Chapter 41: Toasters
The referee sat on the most famous Aunt Yun of the palace wine making department. This person is an old man in the palace, and his family has been brewing fine wine for the royal family for generations, but he has grown up in the aroma of wine since he was a child, and he also has his own set of bartending. Just now she saw it clearly, Cen Guifei used the most complicated bartending method in her family, and the uniqueness of this bartending method is that it can restrain a variety of spices in pairs, fuse each other, and conjure up another taste, which is not easy for people who have been immersed in wine science for many years.
This method is too tricky to be used in general wine tasting competitions. However, now Cen Guifei has used this trick, which clearly means to make things difficult, if it is not for deep hatred, why bother?
Aunt Yun was puzzled, so she had to attribute it to Concubine Cen Guifei's cold nature, and because of her pampering, she was moody, and whoever she fancied was unlucky.
The palace maids on the side also filled the wine separately and handed it to the judges, of course, including the crown prince, the third prince and the king of Su.
Gu Zhirong picked up the smelling cup and leaned it to the end of her nose, Cen Guifei looked at Gu Zhirong, with a sarcastic sneer in the corners of her slightly raised eyes, and everyone's eyes in the audience were focused on Gu Zhirong.
Gu Zhirong had a demure smile on her face, as if this was not a sword competition, she was just taking a leisurely walk. After a moment, she put down her cup, turned and walked to the desk, and wrote a long list of names on the white paper that lay out on it.
The palace maid quickly handed the paper to the referee for evaluation, and the audience was silent, and everyone looked at the stage intently, all pricking up their ears, lest they miss a minute or second at this critical moment.
Finally, Aunt Yun stood up with a solemn expression, glanced at Gu Zhirong, and everyone in the audience held her breath. I don't know how long it took, but finally the corners of Aunt Yun's lips rose, revealing an approving smile: "Miss Gu's answer is completely correct. ”
There was an uproar in the audience, I don't know if it was out of envy or jealousy.
Gu Zhirong breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, he was born in a family of traditional Chinese medicine in his previous life, and his ability to identify the fragrance of various herbs and flowers was many times stronger than others. After passing through, and bumping into good luck, it happened that the owner of this body had an unusual sense of smell, so she took the risk of smelling the wine and gambling on her future. I didn't expect to win.
Of course, such a result was also expected by her.
The second lady in the audience stared at the stage tightly, with a look of disbelief, and the fourth lady's cherry mouth was wide open at this time, enough to stuff an egg, she never expected that such a plan of killing two birds with one stone would be a bamboo basket to draw water!
When she thought of this, she was angry, hateful and heartbroken, and her eyes were staring at Gu Zhirong on the stage, as if she was about to burst into flames.
Gu Zhirong stood gracefully on her face, her face was dignified and calm, it seemed that the praise on and off the stage had nothing to do with her, she only cared about her passing this level, and that's it.
Turning his face slightly, he suddenly saw that the face of King Su, who was sitting diagonally opposite her for thousands of years, softened, and a smile appeared, the meaning of which was unknown.
Even so, Gu Zhirong can't help but deny that this indifferent king really has a different beauty when he laughs, like the sunshine of spring and Xi, warm but not scorching, which makes people involuntarily fall into it.
She seems to understand the reason why most women in the world are infatuated with King Su, because he doesn't smile often, and when he laughs, he will fall into the city, which makes people intoxicated and unable to extricate themselves.
However, all this should have nothing to do with her, except that the inexplicable scandal can have something to do with him. What's more, she is a person with a marriage contract. On the long road ahead, she wants to support each other with that person and move towards a happy and bright future.
Aunt Yun stood up, and in her excitement, she walked quickly in front of Gu Zhirong, grabbed the latter's hand, as if she had found the head of their wine tasting family, and said excitedly: "I didn't expect Miss Gu to have such outstanding attainments in wine tasting, and the added raw materials can be identified from its fragrance alone without tasting, which is really exciting." ”
Gu Zhirong smiled faintly: "My aunt has won the award, I am just an axe from the class, and I am smiling and generous." ”
The people in the audience could see it clearly, Cen Guifei's face suddenly turned pale, she was used to being arrogant, where could she stand such anger, she immediately flicked her sleeves and walked away with her group of followers.
Wen Yan said loudly: "The concubine Niangniang is leaving, I will not be far away." ”
For Cen Guifei's misdeeds in the palace, all of them have heard a little, and now they see her recklessly breaking in, and her eyes are empty, which makes everyone dissatisfied with her, and now seeing her gone, it saves trouble, so the atmosphere in the garden is active again.
Someone on the stage suddenly said: "Sister Wen, since it was the sister of the Gu family who won the first place, according to the rules of previous years, do you want the guests attending this banquet to give Sister Gu a glass of wine?"
This person spoke as crisply as Yinling, delicate and cute, and was the younger sister of the twin sisters who sat near Gu Zhirong when he was offstage. She looked at Gu Zhirong with a bright smile as she spoke, revealing her little daughter's playful and playful nature, and she didn't have any scheming at all.
The sister next to her seemed to think of something, touched her with her elbow, and then whispered a few words in her ear, she was stunned for a moment, her face was a little flustered, and she actually stuttered a little: "I, my proposal is no, it's not good, don't do it." ”
"Why isn't it good?" the prince stood up and said with a smile, "Although this is the first time that the prince has come to attend such a banquet, he must abide by the rules of this place if he follows the customs of the locals. Drinking, yes, no problem. But ......"
Ming Huang's figure turned to Wen Yan, and said with a slight apology: "But the day before yesterday, the prince talked about poetry with Jiangnan students, and was drunk by them. I wonder if I can take a leave of absence?"
Since the crown prince said that he should not drink alcohol at this time, who would dare to force the noble prince to drink? Wen Yan looked at Gu Zhirong and immediately said with a smile: "Since His Royal Highness the crown prince is unwell, it is okay not to drink the wine according to my opinion, and it will not be too late to make up for it when the prince's body is good in the future." ”
Gu Zhirong knew that Wen Yan had a good heart, so he specially excused her, and couldn't help but smile at her gratefully.
The prince suddenly said: "This wine still has to be drunk, otherwise, it will really ruin everyone's interest." Although Prince Ben can't drink alcohol, he didn't say that he can't hire someone to do it for him, right?"
Gu Zhirong was stunned for a moment, in this way, this wine still has to be drunk?
The prince's gaze wandered for a week and fell on King Su: "I think, this wine should be done for me." ”
Gu Zhirong's body shook slightly. Let that descendant of the disciple drink? You must know that you are avoiding him, lest you be involved in another scandal, this is good, the prince just can't open which pot to mention! Besides, she really can't drink, does she really want to lose this face in front of the prince and others?