NOVEL NEXT Chapter 13 Rice Wine
It had been more than two weeks since Mu Zhiyuan left Liujiacun and went to Beidu, and Shu Xi had no news about him.
Brother Lu Da, on the other hand, bought a house in Liujia Village and cultivated three acres of vegetable land on the wasteland near the back mountain.
Mao Xi's sweet potatoes and potatoes are growing well, so she gives some sweet potato seedlings to Luda and Brother Chunsheng to plant.
The peppers in the field have just been planted. If they grow well, the peppers can be freed and then sold in batches to restaurants in the town...
I sold out breakfast at the stall in the morning, and today I earned nearly 200 Wen. The breakfast set with cups is still selling well. 10 Wen a cup is not expensive for some ladies in the town.
There are also some sisters from Kaitang County who come here just to own a bamboo cup of the same style as Nalanjue.
Ah Xiao first bought roast duck and pork belly in the town. At noon, she wanted to treat Chun Sheng and Lu Da. They helped make the latest bamboo cups from Houshankan.
Brother Chunsheng said that today he and Lu Da would help Mao Xi's family plant rice seedlings. There were not enough strong men in the family, so Mao Xi was very grateful.
At noon, Mao Xi cooked braised pork belly and took out the homemade glutinous rice wine that had been brewed for half a month.
"Miss Ah Miao, did you just make this rice wine? It's so sweet! The color is also clear." Luda couldn't help but admire.
In Dahuai, rice wine is usually brewed once in winter, and due to the complicated production and high price, you can only drink some rice wine in restaurants.
"Yes, Brother Lu, do you think my brew is good? I also gave it a try." Shui Xi said modestly.
"If you sell this taste and color to a restaurant, you'll make more money than roasting sweet potatoes~" Luda took another sip of rice wine and ate the roast duck.
Chunsheng had never drunk wine before, but he only found the wine to be sweet, smooth and spicy: "Ah Shu, you said this wine is made from glutinous rice. It can be so sweet without adding sugar. It will definitely sell for a good price."
After selling out the roasted sweet potatoes and potato chips at the stall in the evening, Mao Xi took two liters of wine to Qingxiang Building to sell the homemade glutinous rice wine.
Shopkeeper Hu poured a glass and smelled it. He saw that the color of the wine soup was whiter than that of rice wine. He tried the taste again and found that it was more mellow than what he was selling.
"Miss Ah Miao, how do you plan to sell this wine?"
"One liter is 200 Wen, one bucket is Liang."
"The big wine in my shop only costs 100 Wen per liter. Yours is too expensive!"
"Shopkeeper Hu, please try selling it in the store for a few days. If the customers like it, I will send it to you. You see, the color and purity of this wine are not comparable to ordinary small wines. Let's do this. These two bottles total two liters. How about I sell you 360 articles?"
After thinking about it, shopkeeper Hu decided that there was no new wine brewed this autumn, so he decided to give it a try and bought it.
Selling wine was really easy to make money, so Mao Xi went to the grocery store in town and bought two large wine vats.
A few days later, Mao Xi came to Qingxiang Building and asked Shopkeeper Hu about the sales of rice wine.
Shopkeeper Hu: "Miss Ah Shu, your wine is selling well, but I don't know the name of the wine?"
Mao Xi thought for a moment: "Shopkeeper Hu, my wine is called 'Liu Family Wine Lady'." "
"Liu's Wine Girl, well, that's a good name!"
"Then I will reserve 10 buckets of wine with you and pay you five taels in advance."
After making a contract with shopkeeper Hu, Shui Xi collected the money and bought some glutinous rice needed for brewing rice wine in the virtual mall again.
Because it is produced by farmers and not sold in stores, it is temporarily tax-free. Mao Xi has discovered a new way to get rich quickly.
After leaving the stall in the evening, she went to Songjian Academy to deliver dried bamboo fungus to Su Xuexue, along with a bottle of wine.
The little book boy gave half of the copper coins to Ma Xi: "Miss Ah Ma, let me ask you again if you can sell raw sweet potatoes."
"Oh, look at my brain, I have forgotten that this bottle is my newly brewed rice wine, and I gave it to Su Xuexue."
"It's getting late today. Xuexue Su would like to invite you to come to the college tomorrow morning. He would like to ask you how to grow sweet potatoes."
"Ok."
After returning home, Ma Xi took out the glutinous rice from the space and cooked the glutinous rice with her mother, the Liu clan, to prepare wine.
"Auntie, I received a deposit of five taels from Boss Hu of Qingxiang Building today, plus some I saved before, we can rent a snack shop in Lihua Town."
"Ah Shu, winemaking is a technical job. Where did you learn it?"
"When I was setting up a stall in Lihua Town, I asked my aunt for advice on how to make rice wine." Shu Xi made up a reason casually.
Before time travel, brewing glutinous rice wine was a specialty of her hometown. Her mother often made it when she was a child, and she learned it through constant exposure.
"Mom, I'm fine here!" Thinking of her relatives in her previous life, Shu Xi couldn't help crying.
"Ah Xiao, I picked a lot of sweet potato leaves in the field today and I can't finish them all. The farmland is not busy now. I will go to the town with you to set up a stall tomorrow."
"Auntie, Su Xuexuan from Songjian Academy asked me to send him some sweet potatoes tomorrow morning, and also asked me to teach her how to grow vegetables in the academy."
"You should take your younger brother Zian with you. If you can learn to read in a scholarly academy, it will be better to have a scholar at home in the future than for us to be farmers all the time."
"Okay, grandma."
When it came to sweet potatoes, Mao Xi remembered it, so she went to her own field in the dark, preparing to dig up a few sweet potatoes to take with her tomorrow.
As a result, I saw my third uncle Liu Yongkang on the edge of her field. He was digging her sweet potatoes with a hoe in the dark.
Seeing Mao Xi coming, he didn't have time to backfill the soil, so he leaned over and ran away with a basket of sweet potatoes.
It was dark at night and the dirt road was not easy to walk on. Third uncle stumbled and fell, scattering half the basket of sweet potatoes into the field.
Seeing the embarrassment of Third Uncle, Mao Xi laughed angrily and deliberately shouted: "Uncle Third, don't run away, I'll just give you the sweet potatoes!"
As soon as he heard that Ah Shu had been discovered, his third uncle Liu Yongkang ran home without looking back.
The best relatives of this family first came to steal cattle, and then came to dig sweet potatoes. They did not even come to help with transplanting rice seedlings. It was really abominable!
The next day, Mao Xi took his younger brother Xiaodouzi and a basket of sweet potatoes to Songjian Academy.
The little book boy took them to the backyard, where Su Xueguo was digging in the mud with a hoe and his bare feet.
"Young girl, you're here, have you brought your sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes?"
"Xuetuo, these are sweet potatoes and sweet potato seedlings. I'll help you plant them." Mao Xi rolled up her sleeves and took the hoe from Su Xueguo's hand.
Su Ziguan stood aside and watched her skillfully bury the sweet potato seedlings in the soil and water them.
"Pedant, I give you these sweet potatoes. I brought the sweet potato seedlings directly from the field. They will grow faster this way."
"Not bad, not bad. You gave me sweet potatoes and rice wine. How can I thank you, haha..." Su Ziguan stroked his beard and smiled.
Mao Xi pulled Xiaodouzi over and said, "Xuetuo, this is my younger brother Liu Zian. Can you let him also study in your academy? I will definitely prepare Shu Xiu."
Su Xuexue looked at Xiaodouzi, who had a round head and bright eyes: "Okay, very good!"
"Thank you Su Xuexue!" Xiaodouzi and Shui Xi said in unison.
Su Ziguan pointed to his own vegetable garden: "Young girl, you must be very good at cooking. You can choose whatever you like from my vegetable garden, and your sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes. I wonder if I will enjoy it?"
"Yes, yes!" Mao Xi nodded. She looked at the sweet potato in her hand, "Su Xuexue, I'll just make a dish of shredded sweet potato." ".
"Nothing can't be glued with sugar"!
Xiaodouzi helped peel the sweet potatoes.
Mao Xi skillfully cut the sweet potatoes into hob pieces, fried them in oil until crispy, then filtered them out, then poured sugar into the oil and stir-fried over low heat until lightly browned, then poured in a small amount of water and stirred until the syrup bubbles, and set aside. The bubble changes from large bubbles to small bubbles until it becomes thick and stringy. Quickly add the fried sweet potatoes, stir-fry and coat with syrup.
Su Ziguan couldn't wait to take a sip and couldn't help but admired: "The color is golden, the threads are continuous, and the mouth is sweet and crisp. It is really the best wine to go with."
"Haha, what tastes so sweet, it makes me hungry." Master Mi Yuan came to the kitchen with a pot of rice wine in his arms.
His head was slightly convex, he was wearing a loose gray robe stained with ink, and he came with a big belly.
"Brother Mi, come and try this shredded sweet potato."
Master Mi Yuan picked up a piece and pulled out more than one meter of sugar shreds and put it into his mouth. His eyes lit up: "This dish is good. Eating it is like a god descending to earth. Ziguan, please join me in the wine."