Wan Niang was deeply suspicious of Li Xiao saying that she would refine white sugar, which made Li Xiao very unconvinced.

How can a man make a woman suspect that it can't be done, and neither can an uncle or an aunt.

This night, Li Xiao was lying in bed and had been thinking about how to refine sucrose to purify and decolorize. However, activated carbon is not equal to ordinary charcoal, Li Xiao can't get activated carbon now, think about it, or the yellow mud decolorization method is the simplest and direct.

However, now Datang is also using yellow mud to decolorize and purify, but the frosted sugar that can be made is not white, which shows that this method is not perfect enough, and maybe it can be decolorized and purified to make whiter sucrose.

Wan Niang hugged Li Xiao and slept very soundly this night.

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Li Xiao didn't know when he fell asleep, and when he woke up, he found that his surroundings were empty, and Wan Niang had already gotten up.

Listening to the voices outside, he knew he had overslept.

Yawn, get dressed and get up.

Zhuangzi is now eating a big pot of rice, but everyone's enthusiasm is quite high. After all, instead of the days when there was not enough to eat in the past, now at least two meals a day is guaranteed.

The men began to work very early, weaving the thatched grass they had cut down, peeling the bark of the trees, and picking up yellow mud and carrying water and pulp.

Over there, Yang Dayan and Dr. Zhao have already cleaned up a thatched house with a group of babies, which will be the school in Zhuangzi.

Li Xiao's words yesterday still made everyone very moved.

Since Mr. Yang is willing to accept Zhuangzi's children to study and enlighten, what else is there to be unhappy about.

Zhuangzi is still the same Zhuangzi, but in the morning, it is already very energetic and lively.

"Brother, are you up?" Li Zhen smiled and came up to say goodbye.

Looking at the smile on this girl's face, Li Xiao felt very warm.

"Well, it's late."

"It's still early, you ran hard all day yesterday, and you should sleep more."

"Where's Wan Niang?"

"My sister-in-law said to grind tofu and eat it today, and I will grind and grind beans over there with Aunt Cuihua."

There was no vegetable in the winter, and the family still had some beans that they had bought, which were originally used as fodder for horses and mules. Wan Niang saw that there were still a lot, so she prepared to make a table of tofu with soybeans, and then use black bean seedlings and some bean sprouts.

"On this cold day, do the sprouts come out of the seedlings?"

"Didn't my brother tell my sister-in-law that you could make a warm kang and put the clay pot on the kang?"

"Oh, yes, I almost forgot about this stubble, it's so cold, this thatch doesn't protect against the cold. We have to build a warm kang in the house, so that we are not afraid of freezing when we are warm on the kang. ”

The ondol is a weapon to protect against the cold, and Li Xiao has been thinking about it since he came here for one night. Wan Niang had never slept on the kang before, and she had never heard of it. But Li Xiao said that this thing is easy to use, and after briefly explaining the principle, she also thinks it is feasible.

Now Dr. Zhao has organized the men in the village to prepare a pankang, and it is also simple to make a kang by himself, get some stones, yellow mud, etc., and then let Li Xiao talk about the specific pan method, where to make a chimney, where is the flue, explain these key points, and the rest is some work at hand, and the materials are all taken locally.

Breakfast is a simple millet porridge, there is no pig's head meat, but everyone is very happy to eat.

Now the hall of the thatched hut where Li Xiao lives has become a canteen and a hall in the village, and the dinner is also held here, which is very lively.

After eating, Li Xiao asked Yang Dayan to pay the money.

Now Yang Dayan is not only the private school teacher in the village, but also the bookkeeper in the village, and the expenses are recorded in his account.

Yang Dayan is in charge of the accounts, and Mr. Zhao is in charge of the money.

It is equivalent to an accountant and a cashier, and the money and accounts are separated.

Yang Dayan opened a note there, and then went to Mr. Zhao to withdraw the money, and took the money and pressed his fingerprint.

This set of rules was set up by Li Xiao himself, there are no rules, there are dozens of people in Zhuangzi today, although there are not many people, but some things are still set up first and then do things, so that there will be no chaos.

Moreover, with this system, it is relatively easy to manage and is not prone to errors.

Wan Niang saw that Li Xiao took out 5,000 yuan at a time, and asked with some concern, "Xianggong, are you really going to buy sand sugar?" ”

"Since it's a way to make money, there's no reason not to do it."

"It's not that easy, is it?" Zhao Wan said with some concern. I heard that the imperial court sent envoys to the Western Motuo Jieguo to get the process of making sand sugar, where would ordinary people know. Her husband said that he had a better sugar making process than the imperial court and could refine whiter frosted sugar, but Zhao Wan always didn't believe it.

It's not that she doesn't want her husband to try it, but now the price of this sugar is too expensive, even if it is a cheaper kind of black sugar, one or two silver can only buy ten catties.

"Don't worry, don't you still believe your husband?"

"Of course I believe in Xianggong, but."

Li Xiao gently scratched Zhao Wan's nose, "I will definitely guarantee success." ”

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Blue Creek Street.

In the rich restaurant, the shopkeeper ran upstairs sweating profusely.

"Knock knock!"

"Come in." Zhang Papi was sitting in the room on the third floor looking through the account books, seeing that the end of the year was approaching, and the business of the restaurant should have been better during this time, but in fact it was getting worse and worse.

In contrast, the Fuchun Restaurant opposite is full of customers every day, which makes Zhang Papi very dissatisfied. The Zhang family started as a loan shark, and their best business was to open gold and silver shops and quality warehouses, and they had little experience in restaurants and pharmacies.

But they also opened restaurants and opened them together, and their business was booming, but their own family was average, and it was unacceptable for Zhang Papi.

"Boss, it's not good."

Zhang Papi frowned and raised his head.

"What's the system of panicking, what's going on?"

"It's Fuchun Restaurant, their family has launched a new dish today, and it's being promoted everywhere."

"What's so strange about introducing a new dish? After all, the chef in the restaurant is a master invited from a big restaurant in Chang'an. ”

"But the owner, the new dish they launched is made of jasper green."

"Jasper Green?" Zhang Papi didn't understand it at first, and was stunned for a moment before remembering that this jasper green was a rare thing that his son bought from a few Yangzhou people for two thousand yuan?

Didn't you say that there were only a hundred in total, and all of them were bought by my son? I'm going to take this opportunity to take advantage of it.

Why does the Fuchun restaurant opposite now also have jasper green?

"Are you sure?"

"The owner, I'm very sure, I've sent someone to go over quietly to see, their new dish launched today is made of jasper green, and they even took out a jasper green to show it in public, which is exactly the same as the jasper green you got in the restaurant, the same size, the same fresh."

The shopkeeper was very helpless, their restaurant was secretly holding an activity, ready to use this jasper green to make a turnaround, who knew that the opposite side of the house took out the jasper green first.

"I heard that they will launch a new dish every day for ten days in a row, all made with jasper green as raw materials. It's very lively now, and it attracts a lot of customers. ”

Zhang Papi's face became more and more ugly, and he slapped the table hard, "How can this be reasonable!" ”