He laughed and said, "I boiled two large bowls. With some water and eggs added, everyone can have a bowl. The sweet wine is brewed perfectly this time; it's very sweet. If I hadn't added extra water, I wouldn't have been able to eat it—it would be too cloying."
The matriarch of the Yang Family asked, "Could it be that you added too much distiller's yeast?"
He shook her head and smiled happily. "No, you can't add too much of that. The sticky rice was cooked perfectly this time, and the yeast was mixed in evenly. I put it in a large clay pot, covered it with a wooden board, and spread a cotton mattress over the board. When I opened it this morning, there was a layer of fluffy white fuzz. It smells and tastes so sweet."
