"Auntie, Xi'er has made it very clear. I hope you won't bother me anymore in the future." Huo Jingchen ignored the frightened woman in front of him and looked at her coldly.
"Who are you! Why are you interrupting me when I'm talking to Miss Jiang! You don't look like a junior at all. Do you understand the rules? Leave me alone!" Jiang Guixiang resisted the urge to run away and pretended to be calm.
He stood up, cocked his neck and stared at him with wide eyes, like a vindictive rooster.
"Huo is the governor of Jingzhou, and he is also your Majesty's newly appointed General Weiyuan. I wonder which family this aunt is from?" Huo Jingchen pretended to be confused and looked at Jiang Guixiang curiously with a humble expression.
Jiang Guixiang was so frightened that her legs became weak, her whole body was cold, and her face was bloodless as she stared at him blankly.
"Okay, Auntie, we still have something to do, so let's take a step forward." Seeing Jiang Guixiang's frightened look, Jiang Hexi couldn't bear to continue to scare her, so she pulled Huo Jingchen and left.
After walking far away, Jiang Hexi couldn't bear it any longer and burst into laughter until tears came out of her eyes.
Huo Jingchen looked at the girl in front of him who was smiling completely with a gentle look, his eyes were dark and deep, but when he thought of the scene where his talents were showing off, he couldn't help but laugh in a low voice.
"Her reaction just now was really amazing! General Huo, are you really the one who scares people to this extent with just a name?" After laughing, Jiang Hexi looked at Huo Jingchen jokingly, covering her slightly aching stomach.
"I didn't do anything, she just felt guilty." Huo Jingchen lowered his eyes and looked over, looking at the woman with a charming smile, his eyebrows slightly raised.
"Actually, this Jiang Guixiang is not a big evil person. Although she often beats and scolds Lanhua, she still knows the right amount and doesn't dare to go too far. I also raised her, but I have always avoided these slanderous women.
Moreover, she is not a good person, so it is better to stay away from her." Jiang Hexi said something with emotion, thinking of the ill-fated Li Lanhua, she couldn't help but sigh.
"Okay, let's not talk about her anymore, let's continue shopping!" Seeing Huo Jingchen looking at her slightly worriedly, Jiang Hexi waved her hand, her expression relaxed, and she continued walking with a smile on her face.
The two walked towards the direction of the warm sun, one tall and the other petite walking in sync, looking from a distance, they seemed to be cuddling together.
In the tall and spacious winery, all the workers are working in an orderly manner.
"Girl, everyone has started brewing wine according to your request. Can you see if there is anything wrong with this step?" Li Tiezhu stood limping next to Jiang Hexi on crutches and pointed at everyone's busy figures with a smile.
Jiang Hexi looked at it carefully, walked up to a strong man, pointed at the wine trough and said: "The koji is the bone of the wine. This wine koji is very important, so we must not be careless."
"The grains used for brewing must be freshly sprouted or moldy. Freshly sprouted grains will produce a large amount of enzymes. This enzyme can saccharify the grains themselves into sugar, and then convert them into alcohol during the subsequent fermentation process.
Moldy grains can also be used to make koji, and the amylase in Aspergillus will also saccharify the starch in the grains. This is an important step in making koji, so you must pay attention to these."
Although Li Tiezhu didn't understand Jiang Hexi's explanation, seeing her serious look, he nodded subconsciously, hesitated for a while, and couldn't help but ask: "Girl, what enzyme are you talking about? Why have I never had one?"
Have you heard of it, and what is this starch?"
Hearing this, Jiang Hexi coughed lightly, glanced at the expectant eyes in the room, moved uncomfortably, thought for a moment, and then answered after a moment: "This enzyme is one of the enzymes contained in sprouted or moldy grains."
Ingredients are things that the grain itself produces due to changes in the outside world. For example, if fruits at home are stored for too long, they will become moldy and emit a smell. This smell actually means that the fruits have produced enzymes."
"But don't eat the fruit after it produces enzymes. However, in fact, the fruit can also be used to make wine. If the method is right, the fruit can also be turned into a mellow and rich wine." Jiang Hexi smiled and patiently explained to everyone.
Seeing everyone's expressions of enlightenment or confusion, Jiang Hexi didn't care and continued: "And this starch is something inside the grain. I don't know if you have ever tried soaking the dough in water. The water will
Turns white, this white water is starch.”
"Oh! So that's it, it's the fruit we eat at home, the pasta we make and so on!" Li Tiezhu touched the melon seeds on his head and his expression relaxed.
Jiang Hexi looked at everyone who was still confused, shook her head helplessly, and then walked forward.
Li Tiezhu hurriedly followed, pointed to the boiler in front and said: "Girl, we have soaked the grains used for brewing for a whole day according to your instructions, and we will start cooking them in the boiler today. Look, Qian Youshi and the others are busy.
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Looking in the direction Li Tiezhu pointed, Jiang Hexi saw a few men busy burning firewood in the huge boiler. The scorching fire made the men's bronze faces soaked with sweat, and even the blue clothes that were distributed uniformly were covered with sweat.
The sweat beads turned dark blue.
At this time, the winery was filled with the aroma of grains, which made people salivate. Jiang Hexi looked aside and saw several tall men adding chaff to the cooled grains, mixing in the distiller's yeast, and starting to ferment the grains. The men were strong and vigorous.
He waved the wooden stick in his hand, again and again, and big beads of sweat dripped from the man's forehead with bulging veins from time to time.
"Thank you for your hard work. Remember to give everyone mung bean soup every day. Also, the food must be in place. Every meal must have meat. We can't starve everyone." Jiang Hexi looked at the hard-working men and nodded secretly.
He nodded, then thought of something, and whispered to Li Tiezhu.
Li Tiezhu nodded hurriedly and said gratefully: "I'd like to thank the girl for everyone. In fact, everyone wants to thank the girl in person. The girl gave them work and saved their family, but they said they were rough people."
, I am afraid of scaring the girl, so please ask me to express my gratitude to the girl."
Hearing this, Jiang Hexi was stunned for a moment and subconsciously looked around. Sure enough, wherever she looked, she saw excited and grateful faces. Jiang Hexi couldn't help but feel shaken and lost consciousness for a while.
It turns out that she did a good deed after all. Huo Jingchen and Liu Ying always said that she changed their lives before, but Jiang Hexi didn't think so. Until now, when she saw those men who were obviously lame with one leg but full of smiles, and who had lost an arm but had full smiles on their faces,
The people who were working hard to add firewood to the boiler in Hanchun saw those figures with ferocious scars on their faces but busy with smiles. Only then did Jiang Hexi understand what Huo Jingchen and others said.
After a moment of silence, Jiang Hexi opened her mouth, but the words were stuck in her throat. She barely suppressed the astringency in the corners of her eyes, and Fang coughed lightly and said in a hoarse voice: "Well, I understand, you tell everyone what they think, I
We all know that if you have any difficulties in the future, just come to me and I will do my best to help you."
"Did you hear that? The girl said, don't be polite!" Li Tiezhu shouted at the people whose ears had been perked up for a long time.
"I heard it, thank you girl!"
"Thank you for your kindness, girl!"
"Thank you girl for taking me in!"
Listening to the deafening cheers and looking at the excited faces, Jiang Hexi smiled and nodded, but his eyes were dark and deep as never before. He didn't say much, but secretly made a decision in his heart.
"By the way, girl, as per your instructions, we have asked Master Zheng to make the distiller you mentioned, but Master Zheng said it will take some time to make it. Girl, now we can only use the method you taught us.
The wine is brewing." Li Tiezhu thought of something and hurriedly reminded him.
Jiang Hexi couldn't help but come back to her senses and look at the ancient distilling device in front of her.
I saw a large stove in the corner of the wine shop, and a wooden utensil in the shape of a pagoda was placed on the stove.
On the stove are a bottom pot and a steamer bucket. There is a small hole in the upper part of the steamer bucket. This distillation and cooling device is called a sky pot. The design of the sky pot was imitated by Jiang Hexi based on the ancient wine making method taught by her grandma.
The structure of the sky pot is shallow and the bottom of the pot is pointed. The sky pot is placed above the steamer barrel. The pot is filled with cooling water. There is also a drainage device for the wine liquid. The bamboo tube is connected to the wine tray and extends into the steamer barrel.
Facing the tip of the bottom of the pot, the wine steam comes up and turns into liquid when it meets the inner wall of the pot. It flows along the inner wall of the pot to the tip, and then drips into the wine tray. The connected bamboo tubes are high on the inside and high on the outside.
It is low, passes through the hole of the steamer barrel, and guides the wine liquid out of the steamer barrel, forming an ingenious distillation device.
Jiang Hexi racked his brains to recall this device. Although it is more troublesome than modern distillation devices, it still reflects the wisdom of the ancients. It is truly exquisite and breathtaking.
"It's okay, just use this first! This is also very good. Thank you for your hard work." Jiang Hexi looked back and smiled, and words of comfort slowly came out from the tip of her tongue.
Li Tiezhu nodded and said hurriedly: "It's not hard, it's not hard!"
The two of them continued to stroll through the wine shop, arriving quite calmly and leisurely after half an hour.
"Girl, this winery has started making wine. Recently, many people in the village have asked us if we still want to recruit workers. Some of their relatives also want to come, but the people in our village plus the people sent by General Huo are enough.
How do I get back to you?" Li Tiezhu sighed quietly and looked at Jiang Hexi with some expectancy.
Jiang Hexi pondered for a moment, then said after a moment: "Just tell the villagers that we won't be recruiting people for now, but if there is work in the future, we will inform everyone."
"Okay, I'll talk to everyone later." Li Tiezhu breathed a sigh of relief. After all, he had been scared by the villagers recently, and he came to Jiang Hexi because he couldn't hold it any longer.