NOVEL NEXT Chapter 55 Brewing Red Wine
The little rat bamboo tube jumped from the grape vine to the panda Huahua. Huahua pawed in the air, and the bamboo tube climbed to Huahua's back. Huahua stood up and twisted.
Mao Xi grabbed the bamboo tube and said, "You naughty kid, it's time to go home!"
Back in the yard, Mao Xi took out all the grapes from the space.
She adopted the winemaking methods of European wineries and started making wine: "Brother Mu, we first removed the branches from the grapes, cleaned them, and removed the tannins to make the taste better!"
"Ah Shu, what is tannic acid?" Mu Zhiyuan was puzzled, and Shu Xi was saying something he had never heard before.
Ever since he went to Savage Valley with her and found Ganoderma lucidum and Dendrobium, Mu Zhiyuan believed that the crops in Mianxi's field were all transplanted from the back mountains as she said.
"Nothing, Brother Mu, these grapes have to be squeezed with their skins on."
Mao Xi took a big wooden stick and started beating the juice in the bucket. Mu Zhiyuan followed suit and followed suit.
Halfway through the beating, the whole yard was filled with the aroma of grapes. Rhubarb, Yuanbao, and preserved eggs gathered around and asked for grapes.
Mao Xi took a bunch of unpressed grapes and threw them to them.
"What juice are you squeezing? It's so delicious!" Aunt Cuihua happened to be passing by Shu Xi's house with a basket of vegetables.
Mao Xi knew that Aunt Cuihua usually talked the most. If she knew that she was making wine, the news would spread throughout the village.
"Aunt Cuihua, I'm squeezing juice for my brothers and sisters to drink." Mao Xi said with a smile.
Aunt Cuihua took a bunch of grapes from the ground and started picking them naturally.
"Ah Shu, your fruit is so sweet, but you bought it in the town?"
"Aunt Cuihua, please bring some of the wild fruits on the back mountain for your family to eat."
Aunt Cuihua was not polite and took two skewers and put them in the vegetable basket: "Ah Shu, you guys go to work first, I have to go home to cook."
Aunt Cuihua was humming a little tune all the way, eating grapes and spitting out their skins, when she happened to bump into her second uncle Liu Yongde and his wife.
"Cuihua, what are you eating?" Mrs. Gao saw Cuihua holding a bunch of fruits, which were purple and red and huge, something she had never seen before.
"This was brought from Ah Miao's yard, where she is squeezing juice!"
Mrs. Gao pulled Yong aside and murmured in a low voice: "Master, let's go to Miyatou's house and have a look. Maybe she is cooking up some dishes we haven't seen before."
Mu Zhiyuan brought two jars over, and together with Mao Xi, poured the grape juice into them, sealed them, and was about to move them into the space.
"Ouch!" A middle-aged woman howled from outside the wall.
When Mao Xi came to the entrance of the courtyard, it turned out that Mr. Gao had fallen from the wall of his house and was rubbing his buttocks while supporting his second uncle Liu Yongde.
"Hey, Second Aunt and Second Uncle, come here as you come. Take the main entrance. Why are you climbing the wall?" Shui Xi deliberately shouted loudly, asking the neighbors to come out and take a look.
The second uncle and his wife also wanted to save face, dusted themselves off, and hurried back home.
"It's so dangerous!" Mao Xi breathed a sigh of relief. She was just about to put the jars of wine into the space.
If the second aunt hadn't fallen, she would have been in trouble if she disappeared out of thin air and was looked at by the second aunt and the second uncle.
Mao Xi went to the door to check again, and when he saw no one was around, he put the wine in the space.
"I said there must be something wrong with her cooking at home. It turns out that she is making fruit wine. The head of the house, let's go talk to shopkeeper Liu and we will definitely get a reward." Mrs. Gao rubbed her buttocks and asked her daughter Yuying to help get the medicine.
"Auntie, since Ah Xiao can make her own fruit wine and open a food shop, why can't we also make fruit wine? I asked around and found out that she first sold rice wine to Qingxianglou, so that she had the money to open the first food shop in Lihua Town. !”
"Ayu, you have a good idea, but I don't know where the fruit she made wine was picked from. I've never seen it before. No, I have to ask Cuihua."
When Mrs. Gao arrived at Cuihua's house, she had already eaten all the grapes.
"Cuihua, Ah Shu, can you tell me where you picked this fruit?"
"Ah Shao said she picked it from the mountains behind. Why, do you want to imitate her in squeezing juice? I advise you to forget it."
Mr. Gao remained silent and passed the original words to his daughter Ayu when he returned home.
"Aniang, if she can go to the back mountain to pick fruits, we can go too!"
Mrs. Gao slapped her thigh, "That's good. Come on, take your brother with you. We'll go to the back mountain to pick fruits and make wine."
Gao took Yuying and Ziqun to the back mountain with baskets on their backs to look for grapes.
After staying in the mountains for a long time, I couldn't find any big purple grapes. Instead, myrtles were everywhere in the mountains and plains.
"Forget it, grandma, let's just pick some myrtle. Maybe we can make fruit wine too."
Gao and Ayu picked it up separately. Their younger brother Ziqun was naughty and saw a bee nest on a tree. They picked up a long branch from the ground and poked it up.
The bees were angered and flew out of the nest. One of them stung the group hard in the center of the brain.
The heartbreaking pain made Ziqun cry loudly. Mrs. Gao hurriedly picked a flower from the tree, kneaded it into juice and wiped it on Ziqun's head. He kept cursing: "You damn kid, you have nothing to do to poke a bee's nest. Now, Okay, we all have to go home."
Ziqun touched his head and found that the lump was even more swollen, his face was covered with tears and his nose was filled with tears, and he was crying harder.
Mrs. Gao quickly took Ayu and Ziqun, and the three of them went down the mountain in embarrassment.
Although there are not many fruits, there are still two pots, but none of the family knows how to make wine from fruits.
"Mom, why don't you look for the hind milk? Doesn't Grandpa have a big vat of rice wine? Ask her for some, and we can soak some fruit in it. Maybe it will work too." Ayu gave an idea to Mrs. Gao.
"You are so stingy about your stepmother, would she be willing to give it to you?" Mrs. Gao knew her mother-in-law very well, and she was usually extremely harsh.
"Grandma loves Ziqun the most. If you say you want to make wine and give it to Ziqun's private school teacher, she will definitely agree!"
Mrs. Gao immediately went to look for her stepmother. Unexpectedly, when the stepmother heard that Ziqun needed it for studying, she actually packed two small cans of rice wine for her.
Mrs. Gao carried two cans of wine and saw Ma Xi and Mu Zhiyuan on the way home, and smiled proudly at them.
This smile made Miao Xi laugh. Usually the second aunt ignored her, but why was she acting abnormally today.
Know thyself, ever-victorious.
"Brother Mu, you know martial arts, help me climb over the wall and see what my second aunt is doing?"
"It's easy!" Mu Zhiyuan turned over and climbed to the top of the wall of his second uncle Liu Yongde's house. He saw Gao and Ayu pouring myrtle into two cans of rice wine.
"Ah Shao, they are learning how to make fruit wine from you."
"Did they find the grapes?" Mao Xi was a little anxious. She didn't want the grapes she just found to be picked empty.
"No, I think it's Myrtle."
"Haha! That's okay. I thought my second uncle wanted to learn from us how to make wine... But this inspired me. We can also make myrtle wine."
"Then go up the mountain to pick myrtle now?"
"Well, let's go home first and get our backpacks and rhubarb!"