Chapter 150 The Last Year of the Yuan Shuo

After "Shanglinyuan Agricultural Affairs" was submitted, there was no news.

Yun Lang's heart is over.

After the last beet in the field was dug up, the eight years of Yun's Yuanshuo were over.

The era name of Yuan Shuo was only six years in Yun Lang's memory, and because of his appearance, the name of Yuan Shuo, which was still peaceful, was extended by two years.

The emperor has already announced the next era name, Gengari.

The era name of Yuan Shuo indicates that the Han Dynasty officially declared war on the Xiongnu.

Then, the name of Yuanjia indicates that the Han is ready to launch a new attack on the Xiongnu, and this time the attack is no longer harassing, but to drive the large army to the hinterland of the Xiongnu.

The first day of the first lunar month every year is the time when the new year name is really launched, and Yunlang believes that many new things will happen in this year's New Year.

After the cold fog, winter will come.

The Yun family's yard was steaming, and all the iron pots in the house were boiling beets to make new frostings.

Since the successful cultivation of sugar beets, frosting has become a new business for the Yun family.

As long as the sugarcane in Lingnan cannot be transported to Chang'an, the Yun family can do this business for many years with peace of mind.

Beet juicing is undoubtedly the fastest way to make sugar, but the servants of the Yun clan found that more sugar could be produced by boiling and filtering the beet, so they took the trouble to boil it again and again until the beetroot was boiled into a paste.

Gauze twisted beet paste is a good feed for pigs, and as long as it is a good thing, the farmers of Dahan will use it to the extreme.

After boiling over and over again, straining over and over again, when the beet juice becomes viscous, the most primitive base sugar appears.

The color is not very good-looking, the taste is not pure sweet, and in order to neutralize the sourness in the sugar water, lime needs to be added.

The servants of the Yun clan finally mastered this core technology after countless failures of the family master.

Boiling sugar is a very hard job, stirring while boiling, and try to steam the water dry, until the sugar water is fried into a gravel shape, which is considered to have completed the preliminary process, because the sugar is reddish-brown, Yun Lang named this thing brown sugar.

When the process reaches this point, the servants of Yun's sugar making will drive out irrelevant people, lock themselves in a closed workshop, add charcoal grains to the brown sugar water, and then constantly stir and filter, and soon, the brown sugar water will become clear.

At this time, the servants of the Yun family will put away the charcoal grains, open the warehouse door, let the servants from the outer courtyard come in, and continue to boil these clear sugar water until the white sugar that can make the people of Chang'an go crazy appears.

The six servant women in charge of the main craft were specially selected by Song Qiao, all of whom were her diehards, and it was estimated that there was no possibility of leaving the Yun clan in this life.

However, these six servant women are no longer servant women, they only do the work of the inner courtyard, and the only ones who can drive them are the five real masters of the Yun clan.

In the Yun clan, the status is respected, and he doesn't even bother to give a good face to the ordinary servants.

The Yun family can only produce more than 10,000 catties of white sugar a year, and such things generally cannot appear in the market, and relatives and friends share some, and there is basically nothing.

Of course, legend has it that the Yun clan also has something called "rock candy", which is as sweet as honey and as colorful as ice, and it is impossible to get it unless you have made friends.

Legends are always legends and are not necessarily true. After all, no one has actually seen it.

Of course there is rock candy, Huo Guang has a lot of resentment about this thing.

This kid is a very special existence, he basically has no interest in sugar, especially rock sugar, if it weren't for Yun Yin liking this thing very much, he wouldn't have made any yellow mud cellars, wore ropes, and naturally crystallized rock candy.

Not to mention the time-consuming, it is also very troublesome, the master does not think it is troublesome, he is naturally a person who cherishes time, and always looks down on people who scratch on the mouth.

Yun Lang saw Huo Guang walking out of the cellar with muddy hands, so he shook his head with a smile, and when he looked back and saw his daughter's smiling eyebrows, he reprimanded: "If you want to eat rock candy in the future, go get it yourself, don't catch Xiaoguang to be a coolie." ”

Yun Yin looked at the beautiful skirt on her body and shook her head and said, "I don't want to get covered in mud." ”

Huo Guang washed his hands, came to Yun Lang's side and smiled at Yun Yin: "I have finished the yellow mud cellar, when it dries, you can pour sugar water into it, junior sister wants to eat rock sugar, just wait for half a month." ”

Yunyin said angrily: "Why do you have to wait for half a month so long? ”

Huo Guang still smiled and said: "It takes time to evaporate and crystallize, and this can't come quickly."

Good things are always time-consuming and labor-intensive, half a month is very short, and it passes in the blink of an eye. ”

Yun Yin snorted and entered the small building.

Yun Lang looked at Huo Guang and said, "You can't always spoil her, if you continue like this, we will all suffer." ”

Huo Guang grinned and said: "Senior sister used to be very well-behaved, but this year it seems that she has become a big girl, and it is normal to have a bigger temper." ”

Yun Lang said in surprise: "Who are you listening to these nonsense?" ”

"My mother, she said that the Yun family has countless wealth, although it will not be all given to the daughter, depending on the master's love for the eldest daughter, there should be no problem in taking away 20% in the future.

also asked me to be as good as possible to the eldest girl, so that I could take away a lot of my master's wealth in the future. ”

Huo Guang's lost teeth had just been replaced, and the reason why Yunyin was unhappy was because she began to change her teeth and spoke leaky.

Huo Guang said the words that made Yun Lang's heart ache, and at the same time looked at him with a longing gaze, which made Yun Lang speechless.

Over the years, the Yun clan basically has no secrets about Huo Guang, and if this kid runs away, the Yun clan will definitely suffer heavy losses.

Therefore, Yun Lang touched Huo Guang's head with a smile and said, "In this case, you have to be optimistic about Yunyin, and you must also be motivated, be careful that Yunyin likes others." ”

Huo Guang listened to his master's words, his big eyes immediately became cloudy, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Liu Ju is very annoying!" ”

"Why does he hate it?"

"He asked me if he could let the master listen to him if he married Yunyin as a side concubine."

"How did you answer?"

"I told him that Yunyin can't be a side concubine."

"That's all you said?"

"That's right, that fool said that Yunyin had a bad background, and he really couldn't be his side concubine. If Liu Ju comes to propose marriage in the future, will you use this reason to refuse, okay? ”

Yun Lang laughed, patted Huo Guang's round head and said, "Did Liu Ju really say that?" ”

"Really, he really said that the apprentices can testify! The apprentice has already told the two ladies about this! 、”

Huo Guang said it categorically, and he gritted his teeth.

Yun Lang knew that this little bastard was lying, and he was deliberately smearing Liu Ju, Yun Yin was Gillian's righteous daughter, although Gillian didn't like Yun Yin, her name was real.

Just the title of the lord of Weng is enough for Liu Ju to face it squarely, and Yun Lang himself is a crazy demon who loves women, as long as he is a person who knows a little bit about this matter, who dares to make a fuss about Yun Yin's life experience?

Yun Lang himself often does this kind of thing, and it is understandable for the disciple to do this, but poor Liu Ju finally came up with a good method, but before he could implement it, he was eliminated in the bud by Huo Guang.

The apprentice is beginning to have a heart, and as a master, he naturally has to give his full support, Yun Lang nodded and said: "Xiaoguang is right, the person who looks down on my Yun family, we naturally don't need to look down on him." ”

Huo Guangxiao's face turned red, and he nodded again and again: "Even if it is the eldest son of the emperor, it will not be!" ”

Yun Lang smiled and said, "That's nature!" ”

In the evening, Yun Lang told Song Qiao about this as a joke, and after Song Qiao laughed, she said to her husband very seriously: "The eldest daughter can't be allowed to the royal family!" ”

Yun Lang frowned and said, "So, has someone already talked about it?" ”

Song Qiao nodded and said, "Mrs. Chang Lehou mentioned it once, but she didn't say it explicitly, and she was rejected by the concubine on the excuse that the eldest daughter was too young. ”

Yun Lang said angrily: "You didn't kick her out? ”

Song Qiao pressed her irritable husband and said with a smile: "It's not good to do so much, our family has quieted down, and the concubine doesn't want to make enemies for her husband." ”

Yun Lang took a few breaths, slowly calmed down, and said to Song Qiao: "Pass the word out, the eldest daughter of the Yun family will not discuss marriage before she is eighteen years old!" ”

"Huh? Eighteen years old? ”

Yun Lang said with a gloomy face: "It's eighteen years old!" ”