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Guo Yuan's memory is not that good, and the more he speaks, the more vague he becomes, and he obviously doesn't care much about the parts that don't belong to children.

Ji Mo was a little stunned when he heard that, so making wine koji is still a ritualistic and somewhat superstitious activity?

It's not that I can't understand how the ancient people entrusted ghosts and gods when encountering things, but... well, it's not too sad, and there is no need to kill or sacrifice, just worship or something, basically it is an adult's business , It has nothing to do with children. If you look at it as a traditional festival, it is also a manifestation of civilization.

To be honest, Ji Mo is definitely not a master of superstition. As long as it is not a superstitious activity that harms the safety and health of others, he can actually be regarded as a custom of traditional civilization.

Compared with Taoism and Buddhism, which are lofty scripture interpretations and the like, this kind of traditional down-to-earth activities with a superstitious color but with a beautiful sustenance is not bad in the present. Everyone hopes to brew Good wine should be treated rigorously from the first step of koji making, relying on ghosts and gods is no different from hoping for good weather in the coming year.

Just look at it normally.

Speaking of it, it seems that there is no "wine festival". As a product of culture, this performance in mid-July can also be regarded as a real wine festival.

Looking at it with the idea of ​​celebrating the festival, it feels even better. Ji Mo is also a little more looking forward to it, not knowing what the scene will be like then.

"Tell me, should I make another new dress, blue one?"

Guo Yuan has already started to worry about clothes. In this regard, children always like to be consistent in a certain aspect. For example, they agreed with Ji Mo yesterday to wear a small jacket inside and take off their outer shirts together.

"Will the wine shop give out gifts for this kind of festival?"

Ji Mo is a little looking forward to it, maybe he will distribute clothes as uniforms?

Of course, it's hard to say this. If the other party doesn't plan to send it, he's looking forward to it first, and it won't sound good to say it when the time comes.

"I don't know..." Guo Yuan was stunned for a moment, as if annoyed that he didn't think of this question when he asked just now.

"Why are you two hiding here?" Senior Brother Six's voice came from above his head, and then Guo Yuan and Ji Mo were both hit on the head, "Let's go, come with me to the air hall!"

"What are you going to do in the air hall?" Guo Yuan wondered, since they are so small, it would be a mess to carry food along with them!

"Ask so many what to do, go to work, it's not okay to eat for free and not work!"

Sixth senior brother said so, without giving them a chance to react, he held the two children under his arms one by one and turned around in circles.

"Ahhh—hahaha—Senior Brother Six, hurry up, hurry up!"

Guo Yuan was taken aback at first, but soon laughed again, it was fun, it was so much fun.

Following his laughter, everyone who started to be busy in the courtyard also looked back, Du Kun smiled helplessly and shook his head: "This is the sixth child."

"Go, go by yourself!"

The strength of the sixth senior brother is not infinite, so after a few steps, he put two of them down, took them to the drying hall, and gave one of them a bamboo rake. , the tooth ends are bent downwards, a bit like a broom, it is used to flatten the cooked grains and let them fully dry.

"Go, one person at a time." After the sixth senior brother assigned them tasks, he also took a bamboo rake and started to work on the sidelines.

In the air-drying hall, there are other pieces of grain spread out, there are also children working with the adults, but there is no need to step in, these grains are spread out in a rectangular shape, just stand on the long side and move sideways Yes, the length of the bamboo rake is exactly the width, so it is very convenient to flip.

It’s also easy to restrain. Take a big dustpan and walk over from the wide side, and you can shovel most of it into the dustpan. The rest is the same with a shovel. You can make a cart with a dustpan in it, push it back and forth, and you have everything.

Even if you don't need a car like an engine, a rickshaw is still easy to use, like the small wheelbarrow that pulls cement and rocks, which is better than manpower to carry the burden.

Thinking about this, Ji Mo didn't move slowly. He pulled the ground over and pushed over, so as to ensure that the food that was pressed on the lower floor could also be turned up to breathe fresh air.

With their actions, the smell in the air hall became stronger.

Fortunately, it is open to the wind on all sides. The so-called air hall is not really a room with walls, so it feels better.

The small high platform can fully consider the problem of rainwater. The roof that is now open above can actually be covered with something to keep out the rain. When it rains, the top will be covered, and the surrounding area will be ventilated, and the grain can still be dried, which will not hinder the wine making, but you need to pay extra attention to the wind direction, so as not to let the rainwater pour in obliquely along the wind.

At that time, people didn't think that there were germs in the rainwater, but they paid attention to the water needed for brewing. According to the difference of brewing water, what kind of water must be used for brewing. As far as the winery is concerned, there is a lot of water that can be used for brewing. The spring, named Jiuquan, is naturally slightly sweet and mellow in wine.

There is also water in trees, water in forests, water in flowers... Those with less output are more expensive, and it takes time and effort to obtain them. Ji Mo has never tasted the brewed wine, but he has heard of them. They are all very impressive. The kind sought after by people, so although limited by the water and the output is very small, the price is so high that one jar can build another small winery.

The wine shop will also filter better water by itself. Of course, what they value is not the lack of impurities after filtration, but the quality of the so-called "clear water" obtained through this layer of filtration process. For example, water soaked with flower petals can It is named a certain flower water according to the name of the flower, and the water soaked in bamboo leaves can be named bamboo leaf water. There are also several types of honey water, so there are several more types of wine derived from it.

In addition, there are natural gifts of water in nature, the most common of which is rainwater, the so-called sky water, there are several pools in the valley, which are specially used to store rainwater, and the similar is ice water. The well water is full, and the climate here is easy to say, but there is little snow, so snow water is rare and the most expensive.

There is also atomized water, the concept has this concept, but it is not easy to collect it. It is a very elegant thing, that is, the stuff of the nobles, they just listen to it.

The wine shop is under the name of Baowu, and there are some nobles in Baowu who collect these things when they have nothing to do, and even collect flower juice to make wine. ", I don't know where the name reflects "flower", anyway, it is less and more expensive.

The production of this kind of wine is small, unless requested by nobles, a little bit of wine will be brewed every year for backup, other times, it is just waiting for orders at any time, if there is a request from above, it will be brewed later.

When it comes to raw materials, there is another layer of subtleties. Ji Mo was speechless when he heard that he even differentiated the water used for planting millet. What is the name of the millet? This water gets this rice, and that water gets that rice. Therefore, the wine brewed from this rice is different from the wine brewed from that rice. Each has its own name and is different.

Is it really different? Ji Mo doesn't know, but after going around this round, he only heard the phrase "I don't get tired of fine food, and I don't get tired of fine food", and at the end, I can only sigh "The quality of rich people is the same as that of ordinary people." Looking up."

If you are not rich, how can you withstand such fineness?

Doing the seemingly simple things one by one requires not only manpower, but also financial resources.It is also possible to highlight the superior status of the other party through such small things. It seems that if it is not the case, it is not enough for people to look up to.

This is part of reality, and there are other requirements that Ji Mo believes are superstitious.

There is a kind of wine called boy wine, don’t get me wrong, it’s not made of boy’s urine or something more evil like boy’s heart or blood, if it’s evil, it’s made of boy’s tears, not filthy or unclean. Instead, let a boy who is five or six years old, clean and tidy, with no stains under his fingernails, complete the steps of wine making step by step, from making koji to sealing the wine into the altar, with his own hands and according to the adults' instructions , are all the children's hands.

Inexplicably, this feeling of deja vu reminded Ji Mo of a kind of tea, which seemed to be picked by unmarried sons with their mouths, and which had its own beauty fragrance, which made people feel quite complicated after hearing it. I sip it again, and drink the water brewed from the tea leaves by myself. I always feel a bit indescribable. I don’t feel any beauty fragrance, but I just don’t want to drink it.

This boy's wine has a somewhat similar meaning. If the wine brewed by a boy is better than the finished product of those master brewers, Ji Mo feels that it is mostly due to psychological effects, and there may be some superstitious thoughts pinned on it.

Throughout the ages, this kind of disgusting person seems to be a little bit too much, but it sounds really uncomfortable. Forgive Ji Mo, a straight man, who can't feel the romance in it at all, and can only be determined by quality. I always feel inferior.

Not to mention, how many years of brewing skills the brewer has, if he can make good wine with just a few words from others, I am afraid that there are countless winemakers today, let alone five or six-year-old boys. How much comprehension of the steps is, even if each of them is honestly a puppet, the quality of the final product depends on the vision and guidance skills of the brewer. Is it really related to the boy?

If it wasn't for the brewing business, where women are really forbidden to enter, it might as well be like tea, some beauties brew it by themselves, that's all right, Ji Mo doesn't discriminate between men and women, just afraid that there will be another nausea in the process He couldn't stand the beauty bath water and the like.

Even when he heard people and milk wine, he would get goosebumps and tremble, let alone other things.In terms of imagination, Ji Mo felt that he was really going to admire these ancients, how did he come up with this!