: Using wine as a metaphor for people

Author: Night Knight

: Using wine as a metaphor for people

It’s not surprising to think about it. With the name of ghost wine, he jumped into the ranks of the super rich. For these tavern waitresses who earn one or two gold coins every day.

One million gold coins is a huge wealth that is unimaginable and immeasurable. Even if a little bit slips through their fingers, it is enough for them to enjoy it for a lifetime.

It is completely normal to trade one's young and beautiful body for climbing the ladder to heaven.

Moreover, Gavin's appearance is also outstanding, coupled with his special abilities.

In the past, I didn’t feel much about those special women, but now I suddenly return to the world, and when I face these women at the bottom of society, my lethality is fully displayed. The typical male BUFF is stacked up - young and rich,

Successful in career, good conversational skills, full of charm, and naturally likable.

Gavin, as the person involved, was looking at the hands of the other man in the room with his eyes and nose, his nose and heart, not because he had any special hobbies, but because he was attracted by the other man's superb bartending skills.

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After Craven got the ghost wine, he did not start debugging immediately. Instead, he calmed down, closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

This is of course not pretentious, but in tune with the ghost wine and sensing its properties. The increasingly cold atmosphere of Craven proves this.

When this aura blended with the ghost wine, his whole person looked eerie, wrapped in a black mist, looming, and at this time, the whole person started to move, and a set of bartending equipment, like

It came to life and automatically jumped into his hands.

His bartending equipment is very strange, mainly a huge shaker, and the rest are glasses of different sizes.

Without using any tools at all, the cork of the ghost wine popped open by itself. The other party used his own strength to force the cork out, and he poured the entire bottle of ghost wine into the shaker.

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As the shaker began to slosh, he added various auxiliary liquors and materials one after another into the shaker.

There is no need to measure the wine, and it is extremely accurate every time, no more, no less, even if it is freshly squeezed juice.

The whole process lasted for more than three minutes, and it was smooth and pleasing to the eye. Even Gavin, who had never been interested in this, was watching intently, fearing that he would miss a detail. Anything taken to an extreme is a kind of art. This

The old gentleman’s bartending skills are no exception.

Regardless of how he tastes, just with this set of actions, he can be ranked among the top three in the City of Glory, so it is not just a boast.

A shaker produced a total of fourteen glasses of wine, and each glass was different.

Not only are the cups used different, but the color of the wine inside is also different, from as clear as water to as turbid as soup.

The two cups pushed to Gavin and Luna presented two extremes.

The cup in front of me looks clear at first glance, then turbid at second glance, and when I stare at it carefully, I still find it is bottomless. Is this a hint about my character?

The cup in front of Luna was unclear at first glance, but it was actually very clear and white. Ban Yueju did not drink it, but turned to look at herself, and the meaning of her inquiry was obvious.

This is a strange place. Is it appropriate to drink a glass of mixed wine with unknown ingredients?

Gavin did not answer her directly, but picked up the wine and took a sip.

Seeing Gavin's reaction, Luna no longer hesitated, picked up the ghost wine in front of her, and began to imitate them and sip it little by little. She had drunk the ghost wine before, but she was in the state of a half-moon horse and transformed into a human.

After that, I never had a chance to try it.

According to her understanding of Gavin, if he dared to do this, he either knew the group of people in front of him very well and believed in their character, or he had made other preparations and had other powerful beings following them to protect their safety.

, such as the dog demon that often lurks in the dark.

Compared to the former, Luna believed that the latter was more likely. Soon Ban Yueju stopped caring about it and was completely immersed in the unique taste and feeling of the wine in front of her.

Gavin was also carefully tasting the difference of the blended ghost wine. When he first entered the mouth, there was a coolness unique to ghost wine.

In the previous process of mixing wine, Craven did not use any ice cubes or the like, and did not even add any cooling ingredients. He added more neutral and warm substances. This was completely

It neutralizes the deep cold of ghost wine that will explode in the stomach without weakening the heat-relieving effect.

It tastes bitter at first, sweet again, and a little bitter aftertaste, but in the end, it turns into a mouthful, a mouthful, and a stomach full of sweetness. Just like my own life, after going around four times, I finally accumulated a mouthful of sweetness.

Use wine as a metaphor for people.

This old gentleman definitely used wine as a metaphor for people, and then used wine to make the person reflect on his own life.

It doesn't matter whether the wine is good or bad, people are already drunk in it.

Just look at the female mages next to you and you will know the reaction of the waitress.

Some were holding wine glasses and having fun there.

Some looked sad.

Some sobbed softly.

Some couldn't help crying loudly.

No one reaction is the same.

Gavin was the one with the least reaction. At most, his expression changed a few times before he regained his natural state, showing strong self-control ability.

Craven couldn't help but give Gavin a thumbs up. He had seen this kind of self-control before, but this was the first time he had seen it in such a young man.

Taking a long breath, Gavin said from the bottom of his heart: "The old man's level of bartending is completely beyond my understanding. This is no longer just a drink, but an art, a kind of magic.

The negative energy contained in ghost wine is used to the extreme."

Negative energy and human emotions can easily resonate and combine, thus giving birth to various undead creatures, especially spiritual ones.

This is what Craven takes advantage of, using ghost wine as a catalyst to arouse the emotions of the person involved, make them extreme, and then vent and release them.

Whether it is sadness or happiness, once it is vented, the whole person will definitely feel a lot more relaxed.

"It's not that my bartending skills are good, but that the ghost wine itself is unique enough. Without this kind of wine, no matter how high my bartending skills are, I wouldn't be able to create this kind of cocktail out of thin air." Craven said modestly,

"This is the first time in my life that I have made this kind of wine. Since I am using your husband's wine, please help me come up with a name for it!"

"Observe the mind!" Gavin replied without thinking.

"Guan Xin Cocktail! Guan Xin with wine, this is a good name, we will call it this name from now on, it will become the new signature of our Antler Pot Tavern." Craven instantly understood the true meaning of Gavin's name.

, but in the end he couldn't help but change the topic, "But there is a small prerequisite, that is, I can buy the ghost wine produced in your manor, otherwise this sign is just empty talk. This kind of wine of yours is really too popular.

, it is said that there are no more than a hundred branches in the entire City of Glory, so I went to beg my old friend, but I just saw and touched it, and there was no chance to get it."

From the beginning to the end, the tavern owner did not question Gavin's origins. It was not because he had met him, but because he knew how difficult it was to get ghost wine.

Even if the other party is a liar and can cheat with a bottle of ghost wine, he is not an ordinary person.

Therefore, before you are sure that the other party is fake, you should take it seriously. This is the instinct of an old adventurer.

"This is simple." Gavin took out a twenty kilogram barrel of ghost wine from his Howard bag, placed it on the bar and said, "This is the ghost wine for my own use. I will give it to the old man as a gift."

Bartending fee, thank you for letting me taste such a unique ghost wine. If there are more bartenders like you, my ghost wine will be better sold."

Craven couldn't help but feel that the ghost wine in front of him was the same as the previous bottle, except for the difference in the container.

Now it is basically certain that the young man in front of me is not a counterfeit with ulterior motives, but the owner of Vizeme Manor, because at the ghost wine auction, all the items auctioned are bottles of ghost wine, in barrels, which are available on the market.

There is no circulation.

"Then I'm not welcome." Craven was not the kind of person to be coy. He laughed and said, "I accepted this barrel of wine. If you want to drink Guanxin cocktail in the future, just come to me. The prerequisite is

Yes, the ghost wine comes with it."

Craven is still full of confidence in his bartending skills.

What Aurilla said before was a bit conservative. Among the bartenders in the Glory City, he is not the top three, but the well-deserved number one. In the entire Northland, there are few who can compare with him in this aspect.

If you want to ask him to bartend, you have to make a reservation in advance, and it depends on your mood. Every time you do it, it costs at least a thousand gold.

This skill alone can make him make a lot of money every day, but it is a pity that this former soldier and former thief has reached the age where money is regarded as garbage. Compared with those nobles with hypocritical and ugly faces, he prefers to settle down.

Phil's simple pastoral life, by training a few disciples, might be able to add some ink to Faerun's adventurous life in the future.

Gavin tapped on the bar, pondered for a few seconds and then said: "Old sir, I want to negotiate a deal with you."

"Oh? What deal?" Craven's curiosity was aroused.

"I still have a part of the ghost wine cellar in my manor. I can give you one hundred bottles of ghost wine at the same price as our original auction price in the valley, and I guarantee that I will sell you one hundred bottles of ghost wine at this price every year in the future." Gai

As soon as he started writing, he was very generous.

The auction price of ghost wine in the valley is 180 pieces. In the Glory City, it has been sold for 320 pieces. There is still no market price. The price difference alone is as high as 14,000 gold coins, which is equal to 100,000 gold coins.

Wenbai gave it to Craven.

Moreover, this is a long-term transaction. From now on, Craven will not have to do anything else but resell the Shadow Wine, earning tens of thousands of gold coins every year.

Due to the uniqueness of the Guanxin Cocktail, in the future there will be a large number of excitement-seeking nobles from the Glory City who will come to the Antler Pot Tavern to taste the wine, and it will not be difficult to directly create ten times the value, because the cocktail, a certain

To a certain extent, what is being sold is technology, and when it comes to pricing, the water level is the greatest, and it all depends on one’s mouth.

As long as you dare to ask for it, it's not surprising that there is a cup of ten thousand, provided that someone pays the bill.

Craven is a veteran adventurer who has seen the world. He is not easily confused by money. He smiled and asked: "What do you want?"

There is no such thing as a free lunch. Once there is, it will definitely have benefits you don’t know about.
To be continued...