However, Luo Qingye didn't remember to ask An Chen about this. As soon as he walked out of the farm gate, he saw An Chen already standing by the bee stable waiting.

Today, instead of wearing the long black dustproof coat, An Chen changed into a rather elegant checkered vest, but still wore the short black and yellow cloak with gold leaves. Because she didn't have to go to work in the flower fields, she wore light-colored slacks today, with a slightly short leg to expose an ankle and white socks underneath, and a pair of pale purple canvas shoes on her feet.

An Chen looked quite pleasing to the eye, but except for the fashion cloak, the rest of the clothes were really not high-priced clothes. She rode a black eagle hornet, but she was dressed like an ordinary working-class youth, which couldn't help but make Luo Qingye mutter, is the rich second generation so willing to pretend to be poor.

"Hey, excuse me?" An Chen beckoned to him and asked.

"Please." Luo Qingye asked a little nervously, "Are you going to see Miss Greco now?" ”

"Well, we need to get into the groove early." An Chen nodded, raised his hand and brushed one of the tentacles of the sunspot, "I'll take you to the vineyard of our Emperor's Sky Shield first, and we'll meet Miss Greco there." ”

"Vineyards?" Luo Qingye was a little surprised, what kind of aerospace research institution, why do you still have vineyards, "Do you still produce fruits?" ”

From plant growth to flowering, at least 90% of the energy is lost in inedible parts. From flower to fruit, there must be a lot of loss, so harvesting fruit is not as cost-effective as collecting pollen nectar from specialized flowers from the perspective of energy transfer. However, after the Industrial Revolution, the development of agriculture was able to meet the basic needs of almost all people, and fruit cultivation and related processing industries were truly popularized among the people.

"It's not that it sells fruit, it's just that Miss Greco is in the wine business." An Chen replied as if he didn't care.

She couldn't tell Luo Qingye that the Emperor Sky Shield Group was actually largely relying on the red wine business in Paanka to "launder money". But saying that someone is in the wine business is actually equivalent to showing that her identity is indeed unusual.

Although people also drink mead wine with an alcohol content of less than 1% on a daily basis, red wine with a higher alcohol content is not a casual commodity, and it takes a lot of work to get a production license. The reason why Paanca chose this industry as a way of "money laundering" is because the production and sale of red wine is still in a semi-monopoly state.

There are some biological and historical reasons for this. Although humans are naturally attracted to alcohol, ethanol is actually indigestible for humans. It is also easy to understand that vertebrates produce energy by breaking down sugars into lactic acid, while yeast by breaking down sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide, so ethanol and lactic acid essentially have similar energy levels and naturally cannot be utilized by humans anymore.

But humans still have a preference for alcohol, which is actually evolutionarily adaptive. Also because in ancient times, the flowering period of plant flowers did not cover the whole year, and human tribes had to feed on other things, sometimes they needed to hunt for lipids that had a worse energy utilization rate than sugar, and sometimes they could find some plant fruits, which contained a lot of indigestible parts such as cellulose, but still had sugar. In order to protect their seeds, the fruits are usually either poisonous or unpalatable before ripening, so that human ancestors evolved a preference for the taste of wine, because only the fermentation of ripe fruits with sufficient sugar content will produce alcohol, and it is safest for humans to choose fruits with a slight taste of alcohol.

It's just that after the origin of civilization, mankind mastered the technology of artificial brewing for the production of this pleasant substance. However, winemaking technology has also led to many tragedies - although alcohol can make people feel pleasant, making sugar into wine is equivalent to transforming people's staple food into "spices" that cannot provide energy, and because of the high price of wine in high society, many flower fields have been converted into fruit fields, and even landlords have collected nectar from tenant farmers to make wine, causing many poor people to starve to death. Therefore, red wine, as a representative of ancient winemaking, is also called "blood in the cup" by many prohibitions.

It is also for this reason that many countries in history have issued laws prohibiting private brewing, and there are also many restrictions on the trade of liquor. However, now that the level of agricultural production technology has improved, winemaking will most likely not lead to a decline in the output of pollen and nectar as a staple food, and this industry has long been legalized. However, many devout believers who are deeply influenced by traditional morality still believe that red wine is "blood in a cup" and a symbol of indulgence. Therefore, the laws of the bee kingdom also have many restrictions on the wine industry, although the private sector is allowed to buy and sell freely, the production authority is strictly controlled from the source, and the vineyard must be built using newly reclaimed wasteland, not land that was originally used as a flower field.

Selling red wine doesn't necessarily have any special status, but opening a vineyard and running a winery definitely has a bit of a background. It's just that Luo Qingye already knows that Miss Greco is the heir of the Greco family, and as a α woman, she has privileges, and she will not surprise the common people by doing any business.

In contrast, Luo Qingye was quite excited to visit the vineyard used to grow wine grapes: "Can you see the winery?" ”

"Yes, yes, but Miss Greco's distillery uses the traditional method of fermentation in wooden barrels, so you can only look through the glass to avoid contaminating the bacteria." An Chen climbed onto Kuroko's back and stretched out his hand to pull Luo Qingye up, "And that's nothing to look at, it's just a room of buckets." ”

Luo Qingye muttered in her heart, for a rich second generation like her, it was a lot, but for ordinary people like them, where could they see a whole bucket of "blood in a cup"? Although it is considered sinful, sin also means that it is tempting, otherwise why would so many people buy wine even though they know that it is sinful?

"I am...... A little curious. Luo Qingye hugged An Chen's waist in front of him a little embarrassed, "Hey, do you like to drink red wine?" ”

"I don't like it." An Chen replied casually, and after the sunspot "catapulted" and took off, he flew smoothly, and added, "That thing tastes too astringent, and the alcohol content is high, and I feel panicked." ”

"Astringent? Why is it astringent? Luo Qingye instantly exposed the fact that he had never drunk red wine.

"There are tannins in the skins of the grapes, which precipitate with alkaloids." An Chen said with a smile, "You don't drink red wine at all, it's really 'religious'." ”

"It's not me, it's my dad. When I used to live with my dad, I didn't even drink honey wine at home. Luo Qingye sighed, "My dad said that wine itself is sinful, red wine is 'blood in a cup', and honey wine is 'blood in a cup' - by the way, he is a doctor." ”

"Hahaha, 'plasma in a cup'." An Chen couldn't help but laugh, "This color is really similar." ”

"Like something." Luo Qingye also smiled and "complained", "I originally heard my dad say how sinful wine is, but when I looked outside, I found that everyone drank 'plasma'." ”

Originally, his father's remarriage was his biggest problem for a long time, but at this time, he didn't seem to feel so embarrassed to mention it to An Chen in a joke way. And as the son of a prohibitionist, he was going to visit the vineyard where red wine was made at this time, Luo Qingye silently thought, maybe this was the opportunity in his life.