Huo Xi took a bath, cleaned up, and then cooled down. When Yang Fu called out, she rushed out.
At first glance, the top layer of the mold is snow-white.
I couldn't help but feel overjoyed.
He and Yang Fu carried it into the house. Huo Erhuai and Yang's eyes widened and they couldn't bear to move away.
Without Huo Xi having to do anything, the couple dismantled the wooden mold, turned the sugar brick upside down, carefully removed the gauze at the bottom, and flipped the sugar brick over onto a piece of white paper.
"Sister, what is this?"
Uh... isn't this little boy asleep?
Seeing Huo Xi staring at Huo Nian, everyone also looked at him, and in the excitement they forgot about this little boy.
Huo Nian blinked and looked at this and that: "Mom, what is this?"
Yang didn't know how to answer him, so she just looked at Huo Xi.
"Be good, can you go to sleep?"
"No, you all woke me up. I heard you all, you talked about sweets, and you secretly ate sweets behind my back!" Everyone secretly ate sweets while he was sleeping without telling him, hum.
Huo Xi had a headache, and when she saw him pouting a little aggrieved, she felt a little soft-hearted.
"We bought some other candies, but if you promise sister not to tell others, I will give them to you. If you tell others that we have other candies, you might not be able to see your parents, sister, and uncle.
Already."
"Why can't I see my parents, sisters, and uncle?"
"Because no one has it, only our family has it. Then everyone wants it. If everyone comes to grab it, if we can't grab it, they will arrest us and force us to take it. Won't you not be able to see us?"
Huo Nian jumped up: "I won't say it!"
After he finished speaking, he was a little angry, feeling that no one believed him. He pouted and looked at everyone one by one: "Sister is my sister, I didn't even tell Brother Gong!"
"Mother knows, mother knows, we Nian'er are the most well-behaved, how could we talk about it everywhere." Mrs. Yang couldn't see that he was sad, so she held him in her arms to comfort him.
Huo Nian tilted his head and looked at Huo Xi with a stubborn look.
Huo Xi had no choice but to coax him gently: "Sister knows that our Nian'er is a good boy, but Nian'er is the most tight-lipped. He doesn't tell anyone about the things that everyone is not allowed to say. We, Nian'er, are good children."
Nian'er just snorted and felt comfortable.
Seeing that he was comforted, Huo Xi looked at the candy brick again.
The top layer, about one-third, is the most snow-white, and then successively decreases to yellow-white, yellow, and brown. The bottom layer is black residue, with some impurities and sugarcane shavings.
"Uncle, bring me the bamboo knife we made."
Yang Fu hurriedly looked for the bamboo knife.
Huo Xi directed him to divide the sugar brick into several small square bricks, then used a bamboo knife to cut off the top sugar brick, cut it into two knuckle-sized pieces of sugar, and then rolled a small piece with paper.
Sugar cubes are crushed into powder.
I picked up a handful and put it into my mouth. I rolled my tongue and it was sweet without any impurities. I was very pleasantly surprised.
I gave Huo Nian some and fed it to him. It was so sweet that his eyes lit up.
He cut a few more white sugar cubes for everyone to taste, and everyone nodded in praise. He took a piece and diluted it in water. Seeing that the color of the water did not change, Yang shouted with joy: "It's still white!"
"Mom, Nian'er wants to drink."
After feeding him a few mouthfuls, Pi Xiaozi laughed and said, "It tastes good."
After Pi Xiaozi drank the sugar water, he looked around for a while, and then Yang and Huo Erhuai coaxed him to wash up and go to sleep.
Yang Fu and Huo Xi were left to discuss.
"Xi'er, it's done! Both of these methods will work." Yang Fu was very excited. This is a unique business, and he is going to make a lot of money!
Huo Xi nodded: "Boiling the brown sugar will cause some loss, but this method is convenient. It can produce white sugar bricks, which are also convenient to grind into fine white sugar. If you don't boil the brown sugar, you will get irregular white sugar."
"Then let's boil the brown sugar."
"Let most of it boil." At this time, the sugar bricks are easy to store.
After that, he picked up the candy cubes of other colors and looked at them carefully: "We have to do multiple rounds of showering. Rinse the ones that are not white in color multiple times. Otherwise, if we only shower them once, we won't get much white sugar."
Yang Fu nodded in agreement.
After practicing the sugar, they were very happy. They put the sugar in a porcelain jar, talked some more, and then fell asleep.
After the whole family was asleep, Gan San jumped out and ducked into the house. After a while, he ducked out again and the others jumped up and ran towards the city.
The next day it was white and Mu Yan woke up. After washing himself, Li Yi and Kan Er handed him a small package of things wrapped in paper.
"Master, let's take a look. This is what I got from my third party last night."
"You came back from work three last night? Why didn't you call me?"
"It's rare for the young master to have a good night's sleep without being disturbed."
Li Yikan Er didn't wake him up, so it didn't seem to be a big deal. But he put Gan San next to the little liar, and Gan San came back, and he couldn't help but be a little curious.
He took the thing from Li Yi's hand and opened the paper: "What is this?" White, piece by piece?
"Master, break off a piece and try it." Kan Er urged him. He and Li Yi both tasted it and were so shocked that they didn't sleep well all night.
Mu Yan glanced at them suspiciously: "Can it be eaten? Have you tried it?"
Kan Er nodded: "I gave it to the young master after I tasted it."
Mu Yan broke off a piece and put it into his mouth. As soon as he took a breath, his eyes widened and he looked at the thing in his hand.
"Master, are you surprised? Qian San said it was Miss Huo who made it, and it's called Baitang."
Mu Yan sat on the chair and looked at the things in his hands in surprise.
He knew that she had made a profit by exchanging 10,000 jins of fire and saltpeter for 10,000 jins of sucrose without doing useless work, but the profit was not much.
In addition, the gift she gave was actually a waste of money.
He wondered how she could do such a loss-making business when she wanted to treat Wu Youcai, so he asked Qian San to follow him to see what happened, but he didn't expect that she was actually making white sugar!
Unheard, unseen.
Mu Yan stared at the white candy in his hand in trance.
"Master?"
Mu Yan came back to his senses, with a stern look on his face, and ordered: "You two send a message to Qian San, asking him to continue to follow her until she gets rid of this batch of sugar."
"yes."
"Also, send a message to Ji Laozhuang and ask him to keep an eye on the village. People waiting around should not go near the main courtyard. Don't talk too much and don't ask too many questions. If there is any movement from her side, come and report it as soon as possible."
"yes."
After walking down the hill twice, Mu Yan still didn't get up, so he took another piece of candy and put it in his mouth, his thoughts flowing.
This little liar actually made such a thing, didn't he know that he was guilty? How was she going to get rid of these things? She frowned.
When Huo Xi woke up early in the morning, she still felt a little unreal. Did she really practice white sugar yesterday?
I hurriedly looked at the sugar in the jar and opened the cork. Hey, wasn't it full yesterday?
Did I remember it wrong? Or did my mother use it to coax Huo Nian?
He screwed the cork back on and put it back without paying much attention. He stared at the jar for a long time, and the smile on his face became bigger and bigger.
She has mastered the sugar. Once she has mastered it all, she will exchange it for money, a lot of money, to buy land and a shop!
After washing up, she saw that she was the only one in the house. Her father and uncle went to the city to pull things, and her mother went for a walk in the village. Nian'er, a little brat, had gone somewhere wild early in the morning.
After eating the breakfast left by my mother, I went out to see Ji Laozhuang leading people to build a shed.
At noon, Huo Erhuai and Yang Fu brought ten large iron pots back, and they also brought a message to Huo Xi.