Chapter 4 Making Monkey Wine
Even if you taste monkey wine, after brewing, it needs to be cellared for at least half a year.
Lu Yu didn't want to delay for a moment, he bent down and groped under the bed for a while, took out an iron box and opened it. There were hundreds of copper coins inside, and the copper coins were poured out, tied around his waist in a small cloth bag, and Zhan Tian walked out of the house immediately.
Looking at the sky, it was already noon, Lu Yu endured the pain from time to time on his body, and walked slowly in the direction of the town.
The place where Lu Yu lives is not far from the market, only two or three miles. He was wounded and couldn't walk fast, and it took about a meal before he came to a long street.
The long street is very long, but there are only a dozen stalls and a few shops, which looks very cold and gloomy.
It is said that a few decades ago, it was quite a bustling place. At that time, most of the townspeople relied on going to the mountains to collect medicine and hunting for a living, although they were not rich, but they also had no worries about food and clothing.
Coupled with the trials of the immortal gate every three years, Yuanling can occasionally see the grand scene of immortals, which makes the town very prosperous for a while.
However, after the establishment of the Yuanling Mine and the closure of the entire Yuanling, the townspeople lost their source of livelihood, and as a last resort, most of them entered the mine to become miners, and a few wealthy families moved to live in the county seat hundreds of miles away.
After searching several fruit and vegetable stalls and grocery stores, Lu Yu carefully selected and purchased eight kinds of fruits, two kinds of medicinal herbs, and some wild honey, spent hundreds of copper coins, and finally made most of the bags.
Lu Yu looked at the end of the long street, and from there, seven or eight miles to the south, was the slag field, and more than ten miles through the mine, it was the mine. However, in order to reach the fourth mining area where his father was, he had to walk a long way over the mountains and mountains, and with his current situation, it was obvious that he could not do it.
After standing for a while, Lu Yu turned around and walked home.
When I got home, it was already sunset.
"It's a little bit worse than one or two herbs, but it's just a little less flavorful. Lu Yu muttered to himself.
Find a large wooden barrel, take out the fruit one by one, carefully remove the pit, and put the flesh into the barrel. After finishing these, Lu Yu added the two herbs of the grass and the rosewood leaf, and then found a clean thick wooden stick and slowly mashed the fruit herbs in the wooden barrel.
After tossing these, it was already dark. I found a dozen nests and put some water on the table. Lu Yu poured some of the wild honey into the jam and began to stir it slowly.
According to the tradition, it takes at least twenty-four hours to stir, after which the barrel must be completely sealed and aged in a shady place for at least six months before it is considered successful.
The moon sets and the sun rises, and the sun sets and the moon rises......
Lu Yu stirred for a few hours, then added some wild honey to it, drank some water when he was hungry, and gnawed on the two nests, so that the two days and nights passed quietly, and the house was already full of the sweet fragrance of fruits.
After two days and nights of not closing his eyes, Lu Yu was already extremely sleepy, but in order to avoid falling short, he still decided to stir for a few more hours.
While stirring, Lu Yu took out the stone beads from his waist and played with them in his hands.
In the past two days, Lu Yu has taken out the stone beads several times to watch, but no matter how you look at it, it has not changed. After thinking and meditating, Lu Yu couldn't figure out what the origin of the stone bead would be, and how it could contain this monkey wine inheritance. It's just that he vaguely feels that this stone bead can bring the inheritance to him, and I'm afraid it has something to do with absorbing the power of the lightning strike on his body that day.
While stirring, while thinking wildly, it was late at night in the blink of an eye.
"Leave it for a few hours, and you can seal it!" looked at the jam in the bucket, and felt quite satisfied. Stretching, Lu Yu lay on the table and fell asleep slowly.
Outside the window, a full moon hangs high in the sky, the moon is like water, splashing all over the ground, but it is a rare clear night.
Lu Yu, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly shook his whole body, grabbed his left hand forward, and the stone bead that was originally in his hand was struck twice on the table, and fell into the barrel with a "plop"!
Lu Yu muttered something indistinctly, clicked his mouth twice, and fell asleep again.
After a few sticks of incense, the jam in the barrel suddenly "gurgled" softly, and a bubble swelled out! After a while, a second and a third ......
Before long, the barrel was filled with bubbles.
A ray of moonlight peeked through the crack in the window. As if attracted by some kind of object, Yuehua twisted strangely into wisps of cyan silk thread, and slowly floated into the barrel.
As more and more cyan threads drifted into the barrel, a hint of the aroma of wine faintly emanated!
Under the continuous slight sound of "pop pop", the bubbles in the barrel burst one by one, fused with the cyan silk thread, and finally dissipated in the jam.
When the bubbles disappear completely, the originally sticky jam seems to have become a little thinner.
After a while, there was another slight "grunt", and a bubble reappeared in the barrel.
When the bubbles were filled again, another moonlight peeked in through the window, turned into cyan silk threads, and threw them into the barrel......
Gradually, the shadow of the moon sank in the west, and the mutation in the barrel also stopped, and the hut was quiet again.
A rooster crows somewhere in the town, and after a while, the sound of roosters crowing was one after another.
Lu Yu, who was lying on the table, moved slightly and woke up from his sleep.
There was a rich sweet smell in the nose, and as soon as Lu Yu lowered his head, he saw the wooden barrel at his feet.
"What is this?" I saw that most of the original half of the jam had disappeared. Instead, there are layers of cracked peels and a small pool of green water at the bottom of the barrel!
"Inferior monkey wine!" Lu Yu was taken aback.
According to the inheritance in his head, he vaguely felt that a small pool of green water at the bottom of this barrel seemed to be a low-grade monkey wine!
Lu Yu stretched out his hand and wanted to dip his fingers into a little taste.
"Stone beads?" As soon as he got closer, he saw the stone beads at the bottom of the barrel.
Lu Yu's heart shook suddenly!
He clearly remembers that he held the stone beads in his hands before going to bed!
As soon as he scooped up the stone beads, Lu Yu's heart jumped.
"Could it be...... Is this stone bead?" Lu Yu was not a stupid person, but he had vaguely guessed something with a slight turn of thought. It's just that this stone bead turned jam made from ordinary fruits into low-grade monkey wine overnight!
Stretched out his right hand, dipped his index finger in some wine, put it to his lips and tasted it slightly, only to feel a cool breath penetrating from between his lips and tongue, instantly reaching his chest and abdomen, and finally turning into a trace of warmth, making his whole body very comfortable!
"Spirit wine! Taste monkey wine!" Lu Yu twisted his thigh suddenly, grinning his teeth in pain, but he laughed out loud!
"I know! I know! How can this stone bead that appears from the fire refining ore be a mortal thing!" Lu Yu pressed the stone bead tightly to his heart, and his face was flushed under the agitation of his heart, and he couldn't control himself for a while......