Chapter Twenty-Six: The Old House
"Zhang Hu, do you think the degree is low, I have Feitian Moutai in the car, and that one is strong. You're drinking these and you're wasted. Tian Qingyong had already finished drinking the wine in the cup, and was taking the wine jar from Zhang Lan's hand and began to pour wine into the cup.
"I don't think the degree is low, I think my daughter-in-law can also taste it, and the two sisters-in-law can also taste it, this wine is sweet and sour." Zhang Hu hurriedly explained.
Chen Rongrong on the side glanced at Tian Qingyong when he heard it, and Tian Qingyong hurriedly laughed: "Don't worry, it's all there." Zhang Lan's small bowls came, and the wine glasses in this jar were not easy to pour. ”
"I'll take it, I'll get it." Zhang Hu quickly got up and went to the kitchen to get a few bowls.
Looking at the golden and slightly transparent wine in the bowl, Chen Rongrong picked up the bowl and smelled it, and a peculiar fragrance of osmanthus and wine came to his face. Fang Xia on the side directly picked up the bowl and tasted it: "It's really sweet and sour, it's delicious." ”
Huang Shasha next to her was also smiling when she tasted it, and she liked this wine very much.
Drinking the good wine brewed by Zhang Lan and eating the good dishes carefully prepared by Zhang Lan, several people at the table quickly mingled, and the three children also played together. Several people ate all the wine and food on the table, and a jar of twenty catties of osmanthus wine held out by Zhang Lan was drunk completely. After eating and drinking, Zhang Lan and the others lay on the sofa and chatted, Huang Shasha, Chen Rongrong, and Fang Xia cleaned up the messy table and led the three children to Fang Xia's house to rest.
Although Zhang Lan's osmanthus wine is only a dozen degrees, the jar of osmanthus wine is nearly 20 catties, Zhang Lan drank almost fifteen or sixteen catties, and Huang Shasha, Chen Rongrong, and Fang Xia drank four or five catties. Although the degree is not high, they drink a lot, and after chatting on the sofa for a while, several people start to fight. Zhang Lan lay down on the sofa in the east room, Xie Ruidong was too fat and lay on the bed in the back room, and Tian Qingyong and Zhang Hu fell asleep on the sofa in the living room.
Zhang Lan lay down for a while and got up not long after, his physique was much better than the others. When I went in to take a look, several people were asleep. Zhang Lan cleaned up the kitchen and the house, took out the leftover big pot dishes in the pot and put them in the refrigerator, and waited for the evening to heat them up and eat them with rice. After everything was cleaned up, Zhang Lan sat on the sofa in the east room, took out her mobile phone and began to look through the downloaded Buddhist scriptures.
At about three o'clock and almost four o'clock, Huang Shasha and Chen Rongrong led the children over. Woke up a few people who were sleeping, Zhang Lan took out a teacup, made a few cups of tea and put them on the coffee table.
Xie Ruidong washed his face and walked out of the bathroom, stretching his long waist: "This wine is really comfortable to drink." Is there any Zhang Lan? I'll take some with me when I'm gone. ”
"I'll bring some too. I've got a few cases of good wine in my trunk, and I've left them all for you. Give me two more jars of this osmanthus wine. Tian Qingyong hurriedly spoke.
"Brother, you don't see anything outside?" After a meal of wine at noon, Xie Ruidong and Tian Qingyong began to call each other brothers.
"I'm near, and I'm in the middle of an altar. I'll come back without that. Zhang Hu also hurriedly followed.
Looking at the unceremonious faces of the three people, Zhang Lan smiled dumbly.
"What are you laughing at, hurry. Where is the wine? I'll take a look. Daughter-in-law, you go and move a few cigarettes and alcohol in the trunk to make room, I'll see how much Zhang Lan brewed first, and this trunk has to be about the same today. Tian Qingyong took out the car keys on his body and handed them to Chen Rongrong, and several people looked at each other and laughed.
Zhang Lan said with a smile: "There are not many osmanthus wines, mainly because the raw materials are difficult to find. I brewed a total of ten jars, so let's do it, Boss Xie and Brother Yong will give you two jars and Brother Tiger one altar. The rest of the house has guests, and I'm good at entertaining. ”
"Take me to your place where you put your wine first. I just looked at the room where you held the wine, and there was not a jar of wine in it, where did you put the rest? ”
"In the old house, there is no place to store it at home. I'll take the keys and get them in a moment. ”
Zhang Hu was taken aback: "The old house is about to collapse, you put wine there." ”
"It can't collapse, don't look at the old house for decades, except for some leaks in the beams, nothing else is at all."
Zhang Lanzhi saw it when he went there to put the wine, and his parents had to clean it up during the New Year's holidays. When she didn't buy a house in the city before, Zhang Lan's mother often said that if she couldn't get along with her daughter-in-law, the current house would be left to Zhang Lan and her husband, and she and Zhang Lan's father would go back to the old house to live. So every once in a while, Zhang Lan's mother had to go to see the old house, and when Zhang Lan's father Zhang Dahai was at home, she pulled him to repair the roof.
"Then go now, what are you waiting for. Oh, by the way, I'll take the cigarettes and alcohol off the trunk first. Tian Qingyong pulled his daughter-in-law Chen Rongrong to get up and go out to move things.
Zhang Lan's old house was not far from where it is now, and after driving through the village for five minutes, he stopped next to a few persimmon trees. Zhang Lan's old house is behind a few persimmon trees, behind the old house is an earthen cliff more than 8 meters high, and on the left and right are abandoned old houses.
Zhang Lan opened the courtyard door and led everyone to the back of the house, Zhang Hu looked at the wooden door on the cliff wall, and couldn't help but say: "Zhang Lan, when did you put this cave and the whole door, why haven't you heard about it?" ”
"Didn't I tell you a while ago that I wanted to contract the Xigou barrage, but then I dispelled my mind and thought that I would have nothing to do at home every day. That day, I followed my mother to clean up the old house, and when I saw this cave, I suddenly wanted to use it. There are too many fruits harvested at home every day, and if it is difficult to deal with them, I think that some of them will be made into sake. But there is no place to put it, so it is just right here. Zhang Lan simply explained, he can't say that the gourd space in the dantian is particularly suitable for winemaking. As a result, I accidentally brewed too much and had no place to put it, so in order to hide people's eyes, I could only store it in the old house.
Zhang Lan took the key to open the wooden door, led everyone to turn a corner, touched a niche by the wall, Zhang Lan pressed it, and the whole cave suddenly brightened. What catches everyone's eye is two caves nearly two meters wide and more than four meters deep, with rows of two-story wooden shelves placed on both sides. The shelves of the cave on the left are filled with jars about 40 centimeters high, and the shelves in the cave on the right are still empty.
The place where everyone is currently standing is about 30 square meters, more than 2 meters high, and several large altars more than half a meter high are placed next to the wall. Xie Ruidong looked up and down, left and right, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Zhang Lan, you are really capable, it took a lot of effort to make this cave well, right?" ”
"It's okay, it didn't take much effort. It turns out that the hole itself is not small. The cliffs of the two houses next to them are much more than this. It's just that the wooden frame took a little effort. Zhang Lan rubbed the dirt on her hands and said.