Chapter 30: Lured The Landlord Into A Trap!
Jiang Tao originally planned to drink just a little bit to taste it.
As a result, he finished the Nu’er Hong in the enamel basin in a few gulps, and refilled it with another half basin.
It’s like those scumbags who trick girls into hotel rooms saying they’ll just ‘get a little closer,’ they’re all hypocrites!
Of course, the main reason is that this Nu’er Hong is too delicious.
After the first sip, you want a second, you just can’t stop yourself!
In a short while, Jiang Tao drank over three taels, his face flushed slightly, and he felt warm all over.
“I can’t drink anymore, really can’t drink anymore, save some.”
“If this pot of wine is really worth 20,000 yuan like the system said, wouldn’t I have drunk six or seven thousand yuan just now?”
Thinking of the Quoted Price the intelligence system had for this Nu’er Hong, Jiang Tao immediately felt a pang of regret.
He quickly put the lid back on the wine jar, cutting off his desire for another cup.
Suddenly, Jiang Tao’s ears twitched, and he heard the Landlord’s voice from the hallway outside.
“Xiao Chen, keep the noise down when you’re with your girlfriend tonight.”
“It’s not just one or two people who have complained to me about your noise being too loud and disturbing others’ sleep.”
“Young people have strong needs, and this old man understands you, so you should understand the other tenants, right?”
“Be mindful of the impact…”
Listening to the conversation between the Landlord and Xiao Chen outside, Jiang Tao shook his head and smiled.
Several couples lived in the dormitory building, and Jiang Tao, who slept late, often heard sounds that were not suitable for children.
“By the way, the Landlord also likes to drink, and he has money, I wonder if he would be interested in this kind of fine wine?”
After enjoying the tenants’ gossip, Jiang Tao had an idea and listed the Landlord as one of his target clients.
“I’ll give him a little to taste first.”
With that thought, Jiang Tao was about to pick up the wine jar and pour some into his enamel basin where he had been eating.
The moment he picked up the wine jar, he changed his mind again.
“This wine jar looks like it has a sense of history, if the Landlord sees our wine jar, it will be more convincing!”
With that in mind, Jiang Tao put the wine jar back on the table and then pushed open the door to leave his room.
As soon as he stepped out, he saw the Landlord finishing his conversation with the tenant named Chen and was about to go downstairs.
“Landlord, wait a moment, don’t leave in a hurry, I have something to tell you.”
Jiang Tao quickly strode to catch up with the Landlord and greeted him with a smile.
“Oh, Xiao Jiang, what is it?”
Lu Qian looked at Jiang Tao with a smile and asked.
“Have a cigarette, Old Man, come to my room, I have something good to show you.”
Jiang Tao took a Liqun cigarette from his cigarette case and offered it to the Landlord, smiling and inviting him to his room.
“Oh? What good thing?”
Lu Qian’s interest was piqued by what Jiang Tao called “something good.”
The old man took out his lighter, lit the cigarette Jiang Tao gave him, and followed Jiang Tao towards his room.
“Please, Old Man, you’ll know what good thing it is once you come in, it will definitely be your favorite.”
Jiang Tao stood at the door and made an inviting gesture to the Landlord, inviting him into the room first.
“My favorite?”
The old man glanced into the room but didn’t see any young girls!
He muttered to himself, wondering what Jiang Tao was up to.
After the Landlord entered, Jiang Tao also went inside and closed the room door.
“Landlord, my dad asked a fellow villager from my hometown to bring me a few jars of Nu’er Hong that have been aged for 20 years. I wonder if you’re interested.”
Jiang Tao didn’t beat around the bush with the Landlord and went straight to the point.
“20-year-old Nu’er Hong? Is it real?”
Lu Qian chuckled after exhaling a puff of smoke.
Hearing Jiang Tao mention 20 years, Lu Qian’s first reaction was that Jiang Tao’s statement was likely exaggerated.
As an old friend in the world of wine, Lu Qian was all too familiar with the ways of storing wine in the Baijiu circle.
At most, they would age it for five or six years, artificially make the wine jar look old, and then claim it had been stored for twenty or thirty years.
Wasn’t that just to make more money by using the gimmick of long aging?
“Real or not, you’ll know when you see it yourself.”
Jiang Tao smiled and pointed to the opened wine jar on the table.
Following Jiang Tao’s pointing finger, Lu Qian’s eyes flashed with a subtle spark of insight the moment he saw the wine jar.
“These wines were buried under my house for a full twenty years. My dad dug them up this year when he was renovating the yard.”
“You’ve been drinking wine your whole life and probably have some experience with aged wines, right? It’s not that easy to make a wine jar look old.”
Jiang Tao’s words, a mix of truth and fabrication, were spoken flawlessly.
“This wine jar does look quite old.”
The Landlord walked up to the table, touched the wine jar, and his suspicion towards Jiang Tao diminished somewhat.
In his experience, this wine jar truly didn’t look like it was produced in recent years.
Whether it was the style of the wine jar or the oxidized marks on it, it looked like it was indeed from over 20 years ago!
“I’ll open the lid for you, smell the aroma of our wine, I guarantee you’ve never smelled such fragrant wine.”
As Jiang Tao spoke, he flicked his cigarette butt and stepped forward to remove the lid from the wine jar.
The moment the lid was opened, a rich, complex wine aroma immediately wafted into the Landlord’s nostrils.
“Whoa, this wine, this wine is so fragrant!”
The moment he smelled the aroma of Nu’er Hong, Lu Qian couldn’t help but exclaim, his nose twitching as he took several deep sniffs.
It was fragrant, incredibly fragrant!
Lu Qian himself drank quite a bit, and he always drank fine wines costing hundreds or thousands of yuan.
But no wine he had ever tasted was as fragrant as the wine in this jar!
“Gulp!”
Lu Qian swallowed and looked at Jiang Tao, his face filled with impatience:
“Xiao Jiang, can you give this old man a little to taste?
This wine smells really good, and it seems to be aged, but I don’t know about the taste…”
“If anyone else said this, I would definitely refuse, but since you, the Landlord, have asked, I naturally have to give you face.”
Jiang Tao said, picking up the wine jar and pouring a small amount into the enamel basin he had been drinking from earlier.
The amount poured this time was clearly not as much as before.
It wasn’t that Jiang Tao was stingy, but this Nu’er Hong was simply too precious!
Each sip cost dozens or hundreds of yuan!
Looking at the deep red liquid, resembling red wine, that Jiang Tao poured into the enamel basin, and smelling the aroma that kept wafting into his nose.
The Landlord’s extensive experience told him that this was definitely a rare and fine wine!
“Landlord, please try it. This wine is definitely 20 years old. If it’s even a month short, I’ll give it to you for free.”
As Jiang Tao spoke, he handed the enamel basin to the Landlord.
“I’ll taste it first before making any comments.”
The Landlord said with a smile, took the enamel basin from Jiang Tao’s hand, and took a small sip first.
The moment the Nu’er Hong entered his mouth, the mellow and rich, soft wine liquid instantly bloomed in his mouth.
The Landlord’s eyebrows twitched, his eyes lit up, he had truly tasted a fine wine today!
He held a mouthful of Nu’er Hong in his mouth, savoring it for more than ten seconds, and only then did the Landlord swallow it with a gulp.
“Fine wine! Delicious! Xiao Jiang, you said this was 20-year-old Nü Hong’er, and I didn’t believe you at first, but now I truly believe it!”
“If this wine hasn’t undergone at least 20 years of aging and fermentation, it absolutely couldn’t possess such an excellent taste!”
Lu Qian started drinking when he was fourteen or fifteen years old, and now he’s over seventy, with fifty or sixty years of drinking experience.
With just one sip, he could discern the quality of a wine!
The jar of Nu’er Hong that Jiang Tao brought out today was undoubtedly a rare and excellent wine!
There was no doubt about it!
