Chapter 7: Going to the Soup

"Do you know Peng Hueng?"

Peng Hueng is Peng Zu's name, and Wang Xika was quite nervous when he asked, for fear that Peng Lianhu would know. I'm even more afraid that he will say that he is Peng Hueng, so don't you still want to call him an ancestor?

"I don't know, I've never heard of this name. Is he from our old Peng family? I should know him as Peng. ”

Peng Lianhu replied while eating porridge and drinking wine.

Hearing Peng Lianhu say this, Wang Xijia relieved his heart, too, Emperor Yao's surname is Ji, and his name is not the same as himself, how can he cross over to become an emperor? It seems that he thinks too much.

Although the pheasant soup made by Peng Lianhu was delicious, in Wang Xijia's time, he generally didn't drink much alcohol when eating porridge. So Wang Xijia asked Meng Jianniang to cut two catties of cooked beef, and the two of them ate and drank at the same time.

Peng Lianhu said: "Master Wang, you don't need to serve such a valuable dish as beef, I can't afford to eat a meal." ”

Wang Xijia said: "Brother Peng, don't laugh, how many catties of beef are you bringing with you for pheasants?"

Peng Lianhu said: "Master Wang, don't laugh, there are everywhere on Pheasant Mountain, and you don't want a penny." It's your beef, but it's amazing. ”

Wang Xijia thought, yes, in ancient times, cattle were a tool of production, and many dynasties did not eat beef. Then he changed the topic and said: "I was seriously ill a few days ago, and my head was still dizzy and sunk in the city, and I can't remember many things clearly. Brother Peng, don't want to laugh, take me up the mountain to hunt pheasants another day. ”

Peng Lianhu agreed, and the two chatted while eating, and the topic gradually turned to martial arts. Peng Lianhu asked Wang Xika: "What is the name of your boxing technique? Can you give it to me? And why do I feel that you haven't grown much taller in a few months?"

He wanted to ridicule Peng Lianhu, saying that he was practicing "Super King Eight Boxing," but when he thought about it, it didn't seem polite to say so, so he said: "I don't have a name for this boxing method, I want to name it Bawang Boxing, what do you think? I have grown tall because I am still young, and I have been skipping rope and playing basketball for the past few months, and I also attach great importance to supplementing nutrition, so I have grown taller, and I estimate that I can grow a few centimeters after continuing to practice." ”

Peng Lianhu said: "Overlord Fist, this name is domineering." Does Master Wang have any punches to pass on to me?"

Wang Xijia has any boxing scores, all of them are blindly beaten by himself in combination with military boxing, and he said at the moment: "I didn't draw a boxing book, if you want to learn it, I can teach you a routine." Actually, you have a lot of strength, so why do you have to pick circles when you fight?

Peng Lianhu said: "Because my boxing method is called the eight-armed divine fist, the technical feature is to keep picking circles, it looks like there are many hands, giving people a feeling of being unable to get through." Now that the Eight-Armed Divine Fist has lost to you, I plan to learn your Overlord Fist. ”

Wang Xijia agreed, and the two exchanged martial arts for a while, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became, that is, the wine felt that the degree was not enough, and it was not enjoyable enough to drink. Wang Xijia thought that modern liquor is a high-grade liquor obtained by distillation, so he said: "Brother Peng, I have a way to make wine taste better, do you want to try it?"

Peng Lianhu agreed, so Wang Xijia took two bowls, cut a hole in the bottom of one of the bowls, put the bowl on the wine jar, and then put a bowl upside down on the bowl, and then put the jar of wine on the stone slab to heat. It turns out that the boiling point of alcohol is different from water, about 70-80 degrees Celsius, the alcohol will boil, as long as the wine jar is heated, then you can distill a higher degree of distilled liquor from the rice wine brought by Peng Lianhu. This technology was originally invented in the Tang and Song dynasties, and this will be displayed by Wang Xijia, which makes the world's science and technology a big step forward.

After a while, sure enough, he got a small half bowl of wine, Peng Lianhu took a sip, and Lian Lian exclaimed: "This wine is energetic, enjoyable, Master Wang, we can make a fortune just by selling this wine!." ”

Wang Xijia thought of something else, because the structure of the "still" he made in the bowl was too simple, and there was a hole in the bottom of the bowl, a lot of cooled wine flowed back into the wine jar, which was not efficient. If you want to make money selling alcohol, you have to get a better still. Speaking of stills, he thought of glass again. I have read countless time-traveling novels, and there are stalks about going back to ancient times to make glass, since I have really crossed over, why not really make a few glasses and sell them to make some money to spend? It also saves Meng Jianniang from always saying that she spends money lavishly, only in and out.

Wang Xika was meditating on the ratio of raw materials of glass, whether the ratio of quartz sand, limestone, and soda ash was 7 to 2 to 1 or 7 to 1 to 2, and suddenly heard a "bang", which was the sound of a human head hitting the ground - it turned out that Peng Lianhu drank high alcohol for the first time, and he was too strong to drink, so he collapsed.

The next day, Wang Xijia found Carpenter Liu early in the morning and asked him to order a large iron still. As soon as Peng Lianhu woke up from the wine, Wang Xika beckoned him to build a kiln together. The kiln he built is the famous "egg-shaped kiln" in Jingdezhen, which is simple and easy to use, and can be burned at high temperature with firewood, in addition to being used to make glass, it can also burn some porcelain.

Making glass is not as simple as Wang Xika thought, it took a lot of time just to find raw materials, and if you want to make it shape after burning the glass, you also need to blow the liquid glass with your mouth. Wang Xijia couldn't blow it well, and then poured it directly with a mold, so he barely made a glass.

Peng Lianhu and Meng Jianniang had never seen glass, and began to watch Wang Xijia play with fire to build a kiln, thinking that he was going to make alchemy. It wasn't until Wang Xika made the first glass ball and glass that the two shouted: "We are about to get rich!"

Wang Xika did make a fortune in the village, and in addition to the glassware he made, the high-grade liquor he distilled was also very popularβ€”to be honest, wine is much more popular than glass, and wine is an addictive thing after all. However, Wang Xika was not very interested in "making a fortune", on the one hand, because he had already made a fortune before he crossed over, and on the other hand, the currency in this village was particularly strange, except for a few taels of silver that he spent himself, he had never seen these precious metals again. The money used by the village names to buy things is shells, stones, etc. Occasionally, there are a few metal coins, and the shapes are also strange, there are knife coins like knives, there are shovel coins like shovels, and there are not a few copper coins that are square outside the circle.

Looking at a bunch of strange currencies, Wang Xika couldn't cry or laugh, it seems that this is the era before the unified currency. What's even more helpless is that in this era, money can't seem to buy anything, and there is not even a commissary in the village, even if you go to the market, you just buy some salt, straw sandals and other things.

Since Wang Xika started selling wine, the door of the house is full of people every morning, waiting for a drink. A few alcohol-addicted fellows don't plant every day, and they have nothing else to do except drink, and they get drunk every day, rolling around.

Wang Xijia felt that if they were allowed to drink like this again, they would die sooner or later, so he would no longer sell the wine to those fellow villagers with poor self-control. Several old drunkards were naturally angry, but considering that they couldn't beat Wang Xijia and Peng Lianhu, they had no choice but to dare to be angry. Wang Xijia thought that this was the end of the matter, until one day, when he found that three or five drunkards came in the middle of the night to steal wine, he realized that selling spirits in such a small village was like opening a Pandora's box.

Peng Lianhu suggested that all the thieves who were stealing alcohol should be beaten to death, and then the bodies should be hung outside the door as a warning. Wang Xijia rejected this primitive treatment method, and he said: "Governing human nature is like controlling water, which should be sparse rather than blocked." There are so many people in the world who love to drink, we can't kill them all. It is better to teach them to make their own wine, because they have wine at home, so they will not come to steal us. ”

Wang Xijia taught the technique of distilling liquor to several drunkards and asked them to go back and make their own. Because these drunkards didn't have much money, Wang Xijia lent them money and asked them to go to Carpenter Liu to order an alcohol distiller by themselves. Let them make wine and pay it back to themselves. Several drunkards were naturally grateful to Wang Xika, and they expressed their willingness to go to the soup for Wang Xika.