Before Chen Yao reached the guard department, he saw Siwen walking towards him with a group of guards.
"Brother Siwen!"
"Oh, Chen Yao, where are you going?"
"I just wanted to ask you something..."
"Hurry up, I have to be on duty now!"
"I would like to ask where there is a place in town that sells wine. I want good wine."
"You want to buy wine... Then go to No. 76 Zhong Street. There is a small wine shop there. It's still too late to go there, but it will be gone if you go too late!"
After saying this, Siwen waved his hands and said goodbye, and then led his people to continue their duties.
He followed the house number and searched for it, and not long after he arrived at the small wine shop Siwen mentioned, but he finally understood why Siwen said he was late and then disappeared.
Chen Yao counted and saw that there were more than 20 customers waiting in line to buy wine at the door. When it was his turn, he might not have any wine to buy.
But he could only wait in line patiently...
About ten minutes later, there were only two customers left in front of Chen Yao, and only then did he see the appearance of the boss clearly.
The boss's clothes were bright, but when Chen Yao saw the man's face clearly...
He has a hairy face and a loud mouth. He looks a bit old. What on earth is this? ?
Just when Chen Yao was confused, the conversation between the customer in front of him and the boss came.
"Master Monkey, do you have any more wine?"
"Yes, two jars of bamboo leaf green and one jar of daughter's red. How many do you want?"
"Take a jar of bamboo leaf green and a jar of daughter's red."
"I'll charge you 15 gold. Get your wine."
The hairy-faced boss set out two wine jars sealed with red paper from the binding ring. The guests took the wine, said hello and left. Now it was Chen Yao's turn.
Turns out he's half-monkey...
"Young man, there is only one jar of bamboo leaves left. If you don't want it? I will close the stall when it is sold out."
"I want it!" It's a joke, Chen Yao has been waiting in line for so long, isn't it just for this bottle of wine?
"I'll charge you 5 gold, and I've got the wine!"
The hairy-faced boss placed the last jar of bamboo leaf green on the table, and then shouted behind Chen Yao.
"I'm sorry! Today's wine is sold out, please come back! Come early tomorrow!"
"Hey, what a shame! It took so long!"
"That's not good! Come early tomorrow!"
The two people lined up behind Chen Yao complained dissatisfiedly.
When all the customers in line had dispersed, the mao-faced boss was ready to put down the shed and close the stall.
"What's wrong, young man, is there anything else?"
"Yes, Lord Monkey, I just want to ask, besides Zhuyeqing and Nuerhong, don't you buy any other wine?"
Hearing this question, Mr. Monkey smiled subconsciously.
"You are not the first person to ask me this question. Mr. Monkey, I do have a third kind of wine here. I have only one jar, but I don't sell it, I only give it away."
Master Monkey turned around and entered the wine shop. After a while, he walked out carefully holding a jar of wine. After placing the jar of wine on the table, Master Monkey hammered his waist.
"Drunk... Eight... Immortals." Chen Yao looked at the red paper attached to the altar and read out the crookedly written words.
"Yes, this wine is called Zui Ba Xian. It takes at least twenty years to brew a complete jar, and the brewing materials are very expensive."
"Unfortunately, Mr. Monkey, I am already old and have no descendants to pass on this brewing technique. This drunken Eight Immortals may be the last one left in the world~"
Mr. Monkey patted the wine jar gently and said with regret.
"Then the Eight Drunken Immortals should be sold very expensively, right?!" Chen Yao smacked his lips.
"That's true. The last Eight Drunken Immortals twenty stars ago were put up for auction in Chenxing's Tianji Pavilion by the owner."
"Young man, guess how much it sold for in the end?"
"A thousand gold bindings?" Chen Yao tentatively guessed.
"No, guess again."
The monkey shook his head and stretched out two fingers covered with long hair.
"Two thousand gold bindings?"
Mr. Monkey still shook his head.
"Twenty thousand?!"
"It's two hundred thousand! A total of two hundred thousand gold coins!!"
"Two hundred thousand?!" Chen Yao was stunned, he couldn't imagine how much money that was! I'm afraid Mr. Mirror doesn't even have that much in his vault!
"Then why don't you auction such an expensive wine? This is the last bottle! I'm afraid the price..."
Chen Yao could not imagine how much trouble the Eight Drunken Immortals left in the world could stir up.
"I said, I won't sell it, just give it away. Mr. Monkey, I'm not short of money."
Mr. Monkey took a small bamboo stool and sat down, picked up the wine bottle and poured a sip of wine into his mouth.
"Then what is the way to send off the Eight Drunken Immortals?"
"Only one condition." Mr. Monkey held out a hairy finger.
"Many years ago, I can't remember the reason. In short, I only remember that I lost something, which is the most precious thing in my life to Mr. Monkey."
"What is it?" Chen Yao approached the boss curiously. He wanted to know what it was, and it was even more precious than this top-notch Drunken Eight Immortals.
"A...wine gourd."
"Wine gourd? Is this wine gourd a treasure? Or does it have other functions? For example, if you call the person's name, if he agrees, you can take him in and seal him up?"
It was hard for Chen Yao to imagine what kind of wine gourd this was, which could be so valuable.
"You young man, why are you so imaginative and talking nonsense!"
Monkey King glared at Chen Yao dissatisfied.
"Isn't something that is ordinary but has been with you for half your life not precious? What is precious to you?"
"Money? Treasures? Or fame? When I was young, Mr. Monkey, I was indeed like this."
Drinking wine one after another, Mr. Monkey's face became a little redder. One person and one monkey stood and sat down. This scene attracted passers-by's attention.
"With my miraculous wine-making skills, Mr. Hou, I was really prosperous when I was young. Everyone flattered me and respected me, so that in some years I became too high-minded and looked down on everyone. .”
"After I turned 60, wealth was just a number to me. Only then did I gradually become calmer and my mind began to converge."
"One day, I met a woman."
Speaking of this, Master Monkey's eyes became erratic and deep.
"I often go to the mountains to pick wine-making materials, and we got to know each other in an ordinary and ordinary way."
"She is just a child from an ordinary family, but I fell in love with her."
"She is very ordinary, with ordinary long silky black hair, but also has an extraordinary pair of sapphire eyes."
"Every time I go into the mountains, we meet by chance, and she brings some food by chance."
"Very common food, such as homemade bread or some dishes. Occasionally she will find some brewing materials I need by coincidence."
"Do you know? She doesn't know my name at all. She doesn't care about my reputation or my benefit. We are forty years apart. At that time, I was a little withdrawn. I was afraid..."
"I'm afraid I misunderstood that she didn't like me, but had good intentions. After all, I was already sixty years old at that time."
Having said this, Mr. Hou closed his eyes in pain. Chen Yao observed that some crystals rolled down from the corners of Mr. Hou's eyes, and then disappeared.
“I was so upset about it for a long time that I made a lot of mistakes while brewing.”
"Since then, I have never been to that forest."
"I thought and thought for a long time, and finally, two weeks later, I decided to go find her, but..."
Hearing this, Chen Yao had some guesses.
"When I found her, she had a family and even a one-year-old child."
"She only said one thing to me, she said..."
"You coward! I never want to see you again!"
"Haha! How ridiculous! I, Mr. Monkey, have achieved fame and wealth in my life, but this is the only thing I can't let go of until my death! She is right, I am a coward!"
Monkey laughed to himself, picked up the wine bottle and took a swig.
"Sorry, young man, for talking to you so much nonsense."
"No, I have listened to some stories. I like to hear these stories..." Chen Yao waved his hand.
"Then what happened next? How is that woman doing now? I would also like to ask, what is Mr. Monkey's current age?"
"She has been dead for many years. She passed away when she was sixty years old. I met her when she was sixty years old and she passed away when she was sixty years old. This is God's will."
"Sixty years old?! Then aren't you now..." Chen Yao made a rough calculation and was shocked.
"That's right, Mr. Monkey, I am now more than a hundred and twenty years old, and my neck is buried in the earth!"
"Then Mr. Monkey, you are so strong, haha!"
"I've lent you some good words, but after saying so much, I haven't gotten to the point yet..."
"The gourd I'm looking for was given to me by her when I found her. She knew that I was a drunkard and a winemaker, so she gave me this parting gift."
"Without the wine gourd for more than 20 years, there is not a day that goes by that I am not in pain."
"She has left, so I can no longer disturb her family, but the only thing I can't do without is this wine gourd... Burp!"
"As long as someone can find this wine gourd, I will promise him anything, even if I teach him how to make wine! I will teach him everything! Everything!"
Monkey is obviously drunk, but it is not the wine that makes him drunk, but the past, remembrance and guilt.
"Then, you have to tell me first, what kind of wine gourd is that?"
Chen Yao approached Monkey Master and asked softly.
"Hiccup, it's a... emerald-colored... jade gourd. So what if you know it? It can't be found anyway. I'm really useless. I can't keep a woman. I can't even keep a wine gourd. Stay! Alas!"
Chen Yao was overjoyed when he heard this, but he still pretended to be calm and took out a jade gourd with some anxiety.
"Master Monkey, what do you think this is?"
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