Chapter 16: An Eventful Season
Looking at Ding Ning, who casually threw the coarse porcelain bowl into the water basin, the eldest grandson Qianxue, who was filling the newly brewed wine into small jars, frowned, and said unhappily: "Even this kind of thing in the market makes you annoyed?"
Ding Ning naturally knew that with the perception of the eldest grandson Qianxue, he must have heard the conversation between himself and that person clearly in front of him, and he also frowned, and said: "This is not an ordinary matter in the market, the two-story building only occupies a small area in the south of our city on the surface, but I heard that most of the dark kiln flower buildings and gambling houses in Changling account for several percent, and they have been doing it for more than ten years, and the foundation is already very stable." I hadn't paid much attention to Jinlin Tang before, it seemed that on the surface I was just doing some horse gang and moving business, and suddenly I jumped out to grab two floors of land, and I didn't know what was going on behind it. ”
"So what?"
The eldest grandson Qianxue glanced at him coldly, and said indifferently, "Whether it's a two-story building or some Jinlin Tang, it's not a dog raised by those big people in the temple, it's just that some gate valves in the court are unevenly divided, and it's just a matter of re-dividing it." ”
"It may be true elsewhere, but the capitals of dynasties are not so simple. ”
Ding Ning understood what she was thinking, he shook his head lightly, and patiently explained: "The scale of the capitals of each dynasty is too different from the rest of the big cities, taking Changling as an example, as early as the previous dynasty, the population has reached millions, especially in the destruction of Han, Zhao, and Wei, a large number of women and children were enslaved in Changling, and then there is no restriction on moving in, until today, the population of Changju is probably more than doubled, not to mention that there are travelers and caravans from various countries. It's only been a matter of a dozen years... The power of those gate valves in the previous dynasty has not collapsed in just over ten years, and now even those marquis mansions, marrying wives and concubines and marrying daughters still have to choose those gate valves to marry, with the help of some strength. Changling is too complicated, intertwined, and no one's hand can be inserted too deeply, even Yan Xiang and Li Xiang. Otherwise, according to the abilities and ideas of those two people, where would there be so many Jianghu sects in Changling now, at most there would only be a few left to work for them. ”
"The time is too short, there are too many things to manage in the government and the opposition, and you have to cherish your own henchmen, there are many dragons hidden in the market and rivers and lakes of Changling, and these dragons can contribute to the war with other dynasties, but I really want to make a bold move to make these dragons bow, maybe they folded a few arms, and they can't even keep their position in the court. ”
After a pause, Ding Ning continued: "The capitals of other dynasties are not much different. Although the dynasty has been established for a long time, the emperor's sons have given birth to too many, and the divided aristocratic fields are not recovered, and the power of the gate lords and princes can even shake the decisions in the palace. Which prince can succeed to the throne and which woman can be the queen depends on whether the woman's maiden family has the absolute upper hand during that period. ”
The eldest grandson, Qianxue, understood what Ding Ning meant, and these words reminded her of her past, and a layer of frost slowly covered her face.
At this time, Ding Ning didn't notice her expression, he thought of the rickety old man with a black bamboo cane in the fish market, and thought of the price paid many years ago in order to make those gate lords and nobles make concessions, and to make the Great Qin Dynasty and the rest of the dynasties different, his mood was a little heavy, and he unconsciously lowered his head.
"As you said, if the market Jianghu sect is just a dog raised by someone, then the casualties will be smaller, but most of the market Jianghu sects in Changling are just giving benefits to some big people, and the relationship between using each other, the most afraid is which big man has ambitions now, secretly trying to promote, and wants to reorganize the pattern of some places. It's going to be bloody, and I don't know how many people will die. ”
"I'm not afraid of killing, but I'm afraid of extra trouble. If it's too chaotic to sort out some clues, it will take a lot of effort, and we can't even reveal the identity of a cultivator now, and I can't even reach the third realm, so if I am caught up, I don't know what the consequences will be. When Ding Ning hung his head and said this, he was worried about whether the rickety old man in the fish market and the people behind him would also be involved in this turmoil.
The eldest grandson Qianxue's eyes were very cold, and she finally had no interest in what Ding Ning said, because for her, Ding Ning's plan was disrupted, his cultivation was too low, and even whether his plan could be achieved or not was his business.
She had only one thing in Changling, and that was to catch up with all the cultivators who were ahead of her.
All she has to think about is her sword, her cultivation, she can even go out of this wine shop every day, she is the simplest.
She used to be just as simple.
......
What the yellow-shirted master Xu Nian said was right, although he was extremely inattentive to making wine, but the wine shop of the eldest grandson Qianxue and Ding Ning was indeed the best shop in the Wutongluo area.
By noon, the tables were almost full, and most of them were diners who had brought their own food and food to pair with their wine.
Ding Ning was lying on the counter and dozing off weakly, but his ears were sensitive to catch every word in the air.
A light carriage drove into the sycamore, stopped under the cyan wine flag, and the passengers in the carriage jumped down quickly and walked into the door of the liquor store.
This is a young man dressed in an eggplant python satin robe, with fresh and shiny black hair coiled around his head with two cyan ties.
This is in Changling, and only foreigners from outside will do this.
The Qin people of Changling generally simply wore their hair, or tied their hair behind their heads, and even those nobles were only accustomed to using jade rings to tie their hair or use hostas to coil their hair.
The stranger picked a table that still had an empty seat and sat down, waved his hand at Ding Ning, whose chin was on the counter, and shouted, "Little Er, come to drink." ”
All the drinkers in the shop looked at him and smiled maliciously.
Ding Ning raised his head and drank lazily: "If you want to take the wine, the rules of this store." ”
The shelves are so big?
The shelves are so big, the business is so good, is the wine in this small wine shop really so good?
The young man in the eggplant python satin robe was stunned, and finally realized why the drinkers around him looked at him like a mallet.
He stood up a little angrily and walked in front of Ding Ning.
"Twenty copper coins a pot. A plate of five copper coins for peanuts in salt water. Without waiting for him to speak, Ding Ning ordered the wine jugs and plates of peanuts on the counter, and motioned for him to take them for himself.
The young man frowned slightly, and he couldn't say anything, so he threw out twenty copper coins and just took a pot of wine.
Returning to his table, the young man looked a little arrogant when he was drinking, unlike ordinary drinkers who take a small cup and drink slowly, but directly opened the lid of the pot and poured it into his mouth.
However, in the next moment, the young man's face became extremely ugly, and his throat seemed to be suddenly pinched by someone, and with a "poof", a mouthful of wine that had reached his throat spurted out directly from his mouth.
"It's so sour, it's like rice washing water mixed with rancid, can this still be considered wine!"
He glanced into the cups of the surrounding drinkers, and then at his own pot, so angry that his fingers trembled, and he couldn't help but shout loudly, "The wine lees are not exhausted, and such a thing is worthy of wine!"
Looking at his sad and angry appearance, all the drinkers around him looked at each other, knowing that this person must really love wine, but at the same time, they all had mocking smiles on their faces.
Did you really come to this wine shop to taste wine?
Stupid or not?
......
Amid the angry shouts of this stranger, Ding Ning's expression remained calm, he nodded seriously, and replied, "The wine in this store tastes like this. ”
There was a cracking sound of "pop".
The angry young man smashed the flask to the ground, and he was obviously very angry, and shouted again: "Can this be considered wine!"
"What's not wine?"
"This is the case with the wine of our Qin people, if you can drink it, you can drink it, and if you can't drink it, it's your own problem. ”
"You are from Chu, do you still want to be wild in Changling?"
The people of Changling have no good impression of strangers, and this stranger is obviously Chu Yin, and he should not even be from the Great Qin Dynasty. With several heavy slaps on the table, most of the people in the liquor store stood up.
"What about the Chu people?"
The young man looked at the figures around him, and a trace of mockery and pride appeared on his angry face: "Your Yangshan County is still assigned to my court?"
As soon as these words came out, there was no sound in the wine shop, and the eyes of all the drinkers were red.
It's no longer a matter of bickering.
In the third year of Yuanwu, the Great Qin Dynasty, which destroyed the Zhao, Han, and Wei dynasties, had a major war with the Chu Dynasty, in which the Qin army was annihilated by 200,000, lost countless chariots, and suffered a great defeat, so that it had to cede land and sue for peace.
So far, the severed Yangshan County has not been recovered.
The Great Chu Dynasty only sent an unloved prince to stay in Changling as a proton in accordance with the covenant at that time.
One son is 600 miles of land, and he is also a son who is not loved by the king of Chu for 600 miles of fertile land and hundreds of thousands of Qin people, this matter is a shame for all Qin people.
Seeing that the wine was burned into a murderous aura, and blood would be sprinkled on the slightly cool ground, at this moment, a cold voice suddenly came out of the inside of the wine shop, "Marching and fighting, that's a matter for soldiers and cultivators, you don't drink well, and if you want to reason with others about these things, then go out and don't make trouble with me." ”
With this cold sound, the curtain leading to the backyard was lifted, and the cold eldest grandson Qianxue had a face.
The anger and murderous aura in the eyes of all the drinkers dissipated into dryness and heat again.
The first few to stand up sat down with a smirk.
The young man with a mocking face was also suddenly petrified.
He never thought that he would see such a beautiful woman in such a wine shop.
Looking at the eldest grandson Qianxue's thrillingly beautiful eyebrows and eyes, his breathing was a little irregular, and at the same time, he finally understood why so many drinkers would come to this wine shop from time to time to drink.
Wine should warm people's hearts.
Wine that warms people's hearts is good wine.
Although the wine in this wine shop is sour and difficult to eat, as long as you see her, I am afraid that it is not only warm to the heart, these ordinary market men, I don't know how long they will be hot.
"This is the beauty of a person comparable to a county..."
For a while, the young man from a foreign land was also a little stupid, and his heart was hot, and he wanted to ask the woman's name.
"Hey, the broken flask is going to pay for it. ”
However, at this moment, Ding Ning, who raised his head on the counter, shouted lazily at him: "And when you go, by the way, clean up the debris on the ground, so as not to prick people's feet." ”