God of Cooking, grilling skewers attracted the fairy beasts

After a few people chatted for a while, a happy Song Qingfeng left Li Heng's courtyard with an equally happy Leng Zhong.

The mental illness that troubled Li Heng was finally solved today.

Li Heng, who was lying on the bed, quickly thought of another problem. Elder Leng Zhong likes to eat sour dishes, so he can't use black sour fruits to cook for him every time he comes.

I have to think of a way to get some sour condiments.

Speaking of acid, Li Heng couldn't help but think of a commonly used condiment - vinegar.

When thinking of vinegar, Li Heng thought of many delicacies made with vinegar: hot and sour potato shreds, sweet and sour lotus root slices, old vinegar peanuts, West Lake vinegar fish, sweet and sour pork ribs...

After Li Heng recited the names of the dishes in his mind, his sleepiness disappeared and he even felt a little hungry.

"Damn it, you shouldn't be thinking about food-related things late at night."

Li Heng sat up from the bed and wiped the saliva on the pillow to prevent that idiot Lu Xiaoxiao from seeing him and teasing him for wetting the bed.

I thought I could have a good night's sleep after solving Leng Zhong's matter, but it seemed that I didn't want to think about it tonight.

Helpless Li Heng tossed and turned on the bed, and at the same time decided in his mind that he would try to make vinegar from tomorrow on, so as to try to eat the delicacies he had just thought about as soon as possible.

The next morning, Li Heng got up early again and prepared breakfast for everyone as usual.

Elder Leng Zhong finally took off his black mask and joined the army.

I don't know whether Song Qingfeng should be happy or regretful after seeing this result.

His right-hand man Leng Zhong recovered from his illness, but Song Qingfeng now had a competitor for food.

After finishing breakfast, Li Heng couldn't wait to implement his vinegar-making plan.

The first step in making vinegar is to make vinegar koji, which can also be called distiller’s koji because there is no difference between the two.

At this point, some people may have begun to think about the relationship between wine and vinegar.

Regarding the relationship between the two, Li Heng thought of a short story that could just be used to explain their relationship.

There is such a legend on the distant planet: vinegar was inadvertently invented by Heita, the son of the Wine Saint Du Kang.

According to legend, the wine saint Du Kang invented winemaking and opened a small winemaking workshop behind his shop.

His son Heita helped him make wine, did odd jobs in the workshop, and also raised a black horse in the backyard.

One day, after Heita finished the work at hand, he filled a large vat containing lees (the residue after brewing) with several barrels of water.

The lees will be used as food for the horses.

After finishing all the work, Heita happily picked up the wine jar and drank several kilograms of rice wine in one go. As a result, he fell drunk in the stable and fell asleep not long after.

Suddenly, Heita, who was drunk on the ground, felt a thunder ringing in his ears. After opening his eyes in a daze, he saw an old man with white hair standing in the room.

The old man smiled and pointed at the vat and said to him: "Heita, the seasoned nectar you brewed has been brewed for 21 days. You can taste it today at Youshi."

Heita didn't understand why, and was just about to ask for clarification, but found that the old man in front of him disappeared out of thin air.

Heita sat up immediately with excitement. It turned out to be a dream.

When he recalled what he had just dreamed about, he felt extremely strange: The vat contained nothing more than distiller's grains for horse feeding, plus a few buckets of water. How could it turn into seasoned nectar?

Heita was dubious. He had just finished drinking and felt his mouth was dry. He scooped up a bowl of liquid from the large vat containing the lees and drank it. .

Who knew that this drink would fill my mouth with fragrant aroma, sour and slightly sweet.

I suddenly felt refreshed and comfortable, and I even woke up from the wine.

The extremely confused Heita had no choice but to tell his father Du Kang about the incident.

After hearing Heita's story, Du Kang felt it was very magical, so he went to the stable with Heita.

Looking closer, I saw that the liquid in the large vat was no longer colorless and transparent water, but turned into a transparent light yellow liquid.

Dip a little with your finger, put it in your mouth and taste it. It is exactly as Heita described, sour and slightly sweet.

Du Kang asked Heita again the story in his dream in detail and thought about what the old man said for a long time.

Du Kang remembered what the old man said about "Twenty-one Days" and "Youshi". He suddenly grabbed Heita and wrote on the ground with his fingers: "On the 21st and Youshi, this adds up to the word 'jealousy'. Maybe this Wine is just vinegar!"

Du Kang and his son followed the old man's instructions and added water to the wine tank in the vat. After 21 days of brewing, vinegar was brewed again in the vat.

The father and son gave this seasoned wine to their neighbors to taste, and they all praised the delicious taste.

This is the origin of vinegar.

Due to limited conditions, Li Heng planned to use an older method to make vinegar koji.

First, mix wheat and various beans, steam it in a large pot, let it cool, stir it with bran (the skin of wheat), mix it thoroughly, seal it in a large vat, let it ferment naturally, and wait for time to test its success or failure.

The grain slowly undergoes qualitative changes in the sealed vat, and yeast is bred to participate in and lead the production of vinegar.

This process takes two months.

Until the rice is covered with white hairs, this is a sign of preliminary fermentation and maturity. Microorganisms are growing wantonly in a warm environment, and they will decompose the protein in the wheat into acidic substances.

The koji itself also needs to undergo multiple fermentations before it can finally become vinegar koji.

Li Heng obviously didn't have the patience to wait for such a long time. He wished he would be jealous tomorrow after finishing today.

"Is there any way to speed up this process?"

There would definitely be no way to do this on Earth. Who allowed Li Heng to travel to a fantasy world of cultivating immortals? On this Xuanwu Continent, everything is possible.

Li Heng's experience was too low and he couldn't think of any good solutions, so he had to go to Song Qingfeng.

"It turns out that little friend is trying something new again!"

After listening to Li Heng's description, Song Qingfeng was still confused, but this did not stop him from praising Li Heng.

As expected, Song Qingfeng knew that there was a formation that could speed up the flow of time in a small area.

Unfortunately, he did not have such a formation on his body now, so he promised Li Heng to go to the formation sect to ask their sect leader for one.

After receiving Song Qingfeng's guarantee, Li Heng felt relieved and sealed the preliminarily processed distiller's yeast with a quilt.

Everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.

Song Qingfeng had always been very concerned about little friend Li Heng's affairs. The next day, Song Qingfeng brought the formation back as promised.

According to Song Qingfeng's introduction, this is a formation called Chaos Bell Formation.

This formation can change the flow rate of time, making time become faster inside the formation than outside.

This kind of formation was originally used for cultivation. The cultivator practices within the formation for ten days, and the outside world will not pass for one day.

Therefore, this formation is very useful for practitioners.

Li Heng guessed that Song Qingfeng must not have explained to the leader of the Formation Sect what he would use this formation for.