klisemfg Chapter 169 Brewing
Chapter 169 Brewing
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"Si Hai! Do you really have to rely on me today?"
Just as Xu Yiyi was about to go to the toilet, something was immediately hanging on her legs.
Looking down, it was still the four seas.
"I will follow my elder sister. Wherever my elder sister goes, I will go."
Sihai pouted and raised his head, looking unreasonable.
"Big sister hasn't hugged me for a long time. She's going to hug me today."
Sihai pretended to look pitiful.
Xu Yiyi sighed. Sihai was now a little fat boy. If she held him, her hands would be broken from fatigue.
He turned his head to look at Er'er and asked her to help coax Sihai away.
Unexpectedly, the little girl immediately shifted her gaze and cleared her throat.
"Big sister, please hug him today! Sihai is crying so sadly."
As soon as the news of Duoyu came out, Sihai cried more than in the past period of time.
It makes me feel sad just looking at it.
"Are you sad?"
Xu Yiyi reached out and pinched Sihai's face, speaking with gritted teeth.
"I'm sad."
Sihai nodded in agreement with Er'er's words, looking like a little scoundrel.
"There's no point in being sad. Your elder sister needs to go to the toilet."
Xu Yiyi growled and forcibly pulled Sihai away.
The child stuck out his tongue playfully behind her back, then went to play with his younger brother next to the cradle.
After the restaurant was cleaned up in the afternoon, Er'er took the two children back to the backyard for a nap.
A Yue was playing with a snowball under the eaves. She felt young and missed Xu Yiyi's wine, so she was sitting on a stone bench and craving it.
"I said, do you know how to make wine?"
Lao Lu watched Xu Yiyi's actions eagerly.
"It's better than the wine you brewed. A good wine tastes bitter and sour."
Xu Yiyi retorted.
It turns out that Lao Lu can indeed make wine.
But the wine brewed here is not as good as the one brewed by the professional winemakers in the wine shop.
It tastes slightly sweet at first, this is how Xu Yiyi felt when he drank the wine he brewed for the first time.
After the sweetness comes waves of bitterness and sourness, which is so intense that it cannot be suppressed no matter what you eat or drink.
The taste is indeed not good.
Xu Yiyi’s hometown makes wine every year during the Chinese New Year, but I haven’t tried it myself in all these years.
But you'll learn it by watching it.
There's no harm in trying to do a little while you have some free time.
Another thing is that most of the alcohol in this era is low in alcohol content, which is why you often see children drinking.
These days, Xu Yiyi visited all the wine shops in Ping'an Town and tasted all the wines. Almost all the wines were sweet.
"I learned how to make wine from my grandma when I was very young. It's been decades, and I'm pretty good that I can still make wine."
Lao Lu didn't think anything of what Xu Yiyi said.
After all, he doesn't make a living from this, so it's not surprising that he can't make good wine.
"There's nothing wrong with Tan Dalu's brain. Why would he let you work as a cook in Qushenglou and also make and sell wine? No wonder business is so bad."
Xu Yiyi couldn't help but complain.
Lao Lu raised his eyebrows. "I'm cheap! I don't want wages, just food and shelter. He's just trying to save me, so every penny counts."
Lao Lu shrugged and spoke lightly.
"You're still talking about others, but you yourself left me behind."
When Xu Yiyi heard this, she turned her head and looked at him.
With Er'er in the restaurant, the hygiene must be good.
Before going home every night, Er'er would ask the aunts who came to help to clean the restaurant and dispose of the leftovers.
He also didn't forget to ask Xu Anyang or Sanchuan to watch Lao Lu taking a bath.
After ten days or so, Lao Lu felt much more energetic.
There is no trace of the beggar he used to be.
"It's you who insisted on staying here. I don't want anything else. It's cheap, useful, and can keep watch."
Xu Yiyi showed an evil capitalist smile.
Lao Lu’s expression froze.
Compared to before, it is much busier at Wufu Restaurant.
After all, business is good.
Lao Lu moved wherever he was needed, even doing the work of cleaning the toilet.
The other kids in the restaurant felt sorry for his age and let him take a rest from time to time.
Xu Yiyi didn't feel sorry at all when she ordered him around.
During this period, Lao Lu felt like he had become a workhorse.
I dream about working at night.
"If it weren't for the good food here, I wouldn't want to stay here."
Lao Lu hummed, "I am really tired, but the food is indeed delicious."
Like the lobster, stone raft and big eel, they are eaten in different ways.
When he thought of this, Lao Lu suddenly felt that it was completely right for him to stay before.
Xu Yiyi rolled her eyes at him.
"What Lao Lu said is indeed right. The food here is better than what we eat at home."
The four aunts don’t all take a nap. When the restaurant closes in the afternoon, they will go fishing or go home to do other things.
I'll come back when the time comes to prepare for the opening in the evening.
There are not many people in Aunt Rong's family, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter, so she is afraid of heatstroke if she goes out at this time.
I basically spend my lunch break doing needlework in the restaurant every day.
At this time, the colored threads were passing through his fingertips, and he could hear Xu Yiyi and Lao Lu bickering from time to time.
Hearing this, Aunt Arong, who is usually not talkative, couldn't help but agree.
"Your brother Changhai told me last night that after working here for a while, I have become more energetic, whiter, and fatter.
As soon as I finished saying this, your uncle Shuiquan kept yelling at me to work hard and not be lazy.
Aunt Arong said with a smile.
"You still have to be lazy, just like now. You should take a nap. Only when you have a good rest can you work better."
Xu Yiyi couldn't help but say something.
These four aunties from the island are really capable!
"No, I have to make a little tiger doll for Sihai. It's almost done and I can give it to him on his birthday."
Aunt Arong refused very seriously.
Xu Yiyi looked at the little tiger doll in her hand. It had tiger stripes drawn on it with stitches, and the tiger's round eyes and whiskers were all that was left to be filled with cotton wool.
"Arong, how do you know tigers look like this?"
Lao Lu looked at it curiously.
Ah Rong smiled and said, "Of course I don't know, I've never seen it, but if Sanchuan draws it, can't I just embroider it?"
"Aunt, don't agree to everything Sihai says. This kid has been getting more and more naughty recently. I'm going to tell him off when he wakes up."
Sihai’s birthday is approaching.
The kids are talking about it everywhere.
When Aunt Arong heard this, she knew that as an elder, she must give something as a gift.
I asked Sihai what he wanted and worked hard sitting under a tree even in the hottest weather.
"What's the big deal? It's just a little thing. If Sihai likes it, I'll make it for him."
Lao Lu said, responding softly.
This old man has no family and no children, but when he got old he suddenly fell in love with children.
Sihai has become a little unruly these days.
Xu Yiyi spat out the wine yeast in her mouth and rolled her eyes at him again.