Chapter 5 Wei Tu visiting Wanhualou
The next morning, Li Han took Lao Li into the city again, bought the head and hooves from Wei Tu, went out and bought several bags of fine wheat flour, 20 catties of coarse salt, 10 buckets of corn, and a wooden barrel of inferior wine, several large clay pots, and small jars, and then returned with a full load.
After returning home, with yesterday's experience, everyone was busy with their own work, and when the meat was cleaned, Li Han instructed Li's mother to make good flour and wait for fermentation, and he went into the house and took out a bottle of high-purity alcohol from his bag and walked out.
As soon as Li Wan saw her son's appearance, she knew that he was going to tinker with something magical again, and immediately followed him into the small kitchen.
Li Han looked helplessly at his mother, who was on the verge of a great enemy, wondering why she, an ancient person, attached so much importance to the awareness of property rights protection?
"Mother, I want to make wine."
"Oh, that's fine, but what are you doing with what you brought?" Li Wan breathed a sigh of relief.
"The concentration of the wine here is too low, and if I want to make good wine, I have to use my stuff as an introduction."
Li Wan immediately became nervous: "Isn't it as good as the refined salt you made?" ”
"Uh...... I guess so. ”
"Mother help you." Li Wan said resolutely.
Li Han said helplessly: "Mother, there will be more good things in our family in the future, if you don't let people help, our mother and daughter will be tired to death." ”
Li Wan thought for a while and said, "They do the rough work, let's get the secret recipe." ”
Li Han looked at the shrewd old lady and agreed with a wry smile.
Lao Li was allowed to come in, and according to Li Han's command, the corn was steamed and packed into clay pots, and then he was driven out of the cans, Li Han poured a little bit of alcohol into each jar, about half of it, and poured the barrel of wine he bought into it one by one, and sealed the jars after the last one.
It takes several days for the wine to be brewed, and in order to hurry up, Li Han deliberately asked Lao Li to put the jar near the pot stove to raise the temperature, and then hide to purify the refined salt, until the meat is cooked.
The tired Li Han lay on the bamboo mat on all fours, making Li Wan feel distressed, and hurriedly held him in his arms to help him pinch his arm.
Li Han suddenly said angrily: "This ground is cold and hard, I sit uncomfortably every day, and I have to hurry up when I am free." ”
Li Wan asked in surprise: "We have all the utensils in our house, what do you want to fight?" ”
"Sofas, rocking chairs, dining tables, chairs." Li Han said without thinking.
Li Wan was completely messy, she didn't understand, and she didn't dare to ask, and the child in her arms became more and more mysterious.
Li Ma came in and said that the dough was fermented, Li Han got up, he originally wanted to make baked cakes, but there was really a lack of ovens, so he thought about it and instructed Li Ma to make a lot of thin dough cakes, wrapped them in many layers of clean linen cloth, kept the softness of the dough, and prepared to sell them with meat.
What made Li Han feel most incredible was that on the edge of the ditch and ditch, there were lush wild onions everywhere, but no one ate them, so he asked Li's mother to go to the edge of the medicine garden and pull out a large bundle, as long as the green onions were washed and peeled, they were brought together.
With yesterday's attempt, the sergeants who tasted the taste waited at the back door in the evening, and sure enough, when they saw that the young man from yesterday was here again, they greeted him with a smile from afar.
Today's sales have a new trick, chopped pork head meat rolled into a Bo cake, with a thick and long clean green onion, ten big money one, it is simply delicious and hungry, with the spicy green onion, neutralize the fat of the meat, the taste is amazing! Many people grabbed the rolled dough and rolled meat and ate it happily, and Li Han's business was very good.
Suddenly, a black-haired man wearing a big crown of martial arts, a golden cicada, a black mink tail on the back, wearing a linen coat, a soap leader, and plain clothes, strode over, with a few entourages around him, and at first glance he was an officer.
When the noisy sergeants saw this person, they all stepped back and stood with their hands down, and some high-ranking sergeants greeted him: "General Liu!" ”
Even though Li Han was bold, as soon as he heard the name of this person, he quickly deduced that this person was the general Liu Li, he didn't know if it was in line with the rules for him to sell cooked meat at the gate of the barracks, if General Liu didn't say a word and pulled him down, he would die in vain, and the snow would not fall in June.
Li Han hurriedly turned his "frightened" face pale, walked over and knelt down tremblingly, and said: "Villain Li Han, I didn't know that the general had arrived, and he deserved to die." ”
Liu Li saw that this child was scared like this, talking strangely and funny, Da Lu smiled and said, "What an interesting child, you get up." ”
Li Han kowtowed and said, "Thank you, General." Standing up, he quickly made a burrito with his hands and feet, handed it over with both hands, and said, "Please try this burrito, the general." ”
Seeing that Liu Li took a bite of the cake and showed a look of surprise and enjoyment, Li Han seized the opportunity and hurriedly said: "The villain is making a living here, has it interfered with the order of the military camp?" If you can't buy and sell here, the villain will leave. ”
Liu Li didn't answer, he finished eating a burrito, grabbed a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth, and then laughed loudly: "I didn't expect your kid to sell so delicious, so good!" Hahaha, if you invite this general to eat meat, how can I still drive you away, as long as you are not a hundred steps close to the camp gate, you are allowed to make a living here. ”
Li Han knelt down again and kowtowed to thank him, but he cursed in his heart, thinking that one day, Lao Tzu would not need to kowtow if he wanted to be on an equal footing with these big people.
Liu Li left happily, Li Han's stall was legal, except for the rain for the next month, he came here every day to sell meat, and there were more people in the military camp of Nuoda, and his twenty pairs of head and hooves were not sold at all, but he knew the truth of hungry sales, and he didn't want to expand processing, so he left after selling out.
That night, Li Han began to work mysteriously again, although the jar of fermented wine was sealed with mud, it could not stop the smell of wine from coming out, which was enough to show that the fermentation was enough.
Li Han instructed Lao Li to pour out the fermented grain in the jar, and there was no press, so he had to pour it on the small stone mill he specially bought and grind it, then filter and clarify the slurry, send Lao Li away according to his mother's wishes, and use the soil distillation technique to purify the liquor pulp again.
The two large jars of puree need to be purified, this is a slow effort, Li Wan and Li Han can't stand it, under Li Han's repeated requests, Li Wan finally let Lao Li swear not to reveal the secret of heaven, and then handed over the work.
After a lot of hard work, the puree was finally purified, Li Han looked at the surprised faces of his mother and Lao Li and his wife, but he smiled bitterly in his heart, because he found that what he made was clearly a burning knife, which was not like words, and it was not comparable to the liquor he drank in modern times, but in the case of lack of tools and resources, it was enough to make this thing, and he was relieved.
If you want to drink it and it is not uncomfortable, this kind of thing should be buried in the ground, wait for a year or two, and settle down the spirit, but where does Li Han have time to wait, he is not a person who is a little rich and peaceful, the attitude of the Ji family makes him always hold his breath, he wants to use his own development to slap the big family in the face, being a meat seller for a lifetime is not his style, this liquor is an important dependence on his development, and it will definitely not be on the market until two years later.
But now Li Han didn't plan to sell it immediately, he decided to temporarily seal these wines, continue to brew, and wait for the New Year to be a hit, he knew that Lu Dao is now using the calendar of the Qin Dynasty, and the tenth month of the lunar calendar is the first month, so there is only one month left.
After the New Year, he didn't plan to continue to set up a stall, but was going to open a shop in the city, at first he planned to open a restaurant, but then he felt a little tired of going around the pot, and he was still thinking about what to do.
Wei Tu was in a good mood these days, because he could steadily sell 20 pigs every day, sell the meat to the barracks, and sell the head and hooves to the little Langjun who was driven out by the Ji family, which greatly reduced the business hours he kept in the shop, and he could close the door at noon, and then walk around the city, and even go to Wanhualou to sit and sit and listen to the singing of the people in the Qing Dynasty.
That afternoon, Wei Tu went to Wanhualou to sit down again, bought wine and snacks, and listened to the song comfortably, when suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder, he turned his head and was startled, and quickly jumped up and said, "Chen Zhuangtou, do you always come to listen to the music?" ”
The thin middle-aged man in the back was full of arrogance, and said condescendingly: "Wei Tu, I heard that you have always had a good business." ”
Tangyi Hou Chen's family has a large manor in Ba, adjacent to Li Han's medicine garden, which is mainly mulberry fields, this man is the head of the manor, this Chen family is unusual, the wife of the head of the family Chen Wu is no one else, but the only biological daughter of the Empress Dowager Dou today, the princess of the pavilion Tao, Liu Yan.
Wei Tu smiled and said: "Thanks to your old blessing, it's not bad, if you need meat in Zhuangzi, you can just give it." ”
Chen Zhuangtou sat down and said, "I want to inquire with you, what is the origin of the family that always buys your head and hooves into the water, why did you live in the Ji Family Medicine Garden?" ”
Only then did Wei Tu know the intention of Chen Zhuangtou, and hurriedly said: "A month ago, a woman helped the coffin to join the Ji family, saying that it was the outer room of the third master of the Ji family, and there was a ten-year-old Xiao Langjun, but the Ji family didn't recognize it. This kid also has backbone, as long as he has the medicine garden, he will stand on his own, and during this time, he always buys the sewer processing in my shop and sells it to the sergeants, and he is indeed a good boy. ”
"Oh, so they have nothing to do with the Ji family?" Chen Zhuangtou asked.
"Yes, the note has been made, and it has nothing to do with it."
"Well, I see." Chen Zhuangtou stood up with a happy face and said, "Wei Tu, I have invited you for your expenses tonight, you continue to listen, I will go first." ”
Seeing Chen Zhuangtou drop a handful of copper coins and leave, Wei Tu was pleasantly surprised and thanked again and again, and only came back after sending it to the door, but he didn't know why Chen Zhuangtou cared so much about Li Han's mother and son.
Chen Zhuangtou went out and got on the horse and returned to the manor, hurriedly entered the door, and said to a man in the main hall: "Eldest prince, I have inquired clearly, the woman you fancy today is the abandoned woman of the Ji family in the city, and she has nothing to do with Bacheng and Chang'an, and their family makes a living by selling cooked meat." ”