Chivalrous Song Dynasty

There is still a five-day camel journey from Tianshan Mountain here, and the desolation is far better than the previous seven-day journey. When we leave Xiliang tomorrow, there will be no towns in front of us. I really need something. I want to buy a city with money. There is nowhere to buy it.

At this time, Liangzhou was the territory of Xixia, and Liangzhou was established.

As early as 110 years ago, Li Yuanhao's grandfather Li Jiqian and father Li Deming failed to attack Liangzhou twice. What made the Xixia people mourned was that Li Jiqian happened to die in the battle against this city.

More than 90 years ago, Li Yuanhao finally captured this city from the Uighurs, and brought it into the territory of Xixia while proclaiming himself emperor.Since then, Liangzhou has been serving as the accompanying capital of Xixia, holding down the west gate of the territory.

To Bai Sheng's surprise, here he actually drank alcohol of a high degree that he had never encountered since time travelling!Is there high alcohol in this era?

The "Tou Ping Xiang" he drank in Jingyanggang was nothing more than a rice wine with a strong stamina, but this Xixia wine was definitely a high-grade wine, which was comparable to the red star Erguotou of later generations.

If Jingyanggang’s penetrating bottle fragrance has 30 degrees, then the wine from Xixia Liangzhou has 52 degrees, and this wine is actually served in a slender porcelain bottle with a height of one foot and two inches. The bottles are very similar.

He asked this question to the clerk. The clerk's Chinese level is very average, and he was still wondering what the meaning of Gaojiu was, but Li Ruolan quickly answered:

"This kind of wine is brewed in the west wind unique to our country. It has been cellared for 20 years. It is mellow and clear. It can be ignited with a fire. Other countries don't know how to brew it. This Liangzhou City is the wine capital of my Great Xia Country. You can't even get this Don't know? Give me a drink."

"I've been educated, I can't tell, your Western Xia's technology is quite advanced, your injury is so serious, are you sure you want to drink?" Bai Sheng brought a glass of strong wine to Li Ruolan's mouth in his arms.

That's right, he ate with his arms around Li Ruolan, he didn't dare to untie the acupoints of Li Ruolan's limbs, so he had to hug her to feed, otherwise Li Ruolan would not only be unable to eat, but also difficult to sit upright on the chair.

Fang Jinzhi is used to Bai Sheng serving Li Ruolan like this. Although she disapproves of Bai Sheng's doing this, there is nothing she can do. She is unwilling to do this kind of job of serving others, and Bai Sheng won't let her do it, because Bai Sheng is worried that she will be careless. Careless, unable to detect Li Ruolan's small movements.

Now she remained silent as usual, and only slightly lifted the black scarf covering her face when the food was eaten, revealing half of Xiao Feng's face, making Li Ruolan believe that she was Xiao Feng.

Fang Jinzhi didn't speak, but Li Ruolan was quite addicted to speaking. There were only a few short moments in a day when he was awake, and he had to make use of them, "What's wrong with you two? The young couple are having a fight? Why don't you talk for so many days?"

"Eat your meal, you don't need to worry about the affairs between our husband and wife." Bai Sheng handed a piece of roast lamb to Li Ruolan's mouth, but didn't stuff it directly.

Li Ruolan opened her mouth, ate the mutton, and laughed again: "Are you afraid that I will bite you? Can't you put it in?"

While talking, he suddenly heard the sound of hoofbeats outside. It seemed that many horses had come. The sound of horseshoes stopped at the door of the inn, and a Chinese-speaking voice shouted: "Shopkeeper, do you have any good rooms? At least ten rooms are needed. The door is next to each other, if there is, we will stay at your house."

This person's voice is very rough, and full of air, he sounds like a martial artist, at least a second-rate player like Ruan Xiaowu.

The clerk said: "There are ten upper rooms, but it's hard to say whether they are next to each other."

This shop guy seems to be familiar with the professional language of hotels, and he can speak Chinese fluently with the person outside the door. This is the same reason that later generations of Yanjing vegetable market sellers can speak Eagle language. If they don’t, they can’t make more money much money.

The man outside walked in with a yell, but he was a short and strong man in his 20s, with a pair of hatchets in his waist, and a pair of ring eyes scanning the restaurant, looking very awesome.

When he saw Bai Sheng's table, his gaze rested on the grilled lamb and the wine bottle on the table for a while, then he said to the shopkeeper, "Then take me to the guest room first, do you only have roast lamb here? If you have good wine and good food, just serve them up, even if you don’t stay in the store, you can eat here.”

Seeing a big business coming, two shop assistants ran out of the shop, one went out to greet the guest, led the guest's horse to feed the fodder, the other took the short and strong man to the guest room, the original one wiped the table and chairs, and prepared to serve the wine serve.

At this time, many people came in one after another from outside, but most of them were women and few men.

The leader is a 35-year-old scribe, quite handsome in appearance, very bookish, with a folding fan in his hand, with a personable demeanor, regardless of whether the weather in the northwest region is not time to use a fan.

Beside the scholar, there are six beautiful women from Yingying and Yanyan. They are all in their thirties. , all dressed as women, their faces and postures are quite mature.

And if we only talk about mature charm, even Li Ruolan can't compare with them, only Concubine Wei Xian who is far away in Bianjing can compare, just because these people are women who have given birth to children and become mothers.

There was another man following the woman. He was about the same age as the short and strong man before him, and he was dressed in the same clothes. He was the bodyguard of the Confucian scholar, but he was slightly taller, with a beard and different weapons. The man was carrying a cooked copper rod on his back, which looked quite heavy, but it was brighter than Bai Sheng's copper rod.

As if out of professional habits, this person scanned the restaurant for the first time, but his eyes stopped on the copper rod behind Bai Sheng, with a slightly surprised and nervous expression.

The Confucian scholar didn't care about this, he took the lead to do it under the guidance of the shop assistant, and then called the others to sit down: "Plum sword, bamboo sword, blue sword, chrysanthemum sword, come and sit down, let's see what's good in Liangzhou city." food."

After saying this, he urged a tall and beautiful woman: "Wanqing, what are you looking at? Come and sit down."

The beautiful woman named Wanqing was watching Bai Sheng feed Li Ruolan intently, without looking back, she said to the Confucian scholar: "Look at how considerate he is in taking care of his sick wife, Xiaolei's sister is so sick. It's been a long time, have you ever fed her a sip of water?"

Chapter 502

The woman named Wanqing finished speaking, when a woman wearing bamboo green clothes who was already sitting beside the Confucian scholar said, "Sister Mu, come and sit down quickly, how can our master compare with others? There is only one wife, of course she is meticulous, and how many women our master has, if we take care of them one by one like this, even if the master is exhausted, he will not be able to take care of him."

As soon as she finished speaking, a woman in a light red dress on her right immediately questioned: "Zhu Jian, you may not be right. Didn't you see a woman sitting opposite them? Maybe they are two wives. "

A man in yellow clothes on the far right said: "I think what Zhu Jian said is right, the one sitting opposite should be a maid, didn't you see her and didn't talk? It must be a difference of dignity. "

When these people entered the room, Bai Sheng didn't pay attention to the appearance of this hostile person. After all, he is a woman and a mother, so it is very rude to stare at his face.

But at this moment, he could hear the group of female porridge behind him, and the topics were all talking about his own table, so he turned his head to look at the few people who were talking, only to find that four of the women talking at the table were of the same age. exactly the same.

These four women are dressed in light red, bamboo green, light blue, and light yellow. They are all about 34 or [-] years old, and they all have oval faces. The resemblance of their faces is as indistinguishable as that of myself and Bai Qin. , but there is a slight difference in body fat and thin, which is probably caused by the unequal number of children.

I heard Confucian scholars call them the Four Swords of Plum, Orchid, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum before, and now I listen to a few of them talking, and I can roughly sit in the right place. It should be Mei Jian, and the person in light yellow clothes who spoke last should be Ju Jian, as expected, he is as pale as a chrysanthemum.

There are two other people who didn't speak, one of them was dressed in light blue clothes, you can tell without guessing that this is Lan Jian.

It's just that there is a woman with a round face on the right side of the Confucian scholar. She is the youngest among the six women. She is estimated to be only 28 or [-] years old at the most. Li Ruolan still looks young, catching up with Xiao Feng, Fang Jinzhi and the others in their youthful years.

At this time, the beautiful woman named Wanqing returned to the table and sat down. The round-faced woman smiled and said in a low voice: "Sister Wanqing, do you think that woman in the black scarf looks like the old woman who lived by the Lancang River?" of you?"

Since some people called this beautiful woman Sister Mu and others called her Wanqing, Bai Sheng knew that this woman was called Mu Wanqing.

This Mu Wanqing seemed to be aloof and gentle like water, which is rare among women. She sat down and glared at the round-faced woman, and said, "How old are you, Zhong Ling, and you still have so much curiosity? What should you do today?" Is it your turn to take care of Xiaolei? Why don't you hurry up and feed yourself first, and then go to the car to feed her?"

Only then did Bai Sheng know that the woman dressed as a young girl was called Zhong Ling.

He has keen hearing and knows that there are at least a dozen people outside the door who have not come in. Hearing what they said now, he can tell that there is a patient named Xiaolei in the carriage outside, and the rest are bodyguards.

But Zhong Ling gave Mu Wanqing a look, and said: "You know, you know how to scold me, if you don't scold me for a day, I won't be able to get through, right?"

The Confucian scholar finally said: "Okay, okay, sister Wan, don't talk about her all the time, the child is so old, you have to save some face for the child's mother."

Upon hearing this, instead of calming down, Mu Wanqing showed a sarcastic expression, "Oh! What happened today? You know you helped the little one against the big one, right? She is my sister, and I have been in charge of her for more than 20 years , why didn't you help her earlier?"

The Confucian scholar saw that the matter was going to be a big one, so he immediately stopped his flag and drums, picked up the west wind wine that the shop assistant had just brought up, and said, "I'm so thirsty along the way, my throat is full of smoke, quench my thirst first before talking, huh, cough, cough."

He raised his head and drank it all in one gulp, but he didn't expect the alcohol to be extremely high, how could it be something to quench his thirst?Turning his head in his busy schedule, he sprayed Li Ruolan's back with a sip of wine, and even Bai Shenglan's sleeve on Li Ruolan's waist was splashed with a lot of wine stains.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" The Confucian scholar hurriedly apologized to Bai Sheng. In this day and age, you need to apologize to a man when you spray someone's wife. .

He hastily apologized, then turned to look at the shop assistant and blamed him: "What kind of wine is this? Why is it like fire? Is this drinkable?"

The clerk hurriedly explained the benefits of the wine and how to drink it, and said in broken Chinese that the way you drink it is wrong, it’s not that our wine is not good.

The six women also exclaimed that the wine was so powerful. Just now when the Confucian scholars toasted, they also toasted. The husband drank, and the wives and concubines naturally accompanied each other, but of course they would not drink it all at once. , just tasted it, but even so, they all shouted spicy with their mouths open.

Everyone was busy talking about the wine, but no one paid any attention to Bai Sheng's reaction, as if they thought that the Confucian scholar's "I'm sorry" had already given the common people enough face.

Only the bearded man with a copper rod standing at the door stared at Bai Sheng coldly, as if he would take action to resolve any dissatisfaction expressed by Bai Sheng.

But Bai Sheng, like a submissive commoner, took off a handkerchief from Li Ruolan's neck. This handkerchief was originally tied around Li Ruolan's chest as a bib, and he used this handkerchief to wipe the wine stains on her back. , From the beginning to the end, he did not make any negotiations with the people behind him.

Of course he is not afraid of fighting with anyone, but he is only afraid that Li Ruolan will take the opportunity to play tricks. Once in a chaotic situation, Li Ruolan will have the opportunity to make small moves. Songba and Lingxing came to rescue, which was quite troublesome.