Da Qin: Heaven Defying, I Will Live Forever In The Ghost Valley

"Ouch~~~"

In the Guigu Mountain, every once in a while, the sound of howling wolves can be heard.

And as the wolf howls sounded, a child's figure could be seen following the sound.

Then, where the mother wolf and the two wolf cubs stayed, medicinal plants were found.

The child, of course, is Su Chen who went into the mountains to find the medicinal materials needed for wine-making.

Looking behind Su Chen, Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang were following closely behind.

Seeing that Su Chen could find the needed medicinal materials every time under the guidance of the three wolves, Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang were dumbfounded.

I only heard Wei Zhuang murmuring in surprise: "I asked the wolf to find the medicinal materials... I really asked my junior brother to do it!"

At first, the two of them didn't have high hopes for Su Chen asking the three wolves to find medicinal materials.

After all, both of them believed that no matter how knowledgeable the three wolves were about human nature, it would be difficult for them to find medicinal materials with such accuracy.

But in fact, it slapped them in the face again and again.

The three wolves were originally from the mountains. They just looked at the appearance of the medicinal materials and were able to find the needed medicinal materials easily.

"Ouch~~~"

Another wolf howl sounded.

Su Chen followed the sound and came to the edge of a pool.

Soon, another medicinal material was found near the water pool.

After packing up the medicinal materials, Su Chen waved his hands at Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang who were following him and said happily: "Senior brother, look! I have also found the missing nine-section calamus!"

Looking at the last nine-segmented calamus Su Chen needed in his hand, Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang were unable to recover.

All this seems like a dream!

They don't know whether they should say that the three wolves have become spirits or that Su Chen has become spirits!

At this time, Su Chen also collected the last nine-section calamus.

This trip to find the medicine can be considered to be over. Fortunately, there were no twists and turns.

"Senior brother, what are you still doing?"

"It's time to go back!"

Seeing that Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang were still stunned, Su Chen quickly shouted.

Hearing the sound, the two of them came back to their senses and quickly followed Su Chen's footsteps.

A group of three people and three wolves immediately returned along the way they came.

After a long time, the three men and three wolves returned to their residence.

Seeing that they had nothing to do, Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang explained to Su Chen and continued to practice.

Su Chen, on the other hand, took all the collected medicinal materials and began to prepare wine.

When everything was ready, Su Chen closed her eyes, and information about brewing techniques emerged in her mind.

Although the wine brewed by wine-making techniques is used to improve one's skills, it must be wine first!

Since it is wine, it should have the texture and taste of wine...otherwise the product will not be wine, but medicine.

To put it simply, winemaking is to combine the medicinal properties of medicinal materials with the taste and effect of wine in an almost perfect way.

As a result, these brewed wines not only have aroma and taste, but also improve their skills.

Therefore, the grains required for brewing wine, such as wheat, sorghum, etc., are also indispensable.

It can be said that the wine produced by this brewing technique is actually a medicine.

Just through blending in different proportions, the medicinal properties of other medicinal materials can be stimulated, and the efficiency of the drinker's body organs and blood to absorb the medicinal properties.

It is said that wine is the essence of food, and the more you drink, the younger you become. This is the truth.

Moreover, winemaking cannot be completed in a day or two, but requires a rather long process.

After going over the information about wine-making techniques in her mind, Su Chen started to do it.

Winemaking, in general, can be divided into three major steps.

Making koji, brewing wine, blending and filling and sealing.

The first big step is to make koji. It is said that "qu is the mother of wine", which is the essence of wine koji.

The quality of a kind of wine often depends on the production of koji.

Because if the koji is good, the fermentation must be good.

A good koji has a relatively simple production process.

First, pour the pure wheat prepared in advance into the grinding device.

The raw material for making koji is pure wheat.

If other grains are mixed in, such as barley, soybeans, corn... the quality will be inferior.

Then, the prepared wheat is ground into powder.

After the wheat is ground into wheat flour, add a certain proportion of water to it and stir.

After the wheat flour has fully absorbed the water, the next step is physical work.

The wheat flour that has absorbed water needs to be beaten again and again to press it into lumps.

After the koji pieces are made, they will be sent to a special koji chamber for storage and fermentation.

The fermentation process takes about thirty days.

When the fermented koji is taken out, it will already emit a faint aroma of alcohol.

Finally, the fermented koji is dried and stored in the shade, which is called pile koji.

At this point, the production of koji is completed.

However, because Guiguzi has the habit of making his own wine, Su Chen does not need to spend thirty days to make a new one, and can just use Guiguzi to keep the existing one.

The second major step, brewing, needs to be carried out by Su Chen himself.

First, the prepared sorghum must be put into the soaking pool and soaked in water for a day and night.

Different from the ordinary wine-making method, Su Chen soaks the sorghum not in clean water, but in a specially prepared soaking liquid.

It was an soaking liquid obtained by refining some medicinal materials and snake gall according to the brewing recipe.

Soak the sorghum in these medicinal soaking liquids and wait for a day and night before the medicinal power in the soaking liquid can be absorbed.

It is worth mentioning that while waiting for soaking, Su Chen did not forget to continue practicing.

After Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang came back from sword practice, they saw Su Chen practicing while making wine.

Although they were a little surprised, they were relieved when they thought about Su Chen's understanding of Heaven Defying and did not bother them too much.

After a day and a night, when the sorghum is soaked, Su Chen begins to cook it in a boiler. This step is also commonly known as 'steamed rice'.

This step is to completely 'lock' the medicinal power of the soaking solution.

After that, it’s time to mix the songs.

The so-called mixed koji actually means to mix the cooled sorghum rice with the prepared koji, pour it into the fermentation tank, and carry out secondary fermentation. This process also takes about ten days.

However, during this process, Su Chen also boiled and refined the remaining medicinal materials into liquid according to the brewing method, and then stirred and added it with the koji.

Therefore, the original secondary fermentation time will be extended to about fifteen days.

However, even after the second fermentation is completed, it cannot be drunk immediately, and there will be subsequent processes such as blending.

First, it is to remove the bad smell and improve the taste, so that the brewed wine tastes better.

The second is to dilute the alcohol concentration to a certain extent so that the alcohol concentration will not be too high or low.

Finally, when everything is done, put it into the fermentation tank and wait for the secondary fermentation to complete.

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