The Local Lazy Man System

"Well, it's delicious..."

A mouthful of glutinous rice went into his stomach, Liu Qingqing nodded and said. Liu Qingqing will not eat glutinous rice for the first time, but the glutinous rice he has eaten before is all with other ingredients.

Unlike the current bowl of glutinous rice, nothing is added, it is pure glutinous rice, and the taste is fragrant and natural, with a unique flavor.

"Husband, you eat too."

Liu Qingqing took some glutinous rice with chopsticks to his man's mouth and fed it to his man.

"It's delicious."

Swallowing the glutinous rice in one bite, Ye Guangyao said with some aftertaste. This taste is the taste that I liked when I was a child, and it evoked Ye Rongrong's childhood memories.

When Ye Rongrong was a child, the whole Taoyuan Village was very poor. On weekdays, the white rice he ate was cooked with sweet potatoes, not to mention the glutinous rice.

That is to say, every year when the family makes glutinous rice wine, Ye Rongyao can eat glutinous rice. I remember that Ye Rongrong once ate too much glutinous rice, and his stomach was bloated, and he could not eat for a whole day.

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Twenty minutes later, the rice in the big pot was not so hot. Ye Xiangnian walked over from the house with a white and yellowish thing, crushed it with a wooden stick, and started to smash it. Pour the shreds of things into the glutinous rice, stir evenly with a wooden stick, and sprinkle evenly.

"Husband, what is Fifth Grandpa doing?"

Liu Qingqing looked at Grandpa Fifth's movements suspiciously, and asked her man curiously.

"Grandpa Fifth is spreading koji. Rice wine is fermented by this koji to make delicious rice wine." Ye Rongrong said.

It is very important to make wine, and this koji is very important. The koji is the conidia of Aspergillus in the white rice that has been vigorously cooked, and then kept warm, and mycelium grows lushly on the rice grains. It's what people call wine.

Koji is an essential thing in winemaking, without it, rice cannot be fermented. It can't be made into wine.

"Does all wine brewing require koji?" Liu Qingqing asked.

"I don't know about this, but both liquor and beer need koji." Ye Rongrong thought for a while and said.

After five grandpa stirred for a while.

He compacted the rice a little, then dug a hole in the middle, sprinkled the cold boiled water that had been prepared earlier, and put a big wooden lid on the big pot.

Boiled water must be used instead of ordinary water. Boiled water is boiled water at high temperature, and the microorganisms and bacteria in it are basically killed, which will not affect the fermentation of koji.

"Glory. Come and give me a hand, let's carry this big pot into the big pot outside." Ye Xianglai wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Ye Rongrong.

"it is good."

Ye Rongyao hurriedly walked to the big basin, and worked with the fifth grandfather to lift the big basin.

The big pottery basin was very heavy, weighing more than 300 jin. Ye Rongyao lifted it up easily, but the fifth grandpa had just lifted it off the ground and put it down, it really couldn't lift it.

"Old, really old. I can't lift such a little weight."

Ye always said with a sigh. When he was young, Ye always had a lot of strength. At that time, he followed the elders of the village to the neighboring county to carry wood to sell. They are carrying two to three hundred jins of wood, running all over the mountains.

At that time, the state did not allow private buying and selling of trees, but at that time, everyone who was poor could no longer live happily, so how could they care about these things?

They all went to the depths of the mountains in the neighboring county to buy big tree heads from the villagers in the mountains. After buying them, they carried the wood on the small roads in the mountains and secretly went home.

The state does not allow private buying and selling of trees. There must be personnel from the wood industry who are investigating, and there are also patrol teams on the mountain. Once you meet them.

Everyone carried the wood and ran to different parts of the mountain, and it was common for everyone to run away. It is not uncommon for some people to get lost in the mountains, and it is not uncommon for them to get out of the mountains after detouring for more than ten years.

But no matter what, it's better than being caught by people from the wood industry department. If you get caught at that time, you won't be sentenced to any punishment. The most fearful thing is that you will be locked up for three or five days.

The most terrible thing is that the wood you bought will definitely be confiscated. You must know that a piece of wood is carried out of the mountains, and when you sell it, you can earn dozens or hundreds of dollars. In the era of sharing money, this is a lot of money, enough for a family to live on for three to five months.

This was taken away, and even the capital was paid in. The few members of the family had no life for half a year, and could only rely on borrowing money to live.

At that time, Ye has always been a young man in his early twenties, and some of them were full of strength, carrying two or three hundred catties of wood for a long time without rest.

But now that I'm old, I can't even carry a three-hundred-pound thing with others.

"Grandpa Fifth, why don't I come alone." Ye Rongrong said.

"You are alone, with such a big pot and three hundred catties, how can you move it? I'd better go out of the village and ask the young guy to come and help."

Ye always shook his head and said. It's not that Ye Xiangyao doesn't believe that Ye Yaoyao can't lift 300 kilograms of things. After all, during the last fishing activity in the village, Ye Xiangyao could see that Ye Yaoyao was very strong.

But with great strength, you may not be able to pick up this big pot. The main reason is that this big pot is too big to hold. It is difficult for a person to exert strength.

If a person wants to pick up this three-hundred-pound large basin, he must at least have the strength to easily lift more than four-hundred-pound weight with both hands.

But being able to carry more than 400 kilograms of heavy objects, Ye always thought that no one in the entire Taoyuan Village had such strength.

You must know that people today are not as powerful as the people of the past. People in the past often worked and carried heavy objects. In all my life, when I was young, I have seen a person with such great strength.

As people's living conditions are getting better and better, young people today are increasingly unable to do their own work, and their strength is getting smaller and smaller.

"Grandpa Fifth, you don't need to call someone, I'll do it alone."

Ye Rongrong said. Although it is said that this large pot is not easy to hold by one person, if the strength is strong enough, it can still be easily picked up.

"Really, don't be stubborn, it's not good to flash to the waist." Ye Xiangliang looked at Ye Rongrong a little worriedly and said.

After all, something over 300 jin is not so easy to handle. If it flashes to the waist, it will be very troublesome. It is the same as breaking the bones, but it will take a long time to rest.

"Grandpa Fifth, I have a lot of strength. This weight is really hard for me." Ye Rongrong said with a smile.

"Then try, don't be brave!" Ye Xiang said.

Ye has always been really worried about Ye Rongrong, a young man. He didn't know the severity. In order to show his strength, he had to carry such a heavy thing.

"Know."

Saying that, Ye Rongyao bent down and held the two handles of the basin in both hands. As soon as he exerted force, the big basin would leave the ground. Because the basin was relatively large, Ye Rongyao couldn't straighten his back, so he could only hold it with his back bowed. big pot.

"Glory, are you okay?"

Although Ye Xiangliang was surprised by Ye Rongrong's great strength, he still asked worriedly. After all, it was a little hard for two grown men to carry such a heavy pot. Ye Rongrong was carrying it by himself, and it was so high that Ye always felt uneasy.

Compared with Ye Xiangnian's nervousness, Liu Qingqing is a man who doesn't worry about her at all, but Liu Qingqing knows better than anyone how strong her man is.

Liu Qingqing himself weighs about 90 pounds, but in the hands of his man, it is as if he has no weight. All kinds of difficult movements can be easily performed by his man.

"It's okay, it's not very heavy, I can move it completely."

After Ye Rongyao finished speaking, he carried the large pottery basin to the stove in the yard that had been stacked with bricks in advance. Ye Rongyao carefully placed the large pottery pot into the big iron pot.

"Husband, drink water."

After Ye Rongrong put the big pottery basin in place, Liu Qingqing brought a bowl of cold boiled water to his man, and wiped the sweat on his forehead with a tissue.

Although it is said that the weight of this large pottery pot is not difficult for Ye Glory, it is really difficult for a person to handle it. Even with Ye Glory's current strength, his forehead is still sweating.

Of course, it has something to do with today's weather. Now the temperature is starting to rise, and the outdoor temperature at noon is 20 degrees.

The reason why this pottery pot is put into the iron pot is also very particular.

The best fermentation temperature of rice wine is very particular, the temperature is too high, and the temperature is too low. Thirty to thirty-two degrees Celsius is the best. If it is high, it will easily become sour and turn into rice vinegar. If it is low, there will be no wine smell.

Now, although the temperature outside at noon is 20 degrees, at night, the temperature will drop to about 10 degrees, which is not conducive to the fermentation of rice koji.

So put this pottery pot in an iron pot, and slowly burn the fire in the large pot to keep the temperature. There is a day and night work, and the rice wine can be produced in the evening of the next day.

"Grandpa Fifth, is this all right?" Liu Qingqing asked suspiciously.

"It's almost done, just leave it for tomorrow night to drink." Ye Xiangkai said.

"Will you have to wait until tomorrow night?"

Liu Qingqing thought that the wine would be ready soon, but didn't expect that it would have to wait until tomorrow night.

"It also takes time to ferment this wine. When tomorrow night, you and Glory will come over to drink rice wine and eat rice wine."

Ye Xiangkai took the cool boiled water from the large thick porcelain bowl on the table and drank it, smiled and nodded to Liu Qingqing.

In the countryside, the best drink is boiled water. Whether at home or going out to work, villagers will pack a bottle of cold boiled water. When thirsty, just take a sip, which is healthy and saves money.

In the eyes of rural people, drinking more boiled water is better than taking any medicine, and it is good for health. Moreover, this boiled water does not need to spend a penny to buy it outside. It is enough to burn a few boiled water bottles with their own firewood every day. Used for a day.

"What is rice wine?"

Liu Qingqing had never eaten or seen rice with wine, so she asked curiously. (To be continued.)

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