There is a very strange habit of drinking in Tianzhou County. It is said that this is the "unique" drinking method of more than 2,700 ethnic groups in the world.

Zhuang people are not used to drinking directly with large bowls, nor do they like to use wine glasses. They often use spoon soup. Before drinking, pour the wine into a large bowl, and then the host and the guest are polite to each other.

The host uses a spoon to make a spoon of wine from a large bowl and delivers it to the guest's mouth. The other party must drink it all, otherwise it will not be "face". After drinking the wine toasted by others, it will be responsive. The guest also picks up another spoon, makes a spoon of wine from a large bowl, and sends it back to the owner's mouth.

No matter how long I drink it, I use this "you come and I go" method, which is the so-called "stopping soup and returning soup".

This drinking method, which is said to be created by the Zhuang people's humanistic ancestor, has been passed down for thousands of years and has been around today. In Zhuang people, home-brewed rice wine, commonly known as "Tu Moutai", has been a wine commonly used by the Zhuang family during weddings and funerals and daily banquets. Even today in the 21st century, various beer and bottled white wine have entered the dining tables of the people, but only "Tu Moutai" can be regarded as a real Zhuang family wine.

This kind of "local Maotai" is actually very simple to brew. In the past, almost every household would brew some at home for guests.

Steam the rice you made from home, spread it on a cool mat and let it cool, sprinkle with koji mixed with corn flour, stir evenly, and then put it in a clay pot and seal it for fermentation. After 7-20 days of fermentation, a trace of fragrant wine will evaporate from the clay pot, and then you can take it out and distille it.

The rice wine after distillation can be adjusted to different concentrations according to your preferences, but because the weather in Guangxi is hot, few people can adapt to high-strength spirits, so generally speaking, the concentration of "Tu Moutai" is between 20-25 degrees.

This rice wine is mellow and sweet, and will not hurt your body. Even if you get drunk the night before, you will still be lively and can work in the fields the next day.

When Cen Jiahua came to sign the reservoir contract, he first witnessed this unique way of drinking at the Chen family. At first, he was a little resistant to the act of a spoon coming in and out of many people's mouths, but the simplicity and enthusiasm of Zhuang Township made him quickly let go of his reserve and integrate into it, feeling the refreshing feeling of drinking in Zhuang Township.

There were 12 people having dinner together tonight, but Chen Yang was a minor and was excluded from drinking. At the beginning, Cen Jiahua had to toast everyone with a soup to thank them for coming to help during the busy farming period today. He had to drink each soup until he put the spoon on his hands and no drop of wine drips down to be considered qualified.

A spoon can contain about 3 cents of wine. After a round, 10 cents of soup is 3 liang. Although it is only homemade rice wine with a degree of about 20 degrees, after drinking half a pound of white wine in a short period of time, Cen Jiahua also felt a sense of alcohol and rushed straight to his forehead. If it weren't for someone with a light alcohol content, he would definitely be fooled and might be able to spit it out on the spot.

Cen Jiahua quickly drank several sips of snake soup, and then he slightly suppressed the uncomfortable feeling in his stomach. This snake soup is made of today's Neemeral snake and selected local soybeans in a pressure cooker. It tastes delicious and nutritious.

After the toasts of the meeting, it was time for the heroes to fight in chaos.

Everyone can pick up the spoon and toast people who don’t like it or are very pleasing to you. At this time, there is no limit. Of course, people with good alcohol tolerance will generally attack more, while people with poor alcohol tolerance will adopt a slightly more conservative tactic.

In Zhuang Township, wine is character, and people who cheat on the table are generally not popular. Therefore, in Zhuang Home, even if you don’t have a high alcohol tolerance, you have the courage to drink, and have a beginning and an end, and such people are very popular among everyone.

The simple Zhuang family can simply accept that you have poor alcohol tolerance, but they hate too cunning people.

In this way, after three rounds of drinking, everyone was already hot and the topic was slowly started to talk. Even the people who were usually very taciturn, at this time, the lively scene gradually began to talk more.

The bearded man sitting opposite Cen Jiahua was named Luo Zhang. He was usually a person who rarely talked. After drinking too much, his mouth began to become more flexible. He began to tell people around him about hunting in the mountains, and even his words became fluent and very cute.

As for those who are usually very eloquent, they become the stage for their performance at this time. Wonderful words are not enough to describe their words, and they still touch one or two philosophical and wonderful sentences, which makes Cen Jiahua really sigh that "poetry is among the people."

The only thing that made Cen Jiahua feel depressed was that although these men spoke fluently after drinking, they gradually used local strong words, which made Cen Jiahua listen very seriously but still had no idea. She had to let Chen Yang translate next to her, but she still lost the original flavor.

Cen Jiahua secretly made up her mind to learn Zhuang’s words as soon as possible so that she could fully integrate into Zhuang’s life.

After the heroes fought, the war at the wine table began to change again, becoming a code guess to win.

In the first two rounds, you will get one soup and you will get one soup. Basically, everyone drinks the same amount of wine, but when it comes to the winning process of guessing the code, the level of the winemaker guessing the code is tested.

The Zhuang people’s code guessing wine order is also very special, which is slightly different from the code guessing in other places. For example, there is no wine order “Five” here, and there may be wine orders like “Five Heads” in other places.

From scratch to ten, there are wine orders that match each other. These should generally be conventional and used all year round and are recognized by everyone. You can also create new wine orders by yourself, but most people do not have a certain level of guessing code and cannot think of wine orders that are both reasonable and catchy and in line with the situation.

‘Little bits’, ‘two hundred dollars’, ‘three o’clock’, ‘four legs’, ‘mung bean sprouts’, ‘fish scales’, ‘eight horses’, ‘Jiu’an’, ‘all’, etc. These are all commonly used wine orders. Some of these should be Mandarin, some in vernacular, some in Zhuang dialect, and some even just homophones. There are some Zhuang dialects that cannot be translated in Mandarin in a complete and concise way. Only those who have lived in Zhuang dialects will know what these should mean.

These colorful wine recipes represent the wine culture of Zhuang people and their mental state at that time. These wine recipes can make the atmosphere and flavor of the wine table, and it is a very happy thing to make drinking.

Guessing codes means being smart and quick-witted, quick-responsive, and generally clever people are more capable of guessing codes. Of course, experience also plays a very important role in it.

At the beginning, Cen Jiahua often lost codes and drank because he was not very suitable for games like guessing codes. Later, he gradually mastered the skills and gradually won a little more.

Because when everyone is out, they will unconsciously take personal habits. Some people will definitely get tens after the third year; some people will always make a certain number several times in a row; some people will always put out a fixed number of fingers at the beginning, etc., etc.

Of course, this is just one aspect of the situation. If you are caught several times in a row, these old drinkers will immediately wake up and start changing their fingering.

To put it in Fan Wei's words, it is: "Oh, it's really hard to guard against!"

In this way, the lively and joyful banquet lasted for several hours, and it was almost over when the moon was in the middle of the sky. However, considering that everyone still had to work the next day, everyone only had a lot of chatting at the banquet, and it was not very fierce to drink.

When the show ended, although everyone basically looked like three or five minutes, they still walked steadily and the motorcycle going home was still driving smoothly and quickly.

After seeing off the guests and packing the remaining soup on the table, Cen Jiahua took two buckets of water to cool down, and then felt the smell of alcohol all over her body disappear, and all that was left was a refreshing feeling.

Picking up a cup of brewed green tea, Cen Jiahua walked to the dam, looking at the lake and moonlight, and savoring the fulfilling and happy life of today, he was really happy that he chose to come to Rongshu Village.
Chapter completed!