Chapter 168: Hundred Flowers Wine (Asking for Flowers)

After clearing the account and sending away a group of women in the evening, Zhang Taiping greeted Cai Yazhi and said that he would go down to the cellar to see what to do with the picked petals.

The sky in the space has always been clear, and the free-range chickens and ducklings live very freely in it. The hundred big white geese are already the size of adult ducks, and the ducks are already half-pulled. A total of five or six hundred gray and white ducks and geese float on the water, which is quite spectacular, swaying anthuriums and plucking clear water, pecking at fresh aquatic plants or occasionally catching small fish.

The second generation of fry in the lake has been born, but the lake is too large, and the fish in it still look sparse.

A thousand chicks scattered in the vast grassland are like a handful of stones thrown into the sea, and they cannot stir up big waves. There was no figure in it, only the occasional one or two came to drink water by the lake.

Zhang Taiping did not rush to make wine first, but observed the magical gourd vines.

This time the change is a little bigger, the yellow flowers have withered, and they bear small thumb-sized green gourds. There was a faint layer of mist around the gourd, as if there was still a streamer running on it. Only the purple flower has not yet withered, so naturally it has not produced a gourd, but the flower has become larger.

Squatting next to the spring water and drinking a few handfuls of spring water, I suddenly felt refreshed and clear-headed. When I came to the melon planting field, there were countless watermelons of different sizes and green colors lying among the green melon vines. The smallest was the size of a thumb when a flower had just withered, and the largest had become a basketball with stripes on it.

Zhang Taiping knocked on the big watermelon and couldn't hear how it was ripe, so he picked the largest one and picked it off. It's quite heavy in my hand, and there are always sixteen or seventeen pounds. Hold and sit under a peach tree and cut it with a knife. As soon as the knife was plunged into it, a little bit was heard, and the whole melon cracked in the middle. Zhang Taiping had a smile on his face, which was clearly a sign of ripeness. Sure enough, it was bright red inside, inlaid with a little black melon seeds, and the juice overflowed along the edges, tempting people's mouths.

After cleaning and wiping the knife, I picked up half a watermelon, peeled a piece of melon, tied it up and put it in my mouth. I don't have to bite with my teeth, but I don't have to use my mouth to bite down, and my mouth is full of refreshing and sweet juice.

After solving half of the watermelon, the belly is rounded, and the remaining half of the watermelon is thrown into the grassland with the peel of the melon, and after a while, I hear a group of chirping chicks, but they are grabbing the watermelon.

After satisfying his appetite, Zhang Taiping began to prepare for winemaking.

A simple basket was made out of long grass, filled with flower petals, stretched out into the spring water, washed twice, and then stuffed directly into the cleaned sake jar without drying it. Put rock sugar on top of each layer, add a little honey, and add some white wine as an introduction when you reach the top. After covering the lid and sealing it in mud, it was wrapped in red paper, so that a jar of flower wine was brewed.

This is a simple way to imitate the method of making wine, Zhang Taiping stopped after brewing about half of the petals, and then began to really make authentic Baihua wine according to the recipe he remembered. It is said to be a hundred flowers wine, but in fact, it is just a mixture of several petals. Zhang Taiping strictly followed the above steps* of the prescription.

This recipe is a bit old, and the above theory is still the theory of yin and yang of the five elements. It is said that the petals belong to the Yin surname, and the brewing is most suitable for women to drink, and it is not good for men to drink for a long time.

Zhang Taiping first brewed more than a dozen jars of wine that he drank with women, and then thought about how to brew the wine that the recipe said was to add some fire surname substances to it was the wine that he drank with men. After thinking for a while, he took out a ginseng fruit, and he deeply understood the effect of this fruit. He took a large jar and mashed a ginseng fruit and diluted it countless times with space spring water until he tried it himself a little bit and felt a little hot in his body. Every time I brew, I want to add some to the jar, which has both the effect of neutralizing the Yin surname and other functions, and this must be a man's holy product after it goes out.

Not all things are the same, he divided the brewed wine into three grades, which were also divided according to the grade quality of the honey added to it. Of course, the one with white jade royal jelly is the highest grade, followed by the kind of royal jelly that has evolved by half, and the most common one is the one with ordinary honey. But this kind of ordinary is relative to the first two, with unusual honey added to it, as well as ginseng fruit with magical effects, and it is brewed with pure space water, which is difficult to think of!

I didn't stop until I had processed all the petals in one go, and most of the sake jars I bought last time were used. If you think about it carefully, you have brewed a lot of wine, and there are dozens of jars of the best in the space alone, and there are dozens of nearly 100 jars in the cellar outside. You don't have to worry about drinking for a short time.

When Zhang Taiping was brewing wine, the little bee that had evolved last time flew over and levitated up and down beside Zhang Taiping. I had time to take care of it, and reached out for it to rest on the palm of my hand. Zhang Taiping is the more he looks at it, the more he feels that it is different from other queen bees, first of all, this wisdom is unique.

Dipping a little wine in the palm of his hand, it was really smart and could understand what Zhang Taiping meant, and crawled over to suck up a drop of wine. Immediately, he staggered, flapped his wings a few times, and fell headlong into Zhang Taiping's palm. Zhang Taiping was amused, so he said to it: "Seeing that you are so smart, I will give you a name and call you Xiaofei." ”

Placing the bee Xiaofei on the branch, Zhang Taiping came out of the space. There was nothing else in the cellar at this time, only a jar of wine.

Coming up from the cellar, Fan Ming had already been waiting for a long time.

"How? Is the Baihua wine brewed? Can you drink it? She looked up the simplicity of Baihua wine on the Internet, and it was rare to associate this wine with a school full of women on TV or a woman who was both beautiful and martial arts. Fan Ming was a little fascinated after seeing it, and couldn't wait to come over and ask Zhang Taiping how the brewing place was.

A series of three questions made Zhang Taiping cry and laugh: "It's just been put into the jar, how can you drink it immediately, you have to wait for a period of time to filter it once and then put it for dozens of days before you can drink it." ”

When Fan Ming heard that she would have to wait for such a long time, she immediately wilted.

Zhang Taiping thought in his heart, should he cultivate a little drunkard?

Zhang Taiping got up early the next day, he didn't exercise again today, his knife skills have been achieved, and his physical fitness is even more perverted to the peak, and his age is also at his peak, and there will be no decrease if he doesn't exercise for three or five months.

First, I inspected the hillside, and most of the peach trees planted on the hillside survived. Naturally, the peach trees here cannot be compared with those in the orchard, and they are similar to those in other people's orchards, and they are still buds, and they will not bloom until a few days. Zhang Taiping turned around from the top of the mountain and quietly watered the space spring water under a tree, and the buds immediately had a tendency to bloom after watering. I believe that even if it is not tomorrow, it will be the day after tomorrow, and this hillside will become a sea of flowers.

When I came down the hillside, I gave some water to the vineyard and the vegetable patch. The vegetables in summer are as much water as possible, almost every day. Zhang Taiping watered the vegetable field with spring water diluted several times, but did not water half an acre of chili pepper land, which is suitable for growing on sandy soil, and the spicy taste of the spicy seeds produced by a little drought is enough, so as long as it is not particularly dry, Zhang Taiping does not plan to water the spicy seeds.

The lavender has also grown into seedlings, and the green and green are spectacular as far as the eye can see, and in a few months, the sea of flowers will be spectacular. Such a large area, Zhang Taiping did not mention this kettle for watering.

The perimeter of the pond is already overgrown with aquatic plants, and it looks a little more lively. The cherry blossom trees planted by the pond were not taken special care of by Zhang Taiping, so there was no sign of flowering at this time. The lotus seeds sown at the bottom of the pond have not yet responded.

I teased the rocks and the goose ducklings floating on the edge of the pool before I went into the backyard.

The backyard surrounds the canal and pond with concrete shelves, and there are also small fish swimming in it, and a few ducklings floating on it that are too lazy to go out. It is much shallower than the pond, and the lotus seeds planted in it have grown, and a thin branch sticks up from the soil below, spreading a palm-sized round lotus leaf on the surface of the water.

Now the backyard is no longer the chaos of last winter, covered in a layer of green. The cement shelves are covered with vines, and it won't be long before the whole shelf will turn green, and a few watermelons and melons will be a sight to behold in the yard.

The walls of the courtyard are also covered with petunia vines, some of which have bloomed purple petunias, and a small purple trumpet is rippling in the breeze. Morning glory is purple most of the day, but it is not static and changes with the weather and light.

The flowers are at their peak in the morning, when the sun is strong at noon, and in the afternoon they open again, gradually changing to pink and even deep red at night.

The various fruit trees in the yard are full of flowers under Zhang Taiping's special care, and the little bees are flying back and forth on it.

When the old man came back from the orchard's morning exercise, Zhang Taiping asked, "Grandpa, look, I want to raise some bees in the yard, what do you think?" ”

"It's a good idea, honey has many benefits, the most famous is beauty and longevity."

"Then what do you think is more appropriate to put it there?" Zhang Taiping looked at it himself, and he had already been fully arranged.

"Just put it outside the backyard wall, this one is not afraid of being stolen. It is also easy to go out and collect honey when it is placed outside. ”

Zhang Taiping thought about it, and prepared to put the outside of the bee Yangzi courtyard wall near the back door and the chicken shed adjacent to the place.