Chapter 52 Rumors are rife

Then, everything was in full swing. Zhang Shuting also grows on the mouth of the retort every day, and he almost never leaves.

It was also very soon, Lao Yang first selected white sand sugar, new peas, new barley and new wheat nearby. New peas, new barley, and new wheat are of course not used for other purposes, but of course for composing music.

Lao Yang personally went down to the koji room, of course, there is nothing special about the method of making koji, the key is the temperature, Lao Yang said, he has to personally control this temperature.

When the koji entered the cultivation stage, the carts that bought apples and snow pears from Wanxian and Zhaozhou also came back one after another. The apples of Wanxian County and the snowflake pears of Zhaozhou are famous within a radius of 100 miles, and it is difficult for everyone to eat one on weekdays.

I saw that whether it is the apple of Wanxian or the snow pear of Zhaozhou, in terms of size, the big one is bigger than two fists combined, and the small one is not smaller than a fist. Look at the color again, the apple is red like the fat face of a frozen red child, and the color of the pear is more like topaz. People are greedy when they see it, and they all want to pick it up and eat one.

"No one is allowed to eat, whoever eats me is in a hurry!" Lao Yang said to everyone very seriously.

Lao Yang not only forbade everyone to eat, but also piled these things up beside the cellar, found a quilt to cover them, and guarded them day and night by Huo Luomao's eldest son.

Not only is it covered with a quilt, but Lao Yang has to drill under the quilt every day and gently turn these apples and pears, and everyone can see that his meaning should be to make those apples or pears that are not ripe ripe faster. But what was he doing with so many apples and pears?

Someone asked this, but Lao Yang didn't say it. Everyone thought that this was the secret recipe of Lao Yang's ancestors, so it was inconvenient to say, so they didn't ask more. As for Zhang Shuting, he didn't ask at all. Although he didn't know what Lao Yang would do next, Lao Yang had already assured him that he wouldn't want to ask anything more. Every day, I just watched Lao Yang busy.

Next, I listened to Lao Yang again, picked out the cellars that had been continued and those that had not had time to burn, and shoveled down the cellars on the four walls of the cellars, and the cellars were cleaned one by one.

Of course, the fermented grains were taken away by the customers who had agreed in advance, and they paid off the debts of white sugar, new peas, new barley, and new wheat.

At this time, the new koji was also cultivated, and the flour was made, and the apples and pears covered in quilts were fully ripe. Lao Yang thought about getting fine clay again.

When all this was ready to stop, on this day, Lao Yang saw that Zhang Shuting was also on the mouth, so he pulled him aside and whispered:

"Zhang Dongjia, I'm going to do a cultivation with the cellar mud tonight, can you come and see?"

When Zhang Shuting heard this, Lao Yang finally began to cultivate the cellar mud, and he was very happy. Speaking of which, people who have shochu know that Lao Yang said that the restoration of the cellar pond is actually the most important thing to restore the cellar pool in the cellar pool. Only when the pit mud is restored first can the entire pit be recovered.

But as soon as he heard that it was night, Zhang Shuting immediately understood that this might be a secret of the Yang family, and he didn't want outsiders to know, so he hesitated:

"You can do what you want, Master Yang, this is your family's secret recipe, and it's not convenient for me to be around."

Unexpectedly, when Lao Yang heard this, he slapped his thigh and said:

"Hey, what is the secret recipe, I'm afraid of broad daylight, everyone sees that I put good apples, pears and white sand sugar together with koji and fine clay to cultivate cellar mud, I'm afraid that they will scold me Lao Yang for being a loser, so I don't want everyone to see it."

When Zhang Shuting heard this, it turned out to be the case, so he persuaded Lao Yang to do it during the day, and it was not easy to work at night when the lights were blind. And again:

"I asked them to buy the things, and they should scold me, it should have nothing to do with Master Yang."

Lao Yang changed it to daytime again. The apples and pears are crushed, mixed with the crushed koji and fine clay, and then they are placed in an empty cellar and cultivated.

This is the end of the matter. After the cellar mud is cultivated, you can use the cultivated cellar mud to "hang" the cellar wall to make wine again.

However, if the matter didn't come to this, Zhang Shuting didn't mumble, but at this point, Zhang Shuting suddenly muttered again. Muttering and muttering, after using such a cellar mud, will there really be more wine produced next?

It's just that Zhang Shuting would have thought that in the days when he put his whole mind on the retort, the rumors about the Runquanyong pot were also attacking the pot like a flood beast, and almost crushed his pot that had been in business for many generations.

Actually, this rumor is nothing else, it is still Huo Jinglin, who jumped into the river and died.

According to this rumor, Huo Jinglin, who was responsible for "stepping on the pool" at the mouth of the pot retort in Runquanyong, had a strange disease with pus all over his body a few months ago, and when he "stepped on the pool", the pus on his body flowed to the cellar pool. Not only does the wine smell very peculiar to the burning, but the cellar also does not produce wine at all.

Later, Zhang Shuting, the owner of Runquanyong's pot, found out and insulted Huo Jinglin and Huo Luomao father and son, but Huo Jinglin couldn't stand the insult of the owner and committed suicide by jumping into the river, Huo Luomao was also seriously ill, and he is still lying at home and can't get up from the kang. As for the Runquanyong pot, he is now trying to find a way to repair the cellar pool. But even if it's repaired, I'm afraid I won't be able to drink the sake that came out.

This rumor, of course, only spread in a small area at the beginning, but even if it was a small range of people, people didn't believe it at first, but after careful inquiry, it was indeed a dead man on the pot of Runquanyong, and he did jump into the river to die. Not only did the man's son die, but his father, Fu Huo Luomao, did go home to recuperate.

However, the most important thing is not these, the most important thing is that now the mouth of the Runquanyong pot is indeed being repaired with great fanfare. For a while, those who heard this rumor had to believe it again.

Of course, there are also those who don't believe it, so they come to the shop where the pot is burned. It should be said that regarding the real cause of Huo Jinglin's death by jumping into the river, because he was worried about the reputation of the Huo family, in the pot, except for Zhang Shuting, Qi Zhankui, Huo Luomao and Lao Yang, a few people knew, and the others did not fully know.

Therefore, the guys in the store, including the other guys on the pot, answered a little vaguely, which gave the rumors a greater opportunity, and for a while, they spread quickly.

This rumor, it can't be said that Qi Zhankui didn't hear it at first. But on the one hand, Zhang Shuting had something to say, and he didn't let the truth go, and he couldn't explain it to everyone. On the other hand, he believes that rumors are rumors, and they will be self-defeating after a long time.

But he was wrong.

As the rumors spread, there were fewer and fewer customers who came to the pot shop to drink wine, and then individual shops in the county came to withdraw the wine, saying that the wine from the pot could not be sold.

But when Qi Zhankui was thinking about what to do next, on this day, Xiao Luo, a guy who came back from sending wine to Baoding City, handed over the carriage to the backyard, and when he arrived in the front yard, he grabbed him and asked Huo Jinglin on the retort what was the reason why he jumped into the river to commit suicide?

This question made Qi Zhankui stunned again, so he asked Xiao Luo:

"Why did you suddenly ask about this?"

Xiao Luo told the rumors he heard in the Baoding semicolon about the cause of Huo Jinglin's death or the Runquanyong boiling pot, and said again:

"The customers of the Baoding branch are also asking the shopkeeper Lao Xu, because Lao Xu can't tell the customers clearly, and many customers don't go to drink."

And again:

"When I came back, Lao Xu repeatedly explained that if I came back, I must ask clearly, what happened to Huo Jinglin to die, and he must make it clear to the customers!"

When Qi Zhankui heard this, he knew that the situation was serious, so he put down Xiao Luo and hurriedly walked to the middle courtyard. He knew that Zhang Shuting must be in the middle courtyard.

When I arrived, Zhang Shuting was really there. hurriedly said what Xiao Luo had just said. After saying that, he said:

"I'm afraid this matter can't be concealed for Huo Jinglin anymore, otherwise it will ruin the pot because of too many concerns!"

And again:

"If you want me to say, it's better to just tell the truth, and save everyone from suspicion!"

When Zhang Shuting heard this, he was also in a dilemma for a while, and he didn't know what to do next.