Don't worry about traveling through time, she has an all-powerful senior sister to help her

Chapter 121 Brewing 1

Shen Shijiu didn't expect Xiao Zhuzi to come all the way to greet her. She smiled and said, "Can't wait to go on a long journey with me?"

"No, I will stay with you after my aunt is one month old." Shen Lingzhu calculated secretly that it would be time for the master to get married.

Oh no! I always wanted to study, and now I want to ask the teacher for advice on painting, but he doesn’t have time.

But she tried to learn as much as she could in the next few days.

"Master, I want to learn painting from you. My uncle said that your figures are very realistic." Shen Lingzhu expressed his true intention.

Shen Songzhu, who was following his aunt, blinked. He didn't understand why Xiao Zhuzi suddenly wanted to learn this. Was it because calligraphy and painting were inseparable?

Shen Shijiu naturally welcomed her to learn, and told her as they walked that painting was a hard job, and as long as she was willing to work hard and had her family's support, she would teach her at any time.

What she called support was financial. Music, chess, calligraphy and painting have always been expensive arts.

Back then, her parents supported her in learning these things, which emptied half of the family's budget and caused her elder sister to complain frequently.

"My uncle and aunt both support it." Last night, my uncle said that there is no need to worry about not having enough money to buy brushes, ink and paints, because he decided not to repay the Geng family for the time being, considering not wanting to attract outsiders' attention.

Shen Shijiu was very happy when he heard this: "In a moment, follow me and see how to draw a simple bellows diagram.

I just ran into my fifth brother going to the village to look for my second uncle, and he hadn't told me in advance."

She and Song'er were invited to help paint the bellows and rocking chair.

But when Hu took out the map that Shen Lingzhu had drawn last night, as well as the bellows that he had drawn before, Shen Shijiu's eyes lit up: "This child has talent.

Xiao Zhuzi, don't let your talent go to waste. From now on, you will work beside me."

"Master, please forgive me. After my second sister and I finish brewing grape wine, I will follow you to learn, okay?" After picking so many grapes, Shen Lingzhu really wanted to brew some by herself.

Mrs. Hu said from the side: "You are not needed. Ninth brother's wife, Jian Zhu, and your eldest brother are all here."

"But my second sister needs my help. Aunt, have you forgotten what happened in the kitchen last night..." Shen Lingzhu didn't think that anyone else could cooperate with her senior sister.

But when Mrs. Hu thought of the two baskets of grapes that were washed too clean, she stopped trying to stop her.

Shen Shijiu was not someone who was unaccommodating. She even wanted to learn how to make wine from her new student.

But she resisted the urge to go. Only after Shen Lingzhu got permission did she run to the kitchen.

She saw that her eldest brother and second sister were already busy. The stems of the grapes had been completely cleaned, and the newly bought large and small jars were laid out in a row, occupying the entire kitchen.

She cleaned her fingers and stood beside her second sister when she heard, "Don't crush the grapes directly with your hands. Use the small rolling pin on the table to crush them."

"Okay." Shen Lingzhu was very familiar with this job. In another world a long time ago, she had brewed wine with her parents more than once.

With a rolling pin in hand, good wine will come naturally.

She used a scale to weigh a certain number of grapes, divided them, crushed them layer by layer, and sprinkled a layer of sugar, with the ratio being five pounds of grapes to one pound of sugar.

As the saying goes, what is difficult to accomplish is the fastest to destroy. More than 100 kilograms of fresh grapes were crushed and capped in an hour and a half.

Of course, just cover the lid lightly and do not press it with anything, otherwise the lid may burst after a long period of fermentation.

Shen Xianzhu browsed the twenty or so 10-jin jars and said, "The kitchen is warmer. Do we still need to move to the vacant room in the west wing?"

"Yes, we cook here often, and the smell easily settles outside the jar." Shen Miaozhu said seriously. She didn't want to move in a hurry when the weather changed and the temperature dropped.

Shen Xianzhu followed her opinion and said, "I'll go push the cart..."

"Brother, it's only a few steps away. It's safest if we carry each other." Shen Lingzhu was the first to pick up the big wine jar.

When they moved, Aunt Jiu and Song Ge'er came to help, and they finished moving everything in just a few moves.

Aunt Jiu was a little curious as to why there were still two baskets of grapes left untouched. After asking Shen Lingzhu, she learned that they were to be dried.

Seeing that the third sister told the reason without any guilt, Shen Xianzhu couldn't help but sigh again that the third sister was born to pretend.

"Big brother!"

"Huh? What?"

"I called you several times. My second sister asked me to ask you if you were going to Grape Valley with her today?

If you don't go, give the badge to Cousin Zhi. "Shen Lingzhu didn't understand what his elder brother was looking at at the door. The wine still needed to ferment for 20 to 3 days before he could use it again.

Shen Xianzhu regained his composure and said, "I will definitely go, don't ask anyone else."

So the three siblings said hello to their head patriarch and prepared to go to Grape Valley to pick more grapes.

Before leaving, Shen Lingzhu went to the teacher to look at the drawings she had drawn. Unfortunately, the technical drawings were not very interesting to appreciate.

"Xiao Zhuzi, after brewing the wine, take out a pen and draw?" Shen Shijiu suggested.

Shen Lingzhu shook her head and whispered that she had to go pick fruit. The place was strictly controlled and no one could enter without a badge. If she didn't go, no one would be able to help her second sister.

The three siblings, leading the Xia family's cow, had just arrived at the work shed not far from the yard. After greeting everyone who was working, Shen Lingzhu suddenly realized that apart from the space occupied by the newly built cart, the space elsewhere in the shed was not that crowded.

After a closer look, I saw that four out of five master carpenters were gone. Uncle Seven, Xia Xing, and his brothers were not there, so the shed seemed a little more spacious.

After asking my brothers and sisters, I learned that my uncle paid the carpenters their full monthly wages a few days in advance so that they could go home.

"Don't worry about the money. My aunt is about to give birth, and my uncle is worried that he will be busy in a few days and forget to pay the craftsman." Shen Miaozhu felt that after the family could pay off the debt, her uncle didn't want too many outsiders around.

Otherwise, I would not have suggested that the Chang family brothers get practice as soon as possible so that they can go home and start their own business.

"Uncle has made plans for a rainy day." Shen Lingzhu didn't care about the reason and flattered her uncle from a distance.

Just as Shen Xianzhu was about to tease her, she jumped up and pointed to the distance: "Look, grandpa and uncle are driving two mules and two donkeys.

Hahahaha, we finally have a ride."

As she said that, she ran quickly towards her grandfather.

"Brother, take this cow back. We will use our own from now on." Shen Miaozhu also left her brother and ran away. Like her junior sister, she had long wanted to travel by herself on a donkey.

Well, it would be great if I could raise a horse to ride in the future.

Shen Xianzhu, who was left behind: "..."

Grandpa was very pleased that his two granddaughters were brave enough not only to climb onto the bare donkey's back, but also to jog down safely.

However, he did not support this, saying, "From now on, when traveling, you must wear a saddle."

"Yes, grandpa. It was because my uncle was with me just now, otherwise I wouldn't dare to jump on the donkey's back." Shen Lingzhu said the truth.

She asked, “Is it expensive?”

My uncle Huang Zongqi quoted me a price: "A mature blue-and-white mule costs four taels each. Donkeys are cheaper, two taels each."

"It's not expensive." Shen Miaozhu stroked the donkey and suggested, "Uncle, why don't you drive them and accompany us to the River Valley Horse Farm.

Today's grapes are finished, and I want to pick some fresh ones this morning."

"No problem." Huang Zongqi had long wanted to go and see it for himself.

But to his disappointment, although he was specially allowed to enter to pick grapes, he was not allowed to go over the hill to see the horses.