Chapter 371 Monkey Wine
Fortunately, everyone here lives a self-sufficient life, and everyone needs to work, so no matter how much good food they eat, they will not get fat.
It is most likely due to the effect of hot spring water, because hot spring water can regulate the body and adjust everyone's body to the healthiest state, so that they will naturally not gain weight.
Even if Xia Chan and Zhou Qizhi are far away and living in a tent, they will not forget to take a hot spring bath.
On this day, Xia Chan and Zhou Qizhi came to a place they had never set foot in before. Although the sun was scorching overhead, the tall trees above blocked the strong sunlight, leaving only some mottled circles of light.
Zhou Qizhi held Xia Chan's hand and held a sickle in the other hand. It was better to be cautious in untouched areas.
While walking, Xia Chan suddenly smelled a strong smell of alcohol. She wrinkled her nose vigorously and said, "Zhou Qizhi, I smell a strong smell of alcohol. Do you smell it?"
Zhou Qizhi nodded, "I smelled it too."
"I don't know what fermented, giving off such a strong aroma of wine. Let's look for it." After that, the two of them followed the smell of wine and slowly started to search. After searching for a long time, they found a tree. But the area that smelled of alcohol was higher up and she couldn't see it.
Zhou Qizhi squatted down and let Xia Chan sit on his shoulders. Then he stood up. Xia Chan glanced at the place where the smell of wine was coming from. Unexpectedly, it was a tree hole, and the smell of wine inside was very strong.
"Zhou Qizhi, it should be monkey wine. Do you know what monkey wine is? It's monkey food that ferments into wine after being put together for a long time. I heard that drinking monkey wine is good for your health!" Xia Chan took out a wine spoon and a glass bottle from the space, poured out the wine in the tree hole one by one, and then put it into the glass bottle. After finishing the wine in the tree hole, Xia Chan asked Zhou Qi to Zhi put her down.
She looked at Zhou Qizhi worriedly and asked, "Are you okay?"
"Xiaochan, you are not heavy at all, I am fine." Zhou Qizhi said with a smile, how could such a small weight crush him?
Xia Chan put the wine bottle into the space, "Now that we are here, let's go to other places to find out if there is a monkey bar. Otherwise, if it rains heavily, these wines will be destroyed and cannot be drunk."
After that, the two people started searching nearby, and unexpectedly found several tree holes. Xia Chan filled several of the ten-pound large glass jars.
Since she harvested the monkey wine, she naturally wanted something in return, so Xia Chan found a place with sufficient light and planted two peach trees and two apple trees as a thank you to the monkeys who made the wine.
When returning, Xia Chan filled several kilograms of monkey wine in the bamboo cups they had made before.
As soon as they reached the bamboo courtyard wall, Grandpa Xiao couldn't wait to walk out of the courtyard, "The smell of wine is so fragrant, where did the wine come from in this forest?" Then his eyes fell on Xia Chan and Zhou Qizhi. , "The smell of alcohol comes from your bodies, how can you have alcohol?"
"Grandpa, we found monkey wine in the woods, so we brought some back. See if you can drink it. If you can, we will try the monkey wine." Xia Chan smiled and put the bamboo tube into the wine. The cup was handed over. Grandpa Xiao held the bamboo cup as if he had found a treasure, and smiled with wrinkles on his face, "You two are really good kids. When you encounter good things, you know how to bring them back to grandpa. Grandpa will taste them."
"Grandpa, don't be in a hurry to drink. I'm going to make some food to go with the wine and we'll have a good dinner tonight." Xia Chan and Zhou Qizhi looked at each other and smiled helplessly.
Because Grandpa Xiao had never drank in front of them before, they didn't know that Grandpa Xiao was a drinker. They heard that monkey wine is very good, and drinking a little should be fine.
In the afternoon, Xia Chan and Grandma Xiao made a spicy pig ear dish and a cold fungus dish together. They were both slightly spicy and everyone could eat them.
I had hunted a wild boar before and came back. After I ate the fresh meat that day, I salted the rest for two days and then hung it in the yard to dry.
Grandpa Xiao and Grandma Xiao saw Xia Chan and the others carrying a backpack each when they arrived, and even carrying sacks. He knew that they had brought enough supplies to survive for several months, so it was natural for Xia Chan to come up with so much salt. I didn’t think much about it, I just thought that the child was a well-planned person.
In the evening, before the sky had completely darkened, everyone ate directly in the yard. The food was served on the table. Grandpa Xiao poured a full bamboo bowl of wine for himself, and poured a shallow layer for everyone, so that the bottom of the bowl was covered with wine. I don’t know if it flooded or not.
"Grandpa, we have never drunk monkey wine before. We don't know whether we can drink monkey wine or not. What will happen after drinking it? There is no doctor here. What if something unexpected happens? So grandpa, you are the first to drink it." Just drink a few sips at a time to taste the taste. Let's drink again when we go back!" Xia Chan thought about it, but still felt a little worried and didn't dare to let Grandpa Xiao drink too much.
If you feel uncomfortable, you can get better by resting. If you get sick, it will be difficult. After all, it is so far away and it will take a lot of time to go back.
After hearing this, Grandma Xiao felt that it was right, "Old man, you should listen to Xiaochan. Drink a little first to make sure it's okay. You can drink more another day. It's better not to drink so much all at once the first time."
"Okay, let's drink a little first!" Grandpa Xiao poured the wine from the bamboo bowl back into the bamboo cup, leaving a shallow layer for himself, then carefully took a sip, and then said loudly, "Okay Drink, this is what it tastes like.”
Monkey wine contains medicinal materials and fruits. It is different from ordinary white wine, and it is not as spicy as white wine. Everyone except children can drink it, and the medicinal materials in it can also regulate the body. Drinking it in small amounts is good for the body. .
However, Xia Chan is not very interested in wine, so she didn't drink tonight. If everyone drinks together, they will all be drunk by then. Who will take care of whom? So there must be a few sober people left!
Xiao Tiantian, Xiao Mimi, and Grandma Xiao didn't drink. Only Grandpa Xiao and the three men drank a little. Because they didn't dare to drink much on the first day of drinking, they first observed whether there were any sequelae. After all, this wine is The things picked by monkeys are piled together and fermented. It is definitely not as clean as the wine made by humans, so you should pay attention to it.
Everyone only drank the shallow layer at the bottom of the bowl, but nothing happened. Even Zhou Qizhi, Xia Bin, and Jin Pengyuan had never drank wine, so their faces were red, but only light red, not that much. exaggerate.
After dinner, everyone went to the hot spring to soak for a while and then came back to rest.
Xia Chan lay on the bamboo bed and listened carefully, fearing that something might happen to Grandpa Xiao. When she woke up the next morning and saw Grandpa Xiao feeling refreshed, she knew that this monkey wine was really a rare good thing. , she decided to go with Zhou Qizhi to collect more monkey wine.