Listening to his daughter's words, Xue sighed in his heart. The family is not rich, but the daughter is more sensible than before, sees her difficulties in her eyes, and thinks about helping the family make money before she is ready.

Now that my daughter has the idea of making money, this is also a good thing. The daughter is getting older, there will always be a day when she will leave the cabinet, and when she gets married in the future, she will have to be the director of the house and take care of her dowry, and now it is considered to be practicing in advance.

Since her daughter learned how to raise pigs in the book, let Liu Dashan try to raise them. If it does, pork may become the most popular meat and an income.

Even if it fails, it doesn't matter, it's just a loss of a little silver, it's not a big deal.

After thinking clearly, Xue touched his daughter's head, "Since you want Liu Dashan to help raise pigs, my mother has no objection, but you don't want to go to his house twice in three days to check, just tell your subordinates to do it, don't let people laugh at you for being a little lady raising pigs." ”

Xiao Jinyue twitched the corner of her mouth, what did her mother think. Although she wants to raise pigs, she is not ready to feed them herself, and she has a lot of things to do.

At present, Liu Dashan's family is enough to raise pigs, and she will naturally order the people below to do the rest, without her doing everything herself.

Xiao Jinyue took out a silver ticket from his sleeve pocket and handed it to the Xue family, "Mother, here is a thousand taels, it is a thank you gift from the prince of Zhenguo, you can take it and ask the steward to buy a Zhuangzi around Kyoto." ”

Because their family moved to the capital from the border pass, there is no industry here in the capital, and everything they want to eat in the house has to be bought with silver, which is not a long-term solution after a long time.

If you have a farm, you can grow some crops and vegetables, and raise some poultry and livestock, which can also reduce some expenses.

If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have a Zhuangzi, Xiao Jinyue would not have asked Liu Dashan an outsider to help raise pigs.

It's not that the Xue family doesn't know that they want to buy a grange, but the money in the house is tight, and the price of the Zhuangzi in the capital is expensive, so they haven't found a suitable grange to buy.

Shaking his head, Xue pushed the silver ticket back, "Mother can't take your money, since this money is a thank you gift from the prince of Zhenguo, you can take it yourself." The money to buy the grange, my mother will find another way. ”

Xiao Jinyue stuffed the money into Xue's hand, "Mother, you can take it, your daughter's money is also your money." After buying a grange, the daughters in the grange will also eat it in the future. Besides, mother, I saw a method of making white sugar in the book, and when I tried it successfully, I planned to put it in the grange and use my own people to make it. ”

Xue Shi looked puzzled, "What white sugar?" ”

"It's made from sucrose to make white sugar. This is a recipe I saw in a book, and I have to try it to know if it will work out. ”

Xue knew that his little daughter had always liked to read, especially miscellaneous books such as local chronicles, travelogues, etc. She thought it was just to pass the time and read casually, but she didn't expect that there were any recipes in those books.

Although she doesn't know what white sugar is, she knows that the selling price of cane sugar is not cheap, and if the youngest daughter can really toss what kind of white sugar it is, it is a unique business, and the profit must be not small.

This is not like raising pigs, but it has to be in the hands of its own people, so there must be a safe place, and the manpower naturally has to be used by its own people, and outsiders cannot be hired to do it.

After thinking about this, the Xue family finally took the silver ticket, and secretly planned in his heart that the grange he bought would be recorded in the name of his youngest daughter and given to her as a dowry in the future.

After lunch, Xiao Jinyue had nothing to do, and took all the kinds of sugar she bought to the small kitchen of the Xue family's main courtyard to prepare for refining white sugar.

The small kitchen is located in the main courtyard, and after lunch time, a mother-in-law and two little maids in charge of the small kitchen are sorting out the ingredients inside.

Hearing that Xiao Jinyue was going to use the small kitchen to cook things, he hurriedly sped up the action at hand.

After the rules were finished, Xiao Jinyue asked them all to go down to rest, and only let Fennel stay to help her.

Because several kinds of sugar bought were mixed with impurities, Xiao Jinyue had to boil and melt it first, and filter it many times before the impurities were removed.

After removing the impurities, the next step is to start making white sugar.

Although Xiao Jinyue knew the approximate process, he had never done it himself after all, and he didn't have the tools to get his hands on, so he was busy until it was dark.

On the two blue and white porcelain plates, one contains white sand sugar, and the other is rock sugar.

"Girl, did you succeed?" Fennel had been helping to light the fire, and she watched the girl make these two sugars with her own eyes, and she stared intently at the two sugars on the blue and white porcelain plate, which were as white as snow, and felt that it was really magical.

Xiao Jinyue said with a smile, "It's successful." ”

She didn't buy much sucrose, and with the loss in the middle, the final white sand candy was only a small flutter and a few pieces of rock sugar.

As for the brown sugar, because she bought less sucrose, she hasn't made it yet.

Although the amount of it is not much, and the color is not as white as it is modern, Xiao Jinyue is already satisfied with the lack of various tools to make it like this.

The crystallization rate has a lot to do with the impurities contained in the sucrose, the amount of water added, and the temperature of the sugar.

If you want to have a whiter color, greater purity, and a higher crystallization rate, you can only rely on slow exploration step by step, and I believe that practice makes perfect, and the effect will be more satisfactory.

The production method has been solved, and now, there is only the problem of supply.

Xiao Jinyue glanced at the fennel on the plate with amusement, took a bowl and filled some of the two freshly baked sugars and handed it to her, "Take it and taste it, the saliva is left." ”

Fennel listened to the girl tease her, and subconsciously raised her hand to wipe it.

Hearing Xiao Jinyue's laughter, she realized that she had been fooled.

Although Ruhua's smiling face instantly became popular, her hands were holding the blue and white porcelain plate.

If the girl wants to laugh, laugh, for the sake of sugar, she can be generous and not annoy the girl.

Fennel couldn't wait to pick up a pinch of sugar as white as snow and put it in her mouth to taste, her eyes lit up instantly, "Girl, this sugar is so sweet, much sweeter than sucrose, and the color is also beautiful, does it have a name?" ”

"Yes, this kind of grain is called frosting sugar, and the lumpy one is called rock sugar."

"Girl, these two names are good, and they will definitely sell well in the future."

A big sale can be a big sale, but this business can't start in a moment.

If mass production is to be carried out, a small workshop must be set up, and the manpower problem must be solved.

When it is produced, there must be a fixed place for sales, and a store is indispensable.

Their family has no property in the capital, and naturally there are no stores, so it seems that they still have to buy a store.

With a store, the shopkeeper and the young man cannot be missing.

Oh, and there are all kinds of tools to build as well.

Xiao Jinyue roughly brushed over everything in her mind, and couldn't help but smile bitterly. She is now poor and white, with nothing, and everything has to start from scratch.

Forget it, let's solve it slowly.

The most important supply problem has not been solved yet, and I don't know if the second manager went out of the house to inquire about it.

It's not too early now, and it's time to go home.