"This is alcohol?" Uncle Cao Guo smelled the liquid in the porcelain bottle, and the aroma of the wine was not as strong as before.

Li Buqi asked, "What about the rose oil you said?" ”

Uncle Cao Guo hurriedly asked people to bring a small wooden box, and after opening it, he carefully took out a glass bottle from it, handed it to Li Buqi and said, "That's it." Bought from a Celestial Merchant. ”

Li Buqi opened the glass bottle and smelled it, and sure enough, it was a rich rose fragrance. He poured some alcohol into a small white porcelain jar specially fired, and then dripped a little rose oil into it, and the rose oil was well dissolved by the alcohol after a little flicker. "See, rose oil doesn't soluble well in water, but alcohol does. If you rub the alcohol that dissolves the rose oil on your body, the alcohol will easily dissipate, leaving only the rose oil evenly on the skin. ”

Uncle Cao Guo tried it, and sure enough, it is not like rose oil, which will make your hands greasy, this thing must be used by his sister first, maybe it can win the emperor's favor. Now he completely believed in the magic of alcohol, since alcohol can dissolve the essence of roses, then it must also dissolve the essence of other things.

Then he saw Li Buqi pour some alcohol into a tall and thin porcelain barrel, put a bamboo stick with a small copper block hanging from the bottom, and make a mark on it. Then Li Buqi poured water into the alcohol very defeated, and poured the alcohol mixed with water back into the porcelain bucket every time he poured it, inserted bamboo sticks, and marked them on the bamboo sticks.

Uncle Cao Guo was distressed: "What are you doing here?" Twenty jars of spirits are steamed out of such a small thing, how can you still waste it? ”

Li Buqi laughed: "Sharpen the knife and don't cut the wood." With this ruler, it will be much easier to steam alcohol later. ”

Although Da Song or the world's first alcohol meter was done, Li Buqi was very dissatisfied. Bamboo will absorb moisture or dry with the weather, resulting in inaccurate measurements, and the nature of bamboo is still not stable enough, it is best to use glass as an alcohol meter. Accustomed to using glass instruments, he has always believed that without the emergence of glass, many scientific discoveries would not be possible, so it is necessary to get glass out as soon as possible.

Li Buqi picked up the glass bottle of rose oil and looked at it carefully, the glass has a green color, and the color is not uniform, and the transparency is also problematic, although it is garbage compared with the chemical glass used before the crossing, but it is also transparent, so the first step is to make such glass.

Uncle Cao Guo carefully held the bottle of alcohol and walked away happily, urging Li Buqi to quickly make wine and make more alcohol. And Uncle Cao Guo promised that the city could not be tossed, so he would build a wine shop on the fifty acres of land outside the city, and Li Buqi would not have to worry about the money, and several nobles and Taoist temples would compete for money, in fact, they wanted to take the opportunity to occupy a share, so that they could get the alcohol first in the future.

That's a good thing, and it's even better to do your own business with other people's money. Li Buqi went to see the fifty acres of land, so he drew a planning map for Uncle Cao Guo to manage first.

There are also surprises in the selection of koji seeds, and a grain sample fermented with koji from Shanxi has changed very well, hoping to cultivate usable koji.

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When Zhao Yuanwai returned home, he called his daughter to the study, with a solemn face: "Eldest sister, I have already inquired about the trouble of Li Buqi." It's not like your brother said that Li Buqi is completely unreasonable, that imperial history shouldn't be a child's play with military affairs, just to earn a reputation for himself. But after all, he is the imperial history, that is, he said that his own officials and ministers dealt with him wrongly, and Li Buqi was so embarrassed that the officials must have offended all the officials.

Moreover, the court has its own rules, and it pays attention to the gentleman's mouth and not his hands. If you don't agree with anything, you can only refute others by quoting scriptures and scriptures, and naturally recognize you as a hero. But Li Buqi broke the rules this time, and the court officials would definitely not allow him. Alas, young maniacs! Judging from this matter, this is not a stable person, and it is definitely not a good match for life. ”

Zhao Mingdao saw that his father also said the same, and hurriedly helped: "That's it!" Little sister, you see that this Li Buqi is acting so perversely, and I don't know what the situation is when I wait for him for another three years, your good youth can't be bad on him. Anyway, there is no marriage contract, so I don't take this opportunity to make a break. ”

Zhao Min said: "After reading the textbook compiled by Li Buqi, the slave family should be a rigorous person, not like a perverse person." Since he acted like this, he was afraid that there was something hidden. ”

Zhao Yuanwai said: "No matter what he has secrets, he has offended all the officials." With him, who will dare to speak casually in the future? I'm afraid that the court won't tolerate him in the future, and if you marry him, you can only suffer with him. There is also the imperial examination, which he may not be able to pass the examination. ”

Zhao Min was young after all, and hurriedly asked: "Could it be that there are people who dare to show favoritism in the country's moral affairs?" ”

Zhao Yuanwai snorted lightly: "It's not necessarily favoritism, but if the examiner has the ambition to trouble him together, it's hard to say." In fact, Zhao Yuanwai has been mixed in the officialdom for more than ten years, but he understands that the imperial examination is not impossible to get up and down.

Zhao Min lowered his head and said softly: "But his daughter gave him a promise, and the whole city of Tokyo knows about it, and now he regrets it, what do people think of his daughter?" ”

Zhao Mingdao said hurriedly: "Now there are rumors that Li Buqi's song 'Each has been leading the way for hundreds of years' and "Red Plum Praise" are copied, so now is an opportunity, he is doing things so contrary to common sense, no one will say that he is good." How can such a person be entrusted with life, and others can't say anything when they say it. ”

Zhao Min said to Zhao Yuanwai for a long time: "Let my daughter think about this matter again." ”

Zhao Yuanwai knew that his daughter had an idea, so he forced her and Li Buqi to break off for fear that it would cause a backlash, so he sighed and let Zhao Min go. Zhao Mingdao hurriedly went back to the room and asked his Hun family to persuade his sister again, don't miss the opportunity.

Zhao Mingdao's wife came to Zhao Min's embroidery building with a personal maid, but saw that the door was closed, and after knocking on the door, the old mother opened the door in a panic. As she entered, she asked, "What are you doing when the door is closed?" But the eye caught a glimpse of Apricot probing his head on the stairs, and when he saw him, he immediately retracted his head.

She knew that something was wrong, so she turned around and said, "It seems that I came at the wrong time, so I'll come back later." ”

But I heard Zhao Min's voice upstairs say, "Second sister-in-law, please come up." ”

After going upstairs, she couldn't help but glance curiously, and saw a fan cover and a piece of peiyu on the table, all of which were things for men. After a closer look, they were all new, so he joked: "Hey, is this a gift for a lover?" ”

Zhao Min's cheeks turned red, and he hurriedly defended: "This is a little sister who has nothing to do and wants to accompany a man to see." ”

Zhao Min's second sister-in-law remembered that a few days ago, Zhao Min asked for two sets of old clothes that his brother didn't wear, and she guessed a rough idea. He was originally the daughter of a merchant family who was an old friend of the Zhao family, so he didn't feel strange about this, not to mention that she hadn't done it before she got married, so she smiled and said: "Hmph, do you want to dress up as a man to see your lover?" Then do it and show me. There are a lot of women in Bianliang City who dress up as men and go out to play, I did this when I was at my mother's house, I'll help you clean up and see if there are any flaws. ”