RBCT Chapter 75 Drinking and Singing
Chapter 75 Drinking and Singing
As the temperature rises, the wine, infused with various mountain fruits, changes from red to purple, and then to a deep, almost blackish purple.
Chen Tuo, staring at the pot, felt his heart pounding.
The wine was a pale red color, and he felt he had succeeded.
As the color gradually turned from red to purple, he became somewhat insecure.
Then it turned from purple to black, and he wasn't even sure if the wild fruit soup in the pot was still drinkable.
Although I wanted to try the taste, the pitch-black liquid really made me lose my appetite.
"The beets are here. I picked them all myself from the beet field. They may not look big, but they're incredibly sweet..."
Zhang Taibao's beets were all picked out from the beet piles of various households by him, taking advantage of his position as a tractor driver.
Watching the glistening white beet chunks being poured into the military pot by Zhang Taibao, the wine that had turned black turned purplish-black again, and Chen Tuo took a small sip.
"It's a bit sour, Brother Zhang, cut some more beets..."
After tasting it, Chen Tuo raised an eyebrow. To be honest, the revamped Guangxi fruit salad was really easy to eat.
As more and more beets were poured into the pot, the wine changed from purplish-black to purplish-red, gradually meeting Chen Tuo's expectations.
The aroma of alcohol grew stronger, and the purplish-red liquid churned in the cooking pot.
Before putting the lid on the pot, Chen Tuo did a trick, burning the pot with a lit piece of wood.
A large ball of fire suddenly ignited most of the educated youth settlement.
This also drew gasps from Hu Yuling, Hong Ye, and the Sun family boys.
"Ready to begin the meal!"
After putting the pot lid on, Chen Tuo found a wooden spoon and prepared to scoop out the wine, but Sun Changkui frowned as he watched.
The wooden spoon was poorly made; in Sun Changkui's opinion, it was no different from the spoons used to feed pigs.
"Master Zhang, you can do carpentry, right? Go find Xiao Kai, get some good wood, and make a few wooden spoons for Xiao Chen."
Upon hearing that Zhang Taibao was also a versatile carpenter, Chen Tuo glanced at the sauna foundation behind the house.
It seems we should put in a good word for this dog king among the Bloodhounds.
Besides the sauna, he also wanted to build a few wooden houses in the old lumberyard behind the educated youth settlement!
Wu Laowai's Talaha was served, and Chen Tuo used snow to extinguish the campfire and lifted the pot lid.
The rising aroma of alcohol, carrying the fragrance of fruit, wafts towards you.
Hu Yuling was immediately intrigued, and Hong Ye, who was standing next to her, also looked eager to try the purplish-red liquid in the cooking pot.
"Hmm...this wine is delicious, it's hot and sweet, and there's no alcohol taste at all."
After taking a small sip of the fruit wine, the handsome doctor narrowed his eyes slightly and gave it a positive review.
"Chen Tuo, this wine is really delicious!"
Thinking about the foreign language lesson, Hong Ye became wary of Hu Yuling.
Although I wanted to say a few words of praise, I couldn't find the right words, so I could only continue with the style of "so good, so bad".
"What's so delicious that's neither sweet nor salty?"
Sun Changkui, who took a big gulp and felt it was no different from drinking a sip of sweet water, was somewhat disdainful.
Old Wu, whose good deed had been exposed by the Sun family boy, just kept drinking in silence.
Zhang Taibao, who had also taken a big gulp, snatched the wooden spoon from Chen Tuo and began to rummage through the various kinds of wild fruits in the pot, clearly enjoying his drink as well.
The Sun family's sons also wanted to try, but they were all reprimanded by Sun Changkui and Hu Yuling.
Chen Tuo could only take out his kettle and brew a pot of wild fruit tea for the boys.
On the table were taraha, stewed bear offal, and smoked bear meat, while in the bowls was a hot bowl of wild fruit salad.
The first person to pass out was not Zhang Taibao, who was good at drinking but couldn't hold his liquor, but Sun Changkui, who had the best drinking capacity.
To him, the piping hot mountain fruit soup was no different from the mountain fruit tea that his sons drank.
He drank bowl after bowl, and before he was full from eating, he was full from drinking.
The wine was drunk on a table made of tree stumps in the courtyard of the educated youth settlement, with the wind blowing as they drank, and a bonfire burning nearby.
Forgot that the mountain fruit soup was made with wine, and that Sun Changkui, who knew his limits when it came to drinking, unknowingly lay down on the ground.
"This guy, he always brags about being able to drink two or three jin (1.5-2.5 kg) of liquor, and he's already drunk after just two bowls?"
Seeing Sun Changkui slip under the table, Hu Yuling, who usually doesn't drink much, started to act freely.
"Xiao Chen, didn't you want to learn Russian? I'll sing you a song called Katyusha."
Hu Yuling started singing right away, and her clear and melodious voice rang out in the courtyard of the educated youth settlement. Chen Tuo also started clapping along.
After Hu Yuling sang it once, Chen Tuo, who was familiar with the rhythm, also started singing along.
"Just as pear blossoms bloom across the horizon, and a soft, flowing veil floats on the river..."
Hong Ye, who was wary of Hu Yuling and hadn't drunk much, watched Hu Yuling dancing and singing.
Looking at Chen Tuo, who was clapping along and singing along, her feelings became somewhat complicated.
Of the people present, only Chen Tuo was a match for Hu Yuling, and only Hu Yuling was a match for Chen Tuo.
Watching the two singing together, and seeing Wu Laowai's gleaming eyes, Hong Ye narrowed his eyes, plotting something.
But when his gaze swept over Chen Tuo, he saw the clear warning in his eyes, and could only grit his teeth and lower his head.
After singing Katyusha, Hu Yuling wanted to sing again, but Chen Tuo stopped her.
"Zhang Erge, you and Lingzi take Brother-in-law Sun home first. You guys come too. Hongye, take some of the wine from the pot for Lingzi as well."
After settling Sun Changkui's family in, Chen Tuo picked up a wooden spoon and ladled a bowl for Wu Laowai, who was trying to get up.
"Uncle Wu, Brother-in-law Sun said that Xiao Yangqi's wolf trapping is our responsibility. Let's go for a walk in a bit, I still have to feed the mountain dogs."
Going out to patrol for wolves was just an excuse for Chen Tuo; Wu Laowai had just drunk almost as much as Sun Changkui.
It seems Sun Changkui was exaggerating his drinking capacity.
"What's the point of patrolling? Sun the Cripple and his gang have been fighting all day, the whole Hetao region is filled with the smell of gunpowder, those two bastards probably won't dare to come."
Old Wu got up, not because he wanted to go back to the Sun family with them, but because he wanted to see if he could take the opportunity to seduce the pretty doctor.
"I think we can come, but I'm also worried about the wolves coming again. Let's go together..."
Knowing that Wu Laowai had ill intentions, Chen Tuo was determined not to let him get on Zhang Taibao's tractor.
Although Hu Yuling was still sober, she must have drunk too much, but her reaction was different from that of Sun Changkui, who crawled under the table.
These two got drunk. Zhang Taibao, who had a low alcohol tolerance and poor manners when drunk, became more and more sober the more he drank.
Clearly, this guy is only good at drinking low-alcohol beverages and can't handle high-alcohol beverages, rather than having a low alcohol tolerance.
After watching Zhang Taibao's tractor drive away, Chen Tuo said to Hong Ye:
"Are you going to wait for me here, or should Uncle Wu and I take you home?"
If Chen Tuo had asked him this question alone, Hong Ye would definitely have stayed behind and sung him a few more familiar tunes.
But with Wu Laowai around, she dared not stay.
That old bastard, he went from house to house, from educated youth to their families, and I don’t know how many people he harmed.
Although it was all a matter of mutual consent, in Hong Ye's eyes, Wu Laowai was not even a human being.
"Please take me home..."
Hong Ye wanted Chen Tuo to take her home alone, but that didn't work out.
Chen Tuo was also afraid that Wu Laowai would take advantage of Sun Changkui's drunkenness to raid his home.
The three of them drank for a while longer, until Chen Tuo was sure that Wu Laowai was also drunk, then he got up and took Hong Ye back...