Chapter 3 Winemaking
Drew peeked out the door to make sure that Aya wasn't frantic and ran out of the village. Confirming that no one around notices him, he starts parkour in the forest. This is a skill that Drew learned after falling for an unknown number of bird gnaws, and it is a skill that every elven archer must learn in the world of Fett, and of course he has never used it in front of everyone in the village.
After running for a while, Drew came to a small clearing to the northwest of the village, the only place in the surrounding forest where few villagers passed by, and a secret base that Drew had developed himself. A few steps further north will lead to the cave where Drew had secretly hidden, the cave where Drew used to pray to the goddess. And on the big tree next to the cave, Drew also built a small cabin, after all, there is no sunlight in the cave, and it is also very good to bask in the cabin when the weather is good.
Drew took out his own bow and arrows, staff, and sword from the cabin and practiced them in the clearing. So far, Drew's archery, magic, and swordsmanship have been practiced here, although a few years ago Drew would often sneak here at night. Since the age of 50, that is, after various aptitude tests, Drew's family has not taken care of Drew, as long as he goes home for dinner at night, he will not care too much about what Ddrew does, so Drew's time to stay up late has also decreased a lot. After all, in their eyes, Drew is his own child even if he doesn't have any talent. It's crazy for kids to play, isn't it?
After three hours, Drew had a cursory review of the magic, bows, spells, and swordsmanship, and put down the wooden sword. At this time, Drew realized that there were two more moonbladed leopards in the clearing.
The Moonblade Leopard Kletta family was met by Drew 6 years ago, as the darling of the moon god, they are one of the kings of this forest, they are up to the platinum level of magical beasts, it is said that they used to be the magic pets of an elf mage in his old age, and when the mage died, they came to this forest. In a chance situation, they were slightly injured and found that Drew was practicing magic skills, and the moonbladed leopard, with its extremely high intelligence and language ability, certainly did not stupidly miss this free labor and used his healing ability to carry the injury. After that, the story is simple, the often injured Moonblade Leopard will run to Drew to heal his wounds, and Drew also has two more "test subjects" to brush up on healing magic experience.
But today they didn't come to Drew for treatment, they were called by Drew to help today.
"Dead boy, we're very busy, not like you waste, who is an idle elf." Thunderblade Kleta, also known as the male Moonblade Leopard, teased at Drew. As platinum-level Warcraft, their wisdom is no different from that of adults, and as high-level Warcraft, their platinum-level is not their end, but this thing is a bit poisonous.
"I called you here today to ask you to help me gather some fruit. The apples, oranges, peaches, and other fruits are ripe now, and I'd like you to help you collect more. Drew was accustomed to Thunderblade's poisonous cannon, and directly said his request. After all, we have been cooperating for more than 6 years, and the relationship between them is still very harmonious.
"You want to make wine?" Nightblade Kleta said, licking her mouth. As partners, they have been collecting fruit for Drew for 4 years. After each collection, they will receive a portion of the Drew's brewed wine as a reward. This wine made the Kletta family hungry. They used to say that even the wine of the Elven Court was not as good as that made by Drew.
That's of course, Drew has been making wine for 20 years. Ever since he could sneak out of his home, Drew started making wine and stored it in his secret cave. Of course, the early brewing process was very bad: the first was the lack of materials, and as a child and all kinds of sealed Drew, even if he ran around for half a day, he couldn't collect too many fruits. The second is that as mentioned earlier, the 90-level chef skill did not allow Drew to produce fruit wine at the speed of the assembly line all at once, and the skill was that Drew often used a strange feeling to mix ingredients or control the heat, so as to greatly reduce the failure rate, and the quality of the finished product increased, but before success, he had to explore or learn from the experience of others, and even if he mastered the manufacturing method, he would fail due to lack of concentration, etc., and Drew also found that this was common to all sub-professions. Drew thinks this is the reason why there is no finished Pokédex in the game system in reality. Therefore, in the first 4 years, Drew winemaking was not successful, and the production was not much after success. It wasn't until the Kleita family started helping out that Drew's treasure rose at rocket speed.
Don't talk nonsense, after collecting the fruit, looking at the busy Drew, Lei Jian glanced at his wife, and after eye contact, he opened the labor fee in his mind: "Look, Drew, we are also old friends, and we can't make too much wine without our help." How about giving us half of the wine this year? Anyway, I found out that you can't drink too much, just store it in a cave. Isn't it a waste to just leave it like that? How good is it for us to drink? ”
Ever since they were seduced by the rich aroma of wine and drank Drew's fruit wine, Thunderblade and Nightblade swore that they could be vegetarian and convert to Bacchus, because Drew's wine was so delicious! In the winter of recent years, when other animals and monsters were shivering in the cold wind, the Kleita family would often drink a few sips of extremely delicious wine, hunt with the strength of the wine, and then run to Drew with the prey to eat barbecue. In the process of collecting fruits, Kleta's family worked very hard. Of course, Thunderblade, who had already turned into a drunkard, did not hesitate to open his mouth to Drew.
"You're fraud, fraud, blackmail! You are the noble Moonblade Leopard, the darling of the Moon God! Not the greenskinned goblin bandits in the burrows! It's not a greedy yellow-skinned goblin! Do you know how much gold I can exchange for a barrel of fine wine? Did you know that after the vintage, the fruit wine will be upgraded? Green to blue? And the wine I give you every year is at least green quality, and you are too embarrassed to ask for half of it? Up to 2 barrels! No counteroffer!! Drew pushed back the thunder blade with a gesture of non-violence and non-cooperation.
Drew's wine is based on the idea of monkey brewing through the previous world, plus the various means of the previous life, as well as the craftsmanship of a 90-level chef and 20 years of brewing experience, after secretly drinking the gray quality wine of the winemaker who boasted in the village that he was the most delicious winemaker within a hundred miles, Drew felt that the current level of winemaking in the entire Ella continent was not high, and there was no means to improve the quality of the wine such as sake lees and distillation. Drew knew that if his assumptions weren't wrong, a wine of higher quality than green would have a terrible value.
"Who would buy your little P's wine? It's polite not to rob you, be careful that we kill all the treasures in your cave! You can't guard your cave every day, can you? Or hand over the information of the wine to the Elven royal family or the Moon Temple in the Elven King City, and maybe give us a few more barrels for the sake of our report, and our poor Drew Boy will become a professional elf in winemaking from now on. ”
Thunderblade and Nightblade, of course, were very unhappy with their labor costs, which were only a pitiful 2 barrels of cider. It's simply not enough for them to drink until spring! So everyone understands that after the "bargaining" of "law-abiding" (you are a threat!) Intimidate! Robbery! There is no dignity or pride in terms of kidnapping! Drew cursed wildly. After that, the labor fee was set at a quarter of the quantity, plus 1 barrel of wine had to be guaranteed to be of blue quality. Although Thunderblade and Nightblade didn't know the meaning of gray, white, green, blue, purple, and other qualities in Drew's mouth, they had mouths, and after drinking them, they knew that the blue quality wine in Drew's mouth was much better than green and white.
It was useless to cry, and Drew could only obediently agree to the blackmail of these two terrorists, the platinum-level monsters. Who called them so high? (System display: Thunder Blade Level 63 Moon Blade Leopard, Platinum Level 4; Nightblade Level 61 Moonblade Leopard, Platinum Level 2. Greeting the ancestors of the Kleita family, at most the Black Iron Drew continues his coolie path.
And so, after a month of brewing. Drew found that 2 of the 23 barrels of cider and 3 barrels of beer he brewed this year had failed. scolded the ineffective golden finger as usual, and paid the labor fee of the Kleita family - 6 barrels of fruit wine. After confirming that the Kleita family walked away satisfied, Drew flipped through the system prompts and smiled happily.
For the first time this year, Drew made a cask of purple quality wine! The purple quality is the first of the fruit wines named by Drew to appear in 100 fruit wines!
Including this year's wine, Drew already has 78 barrels of fruit wine of various qualities and 4 barrels of white quality beers.