Chapter 39 Siphon
Although Tao Jin wanted to make his own characteristics, he also knew that this was not in a hurry. After taking the tube made of tender bamboo prepared in advance by the ingot, and preparing the jar, Tao Jin started his next step.
At this time, the wine was just separated from the glutinous rice by the koji. In fact, it is not a real wine. Because it has not been completely fermented, it is just a rice water with some wine-flavored flavor. However, it is this rice water, so there are many rules to deal with.
"Young Master, do you need bamboo tubes to make wine?" Yuanbao surrounded Tao Jin and saw Tao Jin taking the bamboo tubes to use, he couldn't help asking curiously.
"The wine has just become a little bit and cannot move. I can only suck out the wine and put it in the jar with a tube, then seal it, and then it will be done!" Tao Jin felt better when he saw that the wine was good, and he explained patiently to Yuanbao.
"If you don't move the basin containing rice, suck the wine into the jar, how should you suck it?" Tao Jingang explained a question, and Yuanbao discovered another new problem. He didn't move anything. With just a bamboo tube, how can he suck it out? How should he do this?
Tao Jin took the thin bamboo tubes into his hand, but did not use them directly because the bamboo was too straight, so it would not work directly like this.
Under the stove where the rice was cooking, piles of charcoal fires emitted dazzling red light. Tao Jin had an idea. When he was a child, he didn't expect that he could use it today. Tao Jin sighed in his heart, and ran to the stove with the bamboo in his hand.
The bamboo is tough and difficult to break, but it has one characteristic, that is, it is formed when it is heated. Tao Jin put the bamboo in his hand on the charcoal fire and roasted it. When it was hot, he padded his hand with a cloth and broke the bamboo. The originally straight bamboo was slowly bent by Tao Jin under the influence of the charcoal fire.
Yuanbao was amazed when he saw everything Tao Jin did. It turned out that this bamboo could be played like this.
The bamboo that was placed aside was dried because it was roasted by fire, and the shape was determined to be what Tao Jin did.
"Young Master, Young Master, why is this?" Yuanbao felt that his brain was not enough, because this young master had really helped too many things.
"Why, do you want to know?" Tao Jin saw that the bamboo was in a good shape, and his mood improved more and more, and he was actually stuck.
"Young Master, tell Yuanbao quickly!" Yuanbao now knows Tao Jin's character, knows that he is in a good mood now, wants to keep it in a silence, and let himself praise him. So he hurriedly looked at him with a look of admiration, and then used curious words of prayer.
Seeing that Yuanbao satisfied his little thoughts, Tao Jin said without hiding it, "This bamboo is fresh and contains a lot of moisture. Once I bake the bamboo, it will naturally become softer first and then water will come out. In this way, when it becomes soft, I bent it, and then continue to bake it for a while, waiting for the moisture to be less, and the bamboo is almost dry, and then it will take shape."
Although what Tao Jin said was very simple, Yuanbao was still fascinated by it. Because this is the evaporation that modern students will know, but in the Tang Dynasty, this was still very advanced.
"Young Master, you are really smart!" Yuanbao praised him in admiration. Tao Jin raised the corner of his mouth. Although he didn't laugh clearly, his pride was obvious.
After the bamboo tube was ready, Tao Jin returned to the side of the wine. At this time, Yuanbao was 100% confident that he believed that Tao Jin could not move the rice basin and suck the wine.
Just looking at him with a gaze, I wanted to figure out how Tao Jin did it and learn it myself.
He placed the rice-filled basin and Tao Jin in some places in the jar at a high place, then slowly extended one end of the fixed bamboo tube into the wine, and then placed the other end in the jar.
"Young Master, this wine didn't flow into the jar?" Yuanbao asked anxiously when he saw Tao Jin put the tube down, but he didn't see any wine flowing into the jar.
"What are you anxious about? It's going to be fine soon!" Tao Jin grinned when Yuanbao asked, thinking to himself: This child is getting more and more anxious, but he is happy Yuanbao looks like this.
The Tang Dynasty paid attention to etiquette and law, which made me not even friends. Now Yuanbao is like this, he really treats himself as a friend and even as an equal feeling as a brother.
Tao Jin picked up the bamboo pipe head in the jar, slowly approached his mouth, then sucked it hard, and then quickly put the pipe into the jar. Only the sound of running water was heard from the jar, Tao Jin and Yuanbao knew that the wine was flowing.
Yuanbao's eyes were full of admiration, and he looked at the jar, then looked at the basin containing wine, and shouted, "Young Master, what's going on?"
Tao Jin squinted his eyes and looked at Yuanbao with pride, saying, "This is called siphon!"
"Siphon, what is siphon?" Yuanbao had no idea about the term Tao Jin said, after all, this is not something that was found in this era.
In fact, Tao Jin knew about this siphon because he was naughty when he was a child. He used this method to absorb water and play with it. He was seen by his teacher and told him while laughing. Unexpectedly, although he was not good at studying since childhood, he remembered this, so he couldn't help but show off once today.
Tao Jin knew that if he explained it to Yuanbao according to the modern interpretation method, he would definitely not understand it, so he organized some language and said, "Actually, this siphon is the method I used to suck that wine just now. This siphon is because of the different heights of these two things, and the air inside is different. In order to make them the same, I connected a tube to them so that they could be opened. But they were connected to it, but they did not attract the air there. I helped them to suck it, and the wine flowed over." Although Tao Jin tried his best to say it simply, Yuanbao still had a big mouth wide open, and he looked like I didn't understand it and hung it on his face.
"Actually, it can be said that two people fight, because one person has a lot of things, and the other person wants to steal his things. He thinks how long it will take for two people to get the same things, so this jar is to steal that thing, and my tone makes the jar jealous of the basin, it's just an introduction. Do you understand this time?" Tao Jin gritted his teeth and said again that he could not continue to say anything.
But I am very glad that this reason was accepted by Yuanbao. Yuanbao smiled and said, "Young Master, you said this a long time ago, don't I understand?"
It's really terrible to be uneducated. Tao Jin wanted to roll his eyes a little, thinking that if his teacher knew that he explained the siphon principle this way, he would probably faint. However, in this era and in this time and space, he wouldn't have the chance to faint, because he didn't know how to travel in that space world! Tao Jin secretly complained in his heart.
Although Tao Jin was talking to Yuanbao, his work was not stopped at all. Tao Jin covered the jar with cloth so that the wine would not evaporate after entering the jar.
Seeing that the wine in the basin would be over in a short while, Tao Jin changed his mind again.
Today he went up the mountain and picked a lot of things, and he didn't plan to waste those things. After pumping water, he carefully washed the bamboo leaves picked during the day. The green color made Tao Jin feel very comfortable in his heart, and even the heat of the weather has gone a little.
After washing the bamboo leaves, Tao Jin was also a little dazed. When he picked the bamboo leaves today, he had a flash of inspiration, but now he was a little confused.
It's just an experiment, but it's no big deal if it doesn't work. Tao Jin was thinking about his ideas, but his hands were already moving.
He washed the glutinous rice and rice carefully, and then put the glutinous rice and rice into the pot. Yuanbao looked at Tao Jin's every move and asked, "Young Master, are you still making wine today?"
Tao Jin: "Yeah", because he was thinking about things in his mind, he ignored Yuanbao and just squatted on the ground and burned the fire. When the fire became prosperous again, Tao Jin remembered that his rice had already been put into the pot. When he looked into the pot, he saw Yuanbao spread all the bamboo leaves he had washed on the rice.
"Young Master, are you going to make bamboo leaf rice? When I was very young, I saw my mother cooked it!" Yuanbao looked at the rice full of bamboo leaves and said slowly.
Tao Jin nodded and didn't say anything. Because he knew that Yuanbao was thinking about his relatives, he actually thought about it sometimes, but he couldn't remember it. Tao Jin's parents divorced since childhood. He grew up with his grandmother. If he didn't grow up, he would set up a stall with his grandmother. His parents rarely came to see him.
It would be a blessing to have someone who kisses and loves him! Tao Jin also misses his grandmother, but the way he misses his grandmother is to set up a stall. Grandma dreams that she has her own shop, and now she is almost realizing her grandmother’s dream, but it is in this Tang Dynasty.
Because of the strong fire, the steamed rice soon smelled, but this time the fragrance was the smell of bamboo, fresh and elegant, with a faint fragrance of grass leaves.
Yuanbao took a deep breath intoxicatedly, and then slowly said, "It's been this smell for many years!"
As the heat steam comes out, the fragrance mixes with the aroma of rice, forming a unique smell, with the feeling of rice dumplings, but it is different. It doesn’t have that kind of stickiness, with a hint of coolness, making people feel very comfortable.
After the rice was steamed, Yuanbao smiled and said, "There are rules for this pot. As he said that, he poured a scoop of cold water on the lid of the pot!
Tao Jin was puzzled by the meaning. Yuanbao saw Tao Jin looking at him and explained: "My mother once said that only in this way can the taste of the bamboo leaves and the taste of rice be kept in the rice. Otherwise, as soon as the pot is opened, a lot of the taste will be gone!"
Sure enough, after the pot was opened, the fragrance did not come so obviously just now. The ingot opened the bamboo leaves covered with it, and the fragrance of the bamboo and its color were all soaked in the rice.
Like Yuanbao presented the treasure, he dug out a bowl of the rice and handed it to Tao Jin and said, "Young Master, how about you try it?"
Tao Jin took a bite and the rice fragrance was rich and the refreshing bamboo. The rice fragrance and bamboo leaves fragrance highlighted each other, bringing an indescribable taste and it was delicious. Tao Jin suddenly had his eyes lit up and suddenly had the special wine score in his heart.
Chapter completed!