I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 108 Winemaking

Noticing that Gu Wenxuan had been staring at the book in his hand, Bai Jingzhou raised his head and smiled at her, "I'll teach you when I learn it."

Gu Wenxuan was shocked. "Ah? No, no need?"

She was originally just in a daze, but at this moment her expression involuntarily changed into a mask of pain.

To be honest, she actually hates learning these things the most.

In her previous life, she fought unyieldingly for more than ten years, and finally made her family give up, and successfully avoided the fate of learning these things.

However, she didn't expect that just after dying once, God would play such a big joke on her and send her directly to the ancient times where she had to learn everything.

She muttered with her head down, telling Bai Jingzhou how painful it was for her when she was forced to learn these things as a child, and how many arduous struggles she had with her family later in order to practice martial arts instead of following her family's wishes to learn traditional culture and Chinese medicine.

Gu Wenxuan's original intention was to arouse Bai Jingzhou's sympathy, to make him soften his heart because of the suffering she had endured, and then let her go and stop forcing her to learn these things that made her feel overwhelmed.

However, Bai Jingzhou realized something from her nagging words - it turned out that Gu Wenxuan always avoided him in the past, not because she hated him, but because he always told her things she didn't like...

He cursed himself inwardly for being as stupid as a pig, for not being calm and alert enough to realize the fatal mistake he had made earlier.

While the two were busy harvesting winter vegetables in the small valley, drying Chinese cabbage, bean shreds, and eggplant slices, and going into the mountains to pick mushrooms and wild fruits, other people from the surrounding villages were also busy preparing winter vegetables, drying various vegetables, and going into the mountains with baskets to pick mushrooms and wild fruits in the early morning or after the rain.

In order to fill their stomachs in the winter, almost everyone is busy from dawn to dusk.

In addition to doing what everyone else is doing, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan also take out a few days to secretly brew wine in the small valley.

They had already shipped over all the necessary tools, including scissors, jars, gauze, winnowing baskets, baskets, backpacks, and sugar, which is essential for making wine.

Now all they have to do is go into the mountains to pick the wild grapes they discovered before and brew them according to the correct steps.

Bai Jingzhou had already written down the general steps of making wine on paper.

1. Prepare the grapes. Choose naturally ripe, purple-red grapes. It is best to cut the grapes from the stem with scissors, leaving a little stem to avoid damaging the skin.

2. Wash the grapes. Rinse the grapes with clean water to remove dust and other impurities, and be careful not to damage the white frost on the grape skin.

3. Dry the grapes. Put the washed grapes in a dustpan or basket to drain the water.

4. Prepare a container. Choose a container that can be sealed, such as the large jar that Gu Wenxuan and her friends bought, wash it, dry it, and set it aside.

5. Crush the grapes and put them into the jar. Crush the grapes and put them into the jar, keeping the grape skins and seeds. Be careful not to fill it too full, leaving about one-third of the space to allow the grape juice to expand during the fermentation process.

10. Add sugar. Add appropriate amount of sugar according to personal taste. For every kilograms of grapes, you can add about kilograms of sugar, which will help increase the alcohol content.

7. Fermentation: Seal the jar and place it in a warm, dark place to allow the grapes to ferment naturally. Stir twice a day to ensure that the grape skins are fully immersed in the juice.

8. Separation of residue and liquid. Half a month later, the fermentation reaches the stop point. When the lid is opened, a strong wine smell can be smelled and the color of the grape skin has become lighter. At this time, use gauze to filter and separate the grape skin, seeds and pulp residue from the wine.

9. Secondary fermentation: Pour the filtered wine into a clean and dried jar, seal it, and carry out secondary fermentation. This stage is mainly malolactic fermentation.

10. Filter and store. Filter again half a month later. The color of the wine after filtering this time is very clear and beautiful. Put the filtered wine into a clean container and seal it. Store it in a cool and dry place and drink it within two years.

With the detailed steps that Bai Jingzhou had written down on paper in advance as guidance, Gu Wenxuan was much more efficient in her work.

Except for the step of adding sugar, which was done by Bai Jingzhou alone, Gu Wenxuan contributed more effort in the other steps.

The two men spent three days packing all the ripe wild grapes in the mountains into jars and sealing them, and then began to harvest the ripe buckwheat and millet in the valley.

During this period, Bai Jingzhou did not forget to follow up on the wine brewing matters every day.

Seeing him busy every day and looking at those wine jars as if they were gold, Gu Wenxuan couldn't help but look forward to it.

She asked Bai Jingzhou, "Have you decided who to sell this wine to?"

As far as she knew, before the fall of the previous dynasty, merchants from small countries in the Western Regions had already been selling wine here, but the previous dynasty soon perished, and the merchants stopped coming, so naturally no one sold the wine.

Gu Wenxuan could foresee that once she and Bai Jingzhou finished brewing this batch of wine, they would definitely be able to make a fortune from it.

If the people who take over these wines manage them properly, they can even become rich overnight with these wines.

She was very curious about who Bai Jingzhou wanted to take advantage of.

Bai Jingzhou did not hide it from her, "Let's go with the Mu family. They have many connections and they happen to owe us a favor, so it will be convenient for us to continue to hide behind the scenes."

He took a cabbage, half a basket of mushrooms, and a pheasant that Gu Wenxuan had already cleaned. "Are you hungry? I'll go cook."

They placed simple cooking utensils and several sets of tableware in this small valley. Every time the two came here, as long as time permitted, Bai Jingzhou would be extremely diligent in preparing a special meal for Gu Wenxuan.

But even though she had eaten it many times, Gu Wenxuan still couldn't help but sigh, "How come you can even cook!"

Bai Jingzhou didn't mind her always saying the same thing. Every time Gu Wenxuan said this, Bai Jingzhou would smile and answer, "I learned it from my aunt."

Mother Gu is a good cook, and Bai Jingzhou always helps her. As time goes by, Bai Jingzhou learns how to cook all kinds of delicious food that Mother Gu is good at.

Every time before, this topic would end here, but this time, after a moment of entanglement and hesitation, Gu Wenxuan carefully asked Bai Jingzhou, "...Don't you have anything you want to do?"

She counted on her fingers, "I learned medicine and calligraphy for grandpa, I learned playing the piano and Chinese painting for my mom, I learned Go for my dad, and I learned brewing and making food for the four of us."

She held her heart in her hands, "My conscience will hurt if you do this."