Chapter 63: The Wine is Brewed
After a night’s wait, the two people who had resolved their inner conflict were naturally no longer entangled.
Seeing this, Gu Qingheng sighed, thinking that the villagers were right!
Husband and wife quarrel at the bedside and reconcile at the foot of the bed… His sister and brother-in-law were just like that, and everything would be alright after a night’s sleep!
Gu Yu, no longer entangled with the upgrade conditions and ready to go with the flow, also returned to his usual self, no longer thinking about things that were not suitable for his age.
Compared to those unsuitable for children thoughts, Gu Yu felt it was better to think more about how to make money and sell the family’s wine.
After a long period of fermentation, the wine was finally brewed!
However, homemade wine would definitely not be as good as professionally brewed wine. But, in Linfeng Kingdom, it was a unique existence.
Even though Linfeng Kingdom was a fictional dynasty, Gu Yu had never thought before that a fruit like grapes could appear, as grapes were introduced from foreign countries in his original world.
But, grapes had indeed appeared now.
Although not as sweet as modern grapes, wild grapes could be used to make wine, which was fine.
This made Gu Yu have to sigh, fortunately he transmigrated to this fictional dynasty; if it were in actual recorded ancient times, it would not be as easy for him to make money as it is now.
What would he do without anything, how would he make money?
“Brother-in-law, is the wine finally brewed?”
After the wine was brewed, Gu Yu directly opened a vat and scooped a ladleful of wine with a water ladle, then carried it out of the cellar.
After returning to the house, Gu Yu first let the wine in the ladle settle for a while, and when the remaining impurities had settled, he brought cups and poured three full cups, preparing to taste the flavor together.
“Mmm, come and try it, this wine tastes good, but don’t drink too much…”
“Alright, alright, I know!”
Gu Qingheng had been curious about wine for a long time, so when he saw that the wine was finally brewed, he picked up a cup of wine and tentatively took a small sip before Gu Yu could finish speaking.
Since the last time he ate wild grapes and almost made his teeth fall out from sourness, Gu Qingheng had learned his lesson. This time, when he encountered the wine brewed from wild grapes, he took a small sip first to see how it tasted.
If it was still too sour, the suffering could be lessened.
“Eh? This is delicious!”
However, after Gu Qingheng took a small sip, he found that the wine tasted very good.
Although Gu Qingheng had never drunk alcohol, he knew that wine was different from other wines. The sour and sweet taste alone was enough to turn him into a little drunkard!
After taking one sip, he wanted to take a second sip, and in the blink of an eye, half a cup was gone.
Gu Yu on the side didn’t even have time to stop him, and saw Gu Qingheng finish the whole cup in one go!
Gu Yu forgot to mention that although wine tasted sweet, it had a strong aftereffect!
Especially for someone like Gu Qingheng who had never drunk alcohol before, he would definitely go wild later.
“A’yu, is this wine? The color is so beautiful!”
“Mengyao, you try it too, it’s not spicy at all. However, this wine has a strong aftereffect. You’ve never drunk alcohol before, so it’s better to drink less for the first time.”
“Mmm, I’ll try.”
When Gu Qingheng finished the entire cup of wine, Gu Mengyao also curiously picked up a cup and took a sip after speaking.
After feeling that the taste was indeed good, Gu Mengyao couldn’t resist and finished the whole cup.
Seeing this, Gu Yu couldn’t help but shake his head helplessly, thinking that this brother and sister were really alike, both being greedy drunkards.
As Gu Yu thought of these things, he also picked up the last cup of wine from the table and took a sip, savoring the taste.
Although it was not as good as modern winemaking, as the wine made with their own hard work, it was quite refreshing to drink.
“Sister, Brother-in-law, why am I a little dizzy! Why are there four of you…”
After the three of them drank the wine, Gu Qingheng, who was the first to drink a full cup, suddenly spoke. As he spoke, he shook his head with a hint of confusion, trying to see clearly how many Gu Yu and Gu Mengyao there were.
Why was his head suddenly feeling a little dizzy?
“Qingheng, you’ve drunk too much, go to sleep!”
“How is that possible! I haven’t drunk too much! A gentleman should be cautious about what he does not see and fearful of what he does not hear. Nothing is more apparent than what is hidden, and nothing is more manifest than what is subtle. Therefore, a gentleman is cautious…”
Gu Yu looked at his younger brother-in-law’s flushed little face, then saw him reciting books seriously and preparing to give a long speech. He knew at a glance that he had drunk too much.
After that, Gu Yu didn’t let Gu Qingheng continue reciting, but directly reached out, carried him, and threw him into his room full of books, letting Gu Qingheng sleep it off.
Because Gu Yu was worried that Gu Mengyao would also get drunk, he quickly returned to the house after wrapping his younger brother-in-law in a quilt, but found that Gu Mengyao was unaffected, not even her face blushing.
She spoke and acted as usual, showing no signs of intoxication.
This made Gu Yu marvel, thinking that his wife was actually a born wine connoisseur, not getting drunk even after drinking for the first time!
After the wine received the good reviews from Gu Mengyao and her brother, Gu Yu was relieved.
Although he knew that once the wine was brewed, it would definitely have a market as a rare item, but if ancient people didn’t like the taste, the market ceiling would not be high.
But now, it seemed that it was very profitable!
Now, he had to find a way to cooperate with Chengfeng Shan.
Unlike last time when he sold the white sugar recipe, Gu Yu planned to take the lion’s share this time, as the value of wine was very high, and it could not be compared with white sugar.
However, it was still as he thought before… Since the Gu family did not have a strong backing, Gu Yu did not dare to directly bring out the wine.
Although the Gu family now had an imperial decree from the Emperor, it could only scare the Wang clan members, and it did not carry much weight in other aspects!
This matter was like the conditions for upgrading the space; it could not be rushed. It was better to let nature take its course, and perhaps it would be resolved naturally by then.
[Good deeds points +25]
Since waking up in the morning, Gu Yu had heard the reminder sound of good deeds points increasing several times. He was a little annoyed, wondering if he could turn off the reminder sound.
When he played games in modern times, there was a setting to turn off the sound, but now this space couldn’t turn off the reminder sound, which was really poor in functionality!
Bad review!
Just as Gu Yu felt that the space reminder sound was too frequent, the good deeds points also increased more and more, making Gu Yu plan to enter the space directly when the number reached about 100.
He was ready to see what the special medicine provided by the Pot of Benevolent Aid looked like.
[Detoxification Pill +1, can relieve poisoning under various circumstances.]
When Gu Yu poured the pill from the Pot of Benevolent Aid into his palm, a line of large characters appeared directly before his eyes, letting Gu Yu know the efficacy of the pill in his hand.
It was a Detoxification Pill…
After studying the Medical Scripture for a period of time, Gu Yu was no longer a novice who knew nothing. With some understanding of medicine, he knew that various detoxification methods were not something that could be readily obtained.
It required knowing the cause of poisoning and a large accumulation of medical knowledge to prescribe a remedy to relieve the poison; otherwise, reckless treatment would also kill the person.
The Detoxification Pill in his hand could relieve various poisons.
It was simply a divine pill!
It seemed that this Pot of Benevolent Aid was indeed a good thing.
Happily putting away the Detoxification Pill, Gu Yu did not feel any annoyance when he heard the sound of good deeds points increasing again after leaving the space.
In fact, he even hoped that such reminder sounds would come more often.
…
Since Bai Lin Yue and Cheng Feng Shan both left, the Gu family soon returned to a peaceful life.
As time passed, the news of the Gu family receiving the imperial decree gradually faded and was replaced by other matters, no longer being discussed by others.
This made the three members of the Gu family breathe a sigh of relief, as they did not want to be stared at like monkeys every time they went out, which was really unpleasant.
However, what replaced the news of the Gu family’s imperial decree was none other than the restless Yang family…
After the measles epidemic passed, everything was returning to normal. However, when the son of the Yang family’s eldest son, Zhiwen Yang, was out of mortal danger, Zhiwen Yang insisted on separating the family.
His attitude was so resolute that it could be compared to Zhi Shuang Yang’s insistence on separating the family back then.
However, when Zhi Shuang Yang insisted on separating the family at that time, Old Man Yang did not make things too difficult for him, but only let Zhi Shuang Yang and Gu Yu and his son leave empty-handed, not taking a single strand of the Old Yang family’s belongings, before he was willing to let them separate.
But when Zhiwen Yang said he also wanted to leave empty-handed, Old Man Yang refused to agree to anything.
With the elders still alive, the family could not be separated.
As for why Zhi Shuang Yang was able to leave, it was because he was not Old Man Yang’s biological son, so it was fine for him to leave.
But Zhiwen Yang was Old Man Yang’s first son, and their emotional bond was the deepest… Although Old Man Yang favored his youngest son, he also greatly valued his eldest son, thinking that unlike his second son Zhiwu Yang who lived a dissolute life, Zhiwen Yang was very down-to-earth.
As a farmer, a person like Zhiwen Yang was the most reliable, at least he would not indulge in eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling, making the family not a family and himself not a person.
Among Old Man Yang’s many sons, he was most worried about his second son Zhiwu Yang. He didn’t know who Zhiwu Yang took after to be so fond of eating, drinking, and playing all day, and doing things like stealing chickens!
Under Old Man Yang’s adamant refusal, Zhiwen Yang was helpless, but he and his wife Juan Wang began a silent protest, refusing to work in the fields or do housework, and only appearing in the main house for meals.
When Zhiwen Yang’s son was almost dying from measles, because of Old Man Yang’s cold indifference, he was heartbroken and no longer wanted to live together, so as to avoid such things happening in the future.
As a father, Zhiwen Yang felt sorry for his son.
When his child was suffering from illness, he couldn’t even find someone to treat him. In Zhiwen Yang’s heart, this was like a heavy lock, and every time he thought about it, he felt suffocated.
It was time to separate the family.
