Rebirth of Okuki Kofuro

This vinegar tastes the same as it smells. It is full of sourness at the moment of entrance. After the sourness passes, you can taste the extremely light aroma of rice and wine with almost no astringency or bitterness. Come to see, this can be said to be top-notch.

After the vinegar smell in his mouth completely disappeared, Father Liang opened his eyes: "Son, tell me carefully how you made this vinegar."

Master Liu knew better than Liang Kangsheng how to make vinegar. Liang Kangsheng asked Master Liu to explain, and he occasionally added a sentence or two.

After listening to Master Liu's detailed description of the process of making vinegar, Liang's father pondered for a moment and asked a question: "Son, do you want to open a workshop to make vinegar alone?"

Liang Kangsheng had thought about it before, but after he discovered the way of fruit wine, he felt that making fruit wine was more suitable for the Liang family than making vinegar, so he gave up the idea of ​​opening a vinegar workshop.

Therefore, he shook his head and found another reason: "I still want to continue taking the imperial examination. My family has already bought Tianhe Mountain. I am worried that I will not be able to manage another workshop."

It was a coincidence that the wine could be changed into vinegar this time. The gods of the system can only make wine and cannot teach them how to make vinegar. Vinegar costs too much.

Opening a vinegar shop is not like a wine shop. The Liang family has already figured out the steps of wine making. Opening a vinegar shop requires a lot of hard work in the early stage, which is not suitable for the current Liang family.

"Well, what you said makes sense." Father Liang nodded. He can take care of the wine shop and the mountains and fields at present, but if there is another vinegar shop, he will inevitably be in a hurry.

If the son is not ready to continue taking the imperial examination, he can be allowed to come, but if he still wants to continue studying, then forget it.

After going through all the worries and possibilities in his mind, Father Liang made a decision: "Well, since our family only has this batch of vinegar at present, the price should be set higher, five hundred yuan a catty."

After making a decision, Father Liang continued in a good mood: "The problem now is that everyone doesn't know that our Liang family has this batch of vinegar. I will go to the county in two days and let the news out."

Liang Kangsheng waved his hands and said confidently: "Father, no need. When the stewards came to our house to buy wine, I have already told the steward Ma of the Provincial City Commercial Bank that he should be coming soon. He should have known it at that time." Our wine shop has vinegar."

"Did you tell him then?" Father Liang was thoughtful.

I carefully recalled the process of making vinegar that Master Liu said. Speaking of which, the vinegar has basically been brewed at that time, but it needs to be sealed for a while like wine making. No wonder my son will feel relieved to disclose the news.

"Since this is the case, let's wait until Guanshi Ma comes. The commercial bank in the provincial city is strong. They might be able to take away our vinegar. If Guanshi Ma is interested in Fang Zi, we can consider taking Fang Zi with him. And tell him." Father Liang patted Liang Kangsheng, feeling proud and satisfied.

He was injured in a fall before, and listened to his son's words and ignored the winery. He never expected that when he took over again, the winery would produce such vinegar that was not available in the market. He was indeed Liang Youfeng's son!

The vinegar thing was almost finished, Liang Kangsheng was about to say something else, he said to the happy Master Liu, "Master Liu, go and do your work first, try to pack our vinegar as soon as possible, and wait for Manager Ma and the others to come." You can take it all away.”

"Sure, I'll go right away. Master, young master, what do you want us to do?" Master Liu was a little swaying when he left, thinking about the price set by the master for vinegar.

Sitting there for a while, Liang Kangsheng's face turned serious, and he said solemnly, "Father, do you know why there are so many problems with our family's wine this year?"

Father Liang hadn't completely escaped from his joy, but when he suddenly heard his son talk about wine making, he quickly calmed down: "Oh, do you know the reason?"

"Father, come with me." Liang Kangsheng took Liang's father to a corner of the winery, where the old pots were emptied.

After filtering the vinegar, it will be wasted before filling the cans. The original four cans of vinegar can only fill three cans in the end, so there are a lot of new cans piled up here this year, plus those from previous years. up.

Standing on the outside, looking at the empty clay pots stacked two layers, Father Liang frowned: "What about the pots?"

"Father, Master Liu and the others accidentally broke two of the new pots this year, and I found a problem." Liang Kangsheng pointed to the broken pottery fragments in the corner, and picked up two of them, one at the belly of the pot , one piece is the position of the mouth of the tank.

Father Liang took a few glances, but found nothing wrong. In his opinion, the two pieces of broken pottery were similar.

"Father, take a closer look, isn't the hole in this pottery shard bigger?" Liang Kangsheng handed the broken pottery shards in both hands to Father Liang, and pointed to the piece at the mouth of the jar.

After being reminded by Liang Kangsheng, Father Liang seems to be the same thing, but the difference is so small that it is difficult for people who don't know it beforehand to find out.

Father Liang took the two pieces of broken pottery and turned them over and over several times before saying, "Son, you mean that the problem with our wine this year is related to the hole in the pot?"

"This is my guess. It's not a coincidence that this kind of pottery with larger pores." Liang Kangsheng tapped on the jar next to him.

"Later, I asked Master Liu to break two new clay pots and two old clay pots from previous years. This year, the openings of the new pots were all larger, while the mouth and body of the old pots in previous years were not. the difference."

"Father, I still remember what I said to Master Liu just now. The most important thing to change from wine to vinegar is to open the sealing mud of the mouth and stir it every day, so that the wine will gradually turn into vinegar."

"I'm wondering if it's because the pores in the mouth of the clay pot become larger, which leads to the failure of winemaking, just like the failure of winemaking if it is not sealed well."

Following Liang Kangsheng's explanation, Father Liang's face became more and more serious. He didn't take Liang Kangsheng's words to heart before, because there were too many reasons for the failure of wine making, and it couldn't be explained by one or two points.

After hearing Liang Kangsheng's words, Father Liang picked up the broken pottery fragments in the corner and looked at them carefully, with a very serious expression on his face.

"Father?" Liang Kangsheng saw his father's face was gloomy like never before, and his mood became a little depressed, because he planned to say something that might make his father feel even more uncomfortable.

After reading them one by one, Father Liang stood up, clapped his hands and asked Liang Kang, "Son, why do you think there are so many clay pots that have problems?"

"I've thought about two possibilities. One is that the pottery kiln accidentally burned out this kind of problematic pot when firing pottery, but they didn't know it and sold it to us. Another possibility is..." Liang Kang Sheng hesitated what to say.

With a cold face, Liang's father said the next words for Liang Kangsheng: "There is also a possibility that the people in the pottery kiln knew that what they fired was defective, and the person who bought the jar deliberately bought the defective product. ,Right?"

In order to ensure that there is no problem, father Liang used to purchase everything used in the winery by himself. He visited many pottery kilns back then and knew the rules of pottery kilns.

The clay pots used for brewing wine are the most expensive, because the clay pots used for brewing wine can’t make any mistakes. The next level is the jars for brewing soy sauce, vinegar, and various sauces. A jar for water, as long as it doesn't burn and leak.

This means that buying a jar is like going to the grocery store to buy vinegar and wine. Vinegar and wine are two different things and it is impossible to buy the wrong one.

It may be that the people in the pottery kiln made a mistake when firing this batch of jars for wine making, but because the firing method is the same as that of the wine jars, the difference in the jars cannot be seen from the surface.

But according to the rules of the pottery kiln, even if outsiders can't see the difference, they will not sell such a jar to someone who uses it for wine making, but the wife and brother bought such a jar back. Why?

It doesn't take much to understand that you get what you pay for, and faulty jars are of course much cheaper than good ones.

I can't tell what it's like in my heart, but Father Liang has a very uncomfortable feeling, and he's blocked in his heart. He didn't expect that the problem of the winery this year would be on the pot. He trusts his wife and brother so much...

Involuntarily, Father Liang thought of the time when he was in a hurry to go to the winery to find out the problem with the wine fall and injured him just after the Chinese New Year, which led to a series of changes in the family.

Seeing Liang's father frowning, Liang Kangsheng told him about asking Fang Junyan to buy the pot: "Father, when I was away for the exam this year, I happened to meet a friend. His family is in business. I wrote a letter two days ago. Give it to him, I want to ask him to help buy another jar, if he agrees, it is estimated that the jar will be delivered after October, and it should be able to catch up with our winemaking."

Father Liang didn't nod or shake his head when he heard this, but his face looked better than before: "Father wants to wander around the wine shop by himself, go and see how Master Liu and the others are preparing the vinegar."

After hesitating for a while, Liang Kangsheng said "OK" and turned to leave.

He originally planned to mention the matter of his brother-in-law poisoning his medicine, but seeing that Liang's father was already feeling very uncomfortable, he decided not to say it for the time being. Anyway, he and Brother Yi are paying attention now and will not talk about it again. Let uncle have a chance.

After Liang Kangsheng left, Father Liang wandered around the winery expressionlessly. He thought about all the words and deeds of his wife and brother that he could think of over the years, and found that in the past two years, the attitude of his wife and brother towards their family He became more irritable, and occasionally there was a bit of inexplicable resentment in his eyes.

When he didn't pay attention to it before, he didn't think there was anything wrong, but now that he thought about it, Father Liang was a little startled. He didn't understand what was going on, why his wife and brother were dissatisfied with their family, they obviously took care of each other...take care of each other!

Father Liang's footsteps stopped. He felt that he might have thought of the crux of the matter, and couldn't help but smile twice. It turned out that taking care of too much would make the person being taken care of feel cumbersome and irritable.

Thinking about it, Liang's father's eyes gradually turned cold. It's useless to say anything now that he is not in front of him. Let's wait until the other party comes back after selling out the wine.

:) :)