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Chapter 40 Elegy

When Liu Jing and Zhuge Liang arrived in front of the restaurant, the owner of the restaurant hurried out to greet them, bowing and saluting, while calling "Liu Jun".

Liu Jing said with a smile: "Deng Gong doesn't need to be polite." This person is Deng Gong, the owner of the wine shop who once urged Cai Sheng to repay the debt. In the end, he paid [-] yuan to solve Cai Sheng's siege.

The owner of the restaurant, Mr. Deng, wanted to shake his spirits when he heard it. He waved his hands again and again and said, "The so-called 'Deng Gong' and so on are just ignorant people in the city shouting. Liu Jun must not call him that."

"Mr. Deng is over [-] years old, isn't it? Why not call the elders public?" Liu Jing smiled and asked again: "Mr. Deng, have you done everything you ordered yesterday?"

Today, the restaurant is still in a relatively primitive stage. In addition to drinks, it only provides simple, convenient and fast food such as breast meat and steak meat. The most common is sashimi.

Liu Jing is well aware of the dangers of parasites in river fish, so he definitely won't touch this kind of thing, so he specifically asked the owner of the wine shop yesterday to buy a dog in the market, make it into a dog soup, and buy some butter cakes, melons and fruits, etc. Snacks and the like as a side dish.

The owner of the wine shop replied: "Everything is according to Liu Jun's order, and none of them will be left behind."

Liu Jing nodded and said: "This is not a place to talk, Mr. Deng will take us upstairs."

"No." The owner of the restaurant bowed and personally led the way, leading Liu Jing and Zhuge Liang through the restaurant and into the back shop. It is mainly used to store wine and receive wine guests.

Liu Jing climbed up to the second floor unhurriedly, and found that the food and drinks were all ready, and nodded with satisfaction.

After the owner of the restaurant left, Liu Jing paced to the window, looked at the market, and said to Zhuge Liang, "Kong Ming, I invited two people today, and they are both older than me. The descendants of the Du family in Dingling, great-grandfather Du An and grandfather Du Gen are all well-known in the world, and he himself is also a famous scholar in Yingchuan.

The other is named Huan Yi, Duke Huan, a native of Linxiang, whose family has lived in Dianzhou and counties for generations. He, like his brother Huan Jie, Huan Boxu, is a celebrity in Changsha. , but they get along quite well, and they are friends worthy of deep friendship. "

Zhuge Liang was surprised. He knew that Liu Jing was talented and ambitious. The people he interacted with were definitely not ordinary people. Zhuge Xuan and others communicated on an equal footing.

In Liu Jing's mind, his status can be equated with the two celebrities.

Zhuge Liang actually felt faintly from the beginning that Liu Jing, for some reason, seemed to be particularly fond of him, and now this speculation has been further confirmed.

Liu Jingke didn't know Zhuge Liang's psychological activities, and talking to him about his relationship with the two, especially the process of getting to know Du Xi, was quite legendary.

What the world doesn't know is that everything that happened that day was a "plot" carefully designed by him in order to achieve his fame.

Of course, this matter will rot in his stomach forever.

Du Xi and Huan Yi seemed to have negotiated in advance, almost in no particular order. They arrived in front of the restaurant at the same time.

Liu Jing hurriedly took Zhuge Liang downstairs to greet him.

When Du Xi saw Liu Jing coming to greet him, he stopped talking and looked at Zhuge Liang next to him. The latter was worthy of being born in Qilu. He was young, his figure was no different from an adult, his appearance was handsome, and he was very graceful in his gestures. Standing with Liu Jing, he is not inferior, he is a handsome young man.

Du Xi and Liu Jing said: "He is the Zhuge Kongming you mentioned repeatedly the day before yesterday, he is indeed a good-looking talent."

Zhuge Liang took out two famous thorns from his sleeves and handed them to Du Xi and Huan Yi respectively, and said in his mouth: "Zhuge Liang, whose name is Kongming, is here, and I will meet Du Jun and Huan Jun."

Du Xi smiled and said, "Kong Ming is not too polite, just call me big brother like Zhong Da."

Huan Yi nodded, expressing the same meaning.

Zhuge Liang is not a person who looks forward and backward, so he readily agreed.

Liu Jing was about to invite Du Xi and Huan Yi to enter, but saw the two of them looking to his side at the same time. Out of curiosity, he followed the line of sight of the two, and immediately knew the reason.

I saw a stunningly beautiful figure walking slowly towards the wine shop. As he walked, his clothes were fluttering. Can anyone?

Liu Jing greeted him: "Brother Liu is well, are you here for a drink?"

Liu Yu glanced quickly over Liu Jing and the others, and nodded in agreement.

Liu Yu is not only handsome in appearance, but also nearly eight feet tall, with a free and easy expression, wanton and romantic.

Seeing that Liu Jing knew each other, Du Xi said, "Zhongda introduce us quickly."

Liu Jing said: "Eldest brother, you should know that because of the death of my brother, I was too sad. I accidentally fell into the Xiangshui River and almost died. And the person who rescued me was Brother Liu. The people of Dongping, Yanzhou, are the descendants of King Liang Xiao.”

"These three are my close friends..." Liu Jing and Liu Yu briefly introduced the three people around them, and then issued an invitation: "Today, I will hold a banquet at the restaurant and mansion, and have a happy gathering with some friends. If Brother Liu If you are free, why not go upstairs with me for a drink."

Liu Jing sincerely invited him, and his friends are not ordinary people. The most important thing is that there is free wine to drink, how could Liu Yu disagree.

"As long as you want, I dare not ask for your ears."

Liu Jing asked the owner of the restaurant to add a food table, and the five people sat down respectively. He was the host today and took the main seat, followed by Du Xi, Huan Yi, Liu Yu, and Zhuge Liang.

When the wine was served, Liu Jing filled the lacquered fungus cup and raised it to invite a drink. The banquet officially began.

The most common drinks in the Han Dynasty were roughly divided into warm wine, rib wine, and rice wine. Warm wine refers to the wine that has been brewed repeatedly, rib wine refers to filtered refined wine, and rice wine is fermented glutinous rice, made of glutinous rice.Today they drink rice wine.

The wine-making technology in the Han Dynasty was very rough, far behind that of later generations. One hu thick rice can brew more than three hu wines, and the degree of alcohol is so low that it is conceivable that there are often people who say "drinking wine without getting drunk", such as the famous Confucianism This is the case with Lu Zhi.

But it's good to listen to this, anyway, he doesn't believe that there can be such a cow drinker in the world.

Thirty jin is a jun, and four jun is a stone, that is to say, one stone is equal to 120 Han Jin. Even if a stone wine in the Han Dynasty actually refers to a dendrobium wine, the actual weight is about [-] Han Jin, not to mention wine, even if it is replaced Water, I can't drink so much in a day.

No matter whether it was Liu Jing's previous life or this life, he could drink enough. At least he felt that it would not be a problem to deal with the four people in front of him.

After drinking for three rounds, the five of them were blushing, inevitably a little drunk.

Holding a wine glass, Du Xi thought of the great chaos in the world and the robbing of his hometown. He had to take his whole family, old and young, to hide in Changsha, a barbarian county with a lot of soldiers.I have all my talents, but I have nowhere to display them. I can't see the slightest hope in the future. I don't feel melancholy in my heart, and I sing in a sad tone:

"Elegy can be a cry, and a distant view can be Angelica. I miss my hometown, and I feel depressed. If I want to go home, there is no one, I want to cross the river without a boat.

This is a folk song that has been widely spread in the Yingchuan area. It is called "Elegy Song". The full text neither narrates nor describes the scenery, but expresses the endless sorrows of a wanderer who misses his hometown and cannot return with his heartfelt words. It is deeply emotional and touching. .

Zhuge Liang and Liu Tang, the two northerners, were also deeply moved by this.

Singing it three times, Du Xi was still worried, and drank it all in one gulp.

(End of this chapter)