Zhao Sheng reached out and pulled out the cork from the gourd. An extremely rich aroma of wine instantly emanated and filled the entire Xianxiufang in a blink of an eye.
"Hey, it smells so good!"
"Where does the aroma of wine come from? It makes me so greedy!"
In an instant, the diners at Xianxiufang turned their noses up, smelling the wine, and their eyes all turned to Zhao Sheng.
Zhao Sheng turned a blind eye to the strange things around him.
He picked up the gourd and took a sip of wine, then picked up a piece of bear meat, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly.
After swallowing it, take a sip of wine and eat a piece of meat.
Just like that, he ate with mouthfuls of wine and mouthfuls of meat. It looked like he was not eating happily. In one word, it was delicious!
This wine is so fragrant!
Some diners couldn't help but come forward and ask where the wine was bought.
Zhao Sheng smiled and said that it was brewed at home and not for sale.
Half an hour later, Zhao Sheng settled the bill and turned to leave Xianxiufang.
The next day, he appeared in Xianxiufang again.
This went on for two or three days, and half a month passed.
However, the fish Zhao Sheng wanted to catch still did not appear.
However, he is not in a hurry, as he has plenty of time!
A few more days passed like this.
One day, Zhao Sheng was halfway through his meal when he suddenly heard someone downstairs shout, "What a nice smell of wine!"
When Zhao Sheng heard the voice, he was delighted and thought to himself, "Here it comes!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a middle-aged man with a broad body, a blessed face and drooping eyebrows suddenly flew up to the second floor and landed in front of Zhao Sheng's desk.
Then, the man sat down without hesitation, and exclaimed: "What a fragrant wine!"
After he finished speaking, his face turned serious. "Fellow Daoist, please forgive me. I'm going to ask you next week. May I ask your name?"
"Zhao to Qin!"
Zhao Sheng's expression was cold. After saying his name, he asked, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, it's rather rude of you to come here uninvited!"
After he finished speaking, a fierce aura suddenly rose from Zhao Sheng's body, and his spiritual power and consciousness came out together, pressing down on the opponent.
Zhou Zhongyu was shocked and secretly groaned. He didn't expect that he would hit a wall this time. The other party was also a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and his cultivation was far higher than his.
He quickly stood up, bowed his head, and apologized to Zhao Sheng, "Please forgive me, senior. I'm sorry for being so rude this time!"
Zhao Sheng put away his aura and said calmly, "Sit down! Do you like wine too?"
Zhou Zhongyu carefully sat down and said shamelessly: "To be honest with you, Senior, I don't have any hobbies. I just love wine. I was attracted by your fine wine just now, so I was rude and presumptuous!"
"Good wine, good! The universe is vast in wine, and the sun and moon are long in the pot! Since you also like wine, I will reward you with this half gourd of Amber Fragrance."
After Zhao Sheng finished speaking, he pushed his hand, and the white jade gourd flew across the table and landed steadily in front of Zhou Zhongyu.
Zhou Zhongyu couldn't wait to pick up the gourd, tilted his head back and took a sip of wine.
Wow!
As he took a sip of the wine, he was struck by a strange aroma, his mouth brimming with saliva. A stream of clear, watery spiritual energy spread from his stomach throughout his body, instantly clearing every pore and causing the spiritual energy vortex within him to accelerate by a factor of three.
"Good wine!"
Zhou Zhongyu praised repeatedly: "The fairy food and fine wine are fragrant, and the jade gourd brings out the amber fragrance!"
Hearing this praise, Zhao Sheng's originally cold face suddenly showed a smile, and a hint of pride appeared in the smile.
Zhou Zhongyu observed Zhao Sheng's expression and was secretly delighted when he saw his expression. He quickly asked, "Excuse me, Senior, this wine was made by you!"
"Yes! This amber fragrance is just a little thing I brewed in my spare time. It's not worth mentioning!"
Having said that, the arrogance on Zhao Sheng's face became even more obvious.
Seeing this, Zhou Zhongyu praised again and again.
Zhao Sheng's expression became more amiable, and his attitude towards Zhou Zhongyu became more friendly.
Because they were drinking buddies, the two of them became increasingly compatible. Later, they even made a pact to keep each other company over wine.
In the next month, Zhao Sheng and Zhou Zhongyu met together seven or eight times in a row, and each time they took out various spiritual wines to taste with each other.
Zhou Zhongyu has the Zhou family's backing and possesses a vast collection of spirit wines. Zhao Sheng can't match him, but he has his own trump card: he can "brew" spirit wines, and his spirit wines come in a wide variety of styles, with a rich color, aroma, and depth of flavor.
His secret to making wine lies in "mixing" and "adjusting", which is due to his gift of smell.
After many wine tastings and drinking competitions, Zhao Sheng and Zhou Zhongyu became friends.
After the two got to know each other, Zhao Sheng no longer concealed his identity. He, Zhao Zhiqin, was born as a casual cultivator, and later joined the Guiyuan Sect. He was recently sent to Tianhuang to preside over Fengyu Hall.
Zhou Zhongyu saw that Zhao Sheng's background was "clean" and his cultivation level was as high as the sixth level of foundation building.
Plus, they both love drinking.
Meeting such a rare "drinking buddy", Zhou Zhongyu certainly would not let him go, so he tried to get close to him and tried to win over Zhao Sheng.
Faced with the temptation to win him over, will Zhao Sheng refuse?
I would be surprised if you refused!
So, the two of them hit it off immediately, like Liang Shanbo meeting Zhu Yingtai, and soon formed a deep friendship.
To describe it in one word, it is "adultery hot!"
No, it should be "琴瑟友之".
As the saying goes, truth comes out when drunk!
After the two became drinking buddies, Zhao Sheng tried to get Zhou Zhongyu drunk several times and tried to trick him with questions.
Zhou Zhongyu never imagined that someone would be so deliberate in dealing with the Zhou family.
Therefore, he was not very wary of Zhao Sheng, and after drinking, he told a lot of "secrets" about the Zhou family, including but not limited to complaints, such as the failure of a certain head of the family to be promoted, the partiality of the ancestors, the suppression of a branch of their family by the head of the family, and so on.
Zhao Sheng secretly kept these in mind, and then used Zhou Zhongyu's relationship to make friends with other foundation-building people in the Zhou family, while quietly lurking in the dark, waiting for the opportunity to come.
This wait lasted for more than ten years.
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There are only two seasons in Tianhuang year, the rainy season and the dry season.
With the arrival of the dry season, the raging "black sandstorm" rises from the Death Desert and rages across this vast Gobi land, from north to south, from day to night, without stopping.
But it still has a limit to its strength. Often when a wave of sandstorms passes, the momentum of the sandstorm will weaken a lot.
At this time, some transport caravans took advantage of this and ventured through the raging sandstorm area and entered the isolated oasis.
It must be said that, generally speaking, risks and returns are directly proportional, and huge profits often arise from this!
At this time, a gray-black shuttle-shaped flying boat appeared in the wind and sand, almost "gliding" close to the ground.
The people on the flying boat were already accustomed to this kind of adventure. Three hundred miles away from the Moon Spring Oasis, they each took a rest and prepared for the final leg of the journey.
The flying boat was not big, with three people sitting inside. The one sitting high on the main seat had a pair of drooping eyebrows and looked very wealthy.
"Everything is normal! The wind is dying down!"
"Pay attention to the surrounding movements. Also, don't deviate from the direction. Maintain the speed of the flying boat!"
"Yes! Uncle Yu"
The observing monk was also very calm and only responded once. But then, he suddenly raised his head and his voice sounded extremely terrified, and it seemed out of tune, not fear but excitement:
"What...what is that?"
On the main seat, Zhou Zhongyu was drinking wine sip by sip. When he heard the man's exclamation, he was startled and suddenly appeared beside the man in a flash.