When she woke up in the morning, Princess Xingnan saw that there was no familiar figure on the opposite bed, and she felt disappointed, and even the maid stepped forward to serve and change her clothes, but she was a little resistant and sullen. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info She had a lot to say to Shen Zhezi last night, but she didn't see Shen Zhezi go back to her room until late at night, and when she woke up, she still didn't see anyone.

"Lord Lang didn't go back to the room last night, so he should be busy with something." The maid was pushed away by the princess, and did not dare to step forward again, so she replied cautiously.

"Change my shirt, I'm going to see what he's up to!"

As they get along for a long time, although they are ashamed to admit it, this girl is indeed more and more dependent on Shen Zhezi. With her age and experience, she doesn't know how to express this feeling, but she just hopes to get more attention.

After getting up and cleaning her face, she went out to inquire, Princess Xingnan soon came to the courtyard where Shen Zhezi was staying, and was just about to walk in, but Liu Chang hurriedly walked from the corridor and stepped forward to stop the princess: "Princess, please stay, Lang Jun ordered when he was resting, no one is allowed to enter the room until he wakes up." ”

The princess was stopped at the door, frowned even deeper, and asked, "What is he doing?" ”

"The servants really don't know, it should be an extremely urgent matter, Lang Jun was busy last night until the end of the ugly hour before resting." Liu Chang replied respectfully.

Hearing this, the princess no longer pushed in, but just told Liu Chang: "If he wakes up, you should inform me." ”

Leaving this small courtyard, Princess Xingnan was a little entangled. Yesterday, Shen Zhezi was angry for avenging her and took her to other people's mansions to loot, which made her happy and moved, and she could also feel Shen Zhezi's connivance and accommodation towards her. But on the other hand, she didn't know how to respond.

This feeling of being at a loss made the little girl feel quite stunned, and she was ashamed to ask others about this thought, although the "Female Commandment" was copied very well, but it really did not talk about the husband and wife going together to rob other homes, and what should the woman do to thank her husband after returning home.

It was with this entanglement that he returned to his room, where the princess sat still pondering the question. Unconsciously, most of the hour had passed, and Liu Chang hurriedly came from outside the door, stood in front of the door and said, "Lang Jun has woken up, please share breakfast with the princess." ”

Since you can't think of it, then don't think about it first, and you may understand it later.

The princess was not accustomed to embarrassing herself too much, but when she heard Liu Chang's advice, her mood improved, so she left this problem behind, only to find that the sun had risen high, and she had been sitting for most of the morning.

Coming to the small courtyard where Shen Zhezi was, the princess walked into the room, and before she could speak, she saw Shen Zhezi sitting behind the dining table holding a small bamboo tube of nearly half a foot in his hand, and there were many porcelain cups on the dining table, which contained white grains like frost and snow.

"Princess, come and take a look, you haven't seen this kind of new thing in the garden before, have you?"

Shen Zhezi smiled and beckoned to the princess, holding the bamboo tube with bamboo chopsticks, pointing to the snow-white sugar in the cup and saucer and saying, there was no lack of showing off.

When the princess heard this, her expression was strange, she was curious, and she liked new things the most, when she hurried to sit down opposite Shen Zhezi, picked up the small cup containing sugar and looked at it for a while, her mouth was already amazed: "In the hot day, where did you get the frost and snow?" ”

Shen Zhezi's expression was even more smug after hearing this, in order to make this thing, he couldn't sleep well last night. When the bamboo tube cools down, he uses chopsticks to pick up the ribbon tied to the outside, and then the bamboo tube separates from the middle, revealing the steaming white rice inside. Then he picked up another small cup of sugar, sprinkled it evenly on the rice, and pushed it in front of the princess: "Taste it." ”

Seeing this scene, the princess was even more surprised, and when she saw Shen Zhezi's encouraging eyes, she hesitated a little and picked up a little rice and put it in her mouth, chewed it slightly, and her eyes were already bright: "Shen Zhezi, why do you make such sweet and delicious food?" ”

"If it's delicious, you can eat more."

Shen Zhezi laughed twice after hearing this, and felt that the material life of the people at that time was scarce, and the white sugar bamboo tube rice dumplings for two yuan a piece in later generations actually made a princess full of praise. He had already tasted this way of eating just now, and it was indeed delicious and sweet, and it was a rare meal.

The princess will not be restrained in front of Shen Zhezi, and after hearing this, she used bamboo chopsticks to pick up a large meal of rice, ate the rice without spinning her heels, and pointed to another bundled bamboo tube on the case. Shen Zhezi opened it for her again, sprinkled it with sugar and handed it over.

It wasn't until the princess asked for the third bamboo tube that Shen Zhezi stretched out his hand to stop it: "Even if you have a good meal, you can't overeat, how can your viscera stand it!" ”

Hearing this, the princess felt a little bloated, but her glutinous sweet and delicious taste really made her unbearable, licked the rice grains stuck to the corners of her lips, rubbed her stomach lightly and whispered, "Shall I eat another one or half?" ”

"No, tomorrow, you've eaten too much today."

The rice in a bamboo tube is more than four taels, and this way of eating is not easy to digest. Shen Zhezi ignored the princess's begging and poured her a cup of sour plum soup before he said with a smile: "Now you know the benefits of coming to my house, right?" If you go to another house, how can you enjoy this kind of delicacies? ”

"Yes, yes!"

The princess nodded again and again, her eyes were still wandering on the white sugar, and while reminiscing about the sweet taste, she said to Shen Zhezi with a solemn expression: "Shen Zhezi, you are really one, one...... Alas, I don't know what to say......"

"Do you think I'm the only good husband in the world? Do you feel that you have a unique vision, a discerning eye, and a good match? ”

Things went so smoothly, Shen Zhezi was also in a rare good mood, and when he saw that the princess was clumsy in expressing herself, she asked with a smile.

When the princess heard this, she felt even more shy, and suddenly hiccuped, her pretty face suddenly turned crimson, and she took a sip of the plum soup before she lowered her head and whispered, "If you say so, that's it...... You're always kinder than I am. ”

After breakfast, the princess stayed by Shen Zhezi's side to see how Shen Zhezi made that sweet seasoning.

The sugar making technique is actually not complicated, especially the semi-finished brown sugar used by Shen Zhezi, and many of the previous time-consuming and labor-intensive processes have been completed. As long as the brown sugar is melted and then boiled into a viscous syrup, decolorized with a decolorizing agent, and air-dried and condensed, it will naturally become white sugar.

The key process is also the selection of decolorizing agent, Shen Zhezi didn't know which one was better, during the experiment yesterday, he tried various ingredients with the craftsmen, anyway, it is not a precious material, such as yellow mud, lime water and all kinds of crushed charcoal.

After these materials are decolorized, the syrup is clarified and baked, dehydrated to a certain concentration, and then cooled and refrigerated, and the sugar cubes with high purity can be obtained relatively quickly. If you don't rush time, the sugar crystals are precipitated by its natural air drying, and the principle is analogous to salt production, which is a very simple physical change.

The white sugar that Shen Zhezi and the princess ate first was melted again after this treatment, and the syrup was sifted with egg white, and the purity of the white sugar obtained was extremely high, and it could be eaten directly.

Shen Zhezi brought the curious princess into the backyard that had been tightly sealed, and when she saw that the craftsmen poured the burnt mud into a tile drain, and the other tile leaks that had been drenched earlier brought out impurities with the mud seeping down, and the white icing had gradually condensed on the top, the princess immediately changed her face, pulled Shen Zhezi's sleeve and said, "I used this mud to pour out the food I ate before?" ”

Seeing that this girl already had a disgusting posture, Shen Zhezi couldn't help but sigh, she really can't get to the bottom of eating, if this girl sees her own "nitrate collectors" going in and out of the toilet every day to scrape the frost on the wall, I'm afraid that I will vomit out the overnight meal.

"Rest assured, the sugar we eat is not made this way."

Yellow mud decolorization in the current conditions, in fact, can be regarded as a cost-effective way, the process is simple, can directly obtain white sugar, but the taste is slightly inferior, Shen Zhezi is determined to be a low-end product.

Considering the little girl's acceptance, Shen Zhezi took her directly to the place where she was decolorized with bone char. Nowadays, bone char has not yet been applied to the field of decolorization, and most of the successful firing is used as a desiccant, and it is indispensable for transporting precious goods such as lacquerware and silk by boat.

Compared with yellow mud, the process of bone char decolorization is more complicated, and it has to go through several sieves to clarify the egg white, but the adsorption of impurities and decolorization ability are much better than that of mud, and the sugar quality obtained is also extremely high. In addition, the tailings are also more suitable for reprocessing to make brown sugar that can be eaten directly. Before finding a better way to reduce costs, Shen Zhezi did not plan to mass production, and only produced a part of it for his own use or as a gift.

The boiling of white sugar is much smoother than Shen Zhezi imagined, as long as a stable source of goods is found, a large amount of output can be put into it immediately. People are sweet, white sugar is cold, brown sugar is warm, and they are all products with great market prospects. It is conceivable that once it is introduced into the market, it is definitely more popular and sought after than tofu, a food with a weak taste.

Everything Shen Zhezi did was to leverage private capital and gather people's strength to support the Northern Expedition in the future. Otherwise, with his family's background and family situation, he is already destined to be enterprising and rich all his life, so he really doesn't have to do these things anymore. In this complex and fragile situation, any radical move will provoke a strong backlash, and although this roundabout approach is not without twists and turns, it has finally been managed by him a little weather.

In the next few days, the atmosphere in Yuhangzhou City was not calm, and just around the manor, the Shen family found many suspicious snoopers, probably trying to help the Lin family out of the siege. But Shen Zhezi dared to use such a tough method, how could he not have the confidence, his own family in Yuhang Zuo nearly hundreds of pieces gathered here, at the same time, Yuhang families also sent people to support, the entire manor inside and outside the hoarding of more than 2,000 people, unless a large team of people was dispatched, it was impossible to break through the manor.

Ten days later, Shen Chong personally led 3,000 Huiji soldiers to the north to arrive in Yuhang, which made those who wanted to relieve the siege of the Lin family completely give up their plans to use force, and then began to visit the door one after another, wanting to get the Lin family out of the Shen family manor through negotiations.