Rejuvenation of the Han Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 16 Three visits to Taoyuan
Liu He worked in the kitchen for half the night, tossing so hard that the cooks couldn't rest. They split bamboo poles, tore down wooden barrels, and smashed the bottom of copper pots. No one knew what he was going to do.

It was not until midnight that a steamer-like thing was set up on the stove, because the wooden barrel with the bottom removed was used as a shelf, and it was much larger than the steamer.

There is no cover on the top, but a copper basin with a sunken bottom. There is an opening under the copper basin. Half of the bamboo pole is cut into a sink shape, and the other half is dredged. The pipe leads from the barrel to the outside.

Ten altars of wine had been bought earlier and placed on the ground, but he didn't drink a sip. After finishing these, he asked the cook to pour the wine into a pot and boil it over high heat, and placed the wine jars under the outlet of the bamboo pipe.

Guan Yu and Zhao Yun couldn't figure it out. Seeing that it was late at night, they asked Liu He, but he refused to explain. They just let them go to bed. The two were bored and had to go back first.

Liu He was still guarding the kitchen and asked the cooks to keep burning the fire to boil all the ten jars of wine dry. If the water in the copper basin above was hot, immediately replace it with cold water.

After a meal, Liu He saw water droplets falling from the bamboo tube, went up to sniff it, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and nodded with satisfaction.

Immediately cover the mouth of the altar with a cork wrapped in a soft cloth, let the cooks cook overnight, and cover the leaking places with cloth and thatch as much as possible.

Even so, half an hour later, the kitchen was still filled with a faint smell of wine, Liu He directed and adjusted from time to time, and then fell asleep sitting on the firewood.

When he was woken up by the cook, it was already daylight, and there were still three jars of wine uncooked. Liu He told them to continue to burn the fire. Now everything is normal, so go back to the room to rest first.

Guan Yu and Zhao Yun were washing up, and they were surprised to see Liu He, who smelled of alcohol all over. Could it be that he had been drinking all night in the kitchen?
Liu He did not explain, and asked Zhao Yun to take Guan Yu to the school grounds first, to practice the skills of riding a horse and using weapons, and then to visit Zhang Fei's Taoyuan after having dinner at noon.

When the two of them came back from the school at noon, Liu He had already washed up and was waiting to have dinner together.

After eating, Liu He took a small flagon from the table, poured a glass of wine for Guan Yu, and said with a smile, "Please, Yun Chang!"

Guan Yu frowned slightly. He obviously bought ten jars of wine last night, but now he is pouring out such a small glass of wine. Isn't it too stingy?
But Liu He is the master after all, he couldn't lose, raised his wine glass and said, "Thank you, my lord!"

The wine glass was brought to his lips, and a strong aroma of wine came to his nostrils. Guan Yu couldn't help being taken aback, and Danfeng's eyes suddenly opened and then narrowed slowly.

He fanned his nose and sniffed deeply, then took a careful sip. There was an indescribable taste between his lips and teeth, and he couldn't help but drink up the wine in one gulp.

The strong wine entered the throat, like a flame, the throat was hot, and immediately flowed down the throat and chest, and it was clearly felt that it flowed into the stomach.

Immediately, there seemed to be a flame burning in the abdomen, which made people feel refreshed.

All this was actually only seen for a moment, Guan Yu held up the empty cup and paused for a while, Danfeng opened his eyes and praised: "Good wine!"

Liu He nodded and smiled, "Of course it's good wine."

Guan Yu couldn't help but stretched out the cup: "Can I have another cup?"

Liu He said with a smile: "After drinking this cup, there are three more cups!"

There were two wine glasses on the table, all of which were full, and the three toasted together.

The strong wine entered his throat, and Liu He felt that this was a bit of a taste.

Guan Yu stroked his beard and let out a long breath, his dark red face glowed red.

Zhao Yun coughed again and again, sticking out his tongue and fanning himself with his hands, his face became more rosy.

After drinking three glasses of wine, one person is already a little tipsy, such a strong drink is really unstoppable.

Liu He stopped Guan Yu, it was time to go to Taoyuan again.

The spring day is harmonious, and after drinking a few glasses of wine, it is not to mention how comfortable it is on the body. Even Guan Yu put the troubles of the two people behind him, looking high-spirited.

Counting it, this was already the third time I went to see Zhang Fei, bringing Guan Yu and Zhao Yun with me, and it felt like visiting the thatched cottage three times.

Drunk traveler in the spring breeze, visit the Peach Garden three times!
The back door of Taoyuan was open, and the dozing man at the door suddenly jumped up when he saw Liu and the three of them, and shouted: "The owner, the owner, here they come—"

Liu He was taken aback, looking at the situation, Zhang Fei was actually waiting for them, but why did he keep refusing the invitation?
Walking in the door, Zhang Fei was striding out wearing a short shirt. After the Chinese New Year, business was not good. It would take several days to sell a pig, and he didn't need to do it these two days.

"What's the comparison today?"

Zhang Fei couldn't wait any longer. In the past two days, he fought against the masters, but it always made him feel unfulfilled, which was really uncomfortable.

"No martial arts competition today," Liu He said with a smile, shaking the wine jar in his hand, "a wine competition."

"Competing wine?" Zhang Fei was taken aback for a moment, then laughed loudly and said, "Hahaha, interesting and interesting!"

He brought the three of them to the thatched shed and sat down. It was filled with wine vats and wine jars. There were large vats at the bottom, followed by large and small wine jars, all sealed with mud, obviously full of wine. wine.

"Let's talk, what's the comparison?" Zhang Fei pointed to the wine and said, "You can drink whatever you want. Today is my treat, and I don't charge for it."

Liu He put half a jug of wine on the table and said with a smile, "I'm not as good as all the wine you have here."

"Hahaha, Mr. Liu's words are wrong!" Zhang Fei looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, and said to the three of them, "Aside from practicing martial arts, my only hobby is drinking! It's not Lao Zhang's bragging, the entire Zhuo County and even Youzhou, even outside the Great Wall As long as it is a famous wine, I will buy it here and store it. Even the imperial wine, it is difficult to compare with what I have in my collection."

Hearing this, Zhao Yun couldn't help curling his lips, Guan Yu smiled lightly with his long beard, and his Adam's apple rolled under his long beard.

Liu He didn't argue with him, but just said: "Bring the wine glass!"

"What kind of wine glasses do you want?" Zhang Fei turned impatiently, and took four bowls from the table behind him, and put them on the table, "We should use big bowls for drinking, and the wine glasses are only used by sour scholars."

Liu He looked at the sea bowl, which was bigger than his head, and smiled knowingly, but sighed deliberately: "I'm afraid that the owner of my wine will be drunk after drinking three bowls."

"Three bowls of wine can get me drunk?" Zhang Fei felt dissatisfied when he felt that he was being provoked.

This is worse than saying that he is poor in martial arts. Immediately, he straightened his neck and widened his eyes, patted the table and said, "Don't say that three bowls of wine make me drunk, just stand up and stagger, and I will be considered a loser. From now on, whatever The young master sent!"

Liu He held the lid of the wine jar and asked, "Is this true?"

"One word from a man, it's hard to chase!" Zhang Fei held up the bowl and looked at Guan Yu: "Brother Guan, bear witness for me."

"Alright!" Guan Yu Nianxu nodded slightly.

Drinking capacity is the same as martial arts, they are all practiced bit by bit.

Did he know how powerful the wine in this altar was, he had never drunk such a strong wine before, and suddenly he drank it suddenly, with his drinking capacity, he might be drunk after one bowl, no matter how powerful Zhang Fei was, he would only have two bowls at most.

Liu He carefully removed the cork and poured wine for Zhang Fei. Before the wine was full, Zhang Fei stared wide-eyed and shouted, "Good wine!"

This voice made him tremble in fright, and almost threw the wine jar in his hand to the ground.

(End of this chapter)