Early the next morning, after Xu Zheng prepared food for Lulu and the hairballs that had been hiding in his hair, he immediately began to make wine.

The front foot just stepped out of the door, and was about to consolidate and practice the Heavenly Dao technique before starting to work, when he raised his eyes and saw a group of people in the courtyard, he couldn't help but be startled. When I looked closely, there were not only the big class and the small class, Angel, Luki, Aunt Lucina, the grandfather and grandson of Lao Banga, but even Uncle Carlo, and all the people Xu Zheng knew after coming out of the vast forest were all there!

Lao Bangjia led Xiao Bangxiao, not only brought many wine tanks, but even did the cleaning of the wine tanks, waiting for Xu Zheng to start work.

Xu Zheng's eyes swept over everyone's heads, fell on Carlo, and said, "Uncle Carlo, why are you here too?"

Carlo laughed, "I heard that you were going to make wine, so how could I not come and take a look." ”

Xu Zheng turned his head to look at the wine vat brought by Lao Banga. Scared, good guys, piled up one on top of the other.

Xu Zheng said depressedly: "Grandpa Banga, how many have you brought?"

Lao Banga said: "No more, no less, exactly 100." Don't you think it's enough? Little Banga, help Grandpa run and tell the butler—"

"Enough, enough!" Xu Zheng said busily. 100 is not enough, think he is a sake brewery?

Seeing that Xu Zheng was still dragging there, Lao Bang hurriedly said: "Don't you want to make wine, do it quickly." ”

Xu Zheng smiled and moved the raw materials out and piled them up in the yard with the big class and the small class.

The actual raw materials purchased were several more than those selected by Xu Zheng yesterday, including citrus, red grapes, honey, barley, corn, peas, wheat bran, sugar, eggs, and a few black bananas. Angel smiled, "This is all bought according to the list you gave." We compared it based on what you said, and citrus is indeed much cheaper than apples in this season, so we replaced apples with citrus. Anyway, you also said that you want others to see how real citrus wine should be made. You said you didn't need the fatty pork now, so you didn't buy it. ”

When he saw these things, especially the barley, eggs, and peas, and especially the rotten bananas that were lying on the ground like a few poops, the old Banga's expression was the same as that of yesterday's small class, and it was really brilliant. Lao Banga endured it for a long time, and finally couldn't help but say: "These are all raw materials used to make wine? But even if you're making wine, I'm sure you can make good wine out of it. But...... I don't really see any use for anything else. ”

Xu Zheng smiled and said, "It's all useful." Don't worry, just take your time. He raised his head and shouted, "Hey, I can't do it alone, everyone can help." ”

Lucina's courtyard soon became lively, with the Nursery and Junior classes assigned to the washing, peeling, pitting, and juicing of the citrus. Lucina and Lucie are assigned to deal with the less labor-intensive grapes. The barley was divided into two parts, and the larger part was taken by Ingres and watered to make it germinate. The smaller part was given to Carlo along with the corn and peas. At the same time, the wheat bran was also divided into two parts, one for He Carlo, and the other for Xu Zheng himself. Since Lao Bangjia is the one with the most experience in making wine here besides Xu Zheng, he was assigned by Xu Zheng to guide everyone to do the processing work on the spot, and visit the whole wine process by the way.

The work of the large and small classes is relatively simple, first wash the citrus, peel off the skin, remove the core, and then squeeze it into juice under the guidance of Lao Banga, and then filter out the dregs to make the original juice for later use. After these few steps, Xu Zheng got three jars of citrus juice.

Lucina and Lucie's job is simple: wash the grapes, crush them, remove the stems and pour them directly into the vat. Since it is a red wine, the juice extraction step is omitted. At first, Lucy found it interesting to do this work, pinching the grapes one by one with her fingers, and when she got impatient, she grabbed a handful of grapes with each hand and pinched them fiercely, and then replaced the next one with a small pinch. Xu Zheng watched from the sidelines, only feeling that his forehead was beating with blue tendons, and he deeply felt that this violent girl was really suitable for the profession of a warrior.

Carlo's job was also simple, Xu Zheng asked him to crush the dry hard barley, corn, and peas handed to him. Without saying a word, Carlo found a sturdy iron tool, and then picked up his sledgehammer with one hand and slammed it straight away.

Ingres' job was the easiest, he found a jar of barley grains to pour in, and he didn't know what to do when he put water in it. After shaking his head from side to side for a long time, he ran to Xu Zheng's side to see the work of Xu Zheng and Xiao Bangjia.

The honey bought by Taipan Xu Zheng didn't know much about the flowers and plants of the other world, so he couldn't tell what kind of honey it was, so Xu Zheng used the most conventional method. There are about 50 catties of bee dense, Xu Zheng and Xiao Bangjia directly mix it with water according to the one-to-one example, and remove the slag and impurities for later use.

At this time, Lao Bangjia also came to see the work of Xu Zheng and Xiao Banga. Xu Zheng, together with Lao Bangjia, Angel, and Xiao Bangjia, sprayed all the mixed dense juice on the wheat bran, and the four of them worked together to stir it evenly.

At this time, the preliminary processing of the raw material has been completed. Xu Zheng asked Lucina to take the mixture of wheat bran and Kalohi's hammered mixture to steam.

Seeing that Lucina and Carlo were busy with their own work. Xu Zheng walked over to Luki, who was still pinching the grapes fiercely. With just one glance at the grapes in the vat, Xu Zheng had to admire the majesty of Lu Qi, a fierce girl. When Lucina left, there was only one vat of treated grapes. And in a short period of time, this energetic girl was not ladylike and ruthless, and she crushed two jars of grapes alone. Looking at the miserable situation of the grapes in the vat, Xu Zheng kept reminding himself that he should not mess with Luqi if he had nothing to do in the future. This girl is not a vegetarian at first glance......

Smiling dryly and praising the fruits of Luki's labor, Xu Zheng selected a large one from several rotten bananas, mashed them into a puree, divided them into three portions and put them into three jars, and stirred them well.

Lao Bangjia looked at Xu Zheng's movements, and couldn't help but ask, "What's the use of this thing? Could it be that rotten bananas can make wine taste better?"

Xu Zheng smiled: "Yes and no." ”

Old Banga confused him, and asked, "Is it or not?"

Xu Zheng explained: "Because of the large amount of glucose, the fermentation process is prone to miscellaneous flavors. And there is a substance in rotten bananas that controls this process, and when it is added, the taste of the wine will be purer. However, the amount must not be too much, rotten bananas are weakly toxic. Xu Zheng can only explain it this way, he can't say that in fact, rotten bananas contain sulfur dioxide, and if used in small amounts, it can inhibit the harmful yeast produced in the fermentation process of wine, right?

Old Banga nodded half-understandingly, but remembered how a little rotten banana could make a sugary liquor taste better. I can't help but admire Xu Zheng even more. It turns out that rotten bananas that are waste can also be used in this way......

Then, Xu Zheng was the wine mother of the wine, and at the same time let Lao Bangjia take a closer look. He found some high-quality grapes that had escaped Luci's poisonous hands, scraped off the hoarfrost on the skin of the grapes, squeezed the juice, added sugar to the grape juice in a ratio of 1:4, filled several bowls of the filtered grape juice in a bowl, quickly sealed the bottle, and then handed it to Lucina, asking her to steam the bottle for 15 minutes. The steamed bottle contains the sake mother that will be used for flavoring later.

After the wine mother is ready, Xu Zheng divides the processed grapes into vats. Since the grapes generate a lot of foam during fermentation, if the vat is filled with too much, it will overflow. Considering that the wine fermentation process needs to be kept at the right temperature, if it is too much, it will not be conducive to heat dissipation. So the three vats of grapes were divided into five vats, each of which was only half in shape. The last thing to be sent for fermentation is the five vat of grapes after the vat is divided.

After processing the grapes, the citrus juice is processed. Xu Zheng said to Lao Bangjia: "The wine mother of grapes is actually only used for seasoning. And the mother of citrus is the key to the true fermentation of citrus juice. You've got it. ”

The first step is to put rotten bananas in the citrus. At this step, Lao Banga had already 'profoundly' understood the mystery inside, so when Xu Zheng looked at the rotten banana, he took the initiative to take one over, carefully pounded it into a puree according to Xu Zheng's method, and put it into citrus juice.

Seeing Lao Banga's serious handling of rotten bananas, Xu Zheng couldn't help but smile in his heart. It's just smashing a rotten banana, and the expression is as serious as if you were putting a catalyst in a dangerous chemical in a laboratory. However, because the other party is an old man, Xu Zheng can only think like this in his heart, he doesn't dare to show it on his face, and he has to praise him seriously: "Well, well done, well done." "In fact, my stomach is already knotted with laughter.

PS：

I'm not talking nonsense, the way I make the grapes will definitely work. Every year, when the grape market is overflowing, I will use this method to drink the entire 20 catties of wine. Rattle~