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Chapter 1243 Cheng Sanlang declined his father’s excessive demands (please subscribe and vote)
People from all over the country started to set off one after another. As royal courtesans, they were the best tool men of the Tang Dynasty.
No matter whether the other party is male or female, Li Ke can handle it, so Cheng Chubi naturally doesn't need to worry about it now.
No matter how late Cheng Chubi is, he will have to rush back to Shuzhou tomorrow because Li Ke has already sent someone to summon him.
The news has been received, and all the remaining wolf leaders will arrive tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
Whether it's Mengza, the leader of Songzhou, or Luneng, the leader of Xuezhou, these two are the ones who sing the big show.
Mengza, the leader of the Song Dynasty, was originally the second-ranking figure among the Luzhou tribes, and his strength was second only to the Tieshan tribe.
This veteran driver was scheming and a man with a hidden smile, but his father specifically told Cheng Chubi.
Don't look at this old man for his scheming, but there is no point in it. The older you get, the less courage you get.
The other one is Xue Zhou Luneng. In the words of his father, this guy is the second Tieshan Luneng.
He is also very unruly and unruly. Of course, in front of his biological father, he behaves like a gray grandson. However, this Xue Zhouliu, who is only in his thirties, is very ambitious.
If the Luzhou gangsters want to cause trouble, or want to pervert some evil moth, they will most likely be these two guys.
In the words of my own father, the easiest way to conquer those beasts is to conquer those two beasts. The others are just fagots.
As for how to convince him specifically, his father only told Cheng Sanlang that people are not scholars, and their plots and tricks are not as good as those scholars.
Anyway, you can just act according to your own needs. Do you think you want me, your biological father, to disguise yourself and go to Luzhou to serve as your advisor?
At that time, Cheng Chubi wanted to remind his own father that it was not impossible.
However, after seeing his father's eyes glaring as if he wanted to eat someone, Cheng Chubi, who has a humble and filial personality, took into consideration the work situation of his father's generation.
After politely declining his father's excessive request, he finally withdrew the fist of father's love that almost fell on him.
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"I have a headache..." Cheng Chubi rubbed his head and couldn't help but sigh.
Lying on the bamboo lounge chair with his legs crossed, there was a teapot beside him.
Inside a crystal cup specially brought by Cheng Chubi, the color of the slightly green tea soup was particularly attractive.
Fang Jun also had a cup like this in his hand. At this moment, the second young master Fang was taking deep breaths into the teacup in his hand.
"Brother Chu Bi, it smells so good. I feel like I smell, um, the smell of spring..."
Hearing this, Cheng Chubi almost became happy and turned his head to look at Brother Jun.
"It seems that there is no harm in letting you follow me to Shuzhong. Look at you now, you are almost good at writing poems."
"..." Fang Jun heard this obviously ridiculing statement, glared at Brother Chu Bi unhappily, and then took a small sip.
Putting the slightly hot tea into his lips and slowly swallowing it, Fang Jun felt that his throat was very comfortable and lubricated.
"Brother Chu Bi, don't tell me, I didn't expect the green tea you made to taste really special.
But why does it feel like it’s not only sweet but also has a bit of astringency?”
"Just try it, don't drink too much...this is new tea." Cheng Chubi reminded him, shaking his legs.
"The astringent taste you get is because many substances in the new tea have not been fully oxidized."
"It's okay if you try it. If you drink too much, you may get a stomachache."
After hearing this, Fang Jun took another small sip and then reluctantly put down the cup.
These green teas were naturally made by Cheng Chubi using tea leaves from those wild tea trees.
Cheng Chubi asked the servants of the old Cheng family to wave their money and silk, and bought almost a hundred kilograms of tea.
I started to follow the green tea making process that I know, that is, spreading, fixing, rolling, and drying.
Cheng Chubi imagined himself as the old tea-frying master he had seen, and the first pot was burnt immediately...
Then the second pot almost caused blisters, and after sucking his fingers for a long time, Cheng Chubi became very angry.
Only then, under the gaze of the servants of the Cheng family who winked and snickered secretly, did they react after thinking deeply for a long time.
Other cooking masters use charcoal fires and earthenware stoves, but I use iron stoves and coal fires.
Soon, Cheng Chubi started the third pot, the fourth pot, and the fifth pot.
Fortunately, Cheng Sanlang had a good mind, strong physical coordination, and corrected his mistakes immediately, finally after wasting almost ten kilograms of tea leaves.
After frying some impressive tea leaves, he worked on it for two days and finally found a sense of rhythm.
Two days later, under the command of Cheng Chubi, three servants of the Cheng family also became the new tea-frying masters.
In addition to frying green tea, black tea Cheng Chubi is also being experimentally produced. It will take two days to taste it.
"Young Master, Third Young Master, the box you asked for has been brought to you..." At this time, Cheng Fa's voice came over.
Cheng Chubi sat up lazily and saw Cheng Fa walking quickly towards this side with a wooden box in one hand.
Behind him, a craftsman was walking quickly with several baskets.
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Cheng Chubi took the box from Cheng Fa and looked at it carefully. Well, the quality is good.
The length, width and height of this box are about one foot to one foot two inches. Cheng Chubi doesn't know why it is such a size...
He has never kept bees, but there are local beekeepers. He has gone there to buy honey, so he probably knows something about it.
I curiously asked the beekeeper, and I also knew the structure of the beehive, so that was about it. The rest, naturally, I could only let my imagination fly.
And there is a gap just below one side, which is not high enough and can probably accommodate bees to pass through.
As for those wooden box frames, which are nest frames, they are inserted into the wooden boxes. If you want to collect honey in the future, you can just take them out and throw them in a centrifuge. It's great.
Of course, Cheng Chubi was not the first person to keep bees. The reason why he suddenly thought of beekeeping was because he saw a hive made of thick wood at a farmhouse.
Only then did I realize that in this era, some people had already started artificial beekeeping.
After detailed inquiries, Cheng Chubi realized that as early as the Han Dynasty, there were already records of artificial beekeeping.
It's just that they cut down tree trunks with wild honeycombs attached (i.e. original natural honeycombs) and hung them under the eaves.
The direction in which the honeycomb is placed is consistent with the natural growth posture of the original tree trunk.
During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, beekeepers began to lure domesticated semi-wild bees into imitation natural honeycombs or substitute wooden barrel honeycombs.
Gradually transitioning to bee domestication, which means hollowing out wooden barrels or thick tree trunks as hives for beekeeping.