Lu Ningshuang went to Australia for a topic related to the winemaking process, which is also slightly related to Li Yi, because this topic is a project that her mentor inadvertently derived when studying his bottle of red wine. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Speaking of winemaking, we have to mention the division of wine regions around the world. Depending on the region, there are old and new worlds. Old World wines, mainly represented by France and Italy, also include Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Hungary and European countries, while New World wines, represented by the United States, Australia, South Africa, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, etc., are basically the former colonial countries during the European expansion period.

In addition to the geographical differences, the winemaking techniques and concepts of the old and new world wines are also very different, the old world wines are more individual, usually planted in a large number of different varieties of grapes, in addition to the vineyard management mainly rely on labor, and strictly limit the production of grapes to ensure the quality of wine.

New World wines, on the other hand, are more technologically advanced and tend to be industrially produced, which has great advantages in terms of enterprise size, capital, technology and market. At the same time, New World Winery has also introduced leisure tourism to the winery on a large scale, which is more conducive to promoting wine culture to wine lovers.

The Hunter Valley where Li Yi is going this time is Australia's oldest wine country, with a history of more than 150 years of wine making, and the red and white wines produced are very famous and have won numerous awards.

And, most importantly, the Hunter Valley is also Australia's most established wine tourism region. In addition to wine tasting, you can also find more fun here, such as horseback riding, cycling, hot air balloon rides, jungle walks, national parks, breweries and cheese workshops, and the tourist facilities are unmatched by other wine tourism areas, such as swimming pools, tennis courts, gyms, etc.

Together with Lu Ningshuang, they are working with Audrey Wilkinson Winery, one of the region's most well-known wineries, which is said to have a history dating back 120 years.

The winery's vineyards are located at the foot of the Brokeback Mountain Range, at an altitude of 180 to 260 meters above sea level, offering a 360-degree unobstructed view of the Hunter Valley.

However, it is a pity that there are only two guest houses used by this winery to receive tourists, and they are all booked by Lu Ningshuang, so Li Yi can only live in the small town of Cessnook, which is still a 20-minute drive away.

It's just that when he was searching for information about this town, he found that this town, which he had never heard of, was actually on the list of Australia's top ten resorts of the year selected by TripAdvisor, the world's largest and most popular tourist community, although it was only at the bottom of the list, but it was also quite remarkable, because the Australian Gold Coast, which is very famous in China, did not even make the list!

Sethnok is about 150 kilometers away from Sydney, after Li Yi and Hongchen landed in Sydney, they directly rented an off-road vehicle, and then drove north according to the instructions on the navigation map on the car, and finally arrived at a family hotel that Lu Ningshuang had booked for them after about two and a half hours.

Lu Ningshuang waited at the front desk of the hotel, and as soon as she saw Li Yi, she rushed over excitedly, regardless of the presence of outsiders, she first gave a French long kiss, and then took Li Yi back to the room with a blushing face.

After some lingering, the two bought a few staple pastries in the town, and then drove to Audrey Wilkinson Winery, where they were going to settle dinner today, and her tutor and classmates knew that Li Yi was coming, so they specially prepared an open-air barbecue dinner for him.

When Li Yi and the others arrived, the barbecue grill had already been set up, and some of the marinated meat was also placed on the long table next to the barbecue grill, but what caught Li Yi's attention the most was the wine bottles on the other table on one side, there were about a dozen, looking at the shape and label, none of them were the same.

The barbecue grill is placed on a flat grass, next to it, there are two wooden houses with a large and a small European style, but the strange thing is that it is quiet, and no one can see it!

"Huh? What about them? Alice! Poitou! Where are you? ”

Lu Ningshuang shouted as he walked to the side of the smaller wooden house,

"There were six of us here, Alice and I stayed in this cabin, the big cabin has four rooms, a dining room and a kitchen......

Lu Ningshuang pushed open a hidden door, stretched out her head to take a look, and then shrugged her shoulders helplessly,

"Alice isn't here, come on, I'll show you around my room."

Lu Ningshuang's room is not big, less than 20 square meters, and in addition to looking relatively clean, it is no different from an ordinary hotel.

"It's a nice view, you see, there's a vineyard in the distance, do you see that? It was planted very openly, and within a few years, they would cut all the grapes and plant new ones. ”

Li Yi stretched out his head to look at it, and found that a little to the side was a barbecue place, but there was still no one. Not far from the window, there is a large field of lush vineyards, and in the distance, there are rolling green mountains.

"The wines here are fermented for a short time, so the tannin content is not high, and the taste is mainly fresh and fruity, which is more suitable for those who don't drink wine often, and this sweet wine, if you try it, it should be very suitable for your taste."

Lu Ningshuang picked up a bottle of white wine without a label on the table and poured a glass for Li Yi.

"Feed me."

Li Yi saw that Lu Ningshuang was going to give him the cup, so he hid his hand, pursed his lips and waited to feed him.

Lu Ningshuang shook her head helplessly, and handed the cup to his mouth, but he didn't expect Li Yi to shake his head,

"This cup is easy to choke, I want a leather cup!"

Lu Ningshuang was stunned for a moment, before she realized what a leather cup was, she couldn't help but kick him lightly with hatred, and she was about to put the cup down directly, and when she saw the desire in Li Yi's eyes, she took a shallow sip, and then sent her cherry lips up.

However, just when the lips of the two had just touched and Li Yi had not yet tasted the wine, there was a sudden sound, and the door was knocked open, and at the same time, several figures jumped out of the window.

The two of them were tenderly sweet, and they were frightened by this, not only did they quickly separate, but the wine that Lu Ningshuang held in his mouth directly sprayed Li Yi in the face!

"Poitou, you are looking for death!"

"It's none of my business, it's you who didn't close the door!"

Lu Ningshuang, who reacted, waved her fist viciously and ran out after chasing the guy who crashed in, while Li Yi wiped his face, shook his head with a wry smile at a few guys who were gloating outside the window, and was about to go out to join them.

"Lee, here!"

Before he could turn around, the tall, blonde girl outside the window pulled the window open.

"Oh, okay."

Li Yi glanced at the windowsill, which was no more than half a meter high, and stepped out with one foot.

"Alice, this is Thubper, and Pumas, you are finally here, Xiaolu has not slept well in the past few days."

Before Li Yi could speak, Lu Ningshuang came around from the side, she waved her small fist at Alice and the others, and then hugged Li Yi's arm like a demonstration,

"Just make out, what's wrong?"

The answer is, of course, nothing, but when he was barbecuing and drinking later, Li Yi, who held a grudge, drank some He Shou Wu water, and then poured these guys into a daze!

Lu Ningshuang's mentor went to Newcastle because of something temporary, and he didn't come back until they finished eating, seeing that several guys were drowsy, Lu Ningshuang didn't wait long, and after driving them back to their respective rooms, he followed Li Yi back to the town.

After a night of silence, early the next morning, after Li Yi sent Lu Ningshuang back to the winery, he came to the nearby Wallemie National Park. This place is one of the six national parks near Sydney, and the firefly cave and the sheep dip canyon that is only one person wide and narrow are very famous, but the reason why Li Yi wants to go around here is that leisure is only one aspect, and he also wants to try his luck to see if he can meet a rare plant, Wallermi fir , he suspects that this plant may also contain a special aura.

Wallermi fir is one of the oldest species in the world, and it was previously known only from 120 million-year-old fossils.

Later, in the mid-90s of the last century, about 100 or so living Wollemi fir trees were found in the narrow and steep sandstone canyons of the rainforest of Wollemi National Park, which caused a great shock in the botanical community.

Li Yi's trip to Australia did not have any special arrangements, so after seeing this news on the Internet, he was ready to take a look if he had time.

After entering the park, Li Yi first went to visit the cave paintings and some stone carvings left by the Australian aborigines in the park, and then began to follow the guidance of the map, all the way to the place where the Wollermi fir grows.

When it was first discovered, it was so well guarded that even botanists who wanted to see it had to be blindfolded and sent to the neighborhood by helicopter, but since 2006, when Australia implemented a program to breed it and achieved some success, it has not been so closely guarded.

It's not that tight, but it's not something that anyone can see casually if they want to. In the map of the Wollemi National Park, there is no indication of the growth area of the Wollemi cedar, and to find this plant, which is less than a hundred plants in total in this park of more than 5 square kilometers, is just relying on luck, even with the spirit card, it seems that it is not so reliable.

But nothing is absolute, Li Yi searched the Internet for a forum, and found a message, which was posted by a visitor who had been to Wallemie Park, he gave the possible growth area of Wallemie cedar, and claimed to have seen the real tree species there, and attached photos. Although some people refuted that he was a fake, Li Yi still decided to go around there to have a look.

All the way through the narrow Sheep Canyon and through a dense rainforest, Li Yi and the others reached the majestic Rocky River Canyon, and the location given by the man was in the rainforest not far after passing through the Rocky River Canyon.

Walking through the canyon, climbing a nameless mountain, and looking at the sea in the distance and the sparse crowd on the beach, Li Yi suddenly had an urge to shout.

The arsenal where he lived since he was a child is in the middle of a big mountain, so he has not been very interested in traveling, and he used to run around, most of them were picking up treasures and leaving, and he was not interested in taking a look at those well-known tourist attractions.

But this time, I don't know if it's because of the change in mentality, all this he saw in front of him made him suddenly have an urge to walk around.

And when he stood on the protruding rock and shouted loudly at the sea in the distance for a while, suddenly, he felt a palpitation, that feeling was like a tight string somewhere in his heart that he had never noticed suddenly broke, and then immediately after, a magnificent and vast ink landscape painting appeared in his mind, every stroke was vivid, and in the dark, there seemed to be an invisible brush, taking him to copy this painting, the speed of the pen was as fast as lightning, but every movement was extremely clear, This strange contrast even made him feel dizzy for a while.

Soon, before he could fully understand what was going on, the scroll quietly disappeared, but the hearty feeling remained in his mind, and it was difficult to dissipate for a long time.

Li Yi stood on the rock for more than half an hour before he slowly woke up from the strange state just now, and couldn't help but be surprised in his heart, what the hell is going on?

The scene just now, although it is not the same as the mysterious space he entered after touching Liu Gongquan's stele in the forest of steles in Chang'an, the nature of the two is similar, but the former is touched by the cool air on the stele, and what he saw is only the scene of Liu Gongquan writing the inscription of the "Mysterious Tower", so what does the scene just now represent? What struck you?

After looking around for a long time, he didn't find anything special, Li Yi shook his head helplessly, and a wry smile appeared on his face, even if it was to give some hints......

However, even if you never understand it, it doesn't seem to be a big deal, anyway, all of this is only good for him, no harm, besides, in the year of getting the spirit card, is there still a lot of this kind of incomprehension?

"Brother Yi......"

Seeing Li Yi jump off the rock, Hongchen, who had been sitting on the side guarding him, also jumped up.

"Well, let's go, go over there and take a look, if not, don't look for it, go back to the hotel and rest!"

Hongchen nodded, hesitated, and pointed to the woods not far away and said:

"Brother Yi, just now I walked around the edge of the woods and found a plant, a bit like the picture you showed me, but it's too small, and I can't really stare at it......"

"Oh? You mean Wallermifir firs? Where is it? (To be continued.) )