Ke Xue Bartender

Chapter 181 Frozen Daiquiri

A man wearing glasses was sitting at the bar.

His eyes drooped behind the thick lenses, looking lazy and listless.

Except for the glasses and the thick beard under his nose, this man and Tomofumi Tanaka who came to the store yesterday were almost cut from the same mold.

Both their face shape and body shape are very similar.

When he entered the store, Lin Ye knew at the first sight that he was Tanaka Tomofumi's brother, Tanaka Kazuyu.

Currently, he is relying on blackmailing his younger brother, eating, drinking and living in his brother's house, unaware that his own brother has already developed murderous intentions.

He came alone.

"My silly little brother actually thought of buying me a drink. As the eldest brother, I feel really relieved."

Tanaka Kazuyuki yawned, a nonchalant smile on his face.

[That stupid boy, even though he was threatened by me, he actually took out money and asked me to come here to drink]

[Did he collude with the bartender to poison my drink and try to kill me? ]

Haha, how is that possible?

"So, Mr. Bartender, what drink do you plan to let me drink?" Tanaka Kazuyoshi glanced at Lin Ye lazily.

This lazy temperament is only possessed by people who have not worked for a long time.

Lin Ye smiled and said, "I heard that Mr. Tanaka is a writer."

"Hehe, that brat, it seems I told you a lot about me. But now I don't dare to call myself a writer." Tanaka laughed at himself.

[Now, I am just a useless person who relies on my brother to survive...]

Huh?
Lin Ye looked at the other person in surprise.

Mr. Tanaka has a clear understanding of himself.

Before this, Lin Ye thought he was a lazy bastard who was unaware of his own shortcomings.

Lin Ye asked again: "When it comes to writers and wine, who do you think of first, Mr. Tanaka?"

"Of course it's Ernest Hemingway." Tanaka Kazuyoshi answered without any hesitation.

When he mentioned Hemingway's name, a gleam of longing flashed in his eyes. Although it was only a brief moment, Lin Ye still caught it.

And heard the voice in his heart:

【Hemingway, my favorite writer...】

"Hemingway's writing career is inseparable from the company of wine. Without wine, Hemingway's writing style would definitely change a lot," said Kazuyoshi Tanaka.

"Then you must know something about Hemingway's wine."

"Of course, the most famous ones are Death in the Afternoon and Hemingway Daiquiri. One is named after Hemingway's work, and the other directly uses Hemingway's name. Oh, I understand. You want to make Hemingway's wine for me? That's not bad." Tanaka Kazuyu smiled.

"That's right." Lin Ye nodded and smiled, "So which one would you like?"

"Hemingway once described Daiquiri in his book 'An Island in the Flood'. I like 'An Island' better than 'Death in the Afternoon', which is about a Spanish bullfighter, so I chose Daiquiri."

"Okay, please wait a moment."

Hemingway Daiquiri, also known as frozen daiquiri and Papa Daiquiri.

ice cubes.

Rum, maraschino, lime juice, grapefruit juice.

Soon, Lin Ye placed the finished wine in front of Tanaka.

Tanaka picked it up and stared at the glass in front of him.

murmured:
"Another unsweetened frozen daiquiri was placed in front of him. He raised the glass, which was full and frosted." "There was a layer of foam floating on the surface of the wine. He looked at the clear wine under the foam and thought of the sea."

"The foam on the surface is like the white waves trailing behind a boat, and the clear wine below is like the water of a shallow sea."

"I wish the bar could serve a kind of wine that looks like the color of deep sea water, and the water should be as smooth as a mirror, and when the sun shines directly into the water, you can see the plankton in the water."

"This is the description of the frozen daiquiri in the book 'An Island in the Flood'. Have you read that book?"

Lin Ye nodded.

"This is a work that Hemingway started writing in 1950, but it was compiled and published by his wife and editor only after his death. The first publication was in 1970. It tells the story of the painter Hudson."

"good."

Tanaka Kazuyoshi nodded, took a sip of Hemingway Daiquiri, and his eyes, which seemed to be still sleepy, suddenly widened.

"This is?"

As a fan of Hemingway, he had certainly had the frozen daiquiri, and he didn't know how many times he had had it.

But no glass of wine has ever brought him the shock he has at this moment.

At this moment, he felt as if he had turned into a boat, a boat breaking through the waves in the sea.

In the book "The Solitary Island", Hudson lost his three sons. In order to take revenge on the Germans, he converted his ship into an auxiliary patrol boat. Except for the time when he was drinking in the bar, he took the boat to conduct reconnaissance on the sea when he was sober.

Tanaka Kazuyuki felt like he was that boat now, with an inexplicable emotion surging in his chest.

Lin Ye glanced at him, and felt that the atmosphere was set, so he began to talk:

"From 1940 to 1950, Hemingway did not publish any works for a full decade. In 1950, Across the River and Into the Trees was published, which attracted a lot of negative reviews. Many people said that he had run out of ideas."

Tanaka Kazuyuki opened his eyes and murmured:

"After a decade of creative slump, my first published work received rave reviews. This pain is unimaginable. If it happened to me, I would definitely not be able to bear it."

[Compared to that, I was only rejected a few times by publishers, which was a minor setback.]

Hearing Tanaka's thoughts, Lin Ye nodded with satisfaction.

That's the right thing to think of, Mr. Tanaka.

Then he continued:

"In the face of many criticisms, Hemingway did not remain silent. Just two years later, in 1952, The Old Man and the Sea was published. Hemingway won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature for it, which restored his reputation in the world literary world."

"I personally think that the frozen daiquiri also contributed to Mr. Hemingway's creation of such an excellent work as The Old Man and the Sea."

Lin Ye smiled and looked at the wine glass in Tanaka Kazuyu's hand.

As a bartender, he wasn't shy about putting gilded luster on the frozen daiquiri.

"During his stay in Cuba, Hemingway often visited a bar called 'Little Florida', and this Hemingway Daiquiri was created there."

“This glass of wine accompanied Hemingway through the most difficult ten years of his creative career, helping him to successfully get out of the haze and eventually create his masterpiece.”

Tanaka Kazuyoshi looked at the wine glass in his hand and laughed as well.

"So, what you want to convey to me through this glass of wine is that you hope I can cheer up like Hemingway, right?"

Seeing Lin Ye nod, Tanaka Kazuyu raised his head and said slowly: "But, Hemingway still shot himself in the end, didn't he?"

Lin Ye was stunned for a while.

Hey, Mr. Tanaka, the atmosphere has become so tense, shouldn't you shed tears of emotion, then have an epiphany and resolve to change your ways?

It's very difficult for me to handle this.

(End of this chapter)