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The next day, after breakfast, Xie Xuan'an couldn't wait to rush to Li Qingqing's residence.

When the shadow guard came to deliver breakfast just now, he also brought a message from Li Qingqing, asking him to come over at noon.

Xie Xuan'an couldn't wait until noon. Last night, Li Qingqing received the items and a pile of pottery jars he brought from Qiu Shui Town, and said that she would brew wine for him to drink today.

He also said that this wine is unique and has a rich aroma, and just a small drink is enough to make people intoxicated.

He actually didn't quite believe it.

In the past, he drank every day in Kyoto, and each time he would drink several kilograms of liquor before he was drunk. How could one glass of liquor make a person intoxicated?

Moreover, the two large iron pots that Li Qingqing asked him to buy, plus a bottomless and uncovered round wooden barrel with empty ends, were actually used to make wine?

Are you treating him like a child?

Are you using some witchcraft again?

However, since she boasted that this wine was as good as nectar, even if it was obtained by magic, he still wanted to try it.

I also want to see with my own eyes how she makes wine.

Xie Xuan'an excitedly stepped into the kitchen and saw Li Qingqing just moving a large iron pot onto the stove.

Li Qingqing saw Xie Xuanan coming and said with a smile: "Didn't I tell you to come back at noon? I haven't brewed it yet."

As she spoke, her hands did not slow down.

"I happened to be free, so I came to see how you brew it." Xie Xuan'an answered casually.

Seeing Li Qingqing busy, he watched her intently from the side.

He had seen others brew wine before, but Li Qingqing's method seemed different from others.

Watching her busying around with such skill, it seemed like the real thing.

I saw Li Qingqing placing the bamboo steaming rack on the big iron pot, and then placing the bottomless and lidless round wooden barrel steadily on the bamboo steaming rack.

Then she used a ladle to scoop out the fermented sorghum from the ceramic jar next to her and poured it into the round wooden barrel.

When Xie Xuanan saw it, he quickly asked, "Is this sorghum? Not rice?"

"Rice is kept for filling your stomach, and sorghum is the best choice for making wine." Li Qingqing explained while scooping sorghum.

Xie Xuan'an didn't know where Li Qingqing learned this from, but she actually used sorghum to make wine.

But when he thought about the fact that rice was indeed a bit tight now, he stopped talking and continued to watch Li Qingqing's next move.

After Li Qingqing filled the wooden barrel with sorghum, she inserted a thin bamboo tube into a small hole in the barrel from the inside, leaving one end of the bamboo tube exposed outside the barrel.

The other end of the thin bamboo tube is connected to a bamboo groove, which is placed in the barrel to collect wine.

This was made by Xie Xuan'an based on the drawings given by Li Qingqing.

"What is the use of this sink?" Xie Xuan'an couldn't help but ask again.

"It's for collecting wine! As long as the distilled wine falls into this trough, the wine will flow out of the thin bamboo tube."

"is it?"

Xie Xuan'an looked suspiciously at the round wooden barrel placed above the big iron pot.

Then he watched Li Qingqing place a clay pot under the thin bamboo tube, as if wine would really come out of the bamboo tube.

Li Qingqing placed the pottery jar and looked up to see Xie Xuanan seemed a little unconvinced, so she asked with a smile:

"Can you make a fire?"

"Make a fire?" Xie Xuan'an was stunned.

He didn't do this.

But seeing Li Qingqing's disdainful look, he glanced at the stove, then at the firewood on the ground, and said:

"How difficult is this!"

Xie Xuan'an then lifted his sleeves and prepared to light the firewood.

As he lit the fire, he asked, "Can we really make wine by steaming sorghum like this?"

"That's right!"

Li Qingqing saw Xie Xuan'an lighting a fire with firewood.

She then placed a large iron pot on top of the wooden barrel and completely blocked the gap between the barrel and the iron pot with wet cotton cloth.

Next, pour some cold water into both pots.

After doing all this, she looked at Xie Xuanan,

"Why haven't you lit the fire yet?"

"It was burning just now, but for some reason it went out again." Xie Xuan'an felt helpless.

His shadow guards were following Li Qingqing's shadow guards to maintain order in the border town. If he had known they were going to start a fire, he should have brought one back.

"How about having your shadow guard come over and start the fire?"

Li Qingqing was a little disgusted when she heard this, "Tsk tsk, let me do it!"

Do you need to ask the shadow guard for such a small matter?

Xie Xuan'an blinked his innocent peach blossom eyes, without arguing, and immediately stood up to give his seat to Li Qingqing.

He is still looking forward to tasting the fine wine!

For the sake of the wine, I won't bother with her.

Li Qingqing lit the fire in the stove and kept the fire burning steadily.

While she was lighting the fire, she kept an eye on the pot on top of the wooden barrel.

Not long after, the water in the pot began to get hot. Li Qingqing quickly scooped out the hot water and refilled it with cold water.

The purpose of doing this is actually to allow the wine vapor to condense into liquid wine as quickly as possible when it encounters the cold surface at the bottom of the pot.

The quality of wine depends entirely on this cold pot!

Repeat this process several times, keeping the water in the pot cold.

Xie Xuan'an saw her constantly struggling with the water in the pot on top of the wooden barrel and was very confused by her actions.

However, he was smart enough not to ask.

He looked calm on the surface, but in his heart he was nervously staring at the thin bamboo tube on the wooden barrel.

There was a pottery jar under the thin bamboo tube.

Li Qingqing said that the wine would appear from here, how is that possible?

Xie Xuan'an was full of curiosity about this seemingly simple winemaking process.

Time passed quietly, and only the sound of "tick-tick" could be heard.

The first drop of wine slowly dripped from the thin bamboo tube and fell into the pottery jar.

Then the wine began to flow into the pottery jar like a trickle.

A strong aroma of wine instantly spread, as if even the air became a little mellow.

"Wine?!" Xie Xuan'an was slightly excited.

Two big iron pots and a bottomless and lidless wooden barrel actually made wine?

Xie Xuan'an took a deep breath, intoxicated by the aroma of wine that filled his nose.

This wine smells so mellow, it must taste even better?

Seeing that the wine was flowing out smoothly, Li Qingqing turned the fire in the stove to medium.

When the pottery jar was full of wine, Li Qingqing quickly took out another pottery jar to continue collecting wine.

Looking at the pottery jar filled with wine, Xie Xuanan asked with a smile:

"Can I have a taste?"

"This first bottle of wine is not suitable for drinking. It needs to be processed again before it can be consumed."

Li Qingqing glanced at him with a smile and continued:

"You can drink from the second can, but you might be better suited to the last one."

The alcohol content of the last jar was, at best, about the same as the fermented wine of the Dayuan Kingdom.

She didn't want the elegant young master Xie to lose his composure after drinking.

However, seeing that Xie Xuan'an looked like he wanted to taste it, she had no choice but to take a small cup, quickly poured some wine into it and handed it to Xie Xuan'an.

Xie Xuanan took the small cup and looked at it, and couldn't help but blurt out:

"Li Qingqing, you are so stingy. You only gave me this little!"

The cup isn't even full!

"Just try it first. It's still brewing!" Li Qingqing smiled embarrassedly.

She didn't know how much Xie Xuan'an could drink. What if he got drunk?

Xie Xuan'an glanced at Li Qingqing resentfully, then looked at the pottery jar that was collecting the wine, and then poured the few drops of wine into his mouth.

At this moment, the shadow guard waiting at the door came in to report,

"City Lord, Young Master Xie, Imperial Censor Song is here."

Li Qingqing and Xie Xuan'an looked at each other and said, "Please let him in."