Chapter 24: Bamboo Flowers
Zhuyuan Shochu is Li Yu's dream liquor, but unfortunately the secret recipe of Zhuyuan Shochu has never been passed on, it is said that Zhuyuan also mastered the brewing method of sake handed down from the Han Dynasty, Li Yu has never seen it, only listened to his grandfather chanted, saying that it was in vain to drink a sip of this life.
In fact, 2,000 years ago, Japanese sake was passed down from China, and the Japanese sake production process is simple, using rice and natural mineral water as raw materials, through koji-making, yeast-making, and final brewing, through parallel compound fermentation, brewing mash with an alcohol content of about 18%, and then adding lime to precipitate it, and then pressing it to become the original sake of sake.
Bamboo garden sake to use the same rare raw material - bamboo flowers, in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" more than 2000 years ago, there is a record of "bamboo flowers, its year will wither", that is, after the bamboo flowering, the stem leaves are yellow, dead in pieces, the bamboo flowering interval is long, the Jin Dynasty Dai Kai's "Bamboo Spectrum" recorded that "the medicine must be sixty, and the complex is also six years", and its annotation is "bamboo is easy to root in sixty years, and easy roots are strong and die", and the longest even blooms once in a hundred years.
The bamboo garden has unique natural conditions, and the ground is rich in hard water - mustard water.
Groundwater has soft and hard saying, soft water is also called "rootless water", "heavenly water", such as some tea people take the water of the first snow, the water of the morning dew, the breeze and rain, and even some people specialize in the plum forest, take the plum petal snow, store it in a tank after turning the water, bury it deep underground, and use it for cooking tea in the coming year, and the rootless water is also the ancient alchemy medicine of the pill Yindan, in the modern view of the rootless water is a kind of distilled water, no impurities, the ancient elegant people use the rootless water to make tea in order to pursue the best taste.
Hard water enters the throat, but it is an indispensable ingredient for making Takezono sake, and the sake made from wasabi is not easy to change color, and the taste is light and sweet.
When Li Yu came back from Bingbo's house, he happened to meet Bao Chang Lu coming out of the kitchen wearing an apron, and greeted him with a smile, "Bao Chang, this line is not bad!" Go out and guarantee that you can get a bunch of big girls and little daughters-in-law. ”
Although the chief is a country cook, he is always neatly dressed, his black thick hair is meticulously combed behind his head, and it is smeared with oil, and flies can break his arms and legs when he stands up, although he is not young, there are not many folds on his face, compared with the villagers who work in the fields all day, the chief is indeed well maintained.
In the countryside, in addition to satisfying the appetite and looking for ingredients all over the mountain, the chief has nothing to do all day long, playing cards and teasing dogs, and traveling around.
"You kid just play poor, how to arrange dinner, there is so much meat in the kitchen, but it costs a lot of money, tell me what your kid thinks in his heart?" The chief said with a rare seriousness.
"How do you get it, security chief, you can do it! They are all workers I hired, and I can rest assured that you are doing things. Li Yu played a trick gun and said, he knew that the chief was thinking about him, and he was vaguely reminding him.
"You slippery boy!" The chief scolded with a smile, but he also understood what Li Yu meant, and couldn't help but appreciate a little, now the living conditions in the countryside are not as good as in the past, but he treats the workers so generously, and he has only seen Li Yu's family for so many years.
Lu Baochang rolled up his sleeves and entered the kitchen with high morale, since Li Yu was so willing, if he didn't show his real skills to cook two tables of good dishes, it would be smashing his Chef Lu's signboard.
At this time, I suddenly saw my grandmother walking over from the vegetable garden with a basket full of vegetables, with a strange expression on her face, and when she saw Li Yu, she beckoned, and said in a low voice, "Xiao Yu, come here." ”
Seeing his grandmother's mysterious appearance, Li Yu was a little confused, walked over, and asked, "Grandma, what's wrong?" ”
Grandma took out a tomato from the basket, bright color, like red agate, twice the size of a normal tomato, exuding a rich sweetness that people can't help but want to take a bite.
"Xiao Yu, I don't know what's wrong with the tomatoes in the vegetable garden, they suddenly grow so big, it's really strange, I've never seen such big tomatoes, and these green vegetables, fresh and tender, the original green vegetables have grown old for so long, and they can't be pinched, you see, they are so tender that they are dripping water, Xiao Yu, what the hell do you say is this?"
Li Yu knew a little in his heart, he walked around the vegetable garden two days ago, and sprinkled space water on all the vegetables on a whim, but he didn't expect the effect to be so significant, and he couldn't help but be very happy, this is another financial road, if such a good tomato is sold in the county, there will definitely be unexpected benefits.
Grandma was probably shocked, if she didn't find a reasonable reason, the old man was afraid that he would think wildly, Li Yu quickly turned his brain and said, "Grandma, this is normal!" You see who has you grow vegetables so finely, you turn the soil, build a frame, fertilize, catch insects, if this vegetable doesn't grow so well, it can't be said, and it's not a good thing! This tomato grows so temptingly, I'll taste it. ”
Li Yu picked up a tomato and wiped it and was about to gnaw it, but was snatched by his grandmother and complained, "Stuff everything into your mouth, what if you can't eat it, wait until you go back and show it to your grandfather, if it's okay, you can eat it again." ”
"Okay!" Li Yu said helplessly, how could the vegetables watered by the space water not be eaten, but he couldn't tell his grandmother this.
Seeing Li Yu's sullen appearance, grandma took out a crisp pear and said, "This pear can be eaten, it's sweet, take it and eat it, I'll go back to cooking." ”
Looking at his grandmother who was messing with a child, Li Yu was deflated for a while, and walked to the watermelon field with a pear, this pear looked good, emerald green, and when he took a bite, the juice overflowed, and his mouth was full of fragrance.
Li Yu's watermelon is planted in front of the vegetable garden, the land is not big, there are not many planted, enough for their own food, under the careful care of their grandparents, the green watermelon vines are full of vitality, the round watermelon on the ground is lying on the ground, there are beautiful patterns on the melon skin, now the watermelon is almost ripe, Li Yu picked a few big, ripe, look at the watermelon to see that there are withered whiskers on the vines, this melon is a ripe melon.
The watermelon he ate in Qiancun last time made Li Yu taste it for a long time, and he didn't know if his watermelon was so delicious, but when he saw the effect of watering the tomatoes with space water, he suddenly felt itchy and unbearable, and sprinkled a lot of space water on the watermelon, and he was looking forward to eating delicious watermelon!
The saplings planted in the morning on the south slope are swaying in the evening breeze, full of vitality, it seems that they have survived, and Li Yu has no space to water, mainly because the south slope is such a large area, and Li Yu is afraid that he will be tired to the point of prostration, and then he will dig a reservoir on the top of the mountain, and then he only needs to pour spiritual spring water into it.