When Wang Ze came out of the workshop, Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu were waiting for him at the 'gate'.

"Da Lang, you are amazing! I heard my father say that you have been ignited by the gods, and you know a lot of things that we have not heard of, can you tell me about it, I will invite you to eat candy. As he spoke, he pulled out a few pieces of yellow-brown 'color' from his bulging pocket.

"This is cane sugar from the Southern Dynasty, but it's sweet, my second sister didn't give it to her if she wanted to eat it." Cheng Hu was a little reluctant in his heart, but he pretended to be generous and handed it to Wang Ze.

When Zhu Bofu saw the sucrose cube that Cheng Hu took out, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he shouted, "Erlang also give me a little!" ”

Because Cheng Hu once had a brother who died young, and in ancient times, 'female' sons were always ranked separately from boys, so they were ranked second and were called Erlang.

As soon as Zhu Bofu spoke, it was estimated that he was intimidated by Zhu Bofu's force, Cheng Hu hesitated for a long time, and finally picked out a piece of sucrose that was neither big nor too small from his pocket and handed it to Zhu Bofu.

Zhu Bofu 'licked' the sucrose cube with satisfaction, and said: "Erlang, your father and mother are so good, and I will buy you sucrose, my father has been to Qingzhou a few times, and he doesn't even know how to bring some maltose back for me." ”

Cheng Hu looked smug, "That's it, Daddy loves me the most!" ”

Wang Ze looked at the two brothers in front of him and didn't know how to talk about it, so he simply lowered his head and studied the few pieces of sugar in his hand, yellow-brown 'color', and a little red, and broke off a small point and tasted it, isn't this the bulk large brown sugar sold in some supermarkets in the south in the future!

However, it should still be inferior to those brown sugar cubes, not so sweet, with more impurities, a little bitter and astringent, thinking of this, Wang Ze raised his head and asked Cheng Hu: "Second brother, has Second Uncle Cheng ever bought white sugar?" ”

"No, I've never heard of white sugar, my father loves me the most, if there is any white sugar, he will definitely buy it for me to eat."

Zhu Bofu stared at the sucrose cube in Wang Ze's hand and said, "Don't give that sugar face, Da Lang, everyone knows that the sweetest sugar in the world is the sucrose of the Southern Dynasty." I've never heard of sugar or anything, so if you don't like it, give it to me! ”

Wang Ze handed a few pieces of cane sugar to Zhu Bofu, "Oh, you can take it and eat it!" ”

Zhu Bofu suddenly sneered: "How can this work, Erlang gave it to you to eat, I was talking about playing." But the hand still couldn't help but stretch out, "I'll only take half of it!" ”

Saying that, Zhu Bofu grabbed two pieces of cane candy and went over, Wang Ze was really speechless.

But it seems to be a big money-making industry, I used to watch the European voyages, and there was a very profitable cargo that was sugar. I'll go home and check with my parents later, if sugar hasn't appeared yet, it's a profiteering industry! Wang Ze couldn't help but drool.

"You see you just said you wouldn't eat it, but now you're drooling again." Zhu Bofu, who was still talking to Cheng Hu just now, saw Wang Ze's appearance as if he had discovered a new continent.

"Da Lang!" Wang Zeyi turned his head and saw Cheng Hu staring at him, "I invited you to eat candy, didn't you want to tell me the story of the immortals?" Cheng Hu was very dissatisfied with Wang Ze's neglect of him.

"So that's the case, then I'll tell you about the life of the gods in the sky." So Wang Ze took out the words that fooled Wang Yong and sold them again.

Cheng Hu had sugar in his mouth, and asked inarticulately: "Then you said that the immortals eat sugar as white as snow in the sky, will you make it?" ”

"Of course, in a few days, I will ask my mother to buy a few dozen catties and come back, and make white sugar for you to taste."

"Then you said that the gods have ice cubes to eat on hot days, and they are still very sweet, is it ice hidden in winter?"

"Of course not, it's made by a kind of machine, just put water in it, and after a while, it will turn into ice!"

Cheng Hu said enviously: "The life of the immortals is so good, if only we could be immortals." ”

Zhu Bofu looked at Cheng Hu and sneered: "Look at your bear-like, you don't have any immortal wind bones, how can you be an immortal." ”

"I'm just sturdy, you're just jealous of me!" Cheng Hu looked unconvinced.

"Besides, Da Lang is already a disciple of the gods, maybe one day he will go to heaven to be a god, and when the time comes, I have such a good relationship with Da Lang, Da Lang can intercede with the old fairy master, maybe he can take me to the sky to be an immortal! Doesn't it mean that a person has attained the Tao of 'chicken' and the dog ascended to heaven, and I haven't heard of the story of King Huainan! Cheng Hu retorted unconvincingly to Zhu Bofu.

Wang Ze heard a black line, Liu An, the king of Huainan, was 'killed' by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty! It's just that somehow later, I 'made' a legend of taking pills and 'chickens' and dogs ascending to heaven.

However, Wang Ze was ready to continue to fool the second brother: "Second brother, you don't know, if mortals want to become immortals and take pills, it's just a small way, even if they go to the sky, they are just a servant who watches the 'door' courtyard for the gods and sweeps the 'door' court, if you want to live comfortably in the heavenly realm, you must make great merits among the people, you see that in ancient times, the Yellow Emperor controlled the dragon and ascended to heaven because he defeated Emperor Yan and Chiyou, and made great merits by conquering the unification of the world. Therefore, if you want to live a life of immortals comfortably in heaven in the future, you must make great merits. ”

"Then I must practice bow and horse martial arts, and in the future, I will become a general to help the emperor unify the world, won't this be a great merit!" Cheng Hu's eyes lit up, as if he was fantasizing about his future life in the heavenly realm.

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As soon as Wang Ze got home, under the urging of Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu, he asked his mother to buy twenty or thirty catties of cane sugar, saying that it was of great use to himself.

Wang Ze's mother, Gongxi, felt that her son had never made all kinds of requests to her, and her mother's love became overflowing, so she immediately agreed and arranged for someone to go to the county town to buy it. And she also heard Wang Yong talk about Wang Ze's adventures many times, and she also wanted to see what her son was going to do when he bought cane sugar.

In less than a day, Wang Ze asked He Bo for two reliable people, and prepared a variety of materials, waiting for the next day to start work to show his skills.

The next day, just after dawning, Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu rushed over, for fear of missing the opportunity to see Wang Ze show his immortal skills.

Wang Ze was very dissatisfied, "You guys are really, you didn't even eat at home and ran over!" ”

"Anyway, it's the same meal in my house or yours, so I'm going to find the eldest lady to eat." Zhu Bofu smiled cheaply. Cheng Hu, who had an honest face, nodded approvingly.

"I really can't help you, and if you do it well, you can't do it." couldn't withstand the eager gaze of the two, so Wang Ze had to take them to the scene first.

This is a small courtyard next door to Wang Ze's residence, and there are seven or eight large clay jars alone, and a lot of other scattered things.

"Da Lang, do you want to use mud and chalk to refine sugar?" Seeing the lime on the ground, as well as piles of yellow mud, straw, and charcoal, etc., placed in the house, Zhu Bofu asked curiously.

"It's in vain to tell you now, and you'll know what's going on later." Wang Ze beckoned to the two middle-aged 'women' and 'women' sent by He Bo, brushed a large pot and set it up, first poured one-third of the sucrose into it and boiled it into a yellow-brown 'color' syrup, and then poured the syrup into a vat and waited for it to form black sugar.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, another clay jar was quickly cleaned up, and there was a tile slip (that is, a kind of tile funnel in ancient times) with straw stuffed inside.

Seeing that the black sugar is almost solidified, pour the black sugar into the tile, wait for the black sand to form a piece, remove the straw, and pour the black sugar in the funnel with the prepared yellow muddy water.

Seeing the yellow mud water poured on the black 'colored' sugar, a miracle happened, and the white 'colored' sugar cubes slowly appeared. If Zhu Bofu had come from the afterlife, he would have said, 'My little friend and I were stunned!' ’

When everything was over, Wang Ze began to take out the white sugar, the sugar on the top, which was almost five inches thick, was the whitest, white as snow, and then the further down the sugar was, the worse the effect.

The remaining brown sugar was gradually processed in this way, and finally two catties of white sugar were obtained. Wang Ze first gave Cheng Hu and Zhu Bofu a little taste, and directly surrendered the two.

"It's so sweet!" Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu don't know what language to use to describe this taste, they are worthy of being immortal disciples, and the two of them will be full of admiration for Wang Ze.

Just when the two sighed, Wang Ze shook his head, the yield was still too small, and only two catties of white sugar came out of ten catties of sucrose, so he said to the two healthy 'women': "Trouble the two grandmothers to change the cylinder, I want to continue to experiment with another method!" ”

"Is there another way to make sugar?" It turned out that he admired Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu very much, and he was even more surprised when he heard this.

The above Wang Ze used a white sugar production method recorded in the Ming Dynasty, and this time Wang Ze decided to use elemental condensation to give it a try.

This will also be simple, first melt the sucrose in the hot water pot, wait for the sucrose to be soluble and saturated in the hot water at 80 or 90 degrees, first filter the impurities, and then pour the sugar water into a clean vat.

As usual, it is used to use the tile slip, and the tile slip is the best pine charcoal that the cottage has burned itself for the winter, and there are a lot of good charcoal in the large tank, and the sugar water is poured into the large tank through the tile slip, and the color 'color' has become much lighter, but the transparency is still not very high.

Cheng Hu and Zhu Bofu didn't dare to breathe, for fear of destroying Wang Ze's immortal technique, and their eyes widened one by one.

After filtering the sugar water, Wang Ze hurriedly beckoned to pour the freshly prepared clarified lime water into it, and kept stirring it with a willow stick the thickness of a 'chicken' egg.

As the two 'women' and 'women' stirred vigorously together, some impurities slowly appeared at the bottom of the water tank, and the sugar water became clearer.

Seeing that the stirring was almost done, Wang Ze asked the two 'women' and 'women' to rest for a while to make the sugar water clear. Then slowly scoop the clarified sugar water into a clean cauldron and slowly boil over the fire.

"It's going to be a little slow this time, let's go eat first!" Wang Ze preached to Cheng Hu and Zhu Bofu.

"Da Lang, give us some more sugar!" It seems that Cheng Hu has a lot of love for the white sugar made by Wang Ze, and he can't take a step anymore.

Wang Ze is not a stingy person, and said to Cheng Hu: "This will only get more than a pound of sugar, first give you and Brother Bofu some taste, and you have to report the good news to the elders in the family, and there will be a batch of white sugar in the afternoon at the latest, so that you can eat enough when the time comes." Cheng Hu and Zhu Bofu were overjoyed when they heard this.

Gongxi didn't see Wang Ze early in the morning, thinking that it was a child who was playful, and he didn't know where to go to play, so he didn't care.

When Wang Ze ran to Gongxi's front like a treasure, he handed her a paper bag, opened it and saw that it was as white as salt, and couldn't help asking: "Da Lang, is this the salt produced in the salt farm?" It's so white! ”

Wang Ze listened to a black line, "Mother, you taste it, this is not the salt produced in the salt farm, it is the white sugar made by the child today, it is sweet!" ”

Gongsun picked up a handful, "Ahhh Gongxi's was immediately stunned by the white sugar that came out of nowhere.

"This is a big deal, I'm going to call someone to call your daddy back!" After all, Gongsun was born in a merchant family, and he really had a strong business acumen, and he immediately thought of the value of sugar.

At this time, Wang Yongzheng, Cheng Chong, and Zhu Rui were in the blacksmith workshop in Houshan to watch Cao blacksmith make weapons and armor. "Big leader, the iron made from this iron furnace is matched with the horizontal knife made of good charcoal in the cottage, although it is not as good as the world's treasure swords and famous swords, but it is not worse than the weapons that the lieutenant generals and colonels carry with them."

Wang Yong and others are also well-informed, and they are good goods, and they nodded again and again. Seeing that several leaders knew the goods, Lao Cao was even more proud: "In the past few days, I will teach the workshop first, these people will practice the steel frying method first, and then they will ponder the Su steel method when they are proficient, and then everyone in the cottage can be equipped with a steel knife." ”

Hearing Blacksmith Cao's words, Wang Yong and the three of them were very happy. At this moment, Wang Yong saw the servant 'wife' of the family come to report that there was something at home.

As soon as he heard his wife shouting that he had something to do, Wang Yong naturally didn't dare to delay, and said to Cheng Chong, Zhu Rui and others: "The two virtuous brothers will arrange it, and I will go home first." ”

After saying that, he hurriedly rushed to the cottage, Cheng Chong and Zhu Rui also paused, arranged for Cao Blacksmith to continue to work, and then also rushed to the direction of the cottage.

"My son is really extraordinary, hahaha~~~" Wang Yong was very happy to see the white sugar made by Wang Ze, he didn't have so much business acumen, but he just felt that his son could make this kind of white sugar that had never been made before, and he didn't learn from the gods in vain.

After Gongsun told him about the commercial value of this kind of sugar, Wang Yong was even more happy, "Now we have another way to make money!" How much food can you buy! ”

At this time, Cheng Chong and Zhu Rui also rushed over, and when they heard about it, they were also very excited. Immediately, a group of people rushed to the cross-courtyard. As soon as they entered, two middle-aged healthy women who were busy hurriedly saluted Wang Yong and the others, "I've seen Lang Jun, several leaders." There was already white sugar in the pot, and the two of us kept in mind Xiao Langjun's words, and we didn't dare to stop stirring at all times. ”

Wang Ze also squeezed to the front at this time, looked at the fire and said to the two servants: "Please let the two grandmothers lift the pot to the wooden board on the ground first!" As the temperature dropped, a group of people watched the sugar in the pot increase.

"What a fairy!" Cheng Chong said in a daze.