Chapter 412: Making Rice Wine
A few days later, the fleet led by Bibo returned to the tribe.
After unloading the goods, Bibo personally went to Chenbei's yard to apologize.
In the yard, Chen Bei was making wine music.
Although the Mang tribe already has wild wine, the taste is still unsatisfactory due to technical reasons.
The Mang tribe has now harvested more than 100,000 kilograms of rice, and Chenbei was thinking about whether he could brew some rice wine.
Chenbei grew up in the south in his previous life. There are many people in the south who like to brew some rice wine themselves every year. This home-made rice wine may not look good in appearance, but it tastes very good.
One of the key points is that the quality of the rice wine is directly affected by the quality of the rice wine.
Chen Bei has seen it and learned to make wine chorus, but making wine chorus requires aged wine medicine. This is the primitive era. Where did he go to find aged wine medicine?
However, Chen Bei remembered that he had read a very old miscellaneous book that recorded an interesting thing, and his memory was very profound.
It is said that the most primitive wine koji is actually moldy or sprouted grains. By chance, they are mixed with cooked grains and placed for a long time to ferment into the most primitive wine.
However, he didn't know whether this method could work, so he could only try it.
He divided some rice into two parts, soaked one in warm water for a day, then took it out in a basin, covered it with a moist linen, placed it next to a warm stove, and urged it to sprout.
The other portion is also soaked in water, but it is placed in a dark corner to make it moldy.
Three days later, the rice that had been soaked in water sprouted first, because it was warm enough that the white veins grew very fast.
Chenbei heats the cooked rice until it is not hot, then evenly mixes the sprouted rice, and finally puts it into a pottery wine jar, stuffing rice rods around the wine jar to keep warm, and the mouth of the wine jar is wrapped with the finest linen cloth to block the sand, and covers it with a layer of animal skin to keep warm.
A few days later, the rice placed in the dark also became moldy. There was a layer of gray mold on the millet, but the millet had not turned black yet, and the mold was not particularly bad.
Chenbei is going to use these moldy millets to make wine koji.
"The spicy bean paste is crushed, the rice is crushed, and the moldy rice is formed into a ball with water..."
Chen Bei was talking about the process while making wine choruses quickly.
Polygonum multiflorum is a common wild grass. It can be seen everywhere in the southern wilderness, but it has a particularly good effect in making wine koji. It can inhibit the growth of harmful pathogens in wine koji and ensure the growth of beneficial microorganisms in wine koji.
After making it into wine cakes, Chenbei wrapped them with a layer of rice flour, placed them in a vine basket, and then placed them next to a warm stove to cultivate mycelium.
After half a day, the wine cake grew vigorous mycelium and became furry. Chenbei covered it with a moist linen cloth to allow it to continue fermenting.
Two days later, the mycelium matured. Chenbei rolled them out and dried them to make the first wine chorus of the Mang tribe.
When Bibo entered the yard, Chenbei had already dried the wine chorus and was putting them away in animal skin bags one by one, preparing to make rice wine.
"Chief, I'll help."
As soon as Bibo entered, she saw Chen Bei busy. She wanted to go up and help with the idea of atonement for her sins.
"No, no, I'll do it myself."
How could Bibo get started with the wine song that Chenbei finally made? He speeded up. In the meantime, the totem pattern on his arm lit up slightly, and his hand speed became faster, and he could only see waves of afterimages.
In the blink of an eye, Chenbei put all the dried wine chorus into the animal skin bag.
Bibo was a little regretful and failed to help Chen Bei. She asked curiously: "Chief, what kind of treasure is this? Is the witch medicine?"
Chen Bei smiled and shook his head, saying, "It's not a witch medicine, it's something used to make wine. You will know from now on."
"By the way, what's the harvest when you go out this time?"
Chen Bei tied the animal skin bag and hung it on the wall of the inner room, while looking at Bibo.
Bibo's face dimmed a little. She took out a animal skin scroll and handed it to Chenbei, saying, "Chief, I have written all the experiences of this voyage on this animal skin scroll. Please read it."
Chen Bei first washed his hands and quickly dried the moisture with the power of totem, and then took the animal skin roll.
He expanded and browsed, then asked in surprise: "Have you gone to sea?"
"Yes, three small boats were lost for this, and the big boats were also damaged. More than a dozen soldiers were buried in the sea. All of this was because of my fault, and I came to apologize to the leader."
Bibo lowered his head, feeling uneasy. She didn't know what Chenbei would think about this matter.
Chen Bei shook his head and said, "Opening a new channel is like a hunting team opening a new route. Death and injury are always inevitable, so you don't have to blame yourself."
"If I punish you severely because of you, then no one in the warriors of the Mang tribe will dare to explore new places in the future."
Chen Bei's words made Bibo feel relieved. Fortunately, Chen Bei is not a conservative leader, otherwise she would probably be severely punished.
Chen Bei said again: "But you have also made a serious problem, that is, you have not learned about the sea clearly from the fish tribe, so you rashly drove into the sea."
"It's a place we are completely unfamiliar with, but the Fish Tribe has lived by the sea for a long time and has a certain understanding of the sea. If you are more patient and learn more about the situation in the sea from the Fish Tribe when you borrow the transaction, you may reduce some losses."
Before Bibo could be glad, he lowered his head again by Chen Bei's statement, ashamed, and felt guilty in his heart.
Because of her overconfidence and because she didn't want to bow to Honglin, Bibo did not know too much about the sea from the fish tribe, but went out to sea rashly.
Chenbeidao: "I went back and looked back and did not allow such problems to occur again in the future."
"yes!"
Bibo lowered his head in shame and prepared to turn around and leave.
Just then, Chenbeidao: "Wait..."
Bibo turned around and looked at Chenbei blankly.
"What you described on the animal skin roll is a good summary of the defects of the river boat entering the sea. After you go back, think carefully about how to change the structure of the boat to make it easier to navigate the sea."
Chen Bei drew another picture and asked Bibo to take it back. In the picture, what he drew was a sea boat he had seen in his previous life. The bottom was pointed and the ends were pointed at the same time, for Bibo's reference.
Bibo looked at the pictures drawn by Chen Bei. Her eyes lit up after experiencing navigation in the sea. She felt that the ship drawn by Chen Bei was the ship needed to navigate in the sea.
Of course, the details need to be transformed by herself.
Chen Bei seemed to be an omniscient god. This time, and this picture, made Bibo's sense of worship of Chen Bei rise straight up.
After Bibo left, Chenbei began to try to brew rice wine. He first cooked the rice with a big cauldron, then spread it out to cool down the rice. Then he crushed the wine koji, mixed it evenly with the rice, and finally sprinkled some water, put it in the wine jar, and kept it warm and fermented.
"Whether it can be done or not depends on luck."
Chapter completed!