Dare to cook

Chapter 254

"Probably." Li Cheng listened to Yao Yu's questioning, and said, "Your second uncle is a very outstanding person, and he is also very warm-hearted."

Also very warm-hearted?
When Yao Yu heard this, his heart suddenly moved, and he guessed:

Could it be that this Li Cheng, like his master, owed his second uncle a favor before?
Li Cheng looked Yao Yu up and down, and felt more and more that he really looked like Yao Yunjian.

However, no matter how similar Yao Yu and Yao Yunjian look.There are some things that Li Cheng still won't mention to this junior.

Seeing that Yao Yu still wanted to ask something, he interrupted in advance, and said, "Do you want the mulberry bar? Then come with me."

After speaking, Li Cheng took Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu to a factory building.

Just as Yao Yu had guessed in advance.

The factories of Li Cheng Winery are all converted from old granaries.

These factory buildings looked dilapidated from the outside, but after walking in, Yao Yu realized that the inside had been tidied up very cleanly.

In the rectangular factory building with an area of ​​nearly [-] square meters, there are two sets of fruit wine self-brewing machines and distillation coolers.

Behind the distillation cooler, more than 200 two-meter-high stainless steel fruit wine fermentation tanks are neatly stacked.

These huge fermentation tanks are the containers that Li Cheng uses to store the fermented mulberry wine.

The scene in front of him was different from what Yao Yu expected.

Yao Yu also thought that Li Cheng would use traditional thick and large wine tanks to make wine.

But now, judging from these modern brewing equipment, Li Cheng is not as old-fashioned as he seems on the surface.

Perhaps, his previous refusal to expand the production scale of mulberry wine was really just limited by the supply of raw materials.

Each of these fruit wine fermentation tanks in Li Cheng's factory can store 125 liters of mulberry wine.

Li Cheng and Yao Yu walked directly past the fruit wine fermentation tanks and opened a door at the end of the factory.

Yao Yu stepped into the gate and took a look, only to find that there were hundreds of huge wine barrels stacked on the second floor of the factory building.

"These barrels..."

"These wine barrels are all made of oak and mulberry." Li Cheng seemed to guess what Yao Yu wanted to ask, and said:
"If you want to make good fruit wine, you must have a good container."

"Your second uncle was also an expert in winemaking during his lifetime. I think he should have told you that wine brewed in fermentation tanks is completely different from wine brewed in oak barrels."

"Especially when making red wine, tiny amounts of oxygen are needed to 'breathe' the color and tannins to form stable phenolic compounds."

"The fine texture of the oak barrel just allows a small amount of oxygen to penetrate and contact the wine, and at the same time does not allow the wine to directly contact the air in a large area, so it can just meet the environmental requirements of wine aging."

"That's the main reason why good wine must be made in oak barrels."

"I improved this brewing principle and made a wine barrel suitable for brewing mulberry wine."

"Over the years, my mulberry wine has been selling well in the Kitchen Association, which is also thanks to these special wine barrels."

Perhaps because he talked about his favorite major, Li Cheng talked a lot more at the moment.

While explaining, he brought Yao Yu and the others to a big wine barrel in the corner, pointed at the barrel and said:
"This is filled with last year's aged wine, a total of 180 liters. It is also the best batch of last year's batch of mulberry wine. If you sincerely want to buy wine, I can sell it to you for Yao Yunjian's sake."

Yao Yu looked at the big wine barrel, and when he heard Li Cheng's words, his eyes straightened.

What is the concept of 180 liters of wine?
The water heater that is enough for 3-4 people in an ordinary family is 60 liters.

The volume of 180 liters of wine is equivalent to the size of three water heaters filled with water.

Yao Yu and Lu Chenyu came here by taxi, and their hands were empty.

Now that Li Cheng suddenly said that he could sell the wine to him, Yao Yu couldn't get it away for a while.

Buying alcohol is an excuse.

Yao Yu didn't come here to buy mulberry wine at all.

At this time, Yao Yu also realized the loopholes in his excuses.

After all, if you came out to buy things sincerely, how could you be empty-handed, not even a scooter.

At this time, Li Cheng also looked at Yao Yu deeply and asked: "Are you really here to buy wine?"

"No." The lie was on the verge of being exposed, and Yao Yu didn't pretend anymore.

He looked at Li Cheng and said, "Actually, I made a special trip to visit you."

"Visiting me? Are you also here for the recipe of mulberry wine?" Li Cheng frowned, and his expression when he looked at Yao Yu seemed to become colder.

Yao Yu nodded, shook his head again, and said:

"I'm indeed interested in the recipe of mulberry wine, but I'm not very interested. Mainly, I'm a little curious about why you don't want to expand production now that you've brewed such outstanding mulberry wine."

"Then you have the answer now?" Li Cheng looked at him and said.

He knew very well that the sound insulation of the house he lived in was mediocre, and he hadn't closed the door or deliberately lowered the volume when he was talking with Chen Dongxue.

As long as Yao Yu's ears are fine, he must have more or less heard what he said to Chen Dongxue.

Yao Yu nodded again and said:
"I heard part of it. Are you really going to accept Chen Dongxue's proposal and sell her the formula?"

"This has nothing to do with you." Li Cheng said lightly.

Yao Yu acted as if he didn't hear it, and said:

"If you sell her the ownership of the recipe, then you won't be able to brew and sell mulberry wine in the future."

"And after Chen Dongxue got the formula, it is very likely that in order to pursue profits, he will first release a batch of 'lower version', or 'defective' mulberry wine."

"At that time, consumers may think that the mulberry wine you developed is nothing special, and it's just so delicious."

"Therefore, I'm a little curious. Are you really going to sell your hard work to merchants, and let them turn your mulberry wine into low-quality assembly line goods for money?"

As soon as Yao Yu's words came out, it was like hitting Li Cheng's heart.

But how can winemakers and designers with craftsman spirit want their hard work to be ruined casually.

Li Cheng himself knew that it was impossible to expect Chen Dongxue to make wine strictly according to his own standards.

It is the nature of a businessman to seek profit.

It's like, if selling Alto is more profitable than selling Audi, then Audi manufacturers certainly don't mind lowering the standard on the designer's original design and launching some low-end cars that are more popular.

However, because of some things, Li Cheng has been in a hurry to spend money recently.

If he is not willing to sell the formula to Chen Dongxue, how can he raise a huge sum of money that is urgently needed?

Could it be that Yao Yu in front of him could offer a better price than Chen Dongxue?

Li Cheng's face was expressionless, and he was thinking slightly in his heart.

At the same time, Yao Yu also seemed to see through Li Cheng's thoughts, and suddenly smiled and said:
"Senior Li. If you really want to sell the formula, you can actually consider other buyers. For example... me!"

(End of this chapter)