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 shēn), "That's not something that Ye made himself, it was sent by someone from the blacksmith shop on East Street." ”

"Oh!" Fan Ming was happy in his heart, he was busy with schoolwork these days (情qíng) but forgot about this stubble, last time he let the design of a (set of tào) used for distillation of the big retort, the big retort is the main tool for brewing perfume, and the calculation time is also at this time to build, 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 uncovering the straw mat on the big retort and big ring, and carefully looked at the (set of tào) tools he designed, and at that time he only roughly told the blacksmith, 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 tào) big retort and big retort in front of him are roughly the same as the Eastern Han Dynasty bronze stills in the impression, this (set of tào) structure is similar to that of the Jin Dynasty still, divided into two parts of the retort body and the kettle body, the height is about one meter five, 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 condensate 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. It is ready to be used for feeding at any time, and theoretically this (set of tào) tool should be no problem, but in practice, whether it can be successful or not depends on the specific test to know.

After a while, people came over with two men from Xiangxue, Fan Ming and the two of them assembled the (set of tào) utensils together, and put them in a side room next to the stove room, and asked Aunt Li to bring 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 take care of the heat, Fan Ming turned (body shēn) 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 only mint and honeysuckle are used.

"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 in his heart, theoretically there should be no problem with this, but there may be some deviations in the actual ((cāo)cāo) work, he didn't dare to show off to Xiangxue for the time being, and suddenly thought of the flower dew, and turned (shēn) to Xiangxue and said: "Girl, arrange something for you, go and 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 (body shēn) and went out, she was a hundred happy to be able to do things for her own man.

The placement of petals in it is also the inspiration he drew from Zhang Shinan's "Records of the Eunuchs" in the Southern Song Dynasty, which describes the situation of the folk at that time using a distiller to steam the flower dew: "The tin is a small retort, the real flower is heavy, and the fragrant bone is heavy, which often makes the flower 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 chūn) weather, it was still very cold outside, but in this chamber it was warm, but this smell of soot was not something that everyone could bear, maybe this (set of tào) steamer should not be placed in the chamber, but for the sake of the future 'money', Fan Ming couldn'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 patch on his face, and complained to himself, "This (Chunchūn) Xiangtian is not good at sweating, and it is easy to catch a cold when you sweat." ”

"How can I (身shēn) be so noble, 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.