Satisfied with the noodle soup and eating ham there, Yuanzhou turned around and went back to the store. After all, the noodle soup had become refined and there was no need for him to feed it.
Time passed quickly. After making breakfast, Yuan Zhou began to prepare the rice wine that Chen Wei bought at noon three days ago.
As the fermentation time gets longer, the flavor of the rice wine becomes stronger, the sweetness gradually evaporates, and the aroma of the wine becomes more mellow. Since there is no intention of distillation, the alcohol content will not be too high, and it will basically not exceed 20 degrees.
Carefully filter out the clear wine liquid in the middle. This time is different. Yuan Zhou did not keep the rice grains in it, but filtered it as cleanly as possible. This time, he poured it directly into a cup, which could only hold two taels.
"Boss Yuan, Boss Yuan, can you drink today?" Chen Wei arrived at the store ten minutes before opening time.
"There are still ten minutes left." Yuan Zhou looked at the time and refused.
"Okay, I think it's almost done, then I'll wait." Chen Wei didn't notice anyone else, just sat on the chair and started waiting to drink.
Yuan Zhou nodded, indicating that it was casual, and then started to make his own wine, and poured it out, which was exactly two taels, in a small cup.
After a while, Chen Wei couldn't sit still and felt the clear aroma of wine going straight into his nose.
"Is this the wine I drank for a while?" Chen Wei asked directly.
"Yes." Yuan Zhou nodded, put it away, and then collected the remaining lees, preparing to use them for other purposes.
Then Chen Wei got stuck. He claimed to follow the rules, but of course he was embarrassed to ask for a drink now again. He could only endure it and look at other things to divert his attention.
Yuan Zhou was just preparing the ingredients at this time and had basically finished cooking, so the two of them started to stare at each other.
"Boss?" Mu Xiaoyun's arrival relieved the two awkward grown men a lot.
"Well, come here." Yuan Zhou nodded, took out the wine glass on the tray, and motioned for Chen Wei to send it over.
"Thank you," Chen Wei first thanked the little Loli with a gentle look, and then said, "Boss Yuan, please have another order of phoenix shrimp."
"Okay, wait a moment." Yuan Zhou responded directly.
At this time, other guests also came in one after another.
"Sit down, please. Please tell me what you need to eat." Mu Xiaoyun always worked seriously.
"No problem, has Xiaoyun eaten yet?" The guest still liked Mu Xiaoyun very much and asked with a smile.
"I come here after eating every time." Mu Xiaoyun nodded and said seriously.
"Haha, you are right. If you come here without eating, you will probably starve to death from the smell." The man sitting next to Chen Wei laughed and said.
"Who says it's not the case? I haven't gone shopping for a long time since I ate at Boss Yuan's place." A pretty girl pouted and complained.
"Then let Boss Yuan treat you to dinner." Someone immediately started shouting.
"Come on, I've never seen Boss Yuan treat anyone to dinner." The pretty girl curled her lips and didn't believe it at all.
"That's right. When you have a boss lady, it will definitely be easier for Boss Yuan to talk." The man next to him said suddenly.
"But do you think Boss Yuan can find the landlady?" Wu Hai whispered at this time.
"I would like to recommend myself." The pretty girl from before immediately broke the news.
"Hmph, that sounds nice. According to my careful observation and research, Boss Yuan seems to just open the shop and study the dishes every day, and then nothing happens. There is no interest at all." Wu Hai said with a sure look on his face while stroking his mustache.
"Um..." The beautiful girl thought about such a life and decided not to speak, but she always seemed to feel that something was wrong.
"Wait, stop arguing, look at Boss Yuan." At this time, Chen Wei spoke.
Chen Wei, who was listening to the gossip attentively, turned around and saw Yuan Zhou making anchovies, and immediately spoke out.
"What's wrong?" Wu Hai was the first to respond, and the others also looked at Chen Wei curiously.
"Don't you think the way Boss Yuan cooks the shrimp is weird?" This was Chen Wei's first time ordering the shrimp, and of course it was to go with his wine.
But suddenly I found that Yuan Zhou's behavior from catching the shrimp to handling it was very strange.
"It seems so." The beautiful girl nodded thoughtfully.
"Indeed." Everyone stared at Yuan Zhou handling the shrimps.
However, at this time, everyone had a tacit understanding and did not ask immediately. Judging from the mask Yuan Zhou was wearing and the serious look in his eyes, this was not a good time to ask.
Customers in the store waited with bated breath.
It wasn't until Yuan Zhou served the phoenix shrimp that Chen Wei couldn't wait to ask, "Boss Yuan, why are you handling the phoenix shrimp so weird?"
"Huh?" Yuan Zhou didn't react for a moment. Fortunately, he didn't take off his mask, otherwise his serious image would be damaged a lot.
"Before the entrance, it is not advisable to be contaminated by anyone's breath, including me." After a moment of delay, Yuan Zhou finally came to his senses and said seriously immediately.
"So it's true that Boss Yuan didn't love money yesterday?" a small man suddenly said.
"Yesterday?" Some people who didn't know were driving around the little man and asked.
The little man explained clearly what happened yesterday in a few words. Everyone looked at Yuan Zhou with complicated eyes for a while, and then looked at the shrimps there.
"No wonder it's so delicious. The shrimp meat doesn't touch your hands before it's served to diners. They have such strict requirements on the handling of ingredients." Almost everyone has this understanding of Yuan Zhou.
It seems natural now that the food is delicious. After all, it can be seen from the handling of the ingredients.
It’s delicious for a reason.
"Please use it slowly." Yuan Zhou motioned to the anchovy shrimp and rice wine in front of Chen Wei.
"Oh, okay." Chen Wei also admired Yuan Zhou, although the food was still like feeding a cat, only a little bit.
There was only two taels of rice wine and eight shrimps that I could count at a glance.
However, this cup is very nice-looking. It has a green appearance that looks like bamboo knots, and there are white-painted bamboo clusters on the outside. It looks very matching. Even Chen Wei, who usually doesn't pay attention to these things, finds it strangely pretty.
Of course the taste of the wine is the most important thing.
Picking up the wine glass, Chen Wei took a small sip. Although he had strong muscles and looked like a rough and impatient man, he was actually quite elegant when drinking.
Take a sip of wine into your throat, and the refreshing taste immediately melts in your mouth. It is cold and refreshing, soft and smooth, with the fragrance of rice grains, and an unknown fragrance that lingers in your mouth until it flows into your stomach along with the wine. .
"Gudong" Chen Wei, eager to find out what it tasted like, took another sip.
This time it actually had a different taste, with a scorching feeling, like the early summer sun, which made people feel a little hot but not harmful. The wine flowed down the throat.
Picking up the wine glass again, Chen Wei began to look forward to the taste of this sip.
For Chen Wei, this clear and transparent wine sloshing in the milky white cup, but at 20 degrees, makes people feel as charming as strong liquor.
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