There was no feminism in the Dawu Dynasty, and the status of women was much lower than that of men.
What's more, Lin Youniang is still a child bride, and her status is incomparable to that of ordinary wives.
If Yun Chao really finds a new love, her status will not be preserved!
The village chief of Lin Youniang's natal village found a child bride for his son.
When Muramasa's son grew up, he married another wife. The former child bride was directly reduced to a concubine. She was either beaten or scolded every day, and her life was very miserable.
Seeing Yun Chao pouring yellow mud into the precious brown sugar, Lin Youniang thought that he was angry, but it was okay. She had already pushed her second brother to this level, could she still have something good to eat?
Aunt Wang was older and a bystander, not as desperate as Lin Youniang. Seeing that she was so frightened that she even said the words of Yun Chao and Lai Zhicheng's sister-in-law, she immediately stepped forward: "Don't be afraid, aunt." Make the decision for you!”
Yun Chao couldn't laugh or cry: "This is all such a mess, don't... forget it."
Yun Chao decided not to explain, and the explanation was unclear. Let the facts speak for themselves.
However, the truth not only did not speak, but also slapped Yun Chao in the face.
Yun Chao poured the yellow mud for a long time, then stared at it...
I go!
The color of the sugar in the tile is still so dark, just a little stronger than before. There is no sign of turning white at all, let alone turning into the white sugar of later generations!
What's happening here?
Is the information you have read false?
Or did I remember it wrong?
No, come again!
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Yun Chao poured the yellow mud three times in a row, and the color of the sugar in the tiles was only a little lighter, better than the brown sugar before, and almost similar to the brown sugar of later generations.
However, under the shower of yellow mud, the brown sugar in the tiles is also reducing at a speed visible to the naked eye. After all, sugar can be dissolved in water.
If it continues to dissolve at this rate, there will probably be nothing left in the clay before it turns into white sugar!
At this time, Lin Youniang and Aunt Wang finally understood what Yun Chao was doing, which was to make the brown sugar lighter.
Unfortunately, the two women had too little experience and had no idea what it meant to successfully decolorize brown sugar.
In their minds, sugar is sugar, no matter whether it is dark or light, it is equally precious. What Yun Chao did was a waste of money!
As a doctoral candidate, experimental failure is as normal to Yun Chao as eating and drinking.
Yun Chao was not frustrated at all, nor did he think of giving up like this.
Since the color of the sugar can become lighter, it shows that this method is effective.
The reason why it was not successful was simply that there was a problem in a certain link.
Solving problems when there are problems is the basic attribute of a science and engineering man. The kind of person who becomes discouraged after one or two failures, or even gives up completely, cannot be a science and engineering man, let alone a quasi-doctorate.
Isn’t all the brown sugar dissolved in water? Then make the yellow mud slurry thicker. We only need the adsorption effect of the yellow mud, not the dissolving effect of water.
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In this way, Yun Chao began to experiment over and over again.
At the same time, Lai Zhicheng's village protection team was finally established.
After being the village leader for so many years, Lai Zhicheng was not without merit. His first decision was very correct - to build the village wall.
Face to face with the most vicious bandits, how could a bunch of bastards who didn't even have enough to eat be their opponents?
To defend Wolong Village and their Lai family's property, frontal force is not enough. Defenses must be built.
Since each family had to send one person, the village protection team had a lot of people. Even if Yun Chao and his men did not participate, Lai Zhicheng had summoned more than a hundred people.
In the Wu Dynasty, they could find people to do corvee work on their behalf, or they could use grain to pay for the corvée work.
Yun Chao did not find anyone to do the corvee work on his behalf. He distributed the grain to his subordinates and let them figure out what to do.
If you have a large family and are willing to contribute, you can donate one person to the village protection team instead of paying for food.
For those with a small family, like Li Xing, who had no adult labor force, they could only pay food to be exempted from corvee, or find someone to take their place.
The village protection team is a matter for the whole village, and Yun Chao is of course no exception. Everyone else participates. If he neither participates nor pays food, it would be unreasonable.
Yun Chao wants to win people's hearts, not to be a village bully. He cannot go against anyone, nor can he go against the entire village.
Therefore, Yun Chao distributed grain to each of his men, not much, three liters of corn per person per day.
In ancient times, when people exchanged grain, it was not a pound or two pounds, but a liter or two liters.
Because it is very troublesome to use a scale to weigh, and a liter is a volume unit that can be made into a container. As long as it is full, it is one liter, which is very convenient to measure.
One liter in the Wu Dynasty was equivalent to one catty and two taels in later generations. If everyone produced three liters a day, which was three catties and six taels of millet, they would not have to do corvee labor.
Do you think it’s a good deal?
Anyone who thinks it's a good deal is dead wrong.
In order to save three kilograms and six taels of food a day, 90% of the people at the bottom of the Wu Dynasty would choose to do corvee service!
Not to mention three catties and six taels a day, even two liters a day, two catties and four taels, you can still find someone willing to do corvee service.
Most of the people at the bottom have no food left at home, and they don't even have enough to eat, and they simply can't afford so much food.
Lai Zhicheng was a little disappointed. That boy Yun Er did not join the village protection team, otherwise he would have been killed!
Not only did Yun Er take away his position as the village leader, but he also dared to take advantage of his sister-in-law. Damn it!
As for how much benefit Yunchao would bring to Lai Zhicheng by opening up the wasteland on the north bank of Wolong Valley in the future, Lai Zhicheng could no longer care about it.
Yunchao has grown too fast and has reached the point where he cannot be eliminated!
Lai Zhicheng can imagine that if Yun Chao continues to develop like this, it won't be long before his village chief will give way, and the Lai family's status in Wolong Village will no longer be guaranteed!
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Qingyang County, Lion Tower.
A white-faced scholar, accompanied by two strong men, swaggered in while waving a paper fan.
The young man didn't dare to neglect and greeted him warmly: "Sir, how many are there?"
The scholar shook his fan coolly: "Just the three of us, we want the private room upstairs."
The little guy is a little strange. Is this guy a scholar? Why is he so rude?
As soon as he entered the private room, the scholar shook his head and said: "Well, not bad, not bad. This restaurant is good. It seems that brothers will have a place to drink in the future."
"Sir, may I ask what you want to eat?"
The young man had a look of disdain on his face. He thought he was a scholar, but he turned out to be a slut. If the brothers have a place to drink in the future, can you afford the money for the drinks?
The scholar didn't rush to order. He waved his fan coquettishly for a long time, then shook his head and said: "Give Grandpa all the good dishes that your Lion House specializes in! By the way, ask your shopkeeper to come over and say His third grandfather is here!"
