Merry Xianggong Ximen Qing

Seeing the alchemy furnace sent by Wu Daoguan, Ximen Qing dismantled it in the yard: "Sure enough, the structure is exactly the same as the picture I saw."

Xue'er next to him looked at Ximen Qing in surprise: "Master, are you planning to practice Taoism? Could it be that you don't want Xue'er anymore?"

"Hey, there is no such thing." Ximen Qing said with a smile: "I always thought this alchemy furnace was very interesting, so I asked Daoist Wu to borrow one for fun."

Ximen Qing was holding the most critical part in his hand, an iron plate with a strange appearance, slightly raised upwards, with more than a dozen small holes in the middle, and anti-concave grooves around the sides, the whole was inclined to one side, and the lowest point of the whole was a There is a gap, and a thin bamboo tube can be connected externally so that the liquid can flow out.

Because of this design, the Taoist priest can heat the Chensha below, and the mercury will turn into steam and overflow through the small holes, while there is cold water above, and the temperature is low, which can make the gaseous mercury condense into liquid, and finally flow out from the bamboo tube.

When making high-strength liquor, you can use this device to repeatedly distill to increase the concentration of ethanol.

Of course, this alchemy furnace is not big in size. If the distillation of liquor is all based on this product, it is estimated that Ximenqing will suffer a lot. This is why Ximenqing asked the magic operator Jiang Jing to help find a blacksmith. of.

Xue'er saw that Ximen Qing didn't say anything, and she didn't bother to care about these things, she just squatted aside and watched Ximen Qing fiddle with it.

"I heard that the master has built a wine-making village, when will I take Xue'er to have a look?"

"Today is too late, let's go there early tomorrow morning." Ximen Qing didn't raise his head: "I just want to get this alchemy furnace over, let Liu Jishou and Liu Neng take a look."

"Boss, what is this...!" When Liu Ji saw the iron plate the next day, he didn't know what to say.

Of course, Ximen Qing pulled all the bits and pieces here. Since he disassembled the things yesterday, Ximen Qing found that they could no longer be put together, so he had to use a cart to pull them together.

So when Liu Jishou and Liu Neng and his son saw it, they couldn't see it as an alchemy furnace at all, it was just a pile of broken copper and rotten iron.

"This is a good thing!" Ximen Qing knocked on the iron plate with an iron plate of unknown parts, and made a crisp sound: "Didn't I tell you a way to make wine before? This is the most important thing. part."

Liu Neng stood aside, silently picked up the iron plate and looked it upside down, touched it with his hand, as if he was feeling something: "Boss, are these holes what you said last time? The hole that the Chinese elite ran out of?"

When Ximen Qing gave them gestures and explanations, of course he would not use ethanol as a descendant term, but instead used "essence in wine", which made Liu Jishou and Liu Neng understand.

Wine is the essence of food, the more you drink, the more energetic you will be.

Liquor is brewed from grain, and it is naturally the essence of grain. Both Liu Jishou and Liu Neng firmly believe in this concept. When Ximen Qing's saying came out, both of them nodded their heads.

Taoist alchemy is to extract the vitality of heaven and earth and collect its essence, so using this thing to extract the essence from wine is also very acceptable to Liu Jishou and Liu.

It sounds pretty good to use Taoist techniques to extract the essence of wine.

"Unfortunately, this set of things can't be installed anymore." Ximen Qing regretted infinitely: "Otherwise, I can get some wine to test today."

Fortunately, Wu Daoguan, that lazy man, has never used this thing to practice pills. If there is mercury residue, it is completely courting death.

"The newly brewed wine is almost ready." Liu nodded with a few hands and said, "But there are still dozens of jars of good wine, you can try them."

Ever since Ximen Qing persuaded him to leave a few hands, his attitude has taken a 180-degree turn. He regrets falling out with his son Liu Neng at the beginning. This time, he even used Liu Neng's recipe for wine making. I watched from the sidelines and occasionally pointed out. Two sentences.

Liu Neng's new recipe boldly added a small amount of other grains instead of sorghum.

The scents produced by brewing these days have become very comforting, more fragrant and mellow than the original recipe.Liu Jishou and Liu Neng sleep here almost every day, watching the temperature change, hoping that there will be no problems at the last moment, and live up to Ximen Qing's high hopes.

Liu Neng also tried it, but gave up after a while. It seems that this alchemy furnace is really easy to disassemble and not install.

"Do you want to let the blacksmith try it?" Leaving a few hands and watching for a long time, when Ximen Qing was thinking about whether to bring that fellow Wu Daoguan here, he suddenly said this.

"Blacksmith? Could it be that Mr. Jiang is back?" Although Ximen Qing and the fortune teller Jiang Jing have long been close as brothers, they still call him Mr. Jiang habitually.

"It was getting dark yesterday." Liu Jishou nodded, "Mr. Jiang simply brought the blacksmith to this village for fear of affecting the master's rest when it was dark."

"I had a drink yesterday, and the blacksmith was full of praise for the delicious wine." Liu Neng simply put down the things in his hands, and added honestly: "I guess it's time to get up by now." <Feng strode in , followed by a strong man.

It seems that Jiang Jing drank very high last night, and now he is very energetic.

"Brother, come, come, this is the official Ximen that my brother told you about." Jiang Jing introduced Ximen Qing directly.

The strong man behind Jiang Jing came up to him, saluted first, and then raised his head: "Tang Long has seen Brother County Captain."

It doesn't matter if you don't look up, as soon as you look up, Xueer who is standing next to you is startled, and she hides behind Ximen Qing. This face is full of bumps and scars. If I really want to describe it, it is the following few. sentence:

The rain falls on the ashes, the chickens peck the watermelon skin, the spiked shoes step on the mud, and the pomegranate peels are turned over.

"Tang Long? Could it be Tang Long who is known as the leopard in the world?" Ximen Qing looked at this man's appearance, plus his name, it is very likely that he is Tang Long, the imperial blacksmith of Liangshan - the leopard.

"Haha." Tang Long laughed loudly and said, "This name was given by some good friends in Jianghu. I didn't expect my brother to have heard of the name of little brother."

Seeing Xueer's frightened look, Tang Long added another sentence: "Sister-in-law, don't be afraid, I'm all blacksmithing and sparks are on it, I'm not sick."

"You call me sister-in-law?" Xue'er showed a small face from behind Ximen Qing, with a look of disbelief. She was only in her twenties and eight years old, and she was really not used to being called sister-in-law by people in her twenties.

"You are from the county captain's brother's family. If I don't call you sister-in-law, what do you call me?" Tang Long bowed solemnly, and then said to Ximen Qing: "I have heard from brother Jiang Jing about everything here. Since the brother came out of Yan'an Mansion, he has been floating in the rivers and lakes, and this time he has made a comeback."

It seems that Jiang Jing, the magician, really speaks for himself behind his back.Find any accountant, and Jiang Jing, the fortune teller, is found; find any blacksmith, and Tang Long jumps out.Brother, it's unreasonable if it's not a pig's foot halo.

"We're all brothers, why bother to say such polite words!" Ximen Qing also cupped his hands in salute: "In this case, brothers will live in this village. The bellows, anvils and other things have long been prepared for brothers, even the iron ore Stone, also searched a lot."

"It's easy to say!" Tang Long gave a strange cry, and suddenly found the fragments on the table: "This, it seems to be the object on the alchemy furnace! Brother, why is there such an object here!"

"Hehe. Brother, I don't know something." Ximen Qing told the cause and effect again, and Jiang Jing finally understood why Ximen Qing hurriedly prepared things for the blacksmith, and then asked himself to go out to find the blacksmith.

"Why did my brother recognize this thing as an alchemy furnace at a glance?" Ximen Qing asked with interest. It seems that Tang Long not only knows how to forge iron, but also knows something about this kind of thing.

"I helped Taoist make a batch before." Tang Long replied, picked up the weird iron plate and looked at it: "I still remember the structure, look at mine..."

Afterwards, a group of people watched Tang Long's performance, and before reaching a bowl of tea, the alchemy furnace returned to its original state.

"Good brother, you have two hands!" The fortune teller Jiang Jing couldn't help but praise him.

"I remember all the items I have punched in my heart." Tang Long said with a smile: "I will start to make them in the afternoon, and my brother will tell me the size. I will find another three or five to help."

The size is easy to say, just use the largest pot in Zhuangzi. As for people, the most important thing here in Ximenqing is manpower.

When Tang Long, the leopard, brought his people to prepare, according to Ximen Qing's instructions, he left a few hands and bought a jar of wine with Liu Neng, ready to try it with the alchemy furnace.

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"Well, it's out!" Liu Neng waited anxiously, watching the small bamboo tube start to drip some turbid liquid: "Boss, is this the essence of wine? Why does it look so turbid?"

"The first part has some impurities, just throw it away." Ximen Qing was also very happy in his heart, but he still suppressed his mood and calmly commanded: "Pay attention to observation, when it is close to colorless, this is the real spirit of drinking magnificent."

"When it becomes turbid again, you can't take it anymore, because there are more impurities left." Ximen Qing tried his best to recall the key point: "The cold water on top must be replaced after a while, and it must be cold enough so that the essence in the wine can condense stand up."

"Why isn't it amber?" Liu Jishou couldn't help asking.

"The color of amber is actually some impurities in it." Ximen Qing explained: "The essence in the wine is actually colorless, because...that is all essence."

After being in a hurry, Liu Jishou, Liu Neng and his son, Ximen Qing and Xueer looked forward to seeing the colorless transparent liquid in the middle, after the first distillation, only two or three out of ten remained.

A very fragrant smell of wine came out. This is no longer rice wine, but the first high-alcohol liquor in this era!

There is no exact degree to measure, but Ximen Qing took a sip, and it is about forty degrees.

From now on, the era of drinking in big bowls is over.

In Ximen Qing's heart, Ximen Group's Liquor Industry Branch was officially established!