Chapter XXIII. Amazing blending
"Little brother, are you going to Shijing Village to buy wine?" Li Rui was sitting in a taxi when he suddenly heard the taxi driver ask him.
"Of course, who doesn't know that the aroma of the wine in Shijing Village is ten miles away, and the most important thing is that it is a real handmade original wine! There is absolutely no falsehood at all! Li Rui said with a smile.
There is a village called Shijing at the foot of Phoenix Mountain in the western suburbs of Nanshi, and 90% of the people in this village can make wine, and half of the people in the village make a living from winemaking.
Li Rui's father likes to drink, and he doesn't like the blended wine from the distillery, his favorite drink is the loose wine brewed from pure grains. And Li Rui's filial piety was not in vain, the wine he brought home every year during the holiday made his father full of praise, and the smile on his face could last for several days.
The taxi is still far away from Shijing Village, and a strong smell of wine comes over, which can't help but remind Li Rui of a legend, because Shijing Village makes wine all year round, so everyone has a legend that even if you don't know here, you don't need to ask for directions at all, as long as you follow the smell of wine, you can find Shijing Village.
Since he had been here before, Li Rui was already very familiar with this place, and after he got out of the taxi, he walked straight into a small courtyard, which was actually more of a family-style brewing factory, because the small courtyard was full of vats containing wine.
"Is Uncle Chen at home?" The people of Shijing Village are basically surnamed Chen, it is said that the ancestors of their family made wine for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and later the Qing soldiers fled here and settled down, and Li Rui found this family is the best one in the whole Shijing Village, and he is also the head of Shijing Village.
"Who! Yes! It's Xiao Li! Buying wine for your dad again? "Village Chief Chen is also about forty years old, and he has a bit of rosacea, and as soon as he walked out of the house, a strong smell of wine came from his body.
"Uncle Chen, I'm going to buy more wine this time, you have to give me more discounts!" Li Rui said with a smile.
"Don't worry! Do you want the best? This time, the uncle will give you a discount of five cents. Nine dollars and five pounds, how about it? How many pounds do you want? Twenty pounds or fifty pounds? "Village Chief Cheng has a very good impression of Li Rui, who goes to school outside and can often buy wine for his father, this character will definitely not be bad.
"I'm going to buy three thousand pounds!" Li Rui said directly.
"Three thousand catties, okay, I'll go and pour ...... for you! Wait, Xiao Li, what did you just say? Village Chief Chen didn't pay much attention to it at first, but when he reacted, he was immediately stunned.
"Yes, Uncle Chen, I want to buy three thousand catties of the finest liquor! I don't know if you have it in stock here? Li Rui asked again.
"Yes, yes, let alone 3,000 catties, it's 30,000 catties, I also have it here. But Xiao Li, are you really sure you want to buy 3,000 catties of liquor? Village Chief Chen confirmed again.
"Yes, but I have a request, I hope Uncle Chen can deliver it to my door!" Li Rui demanded.
"That's fine, where do you say it's delivered?" When Village Chief Chen saw that there was a big deal, he immediately came to his senses.
"Uncle Chen, you can help me deliver the wine to the cultural community of our city!" Li Rui said directly.
"No problem, guaranteed delivery within an hour." Village Chief Chen immediately reassured.
The three thousand catties of wine were packed in three large vats, and sure enough, an hour later, it was transported to Li Rui's house, and after swiping the card to settle the bill, Village Chief Chen left with a smile, but Li Rui couldn't help but sigh again, "This money is really like flowing water, it cost nearly 30,000 yuan." It seems that the pace of making money should be faster! ”
Then Li Rui put all the three thousand catties of wine into the wine gourd, and fused it with the immortal wine to become the base wine for blending. After having the base wine, for the choice of water, Li Rui finally decided to use the river water under the Yulan Bridge, because this is the best kind of water he has at present, and this time the water he brought down from the heavenly court is relatively sufficient, enough for him to use.
The wine used for blending is complete, but Li Rui did not blend it immediately, because the blending knowledge he learned from the Internet is not comprehensive, and this time he wants to blend the wine based on immortal wine and the wine supplemented by the water of the small river of Yulanqiao, which is also very different from what he has learned, so he is going to make some real yàn first, looking for the best blending ratio.
Li Rui had no experience in this area before, so he had to take the most stupid method, which was to make it real little by little, and then taste it himself to feel the taste of the wine.
Li Rui is not a wine taster, but now his perception is many times stronger than that of ordinary people, and his sense of smell and taste has become extremely keen, plus he can still feel whether the wine is good or not, so he can barely do this job.
In the end, after Li Rui's hard work, and even almost drunk for this, he finally found a suitable blending ratio, that is, one pound of base wine mixed with ten pounds of water.
That is to say, the gourd wine in Li Rui's hand will become 30,000 catties of liquor after blending, this result will stunned Li Rui, immortal wine is worthy of being immortal wine, after landing in mortal dust, it can actually become 30,000 catties of top-grade wine that surpasses all mortal wines.
"I really don't know how many people will be shocked after these wines are born!" Li Rui couldn't help but sigh, but then Li Rui suddenly realized that he didn't have so many utensils for wine now.
The wine gourd can hold 10,000 catties, and the three wine jars given when buying liquor can hold 3,000 catties, and now Li Rui still lacks the utensils to hold 17,000 catties of wine.
"I don't have it here, Uncle Chen shouldn't have a shortage there, right?" Thinking of this, Li Rui immediately called Village Chief Chen and explained that he wanted to buy some wine tanks from him.
Although it seems very abrupt to buy wine tanks from wine sellers, Li Rui has just bought 3,000 catties of wine, which can be regarded as his big customer, and these wine tanks are not given away for nothing, so he didn't ask so much, and directly sent the wine tank to Li Rui.
The wine tanks sent by Village Chief Chen are large and small, the big ones can hold 1,000 catties, and the small ones can hold 5 catties, 10 catties, and 20 catties, but the total amount is enough to hold 17,000 catties of wine.
Moreover, the workmanship of those small wine jars sent by Village Chief Chen is still very fine, just like blue and white porcelain, and at a glance, you can know that they are custom-made by regular manufacturers, which makes Li Rui nod secretly, if you use these wines as gifts in the future, you don't need to replace the wine jars at all.
Once the qiē is ready, the rest of the work is simple, pour the wine and water into the wine vat according to the set ratio, and then seal the mouth, and a jar of wine is considered ready.
Because the new wine that had just been blended still needed to be cellared for a period of time, Li Rui stacked all these wines in the room where the dog food was originally placed, and in order to make the taste of these wines better, he directly poured a large amount of Heavenly Court soil out of the Qiankun bag, and buried all the wine jars in it, forming a special cellaring method.
For these wines, Li Rui has been busy all day, and it is real yàn, and it is blending, even with his current physique, he feels a little tired, but when he thinks that he will be able to drink fine wine in the near future, Li Rui's mood is still very excited, especially this wine is still made of immortal wine and the water of the heavenly court, this kind of big secret that only he knows, also gives him a sense of accomplishment in his heart.
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