"Bang Bang Bang~" Li Xiu held a hammer in his hand and knocked on a special pot until he modified some small details to his satisfaction, there were special craftsmen in the army, he only needed to move his mouth, but the thing he made had a special purpose, the craftsman couldn't understand it at all, he couldn't explain it for a while, and finally had to beat it himself, anyway, the craftsman had done it well, but there were some small details that needed to be modified.

"Boy, the princess hasn't woken up yet, why don't you find a way to save the princess, what are you doing here to strike iron?" At this time, I saw Ma Ye striding over and asked a little anxiously, compared to two days ago, the armor on his body had a lot of blood and scars, and the long knife in his hand was still dripping blood, it seemed that he had just come down from the battlefield.

"Uncle Ma, I've done everything I can, and everything depends on whether God helps!" Li Xiu put a few strange parts together with the iron pot, and after finding that there was no big problem, he nodded with satisfaction, and then turned his head to Ma Ye and said, "Uncle Ma, can you ask people to find a few large jars of wine?" ”

"The princess is hurt like this, are you still in the mood to drink?" Ma Ye was even more irritable when he heard Li Xiu's words, and slashed at the tree next to him angrily, as a result, the small tree with thick arms was immediately cut in two, but then Ma Ye suddenly reacted, and stared at Li Xiu strangely at the moment, "Aren't you kid not drinking at all, what are you doing with wine at this time?" ”

"Of course it's medicine!" Li Xiu also said very helplessly, as the so-called concern is chaos, at this time, Ma Ye completely lost his usual shrewdness.

"Okay, you wait, there is no alcohol in the army, but there must be one in Gyeongju City, I will have someone find it for you immediately!" Ma Ye had also heard that some medicines needed to be taken with wine, and he didn't suspect it immediately, so he turned around and ran out.

Li Xiu looked at the reckless Ma Ye and shook his head helplessly, and then commanded a few guards to carry back the things he asked the craftsman to make, the day before yesterday after he treated Princess Pingyang's wounds, Li Shimin gave him the right to act cheaply, as long as it was conducive to the recovery of Princess Pingyang's injury, he could do anything in the army, and Li Shimin also handed over several guards around him to Li Xiu's command, so that he could act in the army, but Li Xiu always felt that these guards were more like monitoring himself.

Take things back to the place where Princess Pingyang recuperates, this is actually the Thorn Mansion in Gyeongju City before, requisitioned by Princess Pingyang during the war, in order to facilitate Li Xiu to observe Princess Pingyang's condition nearby, Li Shimin let him live in the front yard, every morning, noon and evening, Li Xiu has to personally observe the changes in Princess Pingyang's injuries, although Princess Pingyang's injuries have not improved in the past two days, but at least they have not deteriorated.

"The wine has been found!" As soon as Li Xiu returned to his residence, Ma Ye rushed in, and then a carriage entered the courtyard, and there was a whole load of wine jars piled on the car, and it was estimated that he had emptied everyone's wine cellar.

Li Xiu immediately instructed people to put the things he had created, and the gaps were also surrounded with a damp cloth, in fact, the thing he made was a distiller, because Princess Pingyang's injury was a wound infection, and it was necessary to use disinfectant to keep cleaning, but the disinfectant he could find was too little, and dandelion was only an expedient measure, so in the end he thought of medical alcohol, which was also the only disinfectant he could make under the current conditions.

The retort designed by Li Xiu has three layers, the first layer is an ordinary cauldron, the second layer is a flat-bottomed cauldron on the first layer of pot, when used, the first layer of the pot is put in water, and when heated, water vapor is generated, and the water vapor conducts the heat to the second layer, and the second layer of the pot is put in the wine, and the alcohol volatilizes after heating, and the third layer is a condenser, which can make the volatile alcohol condense again, and flow out and collect it along the conduit.

The reason why the first two layers should be designed, rather than allowing the wine to be heated directly, is mainly because the boiling point of alcohol is low, and it can be volatilized before the water boils, and if it is heated directly, the temperature will be very high, and the water will also volatilize together when it boils, so that the alcohol content of the distillation is lower, and the degree of medical alcohol needs to reach 75 degrees, which is too low to achieve the purpose of sterilization and disinfection.

Li Xiu personally lit the fire under the still, and after a while, the water in the pot on the first layer began to boil, and the wine in the second layer also began to heat up and volatilize, and was condensed into a higher degree of wine by the third layer, which flowed down the pipe to a small wine jar outside, and when the liquor just came out, the whole courtyard was filled with an attractive aroma of wine.

"Goo Dong~" Although he knew that these wines were for Princess Pingyang's injuries, Ma Ye still couldn't help but swallow a stream of saliva, and several guards next to him also showed greedy looks, but they also deliberately made a cold appearance, just glanced at the wine flowing out of their eyes from time to time.

Compared with Ma Ye and these people, Li Xiu covered his nose and hid far away at this time, maybe many people like to drink, but they definitely don't include him, and I don't know what the reason is, anyway, he has hated the taste of wine since he was a child, if someone has drunk alcohol, he can't stand the smell on his body, but unfortunately after work, he didn't drink less in order to socialize, and his body was drinking problems, he suspected that he died suddenly in his previous life, and it also had a lot to do with his usual drinking.

After the distillation was over, Li Xiu stepped forward and dipped his hand in some liquor, then tasted it with a bitter face, and then spit it out again, Ma Ye and others next to him looked distressed, but they didn't dare to say anything, for fear of disturbing Li Xiu's "pharmaceutical".

"The degree is too low, it looks like it needs to be distilled a few more times!" Li Xiu said to himself at the moment, although he didn't like to drink, but he had also drunk a lot of high-grade alcohol in his previous life, such as Bawang Drunk, Qinghe Daqu, etc., which were about the same as the medical alcohol degree, and his tongue was numb after entering the mouth, and his mouth seemed to be holding red-hot charcoal, which he couldn't forget for two lifetimes.

He poured out the water left over from the second layer, and then poured the distilled liquor into it again and distilled it again and again, and steamed it a dozen times, until he found that the steamed liquor could no longer increase its concentration, and after tasting it, he found that the taste of this liquor was very similar to the taste of the spirits of later generations above 70 degrees, so he finally gave up.

"The two large jars of wine are at least hundreds of catties, and in the end, such a small jar of alcohol is steamed, it is estimated that it is only a few catties, even if the original wine is low, but the loss in the middle is too great, and the food consumed is too much." Li Xiu weighed the small wine jar in his hand and said to himself, before solving the problem of grain, it is really not appropriate to promote distilled spirits.

"Boy, is this medicinal wine ready?" At this time, Ma Ye stepped forward and asked, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva again after speaking, he was originally a good drinker, he had been in the army for so long and had not touched a drop of wine, and now he smelled such fragrant wine, just like when Li Xiu was very hungry and saw the roast chicken he threw over, his saliva has never stopped.

"Almost, Uncle Ma, do you want to try it?" Li Xiu looked at Ma Ye and said very funny as he looked at Ma Ye and was holding back his drooling.

"Forget it, it's important to save the princess, but can this wine really save the princess?" Ma Ye's drooling is the instinct of the body, but he has never forgotten the princess's injury in his heart, and asked again with a concerned face at the moment.

"Can you save me......"

"What are you doing?" Before Li Xiu finished speaking, he heard an angry voice suddenly coming from outside the courtyard, and then saw Li Shimin striding in angrily, and when he smelled the smell of wine in the courtyard, he shouted to Li Xiu even more annoyed, "Captain Li, this king asked you to find a way to save the third sister, but you actually hid here and drank, do you think that the rules in the army are all child's play?" ”

Li Xiugang wanted to explain, but Ma Ye next to him was the first to speak: "His Royal Highness King Qin misunderstood, Captain Li is actually using wine as medicine, we are all watching the whole process, Captain Li has not taken a sip of wine!" ”

Hearing Ma Ye's explanation, Li Shimin also glanced at Li Xiu with some disbelief, just now he came to visit Princess Pingyang, but as soon as he came in, he smelled a smell of wine, so he followed the smell to find it, but found that it was the courtyard where Li Xiu lived, which made him also furious, so he broke in directly.

"This is alcohol, applied to the wound to disinfect!" Li Xiu raised the wine altar in his hand and said, I don't know why, from the moment they met, he felt that Li Shimin seemed to be targeting him as if he was nothing, but he didn't seem to offend him, and he hadn't even seen each other before, could it be that Li Shimin and Li Jing had a contradiction, so they poured their anger on him?

As soon as Li Xiu's words fell, the guards sent to him by Li Shimin also came out to testify, which made Li Shimin dispel the suspicions in his heart, but he did not apologize to Li Xiu, but just said bluntly, "Captain Li is wrong", and then asked Li Xiu to give medicine to Princess Pingyang, which also made Li Xiu even more sure that Li Shimin was targeting himself.

However, Li Xiu didn't bother to bother with Li Shimin, of course, the most important thing was that he didn't dare, after all, the identity gap between the two sides was too big, and for this ruthless man who dared to kill his brother and father, Li Xiu felt very jealous from the bottom of his bones, such a person would never be provoked.

On the way, Li Shimin walked in front, Li Xiu and Ma Ye followed, taking advantage of this opportunity, he asked Ma Ye in a low voice: "Uncle Ma, why do I feel that His Royal Highness King Qin doesn't seem to like me very much?" ”

"Huh? You don't know? Ma Ye looked at Li Xiu a little strangely and asked, as if he should have known the reason.

"Of course I don't know, is there any reason for this?" Li Xiu asked again, and at the same time he looked through the original Li Xiu's memories in his mind, but he didn't find any intersection between him and Li Shimin.

"Of course there is a reason, when the prince and the princess asked His Majesty for merit for you, that's why you got a military officer, think about the relationship between the prince and the king of Qin, do you need me to say it next?" Li Shimin was far away from them, and there were no other people around, but even so, Ma Ye still lowered his voice.

"I see, why am I so wronged!" Li Xiu finally reacted when he heard this, and said with a wry smile, no wonder Li Shimin doesn't like him, who let him get involved with the prince first? It is estimated that in Li Shimin's heart, he has long been labeled as a princeling, which is a dangerous sign, if he doesn't get rid of the label on his body, it is estimated that he will have to bury Li Jiancheng in a few years.