Chapter 6: Living a Life of Drunkenness and Dreaming of Death

It is said that a short separation is better than a new marriage. Counting on one's fingers, Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu have been separated for nearly half a year. One can imagine how happy they are.

Qi Xuansu secretly held Zhang Yuelu's hand again.

He did not yearn for a long and dull life, but preferred the life of fighting in the rivers and lakes. However, he enjoyed this moment of peace, just like a long drought and a sweet rain.

Qi Xuansu turned his head and saw Zhang Yuelu's beautiful eyes staring at him, with a calm smile on her face.

Seeing Qi Xuansu looking at her, she smiled slightly: "Shall we go out for a walk?"

Qi Xuansu naturally would not refuse, and went out with Zhang Yuelu.

The courtyard where Zhang Yuelu lived had a good view. It shared a large lake with other courtyards, or it could be said that several courtyards were built around the lake. They were all semi-open structures. There was no courtyard wall on the side facing the lake, and this lake was connected to Zhenwu Lake.

There is a pavilion not far from the lake, connected to the embankment by a winding water corridor. Qi Xuansu took Zhang Yuelu to the pavilion, and the two sat down on the "beauty backrest" of the pavilion, with their hands still clasped together.

Qi Xuansu glanced at the two people's interlocked hands and whispered: "I thought you would pull your hand back."

As soon as the voice fell, Zhang Yuelu calmly pulled her hand away and asked: "Why do you think so?"

Qi Xuansu said: "Because you always give people the impression of being serious and dignified."

Zhang Yuelu laughed dumbly and said: "Of course, you have to have a correct attitude when doing things, so that others can be convinced, but in front of you, there is no need for that."

Qi Xuansu reached out again and held her hand.

Zhang Yuelu turned her palm and held Qi Xuansu's hand.

Holding hands, Qi Xuansu felt that this moment was the most precious. His whole body was like a spring breeze, and his heart was floating in the clouds. I hope it will last forever and this will always be the case in this life.

Zhang Yuelu gently leaned on Qi Xuansu's shoulder and asked softly, "Tianyuan, where have you been during this period of time?"

Qi Xuansu's expression was stiff for a moment, and then he said, "This is a very long story. To paraphrase a sentence in the storybook, I have a story, do you have wine?"

"After you got into trouble, I stopped drinking." Zhang Yuelu shook his head.

Qi Xuansu was moved and pretended to be sorry and said, "It's a pity, I specially prepared good wine, it seems that you are not lucky enough to enjoy it."

Zhang Yuelu's eyes lit up slightly: "It's not a pity, you are back now, I can naturally break the vow."

"Wait for me for a moment." Qi Xuansu let go of Zhang Yuelu's hand and turned to leave the pavilion.

Not long after, Qi Xuansu went back.

Qi Xuansu spent two Taiping coins to customize an exquisite brocade box, and also matched it with two glasses, which looked quite real.

Zhang Yuelu asked curiously, "What kind of wine is this? Could it be a Western red wine?"

Qi Xuansu shook his head and said, "I don't know much about wine, but it's definitely not red wine. You should check it out for yourself."

Zhang Yuelu borrowed the brocade box from Qi Xuansu and placed it on the stone table in the pavilion. He didn't pay much attention to it and opened the lid casually.

The next moment, Zhang Yuelu showed a look of shock on his face: "Tianyuan, where did you get it from?"

Qi Xuansu smiled and answered the question irrelevantly: "It's a good wine."

"Of course it's a good wine." Zhang Yuelu was actually a little excited and a little moved. "When we first met, I just mentioned it casually, but I didn't expect you to remember it."

Qi Xuansu immediately began to recall the scene of their first meeting.

Thanks to Sanren's amazing memory, Qi Xuansu quickly remembered it.

It was after leaving Fenghuang Tower. He sat on the steps to sober up, and the two talked about daughter red and champion red.

Then Zhang Yuelu said: "Actually, there is nothing wrong with getting drunk. At least you can forget those troubles for a while. I heard that there is a kind of wine in Taoism called 'Drunken Life and Dreaming Death', which is specially provided for real people, because ordinary wine has no effect on real people. If a real person wants to get drunk, he will ask for a jar of 'Drunken Life and Dreaming Death'."

"If an ordinary person drinks 'Drunken Life and Dreaming Death', he will forget many things, forget his parents, wife and children, forget his friends and brothers, and even forget who he is. Therefore, Taoism has strict control over 'Drunken Life and Dreaming Death', and it is difficult to find it on the market. I have always wanted to drink it, but I have never been able to do so."

Is this thing the legendary "Drunken Life and Dreaming Death"? Wine specially provided for real people to drink? The people of Huashengtang even put this good thing into the jar? But think about it from another angle. Ordinary people will lose their memory after drinking it, and only celestial beings can drink it. It must be priceless and mostly unsaleable inventory.

Qi Xuansu looked at the bottle of wine in the brocade box, suppressed his shock, and joked: "Of course I remember. If it weren't for that chance encounter, I wouldn't have been favored by the famous Deputy Hall Master Zhang."

Zhang Yuelu didn't know what to say for a while, so she could only sigh softly.

Qi Xuansu asked: "Why are you sighing? Don't you like it?"

Zhang Yuelu hurriedly shook her head and said: "No, I like it very much. But you must have spent a lot of time thinking about this bottle of 'Drunken Life and Dreaming Death', right?"

Qi Xuansu said truthfully: "I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about it, I just got it by chance, it's nothing."

Zhang Yuelu didn't think so, she just thought Qi Xuansu didn't want her to feel bad so he said that deliberately, but in fact the process was tortuous, she couldn't help but feel ashamed, and whispered: "But I don't have anything to give you."

Qi Xuansu couldn't help but feel ashamed, and hurriedly said: "This gift is actually an apology. I don't want you to give me anything. I like you, not because of your last name, your origin, or who your master is. Although I, Qi Xuansu, am not a great person, But I still have some anger, just because you are you, that’s all.”

Zhang Yuelu looked at him with full eyes: "Tianyuan, are you telling the truth? Or are you trying to trick me?"

Qi Xuansu said sternly: "Of course I am telling the truth. If I swear, I am just coaxing you."

Zhang Yuelu's eyes were soft and not aggressive at all. He just asked: "You said this gift is an apology, what do you mean?"

Qi Xuansu said: "Then we have to drink and tell stories at the same time."

Speaking of this, Qi Xuansu suddenly remembered something: "By the way. I am only in the stage of returning to my true state of cultivation. I won't forget who I am after drinking 'Drunk Life, Dreams and Death', right?"

"That's not true. Just drink less." Zhang Yuelu took out the two wine glasses from the brocade box and placed them on the stone table. He also removed the seals on the bottles and filled them up. The wine turned out to be a clear amber color. , it looks really good in the transparent glass.

Qi Xuansu picked up a cup, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and immediately felt drunk.

Zhang Yuelu also picked up his own glass and took a sip very gracefully.

"That's a long story, where should I start?" Qi Xuansu gently shook the wine glass, looked at the amber liquid in the glass, and fell into memories.

A blush appeared on Zhang Yuelu's face, bright and moving, and he said with a smile but not a smile: "Why don't we start from Yanze?"

The expression on Qi Xuansu's face slowly froze.

Zhang Yuelu took another sip of wine and continued: "Maybe we can start with Tso Wenbu."

Qi Xuansu coughed suddenly: "You know everything?"

Zhang Yuelu smiled and said nothing.

Qi Xuansu asked again: "When did you know about it?"

Zhang Yuelu laughed softly: "I didn't really know until you said this."

Qi Xuansu immediately understood that he had been deceived: "Okay, so you are deceiving me."

"At first, I didn't think much about it. After all, you were already 'dead' and I witnessed it with my own eyes."

Zhang Yuelu smiled more today than in the past six months. At this time, she supported her chin with her hand and held a wine glass in the other, looking at Qi Xuansu with a smile: "Even after knowing that you are not dead, I never thought of this. Until you said you wanted to apologize to me, I had to think more. This reminded me of a guess that I denied, and I suddenly found that many things that I had never understood in the past suddenly became clear, so I..."

"You just took the opportunity to test me, and my reaction just confirmed your guess." Qi Xuansu said with a wry smile.

Zhang Yuelu laughed: "Should I call you Qi Xuansu? Or should I call you Wei Wugui?"

Qi Xuansu blinked: "Of course it's Qi Xuansu."

Zhang Yuelu snorted softly with a nasal tone, not at all displeased, but rather a bit lazy and charming.

Qi Xuansu hesitated for a moment and then said: "I killed Wan Xiuwu."

Zhang Yuelu glanced at him: "What then?"

Qi Xuansu asked strangely: "Aren't you angry? I thought you would kill your relatives out of justice and arrest me."

Zhang Yuelu sighed: "Tian Yuan, anyone can catch you, but I, Zhang Yuelu, can't catch you."

Qi Xuansu asked: "Why?"

Zhang Yuelu looked at him closely and said softly: "I am neither a saint nor a villain."