At the end of October, the basin experienced its first snow of the year, nearly a foot deep, which should be considered a large snowfall.

The entire basin is white, except for the Queerghada Mountain on the left, which is still reddish-brown on heavy snowy days. The snow fell on it and turned into water in a moment, and Abu suspected that there was an active volcano lurking beneath the mountain, but it was just that it had erupted for thousands of years.

The big guys cleaned up the road and piled up the snow on both sides of the road. The children had some fun now, and Wu Ye followed the children to either have snowball fights, build snowmen, or jump into the snowdrifts that everyone had swept to see who was deep in the snowdrifts.

So there were people with brooms, chasing and scolding behind, and the children ran and laughed, and scattered like birds and beasts.

All kinds of livestock and poultry are leisurely eating grass in their beautiful new houses. They were also stained with quicklime, and there was no place to use the excess quicklime, so they painted the livestock house and the forage house.

The best part is that in a cave at the bottom of the Queerghada Mountain, there is a hot spring flowing out, but the water is a little hot. Abu found two large rooms next to them to change their clothes before the men and women bathed.

At the same time, the water is drawn out, and according to the specific environment of the surrounding caves, it is dug deep to form a hot spring pool. It's cold and snowy outside, but it's steaming inside, creating a natural hot spring bath. Abu also thought that it would be even better to transplant some plants and flowers into it in the future.

At first, the big guys were still a little unable to let go, thinking to themselves what Mr. Abu thought, why only one bath was built, although the changing room is separate for men and women, but men and women mixed together to soak in the hot spring, always a little embarrassed.

Some people have raised similar questions, but they were vetoed by Abu hip-hop, saying that the bath is a place to relax, and it is not good for everyone to talk about ideals and exchange feelings together!

After the completion of the construction, some men first went in to feel it, and it was indeed a great pleasure to soak in the hot springs on a snowy day! It's cold shivering on the outside, it's hot sweating on the inside, these guys are inside, humming and ha!

In the end, some women couldn't resist the temptation, and some people rightly raised their heads and said, Mr. Abu said, the hot springs are shared by everyone, why are they all occupied by those stinky men, sisters, let's go together.

As the saying goes, three women in one play, which shows that when women are together, their courage will multiply exponentially. If thirty women are together, then they will show more courage than men.

So when the women of thirty or forty rushed into the bath together, those old men who shouted five and six obediently gave up most of the hot spring pools, and did not release a word of hard words, maybe they only cared about watching, the beautiful scenery of the fat swallow and the thinness. Maybe I'm silently thinking in my heart, and the emperor is just like that.

At first, some women were hesitant to move forward, but under the instigation of the big guys and the steaming heat of the hot spring, they gradually let go of their hands and feet. Some women bathe directly with their husbands in the same pool.

The children don't care about that, they just have fun making a fuss in it, it's a paradise just for them, jumping around bare-bottomed, uninhibited.

Later, young women and little girls gradually joined in, and the warblers and swallows, singing and laughing, added to the beautiful scenery.

After a long time, everyone has become accustomed to it, and I think it is good to be unguarded, there is no barrier, no constraints, free and comfortable, and the most important thing is that it is still eye-catching.

Once at dinner, Yun Niang joked to Abu that you are so hypocritical, and Abu asked her why she said that. Yun Niang said that you announced that you wanted to practice monogamy at the beginning, and now you are building a hot spring bath shared by men and women, absolutely to satisfy, your dark pervert psychology, I want to uncover your shameless hypocrisy.

Abu salivated and said that it is enough to have me and you, but others often say that domestic flowers do not have the fragrance of wild flowers; He also said that a wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is better than stealing, and stealing is better than stealing. Since you can't steal it or eat it, it's okay to get over it.

Yun Niang said angrily, he is really thick-skinned, and people haven't agreed to marry you yet.

Abu said that what you said is not right, Guanyin Bodhisattva is looking at it, and the ring is also wearing on your hand, and I have already booked your person, and I can't run.

Yun Niang was cheeky, chasing after a burst of beating; Wu Ye shouted and cheered for Yun Niang next to him.

Abu squatted on the ground, clutching his head, with an exaggerated, grinning expression of pain, in fact, he enjoyed this form of massage extremely much.

Old Yang squatted in front of the stove, watching the embers inside slowly darken, smelling the fragrance of alcohol around him, his saliva involuntarily flowed out.

The old Yang Tou's name is Yang Wencai, who is over fifty years old, has been a showman, and his family is in the middle of the road, and he is unable to support him to continue to take the road of the imperial examination. can only go home to farm, marry a wife and have children, run around for firewood, rice, oil and salt every day, busy, and ignore everyone, and then live up to the ambition of the imperial examination.

When he was young, he often carried his hands behind his back and bent over, like an old man, and was jokingly called Lao Yang Tou by everyone; Today, he has really become an old man.

He didn't read well when he was young, but he developed a habit of drinking. Occasionally, if I have some money to spare, I will sell two taels of wine and feed the wine worms, but every time I am counted by my wife for half a day. This year, there is a bumper harvest of grains here, and there are no harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so I thought of making some wine by myself to satisfy my hunger.

My wife has been trapped by life for so many years, and she has been stuck with his wine pipe, and now that there is no burden on life, it is up to him to go.

The embers of the bright extinction shone on the wrinkled face of the old Yang's head, and he silently recited Abu's good in his heart. If it weren't for this young man, he might have been buried in the ground, where would he still have the leisure to make wine and drink. No way! When the wine is ready, I will have to send a can to Mr. Abu. Maybe people are used to drinking wine and don't look down on their own muddy wine? Then it doesn't matter, at least let him know his heart. He talked to himself over and over again in his mind.

Suddenly, my wife greeted me outside: "It's Mr. Abu!" Why are you free today? Fast into the house, fast into the house. Hurry up, old man, Mr. Abu is here. ”

Lao Yang was clever, he really wanted to come to something, he hurriedly packed up his clothes and went out. Before I walked out of the door, I heard Abu's voice: "Uncle Yang is making wine." Fragrant! It smells so good! I'll have to taste it later. Abu walked in. Old Yang Tou hurriedly asked Abu to sit on the bunk, but Abu sat in front of the stove, as if he was very interested in winemaking.

Abu has always spoken more directly, and this time is no exception, without saying a few polite words, he went straight to the point and asked Lao Yang Tou for the knowledge of winemaking. Lao Yang saw that Abu was interested in winemaking, and it was scratching his itch, and he was not modest, so he introduced Abu directly.

He said that the main process of making wine is a four-step process, starting with soaking rice or millet and then steaming. Fermentation is done by pouring koji to form a sour syrup, a process called master fermentation.

The second step is to pour in the sweet minc, which is a sweet koji, and this process is called rice fermentation.

This is followed by pressing, which yields sake lees and fermented again, also known as cold spring wine.

The last step is to wait for clarification, then boil the wine in the pot, this process is also called pressing the wine with fire, and after annealing, it can be canned and become a drink.

Abu laughed after hearing this, and said that Uncle Yang is really an expert in the brewing industry. Old Yang smiled modestly.

"But I'm here today because I want to ask my uncle for a favor."

"What's the matter?" Old Yang asked.

"I've heard people say that you can make sake before, so it's definitely no problem making koji. Also, I see a lot of straw stalks piled up outside, so I'd like you to try making some alcohol out of straw stalks. ”

"Straw stalks can also make wine? Sir, you're kidding. Old Yang couldn't help laughing after hearing this, this thing is really fresh, the first time I heard of it.

"There should be no problem, but the brewed alcohol is not for drinking, it can be used for disinfection, lighting, or industrial use; In addition, the last leftover sake lees are wasted to feed livestock, which can be used to make high-grade paper. ”

"Is there such a good thing? Sir, come and hear it. When Lao Yang heard this, he suddenly became interested, he had studied wine making before, and what he said just now was the most common practice for everyone, but he didn't expect Abu to say that he could use straw stalks to brew alcohol, which was really a lucrative business.

"Then I'll give you a little bit of a chatter first, and I'll write you a detailed step afterwards."

"Yes, sir, please."

"You can grow some more koji and make some yeast out of flour."

"Do you mean the kind of yeast that makes steamed buns?"

"Yes, it's actually a bacterium like yeast in it. If you want to use ten catties of straw, then you need one catty of koji and three catties of yeast liquor.

First, chop the straw until it is as short as the little finger cover, and then crush some with a mill. Add seven or eight catties of water and stir, put it in a steaming barrel to steam, and then add koji and yeast liquid.

Cover the lid, at the current weather temperature, let them ferment fully, and then add fire to distill, just like we make coke, use pipes to export the steamed alcohol, cool, and get alcohol.

If you make this rice wine with a proof of 15 degrees, then the distilled alcohol content can reach 45 degrees.

We still have so much quicklime, you can add it to absorb the excess water in it, and the rest is pure alcohol, continue to distill, you can get alcohol with a purity of more than ninety-five. The remaining sake lees have become a uniform, soft flocculent that is just right for paper.

As for the details, we can study them slowly, if you want to make a crucible or a distillation furnace, you can go to Li Baotian to find a way. ”

"It's as simple as that? I'm done with that, and I'm going to get to work. The wine in the pot should be ready, shall I give you some to taste first? ”

"Then there's Uncle Lao Yang."

"Hehe, sir is too polite." Lao Yang said as he opened the pot and took the wine.