After changing the medicine, Cao Shanhu Yinuo found a car, and when Zhu Junyi was helped out, he saw a very simple carriage parked in front of the door, with a wooden board on two wooden wheels, and even no handrails.

Zhu Junyi was lying on his back in the car, Cao Shanhu took out the broken quilt on the bed and covered him again, then pulled up the wheels and swayed and creaked on the road.

Looking along Zhu Junyi's line of sight, there were artificially planted sugar fields everywhere on both sides of the road, but there was no legendary sugar mill, which surprised Zhu Junyi that he met many congregants in black clothes and pants along the way, and they took the initiative to greet him.

"Yo! Cao Laohu, this is the little brother who stabbed the enemy in the warehouse! Whew! It's remarkable! ”

"Little hero! You're good. ”

"How did you manage to be so strong?"

"Hey! This little brother must have practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he is a master of art and bold! ”

"! At this age, did the little brother start practicing in his mother's womb? It must be a clever strategy, isn't it? Little brother! ”

"That's right! Right! ”

Zhu Junyi was a little speechless and surprised in the face of such a large group of gossiping strangers, he didn't expect that in just over a day, he would become a celebrity in this Gandarya. Fortunately, Cao Shanhu seemed to have a lot of face, and he coaxed everyone away with a few words.

Along the way, Cao Shanhu only cared about talking to himself, and he couldn't be idle while pulling the car, he always had to find something to talk about, Zhu Junyi expressed his gratitude to him several times, Cao Shanhu always said: "What do you do, I also listen to people's orders, the hall master and his old man said that if I want to take care of you, then I must take care of you!" Don't say you're going to a mass grave, even if you're going to the Dutchman's stone fort, you don't have to say a word,...... However, the little brother of the Zhu family ...... Why are you going to a mass grave? That place is unlucky......"

"I ......" Zhu Junyi didn't know how to say it, according to the meaning of Jiasan's words, it has been at least ten days since Gao Sheng was beaten, and his life and death are unknown, even if he arrives at the mass grave, can he really find Gao Sheng? If you find him...... Ten days ......, Zhu Junyi didn't dare to continue thinking.

The so-called mass grave is nothing more than a small hill.

There used to be a forest on the hill, but it had long since been cut down, leaving only a few stumps. Between the stumps were many tattered tombs, some of which could have half a stone tablet for a tombstone, and a little worse were just a roll of mats and a pit, some of which had been washed away by the frequent rains of the Java island, and some of which had been exposed by the dry bones inside, and some of the newly mourned corpses were exposed, leaving only piles of white bones, covered with the teeth of wild beasts.

Under the huge sun, Zhu Junyi insisted on searching the front and back alone and sadly, and looked through almost all the bones carefully, every time he looked at it, the hope in his heart that Gao Sheng was still alive increased by one point, until he had seen it everywhere, and there was no trace of Gao Sheng, looking at the bones that had been torn by the beast, Zhu Junyi did not want to believe that Gao Sheng or had been buried in the belly of the beast.

"Ascension! Where are you? ”

Didn't find Gao Sheng, Zhu Junyi's worry did not alleviate the slightest, but became heavier and heavier, he stood on the top of the hill, opened his throat and shouted, vaguely looking forward to the sudden appearance of an echo, and then he could see Gao Sheng running over and smirking at him.

Except for a few crows in the sky, there was no other echo.

Cao Shanhu stood at the bottom of the mountain according to the wheel. Since he arrived at the mass grave, he didn't continue to talk much, as if he had never been a person with many words, he just looked at Zhu Junyi silently, watched him climb up and down, watched him shout on the hills, looked at his crying back, and frowned.

Too many people around him have their own stories, Cao Shanhu can see that Zhu Junyi is also a person with stories, how complicated will a child's story be? At least, it must have something to do with the medicine guy he killed.

When Zhu Junyi came down, there were no tears on his face, his eyes changed a little, Cao Shanhu couldn't understand it, and of course he wouldn't ask more.

On the way back, Cao Shanhu was still like an open chatterbox, he walked a lot of places, and he knew a lot of things, he talked about everything, Zhu Junyi just listened, and after a long time, the more Cao Shanhu talked about it, the more boring he became, so he simply didn't say anything.

When he was about to arrive in Gandarya, Zhu Junyi suddenly asked to go and see the sugar mill.

He vaguely remembered that when he was a child, his mother bought brown sugar to eat with the children, Gao Sheng was very curious about sugar, and argued that sugar fell from the world, he had never seen how sugar was squeezed out, and he actually believed in Gao Sheng, which made everyone laugh. Now that Gao Sheng is gone, Zhu Junyi hopes to come and see on behalf of Gao Sheng, in case one day, Gao Sheng really appears in front of him, he can tell Gao Sheng. I just don't know if there is such an opportunity.

"Okay! I'll take you! Package your eyes. ”

Zhu Junyi finally reacted, Cao Shanhu seemed very happy, he was a simple man but had no children, when Zhu Junyi was sad, he didn't know how to comfort him, he just wanted to say more interesting things from all over the world to dilute Zhu Junyi's sadness, in his opinion, there is no hurdle that people can't overcome in this life, as long as they can speak, it's okay.

At a fork in the road, Cao Shanhu pulled the car and turned onto another road, and when he walked less than a mile, he could already see five or six vertically rising plumes of smoke in front of him.

Cao Shanhu pursed his mouth and said with a smile: "See! It's the sugar factory over there, and now it's time to go to work, and there are a lot of people over there, just to take you to see the world! ”

When he got closer, Zhu Junyi finally saw the so-called "factory" of this era.

At the end of the path was a flat field of rammed earth, and there were seven or eight thatched huts scattered on all sides, except for the roof, which was still intact, and even the sound of cows barking and whipping could be faintly heard from some of the thatched huts.

The thatched hut was littered with yellow sugarcane leaves, and next to it was a hill of bagasse. It is surrounded by several thatched huts on a flat piece of land in the middle. More than 30 thin workers in Xuanyi and pants squatted on the ground, holding a knife in one hand and sugarcane in the other, and were cleaning up the surface leaves and other debris of the sugarcane.

It seems that Cao Shanhu is very popular here, many people greet him, there are any dialects, and Zhu Junyi can't understand many words at all, but Cao Shanhu can respond accurately in the same language, which makes Zhu Junyi very surprised.

"Brother Cao, you will have a lot of languages!" Zhu Junyi admired from the bottom of his heart.

Cao Shanhu was a little embarrassed, and laughed: "At the beginning, I followed the big brother in the rivers and lakes to go south and north, and I knew some dialects from all over the world. ”

The two followed the strong man into the thatched house, but saw that there were two movable stone stones erected in the middle of the house, the stone stone was embedded in a group of wooden shelves, a worker squatted on one side of the shelf, the strong man threw the processed sugar cane on the side of the worker, the worker took the sugar cane and stuffed it into the stone stone one by one, the stone stone was a yang and a yin close together, there was a row of convex teeth on the upper side of the yang stone stone, and the upper side of the yin stone was a concave tooth, and there was a hole in the central axis of the male tooth exposed on the wooden frame, and one side of a thick wood was pierced into it, and it was tied and fixed with hemp rope. The other end of the rough wood is tied to the neck of a cow, and another person whips and drives from behind, only to see the ox walking, pushing the yang stone to rotate on the wooden frame, and the yang stone stone is driven by the yin stone stone, the two stone stones are pressed against each other, and the sugarcane inserted by the workers is pressed by the stone stone, all of which are crushed into slag, and the sugarcane juice squeezed out flows into a large wooden barrel along the groove on the other side of the wooden frame.

Seeing that the big wooden barrel was about to be filled, the workers who drove the oxen were busy strangling the head of the ox, but the cattle did not move, and the stone stone stopped, and the two strong men stepped forward to carry the big wooden barrel away, and the workers who inserted the sugar cane randomly put a new wooden barrel. Two strong men used a thick long pole through the ring of the barrel, and they worked together to lift the barrel. Zhu Junyi visually weighed at least 100 catties.

After the two strong men carried the sugarcane juice to the next thatched hut, Cao Shanhu also said to Zhu Junyi: "Let's go, let's go to the next place and have a look!" ”

I saw three or four wooden frames erected in the second thatched hut, all of which were made of three thick logs, and under the wooden frame hung a net bag, and under the net pocket there was a small bucket, I don't know what it was used for. Three or four shelves, each with one person waiting on the side of the wooden frame, the strong man put the sugarcane juice bucket next to it, and the worker took out a black thing, which was not clear at first glance, and when Zhu Junyi took a closer look, he found that it was half a coconut shell. The worker scooped out the sugarcane juice with a coconut shell, slowly poured the sugarcane juice into the net pocket with one hand, and grabbed the frame on the edge of the net bag with the other hand and kept swinging and shaking.

Cao Shanhu greeted the workers, laughed, and said with a little pride: "What is this, the process to be done later is more complicated, not that I brag, when I used to work here, I went back to this!" Watching Cao Shanhu boast about his conch, the workers just laughed.

Cao Shanhu said: "Let's go, take a look!" I couldn't help but pull Zhu Junyi out of the thatched house.

Before the third thatched hut entered, Zhu Junyi felt a little unbearable, only to see the smoke inside and outside the entire thatched hut, and a stone chimney behind the house was smoking upwards, Cao Shanhu smiled: "It's just water vapor, what are you afraid of?" Enter! ”

After entering, Zhu Junyi finally adapted to the environment inside. It turned out that the third thatched hut was made of stones into a large stove, and there was a large iron pot in the middle, with a diameter of two to three meters wide, and the edge of the big iron pot on the stove was enough for two people to pass side by side.

The workers under the stove kept filling the firewood, and on the stone platform at the edge of the stove stood six or seven people wearing thick wooden shoes, each holding a huge wooden shovel and stirring. Cao Shanhu said with a smile: "I have done the work of boiling pulp before, such a big pot, it must be boiled for at least two hours, and the middle shovel cannot be stopped, otherwise the bottom will be dry and the top will be thin, and this cauldron will be wasted." ”

Zhu Junyi couldn't stand such a hot temperature, wiped a few handfuls of sweat, and quickly hid out.

Cao Shanhu followed, patted his head and apologized: "Look at my head, I forgot that my little brother was injured, let's go back!" It's okay not to look at the back. ”

Zhu Junyi came to the spirit, watched it with relish, and said with a smile: "I still want to see, I have learned a lot on this trip, and I have gained knowledge, thanks to Brother Cao." ”

Cao Shanhu laughed and said, "Okay, it's up to you." ”

The two of them walked to the next thatched hut, the temperature in the fourth thatched hut was much cooler, but they saw that there were more than a dozen long wooden troughs in the house, each of which contained still warm syrup, three or four workers each held a wooden shovel, and every few hours they shoveled along the edge of the syrup along the wooden trough, and two other hands held wooden knives to scrape the syrup in several wooden troughs that had cooled down, and occasionally poked the syrup to avoid uneven or hollow sugar boards.

In the fifth thatched hut, pieces of sugar boards that had been cooled and pressed were placed on the wooden table in turn, and several Chinese workers held long steel-faced sugar knives in both hands to cut the sugar boards into sugar bricks of fixed length and width, and others wrapped the sugar bricks in pieces of straw paper and tied them up. Zhu Junyi noticed that all the straw paper was printed with the VOC logo of the Dutch East India Company.

After coming out, Zhu Junyi only felt as if he had returned to the junior high school days of his previous life, and he was full of interest in everything in the sugar factory, and he felt that the trip was worthwhile.

Cao Shanhu laughed, a little proud and a little sad: "When the sugar squeezing business was good, there were people everywhere here, and there were more than 800 people in the plantation and sugar mill at most, and they could produce four or five hundred pounds of sugar bricks a day, but it was a pity that ......."

Zhu Junyi was taken aback, more than 800 people produce four or five hundred pounds of sugar bricks a day! This number startled him, not because of the huge number, but because the number was too small. He looked at the towering mountain of bagasse and asked, "Brother Cao, is the pressed bagasse piled up here?" ”

Cao Shanhu glanced at Zhu Junyi's line of sight and said, "Ha, those scraps!" It's all useless things, no one wants to give it for free, sometimes a little bit will be used to burn the fire, and when there are too many, just burn it clean, and sprinkle the remaining grass ash in the sugar cane field. ”

This time, Zhu Junyi was even more surprised, and asked urgently: "Just burn here?" ”

"Ahh Cao Shanhu said: "When it burns, the smoke is very thick, and it chokes a person to death!" You also have to find a windless day to burn the ashes, but fortunately, it rains in Java all year round, and it is often extinguished by the rain halfway through the burn. It's a pity! ”

Zhu Junyi was silent, thundered by the boldness of the workers of this era, and then looked at the towering bagasse mountain, his eyes seemed to be shining......