Looking at the newly opened Zuixianju Restaurant and Liquor Shop in Lin'an City, and seeing the popularity of boneless lanterns in the charity sale, Wang Wen felt confident. There were many wealthy people in Lin'an City, so he wanted to make ten thousand lanterns.
, is still sure to be sold out in a short period of time. Seeing the bright lights in Zuixianju Restaurant, but except for the two boneless lanterns at the door, all the other boneless lanterns were sold out, he was filled with emotion.
It was only two months since I went away for the first time. My parents are already over 70 years old. Ten years later, I am afraid that no one will be able to light up the lanterns for me in my hometown and guide me on the long way home... After thinking about it,
A strong feeling of homesickness arose spontaneously. Wang Wen handed over the business of Lin'an City to Butler Lu. He had been working in Wang's Liquor Shop for many years. He was loyal and kind, and was a little generous in his dealings with others. He should be able to live up to his trust. The charity sale was over, and Wang
Wen and his entourage said goodbye to Master Ren and planned to return to Yong'an soon.
Mrs. Ren immediately expressed her position: "Yong'an is sparsely populated and is far less prosperous than Lin'an. Why not bring your parents over to live together in Lin'an, so that our two families can be taken care of."
"It's hard to leave the homeland, and the leaves have fallen back to their roots. My parents are old and can't bear the fatigue of traveling." Wang Wen looked at Bai Shuangfei and Ding Qusheng and said: "In addition, they plan to pick a good day before the Spring Festival to get married in their hometown."
"You two are getting married. It's a happy event." Ren Yuheng said as he went to the boudoir to pick out a few pieces of jewelry and said, "These are your wedding gifts to leave as a thought to my sister." He then turned to Mrs. Ren and said
: "After their date is decided, let's go to Yong'an and attend their wedding together, right?"
"Silly daughter, in the first year your father took office, there were a lot of social gatherings among the bureaucrats, and your mother and I couldn't go out." Mrs. Ren touched her hair and said, "I'll ask your second brother and Mr. Qian to accompany you then.
you go."
Miss Ren said shyly: "Who wants him to accompany me?" After saying that, she took Bai Shuangfei and Wang Xiaomi's hands and went into her room to whisper.
He Qingsheng smiled and said to her: "What do you want to hide from me?"
Ren Yuheng smiled and said: "You already have brother Wang Wen, so you can't listen."
After half an hour, they returned to the dining table happily, laughing non-stop. No matter how He Qingsheng asked, he would not tell her what they had said. Lord Ren, Shopkeeper Liu, Shopkeeper Chen and others held farewell banquets respectively.
Wang Wen and his party returned to Yong'an by boat.
An order for 10,000 needle-punched boneless lanterns was placed in Bontan, and the materials were purchased and shipped at the same time. The price of one lantern is three taels of silver, which is half a year's income for ordinary people. Two thousand women, each family has five lanterns, and one family
A person's annual expenses were met, and all the women in Choutan were excited.
After arranging the work, Wang Wen and his wife went to Xiguoyang's hometown. It had only been two months, and my parents had a lot of gray hair on their temples, and their bodies were a lot stooped. My parents were here and they were not traveling far, so they had to spend time with them.
Old people can no longer travel far away for money. The couple accompanied the two old people and talked to them about what they had experienced during their trip to Lin'an.
Just after coming out of his parents' room, Ding Tianlu came to report that the Vajra Thorn wine had been fermented and was ready to be steamed. Wang Wen and his wife needed to go to the steaming room to take a look and watch the flowers and pick the wine together.
After entering the wine kiln, Ding Tianlu took out a jar of wine, poured a bowl out of it, put it together with another bowl of new wine, and said to Wang Wen and his wife: "The owner of the newspaper learned that the wine we steamed is different from rice wine.
It seems that the more wine you put in, the better the quality will be.”
"Is there anything else?" Wang Wen and his wife tasted it, and sure enough, this was a major discovery. They quickly went to the wine cellar and compared the wines with different storage times one by one. The wine a year ago was better than now.
The quality of what I just brewed is a level higher.
Before this, there were only low-alcohol wines with an alcohol content of only about ten degrees, which was prone to bacterial growth. Therefore, the shelf life of the wine was only a few months, and it would have a peculiar smell if stored for a long time. However, Wang Wen and his wife’s steamed wine had a high alcohol content.
, has strong bactericidal power, so old wine is of better quality than new wine.
After checking the inventory, most of the wine brewed at the beginning had been sold, leaving only three jars. Wang Wen and his wife hurriedly ordered the three jars of wine to be sealed and not to be sold to outsiders. After doing this, together with Ding Tianlu
, came to the steam room to see flowers and pick wine.
While looking at the flowers and picking the wine, the couple felt that this Vajra Thorn wine was a bit strange. It had a smooth and clear taste in the mouth, a light finish in the mouth, a pleasant aftertaste, and then a very strong kick.
Wang Wen filled a glass of wine and invited his father to taste it. After Wang Qingbo tasted it, he felt a heat rushing to the joints all over his body. He felt that the rheumatism in his joints that had tortured him for many years seemed to be better. He moved his muscles and bones, and the pain was indeed relieved.
Diamond thorn has the effect of "removing rheumatism, activating blood circulation, detoxifying, and calming convulsions and wind. It can be used to treat rheumatism, waist and leg pain, infantile convulsions, enteritis, sores, boils, and scrofula. Could it be said that the wine steamed with it is also effective?"
Hearing what Wang Qingbo said, Wang Wen was inspired and had an idea. Wine can activate blood circulation and is used as an auxiliary medicine. It has been recorded for a long time. The medicine comes out with the Qi. Although it is possible, most of the medicine still remains in the water.
Since ancient times, decoctions have been cooked slowly in boiling water for several hours before the medicine is ready. Because of the high boiling temperature, many medicines become ineffective. I have tried many times to immerse plants in wine to enhance the aroma, and it has worked almost every time.
, because the steamed wine has a strong flavor, can it extract the essence of the medicinal materials, so as to obtain a medicinal wine with better curative effect than decoction of the medicinal materials in water?
It is said that the ancestors of the Ye family by the Yong'an River have a special ability. They can use ropes to climb down the cliff and collect various herbs that grow on the cliff. Their family opened a Ye's medicine shop in Botan, selling self-picked herbs and selling them to various places.
Because they often need spices and other medicinal materials soaked in wine, Wang Wen is an old customer of their pharmacy and is very familiar with Shopkeeper Ye. Thinking of this, he came to Ye's Pharmacy and approached Shopkeeper Ye to discuss the medicinal wine.
The origin of medicinal wine is also in Xianju? Jin Huabin pondered for a while, dialed Zhu Jinze's QQ number, and asked about the situation: "Is this your re-creation, or is it passed down by word of mouth?"
"Now that you have shochu, it's normal to soak medicinal materials in it and try it. Why, do you have any doubts about this?" He replied puzzledly: "Of course it is collected by the people."
"Xianju is only famous for bayberry wine, but there are no other medicinal wines."
"If you look at the records about Taoist priests in the county annals, there is a story about the Yuan Dynasty cultivator Guang Yuan who soaked more than a dozen kinds of medicinal materials in shochu to make elixirs. Hundreds of kilograms of medicine and nearly a thousand kilograms of wine were concentrated into five red elixirs.
After smelling the fragrance, he was taken away by a big bird. He lamented that he had no chance to meet the immortals and died of illness." After a pause, he added: "It is recorded in the Wanli Xianju County Chronicle. I have a copy here, you can borrow it to read.
Look, one request is that you can only come and see it on site, no photos or copies are allowed."
Jin Huabin, a folklore researcher, has become accustomed to the preservation of information. This is one of their expenses, so he agreed with a smile.