Shen Xiaobei had made grape wine before, so he just copied his previous experience and made raspberry wine.
She, Fan Huifang and Ke Xiaoli hung all the washed raspberries on a winnowing basket, waited until all the water was drained, put them into three dry glass bottles, and crushed the raspberries with chopsticks.
When the bottle is 70% full, just put the cap on.
In order to prevent the gas produced during the fermentation of raspberries from causing the bottle to explode, Shen Xiaobei specifically reminded Fan Huifang and Ke Xiaoli not to close the bottle cap too tightly.
Then she checked it herself again and felt relieved.
After bottling the berries, they took them all to the table in Ke Xiaoli's room.
Ke Xiaoli's room is the back room, which has better shade and ventilation than the front room where Shen Xiaobei and Fan Huifang live, as the front room is exposed to too much sunlight during the day.
After putting it away, Shen Xiaobei said that she would stir it twice a day with dry chopsticks, and Ke Xiaoli would just watch from the side.
Next time if I pick some raspberries, I will let her do the whole process again.
After two days, add white sugar and continue to stir twice a day with dry chopsticks.
As for when the raspberries in this bottle can actually turn into raspberry wine, Shen Xiaobei told Ke Xiaoli and Fan Huifang that it would take at least a month.
It takes about ten days for the raspberries to ferment until the juice separates.
After stratification, impurities need to be filtered out and left to stand twice, the first time taking about half a month, and the second time taking about a week.
Only then can it be brewed into pure juice, which everyone can drink as fruit wine.
Hearing Shen Xiaobei say that it would take at least a month to drink the fruit wine, Ke Xiaoli became impatient.
She pouted and said, "Sister Xiaobei, does it take so long to brew wine once? If I want to drink the fruit wine I brewed myself, then I have to wait even longer!"
"You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry!"
"Silly Xiaoli, if wine is so easy to make, then it's not called winemaking! We should just make it like we make sugar water and call it brewing wine, or even soaking it!"
"That's right! Okay, I'll just wait! Anyway, these bottles are in my room, and I can see how they change every day. It's quite interesting."
"That's right. We make our own wine not just to drink it, but also to enjoy the interesting process of slowly turning the fruit into wine! Don't you agree, Sister Huifang?"
"Yes, Xiaobei is absolutely right! Although the result is important, enjoying the process is also important!"
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While Shen Xiaobei and the other two were happily chatting about winemaking, Kong Wanwan and Du Wenli came back from the commune purchasing some dishes for tomorrow's wedding banquet.
In the past two days, they purchased a lot of things, first in the county town and then in the commune.
Of course, all the money spent was Kong Wanwan’s dowry.
Du Wenli could marry a beautiful wife in less than a minute, and get a buy-one-get-one-free deal, but these days he looks like he is visiting a grave, with hardly a smile on his face.
Even if I occasionally smiled politely at them, it was forced and looked very forced.
Kong Wanwan naturally saw him like this.
However, she pretended not to see it at all, and just sneered in her heart, but on the surface she deliberately smiled even more brightly for everyone to see.
As soon as she came back, she showed off the wedding supplies she and Du Wenli bought to Fan Huifang, Shen Xiaobei and Ke Xiaoli.
Then he seemed to suddenly remember something.
He looked at Shen Xiaobei with a smile and said, "Xiaobei, for Wenli and I's wedding banquet tomorrow, we don't plan to hire a chef from outside to cook. We still don't trust the chefs from outside!"
"You're such a great cook, we all love your dishes! Wenli and I are having our wedding banquet tomorrow, and we'd like you to help us cook. Would you refuse?"
"Let me cook?"
Test!
Shen Xiaobei couldn’t help but curse in his heart.
Du Wenli and the original owner had been having an ambiguous relationship for a while. This was something that everyone in this educated youth center knew about, and perhaps even everyone in the entire production team knew about it.
Du Wenli is getting married, and he actually asks her, his former ambiguous object, to prepare his wedding banquet. Isn't this a huge joke?
Even if the original owner could afford to lose this person, Shen Xiaobei didn't want her to lose it!
Besides, there is a master chef in Baiju Brigade who specializes in preparing banquets. I haven’t heard of any wedding in the brigade recently, so the master chef should be free tomorrow.
Instead of hiring this professional, they asked her to take over?
It's obvious that Kong Wanwan wants to deliberately annoy her, and also wants to deliberately annoy Du Wenli, right?
Obviously, Du Wenli did not expect Kong Wanwan to make this request to Shen Xiaobei.
After hearing this, he glanced at Shen Xiaobei with embarrassment.
"Yes, Xiaobei, you're such a great cook, just consider it a favor for Wenli and me. We both trust you!"
"Look, we're going to invite Secretary Gao and Accountant Xiong to our wedding banquet tomorrow. Didn't Sister Huifang suggest that we talk to them about borrowing bricks from the brigade to build a house at the wedding banquet?"
"If you take charge of the cooking, the food will be delicious and the brigade cadres will have enough to eat. Then when we ask them to lend us bricks, won't that be easier? Sister Huifang, don't you agree?"
"Yes. Xiaobei, how about...just agree to Wanwan?"
Fan Huifang didn't want to say anything good for Kong Wanwan, she knew that this would embarrass Shen Xiaobei.
However, considering that borrowing bricks to build a house was originally Shen Xiaobei's idea, Kong Wanwan brought this up, and it made some sense.
If Shen Xiaobei is willing to put aside his pride and avoid making things difficult for once, then he can make the brick borrowing deal happen at the wedding banquet, and that would be worth it.
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