Chapter 63 Blending Wine and Tanabata Festival
"It's not good enough, if you store it in the cellar for a year or two, and then ask the master to make a good adjustment, the taste can be better and more mellow." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Lin Chong was also very pleased, Li Xiaoyao was a wine connoisseur, he said that it was naturally right to make this wine, but on the surface, Lin Chong looked calm and didn't care about the appearance of a master.
Sure enough, Li Xiaoyao was shocked again, such a delicious wine, if it can be better and more mellow, it must be mellow, it is unimaginable.
However, he still reacted quickly and asked, "I know the cellar, but what is a hook?" ”
Lin Chong said: "That's why I came to you, although this wine is fragrant, it is also extremely strong in the mouth, and the spicy and stimulating is like a fire, right?"
You may have drunk too much wine on a regular basis, and you don't think the amount of alcohol is good, but there will definitely be people who are not used to drinking it, so I want to mix these wines with some distilled water and add some flavor......"
After a lot of talking, Li Xiaoyao finally figured out what liquor degrading, distilled water is, what is flavor, and what is blending.
Time was pressing, and the two of them immediately started to move, and according to Lin Chong's strictly calculated proportions, the two of them lowered the head of one jar and two pots to about forty degrees little by little.
The irritating and spicy feeling has really eased a lot, in Li Xiaoyao's words, although the taste is much better, the aftertaste and the intoxicating aroma have weakened suddenly.
However, this wine was still the most mellow and delicious of all the wines he had drunk, and it was not even comparable to rosedew and flowing fragrant wine.
Fortunately, Lin Chong had other means, he opened two bottles of jasmine and rose essential oils, poured a few drops and diluted them with the lowered two-pot head, and blended them drop by drop, and finally hooked up two kinds of liquor with excellent taste and aroma.
Lin Chong was not satisfied, according to Li Xiaoyao's opinion, in order to cater to the taste of the Song people, he added some rock sugar to it, and now in Li Xiaoyao's words, the taste and aroma are extremely perfect, and it is so delicious that it bursts.
"Come on, it's done!"
Lin Chong was very satisfied, the two of them each poured a small cup and tasted it carefully, the entrance was really soft, not spicy, not choking, not head-upping, and the fragrance was coordinated, it smelled very good, and the warm taste was also very good when you drank it.
The teeth and cheeks are fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless.
"Good wine!"
Lin Chong praised it, feeling that he also liked this kind of liquor.
When Lin Chong and Li Xiaoyao seized the time to mix fine wine, Cai Yougao, Liang Shicheng and others were naturally not idle.
Several people got together again to discuss, and Wang Hao said: "Taiwei, Liang Gongguan, Lin Chong is so confident, his drinks won't be really, right?" ”
"Listening to his bragging, no matter how good it is, it can't be better than the official's rose dew and flowing fragrant wine."
Cai You said with some disdain: "These two kinds of wine are not only extremely precious materials, not to mention a large number of rose petals, but also must be made from golden jade pots, with morning dew collected in spring, and from the rain on the day of the rain in the valley, and then brewed with a secret process."
When drinking, the courtyard is full of incense, drinking a sip is like drinking agar jelly and jade dew, after drinking, the lips and teeth are fragrant and the aftertaste is endless, I don't believe that there is still wine in this world that is better than these two kinds of imperial wine! ”
Gao Yu said coldly: "Yesterday, when he performed the technique of wearing the table and palm, we also thought he was bragging, but in the end, he became;
Speaking of good things, in the past, we also thought that the pancreas given by the palace was the best, but it turned out that Lin Chong's soap was dozens of times better than it.
Now who dares to guarantee that the kind of wine he said will not be able to beat the official family's imperial wine, in short, this Lin Chong can not be measured with common sense. ”
Cai You said: "If this is the case, what are we going to do? ”
Gao Yu said: "I don't know anything else, anyway, I only know what this guy has to do, and we can't let him do it." ”
Wang Hao said: "I think this matter depends on Mr. Enfu (Liang Shicheng) and Gao Taiwei, I will listen to you." ”
Liang Shicheng laughed out loud: "What's so difficult about this, I'll ...... like this when the time comes."
Lin Chong was busy mixing and filling wine, Cai Yougao, Liang Shicheng and others were busy harming people, and the rest of Bianliang City were busy preparing for the Qixi Qiqiao Festival at this time.
Compared with later generations, the Qixi Festival was simply regarded as Valentine's Day, and the Qixi Festival in the Song Dynasty was no less lively than the Spring Festival, and it was an important festival in which all men, women and children participated.
In order to celebrate the Qixi Festival, five or six days in advance, from dignitaries to ordinary people, they will buy all kinds of fashionable items; On the day of Qixi Festival, all the families have to clean the courtyard to welcome the festival;
All the girls and young women worship the Weaver Girl, and burn incense and beg for the moon; I also caught a small spider and put it in the box, and the next day I saw that if the web was round, it was called a coincidence, which was called a happy spider; but also to plant and beg for children, etc.
In addition, there are various customs, such as carving melons into various patterns, called flower melons; Make a smiley face with oily honey, which is called fruit food; Use yellow wax to draw and carve all kinds of small animals such as mandarin ducks, turtles, and fish on the water, which is called floating on the water; Buy offerings, small clay puppets, grinding, drinking, etc.
And at the time of dinner on the Chinese Valentine's Day, all the children and women have to put on the most beautiful new clothes, each family has to put all kinds of melons, fruits, wine, food, flowers, etc. in the courtyard, and the rich family has to put on a feast, and set up a colorful building in the courtyard, called "Qiqiao Building".
In short, on this day is a national carnival, men, women and children celebrate the festival together, and it is an important festival for family reunion.
Lin Chong has to be on duty in the palace, and he has to be in charge of the tea and wine for the palace banquet at night, so naturally he has no time to accompany Zhenniang to do these things.
So he asked Guo Shisan to take Zhang Jiaotou and his wife to his home early, and asked Cao Zheng to go to the street to buy things for the holidays, as well as new clothes for Zhenniang, Jin'er, and Xiao Thirteen.
suddenly thought of Master Li, and asked him to find someone to send Master Li a set of soap, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, light soy sauce, chicken essence, monosodium glutamate and other things, and naturally asked her to help with publicity.
Xiao Jin'er and Xiao Thirteen looked at the new clothes of the brocade and were broken, and they couldn't put it down and stroked it on their bodies, but Zhang Zhenniang was slightly disappointed.
Compared with good-looking brocade clothes, she prefers that Lin Chong can accompany him for the holiday, but Xianggong is busy all day long, and he only said hello to himself when he went home just now, and he will go back to the palace later.
However, in the end, she was a virtuous woman, afraid that Lin Chong would know, Zhang Zhenniang's loss in her heart did not show it at all, but began to prepare for the melons and fruits to eat at night.
She felt that although Xianggong couldn't stay with her for dinner and Qixi Festival, it was good that Xianggong could eat a bite or two if the dishes were made early.
When Zhang Zhenniang tied an apron, made Dongpo meat in a casserole, began to carve flower melons, and began to make smiling face fruit food with oily honey, Lin Chong took Li Xiaoyao out of the small study.
"Lady, father-in-law, mother-in-law, I went to the palace, and I can't accompany my mother to spend the Qixi Festival at night."
Lin Chong said with a guilty face, and wanted to leave quickly, but Zhang Zhenniang chased him out.
"Xianggong is going to leave now, the meal will be ready soon, make the Dongpo meat Dongpo cake you like to eat, eat some and then go."
Lin Chong looked at the sky, it was already a little late, but he still managed to squeeze out a few minutes to eat something.
I have to say, this wife is really good, she is ingenious and cooks, and the things she makes are delicious, Lin Chong praised again and again, Li Xiaoyao, who has never eaten Dongpo meat and Dongpo cakes, is even more delicious and almost swallowed his tongue.
After eating, it can't be delayed any longer, Lin Chong rubbed Zhen Niang's pretty face with his hand, and rushed to the palace with Li Xiaoyao, at this time the banquet was already being prepared, and the largest beggar building in Bianjing City was also set up.