"I've seen Ridian~"

All the helpers and the young man in charge of the sugar and liquor shop, Lu Gen, hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.

"You're welcome, how is the production of wine and sugar?" Chen Xu asked with a smile after dismounting.

"Back to Lidian, after the autumn of a large number of mountain grapes ripe, a few days ago we have to buy two or three hundred catties a day, now brewed nearly 100 vts of wine and more than 20 vs of vinegar, most of them have been fermented and transported to the cave cellar, but these two days to sell mountain grapes have been very few, most of the purchase is pear, prickly pear, chestnut and persimmon and other wild fruits, according to the boiling method you give, we are now boiling pears and prickly pear sugar every day, and the obtained has more than 100 catties of caramel sugar......" Lu Gen respectfully told the matter of the sugar and wine shop carefully.

After more than a month of training, this fifteen-year-old boy is now very sophisticated, both in doing things and speaking has a very mature momentum, although later generations say that the mouth is hairless and not firm, but in this primitive era, fifteen or sixteen years old is not a new thing, whether it is fighting or farming, it is already the absolute main force and pillar of the Great Qin Empire.

In the past, the Great Qin boy Ganluo was named Shangqing by Qin Shihuang at the age of twelve, and later Huo Qubing was crowned the champion of the three armies at the age of eighteen, and now there is Chen Xu at the age of fourteen as a pawn, that ...... Although the gap is very large, in today's Great Qin Empire, Chen Xu, who has no foundation and is from a civilian background, can have his current status, which can be said to be unique, and it is worthy of Chen Xu's pride.

Because Gan Luo's grandfather is the grandson of Gan Mao, a famous general of Great Qin, and Huo Quzhi is Wei Qing's nephew, and Wei Qing is the brother-in-law of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, both of whom are absolute nobles.

And after ten years of unification in Daqin, Nanyang as the hinterland of the Central Plains, the population loss is very heavy, and the current situation is that men are scarce, most of them are young people under the age of twenty, so the main force of the entire Qinghe Town is these young men who have only been naturalized in the last three or four years, and one by one they have long been the masters of the house and become the main force of the work, the sugar and wine workshop, the paper mill, the blacksmith shop, even if it is a woodworking workshop, the main force of production is still a few teenage apprentices, Liu Erwa is already a little powerless.

Chen Xu walked into the pergola to visit the process of boiling sugar, and also tasted several different fructose boiled out, and felt very satisfied.

Boiling sugar is actually very simple, that is, to clean up the impurities in the ripe wild fruits with relatively high sugar content, and then wash off the soil and dirt on them with water, mash them with a wooden pestle and put them in a pot with water to cook hard, and cook them until the wild fruits are completely ripe, at this time, most of the powdered sugar in the wild fruits will be integrated into the water, at this time, the cooked wild fruits are packed into a fine burlap bag, and the separated bean juice is squeezed repeatedly, and after squeezing all the juice inside, what you get is a pot of sugary light sugar water, which is not sweet at this time. Therefore, it is necessary to continue to boil, as the water evaporates, the concentration of the sugar water will become higher and higher, and finally it becomes a very sweet sugar water, and if you continue to boil, you will get a very viscous syrup, and when the syrup begins to bubble a lot, basically the pot of sugar is boiled successfully, and after it is cooled, it becomes caramel sugar, and when you eat it, it is almost the same as hard fruit sugar.

Take prickly pear as an example, prickly pear belongs to the Rosaceae family, there are thorns on the vines, the flowering is very beautiful, some are like the moon season, the color of the flowers is also red, yellow and white, in fact, the prickly pear also has a name, called golden cherry seed, is a traditional Chinese medicine, after ripening, it is yellow, red, orange, can be used to make wine, it is said to ...... Well, it can be aphrodisiac, but there are thorns on the surface of the golden cherry seeds, and there are many fine hairs wrapped in the seeds inside after they are cut. Therefore, after the prickly pear is purchased, it should be placed in the sand and rubbed with a hemp mat to remove these thorns, and then smashed next to each other, put it in the water and wash it repeatedly, and clean the fluff inside before it can be used to boil sugar, and the boiled sugar will inevitably contain some fluff that has not been cleaned up, so it will feel a little astringent when eating, and the throat will feel uncomfortable if you eat too much.

And because there is not only powdered sugar in wild fruits, there will also be some other ingredients, such as sour and some chemical components that do not taste good, but under the current technical conditions of Daqin, it is an absolute success to be able to boil this kind of syrup, so the several syrups that Chen Xu tasted are slightly sour and even astringent, but the sweetness is still enough, in this era of scarcity of sweet condiments, each one is nothing less than a sweet delicacy, it is completely worth spending a lot of effort to get it out, and now I can't go anywhere if I stay in this mountain. It's impossible to go to see Qin Dada, it's impossible to beat the child on a rainy day, and it's idle anyway, as a traverser, it's a must to get some delicious food and drink to sacrifice your own five internal organs temple.

And with syrup, many other delicious things in later generations can be made, such as rice candy, such as fruit sugar, such as walnut cakes, biscuits, moon cakes, etc., and these things, Chen Xu decided to make them slowly when he was bored in the cold winter, and there was a bit of the taste of the future during the New Year, but in order to have more taste of the New Year, it is best to make fireworks and firecrackers to celebrate and entertain. This is not good, very bad, since the future generations will not let it go, Lao Tzu must be released in the Qin Dynasty, and when the time comes, he will stand at the head of Xianyang City with Qin Dada to watch the meteor shower...... Well, fireworks, romantic and warm.

"Lidian, Lidian is not good!"

Just when Chen Xu and Yu Wuya were tasting different flavors of caramel next to each other like little squirrels, a teenager stumbled in from outside the courtyard, and shouted with a pale face.

"What's the matter?" Chen Xu hurriedly dropped the caramel in his hand and walked over.

This teenager is a helper in a paper mill, so anxious, could it be that the paper mill is on fire? Chen Xu couldn't help but look up in the direction of the paper mill, but he didn't see any traces of fireworks.

"Lord Ridian is not good, someone rushed into the paper mill regardless of the obstruction and killed ...... Killed Niu Xiaosi! ”

"What?" Chen Xu's face changed in an instant, he tore off the reins from the horse-tied stake, turned over and got on the horse, and rushed out of the brewery and went straight to the paper mill with a fierce whip.

"Eun Gong is waiting for me!" Yu Wuya also quickly rode his horse to catch up from behind, and almost at the same time, an urgent gong sounded in the west of the town, and countless people who were working immediately dropped their things and ran towards the west of the town, and at the same time, there were roars one after another.

"Engong, what happened?" Yu Wuya caught up with Chen Xu and asked.

Chen Xu shook his head with an ugly face, "I don't know yet, you go and inform Xu Fu first, and ask him to hurry up and go to the paper mill with the first aid kit!" ”

"No, I'm going to follow to protect Eun Gong!" Yu Wuya shook his head categorically and refused.

Chen Xu couldn't, so he had to shout a few orders to a villager on the side of the road, and the villager immediately turned around and ran to the health center.

Because of the pollution of the water source, the paper mill was built in the direction of the lower reaches of the Xiaoqing River near Pheasant County, more than 200 meters away from the west end of the town, but when Chen Xu and Yu Wuya arrived on horseback, they found that the scene was already in chaos, and countless villagers could not drain the water around the paper mill, and there was also the sound of ping-pong weapons fighting and roaring.

"Get out of the way!" Chen Xu roared anxiously, and after the villagers who were surrounded outside saw it, they shouted that Lidian was coming, and then suddenly dodged a road, Chen Xu drove straight into the paper mill, and then saw a burly man in gray linen clothes fighting fiercely with Liu Po, behind the man in gray, there were four people riding on horses, one of the young people Chen Xu recognized at a glance, it turned out to be Ma Teng, the nephew of Ma Boyuan, the guard of Nanyang County, who was the guy who was burned with a brazier by him last time in Wancheng, Next to Ma Teng, there was a young man wearing a lilac exquisite brocade dress, about twenty or so, wearing a purple jade crown, his hair was neatly combed, his facial features were delicate and his skin was fair, at first glance, he thought he was a woman, and his momentum and dress were definitely not as simple as an ordinary rich man, and even more powerful than Ma Teng, who was calling for wind and rain in Wancheng, and there were two tall horses behind the two, and on the back of the horses sat two burly men wearing gray clothes and swords at their waists. The guy who was fighting Liu Po in the field looked like he was imposing.

Liu Po is a tour of Qinghe Town, with fourth-level military merits, and is also a butcher who has killed many people on the battlefield, although the swordsmanship is average, but the waist is round, every move is tiger-like, but the opponent is more powerful than him, not only is the body flexible, but also swings the sword with one hand, like a monkey and Liu Po is entangled together, the moves are extremely practical, and the clanging between the clanging is an understatement to resolve Liu Po's water-like attack.

And not far from the battle between the two, a teenager in shorts and a short pendant was lying on the ground, the blood had formed a pool of blood under his body, motionless and seemed to have lost the slightest breath.

"Poof~" When Chen Xu rushed in, Liu Po was suddenly distracted, and was slashed on the blade by the opponent with a sword, accompanied by a loud sound of gold and iron impact, Liu Po snorted and retreated seven or eight steps, and then opened his mouth to spurt out a mouthful of blood, and the big sword in his hand also fell to the ground with a thud, and at the same time, a stream of blood soaked out of his right chest.

"Boundless, take them!" Chen Xu didn't have time to ask, jumped off the horse and went straight to Niu Xiaosi who was lying on the ground, and when he opened it, he saw that a wound on his neck was cracked, the carotid artery was cut, and he had already lost half of his vital signs.

"Who are you......" The gray-clothed man who was fighting with Liu Po just now opened his mouth and didn't finish shouting, only to see Yu Wuya jump off the horse, like a leaf floating in the air for two or three feet away, and instantly fell in front of him, and at the same time, the black sword in his hand also slashed down.

The gray-clothed man hurriedly swung his sword to block, but the black sword in Yu Wuya's hand silently cut a black piece in the air, appearing at his wrist and gently picking it up.

"Ah~" The gray-clothed man screamed and grabbed his wrist and retreated, and the big sword in his hand fell to the ground with a loud bang.