After hearing the steward's report that Empress Shiji was here, Qi Yuan quickly went to the front hall to greet her.
"Meet Uncle Master."
Qi Yuan bowed his head with a smile, led Shi Ji into the main hall and took a seat, and asked: "Why do you have time to come to my place today, uncle?"
Shi Ji smiled softly: "Why, I can't come if nothing happens?"
"how come?"
Qi Yuan said quickly: "Didn't I hear that my uncle was entrusted with the important task of arranging the peach feast by the Queen Mother? Logically speaking, my uncle shouldn't have much free time to come to my place."
He had stayed in Heaven for several months last time, and had met Shi Ji twice. He knew that not only had she advanced to the realm of Tai Yi in cultivation, but she was also highly regarded by the Queen Mother.
Even the peach feast held in Yaochi not long after was handed over to Shi Ji. From this, it can be seen that Shi Ji is relatively easy to get along with among the female fairies in heaven.
"I'm really busy during this period, but I can still find this little time."
Shi Ji smiled and said: "This is not a report from the manager of your Kitchen God Department, saying that you need jade liquid and some fairy fruits. I happened to discuss matters with you about the Peach Club, so I sent the things to you personally."
As she spoke, she waved her hand gently, and a jade vase and a flower basket floated out from her sleeves, and landed gently on the table in front of Qi Yuan.
The jade bottle contained fine wine and jade liquid. Qi Yuan's spiritual consciousness scanned it and found that there was quite a lot of it. It was more than ten times more than what Uncle Bixiao had given him.
Qi Yuan originally just planned to add a little nectar and jade liquid into the brewing raw materials to try to brew fairy wine. Since there was no guarantee that it would be successful, he didn't plan to ask for more. He just didn't expect the Queen Mother to be so generous.
I gave him so much, which made him feel a little embarrassed.
As for the flower basket, although it looks delicate and small, the interior space is quite large. It is filled with fairy fruits that are abundant in heaven. There are all kinds of fairy fruits, and there are even some fairy peaches, but they are not from the Queen Mother's peach garden.
Just flat peach.
After all, the flat peach must be kept for use in the flat peach meeting. At that time, the Queen Mother will invite all the ranked gods in heaven, as well as many powerful and free immortals in the three realms.
There were too many people participating in the grand event, and the peaches produced by the 3,600 peach trees did not mature at the same time, so in order to prevent not enough points by then, I did not send him some.
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But even so, Qi Yuan was quite happy.
Although he transplanted a lot of spiritual fruit trees into the Thunder Cauldron of Creation, not too many reached the immortal level. Of course he was happy to receive so many immortal fruits at once.
Now not only are the raw materials for making wine available, but you can also have a lot of fairy fruits to eat on weekdays.
"Thank you very much, uncle. I also asked my uncle to tell the queen for me when I get back, saying that I will try my best to prepare a good banquet for the peach festival."
Qi Yuan waved his hand and put the jade vase and flower basket aside. This was not the time to fiddle with these.
Shi Ji nodded slightly, but felt a little sigh in his heart.
I remember that when I first met Qi Yuan, he was just a new Qi practitioner, and he was old and not very qualified. I originally thought that he would not be able to achieve anything famous in his life. Unexpectedly, not only did he
After becoming a disciple of Taoist Brother Zhao Gongming, he was able to become an immortal in just over ten years.
When she first got the news, she was shocked, and for a time she thought that the Qi Baimei she knew was not the same person.
Here she lamented Qi Yuan's rapid progress in cultivation, but she didn't know that Qi Yuan was also surprised when he saw the aura on her body.
To be honest, Shiji only advanced to the realm of Taiyi Xuanxian after the great tribulation, a few years later than Yaizhen.
However, her aura is obviously much more powerful than Yaizhen, who was born in the Dragon Clan.
Especially since she is faintly entangled with the aura of water, volcanoes, rivers, wind and thunder, she has actually comprehended the six hexagrams of the innate Eight Diagrams. If she has the chance to comprehend the two hexagrams of Qian and Kun in the future, she may have it.
The possibility of attaining Daluo Jinxian enlightenment.
The Innate Bagua was taught by Emperor Fuxi, and many Taoist disciples among the three religions have also dabbled in it. However, the Innate Bagua is obscure and difficult to understand, so most of them learn the Acquired Bagua.
Like Shi Ji, there are not many people who can deduce the innate Bagua to this level.
However, the two hexagrams of Qian and Kun are also the most difficult to understand. Whether Shi Ji will have that opportunity in the future depends on her own destiny.
"By the way, what do you want these fairy fruits for? Can these things also be used for cooking?"
After sighing, Shi Ji asked curiously.
Qi Yuan smiled softly: "It's no problem to cook. Some of the fairy fruits can make a few dishes. But I want these things mainly to study whether I can brew fairy wine."
"Amazing wine?"
Shi Ji looked puzzled: "If you don't study the dishes carefully, why are you making wine?"
"Uncle, I don't know."
Qi Yuan chuckled: "As the saying goes, there is no feast without food and wine. The peach feast is a rare event in the three realms. It is also the first time for me, my nephew, to help the Queen Mother with this event. Of course, I want to make it perfect.
Although the nectar is delicious, the output is rare after all. How much will it cost for so many gods to drink it together? I am afraid that the family in Heaven cannot consume it like this at every event. After all, there will be no shortage of gods in every event in the future.
Drinks are different. They are relatively easy to obtain and are more suitable for banquets.
Uncle Master, I don’t know if I haven’t drunk it before. After I brew the immortal wine, please taste it and you will know the taste.”
"Is it?"
Shi Ji gave Qi Yuan a suspicious look, but she also wanted to organize the peach feast better. Since Qi Yuan had a new idea, let him go ahead with it, even if he had to deal with all the things she brought.
, considering Tiangong’s family background, it’s nothing.
Afterwards, Shi Ji discussed with Qi Yuan for a long time about some matters regarding the Peach Feast, including the approximate number of people attending the banquet, what else Qi Yuan would need, and what dishes would be prepared at what level. They all needed to be coordinated one by one.
Just be good.
Even if it is a feast in Yaochi, it is impossible for the Queen Mother to treat everyone equally.
Of course, the righteous gods who are in power in the heavens and the great powers of the three realms must be entertained with relatively high standards. Not only are the peaches used once ripened in nine thousand years, but the dishes must also be of the highest quality.
OK.
If it were an ordinary deity in the realm of celestial beings, or an ordinary deity like the four heavenly kings guarding the gate of heaven, it would definitely not be possible to entertain them with flat peaches that ripen every nine thousand years.
It is impossible to produce too many such rare fairy peaches. With so many gods in heaven, how can anyone have one of them?
After discussing these matters carefully, Shi Ji will stay soon. She still has a lot of things to do, including how the attendants and maids in the Heavenly Palace will entertain the immortals. They all need to be arranged in advance, so she has been doing it recently.
Rather busy.
After all, it is impossible for the Queen Mother to arrange these things herself. Of course, it must be carried out by the close female fairies like Shi Ji.
After sending Shiji away, Qi Yuan went straight into his own mansion at the back and began to study the brewing method of immortal wine.
These things are not too difficult to say, but the key is that if you want to brew the best wine, it takes a lot of effort.
After all, this is not as simple as mixing alcohol with water, but brewing it from raw materials rich in spiritual energy, which takes a lot of time and effort.
Fortunately, Qi Yuan has become an immortal and has many means to speed up the process. Otherwise, by the time he wastes a lot of time brewing the immortal wine, the Peach Festival may have ended.
Moreover, Qi Yuan wants to brew more than just one kind of immortal wine. He plans to brew several more drinks with different flavors, which are suitable for different immortals. Then he can also find some colleagues to try in advance. If they are popular
If so, he planned to brew it in large quantities.
Because he only plans to do research on his own now, he did not ask the guys in the craftsmanship department to help him refine various brewing utensils, but instead used some materials to refine several sets himself.
Then he spent some time and made some distiller's yeast.
When making wine, you must add distiller’s yeast, which can be said to be the essence of brewing spiritual wine.
Afterwards, he sorted and prepared the various spiritual grains produced in the thunder cauldron he created and the spiritual fruits sent by Shiji. After soaking, steaming, cooling, mixing, fermenting, and distilling, he removed the residue and then added
The koji powder is stirred evenly, sent to the fermentation tank to ferment for twelve days, and then distilled again to complete the second wine process.
At this time, there are less impurities in the wine, and the aroma of the wine is more mellow and smooth. During the second distillation process, the first liquid to flow out has a high concentration of fairy spirit. This is the head of the wine that he specially collected, and then
The concentration of fairy spirit gradually decreased, and the final concentration of the wine was already relatively weak, containing only a small amount of fairy spirit.
Qi Yuan has been distilled several times, and he also tried to add a lot of nectar, jade liquid and various fairy fruit elixirs, using magic formulas to combine the fairy energy and spiritual power, and finally collected them separately according to the concentration of the fairy spirit.
, blending to achieve a balance in color, aroma and taste, and finally filling them into various jade bottles.
After all, it is fairy wine for gods to drink, so it must be packaged in a nice-looking way to be of high quality, not to mention that ordinary bottles and cans cannot seal the spirit of the fairy in it.
However, these jade bottles of his were also made by taking out various spiritual jade and refining them himself, which made him feel a little distressed.
Although he didn't consume much, he was obviously doing things for the government but still had to pay for them himself, which made him feel a little unbalanced.
However, he was too embarrassed to go to the Queen Mother to reimburse him for such a small amount of resources, for fear of being laughed at. Besides, the Queen Mother was always generous and gave him much more than what he asked for.
Since you can't get reimbursement from the Queen Mother, then you can find an opportunity to get it back from other places. For example, those guys in the Craftsmanship Division must give them a heavy blow. Who makes them the richest in heaven?
One of the departments.
Finally, Qi Yuan stored these immortal wines in his specially dug wine cellar. Generally speaking, it must be stored in the cellar for at least six months to remove the spicy taste of the new wine and make it taste better.