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Chapter 7 Bad Liquor

After bringing the dishes to the table in the open space in front of the room, Du Zhongxiao said to his father: "Dad, come here for dinner."

After saying this for a long time, Du Xun finally recovered a little, nodded, and silently arrived at the table.

My mother called Du Zhongxiao aside and told him about his father's experience these days. It turned out that when the results were not obtained in Kaifeng Prefecture Provincial Examination, Du Xun fell ill as soon as he got out. After two days of suffering, his condition became worse and worse. Because he didn't have much money, he dared not stay longer. Thinking that Kaifeng Prefecture was not far from his hometown Xuzhou, he forced to rush to the road. Unexpectedly, when he came to Weishi County, his illness worsened and he was exhausted. After that, his health was a little better, so he forced to beg for a trip. When he arrived in Xuzhou, he asked someone to bring a message to his family and fell ill again.

Du Xun originally thought he would be able to come to Linying a few months ago, but he didn't expect that he was too ill in Xuzhou. He came to the county with a few beggars who passed through the prefectures more than ten days ago. Those beggars were old and took Du Xun as "scumbling people" to fill their stomachs.

Looking back at his father's greedy look, Du Zhongxiao sighed secretly. After this great disaster, his father seemed to have changed his body, and he no longer had the shadow of wearing a blue shirt, talking about poetry and books, and giving advice to the country before.

Du Zhongxiao felt infinitely in his heart. Who would have thought that reading changed his destiny? Suddenly, I remembered that the scholars recruited by the imperial court in this era were those who only read the books of sages, or were the talents who could endure hardships, read books, and even go to the battlefield?

It is hard to explain clearly. When Taizu and Taizong were born, they were probably going toward such wandering scholars who were wandering around the world. The focus was not on recruiting talents in the court, but on including these social unstable elements who were wandering around the world into the government of the court. From Taizong to Zhenzong, and then to the past 10 or 20 years, the imperial examinations have become more and more standardized, and they have gradually changed to encouraging scholars to encourage learning and recruiting scholars. If his father had been born decades earlier, Du Xun's experience might become his future capital, and he might have a future prospect. As for now, let's forget it.

Who can clearly explain the circumstances of life? Your own efforts are not enough, and you still have to be born in the right time.

After taking some breath, Du Xun let out a long breath and vomited all the fears and fears of these days. The situation at home is definitely not as good as before he went to Beijing to take the exam. However, after suffering all the way, the days ahead are nothing to him. As long as his family is still there, life will always get better day by day. After all, so much suffering is over, what is a little debt?

After slapping the table, Du Xun said, "I'm reunited today, but I'm sorry I didn't have any wine. - Dalang, you brought the lees over, and it smelled a little bit of wine. I've been suffering all the way back from the capital, and today I've been able to make it happen."

Du Zhongxiao agreed and went over to pick up the lees brought by his father. He held them in his hand and a smell of wine came to his face. As the largest restaurant in the county, the wine brewed was really good. When you smell the lees, you will smell the lees.

Suddenly, Du Zhongxiao said to his father: "Dad, there is wine in the lees, why don't you steam it out and drink it?"

The mother said, "What are your child saying? How can you steam wine from the lees?"

"It can be steamed out, of course it can be steamed out!" When my father returned home and the family reunited, Du Zhongxiao suddenly became clear and he slowly understood some of the knowledge from his previous life.

The lees of wine, especially the lees of rice wine, can be steamed out, and the lees of wine is steamed out. Du Zhongxiao spent some time in Jiangnan in his previous life and knew that there was a special lees in that place, which were steamed out from the lees of rice wine, called lees of rice wine, or a fragrance in Chinese lees. Nowadays, lees are filtered out from water wine, and are not completely separated, and the wine content in the lees is not low.

Chinese liquor is a distilled liquor, and the process is very special, solid fermentation, solid distillation, and it is a one-on-one in the world. So someone in the past life discussed that Chinese liquor came from the West, which was simply a waste of time. Without such a technology in other parts of the world, it was impossible to transmit it from the outside.

There are several benefits of solid distillation. One is the stable quality of the wine, and the other is that the distillation process is simple, so simple that any small workshop can make white wine at home. A pot or a steamer can be made.

I thought about it and then dried it. The pot at home is ready-made, and there is a steamer for steaming buns. I borrowed it from my neighbor a few days ago.

After cleaning the pot, Du Zhongxiao added some cold water and put a grate on it. After thinking about it, adding fire to the stove, boiling the water first.

When the family was reunited, it was the time for my father and mother to be happy. Seeing Du Zhongxiao busy there, they smiled and shook their heads, not caring about him.

The water boiled away. Du Zhongxiao opened the lid of the pot, took the lees brought by his father, spread them on the grate, and placed the steamer on the pot. There was a bamboo tube next to it. Du Zhongxiao took it, inserted it on the steamer, led it to the side, and brought it to a clay pot. This is a key step. The steamed wine must be condensed at the outlet. The better the condensation effect, the higher the yield of the wine.

After looking around, Du Zhongxiao took a wet cloth, soaked it in the cold well water, and wrapped it on the bamboo tube.

Solid fermentation refers to the solid state after the quatrain wine is produced. The lees are just wet, not liquid. Solid distillation refers to the direct steaming of the solid lees, which are filters. The wine is steamed out of the lees and condensed at the outlet, which is directly the finished white wine. Because what comes out at this time is not alcohol, but a state with the highest density of alcohol and water, called co-soluble. Because while alcohol is dissolved in water, water is also dissolved in alcohol, and one state of mutual dissolving is co-soluble. At this time, the degree of alcohol is exactly between fifty degrees and sixty degrees, that is, the degree of high wine of Chinese liquor. A high wine of more than fifty degrees is naturally formed by the physical properties of alcohol and water, and is not deliberately blended into such a degree. The subsequent blending is carried out by high-end liquor to increase the flavor.

In this era, there was no liquor technology yet. What are the high-end and low-end products? As long as it is made, it is a rare thing.

Everything was ready, Du Zhongxiao added a fire under the stove, then held his breath and looked at the exit of the bamboo tube.

Du Xun and his wife looked at each other, shook their heads and smiled together. When the couple reunited, they were in a good mood and let their son make trouble.

After about a cup of tea, water dripped from the exit of the bamboo tube.

When Du Zhongxiao saw this, he couldn't help but clapped his hands and laughed: "There is wine! There is wine!"

After saying that, I couldn't care about that much. I stepped forward and stretched out my fingers, took the dripping wine, and smeared it in my mouth.

After smacking his lips, Du Zhongxiao whistled up to the sky and shouted: "Okay, okay, it's really wine! And it's real white wine!"

In the past few months, Du Zhongxiao's two souls continued to merge and were in a daze. Until today, the scattered liquor was made. The depression in front of him was finally wiped out and I couldn't help it. Over the past few months, Du Zhongxiao had thought of countless ways. If he wanted to change the situation at home, there was no way to be feasible. Now that he had made scattered liquor, the lees were useless, so he finally didn't have to worry about having no capital.

The mother looked at Du Zhongxiao's crazy look and shook her head: "This child, my father is so happy to return home."

Around the stove and steamer that steamed wine, Du Zhongxiao was rumoring and talking, and countless thoughts changed into his mind. With white wine, not only could the difficulties of his family be relieved, but even the difficulties of the Hanjiajiao Store should be solved. "Qixiangju" did not give them wine to credit? Then he would not get in from them, but steamed wine in wine lees and sold it. This is the real white wine, the only one in the Song Dynasty.

It won't take long before the wine dripped from the bamboo tube quickly decreased. Du Zhongxiao stepped forward to take a look, but only took half a bowl.

He carefully held up half a bowl of wine, Du Zhongxiao brought it to his father and said, "Dad, try it, how about this wine?"

"Can you drink this way?" Du Xun didn't care and took it casually.

After all, it was my son's intention, Du Xun took a sip.

When Du Xun felt a piece of charcoal rolling down his throat and rolling straight into his stomach.

Putting down the bowl, Du Xun couldn't help but widen his eyes and looked at Du Zhongxiao and said, "This wine is so powerful! My son, how can you make this wine? Or make it from the useless thing of the wine lees! Isn't this awesome work?"

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "Dad, I have said that the wine tastes so strong in the wine lees, so there is naturally wine. It only depends on whether there is a way to steam it from it. But one pot and one steamer, will it make wine? And it is a good wine with extra strength!"

After being happy for a while, Du Zhongxiao said to his parents: "To be honest, when I went to the Hanjiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajiajia

Du Xun didn't know about Han Jiajia Foot Shop, so he asked his wife after hearing this, "You know this Han Jiajia Foot Shop?"

The mother smiled and said, "I have sold sheep hooves in his store in the past few months. This house is very good. The braised sheep hooves in our house are sold well. The money accounts are clear and there is no mistakes. There is a young lady, Yue Niang, who is one year younger than my son, which is very good."
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