The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty Chapter 65: Bianjing City’s Brewmaster


Yunyan poured cold water back, went into the room and took off Zhao Yunchu's clothes, wiped the sweat from his face and back, and laid him on his side again to prevent him from choking to death if he vomited.

After a while, Zheng Ping knocked on the door with orange peel sobering soup.

Because Zhao Yunchu was still topless, Yun Yanhui came out to pick up the soup, "I'll feed him."

Yunyan patted Zhao Yunchu's face back, "Silly Baitian, silly Baitian, get up and drink soup."

Zhao Yunchu lay on the bed and rolled twice, unwilling to get up.

Yun Yanhui stretched out her arms to hug his waist and hugged him. Whoever wanted Zhao Yunchu to come together, he wrapped his hands around his neck and put his head on his shoulders, not moving.

This way, Yun Yan can only ask him how to feed the soup, so he can only push him again.

However, Zhao Yunchu was so strong that Yun Yanhui couldn't push him away. After thinking about it, he picked up a piece of clothes and draped it over his shoulders, then called Shuang Yi to come in, and poured the soup into Zhao Yunchu in this posture.

Shuangyi wanted to try to pull Zhao Yunchu down at first, but she slammed Zhao Yunchu's shoulder with a breath of true anger, but Yun Yanhui didn't move. As a result, Zhao Yunchu fell back and brought Yun Yanhui to the ground. In his arms.

"Forget it...don't pull it." Yun Yanhui sat up depressed again.

Shuang Yi couldn't either, so he had to squeeze Zhao Yunchu's cheeks and forcefully poured the hangover soup for him, and Fang left with an empty bowl.

Zhao Yunchu was still dizzy after drinking the soup for an hour and a half, his breath sprayed on Yun Yanhui's ears, making him itchy, so he turned his head away. Zhao Yunchu was not happy, but Yunyan turned to hide, so he turned his nose and mouth over there.

"Oops, don't..." Yun Yan went back to hide, and Zhao Yunchu continued to hug him to his ears.

Yunyan came back to the party and realized, why is this posture so like a high official teasing a woman from a good family, she sat up straight, "It's cheap for you, I want you to look good when you wake up."

Zhao Yunchu put his head in Yunyan's neck and took a few deep breaths.

This is so numb... Yun Yan had goosebumps when she returned.

Zhao Yunchu seemed to smell a familiar smell and murmured, "Brother Yan..."

Yun Yan returned with a face full of hopelessness.

Zhao Yunchu shouted again: "Brother Yan..."

Yun Yanhui continues to live without love.

Zhao Yunchu's voice suddenly took on a cry, "Brother Yan..."

Yunyan replied: "..."

Zhao Yunchu cried: "Brother Yan, don't ignore me..."

Yun Yanhui was afraid that he would cry so much that she had tears in her neck and nose, so she quickly said, "I didn't ignore you."

"You didn't ignore me, so why didn't you kiss me." Zhao Yunchu was heartbroken.

"...??" Yun Yan replied, "... But when did I kiss you?"

I don't know what Zhao Yunchu was thinking, immersed in his own world, "I like you so much, Brother Yan, why are you killing me..."

Why do you dream of being murdered by him?

Yunyan replied: "Fighting is kissing, scolding is love, Ge Ge loves you."

Sometimes Yun Yan Hui thinks that Zhao Yunchu treats him as a brother because his elder brother is incompetent. This kid has liked him since he was a child. However, he doesn't like physical contact very much, and he has never bought it.

After so many years, Yun Yan's attitude has improved a lot, but the relationship pattern has been formed, so most of the time, I can't help but smack Zhao Yunchu.

Zhao Yunchu seemed to have listened too, he slid down and buried himself in Yunyan's arms.

However, Zhao Yunchu was too strong, maybe he thought he was a little bird, but Yun Yanhui was directly pushed by an ox, causing him to fall backwards, his feet turned upside down, and he almost vomited blood.

"Okay... just leave it like this, as long as you're happy." Yun Yanhui simply locked Zhao Yunchu's body cross-legged and told him not to move. She yawned and fell asleep.

……

At sunset, Zhao Yunchu woke up leisurely, and found that he was pressing down on half of Yan Ge'er's body, and Yan Ge'er's legs were on his waist.

"Brother Yan?"

Yun Yanhui was woken up, only to feel that the right side of her body was numb, especially her shoulders.

Zhao Yunchu quickly reached out and rubbed his shoulders, and said pitifully: "I'm sorry, Brother Yan, did you crush you?"

"Hey, you know that, I've served you." Yun Yan returned to the bed and let him massage her. She felt her shoulders go from numbness to soreness, and then slowly returned to normal.

"I'm drunk..." Zhao Yunchu was a little dazed and thought about it, "But, Brother Yan, you seem to be drinking more than me."

"It can only be said that I am naturally better at drinking than you," Yun Yan replied. "You said you can't drink, what do you drink with me, are you going to eat vegetables or drink?"

Zhao Yunchu was so wronged that he wanted to die, didn't he think that if Brother Yan doesn't drink, he can drink it. How could he not be worse than Brother Yan? Who knows, Yan Ge'er's drinker is born so big.

"Okay, okay, looking at you like this, my mother would say that I bullied you again." Yun Yanhui rubbed his head a few times.

Zhao Yunchu was rubbed his head, and he was resurrected with blood. His eyes caught sight of Yun Yanhui finishing his clothes. Although he was so frightened that he quickly got up after waking up, the feeling of hugging Yan Ge'er was very clear when he thought about it. Oh, how can Brother Yan be so comfortable when hugging him? Woolen cloth?

……

Because I slept all afternoon, I slept a little later at night, and I woke up a little sleepy the next morning.

Yun Yan Hui yawned and went to work, walked in through the back door, and went to the cafeteria for breakfast.

Yun Yanhui casually found a table of acquaintances with breakfast, sat down, and said hello, "Morning."

There were three other colleagues on the table, all of them from Cang Cao, and they all replied, "Brother Yan, didn't you wake up?"

"Well... I slept a little late last night." Yun Yan replied.

"I also slept late yesterday and went to have a drink at night." One person said, "Do you know that there is a new restaurant in the south of the state? The food and wine are good. I went there for a drink yesterday and heard a strange story. What?"

Yunyan replied: "Ah, I also went to this one, the food is good."

When the colleague heard it, he seemed to be affirmed, "Yes, you didn't go yesterday, did you? When I went last night, the wine doctor told me that their store received two customers during the day, among them A man drank 300 bowls without changing his face. His companions were all drunk, but this man thought that the wine was not intoxicating, and suspected that his companion was pretending to be drunk. Later, he would finish the bill and carry his drunk companion with one hand. Let's go! Now it is said that the wine master came to smell the wine and patronized their store."

Everyone: "Wow-!!"

Yunyan replied: "???"

Nima, the people of Bianjing are very imaginative. He just drank a few pots of wine and his face didn't change. Where did he get the three hundred bowls? And in the end, where did he carry his companion away, Zhao Yunchu was about to crush him, okay? !

Yun Yan didn't even say that the person was actually me. After eating, he went to pick grapes.

I told Ping Zheng yesterday to make some wine. In the modern era, he helped a colleague make it together. There is yeast on the surface of the grape skin, so there is no need for koji. It is brewed by fermentation, which is very convenient. The taste is good.

Now that grapes are being planted in the mansion, Yunyan returned to pick grapes nearby.

Because I wanted to increase my income, I chose very good grape varieties. The grapes are sweet and hydrating. They are purple and can be used to make red wine. Yun Yanhui also asked people to help him pick it together. When people asked, they said that they were going to study drinks. Naturally, they thought it was a drink.

Wine brewing technology has been around for a long time. However, due to the difficulty in disseminating information and the popular brewing method of yellow rice wine, most people brewed wine at this time with koji and peeling. It just happened to get rid of the yeast on the skin.

As such, the wine produced is not authentic.

Making wine is actually very simple, all you need is grapes and sugar. Yunyan took the grapes and washed them. Be careful not to wash off the hoarfrost on the surface, because yeast is attached to it, which is very important for subsequent fermentation.

After rinsing and draining the water, the grapes can be mashed, then spread in the wine jar, and then sprinkled with a layer of sugar. The ratio of grapes to sugar is about 10:1 to 10:2. Repeatedly spread the grapes and sugar, seal the mouth, and put it in a cool place to wait for fermentation.

After staying for ten or twenty days, it will be out of wine.

While waiting for the wine to come out, Yun Yan recalled and studied the recipes that could use wine and how to incorporate it into the dishes.

He thought, not only can he make a few stir-fry dishes, but he can also make desserts, and put them in yogurt, ice cheese, etc., it should be good.

……

Actually, the temperature at this time was a little hotter than modern times. After 18 days of fermentation, when Yunyan returned to open the altar, it was already out of wine. If you want a little more glycol, you can seal it for a longer time. But Yun Yanhui couldn't wait any longer, so he filtered the wine out with gauze, and divided it into several small jars.

Yunyan hugged a small altar back and went home excitedly.

"Auntie, my wine maid is ready, I'll give you a taste." Yun Yan replied with a smile.

"Is it really brewed?" Zheng Ping almost forgot about it, and hurriedly closed the door, "Don't let anyone see it."

"What are you afraid of, just say you bought it. What about Uncle Fu?" Yun Yanhui called Fu Yunfeng and poured them two bowls, "Try it."

The wine was sloshing in the bowl, purple in color, very beautiful.

Fu Yunfeng picked up the bowl and took a sip, his eyes lit up, "Good wine!"

This wine also has 15 or 16 degrees, which is not worse than the wine sold by today's restaurants. Compared with the wine made from koji, the taste is much better, and there is a strong aroma of grapes.

Because of the sweet taste of wine, Zheng Ping also liked it very much, but after drinking a bowl, her face turned red, "It's quite strong."

"You think it's sweet water, drink it slowly." The alcohol that the ancients ate was not high, and the stamina of wine was indeed great, so Yun Yanhui asked them to drink slowly.

"I think it's better than Fanlou's lamb wine." Fu Yunfeng poured another bowl and said as he drank, "Speaking of which, someone invited you to drink at Fanlou today, and I heard that Bianjing has a drink recently. Brewmaster Linfan, Brother Yan, have you heard of it?"

Yunyan was speechless and choked back: "...I heard it."


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