From the depth of autumn to the snowfall, the wind blows, everything is withered, and the yellow is everywhere, and the twilight of late autumn is swept out in this extreme cold, leaving no room for anything!

The cold wind is like a knife, and the cold snow is under the bones, corrupting and precipitating all the old and decrepit to the earth, and then in the depths of the earth, a new life is born, waiting for the moment when the snow melts.

At this time, spring is coming.

Even if it is still cold, this chill just protects the newly sprouted shoots and newborn creatures, suppresses the poisonous breath and all kinds of bacteria and poisons, and gives all life space to grow and mature.

But in Dongtian, there is one place that is different.

The caves in the cave are connected to some places deep underground, enjoying the warmth of the geothermal heat, and even in the cold winter, the temperature there has not changed much.

The cold wind and the bone knife cannot carve into the depths of the cave.

In such a miraculous cave, the clay pots of a large urn and a large urn were neatly placed, and after brewing for a winter, it finally ushered in his master and ushered in a new opportunity like everything in the world.

Zhou Yi didn't use oak barrels, because he felt that he should make some different wines, and make pure wines with only grape flavors and aromas, so he chose a simple large clay pot to carry it.

The wine in the clay pot was uncovered, and then quickly, one by one, it was packed into one after another dark cyan streamer wine bottles, corked with oak, and placed in another storage room, placed diagonally, and stored.

Perhaps, after a while, it will be able to be truly unsealed.

Zhou Yi, as the owner of these wines, will enjoy the first time in the life of these wines, maybe they are green, or they may be more mature, but they will definitely not hinder Zhou Yi's enjoyment.

Zhou Yi looked at the wine shelves, rows of thousands of bottles of wine, lined up, lined up to the depths of the transformed cave, under the slightly drunken dim light, slowly brewing, carrying out the last precipitation, his heart was full of a sense of accomplishment......

March, spring.

On this day, in the warm sunny day with the last hint of chill, Zhou Yi received a phone call.

"Hello, I'm Aina, is it Zhou?" Fluent English flowed out on the phone. I could hear that the voice on the other side deliberately slowed down and accentuated the tone, as if I was afraid that the other party would not understand.

Zhou Yi looked at the name of the caller ID, Aina, it was the short, delicate and quiet girl he met in the inn in Shangri-La during the ride two years ago.

Although at that time, several people who were not very fluent in verbal communication "talked very happily" and left each other on the phone, Zhou Yi did not expect that he and them would have an intersection one day; Unexpectedly, this girl named Aina would take the initiative to call him.

Even last Christmas, those foreign "friends" sent him emails to congratulate him.

He is a lazy and introverted person, and he doesn't know that sometimes, for extroverts and enthusiasts, a friend, especially a friend in a foreign country, is so worth cherishing!

"Hello Aina! I'm Zhou Yi. ”

"Wow, I didn't expect your English to be so good! I think, maybe, you should be learning French, you know, as a Frenchman, speaking English, it's a bit unaccustomed......"

Since that ride, Zhou Yi, who has time and energy, picked up English books again, and began to learn step by step from reading to listening and speaking.

Because there is enough time, in one go; Coupled with his increasingly clear and clear brain, he has improved his English to a good point in a short period of time, at a speed that even surprises him, at least in general English movies, he can watch them without subtitles.

In the same way, for some unspeakable reason, and for the comfort of watching anime, he had nothing to do, so he also taught himself Japanese, which is another matter.

"Is it French? I might try to learn, you teach me? Zhou Yi said with a smile.

"Of course you can, but before that, do you have time? Maybe we can get together together! ”

"Are you in China?" Zhou Yi reacted and said in surprise.

"And, of course." Aina said.

Andrew is also French, the bearded man who played billiards with him at the beginning, and Zhou Yi's image is very deep.

"Of course, I have a lot of time. Where are you? I'll go over right away. ”

"Shonan, I know, it's your hometown! Andrew and I are going to visit here for a while, I heard that Phoenix Ancient Town and Zhangjiajie tourist attractions are very good, do you have any suggestions? ”

"Shonan? Is it in White Sands? ”

"BAISHA, THE CAPITAL OF SHONAN, WELL, THIS IS THE PLACE."

"If you have time, perhaps, I think, you should come to my hometown and experience the customs here, it may be much better than going to those tourist attractions......

"That's a good suggestion, but perhaps, I need to talk to Andrew......"

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When the sun sets, on the floor of the Dongtian Restaurant, two men and one woman sit under the window lattice to watch the scenery and the wind, and under the copper bell of the cornice. One of them, a man and a woman, are two foreigners with high noses and deep eyes.

The girl is short in stature, with a delicate face and milky white delicate skin that most Westerners do not have; And the man, a young man, is Andrew, who has regained his "youth" after shaving off his full beard.

Aina sat quietly by the window, looking at the scenery outside, looking at the falling waterfall, the green lake that was as flat as a mirror, looking at the lotus with tender horns on the green lake, and the wind blowing in from the window, with a faint chill, the person was quiet, quieter than before.

Andrew was chattering and singing like a prayer in a church, with a rhyme and a long end note, singing like a poem—this Frenchman romance.

The dishes came up, a plate of bright red oil chicken, a large bowl of red bright beef offal, a plate of chili pepper and broken bone duck, and a pot of pork belly cuttlefish soup.

The local dishes, like all Shonan dishes, are heavy and fragrant, with a strong aroma that rushes straight into people's nostrils, and a ruddy color that makes people can't wait to taste it.

Andrew's love of Chinese food comes first, which is the biggest reason why he travels to China repeatedly.

Chopsticks, he has used them extremely skillfully.

He stretched out his chopsticks, quickly and steadily grabbed a big piece of chicken, quickly put it in his mouth, regardless of the scattered red oil and fine white teeth, quickly peeled off the delicate chicken, chewed, tasted the fresh fragrance and tenderness overflowing from the chicken, tasted the rich chili chicken juice, and enjoyed it with pleasure.

However, this enjoyment did not last long.

"Spicy-so spicy-Zhouyi-Shui......" Andrew kept fanning his mouth, sticking out his tongue, and spitting out the heat, like a dog that can't stand the heat in summer.

Hearing his call, Aina's stretched out chopsticks fell into the air, turned a corner, sandwiched some seemingly light cuttlefish and pork belly into the bowl, tasted carefully, and found that there was indeed no strange and exciting taste, it was completely the fishy freshness of the seafood and the softness and toughness of the pork belly.

When Zhou Yi went to get the tea, Andrew couldn't stand it anymore, so he scooped a spoonful of cuttlefish pork belly soup and poured it into his mouth.

The hot soup did not remove the spicy taste, but was like pouring water on the burning oil, boiling and bursting all at once, blowing the taste of the tongue apart, except for the spicy like fire, except for the spicy sweat that came out, Andrew could not feel anything else.

"Tea is coming!" Zhou Yi ran over with a ceramic cold teapot and poured a cup for Andrew.

Andrew was like a savior, but this time, he didn't dare to pour it like soup, but carefully took a sip in his mouth, feeling a strange cool air melt in his mouth, and quickly extinguished the heat and explosion brought by the chili pepper, poured out most of the spiciness, leaving only a full mouth of refreshment, and the spirit in his head was shocked, just like drinking a glass of cold Coke on a summer afternoon and when he was drowsy.

However, the taste in the mouth is not the actual water brewed from the tea, but the pungent taste wrapped in cold air, which just neutralizes the bitterness and spiciness.

He poured a few sips of tea, looked at the brown glowing pottery teapot in Zhou Yi's hand, and said with bright eyes: "What kind of drink is this?" ”

"Mountain pepper. A freshly picked pepper drink from the mountains and boiled in mountain spring water. Zhou Yi replied.

"Oh - what a magical drink! Believe me, in the future, it will be like Chinese tea, popular all over the world! ”

Zhou Yi shook his head.

He didn't say that a cent of brown needs ten points of water, and this mountain pepper water must be boiled with the water from this mountain to make the freshest mountain pepper to refine that taste.

With the magic tea, Andrew is no longer afraid of chili peppers, he happily puts a large piece of tender yellow chicken in his mouth, chews happily, enjoys the tenderness and freshness of the meat, feels the taste of chicken overflowing in the chili, and likewise, feels the stimulation of this unprecedented spicy taste, his face is flushed, sweating profusely, and snot and tears are about to flow out!

It's not a mustard-like thrill, but a pleasant one, with a sweet one.

The fiery red color made his heart, stomach, and even every cell in his body burn like fire......

It wasn't until he really couldn't bear it anymore that he drank a sip of magical "tea", slowly extinguished the "flame", felt the sweat after the refreshment, and washed his whole body, like a sauna.

Aina watched Andrew in pain and happily enjoying herself - she was also a girl who liked excitement, otherwise she wouldn't be running around the world - even though most of the time, she seemed to be quiet.

She also took a piece of chicken with tender red oil, carefully put it in her mouth, and chewed it carefully.

Because of the delicate chewing, the tenderness, freshness and purity of the chicken are more released, and the spicy taste is more and more rapid to explode, not pungent, choking spicy, not sticky and spicy that makes the head hurt, but a pure, painful spicy spicy, which will make people sweat a lot and spicy out of a different kind of sweetness......

The food here in Qingshan Town, almost nine and a half of the ten dishes are related to chili peppers, and as soon as the chili peppers are put away, they take up most of the bowl. There were once northerners who came to Qingshan Town to eat, and as soon as the dishes were served, they were immediately dumbfounded and said: "My family has not eaten as many chili peppers in a day as you eat here for a year." It can be seen that the people of Qingshan Town eat chili peppers very well, even in Xiangnan, which eats spicy peppers, they are also among the top few.

Zhou Yi ordered, but he didn't pay so much attention at first, and didn't take into account that these two foreign friends had not tried such a "cool" pepper test, and what he didn't expect was that these two people could adapt to the taste of chili so quickly and began to enjoy him.

Because of the chili pepper, the strangeness that I haven't seen for two years and because of nationality and distance is gone, like a stab - breaking a membrane, the three hearts really come together, and the atmosphere also turns to "intimacy"......

How can a foreigner live without alcohol?

Zhou Yi didn't know what about the others, but the Westerners he met when he traveled almost from morning to night, they all held a wine bottle as a drink, and Aina and Andrew were naturally no exception.

When they ate "Chinese characteristic snacks and snacks" at Zhou Yi's house after dinner, they inevitably mentioned, "Is there any wine?" ”

Zhou Yi didn't have beer at home, and after drinking the last bottle of red wine, he didn't go to buy it, he had been waiting for the wine he made to come out of the cellar!

"Do you drink liquor?" Zhou Yi asked.

"White wine?" Andrew said strangely.

"It's a wine without color, a spirit, made in China." Zhou Yi spoke, saw that the two had no objections, and opened a bottle of Moutai.

Andrew sniffed it and said in surprise: "My friend, are you sure this is wine, not medical alcohol?" ”

"Of course, this is the most famous liquor in our country." Zhou Yi said, and took a sip of himself, indicating that it was indeed something that could be drunk.

Before Andrew could move, Aina, who was quiet next to her, had already put her lips close to the mouth of the cup and took a sip.

"Puff - cough, cough, cough ......"

As soon as the wine was in its mouth, it was like a knife cutting in the throat, and a fire burst into flames, and the mouth was full of the smell of alcohol and the smell of hot fire. Aina was almost certain that if someone took out a lighter and lit a fire, the air in front of her, mixed with wine mist, would definitely burn!

"Oh my God...... Zhou, you're murdering! Did you Chinese all grow up drinking alcohol?! ”

The cup that Andrew put to his lips immediately put it down.

"It's distilled spirits. As you said, it's more of an alcohol than a wine to taste. However, I prefer to drink them a little bit to beer, at least to get me a little drunk. Of course, if you drink too much, you will still find that this kind of wine is different from alcohol; And between different wines, there is still his unique taste......"

Andrew listened to Zhou Yi's words, and drank a small sip carefully.

He thought he was careful enough, but he didn't want to, the hot breath came to his nose, choked the wine in the trachea in his throat, and burned like fire, without the sweet smell of chili peppers, it was all the smell of wine, the smell of alcohol!

He couldn't imagine what it was like to be poured a lot of "alcohol" into his body.

"Zhou, this is indeed murder. I strongly agree with Aina's words!! Andrew emphasized.

"Okay. I saw that you could get used to chili peppers, and I thought you could also enjoy the beauty of Chinese wine, but it doesn't seem to be the case. ”

Zhou Yi seemed to remember something, and said, "If you want to drink, perhaps, I have also made some wine for you to taste." ”

"Zhou, the wine you make? Do you know what Aina's house does? She has a big winery at home, and soon, she will go back to inherit her winery. French wines, oh-forgive me for my presumptuousness, Zhou, I don't look down on the wines you make, but are you sure you won't murder me again? Has your wine been tested? Doesn't produce something weird, like methanol? ”

"Of course. I can't guarantee what it will taste like, but trust me, you don't think you'll be in danger of dying after drinking my red wine. ”

"Wine?" Aina heard the word, and her eyes flashed with a glimmer of curiosity, "Do you make wine?" Or rather, here, you have a wine estate? ”

Aina then retorted, "Oh no, I guess I'm wrong, the climate here is not suitable for growing wine grapes." ”

"No, you're right, I do grow a lot of grapes, grapes that make wine."

"Didn't you see it when you came in? The large patch of green buds in a neat row, all of them were vines? ”

"The vine? Aren't grapes, my brother, vines? Andrew smiled strangely and said unabashedly mockingly, "You said that the ones you planted, rows and rows, are really grapes?" A vine that doesn't need to be erected and hidden under the ground for the winter? Dude, am I dazzled? Did you hear it wrong? I've been to so many vineyards, I've seen almost every kind of wine grape in the world, but I've never seen what you call 'vines'. ”

Maybe it was the small sip of the wine with a strong "alcohol", or maybe it was the proximity of the relationship, so Andrew said bluntly without concealing it.

"Andrew, I'm not sure if you're drunk from that little sip of alcohol." Aina turned her head, looked at Zhou Yi, and said seriously: "Andrew is right, I really haven't heard of such a 'vine'. But, anyway, I think for the wines you make -- maybe we can try it. ”

Several people came out of Zhou Yi's room, and at this time, the sky was completely dark, there were no stars, only a round of bright moon sprinkled silver sand all over, revealing the mountain-shaped dirt road.

The two, led by Zhou Yi, entered a cave.

"Nice wine room. But why don't I see an instrument that balances humidity with temperature? Aina took a deep breath and felt the humidity and temperature in the cellar.

"Because there's a natural air conditioner and humidity balancer." Zhou Yi explained, "As you can see, the entire wine cellar is a large karst cave, which extends in all directions, connected to the depths of the earth, and the air circulating in it maintains the temperature and humidity here. ”

"Miraculous creation!" Aina sighed after listening to Zhou Yi's explanation.

Andrew looked at the rows of dark cyan bottles filled with wine that shone softly in the dim light, smelled the wine in the cellar, felt the aroma of the oak cork and the light fruity aroma, and exclaimed, "I think, now I believe that you make wine." However, I have reservations about what you call 'vines'. ”

"Well, anyway, let's try the freshly brewed wine."

"Originally, I was going to be in Kaifeng for a while, but I think there should be no problem at a little in the morning."

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