Chapter 2 The Emperor's List

Wuyang City is the imperial city of Qingyang Kingdom.

Qingyang is a small country, although the land area is only thousands of miles, and the population is also millions, it can be regarded as a large land.

Wuyang City is an imperial city, and it can be regarded as prosperous. When it comes to Wuyang City, the first thing that comes to people's minds is not that it is the imperial city of Qingyang Kingdom, but the food, and people within a radius of 100 miles know that Wuyang City's food is the best in the world.

Wuyang City is famous for its food. I have to mention here a restaurant called "Shilin", this restaurant is the first restaurant in Wuyang City, not to mention the taste of the food. What makes "Shilin" famous in Wuyang City is not the food, but a kind of wine called "drunk half-immortal" that they brew themselves.

In front of the restaurant, people come and go, and the guests are full.

Li Fu, the shopkeeper, was counting the accounts at the counter, smiling and couldn't close his mouth, and the second brother was also very busy, serving food to the guests and wine to the guests.

At a table in the middle of the hall, an old man was drinking alone. There were several side dishes lined up on the table in front of him. The old man was gray-haired and dressed in gray. Although the clothes are not noble, they are clean, and with his appearance, there is a sense of refinement. The only thing that didn't match the environment was the five or six empty bottles lying crooked on his table, and it seemed that he had drunk quite a lot.

When the old man drank a glass of wine and poured the wine again with the bottle, he found that the bottle of wine had seen the light again. He shouted, "Little Er, another bottle of wine."

Xiao Er was busy serving food to another guest at this time, and when he heard that a guest asked for wine, he casually shouted: "Guest officer, wait a minute, the wine will come soon."

When Xiao Er finished serving the food to the guests and was about to serve wine to the guests with wine, he found that it was the drunk old man who shouted for wine. He didn't send the wine right away, but stood still.

The shopkeeper Li Fu also sensed something and stopped the abacus in his hand. He saw Xiao Er standing motionless in place with a bottle of wine, so he scolded with a smile: "Li San, what are you doing standing there, why don't you hurry up and send wine to the guests." It seems that the shopkeeper is in a good mood.

Li San saw that the shopkeeper was scolding, so he walked to the counter and said in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, that drunk old man has already drunk six bottles of wine, and now he still wants wine." I don't know if his silver taels are enough," and looked in the direction of the old man.

Li Fu followed Li San's eyes and looked at the remote place in the hall, only to see an old man crawling on the table with his head down, his fingers kept knocking on the table, and his mouth was still muttering something, but the distance was too far away, and he couldn't hear what he was talking about, as if it was: "Little Er, serve wine."

Li Fu frowned. It's not uncommon to open a restaurant and meet an alcoholic. The nearby restaurant's way to deal with drunkards is to directly get rid of it, and they are the first restaurant in Wuyang City, and they really disdain to do this, after all, a little silver is a small matter, and the restaurant has the greatest reputation.

Li Fu took the wine in Li San's hand and said to him, "You go and get busy."

Li San knew what the shopkeeper wanted to do. When encountering this kind of drunkard, the shopkeeper will personally send a bottle of wine to "greet", and he will walk away with interest.

Li Fu walked to the old man's table with the wine, sat down opposite him, and said softly: "Old man, you are good, the wine is here."

The old man was still lying on the table, and kept muttering, "Wine, wine."

Li Fu saw that the old man ignored him, and he didn't get angry, but patted his arm lightly, and said in a low voice: "Old man, you are good, the wine is here."

The old man didn't know if he was woken up by Li Fu, or if he smelled the aroma of wine, and a spirit sat up. Startled Li Fu on the other side.

After the old man woke up, he fixed his eyes and saw a slightly fat middle-aged man sitting opposite, holding a bottle of wine in his hand, and asked casually, "Who are you?"

Li Fu said politely: "I am the head of this restaurant, and I see that the old man has drunk a lot of wine." Our wine here is different from other wines, it is home-brewed, it is a spirit. If you drink too much, it is easy to hurt your body, so it is important for your elderly to take care of your body." After speaking, he put a bottle of wine in his hand on the table and walked away.

The old man was stunned, he really didn't expect the shopkeeper to say this to him, with his way of drinking, he was directly kicked out of other restaurants. He thought of something at random, and smiled bitterly. He opened the wine on the table and filled it with another glass of wine.

Li Fu saw that the old man opened the wine, began to drink it again, shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Suddenly, the streets of Wuyang City were boiling, and suddenly they became lively.

The people on the street were two or three people talking to each other.

In less than an hour, the guests of the entire food forest were also two or three people in groups muttering something.

Shopkeeper Li Fu frowned, he also felt that something was wrong in this situation at this moment. In the past, this kind of situation would only occur when the emperor issued the emperor list, could it be that the emperor issued the emperor list again.

Li Fu beckoned Li San to come over, and Li San ran over willingly. He said a few words to Li San, and Li San went out. A moment later, Li San ran back, sweating profusely.

Li Fu asked Li San to step down. I learned from Li San that the reason for the boiling of the whole city is indeed the emperor's list, the general content of the emperor's list is that the prince of the dynasty has a strange disease, often attacked, and the attack is like a madman, there are those who can cure the prince's strange disease, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, they will all be rewarded, and those who have additional requirements, as long as they are within the emperor's ability, will be realized.

Li Fu shook his head and sighed for a while, I heard that the crown prince had been sick for several years, and ordinary people like himself had no ability to cure the prince's illness. If the crown prince's illness is so easy to treat, aren't all the imperial doctors in the palace all rice buckets? After a while, he put his mind on the account again and continued to dial the abacus.

Suddenly, there was a quarrel in the hall, and it sounded like Li San had an argument with the guest officer.

Li Fu frowned, a little angry, thinking about why Li San was becoming more and more unorthodox and quarreling with the guests. He turned his head to look in the direction of the noise, and saw Li San arguing with the drunk old man. After listening to a few words, he knew the reason, and the drunken old man finished drinking and wanted to drink again.

Li Sanyi heard that he wanted to drink again, and at this time he was annoyed, and muttered in his mouth: "Your old man has drunk so much wine, and you still want wine? It's time to settle the bill, our restaurant is about to close."

Li San's words at this time already had the intention of chasing away customers.

When the drinker next to him heard Li San's words, his brows furrowed, and he turned his head to look at the old man, seeing that he was drunk, most of them were drunkards, and the contempt in his eyes flashed, and they all put their minds on their own wine table.

Li Fu was a little angry in his heart, so he said to Li San a little impatiently: "If he wants wine, you will give him a bar." Li Fu thought that he was unlucky, even if he lost a table of wine and a few bottles of wine today, he couldn't ruin the reputation of Wuyang No. 1 Restaurant.

Li San stuck out his tongue and went to the back to get the wine.

After Li San gave the wine to the old man, he thought that he had suffered a big loss again, so he turned around and left.

As soon as he walked a few steps, he found that he had been pulled by the sleeve of his shirt, and he turned his head to see that it was the drunken old man holding on to himself.

The drunken old man said: "Little Er, is it possible that the old man will lose your wine money." "Say it, and take out a silver ingot directly from his arms. Look at that head, I'm afraid there are at least ten taels.

Li San's tongue was a little tight, and the drunken old man's table of wine and food was only about four or five taels. He secretly scolded himself for looking down on people, so he smiled and said: "Old man, you misunderstood, I see that you have drunk a lot, the wine in our restaurant is made from own grains, it is very strong, and all the guest officers who drink in our place will get drunk after drinking less than two bottles, so our wine has won the title of 'drunk half immortal', you are old."

Before the old man could finish speaking, he scolded: "What 'drunk half-immortal', ordinary people will get drunk when they drink your wine, the old man is not drunk at all, the old man is a god." ”

Li San saw that this old man was so arrogant, and scolded in his heart for a while. Li San suddenly had an idea, thinking that he had offended this old man anyway, so it was better to entertain him and make him suffer a little.

Li San said with a smile: "I see that you are not an ordinary person, it turns out that the fairy master has come down to earth." He suddenly lowered his voice and said to the old man: "Our Shilin is the No. 1 restaurant in Wuyang City, and it is famous for its 'drunk half-immortal' wine. When it comes to Wuyang City's famous wine, our 'Drunken Half Immortal' is at most ranked second, as for the first wine?" he deliberately delayed, fishing for the old man's appetite.

The old man really hit the plan, and when he heard that there was better wine in Wuyang City than "drunk half-immortal", his spirit was shocked, and he listened attentively.

Li San saw that the drunken old man had been caught by himself, so he said unhurriedly: "If you want to say that the position of the first wine in Wuyang City is the 'Immortal Drunk' of the Imperial Palace." I heard that the divine wine is a recipe handed down by the ancient brewing masters, and the current palace brewing masters only make ten bottles a year."

The old man frowned after hearing this, he didn't expect this wine to come from so big, and the palace couldn't brew ten bottles a year.

Li San saw the old man's helpless expression, his heart was very happy, and he deliberately continued: "It is indeed not easy to get this wine in normal times, and the output of 'Immortal Drunk' is not enough for the imperial relatives of the palace to enjoy themselves. Now is a great opportunity to taste this rumored wine."

"Really?" said the old man.

Li San continued: "When the crown prince of the dynasty suffered from a minor illness, and now His Majesty the Emperor is issuing an imperial list, and there is a person who can cure the prince, in addition to a reward of thousands of gold, once there is another wish, once it is proposed, it can be realized. His Majesty the Emperor cherishes the prince as his life, and if you heal the prince, His Majesty will treat you as a guest. Not to mention a few bottles of wine, maybe Your Majesty will reward you with a lot of beauties."

Li San deliberately made things difficult for the old man, and deliberately said that the prince's strange illness was a minor illness.

The old man didn't know what this stinky boy thought, he pondered for a while, then turned around and left, and said to Li San before leaving: "There is no need to look for more silver."

Li San saw that the old drunkard was gone, and he was overjoyed, and said in his heart: "I finally deceived this old guy away, not only did I get the wine money, but I also had five taels of silver more, and the old man would have to suffer a little."

Li Fu saw that the old man was gone, and Li San was indeed secretly having fun over there, thinking that it must be this stinky boy who made the ghost, and he would scold him for a while.

Li San suddenly ran to the shopkeeper Li Fu, put a piece of silver weighing ten taels on the counter and said, "The wine money given by the old guest officer just now."

Li Fu was stunned for a while, he originally wanted to scold Li San for a few words, but seeing that Li San not only asked for the wine money back, but also asked for a lot more, he didn't say anything more. As soon as he was happy, he took two taels of silver and handed it to Li San and said, "Li San, you did a good job, reward two taels of silver." made Li Sanle happy for a long time.

After a while, the whole street and restaurants were boiling again.

Someone said: "The emperor list was picked up, and it was picked up by a white-haired old man who had just walked out of the food forest."

Li Fu was suddenly stunned.

Li San was also stunned and petrified in place.