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Chapter 29: Wine, wine, wine

 Jia Lian hummed "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" all the way back to his study, and felt that his mind was much more open-minded.

In life, one must be with troubles for the rest of one's life, so why bother yourself?

In my previous life, I had a rat man and had countless worries. Isn’t it the end that I lived to die?

Now that we have come to the Red Chamber World, we can finally stop rushing for food, clothing, and have the opportunity to do something. How can we not let go of our arms?

You must be generous in order to accomplish great things.

He calmed down and thought carefully, thinking that the most important thing was money.

After all, the ancients said, "Money can make ghosts push the mill" and "money can help the gods with one hundred thousand."

I said closer that my wife Wang Xifeng had seized the financial power and had clean hair. I was counting on the 500 taels of silver that I had pawned today. How could I make friends and clear the upper officialdom?

To go far, with the scale and cost of the Jia family, and the virtues of no one in the Jia family, who is not enterprising and just blindly competing, will definitely be in a situation where they will not make ends meet in the future. If they can establish a family business at this time, it will be a way out.

Having made up his mind, Jia Lian locked himself in his study and focused on studying. What are the "Huangdi Neijing", "Diet Difference", "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Qimin Yaoshu", one after another, taking notes while reading.

After seven or eight days, Jia Lian actually solved his traditional Chinese problem.

After that, he came to the "Fu Shui Boiler" with his ideas and discussed with Qu Siping how to enhance the taste of the liquor.

Qu Siping was squatting in front of the boiling pot and frowned and thought hard.

He has not been idle these days, and has tried to use charcoal to absorb the mixed alcohol in the soju. He even used pig skin, but it still cannot reduce the intensity of the soju when it is in the mouth.

Jia Lian looked at the cast iron pot and asked:

"Can this thing work? Should I change it again?"

Qu Siping immediately protected him in front of the boiling pot:

"This cannot be moved, this is what our old man stays behind.

Don’t look at it as old as it looks, it was made by our old man who asked about it by a Westerner, imitating the still making rose water.

Look at this steamer and Tianguo, which is specially welded to the stove. The Tianguo is divided into two layers, with wine mothers underneath and cold water on top. It is the most useful thing."

"What is rose water?"

Jia Lian began to feel that he might have really underestimated ancient technology.

Qu Siping looked at Jia Lian in surprise:

"It's just the flower dew. The method is actually similar to distilled soy wine, so some pots can't be made now, so they change to flower dew.

Second Master, this rose water comes in every year, and it is indispensable to use it in your Jia Mansion. Have you never heard of it?"

Jia Lian had no choice but to pretend to continue looking at the cast iron pot:

"It looks okay, it's a little old."

Who thinks that Qu Siping is not finished yet:

"I heard that the 'Sweet Dew' and 'Rose Dew' in a small three-inch-high glass bottle were also sent to the palace. How could it be just the second master's hand? You don't know?"

Jia Lian gave Qu Siping a big eye in his heart, but he could only change the topic quickly:

"Since you are unwilling to change the pot, use charcoal, and the pig skin is not used to absorb it, it seems that we still have to think about the brewing ingredients.

What kind of wine chorus are you using now?”

When Qu Siping heard about wine, he immediately became more energetic:

"It's just an ordinary sorghum rosary. Grind it and add water, press it into large pieces, and then pile it up for a month. This is how each boiling pot is made, passed down by ancestors."

Jia Lian shook his head:

"I saw from the book that if barley or peas are added to this song, the wine tastes less volatile."

Qu Siping thought for a while and nodded: "You can try it."

After taking a few steps, I slapped my head again:

“I remembered it!

We can also try the song.

It is to replace the sorghum with rice or glutinous rice to make koji, grind it and add water to make it not into large pieces, but instead into small balls.

I heard from the people from the south, but I didn't try it myself."

Jia Lian was overjoyed when he heard this and slapped Qu Siping on the shoulder:

"What are you waiting for? Try it."

Qu Siping was also intrigued:

"Try it! Try it!

Also, I think we can try to reduce the days of brewing and increase the days of storing wine, which can also make the wine more mellow.

However, this makes the wine sour, and I can’t figure out how to avoid it.”

Jia Lian came to "Fu Shui Boiler" for research and development for several days.

Seeing that Qu Siping's wife and daughter were always ill, they brought the doctors from the city clinic to see them. They spent nearly twenty taels of silver with the doctor and medicine. Qu Siping's family was very grateful to Jia Lian.

Later, Jia Lian proposed to improve the roasting pot, and Qu Siping was also in the craze for scientific and technological research and agreed without thinking.

Even the hops that wanted to kill Jia Lian with a big stick were involved, and they came up with an idea that it would be best to deal with the "wine tail" separately, so as to reduce the evil smell in the wine.

Seeing that the first pot of new wine would be released in a few days, Jia Lian was full of expectations and didn't care about the rest of the matter.

On that day, Jia Lian was about to go to the pot when he met Chen Jingxing and Niu Song, and he had never seen Jia Lian for many days and had to take him to have a drink.

But they had already seen Jia Lian's alcohol tolerance and repeatedly said: I will only drink Jinhua wine this time.

The three of them were joking and then came to the near Dongfeng Tower.

But I didn't expect that this second-story restaurant, which is usually crowded, is closed at this time, and it is deserted.

Niu Song was curious and went up to look into the door. When he met a guy who was going out with a bag, Niu Song asked:

"What happened to Dongfeng Tower? Why don't you open the door to do business?"

But the guy saw Jia Lian at a glance, and didn't bother to answer Niu Song's question, turned around and rushed into the room and shouted:

"Shopkeeper, Mr. Lian is here! Come out quickly!"

Niu Song pointed at Jia Lian and said with a smile:

"It's not that I haven't paid the wine for the last time, right?"

Manager Chun almost staggered out of the door and went forward to bow to Jia Lian repeatedly:

"Mr. Lian is a living god! Mr. Lian helps!"

Chen Jingxing looked at the shopkeeper Chun who had lost weight a lot and said with a smile:

"Good guy! Hu Jun owe Dongfenglou how much money does he owe? Look at how anxious the shopkeeper Chun is."

Manager Chun is really anxious:

"Second Master Lian helps! Last time, the second master said, "It's a small matter of losing money, but it's a big matter of hurting people." I didn't take it to heart. It's because I was blind and lard was blinded.

There have been accidents and continuous losses in the past ten days. It is true that the second master said it is accurate.

First, the kitchen fire broke out. Although it was rescued in time, the entire kitchen was destroyed and a lot of household items were burned.

Later, the beams of the house fell into soil and fell on the guests, on the table, and in the wine glasses. It is easy to talk to, and it is enough to have no orders for wine and food. If you encounter something that is difficult to talk to, you will have to pay extra money in addition to the orders for free.

Two days later, there was a problem with the fish and shrimps I sent, and the guests vomited and diarrhea, and people came to the yamen. It was inevitable that they would compensate the guests and handle some yamen, which would almost cost money.

How can my little Dongfeng Tower withstand such storms? It seems that it will be almost impossible to open.

The young man thought that since Master Lian could predict it, he would definitely be able to crack it.

I went to the mansion a few days ago to ask for a meeting. Everyone at the door said that the second master was not here, so anxious that I couldn't sleep all night.
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