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I lowered my head and stood quietly in the middle of the venue waiting for the announcement of the events and rules. The fourth brother also stood like an old monk sitting in meditation, just an occasional glance, which made me feel that there was a moving object beside him.

The eighth brother went to the center and announced the rules of the game to the whole audience.

The game adopts a three-game two-win system, the first game is compared to wine tasting; the second game is compared to treasure; the third game is compared to books.

The first two games are my strengths, and I am secretly happy.

This should be the idea of Lao Ba and Xiao XIV, right? They know that I can drink, and people who can drink usually have some simple wine tasting. However, how did they know about the treasure appraisal? Did you hit it crookedly? There is no time to think about this problem for the time being.

Text? I, Liu Chuntao, am illiterate. Isn't it sure that I will lose this game? I took a look at the three people. Who came up with this idea?

Lao Ba and Shi should be facing me, so is it the third brother? My eyes swept at him, and he also happened to look over. It's the kind of eyes full of complex emotions that make me unable to take it. I turned my head, but I saw my ninth master looking at us and frowned slightly.

He won't find the strange eyes of the third brother, will he? If he is jealous...

It's better to look less at the third brother.

The eighth brother continues to announce the rules of the game. The first and second rounds must be judged twice, and each time he is correct, he can get a small prize. If you accumulate a lot of small prizes, you can get the grand prize if you are the final winner.

Whose idea is this? With such a sense of freshness, if this person was born in modern times, he would definitely be invited to the TV station. This idea is comparable to the classic supergirl idea.

The eighth brother lifted the flannelette on a large tray, and everyone in the field exclaimed in unison.

"Buddha's heart bead?"

"This is the Empress Dowager's favorite. If it is clear and dust-free, it will be like the Buddha's heart..."

The fourth brother's body moved slightly. Why can't the old monk sit still?

After seeing people's comments and the reaction of the fourth brother, I thought it was a great prize. I stared at it and almost didn't spray it.

It turned out to be a few huge, crystal clear, flawless and radiant... glass balls!!

The performance of other people in the field is completely different from mine. They are surprised, envious and happy. Especially the fourth brother, he looked at the glass balls with joy and eagerness in his eyes. Is there anything else that can make this happy and angry person show this expression? It suddenly occurred to me that this person believes in Buddhism. Does this Buddha's heart pearl meet his needs to believe in Buddhism?

In this era, the glass has just been made, and the process is not perfect. To make such crystal clear and flawless glass balls, I don't know how many semi-finished products or waste products need to be scrapped first. Therefore, their production cost is extremely high and their quantity is very small.

The so-called rare is the most precious thing. This kind of the cheapest material in modern times is very rare at this time. No wonder everyone in the scene has this kind of behavior.

I looked at the glass balls and decided to hide my clumsiness. This kind of prize is a joke for me, a modern person! Let this shining emperor do it in the future! Let's do it!

Unexpectedly, the eighth brother uncovered the yellow silk cloth on the small tray again. On the bright red velvet bottom tray lies a huge black pearl. According to my eyes, this pearl weighs 90 carats. It is round and full, shiny, and stands quietly on the red flannelette. It is so mysterious, enchanting and magical.

Baby, baby!

Top baby!

The baby I want!

Is this the grand prize? What should I do?

I immediately overturned the idea that I just wanted to hide my clumsiness. I want to win, how can I win? I looked at my opponent, the fourth brother, and his magical black eyes also happened to look over, with a trace of jokes and disdain.

He disdain me? What do you mean? Does it mean that he looks down on me as a sloppy woman and will definitely beat me? I wanted to discuss with him that I could give all the Buddha's heart beads to him, as long as he was willing to give me the black pearl.

Now, his disdain has provoked my fighting spirit. I want to win him, and I must win!

I looked at the charming black pearl again. My eyes and my heart seemed to be sucked to the black baby.

The eighth brother coughed softly, which made me reluctantly withdraw my sucked sight. It turned out that the maid served the wine she wanted to taste, and the fourth brother had already picked up the cup and began to taste it.

I just saw the money, and I couldn't move my eyes, so I won't be seen by others, right? I glanced down at the court and saw the smile in Yin Zhen's eyes and the slightly bent corners of his mouth.

It was an expression of looking at an unsavorite child, with a slight doting reproach.

He is laughing at me again!

I glanced at him and bet my eyes on the wine glass in front of me.

In the wine tasting process, the two of us need to say the names of the wine separately, which is a piece of cake for me.

I picked up the glass and knew that it was a very rare French red wine in the Qing Dynasty in this era.

There is a glass of dark red wine in a transparent glass. With a slight shake, the wine will dance, and the clear and clear wine (to be continued, if you want to know what will happen, please log in., more chapters, support the author, support the genuine reading!)

c liquid is like a dancer's skirt, spinning out a beautiful soft wave. A small amount of wine is hung on the wall of the glass, forming "tears of red wine".

I kept shaking in a counterclockwise direction.

After a bottle of dusty wine is poured out of the sealed bottle, it needs to be in full contact with the air. After the tannin acid is oxidized, the odor will be lost, and the rich aroma will gradually appear. This wake-up wine.

The fourth brother had already finished tasting the wine and wrote down the name of the wine on a piece of paper. If I only say the name of the wine, I can also report it immediately, but if I want to win, I must show some real skills and strive to gain an absolute advantage in the first two links. You know, I don't have to compare the text in the third link at all.

Everyone below quietly looked at my movements, and no one said anything. Some people may think that I'm making a mystery. I don't care about this. I just pay attention to this small glass of wine.

In less than ten minutes, I have smelled the smell of wine. I gently shook the wine in front of my nose and sniffed the fragrance of the wine. There is a strong rose fragrance in it, and it is also mixed with a light oak fragrance. This wine must have been sealed in oak barrels for many years.

I asked someone to bring the whitest piece of paper. The eunuch hesitated a little. Kangxi ordered, "Go, bring me the paper I approved for the memorial."

There is a sound of breath below. Only Kangxi can use the paper for reading the origami! Kangxi asked me to taste the wine, which would naturally surprise the people present.

I asked someone to bring the candle closer, lay the paper flat on the case, put the wine glass horizontally on the white paper, and observe the edge of the wine. The edge is brown, and the wine is at least 20 years old. It is a bottle of aged wine.

After three steps of sobering up, smelling fragrance and watching the color were completed, I just picked up the wine and took a small sip. This is a real wine tasting.

I closed my eyes and tasted it with the tip of my tongue first. The taste of this wine is sour and sweet. Then use the two sides of the tongue to soak all the taste buds on the tongue, so that the taste of the wine can really appear.

The aroma of the wine is fragrant and long-lasting, the tannins are delicate and powerful, delicate and mellow, balanced and condensed, and the velvety texture is smooth and elegant, just like the best red wine I have tasted before, but its sweetness is higher than any red wine I have tasted before.

It's strange. Is it an inferior wine mixed with sugar? It's just a superb production method, so it looks like a good wine? The color of the wine and the smell of the wine all show the quality of the best wine. In particular, the oak fragrance just smelled must have been stored in newly made oak barrels for a long time.

Thinking of Romany· Kangdi, which is more expensive than gold in later generations, is known as the wine drunk by millionaires, but only billionaires can drink the best French Burgundy red wine. The brewers pursue perfection to the extent that even oak barrels are brand-new and never use old barrels, so the oak in its wine fragrance The wood flavor is particularly strong.

I once tasted a bottle of a ten-year-old Romany & Connor in the manor of a French count. The oak smell of the wine is really like standing in the oak forest in the morning, breathing fresh air. I just smelled the aroma of this wine, just like the bottle of Romany. Therefore, this wine is by no means inferior. So, what is the reason that makes its wine taste sweeter than other wines?

The factors that affect the taste of grapes include sunshine, rain, soil quality... It must be a very special reason. I thought about it carefully, and suddenly a period of French history came to my mind...

I know the reason. I know why this wine is so sweet!

I looked up, and the people below kept looking at me waiting for me to get the result. Some people have been waiting impatiently. I nodded to my eighth brother, indicating that I had already tasted it.

The eighth brother showed the answer written by the fourth brother on the paper to the people present. People have different expressions, but they strictly abide by the rule of not making a sound, because I haven't said the answer yet.

I can't write, so I can only say it in public after everyone has read the answer of the fourth brother.

I said in a clear voice that the audience could hear, "French red wine!"

There was an exclamation from below: "Both of them tasted French red wine!"

Some people with a slightly lower status are whispering: "This French wine is only a few bottles of tributeed by foreign priests. Have they all drunk it?"

"What's the fuss? Hasn't the fourth master drunk it? As for the concubine, the ninth master is the richest brother. What's in the house? It's not surprising that the concubine is so favored that she has drunk this wine with the ninth master!"

People's fuss and whispers were still in progress, but I interrupted them. Because my review is not over yet. I said, "It's the best red wine that has been stored for 40 years."

It should be brewed in the Romani winery in Burgundy, France. After cutting, the oak was dried for three years before it was made into a barrel of wine. Therefore, the oak aroma of this wine only exists in the smell, but it does not affect the taste of the wine.

I didn't say all this. I don't want to show off. Just saying its year is enough to exceed the fourth brother.

There was another exclamation: "She even knows the year? How come? That's nonsense!"

"How can you taste this year as soon as you taste it? It's impossible!"

"Then how dare she say it?"

......

Kangxi's words overshadowed the discussion: "Li Dequan, is Bai Jin there? Find him!"

In a short time, a tall, blonde foreigner walked into the hall. People's comments stopped.

Bai Jin? Isn't it a missionary sent to the Qing Dynasty by King Louis XIV of France during the reign of Kangxi? There seem to be a total of six people here. They are all scholars of the French Academy of Sciences. They have expertise in mathematics, astronomy and calendar, and often explain this knowledge to Kangxi.

Did they pay tribute to this wine? Otherwise, how could Kangxi let people go to Bai Jin!

Bai Jin bowed to Kangxi.

Kangxi explained the situation to him and asked him, "Bai Jin, this wine is paid by you. What year is this wine?"

Bai Jin pondered and said, "Dear Majesty, this wine is undoubtedly the 40-year-old red wine produced by our best wine garden in France!"

People around

are in an uproar.

"It's really 40 years!"

"I thought she was talking nonsense."

The discussion around Bai Jin and others was a little less, and then he continued: "This wine can only be drunk by His Majesty Louis XIV and a few of the most noble people in our country. This superb wine tasting skill is really admirable to be able to tell the year of wine just by tasting. Allow me to pay tribute to this distinguished lady in your country. With that, he stroked his chest with his hand and bowed to me. It has aroused a lot of discussion among the people below.

"I would like to ask this lady, how do you determine the vintage of this wine?" Bai Jin asked the questions in the hearts of all the people present and looked at me with anticipation.

How to judge? There are a lot of tricks here. Do you want to talk about it here?

People looked at me attentively, stretching their necks and waiting for my answer. Even the fourth brother, who just looked at me disdainfully, looked sideways at me. I looked at Yin Zhen, and he also looked at me with a smile, with a kind of affirmation and a trace of joke in his eyes. It seems to be saying: little female wolf, if you want to say it, I will support you for my husband!

I made a decision and cleared my throat. I said, "Actually, it's very simple. I judge from the aroma, color and taste of wine that it is a wine that has been aged for more than 20 years. The taste of wine is most affected by the quality of grapes, while the taste of grapes is often affected by the weather. If the rain is abundant, the water content of the grapes will be large, and the sweetness will decrease accordingly. Conversely, if the weather is dry, the water content of the grapes will decrease and the sweetness will increase. Just like dissolving a spoonful of sugar in half a cup of water is sweeter than dissolving a spoonful of sugar in half a cup of water.

I looked around, people listened attentively, and from time to time someone nodded in agreement. I continued, "Then, the taste of wine made from grapes will also be affected by the weather that year. The sweetness of the wine I just tasted is much higher than that of regular wine, so I decided that the weather in the year when the wine was made must be extremely dry. Thinking of a once-in-a-century drought in France 40 years ago, I boldly speculated that the wine should have been brewed that year.

Forty years ago, there was a rare drought in France. At that time, the land was cracked, the banker had no harvest, and even drinking water became a problem. The drought caused riots among the people and made an extremely tragic stroke in French history.

When the werewolf told me that history, he once said, "Most civil unrections in history are related to major natural disasters, both at home and abroad."

Only such a drought can produce grapes with special sweetness, so as to produce red wine with such a mellow sweetness.

Bai Jin had a suddenly enlightened expression. He sighed, "So it is! Judging its vintage from the sweetness of the wine and the history of France, this lady is not only smart but also knowledgeable and impressive. He bowed to me again, and then turned to Kangxi and said, "Dear Your Majesty, a woman in the Qing Dynasty is so impressive. Please allow me to express my most sincere respect to the Qing Dynasty and His Majesty the Emperor!" Bai Jin bowed deeply to Kangxi.

This flattery was very decent, and Kangxi twisted his beard and smiled happily. And there was a lot of discussion around, and there was envy and jealousy in my eyes.

Yin Zhen smiled very proudly. The tenth brother said something to him next to him. He nodded and looked at me. The expression seemed to say: Tao'er is my woman!