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Chapter 39 Sorghum roast.

Zhong Yuying struggled to carry a bucket of water and pour it into the inner pot (rural earth stoves usually have two or three pots, and the innermost pot is used to cook pig food), poured the chopped pigweed into it, and mixed it with some bran to prepare pig food. The pig at home couldIt is the lifeblood of the family. Every spring, her father Zhong Liangcai borrows money to buy a baby pig, raises it for a year, and then sells it whole during the Chinese New Year in order to get a whole lot of money. The money from the pig sale is used by the family's bank in the second year, and all expenses have to be raised from the pig.

So this pig was the second uncle of their family, and his status was higher than hers. Zhong Yuying kept stuffing firewood into the stove, and the jumping firelight made her thin and white face blush, which was really beautiful, but Zhong Yuying's expression at this moment destroyed that blush.

Zhong Yuying had a sullen face and looked at the stove with open eyes. It had been almost a week and that fool Tian Zhaodi hadn't come to her yet. Did she have to come to her on her own initiative? Zhong Yuying didn't want to go to the Tian family at all, mainly because the Tian family didn't give her a good look. This felt like a slight to Zhong Yuying, who was born a middle peasant, but had always had a high self-esteem.

But it's not a problem to sit and wait like this any longer. Dad has asked several times in the past few days why the Tian family's Zhao Di can't come to the house? Her father had always been very supportive of her friendship with Tian Zhaodi. Every time Tian Zhaodi came to her house, her father and mother were so enthusiastic that they would take out the good food at home and feed it to that idiot Tian Zhaodi. They would never think of giving it to their daughter.

However, because of her good relationship with Tian Zhaodi, her status in the family has been much higher. Unlike the eldest sister and the younger sister, who cannot go to school and have to do heavy work in the fields every day, and are often beaten and scolded by her father. Relatively speaking, she is much more relaxed. She only needs to do the work at home and can go to school. Of courseThe purpose of her father letting her go to school was to make it easier for her to get along with Tian Zhaodi, but she didn't care. As long as she could go to school and become a cultural person, she was willing to get along with that fool Tian Zhaodi. In Zhong Yuying's heart, she really felt that the brainless Tian Zhaodi was not as good as one of her fingers.

No, she couldn't let that fool Tian Zhaodi out of her hands. Zhong Yuying frowned and decided to go to Tian's house tomorrow and put down her body first to coax Tian Zhaodi back. Without Tian Zhaodi's food supply these days, her mouth was tasteless and she had no energy to work. Zhong Yuying, who had made up her mind, laughed with a rather proud expression, as if she was sure that Tian Zhaodi would return to her original behavior and let her control her.

Tian Sisi didn't know yet that Zhong Yuying was thinking about her. She was taking a nap to look at the glutinous rice wine she brewed last time. The wine had already seeped out. Tian Sisi dipped some of it in her hand and put it in her mouth. Her eyes lit up. The wine was quite pure. It tasted better than the glutinous rice wine she bought at the mall in her previous life, and the alcohol content was also higher, about twenty degrees.

What a genius I am! Tian Sisi, who was quite proud, poured out all the wine in the jar. Ten kilograms of rice produced about thirty kilograms of wine. Tian Sisi opened her eyes wide. Even if she didn't know how to make wine, she knew that this number was wrong. She had heard from a friend before that when rural people make their own rice wine, they usually produce ten to fifteen kilograms of wine from ten kilograms of rice. She didn't expect that she could produce so much in her first brew.

Excitedly, Tian Sisi packed about 30 kilograms of wine in transparent glass bottles from the shopping mall. The color of the wine was not as clear as the rice wine she had seen in her previous life. It had a hint of amber, which was very beautiful. I think it had something to do with the koji fruit, and maybe the fact that so much wine was produced was also related to the koji fruit.

Tian Sisi had harvested all the crops in the field. She also hoeed up a piece of the land, burned all the roots and stems in the field to fertilize the field with grass and wood ash, and sowed seeds again. This time she planted half of the more than 20 acres of land with rice and half with sorghum. Sorghum is the main material for brewing sorghum. Most men like to drink shochu, and this kind of liquor has a relatively large market.

Tian Sisi took out ten kilograms of sorghum that had been harvested before. Still following the records in her notes, she steamed all the sorghum and spread it out to cool. Then she added a piece of koji pulp and mixed it well for fermentation. Since it was for the old man to drink, Tian Sisi also added a drop of agar liquid from the Qiong Pond. After the fermentation was complete, the fermented cooked sorghum was distilled. The steamed wine vapor was cooled and dripped out to become shochu.

As far as Tian Sisi knows, 100 kilograms of sorghum can produce about 60 kilograms of wine. According to this ratio, her 10 kilograms of sorghum should be about 6 kilograms of soju. But in the end, Tian Sisi steamed 10 kilograms of wine. That is to say, one pound of sorghum can produce one pound of soju, and she got ten kilograms of soju. Now Tian Sisi was sure that the koji fruit could not only increase the success rate of wine production, but also increase the rate of wine production, which was basically about twice that of ordinary koji.

What a treasure! Tian Sisi ran to the yard outside, looked at the dense fermented rice wine trees, and giggled, these are all money! Moreover, she also found that as long as she picked a koji fruit, a new one would grow in its place, which meant that the number of koji fruits in the yard would remain the same. Haha, God is not deceiving me!

Tian Sisi ran out of the space, took the old man's empty wine bottle, and poured a bottle out. One bottle weighed about two or three kilograms. Tian Sisi held the wine bottle and found the old man who was listening to the radio. "Grandpa, let's see what good stuff I have." Tian Sisi shouted to the old man loudly.

The old man was startled by her, turned around and patted her on the head, "Ghost girl, your grandpa is old and can't bear to scare you."

Tian Sisi smiled and swung the bottle of wine in front of him. Sure enough, the old man's attention was attracted, "Ah, where does this wine come from?"

"Grandpa Bai Yuan gave it to me. He also taught me how to make wine. Grandpa, drink it and see how it tastes. If it tastes good, I will brew it for you tomorrow."

Tian Sisi poured a small glass, and the old man sniffed his nose vigorously. What a good wine! Smelling the aroma, he knew it was good wine. He couldn't wait to drink the wine in the glass. Afterwards, he kept smashing his mouth to signal his granddaughter to pour him some more.

"No, the empress said, grandpa, you can't drink too much." Tian Sisi refused unceremoniously. The old man had old injuries, and Mrs. Zhao stipulated that the old man could only drink one or two glasses of wine a day, and never drink more.

The old man's face immediately fell. Tian Sisi was not afraid at all and asked with a smile: "Grandpa, is this wine good?"

"Yes, it's comparable to Moutai. Where did it come from?"

"Grandpa Bai Yuan gave it to me. He said he would let me make wine and sell it in the future, and let grandpa and second grandpa drink it." Tian Sisi emphasized the last sentence, and as expected, the old man's eyes lit up even more.

"That's a good sentiment, grandma. I don't have enough money for grandpa to spend on you. You brew some for grandpa first. Such a small cup a day is really not enough!" The old man carried out the mourning policy towards his granddaughter with a grimace.

"No, I want to make money on my own. Grandpa, you can't drink too much. The queen said..."

"Oh, what do you know, my mother-in-law? I remember when your grandfather and I drank two kilograms of soju and still killed the shit out of little Japan."

Tian Sisi heard it funny, but she couldn't bear it when she saw the old man's rare greedy look. The old man's biggest hobby in his life is drinking, and this wine is also mixed with agar liquor. Drinking more should be fine, so she poured another glass, "Then you can only drink this one more. If you don't obey me, grandpa, I will never give you the wine I brew again."

"Little housekeeper," the old man scolded with a smile. Seeing his granddaughter's stern face, he had to soften. "Okay, grandpa will listen to grandpa from now on. Grandpa will drink as much as grandma tells him to drink."

Tian Sisi was then satisfied and handed the wine in her hand to the old man. The old man took the wine and was reluctant to finish it in one sip. He drank it in small sips and kept thinking about it. It was such a good wine. I haven't had such a good wine in many years.

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