Volume 1: The Rise of the Western Regions Chapter 20: Golden Wind and Jade Dew
Xiang Tengju doesn't mind that guests bring their own drinks, even if you only order a plate of shredded potatoes, you can sit here and eat in a grand manner, so Xiao Er didn't show any disdain and disdain for Zhao Rang's behavior.
Yuan Mingkong picked up the menu and looked at it, but he didn't know what to eat, so he handed the menu to his sister again.
After all, Yuan Kexin had opened a shop, and he was familiar with it, and he ordered more than a dozen dishes in one go.
After Xiao Er wrote it down, he asked Zhao Rang and the others to wait for a while, took the order himself, and turned around to go to the back hall to arrange.
Zhao Rang opened the wine gourd, took the cup on the table in front of him, and poured a full cup for the three of them.
"If you ride a horse too fast and for too long, your body will be shaken apart!"
As he spoke, a glass of wine was already in his stomach.
Yuan Mingkong and Yuan Kexin both knew that Zhao Rang said this, just to find an excuse for himself to drink......
With his martial arts cultivation, even if he is on horseback for three days and three nights, Ma Zhao Rang will definitely still be alive!
However, at the moment when Zhao Rang opened the wine gourd, Wang San's eyes were attracted by the rich aroma of wine, and he stared directly at the wine gourd.
Seeing this, Yuan Mingkong was secretly happy in his heart, but he remained silent on the surface.
He knew that Third Master Wang was also a good drinker, but in recent years, he has relented because he has grown older. I think when the old man was young, he was also a whale swallowing cow drink when he drank wine, and he was a person who sucked the sea and hung rainbows!
The current status and value of Mrs. Wang are the result of his more than 40 years of hard work in the rivers and lakes!
On the big stage of rivers and lakes, wine must be indispensable.
Some people drink to kill their sorrows, and some people drink for fun. Some people regard it as their fate, and some people hate it to the bone.
Wine is like a thread on a beaded curtain, connecting these people and these things. Even if you don't like it, you can't ignore it.
Although Mrs. Wang has not been drinking much in recent years, he still has an obsession with alcohol in his heart.
Therefore, he spends a lot of money every year to invite the top winemakers from the north and south of Dawei and the Western Regions to come to Xiang Tengju to make wine, and then hold a wine fighting meeting to personally select the best wine and award it the title of "first".
Although Yuan Kexin does not have any reputation in winemaking, Yuan Keming firmly believes that the wine from his sister's mother must be unparalleled in the world.
Not because of the preciousness of the materials needed to make this wine, or because of the cumbersome steps, but because the wine was lost a hundred years ago!
Scarcity is expensive!
For people who are accustomed to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, occasionally giving him a roasted sweet potato will make him like a treasure, which is also the reason.
The wine brewed by Yuan Kexin is not necessarily the best drink, but it must be the rarest, after all, she is the only one in the world who can make it!
So in a sense, this is the best wine in the world, and it is what Mrs. Wang is most eager for at the moment.
After Zhao Rang raised his neck to drink the second cup, Xiao Er held a large tray and served three cold dishes first.
Zhao Rang looked at it, frowned, and said:
"Why is it all so strong?"
Green pepper mixed with preserved eggs, curd sauce marinated edamame tofu, and a dish of sour bamboo shoots unique to Dawei Nandi!
As soon as these three cold dishes were placed on the table, the smell was overwhelming, and the mellow aroma of wine was completely obscured.
Third Master Wang also put down the teacup at this time, and all his energy was on the table of Zhao Rang and the three of them, but the expression on his face was full of regret, as if Zhao Rang and the three of them had no gold mountain and did not know it.
"It's good to drink when it's heavy!"
Yuan Kexin said as she picked up a piece of preserved egg with chopsticks and put it in Zhao Rang's bowl.
Compared with the other two cold dishes, it is acceptable for Zhao Rang to preserved eggs.
But before he could eat it, Third Master Wang on the side suddenly slapped him heavily on the table and said:
"Tyrannical Celestial Thing, Tyrannical Celestial Thing!"
Yuan Mingkong was secretly happy, but he still said lightly:
"What do you mean, senior?"
Third Master Wang had already regretted it to the extreme, stretched out his hand to connect the dots, and pointed to the cold dishes on the table:
"How can these three dishes be used for wine? What do you say, little girl? What a waste of this good wine! ”
Zhao Rang usually hates being pointed at when he does things, especially when he drinks and eats.
However, he saw that what Mrs. Wang said was sincere, and he should be a real person in the wine way, but he felt that this old man was a little cute, so he didn't care, and asked with a smile:
"What kind of snacks do you usually eat?"
Third Master Wang took a few breaths and said in a tone of lesson:
"It depends on what kind of wine it is!"
"Really good wine, you don't need to go with snacks at all!"
Zhao Rang retorted:
"Isn't the taste too bland, if you don't have any appetizers?"
Third Master Wang raised his voice and said:
"How so? A truly good wine is its own unique existence, and there is no need to mix it with other flavors! The dishes you ordered just now are all superfluous! ”
After that, he sighed to himself and said:
"The current offspring is really not as good as the generation...... I want to ...... back then"
When people are old, they love to remember the past.
But Zhao Rang was not used to him.
Although he is the boss of Xiangtengju, Mrs. Wang, he can't intervene inexplicably, he has to distinguish between right and wrong.
But before Zhao Rang could refute it, Third Master Wang suddenly changed his words and said:
"But the old man has never smelled the smell of your wine, I don't know what kind of wine it is?"
He thought he was a great connoisseur of wine, but at this moment, there was a wine in front of him that he didn't know anything about, and he felt uncomfortable scratching his heart and liver.
Zhao Rang didn't know the name of the wine.
For him, as long as the wine is good.
Even if it doesn't taste good, someone can have a good time drinking with him!
He didn't care what the wine was called, or what it was made of, or how many years it had been sealed.
Seeing this, Yuan Mingkong knew that this wine had completely aroused the interest of Third Master Wang, so he said:
"Golden Wind and Jade Dew!"
After hearing this, Third Master Wang immediately shouted:
"Impossible!"
"Absolutely impossible!"
Not only was Third Master Wang so out of shape, but even Zhao Rang was taken aback!
"As soon as the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will win countless in the world!"
He had also heard the name of this wine, but it should have been extinct in the world for a long time, and it only existed in the history books.
When Jin Feng Yulu was in the previous dynasty, he was jointly elected as "the first in the world" by the people who are good at wine in the world! After the establishment of the country, the recipe for making this wine has been lost.
Third Master Wang also tried his best to make him appear again, but unfortunately it was in vain for more than ten years, and in the end it was still a waste...... So when he heard Yuan Mingkong say that this was the lost "Golden Wind and Jade Dew", he was so excited!
"Golden Wind and Jade Dew is not difficult to brew, and the reason why my predecessors thought it was impossible was because the world missed half of the method."
Third Master Wang saw that Yuan Mingkong said so seriously, but he also believed it a little, and asked with a pant:
"How?"
"Could it be the winemaker?"
Zhao Rang said suddenly.
Yuan Mingkong and Yuan Kexin both looked at Zhao Rang with an incredulous face when they heard this!
"The hands of the winemakers, to be exact?"
Zhao Rang said again, the shocked brother and sister couldn't say a word!
Neither of them told Zhao Rang the slightest bit about the wine, not even the name.
But Zhao Rang thought of the crux of the problem just by Fang Cai Yuan Mingkong's words, which was really shocking!
"Could it be that I'm right?"
Zhao Ranggang picked up a glass of wine and saw that the three of them were staring at him with different expressions.
"How do you know?"
Yuan Mingkong asked word by word.
"This ...... Is it hard? ”
Zhao Rang felt that Yuan Mingkong was acting with him again, in order to hook up Mrs. Wang to death.
"Say it quickly!"
Since he knew Yuan Mingkong, he had never seen him so anxious.
Under the urging, Zhao Rang had no choice but to say:
"It's very simple, a wine must be lost because the method of brewing is lost! But the brewing method is actually two parts, one is the brewing material, and the other part is the brewer! ”
After taking a sip of wine and moistening his throat, Zhao Rang continued:
"There are so many kinds of winemaking that even if one or two things are missing, there are alternatives. Only the person who makes the wine is the key, so I say that the problem is with the people! ”
"Then why do you say hands?"
Third Master Wang asked.
Zhao Rang looked at him with an expression of looking at a fool, and asked rhetorically:
"Do you use your feet when you make wine?"
No matter how complicated things in the world are, it's easy to say it.
The reason why many people can't figure it out is that in the final analysis, they are too obsessed.
Third Master Wang is not unintelligent, but he has not been able to figure out why he can't let Jin Feng Yulu appear in the world for so many years.
At this time, his heart knot for many years was broken by Zhao Rangsan in a few words, and Mrs. Wang was very unhappy...... Sighing, tense, asked:
"What do you want to exchange this golden wind and jade dew for my old man?"
It is worthy of the accumulation of years in the rivers and lakes.
From the moment Zhao asked the three of them to come in, he could see that they were not just here to eat.
Coupled with the location specially requested by Yuan Mingkong, as well as this pot of "Golden Wind and Jade Dew", he almost wrote the sentence "We have something to do with you" on his face.
Although it was a calculation, the third master Wang was not angry.
When you see more people and things, your heart will naturally become broader. Many times he doesn't want to pay attention to others, just because of trouble.
When people are old and want to leave more time for themselves, they don't have so much mind and energy to focus on other things.
But the methods used by these three people are really ingenious, so that Third Master Wang can't refuse!
Xiangteng Curie gathers the world's best wines, but it lacks the golden wind and jade dew, which was once "the first in the world".
Third Master Wang thought that this regret must have to be brought into the grave, but he didn't expect that there would be such a fateful meeting, so that he could still see this kind of treasure in his lifetime.
Since the skylight is open and the words are bright, Yuan Mingkong is no longer hidden.
"Third Master Wang's eyes are like torches! But this is not the place to talk, please move to the private room on the third floor, and the kid will set up a good table on the table, let's talk slowly? ”
As soon as Yuan Mingkong's words fell, Third Master Wang burst out laughing.
Inviting the boss to dinner in the restaurant he opened is rare anywhere, and it is as rare as Jinfeng Yulu.