Although Liu Haonian didn't fully understand, he still nodded in agreement. At this moment, Liu Haojia walked over quickly and said, "Brother, Brother Jinbao, Brother Yinbao, come here!" ”

When the three of them approached, Liu Haojia took out three packs of loose silver that had been prepared a long time ago and handed them and said: "You take these silvers, and then go to the market to buy brown sugar, don't buy too much at a time, just buy about three or four catties." And the three of you have to buy it separately, don't be too troublesome after you buy it, just go home and put it down and buy it a second time, don't take the brown candy you bought to the next one! ”

This brown sugar is the name of brown sugar at that time, although the Liu family is in decline, but it is also from a noble family, this brown sugar can afford to eat, and I still know it. But Father Liu frowned when he heard Brownrose's name, but he still waved his hand and said, "You three brothers just do it!" ”

The three brothers set off with the silver for some reason, and Liu Haojia then changed into his working clothes, pushed up the wheelbarrow, took the tools and pockets, and left the house without knowing what to do.

By the evening, Liu Haonian and the three of them had already gone out and come back from tossing and turning many times, the silver was all spent, and dozens of bags of lotus leaf bags wrapped in brown sugar were piled up at home, almost more than 200 catties. Just when Liu Haonian and the three of them were resting, Liu Haojia also came back with a wheelbarrow, and there were two big bags full of two bundles on the car, but I don't know what it contains?

Liu Haonian helped him unload the car and opened his pocket to take a look, and said in surprise: "Isn't this loess?" What's the use of this thing, we don't build walls! ”

Liu Haojia waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about this, I'm useful!" ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Haojia commanded Liu Haonian's three brothers to turn around! Let Jinbao build a stove in the yard, and then let Yinbao soak the loess with water to make yellow mud soup. He and Liu Haonian opened the brown candy and threw it into a large pot and stirred it with water to dissolve.

The stove was finished, and a large iron pot filled with brown sugar was placed on the stove and began to boil over low heat. At this time, Father Liu stepped forward and frowned and said, "Xiao Er, are you planning to make these brown sugars into white sugar?" ”

Liu Haojia was stunned for a moment, and then he was shocked! Is there already white sugar at this time? His original intention was to make sugar to make huge profits, but now that Father Liu said it, he was naturally surprised!

Father Liu saw his surprised appearance and knew that he had guessed correctly, and immediately sighed and said, "Xiao Er, you may not know about this thing, although this thing is rare, it is not absent on the market!" It's just that they were all bought by those nobles and big families, and they are rarely circulated in the market! ”

Many people think that white sugar only appeared in the early Qing Dynasty, but in fact, it was not the case that white sugar first appeared at the end of the Yuan Dynasty! According to the "Quanzhou Mansion Chronicles" written by Chen Shi, there was a sugar craftsman surnamed Huang in Nan'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture in the Yuan Dynasty, and the adobe house in his family suddenly collapsed when he made sugar, resulting in the syrup mixed with loess.

Based on this situation, sugar craftsmen invented the mud cover method. It is covered with lumps of yellow mud on top of the syrup. Later, the technology was slowly improved, and it became a yellow mud decolorization method, which was also recorded in the book "Heavenly Creation"! Illustrations are also available!

In fact, the history of edible sugar in China is quite long, but there has not been much development in technology. It was after people discovered the technology of brown sugar decolorization, due to confidentiality reasons, this technology was not popularized on a large scale at all! A small number of people who have mastered the brown sugar decolorization technology have been handed down as a family secret recipe, and outsiders cannot know it.

At that time, the price of sugar was relatively expensive, and ordinary people generally rarely ate sugar at home. Even if you eat sugar, it's just maltose or something, and you rarely eat brown sugar directly. As for the large households and more people who eat honey and decolorized white sugar, plus the production of white sugar is scarce, it was bought by these people as soon as it was listed, so ordinary people on the market can't see the circulation of white sugar at all, which makes Liu Haojia feel that it is profitable to make white sugar.

Liu Haojia knew that his father would not lie to him, so he asked with a glimmer of hope: "Then what does the white sugar you are talking about look like?" Have you seen it? ”

Father Liu sighed again and said, "Our family is so noble, and I have seen some good things!" Those white sugars are no different from these brown sugars, except they are looser than brown sugar! Those brown sugars are always sticky and clumpy, and those white sugars are like sand one by one, and they may not taste as sweet as brown sugar! ”

Liu Haojia secretly screamed in his heart when he heard this, a fluke! Fortunately, I made extra preparations, otherwise, the great cause of making money would have really died! Of course, this is also to blame for my lack of knowledge! So he calmed down, smiled mysteriously and said, "Father guessed half right, you can see the rest of the things slowly!" ”

When Father Liu heard Liu Haojia say this, he could only nod suspiciously, and let him go. But in his heart he had already condemned the money he had spent to death! But fortunately, he felt that he still had a loss, so he let Liu Haojia get it himself, so he should spend money to buy a lesson!

At this time, Liu Haojia saw that the syrup was almost boiled, so he said that the clay jar was placed, put the tile chute in the funnel on it, and then fill the bottom outlet with straw. By the time he had done all this, the syrup had been thoroughly boiled, and the sweet taste of the viscous syrup was very attractive!

The four brothers poured the syrup into several tiles, and soon the viscous syrup filled the tiles. Only when the syrup solidified did he pull out the straw from under the tiles. Then Liu Haojia carefully poured the stirred yellow mud into the tiles, and then observed the changes of these tiles.

Slowly, as the yellow will gradually sink, the syrup crystals that come out are indeed white sugar! Seeing that the original black brown sugar gradually turned into snow-white white sugar, Liu Guangyuan and several of them were very excited, and they praised Liu Haojia's good craftsmanship again and again! But Father Liu shook his head and went back to the room to rest, out of sight and out of mind!

Liu Haojia tossed until midnight and converted all the brown sugar into white sugar. In the end, the syrup mixed with mud could no longer be purified because there was no follow-up raw material, so it had to be stored separately in a crockpot. The white sugar made was also stored separately, and Liu Haojia also grabbed a handful for each person to satisfy their hunger, but Liu Haonian and several people were so happy!