Volume 2 Chapter 11 The Wine of That Night (6)
"Don't you have nightmares? Don't you dream of dead men?"
Jin Shunyu suddenly turned his face and slapped the table, the wine jar jumped two fingers high: "What I dream about has nothing to do with you, finish drinking and get out!"
"Can't roll, I'm not full." Chen Zizhong's face was mischievous: "You've mixed with people in the Northeast, you should understand the principle of poor households and rich guests. If there's not enough food, find more wine; if there's not enough wine, find more food. Your hospitality is too stingy."
Jin Shunyu smiled, thinking of how to get rid of this rascal. In the past, two village heads in front and back of Daher Village were smashed by the Korean army's gun butts, their hands and feet broken, becoming useless meatballs, and the position of village head was vacant. Whenever villagers had something big or small, they would look for Jin Shunyu, first because she thought carefully about the long-term, and second because no one in the village dared to jump in front of her. When Jin Shunyu's family settled in Daher Village that year, a rascal often flirted with her, saying nasty things behind her back, making trouble for her husband, letting go of the prey that had been tricked today, and tomorrow pouring boiling water on their crops, making the household restless. Jin Shunyu's husband was hot-tempered, wanting to find someone to settle the score, but Jin Shunyu disagreed, saying that if they hurt someone, they would have to move away. That night, Jin Shunyu set up three big tables, and the rascals from Daher Village and nearby villages became honored guests. She used a wine bowl to drink with a group of strong men, and the leader of the rascals crawled into the chicken coop, muttering one, two, three, enter the bridal chamber.
Jin Xunyu observed Chen Zizhong's drinking capacity and thought that she might not be his match. Even if she managed to get him drunk, he would likely become even more unscrupulous after drinking and might try something with her, which would make things worse. She had experienced Chen Zizhong's skills before.
"Are you hungry?" Jin Shunyu covered her face with wine.
Chen Zizhong didn't say he was hungry, but said that kimchi was delicious and could finish three more jars.
Jin Shunyu's gaze shot up like a knife: "Alright, I'll drink wine and you eat dishes. Whoever finishes their share first gets to decide!"
Jin Shunyu's proposal was well thought out. A person with a large capacity for liquor doesn't necessarily have a big appetite, and the liquor will make several rounds in their stomach before they feel comfortable after urinating. Different dishes take at least a few hours to digest. Wu Song could drink eighteen bowls of 'Touping Xiang' but couldn't eat eighteen plates of braised beef, it's the same principle. Jin Shunyu was originally a straightforward and quick-tempered woman who didn't tolerate nonsense, but thinking about Chen Zizhong's teasing her yesterday made her grit her teeth in anger, so she steeled herself to take action.
"What's wrong?"
"Whatever, I don't care!" Jin Shunyu shook her two full *'s, and her black grape-like eyes sparkled. If Chen Zizhong uttered a single careless word, she would smash the wine jug at him, to take him down a peg.
The wine array is also an array, the two armies are most afraid of losing momentum when facing each other. Chen Zizhong and Ya Dongyang faced off in the past, drinking a bowl and shouting loudly, completely overwhelming Ya Dongyang with his momentum, making him shrink inch by inch. Chen Zizhong, on the other hand, became more and more spirited, taking advantage of his intoxication to go down the mountain and easily knock down two black bears.
Jin Xiangyu has seen too many men and gone through too many wine arrays. The things that men can't put down are nothing but wine, lust, wealth, and momentum. Men like Chen Zizhong who love wine even more than they love face, can be unorthodox, but cannot lose their heroic reputation. If they commit the taboo of flirting with women, softening their momentum, they will inevitably lose in the wine array.
Chen Zizhong seemed like a blockhead who didn't understand romance and said: "Just give us brothers a stable nest and that's it."
Chen Zizhong let out a loud belch before he even finished speaking, as if the food had piled up to his throat.
A faint smile flashed across her face, and then disappeared. Jin Shunyu brought out three jars of wine and three jars of pickled vegetables, sat down at the kang table, and clapped her hands loudly in mid-air: "Come!"
