Rebirth of Jiuyouyan

On the day of the eighth day of the eighth day, the wine storage tank was poured.

Inverting the retort means inverting the steaming barrel, which means that the work of steaming rice that has been carried out every day since the brewing season of this year has all ended today.

The wine cellar is full of joy, because the dumping of the steamer is a happy day when the wine making has come to an end.After this day, the Tibetans no longer need to get up nervously to wash and steam the rice. The brewing of the wine has already been condensed in each vat, and the next step is to rely on Master Du’s experience and technology to heat, stir, and take care of the wine carefully. Wait for it to slowly conceive the wine.

The Tibetans happily cleaned the steamer, other wooden buckets, and wooden shovels, with smiles on their faces. Even Master Du, who is usually unsmiling, showed smile lines, his eyebrows stretched, and his usually sharp eyes narrowed.The whole wine collection has a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.

Xia Yue cleaned the rice steaming room with everyone, chatting and laughing with each other.

"By the way, you are the head of the house," Keman wiped the floor, then suddenly turned around and said, "Today is the eighth day of the lunar new year, is Xi Jiuzui going to open the door?"

Xia Yue, who was wiping the wooden ladder, nodded with a smile: "Yes, it's open today."

"Then why are you still here, Young Master?" another Tibetan asked, "Don't you need to go to Xijiuzui?"

"The opening is at noon, and there is still an hour left. I can go there before then." Xia Yue said and straightened up, "I can't help even if I go, Xi Jiuzui's manager and shopkeeper can do it."

"Young master, you can just tease us, everyone knows that Xi Jiuzui will make a big move this time, isn't it all planned by you?"

Hearing what Kamaya said, other Tibetans also chattered.

"It seems that I heard that it will be different from before. What's your idea, the young master? What will Xi Jiuzui become?"

"Young master, will there be our newly brewed wine?"

Xia Yue smiled, and was about to answer when he suddenly heard Master Du's voice coming from behind.

"The new wine has not yet become popular, how can it be sold to customers?"

Huojin refers to low-temperature disinfection. After the new wine is brewed, there are still living yeasts in the wine. The active yeast and other enzymes will continue to ferment, which will change the quality and taste of the wine; Bacteria, let the wine go bad.In order to avoid this kind of situation, so that the wine can be stored at room temperature for a long time, after the taste of the wine stabilizes, it is necessary to kill these yeasts and enzymes.However, excessive heating will evaporate the alcohol and aroma in the wine, so the low-temperature heating method is used.

After bottling the new wine, put it in hot water and heat it to about 60 degrees.Xia Yue knew that at a temperature of 65 degrees, it only took 23 seconds to kill the bacteria that would spoil the wine.

The Tibetan who had spoken just now heard Master Du's words, and smiled embarrassingly while rubbing the back of his head.The new wines that have been in the tank this year are really good, and they can't wait to know the evaluation of the guests after tasting.

Xia Yue smiled and said to the Tibetan: "I have tasted this year's new wine, and it is really excellent. It will be on Xijiuzui's wine list as soon as it becomes popular. I believe it will be very popular with customers."

The Tibetans in the rice steaming room immediately cheered.

Master Du waited for them to calm down a little before he said with a smile: "Hurry up and finish the work. If the situation is stable today, I will take you to Xijiuzui tonight."

Immediately, a Tibetan shouted, "Is daddy a treat?"

"Okay, I'll treat you!"

As soon as Du Shihao's angry words came to an end, everyone stopped chatting and went to work quickly, but the corners of everyone's mouths almost reached their ears.

Master Du was very happy to look at the young men under his command. This year's brewing was really smooth. The shadow left by last year was not small. Fortunately, the God of Dionysus blessed the bad luck. Breathe a sigh of relief.

He turned around and said to Xia Yue who was about to bend over and continue working: "Young master, this place is almost done, and the cleaning can be finished within half a stick of incense. You should go to Xijiuzui first."

Xia Yue got up and looked around. Indeed, the cleaning work was almost finished, so he nodded and handed the rag in his hand to the Tibetan next to him.

"Then I'll leave first, and wait for everyone to come over at Xijiuzui at night."

After leaving the gate of the wine store, Xia Yue looked up at the sky, suppressed his excitement, and hurried back to Yunzhai.

Sweating all over in the wine, he cleaned himself up in a hurry, picked out a low-key pale blue robe with cirrus cup pattern and changed into it, and asked Shiyan to comb it into a bun again.What Xia Yue chose for Shiyan was the lotus-coloured brocade gown with cornel pattern, which made her face tender and softened the expressionless facial features a lot.

Seeing that there was more than half an hour left in the time, Xia Yue pulled Shiyan up, went to the north courtyard to say hello to his father, and then took the servants into the carriage and went to Xijiu to get drunk.

Xi Jiuzui was not in a hurry, everything was in order.On the contrary, everyone was very nervous, from the shopkeeper in charge to the waiter.Only the kitchen was in full swing. Chef Wang focused on watching the soup that had been stewed for two days, and the young apprentice next to him carefully washed and selected vegetables, so he had no time to be nervous.

Xia Yue patted Steward Fang and Shopkeeper Cheng on the shoulders amusedly, and Shi Yan consciously went to the wine cellar to collect tools for warming the wine. He didn't plan to let the guests see the wine for the time being, but Xia Yue had another plan in mind.

Steward Fang and shopkeeper Cheng are not people who have never seen the world, and part of their nervousness is due to excitement.Xia Yue has already told them about the expected situation, and there will be no good results in the first few days. It is not easy for the Luoyue people to accept the hot wine, and they have to endure the coldness at the beginning.They are all confident that there will be a craze for hot wine in Yincheng. The wines of the Yun family are all good wines, and they have such a wonderful change in flavor after being scalded, there is no reason why they should not be popular.

Near noon, Xiao Er took green bamboos and put them in the big stone basin next to the store door and lit them, then hung up the Wangzi and door curtains, and Xijiuzui opened for business.

Xia Yue and Fang Guanshi went to sit in the inner room, and shopkeeper Cheng sat at the counter.After a while, the door curtain was lifted and a guest came in.

Shopkeeper Cheng felt happy when he saw it. It was a regular customer, a storyteller from a big teahouse two streets away, known as Boss Ye.There are a lot of people in Yincheng who like to listen to his storytelling. He said it once in three days, and every seat was full.Boss Ye likes to chat with the guests who are listening to the book before starting the talk, knocking off a plate of peanuts before starting the talk.Shopkeeper Cheng thought to himself, Boss Ye loves wine very much, if he could say a few words before the story, it would be a big publicity for Xi Jiuzui.

Boss Ye entered the door, greeted shopkeeper Cheng with a happy new year, and then looked up at the board on the wall.

"Yo, it's changed." Boss Ye squinted his eyes and looked carefully, "Is this a combination of wine and food?"

"Yes," shopkeeper Cheng replied with a smile, "Look at your favorite salt-roasted beef. The most suitable match is Rushui brewed last year. This wine not only tastes mellow, but also has a very sour aftertaste."

Boss Ye raised his chin slightly and smiled: "Hey, it's interesting."

"This is not the only thing that has changed. We are less in charge of taking over and have made a lot of new things."

Boss Ye looked at Shopkeeper Cheng: "Young Master Yun woke up not long ago, so he came back to take over? Are you all well?"

"I'm still eating herbal medicine." Shopkeeper Cheng sighed with a smile, "Young master really cares about Xi Jiuzui, and he came here to make preparations before everything was ready. We didn't dare to neglect, so we wanted to work harder. Give him as much as you can."

Boss Ye nodded: "Master Yun is a filial and capable person."

"Will Boss Ye want to tell a book today?" Shopkeeper Cheng asked tentatively while stretching out his hand to beckon Xiaoer.

"Don't talk about it today, talk about it tomorrow." Boss Ye continued to squint his eyes and look at the board.

Shopkeeper Cheng laughed seeing him like this, and hurriedly greeted: "Boss Ye, Boss Ye, don't stand and watch so hard, you go find a seat, sit down and watch slowly."

"What do you think when you sit down?" Boss Ye wondered.

At this time, Xiaoer came up and said with a smile: "Boss Ye, come with me, how about sitting by the window? Xijiuzui now has a menu, you can sit and drink tea and take a look."

"menu?"

Xiao Er hurriedly held the menu card in his hands and offered it up. Boss Ye took it over and opened it, his eyes lit up immediately.

"This is the menu card?" Boss Ye looked at it with interest, "Interesting, this thing is good. Okay, I'll just sit and take a look."

Xiao Er hurriedly led the cheerful Boss Ye to his usual seat and poured hot tea.Boss Ye didn't bother to drink, he just focused on the menu on the menu board.

Before he could decide which one to try, Xiao Er brought him a small bowl and placed it on the table.

Boss Ye saw that it was a small bowl of soup and a small glass of wine.

"What's the matter? I just ordered." Boss Ye looked at Xiao Er.

Xiaoer smiled and said: "This is from Xijiuzui, it's an appetizer. This is radish and fish ball soup, and this cup is Tingying brewed last year. You drink it first to warm yourself up, and wait for us to serve you. "

Boss Ye smiled: "Hey, this is considerate. Is this also your idea of ​​being the master?"

Xiaoer smiled and said yes.

"Okay, I'll order a salt-roasted beef with the Rushui recommended by the shopkeeper just now."

"Hey, wait a minute, come right away," Xiaoer heard, and shouted back to the kitchen, "One piece of salt-roasted beef, aged for one year, is like water."

Here, Boss Ye picked up the wine glass, took a sip, was stunned, and looked at the wine glass in his hand in surprise.

After a moment of daze, he brought the wine glass to his lips and took a second sip.

"Little Er, Xiao Er! Come here!" He kept his head down and stared at the wine glass, and shouted loudly.

Xiao Er was actually waiting for him, so he hurried over a few steps, bent down and asked courteously, "What's the matter, Boss Ye?"

"Your wine is hot wine?" Boss Ye asked with his head down.

"Yes, scalded wine, what do you think?"

Boss Ye raised his head sharply, and stared at Xiao Er fiercely: "Why does hot wine taste like this? Don't fool me, I've drank hot wine before, and it was very pungent and choking. What did you do to make hot wine taste like this? Like this?"

Although there was no mention of delicious food in half a sentence, how could the waiter and shopkeeper Cheng at the counter fail to understand what Boss Ye meant?Shopkeeper Cheng lowered his head to record the accounts, and smiled calmly.

Xiao Er is very happy, this is a place for him to show off his eloquence, for this moment, he has already recited it silently in his stomach many times.

"Boss Ye, you also need to pay attention to the method of scalding the wine. The wine usually used to wipe the body is boiled directly, scalding the wine, and the smell of the wine is gone, leaving a pungent and choking smell. This is our The method of scalding wine thought up by Master Shao is said to be hot, but in fact it is warm, warming the wine to a suitable temperature is very delicious, and there is a lot of knowledge here."

Boss Ye was stunned when he heard it, with a look of disbelief, but he had actually tasted the mellow taste, so he couldn't be fooled.Unbelievably, he drank the rest of the wine in the glass, and his eyes widened again.

"The temperature has dropped, and the taste is different from just now." Boss Ye looked at Xiao Er with a face full of surprise.

"Boss Ye, you really know wine! That's the thing, the flavor of the wine will change with the temperature. Don't worry, our master has carefully tasted every kind of wine in Xijiuzui. The most suitable temperature, the best taste."

Boss Ye let out a deep breath, obviously not fully recovered from the shock.

Xiao Er waited at the side, and after waiting for a while, he called out to him: "Boss Ye, Boss Ye?"

"Huh?" Boss Ye came back to his senses.

"The salt roast beef you ordered will be ready in a while, why don't you drink the soup first? Otherwise, it should be cold."

Only then did Boss Ye nod his head, took a sip from the soup bowl, and put another fish ball into his mouth.Just the right level of warmth, the delicate salty taste of the kelp, and the elastic chewiness of the fish balls made him smile slowly.

Boss Ye, who had warmed up, was in a good mood. He silently thought about the hot wine he drank just now, and suddenly remembered something, and called Xiao Er again, and asked eagerly: "I just ordered like water, and I will also boil it for me." ?"

It can be seen that Boss Ye is very interested in hot wine, Xiaoer is very happy, and the smile on his face can't be contained.

"If you don't like it, I'll tell the kitchen not to burn it?" Although he was happy, Xiaoer still tried to retreat.

"Is this as good as hot water?" Boss Ye was obviously addicted.

"Of course, the taste of Tingying is more stable, like water, it is much more lively. After being scalded, the sour taste is more vivid and the aftertaste is deeper."

Boss Ye laughed aloud: "Hey, I said that you, Xiaoer, are talking too much, and it doesn't look like nonsense. You have drunk a lot of good wine?"

"Hey, that's right," Xiao Er scratched his head, "How can I recommend it to you if you haven't tasted it? We dare to give it to the guests if we think it's good? Boss Ye, wait, I'll go and give it to you right away." When the food is served, does the wine have to be hot?"

Boss Ye, who had already lost his appetite, waved away impatiently when he heard the last sentence.

"Shouldn't I just wait? Okay, just try your hot one, go quickly."

After serving good food to Boss Ye, Xiao Er ran back to the counter and gave Shopkeeper Cheng a smirk, laughing so hard that Shopkeeper Cheng couldn't help giving him a brainstorm.

"Why should you go, this is the first guest, let's see how foolish you are."

With that said, shopkeeper Cheng himself couldn't restrain his smile.The first guest was Boss Ye, who seemed to have successfully seduced him into becoming interested in hot wine, how the gods favored Xi Jiuzui.Boss Ye is here. Tomorrow, he will mention Xi Jiuzui to all the guests in the teahouse. There is no need to publicize Xi Jiuzui, and many curious guests will come to his door.

Sure enough, without saying a word, it is much more effective to directly let the guests drink the hot wine without knowing it, than to recommend it with lip service.No matter how beautiful the words here are, they are not as good as what the guests themselves tasted.Originally, the shopkeeper Cheng and the waiter were a little worried, whether this was deceiving the customer, if the customer got angry, the shopkeeper and the waiter would both have to be scolded, and it would not be good for Xi Jiuzui's reputation.

As a result, after successfully sending away a few customers, shopkeeper Cheng had to admit that the trick of being the master of the family was really useful.Guests who don’t spend money on wine won’t complain too much. They can drink hot wine without any resistance. After experiencing the deliciousness of hot wine, these guests all chose to try hot wine.

Shopkeeper Cheng kept the account happily. Before leaving, Boss Ye asked Tao Zun. He must have really planned to talk about it in the teahouse. He imagined how many customers who had heard the book would come to visit him tomorrow afternoon. Shopkeeper Cheng I almost couldn't help laughing out loud.