Chapter 36: White Sucrose
"Mother, don't you worry, don't you just want to go to Chang'an to have a look? This Maxima is powerful, carrying you on his back, running faster than the wind! A thousand miles in a day..."Ji Xiao carried his mother, who was over fifty years old, wore mango shoes on his feet, strode through the mountains, and marched in the direction of Chang'an.
"I just thought, if there is still a chance in this life..."
"Mother, it's wrapped up in my son, when I get to Chang'an, let the saint make me a general, buy more than a dozen mansions, hire thousands of people, and we don't have to sleep on mud roofs and straw mats! Eat, drink, dress and sleep without worry! There are still people waiting! Ji Xiao was full of ambition, shouting in the wind, and the dozen or so pairs of mangshoe, hanging from his waist, were also shaking happily.
"We are poor and coarse, how can the saint take a fancy to us, you, just read more and think about it..."
"Mother, it's never right, when I go to Chang'an, I must be a general! I must let my mother live a comfortable life. Mother, you can rest assured, it's a big deal for me to help the saint fight the world, clean up all the wild tribes around, lead the great achievements back, and then slowly support the mother, hehehaha..."
Ji Xiao smiled proudly, his words were quite big, and he could see that the only big cow in the watermelon village was flying in the sky. But Ji's mother was happy and laughed together.
Ji's mother thought to herself, yes, if she could see what Chang'an was like before she died, she would go to Huangquan to tell his father, after all, his father's greatest wish before his death was to go to Chang'an to be a general. If we meet in Huangquan, my wife and son have something to say, Chang'an, it's such and such a place, so prosperous, there are many people, yes, and crooked nuts...
The sun rises and sets, the light drives out the darkness, and the darkness covers the world again.
Ji Xiao put down his elderly mother, roasted the rabbit, broke off two big meat legs for his mother, and then pretended to eat it himself, and then tore a piece of rabbit meat for his mother after his mother finished eating.
Wait until late at night when Ji's mother is asleep, he gets up to dig grass roots to eat, he is hungry, but there is only one rabbit, and the mother is not full, how can there be a reason for the son to eat first. He thought, when he arrives in Chang'an, he must get ahead, although he is a man with five big and three thick, but he can lift eight hundred pounds of stones, and throw them far away.
Since his father's death, their family has been living more and more embarrassed day by day, he has helped others to farm, contributed more effort, took less money, and sold things in the market at a high price. Later, the cow fell ill and died, and there was really no way to live, so he had to go hunting and barely survive.
One day, I suddenly heard my mother's dream, saying that I would be content to have the opportunity to go to Chang'an to have a look in this life.
This is the matter of Ji Xiao's thousands of miles to bear his mother to Chang'an, and even the customs clearance official inspection issued by the government cost him ten copper plates, although he gritted his teeth and was reluctant, but it was worth it to fulfill his mother's dream.
In the past few days, Hua Chuer found that the little lady rarely went out, and the little lady would definitely go to milk the cow on time. It's just that three subordinates came, and they let the little eunuch Yu Chaoen go to milk the cow.
Hua Chu'er heard that the big cow was crazy, and when she milked the cow, a cow's hoof was on Yu Chaoen's forehead, and when she first saw Yu Chaoen, there was a huge hoof print on his head.
While the little lady went out to make sugar, Hua Chuer opened the paper on the case and took a look, it was full of various paintings, many things she had never seen, for example, four-legged round things, and things that were flat like a pot but had a handle, and... All in all, she can't describe it, what is this little lady going to do?
On Wu Yueya's side, she took three old craftsmen who made sugar to the ear room in the mansion, which was temporarily empty and used as a temporary workshop for sugar making.
"Princess, what is the use of this tile drain?" Ma Liu was puzzled and asked.
"This one, free and wonderful!" Wu Yue Aya pretended to be mysterious, picked up the tile funnel, the big mouth up, the small mouth down, and placed it on the fixed shelf, and there was a wooden basin under the shelf.
Ma Liu and the other two old craftsmen were a little puzzled, watching Wu Yueya simply plug the straw into the small hole of the funnel, and then pour the black sugar into the tile funnel, and wait for the black sand to settle, then remove the straw, pour it from top to bottom with yellow muddy water, and pour the black sugar, leaving a layer of more than five inches of white powdered sugar.
After Wu Yueya finished doing it, she clapped her hands and said to the three old craftsmen, "How is it?" See? ”
"What are these white frosts? How can you drizzle with yellow mud water without staining those white powders? Ma Liu was stunned and hurriedly asked.
"Princess, with all due respect, such a waste of sweet candy..."
"yes..."
Wu Yueya didn't bother to pay attention to them, this method was taught by her grandmother, try the taste with a finger of powdered sugar, it was so sweet, much better than the pale yellow rice candy.
Ma Liu, regardless of the attitude of his old friends around him, went up to learn from the princess to try the taste of powdered sugar into the tile drain, dipped his fingers in this white powder, put it in his mouth and tasted it, and immediately tears fell.
Ma Liu knelt on the ground excitedly, bowed to the princess a few times, and no longer had the arrogance of the old craftsman before, "Princess, this kind of sugar is so sweet, the old child is willing to ask the princess for this yellow muddy water drenching sugar method, the princess is really a god!" ”
The other two old craftsmen saw Ma Liu's appearance, and tasted the white powder candy in the tile drain with doubts, the two of them were like wooden chickens, so sweet, so sweet that they were greasy, better than honey, is this still sugar? This princess's method of drizzling sugar with yellow mud water is terrifying! (Ahem, the sugar powerhouse is so terrifying, everyone actually tasted a cold sweat!) )
The three old sugar craftsmen of the palace are very fond of Wu Yueya, and they are crazy about studying sugar making, and they have to stop and ask Wu Yueya for advice at every step.
In the next few days, Wu Yueya was even more speechless, these three old guys were like a demon, and they came to see the princess more than a dozen times a day, asking the princess to give advice, and the princess was there? even openly shouted, 'We know the princess is here, please meet the princess', but the princess's guards who were called by Hua Chu'er dragged her arms away...
Wu Yue Ayamoto is drawing design drawings in the attic, because the brush is not suitable for drawing, she is thinking about using goose feathers, chicken feathers or other things to make fountain pens, and also, the current very important toothbrush and toothpaste This thing must also be made, and if you calculate carefully, she hasn't brushed her teeth for more than a year, and it is enough to add wicker and green salt every day.
The most important point is gunpowder, this thing must be made, and now the Tang Dynasty doesn't even have a fireworks.
Wu Yueya was drawing the drawings with reference to the drawings on the design interface, but there were three old men's shouts outside the building, who seemed to be very happy, saying that it was made of powdered sugar, hoping that the princess could test which of the three of them made the best powdered sugar.
In desperation, Wu Yueya had to go downstairs.
"Princess," the three of them saluted respectfully to Wu Yue Aya in unison, and when Wu Yue Aya arrived in front of them, she said, "Please taste and judge the three of us who made the better powdered sugar." ”
After the three of them finished speaking, they opened the delicately wrapped wooden box and let Wu Yueya taste it. Yu Chaoen led a group of guards to come over and prepare to drive people away, but when he found that the princess was beside him, he hurriedly asked the guards to stop, and he bowed his head and walked behind the princess.
Hua Chu'er appeared on the side of the three old men like a ghost, facing Ma Liudao, "I've tried it a long time ago, and the powdered sugar he made is the sweetest!" ”
"What?" The three of them were already frightened, and as soon as these words came out, the old craftsman on Ma Liu's right immediately spat Xingzi, "No wonder I always feel that there is a lot less powdered sugar, I thought it was a mouse stealing it, but it turned out that you thief stole it!" ”
"What do you call me, the princess let me taste it, huh, hehe." Hua Chu'er didn't bother to pay attention to this fat old man, walked up to the princess, and said obediently.
Wu Yueya shook her head with her forehead, and then saw Hua Chu'er's pouting mouth and nodded again.
"Little lady, I'll take this medium box, Wan'er likes to eat this kind of powdered sugar very much, she said it's delicious." Hua Chu'er took the wooden box containing powdered sugar on the left of Ma Liu and said.
"I can't help it, you are the princess's subordinate, how can a subordinate be so rude..."
"Okay, you can take it and eat it, actually, it's the sweetest box in the middle." Wu Yueya said after tasting it.
The old craftsman on Ma Liu's left was stunned, and stood next to him honestly without speaking.
"Princess, what should you call this powdered sugar?" Ma Liu heard the princess praise him for his good work, and he happily gave up his hand and asked with a respectful smile.
"Let's call it White Cane Sugar, you want to dedicate this to Your Majesty," Wu Yueya turned around and said.
Ma Liu looked at the princess's back, wiped the cold sweat that appeared on his forehead for some reason, and bowed his head and said, "Of course, this credit belongs to the princess, and we will definitely repay it truthfully." ”
"Well, you know what to do." Wu Yueya smiled and returned to the attic.
Ma Liusan retreated, and Yu Chaoen secretly wrote down in his heart, conveying the princess's preparation for sugar to Gao Lishi.
A few days later, Li Longji feasted the princess again, saying that the righteous girl had invented white cane sugar by her heart, which was much sweeter than those yellow sugar cubes, so she ordered all the sugar craftsmen in the palace to cooperate with the princess to make sugar.