Chapter 261 Moonshine Culture (1/2)
Chapter 261: Moonshine Culture
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Goatee smiled and said, ”No, the Amish don’t like making friends with people like me. However, they do like to barter, and my car happened to have stuff that they like.”
”You’re a smart one,” Li Du said.
”More like a smart scumbag—everyone thinks I’m a scumbag,” he laughed heartily.
Li Du shook hands with him and said, ”I’m Li. Nice to meet you. Feel free to look, see if there’s anything that you like.”
”I’m glad to meet you, Li. I’m Garter, Goatee Garter. You too—feel free to see if anything from my truck catches your attention.”
The truck was messy, full of rusted metallic items, copper items with Verdigris, some wooden furniture, and some crudely-made porcelain items.
Li Du felt that these things were close to being antiques. With his previous experience involving the dodo bird, he was quite interested in the things the Amish had. Thus, he let out the bug.
Faithful to his expectations, when the bug came out, it immediately flew toward a small machine made up of iron cans and steel pipes.
Li Du recalled it back, and wordlessly reached out his hand to touch the machine.
The small machine was made up of two main parts: one was with iron cans, the other was a mix of some sort of shunts and dividers.
Some of the iron cans were connected to some of the thick, steel pipes. He traced with his fingers, and found that the iron cans and shunts were connected. It appeared to be a kind of tool.
He didn’t know what this was for, so he glanced at Hans and gestured to him.
”What’s up?” Hans walked over and said in a soft voice.
”Look at this. Do you have any idea what is it?”
Hans smiled. ”Something worthless—a moonshine distilling boiler. I had something like this at my last place. In the past, these were fairly common in rural areas.”
”Oh, so this is equipment used for moonshine?”
”Yeah, what’s up?” Hans asked. ”You’re interested in it?”
Li Du let out the bug once again, and it flew excitedly toward the distilling boiler for the second time. From the looks of it, this thing had been around for quite awhile.
He spoke quietly: ”I feel that this is some sort of antique. It’s giving off an unordinary vibe.”
Hans said with a laugh, ”Are you familiar with our moonshine culture? In fact, many of these distilling boilers are old enough to be our grandparents—they’re very durable.”
”Moonshine culture? This sort of thing has a culture too?” Li Du asked.
”Of course, buddy. Don’t you know the history of moonshine? It’s as old as the States!”
The term ”moonshine” originated from the job of making alcohol secretly at night. The reason for doing this was to evade the high taxes of alcohol, or to bypass anti-drinking laws in some places.
Moonshine had appeared in America since the earliest parts of its history. The phenomenon was more rampant in rural areas, and for a long time, most of the whiskey and brandy that flowed into the market were moonshine.