Chapter 156 - Hundred Flowers Brew
“Oh, so you are that old ghost’s disciple, no wonder, no wonder!”
Wine Daoist’s appearance made Fang Yuan very curious. What kind of relationship did he have with Gu Zhenren? Grudges?
“Then why did you come here this time? Tell me, if you encounter any difficulties, I can give you some help!”
Gu immortal* put on airs, but even so, he still looked like he was taking care of his juniors, making it hard for others to get angry. “This matter is a long story, we are here to represent our Gu Immortal Sect in the Gu Dao convention…”
After letting down his guard, Fang Yuan explained his reason for coming to the capital in a few words.
Soon after, Wine Daoist expressed his opinion.
“Then regarding this matter, I cannot provide any help, what results you can obtain will depend on your true abilities!”
“You don’t have to worry, I have seen this year’s batch of cultivators, with your strength, as long as you don’t intentionally go easy on them, it is not a problem for you to obtain a good rank!”
Wine Zhenren’s expression of ‘I believe in you’ touched Fang Yuan.
The sky was already completely dark. Fang Yuan was planning to bring Wine Zhenren out and find a warm place to drink and share their feelings.
The two who had opened their hearts seemed to have become old friends, chatting happily.
Wine Zhenren had traveled far and wide for many years, while Fang Yuan had experienced a huge information explosion in his previous life, so both of them had a wide range of information and had a deep understanding and perspective of things.
They could be considered to have found a rare confidant in each other.
Among them, Wine Zhenren did not ask about Fang Yuan’s master Gu Zhenren, or about the Gu Immortal Sect or the Gu Demon Sect. He had such a relaxed attitude.
It gave Fang Yuan a feeling of trust.
This was his trust in the strength of the Gu Immortal Sect and his old partner, Gu Zhenren!
This was… Fang Yuan suddenly thought of something!
Gu Tianqing. He was with his junior earlier!
But now that he had found this place, what about him?
As if seeing Fang Yuan’s worry, Wine Zhenren said. “Don’t worry, when I smelled your Drunken Gu, I already sensed your partner’s information, don’t worry.”
“I have already given him a hint, he has already gone back!”
Hearing Wine Zhenren’s words, Fang Yuan was finally relieved.
“Oh, right, to be able to meet such an interesting little fellow like you in this place, it is truly my luck!”
“As the saying goes, instead of giving a man fish, it is better to teach him to fish. I see that you carry the Drunken Gu with you, you must be someone of the same path, there must be some fate!”
“Seeing that you are more pleasing to the eye, I am giving you a treasure!”
“Here, five flavored wine! Have you heard of
it!”
“It doesn’t matter if you haven’t heard of it, I will give you a recipe for free! Sweet wine — Hundred Flowers Brew recipe!”
“How is it, quite generous, right?”
Wine Zhenren approached Fang Yuan and said with a mysterious expression, like “you had hit jackpot,” and at the same time, he handed Fang Yuan a folded paper.
Fang Yuan naturally knew about the five flavored wine.
There were five flavors in the world. As the saying goes, there were sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty. At the same time, they formed the hundred flavours of life.
Sweet wine was one of them. Generally speaking, honey wine was one type, and this hundred flowers brew was one of the top ones.
The requirements for raw materials were relatively high, and it was difficult to collect all of them because this required the wine maker to collect more than a hundred flowers that bloomed at different seasons at the same time!
Moreover, the requirements for the flowers themselves were extremely high. The variety, number, growing location, and other plants in the vicinity all had strict requirements!
The requirements also included not only the attainment in the path of wine, but also the knowledge of flowers, plant cultivation, geography, one’s own strength, cooking, metrology, and other extremely specialized knowledge. It also tested the strength of the cultivator!
It was not that no one had tried to improve the authentic hundred flowers brew. Even if they had collected hundreds of flowers, they could not brew the authentic hundred flowers brew with the clear layers, mellowness, freshness, and a taste of different seasons and environments!
And after the authentic hundred flowers brew was made into wine, it could allow the taster to taste the taste of a hundred flowers blooming at different seasons!
There were not many similar recipes in this Gu immortal world, and they were few and precious items!
They were all in the hands of a small number of people. And correspondingly, among the other four flavors, the situation was similar.
Looking at Fang Yuan’s yearning and regretful expression, Wine Zhenren felt extremely proud! Why?
Because you don’t have it, but I do!
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Such a feeling of vanity was simply too great! “Hey, I think you don’t have enough materials now, forget it, I will generously give you some of this! This is the real good stuff.”
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Wine Zhenren dug into the tattered clothes on his chest and took out a jade-colored cup.
He was showing off and pretending to be very generous, then said.
“This is what I spent a lot of money to buy from ‘Wine Immortal’ at the Five Flavors Restaurant, it is absolutely authentic!” “Come, I will give you some!”
“Let me tell you, with this, if you mixed it with the wine poured out by your Drunken Gu, you will be able to taste the most authentic and unique flavor at all times!”
“I have a little hint of knowledge, I guess you don’t know!”
Wine Zhenren said with an unfathomable expression.
“Eh? Senior, speak!”
Fang Yuan quickly pretended to be extremely curious, while Wine Zhenren looked at Fang Yuan, scratching his ears and cheeks, feeling pleased with himself.
“Actually, every Gu worm is unique!” “Especially for food path Gu worms, because their growth is accompanied by the movement of the cultivator, the spiritual Qi they collect from all directions is different!”
“Thus, the wine brewed is also different!”
“For example, this Drunken Gu of yours, in this Yan Shen Empire region, because the climate is more distinct, from north to south, the taste becomes gentle in turn, and it gradually has more levels!”
“From west to east, there is gradually a difference from sweet to spicy, and in the other empires, it is a different situation, for example, in…”
Wine Daoist started to popularize the wine culture to Fang Yuan. From the initial factors affecting the wine and the place, to the later use of wine utensils, the differences in wine etiquette, and all kinds of changes in taste.
He told him one by one, and at the end, he even said one sentence.
“Sigh, that’s all I know. It’s really a pity. I heard that the Wine Immortal of the Five Flavors Restaurant can taste and learn all the knowledge and taste about wine in the world.”
“If I can… this is so desirable…”