Although the Yuan family admired the ancient style, it also implemented the basic national policy of the past, "Only one is born, the government will support the elderly." Therefore, the young gentleman is very happy. He has no brothers and sisters above and no younger brothers below, and he only has one seedling in a thousand acres of land.

Of course, this is all obvious. With the usual romantic behavior of the ancestor of the Yuan family, only those who believe that Yuan Zidan can live in one's life, not to mention that Zhou Dong also heard that Mrs. Yuan had already died of illness five years ago.

Therefore, the only thing that Young Liang’s son has is not famous, is that Yuan Zidan is probably the only one who is hiding in the corners.

However, it is basically certain that the Yuan family has no old daughter. Not to mention that the thirty-year-old woman can still be called "delicate". Even if the Yuan family really has such an old daughter, it would have been crossed by the people who proposed marriage. After all, the family has excellent genes and is rich, so it is very popular these days.

"It's really hard to find my daughter Hong, who has been going up for thirty years. Not to mention that there is no one now, even in ancient times, no one would let her daughter Hong go for eighteen years. She would either just bury it deep underground or dig it out quietly while no one was paying attention. After all, having an old daughter at home was not a glorious thing in the past."

Zhou Dong smiled and said, "Looking at the color of wine, it should be that the brown sugar and glutinous rice used for brewing wine were fermented after years of aging, which is very different from the Zhuangyuan Red.

Zhuangyuanhong rarely uses brown sugar, and it will add more than a dozen precious Chinese medicines to nourish the middle and invigorate qi. The ancients favored boys over girls, and even when brewing wine."

The Yuan family put such a precious wine in front of him, and obviously he had the intention of taking the test again. Zhou Dong naturally understood, so he didn't taste it first, and started to evaluate it after taking a look.

Just kidding, he may still have shortcomings in other aspects. Speaking of wine, seriousness is the identity of the most popular wine god in the contemporary era; this means that he is indifferent to money, otherwise he would open a brewery himself and be able to show his talents in the brewing industry in less than a few years. It is not impossible to replace the national wine Maotai in the future!

It may be a bit incredible to ordinary people to be able to distinguish their daughter Hong and the top scholar Hong at a glance, but in fact it is nothing to those who know wine. Yuan Zidan just smiled when he heard this: "Brother Zhou, this baby girl Hong is not just so simple on the surface. If I were you, I will taste it first."

"Oh, is that?"

Zhou Dong looked at Yuan Zidan deeply, picked up the wine bowl, sniffed the fragrance of the wine first, and determined that his judgment was not biased, before taking a sip.

When the wine was in his mouth, it turned around the tip of his tongue like rich honey. He had to use saliva to help melt it. The aroma of the wine slowly filled the entire mouth. Zhou Dong was slightly shocked, "It's indeed not simple. The agarwood of the old wine is thick, but there is also a new fragrance hidden, the old and the old blend, and the faint fragrance floats? But why is this new fragrance not the most this year, but the thick old wine has been at least thirty years old?

What a cunning Yuan Zidan. At this time, he still didn't forget to take the exam to compete with me?

The surname Yuan is really unkind. It is probably the case since Yuan Mei. Otherwise, why would people in the world call him an "old fox"?

Yuan Zidan smiled like a little fox who was not good at doing: "Brother Yuan, how about it?"

"hehe......"

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

I originally thought that my daughter Hong, who had been thirty years old, was already very rare, but I didn’t expect that the Yuan family’s collection was so rich that even the burger of this daughter Hong could be found.

If there was no problem with my tongue, this ointment would have been at least fifty years, right?

There is no such good thing in modern times. If I guess correctly, the wine should be brewed by the Yuan family and was deliberately made into a paste. This is easy to preserve and can also be used to confuse the 'insiders' at critical moments, right? "

"You can drink it like this?"

Yuan Zidan was disappointed and was more shocked, but he also felt a little joy in his heart. He was now in need of a Fang family helper who knew how to know wine.

"How can I not drink it? People say that for more than 18 years, it is not my daughter Hong. Although the 18-year-old girl has not yet gotten married, she has no shame to take out her daughter Hong to celebrate, there is actually another important reason, which is the brown sugar used to brew her daughter Hong!

Although brown sugar can replenish the middle and replenish qi, laying a good physical foundation for a daughter who is preparing to get married, so that the daughter will give birth to a child in the future and be safer during confinement, it has a natural bitter taste. If the years are too long, although the wine will become more mellow, the aftertaste will produce a bitter feeling.

But I didn’t taste the bitter aftertaste just now, and I knew this was not an ordinary daughter’s red.”

Zhou Dong glanced at Yuan Zidan indifferently: "The lipid-degraded paste can be recombined and consumed, and the lipid-degraded process and special blending methods can also be used to eliminate this bitterness.

So I initially judged that from the beginning, the daughter Hong of this jar was buried underground, she chose the location with the most stable temperature and humidity, and was sealed with the finest body.

With these conditions, at most twenty years, this jar of daughter red can be turned into wine, not to mention that this jar of daughter red has been stored underground for at least fifty years! Brother Yuan, you probably hadn't been born fifty years ago, I'm afraid this was done by your father?"

Yuan Zidan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Whoever calls you the Chinese King of Faces again in the future, I will not agree! You are not just the King of Faces, but I think you are still the King of Wine!

My Yuan family has a special formula for blending wine paste. The pot of Daughter Red that I blended is guaranteed that he can't drink even if he meets a professional wine reviewer. He will only think that this is the 'daughter Red' that has been around for many years. How did you drink it?"

When modern people hear "coupling", they feel like they encounter snakes and scorpions. They think that the mixed wine is garbage, but in fact they have to be divided into situations.

The wine mixed with alcohol will naturally not work. However, as long as the method is skillful, it will still have a strange fragrance and no pungent smell of alcohol. It is also a pure grain wine!

If we talk about it in a broad sense, adding things to the wine is called blending; Cao Cao and Liu Bei's "Cooking Green Plums to Discuss Heroes" is also a blending method, but the result is to improve the quality and taste of the wine.

Good wine is sky-high, and it is more expensive than any Maotai treasure.

For example, the wine used by Yuan Zidan is a little less. Although he still has the intention to get Zhou Dong, this is Zhou Dong. If someone else has changed to others, he is reluctant to take it out.

“Haha, an old man once said, ‘The most delicious taste of the world is plum salt’.

Salt and sweet plums are the three natural flavors that humans first come into contact with. This natural flavor is most easily integrated into all things and will not violate physical properties.

The Yuan family must have their own method of blending alcohol paste. Although I don’t understand it, I can tell that Brother Yuan, you used cooked plum sauce.

Moreover, if you use less water when cooking the juice, only half the time will be used for the plum juice. The plum juice you get in this way is rose red juice instead of black plum juice, which will not destroy the color of the wine.

Moreover, because it is cooked plum, the plum juice is not only not sour, but also very sweet. Adding this plum juice to the wine will not only not conflict with the nature of the wine, but will instead lead to a new fragrance, making the wine aroma more layered.

So the most important thing about your blending method is this plum juice, which keeps this pot of wine rich for thirty years, but not bitter for thirty years, just like the most perfect life!

Am I right?"

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

No matter how famous you are in Baikan, it is actually just like this in my eyes. After all, Baikan is at most a green leaf in Chinese cuisine, but you also have such insights on wine, which is what really convinces me and is terrified!"

Since ancient times, literati have three great virtues: poetry, fine wine, beautiful face, and beautiful wine.

So in Yuan Zidan's eyes, those who know wine must be gentlemen. As for chefs...

Although he makes money by cooking skills and is still half a diligent person, he never thinks that the master on the stove is a gentleman.

Zhou Dong frowned and said, "Forget it, be afraid or something, but I have a bad temper. If you try me in a different way next time, I will turn against you."

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

Yuan Zidan smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that Yuan wants to take the exam for brothers. There is really something that must be true wine like brothers. Brother..."

"Don't go!"

Zhou Dong is also a person with a temper. What is this? He agreed to keep himself as a guest, but he always takes care of himself. 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 is related to a baby, and it is definitely a good baby that you are interested in..."

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

"This baby is a jar of century-old wine, and it is also the best bamboo leaf green!

Brother Zhou, I’m going to tell you that the pot of Daughter Red you drank is already a top-notch, because the ointment has been used up..."

Is there really a hundred-year-old wine in this world?

Zhou Dong really didn't believe it, but he was curious because of this.

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

***

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

The Huachen Auction House has been established for less than two years. Compared with several large auction houses in Kyoto, its scale and item grade are far inferior. There have even been several public auctions, and the items that failed to be sold account for one-third.

Yuan Zidan is also a famous figure in the Kyoto cultural and entertainment circle, and his works are often auctioned at auction houses.

Huachen Auction House wanted to ask for his auction of calligraphy, but Yuan Zidan refused. According to his words, Yuan's previous auctions were nothing more than raising funds for disaster relief and taking the lead. Do I look like a person short of money?

However, Yuan Zidan's status in the Kyoto cultural and entertainment circle is really special. The auction he appeared in was simply a halo of style. Huachen Auction House, which strives for rapid development, also racked his brains. This time, he finally made a landscape painting by Monk Juran, and a jar of ointment brewed by Ma Shiqing, a generation of imperial wine masters!

Yuan Zidan was finally moved. Monk Juran's painting was his favorite, and this is said to be a rare Juran banner landscape!

You should know that the paintings handed down by Monk Juran mostly appear in vertical paintings, and banners are extremely rare. If this painting is real, it is a priceless treasure!

The price is actually drizzling, and the price of the vegetables in Suiyuan is not cheap. Usually, Yuan Youliang only takes action, and a table of dishes costs 100,000 to 200,000 yuan; if Yuan Zidan takes action personally, it will start at least 500,000 yuan. The price of the Wang Taishou Babao Tofu that Zhou Dong treats Zhou Dong to eat is 7,000 yuan on the menu of Suiyuan!

What Yuan Zidan values ​​is that this giant banner landscape will fill the gap in his collection.

How did Suiyuan develop his personality? Why would he have to eat a meal with him at every turn hundreds of thousands or even millions?

You are sitting in the dining room for dinner, there are beautiful college students in the lake, and there are bursts of silver bell-like laughter deep in the lotus flowers. There are masterpieces worth less than millions of yuan hanging on the wall next to you. If you give me less money, don’t you blush?

What made Yuan Zidan and Zhou Dong the most excited was the ointment that was claimed to be made by Ma Shiqing.

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

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

Centennial Old Soup? Do you know how many wars have occurred in China in the past hundred years? In the years of war, someone can quietly protect a pot of old soup, add water, add firewood, and watch the fire... and then it has to be passed down from generation to generation, and generations have to have such good luck not to be disturbed by troubled times? This is a bit irrelevant!

Therefore, the Centennial Soup is more like a legend. Although it can exist in theory, it is difficult to achieve it in reality.

A hundred-year-old wine is even more difficult. First of all, white wine cannot become a wine paste. If you put it for a long time, nothing will be left. And rice wine usually becomes the best among the wine paste in thirty or fifty years. How many more can you leave after a hundred years?

However, since he is a palace master like Ma Shiqing, if he can't prepare, he has his exclusive secret method, which even Yuan Zidan cannot be sure of. The jar of daughter red wine cream brewed by his father has only been fifty years, and his knowledge of wine cream has actually only fifty years.

After being introduced into the VIP seat by the auction house staff respectfully and even humbly, Yuan Zidan looked at the Yuqian Longjing Tea delivered to the auction house with disgust, and did not even have the desire to drink tea. He secretly looked at Zhou Dong, who was full of curiosity and expectation, and said in his heart: "Brother Zhou really knows wine, but is he confident of distinguishing the 100-year-old wine cream?"

Centennial wine is certainly not to be missed, but the Yuan family’s face cannot be compromised. Yuan Zidan is really unsure. If this is a 'slap', will Suiyuan become a laughing stock for everyone in the future?

Zhou Dong was looking through the brochures given by the auction house, and had no interest in the bottles, cans, calligraphy and paintings in front of him. He turned directly to the sixteenth item, Centennial Wine Paste.

When I saw the introduction mentioned that the lot also came with a book of "Water Talks" written by Ma Shiqing after traveling to China and visiting "Lingshui". I couldn't help but feel excited, and I couldn't help but feel happy.

If you don’t try to become a chef in order to completely cure your illness, find a place with good mountains and rivers, plant a good field, raise a good dog, make a few good dishes, and make a few pots of good wine, this is Zhou Dong’s ideal life.

Grandpa He in the tea shed said this, and Dad Zhou said this. Subtly, Zhou Dong has regarded this leisurely lifestyle as a goal he must achieve in the future!

He is willing to go to the ideal life program team, which is largely due to this reason. Mushroom House is still somewhat similar to his ideal life.

To brew good wine, you must have good water, otherwise even the God of Baccarat is a good woman who can't cook without rice. Therefore, in Zhou Dong's opinion, Ma Shiqing's book "The Talk of Water" is really more precious than any century-old wine.

"Brother Zhou, seeing you are so happy, I wonder how confident you are to identify the century-old wine?"
To be continued...