Chapter 413: Light Wine

"After all, what is the Mead Carnival?" Erina was so hungry that she ate all the apple cores regardless of the sour taste and rough texture: "Is this festival held because everyone likes to drink mead? It feels like It’s so casual.”

"The mead in Hawke City must be very delicious, that's why we have this festival." Nao said this while putting his hand into his coat with a mysterious expression: "Actually, because I was very curious about its taste, I even went out of my way to Steal a bottle and come here!”

As the rabbit-eared girl said this, she immediately took out a bottle of wine and slapped it on the table with a smile!

The bottle looked gray, as if the dust and the bottle had become one.

Even so, it can still be clearly seen that the bottle contains golden liquid.

As soon as you inhale, you can smell the intoxicating aroma of honey.

"It was stolen again..." Erina looked at the bottle and complained: "It's so dirty!"

"Maybe it's because the bottle has been reused for too long, so it looks a little dirty. But its surface actually feels quite clean! I've wiped it, but the dust can't be wiped off at all. It can be said to be completely integrated. "

"Haha... I see." Erina looked a little nervous as she watched Nao pull out the cork: "Uh, do you really want to drink? But we are not old enough to drink. At most, we can drink some very light beer and fruit wine. …”

"Mead is not a strong drink, right? It's okay to drink it occasionally."

While Nao said this with a smile, she leaned closer to the bottle and sniffed it. She took a deep breath due to its fragrance and let out an intoxicated sigh.

"Phew...! This tastes so good! It just feels like a honey drink with just a little alcoholic flavor... I'll take a sip first!"

Since there was no cup, Nao took a sip directly to her mouth.

After swallowing the golden liquid, the bunny-eared girl immediately let out a happy sigh.

"Wow...this tastes delicious! It's completely different from the mead we have over there!"

Erina: "Hey? Have you ever drank mead before?"

Nao: "No. But I have heard of its taste... It's completely different from what I taste now! Well... take another sip..."

Seeing her drinking half the bottle one after another, Erina couldn't help but swallow her saliva and became tempted.

Then, he asked that he also wanted to try it.

She just drank the remaining half of the bottle. The exquisite sweet fragrance is really addictive.

"This... is indeed delicious!" Erina exclaimed, "I seem to understand why a carnival is held for it!"

"Right, right? Drinking in a festive atmosphere will make the taste even better!" Nao Nishida chuckled, reaching out and pinching Erina's face: "Oh... As soon as you drink, your face will turn ugly. It’s turned red...it looks so cute!”

"Huh? Is there any... Ah, my face feels a little hot." Erina touched her cheek and became a little confused: "By the way, how much alcohol is this... Although you said it's not strong alcohol, But the alcohol content isn’t as low as beer, right?”

"Yes. But it seems like it's only fifteen degrees...?"

"Huh? So high?" Erina was stunned for a moment, a little surprised: "I thought it was only three or four degrees at most!"

"Uh huh... Yes. So it's really easy to drink too much accidentally." Nishida Nao said this, and came to the window with a smile, and peeked at the situation outside through the gap in the wooden boards nailed to the window: "Well...it's getting dark soon...should we think about what to eat for dinner? By the way, do you still have something to drink?"

"Yes." Erina stood up, approached the beer barrel, opened the wooden lid and looked inside, frowned, took out the small bugs that fell inside, and poured them aside: "There is enough beer for tomorrow. "

"That's good - oh, I need some soon. I feel so thirsty after drinking the mead!"

Nao Nishida picked up a cup, bent down into the bucket, scooped out half a cup of beer and drank it.

Due to the large number of people in such cities, water resources are often polluted.

Some threats are visible to the naked eye, while others are so tainted by microorganisms and viruses that it is impossible to tell when and where they become dirty.

Since people are not sure whether the water they drink freely in the city is clean or whether drinking it will cause dysentery, people generally drink cheap beer without adding hops and with less than 1% alcohol content instead of water.

Even if there is only a weak amount of alcohol in it, it is enough to achieve an ideal sterilization effect. This kind of wine that replaces water requires an average person to drink more than one liter per day.

As long as people are not too poor to afford this, they will drink this kind of light beer or the more expensive light fruit wine to quench their thirst when they are thirsty. This phenomenon is more common in larger cities. The well water dug in the city is often associated with diseases.

But even in rural areas, there are many cases of drinking wine instead of water.

It is not unknown that heating water can kill bacteria, but making a fire is a troublesome thing. Fuel is not cheap.

Therefore, in areas where there is no tea and coffee drinking culture, once there is a fire, cooking is usually required. Then it is not cost-effective to boil water directly for drinking. It is better to add something to make hot soup.

In order to save fuel and time, it is more convenient and affordable to drink beer directly.

On Earth, drinking alcohol is generally not more cost-effective than drinking water.

But in many places in Jiuyuan Township, this kind of extremely low-alcohol beer is sold cheaper than water with excellent quality and sweet taste.

Even occasionally when there was too much beer in stock and there was an epidemic at that time, large barrels of beer would be poured directly onto the streets to clean the ground.

This is a fairly low-cost disinfection measure.

Erina and the others had seen a similar situation in other cities last month - the streets were filled with the scent of barley, which was quite refreshing.

This gave the whole city a hint of drunkenness.

There is a way to make money in this city, which is to walk every day to a river six kilometers outside the city that is recognized as extremely sweet and clean, and then carry water back to sell it.

A large barrel can be sold for one hundred and twenty copper coins.

Some rich people will be willing to buy this kind of water to drink.

The same price is enough to buy three barrels of the same size of light beer here.

"It seems like it's troublesome for us to buy beer." Nao wiped her mouth and said seriously: "Because these are basic daily necessities... so related stores will be focused on by the guards, right?"

"What should we do?" Erina thought for a while and suggested: "How about buying it when the guards are on duty? Or late at night..."

"No. It's better not to deal with the store." Nao shook his head in opposition.