Chapter 50: First Meaning of Drinking and Saying
This restaurant has six floors in total, and Mu Jiawang took Lin Chen and Li Xiaoran directly to a room on the sixth floor.
This place is luxuriously decorated and located at a high place. If you stand by the window and look down, you can see the scenery on the street here.
However, Lin Chen didn't care about this. After he walked into the room, he found a seat to sit down because he... hadn't actually eaten much.
Since Lin Chen practiced the sword force method of "Spring River Flower Moon Sword", he has become particularly edible, because condensing the sword force requires a huge consumption. This consumption is not only true energy, but also physical strength. This has led to Lin Chen always feeling empty in his belly. He even doubts that Zhang Jianxian three hundred years ago would be a fat man? According to this way of eating, if he waits for the cultivation of "Spring River Flower Moon Sword" to the point of great success, even a mountain of gold will be emptied!
As soon as the three of them sat down, several maids immediately walked in with tea, fruits and fruits before meals, and placed them on the table one by one. The restaurant manager named Yan Xinghuai also walked in at this moment, walked to Mu Jiawang's side, and asked, "Master, I have already gone to the kitchen to instruct the two young men to drink some tea and eat some fruits and vegetables. After a while, the kitchen will bring the dishes up after a while. I just don't know if I want to call some dancers here to cheer up during the banquet?"
Mu Jiawang thought for a while and said, "I remember some time ago, Uncle Huang found a few piano players and dancers from Jiangnan? Just call them here, and then take two jars of the wine purchased from the Western Regions to let my two brothers taste it!"
Yan Xinghuai nodded, said "yes", and then turned around and walked out of the box. Soon, three servants walked in, two of them holding a small wine jar, while the third servant was holding a wooden plate with drinking utensils.
I don't know if these two wine jars were dug out from the ground, and there was still some soil on the jars, but Mu Jiawang didn't think they were dirty. He sent off the servants, rolled up his sleeves, and opened the wine jar himself.
I could hear a "wave" sound, and a mellow fragrance drifted out of the wine jar.
Mu Jiawang took out a large porcelain cup from the wooden plate and put it on the table, picked up a small wine pickup, took half a dark red wine from the wine jar, and poured it into the porcelain cup.
"Brother Lin, Brother Li, you don't know that these wines were brought back by a caravan from my family when they went to trade in the Western Regions. They heard that after the Western Regions picked the grapes, they put sake and these grapes in a large wooden barrel, and then buried them underground, waiting for it to ferment naturally for a certain period of time, and when the barrel was opened, they would see a barrel of red fruit wine, so this wine was called red wine by the Western Regions."
Mu Jiawang said, taking out three large cups and pouring one for Lin Chen, Li Xiaoran and himself. After he finished pouring the wine, he continued to say, "Not to mention, the Western Regions people are really particular about drinking, not like us Chinese people drinking. If it is more gentle, it is a small cup of drink. If it is heroic, it is to lift the wine jar and drink it. The two brothers come and take a look. There are all kinds of strange wine utensils on this wooden support. When I was drinking, I didn't know these things, so I even made the people in the same seat laugh at me!"
Lin Chen took the wine glass handed to him by Mu Jiawang. This wine glass is different from the cup they usually use for drinking and tea. It is very large in size. It is a semicircle on top and a thin foot pillar below. Then, Mu Jiawang clamps the foot pillar of this cup between the middle finger and ring finger, just like "holding" the wine glass in his hand. It is really weird.
However, Lin Chen only smiled at this matter. Compared with the wine utensils that made him feel strange and Mu Jiawang's strange drinking action, Lin Chen cared more about the glass of red wine in his hand.
When the red wine is in the mouth, a faint sweetness spreads out in Lin Chen's mouth.
What kind of sweetness is this?
If Lin Chen wants to use some kind of vocabulary to describe Lin Chen’s feeling at this moment, then this sweetness can be said to be a very "soft" sweetness!
Yes, "soft"!
Lin Chen had tasted some plum wine and monkey wine before, but these wines gave Lin Chen a "serious" feeling. Even if it had a sweet taste, it was very "dry and hard", just like someone added sugar to the wine. The sweetness inside seemed out of place with the other tastes in the fruit wine, but at this moment, the glass of red wine in Lin Chen's hand did not feel this way.
Lin Chen drank the red wine in the wine glass in one sip and exclaimed: "The wine tastes mellow, sweet but not astringent, for a long time!"
"Oh?" Mu Jiawang poured another glass of wine for Lin Chen and asked with a smile: "Could Brother Lin be a wine lover?"
Li Xiaoran smiled and said, "Brother Mu doesn't know. Brother Lin lives in Qinchuan, Guanzhong, and once recited a poem with me: Clouds and mists linger on the top of the snow-capped mountain, and his body is passing by the fog and flying geese. He warms the sake of wine in the small pavilion, and the fragrance of wine is dissipated and drunken the banyan. He leans on the railing and enjoys the fine snow. The snow falls in his clothes and shoulders are unaware. Looking back at the red furnace, he is in a trance and dreams are like ten years. He laughs three times at the distance, and turns back and falls under the clouds. In this way, can Brother Lin not love wine?"
Lin Chen shook his head and smiled, "Brother Mu, don't listen to his nonsense. I just like to eat it. Whether it is delicious dishes or mellow wine, I like it! But one thing is true. Qinchuan is snowing all year round, so we often carry a pot of warm wine. If it feels cold, drink a little wine to warm up your body. However, although Qinchuan is in Guanzhong, the environment is a bit harsh because of the snow all year round. Except for the prosperous Taibai County at the foot of the mountain, the business in other places is not very developed, so we don't have many choices for the wine we drink. As long as it is wine, I will drink it, so over time, it becomes unstoppable..."
The wine entered his throat. As soon as he drank too much, Lin Chen said more. He patted the wine and did not take it off when placing his luggage, but the wine gourd that was still hanging around his waist, and said, "I don't want to be laughed at by Brother Mu. The wine in my gourd is the old daughter Hong I drank at the banquet some time ago, so I put on a thick-skinned gourd!"
Lin Chen said, but he couldn't help laughing at first.
Mu Jiawang poured another glass of wine for Lin Chen, and then smiled and said, "Of course you have to love wine. People who know how to drink wine will not seem wasteful. Since Brother Lin likes to drink, I naturally have to accompany you to the end. Today I will not be drunk and never return!"
After he finished speaking, he drank a drink.
Li Xiaoran smiled and said, "What do you think we are like this? In the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai raised his glass to invite Mingyue, and the pair of shadows became three people. Then we would raise his glass to invite tomorrow, and three people sat by the table?"
Lin Chen smiled and said, "Haha, Brother Li's words are interesting, but... only Brother Li can say such interesting words!"
Mu Jiawang laughed loudly when he heard this.
Li Xiaoran also laughed. He loved to laugh, but at this moment, he was laughing extremely happily.
On this day, the three young men drank and talked and first became a feud, and never forgot about their hardships and wealth.
Chapter completed!