Chapter 99: Brew spiritual wine and make gourd scoops
Li Xiang only built a backyard, not a front yard, and it was not the kind where the whole yard encloses the house, because he just wanted to prevent wild boars and other ferocious animals that might come down from the back hill.
Although the hunting of wild boars is almost done this year, the reproductive capacity of wild boars is amazing and they lack natural enemies. It is expected that there will be more wild boars next year.
In other words, the front yard of his house is still open. If a wild boar comes, just hide in the house and close the door.
In rural areas, it is not suitable to have a yard in the front. Once a yard is built, no one will come to visit. Originally, Li Xiang's family lived in a remote area, far away from the center of the village. If they built a courtyard and closed the door, no one would come to chat with them, and grandma would be even more lonely.
At least now, people still come to sit down every now and then.
Li Xiang rode a tricycle to the town, to the time-honored shochu shop he had visited before.
"Oh, isn't this a big celebrity in our county?" the store owner greeted enthusiastically. He also watched the video of Li Xiang hunting wild boars. After all, he has more than 2 million fans. Although fans are spread all over the country and even abroad, there are not many locally. Few, even if some people haven’t paid attention, they have seen or heard about it.
"It's just a small fuss." Li Xiang waved his hand, said a few words of humility, and then started picking out drinks.
Naturally, he wanted to buy better wine to brew spirit wine and ordinary snake wine. The high-grade soju I bought here last time was of very good quality and very cost-effective.
The store owner took Li Xiang on a tour, introducing each area one by one, detailing his treasures.
When Li Xiang came last time, the store didn't bring him in. He just had a brief chat in the street shop outside and then concluded the deal.
This time it was different. The shop owner knew that Li Xiang was rich and a big customer, so he took him directly to the brewing workshop behind him.
In addition to the finished wine, he also took him to visit the raw material area and brewing area.
Li Xiang couldn't help but praise: "You have kept this place very clean."
The boss patted his chest and said, "Of course, I have been doing this business for decades, and the people who come here are all from the countryside. Reputation is very important!"
Li Xiang nodded, indeed. Although the other party's workshop is small, it is well-equipped, and the sanitary conditions may be better than many breweries.
After the visit, the store owner took some samples for Li Xiang to taste.
The wines at the other party's place are all 58-proof, and there are ordinary ones that have been aged for two years and cost 45 yuan a pound, which is the kind Li Xiang bought before.
The taste is similar to the two or three hundred bottles on the market, which is one of the reasons why Li Xiang is a repeat customer.
In addition, there are three-year-old 60 yuan per catty, five-year-old 100 yuan per catty, ten-year-old 180 yuan per catty, and fifteen-year-old 280 yuan per catty. The ones that usually sell more are 45 yuan per catty.
The older the items, the smaller the inventory. There are only three jars of unopened items that are fifteen years old.
Li Xiang tasted them one by one. With his extraordinary keen senses, he found that the fifteen-year-old wine had the best taste and richest aroma. It was soft, mellow, and had a long aftertaste. The wine was very full-bodied, elegant and delicate, and had an outstanding flavor.
Li Xiang then laughed and said: "If you buy the fifteen-year-old one, you will take the three unopened ones."
The boss was immediately overjoyed and immediately asked someone to help Li Xiang move to the car.
The boss personally held a jar and said cheerfully: "If you have any questions about this wine when you go back, please come to me at any time." He was very confident in his words. After all, what I tasted before was a sample, not from the unopened three jars, so I was afraid that customers would be worried.
Three jars of wine, the kind with a net weight of twenty kilograms per jar, totaled 16,800 yuan. Li Xiang paid the bill readily and went to a Chinese medicine shop in the town to grab some Chinese medicine.
Li Xiang said that he wanted to make snake wine, including black-shaded snake, white-flowered snake, pit viper, and five-step snake. The old Chinese medicine doctor in the drugstore recommended a recipe, including astragalus, angelica, safflower, ginseng, rehmannia root, cinnamon twig, etc. . After spending about 800 yuan on these Chinese medicinal materials, Li Xiang went home.
After I got home, I opened two bottles of wine. Sure enough, the wine was so fragrant that even the dogs ran over.
One jar is used to brew snake wine, supplemented by the seven or eight Chinese medicines obtained from the traditional Chinese medicine store, and the other jar is used to brew spiritual wine, using many elixirs obtained from the previous mountain sweeps.
There is also a jar placed in the cellar for further storage, and can be opened and drank later if needed.
The brewed spiritual wine has a higher utilization rate of the spiritual medicine, and if you usually absorb it while practicing it, step by step, your foundation will be more solid. He kept some first- and second-level elixirs, and made soup for his grandma every now and then. He also shared some with the dogs and cats, and of course left some for Jiang Cai'er.
Since Jiang Cai'er already has spiritual power in her body, the ones left for her are relatively good.
The formula of the spiritual wine comes from the system, which not only maximizes the medicinal power of the elixir, but the compatible types also have no conflict of medicinal properties and are safe.
The spirit wine is placed in the system space, and the snake wine is stored in the cellar.
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Under the warm sun, in the backyard, waterfalls flowed gurglingly.
Li Xiang took out eight large gourds and selected three good-looking ones, intending to make them into wine gourds, while the rest were made into gourd gourds. This way you don’t have to buy scoops at home.
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The gourd gourd is relatively simple to make. Li Xiang saw his grandma make it before, so he practiced with this one first.
The wine gourd is relatively troublesome, and I have no previous experience. It still needs to be explored slowly, and it may not be done well.
These large gourds were obtained from deep mountains and old forests. They had been hanging on dead vines before. They were extremely old and felt quite strong. Li Xiang used a saw to cut the gourds in half and took out the seeds inside. Spread it flat in a dustpan and put it on the eaves to dry in the sun to save seeds. When spring comes, he will try to plant some in the backyard.
This fairy gourd with two bellies is deeply influenced by cartoons and has been his favorite since childhood.
Gourds are annuals, so these are all ordinary products and cannot detect extraordinary potential. However, if the gourds are grown at home, round after round, when the end of the world comes and extraordinary particles emerge, mutated gourds may not necessarily appear.
In fact, when making gourd gourds, it is better to use the one with a single belly, but the one with a double belly is also good.
After sawing and removing the seeds, a total of ten half gourds were obtained. Li Xiang threw these half gourds into a large iron pot, filled it with water, covered the pot lid, and lit a high fire below to start cooking.
It doesn’t need to be boiled for too long, just boil it for three to five minutes, then take out half of the gourd, cool it slightly, and use a spoon to scrape off the outer skin and the remaining flesh inside.
Li Xiang did the work very carefully and repaired it cleanly. He then washed it with water and hung it under the corridor to dry slowly.
Since these gourds were old enough and had thicker and harder shells, Li Xiang did not stuff them with anything to shape them. If it is a tender gourd, you may need to stuff it with some absorbent material to help shape it.
After it dries naturally, use sandpaper to lightly polish the edges and it's ready for use.
Li Xiang had several gourds and gourds in his house before, but they have been damaged for a long time. After these are dried, the damaged ones can be thrown away.
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