Transmigrating into a Turbulent Era as a Soldier, Starting with Marrying a Wife

In the days that followed.

The four women continued to work diligently at the distillery.

Three days later, Li Yuan bought another ten piculs of rice bran.

Now that the distillery was open, Li Yuan decided to keep it running.

This day marked the opening of the mountain fruit wine that Li Yuan had previously brewed.

He moved the wine jars to the courtyard.

Li Yuan carefully opened each jar of mountain fruit wine.

The results were better than he had anticipated.

Out of the hundred-plus jars of mountain fruit wine, over twenty had failed to ferment.

The rest had successfully fermented into wine.

Li Yuan's next step was distillation.

In fact, this was Li Yuan's confidence in opening a distillery in Da Liang.

Currently, the so-called wine in Da Liang is basically low-alcohol, unfiltered wine.

There are many impurities in the wine.

It also tastes somewhat sour.

But distilled wine is different, it is more mellow and has a better taste.

In the past few days, Li Yuan had already built a simple distillation apparatus.

In fact, it is to heat the wine mash to boiling, and then extract the distillate through a condenser tube.

These distillates are actually the wine.

However, if you are distilling fruit wine with a lower alcohol content, it will need to be distilled multiple times to reach a higher proof.

Li Yuan had enough coal, the fuel was sufficient, and multiple distillations were naturally not a problem.

Finally, after three distillations, Li Yuan obtained a wine with an alcohol content of about thirty degrees, with a slightly sweet fruit flavor.

Five hundred catties of mountain fruit eventually yielded about a hundred catties of wine.

Now that mountain fruit wine brewing was successful, Li Yuan decided to give this wine a name.

After thinking about it, this wine with a slight mountain fruit fragrance should be called [Hundred Flower Brew].

Several more days passed.

The first batch of fermented rice bran wine also reached the opening time.

The fermented wine mash was also distilled twice.

In the end, Li Yuan obtained about 84 catties of high-proof liquor, around 50 degrees, from ten piculs of grain.

Li Yuan took a sip.

If you want the goods to sell at a high price, the packaging is naturally very important.

Li Yuan customized hundreds of half-catty white porcelain wine bottles from the pottery workshop.

These wine bottles alone cost five strings of cash.

The Hundred Flower Brew and Qingyuan Paste were bottled separately.

They were sealed with mud and stored for a few days to make the wine more mellow.

The first batch of products from Li Family Distillery could be sold.

At this time, Li Yuan had 150 bottles of [Hundred Flower Brew] and 168 bottles of [Qingyuan Paste].

With products, you have to find customers.

And the best place to sell these wines is naturally Qingyuan County.

Li Yuan called his four subordinates and took the newly brewed wine to the county to take a walk.

It was noon.

Qingyuan County, the crossroads of the main street, Drunken Fragrance Restaurant.

This is the largest restaurant in the city, with three floors up and down.

Private rooms and scattered tables are all available.

Now is the meal time, and the restaurant is crowded and noisy.

The hall is already full of diners.

In the west side of the first floor, there is a table of guests.

Looking at the dress, it seems to be soldiers from the countryside.

The restaurant waiter has served all seven or eight dishes ordered by the guests.

He also brought a jar of good unfiltered wine.

A burly man among the guests picked up the bowl and took a sip of the unfiltered wine first.

But he frowned in dissatisfaction and spat out the wine.

"You shopkeeper, why is this wine so weak?"

The waiter was stunned, and quickly said with a smile.

"Guest, you are joking, isn't the wine in our Qingyuan County all this taste?"

The big man said dissatisfied.

"Who said that? I'll let you broaden your horizons."

At this time, many guests in the restaurant were attracted by the noise here.

They turned their heads to watch.

After the big man finished speaking, he took out a delicate white porcelain wine bottle from his arms.

He tapped the mouth of the bottle lightly with his hand to knock off the mud seal.

Instantly, a sweet aroma of wine wafted out in the first floor lobby.

Many onlookers couldn't help but light up.

The strong man poured the wine into the bowl.

As the clear and transparent wine overflowed.

The aroma of wine in the hall became more intense.

The strong man held up the bowl and drank the wine in one gulp.

His expression was one of enjoyment.

His move made many diners around him swallow hard.

People were talking about whether the wine in his hand was really so delicious?

At this time, a person stood up at the next table.

It was a tall, sturdy man with a long face.

This person was wearing short clothes and a long knife around his waist, looking like a caravan guard.

The long-faced man cupped his hands to the strong man drinking.

"This brother, I wonder what kind of wine you are drinking?"

"Could it be that I can also have a taste."

The big man looked at the long-faced man, thought for a while, and said with some heartache.

"It's okay to let you have a taste, but this wine is very expensive."

"You have to drink it carefully."

The long-faced man is called Zhang Chuan, nicknamed Drunken Three Passes, and he likes to drink the most on weekdays.

He can earn a lot of silver by escorting goods out of the mouth as a caravan guard, but most of it is spent on wine.

Today, Zhang Chuan just escorted a batch of goods to Qingyuan County.

The owner settled the money for the guards.

Zhang Chuan had some spare money in his hand, and he was going to have a good drink at Drunken Fragrance Restaurant.

It's just that he hadn't taken a few sips of the wine he ordered when a strong aroma of wine came from behind him.

He sniffed, and the taste was mellow and sweet, far better than the unfiltered wine in his hand.

Zhang Chuan is a person who loves wine like his life.

He knew that it was a bit embarrassing to ask others for wine in the hotel.

But the taste of this wine really made him reluctant to give up.

So he cheekily talked to the strong man.

The strong man was also considered generous. When he heard that Zhang Chuan also wanted to taste it, he took an empty bowl.

He also poured half a bowl of wine for Zhang Chuan, and then handed it over.

Zhang Chuan took the wine bowl and smelled it first.

The aroma of the wine in the bowl was mellow, far better than the unfiltered wine he drank.

Moreover, the wine was clear and free of any impurities.

Zhang Chuan couldn't bear it anymore at this time. He raised his neck and swallowed the wine in the bowl in one gulp.

Instantly, a spicy rush hit his throat, followed by a fruity aftertaste.

A warm current rose from the throat to the abdominal cavity.

Tasting the aroma of the wine between the teeth and cheeks in the mouth.

Zhang Chuan had a look of intoxication, and kept praising.

"Um, good wine, really good wine."

This Drunken Three Passes Zhang Chuan is quite famous in the Qingyuan County wine drinker circle.

People who often come to Drunken Fragrance Restaurant know that Zhang Chuan is the most picky about wine.

Being able to get Zhang Chuan to shout out a good wine shows that this wine should indeed have something special.

With him taking the lead.

The diners around him curiously gathered around, and others wanted to ask for some wine to taste.

For a time, the first floor of Drunken Fragrance Restaurant was a bit chaotic.

At this moment, a waiter squeezed in.

He cupped his hands to the strong man and said.

"This guest, our owner invites you to the third floor."

The strong man was stunned, and then looked at the handsome man beside him with his eyes.

That person is Li Yuan.

This farce in the lobby was of course deliberately arranged by Li Yuan.

And that strong man is Cui Yong, a soldier under his command.

Li Yuan did this, of course, to attract the attention of the shopkeeper.

By the way, he made a name for his wine.

At this time, the owner of the restaurant invited him.

Cui Yong naturally had to look at Li Yuan and ask how to respond.

Li Yuan looked up at the building.

Then he got up and said to the waiter.

"I am their owner, I will go with you."