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Chapter 6 Wine

He took the bucket over, and Gao Daquan didn't need a shoulder pole. He carried more than a dozen buckets of water from the river next to him. He stopped until Xu Ping called for a stop. He was only slightly panting.

The people around couldn't help but be stunned. This guy looked like a cow, and he had so much strength all over his body.

While it was a noisy, Liu Xiaoyi drove a ox cart over and stopped in front of everyone.

Sun Qilang said: "Brother Xiao Yi, have you come from the town? Have you brought us wine?"

Liu Xiaoyi smiled and said, "There is no wine, but there is a car of wine lees. Do you want it?"

Everyone laughed, walked to the car, uncovered the straw mat, and it turned out to be a car of wine lees. They buried their heads, took a deep breath, and looked like a scent.

It is not surprising that Xu Ping knew that the lees were transported back to feed the pigs.

Liu Xiaoyi took out a small gourd from his side and handed it to Xu Chang: "It's all my business, I respect you. I don't get much, so save some drinks."

Everyone was making a fuss, and everyone said that Liu Xiaoyi was inclined to the point of being in trouble.

Liu Xiaoyi said: "Stop talking. This is the sweat of the wine caused by the wine. The lady specially ordered her to bring it back to take care of it. For you, can you drink it?"

Gao Daquan said dissatisfiedly: "Why is drinking and sweating so much?"

Xu Ping's heart was moved. The so-called "sweat" means that the alcohol smell rises when the wine is boiled and condenses into water. To put it bluntly, the alcohol obtained from steaming the wine is mixed with water, and the degree is very high. But don't think that this is the liquor of later generations. Chinese liquor has its own unique technology, solid fermentation and solid distillation, which has a unique fragrance. Except for Chinese liquor, other high-level liquors in the world, are steamed directly like liquor, but they cannot be drunk directly after steaming. For example, they have to be disposed in an oak barrel for many years, otherwise no one can drink it.

Sometimes the division between agricultural machinery and food machinery is not so clear, which is Xu Ping's profession. In fact, in his previous life, using food alcohol to make liquor was a very important project of the government, with the purpose of saving food. However, there has never been any perfect process and can only be used to make low-end liquor. With the power of the country, it can only be achieved this. It is conceivable that Chinese liquor is not as simple as alcohol mixing with water.

After Xu Chang's hand, Xu Ping opened it and the pungent and spicy smell came to his face. He raised his head and took a sip. As expected, it was like drinking a burning knife, without any smell of wine. After drinking it, he was dizzy and the alcohol rushed directly to the top of his head.

Turning his head, he found Gao Daquan looking straight at him and licking his tongue. Xu Ping smiled bitterly. The real alcoholics must dare to face the hot alcohol. In the history books of his previous life, those alcoholics who drink medical alcohol directly are really Shi Bujue's book.

He handed the gourd in his hand to Gao Daquan, and Xu Ping said: "You have worked hard just now, so I will give you a sip of this wine and sweat, but don't drink too much. Don't drink it in the future, as this thing hurts your body."

Gao Daquan didn't care so much. He took the gourd and raised his head and took a big sip. Then he opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue, but kept shouting in his mouth.

After taking back the gourd, Xu Ping said to Liu Xiaoyi: "Brother Xiaoyi, if you pull the lees into my yard, I will still be useful. I will only take them to feed the pigs tomorrow."

Liu Xiaoyi agreed and drove the ox cart back first.

Xu Ping also instructed Xu Chang: "Everyone cares, go to the kitchen and find a steamer to our yard, it must be bigger."

Xu Chang didn't know what Xu Ping was going to do, so he couldn't ignore it and took two people to the kitchen.

Xu Ping took everyone back to his yard and led it to the kitchen, and ordered: "Two people come and wash the pot, then fetch a few buckets of water, and fill the water tank over there."

This year, due to a severe drought, these farmers are bored every day and are very enthusiastic when they have something to do. They say hello to Xu Ping, and some people will clean the pot and some will carry water.

Not long enough, the other shopkeepers in the front room rushed over, like playing games, and were crowded, more lively than going to the market.

After packing up here, Xu Chang also found a large steamer, which was used to steam buns in the farm. Xu Ping himself used it to open a hole on the top of the steamer, inserted a bamboo tube into it, and sharpened the mouth.

After tidying up, Xu Ping ordered water to be poured into the pot, then put the steamer on the pot, and asked Xu Chang to take people to the yard to put the lees on Liu Xiaoyi's car into the steamer.

Seeing everyone busy, Xiuxiu asked Xu Ping in a low voice: "Official, do you want to steam the lees? Although the wife said yesterday that her family was in a downturn, she would not be a trash, right?"

The so-called trash people, which is sad to say, are some extremely poor families in Tokyo who make a living by eating the leftover wine lees made by the main restaurants in the city.

The so-called prosperity and prosperity are naturally the kind of wind, flowers, snow and moon for those with wealth and power; while for the people at the bottom, the suffering of hunger and cold, and the depression of never making a breakthrough. In the shadow of every lantern in Tokyo, there are the bones of the lowest-level figures.

Xu Ping shook his head and said nothing.

In a short while, the steamer was almost filled. Xu Ping asked to cover the lid and ordered the firewood to be brought, so he set off a fire under the pot. In a moment, the fragrance of wine was everywhere.

After finding a jar to catch the wine at the bamboo tube, Xu Ping left the kitchen and sat under the big poplar trees in the yard to rest.

Xu Chang came over and said to Xu Ping: "Dalang, don't you think that this can make you sweat and drink, right?"

Xu Ping smiled and said, "You will know if you steam it for a while."

This is the rice wine lees, which contain more than 10% of the alcohol. Of course, the wine can be steamed out, and the steamed out is real white wine, not wine sweat. The rice wine lees in the past life had to be steamed in this way before they could be processed. The wine obtained is called roe liquor. In fact, using the wine lees to distil alcohol is called the skewers method. The edible alcohol in the past life was used to make white wine, which was not a simple blending process.

In less than half an hour, white wine drizzled out of the bamboo tube, emitting the unique aroma of white wine. A group of shopkeepers looked at Xu Ping with eager eyes, but he remained silent, and everyone had to endure it.

The liquor distilled in this way is generally fifty or sixty degrees, which is the strongest degree of the wine. Liquor generally has a special flavor at more than fifty degrees. The liquor has the smallest volume and the largest density. It is not simply alcohol dissolved in water, but a special liquid that is different from water and alcohol. As for the low-altitude wine in previous lives, the liquor aroma was made by a special method, otherwise it would not be possible to drink it.

When the wine was not flowing out, Xu Ping asked to change a steamed wine lees to the top. After the wine flowed out, he ordered a wine jar to change.

Seeing Xu Ping holding half a jar of fine wine, Gao Daquan squeezed to Xu Chang, the two of them looked at each other with their eyes lit up.

Xu Ping smiled bitterly and poured the wine from the jar into the pot. The two of them were stunned and almost rushed up and grabbed it in their hands.

There is no special reason for this. Xu Ping was so busy that he forgot to cut off the head and tail of the wine to get evenly quality wine. However, it is not a pity to pour it back into the pot. It can be steamed out and the quality is better.

Just when the yard was crowded with people, a loud female voice suddenly came from outside, and then it was sometimes high and sometimes low, winding, just like a opera, but the tone was always sharp.

Xu Chang's face changed immediately when he heard this, his face turned red as if there was a fire coming out, and his eyebrows stood up.

Xu Ping was very uncomfortable with this voice, and didn't even hear what was being said, so he pulled Xiuxiu aside and asked her quietly: "Who is outside? Why is it like a swearing?"

Xiuxiu looked around and then whispered: "It's Grandma Hong, who is scolding Xu Du."

Xu Ping was stunned: "What are you scolding?"

Xiuxiu said, "Have you forgotten the official? Yesterday, the wife told the village that Grandma Hong had to make the decision. Today, you hired that Gao Daquan and did not discuss it with her mother-in-law. She scolded Xu Duguan for borrowing your power and trying to seize her power."

Xu Ping said angrily: "What a mess! Can't I make a decision in this village?"

Xiuxiu lowered her head, and after a while, she secretly glanced at Xu Ping and muttered in a low voice: "With the wife here, how can you make the decision?"

Xu Ping was stunned. What is this? The only son in his family is actually subject to a servant in his family? Which country's rule is this?

After thinking for a while, I sighed impatiently. This is the rule of my Song Dynasty.

Xu Ping is fifteen years old this year, just the same age as the current emperor, but even the emperor cannot make the decision! Now that Empress Dowager Liu is in charge of the affairs behind the curtain, she has the final say in everything. Don’t the emperor have to be obedient?

With my mother here, the things at home are my mother's decision. She will do whatever she says. She dares to be disobedient. Be careful that someone sues you for disobedience and will make your butt bloom with sticks.

But how can this be done? Such a big farmer has the final say, is it okay? Xu Ping has a gentle and stubborn temper, but he can't stand it. He takes time to get to the town and tells the matter with his parents, and he can't decide the matter in the village by himself.

Grandma Hong cursed outside. The more Xu Ping heard it, she became more annoyed. She could no longer help it. She turned around and rushed out, which scared Xiuxiu and hurriedly followed her.

Grandma Hong was shocked when she saw Xu Ping coming out, she stopped scolding and looked at him viciously.

Xu Ping whispered loudly: "If you dare to scold again, I will let you over with a knife, chop the knife into stuffing and wrap it into buns, do you believe it or not?!"

This was the tone of the playboy, the innate bachelor temperament. At this time, Xu Ping blurted out, and was as perfect as natural.

Grandma Hong was frightened. She knew that this little beast was lawless since she was a child. If she really got rid of it, it would be hard to explain whether she dared to kill someone with a knife or not. She was so guilty that she lowered her head.

While he was stammering there, Lin Su Niang came in from outside, looked at everyone, and whispered: "What happened in the village? It was so noisy that it was like a mountain. What would outsiders think when they heard it?"

When seeing Lin Su Niang, Grandma Hong was like seeing a savior and hurriedly met. This little girl is her future mistress. Isn’t it all the women who decide the matters in the family? Not to mention the Xu family, even in the palace. As long as she is happy with the two mistresses of big and small, who else can Grandma Hong be afraid of?

When Grandma Hong heard Grandma Hong talk about the incident with tears in her eyes, Lin Su Niang just smiled, nodded and said nothing. She just came to calm the situation and had no way to pass the door, so what could she say?

Xu Ping couldn't get angry at Lin Su Niang, but he didn't get angry. He said to Grandma Hong: "Go and kill a bite of sheep. Today I want to invite everyone to drink, and there is still something to do in the future!"

After saying that, he turned his head back to his yard.
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