In Ping'an Town, teenagers don't know how to feel sad
When the first ray of sunshine in the morning shone into this small town, various sounds suddenly sounded inside and outside the town. This small town outside the border immediately glowed with vitality!
"Dong dong dong..."
"Uncle Han, Uncle Han, get up quickly! The sun is shining on your buttocks!" Rapid knocks on the door kept coming.
This is a small winery in the west of the town. Looking out, it leads to the outskirts of the primitive mountains. The winery looks like it is a few years old. On the archway of the winery, there are four words "Wuyou Winery" written on it.
The big characters with flying dragons and phoenixes look quite extraordinary, making this small wine shop unusual!
Dong dong…dong dong dong…
"Knock, knock, knock, you damn ghost!" "It's so early in the morning, you know how to disturb people's dreams, but you don't know how to be considerate of me, an old man!"
With a creak, the door of the winery slowly opened. An old man who looked to be in his fifties or sixties was seen walking out slowly, holding a wine gourd in his left hand and yawning with his right hand.
Outside the wine shop, stood a young man in a green shirt, about thirteen or fourteen years old, with a flushed face and still breathing lightly.
"Hey, don't I miss you, Grandpa Han!
"Come on, you kid is just fooling around. You said the same thing a few days ago!" The old man rolled his eyes and handed over the wine gourd in his left hand as he spoke.
"Why are you here again today? Didn't I just give you a pot before? I usually give you a pot, which is enough for your drunkard grandpa to drink for ten and a half days!" The old man was a little confused.
"I'm not sure. Yesterday, grandpa muttered that the wine was almost not enough, so I was thinking of coming over today to get another pot!" The young man quickly took the wine gourd with both hands and replied.
"Really? That's why every time you come to get a drink, you always choose this time to knock on the door!" "I said, boy Zhou, can't you change the time? It's okay to do it later! If you do this, I
I'm afraid I have to die early to meet my wife!" the old man said with a helpless look.
The young man scratched his head in embarrassment, "Uh, I'm sorry, Uncle Han! I know I've disturbed you, but if I'm late, I won't be able to go back in time to make breakfast for grandpa!"
"Okay, okay, let me just say that, I don't know you yet!"
"Hey... I really envy your old drunkard for having such a filial and sensible grandson like you! I don't know what kind of bad luck he got, hahaha!" the old man shook his head and said.
The young man smiled shyly, "Uncle Han, you are kidding me! Grandpa is my only relative, so I am lucky, otherwise I would not have met such a good Uncle Han!"
"You think so?!"
"Okay, you kid, don't interrupt me! Go back as soon as you get the wine, as long as you stay with me, this old man, more often!"
"Well! Uncle Han, I will definitely come to see you often! Just, just... there is one more thing."
"I'm in a hurry this time, so I haven't collected the money for the drink yet. I only have ten coins here!" The young man apologized and spread out his little hands holding ten copper coins.
The old man waved his hand nonchalantly, "It's okay, it's okay. These ten coins are enough. If it doesn't work, I can give you this jug of wine!"
"No! Grandpa said that you can't take things from others for nothing. I must give you this money, and you must take it! As for the insufficient part, give me some time, and I will definitely return it to you! Otherwise...
Otherwise, I won’t come to get drinks from you next time!” The young man said firmly.
"Okay, okay, I'm really scared of you! Why don't I just accept the money?"
"Hey, I usually don't have many people coming to my small wine shop. I still need you to take care of my business!" The old man said and took the copper plate from the young man's hand. "What if I don't have someone like you?"
I am a long-term and stable customer, how much loss do I have to bear?!"
"Okay, Uncle Han, I will definitely support your business!" The young man said with a serious look on his face, then turned around and trotted back the way he came.
"Hey, what a good boy!" The old man looked at the young man's back silently and sighed in his heart.
"But, that old ghost, why did you finish the wine so quickly? My wine is not ordinary! It is much stronger than the 'Worry-Free Wine' sold in restaurants outside, and I even increased the dosage!" the old man muttered to himself.
He said, falling into deep thought.
As he thought about it, the old man's eyebrows wrinkled, gradually revealing a hint of heaviness. "Is it... getting worse? I can't suppress it anymore?!!!"
…
Ten years ago, a hut was built on the east side of the town. As time went by, the hut became more and more shabby. In front of the hut, there was a small courtyard surrounded by a fence, and a stone table was placed in the middle of the small courtyard.
.There are some common vegetables planted around the yard, including Chinese cabbage, tomatoes...all kinds, but they do not appear messy, but rather well-proportioned! It can be seen that the owner of this vegetable garden takes care of it very carefully.
At this time, in the yard in front of the house, there was an old man with gray hair, his eyes slightly closed, lying on a wooden deck chair, holding a wine gourd in his hand, drinking a small amount of wine from time to time, and basking in the morning sun.
.Suddenly, the old man seemed to hear something!
"Creak" came the sound of opening the front door of the small courtyard.
"Grandpa, you got up so early?! Why don't you sleep a little longer in the house?" the young man said softly when he saw the old man lying in the yard.
"Smash it, what a good drink! Ahem..."
"Hey, I'm old and don't sleep well, so why not come out to enjoy the wind and bask in the sun!" The old man said after hearing this, and took another sip of wine.
"You're still drinking even though you're coughing. You should pay more attention to your health!" the young man said helplessly, as if he had said this countless times.
"Haha...you! You are too young to understand!"
…
"This wine is a good thing! Haven't you heard what the book says: If you have wine today, you will get drunk now. Being drunk can relieve all kinds of sorrows! This life, if there is no wine, it will be so boring! ... You, wait until you grow up
If you taste the taste of wine, you will know the benefits of this wine!"
The old man opened his eyes, raised his head, glanced at the wine gourd, shook it, and showed a hint of regret, "Unfortunately, this wine gourd is too small to hold all the fine wine in the world!"
Seeing this, the young man put his hands behind his back and said with some mystery: "Grandpa, guess what! What good things did I bring back for you?"
"Huh?" The old man turned to look at the young man.
"Dang dang dang, look! I knew you were hungry for wine. I'm afraid this wine is not enough, so I prepared another pot for you!" The young man excitedly took out the wine gourd filled with wine in his hand and offered it as a treasure.
As if given to an old man!
"Oh...good grandson! I know that grandpa's love for you was not in vain!" The old man looked at the young man, with a trace of relief in his eyes.
"Now you can drink as much as you want without worrying, hahaha!"
"Grandpa, you always talk about being worried, and I am always worried all day long. I really don't know where you get so much worry?"
"Here are grandpa, old master, Uncle Han who owns the wine shop, Uncle Wang who sells meat on the street, Aunt Li who runs a tailor shop, and uncle blacksmith..." The young man counted them one by one with his fingers.
"Everyone is in the town every day, isn't it great? What's there to worry about?" The young man looked puzzled.
"Ha, you're talking about that pedantic old Confucian scholar?! He can only teach you kids! What's the use?" The old man shook his head, full of contempt.
"But, I think the old master is a very powerful person in the town. He knows many words. There is nothing that the old master can't write, and he can also write in several ways..."
"Haha, at your age, you are still a child, so you are not a very powerful person! When you grow up and gain experience, you will naturally become pale!" the old man said, touching the young man's head.
"Really? But I still think that the old master is a very good person and has taught me a lot. However, I just don't know why, but I have seen the old master staring into the distance in a daze several times, with a sad face!" The young man thought for a moment.
Said after a while.
"It's okay if you don't know, then naturally you won't worry! Young people don't know what it's like to be worried. This is a good thing that many people dream of! I think back then, when I was in Chang'an, I was like you..."
As he spoke, the old man's voice gradually became lower and his expression became erratic, as if he had fallen into the long memories and saw what he looked like when he was young in the past.