Chapter 38 Winemaking

It is said that one minute on the stage, ten years off the stage, everyone understands this truth, but if it is really your turn, you may not be able to persevere, just after pulling the soft bow more than a dozen times, Zhen Qian's fingers are already red and hot, and there is a feeling of swelling, but when he thinks of his little life, he still persists.

The two little girls saw that Zhen Qian was practicing arrows and also ran over to join in the fun, but when they saw Zhen Qian's fingers red and swollen, they all began to complain about Qin Meng: "Zhen Meng, do you know that your father-in-law's figure has just recovered, and now he is so tired, if anything goes wrong, how can he explain to the Zhen family!" ”

Qin Meng didn't know about Zhen Qian's previous fall from the horse, and when he heard the two women say this, he also felt that Zhen Qian was a little reluctant, and said aggrievedly: "I don't know what happened before, my father-in-law should take a rest first, and practicing archery is not something that can be practiced in a day, otherwise I will be said to be ignorant......."

"Little ghost, this matter is what I requested, what are you doing by taking the responsibility on yourself", after saying that, Zhen Qianyou said to the two little girls who were worried about it: "Although the current body has not fully recovered, you can't be lazy with such a reason all day long, doesn't this mean that you don't even have this perseverance, and you two are too underestimate me."

The two little girls were a little concerned, Qin Meng looked at him nervously, Zhen Qian's heart was warm, and he continued to practice archery: "This is also a skill, in the future, if someone invites me to hunt, if I can't even shoot arrows, wouldn't it be a joke!" ”

The literati of the Tang Dynasty are not as hypocritical as the scholars of the Ming and Qing dynasties, they can take out their hands on horseback and archery, although they cannot say that they can fight the sword to break into the world, but many literati can manage the army on horseback, and can govern the people when they get off the horse, and they usually have the habit of traveling together, whether they can shoot archery has become an important criterion.

Although the two little girls felt sorry for Zhen Qian, it can be seen that Zhen Qian's attitude is resolute, and it is not easy to stop him, so he can only remind him to pay attention to his body on the side.

After the completion of the 100 bow drawing tasks, Zhen Qian found that his hands were stiff and did not belong to him, and the two little girls saw it in their eyes and felt pain in their hearts, and immediately acted as masseurs.

Xiaozhu complained: "Lang Jun, there is nothing interesting here, why don't you go back with Uncle Wang?" ”

Xiaomei immediately retorted: "You know how to play, Lang Jun is doing things here!" ”

"What do you want Lang Jun to do with these poor mountain people?" The two little girls began to quarrel with me and you, and Zhen Qian, who listened to it, had a big head and scolded: "Can you two be quiet for a while, if Qin Hao listens to this, you won't blow up!" ”

"Lang Jun, what is fried hair?"

Zhen Qian realized that he had missed his mouth again, and hurriedly changed the topic: "Do you understand the three caves of the cunning rabbit, although the Zhen family is good, but there has not been a high-ranking official above the state capital in the past few decades, and now the Zhen family's position in Zhending is in jeopardy, and now if you don't take precautions, there will be no place for you to cry!" ”

Although I already know about the upcoming rebellion of An Lushan, after all, there is still a period of time, but the situation of the Zhen family in front of me is also not good, the Zhen family has lived in Zhending for a hundred years, if you want to gain a firm foothold in this place in Hengzhou, you must come up with a few high-ranking officials who can speak in the court, but now the Zhen family is also in front of his father's small county order, and most people can only be officials who can't be put on the table in various yamen, which makes other big clans increasingly despise the Zhen family.

After Zhen Qian was frightened and lost his memory, Wen County's order just understated that a Meng Xiaoya entered the Zhen family as a concubine, which is the best example, if it were changed to a few decades ago, the entire Meng family would have been sentenced to slavery and maidservants.

These words are still said by Wang Qun to Zhen Qian, the two little girls don't understand these at all, when they think that the Zhen family is the most beautiful, the assassin history is the guest of the Zhen family, and the county order is too late, there are thousands of slaves and maids in the family, and now the Zhen family is about to have an empty shelf.

There are still some things that Wang Qun didn't say, and Zhen Qian can also guess that the side branch of the Langya Wang family would not have married into the Zhen family, and the current Xing family is just a big family in the state and county, and the scenery of the Zhen family back then is long gone.

Zhen Qian stayed in Qin's house for three days, and in addition to practicing archery during these three days, he followed Qin Hao around and really saw a lot of good things.

The Qin family also collected a lot of nuts in these three days, and there are two carts of all kinds of nuts, and the biggest trouble for nuts is not collection, but later processing.

Zhen Qian asked the woman of the Qin family to smash the nut shell open and fry it in a cauldron with coarse salt, which can only be regarded as rough processing of nuts, because there was no preparation in advance, and spices are also a luxury in the Qin family, fortunately, the Qin family knew that Zhen Qian planned to use these to make money, and also helped to take out the flesh of a small part of the nuts, which saved themselves a lot of trouble.

took the two little girls to the steaming fried room, and the two big iron pots kept stir-frying nuts, and they didn't stay long before they were hot and sweaty, and they fled from the inside.

When they came out, the two little girls had an extra bag of peeled nuts in their hands, and at first they were reserved and sent to their mouths one by one, but later they became whole stuffed into their mouths, with an expression on their faces, "It's delicious!" ”

"Lang Jun, I didn't expect this inconspicuous nut to taste so delicious after being salted......

Zhen Qian glanced at the two greedy little girls, and said angrily: "Who said that this thing was astringent and hard at the beginning, and it was not delicious, but now you have a bag for each of you, do you know how much you can sell it for outside?" Five hundred wen was eaten by the two of you like this, and I am embarrassed to say it! ”

Xiaozhu stuck out his tongue, girls usually like to eat some snacks, I have seen all kinds of small snacks, there are many nuts in the mountains, but most of them can't be on the table, or it is laborious and inconvenient to eat, I didn't expect Zhen Qian to solve the problem with a few brains, the small and hard pine nuts were steamed on the steamer, and they immediately cracked, and there was no need to fight with nuts with teeth.

Now that the Qin family has mobilized all the people, now that you need to go deep into the mountains to hunt, it is really difficult to say whether you can find the prey, seeing that there are fewer and fewer prey around, Qin Hao's heart is as anxious as if it is burning.

Nuts are very sparse and ordinary in Qin Hao's eyes, and they usually don't take it as a thing at all, but they didn't expect that after Zhen Qian's processing, the taste became relish, and after eating some, they were addicted, and immediately let the idlers in the village go into the mountains to find nuts, and they had the momentum of not hollowing out all the nuts in the mountains.

Zhen Qian is also happy to ask Qin Hao to find more nuts, this kind of thing is not difficult to process, and it is available in many places, and it can be sold at a good price now, it does not mean that it will not be imitated in the future, and the price will definitely plummet by then.

Qin Hao thought that he had found a way to make a fortune for a long time, but he didn't expect to be doused by Zhen Qian's basin of cold water, "Zhen Lang, this nut grows in the mountains, and we don't need to plant it, there is no cost, can't it be operated for a long time?" ”

"How can there be such a simple thing in this world, of course, nuts do not need to be planted, but if you look at these nut species, the nearby mountains and forests have also been searched by you, only to find these cars, and then there will be fewer and fewer, you don't think that nuts can fall from the sky!"

Seeing that Qin Hao's expression became depressed, Zhen Qian comforted: "Tea trees are the way for the Qin family to make money in the future, if you want to continue the nut business, you must transplant the nut trees to the village for large-scale planting like planting tea trees, and after three or four years, this will not lose a way to make money, but not yet!" ”

Qin Hao is also a smart person, and he naturally knows the truth when he is broken by Zhen Qian, but he is fascinated by the few carts of nuts in front of him, and he is too anxious when he thinks about it.

"This is the cash crop that Zhen Lang said at the beginning, and now that I think about it, there is really some truth!"

"It's good that Uncle Qin can understand! Since I promised to make the Qin family rich, I won't lose my word! ”

Wang Qun came to Qin's house three days later with several truckloads of goods, this time he didn't come to trade, he brought a lot of grain and wine, "Zhen Lang, the grains you want are all ready, can these things really make wine?" ”

"If wild fruits can make wine, why can't whole grains make wine?"

Although Wang Qun felt that what Zhen Qian said made some sense, it was the first time that rice was used to make wine, and it was the first time to make wine from grains and grains, and he didn't know what the wine would taste like.

Later generations used grains and sweet potatoes for winemaking, all kinds of sorghum are also the main raw materials, the main selection criterion is how much starch content, of course, corn and sweet potatoes can not be found in the Tang Dynasty, as for sugarcane is still a luxury, it is a pity to use it to make wine, but there is no shortage of ordinary grains, and the price is cheap, and it is best to replace part of the grain.

There is still a month to build the winery, this time is just the right time to do some experiments in advance, cereals and grains winemaking is also the first in the Tang Dynasty, it is not a simple thing for Zhen Qian, the key is the proportion of grains and grains, which is the secret of each winery in later generations, Zhen Qian can only cross the river by feeling the stones.

Now is not the harvest period of wild fruits, the matter of brewing fruit wine is naturally put aside, Zhen Qian took two old people of the Wang family who are not wine-making craftsmen to hide in the bamboo house and began to study wine-making, this hiding is three or four days, until he walked out of the bamboo house with a paper full of data in his hand, and his haggard look made the two little girls feel distressed: "Lang Jun, is the wine brewed?" ”

"That's so fast, it's just that the raw materials have been mixed in the past few days, and we can't know until after fermentation, when the original wine comes out!"

Zhen Qian couldn't explain to them, winemaking is mainly two main links of koji-making and brewing, and there are many steps in it, and after all, he doesn't know much about these, and he knows some fur, and now he can only do it while groping, making several different raw material recipes, as for which one can only be successful after fermentation, and can only know after tasting the brewed wine.

As for the soju brought by Wang Qun, Zhen Qian found dozens of bamboos and poured them in, numbering and recording on them, what kind of wine is needed for bamboo tube wine, and how long it should be stored in the bamboo, I don't know these things, but the means of conducting the experiment are not sloppy at all.