frightfiction Chapter 455: Show-off Complaint
Chapter 455: Show-off Complaint
For the next ten days, they repeated the tasks of picking, peeling, drying and pinching persimmons.
Jiu Zu's new workshop is gradually taking shape. Many walls have been built, but the roof has not yet been put up.
Shen Tietou and his team also helped make three persimmon peeling machines. Everyone's most enjoyable thing to do was to peel the persimmons using those three machines.
In their eyes, saving energy is a small matter; the main thing is that it is magical.
Several adults from the Ministry of Works accidentally saw it and were extremely surprised. They didn't expect that the Shen family could make a tool by themselves to peel fruit.
Moreover, in their eyes, many parts of this tool are simply too sophisticated and can be used in other places as well.
Seeing how surprised they were, the Nine Clansmen lied helplessly again, saying that the machine was researched by Shen Zhiqiu.
Shen Zhiqiu was troubled by being asked strange questions by these adults every day.
Fortunately, Shen Zhiqiu was a time traveler. Even if he had not eaten pork, he had seen pigs run. He was not as proficient in these things as his daughter, but his knowledge was much more advanced than that of these adults, so he did not stump them for the time being.
But he couldn't help being frightened when he saw these adults every day. Isn't this nonsense?
What if I can’t answer the question one day and then I won’t be exposed?
He was so scared that he could only tell his daughter privately: "Control yourself. If you want to research something, wait until they leave before researching it. I, your father, can only bear it a limited amount."
This made Shen Youyou laugh out loud.
Although the persimmons had been picked, the boys from the Jiu clan and Tangjia Village did not stop going up the mountain. There were still many pine nuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, etc. on the mountain.
Today, Shen Youyou brought Erya to brew persimmon wine. Several girls in the village who also wanted to learn how to make persimmon wine came to help.
Making persimmon wine is very simple. Just wash the soft persimmons, peel and seed them, and put the jam part into a clean, water-free plastic bucket or wine jar.
Since they had the convenience of making plastic buckets at home, they just used plastic buckets.
Although persimmons are sweet, you still need to add some icing sugar when making the koji.
The main reason for adding sugar is to adjust the sugar content, promote fermentation, and improve the taste of the wine.
Persimmon itself contains certain sugars, such as glucose, fructose and mannitol.
These sugars can be broken down into alcohol and carbon dioxide through alcoholic fermentation.
However, the sugar content of persimmons is not enough to support sufficient fermentation, so additional sugar is needed to increase the sugar content and ensure the smooth progress of the fermentation process.
Shen Youyou asked her sisters to make persimmon jam, and she went into the house to get the koji she had made a few days ago.
In fact, there are many families in the village who have koji, but she needs to brew a lot of wine, but there is no way because there are too many people in her family.
You can't always go to the village to ask for yeast.
When she was planning to brew wine, she took the time to make a batch of koji.
Moreover, Grandpa Guo has all the materials needed to make koji. Shen Youyou made it with hot polygonum officinale, cloves, licorice, poria cocos, Eclipta prostrata, and rice flour.
It is to mash several herbs into powder, mix them with rice flour and roll them into small balls.
However, you still need a few old wine yeasts to mash them into powder and sprinkle them on the surface of the meatballs as a guide.
If you want the small dumplings to be more evenly covered with the old wine yeast, just find a small bamboo basket and shake it.
Then put some straw in a large bamboo basket, put the new yeast in it, cover it with a layer of cotton cloth, and ferment it in a cool place for three to four days.
When the new koji has grown a circle of mycelium, roll it a few times in a small bamboo basket to allow the mycelium to stick to the surface of the koji, then take it out to dry in the sun for three or four days.
It sounds troublesome, but it is easy to do.
At this moment, Shen Youyou took out the wine yeast from the bottle, mashed it, added some sugar, and diluted it with cold boiled water. Then, she let it sit for 25 minutes.
Then put it into a plastic bucket filled with persimmon jam, stir it evenly with clean and water-free chopsticks, and seal it.
After a day of making persimmon wine, Shen Youyou stood up, pounded her waist and said, "I'm so exhausted from doing this every day!
When you go back and make it, shake the wine vat several times a day during the first two days of fermentation, and then you don’t need to shake it anymore.
After about six or seven days, when the gas is no longer produced, you can filter the wine into another jar.
If your father likes to drink strong alcohol, you can move to my house and I will distill and purify it for you."
Among the girls who learned to make wine, one was Tang Xiangtao from Guangshenye’s family, a large pig farmer. This girl was quite familiar with the girls from the nine clans.
She took Shen Youyou's hand and said with a smile: "Thank you, Youyou!"
“No thanks, you’re welcome. Didn’t you also help us make wine for a day? Just consider it as tuition payment, haha!
But remember to tell Master Guangshen when you go back that the wine is orange-yellow, but if it is distilled, it will be clear and bright."
"Yeah, okay. My grandfather would definitely like the distilled one you mentioned. He always said that the plum wine or rice wine we brewed at home was not as good as the wine brewed by someone else in the county."
Shen Youyou was amused by Xiangtao's words, and she even imitated her tone, which was quite realistic.
What Shen Youyou didn't see was that just now her grandmother and Grandma Fang came over to carry the cornmeal, and when they left, they saw her standing there, pounding her waist and saying, "I'm dying of exhaustion every day."
The old lady couldn't help but complain to Old Lady Fang again: "Look, my girl Yoyo, she says she is tired to death after tinkering with those persimmons all day long. I think she is the least tired person.
A few days ago, when I was peeling persimmons, I saw her just supervising the work without waiting to peel any.
It was a new machine that others were scrambling to use, so she just made it and tried to cut a few pieces herself, and then she never touched it again.
There is also our hairpin group and others who ask her to keep accounts. I saw her just take a quick look at the tables at night, and it would take her less than fifteen minutes to sort out the accounts.
In the past, when they said they were not going to make hairpins anymore, they would go back to check the quality, but now they just don’t care about that stall anymore.”
Old Lady Fang was so amused by Old Lady Hua's boasting that she laughed out loud, "Do you want her to settle accounts with us? She has to carry a bunch of sticks in her pocket.
When the time comes, we have to make as many pots of dry food as possible, and we have to take a stick from one bag to another. Sometimes we get so busy that we get confused and even confuse the description. "
When Grandma Hua heard this, she burst out laughing: "Yes, the kids need to study hard, and we need to practice math more later.
In fact, I feel that when I count the money when selling hairpins, I never make mistakes, but why do I always make mistakes when making dry food? "
"What can I do? You are used to living a frugal life and only want to make money but not spend it."
"You old woman, you still say this to me, aren't you?"
The two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing again. There was nothing they could do as their lives were improving too fast in the eyes of the old ladies and they couldn't adapt to it for a while.
Seeing such a big and good workshop being built, don't blame the old ladies for making a fuss. Looking at such a big yard,
Sometimes I couldn’t sleep at night and couldn’t help but wonder, isn’t this courtyard much worse than the Duke’s Mansion?
In fact, you don’t need to ask anyone else, just ask Shen Luming. He will definitely tell the old ladies: “It’s much bigger, grandma. My little brother’s yard is also bigger than this one.
In his yard there was a martial arts arena, a rockery, a pond, and a number of houses that were tightly closed and he was not invited to look inside.