Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 214 Fortunately, a good match
Waking up in the morning, Princess Xingnan saw that there was no familiar figure on the opposite bed, and felt disappointed in her heart. Even the maid stepped forward to serve and change the clothes, she was somewhat resistant and depressed.She had a lot to say to Shen Zhezi last night, but she fell asleep until late at night, but she still didn't see Shen Zhezi returning to her room, and she still didn't see anyone when she woke up.

"The Lord didn't go back to his room last night, so he must be busy with something." The maid was pushed away by the princess, she dared not go forward, and replied cautiously.

"Change my shirt, I'm going to see what he's up to!"

As time goes on, although she is ashamed to admit it, this girl is becoming more and more dependent on Shen Zhezi.With her experience at this age, she still doesn't know how to express this affection, but she just hopes to get more attention.

After waking up and cleaning my face, I went out to inquire. Princess Xingnan soon came to the courtyard where Shen Zhezi was staying. Just about to walk in, Liu Chang hurried from the corridor and stopped the princess: "Princess, please stay, Mr. When he was resting, he ordered that no one should enter the room until he woke up."

The princess was stopped in front of the door, she frowned even deeper, and asked, "What is he doing?"

"My servant really doesn't know, it should be an extremely urgent matter, Mr. Lang was so busy last night that he didn't rest until the end of the hour." Liu Chang replied respectfully.

Hearing this, the princess no longer forced her way inside, but told Liu Chang: "If he wakes up, please let me know."

Leaving this small courtyard, Princess Xingnan felt a bit tangled.Yesterday, Shen Zhezi took revenge for her and took her to search other people's houses. This made her happy and moved, and she could also feel Shen Zhezi's indulgence and accommodating towards her.But looking at herself, she didn't know how to respond.

This feeling of being at a loss made the little girl feel quite disappointed, and she was ashamed to ask others about her thoughts. Although "The Commandments for Women" was copied very well, it really didn't talk about husband and wife going to loot other houses together and returning home. What should the wife do to thank her husband.

Returning to the room with such a tangled mood, the princess sat in the room and was still thinking about this issue.Unknowingly, more than half an hour has passed, Liu Chang came hurriedly from the door, stood in front of the room and said: "Your Majesty has woken up, please share breakfast with the princess."

Since you can't think of it, don't think about it for now, and you may understand it later.

The princess was not used to embarrassing herself too much. After hearing Liu Chang's report, her mood improved, and she put the problem behind her. Only then did she realize that the sun had risen high, and she had been sitting withered for most of the morning. .

Arriving at the small courtyard where Shen Zhezi lived, the princess walked into the room. Before she could speak, she saw Shen Zhezi sitting behind the food table holding a small bamboo tube nearly half a foot in his hand. There are many porcelain cups and cups filled with grains as white as frost and snow.

"Princess, come and have a look. You have never seen this kind of new and interesting thing in the garden before?"

Shen Zhezi waved to the princess with a smile, holding the hot bamboo tube with bamboo chopsticks, pointing to the snow-white sugar in the cup and saucer, and said, showing off.

The princess looked surprised after hearing the words. She was very curious and liked new and interesting things the most. Dang Shi hurried to sit down opposite Shen Zhezi. : "Where did you get the frost and snow in the hot summer?"

Shen Zhezi looked even more proud after hearing the words. In order to make this thing, he couldn't sleep well last night.When the bamboo tube was getting colder, I used chopsticks to pick apart the ribbon tied outside, and then the bamboo tube was separated from the middle, revealing the steaming white rice inside.Then he picked up the sugar in another small cup, sprinkled it evenly on the rice, and pushed it in front of the princess: "Taste it."

Seeing this scene, the princess was even more surprised. After seeing Shen Zhezi's encouraging eyes, she hesitated a little and put some rice into her mouth. She chewed and tasted it, and her eyes lit up: "Shen Zhezi, how did you make such a sweet and delicious rice cake?" sweet food?"

"You can eat more if it's delicious."

Shen Zhezi laughed out loud when he heard the words, feeling more and more that the material life of the people at that time was poor, and the rice dumplings in white sugar and bamboo tubes that cost two yuan each in later generations even made a princess full of praise.He has tasted this way of eating just now, it is indeed delicious and sweet, a rare meal.

The princess would not restrain herself in front of Shen Zhezi. After hearing the words, she picked up a big piece of rice with bamboo chopsticks, ate the rice without turning her heels, and pointed to another bundled bamboo tube on the table.Shen Zhezi opened it for her again, sprinkled sugar and handed it over.

It wasn't until the princess asked for the third bamboo tube that Shen Zhezi reached out to stop it: "Even if it's a good meal, don't overeat, how can the internal organs bear it!"

Hearing this, the princess felt a little bloated, but she couldn't bear the glutinous, sweet and delicious taste. She licked the rice grains stuck to the corners of her lips, rubbed her stomach lightly and whispered: "I'll eat another one or half, okay?" good?"

"No, tomorrow, you have eaten too much today."

There are more than four taels of rice in a bamboo tube, and this way of eating is not easy to digest.Shen Zhezi ignored the princess's begging, poured her a cup of sour plum soup, and said with a smile: "Now you know the benefits of coming to my house? If you go to another house, how can you enjoy this kind of delicacy."

"Yes, yes!"

The princess nodded her head again and again, her eyes were still cruising on the white sugar, while relishing the sweet taste, she said to Shen Zhezi solemnly: "Shen Zhezi, you are really one, one... well, I don't know what to say... ..."

"Do you think that I am the only good husband in the world? Do you feel that I have a unique vision, a discerning eye, and a good match?"

It was rare for Shen Zhezi to be in a good mood when things went so smoothly. Seeing the princess's clumsy expression, he asked with a smile.

Hearing this, the princess felt even more shy in her heart, hiccupped suddenly, her pretty face flushed immediately, she took a sip of the plum soup, then lowered her head, and said in a low voice, "If you say that, then... you always He is more eloquent than me."

After breakfast, the princess stayed by Shen Zhezi's side, wanting to see how Shen Zhezi made that sweet seasoning.

The sugar making technique is actually not complicated, especially what Shen Zhezi used was semi-finished brown sugar, and many of the previous time-consuming and labor-intensive processes had already been completed.As long as the brown sugar is melted and then boiled into a thick syrup, decolorized with a decolorizing agent, air-dried and condensed, it will naturally become white sugar.

The key process lies in the choice of decolorizing agent. Shen Zhezi doesn't know which one is better. During the experiment yesterday, he and the craftsmen tried all kinds of agents together. Anyway, they are not precious materials, such as yellow mud, Lime water and various crushed charcoal.

After these materials are decolorized, the syrup is clarified and baked, dehydrated to a certain concentration, and then cooled and refrigerated to obtain relatively high-purity sugar cubes relatively quickly.If you don't rush the time, the sugar crystals will be precipitated by natural air drying. The principle is similar to that of salt production. It is a very simple physical change.

The white granulated sugar Shen Zhezi and the princess ate first, after this treatment, the white sugar was melted again, and the syrup was sieved with egg whites. The purity of the white sugar obtained was extremely high, and it could be eaten directly. .

Shen Zhezi brought the curious princess into the tightly sealed backyard. When he saw the craftsmen pouring the burnt mud into a tile drain, and the other tile drains that had been poured earlier ooze out impurities with the mud, The white icing had gradually condensed on the top, and the princess immediately changed her face, and pulled Shen Zhezi's sleeve and said, "I ate the sweet food before, and I used this mud to pour it out?"

Seeing that the girl was already nauseous, Shen Zhezi couldn't help sighing, eating really can't get to the bottom of it, if this girl sees his "nitrification officials" going in and out of the toilet every day to scrape the frost on the wall, I'm afraid she won't eat it overnight I have to spit it out.

"Don't worry, the white sugar we eat is not made in this way."

Under the current conditions, decolorization of yellow mud is actually a cost-effective method. The process is simple and white sugar can be obtained directly, but the taste is slightly inferior. Shen Zhezi regards it as a low-end product.

Considering the little girl's acceptance, Shen Zhezi took her directly to the place where the bone charcoal was used to decolorize.The current bone charcoal has not yet been applied to the field of decolorization. It is mostly used as a desiccant when it is successfully fired.

Bone charcoal decolorization is more complicated than yellow mud, and it needs to go through several sieves. The egg white is clarified, but its ability to absorb impurities and decolorize is much better than that of mud, and the quality of the obtained sugar is also very high.And the tailings are more suitable for reprocessing to make brown sugar that can be eaten directly.Shen Zhezi does not plan to mass-produce until he finds a better way to reduce costs, and only produces a part for his own use or as a gift for others.

The boiling of white sugar is much smoother than Shen Zhezi imagined. As long as a stable source of supply is found, a large amount can be put into production immediately.At that time, people were addicted to sweetness, white sugar was cold in nature, and brown sugar was warm in nature. They were all products with great market prospects.It is conceivable that once it is introduced into the market, it will definitely be more popular and sought after than tofu, which has a bland taste.

Everything Shen Zhezi did was to mobilize people's funds and gather people's power to support the future Northern Expedition.Otherwise, based on his family background and power, he is already doomed to be mediocre and enterprising, and he will be rich and honored all his life, so there is really no need to do these things anymore.In the current complex and fragile situation, any radical move will lead to strong backlash. Although there are many twists and turns in this roundabout way, it has finally been managed by him a little bit.

In the next few days, the atmosphere around Zhou City in Yuhang was not peaceful. Around the manor alone, the Shen family found many suspicious snoopers, probably trying to help the Lin family out of the siege.But Shen Zhezi dared to use such a strong method, so he didn't have the confidence. His family in Yuhang has gathered hundreds of songs here, and at the same time, every family in Yuhang also sent people to support. A large group of people, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to break through the manor.

Ten days later, Shen Chong personally led [-] soldiers from Kuaiji County to the north and arrived in Yuhang. This made those who wanted to rescue the Lin family completely give up their plans to use force, and then began to visit the door one after another, hoping to negotiate to get the Lin family from the Shen family manor. fish out.

　Seeing that some book friends questioned the situation of the Shen family just like this, this kind of bullying to dominate the market and collusion between officials and businessmen was not an isolated case at that time. Many people were officials and monopolized a place.The Shen family already has the strength to be the leader of Wuzhong, and is also the leader of the business alliance. If they are modest to the Lin family, they will be questioned for their weakness.At present, in fact, the situation in many places also has this ancient charm.

　　
　
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