Walking into Dakou Town, the town at night is full of prosperity, especially the barbecue stalls on both sides of the road, which can be described as hot.
On the street, young people in twos and threes walk in groups on the road, holding bottles of wine and soda in their hands. They always have endless stories to tell.
Judging from the clothes of these people, many of them are wearing uniforms with the name Shaolin Martial Arts Academy on them, and they all appear to be lay disciples of the Martial Arts Academy.
"There are more than 3,000 people in the martial arts academy. These people are everywhere. They only need to observe the five precepts. The ordinary precepts cannot control them. Moreover, times have changed, and the five precepts have also been relaxed. In addition to the delay in sexual misconduct,
Except for martial arts training, which is absolutely not allowed, everything else is turned a blind eye." Bronze Man No. 1 walked on the street and explained to Wang Xu in a low voice.
Shaolin lay disciples have five precepts: first, not to kill; second, not to steal; third, not to commit sexual misconduct; fourth, not to lie; fifth, not to drink alcohol.
These five precepts need to be observed by lay disciples. If they break the precepts, they will be punished. In serious cases, they may be sent home.
It's just that times have changed, and Shaolin Temple is also looking at money. It's the 21st century now, and many monks are getting married and having children. The five precepts for lay disciples are not as strict as before.
If we go back to ancient times, for drinking the same thing, Shaolin monks would be punished with sticks and lay disciples would be sent home.
Nowadays, monks who drink alcohol are only punished to face the wall and think about their faults, while lay disciples are even given a lecture and some corporal punishment and then pass.
"Boss, bring five boxes of beer and ten pounds of roasted pork. Then go to the barbecue stall next door and get us two hundred skewers of barbecue, fifty skewers of kidneys, and thirty skewers of ribs!"
Under the leadership of Bronze Man No. 1, Wang Xu and his group did not go to the barbecue stall, but sat in a small shop.
The small store is not big, covering an area of only more than 20 square meters and facing the street.
The only unusual thing is that there is a large courtyard behind the store. A table and stools are set up in the courtyard, and twenty people can sit down at two tables. They cannot be seen from the outside at all.
"We have been looking for this store for a long time before we found it. The store is right in front of the door, and the courtyard is after passing the back door of the store. After a while, the beer and meat skewers are served, and when the back door of the store is closed, there is a senior fellow from the Discipline Academy.
Come and check, you don’t have to worry about finding us!”
As the Eighteen Bronze Man spoke, he went to the corner to move tables and chairs and placed them in the yard.
Wang Xu and Xing Hu took a look and realized that these people were all habitual offenders. They came to the store as casually as they went home, no matter how many times they drank here.
"Da Tou, I haven't seen you in half a month. Where did you get rich recently?" The owner of the store is a woman in her thirties. Her husband died and she lives alone with her children in the store.
"There's no place to make a fortune. I'm just messing around outside. I recently planned to build a sand field. Now I'm making money mining sand. Those bastards who run the sand field all wear gold chains that make their necks thick!"
Bronze Man No. 1 took a few boxes of peanuts from the store, sat on a stool, ate them and chatted.
Wang Xu glanced at the crowd with the corner of his eye and found that everyone was smiling and saying nothing. It seemed that the boss lady didn't know everyone's true identity.
"Master Nephew, learn from this. There are some things you can say but not do, and there are some things you can and cannot say. If you come out of the mountain gate to drink, you can't say you are a Shaolin disciple even if you beat yourself to death. This is the rule." Bronze Man No. 3 said.
While waiting, he asked everyone to move the beer.
The five boxes of beer are all old-fashioned beer boxes, plastic boxes that can hold 24 bottles at a time.
The ten kilograms of old wine are still made in jars, and the mud seals from Tankou are all there. It looks like old wine that has been preserved.
Each person was given six bottles of beer and a half-pound bowl of laoshuo, and everyone started drinking with peanuts.
The proprietress took the three hundred yuan from Bronze Man No. 1 and went to the barbecue stall next door to buy barbecue.
It's only 2000, and prices haven't risen too high yet. Kebabs cost one yuan a skewer, ribs only cost 50 cents, and roasted kidneys cost two yuan for three skewers.
Beer is even cheaper, with a box of 24 bottles costing only 22 yuan. Compared with beer that can easily cost 3 to 5 yuan in later generations, it’s really as cheap as grandma’s house.
"Come on, come on, let's go together for the sake of our new little nephew!"
"Go one, go one!"
"Click it before drinking, otherwise where would the sincerity come from?"
Bronze Man No. 1 is the eldest brother of everyone. He was the first to stand up with a bottle of wine and invite everyone to drink together.
Twenty bottles touched each other in mid-air, and twenty people started blowing on the bottles.
Wang Xu was a little unaccustomed to blowing the bottle at first. He had not tried this kind of drinking method for a long time.
However, drinking requires atmosphere. When twenty people gather together and the bottles are clinked, the atmosphere of drinking is created.
Gudong, Gudong, Gudong
After blowing a bottle in one breath, Wang Xu burped and felt refreshed, and all his worries disappeared with the wine.
Sure enough, Cao Cao was right, Du Kang was the only one who could relieve his worries.
"Master nephew, everything is good in our Shaolin Temple, except that we have no wine and no meat. We eat vegetarian dishes every day, and the food in our mouths is like a bird."
"Senior Brother Eighth is right. No matter how delicious the vegetarian dishes are and how similar they are to meat, they are just deceiving themselves and others. In the final analysis, you have to practice them with real swords and guns to enjoy them. The barbecue at the restaurant next door is very authentic. You guys
You’ll know once you taste it.”
"Senior Brother Fifteen is right. For the sake of barbecue, let's go with another one!"
The eighteen-bronze man cheered and stood up again, blowing the wine bottle in his hand for the second time.
Wang Xu drinks a lot, and thanks to his youth, he can drink two bottles without any problem.
Xinghu didn't drink much. After blowing two bottles in a row, his face turned red, just like the red-faced Guan Gong. His eyes lost focus when he looked at people, and he staggered like a roly-poly.
"Senior brother, are you okay?" Wang Xu sat with Xing Hu and gave him a hand.
Xing Hu shook his head vigorously, waved his hand to Wang Xu, and said blankly: "I can still withstand it."
Those who drank beer drank white, and those who drank white changed to beer. Everyone ate barbecue and exchanged cups. The atmosphere was so lively.
This drinking lasted for three hours. Five cases of beer were gone, and three more cases were added. The floor was filled with empty bottles.
The drinker was so light that he couldn't find the fourth bottle, so he lay down under the table and fell asleep.
The 18th Bronze Man is not much better. High martial arts does not mean high alcohol capacity. Drinking capacity has little to do with martial arts.
The average Tongren can drink six or seven bottles of beer, and a few can drink more.
By the time Wang Xu's head was spinning and he was sitting there smoking in a daze, there was no one left to sit on the table.
"Nephew, you had a great time drinking today. I will take you to a karaoke show soon!" Bronze Man No. 1 was lying on the ground, turned over with great effort, and fell asleep holding the legs of bronze man No. 1.
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Wang Xu shook his dizzy head. He was also a little numb after drinking, mainly because he drank beer mixed with liquor, which was more exciting than drinking beer alone.
"You guys go look over there. You go over there, and two more people will follow me."
"After searching carefully, Xingkong stole the Great Return Pill and was slapped by the elder of the Pill Pavilion. He couldn't run too far."
"Brother, we didn't find Xing Kong, but we found a few Shaolin disciples who broke the precepts."
"Take away, take all these disciples who drink alcohol and eat meat back to the Discipline Academy, and let their master come to ask for them tomorrow morning."
When Wang Xu was applying fertilizer in the corner, he suddenly heard a noise outside, as if something big had happened.
After hesitating for a moment, Wang Xu grabbed the wall, leaned out and took a look outside.
As soon as you catch sight, the streets are filled with black-clad monks. Each of these monks has a solemn look on his face, and the word "precepts" are written in gold thread on their shoulders.
"Black monk robes, discipline monk, people from the discipline academy?" After Wang Xu glanced at it, he quickly retracted his neck, woke up a little from his drunken state, and muttered: "Who is Xing Kong, who dares to steal the Dahuan Dan?
,He doesn’t want to live anymore?”
"Senior Brother Fa Jie, we have searched for him, but there is no trace of Xing Kong."
"What a shame, those are five great rejuvenation pills. Xing Kong really took the courage of a leopard. What's even more hateful is that the Eighteen Bronze Men didn't guard the mountain gate at night. Where have these guys gone? I can't spare them tomorrow!"
The sound of footsteps gradually faded away. Wang Xu swallowed and looked at the eighteen bronze figures lying on the ground. This time it seemed that he had gone too far.