Dong Qiangqiang's Story of Leaving Germany

Chapter 68 68. Red wine and roast duck cannot have both

When Dong Qiangqiang walked into the kitchen, he saw a light brown rectangular wooden box on the kitchen counter, with the lid of the wooden box on the side.

He turned his head and glanced at Lei Lanting, Lei Lanting smiled and pouted at the wooden box, motioning him to look over.Dong Qiangqiang glanced at Tong Lele again, who happened to be looking at him.

"What's this?" he asked, approaching the console.

I saw twelve dark coffee-colored glass wine bottles quietly stacked in wooden boxes.

Dong Qiangqiang reached out and picked up one of the bottles, only to see that the top of the wine bottle was sealed with golden thin tin foil, the tin foil was printed with a pattern of an eagle, and three letters were printed below the eagle.He looked down and saw a hollowed-out light gray pattern interwoven with manor and fields on the wine label at the bottom of the bottle. It looked like the logo of the winery brand, with a row of golden art words printed under the pattern. Dong Qiangqiang whispered. Read it out: "Kühling-Gillot, 2000 Oppenheim Riesling."

"This is Oppenheim's Riesling." Dong Qiangqiang turned the bottle and looked at the label on the back of the bottle, "Where did you find this wine?"

Before Tong Lele could speak, Lei Lanting said first, "Lele found the basement, and I brought the wine box from the basement."

"Basement?" Dong Qiangqiang asked suspiciously, "Where is it?"

"Well, it's here." Tong Lele dodged and saw a wooden board on the floor behind her, with a shoulder-width hole next to the wooden board.

Dong Qiangqiang put the wine back in the wooden box, walked lightly to the entrance of the cave, and looked down: "How did you find such a hidden basement?"

Lei Lanting didn't rush to talk this time. He glanced at Tong Lele with a smile, Tong Lele blushed, and whispered, "Accidentally...found it."

Dong Qiangqiang didn't understand her words and asked, "Accidentally discovered it?"

Lei Lanting took two steps closer and interjected: "Hey, this hole is..." Tong Lele hurriedly glared at Lei Lanting, Lei Lanting immediately changed his words, "Lele... by chance... found it, you happened to be checking upstairs, I didn't call you. It's not big, it seems to be a wine cellar, and there are many empty wine bottles. I saw that the box was unopened, so I brought it up. "

"Wine cellar? Here?" Dong Qiangqiang wondered, "But this house looks like no one has lived in it for a long time. Why is there such a new year of red wine?"

This question stopped both Lei Lanting and Tong Lele, Lei Lanting scratched his head: "Yeah. I just remembered when you said that. When we came in just now, the mailboxes at the door were all lying in the grass. The letters in here are still from 95 and 96. Who would put wine here?" He asked and turned to look at Tong Lele, as if asking for her opinion.

"Maybe... Maybe the owner of the house forgot it here. This wine cellar is so hidden. Or maybe it was brought here by other people who came to clean and like to drink." Tong Lele analyzed.

Dong Qiangqiang did not speak, staring at the hole in a daze.

"Why do you want me to say that you two care about so much?" Lei Lanting said nonchalantly, "Let's just drink red wine and eat roast duck, how good. By the way, Lao Dong found a lot of records upstairs just now. We can listen to it. Music, drinking red wine while tasting roast duck, how moisturizing. Hey, Lao Dong, you go up and pick a better tune, and wait until the roast duck is cooked..."

Dong Qiangqiang said angrily: "Everything in this house belongs to the owner, even if he forgets it here, you can't drink it casually. If someone complains about you stealing something, you will not only have no wages, but you may even be imprisoned. Well. This is Germany. I advise you to keep your head down."

"How can you be a crooked mind if you drink two bottles of wine?" Lei Lanting shook his head, "Besides, the three of us know about this matter. Even if the owner says he lost the wine afterwards, I can say that I didn't see it. what's going on?"

"There are gods when you raise your head. There is no need to try some things." Dong Qiangqiang said from the bottom of his heart, "If you really like drinking, when you get back to the city center, I will buy you a few bottles of good ones, so that you can drink enough at a time. Forget about other people's wine, it's not worth the loss."

Tong Lele was not very interested in wine at first, and felt that Dong Qiangqiang's analysis was very reasonable. She persuaded: "I think what Lao Dong said is right. You better not drink it."

"Hey," Lei Lanting let out a long sigh, "you can't drink a good case of wine. I've never seen the two of you so stubborn. Hey...what, I brought this wine, but I don't have the energy to do it any more. If you move it down, the little ladder is so steep, you are already exhausted when you move it up."

Dong Qiangqiang shook his head with a wry smile: "Yes, Mr. Lei, take a good rest and wait for the roast duck. I'll bring the wine back."

The hole in the basement is very narrow. Dong Qiangqiang first stood on the ladder in the basement, and then moved the wooden box to the entrance of the hole. With Tong Lele's help, he put the wooden box on top of his head, supported the box with one hand, and stepped backwards little by little. up the stairs.

Suddenly going down to the basement, Dong Qiangqiang only felt that it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything. After standing on the ladder for a few minutes, his eyes gradually adjusted to the light in the basement.

This wine cellar is really as Lei Lanting said. It is not large in size, only about a dozen square meters. There are some waste wooden boxes and empty wine bottles scattered on the ground, and there are wooden wine storage wine racks with whole walls on three sides. , a grid next to a grid kind, like a honeycomb.Only one wall was not designed as a wine rack, but hung a pair of oil paintings of red wine.

Dong Qiangqiang gently put the wine box on the ground, turned around and went back to the kitchen.

"Hey, old Dong, how long will it take for your duck to be cooked? My stomach is sticking to my back." Lei Lanting said slightly dissatisfied.

Dong Qiangqiang looked in through the glass of the oven, then looked at the temperature, and pondered: "Ten minutes later will definitely be the best time for color and fragrance."

"There are still 10 minutes. Hey..." Lei Lanting frustratingly pulled the cleaned and honey-coated fish with his hands, "I knew it would be better to grill the fish first, and now I can eat it all..."

"By the way, Dalei, I think the rooms in this house are quite clean. What should we pack? It's not like sweeping the floor and cleaning the glass, right?"

"Well, I'm actually wondering. I think the first and second floors are old, but not messy. Is the third floor particularly dirty? Did you go to the third floor just now?"

"I was caught by you as soon as I finished watching the second floor. I haven't had time to watch it. But there isn't any particularly dirty room on the second floor."

Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden banging of the bell from upstairs, and it sounded like it came from the third floor.

Lei Lanting and Dong Qiangqiang looked at each other, Dong Qiangqiang strode towards the first floor of the stairs, and before leaving the door, he said: "The roast duck will be out of the oven in 10 minutes."

Lei Lanting glanced at Tong Lele and said in a low voice, "I'll go up and have a look too. I'll leave the duck to you." Before he finished speaking, he ran out of the kitchen.

Seeing that the two of them left the room with their front and back feet, Tong Lele was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "What's the matter with you two leaving me here?"

She turned and turned off the oven, locked the door on the first floor from the inside, and staggered up the stairs.

What the three of them did not expect was that the third floor was a real mess.

All the rooms had their doors wide open, and old furniture, old clothes, old appliances, and old books were haphazardly thrown in the hallways, everywhere, as if every room had just experienced a tornado.

At the end of one side of the corridor, a dark brown European-style grandfather clock was still beating, and the sound kept echoing in the corridor.

Dong Qiangqiang walked over and pressed the big bell a few times, and the bell stopped abruptly.

"It's strange," Dong Qiangqiang glanced at his watch, "it's not the whole hour, how can it tell the time?"

"It's been a long time and I can't walk." Lei Lanting shrugged, "Since everyone has come up, let's check every room."

The three of them briefly inspected all the rooms, and when they entered any of them, there was nowhere to go.

"Lao Lei, have you seen this situation?"

"It's only been a few days since I arrived in Germany?" Dong Qiangqiang asked rhetorically. He opened the wooden chair that was blocking the door of a room and walked in.

Tong Lele walked out of another room, Lei Lanting glanced at her: "is it a mess?" Tong Lele nodded.

"Hmph, that's fine. I'll do some work anyway, so I don't have to go back to the intermediary and say that I did the same thing as I didn't." Lei Lanting clapped his hands, "Everyone rest early tonight, and work in the morning tomorrow. This floor will only be in the morning. That's it. We'll go home for dinner in the afternoon."

Tong Lele walked into Dong Qiangqiang's room, saw him standing by the window in a daze, and asked curiously, "What are you looking at?"

"There," Dong Qiangqiang pointed out the window, "it's so beautiful!"

Tong Lele came to him and looked out the window.I saw that most of the sunset had fallen below the horizon, and the remaining part of the horizon was still shining bright and warm. The light passed through the layers of burning clouds to form a straight beam of light, and the sky showed a kind of purple translucent. A mixture of red, red and yellow, a bird soars between the heavens and the earth, not moving for a long time, the picture is like a freehand oil painting scroll.

The two stood side by side in front of the window, with a tacit understanding in their hearts that they did not want to break the tranquility, and neither of them spoke.

"What are you looking at? What are you looking at? Let me see. Let me see." Lei Lanting squeezed into the middle of Dong Qiangqiang and Tong Lele from behind, and Dong Qiangqiang glanced at him angrily.

"Hey, this scene is so beautiful, it's absolutely amazing." Lei Lanting said with a slap in the face.

Tong Lele rolled his eyes: "We have learned an ancient text, and there is a classic sentence in it to describe this kind of scenery. Let's guess. If you don't guess, go get the duck, how about it?"

Just as Lei Lanting was about to refuse, Dong Qiangqiang had already given the answer: "Tang Dynasty, Wang Bo, "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng", Luoxia and Lonely fly together, and the autumn water is the same color."

"You? This? How can there be Lonely and Qiushui?" After a long while, Lei Lanting said unwillingly, "If you say it again, it will not count."

"The old prefecture of Yuzhang, the new mansion of Hongdu. The stars are divided into wings, and the ground is connected to Henglu. It is surrounded by three rivers and leads to five lakes. It controls the barbarians and leads Ouyue. The treasures of Wuhua Tianbao, the ruins of dragon light and bullfighting; outstanding people and spirit, Xu The bed of Chen Fan under the child. Xiongzhou is foggy, and the handsome stars are galloping. Taihuang is at the turn of Yixia, and the guest and host enjoy the beauty of southeast. Ten days of vacation, winning friends are like clouds; thousands of miles of flattery, high friends are full. Teng Jiaoqifeng, Meng Xueshi's poems; Zidian Qingshuang, the arsenal of General Wang. It's good to win." Dong Qiangqiang even opened his mouth and recited the first paragraph of the "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng".

Looking at the jaw-dropping Lei Lanting, Dong Qiangqiang patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "I am willing to admit defeat. Go down and get the duck. My uncle Lei."

"Hmph, you two..." Lei Lanting pointed at Tong Lele and Dong Qiangqiang, turned around and went downstairs angrily.

The two continued to admire the scenery outside the window, and Dong Qiangqiang suddenly asked, "How did you guess that I would say that?"

Tong Lele smiled slightly: "what do you think?"

Just as Dong Qiangqiang was about to speak, he heard an exclamation from Lei Lanting from downstairs.

Dong Qiangqiang's expression changed, he took Tong Lele's hand and ran downstairs.

The moment he grabbed her hand, Tong Lele's face turned red, but Dong Qiangqiang didn't notice the change on her face at all.

Behind a tree not far from the villa, a few dark shadows flashed past.

(End of this chapter)