Fusang buys barley koji and koji, which can be used to make rice wine and baijiu. Fusang said that Gu Huacheng brewed the koji used in his dreams, which was made by Gu Huacheng. However, it is nothing more than the use of wheat koji or koji tiller. They don't have time to make koji now, so they can only use these ready-made ones.

Sake is used to blend the final flavor, and the real difficulty is actually the seasoning.

Ordinary liquor is nothing more than soaking rice, adding sour pulp water, steaming rice, adding koji to the tank for fermentation, pressing, clarifying, and filling the jar. As for taste, that's a matter of opinion. And Fuso now they want to make a flavor on the basis of sake, but they don't need so many processes as ordinary sake brewing. Just take a portion of the wine and add it to the new wine they brew to flavor it.

It's just that the so-called newly brewed wine is not actually wine.

After grinding the diemon grass into a clay pot, adding cloves, cocoons, atractylodes, and angelica, and then pouring sake to cover all of them, Fuso carefully covered the clay pot, picked it up and shook it.

Jiuniang frowned: "At first glance, it has some meaning of medicinal wine." ”

Fusang tilted his head and looked at Jiuniang for a while, then suddenly clapped his hands and nodded: "Senior sister, what you said is reasonable, there are already some cloves and atractylodes in the koji." Why don't I take it out again? ”

“…… Don't use it, or take it out now, just put it in the Dream Grass. Jiang Nu gave her opinion.

Jiuniang and Fusang couldn't help but look at Jiang Nu.

Jiang Nu lowered her head and said embarrassedly, "I'll go to the master's room first to steal ...... When I changed the wine bag, I didn't actually think that Menghui had added a lot of medicinal herbs. ”

"Can you smell it?" Fuso frowned.

Jiang Nu shook her head: "It's not that I smell the wine, but I can't ask the taste of medicine." Since I was a child, I begged for a living under the stick of my father. He was often injured and beaten. Fortunately, my uncle in the pharmacy was kind to me, and I was beaten. I often hid in the pharmacy and got used to the smell of those herbs. Master's room didn't smell like that. ”

"What if the smell of alcohol covers it?" Jiuniang was puzzled. My nose is also good, but it's a pity that my nose is good at those smells that I can't stand it.

"It's that serious." Fusang pulled Jiu Niang, "Little junior sister, are you sure that there are not so many medicinal materials in Master's dream?" ”

Jiang Nu nodded: "I can be sure." ”

Fuso nodded, and immediately poured out all the contents of the crockpot. He re-grinded the Diemon grass and brewed it in wine.

"Little junior sister, senior brother taught you how to make wine, right?" Fusang winked at Jiang Nu.

Jiuniang glanced at Fusang while sniffing the snuff stove, and frowned: "Weishenme doesn't teach me?" ”

"You?" Fuso frowned. "When will you be able to feel that our family's wine tastes mellow and fragrant, your senior brother and I will definitely not be stingy with what we have learned and teach you everything."

Jiuniang pulled the corners of her mouth, covered her nose and sat aside.

"Little junior sister, do you know what the most important thing is in this winemaking?" Fusang glanced at Jiu Niang hesitantly, and pulled Jiang Nu to sit at the wine table.

Jiang Nu shook her head and looked at Fusang with some admiration.

Fusang smiled: "Naturally, it is the raw material, for example, the rice wine is made of sticky glutinous rice, rice, millet and rhubarb rice, and the rice grains are white and plump, the size is neat, and there are fewer sundries." ”

Jiuniang frowned: "But the master also said it." Qu is the soul of wine, and water is the bone of wine. Shouldn't the most important thing in sake brewing be spring water and koji? ”

"......" Fusang glanced at Jiuniang a few times, was stunned for a moment, and said. You remember it well, but why don't you brew it? ”

"Senior brother, are you embarrassed and angry?" Jiuniang glanced at Fusang with a grin. "Although I am a little sensitive to wine now, one day my sensitivity to wine will become my strength in winemaking!"

Jiang Nu nodded: "What Senior Sister said is true." ”

"You two are of the same mind." Fuso pursed his lips. "Little junior sister, why don't you teach your brother how to make music?"

"It's going to take a few days to make the music. Aren't we all very stuffy these days? Jiuniang pouted.

"You're alone, aren't you?" Fusang glanced at Jiu Niang, "This jar of wine is less than a month, junior sister, if you are in a panic, you might as well go find some spring water by yourself." ”

"I'm afraid of getting lost." Jiuniang bowed her head. "Oh, senior brother, if you want your sister to make koji, I won't feel very uncomfortable anyway, and I can still learn it once."

"That'...... I'll teach my little sister Mai Qu. Fuso smiled, turned and ran out.

Jiang Nu looked at Fusang's back a little strangely, and turned her head to look at Jiu Niang, but saw Jiu Niang sitting at the table leisurely, poured herself a cup of tea, and drank it slowly.

"Senior sister?" Jiang Nu shouted Jiu Niang.

"Huh?" Jiuniang glanced at Jiang Nu, stretched out her hand and patted the seat next to her, "Come and sit." ”

"What did Senior Brother do?" Jiang Nu glanced out of the door as if she was a little worried.

"I guess there's no wheat." Jiuniang shook her head, "I was shouting to make wheat koji, but I didn't even have wheat, tsk, senior brother is getting more and more brainless." ”

Before Jiuniang's words fell, Fusang's indignant voice came from outside the door: "Phew! Senior sister, you just choreographed me all day long, and the image of haode for my brother was ruined by you! ”

Jiu Niang was just about to say something, but Fusang suddenly came in, looked at Jiu Niang, and a slightly sinister smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Senior sister, the dumb woman is looking for you." ”

"......" Jiu Niang's face darkened suddenly, and she walked out of the room step by step.

The dumb woman was standing in the yard waiting for her, and as soon as Jiu Niang saw the dumb woman, she immediately restrained the expression on her face, ran over quickly, looked up and smiled at the dumb woman: "Good mother-in-law." ”

"Hmm." The mute woman nodded, turned and walked out.

Jiuniang was stunned for a moment, and then followed.

After walking out of that courtyard for a long time, Jiu Niang couldn't help but ask: "Where is my mother-in-law taking me?" ”

"It's not going to sell you." The dumb woman said a word, and then ignored Jiuniang.

It wasn't until she reached the front of a dilapidated courtyard that the mute woman stopped and knocked on the courtyard door. An old man came and opened the door. After glancing at the mute woman, he invited the two of them in.

The dumb woman pointed to Jiu Niang and said to the old man, "This is the apprentice of Mr. Gu that the old woman told you before. ”

"That drunken little lady?" The old man narrowed his eyes and looked Jiu Niang up and down and asked.

The dumb woman nodded: "Exactly." ”

The old man nodded. pointed to the stone pier in front of his door: "Little lady, sit down." ”

Jiuniang looked at the dumb woman in confusion, and then looked at the old man in front of her. Finally nodded and sat down.

As soon as he sat down, he felt a tingling pain in the back of his head.

"Little lady, don't move." The old man's deep voice came from behind him.

The dumb woman stood opposite Jiuniang and looked at her with a kind smile: "What happened back then, the old woman was sorry for your master, and now, I will heal you as compensation for him." There are some things that the old woman will only say once. I know you've been speculating about the identity of the old woman, but you've already guessed that I'm the mother of the tortoise. back then. When your master and his party first arrived in Beihu, they encountered a disaster, and it was the old woman who saved them. Even if you come later, Ju'er loses your master, and your master still regards me as a lifesaver. Over the years, he came to Beihu, one to read the tortoise, and the other to come for his wife and me. Back then, like you, she had a very high understanding of the taste of wine. It's just that she ...... No motion sickness. I thought to myself. If you don't get sick anymore, maybe you'll be able to ...... like a tortoise."

The mute woman sighed and said no more.

Jiuniang was a little stunned.

After the old man gave Jiu Niang the needle, he went back to the house. He never spoke again.

But the mute woman shook the door that had been closed.

The dumb woman said to Jiuniang that this set of acupuncture can only be performed once a month. After seven times, it may be able to cure Jiuniang's sickness.

Jiu Niang frowned: "Seven times is seven months." It's been more than half a year, and now we've been here for almost half a month. How can you stay that long? ”

The dumb woman smiled: "Maybe in the future, your master will not come again, this time it will be a year and a half to live?" ”

Looking at the dumb woman's unfathomable smile, Jiu Niang was speechless for a while.

Ten days later, Jiang Nu pulled Jiuniang, who was digging grass in the yard, into Fusang's house.

Fusang smiled at Jiu Niang quite profoundly: "Senior sister, come and try our bar?" ”

"It's only been ten days, is it okay?"

"Senior sister, senior brother said that this time the wine is mellow and fragrant, and junior sister doesn't know so much, and she can't taste whether it's really mellow. Senior sister, can you give it a try? Jiang Nu took Jiu Niang's hand and smiled gently.

Jiu Niang shuddered suddenly, looked at Fusang and then at Jiang Nu, and said with a dry smile: "You don't know that I am drunk, why do you want me to ...... Ouch ......"

As he spoke, Fusang suddenly opened the wine jar and leaned under the tip of Jiuniang's nose. Jiuniang wrinkled her nose and wanted to cover it, but her hands were pulled by Jiang Nu.

"Senior sister, isn't it so uncomfortable?" Fusang looked at Jiu Niang, who was as usual, and smiled slightly. "I heard that the dumb woman is helping you with your alcoholsickness, and it turned out to be true."

Jiuniang was also stunned for a moment, it seemed that she was really not so uncomfortable.

Jiang Nu watched Jiu Niang slowly let go of her hand, took a cup and gave Jiu Niang a glass of wine: "Senior sister, can you taste it?" ”

Jiuniang nodded and sniffed: "This smell is not as strong as dreaming back." ”

"Senior sister has tasted the dream?" Jiang Nu was curious.

Jiuniang shook her head: "No, it's just that the master was drunk before, and I smelled the smell." By the way, senior brother, you can take a sip. ”

Fuso pouted: "What to do?" ”

"I just want to smell what I've tasted after drinking it." Jiuniang glanced at Fusang.

Fuso twitched the corners of his mouth, took a sip, and then exhaled vigorously.

Jiuniang nodded: "It's really not as strong as dreaming back, but it also has a different flavor." ”

"That'...... Are we done? I've heard that good wine needs to be stored for more than a year before it can come out with its true taste, and most of it is a false taste nowadays. Jiang Nu looked at the two of them and asked.

Jiuniang shook her head: "I've only been getting started for a while, I don't know about this." Brother, can you tell me? ”

Fusang looked at Jiu Niang and Jiang Nu and nodded: "Yes, I think that our wine is finished, but it still needs to be counted after the master tastes it." Senior sister, let's go and give Master a taste? ”

"Why don't you choose a name first?" (To be continued......)