Liuzhai, the main hall hosts a banquet.
confused……
The bowl is on the table, and the person pouring the wine is Zhang Xuhe, the shopkeeper of the wine shop. The two of them held the wine jar together, pouring wine for themselves.
This wine is soft and pure, slightly yellowish. The wine swirled around the wall, full but not overflowing.
It should be a jar of good wine, and the aroma of the wine is intoxicating.
Here, everyone who could stand stood up and looked at Zhang Xu with a smile. The wine bowls in each hand were already full.
confused……
Seeing that the other party's wine had been filled and was being placed on the altar, Liu Pingkuan couldn't help but smile, then turned around and looked around at the fellow villagers at the banquet in the courtyard, his face glowing red and he said: "Everyone."
Although Liu Pingkuan spoke softly, as soon as his voice came out, everyone standing there smiled and turned around. Then he saw the chef standing at the door of the stove smiling cheerfully, but he raised his arms and put his arms around the shoulders of the two chefs on the left and right, and raised his head towards Liu Pingkuan: "Look what this guy said. "
"Hehe..." The two chefs smiled happily and didn't say much.
At this time, the wine shop owner and Zhang Xu also walked out of the main room with wine bowls, one on the left and one on the right, standing next to the people behind Liu Pingkuan, with gentle smiles on their faces.
However, compared to others, Ling Ye, who was standing on the right side of Liu Pingkuan, had a look of boredom on his face and curled his lips.
He was squeezed between Liu Yue and the old lady. Liu Yue gently held his shoulder with her left hand and it didn't feel uncomfortable, but the old lady's long beard, which was as long as a whisk, pressed hard against his shoulder. It floated on his face and almost spread into the wine bowl he was holding.
"Huh...huh..." Zhuzi was already drunk and fell asleep on the banquet table. Now he just snored twice and then fell down, but he was lying on the ground with his arms stretched out: "Huh...huh..."
"Tsk!" Seeing her man's low status, Meiyu immediately frowned angrily. However, instead of holding up the pillar, she turned her head away with a look of confusion on her face: "Come on..."
"Hahahahahahahaha!" Everyone laughed and then fell silent when Liu Pingkuan raised his bowl in front of him.
"Huh." Liu Pingkuan smiled knowingly because of the cooperation of everyone, and then sighed lightly, then looked around everyone with a smile and said: "To be honest, I, Liu Pingkuan, and Liu Erdan can be where they are today. We rely on the help and relief from all our fellow villagers.”
As soon as these words came out, all the townspeople and neighbors in the courtyard slowly smiled. After many people looked at each other with a smile on their faces, their smiles became a little deeper, and they looked relaxed.
"Huh." Ling Yunzhi twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, then raised his eyes and looked at Liu Yue and Ling Ye over there with a smile. It is true that he had lowered his eyes before, but he did not look at Liu Pingkuan.
And what Liu Pingkuan said before is true: he grew up eating food from hundreds of families.
Liu Pingkuan lost his mother when he was young, and the person who inherited the "ancestral vinegar recipe" was his father, not his uncle, so his relationship with the two families was at odds. Therefore, within the family, he was not only ostracized, but now he has no contact with them for a long time.
Liu Pingkuan's father died of illness when Liu Pingkuan was fourteen years old. Afterwards, not to mention the jealousy that was inherited, most of the family property was taken away by the uncle who came back for the burial. The third uncle did not come back, and he had severed the family relationship with him. At that time, Liu Pingkuan's elder brother Liu Pingyuan was only sixteen years old. However, Liu Pingyuan was thoughtful and had an outstanding memory. He actually remembered Ju Fang's name with just a quick glance when his father entrusted him to Ju Fang before his death. All proportioned.
It is often said that children from lonely families will become masters early.
However, as the eldest son, Liu Pingyuan was never allowed to touch the family business because he carried his father's lifelong vision. He was only allowed to focus on academics and only hoped that in the future high school, he could lead the family to achieve a class leap. .
Unfortunately, his father died before his official career began. The eldest brother is a father, so he has no choice but to give up everything and start from scratch with his weak and inexperienced younger brother. It's just that everything is difficult at the beginning. It is not easy for older people with more life experiences and more experience to regain their family business, let alone two eldest children?
Therefore, the villagers could not bear the two miserable and helpless children to depend on each other. Many people went behind the backs of their own families to hide rations and add cotton cloth privately to help the Liu Pingyuan brothers.
Those five years of starting a business almost from scratch were a miserable experience that Liu Pingkuan would never forget in his life, and he could only get where he is now by relying on his elder brother. But compared to his brother Liu Pingyuan, Liu Pingkuan just followed the words and did not have the gratitude and practical actions of his brother Liu Pingyuan.
When Liu Pingkuan was twenty years old, Liu Pingkuan met the love of his life on his way to the county town to supply goods.
Origin, plain land.
The fateful meeting was because she opened the curtain of the car and looked at what she met.
However, compared to her nobility and dignity, Liu Pingyuan felt that he could not match her at that time. He did not even dare to take a quick glance at her, and drove away from the caravan in a daze.
But I never thought that the one-sided relationship at that time would eventually lead to a beautiful marriage.
He Xiangci is her name. Her father, He Chongming, was a well-known wealthy businessman in the northwest.
At that time, because the Chamber of Commerce was in a period of stagnation, the He family looked around, hoping to find some business opportunities that could be exploited. Accompanying He Xiangci on this parade was He Chongming's eldest son, He Xianglong, who was also He Xiangci's biological brother.
During the visit in Shao County that day, an unexpected wind sent the He Xianglong brothers and sisters to Liu Pingyuan's vinegar workshop in Heyang.
Seeing each other again, Liu Pingkuan suddenly panicked. If Liu Pingkuan hadn't woken up his brother when he came out of the workshop, and if He Xianglong hadn't laughed on his face after noticing the strangeness, Liu Pingyuan must have forgotten to invite him into the room to talk. How long are you going to stay there?
Seeing his brother's embarrassment and panic when he invited the two of them into the cellar, Liu Pingkuan felt baffled and couldn't help but look at his future sister-in-law with admiration. But at that time, he just shook his head, smiled and followed.
From that day on, Liu Pingyuan and He Xiangci often met privately during their stay on the pretext of business, while He Xianglong only laughed and refused to talk, let alone pay attention.
As a result, lovers will "fall in love at first sight, and become more and more in love with each other; while the latter will look sideways at first sight, and become more and more in love with each other over time." However, it doesn't take long for them to fall in love with each other in private for the rest of their lives and get married.
However, the follow-up result was somewhat unexpected: Although He Chongming agreed to He Xianglong's proposal to attract the popular secret jealousy passed down from generation to generation in Liu Pingyuan family, and at the same time did not object to the marriage, He Chongming was the only one like He Xiangci. The apple of my eye is because I don’t want my precious daughter to marry far away and live in a miserable state.
Therefore, He Chongming only put forward one condition for this marriage: your daughter will marry you, but you come over.
This sentence sounds a bit funny, but it is indeed a letter written by He Chongming himself, which makes the listener embarrassed and the reader silent.
That day was the first time Liu Pingkuan openly challenged his brother and lost his temper. He was so angry that he overturned the dining table on the spot and rushed out of the house, leaving the vinegar shop in a mess.
Although Liu Pingyuan followed, he did not stop him. He just patted the other party's shoulder lightly and went to clean up the matter, without saying a word about anything.
Liu Pingkuan was silent about it. Later, the man burst into tears, so he went over to help clean up with tears streaming down his face. He refused to listen to his brother's words of comfort no matter how hard he tried.
At that time, Liu Pingyuan spent a full three months teaching Liu Pingkuan's brewing heritage, but he gave all the fruits or profits of these three months to his kind neighbors and merchants who cared for him.
On the second day, Liu Pingyuan hosted a banquet at home to thank him for his kindness.
Kindness is hard to persuade and hard to shirk, and banquets and banquets are also full of joy. By the time dusk ended, Liu Pingyuan was already very drunk and was helped into the east bedroom to rest by He Xiangci.
Liu Pingkuan remained silent about this and got drunk at the banquet until the guests left and the lights were turned off.
The next day, when Liu Pingkuan woke up from bed and sat up, he suddenly found a piece of letter in his hand.
He didn't have time to take it apart, so he hurriedly got out of bed, put on his shoes, and stumbled to the gathering place outside the town to see him off.
However, when he pushed aside and pushed through the crowd blocking the way and rushed to the front, the caravan was already half a mile away.
Liu Pingkuan fell to his knees in a daze, with tears streaming down his face. He kowtowed and knelt down to send the letter, and he also held the letter in his hand so tightly that it trembled.
Naturally, he didn't know that Liu Pingyuan was looking behind the car curtain, nor could he see the other person's silence and loneliness.
"Huh." Thinking of the unopened letter, Liu Pingkuan couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth slightly, and then smiled in relief, then raised his wine with both hands to respect everyone, closed his eyes deeply and thanked: "Thank you very much."
His voice is sincere and his words are profound.
Everyone smiled slightly, and even Ling Ye temporarily put away his temper. With a serious expression, he joined everyone in raising their wine bowls and said in total respect: "Thank you."
Liu Pingkuan opened his eyes with a smile, then suddenly raised his head, returned the wine and drank: "Done!"
"Do it!" Everyone said in unison, first respecting each other and then drinking together.
However, although the boy Ling Ye had been holding the wine bowl and drinking slowly, it took a long time before he even drank a thin layer of wine. It was obvious that he was just pretending, and he kept frowning and holding his breath.
"Ahem -" After a bowl of strong wine burned his stomach, Liu Pingkuan couldn't help but close his eyes and shook his head to let go. As soon as the smell of alcohol came out, he immediately raised the big bowl and said, "This is just a respectful bowl, but there is no harm in drinking it." !" Then he grinned widely and patted his chest: "But if there is wine, I will take all the orders!"
"Hahahahahaha!" All the old men in the courtyard looked up and laughed heartily, and the women and children also looked at each other and smiled happily. Ling Yunzhi and Duan Zhigan, on the other hand, smiled at each other, took their seats, and replaced each other to pour the wine.
"Huh." Liu Yue and Zhao Yufeng took advantage of the gap behind Liu Pingkuan to look at each other and smile, but Ling Ye was squinting at the old man beside him who was stroking his beard and smiling. The long beard of the other party made him disgusted and curled his lips.
"Hahahaha..." Although Liu Pingkuan's long smile faded, his smile did not diminish, and he turned around to patrol. Although there were many people in the courtyard, they could pass by them at a glance and only focused on Ling Yunzhi and Duan Zhigan.
Seeing the two of them treating each other like brothers and drinking freely, Liu Pingkuan couldn't help but grin, then flipped up his tiger cloak and turned back inside: "Let's go, let's pour some wine and fight!"
"Hahahahahaha!" The squire laughed when he heard this, but the old lady laughed the most happily.
"Bah." Ling Ye smacked his lips in a nonchalant manner, and then was dragged back by Liu Yue: "What a stinky boy, he's acting weird all day long."
"I didn't." Ling Ye said perfunctorily...
At this time, the guests in the courtyard were seated one after another, but only the women and children began to pick up the food, while a group of men urged the pouring of wine, all pretending to be impatient and full of disgust. Then I saw the chef laughing and leading the cooks out, either going around the table to drink with others, or leaning on that person's shoulder to joke with them.
When the crowd was in high spirits, Liu Pingkuan also walked out of the main room with a group of squires, but they dispersed, looking for someone to drink with, and then poured it out after drinking.
Zhao Yufeng and Liu Yue's mother and son did not come out, but were eating, drinking and laughing with the old lady in the house.
Of course, Zhang Xu, an unworthy fellow, would not dare to leave the old lady to go out for a drink. He was currently laughing and eating vegetables while chatting with her.
