Li Ma and the chef were very happy. The chef had already bought a lot of white-haired tofu as Su You said.

Long-haired tofu is edible. People in the Song Dynasty already knew this, but it was fried and eaten with dipping sauce. Now the young master seems to be making it differently.

The lees from the official wine shop cost one penny per catty, and Su You also asked the cook to haul five hundred catties over.

There is actually a lot of alcohol in the lees, and the distillation method is still in the exploratory stage and is far from being established, let alone common.

However, Su oil does not exist. For so many years in the countryside, the villagers drank the rice wine, rice wine, and sweet potato wine every year, and many young and old drank them.

It was very hot, with temperatures around 70 degrees in many cases. Even after drinking one or two cups, Su You would be drunk by fellow villagers every time.

The chef of the Cheng family has made large banquets. At the end of each year, when the owner expresses gratitude to the foremen and workers, many tables must be set up, so large-scale equipment is available, but mainly pottery.

A temporary stove was set up on the dam behind the kitchen, a large pot was set on fire, a large wooden steamer was placed, and the wine grains were poured in and steamed.

The lid is made of pottery, and the inner layer is covered with glaze. This is also the experimental product used by the Shijia Pottery Workshop to test the Guanyin clay glaze. Suyou added Glauber's salt as a melting aid, which further improved the effect.

There is a curved pottery tube on the top of the lid, followed by a long dry bamboo tube, which is sealed with pottery clay. The bamboo tube is opened up, the inside is polished smooth, and one end is sharpened to catch the wine.

Soon, the steam condensed into water droplets in the bamboo tube and dripped into a thin-mouthed jar.

Steam one pot, replace the lees, pour the previously obtained wine into it again, and continue steaming the second pot.

By rotating in this way, the concentration of the wine in the jar becomes higher and higher.

After steaming in the third pot, Su You tasted it and found that according to the taste in his previous life, it was already close to 60 degrees.

Su You said: "It's almost done. Uncle cook, let's do it this way. Combine the three pots into one pot. I'll go to bed first."

The chef's face turned red after tasting the wine, and he was extremely excited: "The business of killing people and setting fires! It's just a money grab, young master, just watch it!"

Come back and make kimchi and sauerkraut with Li Ma, put the soaked ginger on the bottom, wrap the mustard greens with ginger slices and tie them into small handfuls and put them on top, pour in the salt water, shake well to let the air bubbles escape, cover the mouth plate, fasten the lid of the altar, and pour water around the edges.

After a lap of water, it was finally done.

Su You returned to the room with Li Ma and looked at the two rhyme books on the desk. Su You sighed, turned off the light and went to sleep.

When I got up the next day, I found three black pottery jars with narrow mouths placed under the eaves, containing three jars of clear wine.

Chef Zhou went on strike this morning and was still sleeping soundly. After washing up, Li Ma went to cook while Su You opened the package that his uncle had sent yesterday and sent toothbrushes and dental floss to Cheng Wenying and Ba Niang.

There is also a pocket knife in the package, which is the classic style of Higo Shou's folding knife. The copper sheet is folded as the handle. There is a quick-opening fin behind the blade. Press the quick-opening fin and the blade turns out. It is a three-layer composite forged knife.

When beaten, the burning blade marks are very obvious.

The blade was polished extremely sharp and shone with a green light.

Three small words were engraved crookedly on the copper skin: "It's good to be strong!"

Su You couldn't help laughing: "This old man Shi!"

Back in the kitchen, he poured the wine into a small bowl, mixed the snow salt and thirteen-spice powder on a plate, and used a folding knife to sharpen a new pair of chopsticks.

The folding knife is really easy to use, the steel is excellent, and it really lives up to its name.

After sharpening the chopsticks and putting away the folding knife, Su You picked up the hairy tofu with the chopsticks, first wrapped it in wine, then wrapped it in thirteen-spice salt powder, and put it into a small kimchi jar.

Mother Li was making porridge at the side. When she saw this, she said: "The young master is used to doing rough work. He is only five years old this year. Why shouldn't he start working on the stove at the age of four? Even children from poor families can't bear to do it."

The stove fire reflected on Ma Li's face, and Su You felt a bit holy when he saw the loving look on Ma Li's face.

Without stopping his hands, Su You said with a smile: "We are not a rich family in the first place, but when we go to Longli Zhuangzi, we just provide food and clothing. Mother Li, don't treat me as some noble person."

After saying that, he added: "But no one can blame me for going to the stove early. I only blame myself for being greedy and not used to eating what my uncle has cooked."

Li Ma was not happy: "Young master is a noble person, he was brought out of your mother's womb. When I went home yesterday, the family was full of praise for young master. Those things you made, my family said they have never seen such fine things in generations."

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After he finished speaking, he praised: "Which five-year-old young master has such arrogance and airs that he won't take five hundred guan even if he says he doesn't want it? If other children give him a piece of candy, his parents won't even remember it!"

Su You filled several small jars, closed the lids, poured water on the rim, moved them to the shelf and put them away: "It's not so exaggerated. If Shi Shibo had given me a piece of malt candy, I might have forgotten everything.

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"If you really want those five hundred coins, the historian will have to take a long time to breathe. In exchange for 30% of the shares in the ceramics workshop, it will be a long-term solution."

After saying this, she instructed: "Mom Li, all kimchi jars need to be wiped every day. The water in the mouth rim must not be dried. They must be sucked up, wiped and replaced with new water every few days. And most importantly, chopsticks must be used alone.

Don't touch a bit of oil star."

Li Ma wrote down seriously: "I understand, don't worry, young master."

At this time, Banniang came over: "Hey, Uncle Yao, why are you in the kitchen?! Ma Li, Grandpa asked me to ask, when will breakfast be ready? He is in a hurry to go to Taofang after dinner."

After speaking, he sniffed: "What does it smell like? Is it wine?"

Then I saw the wine bowl, salt powder, and unused tofu on the table.

Picking up the wine bowl and smelling it, Ba Niang suddenly became furious: "Xiaoyou! You use this wine to make hairy tofu and eat it?! Where did you get the money?!"

Su You said: "It didn't cost much. My sister-in-law gave me five hundred coins yesterday. I thought it was useless for me to take it, so I asked the cook uncle to buy the distiller's grains and prepare to send them to the folks in Kelongli."

Li Ma also quickly explained: "The young master asked the cook to steam the wine from the lees. After working hard all night, the cook went to bed, so I will cook today's breakfast."

Ba Niang glared at Su You fiercely, picked up the bowl of leftover wine and said, "Follow me! The young master of the Su family always likes to sneak into the kitchen, what's the point!"

Su You wasn't angry either. He took the bowl with a smile, poured the remaining wine into the jar, and washed the bowl: "It would be disrespectful to use the remaining wine for making hairy tofu to honor your uncle-in-law. There are three black pottery jars over there.

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Ba Niang picked up a jar and glanced at him: "What a waste of natural resources!"

After leaving the kitchen, Su You remembered something and looked back: "Ma Li, fry the remaining tofu and sprinkle it with some fragrant salt to add to the dish."

Ba Niang stamped her feet: "Why don't you hurry up and follow me!"

Su You stuck out his tongue at Li Ma and left with a smile.

Li Ma smiled as she brought the tofu over. Although the young master is smart, he is still a child after all.

When I arrived at the main room, I saw Cheng Wenying flossing his teeth and my aunt doing needlework.

Dental floss is actually very simple to make. It is just a small bamboo stick with the thickness of a toothpick, stretch the silk thread into an arch shape, and then use the silk thread to remove the tartar from the gaps between the teeth.

Seeing Su You coming over, Cheng Wenying smiled and said, "Toothbrushes and flossers are all nice little things. Hey, Banniang, why are you holding a jar?"

Ba Niang put the jar on the table and said, "Uncle Yao is really non-stop. He asked the cook to do something again last night."

Cheng Wenying was already used to it and reacted calmly: "Oh, what is it again?"

Banniang said: "Wine."

Su You smiled and said: "I forgot to tell my uncle-in-law, let's consider it a surprise today, but this wine is more suitable for a small cup and pot worth three or four dollars. I will go to the porcelain shop today and burn a set of wine utensils for my uncle-in-law.

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Opening the wine jar, the aroma of wine filled the room.

The old aunt raised her head in surprise, and Cheng Wenying could no longer calm down: "What... what kind of wine is this?"

Su You asked Ba Niang to pour a small amount out: "Drinking is a refined thing, and the current utensils are not suitable. My brother-in-law can just drink lightly. Besides, there are many things to do today."

"This wine, I saw that the lees were cheap, so I planned to buy several hundred kilograms of them and send them to Kelongli to make food. But when I saw that there was still a lot of wine in them, I thought of steaming them out, and I ended up with this. Specifically.

The name hasn't been chosen yet, so my in-laws can just give it to me if I see it."

Cheng Wenying took it and took a quick sip: "Excellent! The color is more tender than cold syrup, and the fragrance is the same as nectar and Yongchun. This wine is called 'Yongchun Dew'. What do you think, my dear nephew?"

Su You smiled and said: "The name given by my uncle-in-law is naturally excellent."

Cheng Wenying held the edge of the bowl with four fingers of both hands and turned to look at the wine inside: "Isn't this wine rare?"

Su You said: "It's actually not difficult to return to my uncle-in-law. You can steam a jar of the leftover lees from three pots."

Cheng Wenying was shocked: "Then this is a business of murder and arson!"
Chapter completed!