Li Qing's brewing method is also simple to say, but it is just distillation and purification.

The biggest difference between ancient and modern winemaking is distillation, the function of distillation is to purify, separate the liquor, and extract high-concentration liquor.

Li Qing asked Zhang San to make a copper pot that could be sealed and a copper pot that did not need to be sealed, and then built a copper pipe to connect the two copper pots, so that a simple set of distillation equipment was ready.

Looking at such a simple set of equipment, neither Zhang San nor Huang Meng believed that this thing could make wine stronger than three days of drunkenness, and the eyes of both of them showed suspicion.

Li Qing also had a little apprehension in his heart, because whether this simple distillation equipment was useful or not, in fact, Li Qing had no bottom in his heart, but the matter had come to this point, and Li Qing naturally couldn't back down, so he immediately asked Zhang San to ask someone to pour the ordinary wine produced in Zhang's workshop into one of the copper pots.

After the copper pot was filled with wine, Li Qing sealed the copper pot again, and then began to heat the copper pot with fire.

As time passed, the wine in the copper pot was gradually heated, turned into steam, cooled through the copper pipe, and then turned into liquid again, flowing out into another copper pot.

In the county guard's mansion, Meng Yi looked at the information collected by the guards, and showed an interested look on his face, who is Gao Shanming, Meng Yi knows very well, Meng Yi, who is in charge of intelligence for Qin Shi Huang, although he can't talk about the corrupt officials in the territory, but a person like Gao Shan Ming who is so upright and forcibly occupies the people's land has already received a secret report long before Meng Yi arrived in Dangjun.

Despite this, Li Qing dared to kill Gao Shanming was still unexpected by Meng Yi, Meng Yi should have ordered the arrest of Li Qing and the others, but for some reason, Meng Yi suddenly wanted to see Li Qing's next performance, as for the dead Gao Shanming, for Meng Yi, it was really nothing.

"It smells so good."

Zhang San looked at the small bottle of transparent liquid in the bottle, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva, that kind of pure wine aroma was something that Zhang San had never tasted.

Li Qing looked at the distilled liquor, and his face also showed a look of expectation, and said to Zhang San: "Third brother, this wine is very strong, you have to drink it slowly." ”

Zhang San said with a smile: "Brother Xian is too worried, although your third brother and I don't drink as much as you, but we are not people who can be put down with a bottle of wine." ”

After that, Zhang San swallowed the wine in the bottle in one gulp, and suddenly, Zhang San's face changed, became red, and his eyes were full of shock.

"You...... This wine ...... This wine ...... Good...... Good wine......"

"Plop"

Before the words were finished, Zhang San fell to the ground, Li Qing and the others were shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhang San up, checked it, and found that Zhang San was just drunk, so he was relieved.

The next day, after Zhang San woke up, he immediately took a wine jug, put a distilled liquor into the jug, and then took Li Qing and the others to meet the head of the Zhang family.

The head of the Zhang family is located in Chenliu County, the Zhang family is one of the three major families of Chenliu, the strength is strong, once raised 3,000 domestic slaves, the head of the Zhang family saw the unification of the Qin Dynasty in the early years, and took the initiative to donate family wealth and private soldiers, so the Zhang family got a county order.

Li Qing looked at Chen Liu's low city wall, and couldn't help but be disappointed, originally Li Qing thought that Chen Liuhui would be a magnificent city, but he didn't expect it to be just a small city with four broken earth walls, and the houses in the city were low, and it looked similar to some backward villages.

It is obviously much easier to enter Chen Liu than to enter Dang County, after all, Chen Liu is the territory of the Zhang family, Chen Liu is from the county order to the government servant, most of them are from the Zhang family, Zhang San returned to Chen Liu, it was really like going back to his own home.

Zhang's Mansion, compared to other houses in the city, Zhang's Mansion is much taller, but that's all.

Zhang San walked straight to the main gate of Zhang's Mansion with Li Qing and the others, and the guards guarding the door of Zhang's Mansion saw Zhang San and hurriedly saluted.

Zhang San waved his hand casually, and then took Li Qing and the others straight to the lobby of Zhang's mansion.

The old lady of the Zhang family was a very thin old man, about sixty years old, but he seemed extremely energetic, and it could be seen that he was very happy about Zhang San's arrival.

The old lady of the Zhang family looked at Zhang San with a smile and said, "San'er, how do you know that you are going home today?" ”

Zhang Sanle handed the wine jug in his hand to the old lady and said, "Grandpa, I brought you some good things." ”

The old lady lifted the lid of the wine jug, and a rich aroma of wine came to his nose, which made the old lady's eyes suddenly light up.

The old lady motioned to the old servant beside him to fetch a wine bottle for drinking, then lifted the wine jug and poured the wine into the bottle.

"This ...... Is this wine? ”

Looking at the transparent liquid in the bottle, the old lady's eyes were full of surprise, at this time, Li Qing, who was standing in the hall, suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly said, "Wait." ”

As soon as Li Qing said this, the old lady suddenly frowned, and looked at Zhang San with a little dissatisfaction, after all, it was Zhang San who brought it, and the old lady did not directly reprimand Li Qing, which was regarded as saving face for Zhang San.

Zhang San hurriedly pointed to Li Qing and Huang Meng and introduced to the old lady: "Grandpa, these two are my new friends, Li Qing and Huang Meng, this wine is made by this Li Qing brother." ”

When the old lady heard this, his eyes showed suspicion, he saw that Li Qing was only a young man of about one or twenty years, although his face was not immature, but it was definitely not mature, such a person could actually make wine?

The old lady asked, "This young man, why did you stop drinking the old man just now?" ”

Li Qing hurriedly said: "Old lady, you can't drink this wine in a big gulp, you have to taste it carefully to taste the taste." ”

Only then did Zhang San remember the scene when he was drunk directly after drinking half a bowl of distilled liquor in one gulp, and hurriedly said: "Yes, grandpa, this wine is too strong, you can't drink it too quickly, you have to drink it slowly." ”

The old lady put the wine to his lips suspiciously and licked it, and the mellow aroma of wine suddenly filled his mouth.

Under the expectant gaze of Li Qing and the others, the old lady slowly spewed out a sip of wine, and then closed her eyes and kept savoring.

After a while, the old lady opened her eyes, looked at Zhang San in surprise, and said, "San'er, is your wine really brewed by this little brother?" ”

Zhang San nodded and said, "Yes, it was brewed by my brother Li Qing." ”

The old lady stared at Li Qing and said, "Sure enough, it's a young Yingjie, I don't know if the little brother is willing to sell the formula to my Zhang family?" ”

The old lady's words made Zhang San's face change, Li Qing was stunned at first, and was about to speak, when Huang Meng had already interjected: "Does the old lady know the value of this wine?" ”

The old lady nodded and said, "This wine is even better than my Zhang's three-day drunkenness, and the color is crystal clear, like amber, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is worth a thousand gold." ”

Huang Meng said in a deep voice: "Then I don't know how much the old lady wants to pay for my brother's formula?" ”

The old lady smiled slightly and stretched out a finger.