A few days later, the nearby polder market opened, and Xiao Yu went to buy more than a dozen catties of sugar and came back.

Waiting until the twist and mountain grapes fermented in the wine jar for half a month, Xiao Yu added two taels of sugar to each jar. Among them, there are two jars of twisted wine, she filtered the slag with gauze in advance before adding sugar, and specially selected a few jars with different spices to adjust the taste to be more diverse.

In order to make this wine taste better, Xiao Yu planned to add the sugar that should be added several times.

Adding sugar can mellow the wine, increasing its flavor and potency, otherwise it is easy to spoil. In general, the sweeter the fruit, the less sugar you put in it, because too much sugar can be counterproductive.

The days are fleeting.

In a few moments, it will be time for all those wines to be filtered. It took the three siblings several nights to strain the wine one by one.

After the initial fermentation was poured out, there were some white deposits under the jar, which Xiao Yu carefully collected and stored separately.

"What's that?" Xiao Yucheng on the side asked after seeing it.

Xiao Yu explained: "What is left over from the fermentation of the fruit can be used as koji, and with these, it will be easier to ferment the fruit wine next time." ”

After filtering the wine residue, Xiao Yu added sugar to each jar and let it continue to ferment and mellow.

There was a choking rancid smell in the courtyard. Xiao Pei looked at the neatly arranged jar and asked, "When can this wine be opened?" ”

Hao Jun, who has been drinking well recently, will come over when he is empty, and he can't sit still.

Xiao Yu smiled slightly: "You can eat it in a few more days." It's just that if you want to have a stronger flavor, you have to wait for a year and a half. It is more mellow when it is aged for a few years. ”

The resulting fruit wine is similar to fermented fruit juice and is not easily intoxicating.

It's better to buy ten catties of sake and come back to steam it, and mix some spirits into a few jars of it, so that you can get out of the wine faster, and you can also let Hao Jun get over the addiction to alcohol.

As soon as he thought of it, Xiao Yu immediately drew a pattern and went to the carpenter to customize a small wooden barrel for steaming wine, and found a suitable slender bamboo pole to carefully open the bamboo joints, make a bamboo pipe and connect it with the wooden barrel, and made a simple wine steamer.

When steaming wine, Xiao Pei and Xiao Yucheng stood next to them to help, and said: "The smell of this wine is so strong, I'm afraid I will get drunk if I smell it." ”

Xiao Yu couldn't help laughing and said: "It's really like this if the amount of alcohol is shallow, it's better for Sister to go out first." ”

In fact, Xiao Pei already felt a little unbearable, so he did something else as he said.

The equinox is full of rounds, and the clouds are bright for a long time. In a blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, when the moon is reunited, is approaching.

On the fourteenth, Qin Guangyu came over to give a gift for the festival, and Xiao Yu presented the two bamboo herring fish specially prepared, which made An Mo, who was accompanying him, stunned. The previous contract with Lan Kwai Fong's fairy grass jelly expired and was renewed for another half a year, and the Xiao family was not short of money, and the bamboo herring had not been sold.

The people from the Drunken Immortal House carried the sour bamboo shoots into the car, and Qin Guangyu asked with a smile: "I wonder if I can add a few jars of fine wine next year?" ”

Xiao Yu smiled slightly and said, "Young Master Qin, just wait." ”

In fact, there are several jars of adjusted twisted wine and mountain wine in the house, which Xiao Yu prepared for the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts and tasting. She has a plan for those wines, and she doesn't plan to sell them now. Because the jars that are opened now are mixed with spirits or blended, and they are not enough to eat at home. Most of the rest are still aged for a year or two, and the taste is better.

"That's just the news." Qin Guangyu said with a smile.

"Are sour bamboo shoots selling well lately? Is there anyone else who does this as well? ”

"Other companies also sell sour bamboo shoots, but most of them use vinegar or wine to make bamboo shoots sour, and the taste is different after all. Drunken Immortal Residence is still an exclusive business. Qin Guangyu said.

Xiao Yu nodded slightly: "In the future, someone will always try this kind of sour bamboo shoot method, and when the time comes, if the Drunken Immortal Mansion adjusts the price of the relevant dishes, you can inform me, and you should make less." ”

"Okay." Qin Guangyu thought at first that Xiao Yu was going to say that he would not do it, but he was relieved when he heard this, and asked again: "By the way, can the album drawn by the girl be drawn before?" ”

Last time, when it came to the crops that were recorded in ancient books but are now lost, Qin Guangyu had the heart to search for them. In order to facilitate identification, thinking that Xiao Yu treasured those crops, he asked her to draw everything she remembered into an atlas with words. He would give it to his friends who often sailed with merchant ships. If it can be found, it will be a great achievement.

Of course, Xiao Yu knows her thoughts, and this is also beneficial and harmless to her, so she is naturally happy to see it happen.

"I just painted it a few days ago, and I didn't have a chance to give it to you. Hold on. Xiao Yu went back to the house and took out the album that was only a few pages.

Qin Guangyu opened it and looked at it, only to feel that it was more detailed than the record in the book, and it was lifelike, just like Xiao Yu had seen it before, and this crop grew like this. Her calligraphy and painting skills are quite ordinary, but they are also extremely rare for peasant girls.

"I have limited commitments to Danqing, but I have tried my best to draw clearly and clearly, and I can be regarded as living up to the trust of my son." Xiao Yu saw his expression and said with a smile.

"Second Miss Xiao painted excellently, thank you." Qin Guangyu put away the painting with some embarrassment, and gave Xiao Yu a deep salute, his tone was sincere and not like a fake.

Xiao Yu hurriedly turned sideways to dodge.

At this time, Xiao Pei came out of the kitchen and asked, "Qin Gongzi will leave after eating?" ”

"Thank you for the kindness of the girl, tomorrow in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the affairs in the restaurant are complicated, so I won't bother." Qin Guangyu regained his usual composure and said with a smile.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the three of them were preparing to eat all kinds of food for the festival, and Hao Jun came to the door with a festival gift.

It turned out that Hao Jun's parents also died early, and his only closest eldest brother had already married and lived another family, so he simply came to Xiao's house to celebrate the festival with Xiao Yu.

In the evening, Xiao Pei made a sumptuous dish, and Xiao Yu prepared a few fruit wines for his sister and brother to eat, and the taste was not strong, so he scooped out a pot of twisted wine and mountain wine with the ingredients.

This wine is as translucent as amber, dark red in colour and fruity in colour.

Hao Jun was amazed when he smelled the fragrance, and couldn't wait to pick up the bowl and take a big sip as usual, the spicy taste suddenly rushed into his throat, choking him couldn't help coughing, but his eyes lit up, and he laughed: "Happy!" Sure enough, good wine! No wonder Ah Yu would say that the wine outside doesn't taste right! ”

Xiao Yucheng also took a sip, only to feel that the taste was strong and mellow, and a stream of heat ran down his throat to the dantian, and then dissolved in his limbs, and his whole body was warm and uncomfortable, and at the same time, his lips and teeth were fragrant, and the aftertaste was endless. But he tasted this point, his cheeks were already red, and he was as light as the wind galloping, and when he saw Xiao Pei and Xiao Yu on his side, he didn't dare to drink more, and still ate the ordinary new brew.

That night, Hao Jun drank too much and was drunk in the courtyard, and he couldn't wake up no matter how he shouted. It wasn't until Xiao Yu took a special medicine and blew it under his nose that he sneezed and woke up, and staggered to the bench in the hall to sleep.

Xiao Yu looked at Hao Jun, who was drunk, and said with his forehead on his forehead: "Why are you drunk like this, I won't give him wine next time." ”