1980: I have a spiritual spring

Chapter 55 Excuse me, is this Qiaojiawan?

in the afternoon.

Qiao Family Kitchen.

Except for Qiao Wuhu, who lives on campus, everyone else sat at the dining table to eat.

Today's meal was simple, with just a dish of stir-fried eggs with pepper as the main course, but the whole family enjoyed it very much.

Ever since the family's hens started laying eggs, the Qiao family's dining table has never lacked eggs. They eat eggs almost every day, just prepared in different ways: sometimes fried eggs, sometimes steamed eggs, sometimes stir-fried eggs with pepper...

During the meal, Qiao Erhe said, "The Spring Festival is less than two months away. Since we have some free time now, I plan to brew some more sweet glutinous rice wine so that we can drink as much as we want during the New Year."

Upon hearing this, the whole family perked up.

Qiao Sihai's eyes lit up as he said, "Great! Second Brother, you're finally going to brew wine! You must brew a lot this time. The wine you brewed last time was too little. I've only drunk three bowls of sweet glutinous rice wine so far, and I'm so hungry for it."

Qiao Dajiang said excitedly, "Second brother, I'm going to send New Year's gifts to your sister-in-law's family during the Spring Festival. Please brew more of this sweet glutinous rice wine and bring me at least one jar over."

Qiao's mother couldn't help but say, "Second son, prepare a jar for each of your two uncles as well."

Qiao Erhe nodded and said, "Okay, then you should go to Uncle Er's place tomorrow to borrow a bicycle, and then go to the production teams around that haven't yet distributed land to individual households to ask which production team has glutinous rice for sale. Even if the price is a little high, it doesn't matter, as long as they have it, you can buy it."

While speaking, Qiao Erhe also thought that it was time to buy a bicycle. After all, his family had a lot of things to do and often needed to use a bicycle. He couldn't keep asking his second uncle to borrow one every time he needed one. Even if his second uncle and aunt didn't mind, they themselves would feel embarrassed.

However, if you want to buy a bicycle, a bicycle ticket is essential, and their family obviously doesn't have one.

I see. Next time I go to Shashi to sell eggs, I'll have to ask Comrade Su if she can get me a bicycle ticket.

Qiao Dajiang asked, "Second brother, how many kilograms of glutinous rice do we need to buy?"

Qiao Erhe pondered for a moment and said, "Let's set it at 300 jin for now!"

Qiao Dajiang nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go buy glutinous rice tomorrow."

Qiao Erhe looked at the third and fourth brothers and said, "Sanduo, Sihai, tomorrow I will go to the brigade's kiln to buy a batch of large vats and wine jars. You two will be responsible for cleaning all the vats and wine jars."

Qiao Sanduo replied, "Okay, Second Brother."

Qiao Sihai replied, "Understood, Second Brother."

Qiao Liuduo asked, "Second Brother, what do I need to do?"

Qiao Erhe smiled and said, "You don't need to do anything, just study hard."

Qiao Liuduo nodded and said, "Second brother, I've been working hard lately, and my test scores have been improving every time. Even my teacher praised me for my rapid progress!"

Qiao Erhe's heart stirred, and he said, "Here's what we'll do: Liuduo and Qitan, if you two siblings can get into the top ten in the class in the final exam, then I, as your second brother, will give you an extra bowl of sweet glutinous rice wine as a reward."

Then, based on the top ten in the class, for each place you move up, you will be rewarded with an extra bowl of sweet glutinous rice wine.

"How much sweet rice wine you can drink this Spring Festival depends on your own efforts." Qiao Erhe was an experienced person when it came to studying. Many people can study hard for a short period of time, but it is not easy to persist in it for a long time.

Generally speaking, those who can persevere in their efforts over a long period of time are often book-loving geniuses who can enjoy the pleasure of learning.

However, for ordinary people like Qiao Liuduo and Qiao Qitan who lack academic talent, studying is an extremely painful experience.

Therefore, at this time, it is necessary to use rewards from time to time to motivate them, so as to prolong their effort.

Sure enough, upon hearing about the reward, Qiao Liuduo's spirits lifted instantly, and she said with high spirits, "Second Brother, you said it yourself, so don't go back on your word."

Qiao Erhe laughed and said, "Of course I won't go back on my word. As long as you two do it, I will give you the corresponding reward."

Upon hearing this, Qiao Liuduo and Qiao Qitan silently cheered themselves up. Everyone in the family craved this sweet glutinous rice wine, and since they were the youngest in the family, they were always at a disadvantage when it came to distributing it.

Now that their second brother has made this promise, if they can really get into the top ten in the class in the final exam, they will receive an extra reward from their second brother, and then they can show off to their older brothers and sisters.

Qiao Erhe naturally noticed the two little ones' reactions.

In his previous life, none of his siblings had any talent for studying. Even though he was reborn in this life, he didn't have high hopes for his younger siblings' studies. Now, he gives them encouragement from time to time, doing his best and leaving the rest to fate.

If it succeeds, everyone will be happy; if it doesn't, that's to be expected.

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Next, the Qiao siblings got busy again.

Because the first brewing yielded an excellent glutinous rice wine in terms of both taste and effect, Qiao Erhe had no intention of changing the recipe for the second brewing, and the dilution ratio of the spiritual spring water remained the same as the first time.

Soak glutinous rice, steam glutinous rice, mix in yeast, and then ferment.

It looks simple, but there are quite a few things to do and many things to pay attention to. If there is any deviation, it will affect the taste.

Especially now that it's cold winter, the glutinous rice wine simply can't ferment in this weather.

As a winemaker, Qiao Erhe naturally knows that the optimal temperature range for wine fermentation is 20-35 degrees Celsius. If the temperature is below 10 degrees Celsius, fermentation will become very slow or even stop.

The current weather is clearly not suitable for fermenting glutinous rice wine.

If this were in a later era, such a problem would be easy to solve; simply turning on the air conditioner would suffice.

But the Qiao family didn't have the means to do that now. In order to successfully ferment the glutinous rice wine, Qiao Erhe had Qiao Sanduo and Qiao Liuduo move to share a room with Fatty Laoba. Then he moved the wine vat to the empty room and lit several bonfires around the vat to raise the surrounding temperature and achieve the purpose of fermenting the glutinous rice wine.

Fortunately, the fermentation time for the wine didn't need to be too long. The Qiao brothers took turns watching the fire day and night, and it was done after a short while.

On the morning of the second day after the Qiao brothers used the burning fire to control the temperature for fermenting the glutinous rice wine, Su Jinxiu arrived at Qiaojiawan carrying large and small bags of gifts.

When Su Jinxiu arrived at the Bagua Center at the entrance of Qiaojiawan Village, she saw a group of villagers gathered there, warming themselves by a fire and chatting. She walked over and asked, "Hello, comrades, is this Qiaojiawan Village of Hongshan Brigade?"

(End of this chapter)