drunk drunk Changan

On the wooden square table, the half-eaten food was completely cold.

Shen Lu opened his eyes, staring blankly at the sunlight outside the window.Time seems to be elongated by countless strands of shining sunlight, and it becomes visible with the eyes, flowing quietly and quietly.

After simply washing up, I bought a piece of cake from the cake seller who passed by the door and ate it, and a new day began.

Today it's time to deliver wine to the restaurants that have placed orders.

Counting the money earned from selling wine yesterday, he suddenly froze for a moment when he touched the six Zhenyou Tongbao.Of the money usually collected, about half are copper coins from the Song Dynasty, and half are silver taels. Copper coins and banknotes from the Jin Kingdom are not seen every day.But that serious man from the Song Kingdom came to him with copper coins from the Jin Kingdom.

How can a small citizen like him worry about such a major event as the change of dynasty? As long as he is not required to go to the battlefield in the war, destroying the country is nothing more than changing the year name.This is Shen Lu's idea, and it is also the idea of ​​most ordinary people.However, Shen Lu felt something subtly different from ordinary people from the six Zhenyou Tongbao, something more frightening than dying in battle.

No matter whether that person goes or stays, and what he does is good or bad, there is nothing unreasonable, but Shen Lu feels extremely contradictory in his heart.Reason told him that Li Jiu was a relative of the emperor tied to the fate of the Song Kingdom, and he had no good intentions in sneaking into the Jin Kingdom, even if he quietly killed the Wanyan family, it would not be a big surprise. It will not affect a small bourgeois who sells alcohol at all.However, maybe someone surnamed Situ awakened something deep in his bones that he rejected, which made him unable to feel close to Li Jiu.

Shaking his head, he brushed away those unrealistic thoughts.

Picked up the wine ordered by several regular customers, and went out.

The man was standing at the door.

Shen Lu put away her indifferent expression and smiled: "The guest officer is also here to buy wine today?" Shen Lu realized that her voice was morbidly hoarse after she finished speaking.

"You..." Li Jiu seemed to want to say something, but he didn't say it.

Shen Lu saw through Li Jiu's hesitation at a glance, and said bluntly, "I have a sore throat, it's not a serious illness." Since that time when he fell into the water, he has felt a little unwell from time to time.I slept on the table last night, and it is normal to have a sore throat today.

Li Jiu was silent, and then reached out to caress Shen Lu's forehead.There was a slight imperceptible tremor in his cool hands, and the fine sweat dripping from his fingertips exposed his nervousness.

Shen Lu stood quietly, looking at Li Jiu quietly.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Jiu said, "Why don't you take a rest today and I'll deliver the wine for you?"

Shen Lu took a look at Li Jiu: "You're not my buddy in the wine shop now."

Li Jiu thought for a while: "Then how about I continue to be the guy in your wine shop?"

Shen Lu said indifferently: "The treatment is still the same, you can come whenever you want."

Li Jiu was surprised at first, then turned into uneasiness, and then turned into surprise again, and soon he was full of disappointment again.

Shen Lu didn't comment on Li Jiu's changing expression, but arranged the work of this new guy indifferently: "Twenty altars in Baiweilou, twelve altars in Xiejialou, six altars in Zhuyeju, six altars in Xinxin Inn, There are six altars in Liuxiangyuan. This burden will be sent to Baiweilou first."

Li Jiu seemed to want to say something, but he didn't say it after all, and silently picked up the burden and delivered the wine.

Shen Lu went back to the wine shop in silence, and then found a figure in green on the wall of her courtyard.

"My lord, please go through the main entrance to buy wine."

Young Master Situ shook his head: "Situ's family is ruined, you don't have to call me Young Master."

Shen Lu replied with a smile: "It doesn't matter who you are, what matters is how much wine you want to buy."

Young Master Situ seemed very satisfied with Shen Lu's attitude, and replied along the way: "Two glasses of wine, one for you."

Shen Lu's face turned cold: "Just two cups... [-] cents." I wanted to add something to tell this guy to take his own cup to drink, but he gave up thinking of his paranoid willfulness.Twelve Wen's business is also a customer, so there is no need to struggle with money.So, Shen Lu went to get the wine and cups.

After Shen Lu finished pouring two glasses of wine, Young Master Situ had already sat down on the stone bench in the yard.

"Please give me the money for the wine first." Shen Lu pushed both glasses of wine in front of Young Master Situ, without any intention of having a drink with him.

Young Master Situ looked at Shen Lu with a smile on his face, and took out a small box.

The box looks to be made of wood, with a falcon pecking goose pattern that has been popular in the Kingdom of Jin in recent years, and the pure black lacquer on the surface has a faint new taste.But such a brand new box contains a pile of shell coins from the Shang and Zhou dynasties with soil still on them.

Shen Lu frowned, wanting to refuse.

"I only have these few coins left. If you don't want them, I'll have to drink Bawang wine." Young Master Situ showed a sly smile.

Shen Lu thought for a while, and finally sighed: "If you have anything to say, finish it early and leave."

Young Master Situ looked at the peach blossoms in full bloom in the yard, and said slowly: "I have nothing to do, and I was quite touched when I found the pen and ink left by an ancestor at home."

Shen Lu didn't ask or question, just listened with his left ear going in and his right ear going out.

"Wine mixed with water, the weaker the wine, the thicker the water, the glass remains the same." Young Master Situ picked up the wine glass, glanced at it and put it back on the table.

Shen Lu followed the line of sight of Young Master Situ to look at the two ordinary white porcelain cups that were regarded as hospitality in ordinary people's homes, and then looked at Young Master Situ's face with regret.

"I thought about it for a long time. At first, I thought it meant that the more ordinary things were harder to wear down. Later, I thought it was a metaphor for the greatness of people's insignificance and insignificance. I didn't understand it until the end. The words are wine and water and cups, and there is no special meaning."

Shen Lu didn't comment, as if what came to her ears was not the words, but the wind.

"I dug up the things buried by the ancestor in the courtyard. One is the jade cup I gave you, and the other is these twenty bone shells from the Western Zhou Dynasty. The jade cup is a vessel for wine, and the bone coins are the money for wine. I'm thinking that since the jade cup is given to you, I'll buy the wine from you too..." Mr. Situ said, and then looked at the ordinary white porcelain cup containing the wine. Too many friendly ordinary guests.

Shen Lu remained silent.

Mr. Situ didn't care about Shen Lu's indifference, so he took two small paper bags and poured the powder inside into the wine glasses.

Seeing this behavior of destroying the taste of the drink, Shen Lu finally stopped looking calm and frowned slightly.

Young Master Situ picked up one of the cups, shook it casually, and drank it down.

Shen Lu watched the powder in the other wine glass gradually dissolve, and finally came to the conclusion that the content inside was probably sugar, and then cast a contemptuous look at Mr. Situ.

"If I can add some trouble to you, this trip will not be in vain." Mr. Situ walked under the peach tree in the courtyard, turned his back to Shen Lu, and stretched out his hand to caress the new branches on the tree, as well as the blooming flowers on the branches. peach blossom.

Shen Lu stared at Master Situ's hand, and was relieved to see that he did not destroy his own peach tree.

Not long after, Young Master Situ collapsed with his limbs twitching, his appearance was hideous and frightening, and it was extremely disproportionate to the falling peach blossoms.

Shen Lu didn't ask, nor did she get up to try to check the situation of Young Master Situ, but felt that seeing this man's ugly appearance made her stomach feel a little uncomfortable, and she almost vomited out the big pancake she ate in the morning.

Until the end, Mr. Situ didn't move anymore.

Shen Lu's clothes were soaked in cold sweat, and his hands and feet were numb for a while.

When Li Jiu came back, he saw such a scene.

"The way people die...it's really ugly." Shen Lu wanted to look calm, but the trembling and hoarse voice betrayed his panic.

Li Jiu wanted to say something with concern, but was choked by Shen Lu's next sentence.

"I finally boarded your thief ship, you should be happy."

As early as years ago, when the Zheng family and Li Jiu were dealing with the Situ family, Shen Lu had already foreseen the desperation of the young master Situ.It's just that Mr. Situ's final choice of death forced Shen Lu, who had always wanted to get out of the matter, to get involved in this crap.He doesn't want to know the grievances between these big families, and he doesn't care whether Mr. Situ is dead or alive, but just like what Mr. Situ said when he was about to die, whether it's this bunch of crap or the ugly appearance of people when they die All of them added a lot of trouble to him.

Without waiting for Li Jiu to explain anything, Shen Lu said the next sentence: "I'll deliver the rest of the wine, and you and the surname Zheng will take care of the things in this yard."

Li Jiu answered with one word: "Okay."

Afterwards, Shen Lu took the wine and left.

It took only one trip to deliver wine, and the yard had been tidied up, as if no one had ever been there.Zheng Yiqing was sitting in the courtyard, and when he saw Shen Lu came back, he said: "Sorry, I didn't expect him to come to you after being missing for several days. I have already bribed the government and the like, so you don't have to worry about the follow-up matters."

Shen Lu didn't comment on Zheng Yiqing's actions, but said: "It's noon, let's eat."

Zheng Yiqing sighed, explained a few words and left.

Li Jiu didn't say much, just helping to look after the store as he did last year, and being a winery boy.

Until the end of the day, Shen Lu did not mention what happened in the courtyard, and ate and slept as usual.Perhaps the only unusual thing was the slight trembling of his hands.