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It took only an hour to go home, and Ouyang had something on his mind, so he walked a little faster.After trotting all the way, he hurried back home in less than half an hour.

"Oh? Brother, why are you back?" Ouyang just got in from the restaurant and walked into the yard, when he was discovered by Yun Niang who was tidying up the yard.

From her questioning, Ouyang heard that besides the surprise, there was also a worry, and he could be regarded as an "uninvited guest" when he came back now.He walked over and snatched the broom in Yunniang's hand and laughed, "Sister, I miss your steamed stuffed buns. I've only been away for a day and I can't wait to eat them."

Yun Niang smiled shyly, punched him a few times and said seriously: "Stinky boy, be serious, what's the matter?"

Ouyang looked back at the restaurant and said: "Sister, this restaurant is about to be completed, and the chef has it. Do you still remember the other weapon I told you about our restaurant?"

"Sharp weapon? Sharp... you mean wine? Do you want to make wine? Brat, you are a captain, from the sixth grade! How can you come back when you are not busy in the army? How is this ridiculous? Hurry up Go back soon, go back soon!" Yunniang was overjoyed when she heard this, but she turned serious and pushed Ouyang away.

"Hey, hey, sister, don't worry, listen to me!" Ouyang stopped his figure with force, and said with a bitter face: "If the army can't leave, can I come here? Besides, the wine making is imminent Yes. Is there a better time to promote good wine than when the restaurant opens? Don't worry, it won't delay the business."

Yun Niang nodded half-believingly, turned her face around and regained her spirits, and while tugging on Ouyang's sleeve to greet her family, she asked quickly; "Tell me, what do you need to make wine, sister will buy it for you now, What you said is so mysterious, even I want to drink it early."

Ouyang smiled: "There are a lot of things, I can't remember them after a while, first I greet my mother and aunt, and then write them on paper for you. Hey, by the way, how is sister-in-law Xiang, the baby is in the belly How is Zhong Ke? And Uncle Chu and the others, why didn’t they see it?”

"Your sister-in-law Xiang is very good, so you don't need to worry about it. You have time to persuade Uncle Chu and those two disciples. You are like a lunatic. Except for eating, drinking and sleeping in the forged steel house all day long, you can't go out. Come out. You will get sick after a long time."

Ouyang listened to Yunniang chatting all the way and met two old ladies, went back to the house and wrote a piece of paper, on which he wrote some things that must be used to make wine: "One hundred catties each of sorghum, peas, barley, etc., one hundred catties of ordinary wine, one hundred catties of bamboo Leaves, astragalus, angelica and other medicinal materials..." There are more than a dozen items in Lingling, and they are all in large quantities.

"Are you going to open a grocery store or something? You buy so many things." Yun Niang took the paper and kicked it into her sleeve. She didn't know many words, but after listening to Ouyang read it, she took notes and turned around to make arrangements.

Ouyang decided to make wine with some equipment in the last house purchased next door, which is inconvenient to do here.If it is seen by someone with a heart, there is really no secret recipe to speak of.

Now Ouyang does not intend to produce Fenjiu of later generations. Firstly, because of its complicated production process, it would take half a year to produce the same wine even if he finds someone to work overtime around the clock. look.

To put it simply, Fenjiu is a light-flavor liquor. It is made from sorghum and undergoes dozens of processes such as fermentation and distillation.In the brewing process of Fenjiu, a special distiller's koji - Daqu, is added. This kind of koji is the crystallization of the thousand-year brewing process of the people of Xinghua Village.

The most important thing among them is distiller's yeast. Ouyang's father is an old alcoholic and a native of Shanxi.So the father and son have checked online and asked someone to ask.Only then did I know a lot of information.

Fenjiu has three kinds of music - red heart, clear stubble, and back fire.The three kinds of koji are made of the same raw materials (nothing more than sorghum, peas, etc.) into koji bricks, which are naturally fermented in the koji room.During the fermentation process, the master of the koji room opens and closes the window to control the fermentation temperature so that the same raw materials can be fermented into three different kojis.The masters in Qufang work very hard, and usually they can't go home, so they live in Qufang.A qu room costs 2000 yuan, and it needs to be turned every two days.After the koji is fermented, it is placed outside for 3-6 months, so that the microbial structure in it tends to be stable.Then it's on to the brewing step.The three kinds of koji are crushed according to a certain ratio, and then mixed with raw materials such as sorghum, steamed thoroughly in a pot, and put into a vat.Here I would like to say that the biggest feature of Fenjiu fermentation is the fermentation in earth tanks, which rely on cotton quilts to keep warm, and rely on geothermal heat and the heat generated by fermentation to provide the heat required for fermentation.The fermentation period is 28 days.Cylinder, distillation.The wine that comes out is called Touchao wine (Fen wine that has just been steamed after being thirsty once, it is still hot, about 70 degrees, it’s cool to say).The raw materials are not discarded after the first stubble is steamed.Take it out from the steamer directly and return it to the vat for another 28 days of fermentation.The wine that is steamed this time is called Erchao.After that, the starch in the raw material has basically been used up.

If he did it according to the wine song of later generations, wouldn't Ouyang be exhausted?What's more, it takes a long time to study the ratio of distiller's yeast.

The second is still an old problem, the basic industry is underdeveloped, and the entire Tang Dynasty does not even have machine tools, let alone any precision equipment, even if it is only manual, it is basically impossible.Or that method, a compromise.Ouyang can only make changes in the various techniques between later generations and the present, and he can see the quality brewed over time.

While thinking about it, Ouyang walked towards Panlong Tieji on the opposite side of the street. The door was ajar, and he didn't care about the servants guarding the gate. First, it was because the opposite was a restaurant, so it was too close; second, it was because This big house has no valuables except some furniture left by the previous owner, and the only secret place is guarded by three elders who stay out day and night and follow Ouyang Yu's "guidelines" to experiment with steelmaking. There is really no need to worry.

Ouyang looked at the lonely and messy courtyard, and thought in his heart that the matter of taking in or buying orphans must be accelerated. Now that there are so many people, only Yunniang and a newly sensible Hanxi are there to help and support, which is really unreasonable.

I wanted to give up and venture in, but before I took a few steps, a violent "ding dong" sound came from the wing room at the corner of the courtyard, the rhythm was even and powerful, and the severity was different.It sounds like Chu Tian's move.

"Uncle, two big brothers, I'm here." Ouyang also lifted the curtain lazily, pushed the door open and entered.The heat wave hit the face, followed by a strong and pungent smell of sweat, Ouyang frowned, this smell is not unfamiliar, and he was often said so by others before.

Chu Tian was forging iron with a sledgehammer, this time there was no fixed shape, just an irregular piece of iron.The red iron block was splashed with sparks under Chu Tian's hammer, changing its shape constantly, as if a stubborn stone was carefully carved by a skilled master stonemason, it gradually came to life.Fu Sheng and Zhu Ran were helping each other and staring at the stove, but the three of them didn't notice Ouyang's arrival at all.

Chu Tian was fine, he was wearing a tight suit, and his whole body was neat.But the eldest brother's two senior brothers, Fu Sheng and Zhu Ran, couldn't stand it at all. Their whole bodies were oily and water-stained, and their faces were black and red. They were stained by sweat like a singer's painted face.However, the expressions of the three of them were all excited, and their eyes were a little redder than the fire in the furnace, and they were bloodshot.

Ouyang didn't bother. Others saw it as blacksmithing, but to those who talked about integrating wrought iron into their lives, it was art. Once interrupted by him, it would definitely have an impact.

After a stick of incense, Chu Tian exhaled a long breath of foul air, and threw the sledgehammer at Zhu Ran who was facing him to let him continue. He was about to wipe his sweat when he found a towel handed by him, and turned his head to look at it suspiciously. To a grinning face.

"Uncle, it's hard work! But the body is the capital of the revolution, you must pay attention to the balance between work and rest. If you get sick from being tired, you will be reprimanded!"

Chutian laughed a few times and asked, "Balang, you've only been gone for less than a day, why did you come back?"

Ouyang briefly explained the idea of ​​making wine to Chu Tian, ​​Chu Tian nodded noncommittally, and suddenly asked: "You make wine, I'll forge the iron, do you want my old man to make wine for you? Why are you here? It's nothing now Great progress, it's only been a day..."

"Didn't Uncle hear that 'everything goes to the Palace of Three Treasures'? I need to make a few utensils for wine making, and I don't feel relieved to find outsiders to make them. Isn't our house ready-made, so I came here."

"Hey, what should I do? Tell me, long and short, round and square, thick and thin, and if you can tell me, I will type it out for you!" Chu Tian threw the towel on a shelf, saying that I have everything in the world. The shape of the hand.

Ouyang wanted to laugh, but the old man didn't lie to him. Brewing wine by himself is "if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." Ouyang wants to simply distill and purify the current wine to see how it tastes , need a set of simple distillation equipment on the stove, not to mention the need for thin iron sheets, but also need to seal these things tightly, this is not something ordinary blacksmiths can handle, and Ouyang is still involved in winemaking secrets. No reassuring hands.

Ouyang bowed to thank him, and took out the drawing he had drawn a long time ago. The drawing on it was a perspective drawing, and the size and text were marked on it. After seeing it, Chu Tian agreed that there would be no problem, and it would be finished by noon.

Ouyang hurriedly ran back to his room to see if there was anything on "Gold Finger" that could help him.

When Li Jin came to call him at lunch, a lot of things that Ouyang wanted were already piled up in the courtyard, even the iron objects that Ouyang wanted were neatly stacked aside.Ouyang ran over anxiously to have a look, and the secret praise was really not for bragging.It was only now that he realized that there was no welding technology, and the connecting parts of the ironware were the same as the wood, and he only needed to stuff some brick powder and fish glue around it to connect.

Touching the cold ironware, Ouyang's heart was hot, and he wished to start work without eating.