Early the next morning, Xu Ping and Li Zhang had just washed up when they saw Xiuxiu hurrying back from outside. The little girl's face was flushed, and she looked very energetic, and the excitement on her face had not yet passed.

After the salute, Xiuxiu seemed to have something to say to Xu Ping, and when she saw that Li Zhang, an outsider, was there, she forcibly held back.

After breakfast, Xu Ping said to Xiuxiu: "Today I am going to steam wine with everyone, and I can't be idle for a day, so you can rest by yourself in the small courtyard." If you have time, cook some mung bean soup for everyone to drink. ”

Xiuxiu agreed, and Xu Ping took Li Zhang out.

Seeing that Xu Ping arrived at the door, Xiuxiu couldn't hold back anymore, and shouted from behind: "Official, wait a minute, I have something to say to you!" ”

Xu Ping turned around and came back, Li Zhang was about to follow, just saw Xiuxiu looking at him vigilantly, and realized that this little girl was not familiar with him, so he was afraid that he would be wary and stood in place meaninglessly.

Seeing Xu Ping coming, Xiuxiu approached him, carefully took out a small box, opened it excitedly to show him, and said with uncontrollable joy: "Official, I got a trick!" ”

Xu Ping looked at the box, there was a little spider in it, and a web was formed in it, which was very exquisite. Knowing that this was a girl's thing, he didn't know what it meant, but seeing that Xiuxiu was so excited, he thought that it was a very important thing for "Daughter's Day", and said: "My Xiuxiu is the most ingenious, so she naturally asks for it." ”

Listening to Xu Ping's words, Xiuxiu's little face was flushed, and she was very excited. After telling Xu Ping and sharing her joy, Xiuxiu calmed down a little and said embarrassedly: "Officials go and get busy." ”

After saying that, he turned around and ran into his room.

Xu Pingzhi shook his head, wondering what was there to be excited about, and walked out of the courtyard with Li Zhang.

When he arrived at the brewing site, Xu Chang had already gathered the people and waited for them.

After many days of hard work, all today, Xu Ping was also a little nervous in his heart, not knowing what result he would get in the end, whether it was in line with his own heart.

Standing in front of everyone, Xu Ping cleared his throat, and couldn't remember what to say for a while, and he didn't know if the final steamed liquor was the liquor he wanted. After being quiet for a while, he tried to calm down and said to everyone: "I have already said what I should say, everyone knows it in their hearts, and I won't be wordy today." We have spent countless thoughts on these vats of wine, and the success or failure is all in today's day, you must be careful and cautious! ”

After speaking, I first asked a few villagers to scrub the wine vat that was ready to serve the wine, and the others went to start the ingredients together.

When the vat is opened, a strong aroma spreads. When everyone heard it, they were all shocked. If you smell of it, you have wine.

Gao Daquan and Sun Qilang took a few Zhuang guests to carefully dig the jar out of the ground, shouted together, and carried it to the side of the prepared steamed wine retort.

Gao Daquan stood on the stool, still in charge of loading, and Sun Qilang stood aside and gave him a hand.

The bran for the dressing has already been steamed and dried, and set aside. Sun Qilang gave it to Gao Daquan with a dustpan, and Gao Daquan took it and stared at it tightly.

The dealer has already lit a fire under the pot. All the good coal used here is good, and it doesn't take long for the fire to become extremely vigorous and make a beeping sound.

Li Zhang stood beside Xu Ping and watched all this curiously. Although he drank bad liquor last time, he had never seen how it was steamed, and this time he had the opportunity, of course, he had to feast his eyes.

After boiling for a while, the water in the pot finally boiled, and a faint vapor filled the retort.

Gao Daquan didn't dare to slack off, and sprinkled the bran evenly on the bottom of the retort.

In just one breath, the water vapor in the retort is abundant.

Gao Daquan said: "Seventh brother, you have to care, don't be too anxious for me, and don't be too slow!" ”

Sun Qilang answered, and handed over the first dustpan.

The two Zhuang Ke gave Sun Qilang another hand by the cylinder, and took the empty dustpan to load it inside.

Gao Daquan sprinkled a layer of material in the retort, and then ordered to stop, and sprinkled another layer of chaff. This is because I am afraid that the viscosity of the material is too large, and it will be bonded in the retort, and the wine will not be steamed.

This one is about five feet in diameter and about five feet in height. If everything goes well, this retort will steam out almost a thousand catties of wine.

It took more than half an hour to fill the material, Gao Daquan let out a sigh, took the retort cover from Sun Qilang's hand, and covered it on the retort.

This time, the retort lid is specially made for steaming sake, and the top is conical, leaving plenty of room for steam to steam inside, which is not comparable to the last improvisation.

Next to him, Xu Chang had already set up the utensils for receiving wine, and handed over the bamboo pipe for Gao Daquan to connect.

At the place where the wine was received this time, Xu Ping specially asked people to make a tin condenser, which used cold well water to cool the steam that came over. The reason why it is made of tin is that tin is relatively soft and easy to process, and the other is that tin has good thermal conductivity, even in Xu Ping's previous life, the tin condenser is also the standard equipment for liquor brewing.

Of course, you don't need a condenser, but you can also pick up the sake. However, in that case, a lot of it will be emitted in the air, which will reduce the rate of alcohol production and make it less economical.

After everything was done, Gao Daquan and Sun Qilang were already sweating profusely, as if they had just been fished out of the water. Especially Gao Daquan, one was tired, and the other was steamed, got off the stool, and almost collapsed.

Xu Ping came up and patted him on the shoulder: "You are the hardest today, and the first bowl of wine will be given to you to drink." In the evening, the village killed a pig, slaughtered a sheep, and ate it happily! ”

Gao Daquan was so tired that he couldn't speak, just nodded.

Sun Qilang said weakly on the side: "The second bowl is mine!" ”

Everyone laughed together.

Zhuang Ke fetched well water to wash Gao Daquan and Sun Qilang's faces, and everyone looked intently at the place where the wine was produced.

The wine is served by Xu Changzai. Below was a wine vat, and Xu Chang, who was standing on the side, was still holding a small jar in his hand, staring at the wine outlet with a serious face.

After a long while, finally a stream of wine trickled out of the outlet. Xu Ping let out a sigh of relief, and all the villagers also let out a cheer.

Xu Chang didn't dare to slack off, put the small jar in his hand to the wine mouth, and continued carefully.

This is the head of the wine, which is generally about 75 degrees, and it is the essence of the wine. Normally, the head of wine is not suitable for direct drinking, one is too high, and the other is too volatile substances, which is easy to catch. It is best to age for a period of time to blend with other wines.

But at this time, there are several drunkards in Xu Pingzhuang, who are addicted to alcohol, where will they care about these. Especially Xu Chang and Gao Daquan, they can even drink the tasteless wine sweat, not to mention the fragrant wine. You must know that the wine sweat is steamed directly when frying wine, although it is also a high number of distilled liquor, the taste is inferior to Xu Ping's Russian vodka in his previous life, which few Chinese will like.

Seeing that Xu Chang had almost a liter, Xu Ping shouted: "It's all right, it's almost, stop." ”

Xu Chang carefully took back the wine jar, and saw that the wine coming out of the wine mouth was flowing into the wine vat below, and he breathed a sigh of relief. I put the small wine jar in my hand under my nose and smelled it, and the aroma of wine came to my nose, and I couldn't help but be full of intoxication.

Gao Daquan had already seen it hot on that side, and when he saw Xu Chang's appearance, he couldn't help shouting: "Everything, the first bowl of wine has been promised to me!" ”

Xu Chang raised his head, smiled reluctantly, came to Gao Daquan with the wine jar, and said, "The first bowl should naturally be yours, how can I grab it!" ”

But that look, no matter how you look at it, is reluctant.

A Zhuang guest had already brought a bowl, and Xu Chang poured it for Gao Daquan.

Xu Ping said: "This wine is more powerful than the previous one, one bowl is the same as the original bowl and a half, don't pour it full, otherwise you will knock down Gao Daquan!" ”

Gao Daquan said: "The little official is reluctant again, scare me with this!" ”

Xu Ping scolded with a smile: "I have a good heart, but I am all blind to you reckless man!" This altar is yours after all, so what's the difference between being in your stomach a quarter earlier and a moment later? ”

Next to him, Sun Qilang said: "How can there be no difference?" One moment earlier, one moment to the stomach, one moment of peace of mind! Originally, I said that the second bowl was mine! ”

Xu Chang was impatient, and poured it on Sun Qilang again.

Gao Daquan took a deep breath on the bowl, raised his head, and drank it in one gulp.

This wine is not as spicy as before, and it only feels smooth when it comes down to the mouth, and when it reaches the stomach, a heat swells up from the stomach to the top of the head.

Gao Daquan was hot and tired, he was already exhausted, and he was rushed by the strength of this wine, only to feel that the world was spinning, and he sat on the ground with his ass.

The mouth shouted: "Ahhh This wine is so powerful, it's on fire! ”

Sun Qilang next to him was about to enter his mouth, and was startled by Gao Daquan's appearance. His amount of alcohol is already much worse than Gao Daquan, and after reading Gao Daquan, where do you dare to be reckless, just drink slowly in small sips.

Xu Ping scolded with a smile: "If you don't listen to you, you deserve to fall!" ”

When Xu Chang saw this, he also became cautious, and just poured himself a small half bowl.

The three of them drank the most, and their status was the highest among the villagers, but no one robbed them.

Li Zhang saw the appearance of the three of them, licked his lips, and said to Xu Ping: "Brother, this wine is really so powerful?" Come on and I'll try it too! ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "You are a child, you can't drink that kind of wine, just taste a little in the wine tank." ”

Li Zhang's eyes were full of disdain.

At this time, there was also a lot of wine in the vat, and if it was enough to wait until all the retorts were steamed, it would take almost an hour. Xu Ping saw that Zhuang Ke was looking at it with a blank eye, so he said: "Good wine, just taste it with a little less, we have a lot of work to do today, if you are drunk now, don't eat at night!" ”

All the villagers applauded and hugged together to serve wine.

Xu Chang came to Xu Ping with two bowls, handed them to him and Li Zhang, and said, "Dalang, you can also taste it, this wine is indeed much better than before!" ”

Li Zhang had already waited anxiously, took the bowl in his hand, took a big sip of it, swallowed it and tasted it, and said in his mouth: "Ah, my head is a little dizzy!" This wine is so powerful and fragrant! ”

Xu Ping smiled, picked up the bowl in his hand and took a small sip, and after a while, he was completely relieved. Although it is not very good, this is a serious liquor. Speaking of which, this wine is the so-called fragrant type of Xu Ping's previous life, similar to the taste of Fenjiu, which is the most suitable for the taste of northern China.