Chapter 165
: No Home at Night
Chapter 165: No Home at Night
Yankang Square.
Dome House.
Irina brought her family to visit Wu Huaiyu. This is a big family, all of them are tall and tall with blond hair, blue eyes, high nose, deep eyes, facial features and three-dimensional body.
Irina's father, Phokas, had a Han named An Lu. When he wasn't selling wine in the West Market Hutspot, he dressed like a Tang man at home, with soft-footed headbands, tight-sleeved round-neck gowns and black leather. Boots, although they have a face, they look like Tang people from a distance.
Irina's mother, Gaia, is a charming orchid. When she was young, she also danced very well in Huxuanwu. She used to be very famous in Fanfang in Liangzhou. Now she is the mother of five children. Irina is her eldest daughter, and she still wears a mustard skirt to set off her proud tall and slender figure.
"Hurry up and get dragon paste wine to entertain An Dalang and Wu Erlang." An Lu's Tang dialect could not be heard at all.
Gaia smiled and took a jug of wine, poured it into the cup, the color was as black as pure lacquer, it was the first time Huaiyu saw wine of this color.
"Dragon Paste Wine?"
An Yuanshou smiled and said to Huaiyu: "Irina's parents seem to like you very much. This wine is very good. Although San Lejiang and wine are more famous in Chang'an, it is definitely not as good as this."
"What's the background?"
"This wine comes from the distant Wuge Mountain in the Western Regions. It is recorded in the Han Dynasty that it is [-] miles away from Chang'an, [-] days away from the Anxi Capital Protectorate, and more than [-] days away from Tiaozhi State. Near the West Sea, there are big birds with eggs like urns."
"Ugo is hot and humid, and there are many pigs and dragons in the country. After the locals capture them, they brew them into dragon paste wine with special techniques. Years, but a rare good thing."
"It's better to use a golden pot or a jade cup for this wine."
Huaiyu didn't know where Wugeshan Liguo was, but he understood that the wine was brewed with Zhu Polong.
Zhupolong, in ancient China, crocodiles were called Zhupolong. It is no wonder that the wine made from crocodiles is called dragon paste wine. It is estimated that the original name is not like this. After all, crocodiles are called dragons, except for China.
It is not uncommon to use meat to make wine. For example, the lamb wine that people in the Tang Dynasty also liked to drink, or the hereditary royal wine granted by the palace. Ma Zhou, who is good at wine, once told him about this kind of wine. Seven catties of mutton, 14 taels of koji, one catty of almonds, boiled together, mixed with rice, such as one or two of woody fragrance.
Others use five catties of mutton to be boiled and soaked in wine overnight, and ten pears are used to make wine by pounding together to extract juice and koji rice.
It is basically a brewing process of rice wine, which is to add tender and fat lamb.
In later generations, Wu Huaiyu also saw a kind of wine from Guangdong, Yu Bing Shao, which was brewed from fattened pork. It is said that the wine was first brewed with rice, and then the rice wine and pig fat were sealed together for preservation. At least five years of soaking Above, the fat in the fat will slowly dissolve in the wine, which can not only absorb the impurities in the wine, but also give the wine a special fat aroma.
Those who like to drink, like it very much.
But many outsiders can't even drink a sip.
Datang's lamb wine can become the royal wine, and even won the unanimous love of princes and nobles, which shows that this kind of meat wine has a great market in ancient times.
It is not uncommon for this Western Region feudal kingdom to use crocodiles to make wine. What is strange about it is how it turns the wine into a color as black as ink.
Generally, the best rice wine is amber in color, and some are as clear as water, while ordinary rice wine is turbid, white, or even has a lot of turbidity, and some are green because of the many impurities. The ancients called green ant wine. up.
But I have never seen black rice wine.
An Yuanshou obviously drank dragon paste wine many times before, he drank it as soon as he picked it up, and enjoyed it very much.
Irina filled a glass of dragon paste wine for Huaiyu, "Try Erlang, this wine is very fragrant."
Huaiyu picked up the wine glass and took a sip, slowly swirling the wine on the tip of his tongue.
Not to mention, I didn't taste any meaty smell, and it tasted slightly sweet, even with a bit of soy sauce.Tasting it carefully, it is mellow, sweet, and thick. You can even feel some medicinal, fruity, meaty, koji, and wine aromas. The mixture of various flavors is well integrated, but it is not miscellaneous.
"In addition to Zhupolong and rice, this dragon paste wine should have added a lot of spices and medicinal materials, right?"
"Erlang is really powerful, you can taste the mystery in one bite."
Irina's mother, Gaia, also praised her very much. She danced Hu dance in the early years, but she couldn't dance anymore, so she sold wine as a wine seller and started a restaurant Hu. She also knows a lot about wine.
"Well, I didn't lie to you, this dragon paste wine tastes better than lamb wine, and it even prolongs life." An Yuanshou laughed.
Huaiyu smiled slightly.
Medicinal wine.
In fact, anything related to health care, especially food, is bound to be somewhat bragging, even pretentious.
But there are always people who believe this set.
Of course, drinking medicinal wine in moderation is indeed beneficial, but it's not so magical.But when they said this, Huaiyu wondered if he could make wine and sell it in the future?
You can even do medicinal wine business. After all, I have Qianjintang, a drug store with a growing reputation, and I will open a branch store soon. When the time comes, Qianjintang will sell medicinal wine, isn't it just right?
He is very good at brewing medicinal wine. There are many medicinal wine prescriptions in traditional Chinese medicine.
Compared with this kind of meat wine, Huaiyu is more confident.
While drinking dragon paste wine, while chatting idle articles, Huaiyu was still somewhat interested in this so-called Wugeshan Liguo, so he discussed it carefully with them, analyzing where this country is while chatting.
An Yuanshou knew more about the geography of the Western Regions than most people in the Tang Dynasty. After all, his ancestors moved from the east of the Anxi Kingdom, and even participated in the Silk Road trade all the time.
Gaia made Biluo, Hubing and other drinks.
Wugeshan Liguo, also known as Paiteguo in the Han Dynasty, Huaiyu listened to it for a long time, but he almost figured out the location, it seems to be in the eastern part of the Iranian plateau.Wugeshanli and Paite, in fact, these two country names are the transliteration of the front and back parts of a geography. Wuge Shanli is actually the transliteration of Alexander in the Han Dynasty, and Paite is the transliteration of the last word of Prodavusia .
It seems that during the Han Dynasty, Central Asia established a huge Anxi Empire, but later the Da Yuezhi moved westward, and the Central Asian Serbs were hit by various tribes, and they broke into the territory of Anxi one after another, occupying Sistan.
Emperor Anxi sent a great aristocrat, Surin, to lead an army to suppress the Cypriots who invaded the northeast. After ten years of war, the Serbians surrendered, and Anxi regained the border.
The west is still under the rule of the Parthia Empire, while the east is under the rule of the Surin family, which belongs to Parthia in name. However, the political center of the Surin family is in Sistan, and the Han Shu refers to the rule of the Surin family. The eastern region where the Cypriots live together is called Ugo Mountain Liguo.
But later this Ugo Mountain Li Country was annexed by the Guishuang Empire established by the Yuezhi people.
Today, it is ruled by the Sasanian dynasty.
Future generations shall belong to the territory of Afghanistan.
This Wugoshan Liguo is actually the city of Alexandria.The Tiaozhi country to the south of him is also in Afghanistan. It seems that these two places, when the Tang Dynasty flourished, and after the fall of the Persian Sassanian Dynasty, the unrepresented emperor defected to the Tang Dynasty. government.
A giant bird with eggs as big as a urn, isn't that an ostrich?As for the dragon paste wine, it is estimated that it was brewed by the crocodile.
"Is this wine all from the Western Regions?"
"Well, Persian salamander, dragon paste wine, and Gaochang wine, some people in the Central Plains also tried to imitate them, but after brewing, the taste is very different, so the Hu wine sold in various hustle and bustle shops, among them, are of the highest grade. The ones from the Western Regions are guaranteed to be authentic, but the price is also very expensive.”
Huaiyu nodded.
Wine is a very mysterious thing. Not only does it have a recipe, but besides raw materials such as rice, the most important thing is the water, temperature and humidity of a place and other environmental influences.
Sometimes there may be a river across, two wineries with the same recipe and the same master, the taste of the wine brewed is very different.
It's a long way from Persian liquor sales to Datang, so we can see how much the cost has increased.
But many people who can't stand Chang'an just like this.
The gentry and literati officials in the Tang Dynasty liked to go shopping, just like modern people like to go clubbing. It is fashionable and exciting. Drinking, watching dances and listening to music is very enjoyable.
"Slave give Alang a dance of Tuozhi."
Irina's mother Gaia played the drums for her daughter, and her father Anlu also played the piano to accompany her. Irina changed into a five-color embroidered robe, a bearded hat with golden bells on her head, and a silver belt around her waist. Dancing to the sound of harps and drums,
Its dancing postures are varied, vigorous, lively, and graceful.
The dancing sleeves are sometimes lowered and sometimes rolled up. The fast and complicated dance steps drive the bells around her soft and slender waist to make crisp sounds.
After dancing to a song, she also made a deep waist movement, showing her flexibility.
With that drumbeat and that dancing posture, Huaiyu felt like she was performing an exotic belly dance.
It's really fascinating to watch. Music, dance and painting are full of artistic flavor, and they can always cross races and traditions.
People are beautiful, dancing is even more beautiful.
An Yuanshou watched Wu Huaiyu quietly, seeing that he admired him very much, he was fascinated by it, and he was very proud. An excellent Sogdian businessman should not only be able to talk sweetly, but also have to do what he likes. Wu Huaiyu is young and born In general, it seems that it is right to give him a treasured sword, a famous horse and a beauty.
After finishing a pot of dragon paste wine, An Yuanshou got up.
"It's getting late, so I'll take my leave and go back,"
Wu Huaiyu got up and saw them off.
"Erlang don't give it away, enjoy this orchid, and be on duty the day after tomorrow, see you later."
Irina directly took Huaiyu's arm and leaned against him, "Alang, slave, let's have a few more drinks with Alang."
Looking at the blue-eyed orchid, the half-drunk Huaiyu couldn't help feeling distracted.
"While I'm happy, if you have any request, please raise it now," Huaiyu said directly.
Irina held his arm tightly and rubbed against his body, "The slave family came to Chang'an, and Ye Niang wanted to open a wine shop of her own, and now Wu Lang has helped us achieve this wish, both Nu and Ye Niang are very grateful Takero."
Huaiyu was a little surprised.
It turned out that An Yuanshou not only gave Irina's family a large concubine gift for Wu Huaiyu, but even transferred a barbarian restaurant to her parents, saying that Wu Huaiyu paid for it.
This matter was handled with great thoughtfulness and generosity.
Huaiyu smiled, and didn't explain anything. An Yuanshou did the work, and he paid the money, but he took the favor, and he knew very well that it wasn't love for no reason, it was just an exchange of benefits. .
An Yuanshou's generosity is also because Wu Huaiyu's uncle is a samurai, the new governor and governor of Liangzhou, the orchid, the outer house, and the small restaurant in Xishi, so it should be Wu Huaiyu's intermediary fee.
"The day the restaurant opens, I'll go to join in."
"Okay, I'll give Erlang another dance!" Irina pulled Huaiyu back with great enthusiasm.
On that day, Wu Huaiyu lived in the other courtyard of Yankangfang.
Eat marrow to know the taste, happy to miss Shu!
(End of this chapter)
Yankang Square.
Dome House.
Irina brought her family to visit Wu Huaiyu. This is a big family, all of them are tall and tall with blond hair, blue eyes, high nose, deep eyes, facial features and three-dimensional body.
Irina's father, Phokas, had a Han named An Lu. When he wasn't selling wine in the West Market Hutspot, he dressed like a Tang man at home, with soft-footed headbands, tight-sleeved round-neck gowns and black leather. Boots, although they have a face, they look like Tang people from a distance.
Irina's mother, Gaia, is a charming orchid. When she was young, she also danced very well in Huxuanwu. She used to be very famous in Fanfang in Liangzhou. Now she is the mother of five children. Irina is her eldest daughter, and she still wears a mustard skirt to set off her proud tall and slender figure.
"Hurry up and get dragon paste wine to entertain An Dalang and Wu Erlang." An Lu's Tang dialect could not be heard at all.
Gaia smiled and took a jug of wine, poured it into the cup, the color was as black as pure lacquer, it was the first time Huaiyu saw wine of this color.
"Dragon Paste Wine?"
An Yuanshou smiled and said to Huaiyu: "Irina's parents seem to like you very much. This wine is very good. Although San Lejiang and wine are more famous in Chang'an, it is definitely not as good as this."
"What's the background?"
"This wine comes from the distant Wuge Mountain in the Western Regions. It is recorded in the Han Dynasty that it is [-] miles away from Chang'an, [-] days away from the Anxi Capital Protectorate, and more than [-] days away from Tiaozhi State. Near the West Sea, there are big birds with eggs like urns."
"Ugo is hot and humid, and there are many pigs and dragons in the country. After the locals capture them, they brew them into dragon paste wine with special techniques. Years, but a rare good thing."
"It's better to use a golden pot or a jade cup for this wine."
Huaiyu didn't know where Wugeshan Liguo was, but he understood that the wine was brewed with Zhu Polong.
Zhupolong, in ancient China, crocodiles were called Zhupolong. It is no wonder that the wine made from crocodiles is called dragon paste wine. It is estimated that the original name is not like this. After all, crocodiles are called dragons, except for China.
It is not uncommon to use meat to make wine. For example, the lamb wine that people in the Tang Dynasty also liked to drink, or the hereditary royal wine granted by the palace. Ma Zhou, who is good at wine, once told him about this kind of wine. Seven catties of mutton, 14 taels of koji, one catty of almonds, boiled together, mixed with rice, such as one or two of woody fragrance.
Others use five catties of mutton to be boiled and soaked in wine overnight, and ten pears are used to make wine by pounding together to extract juice and koji rice.
It is basically a brewing process of rice wine, which is to add tender and fat lamb.
In later generations, Wu Huaiyu also saw a kind of wine from Guangdong, Yu Bing Shao, which was brewed from fattened pork. It is said that the wine was first brewed with rice, and then the rice wine and pig fat were sealed together for preservation. At least five years of soaking Above, the fat in the fat will slowly dissolve in the wine, which can not only absorb the impurities in the wine, but also give the wine a special fat aroma.
Those who like to drink, like it very much.
But many outsiders can't even drink a sip.
Datang's lamb wine can become the royal wine, and even won the unanimous love of princes and nobles, which shows that this kind of meat wine has a great market in ancient times.
It is not uncommon for this Western Region feudal kingdom to use crocodiles to make wine. What is strange about it is how it turns the wine into a color as black as ink.
Generally, the best rice wine is amber in color, and some are as clear as water, while ordinary rice wine is turbid, white, or even has a lot of turbidity, and some are green because of the many impurities. The ancients called green ant wine. up.
But I have never seen black rice wine.
An Yuanshou obviously drank dragon paste wine many times before, he drank it as soon as he picked it up, and enjoyed it very much.
Irina filled a glass of dragon paste wine for Huaiyu, "Try Erlang, this wine is very fragrant."
Huaiyu picked up the wine glass and took a sip, slowly swirling the wine on the tip of his tongue.
Not to mention, I didn't taste any meaty smell, and it tasted slightly sweet, even with a bit of soy sauce.Tasting it carefully, it is mellow, sweet, and thick. You can even feel some medicinal, fruity, meaty, koji, and wine aromas. The mixture of various flavors is well integrated, but it is not miscellaneous.
"In addition to Zhupolong and rice, this dragon paste wine should have added a lot of spices and medicinal materials, right?"
"Erlang is really powerful, you can taste the mystery in one bite."
Irina's mother, Gaia, also praised her very much. She danced Hu dance in the early years, but she couldn't dance anymore, so she sold wine as a wine seller and started a restaurant Hu. She also knows a lot about wine.
"Well, I didn't lie to you, this dragon paste wine tastes better than lamb wine, and it even prolongs life." An Yuanshou laughed.
Huaiyu smiled slightly.
Medicinal wine.
In fact, anything related to health care, especially food, is bound to be somewhat bragging, even pretentious.
But there are always people who believe this set.
Of course, drinking medicinal wine in moderation is indeed beneficial, but it's not so magical.But when they said this, Huaiyu wondered if he could make wine and sell it in the future?
You can even do medicinal wine business. After all, I have Qianjintang, a drug store with a growing reputation, and I will open a branch store soon. When the time comes, Qianjintang will sell medicinal wine, isn't it just right?
He is very good at brewing medicinal wine. There are many medicinal wine prescriptions in traditional Chinese medicine.
Compared with this kind of meat wine, Huaiyu is more confident.
While drinking dragon paste wine, while chatting idle articles, Huaiyu was still somewhat interested in this so-called Wugeshan Liguo, so he discussed it carefully with them, analyzing where this country is while chatting.
An Yuanshou knew more about the geography of the Western Regions than most people in the Tang Dynasty. After all, his ancestors moved from the east of the Anxi Kingdom, and even participated in the Silk Road trade all the time.
Gaia made Biluo, Hubing and other drinks.
Wugeshan Liguo, also known as Paiteguo in the Han Dynasty, Huaiyu listened to it for a long time, but he almost figured out the location, it seems to be in the eastern part of the Iranian plateau.Wugeshanli and Paite, in fact, these two country names are the transliteration of the front and back parts of a geography. Wuge Shanli is actually the transliteration of Alexander in the Han Dynasty, and Paite is the transliteration of the last word of Prodavusia .
It seems that during the Han Dynasty, Central Asia established a huge Anxi Empire, but later the Da Yuezhi moved westward, and the Central Asian Serbs were hit by various tribes, and they broke into the territory of Anxi one after another, occupying Sistan.
Emperor Anxi sent a great aristocrat, Surin, to lead an army to suppress the Cypriots who invaded the northeast. After ten years of war, the Serbians surrendered, and Anxi regained the border.
The west is still under the rule of the Parthia Empire, while the east is under the rule of the Surin family, which belongs to Parthia in name. However, the political center of the Surin family is in Sistan, and the Han Shu refers to the rule of the Surin family. The eastern region where the Cypriots live together is called Ugo Mountain Liguo.
But later this Ugo Mountain Li Country was annexed by the Guishuang Empire established by the Yuezhi people.
Today, it is ruled by the Sasanian dynasty.
Future generations shall belong to the territory of Afghanistan.
This Wugoshan Liguo is actually the city of Alexandria.The Tiaozhi country to the south of him is also in Afghanistan. It seems that these two places, when the Tang Dynasty flourished, and after the fall of the Persian Sassanian Dynasty, the unrepresented emperor defected to the Tang Dynasty. government.
A giant bird with eggs as big as a urn, isn't that an ostrich?As for the dragon paste wine, it is estimated that it was brewed by the crocodile.
"Is this wine all from the Western Regions?"
"Well, Persian salamander, dragon paste wine, and Gaochang wine, some people in the Central Plains also tried to imitate them, but after brewing, the taste is very different, so the Hu wine sold in various hustle and bustle shops, among them, are of the highest grade. The ones from the Western Regions are guaranteed to be authentic, but the price is also very expensive.”
Huaiyu nodded.
Wine is a very mysterious thing. Not only does it have a recipe, but besides raw materials such as rice, the most important thing is the water, temperature and humidity of a place and other environmental influences.
Sometimes there may be a river across, two wineries with the same recipe and the same master, the taste of the wine brewed is very different.
It's a long way from Persian liquor sales to Datang, so we can see how much the cost has increased.
But many people who can't stand Chang'an just like this.
The gentry and literati officials in the Tang Dynasty liked to go shopping, just like modern people like to go clubbing. It is fashionable and exciting. Drinking, watching dances and listening to music is very enjoyable.
"Slave give Alang a dance of Tuozhi."
Irina's mother Gaia played the drums for her daughter, and her father Anlu also played the piano to accompany her. Irina changed into a five-color embroidered robe, a bearded hat with golden bells on her head, and a silver belt around her waist. Dancing to the sound of harps and drums,
Its dancing postures are varied, vigorous, lively, and graceful.
The dancing sleeves are sometimes lowered and sometimes rolled up. The fast and complicated dance steps drive the bells around her soft and slender waist to make crisp sounds.
After dancing to a song, she also made a deep waist movement, showing her flexibility.
With that drumbeat and that dancing posture, Huaiyu felt like she was performing an exotic belly dance.
It's really fascinating to watch. Music, dance and painting are full of artistic flavor, and they can always cross races and traditions.
People are beautiful, dancing is even more beautiful.
An Yuanshou watched Wu Huaiyu quietly, seeing that he admired him very much, he was fascinated by it, and he was very proud. An excellent Sogdian businessman should not only be able to talk sweetly, but also have to do what he likes. Wu Huaiyu is young and born In general, it seems that it is right to give him a treasured sword, a famous horse and a beauty.
After finishing a pot of dragon paste wine, An Yuanshou got up.
"It's getting late, so I'll take my leave and go back,"
Wu Huaiyu got up and saw them off.
"Erlang don't give it away, enjoy this orchid, and be on duty the day after tomorrow, see you later."
Irina directly took Huaiyu's arm and leaned against him, "Alang, slave, let's have a few more drinks with Alang."
Looking at the blue-eyed orchid, the half-drunk Huaiyu couldn't help feeling distracted.
"While I'm happy, if you have any request, please raise it now," Huaiyu said directly.
Irina held his arm tightly and rubbed against his body, "The slave family came to Chang'an, and Ye Niang wanted to open a wine shop of her own, and now Wu Lang has helped us achieve this wish, both Nu and Ye Niang are very grateful Takero."
Huaiyu was a little surprised.
It turned out that An Yuanshou not only gave Irina's family a large concubine gift for Wu Huaiyu, but even transferred a barbarian restaurant to her parents, saying that Wu Huaiyu paid for it.
This matter was handled with great thoughtfulness and generosity.
Huaiyu smiled, and didn't explain anything. An Yuanshou did the work, and he paid the money, but he took the favor, and he knew very well that it wasn't love for no reason, it was just an exchange of benefits. .
An Yuanshou's generosity is also because Wu Huaiyu's uncle is a samurai, the new governor and governor of Liangzhou, the orchid, the outer house, and the small restaurant in Xishi, so it should be Wu Huaiyu's intermediary fee.
"The day the restaurant opens, I'll go to join in."
"Okay, I'll give Erlang another dance!" Irina pulled Huaiyu back with great enthusiasm.
On that day, Wu Huaiyu lived in the other courtyard of Yankangfang.
Eat marrow to know the taste, happy to miss Shu!
(End of this chapter)