Yunyi followed behind the big girl holding Wukong and came to the big girl's house.

In the yard of the eldest girl's house, the eldest girl's mother was busy selecting glutinous rice, and had already selected 100 catties of glutinous rice, and asked the eldest girl's father to carefully wash it in the big basin, and from time to time to dig out the impurities in it.

The rice is stale rice, this year's rice is down, and more than 100 catties of rice that were not eaten last year, winemaking is the best choice.

"Big brother is here, hurry up and sit on the stool for a while!" Hearing the footsteps in the yard, the eldest girl's parents looked up and saw Yunyi following behind the eldest girl, so they hurriedly greeted with a smile.

"Hehe, big brother, this glutinous rice is all ready, why do we start making rice wine?" Yun Yi sat down on the bench with a smile and watched the eldest girl's father put the glutinous rice into a large basin.

"Let's start doing it, the pot has been brushed and cleaned, and it will be ready to be put on the pot soon!" The eldest girl's father said with a smile, and continued to patiently wash the rice, seeing that the impurities were picked out.

The reason for this is that when making rice wine, a large number of alcohol bacteria will be produced during the fermentation of rice wine koji, and if there are many other foreign substances, the alcohol bacteria will multiply and produce uncontrollable mutations, which will affect the taste and quality of rice wine.

After continuing to pick for a long time, Yunyi sat on the side and watched the big girl and Wukong play with a little bored, and after a long time, the big girl's father picked the glutinous rice, and the two carried the rice to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, the big iron pot of the big girl's house was brushed clean, and there was no trace of oiliness in sight.

The key to making glutinous rice wine is that the utensils are clean, and there must be no oil splashes, and before making glutinous rice wine, you need to clean the steamer, cage drawer, drawer cloth, basin, cover, mixing spoon, etc.

If it is stained with oil flowers, it will definitely not be able to make rice wine, and the rice will be green and black mold, so it cannot be used; If there is a little white hair on the rice, it can be boiled and eaten, but it will affect the taste.

Put more than 100 catties of rice into the pot, the pot has already been laid with a clean drawer cloth, the eldest girl's father spread the rice evenly on it, and then left a small hole in the middle of the rice.

"Is that all right, big brother?" Yun Yi looked at the eldest girl's father with some confusion after covering the pot lid, and then pressing the lid of the cage to prevent air leakage, he asked curiously.

"Hehe, yes, it's okay to put the glutinous rice like this, wait for the fire to steam for a while, and the first step will be completed when it comes out of the pot.

As he spoke, the eldest girl's father skillfully filled the stove with chopping wood, and pulled the bellows to burn after the fire.

The bellows is the form of pulling back and forth, there are air inlets made of live wooden doors on both sides, automatic control of the wind, plus chicken feathers to block the gap, the wind is very good, so that the stove under the cauldron is red.

Sitting quietly on the side, Yun Yi watched the steaming steam coming out of the cauldron, and it didn't take long for his nose to smell the aroma of rice.

"Dad, the rice should be about the same, right?" The eldest girl walked in from the courtyard with Wukong in her arms, smiled at Yunyi and asked.

"Well, that's it, out of the pot!" The eldest girl's father smiled, sniffed lightly in the steaming heat of the pot, and then said with a smile.

As he spoke, he lifted the pot and beckoned Yun Yi, and the two of them took the steamed glutinous rice out of the pot and put it in a clean large clay pot.

The steamed glutinous rice is steaming in a large clay pot, and there is a unique aroma of glutinous rice in it.

Wukong jumped down from the big girl's arms, stood in front of the rice and looked at it for a while, and after the little eyes on the monkey's face turned a few times, he suddenly stretched out his little paw and grabbed the steaming rice, so that the big girl on the side didn't have time to stop him.

"Squeak... Creak! As soon as the paws touched the steaming rice, Wukong immediately jumped up, hugged the two paws together and squeaked, grinning and squeezing his eyebrows to change various expressions, and hurriedly climbed into the arms of the big girl after seeing the big girl, and the little hand reached out to the big girl, with a pitiful expression on the monkey's face, pointing to the steaming rice in the basin and squeaking, like a child crying to his parents.

"Little Wukong, who told you to touch the rice, it's hot, right?" The big girl said, blowing her little paws for Wukong, Wukong lowered his head in frustration, and let the big girl reprimand.

Seeing Wukong behave like this, Yunyi and the eldest girl's parents couldn't help but laugh, this Wukong's performance was too humane.

After 20 minutes, the rice in the big clay pot was not so hot, and the eldest girl's father came over with a piece of yellowed white and white thing, crushed it with a wooden stick, and began to stir and sprinkle the minced pieces of this thing evenly in the rice.

"Big brother, what are you putting in there?" Yun Yi looked at the movements of the eldest girl's father curiously, and couldn't help but say suspiciously.

"Hehe, this is koji, without koji, rice can't be fermented, and rice can't be made." The eldest girl's father said with a smile, the movements in his hands did not stop, and he kept stirring patiently.

After stirring for a while, the eldest girl's father compacted the rice a little, then dug a hole in the middle, sprinkled it with cold boiled water that had been prepared for a long time, and covered the large clay pot with a wooden lid.

"Come big brother, the two of us will put this big pot in the kitchen cauldron, this big pot is very heavy!" After finishing this writing process, his father wiped the sweat on his forehead and said to Yun Yi.

Yun Yi hurriedly walked to the big basin, exhaled and made a sound, and worked together with the eldest girl's father to lift the big basin.

The big clay pot was very heavy, more than 300 catties, Yun Yi and the eldest girl's father bent over and hunched their backs, laboriously lifted the big pot from the ground only more than 20 centimeters away, and moved slowly towards the kitchen step by step.

The eldest girl and her mother hurriedly put down the things in their hands, and also hunched over to help carry the clay pot, sharing the weight.

Wukong watched curiously as everyone carried the basin, and after the little head was crooked, he suddenly ran to the big girl with his legs, stretched out two monkey paws to carry the basin, and followed everyone to the direction of the kitchen slowly, and the monkey face pretended to be grinning.

"Wukong is so sensible that he can help do things!" The eldest girl looked at Wukong with a loving face, and couldn't help but praise.

"I don't think so, how can this guy have such a good heart?" Yunyi pouted, expressing his resolute disbelief that Wukong, a treacherous guy, would work so hard.

Sure enough, Wukong only helped lift it for less than twenty seconds, and suddenly let go of the clay pot, and the little monkey monkey's paws stretched out in front of the big girl.

"Wukong, what is this for? What are you doing with your hand at me? The big girl looked at Wukong suspiciously, and asked Yunyi with big eyes puzzled.

"It's asking for a reward, and you think it did you a favor by carrying the pot just now." Yun Yi shook his head gently, a little gloating, he had long known that Dao Wukong would not be so kind-hearted.

"But... Wukong didn't have the strength at all just now, and the expression on his face was too fake, right? The big girl looked at Wukong's paws stretched out in front of her, and looked at Wukong's face with a natural look.

"If you don't say it, Wukong, this guy is as cunning as oil, and his hard work must be fake, but the reward can't be fake!" Yunyi said a little ridiculously, and talked about the experience of Wukong asking for compensation when he was at home.

"This little monkey, this is going to make fun!" Hearing Yun Yi say this, the eldest girl's parents couldn't help but laugh, and hurriedly put the big basin on the ground, and they lost the strength to laugh just now, and almost dropped the big basin.

Wukong looked at everyone with an 'innocent' look, and he didn't know what they were laughing at, and why didn't he give him the reward he should give? You don't know how to pay for your work, do you?

Everyone laughed enough, and after regaining their strength, they carried the big clay pot to the kitchen, and then Yunyi and the eldest girl's father carefully put the clay pot into the big iron pot.

After finishing the matter, Yun Yi sat in the courtyard and drank cool white water, and after wiping the sweat on his body, he realized that the reason why the father of the eldest girl called him here was to carry the pottery pot, which was too heavy to lift it at all except for two strong laborers.

The reason why you want to put the clay pot in the iron pot is also particular.

The best fermentation temperature of rice wine is about 20 degrees, and if it is high, it will easily turn into rice vinegar, and if it is low, it will not have the taste of wine.

There are about 1,000 meters here in Qingyun Mountain Village, and the outdoor temperature can reach 30 degrees at the end of August during the day, and there are more than 20 degrees in the house; However, at night, the temperature on the mountain dropped after the sun set, and the outside temperature was only seven or eight degrees but no more than ten degrees, which was several times colder than during the day.

And the indoor temperature will not be high, more than ten degrees, in order to be able to maintain the temperature must be carried to the pot of rice wine on the kang, and when the temperature is very low at night, slowly burn the fire in the cauldron to maintain the temperature, there is a day plus a night of effort, to the next evening can be out of the wine.

"Big brother, even if it's almost done, just wait for the wine to come out tomorrow night?" After a while, the eldest girl's father, who had cleaned up the things in the kitchen, came out, and Yun Yi asked with a smile.

"Well, that's pretty much it, and tomorrow you can drink rice wine and eat wine and rice." The eldest girl's father sat on the stool beside Yun Yi, picked up the coarse porcelain bowl on the table and drank it dry, nodded with a smile.

"I'll be able to eat rice wine and rice tomorrow, I haven't eaten it for more than a year!" The eldest girl sitting on the side heard her father's words, and happily touched Wukong's head and said, making Wukong look at the eldest girl suspiciously.

"Sake rice?" Yun Yi looked at the eldest girl with some curiosity and asked:

"What is this, rice steamed with rice wine?" ps: Brothers, ask for recommendation votes for the new week

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