Although it was a cucumber for sending, the old woman gave a lot of portions.

A large plate full of food is enough for three people.

Zhao Rang thanked him and was about to order wine, when the old woman said:

"I only have my own local sake here, which looks a little muddy, but it tastes good! My old man eats a few bowls of his own every day. ”

Zhao Rang readily agreed.

After a while, the old woman put a jar in front of Zhao Rang and asked:

"Do you want a big bowl or a small bowl?"

Zhao Rang thought for a moment and asked rhetorically:

"Is there anything too big or too small?"

Old woman says:

"Then you're going to hit the bowl."

Zhao Rang nodded and said:

"Exactly."

This time the old woman went for a long time.

It takes longer to pour wine than a cucumber.

Zhao Rang was still a little strange.

It's not a hassle to get a bowl, why did it take so long?

But he was still patient, and sat quietly and waited.

As everyone knows, two pairs of eyes are staring at him through the curtain in the back hall, and they have been staring at him from the gap.

Finally, the wine bowl came.

The white porcelain wine bowl is very thin, and it is a little reflective under the light.

The earth wine is put into a bowl, and the color is dim yellow.

The wine is supposed to have been roasted with corn mixed with sorghum and left for at least five years.

Zhao Rang slapped the cucumber and took a sip of wine, eating and drinking with taste, and after a while, a bowl of wine was drunk.

Putting down the chopsticks, there was a noise in the street, and it was time that the dart masters had already packed up and come out to have fun.

The door of the liquor store was kicked open with a "bang", and several executioners came first, standing at the door and looking around, their eyes finally falling on Zhao Rang.

"Boss, there's an outsider here."

The boss of the executioner was none other than the bearded man.

It seems that this time, the Admiralty Dart Bureau brought the goods from the south to Baiheshan, and he was in charge.

"Well, it's fine."

The beard didn't care about Zhao Rang, and walked in with a group of dart masters behind him, and the small wine shop was almost full.

"What about the sixth and fourth?"

After sitting down, the beard saw that there was no one missing, and asked the exit.

The executioner replied:

"Sixth brother, you still don't know? Never drank alcohol, went to play with money. Fourth brother, hehe, he's just playing in the house! ”

The beard didn't say anything after hearing this, so he asked him to quickly order wine and meat.

When they saw that it was an old woman who came to support, everyone except for the beard was full of disappointment......

Who doesn't want to run into a coquettish boss lady everywhere?

Wine is a color matchmaker.

Even if you can't take advantage of any real bargains, it's still okay to ask for a few cheap words.

But in the face of an old woman with a rickety back, a wrinkled face, and a little trembling when she squatted, no one could mention the interest, and even felt that the scenery was ruined!

"Old woman, good wine and good meat are on it, don't ask."

The executioner turned his face to the side, not even bothering to look at the old woman.

"Oops! There is meat, and the wine is home-brewed, and it tastes very good! ”

Xu hadn't had so many guests for a long time, and the old woman was a little excited, and her hands trembled even more.

Zhao Rang saw the old woman slowly lift the curtain and walk to the back hall, and suddenly thought that she only said that this shop was opened with the old man, but she was always the only one in the store.

There was no business before, and it made sense for the old man to enjoy leisure in the back or to sleep upstairs. With so many people coming here at this time, it's a big business that won't happen a few times a year, but he hasn't come out to help, which is really a bit too much to say.

Meat is served faster than wine.

Because the meat has been stewed in the pot for a long time, everything can be served when you take it out.

The old woman used a large basin.

There are beef, mutton, sheep's trotters, pig's trotters, and the big pot is full.

"Young man?"

The old woman lifted the curtain of the back hall and shouted to Zhao Rang.

"Huh?"

"Come and help me!"

Zhao Rang nodded in agreement, put down the wine bowl, and walked quickly to the back hall.

"Come and help me carry this big basin out!"

A pot full of braised pork stew is really not light, and the old woman's steps are very slow, and it is difficult for the two to cooperate.

Finally brought out the big basin and put it on the table, the old woman was already tired and panting.

The smell of meat suddenly permeated the entire wine shop, and those dart masters saw that the meat was like a hungry wolf, their eyes glowed green, and they rushed up in a swarm, and their mouths were full of oil.

Zhao Rang has seen a lot of such scenes in the Western Regions, and he has long felt strange.

His cucumber had been eaten, and there was still half a pot of wine left, but the old woman cut a plate of braised beef alone and put it in front of him.

"Yours!"

The old woman was very kind to Zhao Rang, which caused the dissatisfaction of those dart masters, and they all shouted for her to send meat to eat.

The old woman smiled, noncommittal, and after saying a word of slow eating and drinking, she moved her steps and returned to the back hall.

Braised beef and cucumber are very different flavors.

Soon, Zhao Rang drank the remaining half of the pot of wine.

"This brother!"

Zhao Rang could hear that it was the voice of the beard.

Turning his head to look at him, he threw an inquiring look.

"Why don't you come and have a drink!"

Zhao Rang politely refused:

"No, I'll drink the same here."

The beard continued:

"You've run out of wine."

Zhao Rang's eyes froze.

He did run out of wine.

What I poured out just now was the last half of the bowl.

But how does the beard know?

Unless he's been staring at himself.

"Boss, why are you calling this hillbilly!"

The executioner was concentrating on a large pig's trotter.

The beard's eyes widened, and he immediately closed his mouth, just holding the pig's trotters and sitting dry.

Immediately, he took an empty bowl, filled it with wine himself, put it on the table, and greeted Zhao Rang in the air.

Zhao Rang thought for a while and said:

"Good!"

They gave him a seat, facing his beard.

As soon as Zhao Rang sat down, the beard raised the wine bowl in his hand, touched the wine bowl in front of Zhao Rang gently, and drank it all with his neck up.

He used the largest wine bowl.

A bowl is almost half a catty full.

This home-brewed local liquor, the degree is not high, it is very easy to eat, but it has great stamina. If you are greedy for taste, you will drink quickly, and you won't even know how to get drunk in the end.

But when they were invited, they took the initiative to pour wine and clink glasses, this first bowl, Zhao Rang still had to pay attention to some etiquette, so he also picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp.

"Brother Bright!"

The beard wiped the wine drops hanging from his beard, and beckoned, and the executioner next to him immediately filled the two of them with another bowl.

The two drank three bowls in a row before stopping.

Involuntarily let out a refreshed sound from his throat.

"Listen to the innkeeper, are you here to join your family?"

Zhao Rang's heart moved, what should come will eventually come.

"Alas...... What kind of pro to vote for. ”

"Isn't it?"

The beard asked rhetorically.

Zhao Rang grabbed a piece of beef with his hand, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and said with some sadness:

"When you are useful to others, relatives are relatives. If it's useless, it's just breaking the relationship between bones and tendons, and if you don't know it, you won't know it! ”

After saying this, all the dart masters and executioners were all lamented.

Most of the people who do this business are from poor backgrounds.

As the saying goes, a penny is hard to beat a hero, and everyone has experienced the hot and cold state of the world that Zhao Rang said.

Listening to Zhao Rang's earnestness, he immediately nodded secretly, but still said in his mouth:

"Aren't you here then?"

Zhao Rang took a sip of wine and said:

"When I come, I just eat a mouthful, I am full of food, the whole family is not hungry, anyway, it is better to die than to live!"

The beard smiled and said:

"My brother is still very young, why is he so lifeless when he talks?"

Zhao Rang put down the wine bowl, pointed in the direction of Baihe Mountain and said:

"If I still have the energy, can I come to Baihe Mountain as a handyman to beg for food?"

Although these words were extremely spineless, Zhao Rang said them so loudly that everyone couldn't refute them.

"But my brother doesn't look like someone who can serve others."

"And what am I like?"

He paused and said:

"Like someone waiting for someone else to serve!"

Zhao Rang laughed out loud and said:

"I want to, too. It's a pity that I didn't have this life! ”

After drinking all the wine in the bowl, he bowed his hand to the beard and said:

"Everyone, I have to be happy tonight, and when the day dawns, I won't be so free!"

Walking to the counter, Zhao Rang took out the money and paid the bill, along with the plate of beef.

Cucumbers can be eaten for nothing, but beef cannot.

Although Zhao Rang is thick-skinned, he is not taking advantage of everything.

Out of the door of the liquor store, he felt that it was not so cold outside.

It's the wine I drank just now, and I'm slowly getting stronger.

Zhao Rang didn't want to gamble for money, he was not interested in it, but he stayed in the wine store all the time, and he had to deal with those people's questions.

Zhao Rang still understands the truth that if you say too much, you will lose.

No matter how well she disguises herself, a fake is a fake, and there will always be a possibility of exposure.

What's more, that beard is delicate and delicate, and it's not easy to fool.

Zhao Rang knew what he just said, even if there was an innkeeper to prove it to him, he didn't believe it.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have thrown a look at the most clever executioner next to him as soon as Zhao Rang went out, and let him keep an eye on Zhao Rang.

From this point of view, Zhao Rang felt that there was no point in going to other places, so it was better to go back to the room, and when they were all done making trouble, he would go and find out what was in the one hundred and eighty-eight big boxes.

The inn is only a few steps away.

When the innkeeper saw that Zhao Rang had come back so soon, he couldn't help but say:

"I can't stand being argued by those Jianghu people, right? I'll just say it's not a good time to drink tonight! ”

Zhao Rang smiled and said:

"Actually, it's okay, I just look at them like that, I'm a little scared!"

This was said to the person who was watching, but he didn't think about it, but it led the shopkeeper away.

"You're right!"

The shopkeeper patted his thigh, looked around and saw that there was no one, and leaned closer and continued:

"Especially their boss, the bearded one, his arms thicker than my legs, and the knife on his waist wider than my face......"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but shiver.

"Alas...... It's hard! That's how to open a store and do business, regardless of your own preferences, as long as people step through the door, you have to wait, it's really hard to ......"

Zhao Rang echoed the shopkeeper and said a few words, and when he was about to go upstairs to the room, he was grabbed by the arm, and dragged him into the counter.