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Chapter 48 Yunshan Wine

Chu Tianshu was talking with the drinker like this, while Gu Feixue and Xie Ningzi just watched from behind.

Xie Ningzi actually finds it hard to understand why someone can call each other brothers and hook shoulders without saying a few words when they meet each other on the first day of junior high school.

She followed Chu Tianshu inexplicably, watching Chu Tianshu hugging the drinker's shoulders, the two chatted and laughed, and talked to each other about where the wine was good, and which hotel's proprietress was still charming.

After being greeted by the store clerk at Jubafang, several people went up to the second floor.

The hall on the second floor is very spacious. On the square table, the clerk opened the small partition in the middle, revealing the burning stove in the middle: "Are the four guests new guests? Drinking tea or wine?"

Chu Tianshu looked at Gu Feixue.

The middle-aged drinker who had been communicating with Chu Tianshu realized at this moment that Chu Tianshu, a boy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, actually brought two first-class girls with him.

"Brother Chu, this is..."

"These two are sisters from my neighbor's house, and they brought them out to look for delicious food." Chu Tianshu smiled, and added: "Of course, what kind of delicious food we can eat today depends on what kind of delicious food we can eat today." Brother, you can recommend it for us."

Cui Ji laughed out loud.

Although the two little girls are a little younger, they are beauties after all.

In front of the beautiful woman, Cui Ji felt very satisfied when Chu Tianshu hugged him like this.

So he said: "Then you are really lucky, Brother Chu."

"Brother, I don't care too much about other things, except eating and drinking. I think I have made a lot of achievements." Cui Ji patted his chest with his big hands: "Brother Chu, listen to me, since this is the first time I have come back here today , just try Jubafang’s homemade wine.”

"Is Jubafang's wine famous?" Chu Tianshu was curious.

"Hey!" Cui Ji shook his head: "The wine in Jubafang is actually just average."

The store clerk looked at Cui Ji with a smile.

This is a regular customer.

"But although the wine itself is mediocre, Jubafang was moved from Ganyou County in the west."

"Qianyou County has a rather novel wine law."

"It's also called cooking method."

"It is boiled with fresh fish and live crab, green ginseng and purple lotus root."

"After this dish is cooked, the new wine will be full-bodied and the old wine will be light."

"The fish is boiled and discarded, and the crabs are singled out to eat."

"And you can only eat crab paste."

"You can also put the crab paste in the wine and eat it together."

"This taste!" Cui Ji shook his head.

"Brother Cui is really well-informed, and younger brother is educated." It was also the first time Chu Tianshu heard of such a way of eating.

Gu Feixue was amazed.

She is also a native of Tianjing, and for many years, she didn't even know that Tianjing still had such a way of eating.

"Try?" Chu Tianshu looked at Gu Feixue.

Xie Ningzi shrank her neck: "Can I stop drinking?"

"Then try." Gu Feixue puffed up his chest.

Seeing Xie Ningzi's timid look, Cui Ji said: "It's okay, this wine will be sweet after cooking."

At this time, the waiter interjected: "If the guests don't like the general taste of wine, you can also try the cherry wine brewed by our owner as a base."

"Cherry wine is used as the base, and the taste is sweet and slightly sour. It is more suitable for early summer."

"Then try it." Gu Feixue didn't care about Xie Ningzi, but just said: "Use cherry wine as the base."

"Then, how big is the crab?"

"We have sixteen crabs left in our shop today."

"The largest of them is a four-jin crab, and the smallest is a two-jin four-liang crab."

"The big ones are delicious or the small ones?"

"It must be small and delicious." The guy explained with a smile: "The bigger the crab, the thicker the shell, the harder it is for the wine to cook it through."

"And when the wine is half boiled, the crab will wake up after eating it warm."

"For the convenience of the guests, we didn't feed the crabs two days in advance."

"After it wakes up, it will eat fish and wine, ginseng and lotus root."

"Eating this fish wine with ginseng lotus root will add some flavor."

"But the fire is fixed."

"So it doesn't take long for the crab roe to get cooked."

"There's not much a crab can eat before it's boiled to death."

"So the smaller the crab, the more it eats to take up its own weight."

"Therefore, the smaller the crab, the more delicious it actually tastes."

"Is that so?" Gu Feixue nodded: "If that's the case, then open two tables and cook the largest crab and the smallest crab."

The waiter was stunned for a moment: "Guest, the bottom of our cherry wine pot is two cents a pot."

"Crab roe cost eight cents a catty."

"Oh." Gu Feixue didn't care about the price at all.

Chu Tianshu also felt that she would not care too much about the price.

Cui Ji was a little dazed: "Brother Chu, are you so rich?"

"It's a little bit." Chu Tianshu smiled: "My little sister was spoiled and raised since childhood. Her family is relatively rich. I just came here to take advantage of her."

"Tsk tsk." Cui Ji smacked his lips: "It's rare to see someone who doesn't care about money like this in Tianjing."

Or, to be more specific, it is also rare among the common people in Tianjing.

As for the noble class, Cui Ji didn't think he could meet a rich and powerful person who was good at opening his mouth and shutting his mouth.

The guy confirmed it twice, and finally opened another table for Chu Tianshu and his party and cooked a big crab.

Tianjing is close to the sea, and the crabs eat sea crabs.

The crab roe eaten by Jubafang is a shallow sea crab called flying flower crab.

Gu Feixue has never seen this kind of crab.

"Is the picture of snowflakes on the back of this thing engraved or tattooed?" She asked, pointing to the pattern of snowflakes on the crab shell.

"That's natural." The guy explained while pouring wine, "This crab is called a flying flower crab. It got its name because of the natural flying flowers on its shell."

"The flying flowers on the crab's back are blue when the crab is alive, and turn purple when the crab is dead, and when the crab is cooked and the shell turns red, the flying flowers will turn white. "

"Is that so?" Gu Feixue poked the crab shell with his finger: "It's quite interesting."

"This thing is related to your name." Chu Tianshu said.

Gu Feixue stared at Chu Tianshu: "What did you say?"

"I said it's not as cute as you."

"Isn't this nonsense? How can a mere crab at the mercy of others be compared to me?" The corners of Gu Feixue's mouth curled up.

Cui Ji felt a little confused.

"Brother Chu, why do I feel...you don't look like brothers and sisters?"

"They are not brothers and sisters." Chu Tianshu smiled: "What kind of wine does Brother Cui like to drink?"

"Of course it's Yunshan wine." Cui Ji didn't hesitate.

"Have you ever drank Yunshan wine?" Gu Feixue was a little surprised.

"Yunshan wine?" Chu Tianshu frowned: "What is that?"

"Imperial Palace Wine." Xie Ningzi said: "That thing is rarely circulated in the market, right?"

"Yunshan doesn't produce much wine every year, so it's impossible for ordinary people to drink it." Gu Feixue looked at Cui Ji suspiciously: "Where did you get it?"

Cui Ji beamed with joy: "You don't know anything about this, do you?"

Chu Tianshu took a deep breath, but he didn't stop Cui Ji from speaking.

(End of this chapter)