Chapter 123 (2/2)

“But it doesn’t make any difference if I order it now and come over here to drink it three days later,” Chen Wei still couldn’t really understand.

“The wine can’t be ordered in the morning, thus my boss will not accept your order now. It must be at noon or in the evening,” with an earnest look on her face, Mu Xiaoyun said that.

“Boss Yuan’s rules really don’t change any bit. Fine, I will come again at noon to order the wine,” Chen Wei had never intended to have breakfast here.

One should know that Chen Wei could eat at least ten Soup Dumplings in one go to be full. If he ate in that way, however, it would be much too expensive, thus Chen Wei directly walked out of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant, preparing to eat something else not so expensive.

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Soon, the agreed time with Man Man at noon arrived. Yuan Zhou took out that serving of the rice wine and carefully dealt with it before filling it in a cup. Then, Yuan Zhou directly carried it out.

“Boss Yuan, how is my rice wine? Is it ready?” Man Man asked with apparent pride.

“Sure. Sit down, please,” Yuan Zhou pointed at a vacant seat and answered calmly.

“Did he really make it?” when Man Man saw there was nothing special on Yuan Zhou’s face, she couldn’t help but slightly doubt.

Wine-making was not a skill that could be mastered in a short period. If not, how could wine-making masters be so few? Based on the style of Yuan Zhou’s restaurant, he would definitely bring out the best rice wine.

Yuan Zhou took out a tray and put the cup of rice wine onto it and then carried it to Man Man straightaway.

The porcelain cup, with a wide mouth and thin body, didn’t look nice, but coarse instead, at the first glimpse. When Man Man took it in her hands, she had thought the cup would be rough on her hand but it actually wasn’t. Instead, the texture of the cup was as fine and smooth as purple sand. When observed closely, on the outside of the cup, the upper part was drawn with beautiful light green decorative patterns.

This upper part of the porcelain cup was light brown and a creamy white for the lower part, giving it an extraordinarily fantastic appearance.

“How fragrant it is.” While Man Man was observing the cup, she was constantly attracted by the sweet fragrance of the rice wine.

She raised her eyes and found the white rice wine in it. With a slight shake, the fragrance of the wine became much stronger and some little rice grains could be seen floating in the wine.

“Boss Yuan, didn’t you filter the wine?” Man Man asked curiously.

“This wine is just perfect for you. Do you need me to heat it up?” Yuan Zhou was a fairly qualified chef, who knew that warm rice wine had a pretty nice taste.

“No need. It’s just fine to me. If heated, the rice wine will have a sour taste,” Man Man, as a matter of fact, enjoyed rice wine very much with the precondition that eggs and sugar were added into it.

Otherwise, she would always feel that there was the sour taste. In her mind, the sour taste would definitely become stronger after being heated.

Yuan Zhou nodded, not intending to correct Man Man on this aspect.

Man Man took up the cup and drank a mouthful of the wine. Although carefully trying to evade it, she still drank a rice grain by accident.

Just as the wine entered her mouth, a blast of wine taste instantly invaded her nose. She felt immediately her nose became much more sensitive and then sort of sweet flavor began to emit from within her mouth, more specifically, a fragrant and sweet taste carrying the special aroma of rice wine, which made others unable to help but swallow it directly.

Normally, fermented rice grains were supposed to have nothing left and have only empty shells which tasted like cotton unchewable. However, the rice grain that Man Man swallowed just now was, nevertheless, like boiled white rice. It was soft in texture and mellow in taste, and moreover, did not have a heavy taste at all.

After swallowing up the mouthful of the rice wine, Man Man couldn’t help but only want to shout “great”, just like those that frequently drunk alcoholics.

Nonetheless, it was the reservedness in her heart and soul that firmly stopped her from doing that.

After that, Man Man cared about nothing more and just held the cup in her hands, starting to ceaselessly sip the wine. While drinking, she revealed an expression full of enjoyment as if she were a cat eating fish, looking extraordinarily lovable.

Although Yuan Zhou was also curious about the taste of the wine made from such unusual rice grains, the business at lunch time had started to get busy…