Chapter 197 197. Brewing beer

   Bao Linjiang's blue eyes deepened, and he said with righteous indignation, "Those two girls are not good people, but now that you are their aunt, it's not a matter of saying how to punish them."

  Chu Qingyue wants to pay back the loss, and now she won't let people bully her casually.

   "I am their aunt. If I embarrass them openly, everyone will definitely say that I use seniority to suppress people. I don't think I can do it clearly. I have to make them suffer from being dumb."

Chu Qingzhi secretly admired that the second sister has made great progress. When I first met, she was shy, introverted, and dared not speak loudly outside. Now, she is confident, cheerful, able to use her brain, and actively learns, um, very good.

  Chu Qingyue looked at everyone, her eyes were still gentle, but now she was a little more determined, "Do you have any good ideas?"

  Zhan Hongjun said casually, "Treat him in the same way."

  In his opinion, he can kill a person silently with a silver needle, revenge is simply too simple.

  Chu Qingyue remembered these words in her mind, then pondered for a while, and said, "Hongjun, I know what to do."

  Zhan Hongjun smiled and said, "You're welcome, if you need help, second sister just ask."

  Chu Qingyue smiled, "Okay, I'm going to help my mother cook, you are busy."

"good."

  …

kitchen.

   "Aunt Chu, let me chop the vegetables for you."

   Li Zhangjie was taken by Chu Xuhua to familiarize himself with the environment at home, and told them what they were going to do. After thinking about his hard journey, he let him rest.

  But he just sat there, listening to the sound of cutting vegetables in the kitchen, so he came to the kitchen, thinking about helping to cook.

  Li Qingyu likes hardworking children, and the young boy came all the way from Xucheng to Chujia Village just to repay his daughter's kindness, so he has a very good impression of the young boy.

   "No, you take a rest, Aunt Chu is very busy here."

  Li Qingyu thought of the little boy coming all the way to beg for food, felt sad and moved, and felt a little bit distressed, so she didn't want him to do anything.

  Li Zhangjie has suffered so much, but his black and white eyes still maintain innocence, "Aunt Chu, it's okay, I have rough skin and thick flesh, I am not tired, and I don't need to rest."

  Seeing that the young boy was determined to help, Li Qingyu said, "Then sit on the stool and help me light the fire."

  Li Zhangjie simply responded, "Okay."

  Chu Qingyue entered the kitchen, and immediately saw the strange Li Zhangjie, "Mother, this..."

  Li Zhangjie heard Chu Qingyue's voice, stood up immediately, and shouted sweetly, "Sister, I'm Li Zhangjie."

  Chu Qingyue gave him a friendly smile, "Xiaojie, sit down."

   "Yeah." Li Zhangjie obediently sat on the stool and added firewood to the stove.

  Chu Qingyue asked Li Qingyu, what happened?

  Li Qingyu gave Chu Qingyue a wink, Chu Qingyue didn't ask any more questions, and walked to the side to pick vegetables.

   After a while, Li Qingyu said casually, "Qingyue, mother wants to tell you something."

  Chu Qingyue scooped water to wash vegetables, "Mother, tell me."

   "The matchmaker Chu came to me today and said that she liked a man, he was very nice, and wanted to tell you, do you want to agree?"

  Li Qingyu is a very open-minded woman. When she married Chu Rong, she met each other and got married because she liked each other. This is why she was willing to accompany Chu Rong through hardships.

  So at this moment, she hopes that her daughter can do the same and marry the man she likes.

  Chu Qingyue paused with her slender hands, "Mother, can I, can I disagree?"

  Li Qingyu felt uncomfortable when she thought about what happened to her daughter. She blamed Li Shengfeng for delaying her daughter, otherwise Qingyue might have children.

   "Qingyue, you are already eighteen years old. Girls your age in the village are either married or engaged. If you don't agree, mother will not force you, but we have to think about the future..."

  Chu Qingyue patiently listened to her mother's teachings, after a moment of silence, she said, "Mother, I still have half a year to turn nineteen, if I still don't meet someone I like, I will listen to you."

  Li Qingyu looked at her daughter, she actually understood what Chu Qingyue meant in her heart, but Ning Yuting was a young master in the capital, so how could he have a crush on a girl in the village.

  But my daughter is not bad, she is pretty, she has a shop, she is very capable, and wait, what if a miracle happens?

   "Mother knows."

  …

   Half an hour is up, and the next process starts.

  Chu Qingzhi prepared four large pots, filtered the maltose juice into the large pot, then heated the filtered malt paste to wash it twice, and added the washed water to the sugar juice in the pot.

  Then boil the sugar juice.

   It was time for dinner. Chu Qingzhi, Zhan Hongjun, and Bao Linjiang ate quickly, and then continued to light the fire.

  The sugar juice boiled after a short time. It is summer, the weather is hot and the temperature is high.

   After the sugar juice is boiled for 3 quarters of an hour, add a part of hops and continue to cook.

  Everyone ran to look at it, but Shen Ruyue took him back to take the exam soon after. After preparing for such a long time, Shen Ruyue finally sorted out the test papers. Tonight is the time for the test.

  The four elders had never taken the exam, so they sat beside them curiously.

  Li Zhangjie was surprised at first. He didn’t expect that someone in his benefactor’s family would teach people how to read. Then he was very envious, and secretly made up his mind that he would continue to learn how to read.

  Here, shortly after adding the hops, a clear fragrance wafted from the bubbling pot.

  Zhan Hongjun asked happily, "Master, is this the smell of beer?"

   "It's not pure, but it has that smell." Chu Qingzhi smelled the fragrance, secretly said, there is no miscellaneous smell, and it is quite successful.

   Bao Linjiang looked at the tumbling sugar juice, "Master, this beer looks like the color of medicine."

  Now it really looks like a bitter medicine, Chu Qingzhi said, "The sugar juice still needs to be fermented and filtered, and the final beer is pure brown, and the color is beautiful."

   Bao Linjiang blinked and said, "I'm looking forward to it."

   After cooking for half an hour, add the remaining hops, and then cook for half a cup of tea.

  There is a long pool in the house, which is filled with water. There is an S-shaped pipe in the water, one end is near the pot, the other end is placed at the other end of the pool, and the other end is connected to the fermentation tank.

  The fermenting barrel is ceramic, like a wine vat, with a round belly and a bowl with a small mouth. Chu Qingzhi prepared two.

   After the sugar juice has been boiled for a long time, put the funnel on the pipe opening close to the cauldron, pour the sugar juice into the pipe, and when the sugar juice flows in the pipe, it cools down extremely quickly, and finally flows into the fermenter.

  The last step is to add yeast, which was bought in a winemaking workshop, stir evenly, and seal the fermentation.

  Zhan Hongjun felt like he had accomplished something important, "Master, is this all right?"

  Chu Qingzhi patted the wine tank, "Well, you can see fresh beer in ten days."

  Everyone looked at each other and looked forward to it even more.

  (end of this chapter)