At noon, Xu Ping went to see the large wine making tank. Now the weather is hot and you can start steaming one after another. The wine made from sweet sorghum a few days ago could not wait, and it would break down if it was put into place.

I suddenly became busy in the afternoon.

Xu Ping and Xu Chang checked the wine-steaming utensils and made preparations. Sang Yi and Sun Qilang went to the field to continue testing the harvester. The harvest season was coming soon, so there was no waiting.

Li Yonghe and a few of his men went to the forage farm of the Qunmusi Grace Land, and checked it in advance. They would also stay there in the evening and would not come back tomorrow.

Li Zhang followed Sang Yi and Sun Qilang to the field for a while, and after watching the novelty of the harvester, he felt boring and pestered Gao Daquan to take him to fish.

At this time, the utensils for steaming wine had been replaced. The special large steamer had a larger volume than the large steamer for brewing wine. One steamer was just the material for steaming a tank. The iron pot was also specially made, just one set, and they were all placed next to the brewing venue.

The place has been surrounded by walls and built several houses, which has completely become a winemaking workshop. There are farmers here at night.

Xu Ping looked at all the utensils, and the coal used for burning fire was piled up on one side. He placed more than a dozen large jars of wine on the side, waiting to be washed.

After moving with Xu Chang, I went to see the fermentation tank again. At this time, the heat was slightly insufficient, but I could barely start steaming. Since it was brewed together at that time, once it started, it had to be steamed continuously.

After reading everything, Xu Ping always felt that something was missing and stood there and didn't leave.

Xu Chang stayed aside and asked carefully: "Dalang, do you think something is wrong?"

Xu Ping turned around several circles and suddenly remembered: "Everything is in charge, I forgot one thing!"

Xu Chang was startled and looked at Xu Ping in confusion.

Xu Ping pointed to the wine tank buried in the ground and said, "These are different from the brewing glutinous rice wine. Where can I brew them all at once? After steaming once, the remaining materials must be buried in the tank again and brewed again so that the food will not be wasted! Used tanks must be scrubbed and cannot be used immediately. We need to find a few more large tanks to bury them here."

After hearing this, Xu Chang breathed out: "Dalang is too filtering. Sorghum is as cheap as soil, so what's the waste? Besides, Dalang also needs to steam the wine mash there with these wine lees, so he has to stop."

Xu Ping disagreed. This is a waste of food. His thoughts in his previous life believed that this was a serious crime and he could not do so easily. Another wine that was steamed for the first time was not completely fermented, and the taste was also different.

Xu Chang couldn't resist, so he had to find two shopkeepers and buried two large tanks in the field.

After all the work is over, it is time for the sun to set.

Xiuxiu is going to beg for tricks in Lin Suniang's yard tonight, but she won't come back. But she has Li Zhang, a guest in her room, so it's not easy to neglect.

Before Xu Ping returned to his yard, he went to the vegetable garden to pick a few tomatoes, dig a few potatoes, pick two cucumbers, and bring a handful of green onions, preparing to make do with Li Zhang.

When he returned to the courtyard, before Li Zhang came back, Xu Ping washed vegetables by the water tank.

Not long after, Li Zhang ran in from outside and saw Xu Ping busy there, so he came over to see him.

Xu Ping looked at him: "How did you get this afternoon?"

Li Zhang held two grass carp weighing three or five pounds and almost came to Xu Ping's nose and said proudly: "It's still acceptable! My brother is such a good place to catch fish and can't touch crabs! Why didn't I find it last time?"

Xu Ping smiled and said, "You've been busy with this in one afternoon?"

Li Zhang said: "Actually, there are some more. I asked Gao Daquan to take them back for the shopkeeper to eat. By the way, there are some shrimps. Let's cook them and eat them."

In his other hand, he carried a small straw basket with one or two kilograms of grass shrimps.

Xu Ping was also happy to see it and took it over: "Okay, let's make fried shrimps tonight! I actually forgot that there is such a good thing in the water, it's really not right!"

Xu Ping was busy here, so Li Zhang went to the house to drink water.

After coming out of the house, Xu Ping had cut the tomatoes, sprinkled with sugar, made a sugar-mixed tomato and served it on the table. When Li Zhang saw it, he reached out to grab it.

Xu Ping opened his hand: "It will be delicious when the candy is stained. Why are you anxious?"

Li Zhang giggled and asked Xu Ping: "Why is the brother busy? Where is Xiuxiu?"

Xu Ping said: "I have said that I have been begging for the best tonight and she won't come back."

Li Zhang muttered: "Girls are just trouble."

For the dish tonight, Xu Ping made a sugar-mixed tomato, a fried shredded potato, a fried grass shrimp, and a braised fish cube.

This era of eating wine is indispensable. The two brothers touched a cup, and Li Zhang picked up a piece of tomato and chewed it in his mouth, saying, "The grass persimmons grown here are really delicious, especially the sugar used on it, which is just the color and tastes particularly sweet!"

Xu Ping just smiled bitterly and shook his head.

The sugar sprinkled on it is so much effort that Xu Ping took! It was hot, so Xu Ping himself wanted to eat sugar and tomatoes to make it refreshing. He asked Xu Chang to go out to buy sugar. Only then did he know that there was only brown sugar in this era, and it was extremely impure and had a lot of impurities. Such sugar was so expensive that it was not affordable for ordinary people. Ordinary people wanted to eat sweet taste to satisfy their cravings, so they could only buy oat sugar, that is, maltose, etc. In order to turn the brown sugar bought into white sugar, Xu Ping added lime water and used activated charcoal to decolorize it. The final result was a slight yellow color, and it could not be truly sugar.

Sometimes Xu Ping also thought that his luck in traveling through time was really bad. When he came to such a place, he couldn't even play with his head at all. He obviously had many ways to make money, so he could only watch it, but he couldn't do it.

In this era, sugar was so poor, with a small output, and the price was even more scary. If you traveled through a place that produced sugarcane, you would become a huge wealth in just two years. Sugar is a necessity for daily life. With the Song Dynasty's attitude towards commercial profits and no monopoly was implemented, it can be seen that this market is still a big gap.

It’s a pity that Xu Ping’s time travel benefits are sweet sorghum. He was very happy at first. He regretted it after knowing the sugar market. If it were replaced with beets, it would be a big deal. Although the sugar content of sweet sorghum is also very high, there are too many harmful impurities in it. With the technology of this era, it is impossible to propose pure sugar, so it can only be boiled into syrup. What’s the use?

After a few glasses of wine, Li Zhang ate a plate of tomatoes clean, while Xu Ping just ate shrimp. In his previous life, this was something he didn't afford, so of course he had to eat it happily when he had the chance.

After drinking and eating, Li Zhang asked, "Brother, I heard you want to steam wine tomorrow?"

Xu Ping looked at him: "Why, you are addicted to drinking too? At a young age, don't learn bad things!"

Li Zhang smiled and said, "Where, I've been drunk twice, I dare not drink the soju wine you made anymore. However, Grandpa Duan learned so hard after drinking the wine he brought last time, and he never forgets it. He told me to bring him two more jars this time."

Xu Ping shook his head: "It's not that I can't bear to leave, but I'm in Zhongmu County, so it's risky to bring wine to the capital. If Grandpa Duan likes to drink, when will you bring him to my place to stay for a while and have a good time to drink."

Li Zhang sighed: "My father said so too. But Grandpa Duan is old and doesn't like to walk around."

Xu Ping's heart moved, remembered his tricycle, and said to Li Zhang: "Let's spend some days, I have collected crops from the fields. I'm not so busy anymore. I'll go to the capital with you and pick him up."

Li Zhang just sighed: "What else do you do? Unfortunately, my grandfather worked hard all his life and had such a thought in his old age. I couldn't take advantage of his wishes. I was also sorry."

Xu Ping didn't say it out loud, and told him some gossip.

After dinner, the two of them cleaned up and were not sleepy, so they sat in the yard and talked.

At this time, a bright moon hangs high, scattering mottled shadows through the poplar trees in the yard.

I don’t know what Xiuxiu and the others are doing in the yard over there, and it’s lively all night.

The two brothers talked for a while and felt bored. Xu Ping remembered something and said to Li Zhang: "Follow me, I'll find something for you to play with."

Li Zhang became energetic when he heard about playing. He followed Xu Ping back to the house and took out the alcohol lamp. This was no longer the same one. When Su'er saw the alcohol lamp, she was jealous and asked Xiuxiu to tell Xu Ping that she wanted it too. Xiuxiu pressed her down and refused to tell her, so she took the one away and asked Lin Su Niang to make needlework and thread at night, but Xiuxiu had no choice. This was just made of the Rujiao porcelain cup that Sang Yi brought back from Ruzhou and gave to Xu Ping, which was even more exquisite.

Carrying the alcohol lamp, Xu Ping took Li Zhang to the big poplar tree in the yard and shine on the trunk.

A cicada was lying on a tree and was escaping from the shell. It was white and soft as boneless.

Li Zhang asked Xu Ping in confusion: "Brother wants this? Does anyone want cicada sheds when they are sick?"

Xu Ping smiled and said, "What kind of cicada sheds are you looking for! Look carefully. As long as those that have not yet been shelled, catch more, and we will stir-fry them tomorrow."

Li Zhang laughed: "Brother is joking! I have never heard of anyone eating this thing."

Xu Ping said: "You little kids don't understand. This is a good thing. Only those who understand know how delicious it is. Just catch it and you will know the benefits only after eating it tomorrow."

Li Zhang's child was so wise that when he heard Xu Ping say this, he went to catch him. The two of them found them from the yard to outside the yard. At this time, no one paid attention to this kind of thing. There were so many people who crawled everywhere. It took only a lot of effort to catch more than a hundred and put them in a basin of water.

When he returned to the house, Xu Ping drained the water, marinated it with salt, and said to Li Zhang: "When Xiuxiu comes back tomorrow, stir-fry it in hot oil, and you will know how delicious this thing is!"

Xu Ping also once was enjoying the cool air in the yard. He accidentally found that there were many cicadas and monkeys climbing on the poplar trees in his yard. He caught a lot of them on a whim and fryed them with oil to find out what he wanted. In his previous life, this kind of thing had become popular and expensive. Xu Ping only remembered the things he often ate when he was a child, but when he grew up, he could no longer afford it. When he came to this world, he was everywhere.
Chapter completed!