I remember that after participating in the birthday banquet of Longjun, Ji Yuan was boating along the Tongtian River in the harsh winter, and once had a speed race with a Xiaofu building boat.

Unlike the old turtle who directly suffered the negative karma that had a huge impact on his cultivation, the Xiao family was just crawling around in the mortal officialdom, and they didn't touch things like cultivating immortals, but their impact on themselves was not as exaggerated as that of the old turtle.

After all, officials are the sword of imperial power, relatively speaking, Dazhen Guozuo has also borne a lot of bad karma, that is, such a big thing as killing heroes, after all, it is the involvement of the government and the opposition in the world, Xiao Jing will also end up with a short life of illness in this life, but it will be sour after death.

Although the things in Lao Gui's mouth are almost one hundred and seventy or eighty years old, if the original Xiao family's clever methods were not liquidated afterwards, it is still possible to still have a place in the court after experiencing ups and downs.

Ji Yuan's thinking is just like this, and the old turtle's narrative continues.

"Among the founding heroes of the country, there were also some rebellious people, the old emperor was still alive and could suppress everyone, but once the old emperor died, the new emperor may not be able to control the court, in order to protect the stability of the dynasty, the old emperor decided to prevent future troubles. ”

The old turtle looked up at Mr. Ji, looked at the other party with a thoughtful expression, paused and waited for Mr. Ji to look at him before continuing.

"After all, the old turtle I am just a monster nested in the Chunmu River, and it is impossible to know everything about the court, but the old turtle I also know the cause of the incident, in the thirty-second year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, at the behest of the old emperor, Xiao Jing set up a banquet in the palace Chinese New Year's Eve, so that some of the old ministers were rebellious and the prince and the princes were fighting for wine......"

"Even if there are outstanding drinkers among the princes, they have already been told by the old emperor that they are only allowed to lose and not win, and some of the uninformed princes still think that their father is afraid of hurting the face of the old ministers, and the results are self-evident, the royal children are all defeated, and there are officials in the imperial history platform who deliberately ridicule the old ministers for not giving the prince face, leading one of the old ministers to speak disrespectfully, on the occasion of the New Year's banquet, except for a few talented people, others think it is just a joke, but it is actually the prelude to the tragedy......"

After that, Lao Gui's narrative was more general, after all, he was not from the government and the opposition, and there were fewer people who dared to talk about this matter later, and there were naturally fewer news that could be heard from the Chunmu River.

Moreover, the old turtle already knew that something was wrong when he got to the back, and he wanted to completely sever the bond with the Xiao family, but he didn't dare to calculate the matter, but occasionally heard that on some painting boats, some literati who had a private meeting with close friends would talk about a tragedy.

After two or three years, the old turtle himself felt that the bad karma was at its peak, and then finally began to ease, and he also knew that the tragedy was coming to an end.

Sure enough, in the thirty-sixth year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the new emperor ascended the throne, and "rectified the chaos and investigated the traitorous ministers" with the momentum of sweeping away the world, and returned a few loyal and good people to belated justice, and the old emperor also died at the end of the year.

"This incident made the old turtle tremble and hide in a mountain cliff cave somewhere in the Chunmu River for many years, for fear that one accidentally would cause a catastrophe, and on a rainy day, there would be no thunder and I would not dare to move much, and I would not even dare to practice too diligently......"

The old turtle was embarrassed, and Ji Yuan was also emotional.

And the performance of the old turtle's hiding after the eyes of many monsters may feel that he is a little too scared, you must know that many monsters who eat people without blinking their eyes are not afraid of thunder and thunder in the sky, but Ji Yuan understands a little.

It is precisely because of the special talent of the old turtle that he sees cultivation far farther than ordinary monsters, and he is more afraid of the occurrence of some small probability events, and he is afraid of the big horror in small probability events.

This story, which begins at sunset and ends before dawn, seems to be full of blood in the story.

After the old turtle finished speaking, he kept silent and floated on the river, the big herring just swam quietly around him, and the red fox lay on the spot without saying a word, and he also had a deep impression of the terrifying battle in the court, and some were frightened, and even couldn't help but start worrying about Yin Qing's father, and also worried about whether it would be dangerous for Yin Qing to become an official in the future.

Now that it is dawn, the city gate of Chunhuifu will be opened, and there are already merchants or farmers rushing to the market in the distance to come in the direction of the city gate, and the queue has begun to form in front of the city gate.

Ji Yuan was silent for a while, looked at the scene and said.

"If you want to make a book, you can't let the storyteller tell it without changing it......"

Whether it is a person or a demon, or a market or a court, true harmony is difficult, or almost impossible.

Ji Yuan actually hopes to spread some meaningful stories through storytellers, the meaning of people, the meaning of demons, or others, in addition to sharing a little after-dinner welfare for the world with very little entertainment life, there is also a small ideal that is not very mature.

After sighing at this sentence, Ji Yuan looked at the three spirits around him, and finally looked at the old turtle Wu Chong.

"Your luck is really not good, and it also shows that don't rely on supernatural powers to mess around with any crooked ideas, for so many years, you have suffered more from it every time you think about it, but there are still opportunities, so that the road to seeking the Tao will not be cut off, and you will live in peace in the future." ”

"Mr. Ji has taught a lesson! Master Jiang Shen also said something similar. ”

"Huh. ”

Ji Yuan smiled and said to the three spirits beside him.

"You don't have to be too afraid of the hardships and dangers of cultivation, although it is difficult to start from scratch with beasts, but once you have achieved cultivation, at least you will have a few more accumulations than those monsters who have transformed into monsters. ”

Ji Yuan stood up and picked up the fishing rod on the ground, seeing that it was inconvenient to put it in his sleeve and carry it into the city outside, so he threw it on the old turtle's back.

"Help me with the rod and pick it up when I leave. ”

The old turtle naturally accepted the order, and after Ji Yuan said this, he took a step towards the city gate, ready to line up to enter the city.

Hu Yun hurriedly followed, hiding in Ji Yuan's shadow as much as possible, and whispered to him.

"Mr. Ji, are we going to the inn to check out and get our luggage, and then go back?"

Ji Yuan nodded and shook his head again.

"Go check out and get your luggage first, otherwise it's another day after noon, and then go to the garden. ”

"What is that?"

Ji Yuan took out an old wine bottle from his sleeve and raised it towards Hu Yun, this was the first bottle of Qianrichun he bought back then, and later he also filled some other wines of varying quality and disadvantages, and even filled ambergris and other wines.

"Thousand Days?"

"That's right, it's a place that specializes in brewing and selling a thousand days, so let's go if you run into it. ”

。。。

lined up to enter the city, took Hu Yunxiang to the inn to return the room and take the deposit, and then walked around the city, arriving at the street where the garden shop was located before noon.

It's still the same storefront, it's still the same kind of furnishings, it still doesn't look like there is much business as it did at the beginning, and the guys in the store are sitting or chatting in twos and threes, and they don't look very busy.

The busiest time for the garden shop is spring, because new sake is to be brewed, and autumn is still more leisurely, especially now that it is close to noon, and the wine transporter will not come to the door at this time.

The shopkeeper Zhuo Tao was crackling in front of an account book and calculating the accounts, and after accounting one of them, he straightened the abacus back and forth, and then closed the account with a smile on his face

The Zhuo family has always adhered to the brewing principle, never out of the Chunhui Mansion, they only charge the first wine money, do not get involved in the second and third sales, plus the state government's support for the garden shop, over the years the business has been smooth sailing and there are few twists and turns.

"Ahem... Ahem... cough cough cough cough ......"

Shopkeeper Zhuo coughed a few times, and then coughed a little irrepressibly for a while before stopping, and quickly picked up a small purple clay pot on the side and drank a few sips at the spout, before finally relieving the momentum of wanting to cough again.

Some of the guys on the side looked at him and asked with concern.

"Shopkeeper, are you okay, let's go see the doctor again, I've been coughing for more than a month!"

"It's okay, it's okay, I've seen the doctor a long time ago, and I'm just caught a cold. ”

This accounting fate also stepped into the garden shop, and the shopkeeper behind the counter was still the same as before, but he was a little older.

Seeing Ji Yuan come in, the people in the shop subconsciously looked at it a few times, because of the relationship between the blinding method, Ji Yuan's eyes were like ordinary people, so he looked like a Mr. Sven.

Shopkeeper Zhuo is just an ordinary person, although he was deeply impressed by Ji Yuan at the beginning, but after all these years, he naturally can't recognize it.

"This guest officer, are you planning to order wine?"

Generally, those who come to the garden shop are ordering wine, according to a few big jars and a few big cars, there are also those who book new wine for the coming year, and there are very few people who really come to retail here, but if they come to buy, the garden shop will not refuse.

Ji Yuan didn't reply first, but walked to the counter and looked at Zhuo Tao, it was indeed just a cold, a cold air in his chest and lungs accumulated, and he would be dissipated after a month and a half of warming his body.

This kind of disease can also be cured, when he took out the wine bottle from his sleeve, he shook his sleeve, and the cold in Zhuo Tao's chest and lungs was swept away.

However, no one else saw this small action, but they were attracted by the old wine jug that Ji Yuan took out.

"Shopkeeper, I have an old flask here, how much will it cost if it's filled with new wine?"

Zhuo shopkeeper took a closer look at this pottery wine jug, the appearance is not dull, but there are some bumpy small gaps on the bottle, obviously used frequently, and the style should be the old one a few years ago, and now the wine jug in the new cellar has changed.

In any case, seeing such an old wine jug and meeting someone who may be an old drinker of Qianrichun, Shopkeeper Zhuo was still very happy in his heart.

"The price has not risen, you are a pound pot, and if it is filled, it will be eight hundred wen. ”

Ji Yuan nodded and asked suddenly.

"Shopkeeper, do you bring your own wine jug to fill a pound with 800 Wen? A pot is so much worse than 200 Wen?"

Shopkeeper Zhuo wanted to take a purple clay pot to moisten his throat, but after a while, he didn't feel like coughing, so he withdrew his hand, feeling that Ji Yuan's bearing was extraordinary, and he also had some interest in chatting with Ji Yuan.

"Actually, it wasn't before, as you said, how can a wine jug be worth two hundred yuan. ”

"And why?"

"Hey, there's actually nothing bad to say about this, in order to tie up with a special drinker, I deliberately sold old and good wine at a low price, and also discounted a wine jug for 200 Wen, this matter The shop guys and some acquaintances all know, after that time, those who came to the shop to bring a pound of wine only received 800 Wen. ”

Ji Yuan smiled.

"Yo, the shopkeeper still treats everyone equally? That's a lot of money, you're in business!"

The shopkeeper also laughed "hehe".

"Although Zhuo is not a literati knight, he still has some conceit, and ah, he is not a dignitary, who is an ordinary person who drinks a thousand days of spring every day?

"Hahahaha......"

Ji Yuan smiled in admiration and took out two taels of silver from his sleeve.

"The shopkeeper is still shrewd! Take a new pot of bar, it's two taels. ”

This is a little strange, isn't this person using old bottles to make wine?

But since this man himself said so, Zhuo Tao did so, took a new bottle of wine from the counter, weighed the silver and handed it to Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan turned around and left after taking the wine bottle, and when he was about to step out of the shop, Zhuo Tao found that the old bottle was still on the counter, and hurriedly shouted.

"Guest, your bottle is still there!"

The white-shirted guest in front of him waved his hand.

"I've got you!"

Zhuo Tao couldn't laugh or cry, he looked down at the broken bottle, what did he want this wine pot for, the garden shop was the last thing to lack.

But when he looked up again, the white-shirted man who had just walked to the door was gone.

'Walk so fast?'

Zhuo Tao walked out of the counter, walked to the door and looked left and right, the street was from near to far, and he couldn't see where the person was, so he had to go back to the counter.

The guy at the counter asked with a smile.

"Shopkeeper, what about this bottle?"

"What else can I do, I lost it. ”

The shopkeeper said "oh", picked up the bottle and looked up and down, subconsciously uncorked the bottle, and a faint fragrance wafted with a sense of freshness, which made the people nearby feel refreshed when they smelled it.