Chapter 283: Koji
Fan Monkey was asked by Yin Gongchou, and said with a few laughs: "Since from today on, the Fan family and the Yin family have truly become a family, and there are some things that the third uncle and grandfather will no longer hide from you." ”
Yin Gongyin didn't squeak all the time, and couldn't help but smile at the moment: "Family, listening to the words of the third uncle and grandfather, which cousins of the Fan family are you going to marry to our brothers?"
Fan Monkey's old face turned red, and he was about to explain, but he saw Zhu Choumei reach out and twist the soft flesh on Yin Gongyin's waist. Fan Monkey's expression froze, and there was a little more complicated look in his eyes when he looked at Yin Gongyin.
"Don't interrupt the third child. Yin Gongchou coughed and pulled the topic back and said, "What does the third uncle and grandfather want to give us?"
Fan Monkey glanced at Zhu Choumei, and said with a dry smile: "It's nothing, I'll talk to you about it when I go back to the third uncle and grandfather." ”
Zhu Choumei twisted her waist and said, "Does the third uncle treat others as outsiders?"
Yin Gongchou saw that Fan Monkey was asked by Zhu Choumei and hurriedly explained: "Fairy Zhu has a life-saving grace for us, not an outsider. ”
Fan Monkey hesitated for a moment, then pointed to the old willow tree and said, "The third uncle and grandfather came here this time, first, to mourn your father, and second, to take something buried under this tree." ”
Even Zhu Choumei was aroused by Fan Monkey's words, you must know that with the identity of Fan Monkey, coming to Kokura Mountain at this time is actually taking a huge risk, and what he wants to get at the cost of his life must not be ordinary.
Fan Monkey took out a silver vial from his arms and said: "This thing was buried under this old willow tree by the ancestor of the Fan family back then, and it has been more than 30 years ago. ”
The Yin brothers naturally couldn't see the mystery of the bottle, but Zhu Choumei's eyes lit up, and she looked at the silver bottle in Fan Monkey's hand and said: "The style of the silver bottle in the third uncle's hand is so peculiar, it reminds the little woman of a legendary treasure." Dare to ask the third uncle and grandfather, what you hold in your hand, but the legendary Yuehua Ningjing?"
"What?, there is a bottle of Yuehua Condensation Crystal buried next to our ancestral cave?!" Yin Gongzi couldn't help but shout, you must know that Yuehua Condensation Dew is already the best wine in the world, and Yuehua Condensation Crystal is really just a legendary thing for the vast majority of monks.
Fan Monkey smiled and gave Zhu Choumei a thumbs up and said, "The fairy is really well-informed, this bottle was indeed used to hold the moonlight condensation crystal at the earliest. However, the contents are not Yuehua condensation, but a pot of koji. ”
"The wine koji that the third uncle said, but it is something used for winemaking?" Yin Gongchou became interested, he had already known that the Fan family could continue for thousands of years without falling, not by cultivating the Tao, but by the old Fan family's wine-making technology.
Although the wine brewed by the Fan family is not as good as the quality of Yuehua Condensation, it is not much different from the lowest-grade condensation wine in Yuehua wine, which is why Fan Monkey dares to sell blended Yuehua wine in the store.
In addition to the grains used to ferment the sake, the fairy fruits, and the water used, the most important thing to make sake is koji. The old Fan family has always regarded the koji of winemaking as the highest secret of passing on to children and daughters, and even Fan Chunniang, who married into the Yin family, did not know the mystery.
Yin Tieshan is a good winemaker, and he asked Fan Chunniang more than once before her death, why she was born in a family of fragrant wine, but she couldn't make fine wine? If calligraphy and painting are used as a metaphor for winemaking, koji is like the finishing touch, and it is the most critical place to determine the quality of wine.
What made Yin Gongchou feel strange was why the ancestor of the Fan family secretly buried the wine koji next to the ancestral cave of the Yin family?
Fan Monkey only shook the silver bottle in front of everyone's eyes, and then carefully withdrew it into his arms, which told everyone about the past.
Speaking of Fan Monkey's generation, the best winemaking technique is not Fan Monkey, but Fan Thirteen, who was kicked out of the house by the ancestor of the Fan family. Fan Shisan can make wine, but he is also easy to be greedy and misguided, and the disaster he broke through back then was also related to this wine koji.
There are three large merchants engaged in brewing and selling liquor in Xiaocangshan, in addition to the Fan family, there are two families of ginger and Cheng, among which the taste of Fanjia wine is the most mellow but it is mainly sold in the Xiaocangshan Inn, and the taste of Chengjia wine is slightly inferior, but the output and sales are very large. As for the Jiang family, the family does not make wine, but it is a merchant in the Cangshan area who specializes in selling all kinds of liquor, and it is also the only merchant in the Cangshan area who can get the Yuehua wine in Zhiyue Mountain. It is said that it is because an ancestor of the Jiang family served as an elder of Lian Zhen in Zhiyue Mountain, who was in charge of the production and sales of Yuehua wine.
The internal regulations of the seven major sects are generally the same, but the specific division of labor of each department is also slightly different, and many sects classify the brewing of spiritual wine into the Wuqu department, which is regarded as the same way as refining alchemy. Referring to Yueshan, he mainly earned a large amount of spirit stones by selling Yuehua wine, so he merged the spirit wine brewing into the Lian Zhen Department. Just like the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts assigned the domestication of spirit beasts to the Lian Zhen Ministry, they are all directly controlled by the ancestor and the core unit that controls the economic lifeline of the sect.
It's just that Okura Mountain is thousands of miles away from Zhiyue Mountain, and ordinary caravans go back and forth for four or five years, or two or three years at least, and it is difficult to ensure the quality of Yuehua wine along the way. Especially those low-end Yuehua condensation, because of the large production and relatively low price, considering the cost, the utensils used are not low-level magic vessels that can keep quality and freshness. As a result, the taste of Yuehua condensation in many remote places is not as good as the products of some local restaurants.
The root cause is not that the condensate wine is inferior to other people's mellowness, but that the distance is not well preserved, resulting in the loss of the purity of the wine.
In contrast, the high-grade Yuehua Cream, the wine jar itself is a low-level magic weapon, which can be transported for even thirty or fifty years without losing its taste.
As for the Yuehua Condensation, it is rumored that they are all teleported over long distances through the transmission array, and they are directly sent to the Ancestral Cave Mansion of the major sects.
In order to solve the quality problem of Yuehua Condensation, Zhiyue Villa came up with a solution. In a remote area like Okurayama, they set up a special sake cellar to store the Moonflower gel that arrived.
According to the outside world of Zhiyue Mountain Villa, the immortal liquor is placed in the cellar to precipitate its mellowness, which is actually by adding a little koji to the wine jar to make it ferment for a second time and restore its mellow taste.
Moreover, the smell and taste of this second-fermented condensate wine is even better than that of ordinary condensate wine, and it is sought after by many monks who love wine.
Thirty years ago, the wine cellar of Zhiyue Mountain Villa in Okura Mountain was built in Jiang's house.
Like many generations of wealthy families, there will always be some unscrupulous children in the family, and the Jiang family produced a young master lamb named Jiang Shan thirty years ago, which was loved by the ancestors of the Jiang family at that time. With the same smell as this young master Jiang Shan, there is Fan Thirteen of the Fan family.
Although Fan Shisan is mixed, he is a true lover of wine, he has always coveted the wine koji of Yuehua Condensation in the hands of the Jiang family, so he united with some Jianghu loose cultivators to make a game, and won a chance to go to the Jiang family's wine cellar to open his eyes.