Chapter 21 Tasting
She knelt at her feet on the night of Beichen, shed tears pitifully, and her thin shoulders couldn't help shaking, so that she looked indescribably pitiful, like a puppy abandoned by her owner.
Beichen Yeli glanced at the woman kneeling at his feet and said to Ling Xiao, "Send someone to send this girl back to her hometown and arrange her future life."
"Son..." Xiaoya wanted to say something more, but Ling Xiao interrupted her.
"Girl, there is really no shortage of girls around my master. Besides, my master has promised you a worry-free life. This is a great kindness. I hope you don't force yourself too much." Ling Xiao pulled Xiaoya up from the ground with a little force.
Xiaoya was hit by Ling Xiao's words and suddenly blushed.
"Ha~~~" Hu Yimeng covered his lips and smiled softly.
Xiaoya heard the laughter and couldn't help looking up at Hu Yimeng.
This look was stunned.
Just now, because she was worried about her grandfather's injury, her heart was tied to the old man and did not notice Hu Yimeng.
At this moment, I was stunned by Hu Yimeng's charming appearance and extraordinary temperament.
She thought her appearance was excellent, but she didn't know until she saw Hu Yimeng today that compared with Hu Yimeng, Hu Yimeng was the cloud on the sky, and she was just the mud on the ground.
"Girl, the most rare thing in the world is to live a life of peace of mind. My master has promised you what ordinary people desire in your life. If you really want to say so, I would like to exchange it with you and live that life of peace of peace." Hu Yimeng said with a smile in Beichen Night.
"How dare you!" Beichen Yeli stared at Hu Yimeng. He was already very tired of Xiaoya's entanglement. He really couldn't wait to cut the chattering woman opposite him with a knife. At this time, Hu Yimeng said that she was willing to exchange with Xiaoya and live a rest assured life. So he immediately scolded.
"They are just talking. They know that they are reluctant to let them go, and they will never let them go." Hu Yimeng smiled brilliantly at the north and night.
"Hmm." Beichen Yeli snorted coldly and didn't open his face.
Xiaoya looked at Hu Yimeng and Beichen Yeli talking intimately, and her heart was full of mixed feelings.
With such a beautiful and intelligent woman around him, I'm afraid this gentleman will never like him. Xiaoya thought with a wry smile.
She is not a person who admits to death.
She lowered her head, put away the loss on her face, and saluted Beichenye, "Xiaoya comes from a humble background and really can't afford to climb up to the prince. Xiaoya thanks the prince's love for Xiaoya. Xiaoya can't be a cow and horse in this life. She can only repay the grass in her next life."
Ling Xiao went downstairs with Xiaoya.
The shopkeeper immediately came forward and said to Hu Yimeng and Beichen Yeli, "Son, madam, you have helped Zui Xianlou today. The villain is brave. Please sit on the third floor. You can taste the good wine and dishes in Zui Xianlou today."
The shopkeeper has been wandering in the imperial capital shopping mall for many years, and naturally he is very knowledgeable. He saw that the two of them were dressed in extraordinary clothes, and in a few words, he calmed out the three sons of a great family in the imperial capital, and also helped Xiaoya arrange the rest of his life. He expected that the two must be noble and extraordinary people, but he did not I know which powerful son he is. He absolutely dare not neglect such a master easily, which is one of the reasons why his drunken fairy building has been able to stand in the imperial capital for so many years and become the first restaurant in the imperial capital.
Hearing the shopkeeper say that he would invite them to the third floor for a good wine and good dishes, Hu Yimeng suddenly became interested, and Beichen Yeli's eyes also emitted a rare light.
"I have always heard that extraordinary people on the third floor of Zuixian Building can enter. Only those who know wine and wine can taste the world's good wine collected in Zuixian Building with the permission of the shopkeeper. Unexpectedly, today we have this honor to go up to the third floor of Zuixian Building to taste the world's best wine. Wonderful! Wonderful!" Beichen Yeli stroked his palm and sighed.
"Wow! So good!" Hu Yimeng was also interested. She smiled and said, "Since you have said that extraordinary people on the third floor of this Zuixian Tower can enter, and those who enter the third floor can taste the world's fine wine collected in this Zuixian Building, then today I also want to see how good the wine in this Zuixian Building is!"
"Ha ha, I'm very happy that you two don't mind. Please come with the villain." The shopkeeper smiled and led Beichen Yeli to the third floor.
Stepping on the third floor, the decoration here is extremely elegant, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, high beds and soft couches, just like the inner room of the prince's house, but when you open the window, you can have a panoramic view of the bustling street in the imperial capital.
Hu Yimeng looked around, and there was nothing in the room that was a vessel for wine, and there was no place where the wine was placed, so she curiously asked the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, where is the wine you said we can enjoy for free? Why didn't I see it?"
"Ha ha, madam, don't worry. Please sit down first." The shopkeeper said with a smile.
Hu Yimeng and Beichen Yeli Yiyan sat at the round table in the house.
Beichen Yeli also looked at the shopkeeper with great interest to see what other good tricks the shopkeeper had for them to see.
"Please wait a moment and let the little man go to the wine cellar to get the good wine." The shopkeeper bowed to Beichen Yeli and Hu Yimeng.
"There is a shopkeeper." Beichen Yeli nodded.
"Xiao Li, go and bring some signature dishes of our Drunken Fairy House to your wife." Before leaving, the shopkeeper ordered the second child who led Beichen Yeli and Hu Yimeng upstairs.
"Order."
Xiao Er also quickly went downstairs with the shopkeeper's feet to prepare dishes.
After a cup of tea, the little second-hand gave Beichen Yeli and Hu Yimeng four cold dishes, four hot dishes, and four pastries and fruits.
After the dishes were served, the shopkeeper personally went up to the third floor with a large tray and came to the house.
"Let the prince and his wife wait for a long time, and please forgive them." The shopkeeper apologized to Hu Yimeng and Beichen Yeli. He held a large tray in his hand, and the things on the tray were covered with a red cloth, and he couldn't see what was inside.
"It doesn't matter." Beichen Yeli said lightly.
And Hu Yimeng's two eyes stared at the shopkeeper and came to the tray covered with red cloth, and she was very curious.
The shopkeeper put the tray in his hand on the table and lifted the red cloth under Hu Yimeng's curious eyes.
On the tray under the red cloth, there are nine small wine bottles and wine glasses of different shapes and materials.
"Huh? Is this what the shopkeeper said about the wine treasured in the Drunken Fairy Tower? Hu Yimeng pointed to the wine bottle and glass on the tray and asked.
"Madam, this is the wine treasured in the Drunken Fairy Tower." The shopkeeper nodded with some pride and pride in his eyes.
"What kind of wine are these? And what are these wine glasses of different materials and shapes used for? Does it have anything to do with these wines? The more Hu Yimeng thought about it, the more interesting it was and couldn't help asking the shopkeeper.
"Son, madam, you two don't know that the relationship between this glass and this wine is very close." The shopkeeper said.
"Oh? What's the reason? Please also ask the shopkeeper to say it carefully. Beichen Yeli said to the shopkeeper.
"Please take a look, this wine is Fenjiu." The shopkeeper picked up one of the bottles of wine and said to Beichen Yeli and Hu Yimeng, "Drink Fen wine as a jade cup. In ancient times, there was a poem called 'a jade bowl filled with amber light.' It can be seen that the jade bowl and the jade cup can increase the wine color.
As the shopkeeper spoke, he poured the Fen wine in his hand into a jade bowl.
The jade bowl reflects Fenjiu, which is really like the "jade bowl with amber light" in the ancient poem.
"Son, please use it." The shopkeeper said to Beichen Yeli.
The guard behind Beichen Yeli hurried forward to test the poison for Beichen Yeli, but was stopped by Beichen Yeli.
"It doesn't matter, step back." Beichen Yeli said to the guard, then picked up the jade bowl and drank all the wine in the glass.
"How does it taste?" Hu Yimeng asked.
"Good wine!" Beichen Yeli praised.
"Then I want to try it too!" Hu Yimeng asked for it.
Hearing this, the shopkeeper put another glass of wine in the jade bowl.
Hu Yimeng took the jade bowl and drank all the wine in the cup like Beichen Yeli.
The wine with the aroma of apricot blossoms slid into Hu Yimeng's throat into his stomach.
A warm current changes her whole body, and drinking in this winter can best dispel the cold and keep warm.
"It's really good wine." Hu Yimeng put down the jade bowl and looked forward to the shopkeeper continuing to introduce the second wine.
The shopkeeper picked up the second wine bottle and said to Beichen Yeli and Hu Yimeng, "This second wine is Guanwai liquor. The wine taste is excellent, but unfortunately, there is a lack of fragrance. It is best to drink it in a rhinoceros cup, which is extremely mellow. You should know that the jade cup increases the color of wine and the rhinoceros cup increases the aroma of wine."
With that, the shopkeeper took out the horn cup made of rhinoceros horn, poured the wine into it, and then held it in front of Beichen Yeli and invited Beichen Yeli to taste it.
Beichen Yeli took the wine in the shopkeeper's hand and drank it.
The shopkeeper filled the wine glass again and held it to Hu Yimeng.
Hu Yimeng took over the wine presented by the shopkeeper and drank it.
Guanwai liquor is accompanied by rhinoceros horn cup, which has its own mellow flavor.
"Next, this third wine is the wine of the Western Regions." The shopkeeper said, "If you want to drink wine, you need a luminous glass. The ancient poem said, 'Grape wine luminous cup, if you want to drink the pipa, you will be urged immediately.' Grape wine is a bright red color, and our generation of men drink it, which is inevitably lack of pride. After the grape wine is put into the luminous glass, the wine color is the same as blood, and drinking is like drinking blood. There is also a saying that 'the ambition is to eat Hufu meat, laugh and talk about thirsty to drink the blood of the Xiongnu', is it not magnificent! The heroes of the world should drink this grape wine!"
The shopkeeper picked up the third bottle of wine and poured it into a luminous glass.
The luminous cup is green and flowing, as if it can really shine at night. When the grape wine is poured into the luminous cup, the color is as red as blood, as the words say, "being hungry, laughing and thirsty drinking Xiongnu blood"!
ps: The demon phoenix does not understand wine. The knowledge about wine and wine glasses in the article draws on relevant clips from Jin Yong's Smiling Proud Jianghu.