There is no crispness in memory, and there is no sweetness.

Today's sugarcane is hard and hard, and the taste is not as good as that of later generations, and the sweetness is somewhat poor.

Feng Yong chewed, spit out the slag "Bah, Bah, Bah", and shook his head, "It's far from it." ”

When I was a child, there were two kinds of sugarcane grown in the village, one of which was harder and did not taste good when chewed, but it was high in sugar.

One kind of pole is more brittle and soft, although the sugar content is a little lower, but the village people like to eat it, so this kind of sugarcane is the most grown.

But either way, it's sweeter than it is today.

Come to think of it, the sugarcane of later generations is cultivated from generation to generation, and then carefully selected excellent varieties, which are definitely better than this original sugarcane.

Originally, there was no difference in the purchase price of the sugar mill between the two types of sugarcane.

Later, in the wake of the reform of state-owned enterprises, sugar mills began to distinguish between varieties of sugarcane.

The one with a hard pole has a high sugar yield and good sugar quality, so the purchase price should be higher, so that most of the people in the back of the village are planted with the same kind, and the one with a soft pole is delicious, but it is less and less cultivated.

That's it, and let Feng Yong and his friends curse for a long time.

Who knew that after another two years, another rural reform came, and Feng Yong's county was directly excluded from the scope of the sugar industry, and inexplicably became a jasmine tea planting base.

In other words, sugar cane will not be harvested in the future......

There are even unscrupulous profiteers who take advantage of the asymmetry of information to take the opportunity to pit a handful of peasant brothers, and let the peasant uncles take out their hard-earned money to plant tea trees, which is really unconscionable.

From the beginning of the sweetness of sugarcane to the harvest and the second year of planting, it is a rare snack for half a year! Is this gone?

What the hell!

Not only Feng Yong and his friends were blinded, but even the people in the village were blinded.

In the past, sugar factories purchased sugarcane and squeezed out the sugar, and a certain amount of sugar compensation was given according to the amount purchased by each household.

Now that I don't harvest sugarcane, where will I eat sugar in the future?

Buy? Are you kidding? At that time, where did the family get the spare money to buy sugar?

But all along, planting sugarcane every year, eating sweets and getting used to it, all of a sudden there is no sweetness, how will I live in the future?

There are a lot of people in the village who are talking and angry, but what can you do, I heard that the sugar factory is gone, can you still force others to collect sugar cane?

How about working people who are the creators of history?

At this time, the old people in the village stood up and said that when there was no sugar factory before, didn't the village survive the same?

They don't take it, we boil it ourselves.

That's right, it's to boil sugar in the ancestral way.

People in the village who want to boil sugar have a small piece of land to grow sugarcane, and when they are harvested and weighed together, they gather together to boil it, and finally the sugar boiled out is divided according to the amount of sugarcane of each family.

The sugar boiled out by the soil method is not white sugar, but a cube of brown sugar like a brick.

This kind of brown sugar accompanied Feng Yong's memory for several years, and finally because the living conditions were better, the people in the village had money to buy sugar, and gradually no one planted sugarcane to boil sugar by themselves.

But that kind of square brown sugar, in Feng Yong's opinion, is much more delicious than white sugar.

This is not a lie, the brown sugar boiled out by the local method, in another ten or twenty years, is pure green food, without a little additives, no matter how you eat it, you will not get tired, and white sugar, if you eat too much, you always feel that there is a taste of industrial additives on the taste buds.

It turns out that stone honey is sucrose!

Feng Yong took another bite of sugarcane and sighed, now this kind of sucrose is more unpalatable than white sugar, it is estimated that the reason for the poor sugar boiling technology and the excessive impurities in it.

"Brother, are you okay?"

Zhao Guang cautiously walked over and stared at Feng Yong and asked.

"What can I do?" Feng Yong glanced at Zhao Guang inexplicably, and raised the sugarcane in his hand, "Do you want to eat it?" ”

Although the texture and taste are not as good as those of later generations, sugar cane is also an extremely rare sweet in this era.

"How can you eat this bamboo?"

Zhao Guang laughed dryly, if it weren't for the fact that he misunderstood his brother's hysteria yesterday, he should have taken action to restrain his brother at this time.

Eating bamboo? What normal person would eat bamboo raw? Although it seems that the brother's teeth are very good, he can gnaw the bamboo into slag.

Zhao Guang looked at Guan Ji at the same time as if asking for help, a little panicked, with a question in his eyes, this thing called Shi Mi brought by my sister can't be a problem, right? I eat more than my brother!

"I don't know, Tu Baozi, this is bamboo? See clearly, this is sugar cane. ”

Feng Yong glanced at the poor child who had never eaten sugar cane with disdain.

"Look, the bamboo is hollow, the sugar cane is solid, chew it, it's full of juice, it's sweet."

"This sugarcane is indeed to be eaten by gnawing on," Guan Ji understood Zhao Guang's eyes, and explained immediately, "It's just how did my brother know?" Have you seen it before? ”

Watching my brother skillfully tear off the sugarcane skin with his mouth and bite off the sugarcane meat inside, it is estimated that he has not eaten less before.

"Of course I have eaten," Feng Yong spit out another mouthful of slag, noticed the strange eyes of Zhao Guang and Guan Ji, and suddenly understood, this is, seeing himself gnawing on sugarcane, he felt a little out of manners?

Rao is cheeky, and he can't help but have a fever, "Gaffe, gaffe, gaffe, I haven't eaten this thing for a long time, and I can't help it for a while when I see it." ”

Feng Yong said as he put down the sugar cane with some embarrassment.

Guan Ji smiled and quietly shifted the angle of a sugarcane on the case, and one end of the sugarcane also had traces of gnawing.

At this time, Zhao Guang listened to Feng Yong and Guan Ji's words, and picked up a sugarcane in surprise, which was exactly the one that Guan Ji had moved, and said, "This bamboo-like thing, can you still eat it?" ”

"That's natural, if Erlang doesn't believe it, you can try it."

Feng Yong instigated.

Zhao Guang was eager to try it right away.

"I can't give you this root!" Guan Ji was in a hurry, so he pressed his hand over, and handed another one casually, "Eat this." ”

That is, Zhao Guang had never seen this thing, so he didn't notice the marks of someone biting on it, and he didn't care about it at the moment. Just looked at Feng Yong, and brought it to his mouth several times, but he couldn't get out of his mouth.

"This ...... Or will you try again later? ”

Zhao Guanggan laughed, and finally let go of sugarcane, and his long-term etiquette education made him unable to pass the psychological barrier of eating sugarcane in public.

"The little brother thinks that the stone honey is more delicious."

If you don't dare to eat it, you don't even dare to eat it, you haven't even eaten sugarcane, how do you know that stone honey is more delicious?

Feng Yong pursed his lips and said, "It's far away." This stone honey is far worse than the sucrose I have eaten before. ”

"Sucrose?"

Guan Ji and Zhao Guang both looked at it together, Zhao Guang didn't understand it for a while, but Guan Ji understood it all at once.

"The sucrose that my brother said is also made from sugar cane?"

"yes." Feng Yong nodded, "This skill in making stone honey is not up to par, the color is ugly, and even the taste is unpalatable, far worse than sucrose." ”

"This sugarcane is only grown in Jiaozhou, never thought that my brother had not only seen it, but also seen something more delicious than stone honey?"

Guan Ji felt that it was extremely rare to make stone honey from sugar cane, after all, it was a tribute. But I didn't expect that there was such a thing as sucrose.

"Sanniang likes desserts?"

Zhao Guang's heart was big, he didn't see Guan Ji's small movements, but Feng Yong did, and even he saw the bite marks that Guan Ji tried to hide, so his heart moved and he asked.

Guan Ji's face was slightly red, but she nodded generously and admitted: "My little sister likes to eat sweet food since she was a child. ”

Feng Yong sighed, thinking that this hobby would really be nothing in the future, desserts all over the street.

But in this kind of era, it's really difficult to get a sense of favorability from this aspect.

"It's a pity." Feng Yong sighed, "This sugarcane, in fact, can not only be grown in Jiaozhou, although it cannot be planted in Hanzhong, but it can still be planted in Shuzhong, and the further south it is, the more ......."

Speaking of this, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed through my mind.

Further south, there is Nanzhong.

It is not cost-effective to grow grain in Nanzhong, but it is ...... to grow sugarcane

Nanzhong is a piece of chicken ribs for the current big man, regardless of him, he jumps too happily, and if he doesn't do well, it will threaten the Jincheng Plain.

Whatever, it's a waste of manpower and material resources, barren land, to come to have a hairy use?

The elder brother laughed. The great fields in Shuzhong are too late to grow grain, who dares to use them to grow sugarcane? ”

When there was no one on Guan Ji's road, he also secretly gnawed on sugarcane, and thought that although it was delicious, when he heard that Feng Yong actually wanted to use the land of Shuzhong to grow sugarcane, he only felt that his brother was whimsical, this idea was too ridiculous.

"Shuzhong is naturally not good, but Nanzhong, but you can give it a try."

Feng Yong's thought came together, and he really felt that he couldn't help it anymore, "Sanniang doesn't know, this sugarcane, in the north, can't be planted, but the more south, the better it can be planted." ”

The market economy and cash crops were not understood by the ancients, but it was okay to talk about profits.

"Nanzhong should be pacified as soon as possible, but what about after it is pacified? How to appease, this is a big question. I think it's good to grow sugar cane. ”

Guan Ji only felt that the more he listened, the more confused he became, "I heard that there are few flatlands and many mountains in Nanzhong, if you use it to grow sugarcane and have no food to eat, then it will not force Nanzhong to rebel again?" Besides, what's the use of planting sugar cane? Can't just eat sugar cane without food? ”

"Sugar cane is very useful." Feng Yong smiled, "Exchange sugarcane for grain, besides, it is rainy in Nanzhong, even on the hillside, you can also grow sugarcane." ”

"With whom?"

"Of course it's me."

Feng Yong pointed at himself, and said in his heart, this sugarcane seems to be really tricky, exchange grain for sugarcane, and then use sugarcane to squeeze sucrose, how many times is sucrose more expensive than that grain?

There is a head, there is really a head!

"Regardless of whether Prime Minister Yun allows his brother to mess around like this, even if it is for the sake of stabilizing the overall situation in Nanzhong. But how much grain can my brother exchange for sugar cane, and what is the use of harvesting it? ”

Guan Ji looked at Feng Yong with concerned eyes, and really felt that he was a little abnormal.

"Sugar cane is very useful." Feng Yong repeated what he had just said, "At least the sucrose made can make Sanniang eat enough." But as he spoke, his mouth began to slip again.

Hearing it, this brother is not in shape if he is serious, Guan Ji was annoyed, and kicked Feng Yong again with his foot underneath.

This time, it used a lot of force, which made Feng Yong grin in pain.

"Ahem, the little brother remembered that there were still things in the house that had not been packed up, so I went to clean up first."

Zhao Guang secretly admired his brother for being so bold, and at the same time, he sighed that this tiger girl sister who was not convinced by anyone seemed to be finally subdued. The elder brother behaved like this, and the sister didn't show any signs of anger, but had a rare daughter.

At the moment, he felt that it was not appropriate for him to stay here any longer, so he excused himself and left.

When I got out of the house, I was proud in my heart, and I really had eyes.

"Brother, why are you talking nonsense in front of Erlang?"

Guan Ji saw Zhao Guang leaving, and there was no one else, but her face was flushed, and she stood up immediately, "If it's okay, the little sister will go back to the house first." ”

"How is this nonsense? I'm down to business. Feng Yong said solemnly, "This can be regarded as a major event of the family and the country, Sanniang and sit down first and listen to me carefully." ”

Guan Ji had a suspicious look in her eyes, it seemed that Feng Yong's credit had been excessively consumed by her for the time being.

Hearing Feng Yong's words, he shook his head, "What my brother said, since it is a major matter of the family and the country, you should go to discuss with Erlang and them, or even write a letter to the prime minister, it is okay." At this time, he told his little sister and a girl that it was not appropriate. ”

said, and smiled slyly, "My little sister has been walking day and night these days, and she is a little tired, so she wants to go back and rest first." ”

Feng Yong saw Guan Ji's rare little daughter smile twice in a row in one day, and only felt that she had suddenly changed as a person, she was really bright-eyed and kind, and she was extremely cute.

Seeing that Guan Ji was about to go out after lifting his package, he immediately picked up a sugarcane on the case and said, "Won't Sanniang take this sugarcane away?" Why don't you let me eat it? ”

Guan Ji turned his head and saw that Feng Yong was holding the one he was holding on the road, which was the one he had secretly gnawed on the road, and then looked at the person in front of him who seemed to be smiling but not smiling, his face turned red all of a sudden, and he snatched it like lightning and rushed away.

Feng Yong picked up the sugarcane that he hadn't finished just now, took another bite, and sighed in his heart at the same time, I wasn't joking just now, I exchanged sugarcane for food, if this matter is operated well, I can't say that I can't take it seriously.

Why don't you know me? It's really lonely like snow.

Is Dahan short of food now?

It can only be said that it is temporarily absent.

But Zhuge Old Demon just did a good job in Dujiangyan, and he already had the capital to go south.

In the original history, Hanzhong has always been a barren place, and that's it, Zhuge Old Demon just relied on the place of Jincheng to save up for a few years, and he was able to save the capital of the Northern Expedition. There is no reason to help develop Hanzhong, a treasure land of the Han family, but there is not enough food, right?

Therefore, when Hanzhong lives for two or three years, it really produces grain, and then Nanzhong is also pacified, and it is not impossible to get some grain to exchange for sugarcane!

The Northern Expedition costs money and grain, and with food, if you can get money again, Zhuge Lao will not disagree.

As for the sugar cane that has been exchanged, how to make cane sugar, that's not something that can be done with your eyes closed?

Stone honey is an egg! This thing is astringent and scummy, and it can even become a tribute?

And it turned out to be liquid, and it was not even convenient to transport, and it was destined to be eliminated.

When the time comes, Lao Tzu will make a brown sugar like a brick come out, and if he is not convinced, he will be smashed until he is convinced.

Brick brown sugar asked if you were afraid?

Even in later generations, sucrose is considered a commodity.

All commodities are special thieves to make money.

Well, you have to think about it, no, you have to take a small notebook and write it down first, so as not to forget it later.