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At first, Xu's was in the business of three meals a day, but because he was too tired and too busy, he didn't have time to prepare ingredients, so he only made two meals in breakfast and lunch.

The Xu family had resolutely refused to let Zhong Hao help, and only asked Wan'er to help take care of the stove. Wan'er is very sensible, she gets up early every day to accompany her mother out of the stall, and she never shouts tired.

Xu used the money he earned to buy some books and let Zhong Hao start reading at home. Zhong Hao was very reluctant to do this, but he couldn't stand Xu from taking out the identity of an elder and taught her earnestly.

The spring breeze gently swept through the small courtyard, bringing a fresh breath, and the stone table in Zhong Hao's courtyard casually looked at a book of "Wenxin Carving Dragon", which is a must-have reading for understanding and learning at this time.

There were many types of imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty, and the Jinshi branch was the most respected, because the officials from the Jinshi branch were considered to be officials from the right path, and they were promoted quickly, had a big face, and had a good reputation. And most of the other subjects are idle, or trapped at the bottom and cannot be promoted, and once there is a problem, they are always the ones who carry the black pot, no way, who makes them not from the right path?

The Jinshi Department needs to test the poems, scriptures, and Moyi.

Ordinary students are enlightened at the age of six or seven, and they begin to study the thirteen classics such as "Analects", "Book of Rites", and "Yi Guanyi". The scriptures and Moyi are these two exams, mainly to examine the students' recitation of the scriptures and their understanding of the scriptures.

The most important thing is the examination of poetry, and it can be said that the quality of poetry directly determines the quality of the examination.

Books in this era are relatively expensive, and Xu's money is not much for the time being, so for the time being, he only bought Zhong Hao books for learning poetry such as "Wenxin Carving Dragon", "Fu Theory", and "Selected Poems". As for the various scriptures and their commentaries, they can only be bought when they have money.

However, Zhong Hao really did not have hope of participating in the imperial examination, although he had generally studied some of the Four Books and Five Classics under the strict supervision of his grandfather in later generations, but it was obviously not enough to participate in the imperial examination. As for poetry, poetry can be done in front of it, but it can only be done.

In the Jinshi examination of the Song Dynasty, in order to facilitate judgment, the poems in the examination were rhythmic poems and fu were rhythmic poems, and the requirements were very demanding. The rhythm is not limited to rhyme, but also to the order of rhyme; It is not only necessary to pay attention to the beginning and turn, but also to be thoughtful and very strict. If you are not careful, you will be degraded. It is extremely testing of the students' pronunciation and rhythm, as well as their ability to choose words and form sentences.

The same is true for the metrical poems for the exam, which tests the candidates' literary literacy and basic skills. The poems must conform to the rules, stick to the topic, use rhyme, and fight, and must not make any mistakes, and must be beautifully written in order to stand out. If the format is not up to par, it will be dethroned.

Later generations Zhong Hao, as an expert in Song culture, knew a little about the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty, so Zhong Hao was not interested in participating in the imperial examination at all, because Zhong Hao felt that with the level of poetry and ancient literature cultivation of the half-hanger, it was impossible to pass the Jinshi examination at all.

Besides, the scientific examination of the Great Song Dynasty was different from that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, if you take the exam, you will be a person with meritorious fame, and your social status will be very high. If you want to take the test, you will be able to shine on the lintel and have no worries about food and clothing. Therefore, students in the Ming and Qing dynasties, even if they can't pass the Jinshi exam, as long as they can make a name for themselves, they can be regarded as top-class people in this life. However, Da Song does not have a reputation such as Tongsheng and Xiucai, and even the title of lifting people is a disposable consumer product. Therefore, when I studied in the Great Song Dynasty and couldn't pass the Jinshi exam, I was a big student for the rest of my life. Therefore, Zhong Hao is also interested in reading exams.

Although Xu's snack stall business is not bad, those who get up early and are greedy for darkness can only maintain the level of food and clothing, and they are almost well-off, which is far from the rich life that Zhong Hao longs for.

Xu urged himself to study, it was out of sincerity, hoping that he could get ahead, but Zhong Hao knew that it was really not that material, and he could only live up to Xu's intentions.

Zhong Hao felt that it was most important to work hard to make money and let himself live a good life.

Zhong Hao threw down the book "Wenxin Carving Dragon", got up and came to the firewood room, and began to work.

Jong Ho intends to make a high degree of soju. The wines on the market in the Great Song Dynasty are all fermented wines, and the degree is not high. It is difficult for the sake produced by the fermentation process to be higher than 20 degrees. The technology of fermenting liquor and then distilling it to obtain a high degree of liquor only appeared in the Yuan Dynasty.

Zhong Hao felt that scarcity was expensive, and what was not there in these years was something valuable. Shochu may be a life-changing baby.

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In the firewood room there was a cauldron on a large stove, which was filled with fermented, unsifted and unsifted turbid wine, and the lid of the cauldron was tightly covered, but there was a round hole in the lid, and a copper pipe with an elbow was taken out of the round hole, and in the middle of the copper pipe passed a wooden barrel filled with cold well water, and a wine jar was attached to the bottom of the end of the copper pipe.

Zhong Hao was constantly adding firewood to the stove, and fine beads of sweat oozed from the corners of his forehead, but he didn't care, just stared at the end of the copper pipe.

As the temperature got higher and higher, the end of the copper pipe began to drip out of the clear liquor, and when about half a jar of wine flowed out, Zhong Hao replaced it with a jar and put aside the first half jar of wine. The first thing that comes out is the head of the wine, which is too high to drink directly.

Continue to add wood to the stove, and when the two jars are almost filled, the wine in the copper pipe gradually drip slowly.

Zhong Hao lifted the lid of the pot and looked at it, and there was basically only distillery left in the cauldron, and the liquor was almost distilled.

Zhong Hao felt that the wine that came out again should be regarded as the tail of the wine, so he took the wine jar with the wine head and connected it.

When the jar with the head is almost full, the copper pipe no longer drips with liquor.

Zhong Hao shook the wine jar with the head and tail of the wine a few times, lifted the lid of the pot, poured it into the pot again, and continued to distill.

The clear liquor soon flowed out again, and this time it was Erguotou.

Zhong Hao picked up the wine scoop, scooped up a little from the two jars of soju that came out in the middle, and took a sip gently, only to feel that a line of heat fell straight to the bottom of his heart, it was very strong, and it seemed that the degree was not low.

He scooped up a little bit from the jar at the head of the second pot and took a sip, and the wine was stronger than the two jars.

It's done, Zhong Hao secretly exclaimed in his heart.

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The sky is like a wash, thousands of miles are blue, Zhong Hao, who has just made a high degree of soju, is in a very good mood, walking leisurely in Qingzhou City, but the wine jar in his hand slightly affects this sense of leisure.

At this time, Qingzhou City was full of bustling people, a prosperous and lively scene. On the main road that leads to the north and south of the city, there are pavilion shops with magnificent shapes and exquisite decorations, standing on both sides of the thoroughfare. The bustling commercial streets are also crowded, and the various shouts of the vendors come and go, and the bargaining voices of the guests come and go, adding a little vividness to the ancient city of Qingzhou.

There are many people in the city, such as wine shops and tea shops, and Goolan tiles, which are full of people, and gather a lot of people to drink, discuss poetry, listen to music, gamble money, juju, sumo, and the characters of the three religions and nine streams have found fun here. The prosperity of commerce, the prosperity of entertainment, and the large population all show the prosperity and style of this famous city of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhong Hao visited Qingzhou City a few times ago, but those times he was busy inspecting the market, just a wandering around the flowers, and did not seriously feel the charm of this city.

Zhong Hao walked to Yunmen Street and stopped in front of a restaurant with three gold-lettered signboards of "Natural Residence".