Sasha's home is a two-story wooden house, with a detached courtyard located on the riverside on the hill, five or six hundred meters from the road, surrounded by a forest, which can be described as quiet. There was an off-road vehicle parked in the yard, and Sasha said that he drove this Mercedes-Benz van specially to pick me up today, and he usually likes to drive this Russian-made Neva four-wheel drive SUV, which is not a problem on any road. I've only seen Soviet-made Lada and Volga sedans before, but it's the first time I've seen this kind of boxy off-road vehicle with tires on its back, and I can't help but get closer to take a closer look, and suddenly a big wolf dog sprang out of the shadows and barked at me, I was startled and desperately grabbed Sasha's arm, "Yak is quiet, it's our friend." Sasha ordered the big wolf dog, the big wolf dog was very obedient and quiet, sat on the ground and wagged his tail and looked at Sasha, "Dapeng don't be afraid, Yak is a German shepherd raised by Sasha, very smart, wait a while you feed it some meat with your hands, it will know you, my first time here, it is the same, after Sasha asked me to feed it, it was very friendly when he saw me." Brother Chao said to me, "Yak now considers Vanya (Brother Chao's Russian name) to be his own, Peng, you wait, I'll go get a piece of meat, you feed it." Sasha walked into the house, and after a while took a piece of raw meat and handed it to me, I put the meat in the palm of my hand and stretched it out, "Ark eat, remember Peng is our friend." Sasha seemed to be facing his own ignorant child, and Ark swallowed the raw meat on my palm in one gulp, "Ark, hug Peng. Before I could get ready, Yak suddenly stood on his hind legs, his two front feet on my shoulders, I stood in place trembling and stiffened, Ark stuck out his tongue and licked it on my face, "Peng, don't be afraid, Ark is making out with you, it already treats you as family." "My mother, my family is so angry that they almost peed their pants in fear of Ark's affection.

Sasha's house has a fireplace burning and is warm like spring, and the hall is surrounded by flowers. "Peng, welcome to my home." Sasha said as he took a horn from the table in the hall with both hands, raised it over his shoulder and handed it to me, I took the horn with both hands, the horn was filled with wine, and a strong grape aroma came to my nose, "Dapeng, the Georgian red wine in this horn is a ritual for the Caucasian to welcome guests, you have to drink it in one gulp." Brother Chao hurriedly explained to me, and I reluctantly drank the wine in one gulp with my mouth on the horns, "Peng, Mara Jieci (good)." Sasha gave me a bear hug and kissed me on the left and right on the cheek, "My mother is Georgian, and I was born in the Caucasus, so I greet you with Caucasian etiquette." "Sasha, thank you very much! Very good Georgian wine. ”

I praised it from the bottom of my heart, thinking to myself that it was no wonder that Sasha's hair was black, and she didn't look a little like a Russian, it turned out to be half a Caucasian, "Come, let me introduce you to my family, this is my wife Irina, this is my son Vovo (Vladimir's nickname), this is my little princess Nasjinka (Nasga's nickname)" Irina has blonde hair and blue eyes, tall and plump, Vovo is seven or eight years old, and he is also a black hair, Nasjinka looks like Sasha, four or five years old, but he has blonde hair. "This is our guest Peng from afar. Wovanasjinka, you have to call Jiajia (uncle) Peng," I took out a gift bag of Changbai Mountain ginseng and a packet of Shanghai White Rabbit toffee from my bag, and handed it to Irina in both hands, "This is a small gift I brought from China to you. "Wow! Is this the magic ginseng? Irina exclaimed, "Yes Irina this is our treasure in the Northeast - ginseng, you can use it to make wine and prolong your life." Brother Chao explained on the side, "Peng, how old is this ginseng?" Sasha asked curiously, "Ginseng for more than five years." I replied that a friend of mine was from Changbai Mountain, and before going abroad, he specially asked him to help me buy some gift bags of ginseng, "Peng, thank you for giving us such a precious gift, and I will also treat you with my treasured Georgian red wine today." "Sasha, thank you very much, can I borrow your home phone to call my parents and tell them that I have arrived safely." "No problem, this is more important than anything else."

After calling home, Sasha asked us to sit down at the table, only to see that the table was already full of colorful and sumptuous food, salads, fried chicken thighs, mashed potatoes, cheese, sausages, grilled fish, and the most conspicuous thing was that in the middle of the table were two glass jars full of three liters, which were filled with red wine, "This is the best wine in the world - Georgian wine, Stalin's favorite in those years, and once entertained the most distinguished guests**." Sasha poured half a glass of wine into the goblet in front of each of us, "Everyone raise their glasses to welcome Peng's arrival and toast to our acquaintance." "We drank the wine in one gulp, with a rich aroma in the glass.

"Although we are thousands of miles away, it is our fate to be here today, and we want us to toast to our friendship!"

"Wherever you go, don't forget your parents, they raised us and asked us to toast to our parents!"

"The hardest thing today is my wife Irina, I want to say that women are the greatest in the world, they are mothers, wives and daughters, and we want us to toast to great women!"

Sasha raised his glass frequently, and each time he toasted differently. Brother Chao explained to me that people in CIS countries must have a toast before drinking, and the toasts are not the same, when saying a toast, everyone must hold a glass and not put it down, and drink to dry it in one gulp, especially in the Caucasus, the toast is a long speech, and even can be said for more than ten minutes at a time.

It didn't take more than a moment for a large jar of more than three liters of Georgian wine to see the bottom, and with the large horn glass of red wine I drank when I entered the door, I had already drunk a lot, but I didn't feel a trace of drunkenness, and I felt hearty and comfortable.

"Peng, how is my Georgian wine?" Sasha asked me, "I don't know about wine, but I think it's the best wine I've ever had." I replied, "This is the best grape variety in Georgia that I have been storing for seven or eight years, but it is not the best, and if you were in Georgia, I would treat you to a home-grown wine, accompanied by Caucasian barbecue, which is definitely the best and best in the world." Sasha closed her eyes as she spoke, shook her head and took a deep breath of air through her nose, as if there was a steaming plate of roast meat in front of her, "Friends, for the beautiful Caucasus, for this delicious wine, let's toast!" ”

After drinking the wine in the toast, Sasha asked me and Chao Ge a question: "Vanya, Peng, do you know where the world's earliest wine was produced?" "I think it's Georgia." Brother Chao replied, "Vanya, Marajieci (good)!" Sasha gave a thumbs up to Chaoge, "Georgia is the first country in the world to make wine, and the oldest wine-making sites found by archaeology are 8,000 years old, and the history of those European wines is many years later than the history of Georgian wines. In Georgia, almost every family makes wine, everyone drinks wine, do you know why the wine we drink is so fragrant with grapes? Georgian wines are made in clay pots buried in the ground, this is unique, the clay pots can breathe, so Georgian wines retain the most natural fruity aromas, and absorb the essence of nature. There is the best mineral water in the world in the mountains of the Caucasus, and the grapes grown from this water are the best grapes in the world, and the wine made from the best grapes in the world and the unique method in the world are not the best wines in the world. ”

Brother Chao and I were dumbfounded, we didn't expect Georgian wine to have such a deep knowledge.

We drank until late at night, and we had our best. Irina arranged a room for us and we stayed at Sasha's house.