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Ji Mo’s eldest sister is called Ji Juhua, which is the chrysanthemum of the wild chrysanthemum. There are many people with different names in the village. They often call her “chrysanthemum” and always hear a few responses. People in the family usually call her “Juer”. , Erhua sound is not so obvious, revealing a somewhat long tone.

"Don't worry, it will be done at night."

As Ji Juhua said, she drove away Ji Mo who was circling around her, and pushed him with her knee, telling him to get out of the way.

During the day, they have already ground the dried chrysanthemums into powder, mixed them with rice flour, and kneaded them into small balls one after another. The next thing to do is to cultivate them in the music room. It involves three stages, and the temperature needs to be changed three times. The high temperature in the middle is okay, but the low temperature in the previous and subsequent times is not easy to control.

After dinner, Ji Juhua took Ji Mo to the kitchen, and asked him to watch him send the trays containing Jiuqu pills into the music room. Seeing Ji Mo's eyes burning, she turned her head and smiled: "You'll be here later." Feel it, the temperature should be lower, it is the kind that is a bit cold, but not very cold..."

If there is a specific thermometer, then the temperature is easy to say, it is as many degrees as it is, the scale is clear, and the numbers are clear, but when there is no such concept, it is not easy to convey, the temperature difference between one degree and two degrees, a few degrees Is it correct?

Ji Juhua had already placed the tray, and before closing the door, asked Ji Mo to feel the temperature on the inner wall of the music chamber, "Did you feel it? This temperature is fine."

It’s a little lower than body temperature, but it’s not the kind that completely loses temperature, it’s a little cooler than warm water, but it’s not very cold... Ji Mo looks serious, but his heart is full of helplessness. Hearing to distinguish pitch, and now, even the sense of touch is not let go?Well, it should be that I have not let go of the sense of touch for a long time. Don't you also rely on the feeling of your hands when carving?

I can't imagine how miraculous I will be after learning this skill. I can tell the temperature by touch, even if I can only distinguish those three temperatures, it's still a small skill.

And this, in the art of brewing wine, can only be regarded as a prelude.

Ji Mo doesn't know how winemaking was done in ancient times, but from what they said, it seems that it can be done after mixing distiller's yeast into the raw materials, and there may be methods such as steaming. It sounds like it should be inseparable from temperature control. In this respect , Still need to work hard!

Ji Juhua was distracted to see the serious little expression of her elder brother, and couldn't help laughing. They were used to it, and they really didn't think it was embarrassing. A difference of one degree or two, is that called a difference?Why be so nervous?

"Don't worry, if you can't remember this time, there will be next time, it will always happen."

Ji Juhua didn't think it was a great skill. After confirming that the temperature was about the same as it was in memory, she closed the door of the music room at this time of night to keep the temperature of the stove constant. The temperature in the music room will not change.

There is a large pot on the stove, and the water is always boiling. After a while, a steamer will be placed on it to make some soft dough cakes. This night, I have to work a little bit, staring at the fire. In the morning, I will use this kind of fire Add a handful of rice to the pot, and you can make a pot of sweet rice porridge.

At that time, the temperature in the music room should also be changed. The stove on the other side will be used, and the fires on both sides will be turned on at the same time to ensure that the temperature in the music room is the same as the body temperature. After a day and night, the temperature will be lowered. The temperature is described as lower than the body temperature, but it is higher than the initial temperature. At that time, it mostly used the residual temperature in the stove on both sides to keep it for a whole day and night, and then stuffed it for a while, took it out and dried it. Even if the pill is made.

In the last period of time, you only need to let it cool down gradually, which is much more convenient, and you don't need to pay more attention to it.

The difficulty lies in the time and temperature. These two are the key points that you know how to do, but it may not be really satisfactory. You need to spend more time. The other ones are quite childish in comparison. .

Ji Mo followed the whole process as if facing a formidable enemy, and Ji Juhua couldn't help laughing at his small appearance several times. As for this, she didn't find it too difficult when she learned it!

Some things are just like this. In the eyes of those who don’t care, just adding some seasonings and stir frying twice can become a delicious dish. In the eyes of others who need to weigh the seasonings with a scale, how much error is a headache the concept of.

A spoonful, a little, how big is a spoon, and how many "a little"?Everything is worth quantifying, but what if there is no quantitative tool?

I can only honestly mobilize all the senses of the body to memorize this temperature over and over again, so that the feeling stays firmly in the memory and becomes a conditioned reflex that one will know what is suitable for a little touch.

Ji Mo claims to be smart in some aspects, but in terms of these physical skills, he can't find any tricks. The only thing he can do is to deepen his memory over and over again, and follow Ji Juhua to guard the stove all night, and the other party is still busy Changing the steamer, tossing, tossing, tossing the noodles, etc., here he repeatedly touched the crack of the door of the music room, trying to feel whether the temperature inside had changed from the sealed gap.

I will also watch the combustion of the fire. It seems feasible to memorize the temperature of the music room through details such as the brightness of the fire. But what about those who can't see the direct fire.

This small-scale family koji making method is obviously not suitable for large-scale wine making. In other words, if there are not enough villages to disperse the production of these koji, the koji produced by each family cannot be brewed. No matter how much wine comes, it's not enough to drink at home, let alone buy and sell.

It's strange to say that every family here can make distiller's yeast, but no one makes their own wine. It's not that they don't know how. When the children in the village reach a certain age, they can work in the distillery in Baowu as apprentices. Or everything is fine, they will follow the process to learn how to make wine, and then they will not be trapped in the winery all the time, and they will come back to the village. It can be said that many adults in the village have stayed in the winery, and now , go to the winery to work every day like going to work, but they don't know how to make wine at home. What does it seem to say?

Ji Mo didn't quite understand these unspoken rules that everyone understood, so he asked the elder sister while Ji's father was going to the winery and Ji's mother was taking care of the children.

"Homebrew? It's not wasteful enough, and it doesn't taste good, and it's eye-catching, as if it's something out of place."

Although Ji Juhua looks like a gentle and dignified big sister now, but before her big brother was born, she was able to take care of herself as a pungent girl, and she was also naughty like a tomboy in private. It's just the worst miscellaneous wine.

It's a waste of time and can't be exchanged for money, and it doesn't taste as good as the ones Jifu brought out from the winery, so naturally I stopped playing this.

"Elder sister brewed it? Tell me, how did you do it?"

Ji Mo wants to know a little bit about the process of brewing wine in advance, so he should take it as a preview. When he really learns, his eyes are not darkened, and he will have some confidence in his heart and confidence in his life.

The more confident you are, the calmer you are. You should be a little more confident when you do things.

Seeing Ji Mo's interest, Ji Juhua tore off a mouthful of noodle cake and stuffed it into his mouth, "You can't stop your mouth if you have food. With you, the house doesn't feel deserted anymore."

These words are completely copied from Ji's mother's words. When the other party talks about Ji Mo, the eldest son, he always says, "That small-mouthed bastard, I don't know where he talks so much, it makes my head swell from the noise." .

"Sister, tell me quickly, I just want to know!"

Swallow the noodle cakes in your mouth three or two times, it is soft and sweet, it is made of flour ground from fresh wheat, and there seems to be a natural fragrance in the taste, like sunshine and wind the taste of.

Ji Mo took Ji Juhua's arm and shook it lightly, rarely feeling a little coquettish.

Ji Juhua squinted her eyes with a smile. Having a younger brother is still different. That kind of confidence in her life really makes people feel good.

"What's so difficult about this? Let's cook the rice, let it cool down a bit, then mix it with wine koji, put it in a clay pot while it's still hot, keep it at this temperature for two or three days, and you'll have the smell of wine. Wait quietly for twenty days before you can open it and drink it."

Ji Juhua said it simply, as if this matter was really simple, but what Ji Mo heard was difficulty, the temperature control, and some details, such as how to cook the rice, half-cooked, fully-cooked ?Do you want to add more water?or filter?Is the process of keeping warm is fermentation?

He still remembers the dough starter that his grandma always used when he was a child. When there was no yeast powder, he used that kind of fermentation. It had a sour taste, as if it was used to knead the dough and added alkali noodles. He also remembered It's not very clear, but it should be the same fermentation process, right?

So, the jiuqu pills made now are actually yeast?But yeast in pellet form?So, is it necessary to knead the small balls into powder when using it?

By the way, wild chrysanthemum is used in the raw materials, so, can the brewed wine be called chrysanthemum wine?

Or if you want chrysanthemum wine, you have to add chrysanthemum and rice grains to cook together, or mix it directly into the cooked rice grains?

In addition, it should still be distilled, he has heard of the term distilled wine, so what are the utensils for distillation?Is it not there yet, or does it mean that everyone can't use such a complicated method?

Modern distillation uses instruments, what about ancient times?Do you have glassware?How to meet the conditions of distillation and get wine with higher purity?

If not, if you "invent" it yourself, such a trick... Ji Mo couldn't help but use his brain, as if he had tasted the benefits of a simple algorithm and wanted to find a simple algorithm for everything, just like inertial thinking, irresistible.