Chapter XXVI: An Unexpected Request
The last time they passed by Sheep's Head Mountain, Li Hu and the others could only be entertained with coarse tea and light meals, and they didn't even have drinks.
This time, Zhu Shencone returned and specially brought some food and wine, so he naturally wanted to drink a few glasses.
Drinking wine and eating food, several people chatted with great interest.
Zhu Shencone has made them very grateful for the kindness of Li Hu and others, and Li Hu and others also greatly admire Zhu Shencone's bearing and righteousness. After three rounds of wine, the two sides became even more intimate under the wrong glass.
Zhu Shencone drank wine and once again pointed out what Li Hu and the others needed to do next in Sheep's Head Mountain, including the matters that need to be paid attention to when using Sheephead Mountain as a stronghold for salt in the future.
These Li Hu and others have never done it, listening to Zhu Shencone's careful explanation, including some details and points to pay attention to, they can be said to be stunned, nodding again and again.
Not only that, Zhu Shencone also put forward a lot of opinions on some other arrangements, especially how to open up the situation in the future, etc., Zhu Shencone said these things in simple terms are reasonable and well-founded, even if Li Hu and others have not read much books, they can understand it, and they admire Zhu Shencone very much.
And Zhu Shencone also painted a good prospect for them, as long as they develop slowly according to his ideas, it may not be long before this side of Sheep's Head Mountain can not only be self-sufficient, but also become better. At that time, everyone's life will not be as hungry and full as it is now, in the future, everyone in Sheep's Head Mountain will have food to eat, everyone will have clothes to wear, and from time to time they can cut some meat and beat their teeth or something, marry a daughter-in-law and have a few children, and the good days are still ahead.
Ordinary people are very simple, and this life is nothing more than their wives and children hot kang, full meals, and warm clothes. Listening to Zhu Shencone's description of a better future, Li Hu's eyes lit up one by one, and they couldn't help but be happy.
Zhu Shencone drank very well, which was the same as before he came to this era. When he used to work, Zhu Shencone accompanied the leader to go out to drink Maozi and could do two catties without falling, which was unmatched in this unit.
There were already distilled spirits in this era of the Ming Dynasty, and Shanxi, as the birthplace of Fenjiu, was naturally one of the earliest places to produce liquor, but now the degree of liquor at this time is not high, and few people will drink this kind of spirit, usually drinking home-brewed liquor.
The so-called self-brewed wine is generally rice wine and rice wine, the former cost is much higher, as for rice wine is much cheaper, most ordinary people drink the latter.
This time when he returned to Yangtou Mountain, Zhu Shencone specially brought a few jars of wine to Li Hu and them, and opened one today. This altar is about ten catties, and several people have drunk half of it now, and the average amount of one catty has been drunk.
This amount is nothing to Zhu Shencheng, let alone a catty, this jar is for him to drink slowly, and drinking it all in one night is nothing more than sleeping a little more.
However, Li Hu's amount of wine is far inferior, and the rice wine is not high, but the strength of the wine is not small, Li Hu is slightly better, but Lu Yisheng and Hu Lin are already drunk and hazy, and they are already a little upside down when they speak, and they toast to Zhu Shencone to express their admiration.
Zhu Shencone did not refuse, and smiled and drank until the bowl was dry. After another round of drinking, the two of them couldn't support it, I saw them shaking their heads, and they were about to continue to take the wine, when suddenly Lu Yisheng fell directly on the table and got drunk, as for Hu Lin, he was even more unbearable, the whole person slipped directly to the bottom of the table, and fell asleep drunk in the blink of an eye.
"Six...... Sixth Master...... I admire the most in my life...... It's you who admire...... Someone like you...... I'm a rough ...... Rough man...... No...... I don't know how to say anything, I mean...... It's all about wine...... It's in the wine, I'm ...... I respect the six ...... again Sixth Master, you ....... ”
Li Hu held the bowl in front of him with a blushing face and stood up strongly. The whole man was shaking, and his hands were shaking with the wine, and the wine in the bowl was sprinkled on him.
"Tiger, I have received your wishes, drink ...... slowly."
"No...... You can't drink it slowly...... I...... I want to respect you...... I do ...... Done! Li Hu said, raised his head and drank the wine in his hand, and after drinking, he lit up the bottom of the bowl at Zhu Shenchong, grinned and was about to say something, when the whole person suddenly fell backwards.
Thanks to Zhu Shencone and Zhang Xijun, who hadn't drunk much, they hurriedly grabbed it, so that Li Hu didn't fall directly to the ground. But even so, Li Hu was drunk like his two brothers, and the whole person was drunk and snoring.
Hurriedly called Li You over, and helped to get Li Hu and the other three to lie down in the back, and when the three of them were settled, Zhu Shencone breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the three people who were sleeping and couldn't cry or laugh.
Before he finished drinking this wine, he lay down three of them, and how could Zhu Shencone and Zhang Xijun drink the rest? That's all for today. Getting up, Zhu Shencone asked Li You to take care of the three of them first, said that he would go out to change his clothes, and then left the main hall.
When he got outside, he found a place where no one was, and Zhu Shencone unbuttoned his pants and watered some fertilizer for the flowers and plants. Although this wine is nothing to him, but after drinking too much, the burden on his body is also heavy, after solving this problem, he suddenly feels much more relaxed, and the mountain breeze at night blows on his face, and the slight sense of wine is blown away.
Tying up his pants, Zhu Shencone returned to the main hall, but before he could reach the main hall, a voice came from the dark corner of the wall outside.
"Sixth Master!"
Turning his head to look, he saw that Zhang Xijun was standing on the wall outside the hall, it was dark outside, and there was no starlight tonight, although he was not drunk, he could not react as alert when he didn't drink, if it wasn't for Zhang Xijun opening his mouth to call him, Zhu Shencone wouldn't have paid attention to it.
"Master Zhang, why did you come out?"
"It's stuffy inside, and it comes out to let off the smell of wine." Zhang Xijun pointed to the main hall and replied.
Zhu Shencone nodded at him, and said that it was windy outside, and it was better not to blow the wind more after drinking, and was about to continue walking towards the hall, when Zhang Xijun suddenly shouted to him: "Sixth master, can you take a step to speak?" ”
Zhu Shencone was slightly stunned, and turned his head to look at Zhang Xijun again, but he couldn't see the expression on Zhang Xijun's face clearly in the dark, but he could hear the sincerity in Zhang Xijun's words just now.
Zhu Shencone thought about it, stopped, and walked towards Zhang Xijun, Zhang Xijun thanked him, and then took Zhu Shencone around the outside of the hall, and arrived at a place behind the hall after a while.
For Zhang Xijun, although today is the second time they have met, compared to Li Hu and the others, Zhu Shencone and Zhang Xijun have not even spoken a few words.
Except for the first time after Li Hu introduced Zhang Xijun, Zhang Xijun seemed to be a transparent person in Li Hu's team, and never took the initiative to speak, even when they drank together, Zhang Xijun was silent, except for accompanying Zhu Shencone to make a few bowls of wine, he was an accompanying guest.
In Zhu Shencone's eyes, he is also a little curious about Zhang Xijun, after all, Zhang Xijun is a showman, it stands to reason that how could a showman mix with Li Hu and others, and also go to Sheep's Head Mountain? What's even more surprising is that in Li Hu's gang, Zhang Xijun's status is also very special, although he is not Li Hu's sworn brother, he can be regarded as the number one person in Sheep's Head Mountain, in Taoist terms, his status is still above Lu Yisheng and Hu Lin, and he is barely a second-in-command role.
followed to the back, Zhang Xijun found two flat stones and asked Zhu Shencone to sit, Zhu Shencone didn't care, and sat down directly.
Zhu Shencone was not only curious about Zhang Xijun, but also curious about what he was looking for. As for the other Zhu Shencon, he didn't think much about it, Zhang Xijun was a scholar who had no power to fight a chicken in his eyes, and he didn't know any martial arts at all, don't look at Zhang Xijun holding a knife when he was robbing the road, but Zhu Shencone could see at a glance that he was a good person, not to mention cutting people with a knife, even if it was difficult to kill a chicken.
Zhu Shencone has all the skills, and two or three people like Zhang Xijun can deal with it with their eyes closed, so he is not worried that Zhang Xijun will be unfavorable to him at all.
An An sat down steadily, and Zhu Shencone asked Zhang Xijun what he had to say to him.
Who would have thought that Zhang Xijun would surprise Zhu Shencone as soon as he opened his mouth, because Zhang Xijun didn't go around in circles at all, and told Zhu Shencone bluntly that he didn't want to stay in Sheepshead Mountain and planned to follow Zhu Shencone.