Mei Ernan hesitated and said: "Sixth, I forgot that I was drunk last time, how did the sect leader clean you up? and hook up with the young master to go out for a drink today?"

Mei Zhenyi waved her hand: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just a drink, I'll take care of something." Liufa, you said that the hotel has Wuzhou's famous old wine, what is the point of it?"

As soon as Mei Liufa heard this, he began to introduce Wanjia Hotel and Lao Chunhuanglai with his eyebrows, and his saliva was about to flow down, and everyone's gluttony was also hooked. Mei Zhenyi said: "Okay, let's go to Wanjia Hotel." ”

Under his order, Mei Dadong and Mei Ernan whipped and urged the horses to go to the front station, and the group came to Wanjia Hotel with a smile and laughter. This hotel is a small two-storey building with a backyard, the style is very quaint, facing the main road, not far from the road is the rippling blue waves of Jingting Lake, although the place is a little far from the city but the environment is quite good. Dismounted in front of the store, and walked into the hotel on the second floor surrounded by a group of people, Mei Zhenyi felt a little strange in her heart.

I just listened to Mei Liufa's introduction, the hotel business is quite good, today is a good day for an outing, ten miles of peach blossom road to see a lot of tourists, according to the ten thousand hotels should be like a city. Why did I go upstairs just now and saw that the business here was very deserted, and the table in the lobby downstairs was less than half full, and there was no other person upstairs.

was in doubt, the little two who ran the hall came over to make a gesture: "Hello little marquis, welcome to our store, the shopkeeper will come over to say hello in a while, we have emptied the second floor, are you still satisfied?...... What would you like to use?"

Mei Sanxi waved his hand: "Don't be so exaggerated, a few of us can't occupy a floor, all the specialties are up, come to a big pot to stir-fry the wild child, the most important thing is to take a jar of Lao Chunhuang first, my young master is here for this." ”

Xiao Er's face was bitter, and he shook his head and said, "There is no problem with the food, but the wine is gone, so I can't serve it." ”

Mei Liufa slapped the table: "What my young master wants to drink is Lao Chunhuang, what time is it now, and the wine is sold out?" Go to the back cellar to move the original pulp, this should always be there, don't think I don't know how to do it, this wine is brewed by your family! ”

"Everyone, I'm really embarrassed, I really don't even have the original pulp! I'm a businessman, how dare I offend the little marquis of Meifu, I haven't been here for a long time, right? I don't know what happened to my Wanjia Hotel. ...... Please say hello to the little marquis and a few people, in Xia Ji Mountain City, he is the shopkeeper of this hotel. At this time, a middle-aged man came upstairs to the front, dressed decently and cleanly, but with a sad face, and his forehead wrinkled like walnut skin.

"Shopkeeper Ji, we came here, and we don't know what's going on here. I see that you can't let go of your sorrow, you have depression in your chest, obviously you have a very serious heart disease, if you don't treat it well, I am afraid it will damage your longevity. ...... What's going on, can you tell me?" Mei Zhenyi was strange, since this old Chunhuang is the signature of the restaurant's own brewing, how can he not even have the original pulp? And looking at the complexion of the shopkeeper Ji, it is obvious that something has happened in the family, so that he is depressed in his chest, and he is likely to become ill if he continues like this.

"The family is unfortunate, offended the gods, and even my old mother is sick. Alas, I am really an unfilial person! Since the little marquis asked, then I might as well tell him. Shopkeeper Ji sighed and told the reason, and actually told a strange thing about the immortals.

Starting from Ji Shancheng's grandfather, he made a living by making wine in the suburbs of Wuzhou, and through the efforts of three generations of grandparents, a roadside small field shop has now become a famous hotel in Wuzhou. The family lived in the backyard of the hotel, which was very large, and there was a separate place for the wine cellar and workshop. Lao Chunhuang's wine is good, but the real fame spread all over Wuzhou three years ago, and the cause is related to a traveling Taoist priest.

One morning about six years ago, when the hotel opened, Ji Shancheng saw a high-hairpin Taoist priest sitting on the side of Jingting Lake across the road, using a gourd to draw water from the lake, and then making a drinking poem -

Sitting and lying down with a pot of wine, do not teach the eyes to know the imperial capital.

Qiankun Xu Da has no name, and he is a husband among the evacuees.

The old lady of Jishan City is over 60 years old, and like many folk elders, she is a person who believes in gods and worships gods. Ji Shancheng was influenced by the old lady, and he also had a lot of help for the monks in the past, and at this time he saw that the Taoist priest was talking well, so he greeted: "Dao Chief, how can the lake water be used as wine? ”

The Taoist priest sang a promise, went to the hotel and begged for a pot of wine, thanked him and left. As soon as the Taoist priest left, the old lady of Ji Shancheng came out, and although the voice of the Taoist priest chanting poetry was not loud, it was clear when it reached the backyard, and Ji Mu heard it and saw it. When she heard about what had just happened, she said to Ji Shancheng, "That Daoist may be a high-ranking person, so be more respectful when you see you in the future." ”

Originally, I thought that the Taoist priest was just passing by, but later I found that he seemed to live nearby, and he came to beg for wine every once in a while, and Ji Shancheng didn't dare to slack off, so he gave up his wine every time to drink, and there was no shortage of this pot anyway. In this way, three years have passed, and the Taoist priest has drunk the wine of Wanjia Hotel for three years.

One day the Taoist priest came again, and it happened that Ji Shancheng was not in the store for something, and the guy couldn't help but say: "Hey, I said that you, a Taoist priest, are not exhausted when you get cheap?" There is a saying in our countryside that 'a bowl of rice is a benefactor, and three years of rice to raise an enemy', don't you understand, does our restaurant have an enmity with you?"

The Taoist priest sneered: "The shopkeeper hasn't said that yet, you guys have taught the poor Dao a lesson." ”

Man: "That's our shopkeeper's wife usually believes in Buddhism, and Ji's shopkeeper is filial, so she didn't say anything about you." ”

Taoist priest: "Oh, it turns out that I have received the favor of the old man, so let's not beg for wine today, you lead me to thank the old man." ”

The Taoist priest came to the backyard to see Ji's mother, and the old lady was naturally very respectful and ordered the man to go and get the wine again. The Taoist priest waved his hand after pretending to be drunk: "I have drunk your wine for three years, so I will thank you today." He poured all the gourd wine into the well in the backyard and floated away.

This time there was a miracle of the gods, and what was punched out of the well was no longer ordinary well water, but the mellow aroma of the old spring yellow, which was much more pure than the taste of the Ji family's own brewing. Since then, Ji Shan Cheng no longer has to make wine, just take the wine from the well and sell it, this wine gradually became famous, and the business was getting better and better, and the Wanjia Hotel was renovated into two floors, and the guys changed from two to four. These are all thanks to the Taoist priest of the traveling party, and the Ji family thought that the gods had appeared, and they were naturally very grateful to the Taoist priest of the traveling party.

After that, the Taoist priest disappeared and did not reappear, and after three years, he suddenly came again. This time, the Taoist priest went directly into the backyard to see Ji's mother and asked her how the wine in the well was? Ji's mother was naturally very grateful, but finally said: "The wine is directly out of the well, which is good, but there is no wine lees to raise pigs." ”

She said the truth, in the past, she made her own wine, and she could raise pigs on sake lees, and she could cook when she killed pigs, and she didn't have to buy meat for the New Year. But since the wine came out of the well, there was no need to brew it at home, and there was no sake lees to feed the pigs, an old lady in the countryside who had been in charge of housework all her life, naturally thought about this and said it casually.

The Taoist priest was originally smiling, but when he heard the words, he immediately changed color, and said abruptly: "The desires of the world are insatiable!" After speaking, he waved his sleeves away, and then saw that the well in the courtyard had dried up. ——This incident happened seven days before Mei Zhenyi and others came to Wanjia Hotel.

After speaking, the shopkeeper sighed: "After this incident, Wanjia Hotel suddenly cut off the old Chunhuang wine, the guy told me about it, and everyone said that my mother was insatiable, and there was white wine in the well, and there was no wine to raise pigs, so that it angered the gods." ...... The wine is gone, the gods are offended, there are naturally fewer guests, and my business is about to go on, how can I not worry?"

Qu Zhenming asked: "The wine in the well is gone, but you still have your own self-brewed Lao Chunhuang? Even if it hasn't been prosperous in the past three years, it won't be impossible to do business?"

Shopkeeper Ji smiled bitterly: "This guest officer obviously doesn't know how to make wine, the ancestral cellar has been abandoned for three years, and it can't be recooked for a while, and the taste of the wine has completely changed." Besides, my family's old spring yellow is to be stored in the urn for three years, the first year is bitter, the second year is astringent, and the third year can be drunk. Even if I re-brew at this time, it will take at least three or five years to recover as before, and how can I maintain a small business with less in and more out? By that time, my industry will no longer be able to hold on. ...... The restaurant of three generations of grandparents, seeing that it is in my hands, I am an unfilial person. ”

Qu Zhensheng asked, "I just heard you say, your old mother is sick, what kind of disease is it?"

Ji shopkeeper: "It can't be regarded as a disease, my mother blames the gods and affects the family business, and I blame myself very much. It's not a way to keep talking like this every day, I'm afraid that her old man can't stand it, but it's useless to persuade her. Speaking of this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he knelt down on one knee: "Mei Gongzi, I heard that you have been working with Doctor Sun in Qiyun Temple, can you find a way to cure my mother's illness?" Ji begs you!"

Mei Zhenyi hurriedly got up and helped him up: "Shopkeeper, don't be so polite, Ling Tang has a heart disease, how to use medicine still needs to be considered, and let me think about it first, please rest assured, since I met it today, I will definitely do my best." ...... You go down first, and if you have any special dishes, you will be served, and as for the wine...... Mei Liufa, you ride a fast horse to the city to buy it, and we will eat here today. ”

The shopkeeper thanked him and went downstairs, Mei Zhenyi looked at everyone and asked, "What do you think of what happened to this family, and how do you evaluate what the Taoist priest did?"

The gossip of the crowd began—

Mei Dadong said: "That Ji Mu is really insatiable, and there is good wine in the well, and she thinks that there is no wine lees to raise pigs, and the gods should be angry." ”

Mei Ernan said: "The immortal game in the world is really fascinating, the immortal chief has clear grievances and grievances, and it is very mysterious!"

Mei Sanxi said: "After drinking wine for three years, and then returning the wine full of wells for three years, the affection of this Taoist priest can be regarded as exhausted." ”

Mei Sibei said: "It seems that people's hearts are not satisfied, the gods enlighten the world, and often the dragon sees the head but not the end." The Ji family is quite pitiful, but it is also self-inflicted. ”

Mei Wuzhong frowned and said: "I think the Ji family is also a person without foresight, why didn't he think that on this day, would the wine in the well still flow forever? ”

Qu Zhenming said: "This person's cultivation is unfathomable, and he does things in the world, although he is moody, his likes and dislikes are also clear, I can't say anything, but if it is Sun Lao Immortal, I am afraid he will not do this." ”

Qu Zhensheng asked rhetorically: "The old immortal will naturally not be like this, but the Taoist priest has not done anything to be sorry for the Ji family, the masters in the world have their own styles but their actions are reasonable, and the Ji family's experience is to blame, isn't that the case?"

At this time, Mei Liufa came back from buying wine, listened to everyone's discussions, and saw that the little young master had not spoken, so he asked obediently: "Young master, why don't you speak?

Mei Zhenyi stroked her forehead with her hand: "I haven't figured it out for a while, and I'm just going back to invite my master." ...... Let's eat first, and after eating, go to see the illness of the old mother of the Ji family. ”

Mei Dadong reminded: "The young master really wants to see a doctor for Ji's mother? She has collided with the gods! This disease is not easy to treat." ”

Mei Zhenyi smiled faintly: "I am treating the old mother of the Ji family, not treating the Taoist priest, what is the matter with the immortals? This disease is very easy to treat, call the shopkeeper after eating for a while, and I will have something to explain." ”

The taste of stir-fried wild children is very good, but Mei Zhenyi didn't taste anything, he has been thinking about things silently. If he was just a young master of Meifu, when he went out and heard about this kind of thing, he might just laugh at it as a folklore or a fairy case, but don't forget that he was a fatherless and motherless orphan before he crossed over, grew up in a remote mountain village, and has always lived at the bottom of society. He is proficient in all kinds of methods of the eight gates of the rivers and lakes, and the more things he has experienced, the more he understands what it means to play with others for no reason. He didn't have a good impression of the Taoist priest, but seeing that everyone didn't open their mouths to accuse the "immortals", he didn't want to say anything.

After eating, the shopkeeper Ji was called over and carefully instructed, and everyone came to the backyard with Mei Zhenyi. There was a fairly handsome woman standing in the courtyard with a sad brow, and when the shopkeeper Ji saw her, he asked, "How is my mother?"

The woman sighed and said, "I didn't eat a few bites of food, and I knelt down in front of the incense table to worship the gods again." ”

Shopkeeper Ji: "You can take the children to eat too, don't worry too much, I invited the disciple of Doctor Sun today, and I will definitely be able to cure my mother's illness." ”

Walking into a room in the backyard, it is arranged like a small ancestral hall, and there is an incense case on the south wall, and there is a tablet of "immortals on top" on the incense table. An old lady with gray hair was kneeling on a mat, her hands clasped together and chanting a word in front of the incense case. She is Ji's mother, she is almost seventy years old this year, and it is already the seventh day of incense.

The old lady saw that her son had brought in a little boy with clear eyebrows, and a few people stood respectfully at the door, got up and greeted: "Shancheng, whose little son is this?......?" You are well entertained, the old body is guilty of the immortals, it is inconvenient to entertain guests, and you have to ask the immortals for their guilt. ”

After speaking, she saluted Mei Zhenyi, and knelt on the mat as if no one was around, and began to chatter, muttering that she couldn't hear what she was saying. Ji Shancheng looked at Mei Zhenyi with questioning eyes, Mei Zhenyi nodded to him, which means - just do what was discussed.

Ji Shancheng stepped forward and said: "Mother, please go to your old man's house to rest, you are unfilial to your children if you go on like this." ”

His old lady didn't raise her eyelids and said, "Didn't I already say it? Don't bother me if you have nothing to do, it will collide with the immortals." ”

Ji Shancheng said again: "Mother, please go to your old man's house to rest, you are unfilial to your children if you go on like this." It's exactly the same sentence as just now.

This time, the old lady simply ignored him, but Ji Shancheng didn't give up, and said the same thing seven or eight times in a row, the old lady finally got impatient, opened her eyes and turned her head and said: "Shancheng, are you annoyed? I'm apologizing to the immortals, you are disrespectful like this!"

At this time, Mei Zhenyi on the side smiled: "Old man, your son is good for you, but you are annoyed if he only calls you less than ten times." Think about the immortal you respect, you have been talking about him here for seven days in a row, if the immortal can really hear it, you must not annoy him to death?...... Think about it, isn't that reasonable?"

The old lady was stunned by this remark, and she thought for a long time before asking: "What this little boy said is also reasonable, so what do you say the old body should do?"

Mei Zhenyi smiled and stepped forward to help: "Don't tell you what you always say, I was entrusted by Donghua Shangxian to come to see your old man's house, I hope your old man can take care of his health." Oh, by the way, Donghua Shangxian is the Taoist master you met in your family, he came to Qiyunguan the day before yesterday, I happened to be fated to meet, Shangxian mentioned the matter of your family. He said he didn't really blame you, it was just a joke in the game, and you don't have to call him silently every day. ...... Since the immortals will be angry, they will also be annoyed. ”