Rebirth in another world is good for farming

On the fourth day, the smell of alcohol in the tank became stronger and stronger. Zhang Xiaoliu got up early that day, went to wash up, dried his hands, and carefully opened the lid.

When it was put down, the white glutinous rice had turned into light yellow wine, and a lot of liquid could be seen.Zhang Xiaoliu twirled a small ball of wine and tasted it first. The wine smelled sweet with beans, and it tasted good.But whether the brewing is successful or not depends on whether the good momentum can be maintained in the next few days.Sometimes a new wine tastes good for the first day or two after opening, but later it becomes pungent and the alcohol concentration is too high because of the improper temperature.He stretched his hand in anxiously, turned up the wine cellar on the lower floor, and felt that it was still warm inside, so he was really relieved.

"Brother Liu, is this wine brewed?" Zhao Zhengze, who was next to him, could tell from his expression that the result should be good, but he still asked.

Zhang Xiaoliu put the lid back as it was, clicked his tongue and said, "It looks like it should be fine, just be careful these few days, don't let it get cold."

"Okay, I'll watch." Zhao Zhengze agreed, and asked again: "You only went to the wine shop for a while, how did you think that you can sell Doumen's brewed wine? I never knew that the wine was brewed in this way." of."

"It was the shopkeeper Huo himself who recommended this kind of wine to me for health benefits, and it is easy to sell. There are not enough in his shop, so I want to try it."

"You really have a way, but it's too hard for you to make so much wine by yourself. I've seen you do it. Let me do it next time." Zhao Zhengze was happy in his heart. His brother is so capable, so proud of him.But compared to himself, he couldn't help being frustrated, and he couldn't help him with anything.For a moment, I was tangled in my heart, and wanted to pat my chest and say that I would support you, but in fact Zhang Xiaoliu did a lot more.

"Okay, next time I'll ask you to brew it for me." Zhang Xiaoliu has heard of it before, and he is also picky about wine.The method is like this, almost everyone knows how to brew it after seeing it, but the quality of the final wine is very different.If there are any skills, it may be the details of how much koji is used and how cold the rice should be.And even if the steps are exactly the same, the taste of the brewed wine is different.But he didn't know when the next time would be, and he didn't hit him when he heard Zhao Zhengze say so.

The weather was too hot, and after only two days, the surface of the pieces of white tofu left by Zhang Xiaoliu to make moldy tofu turned pale yellow and gave off a strange smell.Although this smell makes people can't help covering their noses, moldy tofu is only made after the tofu becomes moldy.

Seeing that the time was about the same, Zhang Xiaoliu cut them into finger-sized cubes according to his previous memory, and then heated a hot pan to fry half a bowl of salt.Roll the moldy tofu cubes into the hot salt bowl, so that each piece of moldy tofu is coated with salt grains on all sides, and it is the moldy tofu that goes well with rice.The moldy tofu marinated in this way can be stored for a long time. Almost every family will make some moldy tofu for daily consumption as long as they make new tofu.

One morning, after he finished working on these, Maimai fed the chickens too.There were a few more hens laying eggs in the past few days. The most hens picked up nine eggs a day, and sometimes there were six eggs.Now they divide the chickens into four cages and keep them free.Although the initial idea was to kill the chickens and eat them, but at this time, everyone was reluctant.Either he wanted to gain some fat, or he wanted to keep the raw eggs, even the most gluttonous Xiao Song didn't say a word.

It is said that the fields are busy in the busy season, and the hills are in the slack season, because they have already collected some firewood, so they are really free at this time.Except for going to the fields every day to look at the rice fields, they almost arrange their own affairs.Mai Mai is working hard to finish the shoes she is making. Yesterday, she invited Fulai to do it together. Today, after feeding the chickens, she went to Dashun's house early.Zhang Xiaoliu took his clothes and went out to do the washing, while Zhao Zhengze split the firewood he picked up a few days ago at home, and Xiaosong followed him, drying the chopped firewood in the open space.

Zhang Xiaoliu was very satisfied with everyone being so conscientious and diligent, even humming while rubbing clothes.He was the only one washing clothes under the bamboo tree at the moment, so he couldn't be more comfortable.While I was on the verge of excitement, I suddenly heard the rustling footsteps of someone stepping on the bamboo forest above, so I stopped singing and began to wash in a proper manner.

"Hey, Brother Liu, it's so early today." After a while, the visitor had turned around the bamboo forest, and came down with a wooden bucket in his hand, talking to Zhang Xiaoliu with a smile.

"It's so early, Shui Qing, why are you late today?" Zhang Xiaoliu wiped his face with cold water, looked at the visitor and asked.He is quite familiar with the people who often come here to wash clothes. Shuiqing is the first one almost every day. There is a younger brother in his family who cooks, and he always washes and hangs the clothes before breakfast.

"Hey, I was supposed to come early in the morning, so Jiatong came over and said a few words to me, so he didn't come until after dinner." Shui Qingmomo said as she poured out her clothes.

"It doesn't matter, let others take the lead today, so as not to say that Shuiqing will be the first one every day, it's so boring." Zhang Xiaoliu now knows how to follow their train of thought, so he joked like this.After hearing this, Shui Qing smiled cheerfully.

He enjoyed himself for a while, took out the soap cocoon and rubbed the clothes in his hands, and glanced over Zhang Xiaoliu several times hesitant to speak.Zhang Xiaoliu knew that he must have heard something again and wanted to discuss it with someone, but unfortunately only the two of them were there at this time.He pretended not to see, and lowered his head to wash his clothes.Although he can hear big and small things in the village almost every day here, he has never been involved.

"Brother Liu, I heard that you have raised dozens of hens?" She couldn't talk about the matter at hand, Shui Qing had no one to talk to, it was really boring, after watching for a long time, she finally couldn't help it, and asked.

"Where did you hear about Shui Qing? How can I have such a great ability? In the first half of the year, I caught [-] chickens in the market, and they haven't grown up yet!" Zhang Xiaoliu's scalp tingled when he heard it. If he admits "dozens of them", maybe there will be hundreds of them in someone else's mouth if he turns around, so he quickly corrected the number.

"Twenty or so?" Shui Qing was amazed at this number, he himself thought it was just a false rumor, but now it was confirmed.Then he said with envy: "Brother Liu is really capable, our family's Ye Zi is one year older than you, so he can only cook and help in the busy farming work, and can't do anything..."

Zhang Xiaoliu is silent, it's really hard to say about this kind of thing, if the family doesn't need to spend their time thinking about everything, who wouldn't want to be more relaxed and ignorant.Shui Qing would not understand this truth, otherwise she would not be thinking about it every day outside, and the children at home would still be the same.

"Shuiqing can't say that. Ye Zi is a good fortune. With such a capable father, our family can't help it." It's not like adding salt to the wound, Zhang Xiaoliu simply satisfies what he wants. The psychology of people's praise.

"Now I've made him lazy enough. What can I do when I get to Fulang's house? I can't do it if my hands and feet are not diligent..." Shui Qing said it with satisfaction. Ye Zi is looking for a good marriage.

Zhang Xiaoliu listened to him silently, echoing a few words from time to time.

"By the way, brother Liu, I heard that you make wine at home?" Shui Qing talked in detail for a long time, but it didn't arouse any more resonance and lost interest.Turning his mind, he asked again.

We live in the same village, not to mention that two houses can’t cover anything, even if you go to the village to grind rice and grind soybean milk, and see what you bring back from the market, others will know what kind of life your family lives.So Zhang Xiaoliu used to buy things in a secret way, and yesterday he met so many people who asked questions along the way to grind the soymilk.He didn't specifically tell Komatsu and the others that they couldn't tell about the brewing, but now that someone knows about it, it may not be them who spread the word.

"Yeah, isn't it slack for farming? I don't have the strength to go to the mountains to pick firewood, so I have to think about it at home." Zhang Xiaoliu looked at his seemingly curious expression, and suddenly felt that there was no need to cover up these things, so he said simply.

"That's why Brother Liu is capable of brewing wine. Not many people in our village dare to do this. Last year I changed glutinous rice, but I asked Madam Li to make it for me." Shui Qing said sourly, and was caught A teenager in his teens would be lying if he said he didn't find it ugly.

"I'm also a fool, I don't know if it will work yet!" Zhang Xiaoliu didn't want to talk too much, otherwise more people would come to inquire.He raised his hand, rinsed casually, wrung out the last piece of clothing and put it in the bucket, saying: "Shui Qing, I'll go back first."

Shui Qing seemed to be talking more than enough, but seeing that he was already holding the bucket in his hand, he could only say "hmm" reluctantly.

Some people may not have subjective malice towards you, but they can't help but spy on other people's lives.When you see someone who is worse than you, you will go around feeling sorry for you with a pitiful look; if you live better than him, it will inevitably be unpleasant, and you must always find out what is better than you and say a few words.

Zhang Xiaoliu can't say that he hates people with such a temperament. After all, everyone has a dark side in their hearts. People like Shuiqing are just talking about it, and occasionally care about his life. Normally, he can handle it well, but today A little impetuous.Because I don't have the blessing of the elders, I have to be capable.They can't empathize with this truth, so it can be used as a topic of discussion.Zhang Xiaoliu couldn't stop others from guessing, but thinking about it another way, if he could make money, the impression that his family had always made others feel poor could be slightly changed.

When he got home, Zhao Zhengze had finished chopping the firewood, and the small pieces of firewood were scattered in front of the house, and the two of them went to nowhere.

He stood quietly for a while before he dried his clothes and went in with an empty bucket. He saw Zhao Zhengze and Xiaosong sitting side by side on the bed, concentrating on tinkering with the Demon Conquering Buddha that had been engraved on his hand for a long time.

"Brother, this is a gift for you!" Seeing him coming back, Xiao Song stood up and ran to his side.Ever since he worked with Mai Mai, Zhang Xiaoliu didn't control him very much, and his words became more and more casual.

Originally, Zhao Zhengze only whispered to Xiaosong, but who knew that he was immediately exposed.Holding the peach wood that was about to be completed in his hand, he stared blankly at them.

"Why, do you want it too?" Zhang Xiaoliu didn't notice anything unusual. Zhao Zhengze gave him a peach pit bracelet last time. It seemed that he would give him a copy of everything first, and he was used to it.Just looking at Xiaosong's excited performance, it looks like he asked for it but couldn't get it.

"Brother Azheng said next time give me one that can blow, it's more fun than yours." Xiao Song shook his head and said solemnly.

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In the end, the completion of the "Conquering Demon Buddha" in Zhao Zhengze's hand still exceeded Zhang Xiaoliu's expectations.Although I have seen the peach pits and stone carvings he ground, but those are things with simpler styles.And this Conquering Demon Buddha is very realistic in details from the clothes, the expression and even the base under the feet.In Zhang Xiaoliu's view, this level is at least enough to set up a street stall on the side of the road in the *** scenic spot.

"Give it to me?" Zhang Xiaoliu was counting eggs when Zhao Zhengze came in with something.He remembered looking at the light and being able to tell which ones were fertilized and capable of hatching chicks, but he didn't see it after being illuminated for a long time.There are several roosters at home, some of them must be able to hatch, but he has not found a way to identify them, and he is planning to show them to Dashun.

"Well, the engraving is quite similar, but he is not very good-looking." Zhao Zhengze put it on the table with the base, and felt that saying that did not show enough respect for Jiang Mo Buddha, so he hurriedly said: "But Jiang Mo Buddha is the most powerful , just right in your house. I’ll carve a better one later, and I’ll replace it for you.” This was the first time he had completed such a complicated thing, and he wasn’t very confident.

Zhang Xiaoliu picked it up carefully, looked at it, and said: "Although I haven't seen what Jiangmo Buddha looks like, but I heard you say he can eat ghosts, so I think he is quite similar. His expression is quite enough. It's scary." He knew that Zhao Zhengze had spent a lot of time on this thing, first he steamed and boiled the peach wood, and then carved it with fascination.

"It's fine if you feel like it. Taozi will be born in a few days, and I'll make some fun for Xiaosong." With his affirmation, Zhao Zhengze smiled brightly.

A few days later, Zhang Xiaoliu had turned over the wine in the vat several times, guessing that there was no time to wait, so he started drinking in the morning.

The so-called starting wine is actually separating the wine from the wine cellar.He cleaned the wine urn, first he used a spoon to directly press the wine glass to scoop up the wine, and when there was not much wine and the wine glass was still very wet, he put a wooden barrel under the leaking basket and poured the wine wine into the basket drain.This time the brewed wine was very good, and a lot of wine came out, filling the two-foot-high narrow-mouthed and pot-bellied wine jars at home.From this point of view, it is enough to hold thirty altars in small jars.

When the wine is brewed, the wine is filtered, and then the wine is boiled.For the first time, the wine was boiled, and the drained wine was poured into the pot, and the newly added well water was boiled slowly. The final boiled water also had the smell of wine, of course, it was much lighter than the original wine. .The second time to cook is the first course of wine, and then add the freshly boiled wine, and then pour in the shochu from the town until it boils again.

With so many wine brewers, there is no need to worry about the dishes these days.Put a large bowl of wine and cook until half-cooked, crack two eggs in it without stirring, wait until one side is cooked, and then turn it over with a big spatula.Finally cooked, it looks like there are two poached eggs lying on top of the wine.If you think this is too sweet, peel some beans and cook together, then sprinkle some salt on top.No matter how it is made, children love it very much.

When the boiled wine cools down, the two big urns that were originally bought are carried out of the house, and the wine is put into it spoon by spoon.It wasn't until they were all loaded that they went to the vegetable field to pick fresh big vegetable leaves, covered them with the mouth of the urn and tied them tightly, and picked flat stones to press them on top.

"Brother Liu, what are you doing?" Zhao Zhengze asked incomprehensibly after moving the things according to his instructions.

"Boil the wine, and sweep over more. The dark fire will not work until tomorrow." Zhang Xiaoliu swept the front of the house, piled up all the things that could ignite the fire, and asked the wheat to pour out some chaff. Push it to the side of the big urn and start lighting the fire.The dark fire is like coals in the stove, it is best to simmer the wine with the residual temperature.

With so many things capable of burning, the fire burned up almost instantly, and gradually burned more and more fiercely, and soon it reflected half of the dark sky red.

Zhang Xiaoliu had already shoveled all around the fire with a hoe, so there was no need to worry about it burning to other places at this time. Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, he greeted Zhao Zhengze and entered the house.

"Brother Liu, isn't the wine ready? Why burn it like this?" Zhao Zhengze asked strangely behind him.

"Doesn't wine have to be burnt before drinking?" Zhang Xiaoliu didn't know why he had to burn it, but he remembered that he always did this at the end when he saw people brewing wine.And the wine after burning is indeed more mellow.

"I haven't seen anyone else burn it like this. Just filter the wine like the day before yesterday." Zhao Zhengze realized that he was not very sure, and said with some regret.

"It tastes better after it's cooked. It shouldn't be a bad thing. Don't worry." Zhang Xiaoliu thought about it carefully. It was indeed cooked in the urn like this. There was nothing added in the middle, so the taste should not change. Difference.

The wine was burned overnight, and the remaining sparks were extinguished the next day after waking up, revealing the pitch-black wine jar.At this time, I didn't have the strength to move it, and I was worried that it would still be hot, so I left it in the open air, just pay attention to the weather, if it was going to rain, I had to move it inside anyway.

The wine had already been brewed. Zhang Xiaoliu counted the days. It took two days from when he went to the market to picking the beans and steaming the glutinous rice. Fifteen days have passed.It has already passed the eleven or twelve days that shopkeeper Huo had agreed with him, and even his mention of coming to the village to harvest millet has not been heard.

Zhang Xiaoliu quietly went to the people who wanted to sell the millet to inquire about it, but everyone couldn't figure it out. They only said that it was not always on time in previous years, and it was often a day or two late.If no one comes before the next market, go to those shopkeepers and ask.

The waiting time was a bit restless, but luckily it didn't take too long.At noon on the third day after he inquired, Mai came back from outside panting.

"Brother, someone has come to the village to harvest millet..." He hadn't been out for a long time, and he obviously rushed back when he saw someone coming into the village.

"Really? Did you come here with a carriage?" Zhang Xiaoliu was overjoyed, but he was afraid that it was just someone else coming to the village to harvest millet.

"Yeah, I heard from Shizhu that their family came here to harvest millet after they agreed with them in the town, and asked if our family wants to sell millet!"

"Our family doesn't have any millet to sell." Zhang Xiaoliu thought for a while and said, "Are they still at Shizhu's house? You go and have a look. If someone asks about our house later, you can bring them back." Although it was in Shizhu's house before Waiting for people to come over, but it's useless to be eager now, it's better to let them come to you.As long as the other party came, he would definitely inquire, and Mai Mai happened to be there to lead the way.

"Okay, I'll go right away." Xiaomai knew that someone was coming to collect the wine from the house, so she agreed and ran out again.

Zhang Xiaoliu wiped the outside of the wine jar again at home.After burning for a whole night, the fire was able to boil the wine in the wine jar first, and then as the fire gradually died down, it naturally turned to a low fire and simmered slowly.He used to watch other people's wine making every year before the Chinese New Year, so he knew all the steps clearly.Because of Zhao Zhengze's words, he waited for the jug to cool down and poured a bowl to taste it. It was indeed the mellow taste that he had drunk before.

Wheat walked for about half an hour, and there was a sound outside the house.Only then did Zhang Xiaoliu go out to have a look, and sure enough, he saw a strange carriage pulled by a horse. The carriage was much larger than usual for people, and was surrounded by wooden boards, which should be specially used for carrying goods.

"Hey, Brother Liu." He was standing in front of the house, and the fat shopkeeper Huo saw him and jumped down to greet him.

"Hello, shopkeeper Huo." Zhang Xiaoliu walked up, only to find that there was a young man of sixteen or seventeen in the car, who seemed to be the guy brought by boss Huo.

"Where's your lord? Is the wine ready?" Although it was a younger brother who personally negotiated with him about selling wine, shopkeeper Huo only thought that his family also did this kind of business, so he was so bold. But I never thought that there are only a few children in the family that can make wine.

"I don't have any adults in my house anymore, just tell me if shopkeeper Huo has anything to do. I've already prepared the wine we agreed on last time, and I'll wait for you to come and get it." Zhang Xiaoliu didn't hesitate just because he asked for an adult. Feeling ugly, he said with a smile.

"Could it be that you brewed the wine too?" Even though shopkeeper Huo thought he was more knowledgeable, he was a little surprised at this moment.

"Shopkeeper Huo, don't have to doubt it, you just have to go and see the wine." Zhang Xiaoliu is confident, no matter how much he doubts a child's ability, the businessman is talking about business, as long as he is satisfied with the wine, the business can be done.

"Then I have to try it." Seeing that he was so confident, shopkeeper Huo felt a little relieved.Speaking of which, he was reckless this time, and after the negotiation with Zhang Xiaoliu was concluded, he went to find the original client.Of course, the main reason was that he had told him before that only if he had collected enough wine, he could add some more to the price.

"Shopkeeper Huo, just come in and taste it, it's definitely not worse than the ones sold in your shop." Zhang Xiaoliu led him into the house, and didn't seem to notice the look he was looking around.