Chapter 82: Distilled Spirits

When the Li County Order Office was completed, he called the maid who came to serve and replaced the official uniform on his body with the robe he usually wears.

After getting dressed, he stepped out of the room, and as he walked, he asked, "Where's Childe?" Still reading in the study? ”

"Childe is out."

"Out?" Li Xianling frowned, this is not a good time to go out and play, the thief suddenly appeared, but none of the group of wine bags and rice bags were caught, and the people outside were panicked and very dangerous, "Where did he go?" ”

"Childe said that he wanted to go out for a walk, and he wouldn't let the scholar follow."

"Go and get Childe back."

"Yes."

But after a while, Li Chao was taken to the side room, which is the place of the family banquet, and there is a table inside, on which some melons and fruits, snacks and food are placed, and the food is mainly vegetables.

At the table, Li Xianling had already sat down.

Li Chao glanced at him, his mouth squirmed, hesitated for a while, but still shouted 'father', and then sat under the head of Li County's order, without saying a word.

Li Xianling frowned, "You went out today?" ”

"Hmm."

"Don't just go out in the future."

"Hmm."

The atmosphere was awkward for a while, Li Chao didn't know how to face this person he should call 'father', he took up someone's body, and it was natural to shout 'father' on behalf of others, but he just felt awkward.

So he could only eat one bite at a time, without saying a word.

Li Xianling looked at his son, thought for a while, and said, "Today, there are officials who come to report, and there are rebels in the market, but those rebels fled quickly and hid in the blink of an eye, I suspect that they are plotting to rebel, so don't go out during this time." ”

"Hmm." Li Chao responded absentmindedly, a traitor? Isn't it those reincarnators, they are plotting a rebellion, but not here, but in Qiongzhou.

"And."

Li Xianling paused for a moment, and then said, "I have asked people to pack up their things, if there is really a rebel rebellion and I can't suppress it, you will escape through the side door with your things and flee to your hometown of Dongxian to join your uncle." ”

"Hmm."

Li Xianling's brows furrowed even more, he stared at his son, wanting to see something he wanted to see, but after looking at it for a while, he didn't see it, so he could only give up, "How are you doing your homework?" ”

Since he was a child, he has high expectations for his son, and invited the best master in the county to teach, but because his son's qualifications are average, he can only strictly supervise him.

"I'm done."

"That's good."

Li Xianling nodded with satisfaction, and then advised, "You can't fall behind in your homework, you don't want your father to be the top student in high school, but at least you have to be a lifter, and only a lifter can keep this family business after your father's absence." ”

Li Chao lowered his eyes, and with an 'um' sound in his mouth, he saw all the fatherly heart of Li County Order, but these were destined to only get a perfunctory response, he couldn't go to the Bagu Wen, not to mention that he was ready to rebel, even if he wasn't ready to rebel, he wouldn't go to the Bagu Wen.

Eight strands and eight strands, the Manchu wild boar used to castrate the bloody nature of the Chinese literati, this kind of article, whoever likes to write it, he doesn't write it anyway.

After the family banquet, Li Xianling left the side room, Li Chao also heeled out, he called a subordinate, asked him to find three carpenters, and then opened the door to let Ma Jun and Hu Meng in, he pointed to Ma Jun and said to the three carpenters: "From today on, you will follow his orders to make some utensils." ”

"What utensils?" A carpenter asked.

"Distillation equipment."

"Distillation equipment?"

Several carpenters glanced at each other, and they were a little confused, "What's that?" ”

"A tool, a tool for making distilled spirits." Ma Jun took out a few drawings and said, "This is the steamer, this is the cooler......." ”

"Steamer?" Several craftsmen looked at the design drawings carefully, and they were even more puzzled, "Isn't that distilled flower dew?" But it's not the same as the drawings. ”

"This is what I improved, and you made it according to it."

"Okay!"

A few carpenters answered, and did according to the division of labor on the drawings, although they did not understand what it was for, why the steamer on the drawing was different from the steamer used in the distillation dew, but it did not prevent them from starting work, and in just one night, all the tools on the drawings were completed.

After it was made, Ma Jun poured the prepared rice wine into the steamer with a black circle of bags, lit the fire, and after a while, a large amount of steam came up, and then it was cold and condensed in the cooler, and a strong aroma of wine wafted out, and after a while, the whole yard wafted out of the aroma of wine.

Hu Meng poked his nose, sniffed, and took a greedy breath of wine, "What a fragrant wine." ”

"The best is yet to come."

Ma Jun excitedly carried out the second distillation, "In fact, as early as the Tang Dynasty, there were distilled spirits, but the distilled spirits at that time were called soju...... The lychee is newly ripe and the cockscomb is colored, and the soju is amber at the beginning. ”

"However, the degree of soju is very low, even in the Song Dynasty, the degree is still low, so there is a good talk that Wu Song can kill a tiger by drinking eighteen bowls in a row, but our wine is different, our wine adopts the method of multiple distillation, and the degree of the wine is raised to the ancient ...... It was unimaginable to people in the past, and it was really three bowls that could not be served. ”

"If Wu Song comes to drink our wine, let alone eighteen bowls, I will guarantee that he will be drunk to death on the spot if he drinks ten bowls."

After the second distillation, the aroma of the wine became stronger, but Ma Jun was not in a hurry, he still carried out three distillations and four distillations in an orderly manner, and when the degree of the wine was close to that of liquor, he stopped, tasted it shallowly, and nodded with satisfaction, "Three bowls are not enough, and the real three bowls are not enough." ”

Hu Meng also came up and tasted it, and then nodded with satisfaction, "This wine is called three bowls, but it's just right, you can rub off on some fame." ”

"By the way, Ma Jun, do you know how to make red wine? Sooner or later, we have to trade in the seas, and wine can be our main commodity. ”

"Red wine needs grapes."

"I can fix it."

"No problem."

Li Chao looked at Ma Jun and Hu Meng, and was happy, it was comfortable for someone to do things under his hands, and he didn't have to do it himself, he just had to give orders.

After a little fluctuating mood, he smiled and said, "Ma Jun, congratulations on making a high number of liquor...... Hu Meng, it's up to you next. ”

"Don't worry." Hu Meng patted his chest and said, "I will never let you down." ”