"Uncle, look, are you missing anything?" Lao Fang walked in from the outside carrying a big bag, took out the contents, and placed them in front of Li Yi.
Bezoar, mint, honeysuckle, spices, several large jars of wine that Lao Fang bought from Fucheng... Looking at the various piles of things in front of him, Li Yi counted them, and then nodded. Lao Fang was very reliable in doing things, and ordered him
Not a single thing I bought was missed.
As autumn gets darker, mosquitoes become more rampant at night.
For a body with this special physique, every night is the most painful time for Li Yi.
Now that the candied haws business is on the right track, Lao Fang and the others can handle it. Li Yi doesn't need to worry anymore. He finally found time to solve the biggest problem that is currently troubling him.
"Uncle, it's not a festival, why did you buy so much wine?" Lao Fang stared at the wine jar on the ground and never moved away. He swallowed involuntarily and looked at Li Yi and asked.
In the past, when my family had no money, there were only a few times a year when I was willing to spend a few pennies to buy a bowl of wine from a wine shop in Shanxiafang City to satisfy my craving. The taste was enough to linger on for days.
Although he had no worries about food and clothing and had a lot of surplus during this period, Lao Fang, who was afraid of poverty, was still very frugal in life. It was easy to earn copper coins, but it was harder for him to spend them. Naturally, he could not be so extravagant.
The weather is good for wine and meat.
"Who says there is no festival?"
Li Yi raised his eyebrows, looked back at Lao Fang and said, "Isn't it the Mid-Autumn Festival in a few days? I've been busy with the candied haws business these days, and everyone has worked hard. I'll reward you all by then."
When Lao Fang heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Are these wines for the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
"No." Li Yi said simply.
These wines were used by him to make toilet water to repel mosquitoes, so he couldn't let Lao Fang waste it.
The expression on Lao Fang's face was stagnant, and he was speechless for a while.
Ignoring Lao Fang's eyes that slowly turned resentful, Li Yi spoke again: "Go find some iron pots and some empty bamboo tubes, and we're going to start working soon."
Li Yiyuan thought about putting down the purification of alcohol for a while and making the soap first, but his plan could not keep up with the changes, so he had to put the purification of alcohol first.
There is no other reason than that if you want to make mosquito repellent toilet water, you must use a high concentration of alcohol.
Lao Fang worked very efficiently and quickly found the iron pot. Under Li Yi's guidance, it took him most of a day to complete the alcohol distillation device.
Distilling alcohol, of course, is not simply heating it in a pot. If the temperature is too high, the alcohol and water will evaporate together. After condensation, the alcohol obtained will still be low-concentration alcohol, which will not achieve the purification effect.
This simple distillation device first heats the water and uses the water temperature to evaporate the alcohol. The alcohol vapor re-condenses above and enters the bamboo tube. What flows out is the purified alcohol.
Li Yi could easily find the schematic diagram of the distillation device in a book, but equipment such as flasks and glass tubes could not be realized at present. In desperation, he could only settle for the next best thing and use these crude things instead.
Although the effect will definitely be much worse, as long as you can get alcohol with a concentration of more than 75%, it is enough.
After all the preparations were done, Li Yi lit the flame below, and all he had to do next was just wait.
Lao Fang scratched his head, looking at Li Yi for a while, and then at the strange thing that his uncle asked him to make, and his head was a mess.
As drops of wine flowed out from the hollow bamboo tube, gradually, the strong aroma of wine began to fill the kitchen...
"Gudong."
Lao Fang swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Li Yi turned to look at him, and Lao Fang immediately wiped the corners of his mouth, looked away from the bowl under the bamboo tube, and pretended to be nonchalant.
When the wine liquid in the bamboo tube flowed out extremely slowly, Li Yi knew that the wine in the pot was almost distilled. He took out a chopstick and dipped a little wine liquid into the bowl, then put it in his mouth and tasted it.
After that, he frowned slightly.
Although the alcohol content after distillation was much higher than the original, it still could not meet his requirements.
"It seems that this distillation device is still too simple. If we want to produce large-scale production and improve efficiency in the future, we must improve the distillation device." Li Yi murmured, poured all the wine distilled once into an empty jar, and replaced it with
Fresh liquor is added for the second distillation.
Lao Fang smelled the fragrance in the air, his throat kept twitching, and he wanted to pick up the jar next to him and drink it to his heart's content, but he thought that these wines must be of great use, so he restrained this idea.
The alcohol concentration of one distillation was not enough. The equipment was simple and the number of times was limited. Li Yi repeated the distillation over and over again, so that the alcohol concentration distilled each time would increase a little.
The book says that by distilling alcohol, the highest alcohol concentration can only be about 95%. Of course, Li Yi couldn't get such a high concentration with a few broken pots, but the concentration was about 80%.
It's enough for him to use.
After repeated distillation several times, Li Yi found that the alcohol concentration had not increased much during the re-distillation, so he gave up.
"Gudong..."
Lao Fang next to him swallowed another mouthful of saliva.
Looking away at Lao Fang, Li Yi couldn't stand it anymore. He took out a small bowl of distilled alcohol, handed it to him, and said, "Okay, don't be greedy. How do you like the taste of this wine?"
When Lao Fang heard this, his eyes shone brightly. After taking the wine bowl, he couldn't wait to drink it down.
Li Yi watched helplessly as Lao Fang's face turned from black to red, and he let out a comfortable groan. The expression on his face was extremely satisfied, and he said loudly: "Good wine!"
thump!
After saying these two words, Lao Fang shook his body a few times and fell to the ground, unconscious.
"Well……"
Looking at Lao Fang lying on the ground, snoring, Li Yi couldn't help but feel a little contempt.
Seeing how strong this guy is, it turns out that he is just an embroidered pillow. He can fall down in one bite, so he is not much stronger than me!
Putting the distilled alcohol to the tip of his nose and smelling it, a spicy smell rushed straight into his lungs. In just a moment, Li Yi felt his head start to feel dizzy...
He quickly moved the wine bowl away. At this moment, he realized that what he saw in front of him was high-concentration alcohol with a concentration of more than 75%... In the previous world, alcohol with a concentration of more than 60% was not available in China.
Selling is prohibited...
Looking down at Lao Fang lying on the ground, Li Yi couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth...
"You are such an adult and you still can't resist temptation. You deserve it!"
