Days passed, and Shanghe Village remained dry, growing even hotter.
The river was almost dry downstream, and the water level was only knee-deep upstream. The old wells in the village had receded significantly, leaving only three well rings with water. Fortunately, four new deep wells were dug in time and all of them were located in areas with abundant water. The villagers of Shanghe Village did not have to worry about drinking water, and there was even surplus water for irrigation.
The Su family originally planned to build the workshop when the weather got cooler, but they waited until the sweet potatoes were almost ready for harvest and still hadn't gotten them. So they had to build the workshop first.
The workshop was located at the end of the village, thirty feet away from the Su family's large brick and tile house. The workshop was divided into two parts: one for making sweet potato starch and the other for brewing wine. The sweet potato starch workshop, needless to say, was dedicated to making sweet potato starch.
As for this winery, it can be further divided into sweet potato wine and various fruit wines.
During the reign of Emperor Yu, whether they were noble families or common people, the main types of alcohol consumed were grain wine and fruit wine. Grain wine was mostly made from wheat and rice, while fruit wine was mostly made from fermented single fruits, such as apricot wine, plum wine, hawthorn wine, bayberry wine, and mulberry wine.
The sweet potato wine produced by Su Family Winery can be classified as a grain wine, while the fruit wine is mainly used to brew grape wine and monkey wine. The fruit comes from a 50-mu orchard on the back mountain of Zaozhuang. The orchard was originally full of jujube trees, but one-third of the jujube trees died. After Su Hua took over, she replanted all the new fruit tree seedlings, especially grapes.
Whether it's sweet potato wine, grape wine, or monkey wine, they are all things that never existed before Yu the Great.
Su Hua plans to launch these three types of alcoholic beverages before the sweet potato harvest, making them another specialty of Su Ji Restaurant after food and dolls.
Therefore, for this workshop construction, the Su family not only hired villagers from Shanghe Village, but also recruited many villagers from surrounding villages who came to Shanghe Village looking for work. Of course, they only wanted honest and hardworking people who wouldn't cheat or shirk their duties.
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