Chapter 67: The Hollow Years (5)
The circular cave was only one meter five or six, and Xu Mo had to bend down and bow his body before he could enter the cave.
After entering, walked about a dozen steps inside, the cave suddenly turned to the right, Xu Mo hesitated, and then walked forward one after another, at this time the sunlight has not shone in at all, the sight in the cave is very dark, if it is not for his vision far better than ordinary people, most of them can no longer see things.
But Rao is so, in his eyes, the surrounding stone walls also look dark and blurry.
Suddenly there were a few screams of mango 'chirp' behind him, and it followed in. Xu Mo glanced back, but saw that it was terrified, and a pair of eyes kept looking around behind him, but he followed him firmly. I couldn't help but think to myself: although Mango is a monkey, he is loyal to me, and he is afraid of death, but he refuses to leave me alone to take risks.
Mango followed behind Xu Mo, but kept gesturing in his hands, as if he was still persuading him not to go in.
Xu Mo smiled and continued to move forward, the more the cave went inward, the darker it became, and after walking more than ten meters, it suddenly opened up, and the height changed from one meter five or six to more than two meters, Xu Mo walked in it, and he could already straighten his waist. But the more I walked, the more surprised I became, the shape of this cave was very regular from beginning to end, either round or oval, and the stone walls were smooth, definitely not naturally formed.
After walking for a distance, the cave suddenly appeared a fork, divided into two, Xu Mo stood at the junction of the road, and looked at the two forks respectively, the inside of the fork was dark and deep, and I didn't know how far it was in front of the road.
Mango suddenly screamed, jumped out of the road, stretched out his arms, and stopped in front of Xu Mo, obviously preventing him from entering the fork in the road.
In fact, even if it doesn't stop it, Xu Mo will not dare to go deeper at this point. Despite this, he was still moved in his heart, and couldn't help but reach out and touch Mango's head, and smiled: "Okay, don't worry, I'm not going in." ”
Mango seemed to understand his words, and his expression relaxed, but he still didn't let go.
At this moment, a low roar suddenly came from inside the cave, the sound was not loud, but it was extremely heavy and turbid, coming from the very depths of the cave, surprisingly, the place where the sound came from seemed to be extremely far away from Xu Mo's position, but after such a long distance, the sound did not weaken at all.
Xu Mo couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, this voice sounded very familiar, it seemed to be the sound he heard on the day he first exercised his sense of touch.
At the same time, he noticed that after hearing this voice, Mango's body trembled even more violently, it looked back at the fork in the road, its expression was extremely frightened, and suddenly swished, jumped behind Xu Mo, and hid. Looking at its frightened appearance, it seems that in the depths of the cave, a monster will come out at any time.
Then the monster screamed again, this time with a hint of anger in its voice, as if it had spotted them and was driving them away.
Xu Mo was startled, and immediately felt an extremely dangerous aura coming from the depths of the cave, and he didn't dare to continue to stay, and said to Mango: "Let's get out of here." So he took it and fled out of the cave.
It wasn't until they got out of the cave that one man and one monkey breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the monster in the cave didn't know what was going on, so he didn't come out to chase after him.
Xu Mo took the mango and walked away. After this incident, he realized the danger, remembered this place thoroughly, and made up his mind that he would never come back to this place unless something special happened.
The monster lived in the depths of the cave and rarely came out, so he and Xu Mo were fine. And although Xu Mo knew that it lived nearby, for a long time, he didn't see its true face, and he didn't know what kind of monster it was.
On this day, the wind and the sun were beautiful, Xu Mo remembered his original intention to make wine, so he did not delay any longer, and began to prepare, he first made several large vats with clay, fired them, and then steamed the mangoes, put them in the vats, and covered them with lids to ferment.
The Mango family didn't know what he was doing, but they all came to help, these monkeys may not be able to do other things, collecting firewood and making fires are quite good, especially when working, the mouth 'chirps' non-stop, beating and noisy, very lively, but also adds some fun to the busy manual labor, so that it is not too boring.
Xu Mo has no experience in winemaking, and the methods used are all figured out by himself, so it is inevitable that he will make mistakes and make mistakes several times, but the result is that the effort is in vain, but the wine is not brewed.
But he was not in a hurry, according to his patience, he tried it again and again, and gradually found the trick, and finally got the wine out.
At this time, the liquor was mixed with the mango residue left over from fermentation, and strictly speaking, it was not considered wine, so he found some bamboo in the mountains, hollowed it out to use as a conduit, and began to distill the liquor.
He distilled it in this way, and the wine obtained was still very turbid, especially mixed with a strong mango flavor, which completely covered up the taste of alcohol. Xu Mo had to distill it a few more times.
Once you've figured out the process of sake brewing, the steps that follow are much simpler.
At this time, the taste of the wine was still very ordinary, not to mention that compared with the natural wine obtained by mango and the tree hole, even the inferior liquor he bought in the supermarket was far inferior.
But this is not difficult for Xu Mo at all, his strong sense of taste gives him the ability to turn decay into magic, and what he is best at is the improvement of taste. He gathered some spices from the mountains, put them in wine, mixed them and distilled them.
In this way, the flavor of the spices is completely integrated into the wine, and the original choking taste of the inferior alcohol is mixed into a unique fragrance. The fragrance emanates from the depths of the soul, and you don't have to drink the wine, just smelling this taste, you are already drunk.
At this time, the mango wine he brewed was already the best in the world in terms of taste alone. But Xu Mo's mind was far more than that, he added some herbs to the wine that nourished qi and nourished the spirits and replenished the deficiency and qi, and the wine further became a medicinal wine.
Long-term drinking, not to mention longevity, will also be able to prolong life, physical fitness light, in old age, eyes do not flower, ears do not deaf.
On the day the medicinal wine was brewed, he invited the Mango family to taste it, and after the five monkeys drank it, they went crazy for a while. They couldn't speak, and they couldn't tell whether Xu Mo's self-brewed medicinal wine was good or bad, but the only thing that was clear was that since that day, the five monkeys had completely forgotten about the wine in the hollow and never asked any more.
Xu Mo made another batch of clay pots, put the medicinal wine in the clay pots, sealed them with large leaves, wrapped them with withered grass, dug a cellar, and hid them inside. Take it out at your leisure and drink a bowl of it, and your life will become more moist and colorful.
Before I knew it, another few months passed, and the longan became an adult from a small monkey. Star fruit and orange are the same size as two monkeys, and they happen to be a female and a male, so they are automatically matched into a pair.
Xu Mo's tactile exercise has encountered a bottleneck, and if nothing happens, it seems that it will be difficult to improve.
On this day, he came down from the mountain to cultivate his state of mind, and when he passed by the mango family's shack, he heard a few monkey cries coming from the shack, and subconsciously glanced in that direction.
This time is the time when the monkeys are in heat, the star fruit and the orange have gone, the mango and the grape are intertwining in the shack, and the longan is hiding in a big tree outside the shack to peek.
Xu Mo saw it, smiled slightly, and walked away lightly for a distance, monkeys are the same as people, they have a sense of shame, not long ago he inadvertently broke the good thing of star fruit and orange, and the two monkeys hurriedly separated, and under the shyness, the monkey's ass was red like something.
Mango and Grape didn't see him, but heard the movement of the longan on the big tree, and quickly stopped, Mango shouted at the longan a few times, looking angry, and Grape picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the longan.
The dragon's eye grabbed the branch, swung to another tree, and fled into the woods in a hurry.
Xu Mo was idle, so he went to the mountain to catch a rabbit, went to the lake to kill it, washed and skinned it. His cultivation of quiet breathing has long been to the extreme, almost reaching the realm of Bigu, every meal can support at least ten days or even half a month, and he is busy exercising his state of mind, if he doesn't eat, he rarely cooks for a few monkeys by himself.
The monkey has an impatient temperament, although he has learned to cook soup, and Xu Mo has prepared a good seasoning to use, but he has never made a mess, even if the soup is cooked, it is usually half-baked, far from the taste that Xu Mo made by himself.
Over time, he gradually became lazy and rarely cooked soup anymore.
But every time Xu Mo cooks soup with his own hands, he must eat it, and he refuses to stop until his stomach is swollen and he can't walk.
Xu Mo was in a good mood this day, and he expected to boil a can of rabbit broth, and the five monkeys must like it.
He killed the rabbit by the lake, cleaned it, and made a jar of water from a clay pot, and carried it in his hand, and when he was about to go back, he inadvertently looked up at the hillside, but saw the dragon's eye hanging upside down on a big tree, climbing the branch with one hand, and building a pergola with the other, looking to the other side of the mountain.
The distance between the lake and the top of the mountain is quite far, and there are layers of barriers, if it weren't for Xu Mo's strong vision, from such a long distance, he really couldn't distinguish the dragon's eye.
The dragon's expression looked a little heavy, and he looked worried, as if he was worried about something.
This kind of anthropomorphic look appeared on the monkey's body, but it was extremely rare, Xu Mo couldn't help but be secretly surprised when he saw it. He didn't have time to think about what the dragon's eye would look like for a while, but it was expected to be related to the estrus period.
He shook his head and smiled, then ignored it, returned to the place of the earthen stove, and made a fire to make soup.
When the broth was cooked, the smell was dissipated, and when the five monkeys smelled it, they immediately gathered together. They finally waited for Xu Mo to cook the soup by himself, and their expressions were very excited. Even the dragon's eye seems to have forgotten its sorrow for the time being.
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