The bucket was brought over, Gao Daquan didn't need a flat shoulder, he carried a wooden bucket in one hand, and carried more than a dozen buckets of water from the river next to him, and he didn't stop until Xu Ping shouted to stop, but he was only slightly panting.

The people around couldn't help but look dumbfounded, this guy was like a cow, and he didn't know how much strength he had in his body.

When he was making noise, Liu Xiaoyi drove an ox cart over and stopped in front of everyone.

Sun Qilang said: "Brother Xiaoyi, did you bring us wine to eat when you came from the town?" ”

Liu Xiaoyi smiled: "There is no wine, there is a cart of wine lees, do you want it?" ”

Everyone laughed, walked to the front of the car, uncovered the covered straw, and sure enough, it was a cart of sake lees, and they all buried their heads in it, took a deep breath, and made a reluctance.

Xu Ping knew that the sake lees were transported back to feed the pigs, and it was not surprising.

Liu Xiaoyi took out a small gourd from his side and handed it to Xu Chang: "Don't care, this is a small filial piety to you, you don't get much, save some drink." ”

Everyone was in an uproar, and they all said that Liu Xiaoyi was tending to be inflammatory.

Liu Xiaoyi said: "Shut up, this is the sweat of the decoction, and Mrs. specially ordered to bring it back to the capital." Here you go, can you drink it? ”

Gao Daquan was unconvinced: "What kind of wine sweat is so powerful?" ”

Xu Ping was moved in his heart, the so-called wine sweat is obtained by the rise of wine gas when frying wine and condensing into water, to put it bluntly, it is the alcohol obtained from steaming wine 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 process, solid fermentation, solid distillation, only to have a unique aroma. Except for Chinese baijiu, other high-grade liquors in the world are steamed directly, such as Jiu Khan, but they generally cannot be drunk directly after steaming, for example, they must be processed in oak barrels for many years, otherwise no one can drink them.

Agricultural machinery and food machinery are sometimes not so clearly distinguished, which is also Xu Ping's specialty. In fact, in his previous life, the use of food alcohol to make liquor was a very important project of the government, in order to save food. But there has been no perfect process, and it can only be used to make low-grade liquor. With the power of the country, we can only do this, and it is conceivable that Chinese liquor is by no means as simple as alcohol mixed with water.

Asking for a gourd from Xu Chang's hand, Xu Ping opened it, and the spicy smell of choking came to his face. He raised his head and took a small sip, as expected, it was like drinking a burning knife, there was no aroma of wine at all, and after drinking, he was dizzy, and the strength of the wine rushed directly to the top of his head.

When he turned his head, he found that Gao Daquan was looking straight at him, licking his tongue vigorously. Xu Ping smiled bitterly, the real drunkards have to dare to face the fire-like alcohol, and those drunkards who drank medical alcohol directly in the history books of the previous life are really endless.

Handing the gourd in his hand to Gao Daquan, Xu Ping said: "You worked hard just now, I'll give you a sip of this wine sweat, but don't drink too much." Don't drink it in the future, this thing hurts the body. ”

Gao Daquan didn't care so much, took the gourd and raised his head and took a big sip, and then he kept sticking out his tongue with his big mouth open, but he kept shouting in his mouth.

Taking the gourd back, Xu Ping said to Liu Xiaoyi: "Brother Xiaoyi, you pull the wine lees to my yard, I still have a use, and I will only pull it to feed the pigs tomorrow." ”

Liu Xiaoyi agreed and drove the ox cart back first.

Xu Ping instructed Xu Chang again: "Take care of it, you go to the kitchen and find a retort in my yard, it needs to be a bigger one." ”

Xu Chang didn't know what Xu Ping was going to do, so he couldn't help but listen, so he led two people to the kitchen.

Xu Ping led everyone back to his small courtyard, led them to the kitchen, and instructed: "Come and two people to wash the pot, and then go and fetch a few buckets of water to fill the water tank over there." ”

In this year's drought, these villagers are bored every day, and they are very enthusiastic about doing something.

It didn't take much effort, and the other bankers in the front room also rushed over, as if playing a game, one after another, more lively than the market.

After cleaning up here, Xu Chang also found a big retort, which was used for steaming steamed buns in the village. Xu Ping took matters into his own hands, opened an opening at the top of the retort, and inserted a bamboo pipe into it to sharpen the mouth.

After tidying up, Xu Ping ordered to pour water into the pot, then put the retort on the pot, and asked Xu Chang to bring someone to the courtyard to put the wine lees on Liu Xiaoyi's car into the retort.

Seeing that everyone was busy, Xiuxiu asked Xu Ping in a low voice: "Official, do you want to steam the lees and eat it?" Although Mrs. said yesterday that the family is in a recession, it will not be a bad person, right? ”

The so-called bad people, sad to say, are some of the most impoverished families in the city of Tokyo, who make a living by eating the lees left over from the sake brewery of the city's main restaurant.

The so-called prosperity is naturally windy and snowy for the rich and powerful, and the happiness is boundless; For the people at the bottom, it is the suffering of hunger and cold, and the depression of never coming out. In the shadow of every lantern in the city of Tokyo, there are the bones of the lowest people.

Xu Ping shook his head and didn't say anything.

In a short time, the retort was almost full. Xu Pingrang closed the lid, ordered to bring firewood, and lit a fire under the pot. In a moment, the aroma of wine overflows.

asked to find a jar to receive wine at the mouth of the bamboo tube, Xu Ping went out of the kitchen and came to sit and rest under the big poplar tree in the small courtyard.

Xu Chang walked over and said to Xu Ping: "Da Lang, you don't think that you can sweat like this, do you?" ”

Xu Ping smiled: "If you steam for a while, you will know everything." ”

This is yellow sake lees, which also contains more than one percent of alcohol, and of course it can be steamed out of wine, and what is steamed out is real liquor, not wine sweat. In the previous life, the lees of the rice distillery had to be steamed in this way before they were processed, and the wine obtained was called lees liquor. In fact, the distillation of alcohol from distiller's grains is called the incense method, and the edible alcohol in the previous life was made from this process, rather than a simple blending.

In less than half an hour, there was liquor flowing out of the bamboo tube, emitting the unique aroma of liquor. A dry Zhuang looked at Xu Ping with blank 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 degree with the strongest aroma. Baijiu generally has a special flavor when it is above 54 degrees, and the volume of this degree liquor is the smallest, the density is the largest, and it is not simply alcohol dissolved in water, but a special liquid that is different from water and alcohol. As for the low-alcohol wine in the previous life, the aroma of the wine was mixed out by a special method, otherwise it would not be possible to drink it at all.

When there was no wine flowing out, Xu Ping let a retort of sake lees go up, and after the wine flowed out, he ordered a wine jar to be changed after a while.

Seeing Xu Ping holding half a jar of wine, Gao Daquan squeezed to Xu Chang's side, and the two of them looked at each other with their eyes shining.

Xu Ping smiled bitterly and poured the wine from the jar into the pot, and the two of them were stunned, almost rushing up to grab it in their hands.

There is no special reason for this, it is that Xu Ping was so busy that he forgot that he had to pinch the head and remove the tail of the steamed wine in order to get a good wine of uniform quality. However, it is not a pity to pour it back into the pot, it can still be steamed, and the quality is better.

When the voices in this small courtyard were boiling, a high-pitched female voice suddenly came from outside, and then it went up and down, twisting and turning, like singing, and the timbre was always sharp.

Xu Chang's face immediately changed when he heard this, his face was so red that he was about to burst out, and his eyebrows were upside down.

Xu Ping was very uncomfortable with this kind of voice, and he didn't even hear what he was talking about, so he pulled Xiuxiu aside and asked her quietly, "Who is outside?" How can it be like swearing? ”

Xiuxiu looked left and right, and then whispered: "It's Granny Hong, who is scolding Xu Duguan." ”

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

Xiuxiu said: "Have you forgotten the official? Yesterday, Mrs. explained that Granny Hong was in charge of everything in this village, and today you hired that Gao Daquan, and you didn't discuss it with your mother-in-law, so she scolded Xu Duguan for borrowing your power and wanting to seize her power. ”

Xu Ping said angrily: "What a mess! Can't I be the master in this village? ”

Xiuxiu lowered her head, and after a while, she secretly glanced at Xu Ping, and muttered in a low voice: "With Madame here, how did you do it?" ”

Xu Pingden was stunned. What is this, the only child in his own dignified family, and he is still bound by a servant woman in the family? Which country is this the rule?

After thinking about it for a while, I sighed impatiently, this is the rule of my Great Song Dynasty.

Xu Ping is fifteen years old this year, just the same age as the current emperor, but even the emperor can't be the master! Now that the Empress Dowager Liu is listening to the government, she has the final say on everything, doesn't the emperor have to be obedient?

There is an old lady here, and the affairs of the family are the old lady's decision, what she says is what she says, dare to be disobedient, be careful that someone accuses you of disobedience, and the ass is beaten with a stick.

But how can this be done? Such a big Zhuangzi, let a shrew who can only scold the street have the final say, so is it okay? Xu Ping's temper is mild and stubborn, but he can't stand this, so he takes the time to go to the town, tell his parents about the matter, and make his own decisions about the affairs in the village.

Outside, Granny Hong scolded endlessly, and the more Xu Ping listened, the more annoyed he became, he couldn't hold back any longer, turned around and rushed out, startling Xiuxiu, and hurriedly followed.

When Granny Hong saw Xu Ping come out, she was taken aback, stopped scolding, and looked at him viciously.

Xu Ping said loudly: "If you dare to scold again, I will overturn you with a knife, and chop the knife into stuffing and wrapping it into buns, do you believe it or not?!" ”

This is the tone of the gentleman, the innate temperament of a single, at this time Xu Ping blurted out, it was as complete as if it were natural.

Granny Hong was frightened, she knew that this little animal had been lawless since she was a child, if she really provoked it, she couldn't tell if she dared to do something to kill people with a knife, and she lowered her head with a weak heart.

When she was frozen there, Lin Suniang came in from outside, looked at everyone, and said softly, "What happened in the village?" It's so noisy that outsiders will think when they hear it? ”

Seeing Lin Suniang, Granny Hong was like seeing a savior, and hurriedly greeted her. This little girl is the future housemother, isn't it all the women who have the final say in the affairs of the family? Not to mention the Xu family, even in the palace. As long as she has the favor of the two housewives, who is she afraid of?

Listening to Granny Hong talking about what happened with a handful of snot and tears, Lin Suniang just smiled, did not nod or speak. She just came to calm the situation, and she didn't go through the door, what can she say?

Xu Ping couldn't get angry at Lin Suniang, but his anger did not subside, and he said to Granny Hong: "Go and kill a sheep, I want to invite everyone to eat and drink today, and I have something to do in the future!" ”

After speaking, he turned his head and went back to his small courtyard.

Later, Lin Suniang said: "Dad asked me to tell you, school will start tomorrow, don't forget." ”