Chen Mo saw that they had more or less finished talking, but as he was leaving, he turned back and asked, "Uncle Delin, is Fourth Uncle still making liquor?"
The Fourth Uncle Chen Mo referred to was Delin's younger brother, the fourth in the family. That was why everyone of Chen Mo's generation in the village called him Fourth Uncle Chen. He had once specialized in brewing grain liquor in the village, and he had still been brewing and selling it there when Chen Mo went away to school. However, Chen Mo had not returned these past few years and did not know whether he was still brewing, which was why he asked.
"Your Fourth Uncle is still brewing, but in much smaller quantities. Fewer people have been drinking these past few years, so the intervals between batches have gotten longer. But if you want some, go ask your Fourth Uncle for it. He still has plenty of old liquor from previous years," Chen Delin said with a smile.
"That's great. I've missed Fourth Uncle's good liquor for a long time. I never got to drink it during all those years away at school, and I really have been craving it. Uncle Delin, I'll head over to Fourth Uncle's place first," Chen Mo said with a smile. He remembered that after entering middle school, nearly all the liquor he drank had been bought from Fourth Uncle. Although it lacked the fancy packaging of outside brands and did not smell as fragrant as some liquors, Fourth Uncle used pure grain to brew it. Not only did it taste good, it did not leave him with a hangover either. Unlike some blended liquors, which gave him a splitting headache the next morning if he drank too much.
Uncle Delin smiled and said,