Lanke Chess Edge

I remember that after participating in the Longjun birthday banquet, Ji Yuan went boating along the Tongtian River in the severe winter, and once had a speed competition with a boat from the Xiaofu Building.

Unlike Lao Gui who directly suffered bad karma which had a huge impact on his practice, Xiao's family just struggled in the mortal officialdom, and they themselves did not touch things like cultivating immortals and dharma. On the contrary, the influence on themselves was not as exaggerated as that of Lao Gui.

After all, officials are the swords of imperial power. Relatively speaking, Dazhen Guozuo has also undertaken a lot of bad karma. Even the killing of heroes is such a big matter. The disease is short-lived, but it will be sour and refreshing after death.

Although one hundred and seventeen or eighty years have passed since what the old turtle said, if the Xiao family's methods were not liquidated afterwards, it is still possible to still have a place in the court after going through ups and downs.

Ji Yuan's thinking is just such a turn, and Lao Gui's narration is still going on.

"Among the heroes who founded the country back then, there were also some unruly people. When the old emperor was still alive, he could suppress everyone. But once the old emperor died, the new emperor might not be able to control the court. In order to keep the dynasty stable, the old The emperor decided to avoid future troubles."

The old turtle looked up at Mr. Ji, saw the thoughtful look on his face, paused for a while, and waited for Mr. Ji to look at him before continuing.

"After all, I am just a monster nesting in the Chunmu River. It is impossible to know everything about the court, but I also know the cause of the incident. The New Year's Eve farewell banquet was set up, so that some of the old officials and the prince and the princes competed for wine..."

"Even if some of the princes have a strong drinker, they have already been told by the old emperor that they can only lose and not win. Some princes who didn't know it thought it was the father who was afraid of hurting the old minister's face. The result is self-evident. The royal children all lost. Recently, some officials at the Yushitai deliberately mocked the old officials for not giving the prince face, and quoted one of the old officials to speak rudely. During the New Year banquet, except for a few talented people, others thought it was just a joke, but in fact it kicked off the prelude to the tragedy ..."

Afterwards, Lao Gui's narration was more general. After all, he was not a member of the ruling and opposition parties. Later, there were fewer people who dared to talk about this matter, and naturally there were fewer news that could be heard from the Chunmu River.

Moreover, the old turtle already knew that it was not good, and wanted to completely sever the bond with the Xiao family, and he did not dare to speculate on the matter, but occasionally heard that some literati who were privately meeting with close friends would talk about it on some small boats. A series of tragedies.

In the following two or three years, Lao Gui himself felt that the evil karma had reached its peak, and then finally began to ease, and he also knew that the tragedy was coming to an end.

Sure enough, in the thirty-sixth year of the Liyuan Dynasty, the new emperor came to the throne, and with the momentum of sweeping up the universe, "putting order out of chaos and investigating traitorous officials" returned a belated justice to a few loyal and good people. At the end of the year, the old emperor also passed away.

"This matter made me trembling, old turtle, and I hid in a cave on a cliff in the Chunmu River for many years. I was afraid that an accident would bring disaster. Even if there was no thunder in a rainy day, I didn't dare to move too much, and I didn't even dare to practice too hard..."

The old turtle spoke with embarrassment, and Ji Yuan also felt emotional when he heard it.

As for Laogui's hiding behavior afterwards, many monsters may think that he is a little too scared. You must know that there are many monsters who cannibalize people and do evil without blinking, and they are not afraid of lightning strikes.

Because of the special talent of the old turtle, he sees cultivation far more than ordinary monsters, and is more afraid of some small probability events, and is afraid of the great terror in small probability events.

This story begins at sunset and ends just before dawn, and the morning sun seems to be full of blood in the story.

After the old turtle finished speaking, he remained silent and floated on the surface of the river. The big herring just swam quietly beside him, while the red fox lay on the spot without saying a word. She was frightened, and couldn't help but start to worry about Yin Qing's father, and whether it would be dangerous for Yin Qing to become an official in the future.

It was dawn now, and the gate of Chunhui Mansion was about to open. There were already merchants or farmers going to the market from afar towards the gate one after another, and a queue had already begun to line up in front of the gate.

Ji Yuan was silent for a while, looked at the scene and said something.

"Your story, if you want to make it into a book, you can't let the storyteller tell it if you don't change it..."

No matter whether it is a human or a monster, or whether it is the market and the court, true harmony is difficult or almost impossible.

Ji Yuan actually hopes to spread some meaningful stories through the storyteller, the meaning to people, the meaning to demons, or others. A mature little ideal.

After sighing this sentence, Ji Yuan looked at the three spirits around him, and finally looked at the old turtle Wuchong.

"Your luck is really not very good, and it also shows that you should not rely on your supernatural powers to make any crooked ideas. Over the years, you have been hurt every time you think about it, but there are still opportunities, and the road to seeking Tao will not be cut off. Live in peace later on."

"Mr. Ji taught you a lesson! Master Jiang Shen also said similar things."

"hehe."

Ji Yuan smiled and said to the three spirits around him.

"You don't have to be too afraid of the hardships and obstacles of cultivation. Although it is extremely difficult to start from scratch with beasts, once you succeed in cultivation, at least you will accumulate a little more than those monsters with transformed monster parents."

Ji Yuan stood up, picked up the fishing rod on the ground, saw that the length was inconvenient to put it in his sleeve, and it was also inconvenient to carry it into the city outside, so he threw it on the old turtle's back.

"Help me hold the fishing rod, and get it when I leave."

The old turtle naturally accepted the promise, and after Ji Yuan finished speaking, he walked towards the city gate, ready to line up there to enter the city.

Hu Yun hurriedly followed, trying to hide in Ji Yuan's shadow as much as possible, and asked him in a low voice.

"Mr. Ji, are we going to the hotel to check out and get our luggage, and then go back?"

Ji Yuan nodded and shook his head.

"Go check out and get your luggage first, otherwise it will count as a day after noon, and then go to the garden shop."

"Yuanzi shop? What's that place?"

Ji Yuan took out an old wine bottle from his sleeve and raised it towards Hu Yun. This was the bottle he bought the first pot of Qianrichun back then. Later, he also filled some other wines of different quality, even ambergris. This is the wine.

"A thousand days of spring?"

"Yes, it's a place that specializes in brewing and selling Qianrichun. If you come across it, go there."

. . .

They lined up to enter the city, took Hu Yunxiang to the inn to check out the room and took the deposit, then walked around the city, and arrived at the street where Yuanzipu was located before noon.

It's still the same storefront, still the same furnishings, still doesn't seem to have much business as before, and the shop assistants are sitting or chatting in twos and threes, and they don't look very busy.

The busiest time for Yuanzi Shop is spring, because new wine needs to be brewed, and autumn is relatively leisurely, especially now that it is close to noon, and the wine transporters will not come to the door at this time.

The shopkeeper, Zhuo Tao, was crackling and calculating the accounts in front of a ledger, and after finishing one of the calculations, he turned the abacus back and forth, and then closed the ledger with a smile on his face.

The Zhuo family has always been adhering to the principle of brewing, never going out of Chunhui Mansion, and only charging for the first wine, not getting involved in the second and third sales after that, coupled with the support of the state government for Yuanzipu, the business has been smooth these years There are few twists and turns.

"Cough...cough cough...cough cough cough cough..."

Shopkeeper Zhuo coughed a few times, and then coughed uncontrollably for a long time before stopping. He quickly picked up a small purple sand pot on the side and drank a few sips at the spout, finally calmed down and wanted to cough again momentum.

Some guys nearby looked at him and asked a question with concern.

"Shopkeeper, are you okay, go see the doctor again, I've been coughing for almost a month!"

"It's all right, I've seen a doctor a long time ago, it's just an occasional cold."

This accountant has also stepped into the Yuanzi shop, and the shopkeeper behind the counter is still the same, just a little older.

Seeing Ji Yuan coming in, the people in the shop subconsciously looked at him a few times. Because of his deception, Ji Yuan's eyes are like ordinary people's, so he looks like a gentleman.

Shopkeeper Zhuo is just an ordinary person. Although he was impressed by Ji Yuan at the beginning, after all these years, he naturally couldn't recognize him.

"Guest officer, are you planning to order wine?"

Generally, those who come to the Yuanzi shop order wine, counting the number of large jars and carts, and there are also people who order new wine for the coming year. There are very few people who actually come here to retail, but if they come to buy, the Yuanzi shop will not refuse.

Ji Yuan didn't reply at first, but walked to the counter and looked at Zhuo Tao, he was indeed just suffering from the wind-cold, a coldness accumulated in his chest and lungs, and after half a month of warming his body, it disappeared.

This kind of illness can also be cured, when he took out the wine bottle from his sleeve and flicked the sleeve, the cold air in Zhuo Tao's chest and lungs was swept away.

However, no one else saw this little gesture, they were only attracted by the old jug that Ji Yuan took out.

"Shopkeeper, I have an old jug here, how much will it cost if I fill it with new wine?"

Shopkeeper Zhuo took a closer look at the pottery wine jug. It didn't look dull on the outside, but there were some small bumps on the bottle, which obviously were used frequently, and the style should be an old one a few years ago. Now a new cellar is being opened. The wine jugs are all changed.

In any case, shopkeeper Zhuo was very happy to see such an old flagon and meet someone who might be Qian Richun's old drinker.

"The price hasn't risen. Your kind of pot is a catty pot. If you fill it up, you'll get 800 Wen."

Ji Yuan nodded and asked suddenly.

"Boss, do you bring your own jug and fill it with 800 wen for a catty? A jug is so much less than 200 wen?"

The shopkeeper Zhuo wanted to moisten his throat with a purple sand pot, but after a while he didn't feel like coughing, so he withdrew his hand, thinking that Ji Yuan's bearing was extraordinary, and he became a little interested in chatting with Ji Yuan.

"Actually, it wasn't true before. As you said, guest officer, how can a wine jug be worth two hundred Wen?"

"Then why?"

"Hey, there's actually nothing wrong with this matter. In order to curry favor with a special drinker, I deliberately sold old wine at a low price, and also exchanged the price of a jug for two hundred cash. The shop assistant and some acquaintances Everyone knows that after that time, those who came to the shop to drink wine with a catty jug only received 800 wen."

Ji Yuan smiled.

"Hey, the shopkeeper still treats everyone equally? That's a lot of money, you are in business!"

The shopkeeper also laughed "hehe".

"Although Zhuo is not a literati and a knight, he still has some conceit. Besides, he is not a high-ranking official. How can ordinary people drink Qianrichun every day? Even fewer people come to this shop for drinks... Besides, we, Keep silent!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Ji Yuan smiled in admiration, and took out two taels of silver from his sleeve.

"The shopkeeper is still smart! Take a pot of new bar, it's two taels."

This is a bit strange, isn't this person making wine out of old bottles?

But since the man himself said so, Zhuo Tao followed suit, took a new bottle of wine from the counter, and handed it to Ji Yuan after weighing the money.

After Ji Yuan took the wine bottle, he turned around and left. When he was about to step out of the shop, Zhuo Tao found the old bottle still on the counter and shouted hastily.

"Guest officer, your wine bottle is still there!"

The guest in white shirt in front waved his hand.

"I'll send you off!"

Zhuo Tao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he lowered his head to look at the broken bottle, what did he want this jug for, this kind of thing is the most indispensable thing in the garden shop.

But when he looked up again, the man in white shirt who had just walked to the door was gone.

'Walk so fast?'

Zhuo Tao went around the counter, went to the door and looked around, the street was shadowed from near to far, and he couldn't see where the man was, so he had to go back to the counter.

A shop assistant at the counter asked with a smile.

"Shopkeeper, what should I do with this bottle?"

"What else can I do, lose it."

The shop assistant let out an "oh", picked up the bottle and looked up and down, and subconsciously uncorked the bottle. A faint fragrance wafted with a sense of freshness, which lifted the spirits of the people nearby.