Chapter 14 Luoyang Old White Brew
After hearing this, Yan Fang hurriedly walked around to the back of the statue of the mountain god, and there was indeed a corpse lying on the ground covered with dust and grass clippings, a man who looked to be in his thirties and had an ordinary appearance, wearing a moon-white robe. The corpse stinks a little, and it has been dead for quite some time.
Yan Fang sat down beside Mo Sisi, comforting the girl who was still a little frightened while asking about the situation just now.
It turned out that Mo Sisi had been playing chess alone before, and after a few hours unconsciously, he felt that his legs were a little sore, so he wanted to stand up and move, but he didn't expect to accidentally find a corpse lying behind the statue of the mountain god before he took a few steps.
After listening to the girl's memories, Yan Fang's heart sank a little, but now there is no good place to go, so he can only hold on a little longer, and leave this place of right and wrong as soon as it is dawn.
In the following time, neither of them rested, just sat quietly, and when the sky finally brightened slightly and they could hurry, the two hurriedly took their luggage and left this strange mountain temple.
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After walking for a few hours, just after noon, the sun was the most poisonous time, and the wind and dust were servant, looking like a beggar's face, Mo Sisi and the two finally saw Luoyang City.
The nearly 20-meter-high city wall has an invisible pressure from a distance, compared to the less than 10-meter wall of Yuezhou City, which is like a child's toy, not worth mentioning.
Mo Sisi, whose face was dirty, his skirt was dirty, and the pair of white boots under his skirt were also dirty, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, looked at the majestic imperial capital of Chu stupidly.
I couldn't help but leave tears of excitement.
Yan Fang didn't laugh at the emotional girl on the side, because he couldn't hold it back, after so many days and nights of hurrying, he finally saw the first city in the world in front of him, and Yan Fang's eyes couldn't help but redden.
When the surrounding people of Luoyang saw these two young men and girls from a foreign land so excited and even shed tears in the face of the imperial capital city wall, they sympathized with their hard-won journey, and couldn't help but feel proud that they were from Luoyang.
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As soon as Yan Fang and Mo Sisi entered Luoyang City, they hurriedly found an inn. I took a good bath, washed all the dust accumulated in the past ten days, changed into clean clothes, and slept beautifully.
When I woke up, it was already sunset.
Under the background of the majestic Luoyang City, the sunset on the horizon is particularly beautiful. Yan Fang couldn't help but think of the famous sentence of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin in his previous life: "The sunset is infinitely good, but it is just near dusk." ”
When the sun set completely, and night was about to fall, Mo Sisi finally woke up from his sleep.
The girl changed into clean clothes, and her freshly washed black hair was tied up with a light blue hairband, and the little beggar at the city gate at noon who cried a handful of tears, a handful of snot, and a pair of black circles on his whole body.
The two wandered around Luoyang City at will, and the prosperity of Luoyang City dazzled the eyes of these two young boys and girls who came to Luoyang for the first time.
The spacious and clean streets, the dazzling lanterns, the endless flow of people, and the splendid imperial city in the distance all demonstrate the heritage of Luoyang as the imperial capital of Great Chu.
Yan Fang and Mo Sisi walked through the most prosperous streets in Luoyang City, and suddenly turned into a secluded alley, which was a stone's throw away from the city center, but it seemed like a paradise, and it was a completely different scene compared to the city center.
What attracted the two to this small alley was the smell of wine, not strong but very seductive, which led the two to turn a few bustling streets to get here.
The deeper you go into this alley, the more intense the aroma of the wine becomes, and it is not until you reach the door of a small wine shop at the end of the alley that the aroma of the wine reaches its peak.
The liquor shop is very small, there is only one shop, and there is a wooden plaque hanging above the shop, and the wooden plaque has four crooked words written on it, the old liquor shop.
There was a big yellow-haired dog in front of the liquor store, who looked very old, lying on the ground motionless.
Looking inside from the outside, there was nothing but two benches, a table, a counter, and a wine vat.
There seemed to be no one in the liquor shop, only the sound of "crunch" and "crunch" from time to time.
"Is there anyone?" Mo Sisi shouted outside with curiosity.
"Little girl, do you buy wine?" a white figure suddenly emerged from under the counter
It was a handsome man in a wide white robe, with white temples but an unusually young appearance, and his eyes were full of drunkenness.
Mo Sisi was taken aback by the man who suddenly appeared, and asked timidly, "Are you the boss here?"
"Little girl, there is no one else in this wine shop except me, I am not the boss who is the boss, if you want to drink, come in. The white-robed man's tone was full of drunkenness.
"Yan Fang, shall we go in and take a look?" Mo Sisi turned his head to ask Yan Fang, with a hint of longing in his eyes.
"Okay, go in and have a look. Yan Fang was also a little curious about this mysterious little wine shop.
The two entered the shop and sat down on a bench with some paint peeling.
"Boss, what varieties of wine do you sell?" asked Yan Fang.
"There is a writing on the wall, see for yourself, I am busy repairing this broken cabinet, so I will not greet you, alas, this wooden lump is too useless. The white-robed man got under the counter again and got busy working, and replied without raising his head.
"Our store only sells one kind of wine, a bucket of 300 Wen, interested people take their own money, and put the money on the counter. ”
Mo Sisi read it according to the already somewhat blurry handwriting on the wall.
Yan Fang and Mo Sisi were a little speechless, this boss is too big, even if he doesn't greet guests, he even has to take the wine himself.
Yan Fang took some broken silver from the money bag and put it on the counter, picked up two large bowls from the table and went to the wine jar to scoop the wine.
To Yan Fang's surprise, the wine vat in this humble shop was extremely exquisite, it was a large black vat, with two vivid black dragons painted on the body of the vat, and a big white character engraved in the middle.
It is also strange to say that when he was far away from the alley, Yan Fang smelled the seductive aroma of wine, but now standing in front of the wine vat, close to the wine, he couldn't smell a trace of the aroma of wine. It seems that the tank is filled with water instead of shochu.
Yan Fang, who was full of suspicion, pondered for a long time and couldn't figure out the doorway, so he simply didn't want to, scooped two bowls of soju like clear water and brought it back to the table.
Before Yan Fang sat down, Mo Sisi, who had been waiting for a long time, couldn't wait to pick up the bowl and take a sip, and his originally fair and pretty face was instantly covered with a layer of pink. There was a happy expression on his face. A sip of wine seemed to bring her from Luoyang to Luzhou and back to her father's mother.
The girl tasted it carefully, and the happy expression on her face became more and more intense.
Yan Fang looked at Mo Sisi's intoxicated appearance, picked up the bowl and couldn't help but take a big sip directly.
"Ahh
In an instant, there seemed to be a fire burning in Yan Fang's stomach, burning his heart. But this pain is only momentary, and then what comes to my heart is mellow and sweet.
Yan Fang was intoxicated in this wonderful wine country, thinking of the old man, thinking of Li Dafa, thinking of Liu Xiaomei, and even remembering all the good things in his previous life.
"Yan Fang, Yan Fang, wake up. ”
A clear voice woke Yan Fang up from his drunken dream.
Yan Fang struggled to open his confused eyes, saw Mo Sisi was beautiful and frowning, looked at him worriedly, and saw that he woke up, so he smiled.
"Yan Fang, you've been smirking since you drank just now, and I can't wake up no matter how I scream. Thinking of the picture just now, the girl had some palpitations.
"Huh?" Yan Fang was a little surprised that he was so out of shape just now.
"Little brother, you are too greedy, you drank too much in one sip, this sweet dream is quite comfortable. The shopkeeper, dressed in a wide white robe and unable to tell his age, came out from under the counter and smiled a little maliciously.
"Boss, what's the name of your wine?" asked Mo Sisi.
"It's called Old White Brew. ”
"Why is it called Lao Baijiu, does it have any meaning?" the girl was a little puzzled.
"My surname is Bai, because I am old, everyone I know calls me Lao Bai, this wine is made by me, of course, it is called Lao Bai. The white-robed wine shop owner looked at the girl in front of him with a smile and replied.
The girl didn't expect the name of this wine to be so arbitrary. I was in a trance for a while, and when I came to my senses, I looked at the handsome boss who looked like a young man in front of me, and said seriously word by word: "Boss, you really don't look old at all." ”
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