish and dragon feast, the master also went to the periphery to ask for a glass of wine, that wine, heh, don't talk about drinking in your life, you have never seen it!"
The dog listened, although he knew that the other party had an element of bragging, and the fish and dragon feast was a place where their group of bitter haha could go, but he also became interested in the wine that Zhou Bingtou said, and asked: "What's the matter, can you go to heaven after drinking that wine?" ”
Zhou Bing's head was choked, and he simply waved his hand and said:
"You don't know the smell of the taste, you can only say that the wine you drink, just by smelling it, you can get drunk for three points, and the wine with a strong aroma can drip water."
Many soldiers listened to Zhou Bingtou's brief narration, and they all exerted their strong imagination, and they all looked very longing.
Zhou Bingtou saw the expressions of many soldiers, and knew that he had succeeded in pretending to be forced, so he smiled and took a sip of the teacup, but his tongue was astringent by the bitter tea, and he only shouted in his heart, and suddenly, a very strong aroma of wine floated to his nose, which made him feel energetic, and searched around along the aroma of wine, trying to find the source of the aroma.
But I saw two brothers coming to the gate of the compound, one holding a jar of old wine that had just been dug up, and one of the jars moved to seal it in the process of digging, and cracked a small crack, and the rich aroma of wine continued to waft out from it.
Zhou Bing's eyes were straight, and he hurriedly got up and pulled away the surrounding soldiers, directly stopped the two brothers who were walking towards the hall, and asked, "What are you two doing?" What is it in your arms? After speaking, he subconsciously swallowed saliva.
As soon as Wei Xie heard this, he knew that this old guy had taken the bait, so he cracked his mouth and said with a smile:
"We are both in the Wei family's village, I didn't hear that the county lord came to the village, so I hurriedly ran to the locust tree in my yard, dug out two days of fine wine, and sent it to the county lord."
After speaking, he deliberately raised the wine jar in his arms, patted it, and said:
"This is a fine wine that has been stored for ten years, and I can only have these two jars."
"Ten years of wine!" As soon as Zhou Bing heard this, saliva began to appear on the tip of his tongue, and the wine worms in his stomach began to roll up and down to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace, and he suddenly felt that if he didn't drink another glass of wine today, it was estimated that he would lose ten years of life.
As for the idea of not drinking and vigiling just now, it was already thrown out of the sky under the temptation of the smell of wine.
So he stared at the wine jar on Wei Xie's chest with both eyes, and he was thinking about how to cheat a glass of wine from the other party.
Wei Xie saw the other party's demeanor and wanted to say that he would give him a taste, but doing so would arouse suspicion, so both of them fell into an inexplicable embarrassment.
At this time, Wei Qi came over to relieve the siege and said: "I said why are you still standing stupidly, why don't you hurry up and send wine to the county master." Said so, but he intentionally or unintentionally shook the cracked wine jar in front of Zhou Bing's head.
Although Wei Xie was strange about the eldest brother's words, he didn't think much about it, he was used to listening to the eldest brother's words, so he let out an oh sound, bypassed Zhou Bing's head, and raised his feet to want to move forward, but he heard a "Stop!" It was the impatient voice of the head of the week.
When Wei Qi heard this, the corners of his mouth hooked, this was the fish hooked, so he turned around and asked suspiciously, "What do you have to say from Master Bing?" After speaking, he deliberately hugged the wine jar in his arms tightly.
Zhou Bingtou looked at the other party's appearance of protecting the baby, squeezed the surroundings on his face and smiled at Wei Qi and said, "Oh, do you know, you two, a catastrophe is about to come!" ”
"Huh?!" Wei Qi pretended to be frightened and asked, "What does Master Bing mean by this?" ”
Zhou Bingtou stretched out his hand and pointed to the seal of the jar of wine in Wei Qi's arms and said, "Look at it, you two must have been careless when digging the jar of wine, using too much force to break the seal, right?" ”
Wei Qibai's face turned red, and he said embarrassedly: "Yes... That's so, but so what? But he sneered in his heart, if I don't make a crack, how can I drug the wine, and how can I lure you, the old king, to the bait?
Zhou Bingtou listened, his waist board all the way, and pretended to be profound:
"In the end, it's still a young man, you don't understand, when you dig it, you crack the seal, then you don't get the soil into the wine, the county master was born as a scholar, and he loves to be clean, not to mention that when he takes office, you give him unclean wine, doesn't this mock him...."
Zhou Bingtou stretched his head over, lowered his voice and said, "Isn't it clean?" ”
“?!” Wei Qi was shocked when he heard this, the wine in his arms almost fell to the ground, and Zhou Bing's head and liver trembled when he saw it.
I saw Wei Qi put the wine jar on the ground and tore open the seal, it was ten years of fine wine, and the rich aroma of wine gushed out, attracting the sideways eyes of the people around him.
A few people came up to look into the wine jar with him, but saw that there were indeed a few points of dust floating on the wine in the wine jar, which was the sweat medicine that Wei Qi poured into the crack, but now it looked like dust, and after adding the words of Zhou Bingtou before, everyone was even more sure that it was because of the dust caused by carelessness entering the altar.
So Wei Qi got up and bowed to Zhou Bing's head three times, and said, "Thank you Master Bing for your guidance and saving me from being killed." ”
"Well said, well said." Zhou Bingtou coped with Wei Qi's words, but his eyes couldn't leave the jar of wine under his feet, and he finally came back to his senses, rubbed his hands and said to Wei Qi:
"Look at what this wine should do, although it has entered the dust, it has been treasured for ten years, and now it has been opened, it is a pity not to drink it."
Wei Qi nodded and said, "Master Guan has helped me a lot, if you don't dislike this jar of wine, you can share it with the brothers here!" ”
Zhou Bingtou waited for this sentence, he was afraid that Wei Qi would regret it, so he immediately picked up the wine jar on the ground and said, "Okay, you two hurry up and send the rest of the jar to the county master."
Then he ran to his place with his arms, smelling the wine, and the soldiers around him also came up to see if they could get a piece of the pie, and the scene was chaotic for a while.
Wei Qi looked at this group of soldiers gathered together, and couldn't help sneering in his heart, what is it a group of rabble.