Huang Liang Yi Meng

The afternoon sun always gives people a feeling of laziness. Chen Yidu sat alone on the counter of the bar, raised the red wine glass with his right hand towards the door and swayed it towards the sun a few times, squinting his eyes to see the red wine being drawn in the glass. A whirlpool appeared, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He didn't know why he laughed, maybe it was because of the person he was waiting for, maybe it was just because this kind of comfortable life that he hadn't enjoyed for a long time came back.

Ever since Mo Fan returned to China, the smiles on Chen Yidu's face have obviously increased, like a ship sailing through the wind and waves finally finds a safe haven, and a heart finally finds a place to rest.No matter how many troubles there are, having someone to talk to can make you feel at ease.

A shadow flashed by, and the color of the wine in the glass darkened a bit.Chen Yidu knew that someone had come to block the light at the door, he stopped his movements, moved the wine glass a little bit to the right, and saw that familiar figure as he expected.

"Brother, this way!" Chen Yidu raised his glass to signal to the people coming, although there was no one else in the bar on weekday afternoons except him.

"We started drinking before dark, we are always in a good mood!" Mo Fan smiled and sat down beside Chen Yidu.

"Who told us that Mr. Mo is only free at this time, but you are still late. You have to invite me this time, right?" Chen Yidu pointed to his watch for Mo Fan.

Mo Fan stretched out his index finger, and tapped Chen Yidu twice in the air: "You, you really hold grudges! Well, this time I invite you!"

Chen Yidu turned his head to the other side, covered his mouth and snickered: "Actually, I was early." When he turned his head again, he was already looking at Mo Fan, smiling contentedly, like a child who stole candy.

"What would Mr. Mo order today? Do you want to try the new product I just made?" Xiao Bu, a bartender in a white shirt and black vest, looked at Mo Fan expectantly.

Mo Fan was stunned by his intense anticipation, and immediately agreed to try the new product.On the one hand, he prefers to try new things, on the other hand, seeing Xiao Bu's earnest expression, he really couldn't bear to refuse.

"Xiao Bu, why didn't you mention the new product when I came?" Chen Yidu felt neglected.

Xiao Bu hesitated, not knowing how to answer.

Mo Fan took the words: "You still ask others, Xiaobu recommended new products to you several times, and you forgot you? Every time you order the same wine, who wants to bump into a few more nails with you? .”

"Oh, is it my fault?"

"you do not say."

"Then I want to try it this time too, give me a taste later."

"Okay, okay. Mine is yours. You can take as many sips as you want. Don't drink too much and let me carry you back."

"When did I drink too much for you to recite?"

……

Xiao Bu looked at the two of them talking to each other, clearly asking him, but he couldn't get in a word, so he made a new product for Mo Fan.

"Mr. Mo, your new product." A few minutes later, Xiao Bu served Mo Fan's new product.

Mo Fan and Chen Yidu looked at this "new product" curiously: the wine set was not a wine glass, not a champagne glass, not a cocktail glass, nor a brandy glass, but a celadon jug and two celadon wine glasses.

Mo Fan asked: "Xiao Bu, when did your bar become a wine shop? It's not like the style of this place to be so retro."

Xiao Bu smiled without answering, picked up the flagon and poured wine into the two glasses, and put the glasses in front of Mo Fan and Chen Yidu respectively.

The pale yellow wine appeared clearer in the celadon cup, and Mo Fan suddenly felt a little dizzy looking at his own reflection in the cup.

Mo Fan rubbed his forehead, and jokingly said, "I haven't drunk this wine yet, why am I a little drunk? Xiaobu, is this ecstasy soup? Or Meng Po soup?"

Xiao Bu laughed and said: "You really know how to joke, how can I have that ability, what if the guest forgets to pay after drinking?"

Chen Yidu picked up the wine glass and jug and looked at it for a while, then asked Xiao Bu: "What's the name of this wine? Judging from the posture, it should be more classical."

Xiao Bu nodded, but still didn't tell them the name of the wine: "Try it first, you two, and guess what's here, then you should know the name of the wine."

"Hey, this is testing us, haha!" Mo Fan laughed.

Chen Yidu picked up the wine glass and put it under his nose to smell it. There was a sauce-like smell, not strong, but with a long aftertaste, which reminded him of the saying "The aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys".Chen Yidu closed his eyes, feeling like he was walking in a deep alley guided by the smell of wine, he didn't know whether the end of the alley was a winemaker's house or another exit, and he didn't know which time and space that exit was.

Chen Yidu usually drinks a lot of red wine, and he doesn't know much about traditional white wine. It smells like grain wine, but he can't say exactly what's in it.He tasted it, and it tasted slightly sweet, like a mixture of glutinous rice wine and sweet-scented osmanthus, and a little foreign wine in it. The taste was very complicated, and it felt like autumn.

Mo Fan looked at Chen Yidu's changing expression, watching him sometimes intoxicated and sometimes confused, his brow stretched for a while and then wrinkled again, it was very interesting.So Mo Fan also took a sip, smacked his lips and drank the glass of wine in one gulp, making a "hiss" sound.

"Adu, this kind of wine should be drunk like this to taste, your taste method is not suitable." Mo Fan shook the empty glass down, and then poured himself another glass.

Mo Fan's voice brought Chen Yidu back from his thoughts. He looked at Mo Fan's "heavy drinking" appearance, and joked: "Well, you are really not tasting wine, but drinking, four times, drinking!"

Chen Yidu felt that although the taste of this "new product" was not bad, it seemed to be a bit strong. He would easily get drunk after drinking red wine and then drinking white wine, so he didn't want to drink it up like Mo Fan and try again.

"Come on, let's not argue about these." Mo Fan waved his hand, and then asked Xiao Bu: "Do you have sorghum, corn, glutinous rice, sweet-scented osmanthus, etc. in your wine?"

Xiao Bu nodded: "That's right, but the most important one is the wine made from yellow rice."

"Yellow rice?" Mo Fan thought for a while, and then asked, "Could it be that this new product is called 'Huangliang Yimeng'?"

"That's right!" Xiao Bu was very happy.

Chen Yidu's eyes widened, he was a little surprised: "No way, this can be fooled..."

Mo Fan smiled proudly at Chen Yidu.

Xiao Bu went on to say: "This Huangliang wine is quite old. It was brewed by my grandfather himself. It is decades old and tastes really good."

Mo Fan was a little puzzled: "Decades of old wine can be regarded as a collection. It was brewed by your grandfather. You don't keep it for yourself, so you are so willing to sell it?"

Xiao Bu said in a low voice mysteriously: "Mr. Mo is really amazing. I really don't intend to sell this wine. This time I invite you to taste it because you know better about wine. I want to share with you and exchange ideas."

Chen Yidu took a sip of red wine: "I wanted to praise this wine at first, but according to what you said, Xiao Bu, I don't really have my share in this wine today."

Xiao Bu smiled along: "Mr. Chen, I didn't mean that. You can tell that I have prepared two glasses. This wine was originally prepared for you two. It's just that you ordered red wine when you came, and I did too. I'm afraid you'll get drunk if you drink too much, so I don't have a chance to speak."

Chen Yidu glanced at the corner of his mouth, lowered his eyes and continued to drink, when he looked at Mo Fan through the red wine glass, he saw him looking at him with an expression of "I'll just say so".

Mo Fan said: "I still don't think it's right. Yellow rice wine has been stored for decades, why did you think of mixing it with it today? It doesn't look like you bought it recently. To be honest, This 'Huang Liang Yi Meng' is not a new product, right?"

Xiaobu clapped his hands three times: "Mr. Mo's reasoning ability is really... It is a loss to the country if you don't do criminal investigation, a huge loss! Since you have said this, I will not keep it Yes. You two are predestined people, if you are willing to listen, I will tell you about the origin of this wine."

Mo Fan and Chen Yidu exchanged glances, and nodded to Xiao Bu at the same time: "I would like to hear more about it."

Xiao Bu cleared his throat and said, "The two of you should know the allusion to the word Huangliang Yimeng. Once you sleep on Huangliang and dream, it will be empty when you wake up. No matter whether the dream is happy or sad, reunited or separated, regardless of love or resentment. Enmity, right and wrong, there is always an end. When you wake up from the dream, you should let it go and continue your life.

"My grandfather also opened a bar. He has been doing it for decades, and he has met a lot of people. Among them are two regular customers. They work and live together. It can be said that if you find one, you will find the other. Like chopsticks, no one can live without the other. Later, one of them disappeared for a while, and after returning, the two had a cold war for a while, but gradually returned to their previous relationship.

"I don't know how many years later, only one person came, and he always sat alone in his usual seat, and ordered a special drink for that empty seat, and drank another after drinking one. He always felt that his grandfather's wine was not strong enough, and he wanted stronger ones, and then some more. In the end, he even took his daughter's wine, Zhuyeqing and other wines and mixed them with foreign wine. Until one day, he brought a pot of yellow wine. After drinking Liangjiu, I poured it on the bar counter. My grandfather was worried that something might happen to him, so he called him, but when he approached, he heard his cry. I also want to rely on Huang Liang to have a beautiful dream. I want to prove that now is a dream. Maybe I can wake up when I get drunk in this dream...' After finishing speaking, I fell asleep. Grandpa said it was It was the first time he got drunk, maybe he was too tired, after all he was known as 'a thousand cups without getting drunk'.

"After that time, he came to the bar again and asked his grandfather to make a mixed wine with Huangliang wine. Same, finally woke up, he will not drink this wine again, but if someone wants to get drunk, let them try it. Later my grandfather began to study the formula and ratio of 'Huangliang Yimeng', leaving I made a record, but the ratio is not easy to control. The taste and feeling are different every time. The taste of the combination of Chinese and Western is also more complicated, and it is easier to get drunk. Not many people order it, so it is not listed on the wine list. Over time, this wine has been forgotten. I recently found out this record and tried to adjust it. This is the origin of this wine.”

While Mo Fan and Chen Yidu were talking about Xiao Bu, some scenes seemed to appear in front of them. They couldn't see the faces of the characters clearly, but they felt very familiar, as if they had experienced these scenes.

"What about that guest? What happened between him and his friend?" Chen Yidu asked.

"I don't know. Grandpa didn't say it. Maybe I forgot. I was still young at that time. What I said was based on the notes left by grandpa. If it were me, I might Tune into a 'drunk life dream death'."

Xiao Bu became elated as he spoke: "Have you watched "Evil in the West"?" Xiao Bu imitated the appearance of Huang Yaoshi played by Liang Jiahui in the movie, and performed deeply: "Not long ago, I met A person gave me a jar of wine. She said it was called "drunk life and dream death". After drinking it, you can forget everything you have done. I am very surprised why there is such a wine. She said that the biggest worry of people is , It’s just that the memory is too good, if you can forget everything, every day in the future will be a new beginning, then how happy you are.”

Then Xiao Bu turned around, changed his angle and voice, and continued to perform like Ouyang Feng played by Leslie Cheung: "Actually, 'Drunk Life Dreams' is just a joke she played with me. The more you want to know if you forgot When you are in love, you remember it clearly. I have heard people say that when you can no longer have it, the only thing you can do is to make yourself not forget."

Mo Fan and Chen Yidu watched Xiao Bu's selfless performance, shook their heads helplessly, and drank separately.

Xiao Bu looked at the "audience" who seemed not interested in his performance, sighed and said: "Forget it, let's not talk about it. Drinking less alcohol is for fun and fun. If you use it as a tool for relief, then It's too stupid. Whether he is "Huangliang Yimeng" or "drunk life, dreaming and dying", it's all a joke. What should be there is still there, and what needs to be faced must be faced. Drink slowly, let me first I'm busy, call me if you need anything!"

Just as Xiao Bu took a few steps, he turned around and told Mo Fan: "By the way, don't drink too much of this wine. Although it has been improved, it's still easy to get drunk."

Chen Yidu smiled and said: "It's okay, my brother doesn't dare to say anything else, but I've never seen him drunk before drinking. He also has the nickname of 'a thousand cups are not drunk'. Isn't it, brother?"

Mo Fan replied: "I can't say it well, 'Huangliang Yimeng' has drunk a 'thousand cups not drunk'. If I get drunk, you can carry me back."

"Okay, but don't pretend to be drunk. If I find out, I will throw you to the ground."

Mo Fan followed Chen Yidu's words and asked him: "Then if you break me or make me stupid, will you be responsible for taking care of me?"

Chen Yidu pretended to be thinking, and replied solemnly: "After analyzing various aspects, I think the cost of taking care of you is relatively high, so I decided, if you are really drunk, I will carry you back, if it turns out that you are pretending to be drunk—"

Chen Yidu lengthened his voice, a cunning flashed in his eyes.

Mo Fan approached and asked, "So what if you're pretending to be drunk?"

"If you pretend to be drunk and don't want to wake up, I'll carry you back to our mother, and let her discipline you!" Chen Yidu slapped fists and palms together, and raised his eyebrows at Mo Fan with a smile.

"You are wrong, my mother is reluctant to teach me, and the way back to my mother is farther than home, you will suffer even more."

Mo Fan is very aware of Chen's mother's temper. She can make her son suffer, but she will never let him suffer.Since getting acquainted with Chen Yidu, Chen's mother has taken good care of him. Whatever Chen Yidu has, he will also have. If Chen Yidu quarrels with him, Chen's mother will definitely blame Chen Yidu first.

Mo Fan knew that Chen's mother had good intentions and cared for him from the bottom of his heart, but there was always a knot in his heart that couldn't be untied. The better the Chen family treated him, the more he felt that it was because of their guilt.Only by thinking this way can he accept their kindness to him peacefully and live with them as if nothing had happened.

When watching the Chen family laughing happily, he would always think: If that incident hadn't happened, then the scene in front of him should be like their family, and he would be like Chen Yidu, beside his family, with a smile on his face. Out of sight...

At that time, there was hatred in his heart.But the warmth and happiness brought to him by Chen's mother and Chen Yidu are also real.

There are so many people in this world, but it was the silly boy who kept running with him that made him feel like old friends at first sight.After meeting Chen Yidu, Mo Fan felt as if a ray of light shone into his dark world.They boxed together, ran together, took a bath together... When he was with Chen Yidu, he often forgot the idea of ​​revenge that he had, but after they separated, he blamed himself for forgetting the hatred of his parents.

In such repeated inner struggles, he also thought many times: What is the meaning of his contradictory life?Is revenge really necessary?

Mo Fan told himself that he had no choice but to take revenge, only in this way could he feel at ease.

"Hey... I think if the two of us go out with mom, people will definitely think you are the real one. Let's forget about this, let's talk about something else." Chen Yidu asked Mo Fan out. There are a lot of things to say, and the second is that some things happened around him recently, he always feels a little strange, and wants to chat with Mo Fan.