Super Zoo

"Xiao Kong, you've recovered well."

Su Ming touched the little monkey's head. This guy was dying two days ago and almost died. He was saved by his mental power and treated in the infirmary for a few days. Now he is alive and kicking, and he is completely different from the poor guy stuck in the crack of the stone.

The little monkey grinned at Su Ming and squeaked, very proud.

This guy has wrinkles all over his face. When he smiles, the wrinkles on his face are all squeezed together, like an old lady over 180 years old. He looked at Su Ming with a chill.

"Squeak... squeak... squeak..." The white-haired old monkey king took out a bamboo tube from somewhere and handed it to Su Ming.

A burst of refreshing fragrance suddenly filled the bamboo tube.

Su Ming took it and saw that there was half a bucket of emerald green liquid in the bamboo tube, which looked like wine, but the smell was even more fragrant than the Maotai that Su Ming had drunk at Wang Hao's house.

"Thank you for saving Xiao Kong? For me?" Su Ming asked the monkey king tentatively.

"Zha...zhizhi..." The old monkey king nodded, then raised his head again, put his hands on his mouth, and made a "drinking" gesture.

"Can this thing be drunk?" Su Ming found it a little funny.

Looking at the monkey king's movements, plus the smell of wine in the bamboo tube, he was reminded of a kind of "hundred-fruit wine".

Most people may not know about the hundred-fruit wine, but there is another well-known name for the hundred-fruit wine: monkey wine.

It is said that wild monkeys in the mountains will collect a lot of wild fruits and hide them in tree holes to store food for the winter, but if there is no shortage of food in the winter, the monkeys just forget that there are fruits stored here, or the monkeys who store the fruits have an accident, such as dying or moving, then the hundred fruits in the tree hole will ferment and become a hole of hundred-fruit wine.

This is not a legend, hundred-fruit wine does exist. In fact, "love of wine and color" is a common feature of all primates.

The Huainanzi recorded such a story. The King of Huainan liked to drink. Every winter, he put a lot of fruits and grains at the foot of the mountain. When he went into the mountain again in the spring of the following year, he could often find many drunk monkeys lying on the ground, which were easy to catch.

The King of Huainan sent soldiers deep into the mountain where wild monkeys gathered. He saw a giant tree that several people could hug. The tree was hollow. The aroma of wine could be smelled from a hundred feet away. When he got closer, he saw that the tree was full of "special color and strange juice", which was the hundred fruit wine.

Liu An was a master of miscellaneous studies. After drinking the hundred fruit wine, he praised it highly and sent people to present it to the emperor, who rewarded him a lot.

Later, during the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, Liu An committed suicide after failing to rebel. Huainan Kingdom was also divided into three parts. The Han Emperor specially sent people to transplant the hollow old tree from Huainan Kingdom to Chang'an.

But since then, the old tree has never produced a drop of hundred fruit wine.

Of course, the wine was not produced by the old tree itself, but brewed by monkeys. The old tree was just a container for wine. The Han emperor didn't know and thought it was the wine of the tree god. He only planted trees and didn't raise monkeys, so he would never drink the monkey wine again.

In martial arts novels, from the early Huanzhu Louzhu to the later books of Jin Yong, Gu Long and Liang Yusheng, monkey wine has appeared. Linghu Chong and Xiao Yuer have drunk monkey wine.

However, this kind of wild brewing is really a coincidence. It is extremely rare even in ancient times, not to mention the modern society where the natural environment is severely damaged.

These days, there are not many monkeys, and there is monkey wine.

Su Ming has seen people selling "hundred fruit wine" in the market, but it is just fruit wine brewed by crushing several kinds of fruits and then fermenting them artificially. It is not the same as real monkey wine.

Could this half-bamboo tube of green liquid in front of him be monkey wine? Su Ming was a little unsure and looked around subconsciously.

There were many half-eaten fruits scattered in the Monkey Mountain, and the raw materials for making wine were quite sufficient.

"Zha... Zhizhi..." The old monkey king made a drinking gesture again, urging Su Ming to drink the monkey wine.

The fragrance from the bamboo tube kept drilling into his nose, and Su Ming also felt very tempted, and couldn't help wanting to taste it.

But he was a little uncertain. This thing did smell good, but who knew if it was hygienic? Would there be germs or something? Drinking it would be fine if he had diarrhea, but what if he drank it and became paralyzed with a crooked mouth and squinting eyes?

"Zhizhi..."

Xiao Kong couldn't stand the temptation of the wine first, and jumped from the old monkey king's back to Su Ming, grabbed his clothes and climbed onto his shoulders, stretched out a finger and quickly dipped two drops of monkey wine in the bamboo tube, and then put the finger in his mouth and sucked it fiercely.

The wrinkled little face suddenly blossomed like a flower. Xiao Kong squeaked happily, looking happy, and stretched his head to ask the bamboo tube to come closer, wanting to drink monkey wine.

Su Ming fed it a small sip.

After Xiao Kong drank it, he smacked his lips. Not only was he fine, but he became more energetic. The little monkey's eyes were round and red like his buttocks.

Xiao Kong stretched his head to drink more, but the old monkey king stretched out his hand like lightning, grabbed Xiao Kong's neck and pulled him down, then pointed at the bamboo tube, indicating Su Ming to drink too.

"Then let me try?" Su Ming was also tempted by the smell of wine. Since Xiao Kong was fine after drinking it, he should not have any big problems either.

But it's better to be careful. Drink less at the beginning. Even if it's really unhygienic, a little bit of wine won't cause any harm.

Su Ming dipped his finger in the wine and licked it with his tongue.

"Oh my god!"

A strange feeling suddenly came over the tip of his tongue. The rich aroma of the monkey wine was like an indissoluble substance, pouring into his mouth, and his whole body felt clear.

He took another sip.

This time, it was even more refreshing. It was just like what was described in the book. After taking a sip of wine, it was like eating ginseng fruit. All 48,000 pores on the body were comfortable.

Not only that, Su Ming suddenly found that his mental power seemed to have improved slightly.

Other than that, there was no discomfort.

"It can actually improve mental power?!" Su Ming was very surprised. The taste was secondary, but improving mental power was too important for him.

The stronger the mental power, the greater the range and number of control, and the more powerful animals can be controlled. Originally, he could only improve his mental power little by little through constant practice and hard work, but he never thought of such a shortcut.

The mental power improvement brought by the small sip of monkey wine just now even exceeded the effect of his whole day's practice.

Monkey wine that can improve mental power naturally will not have any virus, otherwise he would have died long ago if he used mental power every day.

Su Ming resisted the desire to drink another sip and waited for more than half an hour. There was no discomfort in his body and he was full of energy!

So he stopped hesitating and drank all the monkey wine in the small bamboo tube in one breath!

"Great!"

Su Ming burped with satisfaction. The rich and mellow monkey wine not only tasted wonderful, but also greatly improved his mental strength. It was a double enjoyment from the body to the spirit!

This wine was probably more than 30 degrees. After drinking a small bamboo tube, Su Ming's face turned slightly red. He handed the bamboo tube back to the old monkey king and asked with a smile: "Are there any more?"

As soon as he said this, Su Ming suddenly realized a problem: where did this wine come from?

Although there was enough food in the monkey mountain, there was no place for monkeys to make wine. The fragrance of monkey wine was so fragrant that it could be smelled a few meters away. If it was brewed in the monkey mountain, the breeders who came in and out every day would definitely have discovered it long ago, so how could it be his turn?

"Chi chi chi..." The old monkey king gestured with his hands and feet.

"Hiccup... I'm not a scum..." Su Ming was a little dizzy after drinking, and smiled foolishly.

"Chirp, chirp... squeak..."

The old monkey king stood up, stood on the top of the monkey mountain, and let out a long roar, which was actually quite domineering like the ape demon Xiaoyue.

Twenty or thirty monkeys suddenly emerged from the caves in various places on the monkey mountain.