After lunch, Li Zexuan recalled that Han Yuxi wanted him to try the newly brewed fruit wine in the morning, but he was interrupted by Li Chengqian and Yan Shaoning.
Thinking of this, Li Zexuan went to Mingyue Xuan to look for Han Yuxi.
"Young Master, you're here?" Han Yuxi said happily.
"Yes, I was about to try the newly brewed fruit wine in the morning, but I was interrupted. So I came over to try it in the afternoon. "Li Zexuan nodded.
"Young Master, please take a seat here. Yuxi will pour you some wine."
Li Zexuan smiled and nodded. Han Yuxi then walked into the room to get the wine.
After a while, Han Yuxi came out with a wine gourd and a wine glass.
"Young Master, please try it." Han Yuxi poured a glass of wine and handed it over.
Li Zexuan took the wine glass and sniffed it lightly. A mellow fragrance of wild fruits entered his nostrils, making him feel as if he was in a forest. Li Zexuan took a sip. It was sweet and mellow. Although he had drunk it once at the Han Village, he still felt amazed when he drank it again.
"Yuxi, who did you learn how to brew wine from? I see that many brewers in the city don't brew as good as yours. "
Li Zexuan drank the fruit wine and couldn't help but ask in confusion.
Hearing Li Zexuan's praise, Han Yuxi smiled and said, "Young Master, you flatter me. How can Yuxi's skills be compared to the brewers in the city? My mother taught me how to brew wine. My father always loved to drink the wine my mother brewed. Later on, my mother passed away, so I brewed wine for my father. "
He didn't expect Yuxi's mother to be a master brewer. Li Zexuan continued to ask, "Yuxi, other than fruit wine, do you know how to brew other wines?"
Han Yuxi nodded and said, "Yes, my mother also taught me how to brew white wine and sake. These include Yingzhou's Fushui, Wucheng's Ruoxia, Hezhong's Mulberry, Yuzhou's Yichun, Xingyang's Tuku, Fuping's Shidongchun, Jiannan's Braised Spring, Hedong's Qian He Grape, Lingnan's Yunxi Boluo, Yicheng's Jiuyi, Xunyang's Yishui, Qi's Lu Wine, and so on."
Han Yuxi counted with her fingers and listed all the wines she knew how to brew.
Li Zexuan was dumbfounded. Was that even possible?
"Uh, Yuxi, how did your mother make so many kinds of wine?"
Han Yuxi thought for a moment and said, "I heard from my mother that my grandfather, Du Daoling, was the most famous winemaker in the former Sui Dynasty when he was alive. Even Minister Wei Xuancheng of my dynasty praised his winemaking skills. My mother learned her winemaking skills from my grandfather."
Li Zexuan asked curiously, "Who is Wei Xuancheng? Is he very knowledgeable about winemaking? "
Han Yuxi widened her eyes and said in disbelief, "Young Master, don't tell me you don't even know Minister Left Prime Minister Wei Zheng?"
Huh? Wei Xuancheng turned out to be Wei Zheng. Li Zexuan had heard in his previous life that Wei Zheng was not only a straightforward minister, but also a master winemaker. He did not expect Han Yuxi's grandfather's winemaking skills to be above Wei Zheng's. It was really a surprise.
"Cough, cough. Who doesn't know about Wei Xuancheng and Minister Wei? I was just testing you."
Li Zexuan casually made up a story. He did not care whether Han Yuxi believed him or not and continued to ask, "Yuxi, why didn't you make wine to sell before?"
Han Yuxi said sadly, "The Han Village did not have enough food left over these years. How could we have extra food to make wine?"
Li Zexuan patted his head. So that was the reason.
"Yuxi, do you know why I bought the Han Village's fruit wine at such a high price?"
Han Yuxi said gratefully, "Yuxi knows that Young Master is helping the Han Village. Those fruit wines are actually not worth that much money."
Li Zexuan shook his head and said, "Although I have the intention of helping the Han Village, it is not entirely because of this. When I was at Mount Longhu, I saw my master often drinking a kind of brightly colored wine.
My master said that it was a kind of mixed wine invented by the people of the Abbasid Caliphate. After drinking it a few times, my master felt that the taste was very special, so he figured out the recipe and brewed it himself.
"There is a very important ingredient in this recipe, and that is the fruit wine. Yuxi, the fruit wine that you make can be considered to be of the highest quality among fruit wines. It is the most ideal ingredient to make this kind of mixed wine.
"That is why I bought your fruit wine at such a high price. I thought that after buying it, I would find a wine master to make this kind of mixed wine. It will definitely sell well in the future."
When talking about what she was best at, Han Yuxi was also very interested. She asked curiously, "Young Master, what is the name of this wine? Is it really that good? "
"I heard from my master that this is called a cocktail. As for whether it is good or not, I don't know how to taste wine, so I don't know. But my master has tasted all kinds of good wine in the world, and in the end, he only has a soft spot for this cocktail. I think that the taste of this wine should not be bad. "
Li Zexuan continued to use his master as a shield.
That's right, Li Zexuan wanted to make a cocktail. In Li Zexuan's previous life, he and his uncle had watched a movie about a plane crash, but he forgot the specific name. In the movie, a black captain wanted to drink a cocktail on the plane. In the end, there was no cocktail, so he added alcohol into the fruit juice and drank it as a cocktail.
One day, his uncle was eating at his house and suddenly remembered this scene. He added the same amount of Huiyuan 100% orange juice into half a glass of whiskey. In the end, he watched his uncle drink it to his heart's content.
Later, out of curiosity, he also went online to look up the method of making cocktails. Cocktails were generally made with rum, tequila, vodka, whiskey, and other spirits as the base, and fruit juice, egg white, milk, sugar, and other auxiliary ingredients, stirred or shaken. Finally, lemon slices, fruit, or mint leaves could be used as decorations.
He could directly use the existing white wine from the Tang Dynasty to distill it. The fruit juice could be replaced with the fruit wine brewed by Han Yuxi. The effect should be better. After mixing it, he added some ice cubes. In the hot summer, Li Zexuan believed that no wine lover could resist this temptation.
As for how to obtain the ice cubes, Li Zexuan said that it was such a simple question that any transmigrator would know. However, he had to think of a way to let his father buy a saltpeter mine first. Otherwise, when everyone reacted, the price of saltpeter would definitely be expensive.
At that time, when he thought about a group of Tang people drinking cocktails, this scene was quite interesting!
When Han Yuxi heard Li Zexuan say that the cocktail was so good, she couldn't help but eagerly say, "Then, young master, can you let Yuxi try to make this cocktail?"
Li Zexuan was a little embarrassed. It wasn't that he was unwilling, but he couldn't bear to. If he let Han Yuxi make the cocktail, she would definitely try a lot of wine. He was afraid that Han Yuxi would get drunk.
Han Yuxi saw that the young master was embarrassed and thought that the young master didn't want to teach her the recipe. For a moment, a trace of sadness and sadness flashed in her eyes. She quickly said, "I'm sorry, young master. Yuxi was rash."
When Li Zexuan saw her sad face, how could he not know that she misunderstood? He quickly explained, "Yuxi, don't misunderstand. It's not that I don't want you to try it. I'm just worried that you will taste too much wine when you mix the cocktail and get drunk."
When Han Yuxi heard that, it turned out that she misunderstood. Her face turned from sadness to joy and said embarrassedly, "Young master, you don't have to worry about this. Yuxi has a special physique. No matter how much wine I drink since I was young, I won't get drunk. My father and I don't know what's going on. "
Li Zexuan was stunned. There was such a thing? He had seen it on the Internet in his previous life. There was a kind of person who was born to not get drunk even after a thousand cups. He didn't expect to meet such a strange person in the Tang Dynasty.
"Uh, Yuxi, is what you said true?" Li Zexuan still couldn't believe it.
"Of course it's true. Young master, you can ask my father if you don't believe me."
"Uh, uh, uh, there's no need. I believe, I believe. Then there's no problem. Yuxi, you're also a master brewer. I'll copy the recipe for you later. As for the ratio of the various ingredients, you can slowly try it.
When you return to the Han Village this time, tell your father that when I'm done with some things, you can come to Chang 'an to help me mix the wine. I'm representing my father to try to hire you as the bartender of our Zuixian Restaurant. How about a monthly salary of ten strings of coins? "
Teaching this recipe to Han Yuxi was more reassuring than teaching it to others. Li Zexuan really didn't expect this matter to go so smoothly.
Han Yuxi was very surprised when she heard this. She didn't expect that she could finally help the young master. She quickly said, "Young master, you've helped the Han Village so much. How can Yuxi ask for a salary? Yuxi is already very happy to be able to help the young master mix the wine."
Li Zexuan insisted, "This monthly salary is what you deserve. You have to take it. If you don't want it, I won't help the Han Village in the future."
Han Yuxi could only nod her head reluctantly.
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