Chapter Seventy-Three: Competing for Dominance in Wine

After the war, the capital was in a state of depression, with broken walls and ruined streets, and there were no shops or hawkers on the streets except for those who participated in the clean-up.

At this time, I wanted to drink a bottle of good wine that Aoki Lao Dao gave me before parting, but at this time I was not in the mood to taste good wine, I just wanted to find a place to drink, and it was obvious that a bottle of pearl red could not satisfy my appetite at this time.

"Xishan monkey wine, Beidi Liucheng burning, intoxicating daughter red, guests who want to drink please come to my Yipintang" A crisp boy's voice faintly came from the deep alley and drilled into my ears, "I'm not afraid that the guests will not be drunk, I'm afraid that the guests will not be found"

It was like drowsiness and pillows, gamblers falling into gambling dens, and I, a person who wanted to drink, met a liquor store that was open.

I followed the sound into an alley, the walls on both sides of the alley were all made of green bricks, and the floor was paved with red sand and stone, and the whole road looked smooth and round and very neat because of the age.

It seems that this well-preserved alley has not been ravaged by the war, which is probably the reason why the sake brewery called Ippindo was able to open in such a short period of time.

Turning the slightly curved alleyway, a wine shop as neat as the alley appeared in front of you, and a young boy with red lips and white teeth was standing at the door of the wine shop in the costume of a small house, soliciting customers.

Maybe it's because people haven't recovered from the trauma of war, or maybe it's because the survivors are still doing the business for their dead relatives and have no intention of going out to drink and have fun, but in short, there are few customers in the restaurant.

I walked to the door of the liquor store, raised my legs, crossed the threshold, walked to a table by the window, and sat down.

"The guest officer is coming alone?" The fair-faced boy immediately walked up to me when he saw me entering the store, and asked earnestly, "I wonder what kind of wine the guest officer wants to drink today?"

I looked around the lobby of the restaurant, and the entrance hall was small but very neat, and the four tables were arranged in a staggered manner, so that the space in the entrance hall was cleverly used, and it did not feel crowded or empty.

There are not many customers in the wine shop, a thin old man is sleeping soundly at the desk in the corner of the wall, it seems that he has drunk a little more in the store and is taking a nap, there is a man and a woman in the middle of the table and two young people are also raising a glass and drinking, and the rest of the table is empty.

"I just heard you say that there is Xishan monkey wine in the store," I retracted my gaze and looked at the delicate boy in front of me, and said, "I have been in the capital for more than ten years, but I have never heard of what monkey wine is produced in our Qingfeng Mountain, what kind of wine is this?

"The guest officer has good eyesight," the boy said, "This wine is made by the monkeys in the dense forest of the West Mountain picking wild fruits in the mountains, although the taste is not as good as the craftsmanship of our human winemakers, but it is full of wild fun, and the guest officer will not regret coming to the house."

"Listening to your introduction, it is already a big rush of wine worms," I smiled and said to the boy, "How can you get rid of your addiction to alcohol worms?"

"Then what kind of side dishes do you order?" asked the boy with a smile on his eyebrows.

"Forget about the dishes," I said, "but the wine should be served faster."

"How can there be no food if there is wine?" An old but energetic voice sounded in his ears: "How can there be wine and food without a drinking friend? How can a young man have a good time drinking alone? Why don't you have a little old man and cheekily recommend himself to marry a little brother as a drinking friend and get drunk together?"

"Old man Fan, don't worry about my guests drinking here," the little boy turned around and scolded the old man who seemed to have just woken up, "If you want to drink, let your guests pay the bill, don't want to drink with me."

"The old man has a heart, how dare Xiao Ke disobey?" I said to the old man who invited me with a smile on my face, "Please also invite the old man to come over and share the table with me, and Xiao Ke will have a good drink today?"

The thin old man sitting at the corner table had a smile like a chrysanthemum on his face, "The young people of today are really different from the young people of the past, knowing that the old man is so good at drinking that he is so generous that he will let me get drunk." Young man, don't regret it, the little old man has a good amount of alcohol."

"Oh, is it?" I replied, "that little coco has met a drunken hero." Come on, you can't ask for it."

Two jars of monkey wine were placed on the table, and a few appetizing appetizers were quickly served.

"The two guest officers use slowly" The little boy bowed and bowed slightly, since someone wants to be the wronged leader, it is not good for him, a small servant, to drive the old man out again.

"Please," I grabbed the jar with one hand, stabbed the seal, and drank with my head up.

"Huh, it seems that Xiaoyou is really a hero in wine, this way of drinking is very popular with me," the little old man was stunned for a moment, blurted out praise, and then followed my example, raised the wine jar and drank it.

A jar of wine is exhausted, but I am still unsatisfied, the monkey wine tastes sour and astringent in the mouth, but the strength of the wine is insufficient.

"Wine," I said, "no matter what kind of wine"

The little boy served a bottle of Liucheng roast.

This is exactly the spirit I need!

After a while, a bottle was at the bottom, and the little boy simply stood aside and began to serve me and the little old man to drink.

The little old man and I drank so quickly that their stomachs swelled like two black holes that could not be filled, and soon my table was filled with all kinds of wine jars and bottles.

My head began to swell, my eyes began to glow, and the people and objects in front of me seemed to be spinning.

I know I'm drunk, I've never drunk so much since I knew how to drink, and today the wine was good, and the drinking friends were very interesting.

The little old man drank no less wine than I did, and it seemed that he was not yet drunk, for his small, somewhat ridiculous eyes were as bright as the stars in the night sky.

"Can you still drink?" asked the little old man, with his tongue chattering.

"Of course you can drink it" I'm a little unconvinced, if I can't even drink an old man who is about to step into the coffin with half a foot, wouldn't it be too shameless?

Even if you die drunk today, you can't admit defeat here!

Obviously, the little old man is also an extremely arrogant person, and he also does not want to lose to a hairy boy like me.

The sun in the sky moved from the sky to the south, and from the south to the west, and now hung on the treetops.

Oil lamps have been lit in the restaurant, but the oil lamps are not very bright.

Our wine fight continued, and the little boy seemed to be tired of one jar of wine after another, and he took out a dozen jars at once and placed them at our feet for us to use.

My body was already swaying, and most of the wine syrup that had been raised to my mouth had actually flowed down the corners of my mouth to the ground, and at this time, the old man and I were actually not fighting for wine but for willpower, and none of us wanted to lie down first, because whoever lay down first would lose the competition!

The little old man's body was also shaky, his eyes were no longer focused, and not a drop of wine had been drunk into his mouth in the jar of wine held to his mouth, and all of it flowed from his neck to his shirt.

"Jade Void Holy Ancestor," I said with my tongue open, "since you can't drink anymore, why bother to support it? You know that you can't win me by drinking, so why do you want to compete with me in the wine here?"