Thinking about the peaceful and prosperous times before, looking at the current beacon fires and broken mountains and rivers, Lin Dan found that he could no longer stand on the sidelines. She dug out a wine jar buried in the cave and went to the front line several times, wanting to meet Weiyuan Hou.
"Who do you think wants to see Ben Hou?" Weiyuan Hou almost thought he heard it wrong.
"Back to the Marquis, the shopkeeper Lin Danlin wants to meet you. She waited for you outside the military camp for more than 20 days. If I didn't happen to see her when I left the camp today, I don't know what year and month she would have to wait." Yuanhou's guard leader used to follow his master to eat at the restaurant in his hometown every day, so how could he not know Shopkeeper Lin. Thinking that when Lord Hou's condition worsened and he was too thin to be human, he had to rely on Manager Lin's good skills to make up for his body.
"She's a lonely woman, she doesn't stay at home properly, she goes to the border to do what!" Weiyuanhou frowned, and seemed to be unhappy, but he stood up in a hurry and went to the door to pick up people in person.
"Master Hou, I haven't seen you for many years, are you okay?" Lin Dan smiled and saluted.
"Don't stand here, follow me to the tent." Weiyuanhou kept saying, "Why did you come here? Have you encountered any danger on the way? This is not a good place, and there may be rivers of blood and corpses everywhere in the near future. , you better leave quickly, I will send someone to escort you."
"Master Hou, I'm here to give you a gift." Lin Dan put the jar in his arms on the table.
"What kind of wine is this?" Weiyuanhou finally showed his first smile in recent days. Since he was used to eating at restaurants in his hometown, he seldom drank again, because shopkeeper Lin wouldn't let him. He didn't know why he was so obedient, but it turned out that Manager Lin had to listen. His already stagnant and debilitating body gradually recovered under the careful nourishment of Manager Lin. Otherwise, there would have been no such person as Wei Yuanhou in this world.
"This is the thousand-day wine you've been longing for." Lin Dan poured the clear wine into the empty bowl.
"We've been apart for less than three years, haven't we? Well, you Lin Dan, saying that it takes at least three years to brew Thousand Days Wine, then where did your jar of wine come from? You deliberately lied to me!" Weiyuanhou He stared angrily.
"This is the drink I kept elsewhere. It's been buried for five years." Lin Dan said with a light smile, "However, when I came today, I didn't bring this jar of wine, but the contents of the wine. Look at it, Lord."
Weiyuan Hou took a closer look, but saw a slender, pink meat worm dripping out of the clear wine. As soon as the bug came out, the mellow and fragrant liquor actually gave off a more domineering smell, so that the entire camp could smell it. Not to mention how drooling he was, even the personal soldiers standing outside the tent couldn't help but sniff, then shook his head as if he was drunk.
"Is this a wine bug?" Weiyuanhou couldn't believe his eyes.
"That's right. Only top-quality wine can breed wine worms. Put it in clean water, and after a while, this clear water can also be turned into a bowl of fine wine." Lin Dan fished out the wine worm and put it into a bowl of water. After a while, a strong aroma of wine wafted from the mouth of the bowl.
Weiyuan Hou took a deep breath and suddenly laughed loudly: "Lin Dan, I like your gift!"
Lin Dan narrowed his eyebrows and said slowly, "But, Lord Hou, do you know? Wine worms can live in fine wine or in clear water, but if you put it in a turbid liquid, it will die immediately. ." She said as she fished the wine worms into the empty bowl and poured some brown tea. I saw the wine worm tumbling violently, stiffened in an instant, and then slowly turned into a stream of blood.
Weiyuan Hou's ecstatic mood instantly fell to the bottom, and a pair of eagle eyes glared at Lin Dan, as if he was furious, but he was reluctant to blame her for half a word. No matter how precious the wine bug was, it couldn't compare to the weight of this person in his heart.
Lin Dan looked back without any timidity, and continued: "Master Hou, I dare to say, my hands can turn corruption into magic, no matter how weird the ingredients are, they can always become delicious in my hands, but there is one thing, No matter how hard I try, I can't make it into a dish, do you know what it is?"
"What is it?" Weiyuan Hou asked patiently.
"It's Guanyin soil. What I saw most along the way was the river of blood, people dying of hunger, people being displaced, precarious, eating everything when they were so hungry, grabbing a lot of Guanyin soil and stuffing it into their mouths, and then bursting them. The belly dies. Have you tasted Guanyin soil? Do you know the feeling of being homeless and dying? The people of the Great Chu Kingdom, like this worm struggling in the turbid liquid, will one day turn into a Bloody water. Lord Marquis, what exactly are you defending when you come to the border to fight?"
Weiyuan Hou was about to answer, but was interrupted by Lin Dan: "You are defending the imperial power, the emperor, and his absolute rule over the Great Chu State. You claim to be loyal, but other than that, you can't see the struggle. The people of Limin under the imperial power. If you really attack the coalition of Tang Shizi and Xiaojun Wang from the rear, the iron cavalry of the Xiongnu will go straight into the Central Plains and smash the mountains and rivers. At that time, the emperor will be able to keep his throne by cutting a few cities. You can see the people struggling to survive in these cities. It’s not like you don’t know the inferiority of the Huns. They only know how to invade, but they don’t know how to govern. The houses were burnt down, and not even chickens and dogs were left. After occupying these cities, they would become stronger and stronger, while the Great Chu Kingdom, which had lost its cities and was torn apart, would become weaker and weaker. Within five years, another The war will break out between the two countries, this time, who can save the people, who can save the world, you?"
Lin Dan looked directly at Marquis Weiyuan, and asked, "What are you doing now, are you defending the Great Chu and saving the people, or are you helping Zhou to abuse and trap the people of Li? A few years of peace for Chu, but after that?"
She emptied the turbid water in the bowl, and her voice became peaceful again: "Living in a troubled world, people are like ants, and no one can escape the fate of being overwhelmed. Living in a prosperous world, there will be delicious wine and food, and a wine bug dies, You can also raise thousands of wine bugs. Lord Hou, you have a distinguished status, even if the country is ruined and the people are struggling, you can still get food to make good wine, but did you know that when you enjoy good wine and food, the people are not Are you eating soil, or even eating people? Lord Hou, you should retire from the army and bring peace to the world. Without this wine worm, I will be able to raise more wine worms for you in the future, don’t you think?”
Weiyuan Hou's sullen eyes had been replaced by deep thoughts. After a long time, when Lin Dan was about to give up, he slowly turned the wrench on his hand and said, "Lin Dan, we can agree, you can't. Go back. You can't stop me from drinking as much as I want in the future."
Lin Dan smiled and nodded, "Okay, no regrets."
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It was night, Tang Jiu and the king of Yunnan and Guizhou, no, they should be called the king of Yunnan and Guizhou now, were sitting by the bonfire and drinking. Tomorrow, the King of Huns will launch a general attack on them, and Marquis Weiyuan will surely take advantage of it. With both sides under attack, the war will be lost in all likelihood. But they can't retreat. If they take a step back, the Huns will go further, and the people of the Great Chu State will surely suffer annihilation.
"It would be great if I could persuade the old man of Weiyuanhou." The King of Yunnan and Guizhou said in a deep voice.
"I can't persuade him, he didn't see anyone before the war." Tang Jiu shook his head.
The King of Yunnan and Guizhou sneered, gritted his teeth and said, "Then let's fight to the death."
Just at this moment, Zhao Liu hurried over, handed a letter, and said in a low voice, "General, this is sent by Weiyuanhou, please take a look."
Tang Jiu opened the envelope and read it at a glance, a look of astonishment appeared on his tense face for many days. The King of Yunnan and Guizhou leaned over to take a look, and was also very surprised. In the letter, Marquis Weiyuan not only agreed to withdraw the army, but also willing to cooperate with them to make a scene to lure the Huns into a trap and hang them.
"Is there any fraud?" The King of Yunnan and Guizhou didn't even think about being authentic.
"Go and see if Weiyuan Hou has seen anyone recently. His attitude has changed drastically, and it can't be without warning. No matter whether there is fraud or not, this is always a silver lining." Tang Jiu calmly analyzed.
The scout soon found out the news, saying that it was a graceful and beautiful woman who went to see Weiyuanhou with a jar of wine. The camp is soaked. The two talked secretly in the tent for a while, and after the woman left, Weiyuan Hou changed his mind.
"It's Manager Lin, right?" The King of Dianqian laughed softly, "Only Manager Lin can brew that kind of wine. The old man listened to Manager Lin's words the most. Manager Lin told him not to drink, and he didn't even dare to touch the glass. Manager Lin asked him to have breakfast, and he would go to the restaurant in his hometown to wait before dawn. I didn’t expect Manager Lin to be so righteous and go to the border alone to persuade the old man to withdraw the army at a time of crisis. We all owe her a life. ."
Tang Jiu's eyes flickered, like joy or sorrow, and after a long while, she said hoarsely: "It's not just you and me, everyone in the world owes her a thank you. That being the case, I will personally go to meet Weiyuanhou for a while tonight. Zhao Liu, you Send someone to bring Lin Dan back, the border is too dangerous, I don't worry."
However, after that night, Lin Dan disappeared. The war ended with the great defeat of the Huns. The Xiongnu king was cut off with a right arm and managed to escape. From then on, he feared the people of the Central Plains like a tiger. Tang Jiu found the secret letter that the emperor colluded with the Huns to betray the city and forced him to abdicate. Tang Peng was the first general to invade the capital. He went all the way to the harem, strangled Yan Langqing, who had fallen out of favor, to death, hanging his body on the beam of the cold palace, and waited until it rotted into bones before the palace servants let her down. That was also where Tang Guifei was hanged.
The once prosperous Yan's restaurant has long since turned into ruins, and Lin Lao Er and Lin Lao San have nowhere to make a living, and live extremely embarrassed. Occasionally, when they passed by Sanchakou Hutong, they saw that the restaurant in their hometown was still open, and the business was booming. Tang Jiu, who had already ascended the throne, was sitting in the shop in casual clothes, carefully flipping through a stack of books, his eyebrows shrouded. With a happy and longing look.
It was a travel note written by Lin Dan, and he was sent back to the capital by someone to give it to Cook Qiu as a teaching material. This hometown restaurant was opened by Cook Qiu. She used the way of writing stories to record the wine and food she encountered, and the words and sentences were very vivid. Looking at these words, Tang Jiu could imagine how unrestrained and free she was. Every once in a while, she would send a jar of fine wine to Weiyuanhou, but it was a pity that she would always be cut off by Tang Jiu. He also tried to find her, but every night she took a step, she was like a ray of wind, when you thought it could be grasped in the palm of your hand, it slipped away along your fingers.
Someone once asked Tang Jiuping what the most delicious meal was in his life, Tang Jiu closed his eyes and thought for a while, then smiled: "You may not believe it if you say it, the most delicious meal I have ever eaten was a broken head. meal… "