Chapter 21: Honey Sucking

Xue Song stood aside and watched with great interest,

He was still very interested in the rituals performed by the migrants.

Wait until the insect masters line up,

The insect master standing in the front row handed the flask with a little light wine in his hand to the migrants,

After Xue Song saw that the migratory tribe distributed the light wine in the jug into the small bowl in front of everyone participating in the ceremony,

And he put the flask in his hand among the people,

The light wine in the small bowl quickly disappeared, and leaked into the earth as if the small bowl had a crack.

And as the light wine in the bowl faded, the flask in the middle shook suddenly.

"Gollum~Gollum~" There was a sound of water rushing, and the next moment there was light wine overflowing from the pot.

Just like a pressurized water well for an hour, you have to fill some water in before you get water.

And Xue Song also found that it is similar now,

The migrants had to sacrifice some light wine in the hands of the insect master before they could attract the light wine present in the light veins and fill the wine jug.

The first insect master took off the jug full of light wine and walked back,

The next one was the middle-aged insect master, who handed over the light wine he had exchanged with Asuke to the migratory people.

The migrants poured the wine into the bowl again, but this time the light veins did not react.

The insect masters couldn't help but discuss the scene in front of them.

"Hey, something is wrong!"

"Is it fake wine?"

"No, it's not, it's none of my business!" The middle-aged insect master was also a little flustered when he saw this scene, and suddenly he thought that his wine was exchanged with Asuke, and after looking around, he saw Asuke standing at the back of the line.

"It's him, it's him who gave me light wine!"

When Asuke saw this, he panicked for a moment, turned around and ran into the mountains and forests behind him.

Many insect masters who had also exchanged light wine with Asuke also immediately chased after them.

Seeing what was happening in front of them, the insect masters also suspended the ritual and helped one after another.

Xue Song stayed in place like the migratory tribesmen and didn't join in the fun, he still had to sense whether the light veins in the ground had moved.

The party is not over yet, and after the insect masters have taken care of things, the ritual will continue.

It was dark, visibility was low in the mountains and forests, and the insect masters were looking everywhere with lanterns.

Asuke was hiding in a downhill place, and although he didn't know what he had done wrong, he knew he was in trouble by looking at the way the insect masters looked.

He hid behind a tree and didn't dare to show his head, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the movement around him become smaller.

And when he turned around and was about to go down the mountain, he suddenly bumped into Yingu who was carrying a lantern.

"Hey, he's here..."Just as Yingu was about to loudly inform the others,

Asuke interrupted him.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, I don't mean anything, I just want to drink your light wine."

Drops of sweat dripped from his forehead, and Asuke said in a trembling voice.

Gingu also stopped, he wanted to listen to Asuke's explanation before deciding whether to arrest him.

"It's not good for me to pretend to be your peers, but I didn't mean to..."

"Aren't you a bugger?" Yin Gu looked at the young man in front of him and was a little surprised.

"No, I'm a brewer in the village at the foot of the mountain." Asuke replied.

"Brewer?" Gingu looked at Asuke with wide eyes and said, "So, your wine is..."

"This is the wine we made this year, and I have been researching it back and forth for many years, and it is not easy to make it."

Asuke explained to Gingu,

"I wanted to give it to my bedridden father, but I got lost on the way home and stumbled in."

"Please let me go!" Asuke pleaded,

And Gingu was shocked to hear that it was Asuke himself who had made this glowing wine.

"How the hell did you make it?" Yingu asked, still a little unconvinced.

And Asuke also explained to him the ins and outs of the sake he brewed from the light.

He made wine the same way as his father, but the difference in experience could not be made up for in a day or two.

So the quality of the wine he brewed was not very high, but he didn't want to smash his father's signboard, so he kept working hard, changing the water and rice, and tried his best to find a way but there was no improvement.

Later, he thought that he could try another yeast, and this time,

One of the vats of rice wine he brewed glowed golden.

"Is there anything unusual about the wine you've drunk?" Yingu's expression changed slightly, it seemed to be very similar to a rumor he had heard.

"I only drank a little, either very clearly, or I had a strange drunkenness, and I had hallucinations of red and black ribbons in front of my eyes...", Asuke replied truthfully.

"That's not an illusion, it's a worm..."

Yin Gu returned to the place of the ceremony, walked up to Xue Song, and told him what had just happened.

The yeast that Asuke uses to make sake is probably a kind of worm called "honey-sucking", which converts sugar into liquor like yeast.

However, the effect of the transformed wine can make people see "worms", and this effect is never known.

Although it is rumored that some people have used this worm as an ingredient in pseudo-light wine, no one has ever succeeded.

And when Yingu knew the effect of the wine brewed by Ah Zhu, he also thought of Xue Song for the first time.

If this kind of wine can really make ordinary people see insects, it is not only useful for Xue Song, but also a rare treasure for insect masters.

Because sometimes seeing things that you can't see can solve a lot of problems.

He persuaded Asuke not to sell that kind of wine, because no matter how good the wine was, it would hallucinate after drinking, and it would not be a good thing for the reputation of the sake brewery.

"Fake light wine?" Xue Song muttered in his mouth,

He exchanged some rice wine from the insect master he had exchanged with Asuke for some rice wine that ordinary people could see the insects and tried it.

When Xue Song opened his eyes again,

The world has changed,

Countless creatures emitting a strange light, wandering around.

Worms that look like snails are constantly tumbling,

Like a pearl necklace, the worm writhes its body in the air,

In the distance, a multifaceted insect is changing its posture...

A special beauty from the world of insects finally appeared in front of Xue Song's eyes.

And when Xue Song closed his eyes again, there was also a voice in his ears that seemed to come from ancient times, deep and ethereal.

Xue Song's heart suddenly shook,

He felt a sense of relief, and it felt as if the wine had been separated from Xue Song and the whole world by a thin film before.

And now the film is broken.

Xue Song's eyes suddenly became clear.

"Is honey-sucking a worm easy to find?" Xue Song calmed down his excitement and asked at Yingu.

"Honey sucking likes sugar, and spring is the season when flowers bloom, so you should be able to find them sucking nectar at the bottom of the mountain."

Yin Gu sat on the side and smoked a cigarette, there were so many insect masters gathered here, as long as this insect existed nearby, he would definitely be able to find it.

Xue Song nodded,

He was going to issue a commission to the nearby insect masters to find the bug.

Early the next morning,

Asuke came to the sake brewery, and the drunken winemakers told the boss about seeing hallucinations when they were drunk, and they decided not to sell the sake to the outside world after discussion.

And Xue Song also came here, and he wanted to buy some wine in case of emergency.

After all, the commission has just been released, and the honey sucking candy has not been found so quickly, and I don't know if the simple subduing worm has any effect.