Age: My Small World

Chapter 286 Brewing
Happy times are always short. Starting from the next day, everyone joined the large labor team.

There was always work to do in the production team. Even a little kid could go to the woods to collect firewood, so the students were naturally assigned tasks.

Most people still helped to harvest crops and plow the soil, while the girls went to learn how to make wine.

Brewing wine is not an easy task. Heat is inevitable, and it is accompanied by many complicated steps.

In ancient times, such technology would be treasured and passed down like heirlooms.

However, after the chaos in the Central Plains during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, many of the techniques of the aristocratic families were passed down to the people. From then on, winemaking was no longer the exclusive domain of the nobility and the upper class, but became a skill that everyone could master.

During the peak period, probably every household knew how to make wine, and you could find any laborer who had pretty good skills.

Therefore, if you want to travel back to ancient times and make wine, you have to go back to before the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, otherwise you can only master some distillation technology at most.

Yang Jun doesn't drink much, so there is no wine brewing in his little world.

But thinking that he might be able to give it to others in the future, he also learned it in his free time.

The general steps are not difficult. First, remove the tails of the picked mulberries. It is best to choose the freshest mulberries. The taste of mulberries brewed overnight will be impure, so you don’t even need to wash them.

Then crush the mulberries. It is best to crush them with your hands, as this will be more thorough.

Add yeast powder and a little sugar to the mashed mulberries, stir well and put into a sealed jar until it is 80% full. After sealing it, wait for fermentation to complete.

Basically, fermentation takes about seven days, during which time it needs to be stirred once a day.

After a week, squeeze out the impurities and leave the fermented juice.

Seal the juice again and continue fermenting for another month, and the mulberry wine is ready.

After learning, Yang Jun tried to make fruit wine in the small world.

The small mulberries he planted would take some time to bear fruit, so he could only choose pear trees that were already bearing fruit.

The wild pear tree that was once planted has grown up, and a circle of smaller fruits are on its lush crown.

Normally, it takes three or four years for a pear tree to bloom and bear fruit, but he planted the pear tree the earliest and watered it with enough spiritual water, so it was basically mature after one year.

I just don’t know if the pears of this first season will taste good.

Thinking of this, Yang Jun picked one and put it in his mouth without washing it and took a bite.

"Click!" His eyes suddenly lit up.

"I never thought that the thick-skinned and sour wild pear could be transformed into this appearance by the spiritual water."

He looked at the thin-skinned and crispy pear in his hand with some surprise, and for a moment he almost didn't recognize its true appearance.

Although the original pears from the trees were not really sour, the skin was indeed quite thick and a bit sour, not as delicious as they are now.

"Sure enough, the spiritual water has the greatest effect." He picked a few more happily and found that they were all almost the same.

The only pity is that the fruit is slightly smaller, looking only half the size of an apple, and one can be eaten in just a few bites.

"But it's enough for making wine."

There are dozens of pear trees, so there is no need to worry about lack of fruit.

He just waved his hand and all the fruits on the pear tree fell down.

With another gentle pinch, the fruits broke into pieces.

"My control over the small world seems to be getting stronger and stronger, which is good." Yang Jun clenched his fists, showing some excitement.

As he drank large amounts of spiritual water every day, his mental strength grew stronger, and his grasp of the small world naturally deepened. Every day, he felt as if he was getting stronger. "Let's make some wine. I don't know if this pear wine is any good."

He doesn't drink alcohol, but that doesn't mean he hasn't tried it. Even the legendary Moutai, he has tasted it a few times.

Of course, for someone like Yang Jun who is not good at drinking, the taste of Moutai is similar to Yubingshao, which costs 2.5 yuan per pound.

"Distilled liquor is just industrial liquor. Our ancestors' rice wine is still better." This was his only thought.

After working hard for a long time, he finally made a few jars. He couldn't help but add a few drops of spiritual water, wondering what the final brew would taste like.

But this takes time, so we can only wait.

"By the way, if we have wine, we can make some medicinal wine, like ginseng wine? Tiger bone wine?"

Thinking that Mr. Hu liked this the most, he was quite happy to make some.

"It seems I need to find an opportunity to grow some medicinal herbs like ginseng. I wonder if I can ripen a hundred-year-old or even thousand-year-old ginseng."

He thought about it and realized that if ripening could really be accelerated, the spiritual water consumed would most likely increase exponentially.

Is it okay for ginseng to have the same effect as spiritual water? Don't risk losing more than you gain.

"Give it a try someday."

It’s not that Yang Jun didn’t want to get some medicinal herbs, but food was too important at this stage, so he was also going for food at the beginning.

There is not much spiritual water. If it is all used to ripen medicinal herbs, there will be less food.

As for medicinal materials, they are not easy to sell.

If you buy it from a medicinal material company, they will have to check you. If you sell it to ordinary people, the quantity they need is not much, so he didn't want to touch medicinal materials before.

Now that conditions are good, there is enough food and spiritual water, so I'm thinking of getting some precious medicinal seeds like ginseng.

"Next time I go to the provincial capital, I'll get some. Maybe I can even get some valuable trees to plant?"

In addition to medicinal herbs, there are also valuable trees, such as red sandalwood and huanghuali. Later on, they were sold by the gram, and it is no exaggeration to say that they are the gold of wood.

"Forget it, forget it. The small world is too small to grow so many useless ones. I can just ripen a few more that are useful later."

In the end, he shook his head and decided that his spiritual water could not be wasted like this.

Nowadays, trees such as red sandalwood or huanghuali are not as helpful to him as ordinary fruit trees.

After finishing all this, he took another look around the small world and began to sharpen his knife.

Speaking of it, the last time he slaughtered a pig was the last time, and the pork had been eaten long ago. He had been using rabbit meat and chicken instead recently, and he was a little tired of it. He wanted to try pure pork, so the piglet was in trouble again.

"The old sow is still giving birth and can't be moved. The other piglets are still young and can't be moved either."

Yang Jun castrated only a few pigs, after all, he had to keep them for breeding.

Several of them are pregnant now.

The three boars were having a great time and had already attacked the sows several times. They really had nothing to do all day.

Finally his eyes rested on one of the two wild boars.

"You're unlucky. There are two of you against four, and only two are pregnant now. One of them must have been lazy."

He looked around and found that the two sows in a pigsty showed no signs of pregnancy. He immediately looked at the wild boar as if he were looking at a dead pig.

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