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Chapter 42
The group entered the city. This time, Chen Yanfeng didn't choose the best inn, but found one that was pretty good, and asked for two upper rooms.

A big city like Wancheng is indeed much better than the big towns and small towns they passed by. The food and food that this only good inn can provide is already a miscellaneous food and drink.

Chen Yanfeng has always been the most generous when it comes to eating. He ordered a large table of chicken, duck, fish and sheep in one go. Fortunately, the dishes in Wancheng are exquisite but few. The few of them haven't eaten such delicious food in half a month. , even Li Yan ate a lot.Only Zhou Rui ate from beginning to end, but he ate very little.

Chen Yanfeng stared at him, and after eating, touched half of a silver leaf and pushed it in front of him, "Take it to buy more paper money, you have a lot of family members, and you need to add more clothes, so less is not enough. Do you know the rules of burning paper outside? I also I don’t know, if you don’t understand, just ask the shopkeeper. After traveling for so many days, I will take a day off tomorrow before leaving.”

Chen Yanfeng said, swinging his arms and going back to the room.

Li Yan looked at Zhou Rui and said, "Shall I go with you?" Zhou Rui hesitated and nodded, "Okay."

"You have a lot of things to do, so you don't need to follow, there is Zhou Rui." Seeing Yushu closely following up, Li Yan turned around and told Yushu to do the laundry and tidy up along the way, and then follow her and burn it with Zhou Rui For this trip, her clothes will have to be washed until midnight.

Yushu looked at Zhou Rui, who hurriedly nodded to her, "Don't worry." Yushu breathed a sigh of relief, bent his knees towards Li Yan, and retreated.

Li Yan and Zhou Rui left the inn, and the setting sun was already hanging in the sky, only showing a little bit.

"Hurry! Go and change the money first." Li Yan has learned that under normal circumstances, silver cannot be used directly because the face value is too high.

"No, this is Wancheng. This little piece of silver can be exchanged in the shop." Zhou Rui explained, stopped a step, let Li Yan walk inside, slightly sideways to protect her, hanging in front of her. The signboard white matter shop passed by.

Zhou Rui only bought paper money, not those rough paper clothes.Li Yan looked up at the plausible clothes glued out of rough papyrus. People like Zhou Taishou who grew up in the palace would definitely look down on such clothes, and it would be best to give them money to buy them themselves.

Zhou Rui bought a thick stack of paper money, and then went to the wine shop a few shops away, bought a bottle of excellent bamboo leaf green, and bought a small jar of aged daughter red.

"Father only drinks bamboo leaf green, and elder brother likes daughter red the most." Zhou Rui explained in a low voice, and asked the clerk to tie up the wine, with paper money in one hand and wine in the other, and together with Li Yan, he went to the innkeeper to release him. Pass by the pool area.

In the middle of the life-release pond is a small pond that is not too big. There are a few old trees scattered around. The sky is already dark now, and there is no one around the life-release pond. It looks very empty.

Zhou Rui found a clean open space, followed the shopkeeper's instructions, and drew a large circle with the opening facing the direction of Yichun. He squatted outside the circle, took a few pieces of paper money, lit them, and put them into the circle, adding one after another. .Li Yan squatted next to Zhou Rui, helped him unwrap the tightly bundled paper money, fluffed it up and handed it to him.

Zhou Rui added one piece at a time very slowly, the fire jumped up and down, shining on the faces of the two people, dimming and brightening at times.

When Li Yan's squatting legs were a little numb, Zhou Rui burned all the paper money, opened the bamboo leaf green, sprinkled it on the side of the paper ashes, then patted open the mud seal of the jar of daughter's red, poured all the daughter's red on top of the paper ashes, and then He lifted the wine jar and slammed it onto the pile of paper ashes.

Li Yan stood up, took a few steps back, looked at Zhou Rui, who was pouring red wine on his daughter, and was full of resentment. When he dropped the wine jar, he stretched out his hand and grabbed his hand that was dripping with wine, "I There is still some money here, let's go drink."

"I'm fine." Zhou Rui tugged out, Li Yan held his hand tightly, "Drink with me. Let's go." Zhou Rui hummed, and Li Yan held hands, out of the release pool, along the street After walking not far, Li Yan saw a small restaurant with a big sign of "wine" hanging in the middle, so Li Yan dragged Zhou Rui into the small shop.

There were not many people in the shop, the shopkeeper and the waiter didn't look at Zhou Rui, they all glared at Li Yan, "You two... this master, this..."

For a while, Li Yan's hair has been tightly tied into a ball like Chen Yanfeng and Zhou Rui's. He is wearing a big cotton hat with ears that he bought in a certain town, and he is wearing a dog fur robe. Big, it does seem a bit difficult to distinguish between men and women.

"That's right, sir." Li Yan replied, "Do you have any old daughter's red? First, take five kilograms, and then a plate of fried peanuts." Li Yan ordered, taking aim at the position, and pulled Zhou Rui away from the crowd. past the corner.

The shopkeeper and the waiter looked at each other, everything is a master, she is obviously a girl, forget it, don't meddle in other things, and give wine if you want it.

The waiter brought the wine, a pot, a cup, and peanuts. Zhou Rui reached out and touched the wine jar, "It's a bit cold. Bring a red clay stove over here, a tin pot, a plate of shredded ginger... …”

"Bring some more sugar!" Li Yan immediately ordered.

The waiter agreed and got everything in a moment. Zhou Rui pinched a few ginger shreds and put a few spoons of sugar into the pot. Then he poured wine into the pot and put it in the red clay stove until it was hot until it seemed to be boiling. He lifted it up and gave it to Li first. Yan poured half a glass and filled it for himself.

Li Yan picked up the cup and took a sip carefully. The wine was hot, with the fragrant ginger flavor, rich and sweet. Li Yan took one sip after another, and quickly finished half the glass of wine and stretched out the cup. In front of Zhou Rui.

Zhou Rui watched her holding the cup with both hands, carefully sipping the wine until she smiled happily, and the warmth in her heart spread little by little.

Zhou Rui poured another half of the cup for Li Yan, picked up the cup, and looked at Li Yan. She took a sip, and he took a sip. She finished half the cup, and he also finished one cup...

One of the two concentrated on sipping the wine, the other concentrated on watching her sip the wine and drank it sip by sip, neither of them said anything. After drinking one pot of wine and another, Li Yan put down his glass and let out a long sigh of relief. "It's so warm."

"drunk?"

"Not yet." Li Yan stretched out the glass again, "This wine is really delicious, no wonder your elder brother likes it the most."

Zhou Rui warmed up another pot of wine, "In the past, in the winter, I would often drink with my elder brother like this, and listen to my elder brother talking about the past and the present."

"Respect to your elder brother." Li Yan raised the empty glass, she was not drunk, but a little dizzy.

With a gloomy expression, Zhou Rui looked down at the tin pot, lifted the pot, reached for Li Yan's cup, and poured her half a cup. "Drink slowly, you have too much."

"Well, I'm a little dizzy, but it's okay." Li Yan held the cup with one hand and rested one arm on the table, holding his chin and looking at Zhou Rui, "Everyone is busy, and in the blink of an eye, you will be the only one left. Alone. I used to have this kind of dream: A large group of people were having fun and bustling, so I turned around, closed my eyes, and all the people were gone. Not even one was gone. I looked everywhere, everywhere, until I was alone. All gone."

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