The old carpenter is very motivated.
It took nearly a month to make a waterwheel according to the princess's drawings. The princess rewarded him with twenty taels of silver. After taking it back to his hometown, the eldest grandson successfully found a wife.
The princess also said that every county in the southern barbarians would install water trucks one after another, giving him free time to start work. Since these are not jobs in the mansion, he will be paid separately.
The same goes for today's candy molds. Once a batch is completed, you will be rewarded with silver. This makes the old carpenter feel like he is ushering in a second spring, and he is full of joy.
He learned carpentry when he was young, but it was only now that he realized the benefits of knowing a craft.
I was so excited that I found a few pieces of wood that day and took my little boy to chip away at the wood to make a mold.
After the first batch of brown sugar bricks cooled, they were removed from the mold and turned out to be a round piece with auspicious characters such as fortune, longevity, and longevity or beautiful floral patterns printed on the surface.
For those who didn’t know better, they thought it was a pastry.
Xu Yin was in a good mood, so she put it on a plate and took it to the study room in the front yard, hoping to find someone to share her joy with.
Yan Kejin didn't go out today. Since his father asked him to recommend the governors of Baiyue and Minyue counties, he wouldn't be polite.
I took some time out of my busy schedule to draft a memorial and asked for two right-hand assistants to come over. If nothing unexpected happens, they will be able to take office next month.
When he saw the princess coming in with a plate, she thought she was here to give him some snacks.
"It's such a hot day, just ask the maid to run around, why do you have to do it yourself."
He stood up, took the plate, put it on the table, led her to sit down on the couch, and opened the folding fan to fan her.
"It's just a few steps, why is it so hard?" Xu Yin pursed her lips and smiled, "Don't you want to try it? I made it."
Yan Kejin raised an eyebrow.
He is not a fan of sweets, but since the princess made it himself, he is still willing to give it a try.
result……
"This is……"
Xu Yin laughed when she saw his expression when he took a bite of brown sugar.
"This is sugar. I boiled the sugar cane sent from Chenjiazhuang into syrup and made brown sugar cubes. How about it? It tastes pretty good, right? It takes about two hundred kilograms of sugar cane to make about thirty pieces of sugar of this size."
Yan Kejin raised her eyebrows. Her princess had been silent for the past two days. Did she come up with something good again?
"Did you find sugar cane?"
"Found it. It's also my fault. The sugar cane they saw in miscellaneous books was a little different from the actual one. They were misled by me. They knew the sugar cane was right in front of them, but they missed it for a while."
Xu Yin described the skin and height of the wild sugarcane discovered in Chenjiazhuang in detail, and finally said:
"It can be seen that the skin of sugarcane may be different in different areas. There may be green skin and purple skin. The height may not always be one or two meters or three to five meters."
Yan Kejin took a pen and paper and wrote them down one by one, then called Yan Qi to come in and ask him to implement them. Then he stood up and took a brocade box from the table.
"For me?" Xu Yin looked at him with a smile, "What is it this time?"
I had received pearls and jade from him several times before, and more than once I heard the maid who kept the jewelry complain bitterly and sweetly: The jewelry box that I had hired the old carpenter to build was almost too full to stack.
"Open it and take a look. Does it suit you?"
Yan Kejin thrust the brocade box into her hand and sat down next to her.
She felt too hot, so he kept fanning her, but wouldn't move any further.
Xu Yin opened the brocade box and saw what was inside. She couldn't help but widen her apricot eyes: "Is this...a koi carved from jade?"
Yan Kejin laughed: "It is not artificially carved, it is a natural jade that was found from outside the customs. It is a golden lotus with blood and gallbladder."
Blood Gall Golden Lotus? Isn't that the most expensive stone that will be hailed by later generations? It seems to also contain the meaning of good fortune, peace, prosperity, and prosperity for the family and the country.
"This is too expensive."
"Yes, so I gave it to the princess."
Xu Yin met his smiling gaze, and her heart trembled.
She stayed in his study for half an hour...
If a guard hadn't come in to report, he would have almost lost his self-control.
With flushed cheeks, Xu Yin hugged the brocade box and hurried back to the main courtyard. Looking at her back, she seemed to have fled in despair.
Yan Kejin listened to the guard's reply, but her eyes were locked on the pretty figure through the carved wooden window, with a joyful smile flashing in her eyes.
Xu Yin returned to the main courtyard and patted her hot cheeks to calm down.
"Is the princess exposed to the sun?" Grandma asked someone to bring a basin of water over.
After washing her face with cold water, Xu Yin calmed down.
She kept the Blood-Gall Golden Lotus herself and did not let the maid take it to the warehouse.
The peace, prosperity and prosperity of our family and country will definitely be realized in our lifetime!
Claw!
There was plenty of sugar cane, and she wanted to try white sugar.
I wonder if the vivid koi carp on the "Golden Lotus" can bring good luck to people. I was thinking about how to make white sugar, and I was super lucky to buy a limited-time free book in the system mall. White sugar sugar making skill book.
After reading this, I feel that it is not difficult to make white sugar, all it takes is to take off the color of brown sugar.
There are two decolorization methods written in the skill book: yellow mud water leaching method and activated carbon decolorization.
In order to save costs, small workshops generally adopt the yellow mud water leaching method for decolorization. Regular sugar factories often choose activated carbon for decolorization.
Xu Yin felt that either we should not do it, or if we wanted to do it, we should do it in a formal way.
The yellow mud water makes me feel dirty just thinking about it. Although the sugar water after being soaked needs high temperature to evaporate into white sugar, it still feels a little uncomfortable.
Anyway, there are methods for making activated carbon in the system mall, and the steps for burning coconut shell activated carbon are quite simple.
Coconut shell is not a scarce material in the south and can be reused. The high-temperature steam method can remove the adsorbed impurities and restore its original activity.
Xu Yin decisively spent 500 energy points to obtain the formula for making coconut shell activated carbon.
As soon as the boy sent by the housekeeper to collect coconut shells came back, he started making activated charcoal.
Burning charcoal requires a kiln, which is not suitable in the mansion.
It just so happened that the sugar cane heads were about to be planted in the experimental fields, so Xu Yin had someone pull a cart of coconut shells to the farm.
There is a hilltop behind Zhuangzi. Lychees are planted on the hilltop, which also belongs to the palace.
After discussing with Uncle Wang, Xu Yin chose a leeward location at the foot of the mountain near the river bank and built a kiln.
For this reason, she stayed in the village for two days.
Yan Kejin didn't see her when she returned home. When she asked, she went to live in Zhuangzi. That night she came to Zhuangzi with a dark face.
"Why is the prince here?" Xu Yin was surprised when she saw him.
Yan Kejin glanced at her, snorted, and unbuttoned her buttons.
Xu Yin received the look from Aunt Feng and realized belatedly that she had made him angry by not returning to the palace for two days.
After withdrawing the servants, she stepped forward to unbutton him and helped him put on a comfortable nightgown. She asked the maid to bring a basin of water in, and she personally twisted the handkerchief to clean his face.
"It's my fault. I didn't tell you beforehand. Don't be angry."
Her soft-spoken apology instantly quelled the fire in his belly.
But he still had a cold expression on his face. If he let her know that he had calmed down so quickly, wouldn't he have to slap his nose on her face in the future?
"snort!"
Xu Yin: "..."
In fact, I can see that he has calmed down.
After the two of them got to know each other, they knew each other's little moves and tempers very well, and they could generally tell them apart.
I know that he is just awkward, like a child throwing a tantrum and needs to be coaxed.
"Okay, don't be angry. Have you finished your dinner?"
This question, yes! It stirred up people's fire again.
He returned home hungry and wanted to have a meal with her, but it was better for her to just eat and sleep in the village.
"Do you have a heart?" He pulled her into his arms, obviously gritting his teeth and wanting to bite her, and finally turned into a sigh.
"Yes, yes." Xu Yin raised her head, held his face with both hands, and coaxed over and over again, "Can I go and make you a bowl of sour soup noodles? Uncle Wang's sour soup tastes very good. I bet you will still want to eat it after eating it once..." "
"I don't want to." He took off her clothes.
"..." Wait, "Aren't you hungry?"
"Yeah." But he could bear it.
"..."
