I am Qinxing No.1

Chapter 172 Centennial Wine Cream (Two in One)

Although the Yuan family respected the ancient style, they also carried out the basic national policy of the past, 'Only give birth to a good, government~government to provide for the elderly', so Young Master Youliang is very happy. root seedlings.

Of course, this is all on the bright side. With the old ancestors of the Yuan family's consistent fashion, ghosts will believe that Yuan Zidan can be honest and faithful. What's more, Zhou Dong has also heard that as early as five years ago, Mrs. Yuan Has died of illness.

Therefore, only Yuan Zidan knows exactly how many notorious and hidden brothers and sisters Young Master Youliang has.

However, it is basically certain that the Yuan family does not have an old girl. Not to mention that a 30-year-old woman can still be called "delicate" these days, even if the Yuan family really had such an old girl, the person who proposed marriage would have already stepped through the threshold. The family has excellent genes and is rich. It is very popular these days to eat soft food and become a door-to-door son-in-law.

"It's really hard to find a daughter red that is more than 30 years old. Not to mention that there is no such thing now, even in ancient times, no one would let the daughter red go for 18 years. They either simply buried it deep in the ground, or dug it out quietly when no one was paying attention. Drink it, after all, it is not a glorious thing to have an old girl in the family before."

Zhou Dong smiled and said: "Looking at the color of the wine as honey, it should be the brown sugar and glutinous rice used in the wine making after years of fermentation, which is very different from Zhuangyuanhong.

Zhuangyuanhong seldom uses brown sugar, and will add more than a dozen kinds of precious Chinese medicines that invigorate the middle and nourish Qi. The ancients valued boys over girls, even when making wine. "

The Yuan family put such a precious wine in front of them, and it was obvious that they wanted to judge him. Zhou Dong naturally understood, so he didn't taste it first, but started to evaluate it after a glance.

Just kidding, he may be lacking in other aspects. When it comes to wine, he is the number one Dionysus of the contemporary era; this means that he is indifferent to money. Showing its prominence, it may not be impossible to replace the national liquor Moutai in the future!

Being able to distinguish Nurhong and Zhuangyuanhong at a glance may seem unbelievable to ordinary people, but it is actually nothing to people who know wine.Yuan Zidan just smiled when he heard the words: "Brother Zhou, this altar of girl red is not as simple as it seems on the surface. If I were you, I would taste it first."

"Oh, is it?"

Zhou Dong took a deep look at Yuan Zidan, picked up the wine bowl, first smelled the wine, and then took a sip lightly after confirming that his judgment was correct.

In the mouth of the wine, it swirled on the tip of the tongue like rich honey, and he had to use his saliva to help melt it, and the aroma of the wine slowly filled the whole mouth. Zhou Dong was slightly shocked, "It really is not easy, there is The agarwood of the old wine is thick and thick, but there are also new fragrances hidden in it, the old and the new are blended, and the dark fragrance is floating?But why this new fragrance will not come out this year at most, while the thick and mellow old wine has been around for at least 30 years?
So cunning Yuan Zidan, at this point, you still don't forget to test me? '

The person surnamed Yuan is really unkind, probably since Yuan Mei, otherwise why would the world call him 'Old Fox'?

Yuan Zidan smiled like a little fox with insufficient morals: "Brother Yuan, how are you?"

"Ha ha."

Zhou Dong put down his wine bowl and looked deeply at Yuan Zidan: "It's rare, it's so rare!

I originally thought that the 30-year-old Nurhong was already very rare, but I didn't expect that the Yuan family's storage was so rich that even the wine ointment of this Nurhong could be found.

If there is no problem with my tongue, the wine ointment must be at least 50 years old, right?

There is no such good thing in modern times. If I am not mistaken, this wine should be brewed by Yuan's family, and it was deliberately made into wine paste.This is not only easy to save, but also can be used to confuse 'experts' at critical moments, right Brother Yuan? "

"So you can drink it?"

Yuan Zidan was more shocked than disappointed, but there was also a faint joy in his heart. Now he needs a helper from the Fang family who knows wine.

"How can you not drink it? People say that it is not Nurhong that is more than 18 years old. Of course, it is because the old girl is not married yet, and she has no face to take out Nurhong to celebrate. In fact, there is another important reason, which is the brewing of Nurhong. brown sugar!

Although brown sugar can nourish the middle and Qi, lay a good physical foundation for the daughter who is going to marry, and make it safer for the daughter to have children and confinement in the future, but it has a natural bitter taste. If the age is too long, although the wine will become More mellow, but with a bitterness in the aftertaste.

But I didn't taste the bitter aftertaste just now, so I knew that this was not an ordinary daughter's red. "

Zhou Dong glanced at Yuan Zidan indifferently: "The fattened wine paste can be re-blended for drinking, and the fattification process and special blending methods can be used to eliminate the bitterness.

So I preliminarily judged that since the altar of Nurhong was buried in the ground from the beginning, I chose the place with the most stable temperature and humidity, and it was sealed with the most delicate porcelain altar.

With these few conditions, at most 20 years, this jar of Nurhong can be turned into wine ointment, not to mention that this jar of Nurhong has been stored underground for at least 50 years!Brother Yuan, you should not have been born 50 years ago, maybe this is what your father did? "

Yuan Zidan shook his head and smiled wryly: "I will be the first to say no to anyone who calls you the Huaxia Noodle King! You are not only the Noodle King, but also the Wine King!

My Yuan family has a special formula for blending wine ointment. Even if I meet a professional sommelier, I can guarantee that he will not be able to drink the pot of Nurhong I blended. I will only think that it is the "Nurhong" that has been aged for many years. You How did you drink it? "

Modern people feel like encountering snakes and scorpions when they hear "blending", thinking that the wine blended is garbage, but in fact it depends on the situation.

The wine blended with alcohol is naturally not good, but this kind of wine blended with wine paste, as long as the technique is clever, it will still have a strange fragrance, without the pungent taste of alcohol, and it is also pure grain wine!

In a broad sense, mixing things into wine is called blending; Cao Cao and Liu Bei's "Green plums cooking wine on heroes" is also a method of blending, but the result is to improve the quality and taste of wine.

Good wine ointment, that is a sky-high price, more expensive than any Moutai treasures.

Just like the wine ointment used by Yuan Zidan, if you use it, you will use less. Although he still has the intention to compare Zhou Dong, this is Zhou Dong, and he is reluctant to take it out if it is someone else.

"Hehe, an old man once said 'the best taste in the world is plum salt'.

Salt and salt, plum sour and sweet are the three natural tastes that human beings first come into contact with. This kind of natural taste is the easiest to integrate into all things without violating the nature of things.

The Yuan family must have their own method of blending the wine paste. Although I don't know it, I can tell that Brother Yuan used boiled plum juice.

And when you boil the juice, you use less water and only halfway through the fire, so that the plum juice you get will be rose red juice instead of dark plum juice, which will not damage the color of the wine.

And because it is a ripe plum, the plum juice will not be sour, but also very sweet. When this plum juice is added to the wine, not only will it not conflict with the wine, but it will lead to a new fragrance, making the wine more layered.

So the most important thing in your blending method is this plum juice, which keeps this pot of wine delicious for 30 years, but not bitter for 30 years, just like the most perfect life!
Am I right? "

Yuan Zidan sighed, and suddenly stood up and went to Zhou Dong and bowed deeply: "Brother Zhou, if I was a little dissatisfied before, now I am really convinced.

No matter how great your reputation is in Baian, in my eyes, Baian is nothing more than a green leaf in Chinese cuisine, but you also have such knowledge and research on wine, that is what really convinces me, and I am sincerely terrified! "

Since ancient times, literati have three great hobbies: poetry and books, fine wine, and Yan Ruyu, and fine wine should be ranked in front of beauties.

Therefore, in Yuan Zidan's eyes, people who know how to drink wine must be refined scholars. As for the chef?
Although he earns money from cooking and is also a half-worker, he never thinks that the master chef on the stove is a refined scholar.

Zhou Dong frowned and said, "It's okay to be sincere and fearful, but I'm not very good-tempered. If you test me in a different way next time, I'm going to lose my face."

"Don't dare, don't dare."

Yuan Zidan smiled wryly and said, "It's not that Yuan wants to take the exam for brothers, but there is something that must be done by the real Fang family in wine like brothers, brother."

"Don't go!"

Zhou Dong is also a person with a temper. What is this called? He promised to keep himself as a guest, but he always turned his back on him. These cultural people are not easy to get along with!

"Brother Zhou, you will definitely regret it if you don't go, because this time it's about a treasure, and it's definitely a treasure you're interested in."

"You don't have to keep it up, just say it."

"This treasure is a jar of century-old wine ointment, and it is also the finest bamboo leaf green!

Brother Zhou, to tell you the truth, the pot of Nurhong you drank is already top-notch, because the wine ointment is used up."

Is there really a century-old wine ointment in this world?

Zhou Dong really didn't believe it, but it also aroused his curiosity.

If it is really a century-old wine ointment, it is definitely worth his trip.

***
At noon the next day, after another table of free Suiyuan dishes, Zhou Dong and Yuan Zidan came to an auction house near Houhai.

The Huachen Auction House has not been established for more than two years. Compared with several large auction houses in Kyoto, it is far inferior in terms of scale and quality of auctions. There have even been several public auctions, and the unsold items accounted for one-third of them. one.

Yuan Zidan is also a well-known figure in the literary circle in Kyoto, and his works are often auctioned by auction houses.

Huachen Auction House wanted to take his calligraphy for auction several times, but Yuan Zidan refused; according to him, Yuan's previous auctions were nothing more than raising funds for disaster relief and selling watches first. people?

However, Yuan Zidan's status in the literary and entertainment circles in Kyoto is really special. The auction with his appearance is simply a halo of force; Here comes a landscape painting of Monk Juran, and a jar of wine ointment that is said to be a generation of wine master Ma Shiqing brewed a hundred years ago!
Yuan Zidan finally moved his heart. Monk Juran's painting is his favorite, and this is said to be a rare Juran banner landscape!
You must know that most of the paintings handed down by Monk Juran are vertical, and banners are extremely rare. If this painting is real, it is a priceless treasure!

The prices are actually drizzle, and the prices of Suiyuan’s vegetables are not cheap. Usually, only Yuan Youliang sells them, and a table of dishes costs 20 to 50 yuan; if Yuan Zidan sells them himself, the price is at least 7000 yuan. Let Zhou Dong eat that dish Wang Taishou's eight-treasure tofu is priced at [-] yuan on the Suiyuan menu!

What Yuan Zidan valued was that this giant banner landscape would fill a gap in his collection.

How did Suiyuan cultivate his compulsiveness? Why would it cost hundreds of thousands or even millions to eat a meal with him?

You sit in the dining room to eat, there are beautiful college students in the lake smiling, and there are bursts of silver bell-like laughter in the depths of the lotus root flowers. Blushing or not?
What moved Yuan Zidan and Zhou Dong the most was the wine ointment that was said to be brewed by Ma Shiqing.

The two were not only moved, but also very curious.

Because the century-old wine paste is like a century-old soup, it is more like a false proposition.

Centennial soup?Do you know how many wars have occurred in China in the past hundred years?In the years of raging wars, there is actually someone who can quietly guard a pot of old soup, add water, add firewood, and watch the fire. Then it has to be passed down from generation to generation, and each generation must have the goodness of not disturbing the troubled times. luck?This is a bit ridiculous!

Therefore, the century-old soup is more like a legend. Although it can exist in theory, it is difficult to achieve in reality.

The century-old wine paste is even more ridiculous. First of all, white wine cannot be made into wine paste. After a long time, there will be nothing left.Yellow rice wine is generally the best of the three or fifty years old wine paste. After a hundred years, how much will there be left?
However, since Ma Shiqing is a court wine master like Ma Shiqing, there is his exclusive secret method, which even Yuan Zidan is not sure about; the altar of red wine ointment brewed by his father is only 50 years old, and his knowledge of wine ointment In fact, that is 50 years.

After being respectfully even humbled by the staff of the auction house and being introduced to the VIP seat, Yuan Zidan glanced at the Yuqian Longjing tea sent by the auction house with distaste. He didn't even have any desire to drink tea. Zhou Dong thought in his heart: "Brother Zhou really knows how to drink wine, but is he sure to distinguish century-old wine cream?"

Of course the century-old wine cream should not be missed, but the Yuan family can't afford to lose face.Yuan Zidan really has no idea. If this is "slapped in the eye", will Suiyuan become the laughing stock of everyone in the future?
Zhou Dong was flipping through the promotional brochure given by the auction house. He was not interested in those bottles of calligraphy and painting in front of him. He went straight to the No. 16 century-old wine cream.

When I saw in the introduction that this lot also comes with a copy of "Shui Shuo" written by Ma Shiqing after visiting "Lingshui" all over China, I couldn't help but burst into excitement, and I couldn't control it for a while. He looks happy.

If you don’t strive to become a master chef in order to completely cure your illness, find a place with good mountains and rivers, plant a good field, raise a good dog, cook some good dishes, and brew some good wine, this is Zhou Dong. ideal life.

Grandpa He from the tea shed said so, and so did Zhou's father. Subconsciously, Zhou Dong has already regarded this leisurely life style as his goal that he must achieve in the future!
He is willing to go to the ideal life program group. In fact, it is largely because of this reason. Mushroom House is somewhat similar to his ideal life.

To make good wine, you must have good water, otherwise even the God of Dionysus is a clever woman who can't cook without rice; so Ma Shiqing's "Shui Shuo" is really more precious than any century-old wine cream in Zhou Dong's opinion .

"Brother Zhou, seeing how happy you are, how sure are you of identifying the hundred-year-old wine ointment?"

Yuan Zidan asked with a guilty conscience.

"Well, it depends on how the auction house stipulates. Can I taste it?"

"how is this possible"

Yuan Zidan's heart was shocked, how did brother Zhou speak layman's words?

"Brother, if it's really a century-old wine paste, I'm afraid you will get drunk after eating a tablespoon, even if you are asked to taste it, you dare not taste it?

But it's okay to open the lid to take a look and smell it. "

"That's it"

Zhou Dong said with some embarrassment: "If this is the case, I'm afraid I'm only [-]% sure, so it's best to allow me to try it.

Brother Yuan, can you communicate with the auction house, I promise I won’t get drunk? "

"You promise not to get drunk?"

With Yuan Zidan's self-cultivation, he couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "Can you guarantee this? Not to mention you, brother, even those state-level bartenders in Haizi would not dare to say that they have eaten wine cream for a hundred years Can not get drunk."

Zhou Dong shook his head: "It's just a hundred-year-old wine ointment, and I can't get drunk. If you allow to taste it, I'm [-]% sure to help you identify this jar of wine ointment, but I have one condition."

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