God don't even try to stop me from doing infrastructure!

"Everyone takes a piece of bread, and then pours out a bowl of broth. After the soup is finished, you can take another." The guard said loudly.

Everyone knew it was edible, so each held a clay bowl, which must have been the biggest they had.

Then everyone lined up quietly, regardless of men, women, old or young, obeying the order. If you break this rule, you will be kicked out without mercy, and you will not be able to eat anything.

Strong men dare not take the place of thin women and children in the team. His Highness Shenzi likes people who obey the rules. This is the consensus of long-term relationship.

After the meat is cooked with spices, the air emits the unique aroma of meat, and it is more complex. They have never smelled such a unique aroma in their life.

They poked their heads out, stretched their necks, and stared at the place in front of them where white smoke was always coming out, which was where the food was.But the line was very long, so everyone could only swallow their saliva and touch their bellies.

This hunger seems to have brought out all the unsatisfied portion of the previous life, an unprecedented hunger.

"bowl."

The soup-making guard said gruffly.

The child in the sackcloth stretched out a hemp-like hand with some fear, and held a broken bowl in his hand.He is afraid of tall men because he is often bullied by them.But the craving for food allowed him to temporarily overcome this fear.

But this guard only looks fierce, but he is quite nice.He specially spooned a spoonful of the broth with the fat meat steak to him, and didn't give him a small portion because of his young age.

"Eat more meat and grow as tall as me," said the guard.

The boy also got a larger loaf from the bread-breaker.The factors that once made him bullied, his thinness and silence, can get some extra attention here.

He took the bowl to a corner, then put the bowl on the ground, took out a small wooden spoon and put it on it, then put his hands together, imitating the priests he had seen, and prayed silently: thank the merciful god, give Your Highness, Son of God, he bestowed upon me abundant food, and kept me free from hunger, pain, and disease.

The child has never told anyone that he has an amazing memory, and it is hard to forget after seeing it.Sometimes I think about it, is my thin body the price for acquiring knowledge?The thought of this possibility made him feel very painful, and he would even rather become stupid and reckless.

He always felt that being thin was a mistake and deserved to be bullied.But today, those taller guards silently took care of him in their own way.So, it's not Gaoda's fault, it's somebody's fault, right?

The child's elder brother came over, and his sister-in-law also came over, and they stroked his head. Although he didn't say anything, he still felt comforted.

He had been abused by his stepmother and beaten by the children brought by his stepmother. His brother took him away from home to protect him.

That day, the steward said that His Highness Shenzi needed some outstanding farmers, and his brother was the first to sign up, and he followed.Everyone was very nervous when they came here. They didn't know whether their decision was right or wrong.But now, no one should have any doubts. This place is really a good place.

The child's name is Xiaocao, a very common weed, worthless and of no special use, just like the identity he represents.

Xiaocao licked his mouth, he was the youngest child in the team, only six years old.But in his short life of six years, he has been discarded twice, and both times he came back by relying on the discarded pebbles.After his brother left, there was no one to protect him.At that time, there was not much food in the family, and they wanted him to die.

He avoided it carefully, but his father and stepmother should have made up their minds to abandon him. (As slaves, they had no right to sell their children, or they might have sold them outright.)

Fortunately, their master later became His Highness the Son of God, he allowed these humble people to leave enough food, and mercifully reduced the workload of work, so he was also fortunate to spend this year intact.Now that he was being picked up by his elder brother who had already left, it seemed that he no longer had to be so afraid.

But now, he can still eat meat.

The bowl is full of fragrant meat, such a big meat, and it is oily.It is human nature to chase calories. Even Xiaocao, who has never eaten red meat, will be attracted to meat immediately.

What does the meat taste like?

Thinking so, he spooned a piece of soft meat and bit down.

This piece of meat is very hot, it seems to be covered with a layer of oil, and the soup inside is like a melt, splashing out with the aroma of spices.So hot!But he was reluctant to spit it out, endured the pain, and chewed slowly.

Xiaocao has never eaten such delicious food, the taste beyond the limits of his imagination.He couldn't bear to swallow it, he just wanted to keep chewing.

He saw those grown-ups break the bread, soak it in broth, and eat it with pieces of meat, so she followed suit.

Xiao Cao bit down.

In this world, how can there be such a smell?The soft dough, the delicious meat paste, the spices filling it... His poor language system can't even give a suitable adjective.

Xiaocao ate and swallowed, and tears flowed all over her face unconsciously.

Xiaocao didn't know why she was crying, she was obviously happy.

How could he know that what he tasted was not only the broth in the bowl, the bread in his hand and the oily wild boar, but also the unspeakable misfortune and pain of his six years.

Such a delicious thing, he still wants to continue eating.Xiaocao looked at Shenzi who was sitting on a tree stump and eating bread with a smile: If you follow him, can you continue to be so happy forever?What can I do to get closer to him?

Xiaocao was not the only one who was overwhelmed by this unusually delicious meat.

The slave soldiers had eaten wild boar meat. This kind of meat was not eaten by the nobles, but it was a rarity for them.But they did not know that the addition of the precious spices would make the meat so delicious that it surpassed any meat they had ever eaten.They also have a yearning: I want to eat this delicious meat again.

Maybe they will still remember this scene when they are old, the piles of food and meat, the revived taste buds after tasting delicious food for the first time, and the pursuit of a higher level of life sprouting from the bottom of their hearts.

Yunze went back to the library the next day. He walked for a day and returned from the north gate.

Curry is a rectangular city, divided from south to north into an outer city, an inner city, and a royal city.The outer city has the largest area, inhabited by Curry's middle and lower class, and also has commercial and entertainment areas.The slums are on the fringes of the outer city.

The inner city is an area where government affairs are handled, factories are set up, and nobles live. The permanent population is less than [-], but the area is only slightly smaller than the outer city.Yunze's house is here, and the closer to the royal city, the more identity is needed.

The royal city was built on the mountain, with the royal palace in the middle, the huge white castle, where the royal family lived.People guessed that the palace where the most honored people lived should be big and beautiful.

Pretty is pretty, it doesn't matter how big it is.

In fact, the living area of ​​the harem concubines and princes and princesses is not too large, each of them has only a small palace, so members of the royal family have separate courtyards in the inner city.

The huge buildings on both sides of the palace are temples, there are three, dedicated to three gods: the sun god, the goddess of war and the goddess of the night.

Behind Curry is the holy mountain, which surrounds many villages on the other three sides, a large farmland on the south, hunting grounds and places for the nobles to go out to hunt on the east, many vineyards and pastures on the west, and a large river flows from Crossing from south to north, it is the mother river of Taixi people, which gave birth to Taixi civilization.

Yunze's wheat fields, pastures and wine are near Curry, and it is the best location, with abundant water resources for irrigation.

From the foot of the holy mountain to the south gate, you have to go around a big circle. If you go to the west gate on one side, it will be much faster, but the fastest is the north gate.The north gate is the back gate of the royal city, and it would never be opened on weekdays, but because he is the son of God, he made an exception and let him take a shortcut.

When they walked to the north gate, the guards guarding the gate respectfully knelt on one knee to show their respect. Yunze and the others rode directly to the gate of the house without even getting off their horses.

Nothing has changed in the other courtyard, except that the trees in the courtyard have sprouted new shoots.

"He hasn't come back yet." He was busy before and didn't realize it, but now that he returned home, he suddenly found himself missing Menis a little bit.Is it because you spend too much time together that you develop this habit?

The little priests were taught very well, and he had done his homework seriously during the one month he had been out, and he had memorized all the basic formulas.There is a housekeeper for the big and small affairs of the family, so he doesn't need to intervene at all.

Yunze changed into lighter clothes and took a walk in the garden. Suddenly, he found that the plum trees planted this year were all in bloom, very enthusiastically.And the peach blossoms shyly grew one or two flower buds.Thinking of the cherry blossoms and the flowering period are similar to the peach blossoms. Now the peach blossoms have grown flower buds, and the cherry blossoms will soon be.

The red plum blossoms in the yard looked like cinnabar, and Yunze remembered that he was going to make handmade soap.He asked someone to bring a stool over, and cut off some of the plum blossoms that were too dense with small scissors, and there was a maid holding a sackcloth to pick up the plum blossoms.

Yunze lowered his head and smiled, "Pick up more, and I'll make flower soap for you when I get back."

His voice is like summer raindrops falling on the window sill, or like a stream under the sun, clear and peach-like pink blooming on his face, coupled with that warm smile, makes the maid's little heart beat It was several seconds faster.

But this puzzled person just said casually, didn't see how the little maid blushed, and started to harm the plum trees with scissors, and didn't stop until she harmed all the plum trees planted in the garden this year , Said that he was going to make handmade soap.

Yunze has been studying handmade soap for a long time, but he has never made it, so everyone doesn't know what handmade soap is.I only know that a lot of animal fat and olive oil are used to make this, baking soda powder for fermented dough, and salt, and I feel that it must be a rare thing.

It is too inefficient to use baking soda powder directly to make soap. Yunze mixed a small amount of baking soda powder with clear lime water to react, and filtered out the calcium carbonate to obtain a caustic soda solution, which is sodium hydroxide solution.It is well known that oil and sodium hydroxide are required for the saponification reaction.

After getting enough caustic soda solution, heat it on a small fire, but keep it at a low temperature, pour in lard that is also heated to liquid state, stir, stir well.Because caustic soda is dangerous, you need to be fully armed, wear a mask and gloves.

As a result, the maids became anxious when they heard that there was danger, and refused to let Yunze enjoy the fun of making soap himself.At this time the priest Heto volunteered, Yunze said, he did.In this way, the maids let go of their hands.

Because it is cold-process soap, there is no need for saturated brine for salting out, but a little salt can be added to strengthen the hardness.You can also add other ingredients as you like.

He experimented with the ratios first, then made some household soaps out of lard.

He washed and dried the freshly picked plum blossoms, and ground them into plum powder. In addition, he also had dried rose powder, tea powder, absinthe powder, peppermint oil, fresh goat milk and other ingredients.Combined with olive oil to make face soap and body soap.

In the beginning, Yunze didn't have a good grasp of the ratio of the formula, so he had to do six experiments with a jar of lard to try out the best formula.Once you have the optimal ratio, it's easy to do anything else.

Without a mold, he used the pastry mold or simple wooden box in the game, spent an afternoon, used up three jars of tens of catties of wild boar oil and a large barrel of olive oil, and scrapped two clay pots to make There is a large box of handmade soap.

The handmade soaps came out of the mold on the second day.

The rectangular one is lard soap, which is used for washing clothes and dishes.

The rose-shaped ones are plum blossom soap and rose flower soap, the square one with a leaf is tea scented soap, the oval one like a goose egg is absinthe soap, the square one is the largest amount of peppermint soap, and the rest is round goat milk soap.

Because he promised to give flower soap to the maids at home, he made another square plum blossom soap, and after waiting for two days, he could cut it into small pieces and give them to them.

"Why does it smell like grass? Will it get better when it's ripe?" Yunze sniffed and found that it didn't smell that good, and it didn't look that good. The plum blossom soap and rose flower soap with pollen were both black. Black, and almost everything else.

He wrapped these freshly made handmade soaps in sackcloth and arranged them in a row, telling the maid: "It needs to be left for a month before it can be used. I will give you one of the floral soaps inside, and cut it up for use."

They came in handy just as we were getting ready for summer.

Cold soap making is one way, hot soap making is another method, and hot soap making also produces glycerin-rich wastewater.Glycerin can also be extracted from these waste liquids, but that requires both acid and alkali. He was good at chemistry back then, and he has almost forgotten it over the years.And even if he remembered those formulas, he couldn't find the ingredients.After much deliberation, I decided to make cold-process soap.

If it weren't for the luck to find natural baking soda here, Yunze would have thought about extracting alkaline liquid from plant ash to make soap, which would be even more troublesome.

He has also made handmade soap, and it seems that there is nothing else to do. He doesn’t want to make potions, and he doesn’t want to make aromatherapy. There are no materials for making wine and sauce. Go to the street to see the progress of the canal opening, and finally sort out your merchandise.

There were also people who came to look for Yunze while Menis was away, Yunze followed suit for a day and then retreated.The life of idle noble children has been the same since ancient times, just eating, drinking and having fun, but Yunze is not interested in these, he would rather take care of the potted plants in his yard sooner or later.

When he was extremely bored, Yunze thought of Menis again, how could it not be boring to play with him before?

Yunze wanted to summon his friends.Moreover, there has been no news for so long, and it is said that there is still a bit of chaos outside, and he is also a little worried about Menis' safety.Such a good friend, it's hard to find another one.

"Where is Menis?" Yun Ze asked the guard, but the guard didn't know either.

Yunze found a cloak that Menis gave him, and summoned Bai Haidongqing: "Can you find the owner of this cloak?"

Hai Dongqing looked at Yunze as if he was looking at a tease: Do you have any misunderstanding about my ability?

Fortunately, Yunze thought of contacting Menis' teacher in time.

The great priest didn't know where Menis was now, he just calculated where it would be, and said that a messenger could be arranged to deliver the letter.Temple Messengers get supplies and the latest news from temples everywhere.

Yunze wrote a letter to Menis, saying that in ten days or so, Curry's flower arrangement would take shape, and hoped that Menis would not miss it.Then write the time and nothing else.

Ten days later, a reply letter was sent in haste.

"I miss Your Highness, every day, every moment, like the water of a holy mountain. Knowing that you are all right, and thinking of the humble me in my heart, I can't wait to return to you in the next moment, and accompany you to greet me." Every morning and night.—from your faithful guardian, Menes.”