Back In Time For Imperial Examination Chapter 22

After Ji finished paying the bill, it was almost noon, so Ryan Cui invited him and Ji to stay for a meal. Although Ji was an employee of his shop, he was a good citizen and old enough to sit and drink with the owner, while Ji was entertained by Alex Cui and his son in the side room.

Zhang's mother prepared lunch, with white wine and locally brewed grape vegetarian wine, accompanied by some seasonal fruits and side dishes brought from Beijing, such as smoked dried tofu, pickled spring bamboo shoots, fresh ginkgo, new walnuts, and red fermented rice wine shad. The main course was four meat dishes, including stir-fried shredded pork, stir-fried eel, chicken and radish balls, and stewed pork elbow, as well as various stir-fried meats and seasonal vegetables, and finally a milky white crucian carp soup.

Ryan Cui asked Ji to drink white wine, and he poured himself a small cup of red wine, and took a few sips with him, but didn't drink much. The red wine they bought was not fermented with natural yeast on the grape skin, but with yeast for making wine. Although the wine was sweet and sour, it didn't taste like what he drank in modern times. Even the homemade wine sold online was not as good. The wine was turbid and flocculent, and it had a strange taste like it was mixed with rice wine.

Manager Ji doesn't drink much either.

In fact, he had been very restrained since he sat at the table. He would only drink a glass of wine when Ryan Cui poured it for him, and would only eat a piece of meat when he picked it up with chopsticks.