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Chapter 72 The temperature of a glass of mulled wine

Food and Wine 巴陵 1468Words 2018-03-18
The literati drinking and reciting poems and composing Fu left many good stories; the petty bourgeoisie drank and talked about love, leaving behind many youthful memories. For a cup of hot wine, they told each other about its temperature and sweetness. Drinking alcohol will naturally generate heat. In the cold winter, if you have a cup of hot wine, it may be more warm and romantic to go home, and you can appreciate the wine scene.Among the petty bourgeois I know, when everyone is still eating seafood and drinking red wine or yellow rice wine, Ah Ou, who has been upgraded from an ordinary petty bourgeois to a senior petty bourgeois, is already exploring the atmosphere of warming wine and savoring the fashionable atmosphere of warming wine.Warm wine gives people temperature and warmth, not drunkenness and trembling.

Petty bourgeois drinking should pay attention to moderation, not drunkenness. When the warm wine slowly flows into the mouth, the drinker will become more sober and more passionate, adding that kind of leisurely mood, controlling the demeanor of chatting, like tasting Chew the delicacy and philosophy of the world.A'Ou, a senior petty bourgeoisie, is a stunner in our city. She is not only charming, but also good at drinking. She never cares about her previous life and past life, and only grasps the comfort and happiness of this life. Pursue taste and style in life, live comfortably and justly.

When I met A'Ou, she was already an authentic senior petty bourgeoisie, eating, drinking and having fun, she had long been particular about style and taste, and pursued nobility and perfection.Half a month ago, Ah Ou and I went back to our hometown Xinhua.My hometown, in the hometown of Chi You, has some primitive and unique eating habits, and is rich in rice wine, with a strong culture of drinking, persuading, tasting, and brewing.I have been influenced and baptized by the wine culture of my hometown since I was a child. I have learned how to taste, brew and drink wine. I am a wine master and I am familiar with the taste of rice wine from raw to cooked, from sweet to bitter, and from cold to hot.

Back in her hometown, A'Ou felt strange and curious about everything, especially seeing the whole process of brewing Chongyang wine, which made her very excited.The relatives received us with their own rice wine. In order to show respect to the distinguished guests, the parents specially warmed the rice wine with a sand jar. After drinking the hot wine, it was warm in the throat and warm in the stomach, and the whole body was hot. , Ah Ou immediately felt the enthusiasm and kindness of the master. Xinhua, my hometown, began to enjoy the cool autumn wind and frosty fog. Drinking warm rice wine, I felt that the countryside was shining brightly.A'Ou has never drank heated rice wine, thinking that rice wine is inherently cool and strong.After drinking warm rice wine, I found the feeling of a senior petty bourgeoisie, and immediately recited poems against me, insisting on playing word games with me. Those lazy and elegant words made me overwhelmed.In the eyes of A'Ou, the autumn in the countryside is so golden and splendid, with extraordinary elegance.

Back in Changsha, I indulged in the sea of ​​books and manuscripts again, and started to code and write.A few days later, A'Ou gathered several senior petty bourgeoisie to her residence to taste the heroic loyalty of cooking wine and composing poems.I was the only male guest invited by A'Ou, sitting in A'Ou's spacious tea room, talking about literature and dreams.A lotus set up a small stove, and the alcohol lamp was roasted under the glass bottle, making a loud noise. I remembered the chemical experiments in my student days, which was like this, and I couldn't help but sigh.

A-Ou used rice wine as tea, and served us wine in a small purple sand cup. I drank the warm rice wine in the purple sand cup, and slowly tasted the sweetness and stickiness in the wine. The rice wine was not sticky, and the color of the wine was clear and translucent. You can see the bottom of the cup and feel warm, elegant and comfortable, as if you have returned to your ideal life. A few days later, I went to Yongzhou on a business trip to interview the migration of the Yao people, and I invited A'Ou to take notes and shoot for me.We walked Dayao Mountain in Jianghua for a few days, but did not find what we needed and the ancient Yao people. Instead, we drank a lot of Yao wine, and I realized that Yao wine is the daily necessities of Yao people.Drinking pure Yao wine, the warm Yao wine gurgled out from the tin pot, although it didn't steam, it moistened my lips warmly in my mouth.A'Ou immediately got into the mood, savoring the warm Yao wine and feeling refreshed, and left two sentences: Yaoxiang's wine is the most affectionate, and the aftertaste of Yao wine is passionate.

Yaojiu is a kind of tasteless rice wine. After A'Ou and I drank it, we slowly became drunk, and it took a long time to wake up after being drunk.Although A'Ou and I were slowly getting closer to Shenzui, the senior petty bourgeoisie, A'Ou, still appeared in an elegant posture. Her charming demeanor completed her mission and frightened the locals. Back in Changsha, before I got up the next morning, A'Ou called and asked me to take her to Qingshuitang to buy tin pots.This reminds me of my grandfather. He used to warm rice wine and white wine in a tin pot. Every time he warmed rice wine, he asked me to try it for him before he drank it.I told A'Ou that my grandfather used a tin pot to warm baijiu, so if you have time, you can try warming baijiu.When we came to Qingshuitang, we searched many antique shops, but it was not easy to find a tin pot. It was an antique from the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. We bought it for 300 yuan, and took a taxi home to warm wine and talk poetry.

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