Chapter 11 Distilled Spirits

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"Ai, I've talked so much, you two still don't want to lend me your hair, right?"

The heads of the two maidservants shook like rattles, with an expression that could not be killed.

Instead of wasting words on the two girls, it is better to think of other feasible ways.

"And do you have anyone you particularly hate?"

Green Ripple nodded reactively, then felt that it was a pit, and quickly shook his head.

Lu Yi didn't have as many eyes as Lu Lian, and when he saw Zhao Ye asking, he immediately opened his mouth and said a lot of names.

Watching Lu Yi grit his teeth and say the names of so many people, Zhao Ye wondered if there were so many people in this Yong'an Palace.

"Men don't count for the time being, but women do, the kind that needs long hair and waist-length."

Lu Yi pondered for a moment and said, "Young servant Chang Jing! ”

"Is she bad?"

"Bad!"

"How bad?"

"Often deduct money from our palace."

"As the saying goes, judging people's wealth is like killing someone's parents. That's it. ”

Zhao Ye took out a sleeping pill from his backpack and said, "I'll mix this into her meal later." Call me when she sleeps. ”

Lu Yi stretched out his hand to pick it up, but was stopped by Lu Lian.

"Your Highness is going to poison Chang Jing?"

Zhao Ye was stunned and said, "This king is not He ......"

Green Ripple hurriedly stopped Zhao Ye.

"Your Highness, be careful! Pitchers have ears. ”

"Rest assured, this is nothing more than a drowsy medicine. It won't kill anyone. ”

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After dinner, the surroundings fell into darkness, and Zhao Ye was not used to going to bed early, staring at the boundless dark night outside the hall in a daze.

I don't know how long it took, when Zhao Ye was already a little sleepy, the two of them tiptoed in.

"Your Highness, Your Highness!"

"How?"

"I fell asleep, and Lu Yi screamed a few times and couldn't wake up."

This sleeping pill is used on people who have not been poisoned by modern medicines, and the effect is really powerful.

"Then let's go."

Behind the Yong'an Palace is a row of side rooms, behind the main hall, near the Valley Gate, where the usual people live.

It was pitch black outside, and the three of them were covered in cyan robes, hidden in the night, and if they didn't look closely, they couldn't detect the movement of the figures.

Yong'an Palace is no matter in terms of scale and guards, it is not comparable to the North and South Palaces, since the rebellion in the palace, the defense forces of the Beijing Janissaries are almost concentrated in the North Palace and the city gate, so in the Yong'an Palace, there are only sporadic guards patrolling back and forth with lanterns.

The two of them took Zhao Ye to the door of a room and heard the sound of snoring inside.

Where is this the voice that a woman can make, ordinary strong men can't make such an earth-shattering snoring sound.

"Are you sure this Chang Jing is a woman, not a big man?"

The answer was extremely positive, but the two girls did not have the consciousness of being pioneers, they just pointed to the door, handed Zhao Ye a pair of scissors, and gave them an encouraging look.

Zhao Ye didn't steal people's melons and fruits when he was a child, so this kind of thing is easy to do.

The two girls were so nervous, seeing that Zhao Ye lit the oil lamp and went in, they all lay at the door and stared at Zhao Ye, and they didn't dare to come out.

Zhao Ye touched Chang Jing's bedside, Chang Jing was lying on his side under the light of the oil lamp, judging from half of his face, this Chang Jing was only in his twenties, but he was described by Lu Yi as an old woman.

Well, the face is snarky, and there is the potential to become an old witch.

Because it was summer and the weather was hot, Chang Jing only wore regular clothes to sleep, and he didn't cover anything on his body, so his long hair was unobstructed.

Long hair is not only waist-length, it's almost mopping the floor, in the previous life, one long hair will definitely sell for tens of thousands.

Zhao Ye took the scissors, only started from Chang Jing's waist, and took the hair below the waist.

Be a man and leave a line, and see each other in the future!

After stealing the hair, Zhao Ye returned to the dormitory with the two maidservants, but saw that Liu Wei had been waiting for a long time.

"The queen mother thinks that your Yong'an Palace is too cold, so she sent some palace use. I thought I had nothing to do, so I came to see you. ”

Zhao Ye thanked him.

Empress Dowager He was quite generous this time, not only sent food and clothing, but also made people resist a few big altars.

Zhao Ye ordered someone to accept it and continue, and when he saw Liu Wei's eyes, he retreated left and right.

"Brother Huang, I have asked Min Gong to find the jade seal of the country secretly."

"You're still reliable!"

Since Liu Wei lied in the court, he felt uneasy in his heart, so after having dinner with He Lian in Shou'an Palace, he came to Yong'an Palace to inquire about the progress. ”

In the Three Kingdoms, the whereabouts of the jade seal after returning from the north are unknown, Zhao Ye vaguely remembers that it seems to have been obtained by Yuan Shu in the end, and then Yuan Shu was called the emperor because of this, but when the jade seal was found, it should be after Liu Xie became the emperor.

It seems that this heirloom jade seal may have to disappear for a few years.

"Brother Huang, when this jade seal was lost, there were many people on the road, and I am afraid that the chances of finding this jade seal are slim at present. Why don't you order someone to make another one? ”

Right now, what is imminent is the conspiracy to sabotage Dong Zhuo's abolition. As for this jade seal, Zhao Ye felt that it was just a stone, and he couldn't make a big move.

But Liu Wei didn't think so, the jade seal represents the number of the Han Dynasty, and the loss of this jade seal indicates that the number of the Han Dynasty has declined.

Zhao Ye had to promise to find the jade seal, otherwise, he would take out a piece of jade that was better than the jade seal to make the jade seal, and Liu Wei would do it.

Seeing Liu Wei away, Zhao Ye felt that there were more people in the hall, so he called an older person to come and ask.

"Your Royal Highness, the Queen Mother is concerned about Your Highness, so she sent her ministers and others to take care of the king's living and eating."

Zhao Ye sneered in his heart, he had heard what Lu Lian had said before, after Empress Dowager He poisoned Liu Xie's biological mother, she poisoned Emperor Lingdi's mother, that is, her mother-in-law, and since then, there has been no strength against her in the palace.

At this time, I sent food and clothing to Yong'an Palace, and I showed a very attentive look, who to see!

"What's your name? What is the current position? ”

"Minister Zhao Ming, now receiving the Yellow Gate Order."

What kind of official is Huangmen Ling, Zhao Ye had no idea, so he had to nod and say, "Okay, you go down first!" ”

"Green Ripples!"

Zhao Ye shouted for a long time, and Lu Lian hurriedly ran to see her sweating, Zhao Ye asked curiously

"You ran away at night?"

"Your Highness, what did you say?"

"Nothing, what's making you sweat so much?"

"Your Highness, the Queen Mother has sent a lot of things, and the slaves and maids are counting the items?"

"Oh."

"What kind of official is the Yellow Gate Order?"

"Your Highness, you mean Zhao Shizhong, who is in charge of the affairs of Yong'an Palace, including protecting His Highness's safety."

Looking at Zhao Ming's hobbling appearance, Zhao Ye felt that he was almost protecting him, which was obviously sent by He Lian to supervise him.

"Okay, are you going to get busy? Oh yes, did the Queen Mother send wine? ”

Zhao Ye loved wine in his previous life, and he didn't sleep without alcohol, thinking that he still had some nuts in his backpack, so he wanted to get through this long night without entertainment while drinking.

In ancient times, children generally did not drink alcohol, but there was no strict age limit for drinking, so when Zhao Ye said that he wanted to drink, Lu Lian was slightly surprised, but he did not stop it.

He Lian sent five or six jars of wine, which is not the kind of small jar that only holds two or three catties on TV, but the kind of big altar that is about waist-high.

"Phew! Bah! Bah! Zhao Ye took a sip of wine and spit it directly on the ground, the degree of this wine was worse than the beer in the previous life, and there was a musty smell.

Looking at the turbid wine in the bowl, there were still insects moving visible to the naked eye, and Zhao Ye was angry.

"Your Highness, the wine in the palace is like this."

After listening to Lu Lian's explanation, Zhao Ye was relieved.

Ancient winemaking techniques were immature and filtered cleanly, so this fermented liquor could not be compared with later distilled spirits.

It is rumored that Li Bai can drink a bucket of wine and a hundred poems, Zhao Ye thought that the ancients were good at bragging, exaggerating, looking at the wine in front of him, if it is clean and not musty, this kind of wine seems to be able to drink a bucket by himself, no, you can drink a case of beer, this kind of wine can drink at least two buckets, as for the hundred poems?

The 300 poems of the Tang Dynasty have long been memorized, and in this way, whether it is from wine or poetry, Li Bai can be abused into scum.

Thinking that he had surpassed Li Bai, Zhao Ye laughed out loud with a pig cry.

Green Ripple was stunned, his own king was really sick.

"Green Ripples!"

"Your Highness, what's the matter?"

"There's a cauldron in the palace, right?"

"What does Your Highness want the cauldron for?"

"It's a secret for the time being, you asked people to prepare two cauldrons, put the two cauldrons together, seal the magnet for me, and in addition, help me prepare a few pipes, oh, there are no pipes, then prepare a few bamboos, and empty the middle ......for me."

At some point, Zhao Ye found that it was really good to be a king, and Lu Lian was obviously puzzled by the things arranged by Zhao Ye, but he still arranged things according to Zhao Ye's instructions, and Zhao Ye didn't need to explain much at all.

Lu Lian arranged the required items according to Zhao Ye's request, and Zhao Ye called Lu Yi over again.

"You take a few palace maids to pick some osmanthus flowers, mash them and pour them into a few jars of wine sent by the Queen Mother."

Distilled liquor is actually very simple, but anyone who has learned a little physics knows how it works, it is nothing more than high temperature to transpirate the alcohol and then cold and shrink, you can get high-purity liquor.

Oh, and they don't know the basic physics that alcohol has a lower boiling point than water.

The next day, under the arrangement of the two maids, all the tools were matched in place.

Zhao Ye didn't know exactly when the distilled liquor was born, at least not for now.

Leading technology, Zhao Ye decided to do it secretly. Therefore, in a wing room on the east side of Yong'an Palace, only the two girls of Ripple are called to accompany them.

Of course, the main job is still Zhao Ye.

Seeing Zhao Ye busy working in the wing, and when they could barely intervene, the two girls felt particularly awkward.

"You help me to set the fire on the ground, yes, put the jar on first."

The two girls finally had something to do, and they were a little touched by the joy.

Open the mud-sealed lid, there is a burst of wine aroma wafting out of it, fortunately the musty smell is not very strong, as long as it is distilled, this musty smell can be easily removed.

Pour the mashed osmanthus into the wine jar, let it mix well, Zhao Ye smelled the fragrance of osmanthus wafting out of the wine, and was satisfied with the bamboo inserted into the mouth of the can, and then pasted it with mud.

The bamboo is roasted by the fire, so it can be bent, and the bent bamboo leads to two sealed cauldrons

Zhao Ye knocked a hole on the left and right and up and down of the cauldron, and knocked the left and right openings into the size of bamboo so that the bamboo could pass through, the upper opening was larger and used to irrigate water, and the lower opening was smaller, Zhao Ye blocked it with a wooden stopper, and this opening was mainly used to release water.

At the thinnest end of the bamboo, there is an empty jar for distilled liquor.

After the simple distillation and cooling device was installed, Zhao Ye was not at ease and checked it again until there were no mistakes.

Zhao Yu waved his hand.

"Fire!"