Chapter 5 Cellaring
A vacant lot was found in the orangery.
Meng Xiaotang flicked his cuffs and took out a small, thin-necked, round black wine vat from his sleeve.
"This is my baby black jade vat, the monk of our winery, the first magic weapon equipped after entering is a wine vat!
Meng Xiaotang smirked and raised his head at Ding Xing: "You haven't yet, right?"
In the past, Ding Xing would be disgusted when he heard him show off, but now he laughed: "There will be in the future!"
This is not a lie: "Bozu and I have agreed that when all the oranges of this season are picked, if there is a surplus, he will refine a wine vat for me." ”
Ding Xing not only wants to equip a wine tank, but also wants to equip a treasure storage sleeve.
Meng Xiaotang's black jade jar is very large, it can fit Meng Xiaotang and Ding Xing together, and the height is almost shoulder to shoulder, how can such a large object fit into the sleeve?
That day, Meng Xiaotang took money from his cuffs, Ding Xing thought it was ordinary clothes, and after asking Ding Chenzhi, he learned that the monk's sleeves were all different.
The fact is that there is a magic weapon in the cuff that is specially used for storage and retrieval purposes.
This kind of magic weapon is called a treasure sleeve by the monk, but it is the size of a palm, and the internal space can accommodate a bed cabinet, or even a house, and a wine jar is naturally not a problem.
Storage in the sleeve, the mortal world is also popular.
It's not just beautiful, it's applicable.
Ding Xing saw Ding Chen's spell many times, and with a flick of his sleeves, the treasure light flew all over the sky, pointing to where to fight, extremely chic.
'Plop!'
Meng Xiaotang first threw the corpse of the scorpion insect into the black jade vat.
Then he took out a bunch of green gum grapes and placed them next to the wine vat, and he himself squatted on the ground and peeled the grapes with his hands: "Ah Xing, don't be idle, come and help!
Ding Xingyan sat down next to him when he heard this, and asked: "Does this blood fruit wine have any effect?" Bozu said that without the warmth of the spirit cellar, even if the wine is refined by using the wine tank, it is still ordinary wine, and it does not have the effect of psychic medicine, so it has little effect on our monks. ”
This is because the medicinal effects contained in the wine cannot be released without going through the critical stage of cellaring.
Cellaring is also a crucial step in wine refining.
This is also the difference between refining wine and alchemy.
Monks often take a short time to make alchemy, if the medicinal materials are complete, it can be as short as a few days, as long as a few months, and the elixir can be baked and taken.
However, alchemy has extremely strict requirements for Dan materials, and the main medicine required for any kind of elixir is often more than 100 years old, if the heat is not enough, then the effect of the elixir will be greatly reduced, or even ineffective.
On the other hand, refining wine takes an extremely long time, and even the most ordinary spirit wines, they need to be cellared once, at least for several years.
It's like the ace immortal brew 'Golden Dew Liquid' of Jinlu Winery, which was sealed in the cellar sixty years ago, and the owner at that time was still Wu Tonggong, who waited for decades until he died, and he did not taste the taste of 'Golden Dew Liquid', so he could only cheapen the current owner Wu Zunrong.
There has long been a consensus in the immortal cultivation world that the refining process is extremely slow, but the limit of the wine materials required is not high, except for a few high-grade spirit wines, which require decades or even hundreds of years of wine materials, and the rest of the wine recipes have no problem using self-planted field materials.
Ding Xing's 'Liuxia Wine', Meng Xiaotang's 'Qingjiao Daqu' and 'Ziluo Chun' are all wine materials that use fire for one to three years, but the cellar is ten years, and the medicinal effect is good after leaving the cellar, which is no worse than the same kind of elixir.
It was precisely because of the key to cellaring that Ding Xing raised his question.
Meng Xiaotang replied: "What we refine is mortal wine, and drinking this kind of wine is not about medicinal effects, but about deliciousness!"
He smacked his lips: "Using green gum grapes to soak the armor scorpion, you can taste sweeter than fruit cheese, this kind of deliciousness, you can't find it in the mortal world!"
After all, he is a twelve-year-old boy who always thinks about eating and playing.
When Ding woke up, he hurriedly said, "You wait for me for a while!"
He stood up and ran.
He returned with a package, and after untying it, he revealed a pile of fiery red mandarins: "Since it is to make wine, count me as one! Put these fiery oranges into the tank, maybe the taste can be even better!"
This time fiddling with food, Meng Xiaotang came out of the wine vat and grapes, Ding Xing didn't want to take advantage of him, so he took out all the Huofeng oranges that Ding Chenzhi rewarded him.
"These days, you have been guarding the garden for Uncle Ding, and you have earned this little orange, and it is not cost-effective to use it to make wine!"
"I don't know how to preserve the spirit fruit, anyway, it is eaten as a snack, and eating it alone is the same as brewing wine!"
"You can sell it in the market, the children in the outer village are greedy, these oranges should be worth a spirit stone, if you meet a generous young lady, you will be rewarded!"
When Ding Xing was in his hometown, he only rewarded others.
He shook his head: "Uncle Zu does not treat me harshly, as long as I come to work in the orchard, he will reward me for every day I work! ”
Meng Xiaotang pressed him: "Don't worry! Green gum grapes and armor scorpions can make delicious food, but with the addition of fire beacon oranges, the taste will deteriorate! If you really want to come up with a piece, you can change the way!"
Ding Xing entered Zhuang Evening, not as knowledgeable as him, and motioned him to go down and said, "What way?"
Meng Xiaotang pointed to the orange trees in the garden: "Your orange trees are all fire, whether it is the root or the soil, they all carry psychic fire, if you bury my black jade jar at the root of the tree and absorb the fire for a period of time, this can be regarded as a short cellar, and the wine will come out at that time, the heat will rise, take a sip, fluttering fairy, and the taste can be better!"
Moreover, the armor scorpion is a great tonic, originally using it to soak in wine, it can make people's ears clear, integrate a little firepower, and can calm the soul, which will help you cultivate divine thoughts in the future. ”
Mental power is the method of the soul traveling, which is equivalent to the senses of the soul, and once this spell is cast, it can help the monk to see wider, hear farther, and smell more carefully.
Chu Bao sleeve must also be driven by divine thoughts, and taking and putting things are induced by divine thoughts, in short, it is very useful.
Ding Xing listened to Meng Xiaotang's words, and was worried that burying the wine vat on the roots of the tree would affect the growth of the orange tree, but he couldn't refuse, after all, Huofeng oranges couldn't be used in wine, and he couldn't let Meng Xiaotang contribute.
"Good!"
He happily promised that if the orange tree was damaged afterwards, he would find Ding Chenzhi to receive the punishment himself.
In fact, Meng Xiaotang proposed this method because he didn't want him to waste his hard-earned oranges, he only saved this spiritual fruit in total, but he was willing to take it all out, Meng Xiaotang couldn't help but express it.
Meng Xiaotang's cultivation is still low, the wine tank is also a cheap commodity of inferior grade, and the key garden is not a spiritual cellar, how can he absorb the firepower of the orange tree and the soil?
Buried at the root of the tree, it is useless.
But the two are still in full swing, don't look at their young age, but they are familiar with the method of making wine.
Especially Meng Xiaotang, when they threw all the pulp into the wine vat, how to refine the wine, how to turn the liquid, how to seal it, it was all Meng Xiaotang's hands, Ding Xing couldn't help, while observing Meng Xiaotang's techniques, while digging a pit under the orange tree.
When they had made all the preparations and were about to carry the jar into the pit, the wind blew from the garden and swept a pile of orange leaves into the pit of the trees.
Today, the wind is blowing a lot, and orange leaves are everywhere.
Therefore, no one cares about this detail.
Fill in the tree pits, step on the ground, and Ding Chenzhi also came to the garden.
The two agreed to come to open the cellar in a few days, and then squeezed their eyebrows, smiled at each other, and parted ways.
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