The north wind always gives people the illusion that in troubled times, the clothes are biting and the armor is icy. The wind is like a knife wrapped in it, causing pain on people's faces, bodies and hands. The knee-deep white snow also hides deep evil. Bones.
But if it is during the Taiping years, no matter how cold the weather is or how heavy the snow is, it will be auspicious snow that heralds a good year. People will not feel cold because everyone has food in their belly and clothing to keep out the cold.
Liang Chuan clearly remembered the howling north wind on the leaky roof when he first came to this world, and the coldness of this world that he could feel when he went out to exercise every day. However, as time went by, this feeling seemed to drift away from him. There were endless things to do every day, so who would care about whether the north wind was cold or not.
Yi Niang followed Liang Chuan's instructions and cooked a bowl of brown sugar and ginger soup for Xiaochai and the other three. The ginger soup was originally bitter, but after adding brown sugar, the taste became mellow. As soon as the warm bowl of soup entered the stomach, the heat came rolling over. Whether it was a psychological effect or it really had a miraculous effect, the three of them had fallen into an ice cave as soon as winter came. Now when I drink this soup, my body feels warm, and the pain in my lower abdomen is relieved immediately!
The faces of the three people turned out to be faintly white and less bloody. After drinking the brown sugar water, their faces actually looked much better! Women know women best. Whether this brown sugar has any effect can be seen immediately. It is really a sacred skin care product for women!
She may have to continue making sugar during the day, but the family also has to continue running the business. Yi Niang entrusted the charcoal making to the children. Some of them were old enough and their work was stable enough, so Yi Niang dared to give them to them with confidence. Do it, the children of the poor will become rich early, and age is just an excuse.
Liang Chuan said that the brown sugar was worth a lot of money. When Yi Niang went to Fengshan to buy groceries in the morning, she took a small jar of brown sugar to the drug store and asked the doctor in the store to estimate the price. It was so mysterious that it was more valuable than gold. If Third Brother deceives them, he will boil all the brown sugar when he comes back to replenish Xiaochai's health.
I don't have any good impressions of Fengshan, the doctor's art lady, because when my third brother was seriously injured and died, he came here to get medicine. What he sold were some warm medicines that were not good for people, and he defrauded the art lady's money. Quite a few, Yi Niang remembered him very clearly, but he had no impression of Yi Niang at all.
When Yi Niang entered the store, she asked the doctor if he would accept any medicinal materials. The doctor glanced at Yi Niang, a little girl, and did not expect her to bring out anything good. But when Yi Niang took out the small jar of about one kilogram of brown sugar, the doctor glanced at it casually, and then rushed over, holding the jar of brown sugar with trembling hands. .
Their small shop has no way to buy such precious medicinal materials. Merchants in Huaiyang area have sold them, but the purity is not high and the price is comparable to gold. This medicinal material has miraculous effects on women's diseases, and some doctors even use it. This medicine is for emergency use and is said to be able to bring the dead back to life. .
This woman is here to sell medicine?
When Yi Niang came out of the pharmacy, her breathing was messed up. She bought a knife of mutton and some vegetables and hurried back home.
Liang Chuan sat at He Baozheng's house for a while early in the morning and told He Baozheng about this matter. He Baozheng heard that the profit was several times that of making mosquito coils, and it could be made right now during the New Year's Day when the sugar cane is harvested. , without saying a word, he immediately took his daughter and wife into the great business of making sugar.
Now the sales of mosquito-repellent incense have basically stagnated, and what we are doing is to make inventory for the coming year. Rather than doing this, it is better to stop for a while. Liang Chuan said so passionately, and for Liang Chuan's sake, he had to go and help.
The only troublesome thing is the Wanda store in Fengshan. My daughter used to work in the store, but now she goes to make candy. Who comes to see the store?
Liang Chuan has already thought about this problem, and he has a very good candidate, brother and sister Yang Baxian. This kid has nothing to do now, so let him come and visit the store. If he does a good job, he will be reused later. If he can't manage a small store well, then he might as well go home and pick out big shit.
He Baozheng's wife, Mrs. Wang, now likes Liang Chuan more than He Baozheng. Who can let her have the ability? If she had known about this young man earlier, she would have married her daughter to him no matter what. Now she sees Chang Gui and strangles him to death. Even though I had my heart full, I could only sigh and lament the misfortune of my daughter.
After Liang Chuan invited He Baozheng, he set off to Wudian to find Yang Baxian and his two brothers. Liangchuan rarely comes to Wudian, a small place, because it is a poor place and there is nothing worth visiting.
Yang Baxian was boxing bare-armed in front of his house. Liang Chuan was dazzled by the powerful boxing techniques. It is said that Taizu created a set of extremely exquisite and practical boxing techniques. Many people in the Song Dynasty practiced them. Could it be this boxing technique? .
Yang Baxian was also bored at home, and he couldn't indulge in drinking and sleeping all day long, otherwise he would become useless sooner or later. What if he was as weak as a worm when Liang Chuan needed him, then he wouldn't let Liang Chuan see his joke?
As Liang Chuan approached, Yang Ba first saw that it was Liang Chuan and was extremely excited. Liang Chuan briefly explained the things that required Yang Baxian, and Yang Baxian didn't think it was a small matter and happily accepted the job.
Next, Liang Chuan went to the carpenter's shop, naturally to make brown sugar molds, and then went to the porcelain shop. The brown sugar was placed in a pottery jar. Liang Chuan was afraid of getting damp. Porcelain is best preserved. The price of a porcelain jar is also very high. It's cheap, and it's not from a high-end porcelain kiln. You can buy a huge porcelain jar for just a few bucks. Liang
Chuan ordered a large batch at once, and he happily paid the deposit. There were countless sugar canes in the fields, and he didn't know how much sugar could be boiled. No matter how many porcelain pots there were, there would never be too many.
The owner of the porcelain shop recognized Liang Chuan. He was a famous tiger-fighting hero in Xinghua. His demeanor was different. After receiving the deposit, he was not afraid of Liang Chuan getting away.
Not only the porcelain jars, Liang Chuan also bought several porcelain funnels. This kind of thing is not readily available. The funnels are made by cutting a one-inch opening on the head of the lid of the porcelain jar and then turning it upside down. Although the shape is not a standard funnel, the funnel Liang Chuan wants can only be customized, which also takes a lot of time.
Now that brown sugar has been successfully cooked, Liang Chuan can boldly proceed to the next step - boiling white sugar. Although brown sugar is very valuable and precious, white sugar is even more valuable than brown sugar.
Liang Chuan remembered that people invented this thing by accident. In ancient times, there was no method of decolorizing the brown sugar. The color of the brown sugar was removed by accident, and what was obtained was white sugar that was not white in color. Strictly speaking, it was a bit yellow, but This kind of white sugar is much better than brown sugar in terms of color and taste, and the price is naturally several times higher than brown sugar.
When I cooked sugar for the first time, I originally wanted to get it right in one step and make white sugar directly. I didn't expect that brown sugar would be extremely difficult, so that Liang Chuan didn't use any of the duck eggs he prepared. To make white sugar, the key lies in this little duck egg.
Liang Chuan bought dozens of kilograms of duck eggs on the street. Duck eggs are not expensive. Compared with boiled sugar, this little cost is simply negligible. The egg seller only sells a few eggs a day. There are too few people who eat duck eggs. Whoever has a family in the countryside who doesn't raise a few chickens and ducks is either self-sufficient and doesn't go out to buy many. The taste of duck eggs is a little worse than that of eggs, the price is higher, and the sales volume is naturally average. Liang Chuan was happy on the spot and gave Liang Chuan some eggs.
Liang Chuan met Fan Dianyuan and others on the road. They pulled a whole cart of cleaned sugar cane and rushed to the backyard of Liang Chuan's house. Liang Chuan had a cheerful expression on his face, as if something great had happened. They were worried about their eldest lady. It had been a few days, and the sugar cane in the fields had begun to be harvested, but she still hadn't appeared. In case there was a disagreement with Liang Chuan later. . . All the sugar cane in the fields is gone again, what should we do? .
The children were chasing each other and playing in the fields. Now it was equivalent to the school's holiday. The horse eggs had become children's heads. They took their classmates and friends to pick up the sugarcane heads chopped off by adults in the fields. A little sweetness would make them happy. Make their day happy.
Liang Chuan asked Fan Dianyuan to give the children a large, complete sugar cane, and then told them one thing: to help Liang Chuan dig out a bucket of yellow mud.
The adults watched the cartloads of sugarcane being transported to Liangchuan's house, and at night it was turned into bagasse and pulled out. They had no idea what was going on. Could someone eat sugarcane so fast that they could eat several thousand kilograms a day?
When Yi Niang returned home, her face was full of excitement. She pulled Liang Chuan and said, "Third brother, guess how much the medicine hall in Fengshan charges for a pound of brown sugar that we cook?"
"How much?" Liang Chuan didn't expect Yi Niang to actually inquire. She was really full. Where is the trust between people?
"Ten dollars a pound!" Yi Niang blurted out, and then excitedly waited for Liang Chuan to share the joy. Unexpectedly, Liang Chuan's face suddenly dropped.
"What? Is it expensive?" Yi Niang said anxiously.
"Damn, this doctor is still so shady. Ten guan of money? He's going to grab it. This brown sugar is 20 guan and 30 guan a pound. Do you believe there are so many people trying to rob it? He's looking at you and you don't even know. How dare you set such a low price for brown sugar? You, you, you..."
Liang Chuan explained to Yi Niang earnestly. Yi Niang originally thought that she had made a lot of money, but unexpectedly she did something stupid with good intentions. She was instantly confused and murmured an apology to Liang Chuan.
Liang Chuan didn't feel sorry for the pound of brown sugar, so he just sold it, but the artist seemed to be showing signs of success now, and the old man wanted to show it to himself, why was that? . .
"Silly girl, don't think too much. Let's cook more today. We will gain wisdom through the experience. You will also know the market in the future."
He Baozheng came with his wife and daughter, and Fan Dianyuan and the others also brought today's sugar cane. After everything was ready, Liang Chuan and everyone were ready to start a new round of sugar cooking!
