Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside-Chapter 1077: Da Gou and Ergou

I’ve been waiting so eagerly for so long, finally getting to the engagement ceremony with her, how could he possibly not return.

Mrs. Cui, upon hearing this, felt somewhat reassured and said, "When your eldest sister and Brother Wu have their engagement ceremony and ancestral rites on the ninth, I’ll tell the ancestors to protect San Lang, and he will definitely return on time."

Gu Jinli nearly burst out laughing at Mrs. Cui’s words, "Mom, there’s no need for incense to seek protection. With Brother Qin’s skills, he can achieve success even without ancestral blessings."

Mrs. Cui glared at her upon hearing this, "Don’t talk nonsense."

Then she pressed her palms together and addressed the sky, "Kids are ignorant, may the gods not take offense."

Seeing this, Gu Jinli wanted to laugh even more, but she didn’t dare; Mrs. Cui would get angry if she continued laughing.

After a short while, Mrs. Cui finished her prayers, waited for Gu Jinli to finish her meat sandwich, gave her some instructions, and left with Tong Xiaoxue.

"Erqing, Jingzi, have you eaten enough? If you have, come over to distill the alcohol." Gu Jinli had already moved to the other two stoves, put the custom-made ceramic pot on the stove, poured in the refined strong liquor, covered it with a lid, and sealed the interface with rice paste: "Bring the cotton cloth, seal the rice paste, wrap it in several layers, don’t let the alcohol vapor escape."

Distilling alcohol is different from refining turbid wine. You can be casual with turbid wine refinement, but distilling alcohol requires strict rules from the tools to the process, and even the heat.

"Put the charcoal into the stove and start heating. Keep an eye on the fire, don’t let the liquor boil, or else we won’t be able to distill the alcohol."

Distilling alcohol has temperature requirements; the liquor must not boil, it has to be below boiling point, so it can only be slowly stewed with charcoal, letting the alcohol distill drop by drop.

"Hey," Erqing and Ye Jingzi, both adept, had gone through the steps with Gu Jinli several times before making alcohol, even practiced on paper, so even though it was their first time making alcohol, they didn’t mess up.

The two worked busily for a while and finished all the chores, just waiting for the alcohol to drip out.

After three quarters of an hour with the charcoal slowly simmering, alcohol finally dripped out of the distillation tube, Ye Jingzi exclaimed joyfully, "Young Master, is this the alcohol that can disinfect?"

Gu Jinli replied, "It can only be considered possible alcohol; to know if it can disinfect, it has to be ignited first."

Disinfecting alcohol needs to reach a certain degree, if it’s not strong enough, it won’t work.

Gu Jinli further instructed, "This is flammable, keep an eye on the fire, be cautious, don’t let open flames splatter, or we are finished."

Could end up getting burned to ashes.

"Yes, we know," Ye Jingzi and Erqing responded, focusing intently on the fire in the stove.

Gu Jinli then moved over to Xiao Ji’s side, alternately watching the refined liquor and the distilled alcohol.

Distilling alcohol is a very lengthy process, it has to be distilled drop by drop, so by nightfall, they only managed to distill two small kettles of alcohol.

"Young Master, this is too slow," Xiao Ji was quite frustrated seeing that after a whole day’s effort, only two small kettles of alcohol were produced.

Gu Jinli, however, replied, "It’s already quite good."

She poured a small amount of alcohol, went out into the courtyard, set it on fire, and seeing it ignite instantly, she was very pleased, "It worked."

Then she said, "Where are my Big Dog and Ergou? Bring Big Dog and Ergou over."

Big Dog and Ergou were not dogs, but two wolf pups, from the pack of wild wolves Qin San Lang had eradicated in Niugou Town.

Before rushing back, Qin San Lang instructed Er An, Si’an, and the others to go into the mountains to find wolf pups and bring them back to Gu Jinli.

A couple of days ago, they had already brought the wolf pups back, two of which were injured. Gu Jinli kept them, saying she would let their wounds get infected first, and when her alcohol was ready, she’d disinfect and treat them to see the results.

Upon hearing the names Big Dog and Ergou, Xiao Ji shivered and said, "They are staying in the big kitchen’s room."

The two wolf pups were ferocious, howling incessantly every day, and often baring their teeth at her, frightening her every time she went to feed them.

Yet, Xiao Ji couldn’t help but complain, "Young Master, they are clearly wolves, why did you give them dog names?"

The names seemed so random too, just Big Dog, Ergou, Sangou, Sigou like that.

Gu Jinli replied, "Because giving dog names makes them sound friendly, so you’ll just feel they are dogs and won’t be so scared."

As for why using numbers for naming, because it’s convenient!

Both she and San Lang were terrible at naming; San Lang named Er An, San An, Si’an using numbers, and she would do the same, if Xiao Ji and Tong Dayu didn’t already have names, she’d have named them Daji, Erji, Sanji.

Xiao Ji’s lips twitched, Young Master’s reasoning was so honest it couldn’t be argued against.

Seeing Xiao Ji afraid, Erqing said, "Young Master, I’ll go fetch Big Dog and Ergou for you."

After Gu Jinli nodded, she left the courtyard and soon brought the two wolf pups.

The two wolf pups had just grown some little white teeth, baring their teeth and growling at Gu Jinli relentlessly: "Awroo, awroo!"

With two quick slaps, Gu Jinli smacked their heads and mimicked their expressions, baring her teeth and growling, "Aw aw aw, what are you growling about? Awroo, awroo all day, those who don’t know might think you’re crying."

The two wolf pups were stunned, watching Gu Jinli in front of them, angrily gesturing at her.

Gu Jinli grabbed Big Dog’s paw, looked at the already reddened wound, and said, "Big Dog, this wound is healing well; it’s successfully inflamed."

She then looked at the other wolf, "Ergou is also doing well; its paw is inflamed too."

"Awroo, awroo!" Big Dog, with a hot temper, felt its wolf dignity was insulted and howled even more fiercely at Gu Jinli.

The result...

Gu Jinli took a small kettle of alcohol and poured it directly onto its paw.

"Awoo—!" Big Dog cried out in high-pitched agony.

"Xiao Ji, bring my medical kit," Gu Jinli said, beginning to clean the wound on Big Dog with a cotton cloth, "Big Dog, hang in there, although you’re a girl, you need to show the spirit of a male wolf."

Yes, the ferocious Big Dog was a she-wolf.

Big Dog wanted to cry, while Ergou next to it was trembling in fear, losing all its previous fierceness.

"Here you go, Young Master." Xiao Ji opened the medical kit and handed it to Gu Jinli.

Gu Jinli took antiseptic medicine from inside and treated Big Dog’s wound, bandaging it afterward, "All done, Big Dog, rest up, I’ll get you some meat later."

Then she embraced Ergou and disinfected it with alcohol.

Ergou found it painful too, but wisely did not howl. Yet its fate was unfortunate, as Gu Jinli only disinfected its inflamed paw with alcohol but didn’t apply antiseptic medicine, leaving it to continue suffering.

Gu Jinli said, "Ergou will have alcohol alone, tomorrow we’ll compare the results."