Chapter 99: Brewing Spirit Wine and Making Gourd Ladles
Li Xiang only built a backyard, not a front yard, nor a whole yard that surrounded the house in the middle, because he only wanted to prevent wild boars and other ferocious animals that might come down from the back mountain.
Although the wild boars have been mostly killed this year, they have an amazing reproductive capacity and lack natural enemies, so they are expected to increase in number again next year.
In other words, the front yard of his house is still open. If a wild boar comes, it can just hide in the house and close the door.
In the countryside, it is not suitable to build a yard in front of the house, because if you build a yard, no one will come to visit. Li Xiang's home is already located in a remote area, far away from the village center. If he builds a yard and closes the door, no one will come to chat. His grandmother will become even more lonely.
Now at least there are still people coming to sit here every now and then.
Li Xiang rode his tricycle to the town and went to the old-fashioned distillery he had visited before.
"Hey, isn't this the famous guy in our county?" the shop owner greeted him warmly. He had also watched the video of Li Xiang hunting wild boars. After all, he has more than 2 million fans. Although his fans are spread all over the country and even abroad, there are also many local fans. Even if some people have not followed him, they have seen or heard of him.
"It's just a small fight." Li Xiang waved his hand, said a few humble words, and then started to choose wine.
Naturally, he wanted to buy better wine to make spirit wine and ordinary snake wine. The high-proof shochu I bought here last time was of very good quality and extremely cost-effective.
The shop owner took Li Xiang on a tour, introducing each area one by one, as if he knew them all by heart.
The last time Li Xiang came, the store owner didn't bring him in. They just had a brief chat outside the shop facing the street and then the deal was done.
This time it was different. The shop owner knew that Li Xiang was rich and a big customer, so he took him directly to the wine-making workshop in the back.
In addition to the finished wine, he was also taken to visit the raw material area and the winemaking area.
Li Xiang couldn't help but praise: "You keep this place very clean."
The boss patted his chest and said, "Of course, I have been doing this business for decades, and the customers are all from the same village. Word of mouth is very important!"
Li Xiang nodded, indeed. Although the other party's workshop is small, it has everything needed, and its sanitary conditions are probably better than many breweries.
After the tour, the shop owner took some samples and asked Li Xiang to taste them.
The wine here is all 58% alcohol. There are ordinary ones that have been stored for two years, which cost 45 yuan per pound. It is the same kind that Li Xiang bought before.
The taste is similar to those sold on the market for two to three hundred yuan a bottle, which is one of the reasons why Li Xiang becomes a repeat customer.
In addition, there are three-year-old ones at 60 yuan per catty, five-year-old ones at 100 yuan per catty, ten-year-old ones at 180 yuan per catty, and fifteen-year-old ones at 280 yuan per catty. The one that usually sells the most is 45 yuan per catty.
The older the wine is, the less stock there is. There are only three unopened jars of fifteen-year-old wine.
Li Xiang tasted them one by one. With his extraordinary keen senses, he felt that the fifteen-year-old one had the best taste, the richest aroma, was soft, mellow, and had a long aftertaste. The wine was very full-bodied, elegant and delicate, with outstanding flavor.
Li Xiang then said with a smile: "Buy the fifteen-year-old ones, and take all the three unopened jars."
The boss was overjoyed and immediately asked someone to help Li Xiang move to the car.
The boss personally picked up a jar and said cheerfully: "If you have any problems with the wine when you go back, feel free to come to me." There was confidence in his words. After all, what we tasted before were samples, not taken from the three unopened jars, so we were afraid that customers would not feel reassured.
Three jars of wine, each weighing 20 kilograms, totaled 16,800 yuan. Li Xiang paid the bill readily and went to a Chinese medicine shop in the town to get some Chinese medicine.
Li Xiang said he wanted to make snake wine with black-necked snake, white-flowered snake, pit viper and five-step snake. The old Chinese doctor in the pharmacy recommended a prescription with astragalus, angelica, safflower, ginseng, rehmannia root, cassia twig, etc.
After spending about 800 yuan to buy these Chinese medicinal herbs, Li Xiang went home.
After arriving home, I opened two jars of wine. As expected, the aroma of the wine filled the air and even the dog came running over.
One jar was used to make snake wine, supplemented with seven or eight Chinese medicinal herbs bought from the Chinese medicine store, and the other jar was used to make spirit wine, using the many spiritual herbs obtained from the previous mountain sweep.
There is also a jar stored in the cellar, which can be opened and drunk when needed in the future.
The brewed spiritual wine has a higher utilization rate of the spiritual medicine, and you can absorb it and practice it at the same time, step by step, and your foundation will be more solid. He kept some first- and second-level elixirs, and made soup for his grandmother every now and then. He also shared some with the dog and cat, and of course, left some for Jiang Caier.
Since Jiang Caier already had spiritual power in her body, the ones left for her were the better ones.
The formula of spiritual wine comes from the system. It can not only maximize the medicinal power of spiritual medicines, but also the types of medicines used in the combination have no medicinal conflicts and are safe.
The spirit wine is placed in the system space, while the snake wine is stored in the cellar.
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Under the warm sun, in the backyard, a waterfall is flowing.
Li Xiang took out eight large gourds, picked out three good-looking ones, planning to make them into wine gourds, and the rest into gourd ladles. This way, you don’t have to buy a ladle at home.
The gourd ladle is relatively simple to make. Li Xiang had seen his grandmother make it before, so he used this to practice first.
The wine gourd is relatively troublesome to make, and since I have no experience with it, I still need to slowly learn how to make it, and I may not necessarily do it well.
These big gourds were all obtained from deep mountains and old forests. They had been hanging on dead vines for a long time. They were so old that they couldn't be any older and felt quite firm. Li Xiang used a saw to cut the gourds in half, took out the seeds inside, spread them flat in a winnowing basket, and placed them on the eaves to dry for seeds. When spring comes and flowers bloom, he will also try to plant some in the backyard.
This magical gourd with two bellies, one above and one below, was deeply influenced by cartoons and has been his favorite since childhood.
Gourds are annual plants, so these are all ordinary products and no extraordinary potential can be detected. However, if they are gourds grown at home, round after round, when it comes to the end of the world, extraordinary particles will emerge, and it is not impossible that mutated gourds will appear.
In fact, when making gourd ladles, it is better to use the one with a single belly, but the one with a double belly is also good.
After sawing and removing the seeds, he got a total of ten half gourds. Li Xiang threw these half gourds into a large iron pot, filled it with water, covered the pot, started a high fire and started cooking.
It doesn't need to be cooked for too long, just boil it for three to five minutes, then take out half of the gourd, let it cool slightly, and use a spoon to scrape off the outer skin and the remaining pulp inside.
Li Xiang worked very carefully and repaired it thoroughly. He then washed it with water and hung it under the corridor to dry slowly in the shade.
Since these gourds were old and their shells were thick and hard, Li Xiang did not stuff anything into them to shape them. If it is a tender gourd, you may need to stuff it with some absorbent material to help it take shape.
After it dries naturally, lightly sand the edges with sandpaper and it is ready to use.
Li Xiang's family used to have several gourd ladles, but they were old and many of them were broken. After these ones were dried, the broken ones could be thrown away.
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