After sighing, Cheng Aiguo looked at Chu Tianqi: "Say it." ”

Chu Tianqi smiled: "Minister, what kind of wine do we drink? Is it sorghum wine or ......?"

Cheng Aiguo interrupted the other party: "Good boy, you are still selling guanzi with me, so you will drink sorghum roast in Qingfeng Prefecture, there should be it, right? If not, I will ask you." ”

"Yes, of course. Chu Tianqi said, shouting in the direction of the door, "Serve the wine." ”

"Okay. With an answer, the waiter came in with a small brown jar of wine. Placing the jar outside, the waiter reached for the red cloth on the bottle.

"Girl, give it to me. Cheng Aiguo beckoned to the outside, "I'll drive it." ”

The waiter hesitated for a moment, but still walked into the back room with the wine jar in his hand and put the wine jar in front of Cheng Aiguo.

Cheng Aiguo leaned down, looked around the altar wall twice, and then stroked the altar wall with his left hand, so that the wine altar was gently tilted, and his right hand gently stroked the bottom of the altar, without touching it. He put his right hand in front of his nose and sniffed, then put his right hand on the bottom of the altar for about ten seconds, and then brought it to the front of his nose again and sniffed.

Although the others didn't understand what Cheng Aiguo was going to do, it was definitely not appropriate to ask questions at this time, so their eyes moved with the other party's movements.

Putting the wine jar in order, Cheng Aiguo looked up at the waiter: "Girl, how old is this wine?"

"Twenty-five years. The waiter replied very simply.

"No, not that many years. Cheng Aiguo shook his head, "Who told you about the year?"

"That's what is written on the price list, and that's what is emphasized in the supervisor training. The waiter's face was slightly red, "Sir, this wine has always been like this, and I really haven't heard it questioned before." Obviously, the waiter did not agree with the other party's statement, but due to the constraints of service etiquette, the girl said it more tactfully.

"No one questioned it, and that's because most people don't understand it, and most people don't pay attention. In my opinion, this jar is no more than eighteen years old. As he spoke, Cheng Aiguo untied the string on the seal.

The string was untied, the red cloth at the mouth of the altar was tied, and the seal at the mouth of the altar was cleaned up, Cheng Aiguo lifted it with his right hand, only to hear the sound of "bang", and the cork wrapped in the red cloth was taken out.

Suddenly, the smell of wine filled the room, and everyone couldn't help but sniff.

Cheng Aiguo sniffed the fragrance of the wine while gently peeling off the red cloth on the cork. After a while, one end of the cork was exposed, he stared at it, and then let the exposed end of the cork face the waiter: "Girl, what do you see on it?"

The waiter leaned in and read the text: "C...... Respect. ”

"What do these two words mean?" Cheng Ai Chinese said kindly, "Among the twelve genera, which genus has this 'Yin' character?"

The waiter pondered, "Yin...... Yin Hu Mao...... By the way, Yinhu, my brother is a tiger, and he is nineteen years old this year. ”

Cheng Aiguo said "oh": "Then your brother was born in the year of Bingyin in the lunar calendar, he is nineteen years old, not one year old." ”

"It's a virtual age, and our hometown counts the age like this. After a pause, the waiter hesitated, "That's eighteen years old." The girl clearly answered her age, but in fact she was retorting "no more than eighteen years".

Cheng Aiguo smiled slightly, and continued to peel off the red cloth on the cork until the entire cork was exposed. He looked at the other side of the cork again, and turned the cork to the waiter again: "Look at the words on it again, what does it mean?"

"Dongyue? The girl shook her head.

"Who knows?" Cheng Aiguo looked around with interest.

Chu Tianqi replied: "Is it the eleventh month of the lunar calendar?" I seem to have read this expression in my father's medicine book, and people also call it the midwinter month. ”

"Yes, it's the eleventh month of the lunar calendar. While speaking, Cheng Aiguo turned his head to the waiter, "Today is the fourth day of the fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, the sixteenth day of the third month of the lunar calendar, and this jar of wine has been seventeen years and four months." ”

"Well, the winter moon is supposed to be the winter month, it doesn't seem to be eighteen years. The girl muttered to herself, suddenly stopped, and looked at Cheng Aiguo, "Sir, I really don't know the specific year of this bottle of wine, I ...... what is written on the wine list."

Cheng Aiguo shook his hand: "Girl, don't care, understand, understand." Life is full of learning, and there are many things to learn. At this he smiled, "Why did I start teaching people tirelessly? ”

"Thank you, thank you!" the waiter bowed deeply and walked out of the room.

"Minister, I'll go get another bottle. Chu Tianqi apologized.

Seventeen years is not a short time. Even if you change it again, it must be that the actual year is shorter than the marked year. The misalignment of the age may not be in the restaurant at all, it may be an artificial deviation in the middle link, or it may be deliberate by the manufacturer. Speaking of this, Cheng Aiguo changed his mocking tone, "In shopping malls, this situation is very common. However, this merchant is still relatively kind, only a few years later, not several times, otherwise it might have been the nineteenth century. ”

"Yes, it is already a common phenomenon for merchants to exaggerate their publicity. Zhou Zikai echoed.

"Not to mention this, eating and drinking is the most important thing for such a good wine and food. Cheng Aiguo changed the topic, "Come, Xiao Chu, pour wine, and drink the seventeen-year-old Qingfeng Prefecture sorghum roast." ”

"Okay. Chu Tianqi immediately picked up the wine jar and filled the small porcelain wine glass in front of everyone.

Cheng Aiguo smiled: "Mayor Chu, today you are the owner, let's make a toast!"

Hearing that the other party was ridiculing himself, Chu Tianqi hurriedly said, "Minister, you say, you say." ”

"Okay, then it's better to be respectful. As he spoke, Cheng Aiguo raised his glass, "Thank you Mayor Xiao Chu for bringing me to the 'taste' and letting me eat the 'unforgettable taste', come, let's all have a toast for the sake of 'taste'." ”

"Good. Chu and Tuesday responded, and the three wine glasses touched together, and everyone drank them all.

After drinking the first glass of wine, the dinner party officially began, just now Cheng Aiguo was tasting it, Chu Tianqi and Zhou Zikai didn't move their chopsticks at all.

The three of them talked while eating and drinking, and in the process, Cheng Aiguo said that Chu and Erren mainly listened. At the same time, Cheng Aiguo also automatically assumed the role of a banquet guest, and persuaded Chu and Tuesday to eat more from time to time. The wine table was happy and the atmosphere was harmonious.

Zhou Zikai sincerely admired: "Minister, you just look at the wine jar, you can know the year of the wine, it's amazing." ”

"You don't think I'm an alcoholic, do you? Actually, I'm mainly familiar with this kind of wine. I'm not as good as Xiao Chu, and Xiao Chu can actually know that I love to drink this. As he spoke, Cheng Aiguo turned his head to Chu Tianqi, "Tell me honestly, how did you get the information? What else do you know?"

Chu Tianqi smiled "hehe": "Minister, I'm not Ke Bo, I only found out by chance, can I say it?"

"Say, what other privacy can you expose me?" As he spoke, Cheng Aiguo raised his glass at Zhou Zikai, "Let's drink, let him talk." ”

Chu Tianqi said: "When I went home during the Spring Festival this year, I took a lot of information from a former colleague, and I thought I might be able to learn from it. After I got it back, I had a lot of things to do every day, and I didn't look at it often, but I occasionally flipped it over before going to bed. Two weeks ago, when I was flipping through a book, I saw Minister Cheng's name, and that book was "Qingfeng County Chronicles". Qingfeng County belongs to Woyuan City, far away from Dingye City, I thought it was the same name, but when I looked at the photo on the county chronicle, it was Minister Cheng. Only then did I know that the director Cheng that the people of Qingfeng County never forgot was Minister Cheng. In Qingfeng County, many people may not know who the current secretary of the county party committee is, and they may not be able to say who the central leaders are, but whether it is an old man with gray hair or a child who has just become literate, they all know the director of the factory back then. The word 'Director Cheng' is in the local area, including in Woyuan City, which is ......"

Cheng Aiguo waved his hand again and again: "Stop, stop, why is Xiao Chu talking now? More than 20 years ago, before I was in the organizational system and did not go to the army, I was just a high school student who worked in a factory for several years. At that time, the factory was in the provincial capital, and I responded to the call to support the construction of the old area and was sent to Qingfengzhou Town, Qingfeng County, Woyuan City, and the Qingfeng Prefecture Town Government asked me to work as a technician in the town's distillery. It is said that it is a distillery, but it is actually a small workshop, with less than ten people in total, to produce this sorghum wine. At first, I was very enthusiastic about my work, but after working for more than half a year, there was no improvement, and I was a little discouraged. However, in the process, I learned a lot of things from the master brewer, and I learned how to identify the age of wine at that time.

The wine-making process of this sorghum wine is good, and the taste is also very good, but it is not marketable, mainly because the winery mechanism at that time is not good. When I arrived for more than a year, the county leaders just wanted to set up a few decent enterprises and to carry out a pilot project for competitive recruitment. The better enterprises are afraid of messing up, and the county is also worried, so they will take a few bad enterprises to do it, and the Qingfeng Prefecture Town Distillery has become one of the pilots. During the competition, I became the director of this distillery, and I am ashamed to say that I was the only one who applied for this position.

After I became the director of the factory, I worked hard to learn from and learn from the introduction of talents and technology, and in two years, the distillery became a major profit and tax producer in the county, and the scale was more than ten times that of before, and it became a star enterprise in the city in the fourth year. At that time, there were two opportunities, one was to work in the county government office, and the other was to go to the military school, and I chose to go to the military school, so I left the winery. Unexpectedly, many years later, I actually ate the authentic food of Qingfeng County in a different place, and even drank the familiar sorghum roast many years ago. ”

After a pause, Cheng Aiguo picked up his wine glass: "This is all thanks to Xiao Chu, it was you who made me taste the unforgettable taste again." Here, a toast. ”

"Thank you, Minister! That's what I'm supposed to do. Chu Tianqi took the cup and touched each other.

"You don't have to your tail. After drinking the wine in the cup and teasing, Cheng Aiguo suddenly said, "Xiao Chu, there is still something important, right?"

"Yes. After answering, Chu Tianqi shouted at the door, "Waiter, yellow cake." ”

shouted twice in a row, but there was no movement, so Chu Tianqi said, "I'll go urge", stood up, and walked out of the house.

……

It didn't take long for Chu Tianqi to go back to the house, but instead of sitting directly in his seat, he stood in front of Cheng Aiguo and said softly: "Minister, I met an acquaintance just now, and she wants to come and toast you." ”