As soon as he saw Gan Zhe, Huo Guang's eyes lit up, this thing is a scarce product in this era, sweetness is always the taste that people pursue, from ancient times to the present, a good life is always related to sweetness, and beautiful words are also sweet, but the ancient sugar production capacity is very limited, and people have few channels to obtain sweetness, so they can only rely on the gifts of nature.

Historically, in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong sent envoys to India to learn the soup boiling technology before the sugar boiling technology began, and it was only in the southeast region of the Song Dynasty that large-scale sugar planting began.

White sugar was only available in the Ming Dynasty and once became a luxury.

The production of sucrose is actually not complicated, and it is even much simpler than refined salt, which is nothing more than three steps of pressing, filtering and boiling.

Huo Guang's eyes fell on Gan Zhe, this plant is smaller than the sugarcane he knew before, it looks malnourished, this age is equivalent to wild fruits, this area is not suitable for the cultivation of Gan Zhe, these things are still sent from afar, the price is not expensive, otherwise it would not be given to Huo Guang by Sang Jin as a gift.

The origin of sugarcane is said to be in India and Southeast Asia, and it is also said that the mountainous areas in the southeast and southwest of China should also be the place of origin, because according to the way the Chinese people name things, if it is a foreign thing, it is generally added "Hu", "Fan", "Yang" and the like, so it is likely that Huaxia is also one of the origins of sugarcane.

Huo Guang took a bite of Gan Tuo, chewed and tasted, the sweetness of this variety is not very sweet, and the moisture is insufficient, it is already a very precious source of sweetness in this era of lack of sweetness, but obviously this variety is not what Huo Guang wants.

"How's it going?"

"Sweet." Huo Guang replied a little against his will, you can't give you something to answer a bitter word.

When the two were communicating, Huo Zhongru walked in.

"Father, why did you come back so early today?"

"It's okay today, go home early." It's obvious that he's fishing at work, and as long as he doesn't check the accounts carefully, his job is very easy.

Huo Guang walked up to Sang Jin and then scolded Huo Guang: "Ah Guang, what's the matter, Ah Jin came, you asked the family to stand in the courtyard, I don't know how to enter the house and ask someone to sit down." ”

Sang Jin smiled lightly: "Huo Shaofu, Ah Guang and I are discussing the things he uses Qi. ”

Huo Zhongru looked at the strange-shaped iron blocks all over the ground and was extremely dissatisfied and said: "Look at what this kid has done, what strange things he has refined, he will get up like a demon and start it, and it won't end until he sleeps, if we don't take care of it, he can't skip eating." ”

Sang Jin was surprised and said, "Can Ah Guang do this all day?" ”

Huo Guang said nonchalantly: "Almost, I'll rest for a while when I feel tired." ”

"It's incredible, I train at most twice a day."

It is impossible for a normal person to cultivate like this with Huo Guang.

Sang Jin didn't know anything about it, but she knew that Huo Guang's situation was definitely not normal, and she had to ask Gan Fu.

When she was talking happily, Sang Jin suddenly felt a pain in her abdomen, which was a familiar feeling, and she instantly understood what was going to happen.

hurriedly said goodbye to Huo Guang and Huo Zhongru.

The two noticed Sang Jin's abnormality, and Huo Guang, as a good boy who studied biology well, understood that Sang Jin should be on a period.

Farewell Sang Jin Huo Guang looked at the sugar cane on the side, came up with an idea, and began to smelt iron again.

Huo Zhongru looked at Huo Guang speechlessly: "It's really fascinating." ”

Huo Guang this time was not refining the parts of the steam engine, but the sugarcane press.

Two smooth cylindrical pieces of iron, two gears linked, and a hand-cranked handle, which makes the handle have a larger radius and saves effort.

This is not a troublesome device, it is not a difficult device, and it was quickly built by Huo Guang, and he assembled it to adjust the gap between the two cylindrical iron rods and began to press sugarcane juice.

With the rotation of the water, the juice in the sugarcane is squeezed out, and then the gap between the two iron rods is narrowed, and the pressing continues, after repeated three times, the sugarcane has been flattened, and all the pots full of sugarcane juice are pressed.

The cane juice is then strained and boiled.

Huo Zhongru walked out and looked at him boiling sugarcane juice and asked curiously, "Can this thing also refine salt?" "Because looking at the filtration and purification steps, these steps seem to be similar.

"Father is not making salt this time, but now he is making sugar."

"Sugar?"

"It's something like starch and honey."

In this era, honey was a key source of sweetness, but because there was no breeding technology, it was collected in the wild, and honey can be said to be a high-end consumer product.

Huo Zhongru likes to eat sweets, so he squatted aside and watched, and the four maids and the widow Wang also came to the side to watch.

As the sugarcane juice gradually bubbled, skimming off the foam on the upper layer, the water gradually evaporated, and the liquid became more and more viscous.

Finally, the remaining heat is used to remove the water, and then the brown sugar slowly turns into a sandy shape by stirring constantly.

I didn't have much experience making it for the first time, but at least I still had the appearance of brown sugar.

Huo Guang tasted a piece himself, nodded and nodded, the taste of brown sugar was almost the same as normal brown sugar.

Huo Zhongru also ate a piece curiously, and immediately became happy as soon as he ate it: "Sweet, sweet!" ”

"A-Guang, how did you come up with the idea of making such a thing?"

Huo Guang casually made an excuse: "I tasted that sugarcane is sweet, so I thought about squeezing it and then trying it by making salt, the salty seawater can be made into salt, and the sweetness of sugarcane can naturally be made into sugar." ”

"My son is smart, and this intelligence is worthy of being inherited from me."

Huo Zhongru said with great interest: "Ah Guang refining a little more, this kind of sugar will definitely be marketable." ”

"Father's sugarcane is not easy to buy, and the price is high."

"That's right, it's a pity, it's a pity."

If you want to produce sugar on a large scale, you have to grow sugar cane first, and you have to choose the right varieties.

Ah Guang looked at the candy in his hand and beckoned the groom at home to come over, handed a jar of candy to the groom and said, "Send these candies to the Sang Mansion, and instruct the daughter-in-law of the Sang family to stew them with sugar and ginger water, and the whole person will feel warm after taking it." ”

Seeing that Huo Guang asked the groom to deliver candy, Huo Zhongru's eyes were full of pride and he said to the widow Wang: "Look at my son, he will care about women, he will be enlightened, he will be enlightened." ”

The horseman didn't dare to delay the matter, and went to the Sang Mansion as soon as possible to find the son-in-law of the Sang family, and then said everything according to Huo Guang's explanation, and finally said that the brown sugar was handed over to the son-in-law of the Sang family.

It's just that the groom can tell the two beautiful sons of the Sang family, and he handed over the brown sugar to Sang Yu, who met him.

Sang Yu was a little puzzled, but after taking it according to Huo Guang's words, a warm feeling came from his lower abdomen, and the whole person was much more comfortable.

It is also very reasonable for twins to have a period on the same day.

It's just that Huo Zhongru expected to make the wrong person before, isn't this a mistake, Sang Yu felt that Huo Guang was specially given to him for a while, but he didn't expect to see this unenlightened young man, since it is so heartwarming, there is such a good prescription.

It's not a warm man.