Li Du had once heard a story. It was not a story, but a fact.
Any slightly older Chinese would know that modern China once had a three-year period of disaster. At that time, there was famine all over the country, and people didn't have enough to eat and go hungry.
It was the same in Li Du's hometown. Many people starved to death, and those who survived also experienced the torture of hunger. He did not know how terrible it was to be hungry, but the protagonist of the story was a young man from his village.
After the natural disaster period ended, the young man tried his best to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes. After harvesting the sweet potatoes and potatoes, he tore down the courtyard walls of his house and made a wall with mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes. He said that there would be something to eat when there was a famine in the future.
This incident made Li Du realize the horror of hunger, so he could understand Ah Bai's pursuit of food. It was not a foodie, but it was afraid of hunger.
Therefore, even though it was given a taste of horseradish and mustard, it still did not give up eating, pointing at the fragrant soup on the table and squeaking.
In Russian cuisine, soup was the first dish after cold dishes. It could moisten the throat and stimulate appetite.
There were many kinds of Russian soup, such as vegetable soup, red vegetable soup, rice noodle soup, fish soup, mushroom soup, milk soup, cold soup, fruit soup, and the clear soup that Li Du ordered.
This clear soup was not plain soup. It was an old soup made with fish, meat, mushrooms, and other seasonings. Then the solid contents were scooped out and the rest was called clear soup.
It was similar to Cantonese soup. The essence of fish and vegetables was in the soup, which was rich and fragrant.
Li Du took out Ah Bai's small bowl and scooped some clear soup for it. Ah Bai held it with both hands and drank happily. After drinking, it stared at the wine on the table.
In Russia, it was natural to drink vodka.
Vodka was the national drink of Russia. It had been around for seven or eight hundred years, and Vorkuta's vodka was famous throughout Russia.
There were two ways to brew this wine. One was the same as other grain wines, brewed with wheat, rye, barley, and other raw materials. The other was to use potatoes and corn as raw materials, distilling the raw wine and slowly filtering it for more than eight hours.
The latter kind of vodka was popular in Vorkuta, because it was a cold place with a bad environment and poor soil fertility. It was used to exile prisoners.
The local winter was very cold, and it would be terrible if there was no wine to provide the heat. The wheat that the people could produce was very little, and it was difficult to feed the people. Where would they find the extra grain to brew wine?
Thus, the potato and corn brewing method was born.
As everyone knew, vodka was a world-famous spirit. In fact, its alcohol content was not very high. Most of it was between 40% and 50%. Europe and the United States were used to using 40% as the dividing line for spirits.
The authentic vodka was clear and very pure. Other than the aroma of the wine, there was almost no other fragrance, and the taste was very strong.
Vorkuta's vodka was originally made from corn and potatoes. It was cloudy and tasted worse than ale, so people added a little fruit juice to adjust the taste.
This was not the authentic way to drink vodka. Russian men boasted of themselves as tough men. They advocated hard liquor that tasted like knives, and with the addition of fruit juice, it became a woman's drink.
However, this was a small tradition in Vorkuta that had been preserved to this day. Ah Bai smelled the aroma of the vodka juice and thought that it was delicious, so he kept pointing at the vodka and squeaking.
Li Du knew how terrible this thing was. Although he had ordered a low-alcohol vodka, it was still more than 40%, and Ah Bai could not touch such a small thing.
He shook his head at Ah Bai and said, "You can't drink this, you can't drink this."
Ah Bai jumped up anxiously on his shoulder and continued to point at the vodka and squeak.
Godzilla poured some wine from a glass of vodka. The fruity aroma was even stronger, and Ah Bai was drooling.
Seeing this, Godzilla raised his glass to it and said with a smile, "Boss, let the young man have a sip. How can there be no vodka on such a cold day?"
Ah Bai tried to reach out from Li Du's shoulder, but of course, it could not reach Godzilla's glass.
Li Du rolled his eyes at him and said, "Behave yourself and eat your food. Don't mess around."
Seeing Li Du's firm attitude, Ah Bai gave up the idea and climbed down dejectedly.
Li Du poured himself a glass of vodka. He used a square cup with very fine ice cubes in it. The vodka in the sherk cup had been preserved at a low temperature, and when it was poured out, there was still a white, chilly steam rising from it.
Drinking ice wine in a place of extreme cold, Li Du did not know why the local people had such a strange tradition, but it was a specialty. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, and drank it.
The glass was so cold that his palms hurt. He drank it as if he had swallowed ice cubes.
From his mouth to his stomach, he felt a chill inside his body, so cold that he shivered subconsciously. But soon, from his throat, there was a burning sensation.
As the vodka entered his stomach, his body warmed up.
There was still less than half a glass of wine left in the glass. Li Du scooped the caviar into his mouth and closed his eyes to savor this world-famous delicacy.
Then he heard the sound of the glass falling on the table and Sophie exclaimed, "Oh my God!"
He hurriedly opened his eyes and found that his wine glass had fallen and the wine was flowing down. Ah Bai was hanging from the table with one hand like it was on a swing, its head raised and its mouth open to receive the liquor flowing down the table.
The vodka was chilled. It was not strong at first, and it was soft in the mouth, but it had a strong aftereffect.
Ah Bai felt nothing drinking the vodka. It drank the wine that flowed down, and when it saw that Li Du had noticed its little action, it jumped down and ran behind Sophie to hide.
Li Du quickly asked the others, "What will happen if a monkey drinks alcohol?"
Before anyone had time to answer, the answer appeared.
The aftereffect of the vodka appeared very quickly. The first was the aftereffect of the taste, which was very stimulating and explosive.
Ah Bai jumped out from behind Sophie, its hands clutching its neck and jumping vigorously, its white hair standing on end.
The driver looked at it pitifully and said, "Oh, this silly child, it's going to be miserable."
Ah Bai was really miserable. The alcohol was so strong that its little eyes turned red. It jumped and jumped silently because it was choked by the alcohol and could not make a sound!
Li Du quickly took a glass of apple juice to rinse its mouth, but Ah Bai pushed it away and continued to jump frantically.
He asked Sophie, "Is it going to be okay? How should we help it? "
Sophie said, "I'm helping it. It should be fine."
"How are you helping it?"
"I'm drawing a cross and praying for it. Didn't you see?"
Li Du was relieved, not because he believed in the power of God, but because Sophie was in the mood to joke, so Ah Bai should be fine.
Indeed, Ah Bai was fine. It was just drunk.
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