The road was full of frost, and it was squeaking when stepped on it. The cold wind blew on the body and penetrated into the bone marrow.

Du Zhongxiao and Han Lian put the lees on the grate in the pot together, and were so tired that they were sweating. How to steam wine is the secret of the two families and cannot be known by outsiders. Therefore, there was no one employed in this job, and it was all busy with a few people in their own family.

Han Yueniang added fire to the stove next to her. Seeing the two of them working hard, she said, "Now there is too much wine steaming every day and I can't get busy. It's better to find a few people in the countryside to help you. As long as you take it seriously, you won't be afraid that people will learn the method."

After hearing this, Han Lian glared at his eyes and said, "How can this make it easy? It is easy to steam wine. You can learn this method once you find someone and you will inevitably have other ideas after learning it. What should I do if I learn it?"

Han Yueniang smiled and said, "Dad is too strict. There are only so many wine lees in the county town. The government sends them all to us. Where can I go to steam wine after learning the method? If I go to other prefectures and counties, it is not easy for foreigners to be far away from us, what's wrong with us?"

Han Lian just shook his head: "What's the point of hard work for his own family? Being careful is always right."

Du Zhongxiao devoted himself to his work and did not make a sound. The method of steaming white wine is just a temporary emergency and improving the family situation. It is impossible to make a lifetime of wealth with this technology. Be careful when you start. When the scale becomes larger, you always have to hire people to do it. When you have money, you can also ask the official review for brewing wine. Only then can you get real brewed grain wine out and make a lot of money.

Steaming wine in wine lees is not an emergency. Since the family is really poor, they can only make money by using this method of small capital and low profits. When they have the capital, they will naturally find other ways to make money. The most important thing now is not to keep the technical secrets of steaming wine, but to try their best to expand the market.

However, it is useless to say this to Han Lian. He will never think so when he does small business all his life.

After half an hour of busyness, I put hundreds of kilograms of wine lees into the pot.

After taking a breath, Du Zhongxiao said to Han Yueniang: "Add more firewood in the stove and go out to rest. Anyway, there is no need for people to see steamed wine. As long as the time comes, you can take away the steamed wine and replace it with the air jar."

The room was hot and stuffy, and Han Yueniang couldn't stay there. After hearing Du Zhongxiao's words, she agreed and went out.

Yue Niang went out, and Du Zhongxiao said to Han Lian: "Now we steam wine every day and sell it, and we have never stored wine. Today, there are a lot of wine steamed, and I think we can't sell it, so it's better to store a few jars and seal it. From now on, all the lees in the "Yaojiazheng Store" will be collected every day, and the steamed wine will be more and more, and a few jars will be stored every day, and over time, it will be more and more."

Han Lian said: "What is the use of storing wine? When selling wine in a restaurant, you will think about how to sell it quickly, so how can you save it?"

Du Zhongxiao smiled: "Dad, the wine we steam now is not only strong, but also has a great advantage compared to other wines, that is, it will not be sour. Moreover, when the wine is first steamed, it will be like a charcoal block, but it is not easy to eat. If it can be stored for several months, it will be much softer. At that time, we will sell wine and business will be better."

Han Lian just shook his head: "I haven't heard this kind of thing before. It's cold now. It's okay if it's hot, wine is the most likely to be overwhelmed. How dare you save it? Alas, the restaurant is newly opened and the business is not that good. My nephew is willing to save the remaining wine."

Water wine is different from strong wine, and it is easy to get rancid, especially inferior wine. So there is a joke at this time that you don’t have to buy vinegar when you buy rancid wine. Using wine lees to make vinegar is actually the process of alcohol turning into vinegar.

This kind of thing is hard to explain for a while, and Du Zhongxiao did not distinguish it from Han Lian. He went to see the jar of wine and tried to seal it as much as possible.

After dealing with the matter of steaming wine, Han Liancai and Du Zhongxiao moved to the restaurant hall. Du Xun sat behind the cabinet, looking at the account book while directing several newly hired servants to place tables and chairs. The servants were all newly hired, and they were busy and could not make it clear for a while.

When Han Lian saw this, he muttered and went up to help.

At this moment, a middle-aged man came in outside and saluted Han Lian: "Thank you hard for the shopkeeper."

Han Lian hurriedly replied: "It turns out it's Manager Zheng. How can I have free time today? Come here?"

Manager Zheng said: "Did the shopkeeper forget? We agreed that our two families would exchange wine for sale. Knowing that you are busy here, Manager Tang asked me to bring wine over and bring some strong wine from here."

"But I forgot that these days are really too busy." Han Lian patted his forehead. "The supervisor sat down for a while and I'll make arrangements now."

While Han Lian asked Director Zheng to sit down, he ordered the servant to serve tea and walked quickly backwards.

Another supervisor from "Yaojiazheng Store" came here and came here to deliver wine today. That day, he agreed with Director Tang that the two restaurants exchanged wine for each other to sell them. Manager Tang was afraid that Han Lian would regret it, so he specially sent someone to deliver the wine today. "Yaojiazheng Store" is a big restaurant with the right to brew wine, but because the place is a little remote, it has been firmly suppressed by "Qixiangju" and has a higher enthusiasm for cooperation.

Du Zhongxiao took the servant to move the wine brought by Manager Zheng to the restaurant and placed it in front of the counter. There were three tanks of wine, ranging from ten cents per pound to thirty cents per pound, which were all the largest sales volumes in normal times. Each tank had four big characters: "Yaojiazheng Store".

Seeing these four big words, Du Zhongxiao smiled. Manager Tang was afraid that others would not know, so the boss's trademark was posted on it. By the way, he sold his bad liquor for some time and never gave a name.

Soon, Han Lian directed the servant to bring out five jars of wine and told Manager Zheng: "The wine we have prepared every day and sold out everything, and there is no amount of wine left. Only these five jars will be taken back to the restaurant first, so please come tomorrow."

Manager Zheng smiled and said, "It is not easy to make wine in wine lees, and you can sell them with five jars. The shopkeeper is at ease, so I come here to get it every day. I'm sure that the shopkeeper is, I often fry wine in the restaurant, which is really not easy. If you filter the lees we have fried, it's even harder to filter the wine outward."

Han Lian smiled and said yes.

In fact, the method of steaming is simpler than the current water and wine technology. Han Lian keeps the secret but doesn't tell it.

Du Zhongxiao took a pen from the cabinet, dipped it ink, walked up and said, "Our wine has no font size, how can we make it? The county in charge wait a moment, and I will put a few words on it, so that people can know that the wine was from us."

Manager Zheng repeatedly said yes and directed his subordinates to put the wine jar on the table.

Du Zhongxiao thought for a while and said to Han Lian: "We have great strength to drink, and the gods are drunk even after drinking it, so how about the 'Drunk Immortal Brew'?"

Han Lian recited it silently twice, nodded and said, "Make the word "drunk", which can also show the difference between our wine and other restaurants."

After hearing this, Du Zhongxiao picked up his pen and wrote the three words "Drunk Fairy Brew" on several wine jars. He walked away and looked at it, nodded and said, "It's good that way."
Chapter completed!