Chapter 609: Zixing Wine
This manor probably grows more than 100 kinds of melons, fruits, vegetables, grains and other crops. Among them, the most important one is the millet star, that is, the dazzling star lake outside.
Millet is the world's main food crop, and as for what Millet Star Seed looks like, Ye Qingyu also saw it. The fruiting fruit is ripe millet seed, which is more than 80 centimeters tall, and the leaves are alternate, similar to rice, but it has no ears and the fruit grows alone.
Each plant bears five to ten fruits. Like corn, the fruit grows on the part where the leaf is connected to the stem. The fruit is round, the size of a ping-pong ball, and has a thin layer of peel on the outside.
According to the book, the peel is very nutritious, but the taste is a little astringent. If the taste requirements are relatively high, the peel can be removed and then the next step of processing.
It can be steamed, roasted, boiled, and stir-fried...... Eat like sweet potatoes and potatoes; It can also be ground into flour, like flour made from wheat, to make various pasta; It can also be used to make wine like grapes.
The reason why the corn fruit has become the staple food of this world is not because of its variety and delicious ways to eat, but because it is the most powerful plant of the same size, weight, and year.
And the food and wine made of millet star fruit are even more memorable and praised. Fortunately, Ye Qingyu still found the origin of the Zixing millet liquor made from the millet fruit in this pile of books.
The founder of Zixing Millet Liquor is named Tan Jiu, and he is nicknamed Tan Liquor. As you can tell from the name, this man is a good drinker.
Tan Jiu also claimed that he was an alcoholic and couldn't do without wine all his life. Drink three meals a day. Even between meals, he never drank water, because he drank wine as tea. It can be said that there are twelve hours a day, and the wine gourd never leaves his hand.
Tan Jiu is the only seedling of the Tan family for nine generations, his father named him Tan Jiu, which means precious, and also looks forward to after Tan Jiu is born, his daughter-in-law can give him eight more sons, and Tan Jiu to form nine brothers.
It's a pity that dreams are beautiful, and reality is skinny. Tan Jiu, like his ancestors of the previous generations, is a lone seedling. And the Tan family is a big businessman, you can imagine how good Tan Jiu's life is, and he was born with a golden spoon.
The main business of the Tan family is clothing, but Tan Jiu loves food and has a soft spot for fine wine. In order to satisfy Tan Jiu's hobby, the Tan family found famous chefs from all over the world, and the Tan family also developed the business of the restaurant.
When Tan was nine or five years old, he accidentally entered his own wine cellar, and because of curiosity, he tasted a few sips. It doesn't matter if you taste it, the more you drink it, the more you like it.
By the time his family found Tan Jiu in the underground cellar, he was already very drunk, and he slept for three days.
But since then, Tan Jiu has become obsessed with drinking. Even if it's just a little bit less than the crook of an adult's legs, he has hollowed out his mind and ran into the cellar. After several battles of wits and courage with his family, the family found that after Tan Jiu drank the drink, not only was he fine, but his weak body was much better.
Since then, his family has stopped him either. He even pressed a small bed for him in the wine cellar, so that Tan Jiu could rest after being drunk at any time. And Tan Jiu was also very self-aware, feeling that he had drunk too much, so he climbed into the small bed and fell asleep.
The Tan family is like this, and they respond to Tan Jiu's needs. Fortunately, even if Tan Jiu was spoiled to the sky, he was not raised crookedly.
Tan Jiu likes to drink, so naturally he is also interested in making wine. When he got a little older, he began to think about making wine. At that time, there was already a successful precedent for making wine from millet fruit, but at that time, it was not called Zixing millet wine, but Xingchen wine.
Star wine is for cultivators to replenish and restore the power of the stars. Moreover, at that time, Xingchen wine was not only made from millet star fruit, but also made with other materials, and the taste, texture, and power of the stars contained in it varied.
As Tan Jiu grew up, he began to have a new goal, that is, to improve and brew a better taste, stronger star power, better taste, and more reasonable price. Of course, as the only heir of the Tan family, there is another requirement for the newly developed Xingchen wine, that is, it is more profitable.
With such a goal, the first thing Tan Jiu did was to taste all the fine wines in the world. In the first fifty years of Tan Jiu's life, he tasted almost every drink he could find. In this process, whenever he encounters a good wine recipe, Tan Jiu will do his best to exchange it.
Money, status, Tan Jiu has been used, and sometimes he also uses wine recipes for wine recipes. In short, Tan Jiu did not take it by force, but tried his best to meet the other party's requirements in exchange for the wine recipe.
As for whether it was really not forcible and robbed, Ye Qingyu did not comment. Who knows? Tan Jiu's contribution to Zixing Liquor is irreplaceable, no matter what he is, his descendants will probably not let him have a stain on him.
To get back to the point, it is undeniable that in the process of collecting fine wine and wine recipes, the Tan family's wealth played a vital role.
Tan Jiu said that he had tasted all the fine wines he could find, and it could basically be said that he had all the fine wines in the world, after all, the Tan family's money was there.
After 50 years of searching for fine wines and wine recipes, Tan Jiu spent another 20 years synthesizing, improving and innovating these wine recipes.
In the year when Tan Jiu was seventy-nine years old, the Tan family's first Xingchen wine made from millet fruit was launched, and Tan Jiu named it Zixing millet wine. Since then, Zixing millet has accounted for 80% of the market demand for Xingchen wine.
Moreover, there is not only one formula for Zixing millet wine, not to mention that Tanjia has developed a variety of Zixing millet liquor according to the efficacy, taste, content of the power of the stars, consumer groups, market demand, etc.
It is made by other families, in order to rub the popularity of the Tan family, it is not called Xingchen wine, and it is also generally renamed Zixing millet wine, but their formula is different from the formula of the Tan family's Zixing millet wine. No matter how hot they are, they will not be recognized by consumers.
Because not all distilled spirits made from wheat and sorghum can be called "Moutai".
The Zixing millet wine that we talk about now probably has the same effect as mentioning "Moutai" and "Wuliangye". And Tan Jiu is probably a name even louder than "Old Godmother".
Because in Tan Jiu's next life, he has been improving and innovating Zixing millet wine, he only brews Zixing millet wine, only sells Zixing millet wine, and only drinks Zixing millet wine.
Zixing millet wine can indeed be said to be a major specialty of this world, Zixing millet wine is rich in the power of the stars and is extremely rich, and it is the best resource for cultivators to quickly replenish the power of the stars, which is better than pills.