Chapter 122, Sand Sugar
When Wu Nuandong arrived at Xiaohou Mountain, those boys were teary-eyed, seeing her as if they were seeing relatives, their legs trembling and begging for mercy, I am afraid that they will not dare to bully people in this life.
"Do you want me to sue your family, be punished for doing evil, and help you spread the word in the village!"
"No, no, no, I don't dare anymore!" Dadong pleaded with a hoarse voice, he was rectified by a little girl, and when he spread it, he would be laughed off by the babies in other villages, alas, it was all tears!
The other boys also said no in unison.
"Since you have such enlightenment, today is the last day, disperse!" Wu Nuandong pointed a little finger, and several babies instantly collapsed on the ground, unable to walk if they wanted to, their legs were numb, and they were afraid of this little devil if they didn't go, and they looked at her with teary eyes and vigilance.
Wu Nuandong was amused, and clicked the acupoints that relieved their soreness one by one, and whispered: "Those who insult others will be humiliated, remember?" ”
"Remember!" A few babies nodded wildly, these days the punishment station is still more memorable than being beaten by their parents, and they can't forget it in this life, okay!
"Let's go home!" It's just that when she goes home, she can't decide whether she will be taught a lesson by her parents.
When the babies got the will, their legs didn't hurt, their feet didn't hurt, and they ran quite fast.
She pursed her lips and smiled, the children in the village are still very simple, they know that they have done something wrong, they should admit their mistakes, and they are not as good as others and are willing to be punished.
Seeing that several people were safe and their families converged, Wu Nuandong turned around to go down the mountain, but she happened to see a thin figure standing behind her.
Li Yin glared at her coldly and roared, "Who told you to meddle, get out!" After saying that, he ran away from her and ran down the mountain, looking extremely angry.
Wu Nuandong raised his eyebrows. Zhangji was confused. This baby is sick again!
Li Yin's love that day suddenly changed, Wu Nuandong didn't have time to delve into it, she was busy with the sugarcane field and sugar extraction, and spent all day in the field to investigate the growth of sugarcane, or followed her father to the blacksmith shop in Qinzhou City to build equipment for sugar extraction, and even returned to the town once every two days to go to school.
The general sugarcane is cut into two or three knots for seeding, and the quality of the products produced in Yufu is too good. Even if it was cut into sections by Wu Nuandong and put into the ground. Half a month is all ripe.
Fortunately, few people grow this crop in large quantities at this time, and they are very regional, and there are no sugarcane fields in the area of Pingji Town. The people around it are not very clear about its growth cycle, so the anomaly of the samurai sugarcane field is not eye-catching. In the future, these newly grown sugarcanes will be used for replanting, and they will gradually return to normal after being passed down from generation to generation.
"Keep the good ones for seeding, and cut down the rest and put them in the warehouse for temporary storage." Around the time of the Zhou Dynasty, sugar cane was introduced to the southern region. Since ancient times, Chinese have the habit of eating sugarcane as a snack, and it is really not fresh and cannot be sold much as a fruit.
The sugar cane found from the back mountain of the first mountain of Shenhu Peak was originally just an ordinary wild thing. However, since ancient times, Lingnan sugarcane has been polysaccharide and juicy, but compared to the fruit cane and sugar cane specially cultivated by the plantation, the water and sweetness are still not enough, but fortunately, the Yufu spiritual water is powerful and the land is fertile, and it has been moistened by them for a long time. Today, these sugarcane have been turned into high-yielding, high-sugar, large-stem-thick, soft-skinned and juicy sugar varieties, and they do not have the disadvantages of being susceptible to pests and diseases.
Taking advantage of the fact that spring is not over yet, Wu Nuandong plans to plant a large number of them. lest the sugarcane planted in the summer be suspicious of the common sense of a good harvest.
But before that, she had to squeeze out the sugar, and she could only produce it on a large scale when she saw the results. You can't just rely on the golden finger to think that you are invincible in the world.
Wu Nuandong searched several historical documents in the bookstore, the word 'sand sugar' came from the early Tang Dynasty, because it was in the shape of river sand, so the name sand sugar, is the modern 'sugar'. At that time, Tang Taizong did not hesitate to travel tens of thousands of miles to the Mauryan Dynasty to Mojieit (India) to obtain the method of boiling sugar by using the heat energy of fire as an evaporation method for production, so as to speed up the production cycle of sugar production.
Sand sugar is also known as 'frost sugar' because of its white frosty color. Modern granulated sugar is divided into white granulated sugar and red granulated sugar, in terms of the production process, white granulated sugar is far more complex than red granulated sugar, but the sucrose in the Tang Dynasty has been named "frost", and the color is mostly white or close to white, so it is known that the sugar craftsmen at this time have mastered a complete set of sucrose purification and decolorization process.
Wu Nuandong compared, the production process of the Tang Dynasty and the modern era is not far away. According to the "New Tang Dynasty Book", during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, sugar craftsmen invented the 'drip method' to decolorize sucrose, the method is to boil the cane juice to a considerable concentration and pour it into a funnel-shaped pottery called 'tile slip', and pour the yellow mud from the top, which is used as an adsorption decolorizing agent to make white sugar from the point of view of modern technology.
Today's sugar production method is collected in the hands of a few merchants, such as the imperial merchant Liang family, the big merchant Xu family and a few other households.
And at this time, the sand sugar is not the same as the modern caster sugar, they are coarser and not easy to melt, such as cold dishes, pastries and other ingredients are not applicable, and many delicious foods cannot be made out due to these restrictions.
What Wu Nuandong has to do is caster sugar and white sugar, which is also equivalent to opening up a way out for many new varieties of delicacies, making the diet of the Tang Dynasty one step closer to modernity. Thinking of a lot of long-lost delicacies, Wu Nuandong is even more energetic.
Sugar cane is ripe, and sugar making tools cannot be ignored on the agenda.
At this stage, sugar production still needs to be kept secret, her family obtained the new sugar law for the market impact is not big, if too many people are familiar with it, a large number of new sugar into the market, not only to the martial arts family, those few big business families will not do anything!
At that time, it will undoubtedly be their martial artists who will be unlucky.
Therefore, Wu Nuandong is very cautious when creating sugar making tools, and it is also a little more troublesome.
Large pieces, such as iron buckets, are built in small towns near Qinzhou City, while intricate and fragmented key parts are forged by Qinzhou City's blacksmiths.
After that, they went to other towns and assembled them crosswise, and when they were ready, the other blacksmiths couldn't guess what they did, and even if they did, they couldn't make some of the fine parts.
In this way, the repeated toss, the unqualified ones were re-beaten and modified, and half a month passed when all were in place, and the 100 acres of sugarcane were ripe again, and the people were almost too busy, and the harvest was too good, not only sugarcane but also herbs and grains, **** night and night, and finally in ten days later, they were all included in the large warehouse and the spare room.
The medicinal materials are processed by the medicine farmer's family, and the medicine farmer Dong Lao brought a few people as apprentices, using well water and the martial artist's 'secret recipe for refining medicine', and the shopkeeper Luo received it twice, and returned satisfied every time.
The sensation of medicinal herbs and fruits and vegetables in the village is not big, after all, they don't know how to plant, so they don't think it's very unusual, but the rice planting method has attracted the attention of the villagers.
Even if the ducks and geese are driven into the depression, their dung can fertilize the fields, so even some fish and crabs live in the fields. (To be continued.) )