He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

Start building a house today. Everyone had enough to eat for a few days from hunting yesterday, and they also brought dry food with them, so everyone started chopping trees and splitting wood, leaving only the two women, Lu Yan and He Wenjing, to rest.

Lu Yan still remembered what she was here for. She took He Wenjing and continued walking inside to see if she could find beets.

The two of them gradually got farther and farther away from the place where they camped. The noisy people around them became quieter and quieter, and the surroundings became quieter and quieter, until the only sound left was the rustling of leaves in the breeze.

Lu Yan felt vaguely uneasy for no reason, and the back of her neck felt cold. Just as she was about to turn around and say a few words to He Wenjing, she saw He Wenjing draw a knife and strike at her.

Lu Yan's heart beat like a drum for a moment, and her limbs were frozen in place.

I saw He Wenjing slashing through the air very quickly, and there was the sound of something falling to the ground. Lu Yan stared blankly as He Wenjing retracted the knife and looked at the ground in confusion. A snake with a wrist thickness of more than one meter long was split into two halves. The snake's body was still twitching twice without its head.

Lu Yan's goosebumps suddenly appeared.

"It was on your shoulder just now." He Wenjing said, "I don't know it either. I don't know if it's poisonous or not, so I just chopped it to death."

Lu Yan patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief: "It scared me to death. Good job."

Lu Yan was startled, and was a little hesitant to move forward. She thought about going back, but when she turned around, He Wenjing had already walked beside her, picked up the headless snake that was completely motionless on the ground, and put it into her body. in the bag.

Lu Yan looked at her, and she explained: "Bring it back to military doctor Xiao Tu. He might like it. Keep going."

Lu Yan calmed down and continued walking forward.

The forest in summer was indeed more interesting than in winter. Plants that Lu Yan didn't recognize grew everywhere. There were also fruits on the trees, but they were not yet fully mature. He Wenjing picked a few, which made Lu Yan's sour words even worse. .

After searching all the way, she finally found beets. When she saw the big cluster of leaves, she breathed a sigh of relief.

She was really afraid that they had no beets, and she would have to go to the military camp to ask General Yuan for them. After all, the military camp does not belong to their Liaoyang County, and brothers have to settle accounts clearly when it comes to interests. If she uses the beets from the military camp, it is impossible not to give up the profits. In the end, the bulk of the sugar squeezed out must go to them.

Fortunately, she also has this. Mastering the raw materials means taking the initiative in production. As long as the initiative is in her hands, she is relieved.

She and He Wenjing dug out whole beets from the ground, dug out a big bag, packed them and hurried back.

After returning to the camp, He Wenjing gave the snake to the little rabbit. The little rabbit really liked it, so he immediately cut it open and took out the snake's gall and soaked it in wine.

Several people were a little greedy when they saw the snake. After asking the little rabbit if the snake meat was useless, they chopped it into pieces and asked Lu Yan for seasonings to stew a pot of snake soup.

In her last life, Lu Yan watched a documentary and learned that snakes might have parasites in their bodies. She got goosebumps all over after just one look. She resolutely rejected their invitation and refused to eat a bite.

Lu Yan went back and started tinkering with her beets. It's July now, and the beets have already begun to bear fruit. Cut open and inside are the beet seeds.

Lu Yan took out the seeds, dried them, put them away and planted them. Pluck off the beet leaves and eat them as green vegetables. The roots of beets are the raw material for sugar extraction. Wash them and cut them into pieces.

Sugar beet production has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it is more delicate. In the north, most sugar is made from soft white sugar, while in the south, most sugar is made from white granulated sugar. The taste of soft white sugar is several times stronger than that of white granulated sugar. This soft white sugar is made from beets, while white granulated sugar is made from sugar cane.

But the premise is that you can really make soft white sugar. The disadvantages of beet sugar production are also very obvious.

Compared with sugar cane, sugar beets contain more impurities and are more complex to process. If there are too many impurities and are not handled properly, you will end up with reddish-brown syrup. This kind of syrup has a low concentration, short shelf life, and astringent taste, making it difficult to sell for takeout.

Sugar production from beets is different from sugar cane. Sugar cane, or sweet stalk sorghum, is generally extracted using the extraction method, but this is not the case with sugar beet. If the beet is chopped and squeezed, there will be too many impurities that cannot be removed. Therefore, beet sugar can only be produced by hot water leaching.

Cut the beetroot into small strips and add to the pot. Add water to the pot to cover the beet strips, turn to low heat and simmer for twenty minutes, stirring constantly with chopsticks to allow the sugar in the beet to analyze out into the hot water.

Repeat twice for one pot of beets, removing them at the end and leaving two pots of hot water. Pour the two pots of water together and heat them over the fire. The remaining beet pulp can be mixed into livestock feed and fed to horses and sheep.

A large pot of water with beet sugar precipitated is heated continuously over the fire, and the foam is skimmed off. When one-fifth of the water is left, pour it out from the fire. What you get is a thin syrup.

At this point, it is actually a finished product, and even those who are not particular about the thin syrup can use it directly. But there is some astringency in the thin syrup, which is caused by betaine. If we want to continue concentrating, we also need to remove impurities.

Lu Yan put the canned syrup aside first. Many modern methods of removing impurities cannot be used here. There is a filter tower directly in the modern beet sugar making process, which rotates at high speed to transfer the sugar liquid to the top and separate it from impurities. But in ancient times, there were neither rotating towers nor chemicals for her to extract. The only way she could think of was activated carbon filtration.

So the question is, does she have to make her own activated charcoal?

Lu Yan thought about the process of making activated charcoal, and completely gave up the idea of ​​doing it in the woods. She decided to build a chemistry laboratory when she returned, not only to make activated charcoal by herself, but also to extract alcohol.