Chapter 43: Brewing
With the exams over, most students began to leave the college and go home.
Qingshi is alone in his family. He originally thought that with his master and two senior brothers, he might experience some family warmth and spend the New Year together. Unexpectedly, after master Ou Changzhi asked Qingshi to give some guidance as usual two days ago, he told him that he and Mo Sihai had important matters to go out during the holidays. Gui Huadong had already gone out to fight, so Qingshi had made arrangements for this holiday by himself.
Although there is still one day until the official holiday, all classes are suspended. Except for the Sutra Pavilion, almost all other facilities such as the gravity room, trial room, enlightenment room, credit office, and arena are no longer open.
Qingshi had already planned several things to do during the holidays. One of them is wine making. During that gathering, all the wine stored in Qingshi was drank up. Of course, there were only seven or eight jars and gourds.
After drinking all the wine that time, Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian were still unsatisfied. Qingshi had no choice but to tell the truth, and then promised to brew another batch during the holidays. The two were helpless, but they couldn't force it. They just hoped that the holiday would come soon.
Qingshi used to carry the simple equipment for brewing mountain peach wine and yinhuo in Liangyuan's small courtyard, but now he doesn't want to use it anymore.
Qingshi designed a distillation device in his spare time and paid people from the Qi Dao Waiyuan to build it. He also ordered a batch of clay wine jars and various large or small, refined or coarse wine vessels, and placed them all in the East Nine Buildings. in the basement.
This basement was originally an alchemy room prepared for students of the Alchemy Academy. The bluestone had never been used to refine alchemy, but now it has been converted into a wine cellar.
Of course, Zhang Hao and a group of younger brothers did all these things, but Qingshi had to do it himself when it came to buying wine.
Tianlong people are far more interested in drinking than eating, so there are no less than a hundred wine shops in Chao Ge. Qingshi inquired about some famous ones and decided to taste them in person before making a decision.
On the first day of the official holiday of the college, Qingshi woke up naturally after a rare sleep. After washing, he was about to go out into the city to buy wine when he heard the doorbell ring.
Qingshi had already improved the doorbell. After hearing the sound, he could observe the situation outside the door through the Xuanzhen lens with just a movement of his mind. Unexpectedly, the person calling the door at this time turned out to be Chen Tianye.
Qingshi already knew that Chen Tianye was one of Mo Sihai's three direct disciples and the youngest one.
Of course, Mo Sihai still has many registered disciples, but the status of registered disciples and direct disciples is very different, and they cannot be regarded as Xuanmen disciples. According to seniority, he is Chen Tianye's uncle, but Chen Tianye doesn't know it yet.
Chen Tianye came in and laughed and said, "Brother Qingshi is really amazing. The third-level alchemist from Alchemy Academy beat the geniuses from the Formation Academy to become a fourth-level formation master. Haha, that's amazing!"
"There is no way," Qingshi shrugged, "I originally chose to join the Martial Arts Academy, but it turned out that I was not qualified. Then I chose the Formation Academy, but I still didn't qualify. Finally, I had no choice but to come to the Dan Academy. I am considering transferring to another academy. Where is the Martial Academy?"
"Isn't it?" Chen Tianye said loudly and exaggeratedly, "So one day you will trample all the geniuses in our martial arts academy to the ground?"
"Everything is possible." Qingshi said with a smile.
"Hey! You brag better than Duan Baldzi." Chen Tianye naturally didn't believe it.
Qingshi looked at Chen Tianye's arrogant mustache and imagined that one day Chen Tianye would open his mouth to call him uncle, and couldn't help but smile.
"What are you holding back?" Chen Tianye asked doubtfully, "Why do you smile so obscenely? You won't fall in love with me, right? I don't like this! By the way, it is said that you and Zhang Hao... ....”
"Bah!" Qingshi quickly interrupted Chen Tianye's obscenity.
The joke was over, Chen Tianye smiled and said, "What do you think I'm going to do?"
"I want wine!" Qingshi said with a contemptuous look.
"Wrong!" Chen Tianye said, "On the contrary, I'm here to deliver wine." With a wave of his hand, a large wine vat that could hold two people suddenly appeared and landed gently in front of Qingshi.
Seeing Qingshi, Chen Tianye was shocked and said proudly: "How's it going? Let's see if you can recognize where the wine is from?"
Of course Qingshi knew it. Just by hearing it, he knew that this was the best Four Seasons Spring in Mingshan Guoliangyuan City, and it was also the base wine he carefully selected to make Shantao Niang and Yiyihuo.
He couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Where did you get Sijichun? Did you even make a special trip to Liangyuan City in Mingshan State?" The base wine used in Qingshi Brewing First-line Fire is Sijichun from Liangyuan. I told Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian that they of.
"These little things don't require me to run errands myself," Chen Tianye said with a smile. "I asked him to say hello and someone would bring it to me. He didn't even have to pay for the wine. He even cried and begged me to accept it! Alas! If you don't accept it, it will hurt your face. I This man is soft-hearted and reluctantly accepts it.”
"Just brag," Qingshi said with a smile, "You're also talking about Brother Duan Qi. I think your bragging is better than him."
"I can fight better than him!" Chen Tianye laughed and said, "Okay, let's get down to business. I got you 10,000 kilograms, so you can brew more." He waved his hand and a storage box appeared. flew over.
Qingshi took the box, concentrated his energy and took a look inside. Sure enough, there were nine large wine vats of the same size placed in the space inside the box. I bet this vat weighed a thousand kilograms.
"Do you really think of me as a winemaker?" Qingshi said dissatisfied, "Are you kidding me? How long does it take to process 10,000 kilograms?"
"Who asked you to process it all right away?" Chen Tianye quickly apologized and said with a smile, "Just take your time, I will return to Cheshire in five days, and it will be enough if you can give me a thousand pounds or eight hundred pounds. Get some mountain peach stuffing on the fire."
"What you think is too good, it's impossible." Qingshi refused sternly.
"Three to five hundred pounds is no problem, right?" Chen Tianye continued with a flattering smile, "Brother Qingshi, why don't you work hard? I will bring you our Cheshire local specialties later."
"No. At most fifty kilograms each." Qingshi didn't let go.
"How about a hundred pounds?" Chen Tianye bargained, took out a bag of spiritual stones and handed it over.
Qingshi looked at it and found that there were about fifty high-grade spiritual stones. This high-grade spiritual stone could be worth ten thousand low-grade spiritual stones. In terms of value, these fifty high-grade spiritual stones were not a small amount. It can be seen that Chen Tianye was still very good. He was willing to give it up, and in addition to getting these wines, he was indeed very considerate.
Seeing how sincere this guy was, Qingshi had no choice but to smile helplessly and said: "You drunkard! Well, I'll give you one hundred catties of ray of fire and twenty catties of mountain peach brew."
"Okay," Chen Tianye said with great joy, "Qingshi brothers are good friends." As he said this, he stuffed the bag of spiritual stones into Qingshi's hands.
Qingshi did not answer the question, and said seriously to Chen Tianye: "Brother Tianye, it's not that I'm stingy, but that although you have a lot of wine, I can't process it as fast as you think. What's more important is the time required to brew these two kinds of wine." I don’t have much of the materials I need left, so I’m trying my best. I estimate that I can process two hundred kilograms of a single fire, and a hundred kilograms of mountain peach wine at most. I also want to give some to Brother Shen, Brother Duan Qi, Zhang Hao, and Elder Ou. Dean Mo and the others also want to keep some."
"Is that so?" Chen Tianye was stunned, and then said, "Then I don't want the mountain peach brew. It's not appropriate to give me a hundred catties of a ray of fire. How about this? You can give me fifty catties of a ray of fire first. But in the future, you You have to make it up for me."
"Okay! What about this spiritual stone?" Qingshi said deliberately.
"Of course I'll give them to you," Chen Tianye didn't mind. "I have a place now where I might need a lot of money, otherwise I'll give you some more spirit stones. I might have some left before I go back. Spiritual stones, if brother needs them, I will give them to you as well."
Qingshi knew that although Chen Tianye was a disciple of Mo Sihai, his family background was very average, far inferior to that of the Chaoge Shen family and the Duan family. Therefore, I really like Chen Tianye’s true temperament and heroic style.
Qingshi laughed and said: "Brother Amano, please accompany me to the Great Wilderness Mountains of Mingshan Country in July next year. Let's collect some materials for brewing. We can get you a few hundred kilograms of fire by then."
"Okay, it's settled." Chen Tianye was overjoyed, his eyes shining with excitement.
"Brother Amano, you'd better take these spirit stones back." Qingshi said lightly, "I only give away this wine, not for sale."
Seeing that Chen Tianye wanted to give in, Qingshi deliberately teased him. With a wave of his hand, a large number of high-grade spiritual stones appeared out of thin air on the table in front of him, totaling seven or eight thousand.
Chen Tianye was stunned for a while, took back his spirit stone and murmured: "You rich man, you must have robbed some family's treasure house!"
Then his eyes lit up and he said: "Why don't you go to the auction if you are so rich? Really! In two days, the biggest auction of the year will be held in Chao Ge. This is what I mean when I say that some places may cost a lot of money. , how about it, do you want me to take you there?"
"Okay!" Qingshi didn't know this information at first, but now that he knows it, he won't miss it. The two chatted for a while and made an appointment for Chen Tianye to call Qingshi two days later. Then Chen Tianye left.
Qingshi was busy in the underground wine cellar for two hours, until the distillation device started to work. Then he carefully checked the fire and let the whole device run on its own, and then stepped out to take a rest.
Just as he walked out of the wine cellar, he heard the doorbell ring again. This time it was Duan Wutian, Shen Binghong and Shen Jiayun who came.
After entering the house and sitting down, Qingshi asked, "Binghong Jiayun, when will you go back to Mingshan?" The Shen family is one of the six major families in Chaoge, but Shen Feiyun and Shen Binghong. Shen Jiayun's mother is Lin from the five major families of Mingshan Kingdom. Clan, so they basically go to Mingshan Country to stay for a few days every holiday.
"I won't go back to see my grandparents this year," Shen Binghong said with a frown, "because of the attack on the spaceship last time, my grandfather didn't allow it."
"By the way," Qingshi asked curiously, "What happened to the sneak attacker last time?"
"Dead." Duan Wutian continued, "He was injured and ran away. Later, my father took action himself after finding him."
"My Shen family also dug up the den of the remnants of the Wu family," Shen Binghong said calmly, "Uncle Kuangfeng and Brother Haoyun led their men to eradicate all of them, a hundred or so people."
"That's right," Shen Jiayun pouted, "Everyone is dead and clean, what else does grandpa have to worry about? I miss grandma."
Qingshi felt a little uncomfortable listening to them. These hundreds of lives seemed to them like trivial matters, but this was the real social situation in Tianlong World.
Qingshi regretted this casual question. He immediately changed the subject and asked: "You have all finished the exam, why aren't Brother Feiyun and Sister Xiaoyu here today?"
"Sister Xiaoyu is really," Shen Jiayun said dissatisfied, "she didn't invite brother Qingshi with us, but she was invited to someone else's banquet."
"Huh?" Qingshi asked in question.
"Brother Qingshi is like this," Shen Jiayun said excitedly, "Every year at this time, our Shen family and Duan family will let us juniors gather together for a few days. In addition to our Shen family and Duan family, we will also invite other people who have good relations with our two families. People, we are here specifically to invite Brother Qingshi."
Duan Wutian said calmly: "Generally, outsiders are not invited. Most of them are the in-laws of our family and the young children of the affiliated families."
"Oh, that's right!" Qingshi looked directly at Duan Wutian and said, "What's Brother Seven's opinion? Should I go?"
"I was just invited by order, it's up to you whether you go or not." Duan Wutian said with a little embarrassment, "Xiaoyu didn't want to come and went to the banquet hosted by Prince Jiang Chenying to entertain new high school students. This is a traditional event every year and she had to go. . Inviting you is something that the elders of the two families have agreed upon. It just so happens that I have other things to ask you about, so I’m here."
"Thank you, Seventh Brother," Qingshi said with a smile. Then he stared at Shen Binghong and asked, "Why doesn't Brother Feiyun come?"
"Brother," Shen Binghong lowered his head slightly, raised his eyes and looked at Qingshi after a breath and said, "Brother said you wouldn't go, so he didn't come."
"What about you?" Qingshi continued to stare at Shen Binghong and asked.
"Of course I hope Brother Qingshi will go," Shen Jiayun interjected, "Brother Qingshi, you will know if you go there. There are so many brothers, sisters, and younger brothers, which is very fun. The eldest brother also wants to bring a few senior brothers and sisters from the inner court and the high court. Go."
Shen Binghong lowered his head and said nothing.
Qingshi smiled and said nothing, but he remembered the words of his master Ou Changzhi, "It is a good thing for you to be friends with the descendants of the Duan family and the Shen family, but being friends is not clinging to each other. You have to understand the difference." You are my disciple and a member of Xuanmen. There is no force in the world worthy of your attachment, including the royal family. '
Qingshi naturally understood in his heart that if the Shen and Duan families really made friends with him, they would invite him alone as a guest. But now this kind of invitation treats oneself as an ordinary person attached to the sect.
As far as Qingshi is concerned, even if he didn't become a disciple, even if he didn't have the master's advice, he would not accept this kind of status.
Shen Jiayun was young and didn't understand, but Duan Wutian, Duan Xiaoyu, Shen Feiyun, and Shen Binghong understood. Obviously Duan Xiaoyu didn't want to treat Qingshi like this, so he simply didn't come. Although Duan Wutian came, he made it clear that he was acting under orders. His attitude is the same as Xiaoyu's. Shen Binghong didn't say it clearly, but it seemed that he hoped Qingshi would accept this arrangement, but Shen Feiyun couldn't judge his attitude.
After a few breaths of silence, Qingshi smiled and said, "Seventh brother said you still have something to ask me about?"
"That's right," Duan Wutian asked Qingshi with a smile: "Guess what I brought you?"
"Isn't it also a bar?" Qingshi smiled.
"Yes! Who else brought you wine?" Duan Wutian asked curiously, "Chen Tianye's slutty beard?"
Duan Wutian brought wine in a different way. With a wave of his hand, a row of ten large wine jars about two feet high were neatly arranged on the big coffee table.
Duan Wutian smiled and said, "These are recognized as Chao Ge's top ten fine wines. I made a jar of each. If you decide which one is better for making your two fine wines, I will buy them."
"Brother Qi is interested," Qingshi said with a smile, "Leave these wines for me to try, thank you Brother Qi. As for the base wine for brewing Shantao Niang and Yilianhuo, I don't need to worry about it. . I invite you to come to my place in five days. I will prepare some wine for you and Brother Feiyun. In addition, I ask you to bring some to each of the two old men. Just say that I have something to do during the holiday. It was ordered by Dean Mo, so I won’t do it. Please forgive me for disturbing you when I went to your house."
When Qingshi moved out Dean Mo, Mo Sihai would not blame him since he was his senior brother. Duan Chen and his family also knew that Qingshi would never use Mo Sihai as a shield, so they naturally believed Qingshi's words. Just knowing that the relationship between Mo Sihai and Qingshi was unusual, it was not a bad thing for Qingshi.
After sending Duan Wutian and the others away, Qingshi returned to the wine cellar to check, only to see that the distillation device had begun to produce wine. The distilled wine flowed into a large wine vat like a trickle. The wine was clear and transparent in color and had a rich aroma.
