Monster Hunter: Farm Story Begins with Pokémon

Chapter 456 [Lava], Big Profits
12 month 28 day.

This is an important day for the winery, as the first batch of whiskey that has been matured in barrels is ready to be taken out of the barrels.

Early in the morning, Bai Zhen came to the underground wine cellar of the winery.

In order to ensure that the wines can mature smoothly, the entire wine cellar is kept at a constant temperature.

Bai Zhen came to the deepest part of the wine cellar. He opened the stopper on the side of the wine barrel. He used a universal tool to transform a spoon for wine, reached into the stopper hole, and scooped out some wine.

He tasted it carefully.

He nodded with great satisfaction: "Special quality, just a little bit away from reaching the legendary level. If the brewing process is more careful, it can reach perfection."

Bai Zhen opened 28 barrels of 225L whiskey that had been stored in the cellar three months ago.

Four of the 28 barrels are of legendary quality, and the rest are all of extra-special quality.

The oak barrels used to mature these whiskies were fired by Bai Zhen using divine flames - lava storms plus fireball slates.

The whiskey matured in this oak barrel tastes different from other whiskeys and has a very special flavor.

For this reason, Bai Zhen named this wheat whiskey "Lava".

Bai Zhen transports the finished oak barrels one by one to the bottling line on the first floor of the winery through mechanical equipment.

This place is already filled with the bottles that Bai Zhen ordered.

The entire body of the bottle is very unique, with lava-like patterns engraved on the transparent body.

When the dark brown whiskey is poured into the bottle, the lava-like patterns become very conspicuous against the dark brown background.

From a distance, this whiskey looks very wild, giving people the feeling that this wine was taken out from a restricted area that humans have never set foot in.

The entire whiskey is brewed using Lv.7 wheat, and its grade is absolutely perfect in the world.

Bai Zhen poured the four barrels of 225L legendary whiskey into 750ml bottles and obtained a total of 1200 bottles of legendary Lv.7 single wheat whiskey.

For these 1200 bottles, Bai Zhen kept 200 bottles for himself, just like he did with the red wine. He numbered the remaining 1000 bottles and made them into limited edition whiskey.

Taking into account the consumption power of the kingdom, Bai Zhen will no longer sell legendary wheat whiskey to the kingdom in the future. Bai Zhen plans to sell the excess legendary whiskey in the Pokémon world.

There were 24 barrels of extra-premium quality whiskey left, and Bai Zhen successfully bottled them into 7200 bottles.

After a whole morning of hard work, Bai Zhen finally successfully bottled the whiskeys.

With the help of the Elu cats, the whiskey was transported to the farm. At two o'clock in the afternoon, Rodna came to the farm with a cart to purchase the whiskey.

This time, Rodna came with Baron Frank.

The wine master couldn't wait to come to Bai Zhen as soon as he arrived at the farm. He asked Bai Zhen with shining eyes: "There will be a wine tasting session today, right?"

As he said this he licked his lips as if he couldn't wait any longer.

Bai Zhen laughed and said, "Of course, as a commodity, it is natural for the buyer to inspect the quality."

"Hurry, hurry, I can't wait!"

Frank sat down at the old table outside the kitchen without any disgust.

When he came here before, he disliked Bai Zhen and thought the environment here was too bad.

But after being completely conquered by Bai Zhen's winemaking skills, Frank lost his arrogance.

As long as there is good wine, it doesn’t matter where you drink it!

Bai Zhen asked Ai Lumao to pour wine for Frank. Frank looked at the new wine in the glass carefully, sniffed it, and asked in surprise: "Is this made from wheat? No other grains added?"

"I have only brewed three kinds of whiskey here for now, and this is one of them, single wheat."

Frank looked at the crystal clear wine in the glass with an intoxicated expression on his face, and praised: "It's really beautiful."

He savored it carefully.

I can no longer use words to describe how I feel at this moment.

He admitted that he had very high expectations for the wine brewed by Bai Zhen, and this expectation would seriously affect the final wine tasting experience.

But even though he had raised his expectations to the limit, after tasting the wine carefully, he was still deeply amazed by it.

The wine was matured to perfection, and the unique aroma and smell contained in it made him feel as if he had drunk boiling magma, but it must be said that this special aroma elevated the perfection of the entire wine to a higher level.

Seeing that Frank had been silent for a long time, Rodna asked Frank: "Baron Frank, how about this wine?"

Frank drank the whiskey in the glass and said with praise: "I can't imagine what a whiskey that tastes better than this would taste like."

Rodna already knew that Frank would give a positive review, but she was still very surprised to see him give such an evaluation.

Out of curiosity, she asked Elu Cat for a glass of whiskey and took a sip.

She was fascinated by the smooth taste.

She had thought Frank's praise was a bit exaggerated before, but now she felt that the evaluation was too low.

Seeing that the two of them were making a fuss, Bai Zhen took out the bottles of whiskey, one was the regular edition and the other was the limited edition.

He said, "You two are exaggerating. What you just tasted were just the worst remnants. These are the real essence."

"Those are still remnants?!" Frank widened his eyes with an incredible expression.

He looked at the bottle of regular whiskey and the limited edition bottle numbered 1000 on the table, and wished he could snatch the wine from Bai Zhen's hand and have a taste.

"It's just the leftovers. These taste better." Bai Zhen asked Elumao to open two bottles of whiskey he had saved for the two of them to taste.

Both of them thought Bai Zhen was bragging, but after drinking it, they both clearly felt the difference.

Although they are all whiskies from the same batch of barrels, there are indeed some differences in taste.

Even Rodna, who doesn't usually drink, could taste the obvious difference.

Frank's eyes were filled with endless admiration when he looked at Bai Zhen at this moment.

"God of wine, how did you make this whiskey?!"

Looking at both worlds, only Bai Zhen can brew this wine, and the reason lies in the tools used and the brewing techniques.

The vessel that Bai Zhen uses to distill whiskey is called a still. With the independent bonus of the universal tool, the still gains an independent special bonus of [Distillation Purity +1000%].

The distilled liquid is divided into three parts, the head, the heart, and the tail.

Among them, because there are many foreign substances such as aldehydes in the head of the wine, and because the alcohol content in the tail is not enough, generally only the center of the wine is cut off and put into barrels.

The heart of the wine only accounts for about 20% to 30% of the distillate.

In order to pursue the highest quality, Bai Zhen only intercepted 17% of the most essence of the spirit as new wine for wheat whiskey.

There is absolutely no room for criticism regarding the quality of this wine.

Bai Zhen explained: "This is the difference in technology. I only took 17% of the core of the distillate for barrel aging. The 17% on the bottle label is the proportion I used." Bai Zhen explained some of the methods to Frank in detail.

As an expert, Frank knew just by listening whether Bai Zhen was imparting real knowledge or just going through the motions.

He hurriedly took out his notebook and wrote down everything Bai Zhen said in detail.

Frank was overjoyed and kept his notebook close to him, preparing to try the winemaking technique taught by Bai Zhen when he returned.

"Mr. Bai Zhen, how much do you plan to sell these wines for?"

Back to the topic, Rodna was now worried whether the money she brought with her was enough to purchase these wines.

Bai Zhen also made an offer without further ado: "A limited edition bottle is 5000 gold, and a non-limited edition bottle is gold."

Bai Zhen once sold 888 bottles of limited edition red wine, and each bottle of that wine sold for 5000 gold.

Nowadays, this Level 7 whiskey is much better than the red wine, so it is reasonable that the price is a billion yuan more expensive.

Rodna hesitated.

If it were her, she would definitely refuse this astonishing price.

Who would sell it at such a high wholesale price? If you take into account the transportation cost and other costs, a bottle brought back to the kingdom would cost at least 50,000 gold. Very few people can afford it.

But after carefully tasting the wine just now, she felt that the price was even a little low.

And the most important thing is that the reputation of Richen Winery is very good in the kingdom now. Basically, as long as the name of Richen Winery is put on the wine, no matter how expensive the wine is, it will be sold out within a few days.

Many powerful hunters and knights were willing to use their savings to buy large quantities of these wines.

Rodna tried to bargain with Bai Zhen, but was rejected very firmly by Bai Zhen.

Finally, Rodna and Bai Zhen reached a purchase agreement.

The 1000 limited edition bottles of wine were sold for 3000 million, and the 7000 bottles of non-limited edition whiskey were sold for 3500 million.

Bai Zhen made 6500 million that day.

After this batch of wine is matured, the next batch of whiskey will be matured and barreled in another 18 days.

Assuming 15000 bottles of whiskey are sold per month, the company can earn 7500 million just from whiskey.

Bai Zhen was still worried about whether the kingdom could digest the limited edition legendary quality liquor, but for this special quality whiskey, Bai Zhen was not worried at all that the kingdom could not consume it.

This wine has the possibility and opportunity to be transported over long distances. If it cannot be consumed in the kingdom, it can still make a lot of money by selling it to other regions.

Bai Zhen is very confident in the quality of this wine.

After the payment was made and the goods were delivered, Rodna asked Bai Zhen: "Mr. Bai Zhen, how long do you plan to sell this limited edition whiskey next time?"

"I may sell the same quality of whisky again, but it will never be limited edition. These 1000 bottles are to celebrate the first time the winery has sold whisky."

For another batch of whiskey that will mature after 18 days, Bai Zhen will continue to seal the legendary whiskey and take it out after it has matured for a longer period of time.

These whiskies have the potential to mature for longer.

In Bai Zhen's memory, the whisky that had been matured for the longest time in his previous life was one that was 81 years old.

Compared with that whiskey, our own whiskey and brewing environment are many times better.

With an aging speed ten times faster than that of a wooden barrel, Bai Zhen estimates that after 10 years of aging, the wine can reach the level of 100 years of aging.

If we take the whiskey out of the barrel at that time, I'm afraid we will get some amazing whiskey.

After hearing Bai Zhen's verbal promise, Rodna had already figured out how to promote this wine. If everything went well, she could sell this wine for 20 yuan a bottle!
Bai Zhen was in a very good mood after accepting tens of millions.

According to the current needs of the kingdom, his winery, including vodka, red wine and other products, can probably bring him hundreds of millions in profits a month.

While waiting for Elu Cat to load the wine onto the carriage, Bai Zhen was bored and chatted with Rodna about the current situation in the kingdom.

"Has the food crisis in the kingdom been alleviated?"

"Thanks to the help of Lord Bai Zhen, the wheat in the kingdom's warehouse is now full again. At least we are now more confident in dealing with disasters."

“If you have a food crisis, you can come to me and I will do my best to help the kingdom.”

Wang Guo is now Bai Zhen’s largest client, so Bai Zhen naturally needs to do something.

"With a reliable partner like Richen Farm as our backing, our kingdom will be able to focus on dealing with disasters within the kingdom."

Rodna was not complimenting, but she truly felt the importance of the farm to the kingdom.

She could even say that if Yanhuo Village and Richen Farm were to encounter accidents at the same time and the kingdom could only save one, the kingdom would definitely save the farm without any hesitation.

Speaking of disasters within the kingdom, Rodna thought of the silver dragon within the kingdom.

She asked Bai Zhen: "Mr. Bai Zhen, I heard a few days ago that you hunted the ancient dragon Tianhui Dragon yourself. I wonder if this is true or not?"

"It does happen."

Bai Zhen's personal admission shocked Rodna again.

The ancient dragon species are like gods to humans, but at this moment Bai Zhen has accomplished a great feat that has never been accomplished by humans before.

Bai Zhen’s value is still rising!

Rodna asked Bai Zhen: "Mr. Bai Zhen, do you know the ancient dragon, the Silver Dragon, who almost destroyed the kingdom hundreds of years ago?"

"Nature knows."

How could Bai Zhen not know? The Silver Dragon is the cover monster of the Monster Hunter Rise DLC Dawn and is also an important part of the Kingdom's plot.

Rodna: "If the kingdom is attacked by the Silver Dragon again in the future, can you help save the kingdom?"

The situation in the kingdom has become increasingly dangerous recently, so Rodna naturally hopes for as much assistance as possible.

"I am also looking for a strong enemy. If Jue Yinlong appears again, I will naturally be willing to help. But now the crisis of Yanhuo Village has not been completely resolved, and I will not leave here in the short term."

"Of course, everything still has to be based on the safety of Yanhuo Village."

Rodna had completed her mission by getting Bai Zhen's promise.

Judging from the current situation in the kingdom, the time when Bai Zhen’s help will be needed will not be too far away, and we may have to ask Bai Zhen for help within half a year.

Bai Zhen also felt a little urgent at this moment.

He has not found any trace of the Wind and Thunder Dragon yet, and he doesn't know what their specific strength is.

But no matter what, the improvement of strength cannot stop.

Tonight’s cooking will play a key role!

(End of this chapter)