The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 331 Zhuangzi's Journey ([-])

Lu Jinkang frowned slightly when he heard this, and Shaoqing looked at Su Yunduo in disbelief. The wine made from grapes from the ten-acre vineyard can only be tasted by relatives and friends?
Although it is too much to say that it can only be tasted by relatives and friends, but the family of Zhen Guogong has great achievements and great in-laws, plus the nobles in the palace, ten acres of grapes is really too little!

Su Yunduo avoided Lu Jinkang's gaze, and let the thread go far away: "Grape wine is not like grain wine. Wine is produced entirely by its own moisture, and no additional water can be added. Cousin, how much water can be produced from a catty of grapes?"

That was the case, Lu Jinkang nodded thoughtfully, turned to the manor and asked, "Apart from this vineyard, where else is there a vineyard near the capital?"

"Of course there are, but we don't grow as many vineyards as we do here. The slave only knows that there is a family in the eastern suburbs that grows about seven or eight acres of grapes.

The grape seedlings were bought from our farm, but the taste of the grapes grown is not as good as our grapes.

It only started to bear fruit last year, but even half of the grapes produced could not be sold, and the rest were rotten in the ground.

Because I lost my money, I came to our village to make a fuss for a while.

The old lady kindly asked the servant to pay back the money for the grape seedlings, but I don't know if the family has pulled the grapes away. "There was nothing unusual on Zhuangtou's dark face, but a suspicious red flashed at the base of his ears.

When this matter was brought up, Zhuangtou felt really ashamed. The Zhuangtou of the Zhuangzi in the eastern suburbs was friends with him. The geological conditions of that Zhuangzi were not good. It was he who proposed to plant grapes, but the two broke up directly.

Jiu'er, who followed them, knew more than Zhuangtou, and he only heard him say: "There are two vineyards in the southern suburbs, and each vineyard is about five or six acres in size. It’s different here, it’s bigger and sweeter, last year it was said to expand planting, I don’t know how the situation is now.”

Su Yunduo shook his head when he heard this, the price of such grapes must not be low, and it is not worth the loss to buy it for wine making.

"I don't know, I don't know if the wild grapes in the mountains are feasible?" Zhuangtou suddenly asked.

"Are there wild grapes in this mountain?" Su Yunduo's eyes lit up, flashing a gleam of joy.

Zhuangtou nodded: "Yes, it's quite a big piece, even though it's small, it tastes sour, even children don't want to eat it. The fruit falls every year, and the neighborhood smells like a lot of wine."

This time, the joy in Su Yunduo's eyes became even brighter. After asking that the field of wild grapes was in the small valley behind Zhuangzi, Su Yunduo immediately decided to go to the valley to have a look.

I was really surprised and happy to see this, there is a huge piece of wild grapes in the valley.

Although it is smaller than Zhuangzi's vineyard, it is different from Su Yunduo's imagination of Zhongye grapes, and its water content is even higher than that of the grapes in the vineyard, so the wine yield rate of such grapes is naturally higher.

As for acidity, it is not a problem. To make wine, a certain proportion of sugar must be added.

After seeing the terrain of this valley, Su Yunduo decided to buy this valley and make this valley connect with Zhuangzi.

Since the wild grapes in the valley can be used to make wine, Lu Jinkang naturally agrees with Su Yunduo buying the valley.

Ning Zhongping walked around the valley and whispered something in Su Yunduo's ear. Su Yunduo opened his eyes wide, and after a while, he squinted his eyes and stared at a certain position for a long time before turning to look at Lu Jin Kang: "We're new here, and we're not familiar with the place. We can only entrust the purchase of this valley to my cousin, money..."

"It's up to me, cousin, don't worry, I will invest in this valley, and the land deed will be in my cousin's name, which counts as my investment in wine." Lu Jinkang finished speaking and looked at Su Yunduo.

Su Yunduo drooped his eyes, frowned and muttered, then quickly raised his head, smiled at Lu Jinkang and said, "Then there is Cousin Lao Lu!"

Although she still has some silver in her hand, when she first arrives in the capital, there will always be needs of one kind or another. Compared with Geshan Village, there are too many places where she uses silver, so she seems to borrow some money from Lu Jinkang. Now Lu Jinkang The offer to invest in the wine with the valley could not have been better.

Ning Zhongping frowned so much that a fly could be crushed to death. He was a little unhappy that Su Yunduo and Lu Jinkang had too much involvement, but he couldn't say anything against it.

Naturally, he also brought some silver with him, but there was a big gap in buying this valley.

Knowing that this village has a vineyard, Su Yunduo discussed with Ning Zhongping that the Ning family will participate in the wine business, so how should he participate?

You can't be a white wolf with empty gloves!
When Ning Zhongping frowned and thought deeply, Lu Jinkang had already told Jiu'er to go back to the city to handle the business in the valley.

Although Su Yunduo's mind was on the grapes, he did not ignore Ning Zhongping, seeing him frowning and not saying a word, knowing what he was thinking, felt a little sore in his heart, thought for a while and said, "Where does Dongling Country produce oak? "

Now it was Lu Jinkang's turn to frown, but Ning Zhongping raised his brows and said, "We have oaks deep in Yanshan Mountain, and they grow very tall. We need oaks to make wine?"

Seeing Ning Zhongping's expression on his face, Su Yunduo's slightly sore mood was also relieved, and he looked at Ning Zhongping with big almond eyes and said: "If wine is to be stored for a long time, it is best to use oak barrels."

Now Ning Zhongping smiled even brighter: "What does this oak barrel look like, and how much does it need, my uncle will take care of it!"

Seeing that Ning Zhongping was happy, Su Yunduo's eyebrows were even more curved: "I will draw the shape of the oak barrel when I return to the city."

He suddenly shook his head and said: "No, no, no, how can we make barrels in Yanshan Mansion and send them to the capital? It won't take up too much space! We have to transport the oak to the capital, and find a carpenter to make barrels."

Ning Zhongping laughed loudly again.

Isn't that right, he was only thinking about how to participate in it, but he forgot the most basic common sense, if the oak is first made into barrels, how many can be transported in a carriage? !

Lu Jinkang was slightly taken aback for a moment, and then he also laughed.

The three of you talked to each other, and quickly decided on the oak barrel.

It is only about half a month before the grapes mature, and the wine made from the first batch of grapes can only be used in clay pots for the time being. However, wine making from grapes is not a whim, it is prepared to become bigger and stronger, so oak barrels cannot be used. Short.

Standing here in the valley, the three of them actually made all the arrangements for the wine workshop.

This is the first year of trial brewing, and Su Yunduo is not very sure that the wine will be produced, so the three of them agreed that the three of them will fund this season's wine and try brewing it in clay pots first.

Ning Zhongping was in charge of customizing the clay pots, Lu Jinkang was in charge of arranging the winemaking staff, and Su Yunduo was in charge of grape picking and winemaking technical guidance.

"What else do we need to prepare besides clay pots?" Naturally, Lu Jinkang didn't think that only grapes could make good wine, so the three of them asked as they descended the mountain.

"I still need some high-quality snowflake candies." Su Yunduo hesitated for a moment before saying it.

Originally, she planned to buy sugar by herself, but the grapes here have high acidity and low sugar content, so the amount of sugar used is relatively large. Her current ability and financial resources should be adequate, and it would be much easier and easier to hand over to Lu Jinkang.

Sure enough, Lu Jinkang listened, nodded and said, "Leave the sugar to me, you just need to tell me the quantity."

(End of this chapter)