Chapter 67 Composition

The light wine behind is not useless. After replacing the lees, you can pour it on the new lees to increase the volume and alcohol content.

Seeing that the workers were already familiar with the operation, Su You led the foreman, who was already drunk, into the Qufang.

This place has been strictly controlled, with a sign at the door saying "No entry without permission".

When entering, you need to change clothes and shoes, put on a green linen coat that is boiled and washed every day, a linen mask, and put the wooden soles of oil boots on the large wooden tray of lime water at the door for a while before entering the room.

The room was also disinfected and sprayed with extracted spirits.

Everything is cooked in boiling water.

At present, the production process of Xiaoqu in the Song Dynasty is to use glutinous rice or Japonica rice as raw materials, first soak polygonum leaves or hop flowers, and twist the juice. Mix the juice with rice flour, knead it into rice balls, and naturally develop the song seeds.

However, this production method has serious flaws. In naturally inoculated koji, the source of microorganisms in koji is mainly water, the raw materials themselves, or the koji-making place and utensils. This results in the inability of bacteria with excellent performance to be passed down from generation to generation and the quality of the wine.

It cannot be constant.

Therefore, Su You transformed the potion method into the powder method commonly used in later generations.

The method is to mix the aged distiller's yeast, water, rice flour, and spicy Polygonum spp., pound, cut into pieces, roll into corners, and then inoculate.

The method of inoculation has also been changed to the "rolling glutinous rice balls" method, which is to roll the newly made koji balls on the Chen Qu powder so that the Chen Qu powder sticks to the surface of the new koji balls.

There are a large number of Rhizopus spores in Chenqumo, which can multiply rapidly on the Qutuan, forming a growth advantage.

Since Chenqu with better quality can be artificially selected as the type of music, the best can be eliminated.

Through artificial selection and natural elimination year after year, the strains with superior quality, which are actually microbial flora, have been preserved.

The subsequent seed culture is divided into three phases. First, the koji balls are placed in a vat for insulation and culture until the mycelium is rich and stable; then they are placed in a plaque basket to continue the mid-term culture, allowing the mycelium to be exposed to the air as much as possible to promote growth; in the middle, the plaques are changed, and

After the plaque is formed, it is then put into a basket for later culture, and finally taken out of the basket and dried to form Xiaoqu pills.

Xiaoquwan didn't require a lot of labor, so Su You took the foreman to do it himself.

A series of equipment and instruments, full of mystery.

A series of operational measures before entering are full of a sense of ritual.

This made the foreman feel that this was a place full of religious atmosphere, as if it was a place shrouded in Dukang's divine light, and he was so frightened that he didn't even dare to take a breath.

After changing into sterile clothes and ignoring the foreman who was about to collapse at the door, Su You went to Tutu Temple to teach again.

The children in the Tutu Temple are now on the right track. They get up at four o'clock every morning. Except for the group that sells breakfast, the rest go to morning school.

After studying, have breakfast. After breakfast, everyone will do their own thing according to the division of labor.

Come back at noon to take a new class and continue working in the afternoon.

Every type of work, except for girls, everyone has to rotate, wash sand, make pottery, make briquettes, coal stoves, kilns, infrastructure, catch fish...

In the afternoon, Su You will also teach the girls how to cook.

Come back in the evening, eat, study by yourself, and rest.

The daily income gradually stabilized at the level of twelve guan.

Life is hard, but fulfilling.

Returning to the city after a busy day, the winery produced more than two hundred kilograms of liquor and more than ten kilograms of liquor.

Every seven days, Su You stipulates that he can sleep in for one day.

So today, Su You waited until the sun rose three o'clock before going to the dock to have a look.

Many people had seen him nodding and smiling along the way, and he had already become somewhat famous in the streets of Meishan City.

Arriving at the pier, Su You stood on the pier and began his daily routine of watching ships.

It has entered autumn, the water level of the Glass River is gradually decreasing, and the number of upstream ships coming from Jiazhou has obviously begun to increase. The entire autumn will enter the peak season for water transportation.

There were obviously more people on the pier. There were people gathered around one place, as if there was something lively to see.

Su You squeezed in, only to see a small green-skinned character wearing coarse cloth playing a gambling game there.

People in the Song Dynasty were fond of gambling, which was also a major feature of this era. In the vegetable market, the vendors would bet on the color of the bellyband that a certain lady would wear today, which was quite addictive.

Among the onlookers were several young men in t-shirts and a middle-aged man with a gauze hat and a webbed head. It was this middle-aged man who, regardless of his status, was having a passionate affair with Xiao Qingpi.

There was a cloth spread in front of Qingpi, with three small bowls and a pom-pom on it.

A common scam.

However, the two of them did not bet on that one now. They saw Qingpi holding two wooden sticks in his hand, one with a green head and one with a red head. The two sticks were put together and wrapped around a soft rope. Qingpi asked proudly: "

Member, do you think the rope is wrapped with a red head or a green head this time?"

The officer deposited fifty coins and pointed at the green-headed stick with his finger: "Greenhead, you can see clearly this time, you can't be wrong!"

The rope was slowly straightened, the two wooden sticks rolled slowly, and the number of rope loops around the sticks became fewer and fewer. Finally, the rope was wrapped around the red-headed wooden stick.

The officer's eyes widened, and the crowd around him exclaimed. Everyone could see clearly that before the rope was wound, the rope was tied around the green head.

Su You felt it was funny and said, "I'll bet too, but I want to be the banker and bet against you!"

The green-skinned man looked impatient: "Go, go, kids, don't make trouble!"

Now the audience stopped talking: "Why are you talking to the young master?!"

"Be kinder with your mouth!"

"Give the young master the stick and rope! Otherwise, we will close the stall!"

The green-skinned man didn't know what the young master's background was, but so many people spoke for him. Several young men in t-shirts also looked at him with some surprise, as well as the member of staff.

Outraged by public outrage, Qingpi had no choice but to hand the gambling equipment to Su You: "Come, come, here, do you have any money?"

Su You really had no money, so one of the young men took out fifty cents and said, "Here it is, kid."

When Su You saw the man, he had a high forehead and a slightly chubby body. He looked about seventeen or eighteen years old. He was not polite and said, "Thank you very much. I'll pay you back soon."

Xiao Qingpi was on the side and sneered.

Su You casually put the rope on a stick, then put the other stick up and wrapped it together: "Guess!"

Xiao Qingpi pointed to the red stick head: "Red."

Su You let go of the hand holding the rope and let the rope hang down: "Really?"

Sweat suddenly appeared on Xiao Qingpi's forehead: "This...this..."

Su You smiled meaningfully: "Are you sure it's red?"

Xiao Qingpi squatted down and quickly put away the small stall, then bowed to Su You and cupped his hands: "I don't know there are masters in Meishan. I might have offended you, so I will leave now."

After saying that, he ignored the crowd and ran away.

Su You didn't think much of it, so he returned the fifty coins to the fat young man with a high forehead, wrapped the rope around the stick, and said to the crowd: "Ten bets and nine swindles, please be more careful, let's break up."

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After that, we rushed towards the Earth Temple. There was still a lot of things going on over there.

Discussions started among the crowd.

"What's going on? Why didn't I understand?"

"You don't understand this? That green-skinned man is playing tricks! The young master is so smart, he can figure out the secret at a glance!"

"How did you do it? I didn't see it..."

"Ha?! Are you trying to compete with the young master on your cleverness? You've eaten too much beef, and you've lost your mind, right?"

"You dare to say that you saw it?! You came here before me, and even blocked two rounds! Hahaha, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat the braised pork tonight..."

"Which pot should be left unopened, right? At worst, I will spend the money for tomorrow morning's bean soup and rice first, and I will be hungry until the evening..."

The crowd gradually dispersed, and the middle-aged member looked at Su You's leaving figure: "I didn't expect that there would be such a person in Meishan..."

A young man in his twenties bowed and said: "Father, go home quickly. You are gambling as soon as you get on the pier, and you are so disrespectful of your identity. I'm afraid Weng Weng will be angry."

The officer stared at me: "What's wrong? You still dare to sue me?"

The young man said: "Do you still need me to sue? I'm afraid Weng Weng already knows it now."
Chapter completed!