Chapter 248 Eight Points
Gujing Township is also in the Hongshui River Basin. Every township in the Hongshui River Basin counts as a township, and every village counts as a village. Every village has its own workshop, and each village produces fine wine.
Some people say this is related to water, saying that the water quality of the streams along the Hongshui River is the best water source for wine making.
Some people say that this has something to do with the soil, saying that the soil along the Hongshui River contains the best bacteria for making wine.
Some people say that this is related to the climate. They say that the cellars of wineries along the Hongshui River are particularly suitable for the growth and reproduction of various bacterial strains needed for winemaking.
In recent years, some large wineries in the north have advertised on CCTV, which has brought great response. In order to increase sales, they have purchased liquor from the south and shipped it to the north for blending. Jiachuan is one of their raw material supply areas. The major wineries are currently doing business. All pretty good.
Hongshuihe Laobaigan is white wine. White wine is not very popular in Jiachuan unless it is mixed with various things.
But the fifth uncle is a barefoot doctor. The things he brews make Zhou Zhi feel a little unacceptable. In addition to various Chinese medicinal materials, the rest are either amphibians or reptiles, as well as cats and primates. Bones, or scales of ground-dwelling mammals.
But there is no fruit wine that Zhou Zhi and his friends like.
However, both Uncle Wu and Teacher Deng seemed to cherish the wine. They drank and chatted happily at the main table as the host and host and guest.
Zhou Zhi was not used to pure liquor, and suddenly thought of a drinking method that would become popular in Jiachuan in a few years.
Get half a bowl of rice, pour white wine into the bowl and soak the rice.
After the white wine is soaked in white rice, the taste will become softer, in addition to the legendary effect of removing methanol. Also, the macromolecular organic matter such as sugars dissolved into the rice changes the taste of the liquor; and the water in the rice will also lower the alcohol content, but the taste will not change significantly.
So generally with the same alcohol content, white wine soaked in rice will taste better than ordinary white wine.
After soaking the white wine, add it to the jug and warm it up. Su Datou is regarded as the host of Xiao Yier's table, and Zhou Zhi is regarded as the host and guest. The two of them sang and sang in harmony with this novel drinking method, filling Wei Fei and his neighbor half a cup of wine. The older kids, banging tiger sticks and chickens, and drinking were more lively than the main table.
Today's banquet has a slightly lower status than the "Pig Killing Vegetables". There is no big scene of three steaming and nine croquettes, but there are more roasted white meat, stuffed pork, crispy meatballs and threaded bowls.
The remaining twice-cooked pork, fried liver tips, shredded pork with celery, vermicelli sausage and pig blood soup, stewed radish bones, and a table of two watercress carp.
In addition, the cold dish of folded ear root mixed with dried fragrant vegetables, mixed with vegetables, and mixed with pig ears; the second cold dish of bath pickles, coriander mixed with shredded radish, is quite rich.
As a girl, the third sister could not go to the main table, but Liu Dachuan was dragged there as a second guest, which made her worried.
In order to solve her worries, Zhou Zhi took the initiative to pull her up and went over there to toast the elders at the head table and Teacher Deng.
Liu Dachuan's performance was "average", neither high nor low. He was an honest kid and drank honestly. The amount was acceptable but he was really nervous. As a result, he got drunk halfway through the dinner and fell asleep on the table.
The fifth uncle held the cup and expressed that he was quite satisfied: "If you dare to get drunk, you will fall asleep when you are drunk, eight points."
"What is the ten points?" After eating at the banquet At the end, Zhou Zhi also moved over and gave some elders some softer warm wine.
"There is no perfect score, and the nine-point grade is the highest." The fifth uncle smiled and said: "That means no matter how much you drink, you will not get drunk."
Every time I come to Kujing Township, I am searching for time. In winter, Li Zhouzhi’s favorite dishes are radish and cabbage.
The fifth aunt laughed as she threw the pig legs into the carriage: "Elbows are easy to make a living with, including ear roots, radish, and cabbage moss." "Zhou Zhi joked modestly: "The cargo capacity is only three tons."
The reason why I drove here this time was to transport an important gift - grapefruit. Going to Sichuan to meet so many people, the shelf-stable, sweet and special Zhenlong pomelo from Jiachuan is the best gift.
"It doesn't matter if you give me the money anyway." Su Datou replied with a witticism.
In the end, one of them got a slap from the fifth aunt: "Don't make trouble! Just listen to my arrangements!"
So besides twenty boxes of grapefruits, the rest were the private goods arranged by the fifth aunt - big radish, cabbage moss, Fatty pig legs, as well as eggs, duck eggs, sweet potato starch, vermicelli, rock honey, caramel, new rice, new beans...
Zhou Zhi finally gave up the resistance. It was difficult for him to fight with four fists, and he could not stop him alone. Not a family.
In the end, I simply found work for myself. I used the grapefruit boxes to free up a few boxes, filled them with straw, and put the collected porcelain, tableware, and miscellaneous artifacts in them.
Finally, he spread out the cardboard boxes in the car, added a quilt, and let Liu Dachuan, who was drunk and falling asleep, lie on it and sleep.
"You guys can sit in the front compartment, and I'll watch him." The third sister sighed: "Dad! Why did you let Dachuan drink like this?!"
The fifth uncle spread his hands and said, "I can't do this either. I didn’t persuade him! And we are opposites. I drink as much as he drinks.”
"䱱!" The third sister was about to burst into tears: "Can he compare with you? You are just a wine grape!"
A wine grape is a container made of bamboo, most of the time There was nothing to do, and the rest was either soaking in wine or on the way to the wine.
To be honest, the third sister, who loves literature, uses metaphors quite wonderfully.
But now is not the time to praise but to persuade others to fight. Zhou Zhi had just settled the bill with Brother Zifeng and hurriedly came over and said: "It's okay, it's okay, it's good to have a comfortable sleep like this. Third sister, please cover your head with Brother Dachuan to avoid Shou Feng, fifth uncle, fifth aunt, let’s go!”
“Brother Zifeng, I didn’t see my sister-in-law this time. I won’t do it next time. I’ll let grandma see it and she’ll be happy.”
The second brother said with a smile. !”
The pickup truck started up again and returned home with a full load. This time it was the youngest Wang who was driving because he didn’t drink.
Only then did Zhou Zhi take the opportunity to chat with Deng Lixian: "Teacher Deng, will the electric power company recruit graduates from hydropower schools this year?"
"Every year." Deng Li nodded first: "Both the Manzhou Hydropower School and the Shudu Hydropower School have quotas."
"Then if they are children of two-income earners, priority will be given, right?"
"That's for sure, I heard Zhubantan, Hutou Township, and Qianyudong are all crowded this year.”
Zhubantan Hydropower Station is the largest hydropower station in Jiachuan, but it is in Fubao. Da Cao River is the mother river of Ye Xin and Mu Ruyun.
Zhou Zhi has never been to Hutou Township, but he also knows that Hutou Power Station is one of the few industrial facilities in Fengming District where my father was party secretary. It was first used to supply power to local forest farms and district offices. , was integrated into the grid very late.
The last Qianyu Cave is on the Xishui River, further than Hutou Township.
Recalling the time when my mother went to Fengming Township to see her father and was so sick that she vomited on the Zigzitan Bridge due to motion sickness, Zhou Zhi asked: "Isn't it too hard to go to the Xiatou Power Station?"
"Elbow, why are you interested in this?" Deng Li smiled first. He had not treated Zhou Zhi before. He is too familiar, and only now, through the introduction of his third sister and fifth uncle, have he been connected to Jiachuan’s little celebrities: “Even if you want to contribute to Jiachuan water conservancy, you have to wait at least until you graduate with a bachelor’s or master’s degree. ”
(End of this chapter)