Chapter 2 A Generation of Wine Gods (below)

  Yang Lao's face froze almost the next instant the wine entered his mouth, his entire person stood there as if frozen, his original introverted aura completely disappearing, a touch of redness instantly spreading on top of his face.   Suddenly, without any warning, the light in his eyes blazed out, as if two clusters of flames were burning. "Good, what a blaze should be lit from within."   Boss Zhao asked somewhat nervously, "Elder Yang, how does this cup of wine taste?"   Elder Yang looked at him, his expression revealing excitement that was hard to hide, "This is the most characteristic cocktail I've ever drank, and it's also the cocktail that brought me the strongest shock because it really made me feel the flavor of a blazing flame burning from within. You can only feel the difference when you actually drink it in your mouth. If I have to give it a rating, then I think there are two words that fit best." Speaking here, he paused slightly and swept his gaze over the many drinkers gathered around him before he said in a firm and powerful voice, "Wushuang."   As he said this, Yang Lao, as if he was afraid of others stealing this cup of wine from him, drank it all in one go, and instantly, a blazing feeling of anger surged up, and the flames burning within his chest blazed, scalding and soothing his entire body's 36 million pores as if they were all stretching open. Drinking this cup of wine, he actually had a feeling that this life is wasted, and earlier the little beggar by virtue of the flames of burning love of the garbage two words, he now feels is so apt. Yes! One's own surprisingly drank a lifetime of garbage.   No one would doubt Yang Lao's judgment, not only was he one of the oldest qualified drinkers in Li Huo City, he was also one of the few people with the highest status in the entire Li Huo City. Boss Zhao was frozen, and those bartenders could no longer say a word, while there was an uproar amongst the drinkers, with all sorts of chatter spreading throughout the open-air venue.   I don't know who said, "Huh, where's that little beggar?"   Yang Lao suddenly came back to his senses, fixed his eyes to look again, the little beggar who was still behind the bar earlier has disappeared, hurriedly turned around and grabbed Boss Zhao, "Where is the person?"   "Ah? Do not know ah!" Just now the eyes of the crowd are falling on the old man of Yang who tasted the wine, the small beggar's body is small and thin, really does not attract attention, just this moment's work, even disappeared.   Yang old man can not afford to talk to Zhao boss, body shape a flash, already in front of the bar, the whole person is like a red cloud disappeared.   The little beggar in the wine handed to Yang Lao, left that sentence after walking, strolling in the street, he did not walk fast, but inside the heart is a piece of frustration.   Once upon a time, he was a generation of wine god, but at this time, but fell to such a state. A long sigh, the little beggar helplessly shook his head, the look in his eyes is not at all like an eleven, two year old child. And in fact, it is exactly the same.   His original name was Li Thawing, and did not belong to this world, in his own original world, he was only thirty-two years old, but was the world-famous First God of Wine. He had created countless myths in the bartending and wine tasting world. The original highest honor in the wine tasting world was the five-star golden diamond medal, but for him alone, an additional six-star royal diamond medal was established. Because, his achievements were unrivaled.   In his previous life, Li Thawing, a short life of thirty-two years has never left the wine, but also obsessed with the wine, when he was invited to appreciate his country's freshly unearthed thousand years of wine, he finally could not hold back the impulse in his heart, and ate a mouthful of amber-colored wine that had become a paste. Thus, he fell asleep and never woke up.   Li Xiejie did not regret it at all, if he was allowed to do it again, he would still choose this way. Even now, his mind still reverberated with the moving flavor after he ate that mouthful of the paste-like wine. At that time, the last thought he had before he passed out was that it would be worth dying.   However, he didn't die, and even he didn't know if it was lucky or unfortunate. When he came to his senses, he realized that he was no longer that Generation Wine God Li Thawing, but had turned into a small beggar who begged for a living, and his name had also turned into Ji Dong, and even the memory of Ji Dong's simplicity to the point of pitifulness remained in his mind. What made him most helpless was that even the entire world had changed.   It had been a month since he came to this world called the Five Elements Continent, and due to Ji Dong's original memories, language was not an obstacle. However, he, the titular Generation Wine God, had to struggle to survive. This was unimaginable in his previous life.   Li Thaw was never a person who complained about the heavens, and it took him three days to gradually accept this new identity of his, and he had to thank the heavens for giving him a chance to live again. At least, it didn't deprive him of his memories and his obsession with fine wine. Since he had come to this new world, he was no longer the same Li Thaw as before, so he decided to use this little beggar's original name in the future, which was Ji Dong.   Ji Dong's memory is simple to outrageous, before the age of five years old memory does not exist, after the age of five years old, is in the street begging for a living, in addition to the neck hangs a red rope, there is a piece of carving the word Ji Dong's white jade plaque looks worth a little money outside. There was only this one hundred line garment with an unknown number of patches.   He didn't sell this jade plaque in the end, because the memories of the original owner of this body seemed to cherish this jade plaque as if it was very precious. But he had to survive and eat. A hallowed generation of Wine God certainly couldn't beg for a living. Soon, he found the most famous Flame Burning Bar in the City of Departing Flames.   In this month's time, besides gradually understanding this world, Ji Dong observed around the Flame Burning Bar every day. His knowledge of this world was very limited up to this point, he only knew that this was a country at the southern end of the Five Elements Continent, with flames as its totem.   To Ji Dong's delight, the people here also liked to drink. In the following time, he maintained this new life with the dozen or so steamed buns and some dried meat left cold and hard under a bridge by the original owner of this body. Every day, he carefully observed the Flame Burning Bar.   Ji Dong's observation, of course, was not just as simple as looking, he was also smelling and listening, the first thing he wanted to observe was what was the difference between the wines of this world and his previous world, as well as the flavors and characteristics of these wines. That's right, as a small beggar, of course he could not possibly taste it. However, after traveling to this world, Ji Dong had one ability that he retained, and that was his six senses that were much sharper than normal people.   The reason why the International Sommelier Association had awarded him the unprecedented six-star Royal Diamond Medal was because of his invention of the Six Senses Wine Tasting Method. In Ji Dong's theory, tasting wine, not just by virtue of taste, smell, sight, hearing, touch, and feeling could also be used to taste wine. And in fact, in that world, the only one who could do that was himself.