Mingshi

Chapter 226 Wine

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After leaving the blacksmith shop, he looked at the sky and knew that it was too late to go back to Shanglin Village today, so he simply returned to his house in the county seat.He didn't go to Zhou Yu and Zhang Xun, and he didn't want to disturb them as the scientific examination was approaching.I lived in the county house for one night, so I returned to Shanglin Village the next day. When I got home, I asked Lu Zhonglian to clean up a warehouse at home, and then built a stove in it, and asked Lu Zhonglian to beat some with wood. shelf.

Two days later.

Liang Dazhu drove a car to the Zhuangzi of Luo Xin's Shanglin Village. Luo Ping and his wife saw that Liang Dazhu had brought a cart of wine, so they asked Luo Xin what he was going to do. Luo Xin just smiled and shook his head, but told Liang Dazhu and Lu Zhonglian Move the wine and jars to the prepared warehouse.Then he entered the warehouse alone, closed the door, and got busy inside.

No one knew what he was doing. Luo Ping and his wife were very strange, and they were still a little worried. This Luo Xin was about to take a scientific examination. Not only did he not go to study, but he bought a carload of wine. What was he going to do?
However, soon Luo Xin came out and locked the warehouse.Seeing his parents, Lu Zhonglian, Liang Dazhu and others looking at him inexplicably, he smiled and said:
"I'm researching something, and it's not allowed to enter here."

"Xin'er, the scientific examination is about to begin..." Luo Shi looked at Luo Xin worriedly.

"I'm going back to study now!"

Luo Xin strode towards his yard, Luo Ping and his wife looked at each other, shook their heads helplessly and left.

Day [-].

Luo Xin left Shanglin Village on a horse early in the morning and went to the county seat. Luo Xin, who is now 12 years old, has no one to take care of him, even his parents only remind him to be careful on the road.

After entering the county seat, he went straight to the blacksmith's shop. When he saw the tools for refining wine that had been forged, a smile appeared on Luo Xin's face.After checking one by one, he happily paid the money, tied the tools to the horse, got on the horse, and galloped towards Shanglin Village.

Back at Zhuangzi, without time to rest, he went into the warehouse, locked the door from the inside, and started assembling the tools.

"Dangdangdang..."

There was a knock on the door outside the warehouse, and Die'er's voice came: "My lord, the old lady calls you to eat."

"Oh, here we come!"

Luo Xin's voice came from the warehouse, and seeing Luo Xin open the door and come out, Die'er widened her eyes in surprise and covered her mouth.Seeing Die'er's appearance, Luo Xin looked down at himself, and couldn't help but burst out laughing. At this time, his clothes were dirty, so he said with a smile:
"Go tell my mother, let them eat first, and I'll take a shower."

"Yes!"

Die'er suppressed her smile, turned her head and ran away, Luo Xin could still hear her laughing, he couldn't help laughing at himself, and walked towards his yard.

"Chunhua, boil me the bath water." Luo Xin called out as soon as he entered the courtyard.

"Ah..." Chunhua, who came out of the room and saw Luo Xin's appearance, couldn't help being surprised.

"Go!" Luo Xin said with a straight face.

"Yes!"

After Chunhua squatted down for a salute, she hurried into the room and started to boil water, accompanied by laughter, Luo Xin shook his head helplessly.

After dinner, Luo Xin left in a hurry, causing Luo Ping and his wife to look at each other with worried expressions in their eyes.And Luo Xin got into the warehouse again.

The next morning.

Luo Ping came to the yard, just opened his posture to prepare for martial arts, but suddenly sniffed, and a strong aroma of wine was inhaled into his heart and lungs.Luo Ping's eyes suddenly shone, and he threw Guan Dao on the shelf, sniffing his nose while walking along the scent of wine, and soon he was standing in front of the warehouse door.He stretched out his hand and gently pushed the door, and found that the door was locked inside. He didn't know what Luo Xin was doing inside, and he didn't want to disturb Luo Xin, so he scratched his ears and walked back and forth outside the door.

"Squeak..."

The door opened, and Luo Xin walked out with a blushing face, and a strong aroma of wine gushed out from the door.Luo Ping stepped in front of Luo Xin with one stride and said:
"Xin'er, you drink secretly."

"No ah!"

"Didn't drink?" Luo Ping's face sank and said, "See how you blushed?"

"Oh!" Luo Xin raised his hand and touched his face, feeling hot, he said, "It's because of the smell of alcohol."

"Smoked? What are you doing?" Luo Ping probed into the warehouse.

"Brewing!" Luo Xin didn't hide it from his father and said, "Don't tell anyone else!"

Luo Ping ignored Luo Xin, and walked in from Luo Xin's side. He didn't believe that Luo Xin was brewing wine. No one in the old Luo family had brewed wine for generations.But as soon as he entered the warehouse, he was dumbfounded. Some iron pipes that he couldn't understand were assembled there, one end was on the side of the pot, and the other end extended over the mouth of a jar, dripping glistening wine into the jar.Luo Ping sniffed, with a look of incredulity on his face:
"Is it really brewing?"

Luo Xin closed the door, walked over and said, "Of course it's making wine."

"But...but...this doesn't look like brewing wine!"

"This is not real winemaking!" Luo Xin nodded and said, "I just increase the alcohol content through distillation. In fact, apart from increasing the alcohol content, the taste may not be good."

"I'll try it!"

After saying that, Luo Ping took a ladle and put it into the jar to scoop a spoonful.

"father!"

Before Luo Xin could stop it in the future, Luo Ping drank it in a big gulp.

"puff!"

Luo Ping spit out half a sip, but there was still half a sip of wine down his throat, Luo Ping's face turned red with a bang, and he burped for a while, staring at Luo Dao with bright eyes:
"Too enjoyable!"

Luo Xin shook his head and said: "It's not enough, last night was just the first distillation, after the third distillation, the degree will be even higher."

"Will it be higher?" Luo Ping's eyes became brighter.

"Yeah!" Luo Xin nodded and said, "When it's buried underground for a while, the taste will be softer and taste better."

"Oh!" Luo Ping looked those tools up and down, and then looked back at Luo Dao, whose eyes were bloodshot: "You were busy all night yesterday?"

"Yeah!" Luo Xin nodded.

"Why do you think of making wine?" Luo Ping frowned and said, "Our family is not short of money now, and you are about to take a scientific examination soon."

"It's only this time, it's useful to me." Luo Xin said softly.

"Send someone?"

"Ok!"

"Who?"

"Prefect Sun."

"Hiss..." Luo Ping took a deep breath: "When did you...befriend Sun Zhifu?"

"It was the last time when Wen fought for water, he gave me a famous card. If I pass the Tongsheng exam, I will go to Jinyang Mansion during the mansion test. I have to pay a visit."

"En!" Luo Ping nodded, looked at those tools, and then at Luo Dao: "Xin'er, you've been busy all night, how can you steam..."

"Distillation."

"Yes, distilling. Teach me how to distill. I'll brew it. You go to sleep."

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