After dinner, Du Ming drove with Yu Yiqiu and Lü Feizhuo around Donghai City, taking them to see some famous scenic spots and trying some local snacks.
After playing for a few rounds, the sky quickly darkened and by dusk, the four of them happened to pass by a bar. Yu Yiqiu pointed at the bar, "Hey, Chuchu, let's go have a few drinks at the bar tonight."
Xian Chu rarely went to bars, her drinking capacity was poor, and she didn't even dare to go to such places. But when Yu Yi Qiu brought it up, she couldn't refuse, so she could only nod in agreement.
It's not even evening yet, but the bar is already lively. Many people are sitting in front of the counter, the dance floor is flashing with lights, and sexy women are dancing.
Du Ming looked at the dancing woman in the dance pool, whistled, and remembered that he still had a "task" on his body. He collected his light and floating expression, put his arm around Xian Chuchu, sat down beside the bar, casually ordered two whiskey sour, and considerately ordered a low-alcohol fruit wine for Xian Chuchu.
Lü Feizhuo sat down next to Yiyu Qiu, watching the bartender mix drinks behind the counter, and suddenly pointed at the cocktail shaker, saying: "This is a Margarita, right?"
The bartender was pouring liquor into a cocktail shaker and looked up at him with a glance, "Sir, do you know how to mix drinks?"
Lv Feizhuo smiled with satisfaction, "I'm interested in wine and have done some research on it."
The bartender mixed the wine well, poured it into a cup and handed it over, then started mixing a new one. Soon, Lü Feizhao called out the name of the wine, "Jintangli."
The bartender was slightly surprised at this time, nodded, and didn't expect Lü Feizhuo to guess the name of the wine after just looking at the first few steps of mixing the drink.
When the bartender mixed another drink, Lü Feizhuo said again, "This is a Martini."
The wine shop owner looked at him with admiration, "Sir has a good eye for it, looks like he's really connoisseur of wine."
Lv Feizhuo proudly raised his head slightly, and the surrounding guests were also attracted to him, all gathering around him. "Hey, you're so amazing! What's this cup that you're brewing now?"
The bartender cooperated and let Lü Feizuo take a look at his cocktail shaker. After taking a few glances, Lü Feizuo confidently said, "This time it's Long Island Iced Tea."
The bartender exclaimed: "That's right again!"
The other guests all looked at Lü Feizuo with admiring eyes, and Yu Yiqiu pulled Xian Chuchu aside and said, "Hehe, this guy is always a little low-key, and if you don't pay attention, you won't notice how excellent he is."
Du Ming disdainfully curled his lip, "It's just recognizing the type of wine, anyone who can mix drinks can do that, what's the big deal about that?"
Lü Feizhuo heard this and looked at Du Ming with displeasure, "What do you mean by that? If you think it's so simple, then you try it too!"
"Right," someone next to him chimed in, "you think it's easy, just moving your mouth, if you're so great, come and identify the type of wine!"
Du Ming picked up the cocktail shaker that had just been used to pour a drink and sniffed it, saying: "Dry gin and lemon juice, with sugar added, Gin Fix."
The bartender was taken aback for a moment, and all the customers looked at him with inquiring eyes, he nodded.
Lv Feizhuo said discontentedly, "You must have just seen the bartender pouring wine or heard someone order something. What's this? I don't believe you can really identify the type of wine by smell!"
Du Ming said faintly, "Don't believe me? Okay," he gestured to the bartender, "I'll turn my back, you mix a drink, any drink, and I'll identify it when I turn around. Oh, right," he added, "as long as it's an existing cocktail, you can make whatever you want, and I'll pay the bill in the end."
Du Ming finished speaking and turned around, with his back to the bar. The bartender hesitated for a moment before starting to pour drinks into the cocktail shaker. After finishing, he left the drink in the shaker without pouring it out and called out to Du Ming: "Sir."
Du Ming turned around, picked up the cocktail shaker, slightly opened the lid and sniffed the aroma, saying: "Vodka and Curacao two to one, with lemon juice, Balaika, sour and sweet, not bad taste."
The bartender exclaimed: "That's all correct!"
The guests were stirred up, and Lü Feizuo was able to recognize the names of cocktails with wine. Everyone just thought it was amazing, but Du Ming's ability to identify all types of base wines and cocktail varieties by smelling them once exceeded their understanding. They were first astonished, then excitedly called out to the bartender, "Come on, let me mix one and see if he can recognize it!"
Some people were skeptical, "You must have cheated, I don't believe it, let me test you."
Du Ming calmly turned around and said, "You can try whatever you want, as long as it's a wine I've had before, I'll be able to recognize it."
People hastily poured out wine and handed it to Du Ming, who smelled each one for a second or two before giving the answer.
"Blue Beauty."
"This is Beckett."
"This cup? Screwdriver, classic wine."
For a time, Du Ming was surrounded by a large crowd of people, almost the entire bar had gathered over to see if Du Ming was really that formidable.
Lü Feizhuo's face didn't look good, he stood up and snatched the cocktail shaker from the bar, "I don't believe it! I'll mix a drink and you guess!"
He poured in over a dozen types of liquor, shook it vigorously and handed it to Du Ming. Du Ming took it as usual, smelled it and said lightly: "Golden wine, whiskey, brandy, rum, liqueur, Longtonglan, orange juice, even beer is added, and there is no proportion at all, Mr. Lü, this is completely blind tuning, what kind of wine is this?"
"Wow, you can smell so many kinds of wine?!"
Lü Feizhuo was pierced by him and became somewhat angry and ashamed, he flung his hand and walked out of the bar.
Yu Yiqiu quickly followed, and the two of them walked out together.
Du Ming said with a sly smile, "How's it going? Did I help you save face today?"
"Wow, you're amazing! You always surprise me."
Du Ming smiled and hugged Yan Chuchu out of the bar, while the customers behind them were reluctant to leave, shouting "Hey, handsome don't go! Come back and play for a while?"
"These people are like old prostitutes in a nightclub, can't they just mix a drink?"
Xiang Xiang was teased by her and hit him once.
Two people walked out of the bar laughing and chatting, the sky was already completely dark, outside the bar was a dimly lit alley, suddenly heard a woman's sharp cry.
Xiang Chuchu shrank back a bit and retreated into Du Ming's arms, "What's going on?"
Du Ming comforted her and held her in his arms, walking in the direction of the sound.
As he turned a corner, a man suddenly came running out, almost colliding with Du Ming at the bend.
Du Ming grabbed that person and stared blankly, "Lü Feizhuo? What's wrong?"
Lü Feizhuo didn't answer him, he just shouted loudly: "Save me! Save me!!"