Chapter 51 The Man in the Veil
"Good morning!" Zhang Zong yawned and just left the room, he immediately heard a familiar voice next to him.
"Don't you have to sleep?" Zhang Zong looked at Princess Taiping on the wall speechlessly. He had just woken up early this morning, but he didn't expect that the other party had been waiting for him on the wall.
"I'm asleep, and I've even had breakfast. You've just gotten up. I'm really lazy!" Taiping said with his chin in his little hand, as if he was very dissatisfied with Zhang Zong's rise so late.
Zhang Zong felt that his liver was a little painful when he just woke up. When he met a naughty child like Taiping, he really had no way to do it. He couldn't jump onto the wall and beat the other party, right? Not to mention whether he could jump on it. If he really jumped on it, he would probably be beaten by the guards beside Taiping.
"I feel annoyed when I don't see it!" Zhang Zong secretly comforted himself in his heart. He just pretended that there was no such person as Taiping above his head, and he would do whatever he should do. Anyway, his eyes would not kill anyone.
However, Zhang Zong was still thinking too simply. The naughty child on the wall would not let him work quietly. Zhang Zong used scissors to trim flowers and plants. The other party asked why on the wall, he loosened the soil and fertilized the flowers and plants, and the other party asked why. Even when he went to the toilet, the other party asked what he was going to do. He didn't calm down all morning.
In the end, Zhang Zong simply hid in the room and refused to come out. He thought the other party would feel bored and left, but unexpectedly, Taiping blew bubbles with the bamboo tube, and he didn't feel bored at all. Now Zhang Zong really had no choice. After all, he couldn't stay in the room and didn't come out.
He gave in! Zhang Zong honestly moved the stills out of the room one by one, and then assembled them. The alcohol at home had been used up, so he planned to distil some alcohol first and then make Princess Taiping's perfume as soon as possible so that she would not bother herself every day.
"What are you doing? What is this strange thing for?" Seeing Zhang Zong going out, Taiping asked hurriedly. She felt that the distiller Zhang Zong took out was very interesting, but she didn't expect that Zhang Zong would actually leave.
"I'll buy wine!" Zhang Zong replied without looking back, and after that, he went out to buy two jars of wine.
"Are you actually a drunkard?" Taiping said unhappy when he saw Zhang Zong pushing two jars of wine in his car.
"This is used for making perfume. If you don't understand, don't ask!" Zhang Zong couldn't stand it. He gave the other party a blank look. After saying that, he poured the wine into the distiller, then raised the fire and started distilling.
The wines in the Tang Dynasty were all brewed with very low degrees, at most they were only about ten degrees. Even lower wines were not as good as beer in later generations. Therefore, Li Bai’s “Hundred Poems of Fighting Wine” was not a brag. People with large alcohol content would not get drunk even if they drank it until they were over.
As the temperature during distillation increased, the distilled wine began to flow out. However, if you want to get high-purity alcohol, you can only distillate it once, but you have to distillate it repeatedly. This is a very boring process, but the peace on the wall is full of relish. However, the smell of alcohol becomes stronger and stronger, which makes her cover her nose.
Soon Zhang Zong finished distilling for the third time. The alcohol concentration was already quite high. According to previous experience, it only took another distillation. But at this moment, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, which made Zhang Zong stop his work. He thought it was Xue Shao coming, so he quickly walked over and opened the door.
"Uh? Who are you looking for?" Zhang Zong didn't expect that there was a tall man standing outside the door, wearing a gauze ring and jade, looking like a rich man, but strangely, the other person was wearing a veil on his head, covering his entire face, and he couldn't see the other person's appearance clearly.
"I'm a man who loves wine. He comes to the fragrance of wine. I wonder if this is the place to make wine?" The other party explained with a gentle and gentle voice. Although he couldn't see his appearance, he could feel that his tone was very kind, but the veil hat was usually worn by a woman when she went out. It was really strange for a man to wear this thing when he went out.
Zhang Zong was also a little amused when he heard the other party's words, and immediately explained: "Brother, I misunderstood. This is a flower garden, not a wine shop. As for the fragrance of the wine, I am just using wine to make some things, but I am not going to sell it!"
"Oh? Since it's a flower garden, then I'll buy a flower. You won't turn the guests away, right?" The man in the hat was not disappointed after hearing this, but instead put forward a new request.
Zhang Zong also looked embarrassed. The flower garden has basically no business in summer, so he has not opened it recently, but if a customer comes to the door, he cannot push everyone. Finally, he has to nod and say, "Okay, please come in!"
Although he couldn't see the expression of the man in the veil, Zhang Zong still felt that the other party seemed to have a winning smile. Then he stepped into the flower garden, but he did not pick flowers and plants at all. Instead, he came to the distiller without any concealment and asked, "This is your wine-making tool, right?"
"Don't the customer want to buy flowers and plants?" Zhang Zong asked speechlessly at this time. Why have you always encountered such strange people recently? Taiping on the wall is a man with a hat in front of him, and there is also a man with a hat in front of him.
"Zhang Zong, you are so stupid. This person looks like a good person when he hides his head and tail. You even let him in. Be careful that he steals your wine!" At this time, Taiping on the wall shouted again in order to show his presence.
The man in the veil hat turned his head to look at her when he heard Taiping's voice, and then ignored her, as if he was not surprised that Taiping appeared here. Then he reached out to pick up the jar of wine under the distiller, smelled it deeply before speaking: "What a strong wine, there are countless good wines in this world, but I have seen such a strong wine for the first time!"
"Guest, this is not a product. If you don't buy flowers and plants, please come back!" Zhang Zong said helplessly again.
"I'll pay ten times the price!" The man in the hat said proudly.
"Not selling!" Zhang Zong shook his head without hesitation. He is not short of money now, and he is still useful to this wine, so it is naturally impossible to sell it.
"Interesting, I heard that you have two-color roses of ten thousand guan here. I am willing to buy one for twenty guan. You only need to buy another jar of this kind of wine for me!" The other party said without giving up.
"The two-color roses have been sold out long ago, and the wine is still not sold!" Zhang Zong said clearly again, and at the same time he felt something was wrong. The other party just now seemed to have no idea that he was a flower garden, but now he knows that he has two-color roses here, so he obviously came prepared.
"Interesting and interesting!" The other party looked up and down with gauze in his hat, as if he was looking at something very interesting, and then spoke again, "Let's do this, I promise you a condition. As long as you sell me a jar of wine, I can help you do something, and I can do anything you want!"
"Brave, Zhang Zongdang don't believe such people!" Before Zhang Zong could speak, Princess Taiping, who was on the wall, started calling out first. Her father Li Zhi was the lord of the world, but she didn't dare to say such big words.
"Anything?" Zhang Zong almost laughed out loud when he heard this. The other party's tone was so big that it was endless. However, Princess Taiping also reminded him, so he pointed at Taiping half-jokingly and said, "Okay, this girl has been bothering me on the wall for almost two days. If you can let her leave, I will sell you a jar of wine!"
"A word is determined!" After hearing this, the other party agreed without hesitation. After saying that, he stepped towards Princess Taiping on the wall.
"What are you going to do? Believe it or not, I will let someone throw you out!" Taiping immediately shouted angrily when he saw the other party coming towards him. She was really not afraid of the other party. After all, there were many guards guarding her, mainly because she was afraid that she would fall off the wall.
Chapter completed!