Wear to the Ming Dynasty to farm

As Qiao Jiwei recruited fifteen people this time, five of them were actually from the village.After all, Qiao Jiwei couldn't trust this group of outsiders too much, so he recruited people from his village. It was expected that the southerners would not be able to cause much trouble.

Wang Wu heard that Qiao Jiwei was looking for a job, and he was the first to sign up again.This person is considered a master in the village for taking advantage. Thinking about the few times Qiao Jiwei had just invented a food or utensil, he was always the first to smell the smell of copper, so it can be said that he was not alert.But Qiao Jiwei also knew about his tricks, but he just saw through and didn't tell.As long as he doesn't do things that harm the interests of the Qian family, let him go.

On the second day, these people went to work on time, and Qiao Jiwei shilled half of the people to pick corn tillers to prepare wine koji, which was the first step in wine making.Qiao Jiwei asked the other half to grind the corn and wheat to make the content of distiller's yeast.The so-called distiller's koji is to add the juice of the koji to the wild chrysanthemum wheat flour and other things to cultivate various fungi such as mold and yeast.

Wang Wu has a clever mind, but his hands and feet are a little loose. Qiao Jiwei followed his characteristics and asked him to do some delicate tasks that don't require much effort.

The wine-making process is extremely complicated. None of these people have made wine before, and they don't understand the wine-making process at all. Letting these fifteen people make wine can be said to drive ducks to the shelves.

So Qiao Jiwei became the leader of this craft. If anyone encountered any problems, they would ask Qiao Jiwei.Therefore, Qiao Jiwei couldn't leave for a while, and stayed on the sidelines.

It suddenly occurred to him that the sorghum at home might not be enough, so he sent a southerner to collect sorghum outside.

Qiao Jiwei thought that the yield of sorghum was low, and it must be more expensive.Calculated on the basis of two liters of wheat and one liter of sorghum, the price of wheat rose a little in autumn. If so, one liter of sorghum would cost six cents.

The southerners are meticulous and agile in their work, and they have done the work Qiao Jiwei arranged for them to perfection in less than noon.

Just at this time, the sorghum harvesters ran all over the nearby villages and harvested more than a dozen buckets of sorghum. The sorghum grains looked plump and shiny, and they were all newly harvested this year.Qiao Jiwei took advantage of this time to let these people cook the sorghum into a paste, and after all this was done, the autumn sun had entered the western mountain, and the decayed grass in the mountains was shining brightly.

When these people got the money, they all had a happy face, and they happily returned to their residences in various places.Especially in the south, after receiving the cash after experiencing the once-in-a-decade flood this year, it was like seeing an oasis on the Gobi Desert in the Northwest, which really relieved the urgent need.

But the money is also the result of their own labor, so they can feel at ease when they get the money. Qiao Jiwei is so clever here—it’s not about giving things to others without thinking, but letting them work for themselves, so that both parties will gain profit.

At this moment, Jade came over with a shy face again, and handed Qiao Jiwei an orchid. "today's!"

At this time, Qian Dayong was still in the sorghum field and had never returned home.

Qiao Jiwei pursed his lips: "You delivered it diligently, your wings are hardened, but you don't take my master seriously."

Fei Cui turned her head, "Master, I am doing it for your own good."

"Really?" Qiao Jiwei asked back.

About half an hour later, Qian Dayong came back from outside. Qiao Jiwei was cooking dye in the courtyard, and the orchid was under his feet.

Qian Dayong pretended to glance at it casually: "This flower is quite beautiful, who sent it?"

Qiao Jiwei clicked his tongue, "Who knows which bastard is so full that he's fine, and gave me this stuff." Qiao Jiwei didn't learn anything else in ancient times in the past few months, but he was proficient in nonsense.

Qian Dayong's face turned pale all of a sudden, "Maybe he has good intentions too."

Qiao Jiwei refused, "Be so kind as to be idle!"

Qian Dayong: "..."

These days, Qiao Jiwei and the group of winemakers are very busy. The fermentation process requires more than a dozen small steps, and each step takes at least half a day.Then let the grain and wheat bran mix and hang on the ground, and then stop working temporarily.

After the grain was dried, these people put the raw materials of fermented wine into more than [-] large vats.This process must be carefully grasped, and a little carelessness may make the wine sour.

These days, there was some discord among these people for some reason, and Qiao Jiwei also saw that the locals didn't get along well with these southerners when they supervised the work these days.Although they seem to work in harmony, they don't gossip if there is no important matter. Even if they speak, they speak in a polite and distant tone, and their accents are also different, making it difficult to communicate together.From this point of view, it can be said that these people are at odds with each other.

So Qiao Jiwei secretly told Qian Dayong what he had observed. Qian Dayong was not very good at observing words and expressions, and couldn't see the details of the undercurrent between these people, so he said: "The relationship between these dozen people is not very good. Well, you work like a tiger, and you speak politely, I think you are just a little suspicious."

Qiao Jiwei raised his eyebrows in anger, and poked Qian Dayong's temple with his finger: "You are a dead-headed person, and we can still see these people's troubles? Have you ever seen someone working in the field so quietly all the time?"

Qian Dayong was poked to the point of tilting his head. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that it really made sense, just like Qiao Jiwei, but he had never spoken politely to him. If something he said touched his heart, it seemed to be some curse words Can greet him.

So Qian Dayong took the initiative to join the wine making team, and Qian Dayong secretly brokered the relationship between the two groups. Seeing that Qian Dayong joined in, the locals came forward to tease him because they saw Qian Dayong being honest, but Qian Dayong himself did not feel violated.Seeing such an atmosphere, the southerners also relaxed, and even shared some stories and jokes in the rest room, and the relationship between everyone has been strengthened a lot.

These days, Qiao Jiwei would receive a yellow orchid every day. I don't know which girl or Deng Tuzi gave it to him.I don't know how Qian Dayong took so much spare time to pick flowers.Qiao Jiwei has been busy making wine, so he didn't pursue it in detail.

After the grain is put into the vat, there is an intermission period. These people have nothing to do, and they go back to their homes.

There are also some southerners in the village who were not recruited to make wine, but they were also encouraged to find work in various villages, and earned some rice, noodles or money for a living.

During the ten days of fermentation, Qian Dayong didn't need jade to pick orchids. Qian Dayong picked orchids everywhere on the mountain, and put them at home where Qiao Jiwei could see them.On the table, on the bed, on the cupboard, there were traces of yellow on Qiao Jiwei's black linen clothes, but before Qiao Jiwei could see them, these orchids were taken away one by one by Qian's mother, and they made a pot of orchids with eggs and lean meat. broth.

Mother Qian put a pot of orchid egg and lean meat soup into the rice bowl and put it on the table, showing off to the three people in the family: "Look at what I made!"

Qian Dayong was annoyed when he saw the face of this pot of day lily turned black during dinner.Fei Cui's complexion was not good either, she glared fiercely at Mother Qian.

Qian's mother didn't know, so she said, "What are you looking at? Eat! These small eyes are as open as cross-eyed. If you have an eye disease, go to the doctor."

Jade fought back: "Hmph! Why are you so ungrateful!"

Mother Qian slammed her chopsticks on the table, "You little hoof, no matter how indifferent you are, I'll ask Dayong to slap you on the mouth!"

Qian Dayong's face was still dark: "I won't fight!"

Qiao Jiwei covered his mouth and smiled, seeing Jade's expression, he mistakenly thought that Jade himself liked him, so he used the orchid to express his love to him.

He sipped the soup with relish, mouth smacking, but Qiao Jiwei's performance was watched by Qian Dayong, and his face was drawn long because of it.The four people at the dinner table have their own concerns, and the tastes they eat are different, ups and downs.

Qiao Jiwei took time the next day to call Fei Cui aside, and said earnestly: "Ji Cui, don't think about people you shouldn't think about. You and I are master and servant, and I know you are beautiful, but..."

Before Qiao Jiwei finished speaking, Fei Cui interrupted: "Young Master, what are you talking about?"

Qiao Jiwei raised his forehead, he didn't expect such a stupid girl, "You give me orchids every day, I still can't see what you mean?"

Jade was taken aback for a moment, she didn't expect the young master to think of this level.But Qian Dayong had confessed in advance that he couldn't reveal him, so he put on a look of a young girl who is full of spring: "Master, I really like you."

Qiao Jiwei didn't expect Fei Cui to speak so bluntly, and he simply refused: "Impossible."

Fei Cui decided to play the trick to the end, and then burst into tears, with a pair of black eyes expressing sadness, "Master~"

"Crying is useless."

Nine days later, Qiao Jiwei reckoned that time was enough, so he and Qian Dayong went to the county town to discuss business with ceramics. The pottery pot was quite large, with a dark brown and shiny surface, and it looked good.

Merchants price each clay pot at five cents, but if they buy more, they can reduce the price as appropriate.

In the end, Qiao Jiwei bought [-] clay pots, and then returned to the village to gather people to steam the wine.

Fragrant wines have always been steamed in wooden retorts. For the water used for steaming wines, Qiao Jiwei thought about using better mountain spring water.Qian Dayong carried the load to the mountain by himself, going up and down several times a day.

Qiao Jiwei is very concerned about the quality of mountain spring water. Every time Qian Dayong picks it up, he has to taste it. These days, the Qian family is doing better and better. Drugs in the spring water.Although these ten people have worked with Qiao Jiwei for more than half a month, but people's hearts are unpredictable, and only Qian Dayong can completely trust them.

In the past two days, the courtyard of Qian Dayong's family has been filled with the aroma of wine, and people three miles away can smell it, just like ten miles of incense.

The drinking men in the village looked over to Qian's house from time to time and exchanged opinions.

A man said: "Good wine!"

The other man said angrily: "You haven't drunk it, how do you know it's good wine?"

The man said: "How much wine have I drank in my life, how can I still not understand? Let me tell you, I can judge the quality of this wine just by smelling it."

In the end, the wine was filled into hundreds of clay jugs. Qiao Jiwei then announced the completion of the project and gave each of the fifteen people a jug of wine. The fifteen people smiled after receiving the wine, and when they said goodbye, they shouted: "There is work in the future, don't forget Call us men!"

Qiao Jiwei said, "Definitely."

These individuals are not willing to drink the wine when they get it, and plan to hide it for a while and drink it after the New Year.

After making so much wine at once, Qian Dayong went down to the cellar and dug the hole a few meters deep before filling all the wine.