Ling Yuxin nodded in agreement, she was also obsessed with the incense path, so she understood the difficulty of cultivation. For Wen Yiming's level of convincing, you must know that the success rate of Hexiang is extremely low, and you may not be able to succeed once in 100 attempts!

The biggest cost of incense is this, high-grade incense recipes need high-quality incense materials, each of which is a treasure of heaven and earth, rare and rare, and the cost is very high. It is already rare to be able to collect all the materials, and part of the processing process is lost, and the essence is taken and the dross is removed.

The remaining step to the incense is no more than eighty percent, and every attempt is an adventure, and the level of the incense master is the highest. You can't get all the details wrong, or you'll miss it and you'll end up in a thousand errors.

Ling Yuxin has been playing incense for more than ten years, and knows the hardships involved, if it weren't for her own family background and rich family, who could withstand such a toss?

"That's it, let's go to Hu Yuan tomorrow, Lao Hu invites us to taste wine and eat!"

Ling Tiancheng put down the phone and said lightly: "Old nonsense said that he enjoyed Yan Lao's good tea last time, this time he is the east, hehe, he drools when he thinks about red wine!"

"Dad!" Ling Yuxin straightened her face and complained, "Didn't the doctor tell you to drink less? You can't drink more tomorrow, no, I'm going to keep an eye on you!"

"You girl!"

Ling Tiancheng smiled bitterly and complained to Wen Yiming: "Have you seen it? Give birth to a daughter and control your father! Okay, you can go tomorrow too, just give us incense." ”

Ling Yuxin winked secretly at Wen Yiming, rarely showing a playful expression, anyway, they are all acquaintances, it is more convenient to have her in the incense, saving Wen Yiming a lot of trouble.

Ling Tiancheng saw his daughter's expression, and was secretly satisfied, it was rare for a baby girl with eyes above the top to appreciate a man, let alone Wen Yiming.

"Okay, let's talk, I'll go upstairs and take a rest!"

Ling Tiancheng turned around and left, not to be a light bulb here, so that the two children had more time to communicate. Ling Yuxin's face was slightly red, she glared at her father, helped Wen Yiming pour a full cup of tea, and asked, "In the future, you will be entertaining more and more, and you will definitely need an assistant, who do you think is suitable?"

"Who is suitable?" Wen Yiming looked at the pretty face close at hand, his nose was full of fragrance, and blurted out: "Of course it's you!"

"You ......" Ling Yuxin's face instantly turned red after hearing this, her heart was sweet, and she deliberately said angrily: "Hmph, I won't give you a hand!"

Wen Yiming laughed and said, "Don't worry, I don't dare to bother Miss Ling, how about Lin Xiuxiu?"

"Well, Xiuxiu is good, it's a piece of material!" Ling Yuxin nodded in agreement: "Jokes are jokes, it must be a blessing for a little girl to be an assistant to Master Wen, but it's a pity that there are too many chores in the company and I can't devote myself to incense, it's a pity!"

Ling Yuxin sighed very much, she has to bear a lot of responsibilities when she is born in a family, Ling Junsheng has high requirements for her, her talent in antique appraisal far surpasses Ling Tiancheng, so she hopes to inherit the mantle and become a generation of appraisal masters.

There is no way but to take incense as a hobby, while learning appraisal, while managing Tiancheng auctions, accumulating experience and contacts, there are gains and losses, life is like this.

Wen Yiming saw that the beauty was annoyed, and comforted: "Don't worry, the incense road has me, let's divide labor and cooperate, isn't it better to join forces?"

Ling Yuxin's beautiful eyes flashed, as if she had found a backer in her heart, she smiled and nodded, the tacit understanding between the two was deeper, and strange feelings rippled in each other's hearts.

"Since Lin Xiuxiu is a manufacturable material and a good girl who knows the roots, then I will start to focus on training!"

Ling Yuxin promised: "Give her to me and become Master Wen's right-hand man as soon as possible!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, Ling Yuxin began to ask Wen Yiming about Hexiang, the time passed quickly, and she left Ling's house after dinner.

The next morning, Ling Tiancheng picked up Wen Yiming and made an appointment with Yan Sihai to come to Hu Garden, and Hu Jianmin personally greeted the distinguished guests at the door.

"This is the wine cellar?"

Hu Jianmin directly took a few people to his most precious wine cellar, and it was rare to invite people to visit, especially Wen Yiming, a fellow practitioner.

"Mr. was in a hurry last time, and he didn't come down to the cellar, so I have plenty of time today, please give me some advice!"

After listening to Hu Jianmin's words, Ling Yuxin and Yan Sihai were a little surprised, you must know that the other party is a senior wine collector, and he actually put on an equal exchange attitude to Wen Yiming?

Ling Tiancheng smiled and said nothing, he knew that this kid's magical ability, whether it was tea or wine, he was a master of profound research, as if there was no field he didn't understand!

Wen Yiming nodded, since he went back last time, he has nothing to do and studied red wine knowledge, after all, there are many people who like it, and he will definitely use it in the future, and he began to visit Hu Jianmin's professional wine cellar.

"Uncle Hu, are these oak barrels?"

Ling Yuxin didn't know much about red wine, although she had drunk a lot, but it was the first time she saw a real wine cellar, she looked at the large wooden barrels of various colors in front of her, and asked curiously: "Wine is usually stored with them?"

"Yes, it's oak barrels!" Hu Jianmin walked up to a large dark brown wooden barrel and explained: "The world's finest wines are made in oak barrels, and during the fermentation process, chemical changes occur between the wine and the barrel, making the wine more complex and of better quality." ”

"Oak barrels can be classified as compact, moderately and loosely textured. Much of the controversy is about who is better or worse in the so-called French oak or American oak?

Wen Yiming nodded secretly, and began to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of different oak barrels with his nose, because oak barrels should be breathable. The decrease in wine due to evaporation is called "angel sharing" in the jargon.

The oxygen that enters the barrel due to the permeability allows the wine to undergo complex chemical reactions in the bottle, which will have a softening effect on the tannins in the wine. If the wine is stored in new oak barrels, the tannins in the wood will be leached out of the planks that make up the barrels and absorbed by the wine, which will make the wine more acidic.

But over time, as the oak barrel oxidation occurs, the wine matures and softens the tannins much faster than the tannins are absorbed by the wine. This is also the most precious reason for the more vintage oak barrels, which is the same as the antique pulp.

Hu Jianmin looked at the others a little confused, and said with a smile: "For different oak species, the most important measure is the tightness of the oak grain, which helps to determine the formation of tannins and thus the evaporation rate of wine." ”

Wen Yiming walked to an oak barrel next to him and said with his hand: "Rice oak is a striated wood with a unique taste and quite low porosity. It has a high lactone content and is able to sweeten wine. The typical flavor it gives off is described as: coconut, vanilla, etc. For example, this is the finest oak barrel that is more than 100 years old. ”

Then he walked up to another barrel next to him and said, "As for this barrel, it is from Limousant, which is a kind of French oak with a loose grain. The wine is usually given a fine spicy aroma, with hints of ginger, cloves, cedar and cigar boxes in common. ”