So what if you flee from famine? Start all over again and live a good life every day

"Faster?" An Zhi was a little confused and looked at the waste under the table: "Why did I waste so much? I'm so stupid."

"..."

Sui He didn't want to talk anymore. She had prepared two baskets for An Zhi, hoping that An Zhi would take his time to do it.

I didn't expect there were so many left. Hard work is nothing compared to talent.

"Please take out all these pieces." Sui He took out another basket of tongcao cores and placed them in front of An Zhi.

"Okay." Anzhi was very obedient. He did whatever Suihe asked him to do. He put down the rice paper in his hand, picked up another one and started to slice it seriously.

It took Anzhi two days to get from only being able to produce one card out of ten sticks to being able to produce seven or eight cards out of ten sticks. During this time, except for eating and sleeping, Anzhi spent all his time on the Tongcao core.

Sometimes when I get tired of filming, I will pick up the moonflower next to me and look at it carefully. I can look at it for most of the day. When I have seen enough, I will continue to film the hollyhock.

Doing one thing over and over again for a long time is very boring. I don't know how Anzhi persisted.

In the next month, Suihe did not teach Anzhi anything else, just the tongxin grass. Anzhi did not get impatient at all. After a month of practice, Anzhi's skills were fast and stable.

Seeing that the time was almost up, after learning the basics, Suihe began to teach the next step, trimming the petals.

The rice paper is very brittle and will break if you are not careful, so you need to moisten it first so that it is easier to handle. In hot weather, the rice paper dries quickly.

Just cover the unused parts with a wet towel.

Suihe used the moonflower as an example, and taught how to trim the petals, how to assemble, and how to color. Each step was taught in detail, and Anzhi listened very carefully.

The moonflower has only four petals, and the petals are large and easy to cut. Suihe demonstrated while explaining. She did each step very slowly to ensure that Anzhi could see clearly.

"Do you understand?" Sui He put the finished tongcao flower in front of An Zhi for her to see.

"I understand." An Zhi nodded.

"I see. Come and try it." Sui He put the tongcao flower in his hand on the table and made way for An Zhi. He followed Sui He's example and cut the petals.

The first time I used scissors, I didn't cut well and the petals I cut were of different sizes.

"The petals of the tongcao flower are the same size as real flowers. You can use the real petals to cut a mold, and then you can cut according to the mold later." Sui He picked up a piece of paper beside him, cut out a petal that looked exactly like the evening primrose, and put the paper mold next to An Zhi.

"Not only moonflowers, but all the flower shapes you encounter can be made into paper models first, which will make it much easier to make the same flower shape in the future."

"I understand, second sister," An Zhi responded, and then began to trim the paper model. The following steps were much simpler.

After cutting out the flower shapes, put them together and add some color, and you have a flower.

Seeing that Anzhi was busy, Suihe stopped disturbing her and let her study on her own. He asked her to make moonflowers first, and then learn chrysanthemums after she was done.

Chrysanthemum is the entry-level basic type of Tongcao flower. As long as the chrysanthemum is done well, other flower shapes will be no problem.

She walked into the storeroom and lifted the cloth covering the wine vat. A strong fermentation smell wafted out, along with a faint aroma of wine and sourness.

The sorghum has been fermented for a month and should be ready for distillation. Distillation is to increase the alcohol content in the sorghum wine and to better remove the sour taste produced by the fermentation of sorghum.

Distilled liquor can be distilled twice. The first distillation is to remove the sour taste of sorghum, and the second distillation can improve the quality of the liquor.

Suihe set up a big pot in the yard, but Anzhi was busy so Suihe did not ask Anzhi to help.

Put water and a wine sieve in the pot. The wine sieve looks like a wooden barrel without a bottom. There is a thin bamboo tube in the middle of the barrel wall that serves as a water outlet. The distilled and cooled wine will flow out of the tube.

Pour the fermented sorghum into the steamer in the pot and spread it evenly. Place a grooved wooden board in the middle of the wine jar and a pot filled with cold water on top.

Suihe lit the firewood, and the fire burned fiercely. After a while, the water in the pot boiled. The wine vapor touched the bottom of the pot and turned into wine liquid, which dripped into the grooves in the wine jar, and then dripped into the wine jar prepared by Suihe through the thin bamboo tube.

Sui He watched the wine dripping into the jar drop by drop, and leaned over to smell it: "What a nice smell!"

The wine was still hot at this time, and the aroma of the evaporating wine gradually spread throughout the courtyard and drifted around.

Pay attention to the temperature of the water in the pot. If the water is hot, change it to a pot of cold water.

"Suihe girl, what are you doing at home? It smells so good." Doctor Ye came in smelling the smell: "It smells so good, this is a bar, let me smell it quickly."

"Doctor Ye, why are you here?" Sui He was still changing the water in the Tian Guo when he heard Doctor Ye's voice.

"Doctor Ye sent me back. Before he even reached the door, he smelled the smell coming from the yard outside." Grandpa also followed Doctor Ye in.

"I came here because of the smell." Doctor Ye came forward and looked at the wine jar in the yard, where drops of wine dripped into the wine jar below.

"Suihe, what are you doing? Why does it smell like wine?" Doctor Ye leaned over and sniffed it hard: "No, this smells better than wine."

"I'm making sorghum wine, which is made from pure grains." Sui He replaced the almost full jar of wine.

He took out a porcelain bowl from the room and poured out the wine from the jar. The clear wine slowly flowed into the bowl from above, stirring up a large amount of wine foam.

This first jar of wine is the first batch of wine, the taste is not very good, but fortunately there are no impurities. Sui He picked up the bowl and put it under his nose to smell it before putting it aside. The distilled wine in the middle is the best quality.

"This sorghum can actually be used to make wine. It's really clear, just like water." Doctor Ye picked up the wine that Suihe had placed on the table and smelled it.

The wine that has just been distilled is very strong and spicy. It is not tasty at all. It needs to be left for at least half a year for all the ethanol in the wine to evaporate before it tastes good. It also needs to be diluted with water before it can be drunk.

Sui He didn't even turn his head back, and continued to observe the situation in the pot: "Doctor Ye, don't think it looks like water, it's still very strong, don't touch it, you still need to mix it."

Before Sui He finished speaking, he heard a thump from behind and the sound of a porcelain bowl falling to the ground and breaking.

"Old Ye, what happened to you?" Grandpa was startled and immediately went forward to pull up Doctor Ye who had collapsed on the ground.

"Oh my god, I haven't finished talking yet, Doctor Ye must have drunk it!" Sui He immediately ran over and helped Doctor Ye with his grandfather.

Doctor Ye's face was flushed, his mouth smelled of alcohol, and he collapsed on Grandpa with his eyes closed. He was obviously drunk.

My god, distilled liquor is not like the fermented liquor of this era. The alcohol content of liquor in this world is only about 8 or 9 degrees, and the highest is only about 10 degrees. Her distilled liquor has just been distilled out. Although it is the first liquor, the alcohol content is as high as 50 degrees.

The key point is that Doctor Ye drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp. There was quite a lot of wine in the bowl. It would be strange if Doctor Ye didn't fall down drinking like this.

"Grandpa, help Doctor Ye back inside," Sui He said anxiously. An Zhi ran to open the door of the room where Mr. Ning lived.