Chapter 5 Qin Shihuang, who loves to make skewers
Xianyang City, Blacksmith Shop
"Big Niu, have you prepared what you made?" Li Chen asked.
"It's been a long time ago, I'll be waiting for you to get it. Master Li, what is this iron lump used for? It took me a lot of effort to do it." Da Niu came over and said.
Li Chen looked at the distiller in front of him. The distiller was made of iron as a whole, consisting of an iron pipe connecting three sealing tanks with large, medium and small. The large jar was a wine storage tank, the medium jar was a cooling tank, and the small jar was a finished jar. The entire equipment looked silvery and looked very good.
"Well, it looks good." Li Chen sighed sincerely.
"What a good look, I am not a person who works in a good manner. Although I don't know what you are doing, I promise it is very useful.
Look at the gap between the tube and the jar, I sealed it with cowhide glue and molten iron. Although I don’t know what the vacuum meant, I can guarantee that there will be no air leakage for three years.
It’s not that I’m a big bull bragging, my craftsmanship is inherited from my ancestors. In this entire Xianyang City, there is no better craftsmanship than my big bull than my big bull, except for military craftsmanship." When Da Niu heard Li Chen say that he looks good, he quickly said indignantly.
"Good skills, Xianyang City is the best. Not bad, not bad." Li Chen looked at the most perfect still in Daqin, then looked at the simple-looking big bull, and suddenly a bold and immature idea flashed through his mind.
"Da Niu, you have such a good craftsmanship, how much money can you earn in a month?" Li Chen looked at Da Niu and asked sincerely.
"I just earn hard money. I'm talking about it. I can't ask for more people from the villagers. I'm definitely the lowest-priced craftsman in Xianyang. I can earn seventy or eighty copper coins a month, enough for me to eat and drink." The big bull said as he raised his head, as if there were so many seventy or eighty copper coins.
"Big Beef, how long does it take to eat meat? Is my skewers fragrant?" Li Chen asked again.
"I do physical work, I have a lot of appetite. I can eat enough for seventy or eighty copper coins, so I will definitely not be able to eat meat. Your skewers are so fragrant, even more fragrant than the meat I ate during the Chinese New Year." Da Niu said and swallowed.
"Big Niu, do you want to get married?" Li Chen asked again.
"I think, of course I think about it. Before my mother died, I hoped that I could get a wife, but I was not good enough and could not save money. Cuihua from the next village was married. If I took a wife, I would definitely take her back to our village. Go to my mother's grave and let my mother see it." Daniu said, wiping her tears.
"Then you can't marry a wife in this life. Look at your place and you are broken and dirty, you are poor, and you have no meals after eating, that daughter can follow you." Li Chen slammed.
"What the hell do you want to say?" Perhaps Li Chen's words were heartbroken, and Daniu said angrily.
"You do it with me. I will give you three taels of silver every month, three taels of silver every month. You will soon be able to marry a wife and give birth to a few big fat boys." Li Chen said temptingly.
The big bull was a little moved when he heard the three taels of silver, but immediately seemed to think of something: "I won't sell myself, my mother told me before she died. She can't sell herself to the landlord's old fortune even if she starved to death. The landlord's old fortune is all hungry wolf that eats people and does not spit bones."
"If we don't sign a contract for sale, I'm not a landlord. In this way, I'll give you three taels of silver a month and you can work for me. If you don't want to do it, you can leave at any time." Li Chen said.
"Really, I won't sign a contract for sale. You can give me a few taels of silver, and there is such a good thing." Daniu asked in confusion.
"I promise not to sign, and I will give you a skewer every time. What's the matter? Do you want to do it?" Li Chen also tried his best to coax the first technical talent he met in Daqin.
"As long as I don't sign the contract for sale, I'll do it." Da Niu swallowed his saliva, and it was obvious that the power of the skewers and his wife was powerful.
"Big beef, go and heat the water in the pot first."
"Liuzi, go and filter the wine you bought with gauze."
Half an hour later, Li Chen was directing the two of them to work in the kitchen of the barbecue restaurant.
"Okay, okay, you two lift the distiller up. Put the big jar in the pot, and put it in a stable manner." Li Chen shouted.
"The big bull burns the fire, the stronger the better."
"Boss, don't worry, I promise to burn more than my iron stove."
"Hum, haw, haw."
The big bull pulled the bellows and whispered, and the flames were like the Bagua furnace of Taishang Laojun.
After a while, the large tank of the still began to smoke, and the heat was almost the same.
"Six Sons, add water to medium jars, add wine to large jars, keep adding, don't stop."
"Okay, brother."
In about an hour, a large jar of wine had been poured out, and the wood that had accumulated half of the cabinet had been burned out.
Li Chen unscrew the switch of the small can.
"Um."
The moment the switch was turned on, a strong aroma of wine came to the nose. The wine flowed from the mouth pot into the prepared wine jar like a trickle. After two jars were filled, there were still five bowls left. Liu Zi quickly sealed the two jars with yellow mud.
"Come on, try it." Li Chen said, pointing to the wine bowl on the table.
"I won't drink it." He smelled the aroma of the wine and knew it was a valuable wine. Daniu hesitated.
"If you let me drink, you will drink. My elder brother is stingy, and he will be very delicious and spicy with me." Liuzi said quickly.
Li Chen said that the boy was very eye-catching and nodded in praise.
“Good wine.”
“Good wine.”
After the two of them finished drinking, they quickly praised.
"Bang."
"You kid will do serious business tonight." Seeing Liuzi touching another wine bowl, Li Chen slapped him in the hand.
"It's ready to open, Liuzi grilled skewers, big beef do odd jobs."
Li Chen said and slept on the lounge chair next to the counter. Today, he could be considered a serious manager.
"Oh, Grandpa is here again today, bringing friends to eat." As soon as he opened, he heard Liuzi say hello to an old man.
This old man is a regular visitor and comes almost every day. Although he is old, his appetite is not small at all. He can eat meat, but he can match three or five young men.
"Little guy, where is your brother." The old man asked.
"My brother is studying, my brother will become a high-ranking official in the future." Liuzi said proudly.
"You don't have to study as an official. Those stinky scholars are not good officials when they become officials." The old man laughed and scolded.
"Fifty skewers of honey sauce, fifty skewers of spicy skewers. Two grilled fish, two grilled lamb legs."
There were not many people just now, and soon the old man's dishes were served.
"Shopkeeper, can you try the wine on your table?" The middle-aged man who was traveling with him asked when he saw Li Chen siping the wine.
"Big Niu, give him that bowl." Li Chen shouted at Da Niu without raising his head.
"Bang."
"This is the wine the boss just brewed, you really have a good eye for it."
The big bull threw the wine bowl on the table, perhaps because he was a little strong and he spread a lot of wine.
"Si."
The middle-aged man just started to drink and let out a low moan.
"You..."
"It's okay, the wine is very strong, but it is actually a rare good wine in the world." The middle-aged man interrupted the old man and drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp.
"Shopkeeper, is there any wine?" asked the middle-aged man.
"Yes, but this wine is not cheap." Li Chen replied.
"It's okay, you can go there."
As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, Li Chen quickly picked up a jar of freshly filled wine and sent it to him. After all, it was a fat sheep that was delivered to the door.
"Grandpa, you are so...unspeakable!"
When the wine was placed on the table, Li Chen looked at the middle-aged man, and he could not describe this feeling. After holding it in for a while, he said.
"Don't talk nonsense, the old servant is just an old servant."
The old man said quickly.
Chapter completed!