Although Li Qi really wanted to stay in Blackstone Valley for a little longer, because he had hometown feelings for Blackstone Valley, after all, he no longer had a hometown, and Blackstone Valley was his first home in this world, so this was his hometown, but unfortunately the reality did not allow him to do so, after discussing the work arrangement with Po Yi, he immediately returned to the Wild Lake Department.

However, he also brought Rumble and Qin with him.

Long Long wanted to go to the Wild Lake Department early in the morning, but Po Yi was afraid that he would cause trouble to Li Qi, so he never let him, this time Li Qi came, he entangled Li Qi, after all, he was a master of death, he died in the Black Stone Valley every day, it was really difficult to die, and he might die faster if he went outside to die.

Along the way, it was really vibrant.

In the past, it was like a backwater, and everyone was closed, but now you can see people everywhere, and there are special guards to protect those who work, and of course, they can be understood as hunting teams.

Although this human bow and arrow is scum in the eyes of the royal family, it basically has no effect, but in fact, it still improves the combat effectiveness of human beings, and now in the face of those beasts, human beings are no longer afraid. Of course, this is limited to ordinary beasts, and if you have a royal mount, it will not be like this!

"Richie! You're back! Bad thing! Bad thing! ”

As soon as Nong saw that Li Qi was back, he hurried to meet him.

Li Qi exclaimed: "What's the bad thing? ”

Nong Dao: "It's the juice you asked me to stir, it was fine at first, but when I stirred last time, I suddenly smelled a pungent smell, and I think it's bad!" ”

Speaking of the back, he said worriedly: "But... But you can't blame me, I do what you say. ”

Li Qi was really overjoyed when he heard it, and said: "That's not bad, that's fermenting, that's what I want, haha!" ”

Nong was stunned and said in great confusion: "That... That's what you call delicious? I....... ”

Li Qi said: "I can't drink it yet, let's walk, let's talk as we walk." ”

When he came to the cave, Li Qi carefully opened the lid, only to see that the color of the golden grapes had turned amber, and he sniffled, and his heart was ecstatic, and the smell of wine! It's the smell of alcohol!

Of course, it would be a lie to say that it is particularly fragrant, because this is the first fermentation, and it will need a second fermentation before it becomes a real wine.

"Call me Agu!"

"Oh."

Although there is still no distinction between dignity and inferiority, everyone is now accustomed to Richie's commands. Although Li Qi doesn't seem to be putting on a score, he has too many things to do right now, and he has to act like a leader.

After a while, I saw Agu walking over on its little short legs and said, "Li Qi, are you looking for me?" ”

It is more sensible, and it is respectful to Li Qi, which shows that it has seen the world.

Li Qi asked, "How are the tools I asked you to prepare?" ”

Ah Gu nodded straight and said, "I've been ready for a long time, I... I've also made some changes. ”

"I've always been confident in your changes."

Richie laughed.

......

Under the big tree.

I saw Taba and the others all sitting cross-legged around, looking at the one-meter-high wooden basket with curiosity, made of fine wood chips, which looked a bit similar to a birdcage, but the gap in the middle was much smaller.

This is the basket press, is an ancient design, after the industrial revolution, the tools are being updated, there was a period of time when the basket press was almost abandoned, but with the pursuit of better quality, not just speed and quantity, this design is favored by many wineries, because of its extremely high press quality, juicy output, and belongs to a softer press, but it is relatively slow, and the cleaning is troublesome, not fully automatic, need to be manual.

But in later generations, handmade ones became more and more valuable, and so did winemaking.

But if he had to choose, he would definitely choose a fully automatic one, for him, speed and quantity are money!

As for that little bit of taste, he didn't care at all, because he was dealing with a group of customers who didn't even know what wine was.

"You mean rotary pressing?"

Li Qi looked at Ah Gu in shock.

Ah Gu hurriedly explained: "I... I've tried, if you rotate down, the force is greater, and it's easy to control, so you don't blow up the tool. ”

"No, no, no, you misunderstood me!" Li Qi waved his hand again and again, and said: "I like this design very much, but I want to know, how did you make this thread?" ”

This basket press was designed by Li Qi, and his design was to simply press down, but Ah Gu added a stone device to it, and there was a round hole in the middle of the stone, and a stone tool was inserted into it, directly connected to the round pressing stone below, but there were threads in the hole, and it was rotated downward, and it was slowly squeezed, so that it could be a good way to prevent excessive force, which would definitely happen, because the people here were in a state of uncontrollable power.

Ah Gu immediately took out two black iron tools from his small backpack, very thin, one straight and the other curved, and said, "I made them with them." ”

"This is enough to make this thread?" Li Qi said with wide eyes.

Ah Gu nodded and said, "This black iron grinds stones very quickly." ”

This Li Qi also knows, but how delicate it is to be able to make it, this... This can only be explained by racial talent, the hands of the beasts are really very flexible, but they can only do some delicate things, and they are excited: "Let's try it!" ”

He poured the fermented golden grapes into a basket press, closed the lid, and then turned the handle, only to see the amber liquid seep out of the cracks and into a jar.

After all the pressing, Li Qi sealed the wine jar, using the primitive method of ancient times, and did not use any cork, because cork has to be studied, not that it is as simple as inserting a piece of wood, and if it is not done well, it will destroy the wine, and most of the wines in later generations are not made of cork.

As for the skins, Richie did not throw them away, but kept them for experimenting with yeast, and although the golden grapes could ferment themselves, with yeast, they could make wine from a lot of fruit, and Richie seemed to have seen the colorful coins rolling towards him.

Yeast is definitely going to work, and one more important thing is sugar.

Although it is okay not to add, but it is not good to taste, it is not easy to control the alcohol content, if there is no sugar, the requirements for operation are extremely high, in short, commercial brewing is definitely needed sugar, but the proportion is a problem.

Li Qi is very confident in this, because a very important factor in winemaking is temperature, and the temperature here is simply born for winemaking, because the temperature here does not fluctuate much, basically it is constant temperature, if the seal is done well, there is no need to put it in the hole, directly put it outside, although Li Qi does not know how many degrees, but the temperature felt by the body should be the best brewing temperature.

And that experiment told Richie that the fungus could only crystallize into sugar.

And the sugar making tools have all been made, and they are made by the beasts in cooperation with humans.

It is two large stones, round, with a ton of weight, side by side, leaving only a gap, and some convex grooves and grooves have been chiseled out on the two stones, in short, it is a gear design, with a long horizontal log on it.

This is a tool used in ancient sugar production, which was specially used to press sugar cane, and it was not gradually abandoned until after the Industrial Revolution.

Originally, it took two or three cows to pull it, but Li Qi didn't have a cow, and he didn't need a cow.

I saw Lie and Ku pushing the horizontal wood to rotate with Shilu as the center, and the two girls squatted next to Shilu, sending a long chain of fungi into the gap, this Shilu is specially used to squeeze sugarcane, Li Qi must make the fungi into sugarcane, so he ordered someone to twist the fungi together, which is thicker than dry sugarcane, but the front is thinner.

When the two large stones turned, they wrung the mushrooms into the gap, and saw the juice flowing from the bottom of the stone to a large cauldron.

After the juice came out, it was boiled, Li Qi divided two pots, and used lime and white grass ash to clean, this is a secret recipe, only the farmer knows, why let the farmer know, because Li Qi is not familiar with the lime and grass ash here, the lime here is from the Bailan tribe, he has to see the effect, and on the other hand, he has to let the farmer try, can not make poisonous sugar.

I have to say that the crystal belly of the farmer is better than the machine, and the effect will be produced immediately, and the effect of sugar will be directly expressed intuitively.

The development of the catering industry is really indispensable to agriculture.

If this continues, Shennong's will really become a food expert, which can also be said to be unprofessional.

With continuous experimentation and exploration, Li Qi finally found a set of technological processes suitable for fungi and golden grapes.

In fact, so far, it has been experimental.

But two things have been determined: the golden grape is by far the best winemaking material, and the fungus is the only material for sugar production.

Since it is either mass-produced, it cannot be left wild, it must be planted on a large scale, those warnings of the Rennu, Li Qi has completely forgotten, because he already knows that the Rennu belongs to the kind of standing and saying that there is no backache, each race mentions that Lingzhou is so rich that it does not need tools, then of course what can be wild, they have enough time to wait, and humans do not, human beings must rely on their own wisdom and experience.

Li Qi is not very familiar with the fungus, but fortunately it is mentioned in his information that as for how to plant vines, Li Qi chose a very lofty way, that is, the grafting method.

One of his ladies in the Northern Song Dynasty was a master in this area, and he also heard about it, which was not a difficult thing for him, but Taba and the others thought that this grafting was too magical, so they directly cut off the branches and leaves and inserted them on other tree trunks to grow.

However, the planting area is not in the Heavenly Raven Department, but chooses to develop in the direction of the Black Stone Valley, Li Qi is to develop the area from the Black Stone Valley to the Wild Lake Department as an agricultural production area, because this section is the safest, if it develops forward, it is easy to be destroyed and attacked, and the planting can also closely link the territory of the Huaxia Alliance.