The old man laughed, and the maid took out a delicate box and opened it to find nine fluorescent jade cups.
"This is the legendary luminous cup. Mr. Ma, you are a distinguished guest. Our table will drink from this luminous cup. One cup can be worth three ordinary glasses of wine."
The old man asked the maid to carefully serve the jade cups to the nine people at the table, while another maid carefully poured the wine, which shows how precious this luminous cup is.
The guests followed the hosts as they pleased. After three drinks with the old man's host, Ma Fengyu became so drunk that he lay down at the table and passed out drunk.
But no one saw that before he fell drunk, he had secretly hidden the luminous cup in his arms.
Xunsi can only prove to his companions that he spent the night here by taking something precious from the table.
Otherwise, wouldn’t all the work be in vain?
Looking at Ma Fengyu's appearance, the guests at the banquet laughed and said, "Master Ma is too drunk, I'm afraid he is drunk." The old man smiled and said nothing.
Seeing that after the banquet was over and the bride and groom were rushing back to their homes to continue their business, the old man clapped his hands and the pipes and drums in the yard started playing again.
So the old man took his wife and maids together and reluctantly sent his beloved daughter away.
After the drinks were finished, the guests also left, and the maids began to clear away the tableware on the table. One maid found that a luminous cup was missing, and after looking for it for a while, she called out anxiously.
The servants speculated whether the luminous cup was in the arms of Mr. Ma who was drunk... Some people even wanted to wake Ma Fengyu up.
The old man hurriedly warned his servants not to talk nonsense, lest Ma Fengyu hear it.
I don’t know how long it took, but I saw a gust of breeze blowing by, and the entire Feng family compound no longer had the bustling atmosphere it had before.
After sleeping for a while, Ma Fengyu, who was slightly drunk, opened his eyes and was stunned by the scene in front of him.
It was dark all around, and the previous lanterns had disappeared. Only the fragrance of powder and the strong smell of alcohol were still drifting in the room.
It proves that there was a lively wedding banquet before here.
Ma Fengyu covered his mouth, and there was still a strong smell of alcohol in his mouth. He put his hand into his arms, and the jade cup quietly exuded a faint fluorescence.
Everything proved to him that yesterday was not a dream.
After being sober and drunk, I returned to the stone platform and slept for a while. When I woke up, it was already bright.
When Ma Fengyu yawned and pushed open the door of Feng's house, a group of friends had been waiting outside for a long time. Looking at Ma Fengyu who pushed the door open, it was as if he had seen a ghost.
"I asked, did you sneak out of the backyard in the middle of the night and get in at dawn?"
"Brother, tell the truth, we promise not to laugh at you."
Shaking his head, Ma Fengyu took out the luminous cup in his arms and showed it to a group of friends.
Everyone was startled and asked in unison about the origin of the luminous cup. Ma Fengyu sighed: "Last night, there was an old man getting married in this yard. I was afraid that you wouldn't believe it, so I took one away..."
I quietly told my friends what happened last night.
Everyone held the luminous cup and smelled the wine on it, thinking how could Ma Fengyu, who came from a poor family, afford such a valuable treasure?
After a lot of excitement, everyone rushed to the restaurant.
…
"What happened next? This story should have an ending."
Li Xiuyuan added black bean wine to their glasses and said quietly, "I want to know Mr. Ma's subsequent story."
Qin Xiangyu laughed and replied: "Later..."
Later, Ma Fengyu said that whether it was due to luck or hard work, he was able to live the life he wanted, and his parents also enjoyed blessings they had never experienced in the first half of their lives.
The matchmaker introduced the Ma family to a woman named Chen who came from Suiye City and moved to Loulan. After the two families had a ceremony, they got married in less than three months.
On her wedding day, the bride took out an exquisite box. After opening it, there were eight fluorescent jade cups wrapped in brocade bags.
Looking at Ma Fengyun, he said with an apologetic look: "This is a family heirloom. There were originally eight of them, but somehow one was missing out of thin air. I can't find it no matter how hard I look for it."
After speaking, he picked up an empty brocade bag with a faint look of melancholy on his face.
When Ma Fengyu saw it, he couldn't help but walk quickly to his study. After a while, he came out holding a jade cup in his hand.
The bride's eyes lit up and she blurted out: "Husband, why are you here with this luminous cup?"
Ma Fengyu sighed and had no choice but to tell him about the bet he made with someone back then.
Then he asked in surprise: "This... Loulan went to Suiye City, how is this possible..."
Two red clouds flew over the bride's face, but she secretly marveled and said quietly: "Is this a marriage that is tied to a thousand miles?"
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"interesting."
Sanzang held his palms and praised: "That day Mr. Ma became greedy, but in order to prove his bravery to his companions, he once stayed in Fengzhai overnight, but unexpectedly he ended up marrying a beautiful woman and got a good match."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the luminous cup in front of him and asked, "Is it possible that this is the lost jade cup?"
"How is that possible? I won't force others to make things difficult for them and break up other people's good relationships."
Qin Xiangyu smiled faintly: "This friend of mine happens to be the woman named Chen. She later entrusted someone to buy several of these jade cups in the Western Regions to give away."
Li Xiuyuan nodded: "Even so, it is enough to make people surprised."
"Who says it's not the case? It's a pity that my friend came to the Imperial City to see me in the autumn and returned to Loulan in a blink of an eye. Otherwise, I would really have brought her to your place for a few drinks."
Having said this, Qin Xiangyu picked up the jade cup in his hand and took a sip of amber wine from the sparkling rainbow wine glass.
He smiled and said, "Only such a luminous cup is worthy of such a fine wine."
Sanzang laughed, stood up and said goodbye, walking to the courtyard of No. 46, saying: "After listening to such a wonderful story from the donor, Sanzang should go back to the house and read a volume of scriptures."
Li Xiuyuan made a small calculation in his heart, and thought to himself: "Are you racking your brains to think about my wine shop?"
Even though Qin Xiangyu wanted to give him a luminous cup as a gift, he remained unmoved.
Are you kidding me? I'm afraid I won't have much time to stay in a wine shop and brew a few tanks of fine wine for you, a wanderer who will make you drunk in the Red Dust Inn.
only. Qin Xiangyu didn't tell him, and he didn't ask.
He just put a few glasses of black bean wine in front of Qin Jiuyu and said, "Just drink two glasses of wine. Shopkeeper Qin will take the rest back and drink it slowly."
Qin Xiangyu thought for a while, looked at him and asked reluctantly: "Don't you have anything you like and no wonderful stories?"
The simplest sentence left Li Xiuyuan speechless for a moment.
After being silent for a long time, he thought softly and then said softly: "There is really nothing that can impress me in the Tang Dynasty. Everything is dispensable."
"Also, my memory is not very good. I forget many things as I go through them, so I don't seem to have the story you want to hear."
At this point, Li Xiuyuan pointed to the wine vat on the table and said, "Even with this wine, there is nothing to say. When I met the master, he was sad..."
The story of the drunkard was buried deep in his heart, and he was afraid that he would never tell anyone again.
Qin Xiangyu glanced at Li Xiuyuan deeply, as if staring at a century-old demon, and then sighed quietly.
He smiled and said, "We can't clean up the inn in the snowy weather, so I have to clean up the yard. You don't have any objections, do you?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "You can open the door first and then block the place, or just don't disturb the monk. As for the gold coins, give them to me before Sanzang is about to leave."
Qin Xiangyu was stunned again when she heard this. She didn't expect that Li Xiuyuan was serious and wanted to give the courtyard to the monk.
The expression on his face changed again and again, but in the end he didn't say much.
It's best not to ask about things that the master doesn't say. This is where she is smart.
Even if she had to ask, she would only choose a day when Li Xiuyuan was not around to ask the old man who was nice to talk to.
After drinking all the wine in the glass, Qin Xiangyu did not take away the wine jar and luminous cup on the table. Instead, he stood up and waved his hand and said, "I'll go talk to the craftsmen and come back tomorrow."
After saying that, he left the living room like a breeze.
Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly and thought to himself that before construction has started, you regard this as your home?
Fortunately, he had something to say beforehand, asking this woman to block this door, otherwise she would stop being annoyed to death.
Sure enough, you can't reason with women.
After Qin Xiangyu left for a while, the old man closed the door of the shop, came in and looked at the luminous cup on the table and asked curiously: "Is this a gift from shopkeeper Qin?"
After saying that, I couldn't help but pick it up and play with it carefully.
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan replied while cleaning the remaining tea in the pot: "She wanted to give it to me, but I didn't want it."
After hearing this, the old man thought about it and put the luminous cup back into the brocade bag, stuffed it back into the wooden box, and finally placed it on the bookshelf in the living room.
When he came back and waited for Li Xiuyuan to make tea, he smiled and said, "Joseph, she is relying on you."
Li Xiuyuan smiled faintly: "That's not possible. I can send dozens of jars of wine to her when she opens her business, but I can't sell it to her. Remember: no matter how much you have, it won't be enough for her to sell."
The old man chuckled: "That's right. People come and go in the inn every day. I don't have time to help her make wine all day long without dealing with that trouble."
"That's what it says."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said seriously: "I have sold this yard to her, and the money from the sale will be used as payment for Sanzang. I guess she will find someone to block this door tomorrow or the next day."
"It doesn't matter if you sell it. If no one comes here again, just send it to the inn opposite. It's convenient and quiet."
The old man did not expect that Li Yuan would come up with this idea, which was equivalent to giving the courtyard to the monk.
However, the old man also knew that the monk had no use for this courtyard. Instead, he was away from home for many years, so he had to keep some gold coins on him for self-defense.
Suddenly thinking of his precious disciple, the old man suddenly became anxious.
He asked: "What if Jue'er comes to the imperial city in the spring? He won't be able to build the inn for a while?"
Waving his hand, Li Xiuyuan replied: "Let her live with Qin Xiangyu temporarily. I believe she will not refuse my request."
The old man breathed a sigh of relief.
After finally accepting a disciple in Datang, he didn't want to wait until next spring to cause trouble.
There was only an old man and a young child left in the living room, without the usual bustle. There was only a pot of tea that had just been brewed, and a cup of tea leaves falling from the spout of the pot and gently rotating in the whirlpool.
"Shopkeeper, how do you think future history books will evaluate the Xuanwu Gate Incident?"
Picking up the teacup in front of him, Li Xiuyuan looked at the drifting tea leaves in the cup, as if he were quietly looking at the prince Jiancheng who died under the arrow of King Qin in front of the Xuanwu Gate that day.
"Haha." The old man said with a faint smile: "The historian is also a person appointed by the emperor. If future generations want to know the truth of that day, they will have to find it from folk histories."
"You're right, I think so too."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said: "Successful kings and defeated bandits are like this in the prehistoric world, let alone the current Tang Empire. Next spring will be a new beginning."
Unknowingly, night fell and the old man got up and lit a lamp.
The wind and snow outside the hall were still there, but they couldn't move their bodies, which were as strong as steel. It wasn't spring yet, and he couldn't wait to try the Hanmei Lingcha from the Snow Mountains of the Tang Dynasty with his own hands.
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan looked at the old man and smiled and said, "Maybe I can give you a surprise in the spring."
