158 Wine Tasting
"Ruiyang, stop! How can you be so rude in front of the guests!"
Seeing that they were talking too much, Mrs. Cao shouted at them.
The five or six middle-aged and young children of the Cao family were scolded by Mrs. Cao, and they were suddenly silent and stopped saying a word.
Cao Hao was rough and not care about the details. They had no serious consequences when they argued one or two. However, Mrs. Cao was in charge of the Cao family and treated them extremely harshly and the family rules were strict.
After warning them with a stern look, Mrs. Cao looked back at her husband Cao Hao with some confusion.
She was also puzzled. Cao Hao said that he invited a distinguished guest to the banquet tonight, but did not say who it was.
Only those who can be called a distinguished guest by Cao Hao, the president of Donglai County Court, should be a person like Princess Ling Jiaojiao, who is qualified to sit in the left chief.
At the very least, only people like Princess Li Hao and Pan Yun are qualified to attend. Apart from young heroes like them, I am afraid they are not even qualified to attend their family banquet.
Unexpectedly, he was a young man with little fame, Ye Fan in the early stage of the Martial Master Realm.
At the Mid-Autumn Festival rafting meeting yesterday, she also saw that Ye Fan was just one of the more than 90 martial masters who participated in the rafting meeting, and had no special performance.
There are countless young geniuses in Donglai County. Why do you treat such a small number of young people as a distinguished guest?
Cao Hao looked at Mrs. Cao who was looking forward to one of his explanations and the children of the Cao family, but sighed slightly.
He felt depressed.
The Cao family has too narrow vision, so I won’t mention the descendants of the generation, they are all prestigious people. Among the descendants, there is not even one who can compare with Pan Yun and Li Hao, let alone compared to peerless talents like Ye Fan.
In the past few decades, no descendant of the Cao family has made great progress and can shoulder the future destiny of the entire Cao family.
Among the descendants of the Cao family, there is only one granddaughter, Cao Youwen, who has outstanding qualifications and good prospects. But she is a woman and it is difficult to support the Cao family.
Even the wife's eyes could only see the young Jiejun on the "Donglai List" in front of her. She knew nothing beyond this range.
She just thought that all the young talents in Donglai County were among the county courts, and the best among the county college students were on the "Donglai List".
But a true peerless genius is not a mere "Donglai List" that can be included in it!
It's hard to explain it to them in just a few words.
Fortunately, the Cao family has him as a pillar and can hold on for a long time. He can only work harder on his own, paving the way for these descendants and letting the family prosper for a long time. In the future, they will understand his good intentions.
Cao Hao didn't intend to explain anything more. It was like it was difficult to explain to a group of sparrows staring at the ground, why the goshawks could soar in the nine heavens.
Cao Hao glanced at Ye Fan apologetically.
Ye Fan smiled faintly and didn't mind. Dean Cao invited him to a family banquet, which was already a courtesy, and it was no big deal to be questioned by the children of the Cao family.
"If I want to invite a drink in Donglai County, there are only two young people! One of them is Ye Fan!"
Cao Hao waved his hand with a hearty look and said with a smile: "Forget it. Today's small banquet, we won't talk about anything else. Drink with all your heart and drink until you get drunk! Come on, bring my treasured wine!"
Outside the pavilion, ten maids immediately brought up ten jars of fine wines and removed the clay seals. They poured fine wine into the cups and cups in turn.
Cao Hao has the nickname "Jiuwuhou", and the wine in Cao's mansion is recognized as the number one fine wine in Donglai County.
Unfortunately, the wine in Cao's mansion never takes out. It only takes out when we entertain guests. Of course, the level of guests is different, and the grade of this wine is also different.
The entire pavilion suddenly smelled fragrant.
"No way? The third-level seventh-grade 'Huoyun Shao' is the most popular. I will bring it to the wine gourd to fill it with you! He always drinks it by himself, occasionally asking his old friends to drink a few sips, but I can't bear to bring it to the banquet for everyone."
"Look, it's the third-level eighth-grade 'ice and snow spirit'! This was twenty years ago. Grandpa went to the top of the Nine-District Ice Peak in my Canglan Kingdom and picked a large piece of ice and snow. There were only ten jars in total, and he had never taken them out. He was willing to take them out and drink them!"
"The jar of red clay sealed, but the third-level top-grade 'Tianxiang Zui' that he had been hiding for fifty years, only two jars left. Why was my father willing to take out one jar to drink? No, he said he wanted to leave one jar for Youwen to get married and took it out."
"Grandpa is spending a lot of money!"
The children of the Cao family couldn't help swallowing their saliva, and in a blink of an eye, they threw the previous things out of the sky, focusing on these wine jars, one by one, shocked and incredible.
These Cao's children are naturally very pearls of their own wine.
There are all kinds of wine jars in the wine cellar that Cao Hao personally made. It can be said that the best wines in Cao Hao's wine cellar each took out one jar. The total value of these ten jars of wine is no less than tens of thousands of yuan stones.
Normally, they would never drink any of these ten jars of wine. Because Cao Hao forbids anyone from approaching his cellar, let alone drinking one of them. If he dares to take a sip, half of his legs will probably be interrupted.
But today, the head of the family actually brought a full ten jars of the top fine wines to treat them.
Ask Ye Fan, who is not famous from Luyang Mansion. Ye Fan may be one of the few geniuses in Luyang. But among the many geniuses in Donglai County, it seems that that's the case!
What exactly did he like Ye Fan?
Even if Princess Donglai Li Zhouying and General Pan Dahai of Zhenhai are here, it will not be possible to get such courtesy.
Could it be that Ye Fan is really different? They didn’t see it? Only the head of the family saw it?
The children of the Cao family were shocked and confused.
Tonight, I was actually attracted by Ye Fan, an outsider, and I was "fortunate" to drink these fine wines that I had collected for forty or fifty years.
Cao Hao's eldest son Cao Ruiyang was very depressed.
A maid carefully held a jar of "Frozen and Snow Soul" wine jar, poured a small cup of people in the pavilion one by one, and then stepped down.
Immediately, there was a icy and cold bone-like feeling in the pavilion, which almost shocked everyone, as if they were in the snow and ice. There were bursts of strange fragrance floating in the snow and ice.
Although everyone on the table was immersed in the fragrance of the "ice and snow" wine, no one drank it.
This is a third-level eighth-grade fine wine. If Wu Zun drinks a small sip, he will get drunk for three days and three nights. Tonight's night banquet in Cao's mansion has just begun, and no one wants to get drunk at this time. There are nine jars of top-quality fine wine behind it!
Only Cao Hao, the Jiuwuhou, dared to drink this kind of wine directly.
They want to drink, but they can only be lighter.
Several grandchildren of Cao's family even had a secret joy. The wine was poured into their glasses and it belonged to them. Although I couldn't finish this glass tonight, I could keep it for me to drink it slowly in the future.
"Just drinking is not much fun! Today, Cao's mansion is proficient in wine art, and Ye Fan is also good at this. Why don't we play a small show and guess the raw materials for the 'cold and snowy soul'!"
Cao Hao glanced at everyone at the banquet and said with a smile.
He brewed this "Feng Bing Xue Po" wine himself. But he never told anyone what the recipe for this wine is. It’s not that he doesn’t want to leave the recipe for the descendants of the Cao family. It’s because the brewing materials in this recipe are too difficult to find, and most of them are in dangerous places. The descendants of the Cao family have no ability to find them. If they really want to find the brewing materials on a whim, they will hurt them.
However, it would be okay to use this to play tonight. It is impossible for anyone to tell the recipe and materials accurately.
"Grandpa, how could I guess? Are there any rewards?"
The 17 or 18-year-old cardamom girl who was sitting behind Mrs. Cao, looked pretty and charming, smiled sweetly in a crisp voice.
"Of course there is! Those who guess all the materials will get the reward of a small gourd's 'Frozen Snow Soul'. You can drink ten sips of wine in it. Drink it slowly, and you probably can drink it for half a year. Youwen, why don't you guess first?"
Cao Hao laughed.
"No. Grandpa is cheating. We can't guess all the brewing materials! We can't guess it. This is just a waste of guessing. Grandpa's wine gourd can't be delivered!"
Cao Youwen immediately acted coquettishly and protested.
"Well, it depends on who guesses the most!"
Cao Hao thought about it and took a step back.
As soon as these words were spoken, all the children of the Cao family were very happy and praised them.
Even Ye Fan smiled when he heard this.
President Cao was thinking of a way to bring him wine.
He came to Cao's mansion tonight, with the main purpose of getting some good wine from Cao's mansion back. If he didn't accept it, he would be embarrassed.
Cao Youwen nodded, held the cup with her right hand, blocked the collar with her left hand, sipped her red lips a little on the cup, and savored it for a while, and soon her face turned red.
"The taste is very pure! There are only ten kinds of materials for this 'Frozen and Snow Soul'! I have guessed five of them, but I won't talk about it for now. Who can guess more? I will admit defeat."
Her smart and beautiful eyes swept across everyone and chuckled.
The other children of the Cao family also picked up cups and savored them carefully. For all the children of the Cao family, brewing wine is almost their specialty, and all kinds of brewing materials are extremely familiar.
"I have tasted four! If all Youwen guessed is right, then I will lose."
"I only tasted three kinds, alas, it's far worse than you."
"Youwen's wine ritual is getting deeper and deeper, I'm willing to give in to the disadvantage!"
Soon, they all shook their heads and put down their cups. Although they wanted to win, their skills were not as deep as Cao Youwen.
Ye Fan sipped a little and tasted the taste of the best wine in Donglai County, but did not speak.
Cao Hao suddenly smiled and looked at Ye Fan on the left with great anticipation, saying, "Ye Fan, you guessed a few things!" He had already learned Ye Fan's ability in the wine hall in the Ten-Single Boat Race, so he was naturally looking forward to Ye Fan's performance.
Ye Fan thought for a moment and said, "Six kinds!"
He actually tasted all the ingredients in the cold ice and snow soul, but there was no need to say them all. As long as there were more than others, he could win that little gourd wine.
The number of reports he reported was not much higher than that of Cao Youwen, just like Cao Youwen. Try to exceed it less, so as not to be embarrassed by Cao Youwen and the children of the Cao family.
"Impossible. I have been practicing winemaking with my grandfather for more than ten years. How could you guess one more than me!"
Cao Youwen immediately widened her beautiful eyes and looked angry.
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