Chapter 161: Old Man Du, who is a good wine
After arranging the affairs of Song County, Lin Zhu and Chang's mother made a big purchase in Song County, there were many people at home, and there were a lot of things for the New Year, although Feng Yuanbo was in charge, but women were born shopaholics, so Lin Zhu and Chang's mother took Dr. Zhang's guard to visit all the shops in Song County.
Not only snacks, but also cloth brocade, more fireworks and firecrackers Lin Zhu bought a lot, and went to Qiao Die Fang to order peanuts and pepper silver bills, she gave Qiao Die Fang a new look of peanuts last year, and now there is a style of chili peppers, Qiao Die Fang naturally gave Lin Zhu a preferential price.
So the three of Lin Zhu, who had finished their work, returned with a full load.
When Lin Zhu returned home, he found that there was a strange old man in the house, and after being introduced by Dr. Zhang, he learned that Lu Dao was his friend Du Heng, a skilled craftsman in the capital.
"I've seen Mr. Du." Under the introduction of Dr. Zhang, Lin Zhu gave Du Heng a salute.
"You doll don't need to be polite," Du Heng waved his hand with a big grin, "The old man let Old Man Zhang trick him this time, what do you have a peerless wine here, quickly take it out and taste it, if it doesn't taste good, don't blame the old man for turning his face and leaving." "Du Heng looks like he is in his fifties, dressed in coarse cloth, with gray hair but a ruddy face, but a big rosacea, which looks very funny.
"You bad old man, you don't have anything to do in front of my goddaughter, and I won't give you any good wine." Doctor Zhang laughed and scolded.
"Old man, don't be impatient, I'll get the good wine right away, you and your godfather haven't seen each other for a long time, so let's have a good drink." Lin Zhu smiled. doesn't care about his rudeness, since Doctor Zhang said that he is capable, then she doesn't mind his arrogant attitude, as long as he has real skills later.
"Go ahead, hmph, these people just now couldn't take it out at all." Du Heng was just a little dissatisfied, and he was embarrassed by Lin Zhu as soon as he came up.
Lin Zhu's good wine is all in her space, of course others can't take it out, but Lin Zhu has also ordered in advance that no one can go to the cellar to get wine without her order. So the situation that led to today.
Lin Zhu instructed Chang's mother to let Aunt Wang tidy up a table of snacks. Then she went to get the wine.
Of course, the wine is wolfberry wine, and because she doesn't know how to make wine, she can only buy the best wine she can buy from outside to make wolfberry wine.
Today's wolfberry wine has taken on an amber color after being moistened by the bamboo space, and is poured into a white porcelain cup. The colors are extraordinarily attractive. The aroma of wine is overflowing.
Du Heng first picked up the wine glass and looked at the wine inside. He sniffed it again, nodded slightly, and took another sip with a solemn face.
"Good wine." After tasting it, I drank it all in one gulp. He put the wine glass heavily on the table and exclaimed.
"Ha Lu, you wine worm also has a good time." Doctor Zhang also drank a full cup and said with a smile.
"Old man Zhang, you know that Lu Dao has such a good wine, and it is really unrighteous to call me now." Du Heng poured another glass, "This wolfberry wine should be clear and transparent, but it is orange-red, but I didn't expect this doll's wine to be the best amber, it seems that it is not ordinary." He looked at the wine, and drank it again.
"It's just," he shook his head slightly, "this wine was not well chosen, and it didn't completely soak the flavor of goji berries into it, but it's a pity." ”
Hearing what he said, Doctor Zhang and Lin Zhu both looked at Du Heng with admiration. "Old man Du, you have to make your own good wine." Doctor Zhang said meaningfully.
"I know that you old man is not at ease, and if you want me to make wine, it's not impossible, you have to have good raw materials, no wow, everything is not to be discussed." Du Heng's deputy "you know" eyes squinted at Doctor Zhang.
"So as long as you have good ingredients, you will always make your own wine?" Lin Zhu looked at him earnestly.
"Of course," Du Heng looked a little uncomfortable, "but if you take out something, the old man can't look at it, and he won't make wine." He had no choice but to say what he wanted.
"Of course. The raw materials are naturally inspected by you. Lin Zhu said with a smile.
"It seems that the old man has fallen for you." Du Heng shook his head, looked at Doctor Zhang and Lin Zhu, the old and the young, the two people who showed a triumphant smile, and said suddenly.
"Eh, where is the fool, if you really make good wine, there will be no one of you." Doctor Zhang poured a glass of wine for Du Heng and said comfortingly.
"Hmph, if you don't even have this sincerity, then we will break off our relationship." Du Heng said with a snort.
"Okay, good, break up." Doctor Zhang nodded with a smile, then turned to Lin Zhu and said, "You godfather, I have broken off my friendship with this Du Lao pair one hundred and eighty times." Regarding Dr. Zhang's complaints, Du Heng said that he didn't care, not only drank the wine quickly, but also kept picking up the food on the table with chopsticks.
"You old man, leave me some wine." Seeing that he was about to run out of wine while he was talking, Dr. Zhang hurriedly stopped him loudly and joined him by the way.
Looking at the appearance of the two of them, Lin Zhu knew that it was an expression of friendship that had not been seen for a long time by old friends, so he left the room with interest and let them drink and eat more freely.
"It seems that you have a lot of blessings." Du Heng, who was full of food and drink, said to Dr. Zhang, "Where did you find such a well-behaved and sensible goddaughter, who is still serving you with delicious food and drink." ”
"Haha Doctor Zhang smiled heartily, "Just allow you to have a capable son and grandson, and don't you allow me to find a capable granddaughter?" Du Heng's son is also an official in the court, but he is better than Dr. Zhang's two sons.
"It's nothing, when you finish brewing wine, you'll know my granddaughter's ability." Dr. Zhang sold a pass. "By the way, I called you over this time to ask you to help design a Zhuangzi, don't refuse."
"Hmph, if the wine doesn't satisfy me, I don't have to talk about anything else." Du Heng looked at Doctor Zhang's smug appearance, which was very eye-catching, and deliberately made it difficult to say.
"Whether the wine is good or not depends on whether your craftsmanship has regressed." Dr. Zhang did not invite the generals, but provoked them.
"Hey, you old man, don't provoke me, I won't fall for you, if she has the special white rice in the palace, she will definitely make good wine for her." Du Heng is not stupid, and says what he wants.
"Huh." Doctor Zhang smiled, glanced at him, stopped talking, and drank the wine directly, looking very mysterious.
Doctor Zhang's performance made Du Heng curious, "Could it be that she also has special white rice here?" After speaking, he shook his head again, "Impossible, there are no people in this capital except the palace, how can there be such a legendary thing in such a rural place."
"When the time comes, you will know the way, by the way, you have to go to the Zhuangzi of the bamboo girl first to see the terrain and prepare early." Dr. Zhang looked like he was winning.
"Let's talk about it then, I won't be fooled by you until I see something." Unexpectedly, Du Heng still didn't let Dr. Zhang succeed.
Lin Zhu asked people to arrange Du Heng in a room very close to Dr. Zhang, he came in simple disguise, only brought a servant, and lived next to Steward Zhang.
Although the wolfberry wine is very good, but because the wine used by Lin Zhu is a little strong, so the stamina is very sufficient, Dr. Zhang and Du Heng drank about a pound of more than a catty, inevitably a little too much. Lin Zhu asked Steward Zhang and Steward Du to send the two old men to the house to rest. Fortunately, the wine of the two was not bad, although they drank too much, they just fell asleep and did not make a fuss.
Lin Zhu instructed Chang's mother and them to make a new set of clothes for everyone in the family, although Lin Zhu's family sends out new clothes every season, but after all, there are many people from the Zhang family, and there is always some joy in the New Year. Some of the maids of the Zhang family can also needlework, except for Aunt Wang, Cai's mother and Xiaoqiu, who help with the cooking, everyone else helps make clothes.
Zhang Manyun felt that Lin Zhu was very good at being a person, so he took Zhang Manqing to join the team of making clothes, but their sisters were doing it for Dr. Zhang and Du Heng, and others didn't dare to let them do it, and it was not good to spread gossip.
Although Zhang Manqing had the heart to make a suit for Chang Tianlei, she didn't dare to do it in front of everyone's eyes, and she couldn't get his size, so she had to do it unwillingly.
With the support of Lin Zhu, the Sun family's inn competed with the Wang family's Wufu Inn, and the business of the Wang family's inn declined all the way, and the Wang family's son was a little anxious about it, so he didn't care about the trouble of Lin Zhu Anyuan before the year.
So Chang Shi and Chang Tianlei also returned to Linjia Village. But they didn't rest.
After Du Heng saw the white rice and glutinous rice prepared by Lin Zhu, his eyes were stunned, he pointed to the rice tremblingly, he was a little excited and couldn't help himself, he stepped forward with an arrow and grabbed the rice with his hand, "These are all specialities?" He stared at Dr. Zhang, wanting to hear his admission, and asked in disbelief.
"yes." Doctor Zhang nodded.
"You, you." Du Heng was a little speechless.
"Okay, Old Man Du, I'll leave these things to you to do, okay." Dr. Zhang understands his old friend's temperament very well, if he doesn't say so, I'm afraid he will have to fight with himself endlessly to ask for these rice.
"Ha Luha, you still know me." Du Heng, who was in a recovered state, stroked his palms and smiled. Then, he asked Lin Zhu to find someone for him to buy the things he needed to make wine. These tasks fell on Chang Shi and Chang Tianlei, who came back from Anyuan.
Originally, Lin Zhu felt that the New Year was approaching, so he should not make wine, for fear that the time would be too short to produce wine during the New Year.
But Du Heng said that it doesn't matter, brew some rice wine first, you can drink it during the Chinese New Year, and the taste of rice wine is very good, even girls can drink some with it.
Now no one can stop Du Heng's enthusiasm for winemaking, Lin Zhu had to tell Chang Shi and them to pay attention not to let Old Man Du get tired.
Now Du Heng didn't say that he wouldn't help Lin Zhu design the courtyard, so he could only wait for the wine to come out and ask him to go to the bamboo garden to see before making plans. (To be continued......)