Surprise Hotel

Lu Xing quickly went to the agricultural base. As expected, Er Dongchuan was already arranging personnel to harvest sorghum, wheat and other grains.

Looking at the newly erected granary next to the agricultural base, Lu Xing deeply felt the joy of a bumper harvest.

"Duke, are you here to check and accept the results?" Er Dongchuan came out to greet him.

"Obviously, the results are good." Lu Xing said overjoyed. "What is the approximate yield of these grains?"

"Sorghum is fifteen thousand catties and wheat is five thousand catties." Er Dongchuan said, "This is only the first crop of grains. The second crop of grains will be harvested in two weeks. The harvest is expected to double five times."

"Great, great!" Lu Xing clapped excitedly, "The agricultural base is next to the vacant area and continue to expand planting! Especially grains! By the way, I ask you one thing, can you make wine?"

"This..." Er Dongchuan was in trouble. "I only know that grains and grapes can be used to make wine, but the long-term lack of these raw materials does not allow us to master this technology. The underground city used it hundreds of years ago. A slightly psychedelic drink replaced the drink. Even if there were some who could make wine, it was the attendant around the rulers in the early years. But those rulers basically drank the wine stored in the last century. The wine was in the wasteland era. An extremely luxurious existence."

For such a luxurious thing, the system only asks for 10,000 bottles when it opens. It's really a big opening!

Lu Xing thought.

But the more you pay, the more you prove that this advanced mineral knowledge is rare.

"Don't you know how to use microbiology, can you do it?" He asked again.

"Koji... Aspergillus?" Er Dongchuan asked, scratching his head.

"Yes, it is probably necessary to use this kind of thing, that is, the steamed rice is transferred into the Aspergillus and then grows hairy, and you can get the wine koji!" Lu Xing explained, "When I was little, my mother would do this."

"I understand!" Er Dongchuan's eyes flashed, "The cultivation process is relatively slow, I need some time. Instead, I will hand over the finished koji to you!"

"Okay, do as much as possible!" Lu Xing finished his account and waved to the person in charge of the grain storage, "Weigh me ten catties of sorghum and send it to the palace."

These ten catties of sorghum were used for his experiments.

As Er Dongchuan said, the winemaking culture of this era has been broken down.Almost few people can make wine.

Some people may be able to drink some wine, such as a businessman with a wealth of wealth like Midler.Since he settled down in the city-state, he has lived a life of receiving monthly salary in peace and stability.Almost all the wine in his hand was drunk in a hot pot.

It is so difficult for Lu Xing to find some samples for research.

The remaining wine in the wine cellar of Grand Duke DuPont was evacuated by Hou Cang during the war, and no one knew where it was later hidden.

No way, Lu Xing could only do it himself based on memory.

When he was young, his father was an alcoholic.But his mother loved him very much, and was afraid that he would drink fake wine, so she made wine for him by herself.There are various kinds of rice wine, sorghum wine, and wine.

Although so many years have passed, in Lu Xing's memory, this part of the content has long been faded, but he still has an impression vaguely.

So he decided to try it himself.

He took the sketches and asked old Jason to help him build a set of small appliances.

While waiting for the koji, he first washed and soaked the sorghum.After soaking for a day and night, the sorghum rice grains swelled and can be broken into two halves with a light break, which shows that the soaking is complete.

The next step is to steam the sorghum in a pot.

Er Dongchuan sent the koji in time. Lu Xing didn't know the ratio of rice to koji, so he could only divide the rice into several portions, try them one at a time, and put labels on the outside of the jars with different proportions of koji.

After standing for a period of time, Lu Xing checked the degree of saccharification of the cooked rice in different jars.

Finally, he found that the saccharification effect was the best when the ratio of koji to rice was 0.2 to 1, so he asked Er Dongchuan to continue to make koji. If it is 10,000 bottles of wine, it will be counted as a small bottle. That is 100g, ten thousand bottles is one ton of wine.Then the ratio of mixing into the koji is 200kg.

Er Dongchuan was still surprised that so many distiller’s yeast were needed.

But since Lu Xing gave the order that this must be done, he couldn't refuse, and quickly left to continue to do his work.

Xia Nuo, the thigh-holding person, was a little boring. She wandered around without finding Lu Xing. Halfway through, she met old Jason who gave Lu Xing equipment. Only then did she learn that Lu Xing was making wine in the palace.

This bold attempt attracted the freshness of Xia Nuo. She took Yuan Ling and followed Old Jason to the palace to check.

When the three arrived, Lu Xing had already fallen asleep leaning on the chair.In order to complete the task as soon as possible, he had been here for a day and a night, and finally fell down.

The successfully saccharified rice is put into a fermentation tank and left to stand.

Xia Nuo walked over lightly, and He Yuanling winked, a bad idea was brewing in the eyes of the two.

Ten minutes later, Lu Xing was painted as a big pig.

Old Jason shook his head helplessly, and deliberately knocked on the custom-made equipment he brought to wake Lu Xing.

"You are here... everything is ready, right?" Lu Xing stretched his waist against the graffiti on his face, and Xia Nuo and Yuan Ling leaned forward with a smile.

Lu Xing noticed something was wrong. When he lowered his head, he reflected the light through the bright platform and saw his face. He immediately became very angry.

"You two are going to rebel!"

He thought to himself how he could be regarded as the lord of a city, this should be placed in ancient times, and the two of them would have committed a crime by doing so.

But there was no way to punish the two of them, it was really angry and helpless.

"Don't worry! Don't you wonder where the paint comes from?" Xian Nuo asked mysteriously.

"Yeah, in this era, even writing paper is no longer needed. Children use touchpads and electronic pens. Where did you get the paint?" Lu Xing asked, "Could it be dye! That thing? It can't be washed off!"

"Of course not, I extracted it myself with plant pigments, which can be used for writing, but listening to what you said just now, touchpads and electronic pens can indeed replace them, then I... let's make cosmetics!"

Lu Xing pointed to his face and asked, "Are you sure this thing looks good on the face?"

Xia Nuoqiang held back a smile, "Um...I will improve and improve again, and it will be fine. By the way, we are here to see you making wine, how are you doing?"

After arguing, he immediately changed the subject, and Xia Nuo secretly praised his wit.

Lu Xing couldn't start the unnamed fire, so he got up with the graffiti on his face and walked to the jar to check the progress of the fermentation.

The moment he opened the lid, he closed it back disappointedly.