Rebirth of Jiuyouyan

On the [-]th of the first month, the third bucket of clouds rises to the upper trough.

There was a drizzle in the early morning of this day, and the air was quite humid. Although there was wind, it only blew occasionally, which was considered a good weather for going to the slot.

Xia Yue gathered nine Tibetans, including himself, a total of ten people, making final preparations for the upper slot.

After talking to Master Du yesterday, he ordered people to prepare enough hanging bags.All the fermented bags have been kept clear since entering Tibet to ensure that there is no residual odor, but the rope is more troublesome.The rope is rarely used, although it is always in the warehouse in Tibet, but it has not been cleaned as carefully as the mash bag.Although the rope is only used to bind the mouth and hang the fermented wine bag, it will not come into contact with the fermented fermented wine, and the possibility of odor transmission is very low, but Xia Yue checked every one of them, and found a kind of bamboo charcoal to absorb the smell. The rope was left overnight.

To use the hanging bag upper tank, about seven smaller wooden barrels are needed, and one wooden barrel can only hang twenty or thirty fermented beer bags.To be on the safe side, Xia Yue prepared an extra wooden barrel.So eight wooden barrels were placed in a row in the brewery, raised with stone piers and wooden planks.Three wooden sticks are placed across the barrel.The hanging bag is to tie the mouth of the mash bag tightly and then hang it on these wooden sticks.

Not long after, Xia Yue lifted the white cloth covering the wine barrel.His Yunqi wine mash sleeps quietly in the barrel, almost no bubbling can be seen.Xia Yue took a sip, and the taste and smell were just as she expected.

No problem, he said to himself.

All the barrels were put in the winery if there was no room in the trough. Fortunately, after the other wines were placed in the trough, enough space was vacated in the winery.Tibetans fish out the mash, put it into a small wooden barrel for transportation, and send it to the upper tank. In the half-cut barrel, pour the mash into a bag, tie the mouth and hang it in the wooden barrel for wine collection.After a wooden barrel is fully hoisted, it should be covered with a white cloth to isolate the air.

The Tibetans carried out the operation silently and nervously. This operation was repeated nearly two hundred times, and all the mash was scooped out of the brewing barrels. A total of 190 six mash bags were used.After more than an hour, all the fermented bags were finally hung in the barrel.

Including Xia Yue, ten Tibetans gathered around the wine barrel, gradually breathing lightly, and when the surroundings became quiet, they heard the sound of the essence of the wine dripping into the barrel.

Hearing this sound, Xia Yue felt a sudden lightness on his shoulders. After a while, he finally showed his first smile of the day.

It takes a day and night to put the hanging bag into the tank, and this process needs to be watched by someone. In order to prevent the wine dripping from the hanging bag from being stored and submerged in the hanging bag, it is necessary to open the faucet at the bottom of the wine collection barrel at regular intervals and drain the stored wine. The liquid is transported to the tank field in small drums.

Xia Yue stayed in Tibet and did not go home. He ate dinner with other Tibetans in Tibet, and immediately went back to Yunqi to watch after eating.It wasn't until late at night that he took over shifts with other Tibetans. After taking a nap in Tibet for less than two hours, he got up again and continued to guard.

He put some of the first drop of wine into a small gourd.As time goes by, the gaps in the cotton mash bag will be gradually blocked by the mash, and the filtered wine will become more and more transparent. , is a little cloudy pale white.

It was this kind of wine that Xia Yue kept in the small gourd.This slightly turbid wine is the most delicious part of the wine in the tank on the hanging bag, and it is what he wants Fu Lang to taste.

However, Xia Yue didn't dare to try the drink himself.He knew that he was afraid, although the aroma overflowing around him made him think that this would be good wine, although he could turn on the faucet at any time and take the wine with a long spoon to drink, but he still didn't dare.He had a feeling of waiting for the trial, afraid of knowing the result too early, so he waited in an evasive manner, planning to accept the judgment after all the wine had been moved into the vat in the tank.

The sound of beating watch came from a distance outside, one slow and four fast, knocking five times, it was five watch.

Xia Yue was sitting alone in the winery, holding an hourglass in his hand, staring intently at the eight wooden barrels in front of him.The appearance of Luoyue's hourglass is the same as that of an hourglass, except that the glazed container contains water instead of sand.After the top half of the water dripped out, Xia Yue turned on the faucet and began to transport the wine.

Every time I transport wine, I have to go up and down eight times. Although I am a bit tired alone, fortunately, this is not a process that requires speed, and it doesn't matter if I walk slowly.Xia Yue felt that this would not make him feel like a long night.

The wine poured into the vat was very clear, with an intoxicating aroma, Xia Yue stared blankly for a while, thinking of Shi Yan who was left at home by him.

I don't know if Shiyan slept well, but this should be the first time that Shiyan was not by his side after she became pregnant, let him sleep alone.

Thinking of this, he felt a little worried about his husband at home.Although before going out, he had carefully instructed the servant, and asked the servant to stay in the room tonight, to ensure that someone would be by his side when Shiyan got up at night or felt unwell.Originally, he was really relieved and focused on Yunqi without distraction, but now that he thought about it, he still started to miss it.

Xia Yue walked back from the tank with the small wooden bucket, passed by the window, and saw that the sky had turned white.

He lifted the white cloth to look at the bucket where the sling bag was hung at first. The frequency of wine dripping was obviously much less, but the sling bag was still a little swollen, and he still had to hang it for a long time.

After another drink, Xia Yue heard that some Tibetans downstairs had started to move.He turned his head to look at the sky, only to realize that it was already bright.He went to sleep at Haishi and woke up at Choushi, and he didn't feel sleepy until now.He stretched, twisted his body left and right, and looked at the conditions in the eight wine barrels before going downstairs to wash.

By Chen Shi, the dripping speed of the wine was already very slow, and Xia Yue judged that there would be no possibility of submerging the mash bag, so there was no need for someone to continue to watch over it.Master Du also came up, and Xia Yue accompanied Master Du to the trough.

Master Du didn't have the entanglements in Xia Yue's mind. He looked at the clear wine in the vat, first lowered his head and sniffed it, with a slight smile on his face, and then scooped up the wine with a long-handled wooden spoon to try it.

Xia Yue watched from the side, his body was tense, even his toes were numb.He swallowed, stared firmly at Master Du's face, and waited nervously.

Master Du closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and carefully tasted the barrel of new wine in his mouth.Master Du always looks like this every time he tastes new wine, but this time, he immediately opened his eyes.

Xia Yue was startled silently. Although his face was calm, he was even more nervous in his heart. He looked at Master Du, not daring to show his anger.

After a while, Master Du closed his eyes again, but when he opened them again, his face was expressionless.He handed the long spoon to Xia Yue, motioning him to taste it himself.

Xia Yue took the long spoon from Master Du, and stabilized his fingers so as not to tremble.This is the wine he brewed, it was his cloud, whether it was good or bad, he brewed it himself, and he had to bear it all.

Taking a deep breath, Xia Yue drank the wine into his mouth, gathered the wine on the tip of his tongue, and exhaled slowly.He originally had his eyes closed, but he opened them in the process of exhaling, and they widened.

The taste in his mouth was completely beyond his expectation.The mellowness spreads gently in the mouth, the entrance is very refreshing, but the feeling on the tip of the tongue is very strong. After the multi-layered taste is intertwined and unfolded, what is left is a bright and wonderful sour taste. The wine feels elegant and elegant. It is powerful again, and there is a mild and slightly drunken feeling that gently seeps into the body from the tip of the tongue.

"Father...!" Xia Yue looked up at Master Du excitedly, but he didn't know what to say when he opened his mouth.He looked down at the wine in the long spoon, his chest heaving violently.

Master Du was already smiling all over his face at this time. He looked at Xia Yue who couldn't hide his excitement, and there was some kindness in his eyes: "Young Tibetan master, you have made a very good wine. The flavor is very wonderful. I dare say that this It will be the most perfect cloud so far."

Xia Yue tried his best to calm down his panting, and when he heard what Master Du said, he couldn't help but grinned, with great joy echoing in his heart.He smiled and sighed softly, I really want Shiyan to taste this wine right away.I have succeeded, successfully brewed wine, brewed good wine, and it is still a good wine beyond imagination, Shiyan will like this wine, I don’t know what kind of expression he will show after drinking it...

What interrupted Xia Yue's imagination was the sound of hurried footsteps.

There had never been such a panic in Tibet. Xia Yue and Master Du looked at each other, both puzzled.Xia Yue put down the long spoon and was about to go out to see what was going on, when a Tibetan rushed up and shouted at him panting: "Master Yun, someone from the Yun family told you to go back quickly! Young lady... gave birth!"

"What?" Xia Yue didn't react for a while, he felt that his brain was a little slow, so he couldn't help but ask again.

"Young lady is born! Young master, please go back quickly!"

Xia Yue's eyes widened, and he stood there in a daze for two seconds. After he realized it, he rushed out like a gust of wind without bothering to speak to Master Du.

The door of Yun's house was wide open, and there were already people waiting for him to come back. Xia Yue rushed in without hesitation, but when he ran into the east courtyard where he lived, he suddenly stopped in the courtyard.

The window of the bedroom was closed tightly, and a thick curtain was hung on the door, so I couldn't see what was going on inside. The surroundings felt very quiet, not as noisy as I imagined, and there was no cry of children. The unexpected situation made Xia Yue flustered.

Didn't it mean that it was born? Why is it so quiet, as if there is no one in the room.Xia Yue's breathing was disordered, he slowly approached the bedroom step by step, opened the curtain, took a deep breath, and stepped in.

The room was very warm, a bit hot for Xia Yue who had been running all the way, the little attendant was not in the room, but Daddy Yun was sitting at the table.

Seeing his son coming back, Daddy Yun stood up and greeted him: "You came back from running? Look at your sweaty head, be careful not to catch a cold, it will be bad for Shiyan and the baby."

Xia Yue nodded blankly, took out a towel to wipe off his sweat, and kept looking at the Babu bed with the curtains on it.

Daddy Yun laughed when he saw him like this, and continued without waiting for him to ask: "Shiyan is fine, she gave birth to a young man. The doctor just left, Shiyan was tired, and now she is asleep, please keep your voice down, Don't bother him."

Saying that, Daddy Yun turned around and walked in. Xia Yue followed, only to notice that there was a small wooden bed for babies beside Babu's bed, and there was a bamboo basket inside. A little baby with a red face was coming lie in it.

"Look at your son." Daddy Yun smiled until the smile lines at the corners of his eyes deepened, "It looks like you when you were a child."

Xia Yue bent down to look at the red baby. Although it was born at seven months, it still has a thin layer of hair, and it doesn't look thin. It looks small because of its bones.Xia Yue rubbed his fingers on the towel, carefully reached out to touch the little head, and immediately retracted his hand as soon as he touched it.The temperature of the baby is very high and warm.After hesitating for a while, he touched his wrinkled little face again. The soft touch made a silly smile slowly float on his face.

This is his son, he has become a father!Xia Yue grinned silently, feeling at a loss, not knowing what to do, he wanted to kiss the child impulsively, but was afraid of disturbing the little creature.The baby is sleeping soundly, and he is afraid that he will cry when he wakes up.

When he bent down to look at his son, Father Yun happened to see his back, stretched out his hand to touch it, and frowned disapprovingly.Patting his son, Daddy Yun said: "Hurry up and change your clothes, get rid of the sweat, it will be fine after a while."

Only then did Xia Yue realize that his back was wet, and he remembered that he hadn't bathed all night, so he quickly straightened up and moved away from the baby.

Gently taking out the clean clothes, Xia Yue lowered his voice and said to his father, "Then, I'll go and wipe myself."

Daddy Yun nodded: "Go, hot water is burning in the bathroom."

Hot water is needed for giving birth, and Xia Yue opened up the bathroom and the bedroom. Naturally, heating hot water directly in the bathroom is much faster than bringing it from the kitchen.Xia Yue touched the water in the bath, and found that the temperature was just right, so he simply took a bath.

After washing himself, he dared to lift the bed curtain and look at the husband who was lying on the bed. He heard that after giving birth, he could not be exposed to the wind, so he didn't dare to look at it for a long time, so he put down the curtain again.

Daddy Yun waited for him to come out after washing, and told him about the situation here.It turned out that Shiyan began to suffer from pain in the middle of the night. The attendant was clever, seeing that the situation was not as usual, he guessed that she might be about to give birth, and didn't panic. I turned on all the lights in the room, and went to the bathroom to boil hot water.

Dr. Shen estimated that the baby would be born at the end of this month. Seeing that Xia Yue was too busy, he went to Mrs. Yun. Father Yun hired the midwife officer Wen to live in the house a few days ago, and his things were all early. It's ready.Shiyan has been raising well in the past seven months, and the baby's fetal position is also correct, and there is no problem in the process.Steady officer had enough experience, and he poured Shi Yan a bowl of birth-promoting soup at the right time, and the child came out just after the hour.When cutting the baby's navel, Guan Guan smiled and said to Daddy Yun who was standing by, that it was rare to have such a smooth delivery.

After that, the children and Shiyan were cleaned up, and the bed and the room were also tidied up.After giving the bounty and thanking the stable officer, all the adults and children fell asleep, and Daddy Yun remembered to ask someone to notify Xia Yue, so when Xia Yue came back, it was already quiet here.Dr. Shen took Shi Yan's pulse and made sure that there was nothing wrong with it. The medicinal soup for nourishing the body had already been boiled, and Shi Yan could drink it when he woke up.

Knowing that there is no risk in Shiyan's production, Xia Yue heaved a sigh of relief.Daddy Yun took a sip of tea with a smile, then got up and said, "There is nothing wrong with the wine store, so you can accompany Shiyan, so that he won't be able to see you when he wakes up. I will carry the child to my room first, I'm afraid that if I cry halfway, you won't be able to coax her, and you'll also make trouble for Shiyan."

Xia Yue nodded, paused, and quickly asked: "Daddy, has Shiyan seen the child?"

"I've seen it. After looking at the child carefully, he drank the medicine and fell asleep with peace of mind," Father Yun said with a smile, "Don't worry, if the father didn't see the child, how would I dare to take him away?"

Xia Yue smiled embarrassedly, watched his father go out with the tightly wrapped bamboo basket in his arms, sat there for a while, then got up to close the door, took off his outer robe lightly, and got into the bed.

Shi Yan slept soundly, and Xia Yue climbed into bed without disturbing him.Seeing the dark blue under Fu Lang's eyes, Xia Yue kissed lightly in distress: "Thank you, my husband."

Unexpectedly, on the same day, his Yun Qi and his son were both born smoothly. He felt that the pressure in his heart disappeared at this moment, his whole body became much lighter, and the smile on his face couldn't stop .Looking at the somewhat haggard Fu Lang, he couldn't help feeling a little sour in his heart, but he felt infinitely happy.

Xia Yue himself stayed up all night, so he relaxed now, and soon felt a little sleepy.He stretched out his arms to hug Hu Shiyan, but he didn't dare to move him, he just leaned up against Fu Lang's head, rubbed against Fu Lang's head, then closed his eyes and fell asleep together.