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However, although Zhao Guangde is greedy for taste and music, he is not lustful, and he is self-aware: his cousin can take him into the backyard and let the beautiful maid in the house come out to meet him, which is enough to see the trust and intimacy of him, so he immediately looked away politely, saving his cousin from misunderstanding.

At this time, another woman's whirring voice sounded in the kitchen: "Wei, come in quickly and help, so many beans have been soaked, I really don't know what to do...... Oops, it's the gentleman back...... The concubine has seen the gentleman. ”

The maid Yuan also carried a pottery mustache out of the kitchen, and when she saw a few people standing outside, she hurriedly saluted.

Zhao Guangde saw that this woman was mediocre.

Zhao Wuxian asked the second daughter to be exempted, and asked Mu Xia to go in to help take out the mustaches, jars, etc. that contained the beans and water, and filled the entire courtyard with the large wooden barrels that had been prepared, and placed a large clay kettle on the stove.

At this time, he led Zhao Guangde and walked around the big stone tool in the yard twice.

"Cousin, what is this?"

"I call it a grinder, a stone grinder, and it's a new utensil that I have people create, specially used to process beans, and what I call a delicacy is made from it."

After returning to this era, Zhao Wuxian learned that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the way to deal with grains was to put corn and wheat in a stone mortar and pound it with a wooden pestle and stone stick, which was called a pestle.

The Book of Songs. Shengmin has a saying: "How about giving birth to me? Or scoop or slap, or dusting or ravage. "It has a long history. In the criminal law of the Jin Kingdom, there is also a kind of bitter punishment called "Chengdan Chung", which is a punishment that compels female offenders to eat rice.

The powder scooped out by this method is also called "crumbs", ten buckets of wheat, about three buckets of wheat kernel chips, the particles are large and coarse. After making cakes, it is difficult to swallow without water and soup, and Wuxian feels that it is no different from eating sand, and it is very small to pound at a time, which is time-consuming and laborious.

Milling and grinding, which were commonly used in later generations, have not yet appeared.

In the original history, the era of stone grinding in China was probably decades later, and it is said that it was invented by the skilled craftsman Gongchuan Ban of the Lu State, but it would take hundreds of years to be widely used. At least in the Qin Dynasty, it was still dominated by the Tsung, and it was not until the Han Dynasty, with the massive cultivation of wheat, that this utensil became widespread in the north.

Come to think of it, Lu Ban should have been born almost immediately, Wu Xian remembers, he seems to be a person from the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States period, one or two generations later than Confucius, and a contemporary of Mozi.

Now, Lu Ban's exploit is about to be preempted by Zhao Wuxian.

The stone mill in front of you is the smallest and most primitive hand-pushed mill, which can still be often seen in the northern countryside in later generations. It is made of two flat cylindrical stones of a certain thickness, with a shaft in the middle of the lower fan, a copper mustain, and a corresponding empty sleeve in the middle of the upper fan. After the two doors are combined, the lower fan is fixed, and the upper fan can rotate around the axis under the impetus of people or livestock.

After an explanation without a shirt, Zhao Guangde's eyes suddenly lit up, he had a strong interest in cooking food, he was very bored when he was in Wendi, and even quietly learned to make soup with the cook, for which he was reprimanded by his father Dr. Wen Zhao Luo. After arriving in Xinjiang, he lived in the Zhao Mansion in Xinjiang, but because of his identity and the concept of "a gentleman is far away from cooking", he restrained a little.

Looking at the stone mill in front of him now, it must be used to make some kind of fine food, which makes Zhao Guangde think that Wuxian is "my confidant".

Zhao Wuxian didn't know that this time it was just right, he had already closed the door of the courtyard tightly, and there were no boring people to disturb him to make food, and he didn't do it himself, so if someone broke it, he wouldn't go online.

Shirtless asked Mucha to carry out the yellow beans in the sack and instructed him to grind, while Wei and Yuan were on the side, putting the beans and water into the grinding.

Mucha had a lot of strength and struggled to push the millstone, and the second daughter also found it amusement, giggling and treating it as a game.

The upper fan disc of the stone mill has a grinding eye, through which the beans are poured into the grinding chamber and evenly distributed around them, and the cobblestone grinding makes a clicking sound and grinds them into powder. When the water is flushed, it becomes a thick bean juice, which flows from the cracks to the grinding disc and then to the barrel through the wooden funnel.

After a while, the second daughter already had sore hands and back pain, but Mucha didn't even sweat a drop, and in the yard, there were several buckets of bean juice with attractive colors.

He also told Mucha to pick up one of the buckets of bean juice, strain it on a washed fine kudzu cloth, and pour it into a clay pot. The shape of the kettle is very similar to the iron pot of later generations, and the amplitude of the kettle mouth is larger than that of the tripod and the mustache, which is easy to use. In the people, it has gradually begun to replace the tripod and the mustache, and at the turn of the Warring States Qin and Han dynasties, it has become a standard cooking tool in the army, so there is Xiang Yu's move of "breaking the kettle and sinking the boat".

At this point, Zhao Guangde couldn't help it, anyway, he was surrounded by his cousin's cronies and people in the house, so he no longer held his identity, rolled up his wide sleeves and went out to concoct it himself, which made Zhao Wuxian a little surprised, but he didn't stop it.

The filtered bean juice is poured into a clay kettle, where the dry wood in the stove is lit and boiled over a fierce fire. After a while, the soybean milk foam burst in the kettle, and everyone hurriedly withdrew the fire under the shouts of the shirtless, and they got the fragrant cooked soy milk.

Smelling this long-lost fragrance, Zhao Wuxian's index finger moved, Zhao Guangde also swallowed his saliva, he used a wooden spoon to gently skim off the foam floating on it, and after repeating this a few times, there was only a pot of milk-like soy milk left in the kettle. Put it in a wooden bowl, add some honey, and the five people present made a bowl to satisfy their hunger.

"Good!" The corners of Zhao Guangde's mouth turned white, and he only said such a word, but he didn't expect that ordinary soya beans would taste so sweet after such treatment.

Wei and Yuan's two daughters narrowed their eyes sweetly, and Mu Xia also made four bowls in a row without saying a word.

Zhao Wuxian was a little dissatisfied, sweet soybean milk, or sprinkled with white sugar is authentic, this year, the starch syrup made of malt and sorghum is insoluble in water, can not be used as a condiment, can only be replaced with honey.

"Don't worry," he said, "there will be something better later." ”

There are still several procedures to go through, and in his previous life, he had an aunt's family that sold tofu, and he had been called to help, so he remembered the general approach.

First of all, there is the pulp.

In later generations, gypsum was used to point the pulp, and the tofu bean brain was white and flawless, and the color was bright. It is said that in the original history, the inventor of tofu, Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, also unintentionally mixed bean juice and gypsum during alchemy, so that he could accidentally get this food. Although this thing is also naturally formed in the wild, it will be found somewhere for a while, so they can only use salt brine to order.

Salt brine is also called bitter brine, as the name suggests, the taste is bitter, and there is a slight toxicity. In this era, salt is a lucrative business, if the people do not eat salt, their limbs will be weak and unable to engage in productive labor, and the soldiers will have no combat effectiveness if they do not eat salt.

In terms of quality and quantity, it is still the most important to take the sea salt of Qi country, known as the "country of the sea king", and the annual sea salt tax is not measurable. Song Wei, Zheng Lu and other countries in the Central Plains all relied on Qi Yan, which was also an important factor for Guan Zhong to help Qi Huan dominate the princes.

Zhao Wuxian heard Ji Qiao say that Guan Yiwu played with economic sanctions back then, but it was easy to say that the salt trade was cut off, so that these countries wanted to die, and they had to kneel and lick Qi Xiaobai in minutes.

It is said that the walled checkpoints on the border between Qi and other countries were originally built to prevent illegal salt vendors. After hearing about this, Zhao Wuxian was stunned for a while, feeling that Guan Yiwu and Qi Xiaobai were really hard enough to sell salt......

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