Heiwa Prefecture has a custom of brewing rice wine on Tanabata because the water on this day will not rot for a long time, and the rice wine brewed with Tanabata water has a better flavor than ordinary water.

However, because Fenghezhuang was just in a hurry to ship a batch of goods during the Qixi Festival, most of the people in the village were unable to brew rice wine on the day of Qixi Festival.

Missed the Qixi Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a good time to brew rice wine, and the people of Fenghe Zhuang will naturally not miss it again. As a result, in the past few days, there has been a strong sweet fragrance everywhere in the village. Some people who came to Fenghezhuang to visit relatives laughed and said that they walked into the winery, and all they smelled was wine when they exhaled, and people who did not drink well estimated that they would get drunk directly after staying in Fenghezhuang for a short time.

The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the women of the Li family all went out to prepare to brew this year's rice wine.

Brewed in the Mid-Autumn Festival, put it for a few months, and when it comes to the New Year, you can drink the latest rice wine this year.

"Mom, this pot of glutinous rice is also cooked." In one of the kitchens of the Li family, Lin Zichen extinguished the unburned firewood in the stove and shouted to Li Weiyan in the living room.

"Eh, here we are." Li Weiyan put down the chopsticks in her hand, entered the kitchen with Liang Xiaomei, and carried out the steamed glutinous rice in the pot.

"Xiaoyu, quickly put another dustpan on the table in the yard." Li Yuedi arranged everyone's work in an orderly manner.

"Eh, got it." Ye Xiaoyu turned around and carried the dustpan that was drying outside the house to the table in the yard.

Li Weiyan and Liang Xiaomei poured the glutinous rice from the last steamer onto the dustpan and waited for the glutinous rice to cool naturally.

"The glutinous rice in the last steamer is also good, and this year's brew is a lot more than last year!" Liang Xiaomei wiped the sweat on her forehead and said.

"Life at home is better, and there are more relatives coming and going, so it's good to prepare a little more." Li Yuedi said happily.

The others nodded in agreement. In the past, there were many people who came to Fenghezhuang to visit relatives during the New Year's holidays, but they were not as diligent as they had recently gone.

There are more people coming and going at home, and the village seems to be more popular, lively and lively, like the New Year.

"Wow, it smells so good! It smelled from the back mountain. As soon as he stepped into the house, Li Ji's nose couldn't help but twitch. The mouth is obviously greedy.

Liang Xiaomei looked at Li Ji's childish expression. Funnily stretched out his hand and patted Li Ji's head, and said angrily: "If you are greedy, you will go to the kitchen to get a bowl by yourself, how old are you." It's like a child, Xiaoxi is not as delicious as you. ”

When Lin Zixi, who was named, heard this, he shrunk his neck and whispered, "Auntie." I'm hungry too. After saying that, he innocently touched his little belly.

When everyone saw this, they burst into laughter.

Liang Xiaomei laughed with tears in her eyes. While wiping her tears, she smiled and said, "Okay, okay, Xiaoxi is also greedy, and my aunt will go and give it to you." ”

"Mom, your partiality is too obvious. My gluttony is delicious, Xiaoxi's gluttony will be served directly. Li Ji complained.

"Dead, go aside. Give Xiao Xisheng a few of you less. Liang Xiaomei glanced at Li Ji.

Li Ge and the others behind Li Ji touched their noses and quietly took a few steps back. Fortunately, I didn't speak first about my greed.

Li Weiyan and Ye Xiaoyu, who were busy in the yard, looked at each other and smiled when they heard the words coming from the living room, the children were back, and the family was a little more popular.

Lin Zichen in the kitchen heard the movement in the hall early, and seeing that the time was almost up, he walked out with a plate of fragrant glutinous rice, "Glutinous rice is coming!" If you want to eat, wash your hands quickly. ”

Seeing this, Li Ji immediately "burst into tears" and rushed straight to Lin Zichen, "It's still Xiaochen the best." ”

"Stop." Lin Zichen stretched out his feet to block Li Ji's body, and glared at Li Ji by the way, "Wash your hands, who knows if you touched something messy when you went to the back mountain." ”

"Huh." Li Ji howled in pain and put on a hurt expression, "When have I ever touched something messy?" Didn't you accidentally kill a caterpillar and then accidentally bump into you? As for holding grudges until now? ”

Lin Zichen disagreed, rolled his eyes at Li Ji, and said as a matter of course: "Don't you know that girls are very vindictive?" ”

"Okay, I'll surrender, I'll wash my hands." Li Ji was defeated and obediently went to wash his hands.

Li Hua and a few people had already prepared to wash their hands by the well, looking at the well water that was about to overflow the edge of the well, Li Hua was still in disbelief, "This well water is really weird, it looks like it's about to overflow, but it doesn't." ”

When Li Ji heard this, he smiled and continued: "You haven't seen it yet, even if it's raining, I haven't seen this well overflow." ”

"So amazing?" Li Yu also stared at the well with a curious expression. It's a pity that even if he sees through the well water, he can't see a single flower.

Li Ge didn't think too much about it, washed his hands and pulled Lin Zixi back to the hall to wait for the sweet glutinous rice.

"Xiaoxi, don't eat too much glutinous rice, it's not good for digestion." Seeing that Lin Zixi finished eating one bowl and wanted to eat a second bowl, Li Ge hurriedly said something to stop him.

Li Ge is studying medicine, and everyone in the family believes what he says, Li Weiyan saw that Lin Zixi had indeed eaten a lot, and also said: "Xiaoxi, it's enough to taste glutinous rice, and if you eat too much, your stomach will not be able to stand it." ”

The people in the village don't know what indigestion is, but they also know that eating too much glutinous rice will cause constipation, especially for children.

Although Lin Zixi was greedy, his mother and eldest brother had spoken, and he had no choice but to put down the bowl in his hand.

"Big brother, what are you going to do today?" Lin Zichen asked Li Ge curiously while eating sweet glutinous rice.

In the past few days, it is rare that everyone in the family has gathered, and Li Bangguo and the others are not busy with the affairs of the farmhouse, and they all take advantage of this time to go out for a walk, which can be regarded as relaxing.

"Why don't we go fish and shrimp?" Li Ji mentioned yì with great interest.

"Okay, the fish and shrimp in the river are growing fat at this time, so it's good to get some back and taste it." Li Yu also clapped his hands in agreement.

"Well, let's go to the river." Li Ge nodded slightly.

Hearing this, Lin Zixi hurriedly raised his right hand, "I want to go together." ”

Li Hua scratched Lin Zixi's nose and smiled: "How can I miss you, the basket of fish and shrimp is still waiting for you to carry." ”

The brothers made up their minds, put down the dishes and chopsticks and went around to get the tools needed to catch fish and shrimp.

Li Yuedi and others did not object. All year round, you can eat the fish and shrimp in the river for such a period of time, the people on the village are busy in the past two years, who has free time to go to the river to catch fish and shrimp to eat, it is rare for a few children in the family to come back, let them toss, maybe you can taste the fattest fish and shrimp this year.

The brothers each took their tools and walked towards the river above the village.

Lin Zichen wants to help make rice wine. I didn't follow to join in the fun.

"Xiao Chen. If you want to go, just follow along, just have a few of us at home. Li Yuedi glanced at Lin Zichen, who saw Li Ge and the others go away, and said.

Lin Zichen shook his head and smiled: "Anyway, I can go down to the river to fish and shrimp these days." Today, I won't go to join in the fun, stay at home and follow Grandma to learn how to make rice wine, and learn Grandma's craftsmanship to be able to do it.

Lin Zichen's words pleased Li Yuedi, and Li Yuedi said with relief: "Hehe." Hearing what you said, Grandma was very happy. ”

"That's it. Don't look at whose granddaughter I am. Lin Zichen intimately held Li Yuedi's arm and said with a bridge.

"Hahaha!" The other three women in the family smiled heartily when they heard this.

Lin Zichen said that he wanted to learn to make rice wine, but he didn't just talk about it, but really followed Li Yuedi one after the other, and learned it in style.

"Making rice wine is not an easy task. But practice makes perfect, and you'll get the hang of it after a few more brews. Li Yuedi explained while stirring the glutinous rice in the dustpan with chopsticks.

Lin Zichen nodded. I also picked up chopsticks and stirred up the glutinous rice.

The Li family brews two kinds of rice wine every year, one is suitable for men. Authentic rice wine with a relatively high alcohol content, and the other is a sweet rice wine that is suitable for women.

The Li family steamed three steamers of rice this year, two of which are the best winter glutinous rice, which are used to make glutinous rice wine for women to drink.

The other cage is aged winter rice, which is made with high alcohol content.

After steaming, the rice is poured into a round dustpan with a diameter of about one meter, and wait for the rice to cool naturally. However, it is still August, and the subtropical county of Pinghe is still in late summer, and the temperature is still not decreasing.

In order for the rice to cool down quickly, it is necessary to artificially hold chopsticks and stir the rice constantly, so that the heat inside the rice can be released faster.

"Xiao Chen, quickly take out the prepared koji and crush it." Li Yuedi said to Lin Zichen.

"Eh, got it." Lin Zichen put down his chopsticks, turned around and picked up the koji on the table and began to crush it.

The koji sold in the town is all one by one, round and smooth like rice balls.

There are three vasks of wine to be brewed at home, and there is a lot of koji needed, so Lin Zichen held a large plate alone and crushed it for a while before he could crush all the koji.

"Grandma, the koji is ready." Lin Zichen sent the milled koji to Li Yuedi.

Li Yuedi looked at it and nodded with satisfaction, "Divide the koji into three parts and send it to your mother." ”

"Yes." Lin Zichen divided the koji into three parts according to his words, but the amount in Li Yuedi's hand was far more than the other two.

Li Yuedi knew what kind of rice wine several men in the family liked to drink, so the rice wine was handed over to Li Yuedi to be responsible for alone, and Lin Zichen did it. The other three women in the family are in charge of the two jars of glutinous rice wine.

"Xiao Chen, come and feel the temperature of the rice at this time with your hands."

Lin Zichen stepped forward and followed Li Yuedi's example and felt the temperature of the next rice with the back of his palm, "It's warm, it's not very hot." ”

"Well, when the rice is cold to this point, it's time to put in the koji, and when you put the koji, you should put it evenly. Look, that's it. Li Yuedi said as she sprinkled the koji in the bowl evenly over the rice.

"You can't finish the koji all at once, do you know why?" Li Yuedi, Kao Lin Zichen.

Lin Zichen looked at the rice in front of him and replied, "Because only the rice on the top layer was stained with koji, and there was no rice on the bottom." ”

Li Yuedi glanced at Lin Zichen approvingly, "That's right, so when you put the koji, you should sprinkle it over and over again, and when you turn it, you must also be even." ”

Lin Zichen nodded and remembered them one by one. (To be continued) R580