Zhang Hu took Liu Qi and walked dozens of steps on the busiest street in Shuye Town, then stopped, pointed to the wine shops on both sides and said, "Which wine shop do you want to have wine in these two wine shops?"

Liu Qi looked to the left first. The wine shop on the left was in the style of Zhongyuan. There was a lookout rod in front of the eaves on both sides, with a wine guise hanging on it, with four big words written on it: "Shanyang Fengyue". After a look, I noticed that there were two golden flags in front of the door, each with five golden characters: "The universe is big in drunkenness, and the sun and moon are long in the pot."

"Just this one." Liu Qi looked at the restaurant on the right again. Seeing that it was in the style of Lite, he turned his head and pointed at the restaurant and said.

"Well, why do you want to have a drink in this tavern?" Zhang Hu was a little surprised. Liu Qi had only left the Central Plains for less than a year and had seen many such taverns. Why did he choose this tavern to drink? "Is it because he misses his hometown?" Zhang Hu guessed.

‘What’s so surprising about this? I’m not a native of the Tang Dynasty. I have never seen a Central Plains-style wine shop, and I have never eaten wine in it. Of course, I have to take a look at this shop first.’ Liu Qi thought to himself, and walked in without saying a word.

When I walked into the restaurant, I saw more than a dozen tables on the west side for guests to drink. Three large wine jars on the east side were lined up, half buried in the ground, with half a jar of wine in each jar. There were cabinets in the middle, and there were a young woman sitting inside; there were five or seven bartenders scattered in the shop.

Liu Qi walked in, picked a table and sat down. He was about to talk to Zhang Hu when he turned his head and smiled at a bartender, "Wang Qi, why did your tavern have a Persian Hu Ji? Hu Ji is a rare thing in the Central Plains, and it is not rare in the west of Ji, so he can't attract many guests."

‘Hu Ji?’ Hearing Zhang Hu’s words, Liu Qi raised his head and looked at the young woman. Sure enough, she saw that she looked different from the people in the Central Plains.

"You can't talk nonsense." The bartender named Wang Qi said: "This is the new little girl from a certain owner. Zhang Dalang, you are also a regular guest. You know that the eldest lady of a certain owner has passed away for two years. Xiaolang is not old and has not married yet. He doesn't have a serious mistress at home, so he lets her be the mistress and sells wine as a trunk."

"Yes, it's better to have a wife in the winery." Zhang Hu talked to him for a while, and glanced at Liu Qi, and hurriedly said, "Look at me, I forgot that I'm not a reminiscing thing about coming here. Come and bring two pots of the best wine in your shop, each pot is a small pot. It can't be short of pounds, and I won't do it if the portion is small."

"This store has never been short of weight. You are an old customer, and you still doubt this?" Wang Qi responded with a smile, and then looked at Liu Qi. "This customer has never seen him before. I think he is a new soldier who joined the army?"

"It's my fellow countryman." Zhang Hu said: "Last year, Anxi from Central Plains."

"It turns out to be Zhang Dalang's fellow townsman." Wang Qi smiled and said, "I think he is also from Hongnong, Guozhou? Then he and the owner of a family are also considered as Datong. According to the rules set by the owner of a family, all fellow townsmen who come for the first time will give you a pot of wine for free. Including Zhang Dalang's one pot, there are two pots of Dukang wine in total."

After saying this, Wang Qi turned around and went to make a drink. Zhang Hu took the opportunity to turn his head and said to Liu Qi: "Don't listen to him, it's very Du Kang wine. Can he have Du Kang here? Even if there is one, it will have to be sold at a sky-high price. I will definitely not give us a pot for free."

"Yeah," Liu Qi agreed and asked again: "The owner of this restaurant is also from Hongnong, Guozhou?"

"No, it's no such coincidence." Zhang Hu said: "He is not even from Guozhou, he is just his hometown in Henan Road."

"That's really a 'big' fellow townsman." Liu Qi smiled. The vast territory of the Tang Dynasty was only divided into ten roads, one road was much larger than a province in later generations. It was called a fellow townsman to be a hard-fought relationship.

While talking, Wang Qi was already carrying two wine pots. Zhang Hu ordered a few more side dishes and chatted with Liu Qi while having wine.

Liu Qi looked out the window from time to time and looked at the street scene outside. It was noon now, and the city was more lively than it was. The pedestrians and merchants passing by crowded the entire street, and the wind was blocked by the flow of people, and the covers in front of the shop could not be floated; the shops on both sides of the street had already sat for guests, and there were only a lot of restaurants, and now any shop that could eat wine was full of people.

Liu Qi was dazed and looking at the street scene, when someone suddenly said, "Zhang Da, Liu Qi, are you here to have a drink?"

"Cao Er, Cao Qi, you come to this restaurant any time." Zhang Hu asked with a smile.

Liu Qi turned his head and saw two strong men who looked about thirty, tall and similar-looking, sitting next to him. Liu Qi recognized these two, one named Cao Fanghao and the other named Cao Fangfeng, two of them. They were from Yanzhou, Guannei Road, and there were seven brothers in the family. They drew two of them to Anxi for soldiers and were assigned to Suye Town. They also went to attack the Talas brothers and came back intact by luck.

"We are not the same as you for drinking here?" Cao Fanghao said: "The wine from this restaurant is good and the wine shop opposite. The price is cheap on this street. There are also programs next to you, so of course we have to come here." After saying this, he turned around and told the clerk: "Come two fights of Du Kang!"

"Okay!" The Cao brothers seemed to be regular customers, and another guy agreed and turned to serve the wine.

"Liu Qi," Cao Fanghao suddenly turned his head and said to Liu Qi, "I am afraid that I will forget about drinking too much after a while, so I will tell you now."

"After this battle, our brothers suddenly missed our parents and brothers in our hometown. We have been away from home for almost ten years. I don't know they are all very good." After saying this, he showed a look of longing on his face. He paused and continued: "Liu Qi, I heard that you can write, so I wrote a letter for us and asked if the family is doing well now, and whether their parents and brothers are healthy. If you meet someone who happens to come to Anxi, you will write a letter and bring it back. It would be fine if there is no. There are several older fellow villagers who are going to go home in two days and ask them to send it back."

"Yes, Liu Qi, I heard that you can write and write a letter for our brothers." Cao Fangfeng also said. After saying this, he murmured in confusion: "You can write, how could you be drawn to Anxi to join the army?"

"Liu Sanlang, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this brother didn't even have a door-to-door. I just thought he was spraying feces. Don't take it to heart, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Cao Fanghao hurriedly covered his younger brother's mouth, and at the same time he laughed at Liu Qi.

'How did I know why I was drawn to Anxi to join the army?' Liu Qi didn't think that Cao Fangfeng's words were offensive to him; on the contrary, he was still puzzled. Perhaps it was the survivor of the disaster that everyone began to miss their relatives far away. After returning to Suye Town the night before yesterday, Zhang Hu and others who slept with him in the same room asked him to write a letter. Only then did Liu Qi realize that his predecessor had actually read books and knew his words. Before the imperial examination system was booming, the literacy rate in China was quite low. Scholars should be treated preferentially, so why would they be drawn to Anxi to join the army?

But in Cao Fanghao's opinion, Liu Qi was obviously unhappy and hurriedly continued to make up for it. "Fang Feng, apologize to Liu Sanlang immediately!" He said again: "I'll treat this wine today."

"You should have invited this wine." Zhang Hu said at this time: "Is it a waste of writing a letter for you? You should also invite the next wine."

"Okay, okay, the next drink is also a request." Cao Fanghao agreed hurriedly.

"Okay, let's go to Huayuelou for a drink in the evening, and call you at that time." Zhang Hu smiled and winked at Liu Qi, meaning very clearly: 'Just give me two drinks, don't worry about it anymore; Anxi is a rude person, and he doesn't even talk, so he can't care about it."

"Okay, okay." Cao Fanghao agreed with a bitter face. Huayue Tower is not much more expensive than this wine shop. And since he agreed to treat him, how can he only pay for drinking in such a place? He doesn't pay for the money for drinking? This is a heavy bleeding. But first, Liu Qi, who asked him to write a letter for him first, and second, he was in a loss, so he could only agree. 'Forget it, just pay the money for writing a few requests in advance.' He could only comfort himself like this, pretending that he didn't know that Liu Qi was in the army in Luzhou, rather than Suye Town.
Chapter completed!