The place Tang Yelin chose was on a pavilion in Tangjiabao.

There is indeed wine on the small pavilion, and it is still good wine.

There is also wind on the small pavilion, and the night breeze from the high places is naturally exceptionally cool.

Looking out of the wide open window in the small pavilion, you can just see the countless lofty mountains outside Tangjiabao, and the majestic peaks have lost their color in the night and become a quiet ink painting.

The ink mark mountain is shallow, and the wild wind is soft.

The noise in the antechamber could be faintly heard, and the feast had not yet dispersed.

Tang Yelin and Yu Xiaoyao sat facing each other, drinking glass after glass.

Yu Xiaoyao raised his wine glass and suddenly let out a long sigh.

"What are you sighing for?" Tang Yelin asked.

Yu Xiaoyao said: "Do you know what are the three most indispensable things for drinking?"

Tang Yelin said: "Drinking wine is drinking, isn't it enough to have wine?"

Yu Xiaoyao shook his head and said: "Wine is a thing, from the Holy Son of Heaven to the peddler's pawn, as long as it is a man, there is no one who does not like to drink." However, there are many ways to drink alcohol, and if you don't drink it in the right way, it's better not to drink it. ”

"Oh?" Tang Yelin looked at him, "What are the ways to drink?" ”

Yu said leisurely: "First, no food, no drink." ”

Tang Yelin said strangely: "No food, no drink?"

Yu Xiaoyao nodded, "Exactly, if there is food without wine, it is not beautiful, if there is wine without food, if good wine is paired with good food, the taste complements each other, and you can naturally drink a few more glasses." Therefore, no matter whether you are rich or poor, as long as you drink wine, you must accompany it with a dish, or a hairy crab from Chengyang Lake, which can be paired with 50-year-old bamboo leaf greens, or a plate of green beans and a plate of peanuts, which can also be accompanied by a glass of turbid wine. But if you don't even have green beans and peanuts, drinking is much less fun. ”

Tang Yelin nodded and said, "What about the second thing?"

Yu said freely: "Second, there is no leisure and no drinking." ”

Tang Yelin said: "In this world, it is the most difficult to do it if you are afraid of being idle. ”

Yu Yaoyao said: "Exactly, so I am busy and leisure, which makes this leisure particularly valuable." It is important to know that drinking alcohol is the most misleading, so if there is something to do, you will not be happy to drink. Or after a hard day, take advantage of the cool evening breeze to have a drink, or wait until the rainy weather, steal half a day of leisure, invite three or five friends, chat, and drink. At that time, when you drink wine, you can taste the true taste of wine. ”

Tang Yelin said: "What is the third?"

Yu Xiaoyao smiled slightly and said, "Third, drink nothing." ”

Tang Yelin asked, "What is nothing to drink?"

Yu Xiaoyao said: "Do you know that when you drink, you should avoid being cold." If you drink coldly, you will naturally feel bored and lonely, in this world, there is nothing more heartbreaking than the word loneliness, and you can raise a glass to eliminate sorrow and sorrow, so when drinking, if you have no words, then the wine will become bitter wine in your mouth. Is there anything more difficult to swallow in this world than bitter wine? ”

Tang Yelin looked at him, "Do you think this wine is bitter?"

Yu Xiaoyao nodded, "Bitter as Coptis chinensis." ”

Tang Yelin put down the cup and said, "Okay, there is no food here, and you and I are not idle, so we have to drink with words." ”

Yu Xiaoyao said: "Listen to me." ”

Tang Yelin said: "In your eyes, am I an unfilial son who seduces my aunt?"

Yu Xiaoyao shook his head and said, "If you judge a person based on what you see in front of you, it will inevitably be biased. So I can't answer your question. ”

Tang Yelin said with a smile: "I'm afraid of people in the world, but there are not many people who are as sober as you." ”

Yu Xiaoyao said: "Everyone is drunk and I am sober, I am afraid that everyone will think that it is me who is drunk." This is not necessarily a good thing. ”

Tang Yelin nodded: "That's right." I'm afraid that the grievances in this will start from two years ago. ”

"At that time, I was a frequent visitor to the Ruyue Fang in Ba County. Ruyuefang is a good place, there is wine to drink, there is music to listen to, but the reason why I often go there is for one person. ”

"Gu Dieyu?" Yu said freely.

Tang Yelin nodded, "Actually, she doesn't have the surname Gu, she sold herself to Qinglou since she was a child, and her original name and surname have long been forgotten." The old bustard of the Qinglou was also an elegant person in the past, and when he saw that she was beautiful, he gave her the name Butterfly. A good name with a good-looking person is naturally very eye-catching. ”

"Dieyu is a very smart girl, she learns everything quickly, and she is especially good at, so after she grows up, she quickly becomes the top brand of Ruyuefang. ”

"By chance, I went to Ruyuefang once, and heard her flute voice, like resentment, like crying, I thought at that time, this is the best sound in the world. ”

So, I bought her one night, Ruyuefang's top brand, the price was naturally ridiculously high, but I spent a lot of silver, but I just drank tea with her all night. ”

Yu Xiaoyao couldn't help laughing and said: "Sitting and drinking tea with a beauty in the boudoir late at night is also a beautiful thing." ”

Tang Yelin smiled and continued: "Since then, I have often gone to her place, listened to her, and drank tea with her. ”

"Later, the old bustard came to me and said that there was a prince in Bajun City who also took a fancy to Dieyu and wanted to buy her back for a large price. ”

"I naturally understand what the bustard meant, she just wants me to bid, so I can sit on the ground and start the price. But the thought that I wouldn't be able to see her in the future made me feel like I couldn't help but do it. ”

"In the end, I bought her for a fortune. But if the young master of the Tang Sect just comes and goes to the land of fireworks, he will be seen by others and say that he is young and romantic, but if he buys a courtesan home, he will inevitably be said to be prodigal and invisible, which is insulting. ”

So I hid her identity and gave her the surname Gu, only saying that this was the musician I bought. ”

"I was so happy that I thought I would be able to stay with her from then on. She taught me a, I taught her to practice martial arts, and when she had nothing to do, she went to the mountains and rivers, or played chess, or boiled tea and drank, which was naturally boundless happiness. ”

"It's just that the good times didn't last long, and Tang Yanzheng heard that I bought back a musician, especially good at. He was a good musician, and he usually liked to stroke the piano and blow the flute, and once he heard about it, he asked me for butterfly language, saying that he wanted to ask her for music theory. ”

"All of this of mine was given by Tang Yanzheng, not to mention that he just wanted to ask Dieyu for advice, so what reason did I have to refuse him. So, I personally sent Dieyu to his hospital. ”

"The next day, I had something urgent to go out, and I didn't have time to say goodbye to Dieyu, so I hurried away, this time, it was two months, and when I came back, I found that Dieyu had changed into my aunt. ”

Tang Yelin said this, and said with a sad smile: "It's just that I was smart at the time, concealing Dieyu's identity and the relationship between me and her, because everyone in the door thought she was just a musician." Tang Yanzheng also felt that he had taken away my musician, and he was ashamed of me, and he specially rewarded me with a lot of things. ”

Tang Yelin shook his head and drank all the wine in the cup, "This is my good father, he gave me fame and status, but he took away the person I love the most from me, and said with a sanctimonious look that he wanted to compensate me, haha, compensate me?" Tang Yelin shook his head and smiled, and tears fell.

Yu Xiaoyao sighed and said: "The Buddha said that sentient beings have eight sufferings, birth, old age, sickness, death, love and separation, resentment and hatred, unbelievable, and the five yin are blazing. You alone account for the third, no wonder you are depressed. ”

"Which three sufferings?" Tang Yelin asked.

Yu Xiaoyao said: "You are separated from your lover because of love, you resent Tang Yanzheng in your heart, but you see him from time to time, because of resentment and bitterness, you want to get Gu Die's words but can't, because you can't be bitter." ”

He drank the wine in his cup and muttered, "All sentient beings are bitter, all sentient beings are sentient, all sentient beings are bitter, all sentient beings are bitter." ”

All beings have affection, and all beings are suffering.

Tang Yelin stood up and said, "The wine is finished, and the words are finished, let's go back." ”

"You're looking for me to say this?" Yu Xiaoyao couldn't help but wonder.

Tang Yelin said, "Isn't it okay?"

Yu Xiaoyao said: "Why are you saying these things to me?"

Tang Yelin said: "I have been holding these words in my heart for a long time, and I have long wanted to find someone to spit out." ”

Yu Xiaoyao said: "But you and I are not friends. ”

Tang Yelin said with a smile: "There are some things that you can say to your enemies, but you can't say them to your friends. ”

Yu Xiaoyao also smiled: "Just because of what your enemy says, your friends will definitely not believe it, right?"

Tang Yelin said: "Then what your friend said, do you believe it or not?"

Yu Xiaoyao couldn't laugh anymore.

Tang Yelin walked down the stairs by himself and said, "Let's go, this night is still long." ”

"One last question. Yu Yaoyao said, "How can you be sure that I will win? What else have you done?"

"Because I bet you can win. Tang Yelin smiled slightly, "My luck has always been very good. ”

It was late at night, and the guests were already drunk.

Although Tang Yanzheng is an old man who does not smile, he is also a good host.

A good host, plus a table of good wine and good food, it's hard not to get drunk.

When Yu Xiaoyao and Tang Yelin walked in from the door, there were already quite a few people lying on the table.

"Lin'er, where have you been?" Tang Yanzheng beckoned them forward.

Tang Yelin said: "The child saw that Yu Gongzi was blowing the wind outside, so he went to chat with him. ”

Tang Yanzheng was noncommittal, and said, "You come forward, and I will introduce a few seniors to you." Jade Xiaoyao, you come too. ”

Yu Xiaoyao knew that this must be tomorrow's notary, so he followed Tang Yelin and walked over.

Tang Yanzheng was standing beside three people, on the far left was an old man, with a high forehead and a nose augmentation, eight feet tall, with a pair of big hands like a fan, with a look of no anger and self-authority; the person in the middle was the oldest, looking to be over seventy years old, with a bent waist and a cane, as if he could be blown down by a gust of wind; the man on the far left was a middle-aged scribe, with a white and pure complexion, with a warm smile on his face, and a delicate cyan robe, although it was already autumn, he still held a snow-white folding fan in his hand.

Tang Yanzheng pointed to the old man on the far left and said: "This is the fifth master of Qingsong Yue, a pair of iron sand palms are superb, and he is a generation higher than me in terms of seniority." ”

He pointed to the little old man with a cane in the middle, and said: "This is the old man of the Iron Crutch Immortal Li Guyan Li, who is the old-timer of my Shuzhong martial arts, and I can be invited to come today to make my Tang Sect shine." ”

Li Guyan said with a smile: "What kind of iron kidnapping immortals, they are all old things in the rivers and lakes, and the current rivers and lakes are the world of young people." After he said this, he took a deep look at Yu Xiaoyao.

Tang Yanzheng said: "The old man is too modest, you are an old man with an old heart. ”

Then he pointed to the middle-aged scribe on the far right, and said, "This is Mr. Bai Buping, the famous life and death judge in my Shu, who has always been jealous and hateful, and distinguishes between right and wrong. ”

Bai Buping closed the folding fan and nodded reservedly at the two.

Tang Yelin and Yu Xiaoyao saluted the three of them one by one.

"Jade is free. Tang Yanzheng turned to him, "I specially invited these three highly respected martial arts masters to judge our decision tomorrow, do you have any objections?"

Yu Xiaoyao smiled: "The three seniors are all famous figures in the martial arts, of course Yu has no objections. ”

"Good. Tang Yanzheng nodded, "The grievances and grievances between you and my Tang Sect, right and wrong, will make a decision tomorrow." ”

As soon as Yue Qingsong spoke, he was like Huang Zhong Dalu, which shocked people's ears and hurt, "Since the master of the Tang Sect appreciates his face and asks us to be this notary, we will definitely be impartial and impartial." ”

Bai Buping said with a smile: "Yu Gongzi is young, he dares to invite the Tang Sect Lord to fight, it is really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and his courage is commendable." ”

This sentence is clearly praised, it seems to be a praise for Yu Xiaoyao's courage, but in fact, it is saying that he is brave and strategic, and he does not know whether he is alive or dead.

Yu Xiaoyao's heart is bright, he is an outsider, challenging the famous family in Shuzhong, in the martial arts of Shuzhong, there are no enemies with the Tang Sect, and a few hope that they can win.

He smiled slightly, took a glass of wine from the side, and said: "The kid is rampant and ignorant, and he doesn't want to work for your predecessors, it's really damned, I respect you for this glass of wine." He drank it all down.

Li Guyan paused on the ground with his cane and said, "I don't know life, I don't fear the dead, I'm just a reckless man." If you know life and are not afraid of the dead, then the righteous are also. Jade boy, which one are you?"

Yu Xiaoyao said: "I'm afraid that the junior is a reckless man." ”

Li Guyan smiled: "Not necessarily. Drink the wine in the cup, "It's not too early, the little old man will go back to rest first, and the battle tomorrow is quite exciting." ”

As soon as Li Guyan left, Bai Buping and Yue Qingsong also retired.

Tang Yanzheng was just about to say something to Tang Yelin, when he saw Tang Yanyi walking out of the back hall briskly with a panicked face, he walked to Tang Yanzheng's side, and whispered a few words to him.

Tang Yanzheng listened to those few whispers, his face became extremely ugly, and he said to Tang Yelin: "Lin'er, you are tired of your father, you should greet the guests in the hall and rest for your father for a while." ”

"The boy knows. Tang Yelin bowed his head and said.

Tang Yanzheng stood up, his feet were a little unstable, as if he had drunk too much, Tang Yelin's eyes were quick, and he helped him.

"Father?" Tang Yelin asked in a deep voice.

For a moment, a trace of horror flashed on Tang Yanzheng's face, he grabbed Tang Yelin's outstretched arm hard, his face was solemn, and he said a word to him gently.

Yu Xiaoyao didn't hear what he said, but he saw Tang Yanzheng's mouth.

As it happens, he also knows how to lip read.

But he still couldn't believe the words that came out of Tang Yanzheng's mouth.

Because that sentence is so unbelievable.

Tang Yanzheng said: "I was poisoned. ”