Soon, someone brought a hoe, Cui Er took it, knocked the ground that was infiltrated by the wine, only heard the muffled sound of "Pengpeng", and nodded happily to Zheng Peng and said, "Uncle, it's weird." ”

Zheng Peng's curiosity also came, and he hurriedly said: "What are you doing here, looking for someone to dig it." ”

Cui Er immediately found two healthy servants to dig up, and after a while, he saw a "bang", a faint spark bouncing, and a healthy servant reported: "Young master, it seems to be a stone." ”

"Keep digging." Zheng Peng gave the order without hesitation. ”

After the two servants cleaned up the soil on it, they found that it was not a stone, but two very thick bluestone slabs, and the two of them couldn't move it at all.

When the bluestone slab is removed, a dark hole is revealed, and when you shine down with a torch, you can see the steps stretching downward.

"I guessed correctly, take the torch and see what's inside." Li Bai took the torch and thought about it.

"Slow" Zheng Peng grabbed him: "Let's take a look first." ”

Zheng Peng took a torch and threw it in, and sure enough, the torch was quickly extinguished.

"It's dangerous to be a sealed place, ventilate it first, don't rush." Zheng Peng explained.

These sealed spaces, there is not enough oxygen in them, and people are easy to faint, if Li Bai rushed in just now, it is difficult to say whether he faints or not, it will definitely be uncomfortable.

Besides, I don't know if the gas inside is poisonous.

Lu Ping asked people to bring a wind cabinet that usually supplies air, and blew the wind inside for a while, in order to start safely, Zheng Peng asked people to put a live chicken inside, and after testing that it was fine, everyone walked down the narrow steps.

"The owner, there is wine, there is really wine." Before Zheng Peng got below, he heard the excited voice of Li Bai, who was the first to enter.

Zheng Peng went down to take a look, and saw a small wine kiln of about 30 square meters, which was densely packed with wine, one altar, not to mention two or three hundred jars.

There are two kinds of wine jars, one is thirty catties, the other is ten catties, which are neatly stored, and there is a rotten smell in the air, and I don't know how much time it has been stored.

Li Bai casually picked up a jar of wine, looked at it carefully, and quickly said in surprise: "Hey, there are still words on it, Ah Jun, take the torch closer and see what the words are on it." ”

Ah Jun brought the torches closer, and soon, Li Bai read aloud: "The first year of Xianheng, Ya." ”

Zheng Peng said in surprise: "What, the first year of Xianheng, isn't that nearly fifty years?" ”

The first year of Xianheng is 670 A.D., and now it is the seventh year of Kaiyuan, that is, 719 A.D., and these wines have been stored for 49 years.

Cui Er whispered: "Uncle, I heard that the drunken Eight Immortals Wine Shop was very prosperous, and then the owner's daughter has not yet left the pavilion, and went to the city to incense and was insulted to the river, as if the owner of the wine shop had no intention of operating it at that time, and finally passed it on to distant relatives, if the old slave guessed well, the woman named Ya was born in the first year of Xianheng, and her parents prepared the wedding wine for her, and then after she threw herself into the river, the owner of the wine shop sealed these wines, which are the wines in front of us." ”

Zheng Peng sighed and said: "It's a pity, this daughter of nearly fifty years is red, but it is cheaper for us." ”

"Dongjia, you are wrong" Li Bai said with a straight face: "This is not called daughter red, it is called Huadiao." ”

After speaking, Li Bai explained: "There is a folk saying, flower carving, also called flower withering, all say that women are like flowers, and they wither before they get out of the pavilion, and the homonym of withering is carving, but not all the wine of the previous year has a story behind it, like adding Ding to the family, I hope that he will buy good wine in high school in the future, and bury it in the ground, and drink it in high school, which is called Zhuangyuan Hong, and some merchants will store it for more than 18 years in order to make money, and they will also call the wine Huadiao wine." ”

It turned out that there was this kind of allusion, Zheng Peng arched his hand and said: "I have been taught." ”

Li Bai said with a smile: "The owner is really lucky, I was deceived by the surname Hong, I didn't expect a bunch of bad wine to be exchanged for a bunch of aged wine, this is called Sai Weng lost his horse, I don't know if it is a blessing, with these fifty-year-old flower carvings, I make a lot of money." ”

Cui Er also complimented: "It is said that throwing bricks leads to jade, uncle, this is called throwing wine jars to lead Ruth wine, this is a good person has a good reward." ”

When Hong Huairen sold the wine shop, all the wine in it was sold, and he never dreamed that there was a wine cellar hidden in the wine kiln, and he gave Zheng Peng a batch of fine wine for nothing.

Zheng Peng waved his hand and said, "Is this wine good, it's still early, open a jar and taste it." ”

"I've been waiting for this for a long time" Li Bai picked up a jar of thirty catties of wine: "The smell here is unpleasant, let's go, let's go outside to taste the wine." ”

The group came to the courtyard outside, and after asking people to bring the wine bowl, Li Bai patted the mud and sniffed it habitually.

"Incense, this wine, incense." Li Bai said with an intoxicated face.

Needless to say, as soon as the sealing mud was opened, Zheng Peng smelled a rich and pleasant aroma of wine, and Cui Er on the side couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Before pouring it, Li Bai shook it slightly, nodded and said, "Thirty catties of wine, now it is only a little more than thirteen catties at most, this wine is really good wine." ”

"Let's try it." Zheng Peng was a little impatient.

Li Bai hurriedly said: "It's been so long, I don't know how this wine is, wait for Taibai to taste it first." ”

Well, in order to drink good wine, I was willing to be a guinea pig.

Li Bai stopped talking, immediately poured it on the bowl, and then couldn't wait to drink it first.

Everyone looked at Li Bai and waited for him to evaluate, but they didn't expect that after Li Bai finished drinking, he didn't say anything, and immediately poured another bowl for himself.

Zheng Peng was a little speechless, and just wanted to pour, Cui Er poured it for Zheng Peng with a very good look: "Uncle, you taste it." ”

"Okay" Zheng Peng responded, and then picked up the bowl of wine.

It looks like the wine is orange and bright, smell it, the wine is fragrant and fragrant, put it on the side of the mouth and drink it lightly, feel the soft liquor, the wine is sweet and mellow, from the entrance to the drink, it is not choking at all, there is a feeling of flowing water.

The entrance is soft, and the throat is first.

As soon as he finished taking a sip, he saw that Li Bai was already pouring the third bowl, and seeing Cui Er, A Jun, Chen Liang and others swallowing saliva with envy, Zheng Peng waved his hand and said, "What are you still doing, you have tasted the wine of the vintage." ”

"Young Master Xie." Cui Er and the others thanked themselves while pouring themselves wine.

For a while, the scene was full of cooing drinking and admiration.

After a while, more than ten catties of wine had been drunk.

Li Bai was three points drunk, and said to Zheng Peng with a smile: "Owner, it's rare to be so happy, why don't you take a few more altars?" ”

The others also looked at Zheng Peng expectantly, obviously not having enough of it.

Zheng Peng said generously: "Steward Cui, take another jar, and give me the rest, no one can move without my consent." ”

Soon to prepare for the roast tail feast, Zheng Peng was still worried about where to get wine, now it's okay, with these wines, you can get it, but there is not much stock, you have to save a little to drink.

"Understood, uncle."

Li Bai looked at Zheng Peng, and suddenly said: "Owner, this flower carving gives me ten altars, no, twenty altars." ”

"There is not a jar, I am going to make it into a press wine." Zheng Peng refused.

The appetite is really big, he will ask for twenty altars when he opens his mouth, Zheng Peng is not used to him, with Li Bai's character, he can ask for twenty altars today, and dare to open his mouth to ask for thirty altars tomorrow.

"The owner, one altar is thirty times, no, fifty times, how about it?" Li Bai refused to give up.

"It's not about money" Zheng Peng said angrily: "It's good to be able to drink, don't be greedy, in Chang'an, are you afraid that you won't have good wine if you are willing to spend money, don't remember these." ”

Li Bai grinned and stopped insisting.

Thirty catties of carving, now volatilized only a little more than twelve, Zheng Peng is not a good drinker, just drink two bowls, but this bowl is half a catty bowl, and the second bowl also has a catty amount.

Ah Jun is very self-disciplined, he only drank two bowls and took the initiative to put it down, the most drunk were Li Bai and Lu Ping, the two seemed to be competing, you have a bowl and I have a bowl, each of them drank about ten bowls, and made two big red faces.

After drinking, Zheng Peng shook his head and said with some surprise: "It's only a pound of wine, and it seems that my footsteps are a little floating." ”

When I first drank this kind of wine, it was nothing, but the stamina was not small, and Zheng Peng obviously felt that he was two or three points drunk.

Li Bai said with a smile: "Owner, these old flower carvings, it is best to mix and drink new wine, think about it, thirty catties are only twelve or thirteen catties left in the end, this catty is equivalent to the previous three catties, it doesn't matter how we old wine worms drink, the young master is not a person who often drinks, and he is definitely not used to it." ”