On this day, when he got home, he stepped into the courtyard and suddenly found that there were two more big guys covered with straw mats......

Just when he was still wondering if Mo Xirong had returned from Qinghe Township, Xiangxue, who heard the sound, ran out of the house like a lark, "Master, you're back." ”

Fan Ming smiled heartily, these days he has been almost used to being called by the young master and young master of several people in this house, and he is not resisting, if he corrects too much, he will seem to be a little narrow, pointing to the big thing in the middle of the courtyard that is covered by straw and asking, "What is that?" ”

Xiangxue took the schoolbag in his hand and dusted off his body, "That's not something that the master made himself, it was sent by someone from the blacksmith shop on East Street." ”

"Oh!" Fan Ming was happy in his heart, he forgot about this stubble when he was busy with schoolwork these days, last time he let the design of a set of large retorts for distillation, large retorts are the main tools for brewing perfumes, and it is at this time that the calculation time is built, and he immediately said to Xiangxue: "You go to the shop and call a few trustworthy guys, you are going to do something big." ”

"Oh!" Xiangxue replied in a low voice, but she wondered in her heart, she had also seen this thing just now, that is, a big retort and a big retort with a strange shape, what could it do, and it would cost ten pieces of silver, although she was very puzzled, she still trusted her man very much, as long as it was what he told her, she would not hesitate to do it.

When Xiangxue went to call someone, Fan Ming was unveiling the straw mat on the big retort and the big retort, and carefully looked at the set of tools he designed, and only roughly told the blacksmith at that time, without personal supervision, and did not know whether it met the requirements, if it did not meet the requirements, it would be rebuilt.

After a careful look, Fan Ming put his mind at ease, the set of retorts and retorts in front of him is roughly the same as the Eastern Han Dynasty bronze distiller in his impression, this set of structure is similar to that of the Jin Dynasty distiller, it is divided into two parts, the retort body and the kettle body, the height is about one meter and a half, there is a protruding tank in the retort body, which is used to store the part of the material liquid or solid fermented grain, and there is also a condensation chamber, the condensation chamber has a pipe interface, which can make the condensate flow out of the still, and there is an inlet in the upper part of the kettle, which is ready to be fed at any time. Theoretically, this set of tools should be no problem, but in practice, whether it can be successful or not depends on specific experiments to know.

After a while, people brought two men from Xiangxue, Fan Ming and the two of them assembled this set of utensils together, put them in a side room next to the stove room, and asked Aunt Li to get the little charcoal (coal) left, and then asked Xiangxue to bring the soju he bought from the last wine shop, and after everything was done, the official experiment began.

There is no good purification method, only distillation can be used to increase the alcohol concentration, the concentration of shochu is only about 20 to 30 degrees, as long as the concentration of alcohol can be increased by 50 or 60, it can meet the requirements of toner.

Set up a fire and told a guy to be optimistic about the heat, Fan Ming turned around and went to the study, high wine is only a key part of toner, the key part of making toner is also in the ingredients, musk, bezoar, mint, camphor, honeysuckle and other more than ten kinds of medicinal materials, but some are too expensive, he has no money to buy for the time being, so he only uses mint and honeysuckle.

"Master, what the hell is this doing? Do you want to make wine? Xiangxue, who followed on the side, was very curious, but she didn't understand it at all, so she could only follow him around in confusion.

"You'll find out later." Fan Ming smiled, and he didn't know the bottom of his heart, theoretically there should be no problem with this, but there may be some deviations in practice, he didn't dare to show off to Xiangxue for the time being, and suddenly thought of the flower dew, and turned to Xiangxue and said: "Girl, arrange something for you, go pick the petals of which flowers in our garden, put them in the steamer, and steam them with which shochu." ”

"Oh!" Xiangxue answered in a low voice, turned around and went out, she was a hundred happy to be able to do things for her own man.

The placement of petals in it was also inspired by Zhang Shinan's "Chronicles of the Wandering Eunuchs" in the Southern Song Dynasty, which describes the situation of the folk steaming flower dew with a still at that time: "Tin is a small retort, and the real flowers are heavy, and the fragrant bones are heavy, which often makes the flowers more than the incense." Next to the retort, to vent sweat. to store it. Bi Ze thoroughly removed the flowers, and the fragrance was stained with liquid. “

Obviously, this type of still is similar in structure to a traditional wine steamer, in that it is steamed in a retort, and the steam is cooled and collected and then transported from the stream or special orifice on the side of the retort to the receptacle outside. There should be some kind of mutual influence and inspiration in this.

The preparations continued until the next day, this morning Fan Ming was so abnormal that he didn't even listen to the class, at noon, Fan Ming couldn't wait to go home, and even the official announcement of the election of the chief of the Zhai Douxue didn't have the heart to care, before the door, he rushed to the room where the steamer was placed, and asked the guy who was guarding the stove: "What's the matter, are you coming out?" ”

The guy kept watch all night, and at this time his eyes couldn't close a little, and he replied with a drowsy voice: "A small can has already come out, and it will not be long before it can be finished." ”

"Hmmm! Good, good, good. Fan Ming himself felt a little excited, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You go to sleep first, I'll come here." ”

In the early spring weather, it is still very cold outside, but in this side room, it looks warm, but this smell of soot is not something that everyone can bear, maybe this set of steamers should not be put in the side room, but for the sake of the future 'money', Fan Ming can't care so much.

"Hey, my good young master, how did you do this rough work, just let the next person come." Xiangxue seemed to suddenly come out of the air, took the bookcloth bag that Fan Ming didn't have time to put down, wiped the fine beads of sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief, and the black on his face, and complained non-stop, "This spring fragrant day, it's not good to sweat, it's easy to catch a cold when you sweat." ”

"How can my body be so precious, and I'm not a daughter who hasn't been out for a hundred years." In the past ten days since he arrived in the county seat, Fan Ming found that he was becoming more and more inseparable from Xiangxue, this is to blame this girl for being extra concerned about herself, and she usually doesn't even need to wear clothes herself, not to mention the meticulous care in other aspects.