Since King Qin took office, through many years of management, the imperial army has been built into an iron-like team. This is something everyone knows.
No matter Xu Fu or the governor of Dongjun, no one would dare to touch the tiger's butt and violate the power of the emperor?
From the perspective of the county governor, it was fortunate that the special envoy was fine, otherwise there would be no need for his head.
Not to mention others, if something happens to his land, the lords in the imperial city will definitely dump this dirty water on his head.
Finally, let him take the blame.
The current situation clearly involves King Qin and a certain adult in the imperial city, but it is obvious that King Qin, as the emperor, is still kept in the dark.
Waiting for the special envoy's memorial and these rolling heads to arrive in the imperial city, it is estimated that there are countless heads rolling to the ground.
The special envoy represents the majesty of King Qin, and no one in the world dares to despise him.
So when the carriage rushed into the city lord's mansion, when Zhao Meng protected Xu Fu and turned around to leave for the inn.
The princess has spoken.
Looking at the hurried guard, he said: "Take your people and treat these heads with lime mixed with herbs overnight. Tomorrow you will take 300 people to the imperial city..."
The special envoy's memorial will definitely state the date of the incident, and he must send these heads to the imperial city as soon as possible.
Even if he doesn't seek no merit, but seeks no fault, he has to do this.
In the eyes of the governor, this is his life, and it is also the calamity of someone in the imperial city!
Whether he could survive it or not was not something he had to consider.
As long as the King of Qin does not hold him accountable, it will be a great blessing.
The guard was startled and asked in a daze: "Where did the head come from? Whose head is it?"
The Lord Sheriff sighed and said with a wry smile: "You don't care where he got the head. Even if you don't sleep, you have to finish it tonight. Let's hit the road early tomorrow morning."
The guard nodded, because he saw a fierce look on the face of the princess.
When Xu Fu took Zhao Meng back to the inn, Li Xiuyuan had prepared the meal and looked at him with a half-smile.
He smiled lightly and said: "This is Mr. Gao Jianli of Dayan. This is Mr. Xu Fu, the special envoy of King Qin..."
Although both of them knew each other's identities, Li Xiuyuan had to introduce them to them again.
After the two greeted each other, Xu Fu looked at Li Xiuyuan and said, "Come on, I want to get drunk tonight."
Gao Jianli was silent for a while, and then said to Li Xiuyuan: "You understand me, but do you have any wine that can make me drunk?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the two and smiled, then looked at the silent Zhao Meng and asked, "Have the guards eaten with the children? Is it safe here?"
Zhao Meng was stunned for a moment, and then said calmly: "This is the post station of Dongjun. There are guards from the city lord's palace, and there are also lawsuits from the imperial city post. Who dares to cause trouble here?"
Li Xiuyuan then laughed, looked at Gao Jianli and said, "You will definitely not be drunk with the wine here. If you dare to come back to the imperial city with me, I will keep you alive every day."
Gao Jianli naturally understood this truth. It would be strange if he didn't get drunk to death when talking to a wine shop about wine.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but laugh and said: "Then take a sip and let me feel the different taste."
Li Xiuyuan got up, went to his room to wash up briefly, and then walked out with a jar of wine. He did not dare to take the wine from the space container in front of the three of them.
Zhao Meng's eyes lit up, he reached out to take it, patted it away gently, and poured it into the bowl in front of the four of them.
"My wine is no different from other wine shops in the Imperial City."
Li Xiuyuan said: "I just pay more attention when brewing, and I brewed this wine last winter. Let the three of you taste it to see if it has the taste of spring, summer, autumn and winter."
Xu Fu and Zhao Meng had already drank Li Xiuyuan's spiritual wine, so he didn't want to take it out at this time.
Li Xiuyuan wanted Gao Jianli to have a taste of the Imperial City of Qin. After all, no one except him had ever made wine from black beans, so the taste was naturally different.
Gao Jianli smelled the faint fragrance and couldn't help but pick up the bowl and take a brief sip.
He paused for a moment, frowned and asked, "What kind of wine is this? I seem to have never tasted anything like this. Did you, the shopkeeper, make this wine?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled when he heard this and said, "I told you, I'm serious about selling wine."
"Yes, this wine doesn't taste spicy. I guess it's because the heat is well controlled, and the fermentation in spring, summer, autumn and winter slowly dissipates the original trace of heat."
Holding a bowl of wine that seemed wonderful to Gao Jianli, he sincerely praised: "This is the best in the world."
Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly: "I brewed this with black beans. It's not worth a lot of money. If it were replaced with corn, it would be a different taste."
Gao Jianli suddenly raised his head and said in surprise: "Is this just wine made from black beans? What if it is replaced by sorghum? What if it is replaced by corn?"
Seeing that the two of them were chatting about wine, Xu Fu quickly picked up the bowl and said, "Come on, take a sip for our reunion."
Zhao Meng also picked up the bowl and said with a smile: "Come, come, come, for us to stay alive."
Gao Jianli sighed, held the bowl and said, "Come here, for this bowl of good wine."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and took a shallow sip.
Then he looked at the three of them and said, "If you like, you can finish the entire jar. I didn't measure it. Just drink this bowl."
For him who only drank three glasses, this bowl of wine was already too much.
When Gao Jianli heard this, he shook his head in disbelief: "You can be a shopkeeper who sells wine, how can you not measure it?"
Li Xiuyuan put down the bowl and said softly: "Don't think too complicatedly. Although I make and sell wine, I actually don't like it very much. If it weren't for the fact that I can't live without my friends..."
From the moment Nalan Yu gave him the first drink of drunkenness, it seemed that Li Xiuyuan had some feelings about wine since then.
Is it because of Dongfang Yu'er who abandoned him, or because he has been practicing in Phoenix Mountain for several years and has not been able to see the young lady from the General's Mansion?
Young people don't know what it's like to be sad. At that time, Li Xiuyuan pretended to be Shangguan Wushuang.
Later, on the way to Fangcun Mountain, I met an alcoholic again and gave him a second drink, which dropped a seed in his heart.
It wasn't until later that Jiu Ji came to Xuantian Temple, until Li Xiuyuan went to an unknown place with Mu Mu and Xiao Qing, until Mu Mu triggered his Phoenix Nirvana in advance.
After rescuing Li Xiuyuan from the monster, he and Xiaoqing flew away...
It wasn't until he returned to Prajna Temple that he unintentionally brewed a vat of wine that was unique in the world and on earth. Even the alcoholic master could not brew it again.
At that time, Li Xiuyuan realized that a jar of wine could kill someone.
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan looked a little lonely and murmured to himself: "I once accidentally brewed a vat of wine that made people ecstasy and heartbroken..."
Having said this, Li Xiuyuan picked up the bowl and took a shallow sip.
Gao Jianli's heart skipped a beat. Looking at Li Xiuyuan's appearance, he couldn't help but say, "Tell me about it. I'd like to hear the details."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said: "Actually, that wine was first brewed by one of my masters accidentally. I remember that it was the Waking of Insects that day and the weather was slightly cool..."
"A good friend of the master's who has been with us for many years said that she would come to see him that day, but she didn't come that day. Although the master liked her very much, he never told her because he was afraid that he would lose her if he told her..."
"Although the master also wanted to know what it feels like to be liked by her, I ended up delaying it like this for many years..."
"Until that year's Jingzhe, she did not come to see the master. The master said that he thought he would be with her in the end because he felt that she liked him..."
Speaking of this, Li Xiuyuan suddenly remembered that moment in the small courtyard behind the Prajna Temple, when he had his own drunken dream of life and death, and the painful moment when he wanted to die.
Thinking of the little white flower blooming on the stone wall, thinking of Mu Mu leaving.
He said to himself in a daze: "She never said she liked me, but I know some words don't have to be said. I just hope she will always be by my side. I was too confident and thought she would never leave me. ..."
"That day, while I was drinking the vat of wine I brewed, I was crying while drinking...for her and for myself, although I don't know why this happened."
"When the wine is ready, the tears on my face slowly dry up, but I know that the girl I love most will definitely shed tears for me."
When Gao Jianli heard this, he couldn't help blurting out: "Is there such a wine?!" Li Xiuyuan smiled bitterly: "It has been many years. In fact, I really want to forget all about it, but my only shortcoming is that I have a bad memory. Well, what should be forgotten can never be forgotten..."
"Then I left the place where I had lived for twenty years and wandered around the world."
"Unknowingly, I arrived here. One day, when you are too old to walk, when you see snowflakes flying all over the sky in the snowy evening, you will think of a person's name, a song that once Played tunes.”
"Perhaps only then will you know that there is only one person you love most..."
"Later I wanted to brew a vat of wine like this. No matter how many methods I tried, I could never make the same taste as that day... After drinking the last glass of wine, there would be no more wine in the world!"
Li Xiuyuan's expression was a little downcast. He picked up the bowl and signaled to Gao Jianli, and took a sip himself, as if the bowl of wine in front of him was the drunkenness that Nalan Yu gave him.
Gao Jianli didn't feel like he was drinking, but more like saying goodbye to his beloved lover...
Gao Jianli was surprised in his heart. He really couldn't remember that there was such a soul-breaking wine in this world.
Seeing Li Xiuyuan's dazed look, Gao Jianli grinned and laughed at himself: "I didn't expect that I would meet a close friend who has no tolerance for alcohol..."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said quietly: "For some reasons, I can't let you drink that bowl of wine, but I will give it a try next time I return to the Imperial City."
Seeing Li Xiuyuan's sad look, Gao Jianli smiled and said, "Okay, I hope one day I can meet the shopkeeper in the imperial city."
Only Zhao Meng was speechless, just like Xu Fu, just drinking and eating meat.
Listen to the two people talking some incomprehensible drunken words.
Li Xiuyuan continued to murmur: "When I was young, one of my brothers gave me a glass of wine. He said it was 'drunk life and dream of death'. After drinking it, you can forget anything you have done before."
"The biggest trouble people have is that they have too good a memory. How happy would it be if I could forget everything and every day would be a new beginning?"
"I didn't believe it at the time. After I drank that glass of wine, I didn't forget what I wanted to forget, but in my heart, a woman's name will always be engraved..."
The aftertaste of the strong alcoholic drink in my mouth has a faint fragrance of black beans, but it lacks a trace of bitter resentment.
Li Xiuyuan sighed softly and said to himself: "For this jar of wine, my brother owed others 10,000 gold coins. Later..."
Thinking back to those days, Li Xiuyuan got drunk after just two drinks in Huamanlou. How could he savor the taste of drunkenness and dreaming?
It wasn't until he met an alcoholic later that he was allowed to taste the bitterness, resentment, and helplessness again.
Looking up at the night sky outside the living room, Li Xiuyuan murmured: "Later, when I met people, I would say that drinking brings joy, and joy brings virtue. But even so, I still don't have the capacity for alcohol..."
Looking at the amber wine in the bowl, Gao Jianli picked it up, put it to his lips and drank half of the bowl gently as if tasting tea.
Looking at Xu Fu and Zhao Meng who were silent, Li Xiuyuan smiled: "It wasn't until many years later that I suddenly understood that drunkenness and dreams were just a joke."
"The more you wonder if you have forgotten someone, the clearer you remember it. I once heard someone say that when you can no longer have it, the only thing you can do is to make yourself not forget it."
He was so worried that he drank up the last remaining wine in the bowl, looked at the three people in front of him, and shook his head with a wry smile.
He murmured: "I told you, I really don't have the ability to drink. Tonight, I made the three of you laugh... Haha, sometimes I think about it, life is really lonely as snow."
Gao Jianli sighed softly and murmured: "We are born in this world, who is not wandering?"
Xu Fu looked at the red-faced Li Xiuyuan and frowned.
He said to Zhao Meng, "Shopkeeper Li is almost drunk. Please help him go back to the house to rest. We can talk to him tomorrow if we have anything to say."
When I was drunk, I didn't know where I was, and I just regarded the Western Region as the Eastern Region.
Back in the house and lying on the bed, Li Xiuyuan thought about his relatives in the Apricot Blossom Valley. Half asleep and half drunk, two lines of tears quietly fell from the corners of his eyes...
