The four of them sat at the table, and Yang Xiaoyang picked up the wine brought by the village chief and poured himself a little.

He looked at the pure wine in the bowl, and was a little afraid that it was the kind of wine that was so strong that it was spicy to his throat, so he carefully took a sip.

The wine is smooth and slightly sweet, and tastes quite like the mash you used to drink, but it is more fragrant.

Yang Xiaoyang put his heart at ease, took another big sip, and felt a warmth flowing in his abdomen.

Yang Xiaoyang poured a bowl for Ju Yeyan and exclaimed: "Village Chief, your wine tastes really good, and it is very different from other places, how do you do it?"

The village chief burst into flames when he heard this, touched his beard and laughed: "Little brother, you don't know, because our village is located in a cold location, we always have to rely on wine to warm up.

Everyone in the village can drink wine, from five-year-old dolls to old husbands.

Little brother, if you want to know how to make it, come to the old man's house later, and the old man will talk to you about it. ”

Yang Xiaoyang hurriedly waved his hand, "No need." "He didn't bother to find out.

However, there is one thing to say, this wine has a soft flavor and is indeed suitable for all ages.

"Village chief, I still like to drink a little stronger, do you have any?" asked Li Congwen with a big grin.

Yang Xiaoyang's face twitched, feeling that Li Congwen was rude, and he didn't know if the village chief would be angry because of this.

Who knew that the village chief slapped the table with a smile, "Okay! I see that you guys have taken cans of cotton wine when you are young, and you don't think that Li Gongzi loves to drink that strong wine like Lao Yu." The old man will go back now and get the old wine that has been in my jar for forty years, and let Li Gongzi taste it. ”

Yang Xiaoyang quietly rolled his eyes, this village chief is not young, but he is very bold.

Li Congwen grabbed the village chief who got up and wanted to leave, waved his hand and smiled: "Hey, don't be in a hurry." Let's eat first, and after eating, I'll go to the forest to get a deer and come back, and I'll go up to your house to drink at noon!

The village chief laughed when he heard this, and said yes again and again.

Yang Xiaoyang looked at Li Congwen and wanted to hit him a little. He could get the deer, so why did he send himself away before?

Yang Xiaoyang made up his mind, if Li Congwen asked him to fight deer later, he would resolutely disagree.

Li Congwen stepped on the stool with one foot, held chopsticks in one hand, and dried cakes in the other, and occasionally drank a sip of wine, eating very happily. If you put it on someone else, it will be sitting or not, eating or not, and putting it on him will give birth to a kind of wanton and free and easy situation.

Yang Xiaoyang didn't need to eat much, so he stopped after eating a few bites of food, and Ju Yeyan didn't eat much.

It's just that what makes Yang Xiaoyang strange is that the village chief didn't eat a few bites of snake soup, but just ate some wild vegetables.

Yang Xiaoyang smiled and asked, "Why doesn't the village chief use chopsticks?"

The village chief waved his hand, his face was bitter, "No, no, no, this snake soup is really delicious, I have never eaten such a delicious thing in my life." It's just that this snake meat is yin, and our village is extremely cold all year round, and it is not good to eat too much, so don't be surprised by the little brother. ”

Yang Xiaoyang suddenly remembered that Ju Yeqian had said that the willow tree was yin.

Ju Yeqi asked again: "The village chief knows why there are so many willow trees in this vicinity, I think it is about three or four hundred miles." ”

The village chief frowned, "Actually, I don't know, according to the old grandfather, it was about a hundred years ago that there were so many willows, and there weren't so many before." ”

Ju Yeqi nodded, bowing his head slightly in contemplation.

Yang Xiaoyang saw that Li Congwen, who had already eaten most of the bowl of snake soup, still wanted to eat it again, and said with some concern: "Congwen, then don't eat it either, don't eat it when the time comes." ”

Li Congwen took a sip of wine, waved his hand, and laughed loudly: "My son is masculine and upright, what can I do with a mere negative snake meat?"

.......................

Twenty-four years of Anyan, spring, southern Xinjiang.

Yang Qi has been in the village for more than a month and has not returned, and he runs to Chu Sleeve's house every day to eat, drink, and live.

"General Yang is here again today. Chu Sleeve quietly looked at Yang Qi, who was already sitting at the table, and said with a smile.

Xiaohua was sitting on the stool next to Yang Qi at this time, tilting her head to look at him.

Yang Qi calmly faced the two stares that were full of contempt although they had no obvious emotion, chuckled lightly, and asked, "Chu Sleeve, did the winter plum finch you catch last time run away?

Chu Sleeve's expression did not change, and he did not respond, but silently served Yang Qi some more food.

Xiaohua stopped looking at him when she heard this, and lowered her head and licked her paws.

The two of them talked and laughed and ate their fill, and then prepared to go out of the village to catch birds and fish.

As soon as they arrived at the gate of the village, they saw a man running towards them from outside the village.

"Second brother, why are you here?" Yang Qi greeted with a smile.

Xu Li said angrily: "I have never seen such a dereliction of duty commander of you! The brothers of the Royal Forest Army have asked me where you have been, what do you want me to say? Do I want to tell them that you are lazy in a village? When they hear this, they are afraid that they will not rebel!"

Yang Qi stepped forward and patted Xu Li on the shoulder, "What is laziness? Anyway, I haven't had anything to do lately, wouldn't it be beautiful to cultivate my sentiments here?"

Xu Li slapped Yang Qi's hand away, took out a letter from his arms and stuffed it into his hand, "This is a letter from Sun Li, the prince of the Northern Empire, saying that Northern Xinjiang is ready." ”

"So fast?" Yang Qi was a little surprised, opened the letter and glanced at it before putting it in his arms, "Oh, you can reply to the letter for me, just say let him wait for another two years." ”

After Yang Qi finished speaking, he took Chu Sleeve and Xiaohuatou and left without looking back, leaving Xu Li alone in place.

Can this soldier wait for two years? Also, why does Yang Qi, the turtle grandson, call me second brother again?

.........................

Yang Xiaoyang didn't go out after eating, chatting with Xiao Di for a while, and if Xiao Di was sleepy, he would also sleep.

Ju Yeqi didn't go out, and he stayed alone and didn't know what he was doing.

And Li Congwen didn't come back for a day after he went out, and it is estimated that he really went to the village chief's house to drink, and he didn't return to the house until the sun was about to set.

As soon as he entered the door, he threw himself on the bed, lying on his stomach, as if he were asleep.

Yang Xiaoyang knew at a glance that he was drunk, and he didn't care about him.

Not long after dark, Li Congwen woke up.

He turned over and shouted at Yang Xiaoyang on the side: "Xiaoyang, I'm hungry, give me something to eat." ”

Yang Xiaoyang was very satisfied with a day of rest, but it didn't prevent him from wanting to rest, so he ignored it.

"Xiao Yang, are you still alive?" Li Congwen lay on the bed and kept waving his hands.

Yang Xiaoyang looked at Li Congwen, who looked like a fool, and couldn't help but sigh that forty years of aging was really extraordinary.

He sighed, got up and went to warm up the snake meat he had eaten in the morning, and brought him another basin of hot water.

Yang Xiaoyang put the cloth in the water and rubbed it, wanting to wash Li Congwen's face.

Yang Xiaoyang was halfway through rubbing the cloth and suddenly froze, thinking: Why do I look like a servant now? Why do I do this? Wait a minute, why is the village chief called Li Congwen and Li Gongzi today, and I am called a little brother?

Huh? Is this treating me like a servant?

Yang Xiaoyang was furious when he thought of this, and smashed the cloth in Li Congwen's face.

"Oops, who is going to murder this son?" Li Congwen sat up abruptly.

Yang Xiaoyang snorted coldly, "Please also ask the son to wash his face by himself, sober up, don't call the poor road as a servant." ”

Li Congwen turned his head and looked at Yang Xiaoyang suspiciously, "Who said that this son is drunk? Besides, haven't you been doing these things?"

Yang Xiaoyang resisted the urge to beat him to death when he heard it, and lay down without speaking.

Li Congwen pursed his lips, finished the snake soup by himself, patted his stomach and turned off the light and lay down.

"When are you going to leave?" asked Yang Xiaoyang in the dark.

"In two days' time, the wine in the village is indeed delicious, and I am going to bring some to put in the carriage. ”

"The wine doesn't taste good when it's bumpy, right?"

Yang Xiaoyang didn't answer Li Congwen after asking, but let out a slight snoring sound.

Yang Xiaoyang rolled his eyes, he didn't want to sleep now, so he had to practice to pass the time.

Tonight the moonlight is still dim, and it is dark outside, and from time to time there is a cloudy wind blowing, making a whining sound, with the sound of wicker waving in the wind, like the strange cry of a night owl.

Yang Xiaoyang could feel the Qi of the Six Qi entering his body, but he couldn't keep it, so he could only let it flow away.

He opened his hand and shook it, but he could only feel the aura dissipate in vain.

Sighing, he didn't know when he would be able to break through to the human immortal, he was a little anxious.

At this time, in the darkness, Yang Xiaoyang felt that Li Congwen suddenly sat up.

He opened his eyes and looked at Li Congwen, not knowing what Li Congwen was going to do.

Yang Xiaoyang saw Li Congwen standing up in the dark, and he didn't wear shoes, so he walked around the outside, and he didn't even bump into anything in the dark.

Yang Xiaoyang saw that Li Congwen seemed to be rummaging around, and couldn't help but ask softly, "What are you going to do?"

Li Congwen didn't respond, and continued to look around.

Yang Xiaoyang felt that his wine had not woken up yet, and he wanted to let him toss, but he didn't want him to disturb Ju Yeqi and Xiao Di in the middle, so he had to get out of bed and grab him, and said softly: "What are you looking for?" ”

Li Congwen was facing him sideways at this time, and after being pulled for a while, his body stiffened, his body did not move, but he turned his neck, and a pair of eyes emitted a ghostly light in the dark.

Yang Xiaoyang realized that his body was different from usual, at this time he was more like a lost old man, bent his back, and even in the dark, Yang Xiaoyang could clearly feel the sadness reflected in Li Congwen's eyes.

Li Congwen stared at Yang Xiaoyang like this for a while, and suddenly spoke, his voice was hoarse and low, which was completely different from his usual wanton and free voice.

"Have you ever seen my daughter?"

Yang Xiaoyang was frightened, let go of Li Congwen, and pointed at him tremblingly, "What? You have a daughter? Aren't you not married? Your illegitimate daughter? When did it happen? Why don't I know?"

Yang Xiaoyang asked a series of questions in a row, and he was messy for a while before he reacted.

Yes, I guess the wine hasn't woken up yet, and I'm going crazy with alcohol.