Chapter 182 Making Snow-White Sugar
It was just that it was hard to say whether the Pingyang Marquisate could bear the credit. But my father had already written a memorial to explain the situation, and the emperor also knew the origin of the crossbow, so he couldn't change his mind.
I hope that after this battle, Qi Zi will go back and not cause any more trouble. The silver mine of the King of Qi has not been found yet, even though the prince sent people to follow the clues, there is still no clue.
This shows how deeply he hid this matter.
If he really wanted to investigate, his Wanwan would have a way, but he would not let her do it. Exposing too much would eventually be a hidden danger.
He just wanted to return to Liangjun City as soon as possible, ask his mother to come and propose marriage, and marry Wanwan as soon as possible.
After several months of relying on each other, the relationship between Du Xiaoer and Ye Tingxiao became stronger and stronger. Several times, Ye Tingxiao sent it out to complete tasks, and it completed them successfully.
He would usually go to the mountains to fetch wild chickens and rabbits for him to eat, and of course, he also gave it a lot of his spiritual spring water. The man and the wolf snuggled together, looking very harmonious.
Capital city.
The emperor received the military report and learned that the enemy had been driven back to his hometown. He was very happy. In the morning court, he specially praised the father and son of Pingyang Marquis, because they painstakingly made the crossbow. Otherwise, it would take a long time to defeat the enemy.
The King of Qi was very angry when he heard this, because his silver disappeared in Liangjun City.
No one knows how the person who stole the silver ingots managed to evade the surveillance of a group of delivery people and a group of consignees and replaced the silver ingots with mud and sand.
It was really stupid that the two groups of people didn't notice that the silver ingots had been swapped.
Why was this confirmed so quickly?
In fact, we have to thank the sand in the box. A pile of sand in the village of Liang County disappeared for no reason. When the box was opened, it was found that the sand was packed in a box and transported back to the capital.
His people were extremely cautious in everything they did, and would report any unusual incidents to higher authorities. The pile of sand on the Liang County manor disappeared overnight, which was also a strange thing.
The person in charge sent a pigeon to report it, and it just so happened that the silver ingots in the box had been replaced with sand. When the two were compared, everything was self-evident.
The silver ingot must have been lost in Liangjun City. Why and how it was lost is difficult to explain in a few words.
Everyone in the village was questioned, and no one heard anything unusual, nor did anything unusual happen. So how did the thief replace the silver ingots with sand?
The silver bills that should have been sent to the capital also disappeared. They were exchanged at Baofeng Money House, which was thousands of miles away from the capital.
The people over there didn't know the situation and directly exchanged all the silver. By the time he received the news, it was too late.
Ever since he married Yang Yurong, the daughter of the Minister of Rites, nothing had gone smoothly for him. At this moment, he really regretted marrying her. This woman was a jinx.
The Pingyang Marquis's Mansion is the Prince's helper, and the capital's faction is not very capable, so it would be useless even if they were won over. This time, the Pingyang Marquis and his son created a magical weapon, and they were valued by their father, the emperor, and their worth would definitely double.
Originally he thought that snatching Ye Tingxiao's fiancée would be able to deal a blow to the prince, but it turned out to have the opposite effect, the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion was further promoted, and the prince's support became even stronger.
After returning to the palace, the King of Qi entered the study, wrote a note, handed it to the eunuch beside him, and instructed: "Send it over there."
The father-in-law nodded, went out immediately, went to the pigeon coop, caught a carrier pigeon, rolled the note into a long strip, stuffed it into the bamboo tube tied to the pigeon's feet, and threw it into the air.
With the sound of wings flapping the air, the pigeon instantly rushed into the sky and turned into a black dot.
Du Wanwan spent her days seeing patients day after day. Summer came in a blink of an eye, and people from Lijia Village sent her a lot of medicinal herbs.
She made a lot of herbal tea and placed it at the entrance of the People's Clinic. Anyone who wanted to drink it could come and get a bowl. If the people needed to make it themselves, she was also responsible for teaching everyone how to pick herbs and how to make it.
Knowing that drinking herbal tea can prevent heat stroke, the people are very grateful. The rich buy a few bags of herbs to boil at home, while the poor go out to collect herbs and boil them.
The army also got Du Wanwan's herbal tea recipe, and the military doctors prepared it for all the soldiers. To be honest, there are people who die from heat stroke every year, so it is a good thing to be able to take precautions as early as possible.
The business at Du Wenjun's farm is already on the right track. According to Du Wanwan's arrangement, the house has been built, with a courtyard with two entrances in one row and two entrances in another.
They are uniformly planned and neatly arranged, and three wells have been dug for everyone's convenience.
The old soldiers on the village were so excited that they didn't care even if they had to rent the house.
The rent is so low that it’s almost as if they don’t have any money. They know in their hearts that this is just a symbolic rent to tell them that they are not living in the house for free.
The winery run by Kang Dawei and his people has purified the wine and started selling it to major restaurants in Liangjun City. The sales volume is very impressive and the demand is almost insufficient to meet the supply.
He asked a few of his trusted men to follow Du Wenjun to learn the last skill of distilling liquor, and they knelt down and swore that once they had learned the technology, they would work on the farm for the rest of their lives and not pass it on to others, otherwise they would be charged with treason.
Several people knew that this was an extremely important way to make money, so they naturally did not dare to spread it casually. They were all experienced men in the army and knew that Du Wenjun treated them well.
Not only did he provide them with food and clothing, he also built them a nice blue brick and tile house. In this life, they can live in peace until old age, which is a great blessing for them to meet such a kind-hearted person as Mr. Du.
Everyone raised their hands and swore that the distillation skills would never be leaked to anyone.
Du Wenjun was very satisfied and asked Kang Dawei to find a few reliable people. He wanted to build a sugar factory. The elder sister taught him a trick to turn the dark sugar into snow-white frosting.
When his eldest sister did it, he thought she was crazy.
I bought 20 kilograms of brown sugar, threw it into the pot to boil out the sugar water, and then continuously added the water stirred by red mud into the pot.
Not only was he confused at the time, but their father was also confused, and asked anxiously: "Wanwan! Why did you ruin such a good candy?"
Mother was more sensible. She asked father, "When have you ever seen Wanwan from our family destroy anything? She must have her reasons for doing so. Don't ask, just watch."
He originally wanted to ask, but after hearing what his mother said, even though Du Wenjun was extremely curious, he kept his mouth shut and asked nothing.
Not long after, a miracle happened. The originally black sugar water turned into a brown color. When mud water was added into it, it slowly turned into an off-white color.
Then add a little more, and the off-white sugar water turns white.
After all the water was boiled away, the sugar in the pot began to crystallize, one grain at a time, as fine as cotton sand, and surprisingly white, so white that it could blind people's eyes.
This time, he and his parents in the kitchen were dumbfounded. They finally understood why his sister wanted to add yellow mud water to the brown sugar water. It turned out that this way they could make snow-white sugar.
(End of this chapter)
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