Chapter 368 The Brewing Begins

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The next day, after Mu Feng got up, he went outside the tribe to meet the monkeys and conduct some daily "domestication" and training on them.

This has been an ongoing activity for some time.

It was mainly Mu Feng who gave instructions to the Monkey King, and then the Monkey King instructed the little monkeys to complete it.

For example, climb up to get things, take a small torch to the designated place to light it, give them a small bone knife and let them cut the animal tendon rope and so on.

In these training programs, the most difficult thing for monkeys is to hold small torches, because they are afraid of fire.

Therefore, after Mufeng trained for about a month, these little monkeys were able to withstand the fire and were able to complete the designated tasks according to its requirements.

After training the monkeys, Mu Feng returned to the tulou to make wine koji.

In addition to the herbs such as Polygonum oleifera, the ingredients needed to make koji are rice noodles.

There was no rice flour, so he used peeled corn flour and finely ground wheat flour instead.

He first washed and air-dried the spicy Polygonum, sweet Polygonum, mint, and Tuxiancao, and then mixed them together according to a specific ratio - naturally, the spicy Polygonum was the most, and the other three accounted for the least.

"Great Chief! What are these grasses used for?" Li Hu couldn't help asking.

"Well, it's used to make koji!"

"Liquor?"

"It's something that must be used to make wine!"

"What is wine?"

"Wine is a drink!"

"What's the drink?"

Mu Feng was a little speechless, as long as new things were involved, Li Hu especially liked to ask why.

But he knew it wasn't his fault, after all, what Mu Feng was going to do was something he had never heard of before.

In the long time of primitive social evolution, every time primitive people tried new things, it happened with great courage and various "coincidences".

Take brewing as an example, it was not artificially conscious at first. But because of the high productivity, people at that time produced a lot of grain, and they could not eat it all at once, so they stored it in caves and tree holes.

As a result, it was not taken out for a long time, causing the food to be mixed and fermented, and the aroma of the juice flowing out attracted people's attention.

Since then, people have consciously started to make juices with this aroma - wine!

In general, the new inventions and discoveries of primitive society are either "needs" this thing and began to actively create, or passive and accidental discovery.

But Woodwind Brewing is different.

At present, Jiang's has neither the need to drink, nor the chance to discover wine by chance. The skilled wood wind took the initiative to create it. This is completely new to people like Lihu - they naturally don't know what it is, and they can bring it. what to do.

So, it's normal to have problems.

He thought about it for a while and told Lihu with a smile: "Wine, it's something that can make you forget everything when you drink it!"

"This..." Lihu quickly let go of his hand, panicking, "Great Chief, are you trying to make poison?"

"Making poison?" Mu Feng looked at Lihu with a strange expression, surprised at Lihu's brain circuit, it was really strange and refined!

He smiled and shook his head: "Just forget it temporarily, just get a sleep at most!"

"So that's how it is!" Li Hu finally felt relieved, "Then this kind of poison is not so powerful, why do we still put so much effort into making it?"

"It's not poison!" Mu Feng thought about it and said, "Let me tell you, as long as wine is made, it may be more popular than weapons and fur, and for some large tribes, it may be better than salt. !"

This time, Lihu's eyes lit up: "Is it better than salt?"

Mu Feng nodded.

He thought to the bottom of his heart: "When the wine first appeared, it was circulated among the high-level people, and it was welcomed by the leaders and nobles of those tribes and kingdoms."

You know, there is an old saying called "fullness and warmth and lustful desires", these people eat and dress warmly every day, and they think that they are either women or enjoyment.

In primitive society, what can be called enjoyment is nothing more than eating, drinking, women, fighting and robbing things!

There are three of the four things that they have experienced to some extent, and the word "drinking" alone, they probably have never experienced the enjoyment of it.

Therefore, Mu Feng can almost conclude that as long as the wine is made, not to mention other values, as a beverage, it will inevitably become a market in Jiangxi, no, it is a best-seller for exchanges between large tribes!

It is as if silk, pottery and spices from the East on the Silk Road were the best sellers in the West!

Mu Feng understands this, but Lihu doesn't.

But he also knew that something comparable to salt must be very good!

Because in his cognition, before this, there is nothing like salt!

So he worked harder.

After seeing Lihu's expression, Mu Feng roughly guessed what he was thinking, smiled and shook his head, and continued to work.

After mixing several ingredients, he took a knife and chopped them into pieces, placed them in a large stone pot that he had used before, and mashed them with a thick wooden pestle he knew, until the slag turned into juice, and the leaves inside. , The stalks are completely invisible, just like the garlic paste poured out of the garlic mortar.

It's all easy to say, but it took more than half a day.

Fortunately, he is not alone in these things, White Fang, Lihu

They are all following suit.

After mashing these materials, he put the pre-prepared mixed powder of corn and wheat into the stone pot, mixed it with the mashed juice, and added a little water to stir.

He tried while stirring, until these rivers and lakes mixed with herbs and flour could form a lump, and then stopped adding water and stirring.

The analysis is Tuanqu troupe. It is very simple, it just takes a little effort.

In this way, it took almost a day from the beginning of grass selection to the grouping.

"Can we make wine next?" Lihu asked excitedly.

"Not yet!" Mu Feng shook his head, "Go and get clean dried corn leaves!"

Lihu quickly went back and forth, bringing back a lot of corn leaves.

He found a piece of animal skin, put the corn leaves on the skin and spread it evenly, then put the pottery plate containing the koji balls on it, and then put a layer of corn leaves on it and spread it evenly, and then wrapped it in the animal skin. Tight, bundled, and placed in the shade.

Lihu didn't know why, so he looked at Mu Feng in doubt.

Mu Feng smiled and said, "Just put it here for two days, and then take it out to dry in two days!"

"Drying?" Lihu scratched his head.

"Yeah!" Mu Feng nodded, "When the time comes, put the coarse corn husk particles and wheat bran left over from the flour sifting on the bottom, and then put these koji balls on top, and let it dry for five to seven days!"

"Can I make wine by then?"

"Yeah! We'll be able to make wine then!" Mu Feng laughed, "You'll have the best drink then!"

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