"Well, it's delicious. ”

A mouthful of glutinous rice into his stomach, Liu Jingqing nodded and said. Liu Jingqing will not eat sticky rice for the first time, but the sticky rice she has eaten before is with other ingredients.

Unlike the current bowl of glutinous rice, nothing is added, it is very pure glutinous rice, the taste is fragrant and natural, and it has a unique flavor.

"Husband, you eat too. ”

Liu Jingqing used chopsticks to put some glutinous rice into his man's mouth and fed it to his man.

"It smells so good. ”

Swallowing the glutinous rice in one bite, Ye Rongrong said with some aftertaste. This taste is the taste I liked when I was a child, and it evokes Ye Rongrong's childhood memories.

When Ye Rongrong was young, at that time, the entire Taoyuan Village was very poor, and on weekdays, the white rice he ate was cooked with sweet potatoes, not to mention that he wanted to eat this glutinous rice.

That is, every year when the family makes glutinous rice wine, Ye Rongrong can eat glutinous rice, I remember that Ye Rongrong once ate too much glutinous rice, his stomach was swollen, and he couldn't eat for a whole day.

……

After twenty minutes, the rice in the big clay pot was not so hot, Ye Changlai came over from the house with a piece of white and yellowed thing, crushed it with a wooden stick, and began to pour the broken pieces of this thing into the glutinous rice, stirring and spreading evenly with a wooden stick.

"Husband, what is the fifth grandfather doing?"

Liu Jingqing looked at the movements of the fifth grandfather suspiciously, and asked his man curiously.

"The fifth grandfather is sprinkling koji, and rice wine can only be fermented by this koji to make delicious rice wine. Ye Rongrong said.

This is very important for making sake, because the koji is made by moving the conidia of koji mold into the white rice that has been intensively steamed, and then keeping it warm, and the mycelium grows luxuriantly on the rice grains. It's what people call koji.

Koji is an indispensable thing for sake brewing, and without this koji, rice cannot be fermented, and sake cannot be made.

"Do all sake brewing require koji?" asked Liu Jingqing.

"I don't know about that, but you need koji to make liquor and beer. Ye Rongrong thought for a while and said.

After the fifth grandfather stirred for a while, he compacted the rice a little. Then he dug a hole in the middle, sprinkled it with cool boiled water that had been prepared long ago, and covered the large clay pot with a large wooden lid.

Plain water must be used instead of ordinary water, which is water that has been boiled at high temperatures, and the microorganisms and bacteria in it are basically killed, and it does not affect the fermentation of koji.

"Glory, come and help, let's carry this basin to the cauldron outside. Ye always wiped the sweat from his forehead. Said to Ye Rongrong.

"Good. ”

Ye Rongrong hurriedly walked to the big basin and worked with the fifth grandfather to lift the big basin up.

The big clay pot is very heavy, there are more than 300 catties, Ye Rongrong's head is easily lifted, but the fifth grandfather's head has just been lifted off the ground, and he put it down, and he really can't lift it.

"Old, really old. I can't lift the weight like this. ”

Ye Chang couldn't help but sigh and said. When he was young, Ye had always had a lot of strength. At that time, I followed the elders of the village to the neighboring counties to carry wood to sell, carrying two or three hundred catties of wood, running all over the mountains.

At that time, the state did not allow private buyers and sellers of trees, but at that time, everyone was poor and could not live happily. Where can you take care of this?

They all ran to the depths of the mountains in the neighboring county, bought big trees from the villagers in the mountains, and after buying them, they carried the wood on the path in the mountains and secretly went all the way to their homes.

The state does not allow private buying and selling of trees, and there must be personnel from the wood industry who are checking it. There are also patrols on the mountain, if you encounter them.

Everyone carried the wood and ran separately to all parts of the mountain, and it was common for everyone to run away, and some people got lost in the mountain, and it was common for them to come out of the mountain after going around for more than ten days.

However, no matter how much it is better than being caught by the people in the wood industry, if it is caught at that time, it will not be sentenced to any sentence, and the most afraid is that it will be locked up for three or five days.

The most terrible thing is that the wood you buy must be confiscated, you must know that a piece of wood is carried out of the mountains, and as soon as you sell it, you can earn dozens or hundreds of dollars, which is a lot of money in that era when you are still using a few cents, which is enough for the living expenses of a family for three or five months.

This was taken away, and even the capital was lost, and the lives of several members of the family were not settled for half a year, so they could only live by borrowing money.

At that time, Ye had always been a young man in his early twenties, and he had the strength to carry two or three hundred catties of wood for half a day without rest.

But now that I'm old, I can't even carry a 300-pound thing with others, I really don't recognize the old, and I can't do it anymore.

"Fifth grandfather, or I'll come alone. Ye Rongrong said.

"You are alone, such a big basin, three hundred pounds of things, how can you carry it, I better go out of the village and call the young man to come and help." ”

Ye Changlai shook his head and said. It's not that Ye Rongrong never believed that Ye Rongrong couldn't pick up three hundred catties of things, after all, the last time he fished in the village, Ye Rongrong had always seen that Ye Rongrong had a lot of strength.

But if you have a lot of strength, you may not be able to pick up this big basin, mainly because this big basin is big and not easy to take, and it is difficult for a person to make it stronger.

If a person wants to pick up this large basin weighing more than 300 catties, this person must at least have the strength to easily carry more than 400 catties of weight with both hands.

But he can carry more than 400 catties of heavy objects, and Ye has always thought that no one in the entire Taoyuan Village has such strength.

You must know that the current people are not as strong as before, the previous people often worked, carried heavy objects, and had two or three hundred catties of strength on their bodies, but it was really difficult to think of four hundred catties of strength, Ye has always seen a person with such great strength in his life, and when he was young.

As people's living conditions get better and faster, young people nowadays are becoming less and less able to do their hard work, and this strength is getting smaller and smaller.

"Fifth grandfather, you don't need to call someone, I'll do it alone. ”

Ye Rongrong said. Although it is said that this is a big pot for one person, if you have enough strength, you can still pick it up easily.

"Really, don't be reckless, it's not good to flash to your waist. Ye has always looked at Ye Rongrong with some anxiety and said.

After all, more than 300 catties of things, it is not so easy to take, in case it flashes to the waist, it is a very troublesome thing, this is the same as hurting the muscles and bones, but it has to be recuperated for a long time.

"Fifth grandfather, I have a lot of strength, this weight is really difficult for me. Ye Rongrong said with a smile.

"Then you try, don't be reckless!" Ye Xiang said.

Ye has always been really worried about Ye Rongrong, a young man, who doesn't know the severity, and for the sake of performance, he has to carry such a heavy thing.

"Yes. ”

As he spoke, Ye Rongrong bent down, holding the two handles of the basin with both hands, and as soon as he exerted his strength, the big basin left the ground, because the basin was relatively large, Ye Rongrong couldn't straighten his back, so he could only hunch his back and hold the big basin.

"Glory, are you alright?"

Although Ye Rongrong was surprised by Ye Rongrong's strength, he still asked uneasily. After all, such a heavy big basin is a little difficult for two adult men to lift, Ye Rongrong is holding it alone, and he still takes it so high, Ye has always been really worried.

Compared with Ye Chang's nervousness, Liu Jingqing is not worried about his man at all, Liu Jingqing knows better than anyone how much strength his man has.

Liu Jingqing himself weighs more than ninety pounds, but in the hands of his own man, it is as if he has no weight, and all kinds of difficult actions can be easily done by his own man.

"It's okay, it's not very heavy, I can hold it and move it. ”

After Ye Rongrong finished speaking, he carried the big clay pot to the stove in the courtyard that had been stacked with bricks in advance, and Ye Rongrong carefully put the big clay pot into the big iron pot.

"Husband, drink water. ”

After Ye Rongrong put the big clay pot away, Liu Jingqing brought a bowl of cold boiled water to his man, and wiped the sweat on his forehead with a tissue.

Although the weight of this big clay pot is difficult for Ye Rongrong, it is really difficult for one person to take it, even with Ye Rongrong's current strength, his forehead is still a little sweaty.

Of course, it has something to do with today's weather, now the temperature is starting to rise, and the outdoor temperature is 20 degrees at noon.

The reason why this clay pot is put in an iron pot is also exquisite.

The best fermentation temperature for rice wine is particular, and if the temperature is high, it will not work, and the temperature will not be low. Around 30 to 32 degrees Celsius is the best, if it is high, it will easily turn into rice vinegar, and if it is low, it will not taste alcoholic.

Although the outdoor temperature is 20 degrees Celsius at noon, at night, the temperature drops to about 10 degrees, which is not conducive to the fermentation of rice koji.

So put this clay pot in an iron pot, slowly burn the fire in the cauldron to maintain the temperature, there is a day and a night of work, and the rice wine can be made in the evening of the next day.

"Fifth Grandpa, is this all right?" asked Liu Jingqing suspiciously.

"Almost, just wait for tomorrow night's drink. Ye Xiangkai said.

"Do you have to wait until tomorrow night?"

Liu Jingqing thought that he would be able to drink immediately, but he didn't expect that he would have to wait until tomorrow night.

"It takes time for this wine to ferment, and tomorrow night, you and Glory will come over to drink rice wine and eat wine and rice. ”

Ye Xiangkai picked up the cold boiled water on the coarse porcelain bowl on the table and drank it dry, nodded with a smile and said to Liu Jingqing.

In the countryside, the best drink is boiled water, whether people in the village are at home or out to work, they will fill a bottle of cold boiled water, and when they are thirsty, they will drink a sip, which is healthy and saves money.

In the eyes of rural people, drinking more boiled water is better than taking any medicine, which is good for health, and this boiled water does not need to spend a penny to buy outside, and every day it is enough to burn a few boiling water bottles with their own firewood, which is enough for a day.

"What is sake rice?"

Liu Jingqing had never eaten or seen wine and rice, so he couldn't help but ask curiously. (To be continued.) )