Chapter 128 Brewing

On the third day, the people from the next village came to ask Zhang Enpuri to have a look, saying that they wanted a floating gauze lamp. Liu Dashao was surprised when he heard it, so he asked Zhang En Pu what a floating gauze lamp was. Zhang En Pu said with a smile, and he will know when he arrives. The location is still by the pond in front of the door of the jade lock house. All the fish that floated in the pond yesterday were picked up by Uncle Yusuo and transported to the market for cheap sale, and the diesel floating on the water was also released. The people in their village have been waiting for the arrival of Zhang En Pu's master and apprentice.

Zhang Enpou came to the edge of the pond and nodded to them, saying that they could start now. But when he saw that he lit a piece of incense and inserted it in the land by the pond, he picked up some paper money and lit it and threw it in the air. He said it with words, and Liu Da Shao didn't hear it clearly. Zhang Enpou went to the other side of the pond and repeated the action just now. After all this was ready, Zhang En Pu went down to the steps of the pond, which was the place where they took a bath the day before yesterday. Yu Suo's parents spread a piece of straw paper on the water, and then put five white gauze lamps on the straw paper. Zhang Enpu grabbed a large handful of lit paper money in his hand and threw it into the pond. He said, "Bitter baby, die early and reincarnate early, and become a new person. Go, go, go at ease. Don't look for any more substitutes, for you. My parents have accumulated some virtue.

The burning paper money was extinguished at the moment it fell to the surface of the water, and then Zhang En Pu said to the parents of the jade lock, "Let it go!"

The parents of the jade lock slowly pushed the white paper full of gauze lamp to the center of the pond.

The action that Yu Suo's parents just made is called a floating gauze lamp. The gauze lamp is composed of two parts: a lampshade and a wick. The lampshade is made of white paper, and the wick is made of cooked glutinous rice with a cotton thread soaked in kerosene. It is no different from ordinary river lamps, but there are some differences.

The white paper that drags up the gauze lamp is straw paper. Grass paper is very different from ordinary paper. It is much better than ordinary paper. It is difficult to tear it apart. It is not common now. It can be said that it is difficult to buy it. It can only be seen when compiling ancestral notes and floating gauze lamps, and other times are difficult to see. Every few decades, when it's time to repair the ancestral spectrum, you will make papyrus paper again. Of course, the process of making papyrus paper is rare now. And why do you put five gauze lamps on the paper? That's because the jade lock was only five years old when it was dead. If a person at the age of 70 or 80 is drowned, it is necessary to put 70 or 80 gauze lamps. Relatively speaking, the area of papyrus paper should be wider. When the gauze lamp was pushed to the middle of the pond, the straw paper also began to sink because it was soaked in water, and the gauze lamp floated on the water and continued to burn. The people on the shore looked at the center of the pond and observed a moment of silence for the jade lock, until the gauze lamp floating on the water slowly sank, and the slowly extinguished gauze lamp also disappeared from the water.

After floating the gauze lamp, Yu Suo's father threw a duck tied to the pond under the guidance of Zhang En Pu. There is a saying in the Northeast that a person who can't swim is a weight. He throws it in the water and sinks, while the duck is a good swimmer. The ducks that were thrown down quickly sank into the pond, and soon a string of blisters began to emerge from the pond, which was the breath of ducks. The string of bubbles floated, and it was obvious that the duck was struggling under the water. Ducks are very good at water, but no matter how hard it struggles at this moment, it can't get rid of the fate of being drowned. Throwing a duck into the pond is to sacrifice the water ghost, and also to resolve the resentment of the jade lock, so that his heart can be balanced, so that he can have a companion below, so that nothing will happen to the pond.

Strange things happen year after year, and there are a lot of them that year.

There were too many strange things that happened that year. First, there was the wine fairy aisle in the white bald man's house, and then the little pockockocks was scared off by the ghost. China has a long history of brewing. The article "The explanation of the text" says: "The ancient Yidi made wine, and Yu tasted it and it was beautiful, so it was sparse. Du Kang makes sham wine." From the beginning of Yu, wine has a history of more than five or six thousand years in China, keeping pace with the development of Chinese civilization. There are many records about wine in China's ancient books. From the Book of Songs to A Dream of Red Mansions, almost all of them are inseparable from wine in more than 3,000 years of literary and historical works. It is said that the subjugation of Xia Jie and Shang Zhou was caused by greed for wine. The earliest existing wine in China was unearthed from the tomb of the Shang Dynasty. The ancient wine found by archaeologists in Xinyang, Henan Province in the tomb of Tianchao Shang Dynasty in Luoshan Python Zhang Township is installed in a melodious bronze burrrel and is well sealed. Although it has undergone a series of chemical changes such as hydrolysis, alcohol hydrolysis and ammonialysis for more than 3,000 years, the fragrance of the ancient wine has not been evaporated and dried, which is really an inexprehensible miracle.

Wine is said to be an intestinal poison. That being said, there are still a lot of people who like to drink. It's a good thing to be drunk and dream of death. For red and white weddings, wine is indispensable on the table.

The white bald man in the village likes to drink very much. I heard that he often stole the wine from his family when he was a child, so that he was found by his family that he would inevitably be spanked. Of course, the white bald man's wife can also make wine. Liu Laofang once said that the wine brewed by Sister-in-law Bai tastes very good. Many people in the village like to use rice to exchange wine in her house.

Authentic mountain wine, real rice wine. However, it happened when it was about to winter that year.

After breakfast that morning, Liu said honestly to Liu Dashao, "Young master, later, you can ask your mother to measure a liter of rice and go to Mrs. Bai's house to make some wine. After hearing this, Liu Dashao agreed, because he knew that he could go to Goudan's house to play with him later.

After Liu Dashao arrived at Bai baldzi's house, she saw that Bai's sister-in-law was busy by the stove behind the house, and she began to make wine from dawn. When Mrs. Bai saw Liu Dashao holding a wine pot in his hand, she said to him with a smile, "Young master, you can play first and don't run far. The wine will not come out of the pot until noon. I'll call you when the wine comes out.

As soon as Liu Dashao heard the wine, he waited until noon to come out of the pot, and he was even happier, so that he could play all morning. Towards noon, Liu Dashao was hungry. He thought that the wine should come out, so he went to the stove behind the house to watch the white sister-in-law make wine. When he came to the stove, Sister-in-law Bai picked up the spoon and reached into the mouth of the wine from time to time and scooped a ladle of wine to taste it. She shook her head and poured out the wine. He knew that the wine was not yet cooked, so he went to his room to play with Xiao Mazi.

Less than ten minutes later, Liu Dashao heard Sister-in-law Bai shouting his name in the back, and he and Mazi went to the stove again. Liu Dashao handed over the wine pot with a smile. Sister-in-law Bai said with a smile, "I haven't baked such a fragrant wine for a long time." When the wine pot was full of wine, Liu Dashao went home for lunch with the wine pot.

Two or three hours later, the white bald man ran to Liu Dashao's house and said to Liu breathlessly, "Brother, go and have a look. There's something strange!"

Liu, who was chatting with Zhang Enp, asked him honestly, "Brother Bai, what's wrong with you?"

The white bald man gasped and said, "Wine, wine."

Liu honestly continued to ask, "What's wrong with the wine? I was about to say that my sister-in-law's braised wine today is particularly fragrant than before, really. Zhang En Pu also nodded in agree, and it seemed that he had also tasted some.

The white bald man said, "Brother, take out all the wine jars in your house and lend them to me to serve wine, come on!"

Without saying anything, Liu took the white bald man to his home to look for a wine jar. After a while, he found two wine jars. Wang Chunhua washed them a few days ago and prepared to pickle kimchi in more than ten days. Liu honestly said to him, "Brother, that's enough!"

The white bald man said, "I don't know if it's enough."

Liu Dashao and Zhang En Pu, who were beside them, were stunned and said in surprise, "Why, it's not enough?"

"Didn't my sister-in-law never borrow the jar for roasting wine before? What's the matter today?"

The white bald man said to Liu, "Brother, I don't know what's going on today. This wine has been dripping endlessly! Go and see what's going on."

Liu's honest family came to the stove behind his house. As soon as Bai's sister-in-law saw Zhang Enp, she said, "Zhang Tianshi, it's really strange today. This wine has been dripping endlessly!" It's not enough for me to fill all the jars in my room. Don't you think it's strange!"

When Zhang Enpou saw that several mouthfuls of jars full of wine had been placed by the stove, he said to her, "It's really a little strange. I've been here for a while. As far as I know, you usually roast wine is to hold two or three jars at most."

Sister-in-law Bai nodded repeatedly: "Yes." Liu honestly thought for a moment and said to her, "Sister-in-law, have you put too much rice, or too much baking medicine (yeast)?"

Sister-in-law Bai quickly shook her head and said, "No, it's not as much rice and cake medicine as usual. It's really strange." Then he said to the white bald man, "Well, change the jar quickly."

Seeing this, Liu honestly came forward to help his hand and removed the jar full of wine with the white bald man and replaced it with the jar he had just taken from home.

Liu Dashao asked Zhang Enpou, "Master, what the hell is going on?"

Zhang Enpou thought for a moment and said to everyone happily, "No wonder it's like this!"

Several adults asked Zhang Enphu, "No wonder?" Zhang En Pu looked a little excited and said, "This is the wine fairy aisle."

"The wine fairy aisle?" Several people were shocked.

Liu Dashao said to Zhang Enpou, "Master, isn't it such a coincidence?"

"It must be the wine fairy aisle!" Zhang Enpou nodded and said, "I've heard of such a thing before, and the situation is the same as now, Mr. Bai. I didn't expect Jiuxian to pass through your house."

The white bald man and the white sister-in-law were confused.

Xiao Mazi asked Master Liu, "Young Master, what is the wine fairy aisle?"

Liu Dashao explained, "The wine fairy aisle is that the wine fairy goes down to the mortal's house as a guest. Generally, it is difficult to encounter such a thing. It all depends on chance. The wine fairy is the immortal who is in charge of all the wine in the world. The wine fairy goes down to the mortal's house as a guest, and it happens that the owner of the house is just baking wine. The wine fairy will cast a spell on the wine pot, so that there will never be enough wine in the wine in the wine pot until there is nothing to serve the wine. As long as you pour water into the pot, the funnel below will leak out the wine, and the wine that leaks out will be more fragrant than the wine that has been baked at any time. The wine has been flowing out continuously, just like a mountain spring. But the most important thing is that you can't waste wine, even if you don't have a jar of wine at home and borrow it from someone else's home. Therefore, there must be someone to guard the wine fairy aisle. If the wine is wasted, the wine fairy will be unhappy to see it, and he will not give wine again.

Mr. Liu was really surprised when he heard it. Only then did he understand why this wine was more fragrant than before, so he asked Zhang Enp, "Brother Zhang, what if there is no more wine jar? Then don't spill it on the ground?"

Sister-in-law Bai also nodded and said, "Yes."

Zhang Enpung laughed and said, "Can I tell you later?"

Naturally, everyone nodded repeatedly.

Zhang Enpung said to Liu, "Brother Liu, go back and bring all the wine jars at home."

Liu Laoshi and the white bald man went to get the wine jar from home. Xiao Mazi gathered around the wine stove and sang and danced and said, "Oh, oh, a lot of wine, a lot of wine." It took several hours to fill all the jars. After filling the last jar, Zhang En Pu said to Liu Dashao, "Dai Shao, you'd better talk about it."

Liu Dashao nodded and said to the wine pot with a smile, "Enough, enough, no more wine."

Everyone was surprised to see that the bamboo pipe that leaked wine actually stopped leaking wine.

The white bald man counted the jars and said, "There are eight jars of wine in total. Haha, there will be no need to roast wine for more than half a year next year."

Sister-in-law Bai looked at it and was furious. He asked Master Liu, "Young master, why doesn't you miss the wine as soon as you shout for it?"

Liu Dashao said to her with a smile, "Because there is no more jar to hold wine in our family, if there is no jar, say no to the wine pot. In this way, the wine fairy will naturally not let the wine pot drip again."

Only then did Sister Bai understand why Zhang En Pu didn't answer how to stop her earlier. That's because Jiu Xian would mistakenly think that their family didn't want wine if she heard this sentence. But Sister-in-law Bai still didn't understand, so she said to Liu Dashao, "We don't have a jar in our family, so we can borrow it from other people's homes."

The adults present laughed. Zhang Enfu stroked his beard and said, "The matter of Jiuxian's aisle can't be mentioned to outsiders. The fewer people know, the better. If you go to someone else's house to borrow a jar and make a leak, Jiuxian will be unhappy when he knows it, and he will stop leaking wine."

"Doesn't everyone in our family know it?"

"The neighbor's house can occupy the light." Zhang En Pu explained.

Everyone nodded, but they still didn't understand the mystery.

Bai bald man told me Liu honestly: "Brother, you can take three jars of wine. I'm the only one drinking in my family. Besides, I can't drink so much wine alone for more than half a year."

Liu said honestly to him, "Brother Bai, I only need two jars. I only drink until the evening. You can't drink three meals a day. You'd better keep six jars to drink by yourself."

As a result, Liu Laoshi and Zhang Enpu drank the two jars of wine in Liu's family for several months, and the six jars of wine in the white bald's family were drunk for more than half a year. Since then, there has been no such thing as the wine fairy aisle in their family.

Rice is planted in the northeast for two seasons, and the early rice begins to grow seedlings more than ten days after the end of the New Year. Late rice was not planted until the first half of July. When the early rice was transplanted, the cuckoo's cry could be heard all over the mountains and fields. The farmers' uncles said in the field, "Fire fragrant mother-in-law, eight, your grandmother." The pronunciation of these eight words is very similar to the sound of a kuku. Late rice was only transplanted in the first half of July. At this time, it was just right to harvest the early rice. It was very busy. This period was called double grabbing and farming.

When I was a child, my elders always said that grain of grain and sweat must be cherished. He also told me that he said that in the past 60 years, he had even eaten tree bark. Nowadays, people still think that the food is not delicious when they have food. I really don't know the suffering of people who have experienced it!

After listening to this, Liu Dashao got into the horns and told Liu, "Our family collects so many grains a year. Have you and your mother really sweated so much? You even ate the bark at that time. Did the bark be eaten by people?

After listening to Liu Da Shao's words honestly, he couldn't laugh or cry. The use of straw is great. The larger use is that they can be used to grow mushrooms, and the smaller use is that they can be thrown into the pigsty and cow pen, so that pigs and cows will not be cold in winter. Each family gathers the straw from the rice field into a pile and saves it for later use, because you can't have straw until the harvest of late rice in the next year. Early rice is not good. The grass of early rice is thrown in the field to make fertilizer, which is a bit like falling leaves to the root.

Old Liu's family also has a lot. It was caused by that pile of straw.

That morning, Xiao Ma Zi and Gou Dan set up their mother's meal in the hill behind the house. Little Mazi stole matches and some bowls and chopsticks from his house. He had told Liu Dashao before that since he was setting up his mother's meal, he should look like it.

There is a pile of grass next to the hill, which is more than two meters high. The straw surrounds a tree that has lost all its leaves. The haystack is Liu's. It happened that day that Liu Dashao caught a cold. Liu Dashao was working in the field. After about a few hours, he saw thick smoke in the sky above his house from a distance.

Liu honestly shouted that he couldn't do it well. He threw down his hoe and rushed in the direction of home. When I was about to get home, I found that there was no fire at home. What caught fire was the pile of straw in the hill behind. When everyone walked to the pile of straw and saw that the pile of grass had turned into a pile of ashes, and the tree had also been burned black. The tree was burned into a charcoal and poked there alone.