Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 213: The Fragrance of Liquor
"I hope not." Liu Ruiqi looked at Tang Zhenghao deeply for a few times before standing up and saying, "Let's go eat."
"Yeah. You do have to be careful." Tang Zheng nodded woodenly, but then he added, as if to continue the conversation or to deviate from the topic, "I'm also too handsome. It's quite dangerous."
Liu Ruiqi was stunned for a long while, not reacting to what Tang was saying.
By the time he reacted, Tang Zheng had already disappeared.
Lunch time had passed, but Tang Zheng didn't feel hungry. He returned to the dormitory and as soon as he opened the door, he smelled the aroma of alcohol.
Just two days ago, he asked Xu Qingyan to prepare some good wine to bribe Li Xiaoren and see if he could stop targeting him.
But unexpectedly, the wine was still in the jar, but the person was gone.
"It smells so good." Tang Zheng tore open the mud seal on a jar of wine and stretched his nose over to take a sniff.
He seldom drinks, partly because of his job in his previous life, which required him to stay sober most of the time. On the other hand, he was born with a low alcohol tolerance.
However, this wine was not meant for him to drink. He rubbed his nose, casually closed the lid, fell on the bed and fell asleep.
When he woke up again, the rain had stopped.
It was even quieter in the Yisu Academy late at night, but more sounds were coming in from the streets outside.
Many students in the academy still had their lights on.
As long as the matter of Lu Tianji is not settled, Feishi City will surely have a sleepless night.
Tang Zheng grabbed some food and lay down again.
The next morning, he carried the jar of wine and went directly to Liu Ruiqi.
"I will be away from the academy for half an hour." Tang Zheng went straight to the point and stated his purpose directly.
"For you now, Yisu Academy is the safest place. You cannot go out." Liu Ruiqi naturally refused. However, after he refused, his nose moved. "What are you carrying?"
"Something that can wash off the stains on Instructor Li caused by Gao Changfeng!" Tang Zheng put the jar of wine on Liu Ruiqi's table with a "bang".
The wine jar is very heavy and sealed tightly.
However, a soldier like Liu Ruiqi who had fought in cold regions for three years could smell the fragrance of the wine through the jar.
"You use wine? To wash away the stigma on Li Xiaoren?" Liu Ruiqi didn't quite understand what Tang Zheng meant.
"If you want, you can go together." Tang Zheng laughed.
This was Tang Zheng's real smile, completely different from the stiff smile he had yesterday.
Liu Ruiqi was about to refuse, but Tang Zheng added: "If you go, I can give you two jars."
"Hehe, I, Old Liu, have fought on three fronts and walked through more than a dozen defense zones. What kind of wine have I not drunk?" Liu Ruiqi shook his head, indicating that he was not interested.
"Even if you have tasted the best wine in the world, you'd better not miss these two jars of wine." Tang Zheng said with a smile.
"Oh? Why?"
"Because it's called Instructor Wine!"
Liu Ruiqi vaguely felt that Tang Zheng seemed to be really going to do something.
However, if he leaves Yisu Academy, it means that the entire guards will have to move with him. Who will then protect the academy?
No matter how interested he was in what Tang Zheng was going to do, he could not neglect his duty.
"In that case, I'll give you half an hour." Liu Ruiqi signed a handwritten note and handed it to Tang Zheng, "You are not allowed to come back late."
"Thank you. It will only take half an hour. I won't make things difficult for you!" Tang Zheng took the imperial edict and immediately walked out of the Yisu Academy.
Seeing him running out with two jars of wine, Liu Ruiqi stared at him for a long time, as if he could never see enough.
Only when Tang Zheng's back had completely disappeared and could no longer be seen did Liu Ruiqi look up at the sky: "Li Xiaoren, you should have been right this time!"
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The streets outside were eerily quiet.
Although it is not winter yet, everyone walking on the street has put on hoods and scarves, wrapping themselves tightly, as if they think it is safer this way.
The bloodstains everywhere had not yet dissipated, and there was still an unpleasant smell in the air.
Several large-scale conflicts occurred within one day and two nights. Of course , they were all suppressed by the Red Tassel Army without any surprise.
Just when the entire Jade City was in panic and anxiety, the sound of a wine jar falling was very abrupt.
People popped their heads out of many houses along the street.
The first thing that hit their noses was an indescribable aroma of wine...
As the old saying goes, good wine needs no bush. Now, if a jar of good wine is dropped on the street, who can't smell it?
However, when they looked up, they only saw two white horses and the backs of two people... Then, there was another sound of a wine jar being smashed...
The aroma of wine soon filled the entire Jade City.
Some Red Tassel Army soldiers passing by looked at the Snow Region Warhorse and did not dare to stop them, but they all whispered to each other: "Are we starting the disinfection now?"
"Are you stupid? Why would you use so much good wine to disinfect?"
"What are they doing... Damn, it smells so damn good! How about asking them to get two jars for us to drink?"
"Look carefully, that's a Snowland Warhorse. How many lives do we have to ask people who can ride such a horse for wine?"
The two horses galloped past, spreading the aroma of wine throughout the city. In just a quarter of an hour, they became a rare topic to change the tense atmosphere of the entire Jade City.
"Qingyan, how many jars are left?" Tang Zheng asked Xu Qingyan while riding on his snowy warhorse.
He had not yet arrived at Samsung and had not designed and customized his own storage bag, so the wine was placed in Xu Qingyan's storage bag.
Xu Qingyan replied expressionlessly: "Four altars."
"Well, take it back first, and when the dust settles, take it to Instructor Li's grave." Tang Zhengdao.
"Got it." Xu Qingyan turned his horse around and went back to Tianxia Minglu.
Tang Zheng went into a small tavern and dusted himself off.
Immediately, the owner of the tavern came over and said, "Everything has been done as you ordered. Come and take a look?"
Tang Zheng walked into the back hall of the tavern and saw several waiters busying themselves, sticking pieces of paper with the three big words "Instructor's Wine" written on them on the wine jars.
The shopkeeper asked, "You just bought all the homemade wine in my store... There are only a few empty wine jars left. Please take a look. Is this what you just said?"
Smelling the aroma of wine all over the city, the shopkeeper was speechless.
Just a while ago, Tang Zheng and Xu Qingyan came in and wanted to buy all the homemade liquor in his store, just like the two jars that Xu Qingyan bought the day before yesterday.
He didn't expect that their wine would spread all over the Jade Stone City in just a quarter of an hour...
"The quality of the paper is too poor, and the word 'Instructor' is too small." Tang Zheng shook his head, not very satisfied with the altar sticker, "Go find the most famous calligrapher to write these three words!"
"Uh...but..."
"Change. Money is not a problem!"
"Yes, yes, I will definitely find the best one, and the best printing house for the paper."
"The wine jar must also be redesigned, with the Yisu Academy's hidden emblem on the jar. The three words "Instructor's Wine" should be written on the paper in front, and the origin of the Instructor's Wine should be clearly written on the paper in the back, which is what I just told you."
"Understood!" The shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead and wrote down Tang Zheng's requests one by one.
"Let's do this for now. From now on, there will be no more Chenji rice wine... there will only be instructor wine!" Tang Zheng stared at him and handed another handful of purple gold to him, "Remember?"
"Remember! Remember!" The shopkeeper nodded quickly.
He was a little confused by so many purple gold Tongbao coins.
When Tang Zheng came in just now, he told him that he wanted to buy out the "naming rights" of their wine and even wrote a contract in a serious manner. He didn't understand . Is there any difference between calling a jar of wine Chenji Wine or Instructor Wine?
However, that was not something he needed to consider.
All he needs to know is that big business has come and he must not mess it up!
If a young man who can take out so many purple gold coins messes up his work, it would probably be very easy for him to crush me to death...
"Go away, what are you all standing there for? Replace the sign of Chen's Tavern at the door!"
"Uh, what?" asked a guy.
"Change it to the 'Instructor Wine' franchise store..." The shopkeeper patted his head and asked a waiter next to him uncertainly: "The young man just mentioned this name, right?"
"It looks like a 'Drill Sergeant Wine' store, right?" the clerk replied.
"Specialty store!" The shopkeeper said to the clerk who was waiting to change the sign, "Go, change it to 'Instructor Wine' Specialty Store!"
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The aroma of wine needs time to ferment.
Tang Zheng did not stay in the outer street and wait for the incident to develop. After he finished doing all this, he told Ning Mo his thoughts and did not care about it anymore. Instead, he went back to Yisu Academy as agreed with Liu Ruiqi.
As soon as he entered the academy, he saw Leng Buchen and his group coming in right after him.
Looking at the entrance of the academy, there were all kinds of carriages parked in a mess, many of which Tang Zheng had never seen before.
Leng Buchen and the others all had very gloomy expressions on their faces.
"Chief Deacon." Tang Zheng stood on the side of the road and saluted towards Leng Buchen.
"Hmm..." Leng Buchen seemed to want to say something to Tang Zheng, but after taking a look at the person next to him whom Tang Zheng didn't know, he didn't speak. He just responded and went to his office.
The deacons and instructors of Yisuli Academy also followed Leng Buchen and the others in. Soon, only Tang Zheng and a few students were left at the door.
Just when Tang Zheng was having a bad feeling, Leng Zhan just got off the carriage.
"Cold War." Tang Zheng took two quick steps.
"Tang Zheng." Leng Zhan also frowned, but still walked towards Tang Zheng.
"We were delayed for too long by false clues, and we failed to find the person after looking for real clues again?" Tang Zheng asked.
Leng Zhan's expression immediately became complicated.
And since Tang Zheng met him, he seemed to have never seen such complicated emotions on his face...
"Tang Zheng." Leng Zhan's voice was very rarely tired. "The elders from the Council of Elders are here."
"So what?" Tang Zheng didn't expect that Leng Zhan would bring up this.
"Lu Tianji changed his statement in front of the elders, saying that the Lu Wantang we captured in the back mountain of Yisu Academy was a fake!"
