Chapter 580: Winemaking
Coming out of the vineyard, Meng Que took Murong Yan to the streets of a small village. SH City, known as the "Pearl of the Orient", is extremely luxurious and splendid, but there are still remnants of it on its dark side.
This small village looks like a small town in the mainland, and most of the locals are growing grapes, so it can be considered a slum.
After wandering around the street for a while, Meng Que found a shop that sold porcelain. Walking in, I picked out a thin mouth bottle at a glance.
Murong Yan looked confused and asked, "What are you buying bottles for?" ”
Meng Que weighed the blue and white imitation porcelain in his hand and said, "Make wine, didn't we say that we would make wine ourselves?" ”
Murong Yan realized at this time, and said a little excitedly: "How can wine be made?" ”
Meng Que smiled mysteriously and said, "Wine, do you want to drink sweet or original?" ”
"Sweet." Murong Yan replied without thinking.
"Since you like sweets, we'll have to buy some more sugar." As he spoke, Meng Que looked at a small supermarket, bought a few catties of sugar from it, and said, "Let's go, I'll teach you how to make wine." ”
Murong Yan was very happy, happy like an excited little rabbit, "Okay, okay, where are we going to brew?" ”
Meng Que thought for a while, he had just sent a text message to Murong Ziye, and he expected that the kid would use Murong Yan to blackmail Murong Shan'an according to his own plan. Since this is the case, then he has to drag Murong Yan to play for a longer time, and the longer the time drags on, the easier it will be for Murong Shan'an to be fooled.
stopped a car on the road and said, "Go to the Haitian Hotel in Hongkou District." ”
Haitian Hotel is the same hotel where Meng Que and Wang Sheng fought on the rooftop last time. When he went there, Meng Que felt that Haitian Hotel was very grand and luxurious, so he moved the idea of buying him. After he returned from drinking, he told the gorilla about this idea. The gorilla listened to his thoughts, patted his chest and said that it was no problem, it would be done.
Within a few days, Haitian Hotel was really changed hands and transferred to the banner of the Sao Annual Meeting.
Originally, the owner of Haitian Hotel refused to sell the hotel. It was still the gorilla who used all the tricks of yin and yang, and the intimidation tricks, so that he was so frightened that he reluctantly sold the hotel for 20 million.
In SH City, a place where every inch of land is valuable, the real estate and architectural decoration of Haitian Hotel can be worth at least 150 million yuan in total. It's no wonder that the boss refused to sell it, and sold it at a price of 20 million, he was simply losing money.
However, what can he do in the face of a group of hooligans at the annual meeting? Hooligans are not scary, what is scary is that hooligans are cultured. Gorillas have a new trick a day, or send tens of thousands of people to squat in front of the hotel every day, so scared that no guest dares to come to the hotel; Either send someone to sabotage and cut off the water and electricity in the hotel, and even if the water and electricity are cut off, the hateful thing is that those hooligans even cut the telephone line in half. The owner of the Haitian Hotel was so annoyed that in the end, he couldn't beat the gorilla, so he had to sell it to him at a loss.
The taxi drove all the way to Hongkou District, and the car drove slowly, but Meng Que did not urge, but encouraged the driver: "Slow down, slow down and be safe." ”
The driver is also a real person, and when he heard Meng Que say this, he drove more slowly. It took him two hours to return from Jiading District to Hongkou District. Although the driver deliberately detoured some detours, the speed was indeed slow, like a tractor.
Meng Que is not in a hurry, the driver is not in a hurry, but Murong Yan is a little anxious. She held a blue grape in her arms, and looked forward to hurrying to the Haitian Hotel, and then hurry up to make wine. She had drunk a lot of wine, but this was the first time she had made it herself. A woman's first time has a special significance.
It's just that her temperament is softer, although she is also the eldest lady, she does not have a serious "princess disease" like Luo Zhen'er. The driver drove slowly, and she wanted to urge, but she couldn't. I have been patiently anxious for two hours.
When the car finally stopped in front of the Haitian Hotel, Murong Yan cheered excitedly, pointed to the grand restaurant outside the window, and said, "Is this the hotel?" ”
Meng Que paid the fare, nodded, and said, "That's right, this is it."
"It's finally here, but I'm in a hurry." Murong Yan picked up the grapes, pushed the car door and hurriedly got out of the car, and before Meng Que could lead the way, she had already run towards the hotel lobby.
Looking at her happy figure, which was cute and beautiful, Meng Que was stunned for a while, and was stunned for several seconds. At the end, he touched his chin and sighed: "I've always thought I'm a royal sister, do I still have a Lori complex?" ”
Before he had time to think about it, Murong Yan had already climbed the stairs and shouted loudly: "Meng Que, you should hurry up, these grapes are not fresh anymore." ”
Meng Que smiled bitterly, and said yes again and again. After entering the hotel, without saying a word, he emptied all the chefs in the kitchen first, and then walked in with only Murong Yan.
The method of making wine is still relatively simple, Meng Que has occasionally done it a few times before, and the wine he makes is much better than the one he buys in the market. First, use scissors to cut off the grapes one by one, soak them in salt water to remove bacteria, and then rinse the grapes with clean water after removing the bacteria, and then take a large pot over, pour all the grapes into it, and crush them all......
Murong Yan watched the step-by-step operation blankly, and said again and again, "Can you make wine in this way?" ”
Meng Que said: "Of course, winemaking is not a difficult job. ”
"But...... Can it be made into wine if it is crushed like this? Murong Yan obviously couldn't believe that all the good grapes could be turned into delicious red wine by crushing them so much.
"Hehe, do you know the origin of wine?" Meng Que asked.
Murong Yan shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”
Meng Que smiled, shook his head and said, "To know the origin of wine in China, it can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty." At that time, two people named 'Yidi' and 'Shaokang' inadvertently put the fruit into the jar and sealed it, and after a while, they took it out again, and a layer of strange-tasting liquid was condensed. This was the original wine, and the man named 'Shao Kang' was also known as Du Kang. Today's Du Kang wine is named after the name of 'Shao Kang'. ”
"Wow, I see."
Meng Que nodded and continued: "Although the current Du Kang is called 'Du Kang', it is not the fruit wine mentioned in the history books, but wheat and sorghum wine. When the real fruit wine spread and flourished, it was about the end of the Xia Dynasty, when there was a woodcutter who went into the Monkey Mountain to cut wood, and the monkeys of the Monkey Mountain were good at picking flowers and thousands of fruits to make wine, and the woodcutter took advantage of the monkey's absence to enter their nest, and saw that there were concave stone tools in the cave containing strange fragrant liquids of various colors. The woodcutter drank it curiously, his face suddenly turned red, his whole body was hot, and his motivation increased greatly. Later, the wine spread, and it was originally called 'monkey wine'. ”
Murong Yan listened carefully to the story and muttered, "Monkey wine? Sounds interesting. ”
Meng Que moved slowly, and after crushing all the grapes, he poured all the sugar he bought into the basin. Murong Yan wanted to say and stopped watching his big hands churning in the grape pulp, trying to remind him several times that it would be better to wear gloves, but seeing Meng Que pinching it so hard, she was a little embarrassed to say.
"Why sugar? Grapes are sweet! Murong Yan asked.
Meng Que thought for a moment and said, "Although the grapes are sweet, after they are made into wine, the sweetness will not be so prominent. Have you ever drunk dry red? If you don't put sugar now, the sake will be a little bitter. ”
"Huh? It's so weird. When you put sugar, will it always be sweet? "Murong Yan is like a curious child.
Meng Que bowed his head and said: "Yes, because white sugar is not its own sweetness, it will not disappear, and the more wine it is brewed, the more prominent the sweet taste will be." ”
"You know so much." Murong Yan found more and more that the man in front of him was too connotative. He was humorous, funny, and so learned. Ask the world, how many women would not be fascinated by such a man?
"Haha!" Being praised by the beauty, Meng Que felt a little fluttery, and after laughing a few times proudly, he said modestly: "Where is it, I just understand a little." ”
"That'...... What to do after this sugar? ”
"After the sugar was put in, it was put into the bottle I bought and sealed without oxygen. At this time of year, if you take the wine back and put it for more than 20 days, you will be able to drink it. ”
"Really? Twenty days is fine, right? That's great, so I can drink my own sake very quickly. ”
In order to delay as much time as possible, Meng Que no longer did it himself, but pulled Murong Yan over with a flick of his hand and said, "Come, you can do it yourself." Only if you have worked yourself, the results will be the best. ”
Murong Yan was pleased, unlike Meng Que, she naturally wanted to be elegant and hygienic, and after washing her hands and putting on disposable gloves, she put her hand into the basin nervously.
Meng Que pointed out on the side and said, "Stir it, crush all the grapes that are not broken, and then until all the sugar is stirred and melted, then it can almost be put into a bottle......
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He was very happy to teach beautiful women to make wine, but there was silence and silence at this time between Murong Ziye and Murong Mountain puppets.
Murong Shan sipped his coffee, not in a hurry. Murong Ziye looked at the information in his phone repeatedly, thinking about how to make Murong Shan'an compromise. Suddenly, the mobile phone in his hand vibrated for a while, and then rang.
Murong Ziye was taken aback, looked at the signature of the call, and hurriedly handed it to his uncle Murong Shan'an, and said, "Uncle, Murong Shan'an has called!" ”