"Back to the emperor, this peach blossom wine comes from a village called Taoyuan."

The boss quickly explained to Zhou Jingyu: "This kind of wine is made from peach blossoms. It has a faint peach blossom fragrance and is loved by everyone. However, Taoyuan Village is far away from our capital, and peach blossom wine is very popular, so it can be shipped to our capital." , are very few.”

"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and present it to the emperor to taste."

"Yes, yes, hurry up, bring over all the remaining peach blossom wine..."

Zhou Jingyu didn't say anything, while drinking tea, looking at the talented people below who were fighting about poetry and writing, thinking of the woman who once amazed the whole capital with her poem about winter plums, she missed her very much.

"Your Majesty, this is peach blossom wine."

The boss, the waiter, took out a bottle of peach blossom wine from the tray and presented it respectfully. Yang Xuehai then looked at the bottle. It was not a high-end porcelain, but a very low-priced terracotta wine bottle. This made him frown: " How can such low-quality wine vessels contain good wine?"

The boss was so frightened that he knelt down and explained: "Your Majesty, forgive me, Mr. Yang, but you don't know something. Taoyuan Village is a remote village and does not have high-quality wine vessels, so they use pottery made by themselves." Wine is stored in earthenware vessels, but peach blossom wine is definitely a good wine.”

Yang Xuehai glanced at the boss suspiciously, and Zhou Jingyu smiled and asked him to open the lid of the wine. Yang Xuehai didn't believe that this peach blossom wine was a good wine at all... Well, it smells so good!

He lifted the lid of the wine, and a faint fragrance of peach blossom floated out, which cheered up Yang Xuehai. Zhou Jingyu's eyes were immediately attracted. He grabbed the bottle from Yang Xuehai's hand, put it to the tip of his nose and smelled it. The rich aroma of peach blossom wine hit his nostrils. , so that he couldn't help but close his eyes and become intoxicated.

"It really smells like peach blossoms and wine."

Yang Xuehai also opened a bottle by himself, put it to his nose and was intoxicated. He was not ashamed at all for what he just said. He quickly poured out a glass of peach blossom wine, only to see that Zhou Jingyu had already blown the bottle. The peach blossom wine was 46 degrees. There is a heat that enters the throat, but with a faint sweetness of peach blossoms.

"Good wine!"

Zhou Jingyu felt refreshed and his mood was high. He looked at the peach blossom wine in his hand and said with a heroic smile: "I never expected that my great Zhou Dynasty would have such good wine."

"Yes, it smells so good."

Yang Xuehai drank two drinks in a row, nodded and praised without hesitation: "Your Majesty, we have had countless drinks, but we have never had such a good wine."

After a while, the two of them drank a bottle each, and saw the last bottle left in the boss's hand. Yang Xuehai stared at it, but of course he did not dare to snatch it from the emperor Zhou Jingyu, and asked: "Boss, is there any more?"

"No more Master Yang."

The boss shook his head and smiled bitterly: "There are only these three bottles left."

"Oh, it's not satisfying."

Watching Zhou Jingyu open the bottle of wine again and drink it, he was already seventy percent drunk, and said to Yang Xuehai: "Such a good wine should be paid tribute, Xuehai, please pass the order to Taoyuan Village on my behalf and ask them to pay tribute to this peach blossom wine." ."

In this way, Yang Xuehai took the imperial edict and went to Taoyuan Village in person.

He also wanted to see who brewed this peach blossom wine...

In Taoyuan Village, the whole village is now planning to expand a winery, which is many times larger than the restaurant's own winery before. All villagers are participating in the construction.

However, today's Taoyuan Village is no longer the isolated village it once was.

Nowadays, countless wine merchants come here just to buy peach blossom wine.

Therefore, the restaurant Lao Chen also raised the price of peach blossom wine several times.It used to be sold for a few dollars, but now it's ten taels of silver and five kilograms of wine.

You must know that one tael of silver is enough for an ordinary villager in Taoyuan Village to consume for several months or even a year. After all, most of them live a self-sufficient life.

However, these wine merchants do not mind the price issue at all, because now a bottle of peach blossom wine is hard to find outside, and some can even be purchased for 100 taels of silver per kilogram, which is already a sky-high price for wine.

Therefore, peach blossom wine is in short supply. Fortunately, peach blossoms, the raw material, are a specialty of the back mountains of Taoyuan Village. Thousands of acres of peach blossom forests naturally grow here, spreading throughout the back mountains. Therefore, Taoyuan Village is now brewing peach blossom wine continuously.

It was supposed to take a month, but it was even shortened to half a month before the wine was released.

But this kind of half-month-old peach blossom wine is sold to wine merchants in distant areas, because they may have to wait for half a month, or as long as one or two months, on their way back, so that the wine can ferment on the road.

Therefore, Taoyuan Village is now successfully getting rich, especially the restaurant Lao Chen, who is making a lot of money. Of course, he pays dividends to Jiang Chen for every bottle of wine.

So now Jiang Chen and Fang Yuanxi don't have to do almost anything, living in the peach forest in the back mountain and living a small life in a paradise.

Coupled with the arrival of her parents, Fang Yuanxi was very happy and often took her aunt to pick peach blossoms in the peach grove with the village women.

Fang Liang was leisurely, so he took his fishing rod and Jiang Chen to the small river to fish and enjoy family happiness.

But a month later, Yang Xuecheng arrived from the capital, breaking the peace between Jiang Chen and Fang Yuanxi.

"Master Yang, Taoyuan Village is ahead."

A group of people were riding horses, and Yang Xuehai was sitting in a carriage behind him. As soon as he heard about Taoyuan Village, he opened the curtain and watched. Occasionally, he met wine merchants who were bringing wine out on the road. They looked very lively.

"Master Yang, Taoyuan Village is famous as a peach blossom wine brewing village in our Taoyuan County. There are tens of millions of peach blossom trees in the mountains behind Taoyuan Village..."

The county magistrate of Taoyuan County accompanied Yang Xuehai and kept introducing him to the current situation of Taoyuan Village along the way.

The restaurant owner in Taoyuan Village, Chen, had long received news from the county magistrate, saying that peach blossom wine had been listed as a tribute by the emperor. This made the restaurant owner Chen excited, and today he organized the whole village to greet him at the entrance of the village.

"Come, come, the adults from the capital are here..."

A villager trotted back and shouted, and Lao Chen immediately asked the villagers to get ready. As Yang Xuehai and his carriage and team slowly came over, Lao Chen cheered to greet them.

"My lord, the county magistrate."

Lao Chen hurried up. County Magistrate Wang of Taoyuan County nodded, went up to help Yang Xuehai get off the carriage, and then pointed at Lao Chen and said: "Master Yang, this is Chen Kaimin, the restaurant that brews peach blossom wine."

"The common people pay their respects to the adults..."

Lao Chen immediately knelt down and worshiped Yang Xuehai.

"Haha, get up."

Yang Xuehai was happy and helped Lao Chen get up: "The imperial edict has not been issued yet, why should we kneel down? Besides, the emperor and I both like this peach blossom wine very much."

"Yes, thanks to the emperor's kindness, I will definitely brew better peach blossom wine and present it to the emperor in the future." Chen Kaimin was so excited that his tone was trembling.

"Okay, okay, take me to see your brewing workshop."

Yang Xuehai smiled, so Chen Kaimin took him and County Magistrate Wang into the large brewing workshop they had just established. Now all the villagers have become employees and are working in an orderly manner.

Yang Xuehai looked around and found that he was six points drunk, which made him very satisfied.

"Master Yang, actually it was not me who first brewed peach blossom wine, but someone else!" Chen Kaimin said, he did not dare to take credit.

"Oh, who is it?"

Yang Xuehai was curious, and he came to see the person who brewed such fine wine as peach blossom wine.

"His name is Jiang Chen. He is an outsider in our Taoyuan Village, but he lives in the peach grove in the back mountain of our Taoyuan Village." Chen Kaimin said.

"Quickly, take Mr. Yang to see him and give you an imperial decree." County Magistrate Wang said to Chen Kaimin.

"Yes, Master Yang, please..."

So Chen Kaimin led a group of them and walked toward the thatched cottage in the peach forest in the back mountain...

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