The man said cheerfully, "That's good, we have been waiting here for a day and a night. Quickly, quickly, bring it over." More than ten big men divided into two rows and walked out from a hut beside the bank, each holding a vermilion-lacquered box in their hands. An empty-handed blue-shirted man walked to the front of the boat, bowed and said: "I learned that young warrior fox body insecurity, very concerned about, would have personally come to visit, but really can not come back, pigeon letter, specially ordered the villain to present some of the Philip's gift, please young warrior fox rewarded receipt." A group of big man walked up to the bow of the boat, put more than ten boxes on the boat. Linghu Chong wondered, "I don't know which one is your superior? Such a generous gift, Linghu Chong is ashamed of it." The man said, "Young warrior Linghu is blessed with deep fortune, he will recover soon, please take care of yourself." Said bowed and saluted, led a group of big man went away. Linghu Chong said: "I do not know who is giving me a gift, can be really strange and weird." Peach Valley Five Immortals have long been unable to hold back, unanimously said: "First open and see." Five people seven hands and feet, will be only a vermilion lacquer box box lid uncovered, only to see some box filled with exquisite snacks, some are smoked chicken and ham and other things like wine, more ginseng, antler, bird's nest, silver ear a class of precious tonic herbs. The last two boxes are filled with small gold ingots silver ingots, apparently to prepare for Foxchong on the road with flowers, said "Philip's gift", for the number can be really expensive. Peach Valley five fairy see candies and preserves, fruits and snacks, they grabbed and stuffed into the mouth, shouting: "delicious, delicious!" Linghu Chong rummage through dozens of boxes, neither letter name prick, also no pattern table mark, in the end, who is the gift giver, there is no clue to find, to Yue Buqun said: "Master, this matter disciple can not really feel half a point of mind. This gift-giving person neither seems to have malicious intent, nor seems to be a joke." Said holding a snack, first to honor the master teacher mother, and then distributed to all the brothers and sisters. Yue Buqun see the peach valley six immortals ate the food, nothing strange, look at the appearance of these food also does not seem to be under the poison, asked Linghu Chong said: "you have friends in the jianghu is living in this area?" Linghu Chong pondered for a long time, shook his head: "No." Just heard the sound of hoofbeats, eight horses galloped along the river, someone called: "Huashan school young warrior fox is here?" Peach Valley Six Immortals shouted joyfully, "Here, here! What kind of goodies do you have for us?" The man shouted: "My gang master learned that Young Warrior Linghu came to Lanfeng, and heard that Young Warrior Linghu likes to drink a few cups, and ordered me to find sixteen jars of aged wine, and came all the way here to ask Young Warrior Linghu to drink in the boat." Eight horses ran to the near place, and saw that each horse had two jars of wine hanging on its saddle. Wine altar on some written "excellent tribute wine", some written "three pots of good Fen", more written "Shaoxing Scholar Red", sixteen altar wine seems to be different. Linghu Chong saw this many fine wine, that is more than send anything to him are happy, busy walking up to the bow, arching his hand and said: "Forgive me for my clumsiness, I do not know which your gang is a gang? Brother's name?" The man laughed and said: "My gang master repeatedly instructed not to mention my gang's name to young warrior fox. His old man said, this little gift, is really too meager, and then raise the name of our gang, really sorry." With a wave of his left hand, immediately the passengers carried down a jar of fine wine and put it on the bow of the boat.
Yue Buqun in the cabin gazed at these eight men, only to see that all the hands are agile, a hand carrying a wine altar, a gentle leap, on the bow of the boat, these eight people are not very impressive martial arts, but obviously eight people are not the same sect, it seems to be the same gang of gangsters, but it is not false. Eight people will be sixteen altars of wine on the bow of the boat, bowed to Linghu Chong salute, that is, get on the horse and go. Linghu Chong laughed: "Master, this matter is really strange, I don't know who played this joke with disciple and sent these many altars of wine." Yue Buqun mused, "Could it be Tian Boguang? And could it be Monk Buquan?" Linghu Chong said, "Not bad, these two people are acting oddly, maybe it is them. Hey! Peach Valley Six Immortals, there are a large number of good wine here, you drink or not?"
The Peach Valley Six Immortals laughed: "Drink ah! Drink ah! Is there any reason not to drink?" Peach Root Immortal, Peach Dry Immortal two people held up two altars of wine, patted away the clay seal, poured in a bowl, really fragrant. Six people also do not and Linghu Chong polite, then that bone toot drink. Linghu Chong also went to pour a bowl, held in front of Yue Buqun, said: "Master, you please taste, this wine is really good." Yue Buqun frowned slightly and let out a "hmm". Laudano said, "Master, you can't be too careful. I don't know who sent this wine, how do we know that there are no oddities in the wine." Yue Buqun nodded and said, "Chong'er, it is better to be careful." Linghu Chong a smell of mellow wine, where still endure, laughed: "Disciple has not long to live, this wine is poisonous or not, there is not much difference." Hands cupped the bowl, a few mouthfuls drank a clean, praised: "Good wine, good wine!"
Only to hear the shore also someone loudly praised: "Good wine, good wine!" Linghu Chong raised his eyes to the sound of the place to look, only to see under the willow tree there is a ragged ragged scholar, his right hand shook a broken fan, tilted his head and sniffed hard from the boat drifting away from the aroma of the wine, said: "really is good wine!" Linghu Chong laughed: "This brother, you have not tasted it, how do you know the beauty of this wine?" The scholar said, "As soon as you smelled the wine, you should know that this is the thirty-two year old San Kuotou Fen Wine, how can it be bad?"
Linghu Chong since the Green Bamboo Weng attentive guidance, in the wine on the road of learning has been really extraordinary, knew that this is about sixty years of three pots of Fen wine, but to identify not more or less exactly sixty-two years, but it is difficult to be able to think that this scholar is most likely an exaggeration of his words, laughed and said: "Brother, if you don't mind, please come over to drink a few cups of how?" The scholar shook his head and said: "You and I do not know each other, meet each other, a smell of wine, has been disturbed, how to dare to chitchat brother wine, that is ten thousand, ten thousand impossible." Linghu Chong laughed: "Within the four seas, all brothers. Hear brother's words, know is the wine country seniors, in the next is about to ask for advice, then please off the boat, do not have to be polite." The scholar slowly paced over, bowed y, said: "I am surnamed Zu, ancestor of ancestor. When Zu Ti woke up and danced, that is the late student's distant ancestor. My name is Qianqiu, and Qianqiu means a hundred years old and a thousand years old. I don't dare to ask for your name."
Linghu Chong said, "My double name is Linghu, and my single name is Chong." That Zu Qianqiu said: "The surname is good, the surname is good, this name is also good!" One side said, one side from the diving board toward the bow. Linghu Chong smiled slightly, thinking: "I'll buy you a drink, then everything will be fine." He immediately poured a bowl of wine and handed it to Zu Qianqiu, saying, "Please drink!" I saw him in his fifties, with a burnt face, a rosacea nose, eyes without spirit, a few sparse beards, a piece of grease on his lapel, two hands stretched out, ten finger nails are all black sludge. He had a thin figure, but he was holding a big belly. Zu Qianqiu saw Linghu Chong handed over the wine bowl, but it is inconvenient to take, said: "Although brother Linghu has good wine, but no good utensils, pity ah pity." Linghu Chong said: "During the journey, only some coarse bowls and coarse lamps, Mr. Zu will drink some." Zu Qianqiu shook his head and said, "Never, never. You are so sloppy with the wine, in the way of drinking wine, is obviously not clear which three flavors. Drinking wine must pay attention to the wine, drink what wine, then use what wine cup. Drinking Fen wine should be in a jade cup. A Tang poet said: 'Amber light comes from a jade bowl.' Visible jade bowl jade cup, can increase the color of wine." Linghu Chong said: "Exactly." Zu Qianqiu pointed to a altar of wine, said: "this altar of Guanwai white wine, wine flavor is excellent, but unfortunately less a fangcui gas, it is best to use the rhinoceros horn cups and drink, that will be mellow incomparable, know that the jade cup to increase the color of the wine, the rhinoceros horn cups to increase the wine's fragrance, the ancients sincere not I deceive." Linghu Chong in Luoyang to listen to the green bamboo weng talk about explaining, in the world of wine origin, smell, brewing way, cellar method, already know eighty-nine, but on the wine a one but do not know anything about, at this moment listened to zuqianqiu eloquently talk about, have a great sense of enlightenment. Only to hear him say: "As for drinking wine, of course, to use the luminous cup. Ancient poem: 'Grapes and wine in a luminous glass, want to drink pipa immediately urged.' To know the grape wine for the bright red color, my generation of men drink it, it is not enough to be bold. After the wine is put into the luminous cup, the color of the wine will be the same as that of fresh blood, and drinking wine will be like drinking blood. Yue Wu Mu words: 'strong ambition hunger eat hu captives meat, laugh about thirst drink Huns blood', is not it magnificent!" Linghu Chong nodded his head repeatedly, he reads very little, listened to zu qianqiu quoted poetry, in the meaning of the text is not quite understand, just "laughing about thirst for hunnic blood" sentence, is really heroic dry clouds, people chest big smooth. Zu Qianqiu pointed to an altar of wine and said, "As for this sorghum wine, it is the most ancient wine. In Xia Yu's time, Yi Di made wine, and Yu drank it and sweetened it, that is sorghum wine. The world's short-sightedness, only that the great Yu water, the benefit of future generations, but do not know what the water, that's okay, the great Yu really great work, do you know?"
Linghu Chong and the Six Immortals of Peach Valley said in unison, "Making wine!" Zu Qianqiu said, "Exactly!" The eight people laughed in unison. Zu Qianqiu also said: "Drinking this sorghum wine, must be used in bronze wine knuckles, to have the ancient meaning. As for that rice wine, the best rice wine, although its flavor is beautiful, lost in the sweet, slightly thin, when a big bucket to drink it, only to show the spirit."
Linghu Chong said: "under the reckless people, do not understand this wine pulp and between the wine utensils, there are actually this much to pay attention to."
Zu Qianqiu patted a written "Hundred Grass Wine" wine altar, said: "This Hundred Grass Wine, is the collection of grasses, soaked into the wine, so the wine gas aroma, such as walking in the spring countryside, people have not yet drunk first drunk. Drinking this hundred grass wine must use the ancient rattan cup. Hundred years of ancient rattan carved into a cup, to drink the hundred grass wine will greatly increase the aroma of gas." Linghu Chong said: "A hundred years of ancient rattan, but it is very rare." Zu Qianqiu said: "Linghu brother is wrong, a hundred years of wine than a hundred years of ancient vines, can be more rare. You think, a hundred years of ancient rattan, as much as can be sought in the mountains and wild mountains, but a hundred years of wine, everyone wants to drink, after a drink, there is no more. An ancient rattan cup, even if you drink a thousand times ten thousand times, or a good end of an ancient rattan cup." Linghu Chong said: "exactly. Ignorant, I accept Mr. Instruction." Yue Buqun has been paying attention to listen to that Zu Qianqiu speak, listen to his words exaggerated, but not unreasonable, see the peach branch fairy, peach dry fairy, etc. held up the altar of the hundred grass wine, pouring the table full of dripping, all did not when it is very precious wine. Although Yue Buqun is not a drinker, but smell the fragrance of the wine, very mellow, know that it is really a good wine, Peach Valley six Xian so spoiled, it is a pity. Zu Qianqiu said: "Drinking this Shaoxing red shall be used with ancient porcelain cups, the best is the Northern Song Dynasty porcelain cups, the Southern Song Dynasty porcelain cups are barely available, but there has been a meteorological decay, as for the Yuan porcelain, it is not less vulgar. Drink this altar pear wine? That should be used jade cup. Bai Le Tian Hangzhou spring poem: 'red sleeves weaving damask boast persimmon leaves, green flag wine while pear blossom.' You think, Hangzhou restaurant sells this pear blossom wine, hanging is dripping emerald also like green flag, reflecting the pear blossom wine, drink this pear blossom wine, naturally, should be emerald cup. Drink this jade dew wine, when the glass cup. Jade Dew wine in the beads of fine bubbles, held in a transparent glass cup and drink, to see its good points." Suddenly, I heard a woman's voice say, "Dudu dudu, blow the magic snail!" The person who spoke was none other than Yue Ling Shan, who stretched out her right index finger and scraped her right cheek. Yue Buqun said, "Shan'er must not be unreasonable, what this Mr. Zu said, is very reasonable." Yue Lingshan said: "What great sense, drink a few cups of wine to help the fun, that's fine, all day and night drinking, and there are many of these instructions, is not the hero of the good man for?" Zu Qianqiu shook his head and said: "This girl, the words are not good. Han Gaozu Liu Bang, is not a hero? If he didn't behead the white snake with his sword after getting drunk, how could he become the foundation of the Han family for hundreds of years? Is Fan Kuai a good man? That day at the Hongmen Banquet, General Fan Kuai cut meat on his shield and drank wine in a big fight, was he not a strong man?"
Linghu Chong laughed: "Mr. both know that this is a fine wine, and said that the hero is a good man, non-wine not happy, but why not drink?" Zu Qianqiu said, "I have long said, if there is no good equipment, in vain to spoil the wine." Tao Ganxian said: "You are blowing smoke, said what emerald cup, luminous cup, where in the world this kind of wine cup? Even if there are, there are only one or two of them, and who can have all of them together?"
Zu Qianqiu said: "The elegant scholar who is concerned about wine tasting, of course, has. Like you and other cattle drink donkey drink, naturally even coarse cups and bowls can be used." Peach Leaf Fairy said, "Are you a gentleman?" Zu Qianqiu said, "Not much to say, not much to say, but three times elegance is there." The Peach Leaf Fairy laughed and asked, "Then how many wine glasses for drinking these eight kinds of fine wines do you have with you?" Zu Qianqiu said, "To say not too many, to say not too few, one of each is there." The Six Immortals of Peach Valley shouted in unison, "Cowhide King, Cowhide King!" Peach Root Immortal said, "I'll make a bet with you, if you have these eight wine cups on you, I'll eat them one by one. If you don't have them, then what?" Zu Qianqiu said: "I will be punished for these wine cups and bowls, and I will eat them all one by one!" The Six Immortals of Peach Valley all said, "Wonderful, wonderful! Let's see how he ...... finished his sentence, only to see Zu Qianqiu reached into his pocket, pulled out a wine cup, light and soft, actually a goat fat white jade cup. Peach Valley six immortals ate a shock, will not dare to say again, only to see him one and another, constantly from the arms out of the wine cup, really is the emerald cup, rhinoceros horn cup, rattan cup, bronze jennifer, luminescent cup, glazed cup, ancient porcelain cups do not have. He took out eight wine cups, but also continue to take out, brilliant gold cups, carved exquisite silver cup, patterned stone cup, in addition to more ivory cup, tiger tooth cup, cowhide cup, bamboo cup, rosewood cup, etc., or large or small, all kinds of different. The crowd only looked dumbfounded, who would not have expected this poor man's arms, but will hide this many wine cups.
Zu Qianqiu proudly said to Tao Genxian: "How?" Peach Root Immortal's face was miserable, said, "I lost, I'll just eat eight wine cups." Picked up the ancient rattan cup, Ge sound, bite into two, the small half into the mouth, card cackling a chewing, then swallowed.
The crowd saw him say eat really eat, will half of the ancient rattan cup chewed to pieces, swallowed to the belly, all horrified. Peach root immortal reached out, and went to take the rhinoceros horn cup, Zu Qianqiu left hand lifted out, to cut his pulse. Taogan Xian right hand sank, back to take his wrist, Zu Qianqiu middle finger flicked to his palm, Taogan Xian stunned shrinking hand, said: "You do not give me to eat?" Zu Qianqiu said: "I'm convinced that you, I'm this eight wine cups, even if you have eaten down to the belly is. You have this ruthlessness, I can not give up." The crowd laughed again. Yue Lingshan initially on the Peach Valley Six Immortals is very afraid, but get along with a long time, see they do not show ferocious gas, and act to speak very funny and friendly, then boldly to the peach root fairy said: "Hey, this ancient vine cup taste good?" Peach Root Immortal licked his lips and smacked his tongue, and said, "It's very bitter, what's so good about it?" Zu Qianqiu frowned and said, "Giving you an ancient vine cup has ruined my big event. Alas, without the ancient vine cup, what kind of cup to drink this Hundred Herb Wine? I can only use a wooden cup to make do." He took out a piece of hand towel from his pocket, picked up half of the ancient vine cup that was bitten off by the peach root fairy and wiped it for a while, and then took the sandalwood cup and wiped it inside and out, only that the hand towel was black and wet, and not wiping it, so wiping it, obviously the more he wiped it, the more it got dirty. He wiped half a day, only to put the wooden cup on the table, eight in a row, the rest of the gold cups, silver cups, etc. into the arms, and then Fen wine, wine, Shaoxing wine and other eight kinds of wine, were poured into the eight cups, breathed a long breath, to Linghu Chong said: "Linghu brother, these eight cups of wine, you drink one by one, and then I accompany you to drink eight cups. Let's come back to savor, and see and you used to drink the wine, what is the difference?" Linghu Chong said, "Good!" Picked up the wooden cup, will drink a mouthful of wine, only to feel a spicy gas straight into the abdomen, can not help but be shocked, searching for: "This wine flavor how so strange?" Zu Qianqiu said, "These cups of mine are the most precious thing for drinkers. Just timid people, tasted the wine flavor is different, drank the first cup, the second cup will not dare to drink again. Throughout history, those who can drink eight cups in a row are rare."
Linghu Chong thought: "Even if the wine is poisonous, Linghu Chong has long been living a long time, to him poisoned death will be poisoned death, why lose this breath?" Immediately picked up the wine cup, and then drank two cups, only to feel a cup of very bitter and another cup of very astringent, never the taste of wine, and then picked up the fourth cup of wine, peach root fairy suddenly shouted: "ah yo, not good, I belly fever, there is a group of charcoal fire." Zu Qianqiu laughed: "You will I half of the ancient vine wine cup swallowed in the belly, there is not belly pain reason? This ancient vine hard as iron, in the stomach is not melt away, quickly eat more laxatives, diarrhea out, if the diarrhea is not, had to go to the murder of a famous doctor Ping a finger open belly and cut open the intestines to take out." Linghu Chong thought: "his eight wine cups must be strange. Peach root fairy ate that ancient vine cup, even if the ancient vine hard not melt, but also the pain in the belly, which has a fever of reason? Hey, a great man looks at death as if it were his own, the more poisonous his poison is, the better." A tilt of the head, and drank a cup. Yue Lingshan suddenly said: "Eldest brother, this wine don't drink, the wine cup may be poisonous. You stabbed the eyes of those people blind, but must prevent people from secret revenge." Linghu Chong ruefully smiled, said: "This Mr. Zu is a bold man, understand he will not be backstabbing me." Deep inside, seems to hope that the wine is poisonous, they drink that is dead, body lying in front of Yue Lingshan, I do not know whether she is a little sad? Immediately drank two more cups. This sixth cup of wine and sour and salty, more some odor, not to mention when not "wine" two words, even this "wine" word, also can not add up. When he swallowed it, he couldn't help but frown slightly.
The Peach Dry Immortal saw him drink one cup after another, and couldn't help but try as well, saying, "Give me these two cups to drink." Reaching out for the seventh cup of wine. Zu Qianqiu waved his fan to the back of his hand and smiled, "Slowly, drink in turn, each person must drink eight cups in a row to know the true flavor of the wine." Tao Gan Xian saw his fan hit the momentum is very heavy, if hit, I am afraid that the bones of the hand must be broken, a hand to grab his fan, said: "I want to drink this cup first, what are you going to do?"
Zu Qianqiu's fan was originally folded into a short stick, for the Tao Ganxian fingers grabbed, suddenly opened with a whirring sound, the edge of the fan will be flicked toward his index finger. This is a surprise, Tao Ganxian was nearly hit by the bullet, hastily shrinking his hand, index finger has a slight numbness, ah ah yell, backward away. Zu Qianqiu said: "Brother Linghu, you quickly drink these two cups of wine ......" Linghu Chong more do not think much, will be the remaining two cups of wine. These two cups of wine stink not stink, but a cup of stabbing the throat like a knife, a cup of medicinal gas rushing nose, this is where the wine, than the strongest herbs, medicinal gas is also heavier three points.
The six immortals of the Peach Valley saw his face strange, are extremely curious, asked: "Eight cups of wine after drinking, how does it taste?" Zu Qianqiu grabbed his hand and said, "When all eight cups are drunk, the sweetness is endless. There is something to be said in the ancient books." Tao Gan Xian said, "Nonsense, what ancient book?" Suddenly, I don't know what kind of weird code he used, four people grabbed on at the same time and grabbed Zu Qianqiu's four limbs respectively.
The Peach Valley six immortals to catch people's hands and feet of both strange and fast, sudden, like a ghost, like a phantom, despite Zu Qianqiu's martial arts skills, or to the Peach Valley four immortals to catch the hands and feet, lifting up. Huashan sect people have seen the Peach Valley Four Immortals hand tear into the tragic situation, can not help but unanimously exclaimed. Zu Qianqiu mind flashes, immediately shouted: "The wine is poisoned, do you want the antidote?" Seize Zu Qianqiu hands and feet of the Peach Valley Four Immortals have been drinking a lot of wine, heard the words "poison in the wine", all were stunned.
What Zu Qianqiu was fighting for was the hesitation of the four people in this moment, and he suddenly shouted, "Fart, fart!" Peach Valley four immortals only feel a slip in the hand, immediately will grasp a blank, followed by "bang" a loud bang, the top of the canopy pierced a big hole, Zu Qianqiu broke the canopy and disappeared, do not know where to go. Peach root fairy and peach branch fairy two hands empty, peach fairy and peach leaf fairy hands, but respectively more than a stinky socks, a stained mud stinky shoes. Peach Valley five fairy body is also very fast, under a shake, all to the shore, Zu Qianqiu has disappeared. Five people are about to start light to chase, suddenly heard the end of the street, someone called: "Zu Qianqiu you bad egg stinking things, quickly return my pills to, less a grain, I will draw your tendons, peel your skin!" That person called out loudly and ran quickly. Peach Valley Five Immortals heard someone cursed Zu Qianqiu, deep with me, we have to see this so enough friends of people is how a person, immediately stopped not to chase, to that person to see.