At this moment, the family was filled with laughter and joy.
Xu Siqi, Gu Qingcheng, Xu Siyuan, and Akiyama Yumei were sitting around the dining table.
The meal is very sumptuous, with four cold and four hot dishes, a total of eight dishes.
The staple food is Sipailou’s three-fresh stuffed dumplings.
Xu Siqi reached for the jug on the table, poured himself a glass of wine, and said: "This is real pure grain wine. Master He brewed it himself. He thought it was good and gave me a barrel. Oh, Master He is
There is a patrolman in the patrol room, and his family used to have a wine shop."
Gu Qingcheng took the cup and took a sip, and immediately choked and coughed.
Xu Siqi smiled and said: "It is 70% pure liquor without blending."
"You didn't tell me earlier." Gu Qingcheng said, pretending to be angry.
Even across the dining table, you can feel the spicy smell of liquor.
Xu Siqi stood up, looked at Akiyama Yumi who was covering her mouth and snickering, and said: "Yumi, I'd like to toast you this glass of wine."
Akiyama Yumi quickly stood up: "Brother Xu, what do you want to respect me for?"
Xu Siqi said seriously: "Without you, Siyuan and I might have had to go through a lot of troubles to get to know each other. We might even never have the chance to get to each other."
Akiyama Yumi muttered: "I didn't do anything, I just told the truth. I didn't want to lie to Shinji."
Xu Siyuan said: "Yumi, you called me wrong again. It's not Shinji, it's Xu Siyuan."
"I'm sorry, I'm used to it..."
Akiyama Yumi felt uneasy, and even now she is not sure whether what she did was wrong or right.
Xu Siqi toasted, picked up the jug and poured a glass for Xu Siyuan, and said: "Siyuan, you should toast Yumei more. To her frankness and character. In the countryside, people at your age marry wives.
You’ve given birth to a child, you’re a real man, you won’t be unable to drink a glass of wine, right?”
The seven-cent wine glass was actually only filled with more than half a glass.
Xu Siyuan bowed to Yumi Akiyama, then raised his glass and drank it all.
Akiyama Yumi responded in panic.
Xu Siqi said: "In addition, Qingcheng and I have set a wedding date. It will be held on December 26 at Holy Trinity Church."
Akiyama Yumi was very curious and asked: "Why do you want to have a wedding in a church?"
Gu Qingcheng explained: "My parents are Christians, so..."
Xu Siyuan picked up the cup and said, "Brother, sister-in-law, congratulations to you."
What he drank this time was tea.
Xu Siqi reminded her tactfully that she and Gu Qingcheng were an unmarried couple, but Xu Siyuan still called her sister-in-law, which made Gu Qingcheng elated.
"These are your favorite three-fresh dumplings. I bought them from Sipailou Dumpling House."
"Thank you, brother."
Xu Siyuan put a dumpling on a plate, used a spoon to cut the middle of the dumpling, and ate the shrimp inside first, and then the other parts.
Xu Siqi smiled and said: "In the Hongkou patrol room, I asked you to tell an impressive childhood story. Before I could tell it, I was interrupted by Mr. Akiyama and Yumi. I guess it should be a story about dumplings, right?"
Xu Siyuan said: "Yes. My adoptive mother said that when I was a child, when I saw the dumplings for the first time, I knew to eat the shrimp inside first. If there were no shrimps, I would cry inexplicably. Later, every once in a while, my adoptive mother would
I will buy three fresh dumplings with shrimps.”
"Thankfully you continued your habit, otherwise, we might never have the chance to meet again in this life."
Xu Siqi was in high spirits, drinking one glass after another until the pot of wine was drained.
Let's talk about it, it took nearly two hours to eat a meal.
Gu Qingcheng took the lead in entering the role, putting on an apron and cleaning up the dishes in the kitchen.
As the eldest daughter of Gu Mansion, she has been cared for by dedicated people since she was a child. Although she is pampered, she has never done any housework.
After washing a few cups, plates, dishes, and chopsticks, it felt like there was a rebellion in the kitchen.
Xu Siyuan said: "Sister-in-law, shall I help you?"
Gu Qingcheng said quickly: "No, no, you go and accompany Yumi. Oh, my brother is drunk. He will be fine after a while. Don't disturb him."
"knew."
Xu Siyuan withdrew and closed the kitchen door.
After looking through the crack in the bedroom door for a while, Xu Siqi was lying fully clothed, with his face facing the other side.
Akiyama Yumi was sitting on the sofa, reading "Movie Illustrated" attentively.
The little girl is at the age where she loves beauty and she likes this type of magazine the most.
"I'm also looking for a book to read..."
Xu Siyuan muttered to himself and stepped into the study.
The desk has two cabinet doors, one is locked and the other is unlocked.
After returning home from get off work, Xu Siqi would put his briefcase in the unlocked cabinet door. Xu Siyuan came here often recently and knew his brother's habits very well.
Opening the cabinet door, the black briefcase was indeed inside.
…
After one hour.
The bedroom door rang and Xu Siqi stepped out.
Gu Qingcheng was the only one in the living room.
"Where are the people?"
"Left long ago."
"why did you leave?"
"The master is sleeping, why don't the guests leave?"
"I'm happy today, I drank a few more drinks..."
Xu Siqi rubbed his temples and slowly sat down.
Gu Qingcheng looked at him for a while and suddenly said: "Siqi, what on earth are you doing?"
"ah?"
"Pretend to be drunk, pretend to be asleep."
"I really drank too much..."
"Would you like me to bring the wine bottle and demonstrate it live?"
"Demonstration, what?"
Without saying a word, Gu Qingcheng stood up and quickly walked into the kitchen.
After a while, she brought two empty glasses and the tin jug she had just used.
The cups are placed side by side on the coffee table.
When the jug was poured down, it turned out to be a cup of plain water. When poured into the second cup, it turned out to be tea.
Gu Qingcheng sat down and looked at Xu Siqi at leisure.
Xu Siqi smiled bitterly and said: "Qingcheng, how did you find out about this?"
Gu Qingcheng said: "How can a drunk person not smell of alcohol? You hide in the bedroom and pretend to be asleep, just because you are worried about being seen..."
I went to the bedroom to cover Xu Siqi with a quilt. I accidentally got closer and smelled it, and then I noticed something unusual. A person who drank a pot of high-strength liquor did not smell of alcohol at all.
Under normal circumstances, this is obviously impossible.
After thinking about it, there can only be one answer. Except for the first cup, what Xu Siqi drank was not wine at all!
After so long, the smell of the seven-dollar wine has long since disappeared.
It's the same with everything. Even if you can hide it from the whole world, you can rarely hide it from the person next to you.
In fact, the wine pot is called "Jiuqu Yuanyang Pot", which is also commonly known as "Yuanyang Pot".
This is a pot invented by Zheng Xiu, a lazy man from Chu State, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period for the convenience of taking medicine.
The wine pot is divided into two parts, with a partition in the middle. One side is filled with water and the other is filled with medicine.
The subtlety of the wine pot is that the button design is extremely concealed, and the spout is actually divided into two sections. The person holding the pot uses the mechanism to control the air pressure and pour out what he wants...