Chapter 5 Yellow mud decolorization
Ye Hao was also unceremoniously, immediately brought over the rice, handed Xie Yunshu a bowl, and then tore the roast chicken apart, and the two had a full meal.
After eating, several officials escorted them out of their cells.
Because it was a lynching, the county order did not want to drag them outside to be executed in a big way, but picked them in the backyard of the county government.
Seeing the county order, Ye Hao immediately spoke: "My lord, before I die, I want to make a deal with my lord. ”
She is a weak woman, what deal can she make?
The county magistrate's expression was a little perfunctory, and he said, "If you have any last words, just say it." Said it's good to get on the road! ”
Ye Hao's face was calm and said: "I see that a large amount of sugarcane is planted here, and those hard laborers are boiling syrup day and night, presumably the expensive land is mainly for the production of brown sugar, right?" If I say, I can process these coarse brown sugar into fine white sugar, I wonder if the adults can give me a chance to trade? ”
As soon as these words came out, the contempt on the face of the county commander instantly stiffened on his face.
He looked at Ye Hao in disbelief and said, "Do you really have a way to make white sugar?" ”
"If you don't believe me, you can let me give it a try, and if I make sugar, it's not too late for me to promise me." Ye Hao said confidently.
If only it could turn brown sugar into white sugar!
That's worth a lot of money!
After all, now the entire Great Xia Kingdom needs to import white sugar from neighboring countries!
If only he could produce sugar in this place! Not only can you make money, but it's also a big achievement!
The prefectural order was immediately a little excited!
He hurriedly stepped forward and let go of Ye Hao and said, "Try!" Try it! As long as you make white sugar, what deal are you going to make! I can promise you! ”
All she asked for was to spare the lives of their husband and wife!
Anyway, Yang Aofei has already set off to return to the capital! If she could really make sugar, it would be sparing their lives!
After getting permission, Ye Hao asked the county magistrate to take her to the sugar mill.
I thought that Ye Hao would need a lot of things to make white sugar, but who would have thought that in the end, the only materials she used were funnels and yellow mud water.
I saw Ye Hao boil the brown sugar paddle until it was thick, poured it down from the funnel, then sealed the mouth with straw, and then poured it into yellow muddy water.
"You need to wait for two or three days, and you can refine crude brown sugar into white sugar, and a thousand catties of brown sugar can probably make three hundred catties of white sugar." Ye Hao explained.
These officials are skeptical.
But two days later, Ye Hao took away the straw that plugged the hole, used a crockpot to pick it up, and sure enough, the frosting of white flowers came out.
The whole sugar mill was boiling.
Even the prefectural magistrate was so excited that he couldn't speak incoherently.
He took the sugar from Ye Hao's hand and tasted it.
"This candy is so white! And it's sweeter than the white sugar you can buy in neighboring countries! The white sugar of the neighboring country seems to be mixed with red and black, and it is not so white at all! The county commander said overjoyed.
Listening to what the county order said, Ye Hao explained: "It seems that neighboring countries use the egg white decolorization method, which is more convenient than the yellow mud decolorization method, but the decolorization is not as clean and thorough as the yellow mud decolorization method, so the sugar they sell will have some impurities." ”
Hearing Ye Hao say this, the eyes of the county magistrate were about to reflect.
"I wonder if Mrs. Xie can teach us this recipe?"
If only you learned this method! That's a big deal for him!
"Yes! I have only one request, please send us to a nearby mountain village. Ye Hao said the conditions that had been negotiated with Xie Yunshu before.
One of the masters was also very moved, and stepped forward and said, "My lord! There is a village of criminals in the vicinity, and almost all of them are the descendants of criminals who have been exiled, and they are deported there, and their lives are spared, but they can get a recipe worth so much gold, it is simply a sure profit! ”
Exile them to that village, they saved their lives, and they were under the jurisdiction of Lingnan, and they couldn't turn the sky, they were really both destroyed!
The county commander almost didn't have to think about it, and immediately agreed to Ye Hao's request.
He ordered Xie Yunshu, who was still in prison, to be released, and asked several officials to send them to the village in a carriage.
This is the first time that exiled criminals have been sent in horse-drawn carriages!
Because they were in a carriage, Xie Yunshu and Ye Hao soon arrived at a place called Qingshan Village.
"There's a broken bamboo hut here, so you can settle down here in the future!" The official cha pointed to a rickety bamboo house in front of him and said.
Ye Hao saw that there was still a lot of wasteland near this bamboo house, and thought that she needed to live if she stayed here, so she couldn't help but say, "Official, can you also give us several wastelands near here, so that we can grow some food to survive?" ”
When the official saw that it was all wasteland and of no use, he said, "Okay, you can plant whatever you want." ”
After that, these officials drove away directly in the carriage.
Seeing the carriage drifting away, Xie Yunshu and Ye Hao had mixed feelings in their hearts.
This miserable exile life is finally over.
It's a backwooded place, but it's finally settled.
"I'll help you in." Because Xie Yunshu's crutches were thrown away, he couldn't walk well, so Ye Hao had no choice but to step forward to help Xie Yunshu and walk into the bamboo house.
The bamboo house is dilapidated and already a little crumbling.
"This bamboo house can't live like this, so I have to find someone to help fix it." Ye Hao moved the luggage in and said in a deep voice.
"We're new here, and we don't have anything to look at, so I'm afraid there's no way to easily call people to help." Xie Yunshu said with a frown.
"Who said we don't have anything." In front of Xie Yunshu, Ye Hao suddenly flashed into the space.
She clicked on the system and found that she already had more than one hundred and fifty points.
There are already a lot of things that can be redeemed with more than a hundred points.
Ye Hao exchanged fifty catties of white flour and exchanged for some modern high-yield seeds.
The seeds placed in the space have been tempered by countless scientists, and are not only heat-resistant and cold-resistant, but also very high-yielding and fast-growing.
She came out with fifty catties of white noodles, and Xie Yunshu was dumbfounded.
"You, you still say you don't know spells?" Xie Yunshu's voice trembled with excitement.
Ye Hao: "This is not a spell, this is the personal space researched by the scientists of our world, and there are a lot of materials stored in it, but you need to do good deeds and help others get merit points before you can redeem them." ”
Xie Yunshu was skeptical.
"You rest at home, I'll go to the village and find a few people to help fix the house."
As she spoke, Ye Hao carried the white noodles and walked to the place where the house was more concentrated.
As soon as Ye Hao came over, she found that many villagers were watching around her.
These villagers are all descendants of exiled criminals, and many of them are Han Chinese from the capital.
At this time, only the people in the Central Plains were called Han people, and the people in the Lingnan region were called barbarians.
"Hello everyone, I'm new here, because my husband has bad legs and feet, and I want to ask a few people to help repair the house, and the people who help are willing to reward me with two catties of white flour." Ye Hao said politely.
However, the villagers were even more enthusiastic than Ye Hao had expected.
"This girl, you are so polite! Since you have come to Qingshan Village, everyone is a villager, just help repair the house, what reward do you need! ”
"That's it! Everyone is a villager, it's normal to help, where do you need any reward! ”
"That's right, let's hurry up, while it's still dark, help this girl repair the house."
Hearing that everyone was so enthusiastic, Ye Hao was very scared.
She kept bowing, "Thank you!" Thank you so much! Since everyone won't ask for my reward, then I'll quickly light the fire and get some interviews for everyone to taste. ”
You can't let people help you.
Several men and women brought firewood knives and tools, went to the bamboo house where Ye Hao lived, and got busy.
And Ye Hao took the lead in cleaning up the kitchen and began to knead the dough.
Anyway, the villagers didn't know if she had supplies, so she exchanged some eggs from the space and cut a stubble of wild leeks outside the house.
She reconciled the dough, chopped the leek egg filling, wrapped it into buns, and steamed it in a large pot.
Several villagers worked very quickly, not only helping to repair the house, but also helping to make the bed of the original board car.
"Come on! Let's eat steamed buns! Ye Hao brought out a pot of steamed buns and greeted warmly.
Several villagers are also hearty personalities, and when they saw that the buns brought out by Ye Hao were all full and generous, and they emitted a fragrant smell, they couldn't help but reach out and take them.
Break open the flexible skin, and inside is fragrant, oily leek eggs.
After taking a bite, these villagers immediately praised and said: "Gongzi Xie, you are so blessed, your wife's craftsmanship is so good!" This steamed bun is so delicious! ”
"That's it! Girl, what are you using for this filling, it's so delicious! I've never had such a delicious bun! ”
"I'll teach you when you're free." Ye Hao replied without hesitation.
Several villagers ate with round stomachs, and Ye Hao generously stuffed them with several buns for them to take home to eat.
By the time the villagers left, it was completely dark.
Ye Hao was about to close the door, but suddenly there was a cry outside the door.
When she looked up, she saw a couple in a hurry with a boy of about ten years old, walking forward in a hurry.
"Go fast! This backwood! Not even a place to stay! Hurry up and see if you can find the inn! Otherwise, I'll throw you out in the wild and feed the wolves! When the woman saw that the child was walking slowly, she immediately twisted the child's ears and scolded in a rough voice.
"That's it! It's all because you stinky boy walks so slowly! I couldn't find the inn after walking for so long! The man was even more ruthless, and even raised his hand and slapped the child in the face.
The child was slapped in the face, and immediately stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Play dead! You're pretending to be dead again, aren't you? The man jerked the boy up, and then slapped him several times without saying anything.
The child was beaten badly, and he was already a little dying, but during the whole process, he didn't say a word, and he didn't even cry.
"There is a problem with this couple! Traffickers for sure! Ye Hao immediately concluded.
Xie Yunshu was about to stop her, but Ye Hao had already rushed out.