Chapter 27 The Beggars

But said that on this day, Zen came to Jinhua City, and suddenly saw a wine shop on the side of the road, which was very lively with customers. As soon as Zen was happy, he went to the wine shop and prepared a few drinks. When I went upstairs and saw that it was full, I waited for a while, and then the bartender cleaned up a small table and two chairs on a small corner facing the street.

Zen thought to himself, "What kind of big day is today? Why is this restaurant so lively today? ”

While he was thinking, the bartender had already set the glass and asked what he wanted. Zen asked for a few meat and vegetarian dishes at will.

The bartender beckoned down, but he didn't see the food coming up for a long time, and no one was there.

Zen felt very strange in his heart, and after finally eating his heart, he came downstairs, and at this time there was a yellow gourd containing wine on the counter, and a bartender was pouring wine into it.

What's so nice about a wine gourd?

Zen was curious, and stood for a while, only to find that the wine gourd had not overflowed until now, but the bartender's sweat was dripping down.

Zen suddenly realized, strange to see people, it turned out to be watching the excitement.

After taking a closer look at the red lacquer gourd used to hold wine, Zen's heart became more and more weird, this gourd seems to be a magic weapon!

How can you fill it up like this?

Who is this to fix them?

When he returned to his table, he called a bartender and asked, "Where did you buy that red gourd on your cabinet for wine?"

The bartender looked at Zen's gourd and replied, "Master wants to ask about this gourd, but our store can't sell it on behalf of you, and it's not in our store, and I don't know where you bought it." ”

Zen was curious: "Who is this?"

The bartender smiled bitterly and said, "Yesterday, I came to the Huazi, dressed in very ragged clothes, and I was carrying this gourd." He was so filthy at that time, where could we let him in in the shop? But the beggar was angry and took out a gold ingot, and gave him a double penny, and our shopkeeper let him in. ”

Zen nodded and asked, "Why do you keep pouring wine into it?"

The bartender grinned, with a bitter face, and said: "After eating and drinking, before leaving, I threw down a gold ingot and took this big gourd wine, but this gourd was very tight, and the shopkeeper poured at least dozens of catties of Daqu after collecting the deposit, and the size of the gourd was ten and was not satisfied, but it still didn't see the weight, we thought that the gourd was leaking wine, but this gourd was very strong." After waiting for a long time to fill it, the old man left the gourd and wanted to get it today, but this gourd was poured in, not to mention the Daqu wine on the top of five or six thousand catties, and the ingot of gold not only did not make any money, but the shopkeeper also put himself in, but this gourd was not satisfied. ”

This is a dog who looks down on people, and is rectified by the beggar, and Zen asks the gourd, he sees that Zen has a wine gourd, and he is afraid that others will take the gourd away, and the beggar will come back to blackmail, so he refuses.

"Good wine, good wine. Suddenly smelling the smell of wine on the street, Zen looked back and saw that it was a poor old man dressed very shabby, holding a gourd in his hand, and drinking from the gourd with a vigorous mouth.

I saw that the old man had a greasy face, dragged two broken shoes, and walked towards Zen with kicks. If others look at the old man's poor appearance, he will never care, he is definitely a flower child, at most he will pity him for his old age and poverty, or give him a few dollars. Zen eyes were so sharp that before the old man could get near, he could already sense that he was acting strangely, and when he came to the opposite side, he could not help but be surprised. Seeing that although the old man was poor, he was born with a crane head and iris, his line was not dusty, his face was covered with oil, and his half-closed eyes were shining, and he still couldn't hide the person's hiding, and his heart moved, and he saw that the incarnation was extraordinary, and he knew that he was a senior and wise man.

The old man sat opposite Zen, salivating, looked at the monkey wine in the Zen cup, and asked Zen, "Little monk, you are so fragrant, what kind of wine is it?"

Zen didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied: "Senior, this is monkey wine!" But it was where Zen loaded it from the white ape.

The old man said, "Monkey wine, what is monkey wine? Can this wild monkey also make fine wine?"

"The monkeys in the mountains and forests make wine from the fruits. Because the fruit picked by the monkeys is the freshest and sweetest, the sake produced is also excellent and very sweet. ”

After saying that, Zen told the story of the white ape he met that day.

The old man couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, and said very annoyed: "It's a pity, it's a pity, I knew that I would have caught the little monkey and let it make wine for me." Then he suddenly remembered something, and said, "Ah, I remember, he has a little monkey there! I must steal it, and let it make me a monkey wine to drink." ”

When Zen heard this, he took out the gourd he was carrying, and replied with a smile: "It turns out that the old man wants to drink, and Xiao Ke is willing to be invited." But is the old man willing to appreciate his face?"

"It's good to drink, it's good. The old man was just about to pick it up, but suddenly stopped, patted his forehead, and said, "Slow down, slow down." Over the years, many people have invited me to eat and drink, and there has not been a time when I didn't treat him as an empty at first, but after eating, I was so busy with others that I almost didn't tire me to death. I don't know you, but as soon as we meet, you invite me to eat and drink, but how can there be such a good person as you in this world? Could it be that I treat you as an empty person, and when I finish eating, I will become a hollow one? "What this old man means by this is, you invite me to eat and drink, what do you want me to do?

Zen couldn't cry or laugh when he heard this, and said helplessly: "The old man is too worried, the little monk is really wholeheartedly invited, how dare he treat you as a void?"

The old man said: "You don't know that I am old and lazy now, and I always plan to eat for nothing, but I can't meet the vacancy." Now that he is slow to say that it is wine, he often doesn't even eat food, and he usually wants to encounter one or two loopholes and trick him into eating some wine. Who knows that no one is willing to invite the old man Hanako to eat wine, only a little Taoist priest, he is willing to invite me to eat wine. But as the saying goes, 'Nothing to offer affection is either treachery or theft, and courtesy must be demanded by others.' I knew in my heart that he was going to make me do something very troublesome when he had finished inviting me to drink, and therefore I did not dare to appreciate it. How many times have I been thinking about it in front of and behind his temple, don't do things for others, people won't invite me to drink; I don't want to do it for him; now when I meet you, I see that you invite me to eat and drink or not, and I know that you are empty. ”

The old man said this, and the image of the Taoist who saved him with a sword suddenly appeared in Zen's mind, and then smiled faintly and shook off this thought, after all, that Taoist is not young.

Zen had already set his mind, no matter how he embarrassed himself, he couldn't be angry, and he had to find out what he was hiding.

Yes, although he saw that he spoke unceremoniously, he actually said that he invited him as a vacancy, and he knew that he was deliberately contrived, and he felt funny, but he still replied respectfully on his face: "The little monk is wholeheartedly invited, and there is nothing else." ”

The old man said, "So, are you willing to be a fool?"

Zen said: "Yes." ”

He saw that the old man was talking crazy, and he knew that the real man refused to show his face, and the sea was incomparable. With a slight thought in his heart, he calculated that the old man was not a first-class swordsman, but he must also be a man of the Tao, and the demon monkey in the foundation building period was like all things in his eyes, and his cultivation must be unfathomable.

At this time, the old man said to Zen: "Okay, since that's the case, the little monk, you don't have to call me my father-in-law, I don't plan to pay back the new account, you just call me the old account, I am upset when I hear it." My surname is Chen, and everyone calls me Chen Jiu, so you can call me Lao Chen. ”

Zen said: "Then I'll teach you Chen Lao!"

The old man said indifferently: "It's okay." ”