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At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the ancestors of the Xiao family followed the Southern Ming government to retreat to southwest Yunnan, and finally settled in Ginkgo Village, where they have been incognito ever since. In order to store food and avoid possible rebels, a natural cave in Qingling Mountain was transformed by the ancestors of the Xiao family into a complex of storage warehouses and shelters.

In the past 36o years, the ancestors of the Xiao family have been constantly renovating and expanding this cave, and now the entire cave has penetrated deep into the depths of Qingling Mountain and turned into a huge cellar system.

With the passage of time, the role of refuge was gradually diluted, and it gradually evolved into an important place for the Xiao family to store various materials.

In the past, the keys to this cellar cave were in the hands of the old lady, Xiao Jinxu and other elders, but now Xiao Feng is designated as the successor of the patriarch, and naturally he has also obtained the right to enter and exit the cellar cave freely.

"Xiaofeng, you take Teacher Xue to visit slowly, let's go out first!" After the five wooden barrels full of pork legs were moved to the cellar room and put away, Xiao Jinxu left with the others.

In addition to a large number of titles, Xue Husheng also has the identity of a professor at Haizhou Academy of Fine Arts, so it is not wrong for Xiao Jinxu to call him Teacher Xue.

"I know!" Xiao Feng nodded and said, "When we go out, we will lock the door!"

After greeting his family, Xiao Feng took Xue Husheng to start a magical journey through the cellar cave.

"Uncle Xue, let's take a look at the cellar space of finished ham first!" Walking out of the storage room for cured ham, Xiao Feng led the way in front.

The cave was originally just a natural cave. But the ancestors of the Xiao family continued to dig and build. A large number of cellars have been carved out on both sides of the main cave, and each cellar is used for different purposes according to the conditions of temperature, humidity, etc.

Ham is still in the curing and fermentation stage, so it needs a moist and ventilated environment, so the cellar room built near the vent is the best place. Once the ham is made, it is placed in a slightly dry cellar to prevent mildew and allow it to ferment slowly and continuously. It makes the taste of ham more mellow.

In the past three hundred years, the Xiao family has summed up a complete set of perfect and rigorous experience system, and every link has a basis to follow.

"How many hams are there in the entire cellar now?" The white energy-saving lamps in the cave have a good brightness, and Xue Husheng doesn't have to worry about bad lighting when he follows Xiao Feng's back.

In the primary cellar just now, Xue Husheng saw hundreds of semi-finished hams hanging fermentation, so he was a little curious about how many hams there would be in the finished room.

"I can't tell, there should be thousands. After all, we have to sell some ham every year!" Xiao Feng shook his head, led the way in front, and said, "I heard from the third master, the old leg that has been preserved for the longest time at present was pickled 1o years ago!"

Over the years, an important source of income to maintain the Xiao family's huge family expenses has been the sale of ham, but it is limited by raw materials and manpower. The production of Xiaojia ham is not high.

In addition to killing pigs by killing the pigs, the Xiao family's cured ham materials are more suitable for buying pork legs on the market, and the number of hams cured by the Xiao family every year is 1oo. Like this year, the Xiao family plans to marinate 6oo hams from now until the wax moon. Prepare for more and more tourists in the future.

While speaking, Xiao Feng took Xue Husheng to a cellar room. There was no seal here, and standing at the entrance of the cave, Xue Husheng clearly saw the strings of ham. These hams are hung on the shelves according to the different years of curing, and the 2oo4 year has the most number of hams, which should have passed 3oo sticks, while the 99 years have very few hams.

"In a few days, we will transfer the 2oo5-year-old cured ham to this cellar, and the 99-year-old leg will be emptied in 6 consecutive years!" Xiao Feng patted a 99-year-old ham with his hand and said, "Uncle Xue, you must come and taste it!"

Generally speaking, the Xiao family's ham can be eaten after half a year of curing and fermentation, but it takes three years for ham to achieve the best balance of nutrition and taste. After the ham is matured, the optimal storage time is 7 years, during which the quality does not change, and then it decreases year by year.

These hams in 99 are ready to reach a critical point, so the Xiao family will clear the hams cured ten years ago at the end of each year and constantly replenish fresh hams.

"Xiaofeng, you have so many advantages, why don't you expand production?" After walking around the ham cellar, Xue Husheng was a little curious.

"The limits of raw materials and profits are too great!"

Xiao Feng had also thought about this problem before, and when he graduated, he still wanted to make his family's ham workshop bigger and stronger, but after gaining an in-depth understanding of the whole system, he gave up.

In order to maintain the pure taste of Xiaojia ham, it is necessary to choose local black pork legs that have been stocked on the grassland for about two years, and then combine them with salt grains and mortar from the thousand-year-old salt well.

In recent years, as more and more farmers use feed to feed hybrid pig breeds, the number of local black pigs raised has dropped sharply, and the raw materials of Xiaojia ham are in an emergency.

Due to the low popularity of Xiaojia ham in the market, although the taste is excellent, it lacks sufficient market recognition, and has always been able to compete with the ham made by local farmers on the same level. If it weren't for the fact that Li Yunhai, a student of the old lady, became the director of the Municipal Party Committee Office and the Secretary General of the Municipal Party Committee a few years ago, and helped the Xiao family to bring the Xiao family ham into a high-end hotel in Yaozhou, the situation of the Xiao family's ham can only be said to be average.

Now, the market price of a Xiaojia ham with a net weight of about 1o kg is only 3oo yuan, which is after a long 3 years of cellaring, which shows that the profit is not high.

Sometimes, Xiao Feng saw the news that 'the price of well-known Spanish ham is tens of thousands at every turn', and he was very envious, hoping that Xiao's ham could also become famous.

This year, in addition to eating healthy and nutritious, we must also eat fame!

Xiao Feng led Xue Husheng to visit the ham cellar, and he was more or less prepared to use Xue Husheng's influence to expand the popularity of Xiao's ham.

After leaving the ham cellar, Xiao Feng took Xue Husheng to the Xiao family's wine cellar. This is the most important part of the whole cellar cave.

After the ancestors of the Xiao family arrived in Ginkgo Village, they cultivated thousands of acres of fertile land along the perimeter of Jinghu Lake. This is an unusually sufficient amount of land for Ginkgo Village, which has a population of less than 1,000. In addition, the Jinghu area has sufficient water sources and can save a lot of grain every year.

In order to maximize profits, the ancestors of the Xiao family brewed grain into fine wine and sold it to the plateau through the Guò Tea Horse Road, which was able to obtain more income than grain.

Over the centuries, Ginkgo Village has become a well-known winemaking base. The villagers are not limited to making wine with grain produced in Ginkgo Village, but even buy grain to make wine and sell it.

However, after the liberation, with the improvement of transportation, the decline of the Ancient Tea Horse Road and the rise of large industrial distilleries, the winemaking workshop in Ginkgo Village gradually lost its former glory.

Even so, the Xiao family is also accustomed to brewing a lot of rice wine every year, which is cellared in this cave. Take it out for a drink and celebration at festivals and wedding feasts!

"These rice wines are also cellared according to the year!" Xiao Feng opened the lid of a cellar hole, pointed at a dozen wine tanks inside with a flashlight and said: "This is rice wine brewed last autumn, usually we rarely drink it that year, at least after a few years of cellaring, let the smoke disappear before opening!"

After leaving the ham cellar, the cellars on both sides of the cave look almost identical. From the stone wall from the hollowed out space with a wooden board, if it weren't for the different year numbers on the wooden board, Xue Husheng really couldn't tell the difference between these wine cellars.

From the latest 2oo7 onwards, all the way down, the number of the cellar is constantly decreasing. The cave's passages also branched out, and dense wine cellars were built on either side of them.

"Now. There are more than 300 cellars used to store fine wines in the entire cellar room, and the oldest wine has a history of 3oo years so far, as for which ancestor made it, you have to go back to the family tree to know!" Walking around the cool and dark passage with Xue Husheng, Xiao Feng introduced: "Since our wine is not well-known, and the old people are unwilling to deal with it at a low price, we don't know when these wines will be able to see the light of day again?"

In the market, when some blended wines that have been cellared for three or five years, and even sold dog meat on the head of a sheep, can be sold at sky-high prices, the Xiao family can only guard these fine wines that have been cellared for hundreds of years, and they are unknown, which is undoubtedly an irony.

"Now that the Xiao family is vigorously opening the Mirror Lake Scenic Area, I'm afraid it's in the next big game of chess, right?" Xue Husheng felt a little dizzy, not only because of the lack of air circulation here, but also because of the suffocating heritage of the Xiao family.

Just now, Xue Husheng tasted the kind of medicinal wine that has been cellared for five years and is used to cure ham, and he feels that he is no less than the fine products of several national liquors such as Moutai and Wuliangye. If the fine wine in the cellar of the Xiao family can handle this level, as long as the fame is known, the wine stored in these cellars in front of him is worth hundreds of millions, to say the least!

If it had been before, someone told him that there was such a family in the mountainous area of the southwest border, Xue Husheng would not have believed it. Sometimes, the truth is always hidden where people can't see it.

Thinking of the Xiao family's opening of farms and ranches, Xue Husheng vaguely guessed that the Xiao family was preparing to cultivate a market for ham and wine through the field of guò ingredients.

"Now that the government is harmonious, we can't always nest in this small mountain village, right?" Xiao Feng did not answer positively, but asked softly.

In the former Qing Dynasty, the ancestors of the Xiao family naturally did not make too much of a show off because they supported the Ming Dynasty, and adopted the strategy of following the glory and raising obscurity; after the Republic of China, there were years of war, and human life was as cheap as a dog, and the Xiao family did not dare to act rashly; after liberation, various movements rose one after another, and Xiao Dushan, as the patriarch, abided by the ancestors' legacy and kept a low profile.

This time, if it weren't for Xiao Feng's chance meeting, he wanted to open Ginkgo Village, and got the qualification of the patriarch's successor from the old lady in advance, he would not have been able to understand that the family had such a deep heritage.

Now, the Mirror Lake Scenic Area is beginning to take shape, and the Xiao family is about to take advantage of this east wind to soar into the sky!

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"Uncle Xue, how do you feel?" When the door of the cellar cave was closed, Xiao Feng asked Xue Husheng with a smile.

"Wonderful, wonderful!" Xue Husheng summed up his trip to the cellar cave in eight words.