Chapter Seventy-Four: Wine
Thinking of Yunzhu, he naturally wanted to do it, and found a noon when he and Ning Lin were idle, Yunzhu dragged Ning Lin up the mountain with him.
"Zhu'er, the grapes on the mountain are sour to death, what can you do when you get them back?" Carrying the basket on his back, Ning Lin asked puzzled.
Although there were no snacks at this time, so many children relied on eating some wild fruits on the mountain to satisfy their appetites, but Ning Lin still didn't like the grapes on the mountain, and he felt sour.
"Take it back and make some fruit wine and drink it during the New Year." Yunzhu smiled and spoke, speaking of which, she still likes the mountain grapes very much, when she was a child in her previous life, the mountain grapes were one of the snacks, although they usually eat very sour, but the taste is very positive, and after being beaten by frost, it will be sweet.
"Can mountain grapes still make wine? I've never heard of it! Ning Lin couldn't help but be a little surprised, "Zhu'er, is the fruit wine you said delicious?" ”
"I don't know, try it, wouldn't it be better if it tasted good?" Yunzhu smiled and spoke, in her previous life, she had learned how to make wine from her grandmother, but now that many years have passed, she can only remember the general steps, so she really doesn't know if she can make it delicious.
Because it is busy farming now, there is almost no time for adults and children in the village to go up the mountain, and Yunzhu and Ning Lin have no land at home, so they don't need to worry about harvesting, just play casually.
The mountains and forests in autumn are particularly beautiful, and the red and yellow leaves can be seen everywhere, which is the favorite season of Yunzhu.
"Brother Ning Lin, you go over there, I'll go this way, let's both don't go too far, just shout when we go!" After explaining to Ning Lin, the two of them chose a direction one by one, there are a lot of mountain grape trellises nearby, Yun Zhu estimated, even if the two of them picked all the back baskets, they might not be able to pick all the mountain grapes in the mountains.
Picking a bunch of mountain grapes casually, Yunzhu threw one and put it in his mouth, "Hmm, it's so sour!" ”
Put the rest of the mountain grapes into the back basket, because the mountain grapes are afraid of pressure, so every bunch of cloud beads picked, they will be carefully placed in the back basket.
"Pearl!" After picking for a while, Ning Lin's voice came, and Yunzhu hurriedly responded, and then continued to pick mountain grapes.
It took two hours for the two of them to fill their respective back baskets, and because Yunzhu was a girl, the back basket was smaller than Ning Lin's.
The two sat and rested for a while, and then went down the mountain with the basket on their backs.
When he got home, Yunzhu saw that it was still early, so he carefully poured out the grapes in the two baskets, picked out the green and damaged ones, and left the good mountain grapes.
Finding a larger basin of water, Yunzhu put all the mountain grapes in it, then put some flour in it, and began to stir it with his hands.
This is in the previous life, Yunzhu learned from the computer, but I didn't expect to use it now.
After pouring muddy water several times, the mountain grapes were finally washed, Yunzhu found an unused jar, washed his hands, crushed all the grapes with his hands, and then put them into the jar, because he still had to ferment, so Yunzhu only filled the jar half full, and then changed the jar.
This is done for the sake of fermentation, and the second is to avoid all the failures, divide a few more jars, and if there is a success, then you can also have it yourself.
After everything was done, Yun Zhu heard Yun beckoning her to eat, she answered, moved the jars to the house, and waited for the next step after eating.
"Mother, is there still yeast at home?" When I thought of my previous life, wine with yeast was better than without yeast, Yun Zhu asked Xiang Yun.
"Yeast? Yes, yes, but not much. After all, the family doesn't always eat steamed buns, so the Yun family didn't prepare too much yeast, and when she heard Yun Zhu ask her, the Yun family couldn't help but be a little strange, "What do you want yeast for?" I see that you got a lot of mountain grapes back today, what are you going to get here? ”
"Get fruit wine, so when the New Year is celebrated, let's drink some wine and celebrate!" Yun Zhu opened his mouth with a smile, hearing her say this, Yun Shi shook his head helplessly, "Whatever you want, it's hard for you Brother Ning Lin, who follows you here and there all day long." ”
Yun said this, Yun Zhu smiled, and stopped talking, indeed, because of himself, Ning Lin is really hard every day. These cloud beads are all in my heart.
Because it takes time to ferment wine, after eating, Yunzhu wandered around the yard, looking at the piglets for a while, and the chickens, ducks and geese for a while, making the yard uneasy.
Yun looked at the lively Yun Zhu, a smile appeared on his face, he was injured twice before, Yun Zhu's body was obviously not as good as in the past, and now seeing her like this, Yun Shi's heart can also be relieved a lot.
After waiting for nearly two hours, Yunzhu took out the yeast at home, dissolved it with sugar, and poured it into each jar.
After everything was done, Yunzhu felt a little tired, she fetched hot water, washed up, and then went back to the house to sleep, and the next steps will not be until tomorrow.
After a night of nothing, the next morning after selling tofu home, Yun Zhu continued to tinker with his wine, Ning Lin watched from the side, watching Yun Zhu turn upside down and transfer it, he felt extremely troublesome.
"Although it is troublesome, if it really happens, we will have a good fortune during the New Year!" Yunzhu smiled, he didn't feel hard, although there are many steps to make wine, but this is the beginning, and the next few days are the most troublesome time.
After a few days of hard work, Yun Zhu counted the time, and every time four hours passed, Yun Zhu would go to see her jars of wine, not to mention Ning Lin, Ning Yi and Yun Shi both felt troublesome, but Yun Zhu himself was not troublesome, and the three of them had to care.
Finally, it was time to seal and ferment, after that, Yunzhu could have been idle for a few days, but she was worried about the purchase of soybeans, so after going to the Yun family, she found Ning Lin again, went around her village and the surrounding villages, and recovered nearly two thousand catties of soybeans.
"Zhu'er, you got so many soybeans back, can we use them up?" Looking at the full warehouse, Yun asked a little puzzled.
"Mother, if you can't use it up this year, you can use it next year, and if you can't use it up next year, the year after tomorrow, as long as the soybeans are well preserved, sooner or later they will be used up." Yunzhu thought about it carefully, the imperial court only exempted three years of taxes, that is to say, after three years, the imperial court will re-levy taxes, in this way, if you want to buy soybeans next year, it will definitely not be as easy as now, not only that, this year's prices have risen a lot compared to last year, you can imagine what it will be like next year.
Yun knew that Yun Zhu was a child with ideas, and since she said it was okay, there must be no big problem.
In the next few days, Yunzhu was busy making wine and making new soy products, and tofu was not difficult to make, so some people in the village had already started making their own tofu, and Yunzhu pondered processing tofu into dried tofu and dried tofu, so that he could make more money by selling tofu.
It would be nice if he had a house in the town, Yunzhu thought to himself, in this way, he could sell the tofu to the town.
With this idea, Yunzhu became more and more determined to make money, because only by making more money could he buy a house in the town.
"Mother, when the Chinese New Year comes, calculate the money we make this year, if it is enough, let's buy a piece of land in the village next year, right?"
Yunzhu thought about it, if he had his own land, it would be convenient to grow something to eat, and the land in this village could not only grow soybeans, maybe he could consider something else.
Yun Zhu said this, the Yun family was naturally supportive, and after discussing it for a long time, the mother and daughter thought about waiting for next year to open a piece of land at the back of the yard, so that the family could also plant some carob eggplants or something like Ning Yi's family.
On this day, when Yunzhu went to the town, he specially ordered two large wooden barrels, and on the way back, Ning Lin looked at the big wooden barrels on the donkey cart and asked her a little puzzled, "Zhu'er, what are you using with this big wooden barrel?" How do you see you making weird things in a day? ”
"Hehe, Brother Ning Lin, you don't know this, this big wooden barrel is very useful, am I not making wine? These barrels are used to ferment wine. Now that the wine is ready to be aged in wooden barrels, Su Qin is vaguely looking forward to it, hoping to drink delicious wine during the Chinese New Year.
"You're so particular about this wine, I don't know if it's good or not." Ning Lin was a little smacked after hearing this, these days, he has watched Yun Zhu busy every day, and he feels tired for Yun Zhu.
"Hehe, we'll know when the time comes." Although Yun Zhu didn't know the bottom of her heart, she still smiled and replied.
When he got home, Yunzhu carefully cleaned the custom-made wooden barrel, speaking of which, this wooden barrel is not an ordinary wooden barrel, but made of oak, you know, this oak barrel is the best thing for aging.
The wine business is over, it is already October, the weather is gradually getting cooler, and the clouds have changed from summer clothes to autumn clothes.
Xu was injured last year, Yunzhu felt that his physique this year was obviously not as good as last year's, and it had just rained a few times in autumn, and he was going to wear autumn clothes.
When he said it to the Yun family, the Yun family smiled and said that he wanted to ask Ning Yi for some medicinal food recipes to replenish his body, and take advantage of the winter to make up for Yun Zhu, and Yun Zhu couldn't help but shake his head when he listened.
From last year's injury to this year's injury, Yunzhu's tonic has been eaten by many people, and now as soon as she hears the word tonic, she feels that her brain hurts.
Looking at Yunzhu's appearance, Yun couldn't help but smile, waiting for the Chinese New Year, Yunzhu will be ten years old, and she will be a big girl by then.