Chapter 379 Brewing
"Uncle, are we going to pick grapes in the afternoon?"
After dinner, a little guy stretched his head and asked Wen Xu.
Wen Xu's head was almost blew when he asked this. He reached out and he bounced beans on the little guy's forehead: "What are you picking? What did you pick in the morning? Don't pick it anymore. After eating, I honestly take the money and go to the pond to play with your water!"
"oh!"
The little guy covered his head and responded.
Shi Shangzhen and Shen Qi were covering their mouths and were scattered and scammers were endless, while Teacher Ma and Mr. Chi also had the same smile on their faces.
"One thousand five, plus a meal, it's almost two thousand yuan. I've exchanged for less than three baskets of grapes. You planted them yourself. Wen Xu, Wen Wei, you are really good?" Shi Shangzhen called Wen Xu without any ambiguity.
What can Wen Xu say now? He had to look at her: "I have money, I am willful, and I am happy!"
"Haha, the dead duck is still stubborn, then you can continue to be willful!"
"I..." Wen Xu didn't want to pay attention to her.
Mr. Chi asked Wen Xu: "You said you want to make wine, have you prepared all the tools?"
"The simple things are almost done, and only the barrels are left to be made," said Wen Xu.
I prepared yeast for my wine warming, and there were about a dozen large glass bottles with bunches. About three glass bottles could fill a wooden barrel. The first time I brewed Wenxu, I prepared three wooden barrels, one was made from space grapes, the other was planted in space, and the last one was made directly from grapes grown outside. Anyway, the one that matched the taste in the end would continue to brew. As for more glass bottles, Wenxu was to prevent estimation errors. Anyway, it was prepared and did not take up space.
The tools needed for home-made wine are quite simple, just a few glass bottles, white sugar and so on. Wenxu has already sorted out the steps according to his own records. The only thing he has not done is a few hardwood barrels. Wenxu has not planned to use oak, and is planning to use the wood unique to his own space. Wenxu has no particular concerns. Everything is mainly for its own convenience, and he directly uses the hardwood in his own space to make aged barrels.
Mr. Chi asked casually, and did not expect Wen Xu to make any good wine.
In the next time, a few adults served a group of children to eat, and after they finished serving the little ancestors, the adults only had to eat.
"I won't order these kids again next time," Wen Xu said with emotion.
Not to mention anything else, just after eating this meal, Wen Xu felt like she had a layer of skin. There was no time for these little things to eat together. Either I hit you or scratch me, it was really a headache, and it was not as worry-free as morning.
"You should have thought of it," said Teacher Ma with a smile: "There are people of our age who sometimes have a headache raising children, let alone at your age!"
"What should I do if the remaining grapes are left?" Mr. Chi said, "How about this. I will help you collect them tomorrow morning. I will probably not be able to bear them in one day. There will be no problem in two or three days, right?"
"No need, wait for me to find the older children in the village in the afternoon, those from junior and senior high school, those who are not in the graduating class are invited to come here, give a salary of 100 a day, and then order a box of rice from the kitchen. It's almost done. A dozen children are more diligent, and it's probably almost done in the morning."
Wen Xu is determined to do things in a good way, stop thinking about any wrong thoughts, just honestly ask those who are really working to come and help.
Hearing Wen Xu say this, Mr. Chi thinks for a while and nods.
After the meal, Shi Shangzhen, Chen Qi and Teacher Ma cleaned the kitchen and washed the dishes and chopsticks. Mr. Chi went back to his laboratory to supervise the students' work. Wen Xu naturally went out and asked the people from Heshi to help collect grapes tomorrow. When he heard that Wen Xu invited people, everyone was very enthusiastic. In a short while, eighteen or nineteen people gathered together.
With these eighteen or nineteen people, when they arrived at the vineyard the next day, it took only less than three hours to collect all the grapes. Not only did they collect the grapes, but the young men and girls also helped Wen Xu pick out all the rotten grapes from the bunches of grapes in the basket.
Otherwise, there is a saying in this world that there is a saying that twice the result is twice the result with half the result.
When we were waiting for the kitchen to deliver the boxed rice, everyone had already done their work. The older children were always a little restrained and were not as shameless as the little kids. So Wen Xu paid the rice and wages together and asked them to take it home to eat.
Shi Shangzhen looked at the twenty baskets of grapes in the room and was a little stunned, and asked Wen Xu, "What are you going to do?"
"What should I do? Didn't I say that I've made wine?"
Wen Xu was a little scratched his head when he saw so many grapes, because Wen Xu really didn't expect that such a big vineyard could grow so many grapes, at least half more than he expected. In this way, the grapes mixed with space would cost at least four or five barrels of wine.
"Can you finish drinking it in the Year of the Monkey?"
Although the two of them have not made it public yet, this matter is just about to be a hit. Shi Shangzhen has already regarded himself as half of the hostess. Now, looking at the grapes that are placing the living room full of grapes, he naturally began to frown.
Shi Shangzhen has less confidence in the wine brewed by Wenxu than Mr. Chi, and thinks it is not too difficult to drink. In addition, Wenxu himself doesn't drink much wine. If you drink it, you may not have drunk a few times a year. Now so many grapes have become wine. Even if they are delicious, in Shi Shangzhen's opinion, Wenxu will probably not be able to drink these wines in his entire life.
What's more, these grapes, not to mention Shi Shangzhen's opinion, shouldn't be called grapes in the eyes of Mr. Chi, it's a sin. Mr. Chi, who studied plants, has never eaten such a bad grape. Not to mention Mr. Chi, after picking the grapes, even the big flowers and the second flowers don't want to smell them. When they see the grapes, they turn around and run away. You know, these are two bears. There is almost nothing they don't want to eat in nature. Now they don't want to eat them, but it's obvious that the grapes are almost unsuccessful.
"After talking about so many grapes, you can't always put them in the living room, it takes up more space," said Shi Shangzhen.
Wen Xu thought for a while and felt that her words were right, and it was a good thing to make wine by herself without her scratching her. Wen Xu wanted Shi Shang to ignore him.
So he said, "Let's do it, I'll get them to my studio immediately, wait for the wine to be aged, and then transport it back and put it in the underground wine cellar at home."
"Well, this is a good idea!"
As long as it is not placed in front of me and let me see it, Shi Shangzhen thinks it is a good idea.
"Then you move quickly, I'll clean up the house here," said Shi Shangzhen.
Hearing her say this, Wen Xu went out and took Dabai back, moved the grape basket from the living room to the door, and placed it on Dabai's back. Because the distance was short, Dabai carried four baskets of grapes at a time, and carried them directly into the studio. He went back and forth five times to move all the grapes.
He rushed Dabai to the outside of the yard to eat grass. Wenxu turned around and returned to the studio. After closing the door and locking it, Wenxu put four baskets of grapes into the space, and then followed him into the space. There was a large wooden basin in the space. What was it for? It was used to break the skins of grapes when making wine. To put it bluntly, it would squeeze the skins of grapes.
There are many ways to squeeze, such as pinching with your hands, and Wenxu uses a simpler method, just step on your feet!
It sounds disgusting when you put on your feet. Even if you drink this thing yourself, it is probably difficult for people to swallow. Wenxu will naturally not disgusted yourself. When you put on it, Wenxu put on natural latex boots and stepped on it.
Four baskets of grapes were entered into the wooden basin. Wenxu wore his boots and almost followed the edge of the wooden basin. After stepping on each part of the basin twice, he poured all the broken grapes and the skin and water into a clean large glass bottle, and then added sugar to let the grapes ferment in the bottle with the sugar. Wenxu paid special attention here. The information said that the glass bottles at this time cannot be sealed because the seal will explode. Carbon dioxide will occur when the grapes ferment. If the space is closed, it will break the container.
As soon as the grapes were bottled, Wenxu put out the bottle. Because the time in the space was not easy to grasp, Wenxu had to take the bottle outside. In this way, when the grape skin in the bottle was pushed up by the carbon dioxide in the bottle, Wenxu could use something to press down the grape skin, and the space passed in a flash. Wenxu had no ability to control it. Sometimes time passed too quickly was a troublesome.
For the whole afternoon, Wenxu was trying to make ends meet his own red wine. When all the grapes were put into the bottle, Wenxu had already had about twenty bottles of wine, and almost used up all the glass bottles that could be used in his space.
The next thing Wen Xu has to do is to have the wine in the barrel every few hours and wait for the grapes to ferment fully.
While struggling in the studio, Shi Shangzhen started knocking at the door.
Wen Xu walked over and opened the door, asking, "Why are you here?"
"When is it now? It's time to have supper? You asked me why I'm here? By the way, why are you locking the door? What are you doing sneakily inside?"
As he was talking, Shi Shangzhen looked at the glass bottles on the ground in the studio. Seeing the entire workbench full of place, he couldn't help but ask again: "Why are there so many?"
Wen Xu could not say that not only were there picked grapes here, but half of them were grapes in the space. He had to bite the bullet and say, "It's just that many."
After saying that, in order to divert Shi Shangzhen's attention, he said again: "Then what do you want to eat tonight?"
As he said that, he reached out and stroked Shi Shangzhen's waist.
Sure enough, Wen Xu touched her, and Shi Shang's attention was shifted from the amount of grapes in the bottle to how to deal with Wen Xu's magic hands.
"If you don't eat noodles, let's make some cold noodles," said Shi Shangzhen.
Wen Xu was a little unhappy: "This thing is not hungry. Look at our family, one of them has small belly and they are all people who have no meat. Do you let them eat cold noodles? Then can't you sleep soundly tonight."
Shi Shangzhen understood as soon as he heard that Wen Xu was making things with Tongliang, so he said, "Bongliang and Dahua are both omnivorous foods, and you only eat meat at home! Really, eating less meat and eating more vegetables is good for your health! Otherwise, let's make mutton cold noodles as a whole. I'll go and cook mutton, right?"
"This is still true!"
Wen Xu nodded with a smile after hearing this.
When Shi Shangzhen heard Wen Xu nodding, he muttered: I know how to eat meat all day long, but I don’t feel any more attentive!
He said this, but he happily went down the stairs and left the studio to go back to the house and cook the mutton in the pot.
Shi Shangzhen just reached out and pulled open the door of the house. He heard his cell phone ringing. He took it out and looked at it and put it in his ear. At the same time, his finger pressed the place where he was reading the fingerprint. He heard a click, and the door of the house opened.
"My sister-in-law!"
After Shi Shangzhen entered the door, he said something to the person on the phone, his tone was very polite. However, after a few umbrellas, his face became a little less beautiful.
"My sister-in-law, I'll make my own decisions about my business. Don't say that I already have a boyfriend now. Even if I don't, I won't waste time with people like them. Goodbye!"
After Shi Shangzhen finished speaking, he hung up the phone directly.
Chapter completed!