Seeing the rice paper, Lin Banxia was very surprised.

Xuan paper is used as filter paper, not barely usable, but too easy to use.

But it's also too tyrannical.

"Your Highness is still thoughtful." Lin Banxia praised first, took the rice paper, and spread it on the edge of the barrel.

The sorghum syrup that had been precipitated overnight was filtered through rice paper and became clearer and brighter.

The lime was first mixed with water to make lime milk, and then added to the filtered sugar solution, and then the stirrer made by Lin Yi before was installed, stirring slowly.

Xia Changyan stood aside and watched silently throughout the whole process, and Lin Banxia explained a sentence or two from time to time.

Wang couldn't intervene and didn't understand much.

Looking at the prince as a talent, personable, not angry and arrogant, and looking at a little woman in his own Banxia, who was generous in front of the prince, he was both relieved and sad.

Is the prince taking a fancy to her girl?

This has not yet come to her door to propose, so he came to her house again and again, which is not in accordance with the rules.

If the prince only likes the sugar juice that her girl has made up, how can her girl marry in the future?

"Stir for a while, about noon, and then settle and then filter." Lin Banxia washed his hands, and made a fire in a small stove to make tea for Xia Changyan.

Xia Changyan beckoned Wang to speak.

asked what was planted in the field and how the harvest was, and saw Zhao Chengfu waiting outside, and he also recruited him.

Zhao Chengfu naturally took over the topic, talking about how many households in the village there are, what they do on weekdays, and this year's wind and rain are smooth, and the grain will be harvested.

The aroma of tea soon spreads.

Xia Changyan and Zhao Chengfu went to the field, and the stirred sugar solution was also brought outside the courtyard, and the small courtyard immediately quieted down.

Only then did the Wang family come to their senses and pulled Lin Banxia into the house.

"Banxia, you can be honest, does the prince have a crush on you?"

The Wang family felt that the eyes of the prince looking at Lin Banxia were wrong.

Lin Banxia couldn't cry or laugh: "Mother, the prince wants to know how to make sugar from sorghum straw." ”

"Can the sugar juice of sorghum straw make sugar?" Wang was surprised.

"It should be possible, that's why the prince brought something." Lin Banxia nodded affirmatively.

Wang thought for a while and said, "No, what an official the prince is, why do you need to come here in person?" ”

Lin Banxia comforted: "What do you want to do so much?" Mother, there happens to be duck egg lime, I'll teach you a new way to marinate duck eggs. ”

Lin Banxia pulled Wang back to the courtyard, boiled half a pot of hot water, boiled tea leaves and salt, filtered out the tea leaves and put them aside.

The duck eggs are exactly one hundred, and after washing, they are dried with a cloth, and the filtered water is slightly cool, so quicklime and soda ash are added in stages.

"Mother, this quicklime will boil when it comes to water, and it hurts to splash on your body." Lin Banxia carefully stirred it with a wooden stick, and added grass ash to make a paste.

"The duck eggs are smeared all over, and then a layer of ashes from the stove is rolled up, put in the jar, and marinate for more than 20 days."

Wang looked at it suspiciously, "This, can it taste good?" ”

Lin Banxia smiled: "The taste is special." ”

The taste of Songhua eggs is still well accepted by most people.

"Will the prince eat at our house at noon? I've got to kill a chicken. "Wang is going to take a knife again.

Lin Banxia stopped with tears and laughter: "Mother, you killed the chickens today, and the prince will not send a few more tomorrow?" Just make the shredded soup with meatballs and radish a few days ago, and then scramble a tofu and egg. ”

"Okay?" Wang felt it was too simple.

"Yesterday's sugar cake sorghum rice porridge, the prince also ate it." Lin Banxia moved the jar to the firewood room, "Otherwise, let's make a cabbage stew with tofu." ”

Wang felt that this was almost the case, and hurriedly washed rice and cooked rice.

Lin Banxia's heart is not on cooking.

What is usually a very fast time is extremely slow today.

The syrup seems to have dissolved well with the lime milk, becoming cloudy and stirring a little easier than before.

After the water of the tofu overnight, it was solidified again, cut into small pieces, rolled the egg mixture, added chopped green onions and stir-fried, and soon, the aroma of eggs and green onions wafted out.

Before lunch, Xia Changyan came back.

The guards were sent to deliver food to the people in the field, and the Wang family served a few dishes from the farmhouse with trepidation, Xia Changyan finally ate the meatballs and tofu balls and radish shredded soup that he had heard of, and he also had a soft spot for the tofu scrambled eggs made by Lin Banxia himself.

It's just that today doesn't feel as good as yesterday.

It seems to be less laid-back.

The Wang family didn't dare to share the table with the prince, and Lin Banxia couldn't eat together.

Xia Changyan was used to being served, but in this small courtyard, he felt uncomfortable for no reason.

He hurriedly ate a few bites of food, then pushed away the dishes and chopsticks, and went out into the courtyard, studying the syrup that had turned black.

In the courtyard, the Wang family took the dinner table, and they were even more uneasy.

Lin Banxia looked at it and shook his head, so he had to beckon to bring the syrup to the yard and start straining it.

The black syrup was strained twice before it became cool again.

Then add activated carbon granules.

The yard was silent, and Lin Banxia took matters into his own hands, slowly stirring the syrup with activated charcoal.

The flow of time seemed to be even slower, and Lin Banxia's heart finally thumped.

The process in my memory is meticulous - I practiced it in chemistry class in my previous life, but after all, this is from nothing.

There is no specific data, just by feeling, she doesn't even know if the activated charcoal is made up of standards enough.

The barrel is left to rest in the sun, and the activated carbon absorbs impurities and slowly settles.

A layer of liquid that seemed to be completely transparent gradually appeared, and Lin Banxia couldn't help but dip it lightly and hold it in his mouth.

Sweet.

It is lightly sweet, but it is pure sweetness, and it does not contain any special taste of sweetness.

It's done!

Lin Banxia's heart was still beating sharply, but the corners of his mouth were unconsciously raised.

The autumn sun fell on Lin Banxia's face, reflecting the fine beads of sweat on the tip of her nose clearly, and also reflecting the joy in her eyes very clearly.

The impurities are adsorbed by the activated carbon, which precipitates quickly, and in a short time, a layer of almost completely transparent clear solution floats in the barrel.

Strain and boil again to evaporate the water.

The sweet and greasy smell permeated, contaminating the air in the small courtyard, and the clothes of the people in the small courtyard also penetrated into everyone's hearts.

Even the tea in the mouth is sweet and fragrant.

Xia Changyan took a step back and sat on the chair, slowly pouring himself a cup of tea.

Lin Banxia actually succeeded.

Although white sugar has not yet appeared, Xia Changyan believes that Lin Banxia has succeeded.

Lin Banxia squeezed the sugar juice from the inconspicuous sorghum straw that no one wanted, and then processed it again and again, and finally got the colorless and transparent sugar juice incredibly.

He believes that this colorless and transparent syrup will become real white sugar.

What I don't understand is how Lin Banxia thought of this.

He stared at Lin Banxia's back, remembering the joy that bloomed on Lin Banxia's face before.

Such a person will not be left in the backyard and left to be buried.