Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 239
Without further ado, the man patted down the wine jar, lifted the lid, dumped two large bowls full, and handed Xu Qing a bowl without any explanation, saying: "Come on, I, Luofu Mountain, are hospitable, and if I finish this bowl, I will be a brother. "

Xu Qing didn't know how to drink before, but after getting drunk a few times, his ability to drink has improved.As soon as Xu Qing smelled the bowl of wine, he knew it was just light rice wine, which was far worse than the distilled wine Xu Qing drank at home.Just looking at Luo Fushan's tone, it should be that he has a high degree of accuracy in his hands. With confidence, Xu Qing said: "Okay, a glass of wine is a brother!"

He raised his head, opened his mouth, drank the whole bowl without blinking, turned the bowl upside down, without leaking a single drop.

Luo Fushan held the bowl in his hand and was still in a daze, Xu Qing smiled and said: "What's the matter, drink it quickly?"

"Oh, this brother has a lot of alcohol..." Luo Fushan gulped and gulped down a bowl, but broke down a few times in the middle.

Unexpectedly, Xu Qing drank so hard that the bowl was full again.The wine in his own home was too strong, and the wine outside was too astringent. This jar of rice wine was just right, not too high or too low, with a hint of sweetness, which was just right for Xu Qing's taste.

"Brother Fushan, this wine is good, you and I have another bowl!" Xu Qing filled the bowl that Luo Fushan had just put down, and raised his own bowl to respect.

"Uh, okay, let's drink another bowl..." Luo Fushan toasted with Xu Qing, but he didn't drink it all at once, but licked it slowly with his tongue, while observing Xu Qing with his eyes, thinking, what's wrong with this Han man , Three bowls of wine that he didn't go out, how could he drink so refreshingly.

"Hahaha, good wine, huh? Brother Fushan, why don't you eat it, eat it quickly!"

"Oh, eat, eat..." Luo Fushan pinched his nose and swallowed the wine, just as he put it down, Xu Qing picked up the jar and poured another bowl.

"Brother Fushan, your snail clan has a rule of passing wine. I drank it. Do you know that my Han people also have a rule of drinking with friends? Come, have another bowl!" Xu Qing came drunk, so he made up a rule .

Luo Fushan drank two bowls, his face was already red, he quickly waved his hands and said, "Hey, brother, I didn't have breakfast today, can we drink this wine another day?"

Xu Qing pretended to be slightly drunk and said, "Oh, do you consider me a brother?"

Luo Fushan was embarrassed to swallow his own words, so he smiled and said, "Damn, why not?"

Seeing the opportunity, Xu Qing climbed up the pole: "It's brother, then drink up the wine."

Although Luo Fushan wanted to save face, he didn't agree to drink anything, so he said: "Hey, hey, drink it another day, it's a waste of time to drink it."

"Drink, you look down on me?"

"Where is it?"

"Then you won't give me face!"

"no……"

When the two were talking like drunkards, Xiuxiu yelled, but it was in a dialect that Xu Qing could not understand: "(Luo) Luofushan! You are bullying the guests with drinking again, aren't you?"

"(Luo) Xiuxiu, I..."

"(Snail) Shut up! I'll tell the witch mother later, and watch her give you some worms to tickle you for ten and a half months!"

"Xiuxiu, please forgive me, but, but, he is the one who bullies me, woo woo..." Luo Fushan felt helpless, but the words were in Chinese.

Xiuxiu glanced at Xu Qing, saw that his complexion was as usual, his figure was stable, no different from before, and when he looked at Luofu Mountain again, he seemed dizzy, and was slightly surprised.But still said: "Hmph, anyway, you are wrong, if you don't go back, let's see how I deal with you!"

Mount Luofu fled in despair as if he had received an amnesty.Xiuxiu said to Xu Qing: "Don't pay attention to him, he is narrow-minded."

"It's okay, it's okay, the wine is good..." Xu Qing smiled after speaking.

"Of course it's good. This is the secret recipe of my snail clan." Xiuxiu thumped her shoulder wearily, and then said: "The room has been arranged for you, it's just food. Listen to them, you don't eat outside food?"

"Yeah, I can't get used to it..."

"It's really tricky," Xiuxiu turned around and said, "I'm off to work, don't wander around, especially don't go in front!"

Xu Qingkou said yes, and as soon as Miss Xiu disappeared, her footsteps began to wander around.The room Xu Qing lived in had no furnishings, it was supposed to be just an extraordinary hall, specially used for receiving guests.

There are three doors in this room, one leads to the upper floor, the other goes to the house at the back, which is where Xiuxiu turned and left, and the other goes to the courtyard in the middle.

The yard is just muddy, with no flowers or plants, but there are two ridges of side vegetables, and the other side of the vegetable field is surrounded by chickens, the kind of black mountain wolf chickens that lay green shell eggs.There is a piece of cloth covering the top to block the snow, which is very simple.

Between the vegetable field and the chicken pen is a five-foot path paved with wooden boards.At the end of the path, there is another door, which looks very heavy. Although it is only two narrow pages, it is like a guard.

This is an old village head's home-style place, so Xu Qing felt after reading it. The front may be the village's meeting hall, and the back is the private house of the "witch mother" of the snail tribe.

"Xu Lang, let's go back to the house?" Appeared behind him at some point, holding Xu Qing in his arms and said softly, "Just now Xiuxiu sent someone to send firewood, there is a stove on it, to warm up?"

"Okay," Xu Qing took Xun Xueer's hand and walked back, but was held back by her again, she said:
"Xu Lang, do you like Xiuxiu?"

Xu Qing was startled, and scratched Xun Xueer's nose: "They asked you to ask?"

Xun Xueer blushed and buried her head in Xu Qing's chest.No matter how Xu Qing advocates first come first come later, it is the same great idea, but the women still silently take Xun Xueer as the leader in their hearts, thinking that she is the right wife.If Xu Qing wants to take a concubine again, as long as the first wife agrees, the remaining two daughters have no right to speak.

Seeing Xun Xue'er acquiescing, Xu Qing hugged her and said softly: "Don't worry, your husband is not a person who accepts one by one. Anyway, he will leave in a few days. How can you be merciless?"

Xun Xue'er raised her head and said, "Xue'er doesn't care how many women Xu Lang accepts, as long as Xu Lang loves Xue'er and has a place for Xue'er in his heart, that is the greatest luck in Xue'er's life."

Xu Qing was greatly moved, Xun Xueer continued to hug him and said like a mosquito, "It's just Xu Lang, if Miss Xiu fell in love with you, wouldn't she be sad for the rest of her life?"

"Ah...how could it be, how could you fall in love with me so quickly?" Xu Qing didn't dare to meet Xun Xueer's eyes, and moved aside.

Xun Xueer smiled and said, "Xueer fell in love with you the first time she saw you."

"You?" Xu Qing couldn't help thinking of meeting Xun Xue'er and saving her in a snowy day. When she woke up for the first time, she called Xu Qing a hooligan.

"That's right, Xue'er heard that the first person the child saw would think it was her mother. At that time, Xue'er thought she was dead, and when she came back from the dead to see Xu Lang, she couldn't forget Xu Lang."

"Haha..." Xu Qing smiled, patted Xun Xue'er's head, and held her in distress.

Snowflakes are flying outside the window, and the two embrace each other under the window.

After a while, Xu Qing was about to go upstairs to enjoy the fire when he saw several people coming from the courtyard in the middle.The one before the fight was an old woman, and there were a few shrew-like characters waiting on both sides. It must be a witch mother, right?

"It's snowing heavily, and the food in the mountains has been sealed. Tell the people to guard against wild boars, and don't hurt people anymore." The old woman ordered in a soft voice.

A shrew immediately turned around and left.

The old lady discussed with several other shrews again, using slang that Xu Qing couldn't understand.After a few words, the old woman had already arrived at the door of Xu Qing's house.

Xu Qing didn't dare to hide, and took Xun Xue'er forward to salute and said, "I'm Xu Qing, a merchant from the past?"

The old lady looked at Xu Qing and said decisively: "You are lying, you are not a merchant!"

"Uh, this," Xu Qing said heartily, stretching out his hand not to slap the smiling face, don't say it because his eyes are so poisonous, so he could only say: "My parents are merchants, but I'm just a scholar."

"Okay, okay, what are you doing here? I, the snails, have never had much contact with the Han people." The old woman shook her head impatiently, and walked into the inner hall with a few shrews half-blocking Xu Qing and the old woman middle.

"It was snowing heavily on the road, and I was lucky enough to meet Miss Xiu..." Before Xu Qing finished speaking, the old woman waved her hand again, pointing at Xun Xueer as if I knew it a long time ago, and asked, "Who is this?"

"This is my wife..."

"Oh..." Hearing this, the old woman finally showed a hospitable smile and introduced herself: "I am the witch mother of Luotou Village, Luo Ami."

Xu Qing thought sure enough, and bowed: "I have seen the witch mother..."

The witch mother gave her a little support and said, "Ahem, cough, well, the visitor is a guest, so why don't you stay at ease?"

"Thank you very much..." Xu Qing asked again: "Mother Wu, how did you know that I am not a merchant?"

Witch Aming sneered: "I'm old and dim-sighted, how can I tell, I'm just cheating you." After finishing speaking, she helped the shrews on both sides, leaving Xu Qing with a dazed face to go behind.

Scam?Xu Qing curled her lips, it seems that the Han people are not very popular in this Luo Clan, everyone wants to bully them.Let out a sigh of relief, huh?Why did I let out a sigh of relief, Xu Qing thought, at this moment, he realized the oppression in his heart just now.

Ordinarily, Xu Qing had been a governor and had met the emperor, so he should be able to do a job with ease in front of this little village chief, but why was he so nervous?

"Xue'er, let's warm up above the fire."

"Um……"

Talking around the stove at night, roasting slices of meat on the fire, a warm moment for the whole family.

But Xu Qing didn't know that the snow outside the house had already covered the sky and the earth, and the houses of ordinary Luo people were creaking.

In the middle of the night, several houses collapsed, fortunately, no one was overwhelmed.

Misfortune never comes singly.

It is said that after Luo Fushan returned home in a daze, he completely forgot about his occupation——today he was guarding the gate of the village.A group of jackals sneaked into the village, taking advantage of the silence of the snow, they wantonly gnawed on the poultry in the village.

The snails were not rich at all, so early the next morning, they heard the voices of cursing their mothers and fathers one after another.

The injustice has a leader and a debtor, and the jackal has already eaten and drank enough to leave. The person who pursued the responsibility naturally found Luofu Mountain.Luo Fushan panicked, and in order to protect himself, he was quick to get wise, adding fuel and embellishment, and talked about Xu Qing's arrival and the brief wine competition.

The final conclusion is that Xu Qing, a Han Chinese, came into our Luotou village with ill intentions for no reason, and got the gatekeeper drunk, causing the village gate to open wide.In short, with all kinds of fantasies and guesses, Xu Qing became a heinous Gu who lured wolves in and blown down the house by doing it.

Some ignorant people believed it was true, and gathered around the door with picks and shovels, asking the witch mother to execute the real culprit.

(End of this chapter)