After explaining what he still needed to purchase, Wang Cheng got up and returned to the small courtyard where he lived.
In the afternoon, several people brought what he wanted, a pile of garlic and a cart of wine.
Now he only needs to wait for those tools to be produced before he can extract that time-honored drug - allicin, a compound that inhibits and kills some bacteria and fungi.
Of course, he would rather get penicillin, but the process and refining tools are much more complicated than allicin, and it is currently impossible to get it with the technology here.
Although there are powerful warriors and Taoists in this world, most people are still ordinary people, so their living standards are still in the feudal era. Even if there are pills and elixirs that can make people reborn and bring people back to life, It must be very rare and cannot be popularized.
Therefore, allicin, a drug that inhibits and kills many types of bacteria and fungi, is definitely a miracle drug here!
Wang Cheng is a medical student himself. He has done experiments on extracting allicin in experimental classes, so he is very familiar with its specific extraction process.
There are several methods for extracting allicin. The first one is the laboratory method. The crushed garlic is placed in a distiller and distilled with water. The method is the same as the ancient extraction of flower dew and essential oils. A condenser tube is also required here.
The second method is relatively simple. Mash the garlic, dry it over a slow fire, crush it, and then soak it in high-strength wine for a period of time. The golden yellow liquid on the top is the simplest allicin.
Wang Cheng prefers the first method because the first extraction method is more pure than the second one.
It was not his character to just sit and wait, so he asked someone to send another car of wine, and prepared to use the second method to extract some allicin as a backup.
In this case, as long as high-concentration alcohol can be distilled, it will be fine.
Wang Cheng opened a jar of wine and took a sip. It was about the same content as beer. He shook his head and sighed: "No wonder the ancients drank a jar of wine. I have no problem drinking a jar of wine with this low alcohol content."
Because of disciplinary issues, he didn't know how much he drank, but he had drank a case of beer before, so he wasn't drunk, and he could imitate Michael Jackson's moonwalk.
So he asked someone to ask the Shenxing Escort Agency if they had any equipment for distilling alcohol. He thought that the Shenxing Escort Agency was also the top force in Sanchuan County, and such a thing should be easy to obtain.
There really is!
And it’s available in the escort agency!
Except for the maids and a few female relatives, the rest of the Shenxing Escort Agency are all men. Most of them are the escort heads, escorts, and escorts. It is a man's den!
Hundreds of people are crowded into a Shenxing Escort Agency. How can they drink less every day?
Therefore, Shenxing Escort has a wine cellar, and the small courtyard above the wine cellar is where the wine is made.
Wang Cheng followed a servant to the small courtyard where the wine was brewed. There was only a large vat in the room, and there was no pot or still. It was completely natural fermentation.
Hold!
Wang Cheng turned around and left. After all, he had overestimated the craftsmanship in this world. It would be weird to expect those broken vats to brew high-concentration wine!
Returning to the small courtyard, he quickly asked someone to set up a pot in the yard, and prepared a pot lid and several hollowed-out bamboo tubes.
Then the bamboo tubes are set up, one is connected to the inside of the pot, and the other is connected to the outside. There is a thicker bamboo tube on the outside of this bamboo tube, and cold water is added in the middle to act as a condenser.
After finishing these tasks, it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon. He poured the wine into the pot and began his journey of purifying alcohol.
The boiling point of alcohol is 78 degrees, and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees. When heating, control the temperature at about 80 degrees, let the alcohol evaporate, connect the conduit, and then condense the conduit to collect liquid alcohol.
After all, the earthen pot is not as good as the laboratory equipment, and the temperature is the most difficult to control. Even if Wang Cheng is sensitive to temperature, he cannot control the temperature at around 80 degrees, so the collected alcohol is mixed with a lot of water.
Wang Cheng didn't expect to produce anhydrous alcohol at once, so he first distilled high-concentration alcohol, and then asked his servants to get quicklime. He added quicklime to the alcohol and heated it back to make the water in the alcohol react with calcium oxide. , generating non-volatile calcium hydroxide to remove water, and then distilling it again to obtain nearly anhydrous alcohol.
It took more than an hour to finally extract several jars of absolute alcohol from dozens of jars of wine.
At this time, several layers of people had gathered outside the small courtyard. If Xu Guang hadn't been in the courtyard, the courtyard would have been packed, all attracted by the strong aroma of alcohol.
Xu Guang was dressed in regular clothes, his half-god and half-demon face was full of solemnity. He casually called Li Daping, who was looking intoxicated, and said: "Send the order! No one is allowed to tell anyone about today's events!"
He was so well-informed that he could not see the value of this alcohol distillation device.
Li Daping nodded, turned around and gave a serious warning to those outside the hospital, and then dispersed them.
Wang Cheng saw all this, and he didn't expect that his random tinkering would cause such a big fuss. With his obsessive-compulsive personality, he simply couldn't stand the shabby device in front of him.
"Sir, can I have a taste?" Xu Guang pointed at a jar of alcohol and showed a smile that he thought was very easy-going, but that face really made Wang Cheng feel less easy-going, and instead felt a little panicked.
Of course Wang Cheng couldn't let him drink anhydrous alcohol directly. Drinking too much would lead to poisoning. He opened the lid of the pot, added some alcohol to the water in the pot, stirred it a few times, scooped a bowl and handed it to Xu Guang's hand. He also explained: "The head of the family still needs surgery, so I can only try it!"
Xu Guang nodded, took a sip, and then the half-god, half-demon face was filled with complexity.
"What is the taste?"
Li Daping was curious. While he was talking, he had already taken the wine bowl in Xu Guang's hand and drank it all in one gulp.
It was burning, cutting through his esophagus and entering his stomach like a knife, and his heart felt like it was on fire.
Li Daping's face instantly turned red from suppressing his emotions, and he shouted: "It's so damn enjoyable! This damn wine is wine! What I drank before was just like water, and I could fade away like a bird!"
Wang Cheng looked at the two of them. Those who liked this kind of distilled wine really liked it, and even liked it the higher the alcohol content. However, there were also many people who didn't like it at all. They preferred fermented wine.
Although Xu Guang prefers fermented wine, it does not prevent him from seeing the value of distilled wine.
This is definitely the only one in Dazhou, only this one, no other one!
He tried: "Sir, can you confer this brewing skill to my escort? Xu is willing to buy it with thousands of gold!"
"I will write down the process flow in a while and let people pick it up!"
After saying these words, Wang Cheng entered the room carrying several jars of alcohol. Now that the anhydrous alcohol has been prepared, he still has a lot to do next.
Alcohol plays a huge role in this world. For example, you can prepare 75% disinfectant alcohol, use alcohol to refine allicin and toilet water, and you can also use it to make incendiaries and explosives!
Wang Cheng was busy until late at night, and finally prepared a disinfectant alcohol with a concentration of nearly 75%, and also extracted a part of allicin. In the meantime, Xu Guang personally came to learn the process of making distilled liquor and presented him with a thousand taels of gold.
Each gold bar weighs one kilogram, and more than sixty gold bars are neatly placed in a box.
Even though Wang Cheng was not interested in money, he was shocked by the dazzling golden light. For a moment, he almost wanted to find a place to retire.
With so much gold, wouldn't it be nice to buy a house and have several concubines? Why bother to fight and kill?
So, that night, Wang Cheng made a mistake.
Well, when I woke up, my pants were wet.
The portion is huge!
After putting on his outfit again, Wang Cheng sat cross-legged on the bed and began to meditate.
Maybe it was because too much of the essence was lost last night. It took me a few more minutes to calm down this time, and my mind entered my mind again. The soul light was still the same, and the soul-eating beads were still so big.
Cultivating Taoism is not like practicing martial arts, which can make rapid progress, while cultivating Taoism is all about hard work.
Everyone has a soul, so everyone has telekinesis. The reason why some people can use telekinesis is because cultivators can gather the scattered telepathy in their minds and continue to grow it.
An hour later, Wang Cheng finished his practice. He was wearing a new black gown, a gray cloth headband, and a mustache at the corners of his mouth. He still looked like a middle-aged man.
At around eight o'clock in the morning, he came to the tea house and chose a relatively secluded corner.
The Tea House is a famous tea house in Sichuan and Chongqing County. It not only sells tea, but also snacks and meals. When I arrived, many people had gathered on the first floor.
Eating and drinking tea are not the main things. Most of the people who come here come here to talk about things. From high-ranking officials in temples to ordinary people, they have everything they want to know and hear.
The topic of discussion today is no longer Yang Si, but the Black Tornado Zhang Kui, the leader of the Shuangsha Gang who has been mysteriously missing for many years. He has become the focus of everyone's discussion.
"You all have heard about it, right? The black whirlwind Zhang Kui actually appeared, and he appeared in public! What's strange is that the little white dragon Li Shun disappeared. He has been missing for a month!"
"I still don't understand! It's obvious that the disappearance of Black Tornado Zhang Kui five years ago must have something to do with him. Now that they are back, he is naturally hiding!"
"Black Tornado Zhang Kui is cruel and ruthless. This time he reappears, and I don't know how many people have died!"
"Hey! I don't know if others are dead, but Little White Dragon Li Shun is definitely dead! What a pity that his concubine Jin Jiuniang was also famous throughout Sanchuan back then. It is said that Black Whirlwind Zhang Kui was jealous of Jin Jiuniang and Little White Dragon Li Shun. The fight happened!”
"What's such a pity? A bitch who has been stabbed by thousands of people for ten thousand days only has little white dragon as a treasure!"
"Haha! I heard that Black Whirlwind was served by Jin Jiuniang these days when he came back. I'm afraid this little white dragon would never have imagined that the woman he worked so hard to get would end up in the bed of his old enemy in the blink of an eye!"
Wang Cheng listened to the discussion of several people and got to know the Shuangsha Gang more and more deeply. No wonder the Shuangsha Gang rose and fell quickly. There was an internal fight between the two gang leaders. It was lucky that they were not wiped out.
Therefore, he was even more sure that it was not the Shuangsha Gang who wanted to kill him, there must be someone behind it!
The man in gray was the first one to be excluded. Even if they didn’t recognize him, someone must have been instigating him behind the scenes!
The biggest possibility is Brother Xu Boyi!
However, if it was really Xu Boyi, just give him a direct order to arrest him. Why do you have to be so secretive?
Wang Cheng was puzzled. Just as he was thinking about it, a little girl appeared in front of him.
He is eight or nine years old, wearing a bright red dress and two braids. Two red clouds appear on both sides of his round face. He blinks with a pair of big eyes, as if he can talk.
She stared at the pastries on the table, swallowed her saliva, then looked up at Wang Cheng and whispered: "Uncle, someone asked me to give this to you, and you will treat me to something to eat."
She handed over a crumpled piece of paper. Wang Cheng frowned and took it, opened it and took a look.
The note clearly said: Xiao Lingtong is in my hand. No one is allowed in Jiziyuan, Wuliu Lane, tonight at 1:00 a.m.!
