Volume 1 Smoke and Rain Chapter 13 Fate

Today, a bald old man walked down from the horse, saying that he was the big man in charge from the capital, but in fact, he was driven out by the big family in the city to come here to see his princess's estate. And he had some friendship with Jiang Lao, so he notified Jiang Chenggong's subordinates.

He was rushing to the iron, and he was about to come.

Looking at the bald old man from a distance, dragging his big belly, he complained very reluctantly, "Jiang Chenggong, my Jiang family is twice as old as me, and you are the youngest, and the family often says that you are the most promising, and I can't see that you are accompanying the princess to open a small pottery house here." For what?"

Jiang Chenggong smiled awkwardly, but he didn't know that it was difficult for him to explain too much, and said, "I can't tell, but this princess likes it, so I'll do it, and my mission is also spread out in this place." The princess said, although I work hard, but I am also a rare attachment to his heart. ”

"I haven't done anything, just left some skills in the museum, and left some things in the capital to this pure land. I do my thing, she does hers. ”

The bald old man looked at Jiang Chenggong and said so casually.

just stared at him, his clothes were in tatters, and it could be seen that he was not doing well, but he was also the envy of the bald old man.

The two of them entered the pottery hall at the same time.

Li Shuishan held half a bag of red clay and kept beating it on the ground, the red clay in this place had some impurities, and he twisted the red pottery into a sheep's horn shape.

The few big men hugging together represent the most powerful group of people in the whole group. But he frowned at Li Shuishan, and if he didn't know the situation, he thought it would be interesting to him.

But it's time for lunch.

He didn't fight, because the fierce man told them not to torture them with a temptation, but to come by himself.

Ah Gan unwillingly went to grab a piece of meat, but was beaten.

The person who beat him was one of the big men, named Ze Niu.

He is famous for a bean and does not hesitate to offend a group of people.

He is very greedy, no wonder he has grown a two-hundred-pound body, and he walks like a big cow, leaving deep footprints on the softer ground. Fat head and big ears, eyes like needles and threads, curled up like a fat pig, blocking people's vision.

That's how he was also sent here by his aunt, crying, for a few bowls of meals that could be eaten. I have long heard that the head of the pottery pavilion is a strange-looking woman, kind-hearted, and will never treat Ze Niu badly.

Zeniu has been here for three or four years, and he does less work each time, but eats more. Even if he had a fierce temper, he was also beaten back with a whip by Lao Yao. He wasn't really afraid of anything, but he was afraid of whips.

When his mother was a child, she beat him with a whip for a day and a night, and the skin was opened, revealing the bones on his shoulders, and the blood was pulled away by the neighbors, and he was sent to Langzhong to watch for an afternoon, and said that it was okay.

He was pushed back with a cart that hauled grain, and since then he has heard that this mother is cruel. didn't know that she was lying sideways in bed and crying for half the night.

Who said that mothers don't care for children.

In the end, he ruthlessly asked him to find something to do, afraid that when she got old, Zeniu would have no motivation to live.

But Zeniu hasn't changed much, and he still loves to eat it as before.

Li Shuishan couldn't help it, he twisted his thigh fiercely, and went to eat vegetables.

When he got to the front, he gave up.

They took white rice and quietly took a few bites of rice at the gray duck with its tail swinging outside the railing.

He said it was the hardest meal I've ever eaten.

Ah Gan thinks so too.

Wait until the wind blows, bringing a tiled house in the distance, and the elderly are stir-frying. There are a lot of chili peppers, and the fragrant ones who love spicy ones are dry and drooling.

"Put more. Put a little more. ”

He laughed at Li Shuishan.

It's like you've discovered some secret.

After the gray duck left, a young girl followed, and his face could not be seen from a distance, but it could be seen clearly from the decoration of his clothes.

This is Feng Yinwan!

Feng Yinwan was wearing a cool robe, and her embroidered cloth shoes stepped on the ground, and she could see that she was not a three-inch golden lotus foot. The grey duck that had just walked behind turned around and gathered around him, quacking and quacking.

She looked at the ducks with a blank face, and during the Chinese New Year, she might only be able to see them lying on a white plate with a white body, smelling the fragrance from afar.

But I can't bear it.

"What are you doing around me?" she wanted to drive away, but Lao Yao, who was holding the flower basket, came back, and he looked at Feng Yinwan carefully, so that he could see whose daughter it was.

He immediately spoke.

"It turned out to be the daughter of a hunchbacked gentleman who sold wine, and when I went to drink a few days ago, I didn't see such a delicate look. At this time, when I took a closer look, I realized that the beauty was better than the fairy. ”

Feng Yinwan didn't want to be praised by him like this, and showed a natural smile, "Thank you seniors for the compliment, it's just that there are too many people who drink, I don't know if I gave my seniors a small plate of peanuts and a stack of side dishes when I served wine to seniors." ”

"Yes, yes. ”

She is also diligent in her work, and she will know how to eat and drink for the generation that has a deep relationship with her father. When her father came here, he was helpless with her, so he spent his savings on the corner to buy a small place. It's because it's remote, but it's one of the people passing by, Lao Yao. Holding the flask and snorting, it happened to be a good time. It was a good conversation with her father.

"Where are you from?"

The hunchbacked old man said with a smile.

"Distant mountains, a family crossing the bridge. ”

As soon as Lao Yao heard about the distant mountains, he was confused. There are no distant mountains in this area, so I heard that this place worships the Buddha's Mercy City, the nearby Xiangshan, and the Daoshan Mountain that he wants to go to the most.

But there is no such thing as a distant mountain.

He asked, "Is there a family like you who sells wine in your place?"

The hunchbacked old man could see that the old man was also very fond of eating and drinking, so he told the truth, "There are countless restaurants in that land, and there is also grain planted. ”

"And how is the wine made?"

He was curious.

The hunchbacked old man replied, "First crush the grain, and the degree of the crushed grain is different, for the 20 holes of the sieve to be more than half." At the time of ingredients, new ingredients, wine tanks, and auxiliary ingredients are mixed with water, and so on later saccharification and fermentation. ”

"When cooking, the temperature is controlled for nearly half an hour, so that the appearance of steaming is thorough, cooked but not sticky, and there is no vitality inside. Then cool it down so that the raw materials no longer have miscellaneous smells. ”

"When mixing and fermenting, there are too many of these not to mention, but you can wait for four or five days to end the fermentation. This wine can be produced. ”

"Oh!" Lao Yao finished listening.

Let the hunchbacked old man make a pot of wine, he often said that the second house in the last street west is not enough wine. After drinking, he was very unhappy, and he was unhappy to go and make a pot again.

How can you continue if you drink and break it.

He chatted with the hunchbacked old man very closely, so he sat down to drink, and the hunchbacked old man also made himself a bowl, with the side dishes brought by Feng Yinwan, as well as peanuts.

Let's talk.

They talked about how to sell alcohol.

There is also a young man in the town who is handsome.

Feng Yinwan, who was listening, shy and hid aside and listened secretly.

At the corner, there were a few regulars in this house, all of whom were introduced by Lao Yao, who didn't like the wine at first, and when they drank it for the first time, they couldn't extricate themselves.

On this snowy night, guests who come from afar will come to a remote place, which happens to be the best choice. Every time, it is the last restaurant to clean up, and it is also the worst place.

No one ever blamed the cold rain and snow, the snow dripping on their edges, the cold wind blowing their palms holding wine bowls, but their hearts were warm.

Lao Yao instructed again, "The next day, I will go to drink again." ”

She nodded in agreement.

The flock of gray ducks that had formed around her had long since left, perhaps smelling the fragrance of flowers on her body, or the attention of the "living people" to the living people.

At the fence, the two people holding white rice looked at her as they came.

When he turned around and was about to run away, he heard a shout in the distance, "Ahhh ”

This is the case.

Let the man with the bowl be unsteady and fall to the ground.

He touched his head, and there was no wound, but his palm grinded a hole in the ground.

It's a long wound.

His original frightened mood was suddenly frightened by the approaching figure and did not dare to speak. The tears that were rolling in his eyes were also held back.

"What's the matter?"

Feng Yinwan stepped outside the fence, stretched out her head, and let him pass. He walked cautiously over and could see that he was in pain.

And Feng Yinwan handed out an embroidered flower bag, which was fragrant, but he couldn't help but dare not take it.

Feng Yinwan said, "I'm waiting for you to come and drink today." ”

Originally, Li Shuishan refused, but she glanced at her fiercely, and the white rice in her hand was cold and astringent in her mouth.

Ah Gan looked at her figure in the distance.

Holding the rice on the ground, I ate it one bite at a time into my stomach.

And the flower bag was stuffed into his pocket by him, and he didn't look at it, but also sniffed it.

Li Shuishan looked at a group of big men grabbing vegetables in the distance, all with round bellies. Lao Yao didn't see the rest of them, and went to the house on the other side.

He sighed, disgusted that they had too much to eat.

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

At night, Li Shuishan followed Ah Gan to the appointment truthfully.

Eating and drinking is something that I have tried but don't want to try again.

He said to Li Shuishan, "I always want to eat and drink, and I am very pleased that you have done it with me." ”

Li Shuishan is a person who has eaten a lot of wine, but he doesn't care about this time.

There are unspeakable reasons.

Both of them knew it.

But they went together anyway.

He wanted to help Ah Gan with another attempt.

The wind blows the lights of the oil lamps stirred up at night, and it is erratic, and after tonight you will see the rain falling, and the pair of flower finches on the tree, with their eyes closed, leaning together.

The leaves under the tree were eaten by tree insects and fell into the ant's hole. There are no more naughty children who burn them with lit flames and leave them with a sound night's sleep.

But they weren't reconciled.

Line up in a long line and walk slowly.

"See?" asked Li Shuishan.

This night has been with them for a long time, maybe only ants know how to travel far, and they are just ignorant teenagers here.

There is also a fight to walk through.

They are not at this time, but they are waiting for the moment when they are still far away.

"It's here. Ah, Gan, put down the oil lamp.

There was no one in front of the door to eat and drink, because it was a little cold at night, and the wind was blowing very comfortably.

The hunchbacked old man had already slept.

She lay on the table, waiting for the guests to come here, but it was only the two of them.

"Here we are. ”

Li Shuishan was afraid that he would be embarrassed, so he took the initiative to shout. She rubbed her eyes that hadn't woken up yet, probably too tired, but he smiled when he saw the two of them in the night.

"I'm going to fetch you a drink. ”

The wine was fragrant, and in the dark night, a cat came.

It is different from Li Shuishan's flower cat, there is a black stripe on its ear, and there is dust on its body, as if it has just gotten up from the ground and reached his feet.

Screamed.

He continued to fall asleep at his feet.

Probably because his feet were very warm, he was afraid that he would not be able to sleep in a place where no one was around.

Feng Yinwan brought them side dishes, as well as peanuts, which would not have been available last time.

And he sat down across from him, and laid it in front of him.

This made it a little difficult for both of them to swallow, and after taking a sip of dry wine, they were choked and did not have the courage to drink it on the first night.

Is she so scary, she asked?

They both shook their heads.

Ah Gan said softly, "That day, the wine really wasn't stolen by me, and I won't come to take anything that doesn't belong to me if I want to eat wine, and I'm not so low." ”

Feng Yinwan knew that he didn't get it.

Just let him show the wound in the palm of his hand, and she poured out the wine from his bowl and wiped it for him with an expressionless face.

She knew that drinking could heal the wound, otherwise it would hurt even more.

He gritted his teeth.

Feng Yinwan carefully took out an embroidered handkerchief and wiped it for him.

Because he could not see the wound in the dark, he brought the lamp closer.

She followed them both to a story.

This story is about two small children.

The boy was very fond of snow scenes, and often rolled in the snow, but his buttocks hurt from the spanking of the mothers on both sides, and the girl's mother beat him lightly, so it didn't take long for him to run out and continue to roll in the snow that belonged to the two of them.

The next day, they all fled. Knock off the snow from the branches of the peach trees and land on their heads, tossing and turning in search of fun.

On the third day, the boy walked slowly, touching his buttocks from time to time, probably because of pain, and after meeting the girl, he happily continued to run in the snow. There was no snow on the peach branches in the distance, so I went to the small ditch on the side of the road and continued to look for snow, and the snow was very large.

Burying both of them, they hid in the snow, quietly waiting for their parents to call and come out to scare them. In the middle of the night, the boy was beaten for the third time.

He laughed. On the third day, I continued to run over to look for the girl, but the girl was gone.