A moment later, according to the steps he had just taken, the second pot of cold water was steaming again, and more wine was pouring out of the brass pipes in the steam barrels, filling several clay pots. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After tasting the extremely spicy wine just now, Di Yang had no hope for this method of making wine, and no matter how much he tossed the things out of the same retort barrel, the taste could not be changed?

Di Yang wanted to sigh, feeling that all these days had been in vain, but at this time, his son who was guarding the ladder suddenly said: "What a smell, it smells so good!" ”

Unconsciously, the wine shop was already full of the smell of wine, smelling the smell of the pot of spirits in front of him, in comparison, the current taste was particularly mellow, everyone in the wine shop was twitching their noses, Di Yang couldn't help but take a big breath, and suddenly changed color.

"What's going on?"

After asking again, at the suggestion of Chang Anjun, he hurriedly trotted over, scooped a puff of new wine, and after licking it to his mouth, he was directly stunned there, his face full of incredulity!

"The taste has changed!"

This time, the wine was not as bitter and spicy as before.

Di Yang Daqi, thinking that this was his own illusion, tasted it again, and asked his two sons to come and try it, after tasting it, everyone was full of surprise.

This time, the taste of those steaming wine between the lips and tongue is a real wine, although in people who are used to drinking rice wine, the taste of the wine is still fiery, but the taste is indeed much better, and it is still a little crisp in the mouth......

Xu Ping grinned and said, "This is the real essence of wine, the refined immortal mountain jade brew!" ”

After that, he pinched his nose and drank two sips, and suddenly felt dizzy, fluttering, and about to dance and soar, but he staggered up, sat down on the ground, and blushed.

This situation frightened Lu Sheng, and he hurriedly went to check, but he was just drunk, so he had to drag the master aside.

"This Qi person is really invincible."

The winemakers looked at this magician with contempt, but they didn't dare to hold it up, with the strength of this wine, it was several times that of ordinary rice wine, and those who could drink a few buckets on weekdays might get drunk after a few liters.

Di Yang asked cautiously, "This should be the bar that Childe wants?" ”

"Yes, that's the wine I want."

Mingyue also tried it, it does have a bit of the taste of self-baked wine in the countryside in the previous life, that thing is also called "earth cannon", even if it is an eight-foot man, if you drink it violently, you will faint in half a catty, and you will be drunk in one catty! However, in the previous life, the wine was too spicy and burned, and the Indians in this era were afraid that they had not completely domesticated the grain, let alone spread it to China. Therefore, he can only try to use local crops, using rice, liang, and millet as wine grains, and what is distilled today is rice wine that ripens faster, and liang and millet have to live for two days.

Not to mention the episode of Xu Ping's drunkenness, the distillation continued, and then, when it came to the third and fourth pots of water, the distilled liquor began to fade, and the taste was not as strong as just now, and there was a miscellaneous smell.

Di Yang and the others all wondered why the wine tasted so different, and only Mingyue knew the reason.

Not only ethanol is fermented in the wine, but many other alcohols and organic impurities are vaporized together during distillation. Therefore, the wine condensed by each pot has obvious differences in aroma and taste, and the wine condensed by cold water in the cauldron for the first time is called "wine head", which is more irritating, and the degree may exceed 70 degrees; The wine condensed by cold water for the third time is called "wine tail", which has a miscellaneous flavor and is not much higher than that of rice wine.

Only the second time to change into the cold water to cool out of the wine taste is the softest and mellow, this steaming method, is the past generations of wine workers after hundreds of years of repeated comparisons and attempts to sum up, but in later generations, it is a good wine in the countryside, almost everyone knows the common sense, he has seen a lot in his previous life, and naturally knows.

Although Mingyue hid a hand and didn't say anything, this incident alone was enough to make the wine workers regard Chang'anjun as a celestial.

In the end, Mingyue also asked Di Yang and others to take the wine cooled out of the second pot as the final product and named it "Shochu".

After the wine workers were already proficient in the whole process, Mingyue said to them: "After steaming the rice wine, seal it in a jar, put it in the wine cellar and seal it for a few days, and then how to season it depends on the second and third sons." “

He is confident that the "soju" brewed by this local method is enough to convince Kuang Liang, who is gambling with him, to lose!

And the reason why Mingyue spent such a big price to make wine was not just to win a battle of will, but also a deeper purpose. This purpose has to be achieved by relying on the pair of unreliable magician masters and apprentices in front of him to help him......

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As the first victim of this soju, the drunken Xu Ping slept until the evening, and when he woke up, he was already lying in the guest house, and the apprentice Lu Sheng was pushing himself, saying that Chang'anjun had come to see him.

Xu Ping hurriedly rolled off the bed, he knew that he must be embarrassed when he was drunk, and he was immediately ashamed.

Chang Anjun was not in a hurry, and waited for Xu Ping to wipe his face, drank the sobering hot soup, and sobered up before he said to him: "Mr. Xu, you have done this for me, you should be credited with it, and I will do what I say, and after a while, I will vacate a house by this pool, as your special Dan room, all the utensils and raw materials, I can supply you with all the utensils and raw materials." ”

"Thank you Gongzi, the minister will definitely live up to the expectations of Gongzi and refine the elixir of immortality as soon as possible!" Xu Ping is overjoyed, he has been pinching his nose and working with hundreds of workers these days, and this is the picture.

But Mingyue waved her hand and said, "I have already said that I don't believe in the art of immortality. ”

Xu Ping hurriedly defended: "Otherwise, wouldn't the prince have heard that the ancients were all 100 years old in spring and autumn, and their actions were not decaying; Today's people are half a hundred years old and their movements are declining. The reason why this is so is because the ancient people used the law in yin and yang, and in the number of techniques, so that they could live long and even live forever. You don't see, Dayi once invited the medicine of immortality to the Queen Mother of the West, and she stole it to run to the moon......"

Mingyue still shook her head: "These are legends, seeing is believing, hearing is false, how can there be immortals in the world?" How can there be immortals who can soar in the daylight? If you don't stand before me, then I don't believe. ”

Xu Ping was anxious: "Son, there are indeed people who have seen it on the seaside, on the three immortal mountains of Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou, there are gods and men living in Yan. Its skin is like ice and snow, like a virgin, it does not eat grains, it sucks wind and drinks dew, rides the clouds, and flies the dragon, and swims beyond the four seas...... The earliest magician, Peng Zu, learned the art of immortality from them, so that he could go through the summer meridian to the Zhou, and he was 800 years old and did not die! Everyone in the world is convinced of this. ”

After experiencing such an unscientific thing, Mingyue now does not dare to say that there are no ghosts and gods in the world, but is closer to Confucius's "respect ghosts and gods and stay away".

And he felt that even if there was a grand existence in the underworld, it was not the image of the immortals created by folklore, and the gods worshiped by each nation were the beautification of their own image, a thousand gods and a thousand faces.

As for the group of magicians who claim to have mastered the magic of the fairy, they are a group of utilitarian paranoiacs, charlatans, and they want to rely on this group of unreliable people to seek immortality and immortality.

So he asked Xu Ping rhetorically: "Mr. keeps saying that a magician can teach people to live forever, then I dare to ask Mr., can you live forever yourself?" ”

"I ...... No. ”

In a word, Xu Ping choked, and lowered his head weakly, his fairy wind bones were all pretended, and he was not bold enough, but he didn't dare to blow nonsense like his master Zheng Boqiao.

Mingyue said slowly: "I also heard about it, it is said that twenty years ago, there was a magician who claimed to be an overseas immortal, who could teach King Yan Zhao to learn the method of immortality, and King Yan sent an envoy to learn, who expected that the messenger would arrive, and before he could learn, the magician died." King Yan Zhao was furious and killed the envoy, thinking that the envoy was too slow to go, so that he missed the opportunity to live forever, dare to ask sir, is there such a thing? ”

When that incident happened, Xu Ping was in Yan Kingdom, and his master Zheng Boqiao was ascended to the throne because of this, so he had to say in a curtive manner: "There is indeed such a thing......

Mingyue said: "The most important thing for people is to be themselves, that warlock can't save himself from death, where can he make King Yan Zhao immortal?" Therefore, I do not believe in the arguments of the other sorcerers who teach people to live forever. ”

Xu Ping was puzzled: "Since the son is not seeking immortality, and he doesn't need the medicine to strengthen the body, why did he accept me as a guest and give me the treatment of a guest?" ”

Mingyue spread her hands: "I'll just say it today, I'm for the yellow and white art that Mr. is good at!" ”