Chapter 353 Super Mysterious Gift Pack

Ning Xiyue returned to the Youth League Institute and found that the three people who had been practicing boxing were still practicing there, as if they were waiting for her to come back.

When Chen Yuechu saw her coming in with a jar of wine, he immediately stopped what he was doing and ran over happily.

"How is it, have you finished your apprenticeship?"

The other two, Ning Qingyuan and Yu Zhiyu, also stopped what they were doing and gathered around her, very curious about the jar of wine in her hand.

Ning Qingyuan reached out to help hold the jar of wine, and patted the jar curiously: "Little sister, is there wine in this jar?"

Ning Xiyue looked at the three people with curiosity and concern on their faces, smiled and nodded under their gaze, and invited:

"Yes, it's wine. This jar of wine is my apprentice wine. The masters tasted this wine and recognized me as an apprentice. Do you want to taste it?"

"good."

The three of them looked at each other expectantly and nodded vigorously.

Ning Qingyuan rushed to the kitchen holding the wine jar: "Come on, sit inside."

The three of them sat at the table, staring at Ning Qingyuan as he poured the wine.

Smelling the wine, Chen Yechu exclaimed: "What a nice smell."

Chen Yechu's exclusive echo machine Yu Zhiyu: "It is indeed fragrant."

Before they drank, the self-aware Ning Xiyue gave them a heads-up to lower their expectations.

"Let me make it clear first, the taste is not as good as you think, but it is my first creation."

The passion of the other few people did not subside, and they still picked up the wine glasses and tasted the wine in the glass with great interest.

Chen Yechu took a sip and found it didn't burn his throat. His eyes lit up immediately and he gave a thumbs up and praised:

"Well, it's quite good, Xiyue, you are underestimating yourself. Although I don't know whether wine is good or bad, I don't think that unpalatable wine is good."

"That's good." Ning Xiyue saw Chen Yechu was still drinking, and quickly reminded him: "Don't drink anymore. The alcohol content of this sorghum wine is very high, more than 50 degrees, which is not comparable to the alcohol content of glutinous rice wine. It's easy to get drunk."

"Okay, I won't drink it. Low-alcohol glutinous rice wine is more suitable for me." Chen Yechu put down the wine glass and rubbed his temples. When he mentioned glutinous rice wine, he stood up and ran out of the kitchen quickly: "Xiyue, wait for a while, I'll go back to get the rice."

"Slow down, there's no rush, you can brew it anytime." Ning Xiyue shouted at her.

Yu Zhiyu followed over to help get it.

"Little sister, you can send this wine to dad. He will be so happy when he gets the wine." Ning Qingyuan put down the wine glass, then held the wine jar and looked at it again and again.

"Then send this, and make some glutinous rice wine for your parents to send back. This wine is easy to make, has a low alcohol content, and is good for your health."

Ning Xiyue planned to help Chen Yechu make glutinous rice wine while she was making some rice for herself, and also make some fermented glutinous rice wine, which she would use to feed the pigs in the space.

"Xiyue, I'm here." Chen Yetu rushed in.

Yu Zhiyu helped her carry a bucket of glutinous rice.

Chen Yechu pointed at the bucket of glutinous rice and said, "Here are five kilograms of glutinous rice. Is that ok?"

"Okay, is there a requirement for the degree?"

"Just the degree you brewed last time, as long as it's less than or equal to that."

"Okay, luckily you only make glutinous rice wine. I can only make simple wine like rice wine now. I don't have systematic distillation tools for sorghum wine, which has a slightly complicated distillation process. If I want to make it again, I can only borrow tools from Zhang Jianguo. I don't want to trouble others, so I won't do it. You can come to me to make rice wine later. It's limited to you two. You can't steal my master's business."

Ning Xiyue explained the situation to them while chatting and laughing.

She learned to make wine not to make money from others, nor to make wine for others, but to make wine for herself, and also to make medicinal wine more conveniently for herself.

"I understand. I also only like to drink glutinous rice wine. I will stick to you from now on."

Chen Yechu took out the processing fee from his bag, but Ning Xiyue refused.

"I'm just making this wine out of friendship. I don't take on other jobs. I just told you that. What do you think you understand?"

"Yes, yes, look, I took it out with the wrong hand." Chen Yechu took out a net bag of dried bean curd from his bag: "You liked it last time, I left some for you."

"Good sister."

Ning Xiyue took the bean curd without any hesitation and patted Chen Yechu's shoulder with a touched look on her face.

"Just wait, you can get your wine in four days."

"Okay, I'm looking forward to it." After drinking the sorghum wine, Chen Yechu had blind faith in Ning Xiyue's skills.

Ning Qingyuan and Yu Zhiyu both praised the wine.

"Ding, congratulations to the host for mastering his winemaking skills and gaining recognition from his companions. If the host uses the winery in the space to brew a jar of sorghum wine, he will be able to exchange it for a super mysterious gift package. Please cheer for the host."

Ning Xiyue smiled even more when she heard Tongzi's notice in her mind. She looked at the three people and thanked them sincerely: "Thank you all for your love. Thank you."

After finishing today's learning tasks in the evening, Ning Xiyue entered the winery in the space to brew sorghum wine.

She was still very curious about the mysterious gift package after brewing the wine. No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, so she couldn't miss any gift.

Gao Liang has it in her space, so she can just take it out and use it.

Brewing sorghum wine takes a long time compared to making rice wine. Ning Xiyue has completed all the previous steps in the winery and now comes to the longest stage, fermentation.

This gift is not so easy to get.

Ning Xiyue took one last look at the sorghum mixed with distiller's yeast in the wooden barrel, sealed it with preservative wax and plastic cloth, patted her back, and stood up to look at the sorghum waiting to ferment.

"Now we can only wait."

Forty-five days passed in this wait.

The weather outside has reached the hottest month of August.

Ning Xiyue counted the days and found that today was the forty-sixth day of fermentation. It was time to uncover the distilled liquor.

In the evening, we entered the brewery and began the final step of distilling the liquor.

The methanol content in the first liquor is too high, while the tail liquor contains more fusel alcohols.

Ning Xiyue remembered what Master Zhang said about cutting off the head and tail of the distilled liquor and storing it separately.

The first batch of wine is made at the ratio of ten catties of grain to one ounce of wine. She has forty catties of sorghum, which means four ounces.

She picked up the graduated glass on the workbench to receive the wine. Four ounces of wine was about 222 milliliters.

Ning Xiyue controlled the amount accurately, and when the scale reached 222 milliliters, she removed the glass and replaced it with a glass wine jar.

At this time, the distilled wine can be kept and drunk.

The four liang of wine in her hand could be kept as alcohol. Ning Xiyue put it away and carefully observed the distilled wine.

According to the yield recorded in Mr. Zhang's experience notebook, the yield of her light-fragrance wine is about 50%.

If we calculate based on half of it, her 40 kilograms of sorghum can produce 20 kilograms of liquor with a content of about 50% alcohol.

Because of different fermentation conditions, the wine yield fluctuates.

When the weight of wine in the jar reached about 20 kilograms, Ning Xiyue paid special attention to the color of the wine and the production of the wine.

According to her experience, Ning Xiyue moved the jar away and replaced it with a glass jar when the wine weighed 21 kilograms.

She thought that the wine that came later was the tail wine, which contained too much alcohol to be drunk, and could only be kept and mixed into the next distillation.

Ning Xiyue took out a measuring cylinder, a thermometer and an alcohol meter to test the alcohol content.

The wine brewed this time was 52 degrees, and the wine that followed was measured to have an alcohol content of less than 50 degrees, so it can be confirmed that it was the tail wine.

After the distillation, Ning Xiyue saved the sorghum dregs and asked the robot housekeeper to clean them up and use them to feed the pigs.

It’s great to have pigs in the space. You can feed the pigs with all the unwanted things, without wasting anything. You can also raise the pigs to be fat and white.

After cleaning up the winery, Ning Xiyue looked at a freshly brewed jar of wine and thought of the original intention of making this wine, to exchange it for a gift package. She wanted to ask how to exchange it, but stopped before she could say anything.

After thinking about it, Ning Xiyue went to get two ten-jin wine jars before the bell rang, and divided the twenty-jin wine equally into the two jars.

A jar holds ten kilograms, so she has two jars of wine. Tongzi did not say how many kilograms he would exchange for, only one jar of wine.

Brewing wine takes a really long time, and she wanted to keep some of the first wine she brewed after becoming an apprentice as a souvenir.

It should be feasible to complete the task using a jar of ten kilograms of wine.

Let’s try it first and see if it works.

Ning Xiyue looked at the little turtle who was watching the replay video of her wine-making process with great interest. The little turtle didn't notice her intention at all and clapped his hands in satisfaction.

After she sat down, she asked loudly, "Tongzi, the wine is already brewed. How do I exchange it for the mysterious gift package we promised you?"