Chapter Twenty-Eight: Drinking
"What are you going to tell me? Do you want to light up the bottom first? There is chaos in the veins......"
I hugged my fist at Lao Cao, and I was ready to report the bottom of the plate.
"Don't talk to me about this." Lao Cao interrupted me angrily, "I've been a policeman all my life, and I don't understand your Spring Festival black words." ”
I said, "Then you're always ready to use your identity as a family member to talk to me?" “
"I have ten months to retire." Lao Cao sat down at the table, "Whoever doesn't let me retire peacefully, don't think about it." ”
I laughed, "Then drink and chatter?" It's not good, I'll return this wine to you in its original form. ”
Lao Cao sneered, "I'm afraid you'll pay me back?" Warm! ”
I answered, poured both bottles of wine into the wine jug, put them in boiling water, sat down opposite Lao Cao, and asked, "What have you heard about here, and you will make such a big effort with me when you come to the door?" ”
Lao Cao slapped the table and shouted: "Xiao Ding Xian went back to the door to pass the truth, and after speaking, he pulled out his tongue on the spot!" You said before that Yao Daxian can take over your bottom, and he will come to ask for Xiao Ding Xian's voice and life. But you are clearly taking your life and forcing Yao Daxian to show up and fight with you! What Ding Gou eats with his ability, are you not farting when I said it! ”
I said frankly: "He is not good at learning, and Yao Daxian is harming people by letting him go out to ask for illness." Yao Daxian's disciples treat people to death, and what is bad is the reputation of our entire industry. I ordered him on the spot, but he was obsessed, accepted his voice, and taught him a lesson on behalf of Yao Daxian. This is a rule in the industry, and it is impossible for Yao Daxian not to understand it. ”
Lao Cao said: "Rules are the lining, and fame is face." Yao Jinghua became famous older than you, you accepted his disciple so publicly, if he doesn't get it back, his face will fall to the bottom, how can he mix in Jincheng? Zhou Cheng, don't tell lies in front of real people, your method is the routine of Chang Lao Xian back then. Open a small sedan chair, make a big bow, take the lead in the fight, complete the three steps, set up a pillar in the circle, and raise a name outside the circle. You are watching Zhang Baosheng and Tian Ruisheng earn a lot of money with their black hearts, and they can't bear it, and they also want to stand on the pillars in Jincheng and scrape a layer of land, right? ”
"Jianghu warlocks, they are all such routines, I can't say that they use them, I also use them to have an idea."
I tried the temperature of the wine jug, lifted it up and filled a cup for Lao Cao, poured another glass for myself, raised it and said: "I, Zhou Cheng, am a serious Yin Vein Mr. inheritance, although I came to Jincheng to stand on the pillar, but I will only rely on my own ability to cure diseases and save people to become famous, and my skills are to win the trust of others, and I will never be a disciple of a god." I'll put these words here today, and if I eat them one day, I'll go back with this wine, and you'll ask for it!" With your old skills, as long as you want to beg, it's easy. ”
After saying that, I raised my neck and drank the wine in the cup.
Aged at 50 degrees, the mouth is soft, but the stomach is like fire, and I can't help but gasp for cold air.
"I'm not a Jianghu person, if I don't commit it in my hands, I can't control it. The little skills I learned in the early years have long been returned to my grandfather. Lao Cao lovingly stroked the folds on the police uniform with his hand, "The new world is good, I can do such an errand as a drifter with no roots, a serious public family, wherever I go, I stand up to the sky and stand upright, and everyone has to respect three points." Now I have both children and a complete family, and I am content. ”
He picked up his glass and gestured to me, "Ten months!" You let me retire in peace, and I will pass on this trick to you. ”
Lifting a glass of wine with one hand, pressing the table with the other, waiting for the wine to be drunk, raising his hand to put the wine glass on the pressed tabletop, the seemingly intact tabletop could not even bear a small wine glass, silently pressed out a hole, and fell.
I gently raised my foot on the table and kicked it, and the wine glass flew back from the small hole in the same way, filled the pot, pinched it and sent it back to Lao Cao, "Then I will thank my predecessors first." ”
When you flick the glass, a faint blue flame rises from the wine.
Lao Cao smiled, took the wine in the cup and drank it with the flame, and praised, "Good wine, good means!" ”
He took two peanuts and threw them into his mouth, chewed them fragrantly, and said, "Your ability is no worse than that of Chang Lao Xian." Think back then, Chang Lao Xian four or five years into the Jincheng pillar to become famous, four or six years to show skills called immortals, open the mountain hall, widely accept disciples, the most prosperous time, most of the Jincheng believe in him Chang Lao Xian, a single order can surround the yamen, forcing the dignified government officials to kneel in public to serve tea. He has a true method, I have seen it with my own eyes, not a technique, but a technique. ”
I poured the wine for Lao Cao again and asked, "What is the root of Chang Lao Xian?" ”
Lao Cao glanced at me with a smile, "He worships his mother, a serious Hualien lineage, holding the secret method of the Three Lotus, in the early years, he only preached in the village below, and he was able to enter Jincheng to stand firm, relying on the life of the old Yuan Ye." ”
"In the secret method of the Three Lotus, there is no serious means to continue life, he uses the method of renewing life in the outer way, every three years, four rounds of life, after Chang Laoxian let the army be killed, I am afraid that the end of Old Yuan Ye will not be too good."
"Hey, it's not, those old lamps were arrested in the 50s, and they died in prison before they were shot in a public trial.
"It's all like this, can Chang Lao Xian's apprentice still be able to mix in Jincheng?"
"What's not to be mixed up with? Even if something happens in the end, won't you live for so many more years? These old people have a few lights, black-hearted and rotten livers, they can live for an extra year, and they are willing to eat. ”
"Chang Lao Xian's apprentice is still doing the business of robbing his life and renewing his life?"
"I don't know. I'm just a small piece of policeman, and I don't know anything else except the segment. However, this method of prolonging life is too damaging, and it will definitely be retribution, depending on who the retribution should be. ”
"Do you return the letter of retribution?"
"I believe in, drink! These two bottles were bought by my apprentice at the expense of my old face, and they can't be wasted. ”
Lao Cao refused to talk about Chang Laoxian anymore, and only talked about the gossip of Dahe Village.
I didn't ask any more questions, I just drank with him.
This meal was not finished until seven o'clock in the evening, and there was not a drop of two catties of wine left.
Lao Cao drank to his heart's content, packed the rest of the cooked beef, and when he was about to go out, he still said to me, "Your name is really Zhou Cheng?" ”
I asked rhetorically, "Your real surname is Cao?" ”
Lao Cao laughed, slapped me hard, hummed a little song, and staggered away.
I went back to the house to clean up the table, looked at the hole in the wine glass, and then went to the evening class, writing, and boxing.
After finishing the evening class, I went back to the room to wash up and go to bed, closed my eyes and squinted a little, got up and went out, and when I passed the village entrance police office, I took a look, and the house was brightly lit.
At night, Lao Cao was wrapped in a coat, sitting at the window, hanging his head and dozing.
When I looked over, he suddenly looked up and opened his eyes, which happened to be in line with me.
I smiled at him, waved my hand, and walked out of the village.
On the side of the road at the entrance of the village, the long-haired man was leaning against the side of the car, and when he saw me coming out, he didn't speak, and immediately got into the car and started.