Before harvesting the rice, Xu Xiaoyu listened to George's advice and suggestions, and added a large number of people to the ranch, including about 20 people.

After all, the workload of the ranch is now multiplying, and it will continue to increase, and it is obvious that the nine of them are simply too busy.

The recruitment of troops and horses in Tianshan Ranch, like last time, made Daclay Town very lively. You must know that Lu Dao works here, not only the future is bright, but the salary is much higher than the same job in other places, and the ranch is not far from the town, so it is very convenient to go back and forth.

So, everyone in the town who doesn't have a job or doesn't mix well, everyone wants to come!

However, not everyone can come to the ranch if they want to, George and the three of them are strictly controlled, follow the principles, and it doesn't matter if the ability is almost there, if the character is not good, they can't come in if they want to.

After screening, the staff was recruited.

However, there is only one villa left over from the Barnes period in the ranch, and it has become a little crowded with so many people before, and now there are twenty of them, which is not enough to live in.

But five words floated in the sky, it was not a problem, first let these new workers live in their homes in their respective towns, give them a certain subsidy, and then they can go to and from work on time every day. As for the houses, build two more.

After the site was selected, the construction was in full swing.

The paddy in the paddy fields also began to be harvested.

Several harvesters are moving in unison, very fast.

A stubble of rice was put down, and a grain of golden millet. It was put into the warehouse.

When my grandmother saw it, she sighed, "This machine is really a good thing...... Such a large field, if it is harvested manually with a sickle, I don't know if it will not be harvested until the Year of the Monkey. ”

Immediately, she grabbed another handful of millet and praised it: "This rice is the best I have ever seen...... I can't wait to get a taste of it. ”

"Needless to say, the taste must have been fantastic. Than that, what Thai jasmine rice. Much more delicious. The old mother also grabbed a handful of millet and looked at it in her hand, full of confidence.

Dad pinched a grain of grain and peeled out a grain of white, fat, shiny and clear rice. Playing with it in your hands. With a smile, he said, "I'm looking forward to it more." What does the rice wine made from them taste like? ”

"A drunkard with no interest."

Mom rolled her eyes at him and despised him.

At night. The aroma wafting out of the rice pot is particularly tempting, and it is the rice produced in this paddy field that is boiled.

"It's delicious."

"It's delicious."

"This rice is so delicious!"

Everyone is full of praise, indeed the quality of this rice is excellent, glutinous, fragrant, and sweet, which makes people want to eat more and more, and they can't stop.

Everyone ate at least one bowl of rice more than usual, especially Nini and Tsai Tsai, the two little guys, who ate so much that their little bellies were propped up, round like a leather ball, and they couldn't eat anymore, so they put down the chopsticks in their hands.

Three days later.

All more than 100 acres of rice have been harvested.

Drying, and then separating the strong valley from the deflated valley.

In Fuyun Village, no matter how well the rice is grown, the deflated grain will always take up a certain percentage, not including the half-strong and half-shriveled grain.

However, these grains, in a hundred catties, are only about one pound of deflated grain and half-deflated grain. This ratio made my grandmother and parents sigh again.

In order to store the rice, Xu Xiaoyu stopped the construction of two villas and asked the construction workers to build a large granary and store all the grain in it.

This kind of rice that has been soaked in space water has an amazing yield, and the total weight of more than 100 acres of rice has reached hundreds of thousands of catties, which is a big number, and for so many grains, Xu Xiaoyu has a plan.

Except for a small part of the three meals a day for the ranch members, the rest, a small half is used for wine, and the rest is provided to the restaurant. Of course, like John Ann Lina Sr., Liu Hanwu, Jim Thompson, France, LeBron, etc., these close friends will deliberately set aside some for them.

Dad and Xu Xiaoyu are very greedy for the taste of the roasted knives brewed from this rice, but this wine can't be brewed all at once, and the steps are cumbersome.

Selected grains - soaking - initial steaming - simmering - re-steaming - retorting and cooling - adding koji - packing and cultivating bacteria - mixing tanks - barrel fermentation - distillation - finished liquor.

Each of these processes takes time, patience and carefulness, as well as the crucial grasp of the heat, that is, technique.

Grandma is an old winemaker, although her hands and feet are not so neat, but her skills are exquisite, she took Xu Zhiguo and Nini Zai, two little heels, to start and follow the process step by step.

The quality of the rice is good, which saves a lot of time for every step.

Finally, under the watchful eye, the distillation step has come.

Grandma's distillation tool uses traditional tools, and the method is also a traditional method handed down from the ancestors.

A large stove, or a dug stove, is in which the firewood beeps and burns with a raging flame.

A large iron pot is placed on the stove, half of the water is put in it, and the water boils and boils.

In the middle of the large iron pot is a wooden cylinder, which is called a steaming drawer in this Fuyun Village.

There are some ingenious little devices in the steaming drawer, and it is also filled with fermented rice, oh, it should no longer be called rice at this time, it is in Fuyun Village, it is called sake lees.

The sake lees can be eaten directly, and the taste is sweet and sour, and it contains a strong aroma of sake, which has a different taste.

Xu Xiaoyu remembered that when he was young, Fuyun Village was poor, and his friends basically had no snacks all year round except for the New Year, so everyone had the idea of wine lees. Every time the elders make wine, they steal a handful and eat it with relish. Of course, I don't dare to steal too fiercely and obviously, my buttocks will be swollen if I am detected, and if I eat too much of this sake lees, it will be like drinking too much wine, and I will get drunk.

Once, when a little guy was making wine with his grandfather, he was so greedy that he fell drunk in the room where the wine was kept, and there is no doubt that his fate was tragic.

After the most slugging, there is a large pot on top of the steaming.

The mouth of this pot is facing the sky, and the bottom covers the mouth of the steaming bend, so that the heat is not lost, and then the pot must be filled with water.

If you were poor in Fuyun Village in the past, it would be OK to put half a pot of water in this pot on a hot day, but on a cold day, it would be filled up......

In Xu Xiaoyu's memory, there is such a picture.

In Fuyun Village in winter, the weather is cold and the ground is cold, and a family is making wine...... A big stove, a big pot, the pot is full of water, and the water is steaming...... Several women, dressed plainly, gathered around the pot, talking and laughing, chatting about household routines, scooping water from the cauldron and washing clothes......

There was even a woman who called her bear and child, stripped him naked, and added cold water to the pot of water and bathed him......

Xu Xiaoyu used to wash naked strips when he was making wine, and a group of bear children and women next to him all looked at ...... (To be continued......)