Chapter 182 – The Wine and the Food

These days she went out under the pretext of going to classes at Tian Qin Yuan.

Now Mr. Wang Caiwei is teaching in Tianqin Garden, and Mrs. Yuan really found a few women in the Yuan family to come over to listen to the class, which is exactly the same as what Wei Ruo said to her family before.

Just Wei Ruo himself more often than before, skipped class, to which Mr. Wang Caiwei did not say anything, just said, some things to learn the textbook is not as good as the body and practice.

Wei Mingting didn’t doubt Wei Ruo’s answer and then said to Wei Ruo, “In the past few days, a colleague from Xingshan County brought news to me that those people in the southern part of the city who have opened up the land are all fine, and that Magistrate Qian has properly settled them, so you can rest assured.”

These days were even colder, and Wei Mingting knew that Wei Ruo cared about the hardworking and poor people, so he specially relayed this news to her.

“Well, it’s good that they’re okay, I hope they’re all safe.” Wei Ruo was also happy for those old people and children.

And then Wei Qingwan arrived.

These days she also restarted the class, went to the residence of the co-conspirators, daily morning and evening, very diligent, in the past days to the meal time talent just arrived at the residence, today back to be considered early.

Seeing Wei Ming Ting, Wei Qing Wan hung her head low and softly asked for peace, “My daughter has seen father, father has worked hard recently.”

“My father doesn’t find it hard, Wanwan doesn’t need to be concerned.” Wei Mingting said.

“How many days of rest will father be able to get back this time?” Wei Qingwan was concerned again.

“We will return to the military camp tomorrow after the evening meal.” Wei Mingting had only been given two days of vacation, and in order not to delay things, he only rested at home for one night.

Upon hearing this Wei Qingwan looked at Wei Mingting with a heartbroken expression.

Looking at his daughter’s concerned eyes, Wei Mingting’s heart warmed.

Wei Yi Lin arrived late and was sweating profusely when he arrived.

“Father! I learned a new sword technique today! Master said that when you go into battle, the sword should be better than the knife, and the sword is a flowery and not as ferocious as the knife!”

Without waiting for Wei Mingting to open his mouth to inquire about his recent situation, Wei Yi Lin began to talk at length about his recent studies.

Wei Mingting was very pleased, “Well, your master is right, on the battlefield, the knife is indeed better than the sword, wait a while after the evening meal, let’s go to the courtyard, father will see if you have made progress.”

“Good!” Wei Yi Lin agreed, with an air of confidence.

And then Yun came and told Wei Ruo several people to go back and clean up before coming back to join the meal, especially Wei Yi Lin, the skin monkey, who was covered in sweat stains after practicing martial arts all day.

Today, only Wei Mingting, Yun, Wei Ruo, Wei Qingwan and Wei Yi Lin are at home for the festival, Wei Yi Chen and Wei Jin have not returned home, so Yun’s premise of separating men and women at the table will be waived again today.

Wei Ruo looked at Wei Mingting and thought about it, so she went back to Listening Pine Court and carried a jar of wine back.

“It’s rare for father to return home, so let’s have some wine and relax.”

Wei Ruo knows that the father of the happy wine in the barracks never dipped in the wine, only at home when resting will be tasted on one or two, but he is really a little too busy, so this year to the end of the drink is not on a few times.

Looking at the wine jars Wei Ruo carried, Wei Mingting’s face couldn’t help but gain a few more shades of joy, “Ruo’er understands me.”

Wei Ruo This wine jar looks rough and not much to sell, but Wei Mingting knows that his daughter’s wine is a good wine that can’t be bought anywhere else.

With that, Wei Mingting reached out his hand to pick up Wei Ruo’s wine jar.

Wei Ruo’s hand retracted, with a word in advance, “Father drink to drink, but do not be greedy, not drunk, a little drink is good, a big drunk hurt the body.”

“Good, my father promises you.” Wei Mingting couldn’t help but laugh out loud, this feeling of being governed by his daughter was a cozy experience that he hadn’t had in the past.

Only then did Wei Ruo give the wine jar to Wei Mingting.

Wei Mingting opened the lid on top, and a rich wine aroma wafted out, instantly filling the dining hall.

“Ruo’er this wine is different from the last one?” Wei Mingting asked.

The aroma of this wine is obviously much stronger.

“Well, the last time we all drank together, I took a lighter fruit wine, this time for father to drink, I took a stronger wine, so father has to be slow when drinking, or else he won’t be able to blame me if he gets drunk.” Wei Ruo added.

While the last one was a relatively low proof fruit wine obtained by soaking the fruit in brewed high proof white wine, this one is the original high proof white wine.

Upon hearing this, Wei Yi Lin, who had not yet reached adulthood, came over and tried to see clearly what was inside the wine altar, but he was not tall enough, and after tiptoeing around for half a day, he could not get a clear view of what was inside the wine altar.

It was good that Wei Mingting had already fetched the wine glass and scooped a spoonful into it.

The wine is clear and full-bodied.

Wei Mingting took a fine sip, carefully savoring it, before looking at Wei Ruo with a look of surprise: “Ruo’er, you made this wine too?”

“Well, in the countryside when there’s nothing to do just brew some wine, and sometimes you can let people take it and sell it for silver to buy some bedding or something.” Wei Ruo replied.

“Ruo’er, this craft of yours is worth a thousand pieces of gold!” Wei Mingting said.

Wei Ruo knows Wei Mingting said this did not have exaggerated ingredients, most of the current wine is still brewed wine, distilled wine technology, although already exists, but only in the hands of a few distilleries.

Ordinary brewing wine has a low alcohol content and is yellowish in color and cloudy.

Distilled spirits, on the other hand, can be dramatically increased in alcohol content and are as aromatic and pure as water.

It is the price of distilled spirits that is much higher than the price of a typical grain-brewed spirit.

Wei Mingting previously in the capital is not less to drink this distilled spirits, but outside the period of service, because they are in more remote areas, there is no opportunity to drink this kind of alcohol.

Wei Ruo didn’t answer, just said, “It’s good that father likes it.”

Seeing her husband rejoice, Yun’s face also smiled more. And then she ordered the dishes to be served.

Among the dishes that were brought up, there were marinades that Wei Ruo was familiar with – marinated pig’s ear and marinated pork, which sold Wei Ruo to know at a glance that they were produced by her store.

Yun made a point of introducing this marinade to Wei Mingting, “Good wine needs to be accompanied by good food, today this plate of marinated pig ears and marinated pork is just the right dish for husband to make for his next drink.”

After Wei Mingting tasted it, he nodded his head, “Not only is this marinade made flavorful, the taste is also superior, the cook has grown recently.”

Yun explained, “This is what I bought inside the marinade store in the city, this marinade store is very famous in the Prefecture, the nobles in the city are all their regular customers, I also heard it from Madam Tongzhi, and today when my husband came back, I went to buy it to try it out.”

“It’s indeed different from others, much more outstanding than any of the marinated flavors I’ve eaten in the past.” Wei Mingting commented.

Immediately after that, Wei Mingting looked at the wine cup in front of him and said, “Today, Madam and Ruo’er can be said to have a heart to heart, with one preparing the wine and the other preparing the dishes for the wine.”

Yun laughed, “Mothers and daughters are connected, Ruo’er is the daughter of my husband and I, and it’s not uncommon for her to have a heart to heart with me.”

meso- (chemistry)