Rebirth of Jiuyouyan

Master Yun called Xia Yue to the main hall and handed him three ledgers.

Originally, Yun Xiayue had no intention of inheriting the Yun family's wine collection. He didn't like wine, so naturally he had no interest in wine making.But in order to relieve the family's worries, Yun Xiayue took the initiative to ask to take care of the tavern opened by the Yun family in Yincheng.The Yunjia Tavern is the only one, opened on the east bank of the Canal in Yincheng, named Xijiuzui, the restaurant exclusively serves the wine brewed by Yunjia Winery, paired with delicious side dishes, it has a good reputation in Yincheng, and the business is booming. It is also the main industry of the Yun Family.

Yun Xiayue concentrated on taking care of Xijiuzui. Although he was not a genius in business, he was smart, alert, thoughtful, and serious in his work. Since taking over Xijiuzui, he has done a good job, and his income has increased compared to before, but it is not too obvious. The improvement can only be regarded as ineffective.

After taking over the management for less than two years, Yun Xiayue suddenly collapsed. In the past three years, Xi Jiuzui has been handed over to Master Yun to take care of him. Although there is a shopkeeper in charge to help, the burden is not small.Winter is also the season for wine making, and Master Yun is a bit overwhelmed. Seeing that his son has been awake for less than half a month, and his body is recovering smoothly, he wants to ask his son's wishes.Since Jiuzang has no intention, he will not force him. If Xi Jiuzui's son likes it, he will still hand it over to him.Although I can't take over right now, it's good to take the account books of the past three years and look at them first.

Xia Yue is naturally willing. In his previous life, he opened a small izakaya with his friends, and he has some experience in management. Besides, as a young master, he only needs to take charge of the overall situation, and the manager and the shopkeeper are responsible for trivial matters. Dealing with it doesn't require too much work, it's much better than the situation in the previous life where almost everything had to be done by yourself.

After receiving the account book, Xia Yue said that after Dr. Shen agreed with him to go out, he would first go to Xijiuzui to check the situation, and formally take over when he was familiar with it. Father just needs to be busy with the wine storage.

Master Yun nodded in relief, and was surprised to see Xia Yue glance at the wine bottles on the table from time to time.The son of his family never took a second look at wine, why did he seem to be interested after waking up after three years of coma.

If you are really interested, Master Yun can’t wait for it. After thinking about it, he beckoned Xia Yue to come forward, pointed to the two glass bottles on the table and said to Xia Yue: "This is the new wine that just went into the vat today, and the bottle is from ordinary farmers. One bottle is made of high-quality wine rice from the Bai family, the accuracy is [-]%, and the wine storage is for me to try. If you are interested, you can take it back to your room to drink."

Xia Yue's eyes lit up when he heard that it was a new bottle of wine.The wine that has just been put into the tank has not been filtered for sediment, nor has it been heat-sterilized. The yeast in the wine is still active. Continued fermentation will change the quality and taste of the wine. Therefore, new wine that has not been heat-treated is rarely sold on the market. At that time, the taste will not be the same as when it was first put into the tank. The real new wine from the tank can only be drunk in the brewery during the brewing season.Xia Yue has wanted to try it for a long time, but because he has never had a chance, he couldn't help being a little excited when he saw it now.

However, since it is a new wine to be tasted by the wine store owner, it is not good for him to take both bottles away.

"It doesn't matter, just send someone to bring it back." Master Yun looked at Xia Yue who was interested in new wine and said with a smile, "You can take it if you want, and by the way, give Shiyan a taste of the wine made from their new rice this year. "

So Xia Yue thanked Master Yun, tucked the ledger under his arm, held two large wine bottles in his arms, and happily went back to his room.

Shi Yan was not in the room, nor did he leave any books, so he must have never left the house, maybe he was called by the housekeeper.Xia Yue was not too worried, but just called the servant to explain a few words, and then asked someone to bring wine utensils, and brought a stone basin with burning charcoal, and put a bowl of clear water on it, waiting to be heated.

As early as the first two days of getting married, Xia Yue picked up all the books about Luoyue customs in the study, and after that, all he read were the most wine-making books in the study.It turned out that the more Yun Xia didn't like drinking alcohol, the more she couldn't tell the difference between different wines. There was some helplessness in her reluctance to inherit the wine collection.But he, Xia Yue, loves wine, and his wish in his previous life was to travel around the world to drink wine from the place of origin.Knowing that this body's family business is a sake brewery, how hard it took him to hold back his displeasure.

According to the wine book, Luo Yue only had one kind of wine, which had strong stamina but was not easy to get drunk. Xia Yue had already drank it on the day they got married.I didn’t think about it at the time, but after reading about the brewing process in the book, I realized that the sake here is very similar to the Japanese sake in that world, both in terms of taste and brewing process.

In his previous life, he opened his izakaya together with a friend of Chinese and Japanese mixed race.The partner’s relatives belong to the brewery. Every winter, the partner would go back to Japan to help out at the sake brewery. When he came back, he would bring the branded new wine and drink with Xia Yue while talking about wine making.After hearing a lot, Xia Yue gradually became familiar with sake brewing. He originally made an appointment to experience it with his partner some other year, but unfortunately this agreement could not be fulfilled in the end.

However, Xia Yue stared at the clear water steaming up in the bowl, and couldn't stop smiling. He came to Luoyue by accident, and it is not a pity that he was able to enter the wine cellar to experience wine making. Moreover, this wine Hidden, or his own.No matter what the original owner is, Xia Yue is determined to inherit the Yun family's wine collection, for the sake of filial piety, and for himself who loves wine.

Opening the seal of the glass bottle, he slowly poured the wine into the small-mouthed, narrow-shouldered and slender plum bottle. The newborn wine that had just been put into the vat had a lively aroma that was very powerful and fresh, tangy to the nostrils, and very pleasant.Xia Yue also knew that Luo Yue's brewing technology was definitely not as sophisticated as the modern large-scale use of various machines, but he still looked forward to [-]% of the polished rice.

Fill the two plum vases with a capacity of about one liter, that is, one-tenth of a liter, with two kinds of wine respectively. Xia Yue carefully sealed the seals, poured a glass of wine each, and seated the two plum vases into the burnt wine. in hot water.

Luo Yue seldom practiced scalding wine, and scalding wine was mostly used to wipe the body to keep away the cold, because people felt that the smell of scalded wine was not only pungent, but also pungent, so even in the cold winter, no one would choose to scald wine drink.

But Xia Yue knows that hot wine can enhance the taste of sake. Different temperatures will have different tastes. Different wines have different suitable temperatures. There is a lot of knowledge in it, but it is not learned from books. You need to taste it repeatedly groping.Some sake is not suitable for warm tasting. If it is not boiled properly, the original taste of the wine will naturally be destroyed.

The brewing process is so similar, Xia Yue can't help but regard Luo Yue's wine as sake. If so, then he feels that the correct hot wine should also be suitable for the wine here.Before the wine was hot, Xia Yue tasted the cold wine at room temperature in the wine cup.

He first drank the new wine made from ordinary wine rice, and then drank the wine made from Baijiajiu rice. Comparing the two, a faint smile appeared on his face.

When Shiyan opened the door and went back to her room, what she saw was her husband holding the wine cup and smiling lowly, just like a painting.

The young master of the Yun family is indeed gentle and elegant, just a faint smile can make people drunk. If those young ladies in the city who have refused to congratulate him see such a scene, I don't know how regretful they will be.Thinking that such a character is her husband, Shi Yan felt that her expressionless face seemed to be a little hot.

Xia Yue was very happy to see Shi Yan came back, and beckoned him to come and sit down, took out two wine cups, opened the glass bottle and poured wine for Shi Yan.

"The new wine that went into the vat today, although the sediment has not been filtered out...do you want to drink it?"

Shi Yan was a little surprised: "Is it possible?"

"Of course you can," Xia Yue said with a smile. Unmarried couples are not allowed to drink alcohol, and Shi Yan, who grew up in a farm family, probably has never tried to steal his father's wine. After all, the wine in the Yun family is considered expensive. Now that you are the husband of the wine store, have you never thought about drinking wine?"

Shi Yan shook her head, carefully holding the small wine cup with both hands, lowered her head and took a sip in a very pious attitude, and when she raised her head, her brows and eyes were relaxed.

"Why is it like drinking for the first time? Didn't you drink a bottle of wine on the day you got married?"

Xia Yue smiled and teased Shiyan, looked at him and lowered his head in embarrassment and said: "That day... I didn't drink any taste, and I didn't even know whether I was drinking wine or water."

"Is it because it's too close?"

Pinching Shiyan's earlobe has become Xia Yue's habit, and Shi Yan nodding obediently made him feel better, but after thinking about it, he didn't want to embarrass others, so Xia Yue stopped teasing deliberately, and turned around and asked Shiyan if he had a drink. How does wine feel.

"It's delicious," Shi Yan raised her head, closed her eyes, and said as if aftertaste, "It's a bit sweet, and the taste is very soft, and it slowly fills up in the mouth... It seems that the teeth are filled with the aroma of wine."

Xia Yue was stunned, he stared at Shi Yan who seemed to be talking to himself, his eyes were too direct, which made Shi Yan a little flustered.

"Sir, did I say something wrong?"

When he came back to his senses, Xia Yue shook his head, didn't say anything, but pushed another wine cup to Shi Yan.

Shi Yan felt a little apprehensive, and obediently lowered his head to the wine cup, took a sip carefully, and after a while, he raised his head to look at Xia Yue blankly, his eyes widened even more, and a trace of amazement flashed through his eyes.

"How? Which one do you like better?" Xia Yue asked him, with some expectation hidden in his voice.

"Xianggong..." Shiyan looked down at the wine cup in her hand, "I like this one better. It has a fragrance that I am very familiar with, it seems to be rice fragrance. An indescribable comfort. Compared with the first cup, it is softer and the taste is a bit scattered, not as good as this one.”

"Really, Shiyan likes the second cup." Looking at Shiyan nodding, Xia Yue put away his warm eyes before and told him with a smile, "This is a new wine made from Baijiajiu rice."

"Is this the wine made from my family's rice wine?" Shi Yan was surprised. She couldn't help but lowered her head and took another sip, then squinted her eyes to enjoy it. It's so delicious..."

Seeing that Shi Yan was very happy, Xia Yue himself was also happy, with a smile on his face, but he was secretly surprised by Shi Yan's sensitivity to wine. People who have never drank alcohol can express the flavor of wine clearly. It is rare to be able to tell the difference between different wines.

Xia Yue lowered his head and took a sip of the rice-brewed Baijiajiu in his cup, and tasted it carefully on his tongue.He did feel that there was a unique aroma in this wine before, it was very light, but it was hard to ignore, so it was rice fragrance?He looked at the handsome face of his husband, and thought, could it be that his family Yan has a golden taste bud?

Before he had time to think about it, Shiyan diverted his attention by looking at the stone basin beside him, and then he remembered that he was still boiling the wine, so he quickly took the plum bottle out of the water, and stretched out his hands to test the temperature of the bottle.Fortunately, it was heated with charcoal, and the water temperature was not too high, which did not scald the wine.

Shi Yan looked curiously at the side, watched Xia Yue pour the wine, and couldn't help asking: "Sir, is this boiling the wine?"

Seeing Xia Yue smiling, Shi Yan hesitated for a moment, and said: "I heard from others that hot wine is very pungent and not tasty at all, but it will spoil the good wine."

Hearing this, Xia Yue just smiled without saying a word, and handed the wine cup to Shi Yan, who poured the wine made from ordinary wine and rice.Shi Yan only took one look at Xia Yue, then took a sip from the wine cup, such a gesture of complete trust made Xia Yue feel very comfortable.

The wine slid down his throat, and the completely different flavor from the cold wine made Shi Yan a little unresponsive. He seemed a little surprised, and turned his head to ask Xia Yue: "Is this the same wine as the one I drank just now?"

Xia Yue nodded: "Yes."

Shi Yan hastily put down the wine cup, picked up the wine brewed from his own rice, and drank it. Then, he stared blankly at the four glasses of wine he had drunk on the table, feeling very unbelievable.

"Why... the taste of the wine has changed so much?" Shi Yan looked straight at Xia Yue, with a curious light in his eyes, "After scalding my rice wine, it feels...more mellow, and It's mellow and fragrant. And the other kind, the taste is not so scattered now, but it has a mellow taste, and it's much more comfortable to drink. Xianggong's hot wine is delicious, why do people say that hot wine is a waste? "

Xia Yue reached out and touched Shi Yan's head, and explained with a smile: "Hot wine is delicious, not simply heating the wine, the temperature is very important, the aroma of the wine will run away if it is too hot, and only the spicy one will be left. The smell of wine is naturally pungent and unpalatable, ruining the good wine. The temperature of scalding wine should not be too high, and it should not be boiled directly. It is best to fry it in water."

Saying that, Xia Yue himself took a sip of the hot wine, the round and rich taste made him very comfortable.

"Moreover, different wines are suitable for drinking at different temperatures, and some wines are indeed not suitable for drinking hot. Finding the right temperature requires repeated trials. Even if you find it, can you get the same wine next time? It’s hard to say the temperature. Your husband and I can only get a rough idea.” After all, there is no thermometer here, so it is really difficult to accurately heat the temperature of the wine.

Shiyan listened very fascinated, he was fascinated by the taste of wine, so rich and changeable, mellow and fragrant, he fell in love with wine the first time he came into contact with it, the wine brewed by Yunjia Wine Store is very delicious, and her husband made it even more delicious. He felt the charm of hot wine.Just changing the temperature and taste can have such a change. The wine is really amazing, and the husband who talks about the hot wine is like a god in his eyes.

Shi Yan looked at Xia Yue with some infatuation in his eyes, he couldn't help but sigh deeply in his heart, this is his husband, funny, gentle, considerate, knowledgeable, he feels that he is Luo Yue's happiest husband Lang, even if his husband has no conjugal love for him, he still feels very happy.

Shi Yan, who deeply feels that she has a perfect husband, didn't worry about whether she was worthy of him, but simply hoped that she could do something for Xia Yue. He took care of the house very seriously and learned from the housekeeper and father-in-law, and also Strictly follow the doctor's advice and take care of Xia Yue attentively, but is there anything else, is there anything I can do for Xia Yue?

Xia Yue didn't know that his little husband, who had always been uneasy, suddenly had such a positive idea. If he knew, he would be very happy, and he might even hug him directly.But at this moment, he just enjoyed Shi Yan's focused eyes on him, and continued to pour him wine with a smile.

Before he could continue explaining the knowledge of hot wine to the young husband, the servant's voice suddenly sounded outside the door.

"Young Master, Steward Fang, who has been drunk for a long time, has come and is waiting in the main hall."

Only then did Xia Yue remember that he had sent someone to invite the steward of the tavern, so he put down the wine cup and stood up, tidied his clothes, and said to Shi Yan: "I'm going to talk to Steward Fang, it's cold outside, you Just don't go out, just stay here and wait for me, I'll be back soon."

Seeing that Shiyan nodded obediently, he pinched her earlobe again before going out.