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Chapter 198 Family Meeting
All control the government office.

The cat is standing under the hall with a food box on its shoulders.

Chen Chu sat on the big chair behind the case, Cai Hua stood aside, tilted his head and twisted the braids with green fingers, but looked at the cat with a half-smile in his fox eyes.

Tonight, the cat is really not here to catch rape.

She just heard that the officials went back to the city in the afternoon, but she never saw anyone coming home. She was worried that Chen Chu would be too busy to eat, so she came to visit.

She didn't want to but saw Ru'er outside, and saw that the door of the hall was closed tightly, Baoxi was nervous, so she was sure that the two of them did nothing good inside!
In order to avoid rumors of making a fool of himself, Maoer made Xiao Man and Bai Lu wait outside before Maoer came in.

But the situation in the hall was beyond Mao'er's expectation. Candles were lit on the official case, and there were piles of copywriting, and the two were neatly dressed.

There is no suspicion of meddling in this majestic place at all.

The cat couldn't help drooping its eyelids, and bowed in a very dignified manner, and then said softly: "I wonder why the officials didn't go home after entering the city. It turns out that sister Cai is here."

There is no problem with the tone and manners, but there is a strong smell of vinegar in the words.

Also, after going out for many days, he didn't go home first after returning, but hung out with the cauliflower snake for the first time, it's no wonder that the cat feels better.

"When did the lady come to Caizhou? Why didn't you write to let me know in advance?"

Chen Chu really didn't know that the cat was here.

Hearing this, Mao'er raised her eyes to look at Cai Hua who was an outsider, then lowered her eyelids again, and said softly: "Mao'er came the day before yesterday, and had dinner with sister Cai's family yesterday."

"Oh?" Chen Chu couldn't help looking at Cai Wei.

"Hee hee, I'm old and have a bad memory, so I forgot to mention it."

Cai Hua laughed coquettishly.

Mao'er didn't even believe a word the woman said. She definitely didn't say anything on purpose. If I don't come tonight, I will definitely kidnap the official again!
Rain, no rain, the atmosphere is not harmonious.

"Cat, did you bring food? I just didn't eat." Chen Chu opened his mouth to resolve his embarrassment.

"Hee hee, I didn't eat it either, thank you little wild cat."

When Cai Wei heard that there was food, she walked to the cat's side in three steps at a time, and took the food box involuntarily.

"Eh"

I said let you eat it!You take it. The cat's cheeks bulged like inflated air.

At night time.

The capital controls the government office, and Chen Chu is in charge of the house.

The duty room has two rooms inside and outside, the outer room is used as a study and office, and the inner room is equipped with a bed for temporary rest.

As the officials became more and more powerful, Mao'er adhered to her duties as a woman and never intervened or interfered in Chen Chu's official affairs.

Therefore, it was the first time for her to check in this kind of confidential room.

Seeing the bookshelves full of books, Mao'er couldn't help being proud and admiring that our officials are so eager to learn, and they have hidden so many books!

Then I went up to have a look. "Dongxuanzi", "Yufang Zhiyao", "Su Nu Jing".
Hey, look at the names, why are they all Taoist works?

When did officials turn to Sanqing?
On the side, Chen Chu was taking out the food from the food box and putting it on the table.

"It's as cold as an ice cave in your value room."

Cai Wei muttered something, turned around and opened the door, and said, "Baoxi, get some wine to warm yourself up. Don't fool me with bad wine, take your lord's Wumao sword!"

Wumao Sword was named by Chen Chu casually, and it was produced in the distillery affiliated to Luliuwei Agricultural Reclamation Group.

The distillery produces a lot of high alcohol, which is used to disinfect the breeding room and wipe the wounds of the wounded.

Drinking spirits are produced in small quantities, but not marketed.

Only Chen Chu, Da Lang and others had a small amount in stock. Cai Hua tried it once, and the five-mao sword was so spicy that it cut the throat, and drinking it was like a charcoal fire into the stomach.

Although it is a bit harsh to drink, it is very effective in warming up in winter.

A while later, Baoxi brought the wine, Cai Wei took it and closed the door, only to see the cat standing in front of the bookshelf looking at something engrossed.
Cai Wei couldn't help but leaned forward curiously, looking over Mao'er's shoulder at the book in the latter's hand.

The unexpected sound rang next to his ears, and the cat threw the book in his hand in fright.

Just now she read it with a half-knowledge, but now she realizes that this is not a serious book, and her face turns red.

Seeing the cat so ashamed, Cai Hua bent down to pick up the book, dusted off the dust, and said with a smile, "Scared like this? When you got married, didn't your mother put it in the bottom of the box?"

At present, the night before a woman gets married, her mother will teach some basic software hardening knowledge, and will also press a comic book at the bottom of the dowry box.

Then Cai Hua remembered the accidental death of Mao Erniang.

"Come over for dinner." Cai Wei sat back at the table with the Dongxuanzi, saying this as an apology.

Chen Chu noticed that the atmosphere was strange, looked at the cat with its head bowed in front of the bookshelf, and didn't dare to look up, and then at Cai Wei, who was standing on the adjacent pedestal like a female hooligan, and asked strangely, "What's wrong?"

When Cai Wei, who was pouring wine, heard this, she gave Chen Chu a sideways glance, raised the books, and said contemptuously, "Everyone's study room is filled with moral articles, but you are fine, that's all."

"Uh, it's all the fault of that Rootless Daoist! He insisted on stuffing these in my study! I still can't read the art of war, how can I have time to read this!"

"Ah! Right, right."

Cai Wei lazily cooperated.

"Cat, what's going on in Zhuangzi recently?"

My wife was so ashamed that she was going to drill the ground, so Chen Chu naturally wanted to help resolve it.

After hearing the question, Mao'er hurriedly took the opportunity to adjust, walked back to the table and sat down, but the blush on her face would not dissipate for a while.

"It's nothing serious. In the twelfth lunar month, the officials let Uncle Yao feed the little flowered pig and a big black pig to give birth to eight little piglets, all of which survived."

The confused cat replied casually.

Cai Wei was right just now, because her mother left so suddenly, no one taught Maoer about the relationship between husband and wife, not only about 'educating people', but also about how husband and wife get along.

It's up to the cat to figure it out.

At this time, after listening to Cai Wei's casual remarks, I realized that my mother taught me this before she got married!

The cat couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

But when Chen Chu heard that the pig had given birth, he was very interested, "Little Hua pig? But the Lu Chuan pig that I specially sent someone to find? The black pig is our local Huai pig, right?"

"Uh, it seems to be." The cat was not too sure.

"That means the hybridization was successful!"

Chen Chu said excitedly.

Cai Wei was not interested in the news of piglets being born at all, so she picked up her wine glass and flipped through the book of Dongxuanzi boredly.

Mao'er's reaction to Chen Chu was also a little strange. Little Huazhu gave birth, and it's not that officials have children, so why are they so happy?

What they don't know is that the Luchuan pig breed, which has been bred in China for thousands of years, was brought to Europe by the British in the [-]th century and bred into the world-famous Berkshire pig.

Although Berkshire pigs with a daily gain of [-] grams cannot be bred in a short period of time, it is a beneficial attempt after all.

The purpose of choosing local Huai pigs and Luchuan pigs to crossbreed is naturally to allow piglets to have local disease resistance genes.

In addition to Luchuan pigs, there are also Licha pigs suitable for captive breeding and Jinzhai pigs suitable for free-range breeding in mountains and forests.

Under human intervention, through the crossbreeding of different varieties, there will always be a variety that is suitable for local breeding and has a high conversion rate of feed meat.

Seeing that the cat couldn't get it, Chen Chu explained: "My lady, with a good breeding pig, the cost of soap, glycerin, and candles produced by the fragrance and makeup workshop will be lower in the future."

"Officer."

The cat hurriedly made a sound, and glanced at Cai Hua warily.

Cai Wei is so smart, but she has already looked up. Lu Liuwei buys live pigs and lard every day, and the outside world only thinks that the life in the village is good, and he eats meat and meat oil every day.

But Cai Wei, who spent all day in Luliuxu last year, has long noticed that the products of Yunong Xiangzhuang have a lot to do with lard.

It sounds outrageous to make soap from lard, but Cai Wei knows what soap is, but what is glycerin?Can I still make candles?

Besides, I have never seen Luliuxu sell candles outside!

Chen Chu didn't mean to slip the tongue, he knew how much Cai Wei had sacrificed, and felt that there was no need to hide everything from her.

After all, even Yu Nong knows about these things.

"Little wild cat, what is glycerin?"

Cai Hua deliberately asked Mao'er.

Mao'er also saw what the official meant, and after a little pondering, said: "In our Huizhi Lanxin's secret face cream and milk bath, there are glycerin ingredients in it, which can make people's skin supple and shiny."

"Oh, so the secret of the secret face cream is here! What about the candle?"

"Uh, the candle hasn't been officially produced yet."

'Wax', like glycerin, is also an add-on produced when lard is refined into soap.

After saponification of lard, the remaining fishy and turbid suspension is filtered and simply distilled to become glycerin.

Some time ago, a worker accidentally poured brine into the suspension waiting for filtration and distillation. Hanlu from the management workshop was reluctant to throw it away. Glossy lumps of yellow wax.

After wrapping it in cotton thread, it burns steadily without any smoke.

Mao'er immediately wrote to Chen Chu.

At that time, Chen Chu pondered for a long time, using his nearly forgotten chemical knowledge to figure it out. The brine contains magnesium chloride, which decomposes into hydrogen chloride under the action of high temperature.

Hydrogen chloride dissolves in water to form hydrochloric acid.

When lard meets hydrochloric acid, wax is formed.
Anyway, whether or not this is the case, but the wax did come out in this way.

After a period of exploration and improvement, the candle samples produced in the workshop are now bright and yellowish, with very little smoke, and are of better quality than paraffin wax and insect wax on the market.

Nowadays, there are more oil lamps in people's homes, and a foot-long candle can easily start with hundreds of coins.

The cost of Luliuxu's candles is the waste liquid left after making soap, and it is a business with no capital and no profit.

Although Maoer told Cai Wei that Luliuxu can produce candles, he played a cautious role and didn't say the specific method.

The officials didn't want to hide it from Cai Wei. I told her that candles could be produced in Zhuangzi, and I wasn't guarding against her. The main reason was that she hadn't entered our house yet.

Mao'er glanced at the official, thinking that the latter would understand her.

After talking about it briefly, Maoer thought of the question of 'pig' again, "Officer, do you mean that Uncle Yao can raise pigs that grow fast and save money?"

"you can say it this way"

Chen Chu thought for a while, but then talked about the difficulties in expanding the pig herd in Caizhou. One was the problem of feed, and the other was that they could not be raised intensively to prevent diseases.

Mao'er, who was eager to relieve the official's worries, thought for a while, but said: "Officer, we can open an oil plant workshop in Caizhou to get some soybean meal and rapeseed dregs. We can also open a 'shark fin' workshop here. The sweet potato dregs left by vermicelli”

Cai Wei's mind was no longer on Dongxuanzi, and when she heard this, she suddenly interjected, "Sweet potato residue? Who will eat it!"

"It's not for you! If you don't eat it, pigs will!"

The cat yelled at Cai Hua, who didn't know much about farming, and then said to Chen Chu: "As for raising pigs, you can distribute the piglets to our sergeant's family members. With soybean meal and sweet potato dregs, their families will pluck some pigweed and wait for the pigs to raise them." When they grow up, we will give them supplementary money according to their weight."

It is also a way, so that there is no need to worry about the disease problem of centralized breeding, and it can also provide an income for the family members of the sergeants. It is a bit similar to the cooperative model of providing seedlings and targeted buybacks for later generations.

Raising pigs is indeed beyond the scope of Cai Wei's knowledge, but she was upset when she saw the cat's small mouth and the serious appearance of a virtuous woman. Send it to someone, but the next day they will be killed to eat meat, and then I will tell you that the piggy died of illness, what do you do!"

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Mao'er, who was immersed in the excitement of discussing major issues with the officials, choked for a moment. What Cai Wei said was not impossible!

But, being choked by her, naturally he couldn't admit defeat face to face, "You think the people in the world are as greedy as a landlady like you!"

Cai Hua squinted her eyes, raised her hand and threw the Dongxuanzi over.

Maoer picked it up with a quick hand, and then thought of something wrong with the book, and threw it aside as if it was burning his hands.

Seeing this, Cai Hua giggled, and suddenly leaned over the table, looked at Chen Chu mischievously, and then whispered to the cat: "Little wild cat, do you want to come here tonight?" Want to play with your cat teaser?"

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The cat flickered its long eyelashes, and didn't understand what Cai Hua meant for a moment.

"puff"

Chen Chu spat out the wine in one gulp.

Funny. What the hell are you talking about?

Child time, late at night.

Tonight's family meeting still discussed a lot of topics, but in the end, the natural enemy attributes between cats and snakes were still not suppressed.

The two have escalated from bickering to fighting over wine.

"Five chiefs!"

"Liu Liu Shun!"

"Drink! You lost again, little wild cat!"

Hey, Maoer didn't know if he was dizzy with anger. After being provoked by Cai Wei, he fought Cai Wei with the punching method he had just learned.

Mao'er's eyes were blurred, and he couldn't sit still on the seat. His little face was blushing, and he looked pitifully at Chen Chu, who was also drunk.

Cai Wei, who was drunk together, turned her legs up and said immediately: "Don't let him do it again! He's drinking a bottle for you!"

The drunk cat has learned to play tricks, "This is my official. Why can't you replace me? You are not convinced. Also. Find an official!"

Cai Wei, who originally wanted to tease the cat and let the cat go, heard this, walked forward with a glass, stretched out her arms to clamp the cat's head, pinched the latter's chin, and held the wine glass with the other hand. Go up, "Hee hee, little beauty, come and have another drink with the uncle!"

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Outside the door, Baoxi, who was on guard at night, shrank his neck. What's going on with the adults!

It wasn't until midnight that the room gradually subsided.

back room.

Drunk three rolled into a ball.

The little bit of consciousness remaining in the cat felt that someone was helping her undress, and her eyelids were too heavy to open, so she closed her eyes and said vaguely: "Officer."

Afterwards, Mao'er felt someone gently kiss her on the cheek, but a drunken and charming female voice sounded next to her ears, "Hee hee, little wild cat, here's a tease for you."

(End of this chapter)