Kyoto Shenyin Love Story

Chapter 146
After solving the problem on Yoshikawa's side, Soya brought Akane Kirino and Rin Asagiri to the door of the supermarket he frequented.

"Today's Best Deals..."

He looked at the poster on the glass wall, "A box of eggs for 110 eight yen."

"It's so cheap."

"Well, but the purchase limit is two boxes."

"Hmph." Akane Kirino supported Zhao Wuling's shoulder, "There are three of us, we can buy six boxes!"

Soya smiled, and looked inside, "I bought too much and I can't hold it, so I have to buy other things."

"Then go in and have a look first."

"Ah."

Walking into the supermarket, Soya had just picked up the shopping basket, and Akane Kirino had already pushed the shopping cart next to her.

"..."

Looking at each other, he put down the shopping basket.

"Beforehand, I've bought too many things and I can't carry them."

"Let Yuezi come over and help."

Soya shook his head, "He is working at Fuyun Shrine today."

"Eh?"

"Isn't it raining all the time? The shrine maidens have designed a new sunny doll, Omori, and plan to sell more while it's not raining today."

"Is that so..."

Akane Kirino was thoughtful, and didn't say that she should buy less, but just walked forward.

Chao Wuling walked ahead, because she had been here many times, so she went straight to the ingredients area with ease.Akane Kirino pushed the shopping cart behind her, and a thought suddenly popped up in her mind.

"Soya, push for a while."

"Ah."

Soya took the shopping cart, and then saw her walking quickly behind Zhao Wuling, as if planning to hug her up.

"Kirino!"

He understood Akane Kirino's plan almost instantly, sweating on his forehead, and quickly called her to stop.

It's really big or small!

Even if she is 17 years old on the surface, she is still her older sister!
If she just let her carry Zhao Wuling into the shopping cart, the latter might be angry for how long—the first time he came over, he just mentioned something casually, and Chao Wuling ignored him all day .

Hearing the shout, Zhao Wuling turned her head first, Kirino Akane put her hands on her shoulders that were going to reach her armpits, and then turned her head to Soya:
"what?"

"..."

She winked her eyes, and Soya shook his head.

"Ok."

Zhao Wuling didn't know, so she looked at the two of them, and then turned back.

Akane Kirino walked back, "Let me push it."

"Ah."

"Will Soya sit up?"

"Do not make jokes."

When he came to the ingredient section, Sogu walked and looked, scanning the assortment of vegetables and meat on the shelves on both sides, while thinking about the recipe for dinner.

A lot of vegetables were planted in the backyard of the old house, but not everything. He prioritized the ingredients that he usually ate less.

"The burdock..."

"Buy some bamboo shoots, too."

"This is fennel? It's really rare... It seems to be able to make dumplings."

Soya stopped in front of a shelf, put the fancy vegetables into the shopping cart, and looked left and right.

Kirino Akane brought over a box of chicken, "Soya, this is also a special price!"

He glanced at the price on the box, 580 yen, "Buy it, and make fried chicken nuggets tonight."

"Okay."

She smiled slightly, and her eyes fell on the vegetables he brought into the shopping cart.

"This is... fennel?"

"Ah."

"It's really rare. There are such vegetables in the countryside."

"You can make dumplings."

"Ah, I want to eat! I will also help make dumplings!"

"Okay."

Zongya felt that he had just walked around the supermarket for a while, half an hour had passed, and the shopping cart was full of various ingredients.

"That's it. If you buy it again, you won't be able to fit it."

"Uh-huh."

There is still a long way to go back from the supermarket, and it is true that I can't carry it.

Pushing the shopping cart, while waiting in line for the checkout, Soya saw green plums piled up not far away, and there were glass jars and large bags of rock sugar on the shelf next to it.

"It's been half a month since plum blossoms, and it's time to make plum wine..."

After paying the bill, he returned to Kirino's old house with a few big bags of ingredients. Soya saw the green fruits drying in the yard before he entered.

"Those are the plums my mother dried. After drying for a day, it's time to put them away."

Akane Kirino walked over there, "A small part of the green plum wine sold in my store is homemade."

After dinner, Akane Kirino went to deal with the recovered plums.

They are all fresh greengages that were only picked in June. The individual is plump, the overall color is blue, and some of them are yellow or red.The Kirino family does not have an orchard, and of course these green plums were bought from the supermarket.

After tidying up the kitchen, Soya came to the living room, Akane Kirino was checking under the light with a green plum, and Zhao Wuling was also helping.

"What are you looking at?"

"Check if there is any rot on the surface of the plum, or holes like worm eyes." She turned the greengage in her hand, and faced him with the bottom side, "The fruit stem should also be removed, these will affect the final taste of the greengage wine .”

"yes."

Soya also sat down beside him, picked up a green plum, and twirled it between his fingertips.

"Has it been washed?"

The surface of the plum is very smooth, without the layer of fine fluff when it was just picked.

"Yeah, mom washed it first and then dried it in the sun."

Akane Kirino put the checked and processed greengage into the bamboo basket on the other side, "The rotten fruits were also picked out, but I don't have time to check them carefully."

So, it became her job.

"I'm here to help."

"Okay."

Keiko Kirino bought a lot of greengage plums, and if they were packed in the most common glass bottles he saw in supermarkets, at least ten bottles of greengage wine could be made.

Of these, only two bottles are kept at home, and the rest will be sold at izakayas.Judging from Keiko Kirino's endless enthusiasm for making green plum wine, the response must be good.

"I remember that there was a bottle of green plum wine in the room on the first floor near the stairs."

"That was made around this time last year."

Akane Kirino has helped her mother make plum wine since she was a child, and she has a good understanding of all aspects that need to be paid attention to. "Generally speaking, green plum wine can be drunk after soaking for six to seven months. But the longer the soaking time, the better the taste. OK."

"Is that bottle of green plum wine reserved for guests?"

"That's right, Soya, do you want to try it? Although it is soaked in strong wine, if you only taste a little, it will still taste sweet."

Soya shook his head, any wine is not in the list of delicacies he considers.

Pick and choose, although there are a lot of plums, but the inspection is also very fast, at most it will take some time to remove the fruit stem;

And the unqualified parts, unless they are rotten, can be made into plum sauce or green plum juice, so they are not directly discarded.

"Finally finished checking... my fingers are sore."

Akane Kirino relaxed and shook her arms again.

Soya tidied up the green plums that were divided into two parts, "Put these green plums here, wait for Ms. Kirino to come over and make green plum wine tomorrow?"

"Probably... I'll ask my mother."

Contact Kirino Keiko, and she really planned to do so, thinking that Soya was also with her daughter, so she asked him to help Kirino Akane, and the two of them would make green plum wine.

"...Is this okay?" Soya was very skeptical.

"There is no problem with my words." Akane Kirino said, "I remember the ratio of green plums, rock sugar, and shochu very clearly."

"Then listen to you."

"Mmmmm~"

The rock sugar and soaked glass bottles are ready, and the wine is boxed shochu bought in the market. It is packed in a carton similar to a long milk carton, and it is more convenient to pour.

The glass bottle was just cleaned and dried today, but Kirino Akane still poured some shochu into it, and shook it for a while, as if it was disinfection.

"Songya, this alcohol has a high alcohol content and can be lit with a lighter. Do you want to try it?"

"Really. It's amazing. Next time."

Zhao Wuling divided the ingredients according to the ratio of "one green plum, one wine, and half rock sugar". After all the glass bottles were sterilized, Soya and Akane Kirino began to fill them.

"You don't need to place them in layers, just put them in."

Large chunks of rock sugar fell to the bottom of the glass bottle, making a crisp sound of ping-pong-pong.After the green plums were also packed in, Soya picked up the paper box and started pouring wine into it.

A two-liter bottle of shochu needs to be poured into three boxes to fill it up. There is a little space in the neck of the bottle for the gas released after the greengage is fermented.

In this way, a bottle of green plum wine is preliminarily produced, and the next thing to do is to wait for at least six months.

In the same way, the twelve glass bottles were filled, and the two went back and forth several times to move the green plum wine into the utility room to store away from light.

"After turning into this color, you can enjoy it with confidence."

Akane Kirino patted last year's green plum wine, which was dark in color, "It's sweet and not astringent at all. This bottle of wine was also made by my mother and I."

Soya just nodded, still showing no interest.

"I went to take a shower."

"..."

Kirino Akane puffed up her mouth.

He went to take a shower, and she went to wash a wine glass.

"Just take a sip and you'll know I'm telling the truth..."

Opening the glass bottle, Akane Kirino scooped up a glass of brown plum wine, and held it in front of her eyes for a while.

"This color is really beautiful..."

She couldn't help taking a sip, then licked her lips.

"I just said it's very sweet."

She left the utility room with the wine glass, sat down at the dining table, and waited for Soya to come out of the shower.

The sweet and sour taste lingers between the lips and tongue, accompanied by a slight stimulation that makes people relax, and it takes a long time to dissipate.

It's mesmerizing...

And the wine in the glass was almost full.

"Let's drink a little more..."

(End of this chapter)