I heard this word coming out of Xiao Zhao's mouth.
Xu Yun was stunned for a moment, then nodded gently:
"Yes, it's true."
In order to prepare allicin to treat Wang Yue's illness, he spent a lot of effort to develop high-concentration alcohol and distillation equipment.
So naturally, distilled liquor also appeared.
After all, this thing itself was the core goal of early distillation.
However, due to limited time, Xu Yun could not come up with too many types of tricks.
It's just a simple distillation of several kinds of pure white wine between 45-60 degrees.
But this kind of distilled liquor, which seems ordinary to Xu Yun, is actually a bug-level killer in this era where the alcohol content is only 20 degrees at most.
Even a cold-faced man like Wang Zhen, who looked like Zhu Shimao, was immediately captured by this dimensionally reduced spirit after coming into contact with the Erguotou made by Xu Yun for the first time.
According to Wang Zhen...
Even the drinks we drank to celebrate our victory after returning from a great victory were not as good as one-tenth of Xu Yun’s liquor!
Not to mention that the border fortress is located on the western frontier, and the temperature will plummet to freezing point after October.
Although officials generally do not choose to march and fight after late autumn, there must always be people stationed and patrolling the fortresses on the Western Front, right?
If you can carry a jug of liquor like this with you when patrolling.
Even if you encounter a severe short-term cooling, you can still hold on to some extent.
Therefore, whether from the perspective of drinking or combat preparation, spirits can undoubtedly be called a "soldier trap."
Now after finishing my daily practice.
Wang Zhen would ask Xu Yun for three ounces of white wine and eat meat as a late-night snack, which was very unpleasant.
Although Xiao Zhao is a prince, he is also an alcoholic and can be said to be happy without drinking.
If he wasn't really addicted to alcohol, he wouldn't have chosen a wine shop as a place for "acting". Wouldn't it be nice to be an LSP in a brothel?
Therefore, after hearing that Xu Yun had created several kinds of spirits, Xiao Li's greedy mind was immediately seduced:
"My lord, I wonder where the new wine is? Can you let me have a few sips?"
Xu Yun raised his eyelids and glanced at him, thinking that he had already found out almost all the information he needed to find out today, so he agreed:
"Your Highness has your wishes, and the common people should obey them. However, the wine is in the cellar, and the master is still needed."
When Lao Su on the side heard this, he immediately waved his hand knowingly:
"Xiao Wang, today you will serve Ke Ke and accompany His Highness for a walk. If something happens in the house, I will ask someone to look for you. Don't worry."
Xu Yun nodded, took Xiao Zhao and Xiao Li to say goodbye and left the courtyard.
Then the three of them passed through several courtyard walls and arrived in front of a wine cellar.
This wine cellar is divided into two parts: the ground and the underground. The underground wine cellar also functions as an ice cellar and covers a larger area.
The distillation equipment made by Xu Yun did not choose a cellar due to transportation and preparation issues, but was placed in a side room on the ground.
After arriving outside the side room door.
click
Xu Yun took out the key, opened the door, and walked into the house with Xiao Zhao and Xiao Li.
The area of this room is about thirty square meters, and there is a set of distillation equipment in the corner. It is not working at this time.
On the other side of the distillation equipment are several clay pots of different sizes.
The top cover is labeled with "75% alcohol, 95% alcohol, 99.9% alcohol" and "Liquor" and so on.
As soon as I entered the house, a strong smell of alcohol hit me.
Xiao Li twitched his nose very smartly and murmured softly:
"It smells so good."
Xu Yun ignored the female drunkard and walked skillfully to one of the pottery jars that had its seal removed and was marked with 53 degrees.
He opened the lid and took a sip of wine with a wooden spoon.
Then he was about to find a wooden bowl or a pottery bowl to hold the wine, but he saw Xiao Zhao eagerly holding up his hands:
"Young Master Wang, just pour it into my hands."
Xu Yun suddenly looked at him in surprise.
Good guy.
Isn’t this quasi-prefect king too down-to-earth?
If you do this in public to 'save your life', then doing this in private is true temperament.
But from a personal point of view, Xu Yun personally quite likes this approach.
So after Xiao Zhao made the request, he walked to him and gently poured the drink into Xiao Zhao's palm.
Xiao Zhao held the drink tightly as if he were drinking from a mountain spring, put it in front of him and took a gentle sniff.
After a while, a look of intoxication suddenly appeared on his face.
Xiao Li on the side:
(ˉ﹃ˉ)
Then Xiao Zhao tilted his head forward slightly and drank the drink in one gulp.
"Cough cough cough"
The result is as soon as it enters the throat.
An unprecedented burning sensation filled the tongue and esophagus, irritating the royal family member and coughing continuously. It looked like a new case in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Some of the unfinished drinks were spilled all over the body, making him look a little embarrassed.
But Xiao Zhao seemed not to care about these problems at all.
I saw him blushing and calming down his breathing. He didn't even bother to arrange his clothes. He immediately gave Xu Yun a thumbs up:
"Good wine, strong enough! Prince, does this wine have a name?"
Xu Yun nodded and said:
"Ordinary people will get drunk after drinking a bowl of this wine and cannot travel far, so it is called a bowl of wine that does not serve the purpose."
Xiao Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up:
“One bowl is not enough, what a good name!”
The drink that Xu Yun scooped out just now was probably only a little over a pound. Excluding the spilled portion, Xiao Zhao probably drank only a tiny bit.
This amount of liquor would naturally not make Xiao Zhao fall into a state of drunkenness, but under the stimulation of alcohol, the Zhe Zong brother's behavior was more or less out of control.
I saw him grabbing Xu Yun's wrist and saying:
"Your Majesty, is there any meat and wine in the house at this time?"
Xu Yun's wrist was a little painful from being scratched by Xiao Zhao, but he still said:
"Meat and wine are simple. It's almost noon now and the kitchen is probably open.
Or you can ask the old governor to send someone to walk a few steps to the restaurant across the street to buy some."
Xiao Zhao Jian said and Xiao Li looked at each other, and the two drunkards instantly reached a consensus:
"That's very good. Prince Wang, please ask the kitchen servants to tell us that the wine and meat will be served quickly. The three of us will not return until we are drunk today!"
Xu Yun nodded and agreed:
"No problem, leave it to me."
Although it is summer now, there was a heavy rain in Bianjing last night, so the weather is still cool.
Therefore, after seeking the opinions of Xiao Li and Xiao Li, Xu Yun chose outdoor as a place for drinking and chatting.
Two quarters of an hour later.
In a secluded courtyard of Su Mansion.
Xu Yun and the other three sat around a stone table under the shade of a tree. On the stone table were some wine and meat.
Mainly mutton and beef:
There were two large plates of sauced meat and a casserole, which was bubbling.
It's steaming hot and fragrant.
Xu Yun personally doesn't like eating mutton, but he is an addicted beef lover, and he can't be happy without beef.
In later generations, due to some very strange ideas, many people seemed to particularly admire foreign beef.
The steak must be medium rare, only wagyu beef is used for barbecue, etc.
Those in remote places like it, and they also like to step on it.
With a sense of superiority that I don’t know where it comes from, I belittle domestic beef varieties.
But in Xu Yun's view.
Although the breeding of breed cattle started relatively late, domestic beef may indeed have certain disadvantages in the international market.
There is nothing to deny this. The cultivation industry started 20 to 30 years ago, so it is impossible that there will be no achievements at all.
But this disadvantage is not a natural chasm, at least it is not exaggerated to the point of only eating certain kinds of cattle.
For example, Xu Yun is eating soy sauce beef now.
This is high-quality cattle from the northwest region, purely natural grass-fed, and the meat is extremely delicious.
The cucumber strips can be stir-fried.
Beef brisket can be used to cook radish.
Beef tendon can be used to make sauced beef.
Bullwhip can be coughed
Of course.
Some people may ask:
its not right.
Wasn’t it forbidden to eat beef during the Tang and Song Dynasties?
Yes, but not entirely.
Although in the "Song Xingtong" in the early Northern Song Dynasty, there is a legal provision that "anyone who kills an official for personal use of an ox will be sentenced to one and a half years in prison," and "anyone who kills an ox or a horse will be sentenced to one year in prison."
During the Tang and Song Dynasties, beef was actually a very common ingredient among the people.
For example, the famous Du Fu died because of beef.
It’s just not clear whether it was the result of being stuffed to death or the beef being spoiled.
In addition, Wang Hou and others recently returned from the Western Front with a great victory and brought back a lot of cattle and sheep.
Some of the beef flowed into the people through various channels. After all, everything in the Northern Song Dynasty was about money.
“It smells so good!”
Xu Yun picked up a large piece of beef, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly.
This kind of unbreeded beef is more competitive than the beef cattle of later generations.
It tastes quite unpleasant, but my cheeks get tired easily.
Beside him, Xiao Li and Xiao Zhao were drinking hard liquor.
Looking at that posture, Xiao Li seems to be a little more fierce than Xiao Zhao.
After all, this girl is also a well-known drunkard.
According to the statistics of some Xiao Li fans in later generations, she got drunk three times during her words before marriage.
They are two songs like "Ru Meng Ling" and one song "Huanxisha".
As for marriage, there will be more.
He was not drunk twice, was drunk 7 times, and was drunk 6 times after Zhao Mingcheng passed away.
The key is that this girl loves to drink and has a low drinking capacity. She will get drunk after three drinks.
A cup in the Song Dynasty was about 30 milliliters, which was about six yuan. You should know that the wine at that time was only more than ten degrees strong.
Real food and fun-loving.
But having said that, there are indeed not many literati who can really drink.
Take Du Fu's "Song of the Eight Immortals in Drinking" as an example.
Zhizhang was so drunk that he fell to the bottom of a well while riding a horse. Li Bai was already drunk and poetic at the same time after a fight, not to mention Zhang Xu started to write wildly after just three cups.
In addition, what Xu Yun brought out this time was high-concentration spirits, so within a short while, Xiao Li and Xiao Zhao's faces turned red.
"Master Wang, this fish dumpling tastes good. Come and try it."
Compared to Xiao Li who drank heavily, Xiao Zhao was more playful.
He enthusiastically put a piece of fish on Xu Yun's plate and said:
"This is yellow croaker, a specialty of the Dengzhou area. It is extremely delicious and is one of the world's great delicacies."
Xu Yun politely thanked Xiao Zhao and tasted the fish carefully.
His expression was really not fake. After all, the yellow croakers these days are all wild species, and their prices would be astronomical in later generations.
Those within 7 taels are better, but the higher they go, the more expensive they are.
For example, the nearly three kilograms of yellow croaker on the table right now could be sold for 10,000 yuan in a later restaurant without any pressure at all.
If you switch to a top private restaurant like Huang Gongzi or Xijiao No. 5, the price will probably double to more than 20,000.
A few years ago, Xu Yun saw a hot search for a lottery ticket with a sky-high price of 400,000 yuan. It seems that it can also be searched online now. Among them, a 7.4-pound wild yellow croaker costs 15,800 per pound, and the whole fish costs more than 110,000 yuan.
These days, the only saury fish that can compete with wild yellow croaker is the three or two level.
At the same time, looking at Xu Yun who was carefully tasting the fish, Xiao Zhao asked again:
"Young Master Wang, your accent sounds like someone from the Daming Mansion area, right?"
Xu Yun's accent is built into the system, leaning towards the hb accent, which is almost the same as the geographical boundary of Daming Mansion:
"That's right, the grassroots were born in Zu'an Village, Daming Prefecture. Unfortunately, in the early years, a wicked man named Sun Xiaochuan came to the village, so he had to flee with his family. Later..."
Xiao Zhao was stunned when he heard this, and then he picked up the wine glass with a look of shame on his face:
"Your Majesty, I made a bold and mistaken statement and touched your sore spot for a moment. I should punish myself with a drink."
Then, without waiting for Xu Yun to react, Xiao Zhao drank the drink in one gulp.
Down with the strong drink.
Xiao Zhao's face turned redder and redder, and his eyes became vaguely blurred.
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