Chapter 114 Monkey Wine
There was not only one monkey, but when Peng Bai's head turned to the other monkeys, all the monkeys made the same gesture, pointing to a mountain wall.
Peng Bai knew it in his heart. It seemed that these monkeys were still very smart. There was no water on the mountain wall over there! Then the rest was Monkey Wine.
Sure enough, just like what Peng Bai thought, when Peng Bai pushed apart a dense tree, a dark cave appeared in front of him, and a fragrance blew Peng Bai's nose a few times.
Monkey wine is a fruit wine brewed by monkeys. There is no history book to verify when humans first discovered Monkey wine. But what is certain is that the raw materials of Monkey wine are carefully selected by monkeys, and then after being moisturized and fermented by mountain springs, the fruit wine finally formed has a sweet and mellow taste and a faint floral fragrance.
There is a very large stone in this cave, and the fragrance comes from this big stone. After exploring the blind man like an elephant, Peng Bai finally understood the shape of the stone. It was a stone container like an inverted funnel. There was a ball of furry at the bottom of the stone. After grabbing it, a more mellow wine gushed out.
Peng Bai was not greedy either. He filled a full bucket of plastic water buckets and then blocked the hole with the fluffy stuff. Although he was not greedy, Peng Bai didn't know that the ten-pound bucket was brewed by these poor six-eared macaques after several years. There were only about ten pounds in total. Now that Peng Bai has been pretending to be half of them, it seems that the poor six-eared macaques can cry.
After walking out of the cave, Peng Bai began to perform his second task - finding twenty monkey fruits.
Monkey fruit is a kind of melon and fruit food similar to small watermelons. It has very strict requirements on the growth environment. The temperature cannot be low or too high. The flesh contains various vitamins and trace elements that the human body lacks.
It’s a pity that monkey fruit cannot be planted manually, because monkey fruit must rely on monkey’s feces and urine for nourishment to grow vigorously. Without monkey’s feces and urine, monkey fruit cannot even extract leaves, let alone blossom and bear fruit.
Peng Bai didn't need to turn too much this time. The monkeys had already regarded Peng Bai as a robber and a bandit. When Peng Bai walked out with a bucket, he was about to catch a monkey and ask where the monkey fruit was. All the six-eared macaques pointed their right hand at a small forest on the edge of the valley in a tacit understanding.
"Thank you!" Peng Bai smiled and thanked, but now his face was muddy, and it was even more terrifying to smile than crying. The monkeys retreated two meters neatly when Peng Bai smiled.
The fragrant smell made Peng Bai unable to help but move his index finger, and several monkey fruits became a delicious food in Peng Bai's belly. The flesh of this monkey fruit is a little hard and a little crispy. It tastes the same as that of a duck pear, but the taste is much better than a duck pear.
"What a broken fruit!" The taste is so good. After taking a few bites, Peng Bai felt that the cracks of his teeth were covered with silky objects. This is the unique feature of the monkey fruit. There are very dense fibers in the flesh of the monkey fruit. The furry thing that Peng Bai just touched in the cave was made of silk in the flesh of the monkey fruit. The method is very simple, just put it in the scorching sun and expose it to the sun.
After eating, Peng Bai picked twenty monkey fruits according to the task, put them in a bag, and waved goodbye to the monkeys.
Seeing Peng Bai walk into the forest, all the monkeys breathed a sigh of relief in unison.
After returning to Peng Bai as the same route, I realized that I didn’t walk much, and I returned to the twin old man’s wooden house in two hours.
"Two grandpas, I'm back." Peng Bai shouted loudly, holding a kitchen knife with difficulty in his left hand, and holding a bag of monkey fruit tightly in his right hand. The kitchen knife was on his waist, making him feel like a swordsman. As the saying goes, "No Qingzhai from afar, Peng Bai finally understood that he didn't feel the weight at the beginning, but after lifting it for two hours, these two things weighed like a thousand pounds."
"Yeah! I'm back! Has the mission been completed?" Dao Yi's voice came from the wooden house.
"It's done." Peng Bai shouted loudly. This mission was actually not difficult. The most difficult thing was when he first met monkeys. If Peng Bai hadn't been irritated by the anger, if the group of six-eared macaques were shocked by Peng Bai's actions, I'm afraid Peng Bai would have to say whether he could come back alive.
"Is it done?" Dao immediately ran out of the wooden house after hearing Peng Bai's words. After seeing Peng Bai's cloth strips on his body as a beggar's suit, he couldn't help laughing.
"For, Grandpa Daoyi, this is Monkey Wine, this is Monkey Fruit." Peng Bai was a little dissatisfied with Daoyi's gloating, but he still placed the task items in front of Daoyi very respectfully.
Dao Yi was not polite, and directly picked up two things that could be said to be exchanged for by Peng Bai's life and walked into the wooden house.
"What are you still standing? Why don't you come in?" Dao Yi's tone seemed to be smiling. It was obvious that Dao Yi was in a very good mood now, but I don't know whether Dao Yi's happy mood was based on Peng Bai's embarrassing appearance or on Monkey Wine and Monkey Fruit.
"Strange, why does this Monkey Wine taste much better than what we used to drink?" Dao Yi poured the Monkey Wine in the plastic bucket into a large bowl, took a sip, and then asked Dao Er strangely.
"Yes!" Dao Er became a very shy and introverted old man in front of outsiders. He didn't even say anything, but just made a nasal sound with his nose to indicate that Dao Yi's words were right.
"It's delicious, delicious." Dao glanced at Peng Bai who walked into the wooden house and started drinking it in big mouthfuls.
The two old men also knew the preciousness of Monkey Wine. This barrel of Monkey Wine might be the result of the hard work of those poor monkeys in the years, so the two old men just finished drinking the Monkey Wine in the bowl and stopped pouring it.
"Well, two grandpas, can you give me a sip?" Peng Bai looked at the very pleasant expressions of the two old men when they were drinking, and couldn't help asking. Peng Bai was also a hero who brought back the Monkey Wine! At least he could have a sip!
"Go, what wine does the kid drink? This is for you. It's not something you want to eat. What you have to do now is to peel off the skin of the monkey fruit. Remember, don't hurt the flesh, do you understand?" Dao Yi grabbed a monkey fruit and threw it at Peng Bai, then cursed with a smile.
"Oh!" Peng Bai rushed to catch the Houer Fruit, then responded, but thought to himself that if he had known this, it would be better to have some secret drinks in the cave!
"Hehe!" Peng Bai couldn't help but giggle when he thought of this. He remembered that there was still monkey wine in that cave. If the two old men didn't give them to him, wouldn't they go and drink it by themselves?
Thinking of this, Peng Bai pulled out the large kitchen knife hanging around his waist and was about to start peeling the peel of the monkey fruit. Suddenly, a hard object hit his head. Peng Bai looked closely and found that it was a piece of wood for burning fire.
"When using a food carving knife to cut it, do you think it's cooking?" said Dao Yileng Sheng.
Peng Bai only felt a flash of cold light in front of him. Grandpa Xiao lented it to Peng Bai. The carving knife that was temporarily kept by Knife flew out and stuck it against Peng Bai's face on the door behind Peng Bai.
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