Chapter 69: Hua Tuo's Doubts and Disappointments
Everyone in the world says that a woman has the heart to gossip, but as everyone knows, when a man gossips, this inner turmoil is also the old house on fire, which is difficult to extinguish.
"What, who robbed you?"
"Your Majesty robbed you? What did you rob you? ”
"Hey, this is a rare thing, tell me about it!"
The social elites in this room suddenly didn't even eat, hula, rushed forward, and surrounded Xin Ping.
In this world, especially the men in these wealthy families, there are very few who are not good at drinking, and when they heard that Xin Ping was blackmailed by Liu Biao for a hundred loads of Shu millet and dozens of loads of wine koji, they dispersed in a hurry.
"Winemaking!? Cut, isn't it just that Your Majesty wants to drink some wine! What's so strange about that! ”
Hearing no news of the excitement they had imagined, the adults, all disappointed, reflexively sat back and continued their dinner.
However, there was a person during the banquet, who heard that Liu Fan was going to make wine, and immediately stopped eating, as if there was a group of creditors behind him to collect debts, he pedaled, ran outside the house, pulled his shoes, and flew out of the official post like a whirlwind.
"Huh! Who's that!? "Han Fu is a little old, and his old eyes are dizzy and he can't see clearly.
"It seems to be the Imperial Doctor Ling Hua Tuo?" Xin Ping looked around, counted the heads, and whispered to Han Fu.
"Hua Tuo? I can't see that this old guy is really fast! Han Fu, who was only a few years older than Hua Tuo, whispered with envy and hatred to criticize Hua Tuo's posture.
Is it fast? Yes, Hua Tuo, who is also a medical scientist and a martial artist, has already arrived outside the gate of the palace in less than a bag of cigarettes.
"Your Majesty, Hua Tuo asks to see you!" After receiving the report from the guards, Qin Chuan whispered to Liu Bian, who was sitting in the courtyard.
"Hua Tuo? What is he here for? Just when Liu Bian was questioning, the corners of his mouth suddenly curled slightly, and he understood, Liu Bian knew why Hua Tuo came.
"Hehe, this old man's nose is really smart! Let him in! ”
At this time, Hua Tuo was only in his forties, and he was at most a middle-aged greasy uncle at this age in later generations, but in this era, it was not too much to be called an old man!
"See Your Majesty!"
When Hua Tuo came to the backyard, he saw Liu Bian sitting on a stool, holding a pair of chopsticks, facing the low table, and a bowl of coarse porcelain bowls full of soup cakes (note: noodles-like noodles) was placed.
At this moment, Hua Tuo's heart seemed to be hit hard by something, Hua Tuo knew that that thing was moved.
The dinner of the king of a country is so simple, even the commoner's family with a better family seems to be inferior, this is not the Holy Lord of the Ming Monarch, what is it!?
However, at this time, Liu Bian was sweating profusely from eating, and he would think that a bowl of bread would move Hua Tuo so much that he couldn't help himself, was this an unexpected joy?
It's a pity that Hua Tuo knows that the bottom soup of the bowl of noodles is a serious mutton broth, with a few slices of green vegetables on it, with a few garlic cloves, making this bowl of noodles smooth and refreshing, the only regret is the lack of chili peppers, but this can't be helped, the current chili peppers are still far away in the Americas, the Central Plains, but there are no good things that make people want to stop!
"Mr. Yuanhua, it's so late, why do you have time to come here?" Liu Bian knew Hua Tuo's intention in his heart, but he was still happy to be able to squeeze this world's miracle doctor.
"Uh......" was asked by Liu Bian, Hua Tuo came back to his senses and said to Liu Bian: "Your Majesty, the grass people heard that you want to make wine?" ”
"Mr. Yuanhua, you are now the imperial physician of my Han Dynasty, you can no longer call yourself a grass people!" Regarding Hua Tuo's attitude that fame is like dung, Liu Bian is a little unhappy, do you think I am a shell? My official positions are all dung balls?
"Hehe, Your Majesty and Weichen are just a one-year appointment, so ......" Hua Tuo, who had just had a good impression of Liu Bian, was now much more friendly to Liu Bian, and the divine doctor, who has always been serious, is rarely joking now.
"Humph! You! It's a stubborn old man! ”
Hua Tuo is neither a civil servant nor a military general, so Liu Bian has never used his identity to pressure him, but it is normal to joke with Hua Tuo.
"Those who know me, Your Majesty!" Hearing Liu Bian call himself a stubborn old man, Hua Tuo was not angry, he even stroked his beard, and he was willing to admit it!
Just as he was talking, the bowl of mutton bread had already fallen into Liu Bian's stomach, and I saw Liu Bian together, touching his belly quite without image, and said to Hua Tuo.
"Mr. Yuanhua, do you want to see me brew?"
"If Your Majesty is brewing medicinal wine, then Weichen wants to see it!" Hua Tuo's implication, if you Liu Bian plan to brew the wine you drink, then I'm sorry, I won't accompany you!
"Good! Others can't see this, but you Mr. Yuanhua can! Come on, come on! Sir come with me! Liu Wei waved his hand and said quite righteously, just like a mountain king who is about to pull people into the gang!
Although, Liu Bian kept saying that this was a method obtained from the medicine of the Great Qin State in the extreme west, but Hua Tuo still didn't dare to believe that Liu Bian would make it up, for no other reason, this Liu Bian is the emperor after all, not to mention the emperor, it is the son and brother of the ordinary rich and noble, that is all ten fingers do not touch the spring water, is this young emperor's hands-on ability so strong?
So, with a bold hypothesis and a scientific attitude of careful verification, Hua Tuo was also like an ignorant girl, and under the encouragement of Liu Bian, she walked step by step towards the big pit dug by Liu Bian in advance.
At this time, winemaking belongs to the brewing method, the principle is to let the grain ferment naturally, and the sugar in the grain is naturally converted into alcohol, so that the degree of wine is naturally not high, and the maximum is about 20 degrees, which is only a little higher than the wine of later generations.
At this time, the wine, not only the degree is not high, the color of the wine is also relatively turbid, think about the later generations of the Ming genius Yang Shen, the first famous "Linjiang Immortal", one of the words: a pot of turbid wine happy to meet. How many things in ancient and modern times are laughing and talking.
Therefore, this local method of winemaking, the technology is not difficult, many people will, the difficulty is in the grasp of the heat, that is, Hua Tuo himself also knows some wine-making skills, so Hua Tuo is a little unconvinced, this method that has been passed down for thousands of years, can Liu Bian still conjure flowers?
And just when Hua Tuo was suspicious, he also followed Liu Bian's footsteps and came to the backyard. At this time, in front of the small brewery in the backyard, several middle-aged men were busy under the command of the housekeeper Li Fu.
Speaking of Li Fu, it made Liu Fu pick up a cheap, many years of housekeeping experience, so that Li Fu is also quite proficient in winemaking, and he wants to come to the former Jizhou Thorn Shi Jia Cong, who is also a tested master of wine.
"Huh? Your Majesty, are you sure that these things can be used to make medicinal wine? ”
Looking at the utensils in the small wine shop, which are no different from ordinary wine shops, Hua Tuo expressed both skepticism and disappointment!