Chapter 963

The wine in wangyuelou is only a small part of the Fu family's income. Ji Lao usually uses good mountain spring water for wine making. Xu Qing doesn't know that in that deep mountain corner, he spends manpower and financial resources to get the water, so it's not cost-effective just to transport it.

The key is not to know the water yield of this spring. If the water yield is small enough to supply qingtingfang, it will certainly not be his share.

Fu Xitang dried the water in the glass, smashed it and said, "I know why your wine is so expensive."

Xu Qingxiao: "you have your reasons. If you don't have some good things that others don't have, how dare you sell them."

Fu Xitang nodded, looking forward to the way: "this water brewed rice wine should not be bad."

Xu Qing: "of course."

Outsiders have long been curious about the reason why qingtingfang's wine is better than other people's. Li Changting's reputation is almost better than his master's. Now it is said that the water is good, and others can't help it even if they are envious.

The glutinous rice was soaked in Lingquan water overnight. The next day, Xu Qing scrubbed the steamer, padded it with a layer of gauze, then spread the soaked glutinous rice and steamed it in a pot. The soaked glutinous rice cooked quickly and steamed until it tasted soft and glutinous.

Take out the steamed glutinous rice, spread it evenly and air it. After it is cooled to warm and not hot, mix it with distiller's yeast evenly. Xu Qing asked Li Changting about the amount of distiller's yeast. This step must be well mixed.

Then take a large wine jar, disinfect it with boiling water and dry it. Sprinkle a little distiller's yeast on the bottom of the jar. Then scoop the cooked glutinous rice into the jar and press it flat with a spoon. Then press out a small hollow in the middle. Finally pour a small bowl of spring water into it.

The lid of the wine jar is tightly covered. Next, let it be sealed and fermented. They don't need to wrap a quilt to keep warm in this weather. They just put it on for a day and a half and it's almost ready.

Two days later, Xu Qing opened the plug, and a strong aroma of wine suddenly came to his face.

Fu Xitang couldn't wait to taste the rice wine in the middle.

Xu Qing looked at him: "OK?"

Fu Xitang surprised: "that's the taste!"

Li Changting, who failed to grab the first scoop of rice wine made by Xu Qing, gave Fu Xitang a look in his eyes.

Xu Qing filtered the rice wine into a clean wine pot, dug out some lees, poured a jin of spring water into the jar, sealed it and let it continue to ferment for several hours.

Rice wine and distiller's grains can only be eaten on the same day. They are easy to break and must be eaten quickly.

However, according to the custom of Xu Qing's previous life, the wine brewed from glutinous rice should be called Jiuniang, and the wine brewed from rice is called rice wine. However, the name here is somewhat different. The similar method of making rice is called yellow rice wine, which can be drunk and cooked, so it is widely used.

Although the names are different in different places, the production methods are almost the same.

At noon, Xu Qing cooked a pot of wine dumplings. It tastes sweet but not greasy. She likes it very much.

After several hours of fermentation, the flavor of the remaining distiller's grains is not as strong as that of the first time. Xu Qing takes out the rice wine, and the remaining distiller's grains can't be wasted. They are directly used for cooking.

It doesn't taste like wine after fermentation, but there are many kinds of fish made from distiller's grains.

The most important thing they need in the sea is fish, and we are very selective. We can't even look at the fishy and bad fish.

Twenty five days later, the wine is almost fermented, filtered twice, poured into the wine jar, covered and sealed. If you don't pursue the taste, you can still drink it after five or six days.

At this time, they came to a wharf in a foreign Gulf, and stayed here for two days to replenish supplies.

Fu Xitang said that the destination is not far away, and it will arrive in five or six days.

This wharf is called Zhoujia wharf. It was built by a marine merchant of DAHAO 50 years ago. Now the descendants of this family are still the leaders of the wharf. Many local people here can speak Chinese, so there is no problem in communication.

"The Zhou family are already the Royal relatives of this country. It's not suitable for them to settle down and intermarry for so many years. Besides, they are DAHAO people." Fu Xitang exhorted, "don't mention the Zhou family when you go ashore. Don't say anything about the Zhou family. Nothing else."

Xu Qing nodded: "I know."

Fu Xitang goes to arrange the supplies that need to be replenished, while Xu Qing, Li Changting and Duanmu Xiang all go to the wharf curiously.

This dock is a large city with a population of more than 300000. You can see many foreigners on the road. To be exact, people with all kinds of skin color and clothes walk on the street. Everyone looks like a stranger.

Xu Qing, they don't understand the rules here. They try not to say much and just look around.

Duanmu Xiang is also the first time to come to a foreign country. He feels rare when he looks at everything, but he doesn't dare to spend money casually for fear of being trapped.

Fu Xitang said that if they want to buy anything, they'd better go to the bank here first and exchange their cash into the copper knife. The copper knife is a kind of currency here. Although they need to pay a small fee when exchanging, they won't be slaughtered too much when they go shopping.

If you just buy some gadgets, you can exchange them with salt.Many stalls were set up along the way, but many of them were sold by Xu Qing and they didn't know each other. Duanmu Xiang and Li Changting didn't know each other. The key is that most of them didn't even know Xu Qing.

This stroll, they suddenly strolled into a very familiar looking street.

The buildings in this street are very similar to DAHAO's, and the things they sell are all from their side, as well as the familiar words on the signboard and front. Obviously, the shops in this street are all owned by Chinese.

It's not surprising to think that the Zhou family who built the pier has such a street with the characteristics of their hometown.

All the things in it are from my hometown. It doesn't look interesting, but Xu Qing happened to see a bank in front of him.

"Does Madame want to exchange for copper knives?" Said the man warmly.

"How do you exchange it here?" Asked Xu Qing.

Man: "one or two silver for 1000 copper knives, we charge 50 copper knives."

The exchange rate is the same as that of DAHAO, but there is no handling charge to exchange copper in DAHAO.

Xu Qing has already seen the small box of copper knives on the table. It's about the same weight as the copper plate. How heavy a thousand are, it's not easy to take them.

The man said with a smile: "madam, you are from DAHAO. I'm looking at you. Could you take the liberty to ask which fleet you came with?"

Xu Qing thought about it, Fu Xitang has landed, and the news of his arrival is not a secret, so he said, "Fu Xitang's fleet."

The man was stunned and said, "it's a friend of the Fu family. I'm disrespectful! Madam, would you like to exchange copper knives with us at no charge. "