At dusk, under Zhu Yuanfeng's repeated urging, Fan Ning had to say goodbye and leave, and took Zhu Yuanfeng to his home.

Just as Fan Ning left, Zhu Pei began to blame his grandfather.

"That stream and mountain travel stone is so precious, so my grandfather would be embarrassed to ask for other people's things for nothing?"

Zhu Yuanfu smiled and said to his granddaughter: "Didn't he give me a birthday gift? Since it was a birthday gift, of course I will accept it for granted."

"I've given my birthday gift, okay? The two bottles of wine, the three grandfathers treat it as treasures, which means they are very expensive. How can they accept two birthday gifts? My grandfather knows to bully the children!"

Zhu Yuanfu laughed, "He is not an ordinary child. His grandfather was joking with you. To be honest, I really don't dare to take Fanning's things in vain."

Zhu Pei was really puzzled, "Why did grandfather accept it?"

Zhu Yuanfu took his granddaughter's hand affectionately and said, "I offered 10,000 taels of silver. Fan Ning was not moved. Instead, he gave me the creek and mountain travel stone. This child is very generous. Of course, I will not ask for his stone for vain. But it would be vulgar to withdraw money at that time. I will repay him as a favor in the future."

After pausing, Zhu Yuanfu smiled again, "Your Uncle Zhou is the same. He is just kidding Fan Ning. He will not want that stone for nothing, but he will repay this favor."

Zhu Pei muttered in a low voice: "I don't plan to repay the favors of the three-pool moon reflecting stone."

Zhu Yuanfu smiled and said, "Aren't you going to invest in his store's 3,000 taels of silver? The three-tan Moon Stone is regarded as the investment interest, and you just need to accept it with peace of mind."

"That's it! He owes me the usury loan shark so easily."

When talking about investing 3,000 taels of silver, Zhu Pei immediately reached out and smiled to ask for money from his grandfather and said, "I finally saved up the 3,000 taels of silver. I am afraid that he will lose money when he invested it to that brat. It is better for grandfather to lend it to me!"

Zhu Yuanfu's eyes widened. This little guy was so good at making a plan! She wanted to take favors, but she let herself pay for the money.

"Grandfather, is that okay?"

Jupe pulled his grandfather's arm and said coquettishly: "Isn't three thousand taels of silver just like a drizzle to you?"

Zhu Yuanfu really had no choice but to agree, "Okay! OK! Grandfather promised you."

Zhu Pei was secretly proud in his heart. As long as his grandfather took out the money, what source of customers! The source of goods! Can he ignore it?

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"Old man, this is my house, what you want is at my house."

Fan Ning brought Zhu Yuanfeng to the door, and he knocked hard, "Mom, I'm back!"

After a moment, the door creaked open. When Zhang Sanniang saw her son coming back, she smiled and said, "I came back so early. Didn't it mean that the birthday party would end only in the evening?"

"I want to come back later, but an old man can't wait!"

Zhang Sanniang then found that an old man was following her son. She was shocked, "Ning'er, this old man is..."

Zhu Yuanfeng smiled and said, "I am Zhu Pei's third grandfather. I have something to do to ask the son for help and disturb me."

"Ah! The great official asked me to come in quickly."

When Zhang Sanniang heard about Zhu Daguanren's brother, she was a little at a loss and hurriedly said, "Ning'er, please ask Daguanren to come into the house and sit down. I'll go find your father."

"Mom, don't go to find dad, the old man will talk to me about the county scholastic competition, and I'll go back later."

Zhang Sanniang hesitated. She thought for a while and said, "Okay! Ning'er, please greet the guests."

"Sir, please come with me!"

Fan Ning took Zhu Yuanfeng to the small building where he lived. Most of the rooms in the small building were closed. Fan Ning opened an empty room on the first floor and opened the door. A strong smell of alcohol came to his face.

This is Fanning’s winemaking workshop.

Although Zhang Sanniang prefers to search her son's room, she is still relatively open-minded in some aspects. She generally does not interfere with her son's money-making plan.

Fanning lit the lamp, and Zhu Yuanfeng's eyes lit up. He was immediately attracted by the lamp in Fanning's hand. This seemed not an oil lamp!

This is an alcohol lamp invented by Fanning himself. He repeatedly distilled the wine to purify it to 70 degrees, so that it can be used for lighting. But this is just a playful thing, and it has no commercial value. It costs more than just to buy a candle.

He originally considered using his father to disinfect his wounds, but his father used concentrated salt water to disinfect it is actually good, and he does not need alcohol.

"Is this wine?" Zhu Yuanfeng smelled the smell.

"It should be said that it is alcohol, the essence of wine. It can burn, but extraction is too cumbersome and costs too much. You can get a cup of Pingjiangfu wine, which is too strong."

Zhu Yuanfeng was full of interest in this new thing. He played with the alcohol lamp for a long time before putting down the lamp and coming to the center of the room.

Before the appearance of distilled wine, the wines of each dynasty and dynasty were in line with each other, and the quality of wine was divided by "three wines and five wines".

The three wines are divided into wine, wine, wine and sake.

The wine is made temporarily because of something, such as Tusu wine during the New Year, realgar wine for Dragon Boat Festival, winter wine brewing for winter solstice, sacrificial wine, etc.

Due to the short fermentation time, the taste is relatively poor.

Xijiu is a wine that can be stored in a short time and is relatively mellow. Generally, the wine sold on the market is Xijiu, which will become sour after a longer period of time.

The heroes in "Water Margin" often scold, "The wine in your bird shop is sour!" refers to the wine that Wu Song drank is also the wine that was so fragrant.

The wine was very turbid, with more lees and dregs, so it is also called turbid wine.

Sake is brewed in winter and ripe in summer, and it has the longest storage time. The wine is clear and the wine is the best, and the price is also the most expensive.

Li Bai's poem says: "A golden cup of sake is worth ten thousand," which means that a bucket of sake is worth ten cents of money.

The famous wines in the major restaurants in Bianliang, Tokyo generally refer to sake. The Zhongshan Garden wine brought back from the capital, which Fan Ning brought back from the capital, is a kind of sake.

The five qi in wine refers to the classification of the quality of the wine. According to the degree of turbidity of the wine, it is divided into Panqi, Liqi, Anqi, Tiqi and Shenqi. Five qi all refer to turbid wine. I won’t go into details here.

In addition, citrus wine, wine, pear wine, green plum wine, coconut wine and other fruit wines were also popular in the Song Dynasty, including the milk wine from Khitan and Xixia, or the medicinal wine made by wealthy families, etc.

Zhu Yuanfeng came to the center of the house and saw a large charcoal basin, which Fanning used to burn the fire.

There is a jar on the charcoal basin and a small iron pot is pressed upside down on the jar. This is the alcohol condenser. There is a bamboo tube hanging on the mouth of the iron pot, and the condensed alcohol flows into the bowl along the bamboo tube.

In fact, the principle of distillation is very simple and easy to use, just like a piece of paper that can be broken with one poke. But it was not until the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty that the distillation process finally appeared.

"Old man, this is my secret to processing!"

Zhu Yuanfeng watched it for a long time, but he still didn't understand.

"Fan Shaolang, I really can't understand it. Please demonstrate it!"

Fan Ning was ready last night. He took out most of the remaining porch of Pingjiangqiao wine, poured half a bowl and handed it to Zhu Yuanfeng with a smile, "Old man, try this wine first."

Zhu Yuanfeng took the wine bowl and tasted it. He was so familiar with it. It was Pingjiangqiao wine brewed in his own workshop.

"I know this wine, then how to do it?"

At this time, Zhang Sanniang came in with two cups of tea, and she frowned, "Ning'er, why are you here to invite guests to drink? You didn't say it earlier, I'd better prepare a few dishes!"

"Mom! It's not drinking. I'm teaching the old man to make wine. It's a very important thing. You always go out first!"

Fanning took the teacup and pushed his mother out.

Zhang Sanniang was confused. Seeing that the official was very focused, she was too lazy to ask more questions, so she turned around and left.

In the room, Fanning poured the wine into the jar, and a basin of firewood had been lit. Soon, the room began to smell alcohol.

The technical core of distilled wine is temperature control. The boiling point of ethanol is seventy-eight degrees and the boiling point of water is one hundred degrees, so the water cannot be boiled. Eight or ninety degrees is the best.

Zhu Yuanfeng stared at it with great care. He probably understood one thing. It seemed very simple, so why he couldn't think of it.

"Old man, the key is temperature control. You must ensure that the water cannot boil, but it cannot be too cool. It is almost the best temperature to bubble at the bottom of the water."

The water bubbles up at the bottom, almost eighty degrees.

Zhu Yuanfeng nodded, and he remembered every word Fan Ning firmly.

"I'm still too simple to make the utensils. The wine smell is overflowing. It's best to seal it up and only open a wine outlet, just like a steamer."

At this time, the bright soju had already flowed down the bamboo tube into the large coarse porcelain bowl.

Zhu Yuanfeng lay on the ground, staring at the mouth of the bamboo tube, his eyes wide open.

Fanning took half a glass with a small wine glass and handed it to Zhu Yuanfeng and smiled and said, "This wine is very strong. If the old man drinks it, I'm afraid that ordinary water and wine will not be able to eat."

"I'll try it!"

Zhu Yuanfeng took the wine glass and savored it carefully. The distilled wine is at least fifty degrees and it is quite spicy in the mouth. Zhu Yuanfeng swallowed the wine and felt a fire thread flowing down his throat.

He was shocked, and when a warm feeling surged from his chest and abdomen, he was shocked and happy.

"good!"

Zhu Yuanfeng slapped the table and praised: "It's so painful, it's simply a stroke of magic. When this wine comes out, other main shops in the capital will kneel at my feet."

The more I thought about it, the more proud he became. Zhu Yuanfeng couldn't help but raise his head and laugh.

Fan Ning smiled slightly, "Don't you think the taste is different from the wine I gave in the morning?"

Zhu Yuanfeng thought about it carefully and found that it was really different. The wine given by Fan Ning was not so strong, and it had a special fragrance, which was particularly sweet and long.

"Yes! How did you do it?"

"Has the old man forgotten the link of blending?"

Zhu Yuanfeng slapped his forehead and said that he was the best person to brew wine. How could he not know how to blend it? Any wine must be blended repeatedly to remove the sour taste that was first brewed.

Pingjiangqiao wine itself is a blended wine.

Fan Ning is based on Su Shi's "Wine Classic".

The record in "Brewing" says, "The brewer must taste it repeatedly and add it to it, and use the tongue as a weighing factor."

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’ Let’s do a simple blending.

"The wine I cook now is too strong. Reduce the intensity of the wine by about 30%, add a little spice, depending on your preferences. The wine you mix will taste better. The old man is everyone, so I don't need to say more."

Zhu Yuanfeng nodded, "I have the best wine mixer in the world, but the idea of ​​adding spices is good, so I can try it too."

Zhu Yuanfeng pointed to Fanning's alcohol lamp and smiled: "How did you make the 'alcohol'?"

Fan Ning smiled, "It's the same way. Pour the burned wine in and then burn it repeatedly. The wine that comes out three times can be ignited. I want to remind you that purifying alcohol is dangerous and you can't encounter open flames."

"You mean, is this wine burned?"

Fan Ning smiled and nodded, "The old man also saw it with his own eyes. It was burned with fire. I named it Taihu Soup."

"Taihu Shaojiu! Okay, this name is unique."

Zhu Yuanfeng took out half of his jade from his arms and handed it to Fan Ning, "You take this half of his jade to go to the Zhu family silver shop in Changzhou County, and tell the shopkeeper Wang that the silver number is 754, and then you can get three thousand taels of silver with this half of his jade."

Fan Ning was stunned, "What is the old man doing?"

Zhu Yuanfeng smiled slightly, "This is for you. I will buy the store for you. I will also give you half a commission. Don't you want to open a strange stone restaurant? It costs money to purchase goods, and I guess you don't have it."

Fan Ning quickly pushed him away, "Old man, this is not possible. Since we have agreed, we will do as we have agreed and we cannot change our minds anymore. Besides, Zhu Pei will also invest 3,000 taels of silver."

Zhu Yuanfeng forced the jade to him and smiled and said, "I'm not giving you these three thousand taels of silver for free. I still have the conditions!"

Fan Ning refused again and again, so he had to take the jade and said helplessly: "Please tell me, please!"

Zhu Yuanfeng smiled and said, "I have three conditions. First, I am very interested in this alcohol lamp. I found that it is much brighter than an oil lamp and does not astringent eyes. This is a good thing. Even if you sell this technology to me, I will sell the alcohol lamp to the palace at a high price.

Secondly, I want to take away your set of soju u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u

The third condition is that you take two days to go to Pingjiangqiao Brewery and give me some advice on my winemaker and winemaker. How about it? These three thousand taels of silver are not easy to get!"

Of course, Zhu Yuanfeng was not so busy that he had to give Fan Ning three thousand taels of silver. He was really unsure. He took a big advantage by using a stone-selling store to exchange for the key technology of brewing wine.

This kind of advantage cannot be taken. Even if Fanning is young and does not realize that he is at a disadvantage, what about his parents?

Once his parents feel that this transaction has suffered a big loss, they will most likely sell the brewing technology to others, and their exclusive possession will become a terrible one.

This is the reason why you take advantage of small gains and suffer great losses. Zhu Yuanfeng has been in the mall for many years. He knows that this kind of advantage cannot be taken, and he must make up for all the money he deserves.

Fanning nodded, "I agree to all three conditions, but I want to remind the old man that this soju technology must not be leaked."

Zhu Yuanfeng smiled bitterly, who was afraid of who leaking his technology?

"You don't have to worry about this problem. Several winemakers and winemakers have been with me for 30 years and are loyal to me. But you, a kid, make me worried that you should stop showing off your good wine. I'm worried that your threshold will be cut off by wine merchants from all over the world."
Chapter completed!