Chapter 23: The Craft of Winemaking
She moved some new rice to the small courtyard at the back, and asked Zhao Changsheng to invite a master who can make wine to come over, Zhao Yunling asked some questions, paid money, and hired this winemaking uniform to be temporarily responsible for brewing this first batch of wine.
In the courtyard, Zhao Yunling sat opposite the brewing master, and she made tea.
"I've heard that the most important thing in this sake brewing process is to make koji, right?" Zhao Yunling asked.
"In fact, in the brewing process, every small detail may affect the taste of the finished product, and it is necessary to pay strict attention to it, and koji making is indeed very important, but I have some of the previous ones here, so don't worry about it for the time being, this first batch of wine is not much, it is still enough, we use the previous koji first, if it doesn't work in the end, you can remake koji."
Zhao Yunling listened and nodded, she has a certain attainment in wine tasting, if it is in modern times, she has also understood those distillation processes, but in ancient winemaking, those processes are not yet, she really has a lot of things she doesn't understand.
"In that case, wouldn't we be able to start soon?"
"Also looking for a place to make wine, here...... I'm afraid it won't work. ”
"Don't worry, I'll leave this to me, you just have to be ready to make wine at any time." Zhao Yunling smiled.
When she was thinking about this matter before, she asked Zhao Changsheng to pay attention to it, there was a brewing workshop that had closed down for some reasons before, and the workshop was now on sale, she bought it, and it could be put into use with a little preparation.
After preparing these things, he began to prepare for winemaking, Zhao Yunling discussed with the brewing master, and added some modern winemaking technology in the middle, and after thinking about it, the brewing master felt that these could be added, so he agreed.
Zhao Yunling went to the brewing workshop to take a look, and most of the time he was in a state of not being able to intervene, so he came out of it.
Not long after he came out, he saw a faceless master and servant coming over not far away.
Zhao Yunling was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect to meet it at this time.
She smiled and stepped forward, smiling brightly and generously: "Childe, where are you going?" ”
"Miss Zhao." Yueqing greeted from behind, Zhao Yunling nodded, and then continued to look at Rong Yan.
The two of them are also familiar with each other, Rong Yan just saw Zhao Yunling coming out of the brewing workshop, and during this time, he also knew what she was doing from the mouth of the secret guard, looking at her happy appearance now, Rong Yan's eyes dimmed: "What is Miss Zhao doing?" ”
did not answer Zhao Yunling's question, the smile on Zhao Yunling's face deepened, and he didn't delve into it, but said: "I can't say anything about this matter for the time being, but I will know it soon." ”
"Then look forward to Miss Zhao's good news, I still have something to do, take the first step."
Rong Yan nodded lightly, and then left quickly with Yueqing.
Zhao Yunling took two steps back to the side, watching Rong Yan leave with someone for a long time before retracting her gaze, she always felt that Rong Yan was in a hurry just now, as if she had something important to do, she shook her head and turned to leave.
Here, after Rong Yan took Yueqing away, Yueqing said: "Childe, Miss Zhao sent Wang Erquan to the Northern Region before, and our people also followed closely, this person must be related to the time, do you want to ...... directly?"
"No way!"
Rong Yan's eyes were dark, thinking of Zhao Yunling's calm appearance just now, he thought for a while before saying: "That Wang Erquan is what we have determined now, the only person related to the assassination of the royal family, if you do it to him, there is no way to lure out the people behind, for the time being, just ask people to watch carefully, don't let him leave the sight of the secret guard, the rest ...... Don't worry about it for now. ”
"Then this Miss Zhao, Childe, are you still suspicious?" Yueqing said again: "I don't think Miss Zhao looks like it has anything to do with this matter, since we came here, Miss Zhao has been busy with business, as if she is only interested in doing business, this ......"
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like someone who has something to do with such a major event as the assassination of the royal family.
Rong Yan is not sure about himself now.
"Leave that alone, let's go."
Yueqing opened her mouth, and said in her heart, Do you doubt it or not, but to say something, others gave a silver ingot before and guarded it so much, Childe has never been so kind to any woman before, where does this look like suspicion, it clearly seems to have fallen in love with someone?
But Yueqing didn't dare to say this, so she had to keep up with Rong Yan's footsteps silently.
After Zhao Yunling returned to the rice shop, she happened to see Zhao Changsheng, she thought about it and asked a few words: "Uncle Zhao, did you know Rong Yan before?"
Uncle Zhao was stunned: "I don't know, what is the young lady asking for?" ”
"It's nothing, just ask, this person has helped me twice, so I'm just a little curious, you go and get busy."
Zhao Yunling quickly came back to his senses, and only after watching Zhao Changsheng leave, did he frown.
After a month, the first wines were ready to be opened.
This month, Zhao Yunling had to go to the wine shop almost every day to have a look, and it passed early in the morning on this day.
As soon as she entered, she saw that the workers of the winery were already busy, she went directly inside, found the brewing master, and said with a smile: "I said that I can open the cellar today, I can't help but come over now." ”
"Miss came at the right time, let's come together." The brewing master smiled, during this time he also understood that this Miss Zhao has some experience in winemaking, this batch of wine is a little different from the previous brewing methods, there are many novel ideas that Miss Zhao came up with, he feels that with these novel ideas, the wine will definitely be better.
"Okay."
Zhao Yunling followed and went over, and saw the workers transporting the sealed wine out one by one, and Cuizhu next to her handed over a wine utensil, the first jar of wine in Kaifeng, she tasted it, and then her eyes lit up.
"Master, you taste."
She handed it over, and the brewmaster tasted it, and said excitedly: "This wine has a sweet aftertaste, and it has a fresh fragrance, which is much better than the same wine sold on the market." ”
Zhao Yunling smiled, looking at the wine piled up in front of him, he felt that these would definitely be able to sell well, although there was no complete manufacturing process like modern times, but there were some key points that could be changed, and it was better than the current winemaking technology, plus the winemaking master she invited was really a treasure, and he had mastered a lot of winemaking skills, so that the wine tasted sweet, and it must be better to sell.
"Originally, I thought that we were just trying this first batch of wine, and maybe we would fail."
Zhao Yunling stood up, went inside with the winemaker, and when he saw the cautious appearance of the workers, he couldn't help but say, "Now it seems that we can brew the next batch of wine." ”
"I think so too, didn't Miss Zhao say last time that there was an idea that was not added when she made wine before? You can also add it this time, I think the methods that Miss came up with are all good, even if it is wrong, it doesn't matter. We didn't add all of the second batch of wines. ”
"It's fine." Zhao Yunling nodded.
After sitting down, Zhao Yunling called Cuizhu: "You go and ask the workers to open two jars of wine, just say that they have worked hard, and you should taste what you brew yourself, and then bring two jars over." ”
"Yes."
Cuizhu responded excitedly, turned around and went outside, but after a while, the excited voices of the workers came from the courtyard outside, and the winemaker smiled, looked at Zhao Yunling and said, "Miss is actually a lover of wine." “
"I can't talk about loving wine, but it's true that I like to taste wine, I don't have much of the real winemaking process, and I still have to count on you to help me more in the future, you can rest assured, this treatment will definitely not treat you badly."
"I'm old, but I don't care about these, it's just that I have a brewing method that I came up with many years ago, but the previous owner was afraid of losing money and didn't allow me to use such a method, and now I see that Miss dares to use some methods that have not been used, I don't know ......."
"Can I take a look?" Zhao Yunling pondered.
Although she believes in the people she invited, she can't just agree without asking, so it's hard to clean up any problems in the future.
Zhao Yunling took it and looked at it, it was to add some fresh elements to the traditional winemaking process, she only looked at it a few times, and there was no big problem, so she said: "Naturally, you can try it first." ”
"It's good that Miss agrees."
At this time, Cuizhu brought the wine, Zhao Yunling sent a jar to the winemaker, and the rest was ready to be brought back to drink.
Before leaving, I told that someone would come over later, and there was no place for the time being, so I could only get the rice shop first, and it happened that these wines were made from new rice, and it was okay to sell them in the wine recipe for the time being.
After returning to the rice shop, Zhao Yunling looked at the person sitting inside in surprise, squinted, took the wine jar in Cuizhu's hand, and walked over there to sit down: "Why are you here?" ”
"How can we say that it is also a cooperative relationship, you have been mixed up during this time, in a short period of time, there are a lot of businesses solicited, can't I come to take a look?" Yue Xiao's tone seemed to be carrying gunpowder, and the thought that Gongzi was so sad about the down-and-out Hu in such a small place made her feel uncomfortable.
But Yueqing warned her that they were just Childe's guards, and they only needed to do what Childe wanted, and Childe seemed to be very talkative on weekdays, but ...... Nor did they dare to transgress it.
But if she comes to find trouble like this, as long as she doesn't say it, how can Childe know?
"Miss Yue can naturally come and take a look, but we are cooperating with the business of the rice shop, as long as there is no problem on it, no matter what I do, it seems to have nothing to do with you, besides, ......"