Chapter 53 Out of the Wine

Seeing Zhang Shuting, he didn't know what to do. Qi Zhankui made up his mind and said:

"That's it, I'll tell the truth to the guys and let them tell it!"

After saying that, go to the front yard and go.

Qi Zhankui didn't say that, Zhang Shuting was just embarrassed, and when he saw Qi Zhankui say this, he left, and he was anxious again.

"Zhan Kui, don't do it!" Zhang Shuting shouted.

Qi Zhankui couldn't help but stand again. But Qi Zhankui stood still, and when he turned around, there was some anger on his face, so he heard him say angrily:

"If we don't tell the truth, how can we explain it to our customers?"

said, and all complained:

"I was going to tell the truth from the beginning, and you were firmly against it. Now that the rumors have risen, if you don't tell the truth, the loss will be great! ”

Zhang Shuting still shook his head and said:

"I'm in a mess right now, it's not too late for me to think about it and make plans."

When Qi Zhankui heard this, he became a little more anxious and said:

"The owner, it's going to be the end of the year now, if you still only care about the Huo family, I'm afraid that in the end, it will be our owner who burns the pot!"

For a while, Zhang Shuting was so worried that there were tears in his eyes, he was afraid that Qi Zhankui would see it, so he pretended to look up at the ceiling, looked at it for a while, shook his head helplessly, and then sighed and said:

"Now that the rumors are rising, even if the truth is told, I'm afraid it won't help."

And again:

"And we can't do that!"

Qi Zhankui was so anxious that he dodged and said:

"Then how can we give an explanation to the patron to settle the matter?"

As he spoke, he looked at Lao Yang and his gang of guys who were busy, and then sighed:

"It's really a wave of unsettled, wave after wave!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something and looked at Zhang Shuting and said:

"The owner, do you see that Zhang Lianqi is making trouble behind his back again?!"

As soon as Zhang Shuting heard this, he also looked at Qi Zhankui, and for a while, the eyes of the two were on one spot. The two of them were stunned for a while, and then they saw Zhang Shuting lower his head, as if talking to himself:

"The grievances of the two families for several generations, their branch always can't look down on the good pot of Runquanyong!"

"Then we will go to the county office to sue him, and accuse him of coercing Huo Jinglin to destroy the cellar pool, forcing people to die, and spreading rumors!" Qi Zhankui said even more angrily.

"There's no real evidence, and it's hard to say anything?!" Zhang Shuting said, "The key is not whether there is anyone behind the ghost, I remember my father said when he was alive, the more times like this, what we do is to make the ghost person have no ghost to do." ”

When Qi Zhankui heard this, he stomped his feet again and said:

"Having said that, the most important thing at the moment is how to convince the old customers that it is a rumor?"

After that, he suddenly found that the owner, who was many years younger than him, was so sad that tears came out. I didn't want to say anything else, so I had to stomp my feet and go back to the store to find a way to go.

In the blink of an eye, winter goes to spring, and it is the spring of the second year. On this day, it is also the day when Lao Yang continued to rewind all the cellars and officially retorted the wine.

Early in the morning, Zhang Shuting came to the retort. When I arrived, Lao Yang was also leading a group of men to clean the venue, and was preparing to start the new cellar.

Seeing that Zhang Shuting was coming, Lao Yang didn't say much, only said, "The owner is here!" "Do what you have to do.

When Zhang Shuting saw Lao Yang say hello, he only nodded and didn't say anything else. However, he couldn't understand in his heart that Lao Yang's mood would not be easier than him at this time.

Then he saw that the four men had taken the shovels and the baskets, and had come to the cellar where the grain had been first entered, and then began to rise again.

Zhang Shuting saw it, and hurriedly followed to the cellar pool. When the first wooden shovel was put into the basket, Zhang Shuting couldn't wait to grab a handful, put it under his nose and smell it, and then put a little more into his mouth and smacked it.

Just as he was smacking carefully, Lao Yang also hurriedly walked over. When I saw Lao Yang coming, he also grabbed a handful of wine paste, sniffed it under his nose, smelled it, and used his hands to hold the wine paste in the palm of his hand.

At this time, seeing that Zhang Shuting was still uneasy and put a little more in his mouth and smacked it, he said loudly:

"Don't worry, the owner, this retort shouldn't be wrong."

Of course, Zhang Shuting also felt it, and he didn't think it could be wrong. But what happened these days has always made him feel a sense of trepidation. So, he smacked it once, still unsure, and replayed it a little more and smacked it in his mouth.

At this time, Lao Yang said with certainty that he still didn't say a word, but he was looking forward to it in his heart, hoping that this first retort would be burned out, so that the stone that had been hanging in his heart for many days would fall to the ground. Because these days, he feels that his nerves are fragile and can no longer withstand any blows.

When the sun showed half of its face in the east, the head was also installed, and at this time, Lao Yang's nervous and loud shout suddenly sounded:

"--Buckle the plate!"

"-- Add water to the heavenly pot!"

"--Chase the fire!"

……

With Lao Yang's shouting, I saw more than a dozen guys jumping up and down, buckling plates, picking up "liuzi", trotting with water, desperately stirring the water in the pot with a thick wooden stick on the heavenly pot, and desperately pulling the bellows like a small house next to the stove, all of them were playing with their lives......

Of course, if you want to talk about a dozen guys, there is no one else, and it is Huo Luomao's three sons, five nephews and three nephews, plus one of Huo Luomao's apprentices.

However, it may be an exaggeration to say that they are playing with their lives, but to say that they are all as nervous as Zhang Shuting and Lao Yang, that is true.

From the cultivation of koji to the cultivation of mud, to the clearing of the pond and the fermentation of the re-fermented pond, many days have passed in the blink of an eye. This is the day they were looking forward to. In other words, in order to save a little face for the Huo family, they all held their breath in their hearts.

Therefore, since Huo Jinglin's accident last year, they returned to the retort for the second time, although they were still eating and living in the backyard of the pot as before, they were all like they had done something unseemly, and rarely talked and laughed with the other guys on the pot. Even on the day of the 28th day of the lunar month last year, Zhang Shuting wanted to pay them wages, but they refused, and Lao Yang refused even more resolutely.

Lao Yang told Zhang Shuting that Lao Huo had been competitive all his life, and before he came, he made his apprentices swear: This time when he comes back, if he can restore the cellar, the Huo family soju team can also consider reoccupying the retort to go to shochu, if it can't be recovered, the Huo family shochu team will be disbanded from then on, and the word "shochu" is no longer allowed to be mentioned.

Therefore, Lao Yang told him that he would definitely not take the salary. This is not only what he meant, but also what Lao Huo meant.

This made Zhang Shuting very moved, although because of Huo Jinglin's trouble, the pot suffered heavy losses. But Zhang Shuting resolutely prevented Qi Zhankui from telling the truth, I am afraid that the main reason is also here.

At this time, looking at the retort next to the cylinder, with the sound of the guy desperately pulling the bellows, and the "whoosh" sound of the guy desperately stirring the water on the heavenly pot, the "Liuzi" first sounded "poof" three times, and then there was a "whoosh" sound, and the wine flowed out.

Guarding the "Liuzi" is Huo Luomao's eldest son, as soon as he saw the wine down, he hurriedly used the "wine chicken" to pick it up, and first sent it to the nose to smell, and then put it in the mouth to taste, tasted, and a little excited to look at the old Yang who was guarding the side, as well as Zhang Shuting, after seeing it, and took a "wine chicken" and handed it to Lao Yang first, Lao Yang took it, and just smelled it, didn't say anything, and handed it to Zhang Shuting again.

Zhang Shuting took over the "wine chicken", and he also smelled and tasted, and after smelling and tasting, his spirit was shocked, to say that this wine not only has the inherent mellow aroma of his pot, but he even faintly smelled and tasted a sweet smell of apples and pears from this wine. This is something that has never been done in his house's pot.

However, seeing that Lao Yang didn't say anything when he heard it, he couldn't help but control the excitement in his heart. Because he couldn't understand that what was being burned now was only a small "stubble job", that is, this retort was only burned to the top layer of the cellar. And the real good wine should be the lower layers of the cellar, or the next few retorts.

But what about the next few retorts? Zhang Shuting didn't have a bottom in his heart.