Chapter 440: Mare's Milk Wine
"Xiaobao, are these things you are talking about really come up with by yourself? It's amazing what you have in your head to come up with such a great idea. You are right, now the poor keep crying out about poverty, but there is no real way out of poverty. Either he is lazy and lazy, and no matter how much you support him, he can give you all the defeat, or the poor have no chance to get ahead and can't find a chance to let him get ahead, these people are the most pathetic. But now your approach is equivalent to giving them a stage to show themselves, so that they can play to their strengths or learn from their strengths. I will definitely work with Ping'er to carry forward these methods you said, and when you come back, Xixia will definitely make your eyes shine, I promise you! ”
Yang Xiangwu's bold words said that Lu Xiaoyu was very pleased, and he didn't have to worry about such a well-intentioned plan being used as a tool to make money by some corrupt officials because he was not in Western Xia.
Empress Dowager Li also followed Yang Xiangwu's words and promised Lu Xiaoyu that she would work with Yang Xiangwu to run the charity foundation he handed over.
Here, after Lu Xiaoyu and Princess Xiaoxiang finished their love words, they turned to say goodbye to Jiang Ge and the others. Look at Princess Siqin beside Jiang Ge is now all healed from the arrow wounds, and in the past few days, when she is bored in the Xixia Palace, Queen Xiang regards her as her own sister, and takes her around the palace and even the imperial city, taking her to enjoy the scenery of different Mongolian grasslands in Xixia, so that Princess Siqin is a little back and forth. If she hadn't thought of promising her father to go back and ask him to help with her marriage to Jiang Ge, she would have thought of staying in Xixia for a while.
Jiang Ge and Lu Xiaoyu went out of the city together this time, but they only went north and south, and Jiang Ge also took his mother to the Mongolian steppe to attend his wedding. Jiang Ge's mother was very happy when she heard that although her son did not marry the princess of Western Xia, he talked about marriage with the princess of Mongolia, and she was also very happy, and she argued that her son and daughter-in-law should hurry back to get married.
"Brother Jiang, we are about to go our separate ways, it's a pity that I and your Brother Lu can't see your wedding with our own eyes. And I still miss the mare's milk wine in the Mongolian steppe, and now I can't drink it, and I really miss it! I don't know when I'll be able to drink it again. Lu Xiaoyu said with a slight loss.
Recalling that this mare's milk wine is indeed the most profound food for Lu Xiaoyu and Lu Xiaoyu to the Mongolian grassland. The Mongolian people live in the steppe and live on animal husbandry. Mare's milk wine, grilled meat, and roast lamb are their favorite beverages, foods, and hospitality delicacies in their daily lives. Every year in July and August, the cows are fat and the horses are strong, which is the season for making mare's milk wine. Industrious Mongolian women store mare's milk in skin sacs, stir it, and after a few days, the milk fat separates and ferments into wine. With the development of science and the prosperity of life, the Mongolian people's craft of making mare's milk wine has become more and more sophisticated, not only has a simple fermentation method, but also has a distillation method for making strong milk wine. The milk wine after six steaming and six brewing is the top grade.
Mare's milk wine is warm in nature, and has the effects of dispelling cold, relieving tendons, invigorating blood, and strengthening the stomach. Known as Yuan Jade Jelly, it is one of the "Eight Treasures of Mongolia". It was the main drink of the Mongol Khan and his noble palace. The Heavenly Khan Temugetu also often put it in a precious golden bowl to reward meritorious officials. When Lu Xiaoyu and Lu Xiaoyu set foot on the grassland and walked into the yurt, the hospitable Mongolians would pour the wine in a silver bowl or a golden cup, hold it on the long hata, sing a moving toast, and entertain the guests from afar to express their sincerity. At this time, Lu Xiaoyu and Lu Xiaoyu immediately caught the wine, and then drank it if they could, and if they couldn't drink it, they could return the wine to the owner. If you push, push, pull, pull, and don't drink, you will be considered to look down on the master, unwilling to meet with sincerity, and so on. The enthusiasm of the host often makes the guests feel difficult to say goodbye and feel nostalgic.
"Big brother, don't worry, I will definitely leave your wedding wine for the two brothers, waiting for you to drink together next time!"
"Okay, that's it!"
"It turns out that Brother Xiaoyu misses our Mongolian mare's milk wine! It's a pity that I didn't bring it with me in a hurry this time, otherwise I would have given it all to you. But you don't have to wait until the day you come to get it. I'm here to hand over to you the recipe for our royal family's secret mare's milk wine, and you can make it yourself when you have time. Princess Siqin heard that Lu Xiaoyu liked to drink mare's milk wine, and immediately generously told him how to make mare's milk wine.
It turns out that the ancient Mongolian mare's milk wine production method is relatively simple, when the fermented sour mare's milk is pounded for seven or eight days, so that the white and turbidity precipitate together, become colorless and transparent, and the fishy smell disappears, it is mare's milk wine.
This is the kind of mare's milk wine that Lu Xiaoyu gave to the Great Khan or the court in ancient times. And at that time, there was a special official who was responsible for serving this wine, called Taifu Temple Noyan. They had to take care of the mare and milking the cows themselves, and the etiquette was very strict. The people under the jurisdiction of the Taifu Temple are selected from the Harachi-Qianshou (common people). And there are officials who process mare's milk. This milk wine was also presented to the ancestral temple and used in the rituals of the Dayuan court. Every autumn, when the sound of geese is heard, the Great Khan, who is in the palace of Shangdu to take refuge in the summer, leads the civil and military ministers to a fixed place, and under the guidance of the divination lama, the Great Khan personally worships the heaven and earth with wine.
Because the worship of heaven and earth, wedding banquets, and the reception of guests are inseparable from mare's milk wine, the winemaking industry was once very developed in both the official and private sectors, and horse breeding also occupies a very important position in their life and production. The traditional brewing method of mare's milk wine is to first put the pasteurized and sterilized horse ** into a wooden barrel, then cover the barrel, let it stand overnight, after the mare's milk begins to ferment, and then pour it into another wooden barrel (a little original fermentation ** can be left in the original barrel, as the koji seed when the new mare's milk is added next time), the mare's milk in the third barrel is poured into a wooden barrel on the third day, and in this way, stir every hour, and so on six times, and the mare's milk can be drunk after it is completely fermented and matured.
However, in terms of its color, aroma and taste, the taste of fermentation for one day and night, the taste of fermentation for two days and nights is moderate, and its "color jade clear water, sweet and fragrant", that is to say, the taste of mare's milk wine fermented twice is pure. After fermentation for three days and nights, the sour taste is strong, and it becomes a strong mare's milk wine, and its alcohol content reaches about five degrees, so it is still a little drunk when you drink too much. In the process of winemaking, if the neighbors come from the neighborhood, the young hostess must be generous with the new wine.
"Okay, I'll try it later, thank you Princess Siqin for your generosity, and tell me such an important skill, I must keep it in mind. But I'm ready to drink your meal! Lu Xiaoyu didn't let go.