Chapter 3 Winemaking
In the past, Zhang Yongcai left after delivering the food and didn't go in, but today Zhang Wei said anything and pulled him into the house, on the one hand, to tell the uncle that he would cook and eat in the future, and on the other hand, to let the uncle try his own skills.
As soon as he entered the hall, Zhang Yongcai was stunned for a moment when he looked at the food on the table, and asked, "You ordered this from the restaurant?"
"No, I made it myself, come, uncle, try my craft. ”
"When will you still cook?What, is it that your aunt's cooking is not to your taste?" Zhang Yongcai immediately made a guess.
"How is it possible, I'm not ......" Zhang Wei is also witty, and he instantly thought of an excuse, and said busily: "I just took over a script at noon today, in which my role is a chef, and there are a lot of cooking shots, so I need a little cooking skills, I can be regarded as an experience role, even if my mother is here, I have to do it myself, it has nothing to do with my aunt." ”
"Oh, yes, I don't know about you, but your craft looks good, like in a restaurant. Zhang Yongcai praised his nephew.
Zhang Wei smiled and said, "By the way, uncle, in the future, I may cook and eat by myself, and you don't have to send food, I want to cook for you and my aunt, and I should repay it for so long at your house." You see, I'm doing so much for exercise, it's enough for your family of three to eat, or your family won't fire it before the year, come and eat. ”
"Oh, that's not a hit, it's too much of a delay in your study, and it's not a hit. Zhang Yongcai decisively refused.
Ren Zhang Wei said all the good things, but the uncle just didn't get in the oil and salt, and in the end Zhang Wei could only give up.
"Forget it, since my uncle has said so, I am not reluctant, so you can try my craft today, no problem, right?" Zhang Wei was not reluctant.
"Then I'll try your craft. "Zhang Yongcai is a happy person, and he is not polite, what's wrong with eating a meal from his own nephew.
Zhang Wei brought Zhang Yongcai a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and put his share of oily noodles in front of Zhang Yongcai, Zhang Yongcai took the chopsticks, tasted each dish, and praised it: "Ah, I said Xiaowei, with your skills, even if you are not a star, go to the county to open a big hotel, it will be absolutely popular, your uncle is uneducated, and he won't say anything good and obedient, but I think your dish is not bad, anyway, I haven't eaten a meal better than your craftsmanship in a restaurant outside." ”
"Hehe, it's delicious, then let's eat it openly. "It's a joy to be recognized by others for your cooking skills, especially when people eat sweetly, which means that people really like the taste of the ingredients you cook.
Uncle and nephew, you and I swept away the dishes on the table with one chopstick, Zhang Yongcai ate the oily noodles, and felt that he had an appetite, and couldn't stop praising Zhang Wei's craftsmanship.
"It's a pity not to drink such a good dish. Seeing that he had already eaten to the end, Zhang Yongcai was already full, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Zhang Wei only then discovered his negligence, if you invite people to eat in the countryside, it doesn't matter if it is deliberate or casual, since you call people to the table, then the wine must be put out, whether to drink or not is the guest's business, you will lose the etiquette if you don't put it. This negligence made Zhang Wei a little annoyed, but fortunately, this is his uncle, otherwise if this matter is said, it may become Zhang Wei's insincerity in inviting guests and being stingy with two bottles of good wine.
"Uncle, I don't usually drink alcohol, so I'll go to the village store to buy two bottles. Zhang Wei picked up his coat.
Zhang Yongcai grabbed Zhang Wei and said a little unhappily: "What,
Your uncle still owes those two bottles of wine, they are all family, I just said casually, if I go back to the smell of wine, your aunt should find fault with me and pull me down, and talk about it during the New Year. Say. I'm going back, what, will I give you tomorrow's food?"
"No need, I'll make it myself, it's easy to get a meal for one person, I'm an experience character tonight, so ......"
Zhang Wei didn't speak, Zhang Yongcai waved his hand and said, "That, it's just the end of the year, and the family is also busy, then you can solve the problem of eating by yourself, if you don't want to do it, give me a call, and I will send it to you with your aunt." ”
After speaking, Zhang Yongcai left directly, but Zhang Wei still felt that he was not doing things properly, and finally invited his uncle to have a meal, but he still didn't take care of it, so he decided to buy some wine tomorrow and prepare it at home, but then he thought that he would make wine, buy a part of it and save it, and he could brew a part of the wine and store it, so that if someone at home eats in the future, he can take out the wine at any time. Moreover, winemaking is a life skill, and you can also increase some of your comprehensive physical qualities by brewing it yourself, killing two birds with one stone, why not.
In China, wine can be roughly divided into two categories, fruit wine and grain wine, and the subdivision can be divided into liquor, beer, rice wine, rice wine, medicinal wine and wine.
Liquor is basically a solid-state fermentation technology, using the traditional liquor making process, using grain as raw material, crushing and adding koji powder to ferment naturally for a certain period of time, and distilling at high temperature to obtain liquor. This kind of wine is colorless (or yellowish) and transparent, the smell is fragrant and pure, the entrance is sweet and refreshing, and the alcohol content is high, so it is also called shochu, burning knives, etc. However, this type of liquor also has disadvantages, after multiple distillation, many nutrients have been lost, and the alcohol content is too high, which can easily cause harm to the body, so remember to drink liquor in moderation.
Beer, rice wine, beer, and medicinal wine are basically in the category of grain wine, but the methods are different, only wine is made from fruits. Although wine is a foreign product, the earliest time can be examined is in the Han Dynasty, from the Western Regions to the Central Plains, and then in the Tang Dynasty is prosperous, it is said that Tang Taizong Li Shimin planted a lot of grapes in the imperial palace, and also personally participated in the production of wine. In the Tang Dynasty, many poets left a lot of good sentences about wine, such as Li Bai's "Looking at the duck head green of the Han River from afar, it is just the beginning of the pu grape fermentation." Another example is Bai Juyi's "Qiang pipe blows willows, and Yan Ji drinks pu grapes." And the most well-known is the sentence "grape wine luminous glass" in Wang Han's "Liangzhou Ci".
Of course, wine is only one type of fruit wine, in fact, many fruits can be used to make wine, such as common apples, pears, citrus, hawthorns, etc., and even lychee and pineapple can also be used to make fruit wine.
And Zhang Wei plans to brew some liquor and fruit wine, the liquor is easy to say, just buy food, this year is not difficult, and first find the elf brewing method, there is no need for distillation, closer to nature. Not to mention fruit wine, which has always been one of the favorite drinks of the elves. According to the inheritance of the elf heart to Zhang Wei, the elf clan's fruit wine brewing is absolutely unique, for hundreds of millions of years, the elves scattered throughout the universe have almost brought the brewing of fruit wine to the extreme, and a variety of and even bizarre fruit wine brewing methods have emerged, and the taste is also strange.
If brewing fruit wine is the interest of the elves, then brewing liquor is the need of the elves. In the vast universe, the specialties that the elves can produce are not small, but if you really want to talk about it, the wine made from grain is definitely the top ten specialties of the elves. The elves brew very little grain wine for themselves, and it is often used in exchange for some precious materials, such as exchanging rare ores and sophisticated weapons from the dwarves, and exchanging various magic gems for the Void Clan, and even some elves can use special grain wine to exchange the same weight of snake molts from the Quetzalcoatl clan, and this snake molt is not only an excellent material for making forbidden spells of all levels,
In some special star fields, high-level snake molts can even be used to create soft armor to protect against certain forbidden spells, which is invaluable.
The reason why the grain wine made by the elves is so precious is not only because of the unique taste of the grain wine made by the elves, but also because this grain wine can have great benefits for many intelligent beings. Take Zhang Wei as an example, if he can obtain the grain wine brewed by an elf brewer, and drink it for the first time, it is likely that the overall quality of the body will skyrocket, and there will be a slight increase in drinking in the future, and the only side effect of this growth is to get drunk. The reason why the elves brew their own grain wine will have this anti-heaven effect is that there are two reasons, one is that in the brewing process, the wine is mixed with all kinds of precious materials, and the other is the elves' unique wine-making secret method, and this wine-making secret method can make ordinary grain wine have a very attractive taste. For Zhang Wei, although he has mastered the secret method of brewing the elves, he can only think of those precious brewing raw materials, not to mention those raw materials on the earth, even if the entire solar system is enough to find them.
Do what you think, this is Zhang Wei's consistent style.
The next day, Zhang Wei drove to the city early and spent a day buying the grain, fruits, accessories and utensils he needed to make wine.
It was almost evening when he got home, Zhang Wei got some ingredients out of the refrigerator and made himself a hearty dinner, which increased by 0.0002.
After a big meal, Zhang Wei began to wash, soak, dry and basket some grains......
Wash utensils......
Fruit picking, washing, cutting or crushing, pressing, filtering......
When the dawn broke, the old mansion was almost to the point where there was nowhere to put his feet, but Zhang Wei didn't realize it at all, and it was also thanks to Zhang Wei's mother Li Juan who was not there, otherwise Zhang Wei would have to be nagged for a long time.
Using the secret method of elven winemaking, the fruit wine that had completed the steps was sealed one by one, and placed in the prepared room, Zhang Wei began to work on the production of grain wine again.
When people are concentrating on something, time passes quickly, and when Zhang Wei finishes processing some of the raw materials of grain and wine, and stores them one by one in a small urn of ten catties, a day passes. After placing the liquor in another room, Zhang Wei went to take a shower satisfied.
Although Zhang Wei has been sleepless for two days and one night, his mental power is already in the category of non-humans, but he is full of energy, looking at the mess in the house, Zhang Wei began to clean.
"Zhang Wei is good, your intelligence has increased by 0.0003, your strength has increased by 0.0008, your speed has increased by 0.0005, and your tolerance has increased by 0.0007. Zhang Wei, who was mopping the floor, heard the voice of the elf heart.
Zhang Wei didn't want to feel less than last time, so he said happily: "You said that if I insist on using life skills every day, will my physical fitness surpass that of a real elf in the future?"
"Unless you can live for tens of thousands of years, or you won't have fun. The Elven Heart immediately poured cold water down.
Zhang Wei didn't care, and muttered: "It doesn't matter, it's good that the earth is invincible anyway." ”
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Actually, it was in the afternoon, but the leader had to go back to the unit for a meeting, so I couldn't go home directly. After the meeting, the leader may think that I have served well in the past two days, so he gave me a gift to accompany me during the meal, so it was more than nine o'clock when I got home after eating, and I drank some wine, so I could only watch one shift.
Two shifts will be resumed tomorrow.