According to Marlos's hierarchy of needs theory, the village is still in the stage of subsistence and clothing, and the main problem is to solve the problem of survival. As a lord, Merlin needs to solve the problem of food rations for his subjects.

Like many other realms in the Great Heath, the Ashhearth Realm is unsuitable for farming, and springs flowing from the mountains to the north flow through the barren soil into the Endless Ocean. Except for the land on both sides of the stream, where oats, buckwheat and the like can be grown, only grass grows. In the hot summer, before the rainy season arrives, even the weeds turn yellow.

The apple trees and vines planted on the hillsides would have little harvest in the autumn without the watering of the springs. Before Merlin's arrival, Ashfurnace Village was a place that the Vikings didn't want to visit, as they had spent their energy climbing through the valley and might not have enough to fill their stomachs.

But now it's different, and the appearance of Ganquan has made Ash Furnace Village different from before. The apple trees are full of fruit. Bunches of grapes on the trellis are ripe.

Merlin decided to make wine, to make wine. The men, women and children of the Ash Furnace Village took action. Leah was in charge of all things brewing, and Merlin felt that professional things should be left to professional people. Leah is the best winemaker in Ashoven Village.

"This year's wine must be delicious!" said old Bill, who had come to Merlin's side in a rare way, and had not seen the old goth man for a few days, and his sideburns were much grayer. He kindly looked at Leah, who was busy with a big belly, and scolded: "What kind of bastard can let such a woman stay at home alone, where can I find such a wife?"

"Parker has been gone for over a year, and Leah now has a big belly. Don't lie to me that the baby in her belly is Parker's?" Merlin didn't believe Bill, and couldn't have known what that meant.

"A goth who has gone to war will only be happy if he comes home and finds that his wife is going to give birth!" said Old Bill with a grin.

The thinking of the fighting nation is really different from ordinary people, if such a woman is in the empire, she will definitely be dragged to the pig cage. Of course, Merlin doesn't approve of that, but it's up to Parker to see what he thinks about it.

Leah's winemaking practices are a little different from the wine-making methods that Merlin knew. The men pluck the grapes from the trellises, clean them and place them in large wooden barrels. The barrels were placed inside a cold stone hut, and then all the men were driven out.

"No peeping!" Leah entered the stone house with a big belly, and then closed the wooden door.

Drogba, Rommel, and a group of teenagers immediately crowded to the window of the stone house and tiptoed to look in.

"Get out of the way, you've stepped on my foot. ”

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze. Someone shouted.

"That guy held my head down, Drogba, isn't you?" Ellen, the son of the mayor of Big Wood, has been hanging out in Ashfurnace for a long time, and he was ordered to come to Ashfurnace to grind the wheat, but now that the wheat is finished, he refuses to go home, and spends the day with Drogba.

"A bunch of people with no manners, aren't those women just not wearing pants, what's so beautiful!" Sula was extremely disdainful.

Merlin didn't understand what these teenagers were excited about, wasn't it just behind closed doors, why were these people so excited.

"Your Highness, Sister Leah, they are going to take off their pants and step on the skins of the grapes with their feet. Raj saw that Merlin didn't quite understand, and quickly explained.

"Stomp on it!" Merlin had a strange expression on his face.

"Of course, just with your feet. Stepping barefoot, stepping on and on, stepping on the skin and flesh of the grapes until they are separated. Sulla looked at Merlin playfully, "Maybe someone stepped in without washing their feet." ”

Raj pursed his lips and giggled.

Merlin decided right now that he would not drink outside wine in the future, and imagine that the stinky feet stepped on the grapes and then made wine, which was really difficult to eat. It seems that I want to drink safe wine, so I can do it myself. Fortunately, Merlin still knows a lot about the wine-making process, and when he was an official in the empire, his salary was too low, and he couldn't afford to drink the wine he bought outside, so he bought grapes and made his own wine. The process is not complicated, and the taste is quite good.

Merlin found some clean clay pots, dried the washed grapes, then selected those that had not been damaged by the hoarfrost on the surface, carefully put them into the clay pots, and poured a bowl of fresh honey into them after turning a layer of grapes, since Merlin became a bumblebee knight, there was no shortage of honey. Merlin is now the queen bee of the Ashfurnace Valley.

After pouring a bowl of honey, spread a layer of grapes, spread the grapes and pour in the honey, and then fill it until it is two-thirds of the way through the pot.

There are two main points in making wine, the first is that the hoarfrost layer of the grape skin is to be completed, which is from the yeast, and the fermentation depends on it, and the second point is that the grapes should not be too full, because the grapes will swell when they ferment, and if they are too full, they will overflow. First, it will be wasted, which will affect the sealing effect, cause oxidation of the wine, and affect the quality of the wine.

Wine fermentation is very sensitive to temperature, and the taste of wine produced at different temperatures can vary greatly. In Merlin's experience, a temperature of around 25 degrees is the most beneficial for the winemaking process.

The temperature of the spring that had just come out of the ground was about 25 degrees, so Merlin built a new stone chamber in the basement of the Ashhearth, and then introduced the spring into the stone chamber, and soaked the clay pot made of beeswax bees in the spring water, so as to ensure that the grapes in the pot were kept at a constant temperature.

Sula was very interested in Merlin's new method of winemaking, and kept following Merlin back and forth. Until one day she finally couldn't help it anymore and asked with a smile, "You don't think you can't drink the wine that you stepped on with your feet, do you?"

Merlin hurriedly shook his hand, if Leah knew that the wine they had worked so hard for so long was disgusted by Merlin, it would not be sad to death. "How could it be, why can't I drink it, but I like to drink sweeter wines, so I thought about adding a little honey to it and seeing if I can make honey wine!"

"What a loser, do you know how much honey you add to the clay pot is worth?"

"It must be two hundred kilograms," Merlin scratched his head, "why is this thing expensive?"

"Of course, in the holy city of Rome, ten catties of gold can be exchanged for a kilogram of honey!"

Nima, Merlin's intestines are about to repent, there are two thousand kilograms of gold soaked in this stone room, no, you have to send someone to guard here.