Before harvesting the rice, Xu Xiaoyu added a large number of people to the ranch, including about twenty people, after listening to George's and others' opinions and suggestions.

After all, the workload of the ranch has doubled and will continue to increase. Obviously, George and his nine people are simply too busy to handle it.

The recruitment of soldiers and horses at Tianshan Ranch, like last time, has made Dakeli Town very lively. You must know that working here not only has a bright future, but the salary is much higher than that of the same job elsewhere.

, and the ranch is not far from the town, so it is very convenient to go back and forth.

Therefore, everyone in town who has no job or is not doing well wants to come!

However, not everyone can come to the ranch. George and the three of them strictly control the farm and follow the principles. It doesn't matter if they have a little ability. If their character is not good, they won't be able to get in.

After screening, people were recruited.

However, there is only one villa left over from the Barnes era in the ranch. It was already a bit crowded with so many people living there before, but now there are twenty people there at once, and it is simply not enough room.

But if there are five words floating in the sky, it doesn't matter. Let these new workers live in their homes in their respective towns first, give them certain subsidies, and then they can go to get off work on time every day. As for the houses, two more houses will be built. Building.

After the site for the house was selected, construction began in full swing.

The rice in the paddy fields has also begun to be harvested.

Several harvesters moved hand in hand, very fast.

The crops of rice were knocked down, and the golden grains were put into the warehouse.

When my grandmother saw it, she said with emotion: "This machine is really a good thing... Such a large field, if we use a sickle to harvest it manually, I don't know it will take until the Year of the Monkey to finish harvesting."

Immediately, she grabbed another handful of millet and praised: "This is the best-grown rice I have ever seen. The grains are full, and the rice grains inside are ready to come out, and they are about to burst through the chaff... I am so excited."

Can’t wait to have a taste of it.”

"Needless to say, the taste must be very good. Much better than that Thai fragrant rice." The old woman also grabbed a handful of millet and turned it over in her hands, full of confidence.

Dad pinched a grain of millet and peeled out a fat, white and shiny grain of rice. He played with it in his hand and said with a smile: "What I'm looking forward to more is how the rice wine brewed from them tastes."

"A worthless drunkard."

Mom rolled her eyes at him and looked down upon him.

At night, the aroma wafting out of the rice pot was particularly alluring and made people laugh. It was the rice produced in the paddy fields that was being cooked.

"tasty."

“It’s so delicious.”

“This rice is so delicious!”

Everyone was full of praise for the rice. Indeed, the quality of the rice was excellent. It was glutinous, fragrant, and had a hint of sweetness. The more people ate, the more they wanted to eat, and they couldn't stop.

Everyone ate at least one more bowl of rice than usual, especially the two little guys Nini and Zai Zai. Their bellies were bulging up and round like rubber balls. They couldn't eat any more, so they put them down.

Chopsticks in hand.

Three days later.

All more than one hundred acres of rice have been harvested.

Drying, and then separating the strong and flat grains.

When I was in Fuyun Village, no matter how well someone grew their rice, shriveled grains would always account for a certain percentage, and this did not include those half-strong and half-shrunk grains.

However, among a hundred kilograms of these grains, there is only about one kilogram of shriveled and semi-shrunk grains. This ratio made my grandma and my parents sigh again.

In order to store the rice, Xu Xiaoyu stopped the construction of the two villas and asked the construction workers to build a large granary to store all the rice.

The yield of this kind of rice soaked in space water is astonishing. The total weight of more than one hundred acres of rice reaches hundreds of thousands of kilograms. This is a big number, and Xu Xiaoyu has a plan for such a large amount of rice.

Except for a small part that provides three meals a day for everyone on the ranch, a small part of the rest is used to make wine, and the rest is provided to the restaurant. Of course, people like old John Annalin, Liu Hanwu, Jim Thompson, and Fran

Steve, LeBron, etc., these close friends, will set aside some specially for them.

Dad and Xu Xiaoyu are very greedy for the flavor of Shaoji brewed from this rice. However, this wine cannot be brewed in one go. The steps are complicated.

Selecting grains - soaking - initial steaming - stewing the grains - re-steaming - taking out the steamer and letting it cool - adding koji - packing and culture - tank preparation - barreling for fermentation - distillation - finished product

liquor.

Each of these processes requires time, patience and carefulness, as well as the crucial control of heat, which is technology.

Grandma is an old winemaker. Although her hands and feet are not so nimble, she is very skilled. She took two little followers, Xu Zhiguo and Nini Zaizai, to help her, step by step, and followed the process in an orderly manner.

The rice is of good quality and saves a lot of time in every step.

Finally, under the spotlight, we came to the step of distillation.

Grandma uses traditional tools for distillation, and the method is also a traditional method passed down from our ancestors.

A large stove, or a dug-out stove, with firewood inside that was beeping and burning with a blazing flame.

Put a large iron pot on the stove, fill it halfway with water, and let the water boil and roll.

There is a wooden cylinder placed in the big iron pot, which is called a steamer in Fuyun Village.

There are some ingenious little devices in the steamer, and it also contains fermented rice. Oh, it shouldn't be called rice at this time. It is called distiller's grains in Fuyun Village.

The lees can be eaten directly. It tastes sweet, sour, and rich in alcohol, giving it a different flavor.

Xu Xiaoyu remembers that when he was young, Fuyun Village was poor, and his friends basically had no snacks throughout the year except for the Chinese New Year, so everyone was thinking about making wine grains. Whenever the elders were making wine, they would steal a handful and eat it with gusto. Of course they wouldn’t dare

If you steal too aggressively and too obviously, your butt will be swollen if you are caught. Also, eating too much of the lees will make you drunk just like drinking too much wine.

Once, when a little guy and his grandfather were making wine, he was so greedy that he fell drunk on the spot in the room where the wine vats were stored. There is no doubt that his end was tragic.

Finally, there is a big pot on top of the steamer.

The mouth of the pot is facing upward, and the bottom covers the steaming opening to prevent heat from escaping. Then water must be put in the pot.

If Fuyun Village was poor in the past, it would be ok to fill the pot half full on hot days, but fill it full on cold days...

In Xu Xiaoyu's memory, there is such a scene.

In Fuyun Village in winter, the weather is cold, and a family is making wine...a big stove, a big pot, the pot is full of water, and the water vapor is thick...Several women, dressed simply, are talking around the pot.

Laughing, chatting about household chores, ladling water from the big pot, washing clothes...

There are even women who call their naughty children, strip them naked, add cold water to the water in the pot, and give him a bath...
Chapter completed!