Chapter Thirty-Four Making Wine
“Brother-in-law, I’m going to work too! I can’t even stay home and read. My sister says it’s to exercise my body, so I won’t be cooped up in the house and get sick… She won’t even let me go into the village to listen to gossip.”
“Qingheng, I think you just want to keep studying! Fine, you don’t need to stay here anymore, go back to your room and study quickly.”
“Sister! You’re kicking me when I’m down! I’m not leaving, I want to see how brother-in-law will make these sour grapes into wine!”
“Then watch honestly and don’t talk too much.”
Then, when Gu Qingheng’s slightly wronged voice sounded, Gu Mengyao responded without politeness. Gu Qingheng heard this and quickly shook his head, indicating that he would not go back to his room to study now.
Brother-in-law is going to make wine, he has to stay here and watch the process.
It’s much better than studying dead books in the room. After all, Gu Qingheng has never even heard of wine, and he doesn’t know what it will taste like when it’s finally brewed.
When Gu Yu heard the siblings bickering again, he just smiled, and then began to arrange all the preparations for making wine.
First, these wild grapes need to be washed clean with water, and all the dirt attached to them should be washed off.
Second, the water stains on these grapes need to be dried.
Then they are crushed in the water vat, and the pulp and juice are separated. Then, white sugar is added in a ratio of six to one, and finally they are placed in the water vat to ferment.
These sound simple, and they are indeed simple.
However, just like the recipe for white sugar, if Gu Yu didn’t know the process, he would definitely not have been able to make wine so easily.
Not to mention anything else, the white sugar needed to make wine is unattainable for ordinary people.
However, these wild grapes in the mountains appeared at a very timely moment, just as Gu Yu made the white sugar. Otherwise, if he used sugarcane to make wine, Gu Yu really couldn’t guarantee… whether the wine could be made.
“Brother-in-law, is the wine ready? I feel like it’s easier than making white sugar!”
“Not yet! This is just the beginning. We still have to wait another month before we can proceed to the next step.”
“So long! It makes me impatient!”
“It’s okay, you can go read.”
“Hehe, brother-in-law, you come with me too!”
“…”
After dealing with the wild grapes, all three members of the Gu family were exhausted.
At first, Gu Yu was worried that Gu Mengyao would crush the grape seeds, but he didn’t expect… her strength was very well controlled, and she looked no different from an ordinary person.
Regarding this question, Gu Yu also took the opportunity to ask his younger brother-in-law, and learned that Gu Mengyao’s divine power, apart from being difficult to control in the early stages, has already been able to control it at will after so many years of training.
After hearing this news, Gu Yu felt it was good.
Although he had such a guess before, now that it has been confirmed, Gu Yu feels that his little wife can disguise herself better.
At least, people won’t discover anything different.
After the crushed grapes were sealed in water vats and covered with lids, the following days were calm and uneventful.
Except for Gu Yu and Gu Qingheng, the two unlucky brothers who had to study every day, Gu Mengyao did not go out anymore. Instead, she stayed at home to concentrate on researching dishes and lightness skills.
Gu Mengyao used to like to get together with her little sisters, but it was only because they hadn’t spent time together for a while. Now that they are familiar with each other again, they don’t have to stick together every day.
Anyway, there will be plenty of time in the future, and they can arrange to get together on fixed days every week to maintain their relationship.
After all, each family has its own life, and the work of rural families is even more, so there is not so much time to play.
And Gu Mengyao, due to her neglect in the previous period, is now even more dedicated to cooking, preparing to raise Gu Yu and Gu Qingheng into plump and fair individuals.
Fortunately, Gu Mengyao didn’t make all meat dishes this time, but combined meat and vegetables, which made Gu Yu and Gu Qingheng very happy.
This kind of quiet and leisurely life is actually what Gu Yu wants most now, so he enjoys this undisturbed life.
However, Gu Qingheng has had some minor problems recently.
“Sister, my teeth hurt so much!”
“How can your teeth suddenly hurt! Did you secretly eat candy behind our backs again?”
“No! Sister, you hid the candy so well, like in a mouse hole, where would I steal it from! Wuwu, it hurts so much.”
Gu Qingheng was in no mood to study due to the toothache. He just covered both sides of his cheeks with his hands, his eyes filled with tears due to the pain, and his speech was a bit slurred, making him look very pitiful.
After Gu Mengyao reached out and moved Gu Qingheng’s hands away from his face, it was obvious that the two sides of Gu Qingheng’s cheeks had already bulged, as if he had been beaten.
Then, when she asked Gu Qingheng to open his mouth to see what was wrong with his teeth, she saw that his gums were red and swollen, and even oozing pus and bleeding. Just looking at it made others feel extreme pain.
Gu Yu stood beside him, looking at Gu Qingheng’s swollen little face. After leaning in to look at the situation in his mouth, he figured out some reasons and knew why Gu Qingheng’s gums had become like this.
“Qingheng has been invaded by heat evil, causing stomach fire toothache. You didn’t say it earlier, but you had to wait until now. It serves you right!”
“Brother-in-law! I didn’t know it would be so serious, wuwuwu, it hurts so much!”
“It’s okay, I have a way to treat it. I just don’t know if you want to drink medicine or something else?”
“Something else, something else! If I have to drink that extremely bitter Chinese medicine, I’d rather die of pain!”
After reading the Medical Scripture for so long, Gu Yu is now half a doctor. Seeing Gu Qingheng’s condition, he quickly found the reason for the illness.
However, Gu Qingheng, like Gu Yu, obviously refused to drink that very bitter Chinese medicine and chose other treatment methods.
Gu Yu didn’t say anything more at this time. Anyway, as long as his brother-in-law’s toothache could be cured, it would be fine.
He remembered that the Medical Scripture mentioned that one of the methods to treat stomach fire toothache was the nasal plugging method.
First, you need to prepare an appropriate amount of rhubarb powder.
This common traditional Chinese medicine doesn’t need to be bought specially in town; it can be found at the village doctor’s. After Gu Yu quickly bought a few pieces of rhubarb, he quickly ground the rhubarb into powder.
Then, dip the cotton in water to wet it, spread the rhubarb powder on it, and stuff it directly into Gu Qingheng’s nostrils.
Because both of Gu Qingheng’s cheeks were swollen, in the end, only one nostril on each side could be plugged alternately with cotton.
“A’yu, is Qingheng’s condition okay!”
“It’s okay. In a few more days, when the wine proceeds to the next step, Qingheng’s condition will also be better. Because stomach fire needs to eat some light food, please cook more light side dishes recently!”
“Okay.”
After giving a few instructions to Gu Mengyao, Gu Qingheng was directly sent to the room by Gu Yu to rest, and then he and Gu Mengyao left home to stroll on the mountain.
Autumn has passed, and the cold winter is slowly arriving. The grass and trees on the mountain have turned yellow, losing their former vitality.
The cold air makes people freeze, and even wearing thick cotton-padded clothes, it still feels very cold.
However, at present, Gu Yu is the only one who feels this way.
Gu Mengyao and her brother are already accustomed to the cold of winter, so they are not as afraid of the cold as Gu Yu. When Gu Mengyao saw Gu Yu shivering from the cold, she suggested that he didn’t need to come out for a walk anymore, but Gu Yu did not agree.
Gu Yu already felt it was too overbearing not to let Gu Mengyao go to the mountains to hunt.
After all, Gu Mengyao had been active in the mountains all along. When she suddenly stopped going, Gu Yu had seen his little wife looking at the mountains with a nostalgic expression several times.
Therefore, Gu Yu can only compensate by accompanying her for a walk now, wanting Gu Mengyao to exercise more.
It can also enhance their relationship. It’s a win-win situation, why not!
It’s just a little cold, he can still bear it!
Gu Mengyao’s lightness skill has also improved a lot during this period, making Gu Yu feel that if she goes hunting in the mountains next spring, it will be fine and he won’t have to worry about those wild beasts hurting her anymore.
However, these are things to be discussed after winter passes.
“A’yu, time has passed so quickly. I never even dreamed of the current life, it’s really great.”
While walking, Gu Mengyao looked at the withered grass and trees around her and immediately felt that time had passed too quickly.
A few months ago, she was still worried that her family would go hungry and suffer from the cold in winter. But now, not only does her family have a lot of money, but they also live in newly built blue brick and tile houses.
The changes during this period can be said to be incredibly fast.
However, as someone who has experienced everything, Gu Mengyao has no choice but to believe it.
So her exclamation at this moment made Gu Yu, who heard it aside, curl the corners of his mouth upwards, feeling that this little wife of his is really soft-hearted and has many thoughts!
But it makes sense. After transmigrating for so long, she has experienced quite a lot. Thinking back now, compared to the calm and uneventful life in modern times, it is truly more ‘turbulent and magnificent’.
“I was ignorant before, but Mengyao, don’t worry, I will support this family in the future and will not let you and Qingheng suffer any grievances.”
“Don’t say that. Everyone is growing. You can’t stay in the past forever. A new life is waiting for us.”
After hearing Gu Yu’s self-reproaching words, Gu Mengyao repeatedly shook her head and said that she couldn’t say that.
Everyone grows with time. She and Gu Yu are like this, the villagers are like this, and everyone in the Linfeng Kingdom is like this. They are changing without realizing it.
Upon hearing Gu Mengyao’s words, Gu Yu’s smile became brighter and brighter. Then he didn’t say anything more, but reached out and held Gu Mengyao’s little hand.
They continued to walk quietly, with a touch of sweetness in the atmosphere, bringing sweet smiles to their faces.
