The back kitchen of Zhang Ji Tavern, the boring Zhang Jiu'er, chatted with the chef Zhang San about some interesting things in the town.

Suddenly! In the direction of the tavern lobby, came

"Bang bang bang!" The sound of fighting, followed by the sound of tables and chairs falling to the ground, frightened Zhang Jiu'er and Zhang San, and hurriedly found a hidden place in the kitchen and hid.

It wasn't until more than an hour later that Zhang Jiu'er and Zhang San came out nervously and prepared to go to the tavern lobby to see the situation.

Zhang San said to Zhang Jiu'er with a nervous face:

"Wine, go see what's going on! What is the situation now?"

Hearing this, Zhang Jiu'er shook his head and said:

"I'm not going, if they're still here! Let's go and have a look, Master Zhang!"

In the end, the two did not go out, but stayed quietly in the back kitchen and continued to hide.

It wasn't until late at night that Zhang Jiu'er cautiously walked to the front lobby.

After he lit the candle, he found that except for some crooked tables and some broken dishes and chopsticks, there were no more swordsmen outside.

"Whew! It's good that they're all gone, but it's a pity that they didn't pay, and it seems that they are also a group of poor ghosts!" Then I started to clean up the tables, chairs, dishes and chopsticks.

"Well, what is this?" In the process of cleaning up, Zhang Jiu'er found a book pressed under a table, so he picked it up with some curiosity.

"Immeasurable!" Zhang Jiu'er looked at the words on it, and suddenly became a little excited in his heart,

"This can't be the legendary martial arts cheats, right?" Then he instantly stuffed the book into his arms, and at the same time turned his head to look around.

After a while, I found that no one came to the tavern to look for it, so I began to cultivate according to the book with confidence and boldness.

The years do not know the years, and in the blink of an eye, five or six years have passed, and Zhang Jiu'er, who secretly cultivates martial arts, feels the boredom of life, so he said goodbye to his parents who were a little worried, and began to go to the distant rivers and lakes to have a look.

There have been many ups and downs in the rivers and lakes, and Zhang Jiu'er has also changed from a teenager to a person with a frosty face, floating uncertainly every day, and he doesn't know where he is going.

"Father, mother, the wine is back!" Zhang Jiu'er, who returned to Kujiu Town, stood in front of the courtyard gate of his house and shouted loudly.

After a while, someone hurriedly opened the courtyard door, revealing a white-haired woman, her cloudy eyes were full of tears, and she looked at Zhang Jiu'er standing outside the door with a choked voice.

"Wine, you're back! I want to die as a mother," after speaking, he stepped forward and hugged his son, crying bitterly.

Zhang Jiu'er saw her mother's white hair and wrinkled face, and instantly blamed herself in her heart.

"Mother, it's all bad drinking, I haven't fulfilled my filial piety as a son, and I still make you worried! I'm ashamed of you!"

……

Zhang Jiu'er, who returned home, began to take over his father's tavern, and began to be busy with life every day, no longer paying attention to the affairs of the rivers and lakes.

Less than half a year later, Zhang Jiu'er's mother told him a family affair, the daughter of the owner of another Li Ji tavern in the town, named Li Qiuyue

Before Zhang Jiu'er left the town to explore the rivers and lakes, he heard about this woman and thought it was not bad, so he went to meet with his mother.

found that the other party was not bad in all aspects, so he agreed to the marriage. Five

The picture flows, time flies,

After starting a family, Zhang Jiu'er and his wife lived peacefully for more than ten years, and Zhang Jiu'er was also in his forties at this time, but probably because he was successful in martial arts, he looked like he was only about thirty years old.

One day, in the Zhang Ji Tavern, a middle-aged couple came, both with weapons, obviously mixed with the rivers and lakes!

As soon as I entered the tavern, I saw Zhang Jiu'er who was settling accounts behind the counter, and after looking carefully for a while, the woman among the two shouted with some uncertainty:

"Big drunkard?"

Zhang Jiu'er, who was settling accounts, heard this, raised her head with some doubts, and saw the middle-aged couple in front of her, and she felt a little familiar.

I thought about it for a while

Later, he asked with some surprise, "Lu Xiaoting? He Sanqi? Is that you?"

When the middle-aged couple heard this, a smile appeared on their faces, and Lu Xiaoting said:

"Brother drunkard, it's the two of us, but I didn't expect to meet you here!"

And the man also asked with some doubts:

"Brother drunkard, are you running a tavern here now?"

Zhang Jiu'er said with some emotion: "Yes, my family originally opened a tavern here, and it has been passed down for several generations, and now the tavern has been passed down to me!"

Then Zhang Jiu'er hung a sign saying "Rest today" outside the tavern.

From the back kitchen, let the lady make some dishes, took a jar of wine, and the four of them sat down around the table.

Then Zhang Jiu'er said to He Sanqi and his wife:

"This is my wife, Li Qiuyue," then turned to his wife and said:

"Qiu Yue, these are the two friends I met when I was young! He Sanqi, Lu Xiaoting!"

After the three of them greeted each other, Zhang Jiu'er asked with some confusion:

"Why did you two come to Bitter Wine Town, this place, except for some wine merchants who usually come to buy some wine, there are usually no outsiders coming!"

And He Sanqi and his wife were silent for a while, then glanced at each other, and then slowly spoke:

"Brother drunkard, the rivers and lakes have changed now, I don't know when rumors began to circulate in the rivers and lakes that demons appeared and ate people everywhere!"

When Zhang Jiu'er heard this, he shook his head a little funny and said:

"You also believe this, but it is just a rumor spread secretly by some people with ulterior motives for some purpose!"

Who knows, He Sanqi said with a solemn expression:

"I believe this is true, because we have seen the so-called demons with our own eyes, and if it weren't for the fast running of our husband and wife, we would probably have been eaten by the demons!"

"What! What a demon!" Zhang Jiu'er was shocked when she heard this, and her face was full of disbelief.

But whether Zhang Jiu'er believed it or not, He Sanqi and his wife, who had finished eating later, left without staying long, saying that they were going to attend a demon eradication conference.

Li Qiuyue looked at her husband with some concern, after all, she was far away from the rivers and lakes.

Finding his wife's worried look, Zhang Jiu'er couldn't help but comfort her: "Qiuyue, don't worry, I've been mixed with the rivers and lakes anyway, and above the rivers and lakes, I still have the title of drunkard, so what should you do with peace of mind!"

In fact, Zhang Jiu'er, who said these words, also has some basis, although in the past ten years, he has not set foot in the rivers and lakes, but only runs a tavern at home, but he has not let go of the cultivation of martial arts.

Moreover, for some reason, as long as he drank alcohol, the speed of his cultivation would be more than ten times faster than usual, and after more than ten years of concentrated practice, he had already cultivated the secret book he had obtained to the top level, which was the innate realm mentioned in the book.

Although the passing by He Sanqi and his wife brought some turmoil to Zhang Jiu'er and his wife, they soon calmed down, and he still went to the tavern with his wife every day, while the two children were handed over to their parents.

It wasn't until there were fewer and fewer merchants in Kujiu Town that Zhang Jiu'er noticed the abnormality,

So he left to inquire about the county seat and found out that now there are demons raging everywhere, and everyone dare not come out, waiting for the imperial court to send an army to eliminate the demons.

And many people in the rivers and lakes have begun to form gangs and factions, looking for traces of demons everywhere, but they are often killed by demons and fleeing in all directions.

Zhang Jiu'er thought of the two husband and wife who had left, and couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart, but he didn't know where to find them for a while, so he bought some more grain for winemaking and returned to Kujiu Town.

No matter how the outside world changes, he can only make wine with peace of mind, and if he can't sell it, he drinks it alone, after all, drinking alcohol can improve the speed of martial arts cultivation.

However, within a few days, he met He Sanqi and his wife, who had been a little worried, in his tavern.

As soon as He Sanqi entered the tavern, he said:

"Brother drunkard, you should move to the state city quickly, now the demons outside are gradually out of control!"

When Zhang Jiu'er heard this, she asked with some confusion, "Didn't the imperial court send a large army to start suppressing it?" Why do you still have to run to the state city!"

Who knew that He Sanqi heard the word "imperial court", and immediately said with some annoyance:

"Don't mention it, those armies don't care about any, but they have harmed a lot of people!"

After Zhang Jiu'er heard this, she fell into deep thought, after all, the family business is not so easy to give up!