158 Wine tasting

"Ruiyang, shut up! In front of the guests, how can you be so rude!"

Seeing that they were talking a little excessively, Mrs. Cao was powdered and scolded. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The five or six middle-aged and young children of the Cao family were reprimanded by Mrs. Cao, and they were suddenly silent one by one, and they no longer said a word.

Cao Hao has a rough temperament and is not informal, and there will be no serious consequences for them to argue for one or two sentences. But Mrs. Cao presided over the Cao Mansion and treated them extremely harshly, with strict family rules.

After Madame Cao's stern gaze warned them, she looked back at her husband, Cao Hao, with some doubtful eyes.

She was also puzzled in her heart, Cao Hao said that she had invited a distinguished guest to the banquet tonight, but did not say who it was in advance.

can be called a distinguished guest by Cao Hao, the dean of Donglai County Academy, it stands to reason that a figure like Princess Ling Jiaojiao should be qualified to sit in the left chief.

The lowest, who are also figures such as Li Hao's young county lord and Pan Yun, are eligible to attend. Except for young and handsome men like them, I'm afraid that they don't even have the qualifications to attend their family banquets.

Unexpectedly, it was a young man who was not well-known, Ye Fan in the early stage of the Wuzun Realm.

At yesterday's rafting meeting in the Mid-Autumn Festival, she had also seen that Ye Fan was only a very inconspicuous person among the more than 90 Wuzun who participated in the rafting meeting, and he had no special performance.

There are countless young geniuses in Donglai County, how can you invite such a young man who is not much as a distinguished guest?

Cao Hao glanced at Mrs. Cao and the children of the Cao family, who were expecting him to explain, but sighed slightly.

His heart was full of anguish.

The Cao family's horizons are too narrow, and the children and grandchildren will not mention it, they are all conservative generations. Among the generations of children and grandchildren, there is not even one who can compare with Pan Yun and Li Hao, let alone compare with peerless talents like Ye Fan.

In the past few decades, none of the Cao family's heirs have made a big difference. can carry the future fate of the entire Cao family.

Among the descendants of the Cao family, there is only one granddaughter, Cao Youwen, who has outstanding qualifications and a good future. But she is a woman, and it is difficult to support the Cao family.

Even the eyes of the lady can only see the young heroes on the "Donglai Bang" in front of her. Beyond that, one knows nothing.

She just thought. The young talents of Donglai County are all in the county court, and the best of the students in the county court are on the "Donglai List".

But a real peerless genius, how can just one "Donglai Bang" be included in it!

In a few words, it's hard to explain it to them.

Fortunately, the Cao family has him as the pillar of support, and he can last for a long time. He can only work hard to pave the way for these children and grandchildren, so that the family can prosper for a long time. In the future, they will understand his good intentions.

Cao Hao didn't plan to explain much. It's like it's hard to explain to a flock of sparrows with their eyes on the ground why a goshawk can soar above the nine heavens.

Cao Hao glanced at Ye Fan apologetically.

Ye Fan smiled faintly and didn't mind. Dean Cao invited him to the family banquet, which was already courtesy, and it was not a big deal to be questioned by the Cao family's children for a sentence or two.

"In this Donglai County, if I want to invite a drink, there are only two young people!

Cao Hao waved his hand heartily and said with a smile: "Forget it." Today's feast, we won't talk about anything else. Drink to your heart's content, until you get drunk! Come, bring me my treasured wine!"

Outside the pavilion, ten maids immediately brought up ten jars of fine wine and wine, and removed the mud prints. Pour wine into the cups of the people in turn.

Cao Hao has the nickname of "Wine Marquis", and the wine of Cao Mansion is recognized as the first wine in Donglai County.

It's a pity that Caofu's wine is never taken out. It is only taken out when the guests are entertained. Of course, the level of the guests is different, and the grade of the wine is also different.

The whole gazebo suddenly burst into fragrance.

"Wouldn't it? The third-order seventh-grade 'Huoyun Yao', grandpa likes to fill his wine gourd the most. He always drank it himself, and occasionally invited his old friends to drink a few sips, but he was reluctant to bring it to the banquet for everyone to drink. ”

"Look, it's a third-order eight-grade 'Cold Ice and Snow Spirit'! This is twenty years ago, my grandfather went to the top of the Nine Domains Ice Peak in my Canglan Country, and collected a large piece of ice and snow to brew, there are only ten jars in total, and he has never taken it out. He was willing to take it out and drink it!"

"That altar is sealed with red clay, but the third-order supreme 'Heavenly Fragrance Drunkard' that he has hidden for fifty years, there are only two altars left. Why is Dad willing to take out a jar to drink?! No, he said that he would leave an altar for Youwen to get married. ”

"Grandpa, this is a bloody investment!"

The children of the Cao family couldn't help but swallow their saliva for a moment, and in a blink of an eye, they threw the previous things out of the clouds, and their attention was all on these wine jars, and they were shocked in disbelief.

These Cao family children are naturally like pearls for their own wine.

In the wine cellar where Cao Hao made wine himself, there are a number of these wine jars. It can be said that the best wine in Cao Hao's wine cellar has been brought out in a jar. Just these ten jars of wine, the total value is no less than tens of thousands of yuan stones.

In normal times, they would never be able to drink any of the ten jars of wine. Because Cao Hao forbade anyone to come near his cellar, let alone drink from one of them. If you dare to take a sip, half of your legs will be broken.

But today, the head of the family actually took the top wine of ten jars and came to treat him.

Invite a Ye Fan who came from Luyang Mansion and had an unknown reputation. Ye Fan may be regarded as one of the few geniuses in Luyang. But among the geniuses of Donglai County, it seems that this is the case!

What did he fancy about Ye Fan?

This kind of courtesy, even if Li Zhouying, the lord of Donglai County, and General Pan Dahai, the general of Zhenhai, are here, it is impossible to get it.

Could it be that Ye Fan is really different. They didn't see it? Only the head of the house saw it?

The children of the Cao clan were shocked and puzzled.

Tonight, he actually touched the light of Ye Fan, an outsider, and was "lucky" to drink these treasured wines for forty or fifty years.

Cao Hao's eldest son, Cao Ruiyang, was very depressed.

A maid carefully held a jar of "Cold Ice and Snow" wine, poured a small glass for everyone in the pavilion one by one, and then retreated.

Immediately, there was a chill in the pavilion, which almost shocked everyone's spirits, as if they were in the ice and snow. In the midst of snow and ice. There is a strange fragrance.

Although everyone at the banquet was intoxicated by the aroma of the "cold ice and snow" wine, no one drank it.

This is a third-order eight-grade wine, and if Wuzun takes a small sip, he will get drunk for three days and three nights. Tonight's Caofu night banquet has just begun, and no one wants to get drunk at this time. There are nine jars of excellent wine in the back!

Only Cao Hao, the marquis of wine, dared to drink this wine directly in one sip.

They want to drink. It can only be bleated a little.

Several grandchildren's Cao children even secretly music, this wine was poured into their cups, and it belonged to them. Although I can't finish this cup tonight, I can save it for later.

"Just drinking wine doesn't mean much! Today, everyone in the Cao Mansion is proficient in wine, and Ye Fan is also good at it. Why don't we play a little trick and guess the raw materials of this 'cold ice and snow' brewing!"

Cao Hao's gaze swept over the people at the banquet and said with a smile.

This "Ice and Snow" wine was brewed by him. But he never told anyone what the recipe was. It's not that he doesn't want to leave the recipe to the descendants of the Cao family. It's that the brewing materials on this recipe are too difficult to find, and most of them are in dangerous places, and the descendants of the Cao family have no ability to find them, if they really want to find the brewing materials on a whim, it will harm them.

However, it doesn't hurt to play this game tonight. It's impossible for anyone to be able to tell the ingredients accurately.

"Grandpa, you guessed it. What's the reward?"

The one sitting behind Mrs. Cao looked delicate. The seventeen or eighteen-year-old cardamom girl smiled sweetly in her crisp voice.

"Of course! Whoever guesses all the ingredients will be rewarded with a small gourd's 'Ice and Snow Spirit', which can drink ten sips of wine. Drink it slowly, it is estimated that you can drink it for more than half a year. Youwen, why don't you guess first?"

Cao Hao laughed.

"No, I can't. Grandpa is cheating, we can't guess all the brewing materials! We can't guess, this is equivalent to guessing in vain, grandpa's wine gourd can't be sent!"

Cao Youwen immediately protested dissatisfiedly.

"Well, let's see who guesses the most!"

Cao Hao thought for a moment. Take a step back.

As soon as these words came out, all the children of the Cao family were overjoyed and praised one after another.

Even Ye Fan smiled when he heard this.

Dean Cao is thinking of a way to send him wine.

The main purpose of his coming to Cao Mansion tonight was to get some good wine from Cao Mansion to go back. If he didn't accept it, he would be embarrassed.

Cao Youwen nodded, picked up the cup with her right hand, blocked it with the placket of her left hand, and drank a little bit on the cup with her red lips, and tasted it carefully for a while, and soon her face turned red and flushed.

"The taste is pure! There are only ten ingredients for this 'Ice and Snow'! I've already guessed five of them, but I won't talk about them yet. Can any of you guess more? I'll throw in the towel. ”

Her bright eyes swept over everyone and chuckled.

The rest of the Cao family disciples also picked up their cups and savored them. For all the children of Caofu, winemaking is almost their specialty, and all kinds of winemaking materials are very familiar.

"I've made four of them! If Youwen guesses correctly, then I've lost. ”

"I've only tasted three, which, alas, are far worse than you. ”

"Youwen's wine is getting deeper and deeper, I'm willing to bow down!"

Soon, they all shook their heads and put down their cups. Although he wants to win, his skills are not as deep as Cao Youwen.

Ye Fan took a sip and tasted the taste of the best wine in Donglai County, but did not speak.

Cao Hao suddenly smiled, looked at Ye Fan on the left chief with anticipation, and said, "Ye Fan, how many can you guess!" He had already learned Ye Fan's skills in the wine road in the ten-boat race, so he was naturally looking forward to Ye Fan's performance.

Ye Fan thought for a moment and said, "Six kinds!"

He actually tasted all the ingredients in this cold ice and snow spirit, but there was no need to say everything, as long as he was more than the others, he could win that small gourd wine.

The number he reported, no more, no less, just one more than Cao Youwen. Try to exceed as little as possible, so as not to embarrass Cao Youwen and the children of the Cao family.

"Impossible, I have been practicing winemaking with my grandfather for more than ten years, how can you guess one more than me!"

Cao Youwen immediately widened a pair of beautiful eyes and looked annoyed.

(To be continued.) )