Chapter 81 Raising Piglets on Distiller's Lees
With the help of Yang and Carambola, Du Wulang finally finished steaming the last three vats. There are 30 catties of low-alcohol wine, and there are three jars. The secondary distillation of the high liquor is only more than 50 catties, and it is filled with five large jars and one small jar.
Du Wulang left about two catties of low-alcohol wine, ready to give it to the master and uncle in the evening. It's not that Du Wulang is stingy, but that although the freshly brewed wine is very fragrant, it is not delicious. To taste good, you need to cellar for a year.
Although Du Wulang has no experience, he believes in Du Jiumei's remarks, after all, the success of brewing is all the credit of Du Jiumei, he is just helping to do something small!
Yang's and Du Wulang were very excited, and the family had another income. The star flower on the side looked at the sake lees in the big vat at the door, and it was a pity to throw it away, and said: "Little aunt, if we raise pigs at home, these sake lees can be fed to pigs, and we can save a lot of food." ”
Yang Shi was surprised, looked at the dark brown distiller's lees, and asked, "Can this still be fed to pigs?" ”
There were no wineries nearby, and Yang didn't know how to use these lees. Besides, in this era, winemaking was a high-tech technical activity, which was kept secret from the outside world, and it was normal for Yang to not know about this.
"Not only can I feed the pigs, but I think I can use it as fertilizer." "My grandfather's village had people who made wine, and they collected grain in the village every year. They make a lot of money by making wine, and their family also raises more than 20 pigs, so they can make a lot of money by selling pigs a year. ”
"Oh, that's so good." Yang had a calculation in his heart, "Peach Blossom, catch up with your ox cart and send a jar to your uncle's house, they have two pigs at home." The rest is used as fertilizer. ”
Carambola felt a pity, and hurriedly said: "Little aunt, can you give it to me, my father said, tomorrow I will catch three little pigs." ”
The brother in the family is about to say goodbye, and there is a small one in the mother's belly, so the money and silver dowry used on her are very small. Daddy felt sorry for her and said to catch three little pigs for her. When the pig grows up, the money from the sale can be used as a dowry for her. With the embroidery work in her hands, by next year, she will have twenty taels of silver.
In the countryside countryside. The dowry of twenty taels of silver is a lot, and the star flower is very satisfied.
"Okay, I'll ask Gorou to send you home." Yang said with a smile, this niece is very capable. I chatted with my second sister-in-law before, and I also knew about it, please, raise pigs to save dowry. As long as people are diligent, they can make a lot of money in a year.
"Thank you, little aunt." Carambola said gratefully, these lees can be left for a long time, enough for the piglets to eat for some time.
When she thinks of local pork, Du Jiumei also wants to raise one, and at the end of the year, she can eat pig-killing rice and sausages. But when I thought that there was no room in the backyard, I had to give up.
The second uncle of the Yang family has several large vats at home. The second cousin of the Yang family sent a large vat of distiller's lees to the uncle of the Yang family, and the rest was packed into a large vat at his house.
All the steamed wine was buried in the soil by Du Wulang according to Du Jiumei's wishes. The kitchen smelled of wine and couldn't cook, so Yang and the others went to the second uncle's house of the Yang family to eat.
The second uncle of the Yang family took a sip of the freshly steamed wine, nodded again and again, and said, "Oh, Wulang is not simple, this wine tastes much better than the wine we bought ready-made." ”
The taste is very fragrant, but when you drink it, you always feel a little rushed. Despite this, it has made the second uncle of the Yang family happy. The success of winemaking means that my sister's family has another livelihood.
Yang Fugui was not idle, he drank it in one gulp, and praised it: "Good wine." Memorable! ”
Although Du Wulang is not good at wine, when he smells the fragrance of the wine, he knows that it is better than ordinary wine, and said modestly: "Second uncle, these wines taste good, wait until they are buried in the ground." Dig it out again next year and it tastes even better. When the time comes, I will send more to the master, uncle, and second uncle. ”
"Okay, okay, I'll drink it next year." Yang Fugui took a sip of wine intoxicated, and said with a smile, if it is really ginger is old and spicy, and the wine is Chen's fragrance!
Early the next morning, Du Wulang hurriedly crushed all the remaining sorghum at home and used it all to make wine. Yang saw that her son was serious about learning skills, and she didn't stop her.
Anyway, the family has money now, and instead of eating sorghum noodles, they eat fine noodles and rice. Yang thinks that as long as the four children can eat and dress well, and be healthy, spending some money is nothing!
After waiting for Du Wulang and Du Jiumei to put the new raw material into the vat to ferment, Du Wulang was idle and his mind was active.
"Xiao Jiu'er, I heard you last time, this wine can only be brewed once this year, if we open a winery in the future, this will not work, the output is too small." Du Wulang thought about it slightly, although he didn't understand the temperature that Xiao Jiu'er said, he also understood that it was cold, and the raw material was not good for fermentation.
Du Jiumei frowned slightly, there is no thermometer now, it is difficult to control the temperature, if you want to make wine all year round, then you have to practice over and over again, carefully groping, in order to master the mystery, thought about it and said: "Brother, since you want to make wine all year round, then you have to practice over and over again, carefully groping for what kind of temperature is suitable for autumn and winter winemaking."
"I think the same way, during the experiment, we don't have to get so much every time, a little less, and I'm going to go to the yard and build a stone house with bricks and stones, it's cold inside, we can burn fire, burn charcoal. If you do it a few times, you may be able to master the heat. Du Wulang said softly, now that he sees the liquor brewed, he already wants to make liquor as a lifelong livelihood, and he must do it well.
Seeing that her brother was so serious, Du Jiumei nodded and said, "Well, that's fine!" Let's figure it out together. "Although she can make wine, she is a child after all, and she is still a girl's family, so there are many restrictions. But Du Goro likes to make wine, so it's much more convenient.
First of all, my mother will not stop her, but will support Du Wulang to study, and the purchase of all kinds of raw materials is also handled by Du Wulang.
Hearing the sound of a little pig chirping not far away, Du Jiumei stopped chatting with Du Wulang, ran outside, and saw the second uncle and second cousin of the Yang family driving four little pigs past her door.
White pigs and black flowers, four round piglets, humming and chirping, from time to time to eat a bite of the weeds on the side of the road.
"Second uncle, second cousin, why did you buy four pigs?" Du Jiumei was surprised, before Cousin Peach Blossom said that the second uncle would buy her three heads.
The second uncle of the Yang family smiled and said, "The small one, half sold and half given, I will keep it." Besides, we're close to the mountains, and there's a lot of pigweed, so it doesn't matter if there's one more. ”
"It's good, I'm fine, I help Cousin Peach Blossom beat pigweed, and when it comes to the New Year, kill a pig and spend the fat year." Du Jiumei grinned, followed behind the second uncle, and poked the pig's buttocks with a small stick, causing the little pig to hum and chirp frequently.
"Xiao Jiu'er is so good!" The second uncle of the Yang family is small and can't see his teeth, and it's good to come here, although it is far away from Yangjia Village, but there is a lot of land here, the yard and the house are very large, and it is also very convenient to go up and down the mountain. (To be continued.) )
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Wait a minute!
This person is like a god, and he has a head start, is he born again?
Here it is again, those hateful little eyes, could it be that the original body really did something that people and gods were angry with in his previous life?
But she is not the original Hou Shuangxi, this black pot can't be carried.
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