Chapter 467 The whole thing is weird
Princess Lejia put down her wine glass and said, "I wonder if there is a kind of fruit wine that is made from a variety of fruits?"
Yun Ruo held up her chin and thought for a while: "It seems that usually the same kind of fruit is used to make a wine. I have never seen wine made from multiple kinds of fruits."
As she spoke, she looked at Chen Huazheng again: "County Master Yinghua, do you think this idea is feasible?"
Although Yun Ruo had never drunk the wine brewed by Shen Huazheng, she didn't know whether she could brew wine.
But she had drunk the assorted fruit tea cooked by Shen Huazheng.
Since fruit tea can be made from a variety of fruits, then wine should be able to do the same.
Zhou Ying also looked at Shen Huazheng, she also wanted to know the answer.
Shen Huazheng took a sip of wine: "We can add some fruit to the wine and cook it."
Even if we really want to brew wine, it's definitely too late now.
But it is not impossible to add some fruit to the wine and cook it and heat it up.
Zhou Ying & Yun Ruo & Princess Le Jia: (⊙⊙)?
Is this still possible?
Although when the weather is cold, they prefer to drink heated alcohol.
This is the first time I’ve heard of adding other ingredients to wine and cooking them together.
Adding other fruits to the wine and cooking them together sounds a bit like mixed fruit tea.
Zhou Ying: "Zheng'er, how do you cook this?"
Yun Ruo also asked: "County Lady, what fruits can be added?"
Princess Lejia was surprised and a little excited.
She really wanted to try what the wine tasted like with other fruit aromas blended into it.
Unlike Zhou Ying and Yun Ruo, Princess Le Jia was thinking about another question: "Zheng Zheng, if other fruits are added to the wine, should it be called assorted fruit wine?"
Shen Huazheng put down the wine glass: "It's called mulled wine."
Princess Lejia: (_ )
So simple? ?
Forget it, Zheng Zheng can call herself whatever name she wants.
Zhou Ying and Yun Ruo both looked calm; they didn't care much about the names.
Besides, this drink was originally made by Shen Huazheng, so it’s normal for her to name it.
The three followed Shen Huazheng to the kitchen and began to see how she mulled wine.
I saw Chen Huazheng asking people to bring oranges, apples, and various spices.
Princess Lejia felt a little strange: "Zhengzheng, aren't we going to add fruit? Why are there spices?"
Shen Huazheng smiled and said, "Of course it's to make the cooked wine taste better. You'll know in a moment."
She thought about it and asked someone to bring the berries that Magistrate Lin had sent some time ago.
The berries are sour and sweet, and very delicious.
It can also be cooked in wine.
Qingzhi Qingtang also started to process the fruits as instructed.
The oranges and apples were soaked in salt water, rubbed repeatedly, and then taken out and wiped dry.
Qingzhi Qingtang also started to process the fruits as instructed.
Cut some of the oranges in half and squeeze out the juice.
Cut the other oranges in half, cut one half into thin slices, and insert cloves into the orange peel of the other half.
Chop the apples with the skin on into small pieces. Wash the berries and set them aside.
Chen Huazheng lit a pot, put the spices into it, and roasted them over low heat to bring out the aroma.
Then pour the orange juice and a few orange slices into the pot and start cooking.
As the temperature in the pot slowly rose, the orange juice in the pot began to boil.
Putting the spices into the pot and boiling them is to awaken the aroma inside. Boiling them for a while before adding wine and other fruits will make the taste better.
Chen Huazheng poured a proper amount of wine into the pot, then put the apples, oranges and berries that had just been cut into the pot and began to mulle the wine.
In order to make the mulled wine taste more fragrant, she also added a piece of high-quality tangerine peel into it.
Shen Huazheng had been standing next to the pot. When she saw the wine in the pot begin to bubble up, she gently stirred it with a spoon and then added rock sugar.
After the rock sugar in the pot was completely melted, Shen Huazheng covered the pot and simmered it over low heat.
As the food cooks, the flavors of wine, fruit, and spices blend in the pot, and the complex aroma gradually overflows from the pot and drifts into the air.
Chen Huazheng looked at Zhou Ying and the other two and said, "When the weather is cold, you can drink hot wine like this. After drinking a glass, your body will be warm."
Zhou Ying and Princess Lejia both nodded silently. They had been standing by and watched all the steps of Shen Huazheng warming the wine.
It’s a bit like making assorted fruit tea, but the ingredients are slightly different.
However, just by smelling the aroma, you know it must be delicious.
Yun Ruo had forgotten what exactly Shen Huazheng put into the pot, she only remembered that she seemed to put a lot of spices and fruits in the pot, and finally poured in wine.
However, seeing that Zhou Ying and Princess Lejia both nodded, she hurriedly did as they were told.
Yun Ruo sniffed the air hard; it smelled so good.
I didn’t expect that spices and fruits could be cooked in a pot with wine, and the taste would be so delicious.
It must be delicious.
But since there are so many fruits added in it, it should be called assorted fruit wine.
I can really learn a lot from being with County Master Yinghua.
After cooking for about a quarter of an hour, Shen Huazheng asked someone to take the food out of the pot.
As soon as the lid of the pot is opened, a rich aroma hits you.
It has a mixed aroma of wine, orange, berry, apple, cinnamon and cloves, as well as the aroma of tangerine peel that is hard to ignore.
Just smelling the scent makes one's mouth water.
Shen Huazheng had someone pour the wine into the glass, and then cut a few slices of fresh orange and apple and put them in.
She thought about it, and asked someone to add cinnamon into the cup as a garnish, and a cup of warm mulled wine was ready.
"Okay, we can go drink some mulled wine now."
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Princess Lejia couldn't wait to pick up the wine glass in front of her and took a sip.
I've tried assorted fruit tea, but I don't know what assorted fruit wine tastes like.
Shen Huazheng took a sip of hot wine and squinted her eyes in a good mood.
Because it is cooked with spices and fruits, a lot of alcohol evaporates and the taste of the wine becomes lighter.
What remains is a warm aroma and a light sweetness, with improved acidity.
The wine glides lightly and gracefully across the palate, rich and full-bodied.
The sour taste suddenly jumped onto the tip of the tongue, with a slight astringency.
When you savor it, you can feel its sweetness.
After the sour and sweet taste, the aroma of fruits, tangerine peel and spices follows, fresh and smooth.
Not only is it delicious, but it is not intoxicating at all.
Zhou Ying held the wine glass and tasted the mulled wine carefully.
The wine is warm but not strong, with just the right amount of sweetness and sourness.
After taking two sips, I felt my whole body warmed up.
No wonder Zheng'er said to drink this when the weather is cold. One cup will warm you up.
This mulled wine is really delicious and warms the body.
Yun Ruo drank the hot wine sip after sip and couldn't stop drinking.
It turns out that this flavor is created by adding spices and other fruits to wine. The sweet and sour taste is a bit like juice.
However, it is not quite the same as juice.
In addition to the fruity aroma, there are other flavors.
It is a complex aroma formed by the combination of fruit, wine and spices.
The various flavors are perfectly combined, layer by layer, with a wonderful balance between sour and sweet, and the fragrance lingers in the mouth for a long time.
Although the weather is getting warmer now, it is still quite cold at night.
If you can brew a cup to drink at night, it will definitely warm you from the inside out.
Chen Huazheng and the others drank mulled wine, ate snacks on the table, and chatted from time to time.
Yun Ruo swallowed the grape milk soufflé in her mouth, feeling indescribably happy.
Xie Yanqing's biological mother died when he was very young, and General Xie never remarried.
Before Yun Ruo got married, the affairs of the Xie Mansion were handled by the housekeeper.
Now that Yun Ruo has married Xie Yanqing and become the only mistress of the Xie Mansion, all matters in the mansion will naturally be handed over to her for management.
Today was the first time since she returned to the Northwest that she was able to sit down and chat with friends and drink afternoon tea so leisurely.
It’s just like what Princess Lejia and the others said, you should take a proper rest when you are tired and not push yourself too hard.
Yun Ruo learned the term afternoon tea from Chen Huazheng, and she thought it was very vivid and appropriate.
Afternoon tea, just listening to it gives me a leisurely and comfortable feeling.
She decided that when she was at home, she would also develop the habit of drinking afternoon tea after waking up from a nap.
Just think of it as finding a gap in a busy day to relax.
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Ning Yu held the teacup and took a sip of tea.
For some reason, he always felt that this matter was not as simple as it seemed.
He looked at General Xie: "Old Xie, what do you think?"
General Xie has remained silent ever since he saw Lin Sheng being held in custody in the county government office.
Back in the barracks, he still looked thoughtful.
General Xie held the teacup and drank the tea slowly.
After listening to Zhang Yan's story, they went to see Lin Sheng who was imprisoned.
Lin Sheng was just like Wang Zhao at that time, with a dark face and sunken eye sockets.
It looks like neither human nor ghost.
It was as if the soul had long since left the body, leaving only a shell.
When Lin Sheng was asked questions, he was able to answer a few questions, but his words were always unclear.
He doesn't look like a sane person.
General Xie: "What was the situation like when you went to Pingyu Town?"
Although General Xie and his party realized that something was wrong in Pingyu Town when they were at the post station.
But they were in a hurry to travel and had no time to investigate carefully, so they just asked someone to search for some relevant information.
The people from the Dali Temple were there to investigate these cases, so they definitely knew more than them.
Ning Yu didn't expect General Xie to ask this: "At that time, the county magistrate of Leping County told me that there hadn't been a missing person case in Pingyu Town for some time. But sometimes there are still cases where a good person suddenly goes crazy."
He put down his teacup and continued, "I've seen those who went crazy before. They all had it suddenly, and they returned to normal after a good rest."
As if worried that what he said was not clear enough, Ning Yu added: "I also saw Wang Zhao who attacked the post station at that time. His symptoms were the most serious."
General Xie looked at Ning Yu and said, "You mean, the other crazy people in Pingyu Town don't seem as serious as Wang Zhao?"
Due to the time constraints at that time, General Xie did not take a close look at what the other crazy people in Pingyu Town looked like.
He had only met Wang Zhao.
But from what Ning Yu said, it seemed that Wang Zhao's symptoms were much more serious than those of the people in Pingyu Town.
Ning Yu nodded: "Yes, we arrived at Pingyu Town first and immediately went to check on the townspeople who had attacked others. Except for Wang Zhao who looked like a ghost, the mental state of others seemed to be okay."
At that time, people from the Dali Temple found those people and asked them some questions.
The testimonies of those people were basically consistent. They had almost no memory of suddenly going crazy and attacking others.
Even if there are, they are rather vague.
But compared to Wang Zhao, other people not only speak clearly, but also can express their meaning accurately.
Ning Yu: "The imperial physician hadn't caught up with us at the time, so we couldn't figure out what was wrong with them."
This time, in addition to the people from the Dali Temple, Emperor Jingning also sent an imperial physician.
Ning Yu brought the people from Dali Temple and followed the clues all the way.
In order to save time, they rarely even stayed in post stations.
One of the imperial doctors was too old to withstand such torture.
Ning Yu asked the imperial physician and the guards to follow behind and reunite in Yuzhang County.
General Xie: "Did you find out anything?"
He knew that the Dali Temple had its own way of handling cases.
It is so easy to get the information they want from the mouths of these people.
Ning Yu: "They all have one thing in common, that is, they all saw strangers asking for directions before they went crazy. However, the people they saw were basically different. Some saw several young men, and some saw old men..."
At least from those confessions, it can be judged that it was a group of people who entered Pingyu Town and tried to contact the townspeople.
General Xie: "Are those outsiders just asking for directions?"
Ning Yu nodded: "That's right, the townspeople said that they just showed the way to those outsiders, and then they left. The townspeople also went to do their own things. But they didn't expect that they would behave so abnormally next."
General Xie tapped the table with two fingers. "That is to say, only Wang Zhao and Lin Sheng are in the same situation."
According to Ning Yu's words, the townspeople in Pingyu Town who had gone crazy later returned to normal.
Only Wang Zhao and Lin Sheng still look half dead.
Not only were their minds affected, but their bodies also suffered irreparable damage.
Speaking of Wang Zhao, Ning Yu remembered another thing: "At that time in Pingyu Town, we also found out something."
"About half a year ago, Wang Zhao became seriously ill. His family invited several doctors to treat him, but they all said that he could not be cured. The Wang family had already started preparing for his death, but then, somehow, Wang Zhao suddenly got better and looked like a normal person."
General Xie thought about the situation when Wang Zhao broke into the post station. It took three Northwest Army soldiers to subdue him. It didn't look like someone who had just recovered from a serious illness.
Thinking about it this way, the whole thing is weird.
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