Happy Life in Siheyuan

Chapter 377

It's easy to say, since this contest is held in this restaurant, the content is naturally related to wine.

Since ancient times, other than drinking and tasting, the competition with wine is the wine order.

Seeing that Mr. Guan's eyes were fixed, he said with a soft smile, "I'm tired of drinking at night, and I won't go home until I'm drunk."

This sentence comes from the Xiaoya Zhanlu chapter of the Book of Songs, which is a small poem in which the emperor feasts on the princes, and it talks about the virtue of drinking.

The first is to have fun, the second is to be filial, the third is to not lose morality, and the fourth is to not lose your temper.

Hearing this, Broken Hou frowned, stood up with a smile and saluted, shook his head and said, "The wind and rain are like darkness, and the rooster is crowing!"

"Although this is a woman's word, it's just such an allusion, please!"

After speaking, he made a gesture of invitation, and looked at Mr. Guan resolutely.

The sentence he said is also from a passage in Zheng Fengyu in the Book of Songs. It is about a woman who thinks about her man on a stormy night. No matter what, she will not change her will. It means that in a difficult social situation, she will not change her integrity. the spirit of.

At the same time, he also used this poem to show that although he is a poor man, his integrity has not changed. He also compared Mr. Guan to the gentleman in the poem, showing that he has always wanted to compete with Mr. Guan.

He used this poem to respond to Mr. Guan's virtue of drinking. Not only did he have a higher intention, but he also praised himself and Mr. Guan in a metaphorical way, which can be said to be appropriate to the situation.

That's why he stood up, which meant that Mr. Guan lost.

Old Master Guan smiled slightly as he looked at the rags. He knew it well, then slowly cupped his hands in a bow, and then took a drink from his glass.

When Meng Xiaoxing saw the two of them each say something that shook their heads, and then saw Mr. Guan admit defeat and drink, she was a little puzzled for a while.

She reached out and tugged at Han Chunming's sleeve, and asked in a low voice, "Hey, Brother Wu, what do you mean?"

"What else can it mean, the old man has a bad start!"

Han Chunming glanced at Meng Xiaoxing and explained with a soft smile.

"Oh!"

Meng Xiaoxing nodded, feeling that she understood a little bit, but it seemed like she didn't understand anything.

Soon, while the two were muttering in low voices, Poor Hou saw that Mr. Guan had finished his drink, and said confidently, "Come from the Immortal Sea, leave me the coral hook!"

Mr. Guan narrowed his eyes, and the old god said on the ground: "The crystal light is dazzling, and it shines in Kyushu!"

"Hey! Come on!"

Broken Hou looked at Old Man Guan in surprise, then praised him, and then took a drink from his glass.

Meng Xiaoxing's eyes lit up when she saw this, although she couldn't understand what old master Guan and Po Lanhou said, but at least she could understand that whoever drinks is the loser.

She smiled and stepped forward to pick up the jug, just about to wait for the tattered one to put down the wine glass before refilling it, to show her support for Mr. Guan with actions.

Poor Hou glanced at Meng Xiaoxing, smiled and exposed the mouth of the cup to Mr. Guan to show that he had finished drinking.

However, before he could take advantage of the opportunity to put the wine glass on the table, Mr. Guan said with a smile: "Don't tell me, there is no end! There are two more sentences! You have to make up for me!"

Broken Hou was taken aback for a moment, frowned and thought for a while, but he didn't remember what the last two sentences were, so he cupped his hands and made a bow with his wine glass, and said, "Please enlighten me!"

"Since I got this treasure, I can play with stones day and night!"

Mr. Guan laughed and said.

When Poor Hou heard these two sentences, he was a little dazed, and then he handed the wine glass to Meng Xiaoxing, motioning for Meng Xiaoxing to pour the wine.

Meng Xiaoxing didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly took the jug and poured the broken Hou with wine.

Soon, Poor Hou drank another glass of wine, he slowly let out a mouthful of alcohol, looked at Mr. Guan, cupped his hands and said, "Come on!"

Mr. Guan smiled slightly, and said leisurely, "Just now you mentioned coral, this coral! It's one circle older every year, how many circles are there in modern times? How many circles are there in ancient times?"

Hearing this topic, everyone was a little dumbfounded.

Poor Hou was stunned for a moment, then put down the wine glass directly, waved his hand and said, "I said Mr. Guan, we don't want to play with it like this!"

Before, Mr. Guan asked him to answer a few more sentences, and he was a bit cynical, but he saw that Mr. Guan was an elder, so he endured it.

Now that Old Man Guan went off topic again, and he didn't continue to carry out the drinking order, he immediately didn't want to bear it any longer, otherwise he would have to be led by the nose by Old Man Guan.

What's more, he really didn't know the answer to this question.

"Oh! How fresh! Since you mention corals, we must get to the bottom of it!"

Old Master Guan chuckled, raised his head to look at the crowd, and joked.

After that, he looked directly at Poor Hou, and taught him a lesson: "If you know what you know, you don't know what you don't know. Don't be ashamed to ask, this is the rule!"

It means that he is the elder and he has the final say.

Poor Hou straightened his expression, then reached out to pick up the wine glass and gestured to Mr. Guan.

Although it was embarrassing to be taught face to face by Mr. Guan, Mr. Guan is his elder and has the qualifications. Moreover, since he is here to settle the old grievances between each other, he must stand at attention when he is beaten!

Mr. Guan chuckled, and said with some pride: "Modern 360 circles, ancient fossils 380 circles, drink!"

After listening to it, Broken Hou was also very straightforward. He directly raised his head and drank the wine, then clasped his hands and asked, "Is there any more?"

Mr. Guan narrowed his eyes and smiled even more happily. He liked such a studious person, so he didn't hesitate to teach him: "I heard that it has reached [-] circles recently, drink!"

Can you do this?

Broken Hou looked at the old man Guan with some astonishment, and finally he was willing to accept the bet and drank the wine with his head up.

In fact, this round is about the relationship between the rotation speed of the earth and the stars and the number of natural days in a year.

As we all know, coral grows in a circle every day and night, so this circle is a day.

In modern times, it is 360 days a year, in ancient times it was 380 days a year, and recently it has been discovered that in ancient times it was 400 days a year.

That's why Mr. Guan said that.

After listening to it, Poorhou also understood what Old Man Guan said. He was at a disadvantage because Old Man Guan was an elder, and he didn't know much about it, so he happened to win a few rounds for Old Man Guan.

At this point, he also understood that it was impossible for him to win the old man Guan with the drinking order.

Who made him a junior!

The initiative was firmly controlled by Mr. Guan.

Simply, he directly gave up the drinking order, and said in a deep voice, "It's my turn this time!"

Mr. Guan raised his brows, smiled and cupped his hands, meaning to let the broken man come over.

Although it was a little too much for him to rely on the elders to sell the elders, but after all, it involved the old grievances of the two families, and he could not allow him to back down a bit.

What's more, if Poor Hou is capable enough, he can win him as much as possible.

Broken Hou stretched out his big hand and waved, Hou Su'e, who had been watching for a long time, hurriedly stepped forward, put the bag he was holding on the table, and under the curious eyes of everyone, he took out small glass bottles from the bag.

Mr. Guan looked at these small glass bottles and smiled without saying a word.

Broken Hou looked straight, pointed at the small glass bottle, and said to Mr. Guan: "I think there wasn't much wine back then, so my father lost to you. Today I brought 23 kinds of wine, please taste them one by one."

When everyone heard this, they immediately understood the meaning of Broken Hou bringing these small glass bottles, and they all looked at Mr. Guan with worried eyes.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Hou Su'e couldn't help but smiled smugly.

Han Chunming shook his head secretly, and looked at Poor Hou with some sympathy. He was very aware of Mr. Guan's drinking skills.

Not to mention drinking, you can tell what wine it is just by smelling it.

It seems that if there are no accidents in this contest, Mr. Guan should have won.

Just as he came to a conclusion in his mind, he heard Mr. Guan cupped his hands and said, "Prepare one cup for Admiral Jiumen!"

"what!"

Seeing that other people were looking at her, Meng Xiaoxing didn't react.

Guan Xiaoguan rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Go get 23 cups."

"Oh!"

Meng Xiaoxing was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly turned around to get the cup.

Soon, 23 cups were lined up on the table, and Hou Su'e poured the wine from the small glass bottle into the cups by herself.

Then, she took a step back and stood beside Poor Hou, her face full of anticipation.

Poor Hou smiled and stretched out his hand as a gesture of invitation, feeling a little nervous in his heart.

For so many years, he has always wanted to ask Mr. Guan for advice, and now it's time to decide whether to win or lose.

Master Guan met everyone's gaze, leaned back slightly on the back of the chair, then slowly raised his legs, with a calm smile on his face.

Then, he waved his hand and shouted, "Teacher, bring the wine!"

"Hey!"

Han Chunming nodded in agreement, stepped forward hastily, reached out to pick up a glass of wine, and slowly placed it under Mr. Guan's nose.

Seeing this, everyone was a little puzzled, not knowing why he did this.

The next moment, old man Guan took a deep breath with no expression on his face, and then said loudly, "Yanghe Daqu!"

Han Chunming smiled, and immediately turned around and handed the glass to Poor Hou.

Broken Hou reached out to take the wine glass, and sniffed it under his nose, his expression suddenly became a little serious.

Although he had already expected old man Guan's drinking ability, he didn't expect that old man Guan could tell what kind of wine it was just by smelling it, which made him feel a little uneasy.

You know, the reason why he can recognize the wine by smelling it is entirely because the wine was prepared by him.

However, on the surface, he still looks like he has the chance to win, and he won't lose if he loses. No one can tell what the result will be until the end.

So, he put the wine glass on the table and said with a smile: "Three glasses make a game, let's go!"

Hearing this, Old Man Guan glanced at Han Chunming. Han Chunming smiled slightly, then took the second glass of wine and put it on Old Man Guan's nose.

Soon, Mr. Guan gave the answers one after another.

"Daughter is red!"

"Jian Nanchun!"

Poor Hou took the third glass of wine from Han Chunming, sniffed it, and his heart skipped a beat.

"That's enough for three! Drink!"

Mr. Guan looked at the tattered Hou calmly, and said with a smile.

Broken Hou glanced at Old Man Guan, sighed secretly, and directly raised his head to drink the wine in his hand.

After drinking, he picked up the previous two glasses of wine and drank down.

Then, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation, and said, "Come on!"

Mr. Guan smiled slightly, and said, "I'm going to bully you a bit if I want to continue. You choose one of my disciples and granddaughters. If they say something wrong, I'll drink it!"

Poor Hou's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile, "You said that!"

"Yes, I said it!"

Mr. Guan nodded with a grand expression and smiled.

"Success, then let them have three cups each!"

Broken Hou was overjoyed, and immediately decided on the matter.

Although this seems to be taking advantage, he, Han Chunming and Guan Xiaoguan are all juniors, and Mr. Guan also took advantage of the old man before, so he will not be polite.

Han Chunming and Guan Xiaoguan looked at each other, and they both saw one meaning in each other's eyes, that is, be careful.

No matter what Ren Polanhou thinks, he doesn't know. One of them possesses master-level culinary skills, and the other has been carefully trained by Mr. Guan since he was a child. There is nothing wrong with drinking.

So, Han Chunming picked up a glass of wine and sniffed it very simply. Just as he was about to say the answer, he saw the tattered Hou pointing at Guan Xiaoguan and said, "Wait a minute, she has to come first!"

"I want to see what kind of grandpa and granddaughter there are!"

Old Master Guan smiled and said nothing, still sitting on the ground with the old god.

Han Chunming didn't insist, and directly put the wine glass in front of Guan Xiaoguan.

Guan Xiaoguan glanced at Broken Hou, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, then he stretched out his hand and said to Meng Xiaoxing, "Bring me a chopstick!"

"Oh!"

Meng Xiaoxing was watching with relish, when she heard this, she hurriedly nodded in agreement, then reached out and took a chopstick from the table and handed it over.

Guan Xiaoguan took the chopsticks, stood up gracefully, and said softly with a proud face: "Uncle Poor Hou, if I taste them one by one, I will be bullying you!"

Rubbish Hou frowned a little when he heard the words, obviously he didn't agree with this, thinking that he would have to teach Guan Xiaoguan a lesson later.

Hou Su'e unabashedly showed a disdainful expression, at the same time, she was also very displeased with Guan Xiaoguan's ignorant behavior.

If it wasn't for Mr. Guan's face, she would have to sneer.

Guan Xiaoguan glanced at Broken Hou and Hou Su'e, didn't continue to talk nonsense, directly took the chopsticks, inserted them into the three wine glasses in front of him one by one, put the chopsticks in his mouth and tasted them, carefully identifying them in his heart.

Poor Hou and Hou Su'e stared at Guan Xiaoguan, feeling a little nervous.

Although they didn't believe that Guan Xiaoguan could have such an ability, they still couldn't rest assured until the result came out.

Han Chunming stood beside him with a smile in his eyes, not at all worried that Guan Xiaoguan would not be able to taste it.

Sure enough, not long after, Guan Xiaoguan said in a crisp voice: "Wuliangye, Luzhou Tequ, plus a glass of white water!"

(End of this chapter)