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Chapter 477: The Best Way to Break Ground

Two days later, Captain Zhao led the engineering team into Gushantun, right next to the ancient well, and began to build a winery.

This location was specially chosen by the fat man, and after the winery was built, the ancient well happened to be encircled. It is said that the sake brewing industry is very particular about water sources, so the fat man also wants to use the ancient well to make a color for the winery.

Although it is autumn harvest time and the crops in the land are being recycled, the families have enough labor to devote themselves to the project they are most looking forward to.

In the north, due to the climate, most of the wine is good. The fat man is a good example, it was originally the amount of one catty, I don't know what to do, and now it's a bit difficult to find out.

There is not much shortage of building materials, and when the school was built last year, there were still a lot of bricks and tiles left, so it was enough to add some reinforced concrete or something.

The drawings were jointly researched by the fat man and Lao Wu Tou, although it is a Qingshan winery, but it is divided into two departments, one makes fruit wine, and the other makes liquor, of course, the former is the most important.

In the development plan of the fat man, fruit wine is in the ascendant, and the market potential is huge, and liquor is different, there are countless old factories with a long history, and it is too difficult to get ahead.

The initial work is still to dig the foundation, this job has long been familiar with the road, the past two years have not been less digging, from the wild vegetable factory to the primary school, that time everyone did a spade by spade.

The fat man sprinkled the ground with white ash and marked it, then pulled the line and excavated with a shovel and pick. While the fat man was busy working, he muttered in his mouth: "Everyone work hard, we have treasures underground, maybe we can dig out Yuan Datou and gold bars or something!"

Li Suozi shouted: "Fat brother, what if you dig up another bomb?"

"Then you will take it to the Public Security Bureau - what kind of bombs are you talking about in a gloomy way. The fat man laughed and cursed, then brandished his shovel and began to dig a trench.

Old Wu Tou led Captain Zhao and them to discuss digging a cellar pool. Since it is to make liquor, it still follows the old rules of thousands of years and uses cellars to ferment.

"It's a pity, without the old cellar, the liquor we make can only be average. Old Wu Tou muttered to the fat man with a little regret.

As the saying goes, "a thousand-year-old cellar is ten thousand years old, and the wine is good because of the old cellar", such as Moutai and Wuliangye, etc., all because of the long history of the cellar.

In particular, the cellar ponds left over in ancient times were dug in the ground and then plastered with yellow mud around them. This is not ordinary yellow mud, it is all koji wine and mud.

The longer the cellar is used, the fermentation microorganisms in it continue to accumulate over the years, and hundreds of beneficial fermentation microorganisms have accumulated in the live cellar, which have withstood the test of acid water and alcohol, producing many aromatic substances, becoming a rare fermentation flavor agent in the brewing process, and the liquor brewed has its own personality.

Even if a winery is built at the same time, the wine produced by a row of cellars will never be the same taste, and the subtle variation comes from those microorganisms that are invisible to the naked eye.

It is precisely because of this that there is an old Wu Tou's sigh.

The fat man didn't care at all: "Old man, let's brew liquor, just engage in mass goods, brew some small burns or something, keep your own family and have nothing to satisfy your hunger, don't wonder if it's better to compare with Moutai." ”

Old Wu Tou also scratched his head, although he knew that the fat man was talking about the actual situation, but as a winemaking technician, he always wanted to pursue perfection.

Just when Lao Wu Tou chose the location of the cellar and was about to call everyone to start construction, he suddenly heard a shout from the crowd digging the foundation: "Haha-I have dug up the treasure again-"

The fat man jumped out of the ditch, and then scratched his head: No, every time you dig the foundation, you can make some movement, isn't it a little unsuitable to move the ground.

Huhu ran over to take a look, only to see that in the three-foot-deep soil, a thick wooden board was exposed, and the wood had long been rotted, and the slag would fall off when touched.

"It can't be a coffin board—" The car boss leaned over, looked at it for a long time, and then muttered with a frown.

Everyone's hearts are also sinking, the countryside is more taboo about this, the dead are buried in the ground, if outsiders move casually, it is similar to digging people's ancestral graves. Besides, it would be unlucky for a distillery to be built on a cemetery.

Unexpectedly, he ran into trouble on the first day of construction, and the fat man scratched his head vigorously: "Otherwise, let's move this grave." ”

"It's better not to move this thing, it's better to find a Mr. Yin and Yang. A few older people hurriedly stopped them.

At this moment, Lao Wu Tou suddenly jumped into the pit, stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful of wood, immediately grabbed a piece of bad wood, and then put it under his nose and sniffed it vigorously.

Everyone looked suspicious, and then they heard Lao Wu Tou shout: "Hurry up and dig along the plank—dig inside!"

Why is this guy going to rob the tomb? The fat man hurriedly pulled the old Wu head aside: "This thing is illegal, and now it is being cracked down." ”

"Haha, now we can dig up a treasure-" Old Wu Tou was extremely excited, and shook off the fat man's arm: "This is the cellar left from before, with him, we can also make good wine!"

For a moment, the fat man's head was a little dizzy: "This used to be a wine-making workshop?"

"I definitely didn't run, since everyone doesn't know, it seems that there are some years, basically belonging to the old cellar of more than 100 years, if others look at it, what is the use, but in the eyes of our winemakers, it is a priceless treasure!"

The fat man carded his eyes a few times, his eyes fell on the holy spring, and he pondered in his heart: this spring water is strange, there is no shop in front of the village, and it is located here alone, and it is estimated that it was used to make wine and get water in the past. It seems that when you have time, you must check the history of Gushantun, maybe there will be something to discover.

"Let's stop digging for now, clean out the pit first, and then rebuild the factory according to it. Old Wu Tou shouted in his mouth, like a little baby who has picked up his favorite toy.

Although everyone didn't know what the cellar was for, they didn't dare to slack off when they saw the posture of the old Wu head, and expanded along the inside of the plank to the depth.

While digging, everyone sniffed, and they were all noisy and fragrant. The car boss opened his mouth again: "In the past, every summer, after the rain, you could smell this fragrance around here. Everyone still thought it was coming from the Holy Spring Well, but now that they have figured it out, it is estimated that it has something to do with this cellar. ”

The Holy Spring Well, in everyone's minds, has always been a bit mysterious, because no one can tell what era this well was built and why. But since there is a "holy" word on it, it must be unusual.

"It seems that there are sake lees—" After digging three feet deep, someone shouted. What was dug up in the ground was obviously not black soil or loess, but sake lees fermented in the cellar.

"Okay!" Old Wu smashed his fist hard: "If you can have this aroma, it means that the cellar can continue to be used, and it is a live cellar - don't throw these lees, they are all treasures——"

Seeing that someone had begun to lift the wine lees in the pool, Old Wu Tou hurriedly stopped it.

This also brought a little difficulty to the excavation work, and everyone had to do superficial articles and no longer dig deeper. After a morning's work, three cellars were cleared, and then there were no more, and it seems that the scale of this winery was not too large at the beginning.

The pits are rectangular and not too large, about five meters long and less than two meters wide, and it is difficult to judge the depth of the sake lees because the lees have not been cleared out.

It can be seen that the wooden planks on the edge have all fallen off, and the inside is tamped loess, which is more than one meter thick, which shows that a lot of work was put into it back then.

The whole morning, everyone spent in excitement and surprises, especially Lao Wu Tou, who is obviously more energetic now. With the support of these three cellars, he is confident that he can make the best baijiu. The name has been chosen, and it is called Qingshan Laojiao.

However, the fat man was not very satisfied with the name: "I think it is better to have something to do with the ancient well, and it has a long history when I hear it." ”

As a result, this very good proposal was directly rejected by Lao Wutou: "No matter how good the well water is, it can be used as wine, mainly on the cellar, and the water is secondary, and it must be called the old cellar." ”

The fat man was just about to argue with him, but he saw Qiqi baring his teeth and gurgling there: "Grandpa Wu, fat uncle, don't argue first, the wine hasn't been brewed yet." ”

The two of them were stunned at the same time, and then laughed together. The fat man scratched the back of his head: "Yes, let's not quarrel first, how do you feel like the two brothers who are hunting, they found that the geese are coming, one wants to be steamed and eaten, the other is boiled and eaten, and in the end, no one has eaten their mouths." ”

"Stinky boy, who is with you as a brother!" Old Wu Tou glared at the fat man.

Just as he was eating, Li Wuye suddenly came on crutches. As soon as I entered the door, I heard a chatter: "Hello, hello-"

A few little parrots flew around the old man while calling, and Li Wuye smiled happily: "Qiqi, this parrot is close to me, just give me two." ”

"These don't belong to me now, there are two sisters Yaya, one Wu Qiong, and one Erya, all of them asked me to feed them first, I really can't help it. Qiqi actually sighed, as soon as he mentioned this, the little guy was uncomfortable, so he could give the remaining two and divide them up.

Li Wuye patted Qiqi's little brain, and then the fat man was carried to the edge of the kang and sat down, lit the cigarette pouch, and the old man said slowly: "Listen to the old generation, there used to be a wine-making workshop in our place, and that was still in the Qing Dynasty." Today you dug up the wine pool, I guess it's true!"

"Come on, let's eat and chat. The big braid had already prepared the dishes and chopsticks, and Li Wuye was not polite, pinching the wine cup and saying: "At that time, those who committed crimes had a method called exile, and our place is a place dedicated to the exile of criminals." ”

The fat man scratched his head, and suddenly felt a little funny in his heart: Am I being exiled by that box?