The worst time travel, surviving seven years of famine

Although the Gu family knew that Mrs. Gu was going to the Iron Buddha Temple to burn incense, no one was willing to go because of the busy farming season. In the end, Mrs. Gu dragged Gu Liang along. According to Mrs. Gu, Gu Liang was now the treasure of the whole family and had to go to ask for Buddha's blessing. After Gu Liang went there, he found that today was the first day that the Iron Buddha Temple reopened. There were so many people coming to burn incense and worship Buddha that they had to queue up to get in. Before, the Iron Buddha Temple was only three in size, not big, and there were a few monks living there. Now with the emperor's funding, some ear rooms have been built on the left and right, and a two-meter-wide trench has been dug outside. Looking from the outside, it seems that a brick tower has been built inside, which has the flavor of an ancient temple. Due to the large number of people, Gu Liang and Old Lady Gu waited in line for a quarter of an hour before entering the mountain gate. Gu Liang remembered that there was no mountain gate last time he came here. Today, he saw that the mountain gate was very impressive. There were five large gilded characters engraved on the plaque————"Imperially Granted Iron Buddha Temple".

These two words "Imperially Granted" are not something that can be hung on ordinary buildings. They must be built by the emperor's decree, which means the emperor's reward.

As soon as you enter, the building inside is brand new, and even the ground is paved with bricks, unlike the mud ground before. The new iron Buddha is indeed much larger than before. Gu Liang has to look up to see the whole appearance. The front of the base of the iron Buddha statue is full of incense, and the smoke is lingering. For a moment, it really makes people feel like the Buddha has descended to the earth.

The new abbot is a kind-hearted monk with a broad mind and a fat body. When he sees anyone passing by him, he will ask a question, which seems very approachable.

Old Lady Gu came this time not only to burn a stick of incense, but also to ask for Buddha's blessing for Gu Liang, so she took Gu Liang to find the new abbot.

However, Old Lady Gu may feel that she has enough time, so she asked the new abbot about gossip. Old Lady Gu asked nothing else, but how the emperor bestowed the new iron Buddha and how he reprimanded the King of England.

The new abbot saw Old Lady Gu asking this, and there were several old ladies around who were interested in this matter, so he told them vividly. The story was similar to what Old Lady Gu told at home, but there were more details, such as how they gathered so many monks to appeal together. Finally, the new abbot also took Old Lady Gu and several other old ladies to a stone tablet, which was an imperial edict tablet, on which the full content of the emperor's imperial edict was recorded. The imperial edict did not have many words, mainly words of appeasement and the matter of allocating funds to expand the Iron Buddha Temple.

The new host mainly asked Old Lady Gu and the others to look at the back of the imperial edict stele, which detailed how the King of England exploited the people and robbed them, as well as the words that the King of England was reprimanded by the emperor.

The new host became more and more proud as he spoke, as if the current emperor was wise and how they, the monks, were fair to the abbot of the same sect.

But after Gu Liang saw the stele, he took a breath. In his opinion, the stele was undoubtedly a slap in the face of the King of England. Given what the King of England usually did, would he really not retaliate? Even if the King of England would not be so presumptuous after being reprimanded, their Jiangzhou was still the King of England's territory after all!

However, Gu Liang did not say these. He was not a person who liked to make trouble for himself. Since the stele had been erected, he would only be annoying if he said more. Moreover, it seemed that the King of England would not do something bad in the near future after being reprimanded by the emperor. His wine should be safe for the time being, after all, his reputation was not that big.

The weather in April is already very hot during the day, making people want to take off their heavy clothes and put on light and breathable clothes. The rapeseed has also set seeds, and the plump pods tell the joy of the harvest.

However, it is too late to wait for the rapeseed to mature and turn yellow naturally in the field. The weather is getting warmer and the streams in the mountains are not so icy. It is time to plant rice. So we have to hurry to harvest the rapeseed and let the fields soak the soil.

Although it is warm during the day, it is still a little cold in the mountains at night. As the saying goes, warm days and cold nights can fry people's life. Gu Liang was wasting time in this warm day and cold night.

The progress of the two thousand kilograms of Ba Wang Zui is very smooth. The weather has been hot recently, and the fermentation speed of the sorghum has also been faster.

And Gu Liang's distress comes from this rising weather. The best time to brew liquor is actually winter. It is most suitable for brewing when it is cold and frozen, because the bacteria are less active at this time, the brewed grain is not easy to rot, and the brewed liquor is also the most mellow. Therefore, since ancient times, Chinese winemaking has generally been done in winter and spring, hence the poem "Don't laugh at the farmer's muddy wine".

Gu Liang's batch of wine was brewed in March, which is also the last good time for traditional winemaking, known as spring brewing and peach blossom brewing.

So Gu Liang's current concern is that his winemaking business has reached a time of shortage. The brewed wine has been sold out, and the time to brew new wine has to wait until the end of the year, which is really not conducive to the development of the business. These days, some people still come to inquire about Gu's Ba Wang Zui and want to pre-order some, but when they hear that they have to wait until the end of the year, they are discouraged.

There is no shelf life for liquor. As long as it is brewed and properly preserved, it can be stored forever. Therefore, most wineries will brew a large amount of wine at the end of the year, and then they can sell it all year round in the coming year. Even if it cannot be sold, it can be stored forever. The sealed liquor will slowly undergo esterification reaction, and lipids are the source of the aromatic substances of liquor.

So don't worry about not being able to sell it. The longer the liquor is, the more fragrant it will be. It will raise its own value, just like you read a non-double first-class school, and the school has become a double first-class school through your own efforts.

But the key problem is that the Gu family's winemaking business only started last year, with poor foundation and low output, which is not enough to maintain this virtuous cycle.

If we wait until winter, when the daylilies are cold, how many people will still remember the Gu family's brewed Bawangzui. Even if someone remembers it, he will only make money for the winter. And Gu Liang has little time left, only the last winter. By the second winter, the predicted famine will come, and he has no idea what will happen then. But it is known that the wine business will be greatly affected, after all, his wine is not a necessity.

Gu Liang currently has no good solution, and he is distressed. He thinks about what to do all day, how to make more money, and whether he should give up the winemaking business that has just been on the right track to find a better way to make money.

Gu Liang wasted his time like this, and time came to May. During this period, Gu Liang thought of many ways, but they all felt not very good. The low-cost ones made money slowly, and the high-cost ones were too expensive for his family to afford. In addition, I have to help with farm work at home every day, and take care of the fermented koji and lees from time to time. Time flies by in the blink of an eye.

In May, it means that the more than 2,000 kilograms of liquor are ready to be harvested.