The guests this time were brought by the bearded village chief himself, and they came from the neighboring village.
The leader was a man with a yellow beard. He spread out his hand and let Chu Beichen look at what was in his palm. It was a dirty sugar cube, which looked like it had changed hands countless times.
"Chu, did you make this precious candy?" Yellow Beard looked at Chu Beichen with hope.
Chu Beichen shook his head, "I brought this from my hometown!"
"Then do you know how to make this candy?" Yellow Beard compromised.
Chu Beichen understood the other party's intention. They came to him to process sugar.
The bearded village chief coughed and explained to Chu Beichen, "They have sugar radishes growing in their village. They're very sweet, so they'd like you to help them boil the sugar out of them and process them into this shape!"
Chu Beichen smiled, "I do know how to make candy, but it's a little difficult to make it look like this!"
Chu Beichen only knows how to make rock sugar and brown sugar using traditional processing methods. As for this kind of sugar cubes, they require machinery and equipment on an assembly line to make them.
Yellow Beard was very happy when he heard this. "You just need to help us make the candy. Now we can only boil the sugared radish into a thicker syrup!"
Chu Beichen nodded and agreed to help the other party make candy cubes.
Yellow Beard was very sincere. He first invited Su Nian and Chu Beichen to visit his village.
Su Nian and Chu Beichen also saw the so-called sugar beet man. According to their observations, this thing looks similar to a beet.
The way people in Huang Huzi's village use beets is to cut them into pieces and boil them. After boiling and distilling, they can get a thicker syrup. However, syrup is still syrup, and there are many restrictions on whether it can be carried or eaten.
Chu Beichen agreed to teach them how to make rock sugar. It was not difficult to make rock sugar under the existing conditions.
The villagers sent Yellow Beard to Chu Beichen's house to learn. Of course, as raw materials, Yellow Beard brought several large barrels of syrup.
The most important thing in making rock sugar is to add oil and alum.
Oil is easy to get. Chu Beichen has it at home. It is obtained by Su Nian by boiling the fat from the prey.
When the syrup was almost cooked, Chu Beichen added oil and alum into the pot, and continued to stir it for a while. Then he poured the syrup into the wooden barrel, covered the barrel with animal skin, and placed it on the fireplace to bake. After the temperature rose, the barrel could be moved from the fireplace to the side.
Chu Beichen explained to Huang Huzi how to heat the wooden barrel, and told Huang Huzi that the syrup in the barrel would crystallize within seven days, so he must not lift the hide to check, and then asked Huang Huzi to come back after seven days to check on the rock sugar.
Huang Huzi memorized the key points of the production process, then gave all the remaining syrup to Chu Beichen before going home.
Chu Beichen prepared all the remaining syrups in the same way and baked them together by the fireplace.
Seven days later, Yellow Beard arrived and brought several villagers with him.
Chu Beichen opened the barrel in front of them, revealing white crystals covering the barrel walls. He broke off a piece for them to taste. The villagers were all surprised. It turned out that in just seven days, the syrup had encountered oil and alum, crystallizing into rock sugar.
The group of people led by Yellow Beard cheered happily. They felt that Chu Beichen had helped them a lot and solved the important technical problem of syrup being difficult to turn into sugar cubes. In order to thank Chu Beichen, they gave Chu Beichen and his wife a large amount of syrup and even sugar radish seeds.
Now, with the help of Chu Beichen and his wife, the villagers in the cedar forest area can eat sugar, wheat flour and cheese. Everyone generally feels that the food is not so monotonous anymore and there are many more delicious foods.
After receiving everyone's praise, Chu Beichen continued to work hard, found plant seeds that could be used to extract oil, and simply made an oil press.
The bearded village chief's home could no longer accommodate the technical patents, so he took the young hunters in the village and built a new wooden house in the wind and snow. He placed the oil press and stone mill inside, so that the villagers could enter the cabin and process their own raw materials when needed.
At this time, Su Nian and Chu Beichen discovered that the villagers still lacked too many things. For example, they had an oil press but no container to store the oil.
If you want to store oil and wine, the simplest container is pottery, which is easy to make and learn.
Chu Beichen persuaded the bearded village chief and led the villagers to find clay in the cedar forest. Then they began to dig kilns, make simple pottery and fire it.
The first pottery Chu Beichen made was bowls and jars.
The utensils people use nowadays are limited to wooden bowls and stone bowls, and these two types of bowls can only hold limited things.
But it is different with ceramic bowls and pots. Almost all ingredients are suitable for holding them.
When the pottery bowls and jars came out of the kiln, the villagers who had come to watch cheered excitedly when they saw them.
The village chief hugged Chu Beichen excitedly. This was the fourth important invention made by Chu Beichen.
Chu Beichen was very calm. He told the village chief that the clay underground was not inexhaustible, so the production of pottery bowls and pots must be controlled, and these things could not be taken out for exchange. Once the villagers were allowed to take them out for exchange, someone would steal this technology for profit.
Chu Beichen doesn't care about any technological patents. He just doesn't want the world's resources to be wasted too quickly and repeat the mistakes of the Earth.
The bearded village chief now obeys Chu Beichenchen's orders and does whatever he says.
The weather is getting colder, and we have to keep the fire burning in the house to keep the temperature up, so the wood is used up very quickly.
Su Nian and Chu Beichen were surprised to find that the snow on their roof had frozen into thick ice.
It turns out that the owners of other cabins would regularly remove snow and defrost from their roofs, but only pseudo-farmers like Su Nian and Chu Beichen didn't know this detail.
The couple felt very ashamed and shoveled off the thick snow and ice on the roof before the cabin shook.
After clearing the snow, Chu Beichen continued to reinforce and repair the entire cabin.
Now the family’s storage is more abundant than ever before, and Su Nian and Chu Beichen are ready to face the coming of the heavy snowstorm.
Just at this time, the two of them heard from the villagers that a herd of wild horses had come to the cedar forest.
Chu Beichen is a real horse racing enthusiast. Originally, when he saw the villagers driving sleds pulled by red deer, he thought there were no wild horses in this place. Now after hearing the news, he cheered and immediately went to check the traces of the wild horses and try to bring back two.
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