Chapter 24: Tears of the Worm (4)
Ding Xing asked Xie Zhongkang's deeds to the end.
Without waiting for Yu Tai to reply, the servants began to joke again:
"Xiao Ding, you are so interested in Old Man Xie, don't you really want to apprentice with him, right?"
"He's about to sit down, half of his foot has been put into the coffin board, he can't teach you anything, it's better for you to worship me as a teacher, I know his wine recipe well, and I promise to teach you word for word. ”
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to apprentice, I'll sell you the wine recipe directly! Ten spirit stones, it's very cheap!"
All the monks of Château Jinlu should regard Xie Zhongkang's deeds as a topic of daily chatter or the object of ridicule and ridicule.
Dante wakes up no.
Monks who dare to pioneer are worthy of respect, perhaps this kind of pioneering behavior is stupid in the eyes of other monks, but in the eyes of Ding Xing, it is worth a lot.
Ding Xing watched the servant's attitude coldly, these people were narrow-sighted, the pattern was narrow, and it was impossible to make any progress in Taoism, and the achievements of his life had stopped here, and living was just waiting for death, and it was not worth Ding Xing's spending a little lip and tongue.
These people are still gossiping.
Yu Tai couldn't stand it a little, he was the only servant who maintained kindness to Ding Xing, he looked at his companions around him, shook his head and said: "Five years ago, Xie Zhongkang knew that the limit had come, but no one was willing to study his wine-making method, so he made the wine recipe public, this is a recipe that everyone knows, how can you use it for trading." ”
There are many public wine recipes in Jinlu Winery, and Xie Zhongkang's recipe is one of them, this recipe was studied to deal with demon insects, but it has long been confirmed that refining spirit wine according to this recipe is not lethal to demon insects.
It's a scrap sheet.
Because of the cycle of refining wine, no monk is willing to refine the famous ancient recipe in the immortal cultivation world, let alone the waste recipe, Xie Zhongkang can't find a successor for a long time, and he can't sell the wine recipe, in fact, it is not difficult to understand.
When the servants saw that Yu Tai had revealed their old secrets, they were bored, and just as the incense of the insects was about to burn out, they broke their mouths and lined up to go back to the berry farm.
Only Yu Tai is not in a hurry to leave.
He had always hoped that Ding Xing would hire him so that he could share the harvest of the forty acres of orange orchards.
The berry farm where he currently works is as many as 100 acres, but there are also many employees, and he doesn't get much income every year when he is busy.
Today, Ding Xing vigorously inquired about the fragrance of the insects and the wine of the insects, presumably because of the difficulties encountered in taking care of the orange orchard, and Yu Tai wanted to take the opportunity to apply.
He first took out a bamboo slip and handed it to Ding Xing: "The recipes on this are all wine recipes that have been made public in the village over the years, and they are of little value, Xiao Ding, you can rub them as you like!"
The murder incident two years ago made Ding Xing wary of Tai, but after two years of dating, Ding Xing didn't see that Tai had bad intentions, and Yu Tai's words and deeds proved that he was an honest and good person.
Of course, it is not ruled out that the other party is too serious and good at hiding from the world, but at the moment, Ding Xing can't refuse Yu Tai's repeated kindness.
Ding Xing asked: "Even if the wine recipe is cheap, it is also accumulated by Uncle Yu you year after year, and it is useless, if I rub your wine recipe, what should I give you in return?"
Yu Tai said with a smile: "Since Xiaoding you are happy, uncle, I will say it bluntly, this year's insect plague is too serious, if you don't have the assistance of the insect incense, relying on your own strength, you will definitely delay the harvest period, instead of letting the orange fruit be buried in the belly of the insect swarm, it is better to recruit me, you and I should be able to keep most of the fruit! I don't need you to pay me now, and when the harvest period is over, we will divide the fruit!"
Ding Xing was quite impressed by this proposal.
One is that his Worm Incense is all depleted, and he really needs a seasoned helper, otherwise he will lose a lot when the Worm Swarm crosses, and he may not even have a chance to share in the end.
The second is that he is tired of taking care of the garden, and it is irresponsible for his future to continue to spend his time on farming, and it is imperative to recruit a servant to take care of the garden for him.
Ding Xing just wants to cultivate without distractions.
Since Yu Tai took the initiative to hand over the orange orchard to Yu Tai to take care of, it is not impossible.
Ding Xing pondered for a while.
Yan said: "According to Uncle Yu's proposal, let's deal with the insect plague first, if Uncle Yu kills insects well and keeps most of this year's harvest, I am even willing to rent the orange orchard to you next year!"
Ding Xing is actually recruiting temporarily, and he will do his best to deal with the insect plague first.
As for the insect plague, the Golden Dew Ceremony will be held in a few months, and whether Yu Tai is a poisonous cultivator or an honest person, it will definitely be clear after the ceremony.
Yu Tai got Ding Xing's verbal promise, and seemed very excited, and agreed to start stationing in the orangery tomorrow.
After Tai left, Meng Changjun asked Ding Xing: "Do you really want to hire this black old man? Next year, you will have to pay the fruit tax to Zhuang Shang and recruit him, how much harvest can you leave behind?"
"It's just recruiting for the time being!" Ding Xing asked rhetorically: "I don't have the insect fragrance anymore, if I don't ask Uncle Yu for help, do I have a better way to resist the insect plague?"
Meng Changjun spread his hands: "I want to help you, but I don't have the skills!"
She also knew Ding Xing's distress, and finally sighed.
On this day, I returned to the cave.
Ding Xing took the rubbing wine recipe, found Xie Zhongkang's 'Zhongkang Insect Recipe', and began to research.
The other monks didn't dare to try to create their own, but Ding Xing had no problem at all, and he didn't have to have any scruples.
That strange orange leaf solved the huge problem of cellaring for Ding Xing, allowing him to improve the old wine recipe and test the new wine recipe as he pleased.
The 'Requiem' was inadvertently refined by Ding Xing, and this new recipe once saved his life in the snow forest, and the value of this alone is immeasurable.
If Ding Xing can research the new wine recipe of 'insect repellent', the value will definitely be even better.
Xie Zhongkang's 'Zhongkang Insect Formula' is mainly refined from Baiyou lychee, and after the spirit wine was out of the cellar, it did not have medicinal effects.
Xie Zhongkang immediately improved the wine recipe.
He successively selected four fruits that are suspected to enhance the strength of the wine, namely green jade loquat, black mango, bergamot, and blood cherry.
As for which of these four fruits is added to the insect recipe to have the power of exterminating insects, Xie Zhongkang himself does not know, after his last failure, the owner of the village refused his request to continue to use the spirit cellar, he lost the opportunity to try, and therefore depressed, so he decided to make the wine recipe public.
Xie Zhongkang hoped that some monks could add the four spirit fruits to the insect recipe one by one, and test them one by one, so as to verify the final efficacy of the insect formula.
After Ding Xing finished browsing Xie Zhongkang's recipe, he began to go to the market to make small purchases according to the fruits listed in the insect recipe.
He is only trying to test first, and he doesn't need to consume too many spirit fruits, and he doesn't have any material treasures on him, so he can't buy them in large quantities.
After he bought the spirit fruit back, he first added the green jade loquat to the insect recipe, sealed it into the orange leaf, and then discarded it and began to wait.
Orange leaves are stored once in the cellar and take up to half a month.
During this period, Ding Xing spent the rest of his time in the orange orchard deworming except for his morning class.
He didn't wipe out the swarm, most of them were captured alive.
In order to test the efficacy of Xie Zhongkang's insect formula, he specially built an insect room in the cave, and when the insect spirit wine was refined, these insect swarms were all wine tasters.
The so-called predecessors planted trees, and later generations enjoyed the coolness.
Ding Xing's predecessor Xie Zhongkang started with his experience in tasting wine, and in just one month, he refined his second self-made wine, 'Worm's Tears'.
The power and cost of this wine are so powerful that it makes him smack.