The son crosses every night

Gu Tangyu asked Meng Cunrui to investigate, but they were not at home, and the news from Jianghua was tightly covered. They inquired and inquired, but they didn't even find out a fart.

According to the news that came from below, Gu Tangyu only knew that his younger brother put more effort into managing the difference, stayed in Zhuangzi all day long, didn't go back to the house very often, and didn't go to drink tea with friends, the interpersonal relationship was so simple.

He really wants to be with someone, it is absolutely impossible to hide here every day.

Excluding all distracting items, Gu Tangyu felt that most people were hiding in Zhuangzi.

However, apart from the field servants in Zhuangzi, there are servants. Jiang Hua personally vetoed Jiang Pingyuan, and none of the remaining servants could be seen. Gu Tangyu believed that his younger brother would not take a fancy to such a person.

At that moment, Gu Tangyu even thought it was possible that his younger brother lied to him casually, and then he thought it was unlikely. This kind of thing is a joke.

What's more, joking is not good for him, and he won't get any benefits except being scolded.

What a headache.

Gu Tangyu held his head and sorted out the matter carefully, and finally felt that he couldn't think of it, so he just didn't think about it.

My younger brother's Xiao Qing'er hasn't jumped out yet, so it's meaningless for him to be entangled here, he'll do it for ten minutes, and when Xiao Qing'er comes out to jump around, it won't be too late for him to clean up.

After making up his mind, Gu Tangyu completely put this matter behind him, and he chatted with Tanghua.

Tang Hua looked up and saw him coming, and said firstly, "Brother, I'm going to Zhuangzi for a few days, will you go?"

"Which Zhuangzi?"

"It's the one managed by Zhou Ji, the one you gave me." Tang Hua explained: "Didn't I brew some wine there before, the wine is almost ready, and it should be processed further."

"Then what about your errands? Don't worry about it?"

"It's not that I don't care. I'll just go for two days. Li Changli and the others can just sit here. Anyway, I'm not a very formal official. I told Uncle Huang at the beginning that sometimes I have to go out. Uncle Huang told me not to Specially ask for leave, as long as the affairs in the village are arranged."

Gu Tangyu was surprised, "When did you become so familiar with Uncle Huang?"

"Isn't he often going into the palace to accompany his old man and talk to the imperial grandmother, and we will get to know each other once and for all. Brother, are you going? If we go, we will go together."

"Go, why don't you go? It's hard to see you making wine."

Gu Tangyu went out with him, Meng Cunrui had already had his horse ready.

One of them is the son of the county prince, and the other is the second-rank Fuguo general appointed by His Majesty. As long as they don't ride horses on the main street, no one will control them.

Tanghua seldom rides a horse. He is not very good at equestrian skills, and the imperial capital is crowded. He is afraid of bumping into people, so he usually takes a horse-drawn carriage.

Gu Tangyu has been in the frontier for a long time, the world is vast there, and it is far away to go anywhere. He is used to riding a horse, and when he gets back to the carriage, he always feels that this thing is so ugly, and it is not comfortable anywhere.

It takes nearly an hour to get to Biezhuang by carriage, and half an hour by horseback.

Tang Hua's buttocks hurt from following behind his brother, and when he got off the horse, he said with emotion: "It's really windy today!"

"What's wrong with this wind? It's spring, and the willow wind blows on the face. The wind is only strong in the frontier, and the wind is harsh and mixed with sand and stones. It hurts people's faces, and it blows into the eyes accidentally I couldn't keep my eyes open for half a day."

Tang Hua saw that his brother said these words casually, and he couldn't judge whether he was exaggerating. After all, he still felt sorry for his brother, hesitated, and asked: "How about I get you a batch of goggles, so that you won't be afraid of wind and sand blinding your eyes?" .”

"What goggles?"

He stretched out his hand and made a gesture, "Didn't I burn a lot of colored glaze here? When the time comes, I will use a piece of colored glaze to block the front, so as not to obstruct the line of sight, but also to block the wind and sand. It would be great."

Gu Tangyu quickly understood, and said with a smile: "No need, colored glaze is expensive, how can it be used in this kind of place?"

"It's not expensive, it's not expensive, we burn all these colored glazes ourselves, and it doesn't cost a lot of money in terms of cost, it's just that there are some technical difficulties."

Tang Hua thought of motorcycle helmets, and said with great interest: "Don't you sometimes wear armor? Then just fix the glass on the helmet. If you want to fight, you can pull off the glass and block it in front of your eyes to prevent wind and sand. "

Gu Tangyu smiled helplessly, "We can't even get enough to eat now, where can we get money for this?"

Just as Tanghua was about to open his mouth, Gu Tangyu stretched out his hand to stop him, "Stop saying such silly things as not charging money, there are so many people in the army, how much did you put in the money yourself? Besides, glass is fragile, and will be caught by then." Something was smashed, and it was all pierced in the face with a bang, it was a bloody thing."

Tang Hua thought for a while, he really didn't have the ability to make tempered glass or something, and this technology was really not practical, so he had to give up temporarily.

When the group of them arrived at the gate of Biezhuang, Zhou Ji hurriedly brought people out to meet them. When seeing the old and new masters, Zhou Ji knelt down and saluted.

Tang Hua turned to look at his elder brother, Gu Tangyu looked down at Zhou Ji from above, and said flatly, "Excuse me."

Zhou Ji didn't dare to get up, so he looked up at Zhang Hua, who nodded, and then he got up.

Tang Hua asked: "How is the brewing going? I asked you to purchase all the household items?"

"Return to son, the wine has been brewed. Several brewers tasted it and said that this batch of wine is good. I also bought all the tools and piled them in the yard over there."

"Okay, let's go and have a look first. You call some people who burn the fire over, and the brewer also calls over. We will make wine later."

After finishing the order, Tang Hua turned his head and explained to his brother: "Distilled liquor is not technically content, but some people didn't think of it, and some people were reluctant to spend time and effort to do it."

Tang Hua and the others rode their horses to the yard where the wine jars were kept.

Hundreds of tanks of wine are neatly placed there, and they are all large tanks that can hold two hundred catties. It is quite shocking to have so many tanks here.

Gu Tangyu couldn't figure it out, "Why do you brew so much wine when you have nothing to do?"

"I don't want wine this time, but I want to get some alcohol."

"Alcohol?" Gu Tangyu repeated the unfamiliar term, and then asked: "Did you also get this alcohol from a dream?"

"Well," Tanghua lowered his voice, "I also knew something called a microscope in my dream, which allows us to see bacteria that we can't normally see. Alcohol is to kill bacteria."

It was difficult for Gu Tangyu to follow his train of thought, he thought for a while and asked, "What is this bacterium?"

"Bacteria are everywhere, and we usually can't see them, but they often cause us to get sick, including injuries, and wound inflammation and suppuration are mostly caused by these bacteria, so we have to use alcohol to kill bacteria."

"So alcohol is spirits?"

Tang Hua was overjoyed: "Brother, do you know the uses of spirits?"

Originally, he was thinking about how to persuade his elder brother, but he didn't expect that his elder brother's ability to accept was better than he imagined, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Gu Tangyu nodded as expected, "I know something, when we were injured before, the old military doctor would pour strong wine on the wound and then bandage it."

"Yes, yes, alcohol is generally higher than spirits, and the effect is better." Tang Hua said happily: "With alcohol, it can effectively help the injured soldiers survive. In fact, the same is true for salt water. After you are injured If you don’t have the conditions to use alcohol, you can use a little salt to dissolve it, turning it into concentrated salt water to wash the wound is also effective.”

Gu Tangyu narrowed his eyes slightly, "Is your alcohol specially prepared for those of us in the frontier?"

"Part of it, but not entirely." Tang Hua smiled, "In addition to being used for wound disinfection, it has many other uses."

Gu Tangyu patted him on the back, unable to say anything for a while.

Tang Hua didn't ask for credit either. He took his elder brother to the wine making yard, and seeing that the servants had arrived, he ordered them to put the cauldron on the stove and start to boil the water.

Gu Tangyu watched their movements, and asked curiously: "Isn't this wine poured directly into the pot?"

"No, the boiling point of alcohol is higher than that of water, so you can't burn it directly, otherwise the wine will be mixed with a lot of water vapor, and the steaming will not be good."

As Tang Hua spoke, he directed people to put a wooden barrel with a long bamboo spout into the pot. The wooden barrel was filled with rice wine, and then the lid was tightly closed, and the gap on the lid was covered with a handkerchief.

In the end, he asked someone to cover the pot and barrel tightly with a big cover with a hole, and the bamboo spout came out from the hole.

"That's it?"

Tang Hua nodded, "It's almost done. It's my first time doing it. I don't know how it will turn out. Let's wait and see."

The fire had already been lit, and the water in the pot was boiling and gurgling. Tang Hua asked people to watch the water in the pot, and if it was almost dry, he would add water in time.

Gu Tangyu looked at this strange looking device, thinking in his heart whether it was useful or not, but after a while, the bamboo spout began to drip wine drop by drop.

The wine dripped into the jar, making a soft ding.

Tang Hua looked at his elder brother's face and asked, "Brother, would you like to taste our wine?"

Gu Tangyu smiled, "Let's try it."

Tanghua set up three cauldrons in the yard, and all the servants left behind were confidant servants. Several groups stood by the pot and carefully steamed the wine. The wine dripped down drop by drop, and soon a small puddle was formed.

He asked someone to beat out the wine with a small bamboo liter with a long handle. The wine was still hot, so the two brothers held the wine bowls and stood around the yard to drink slowly.

The taste of this wine is really not bad. It was originally a high-quality rice wine. After making it into shochu, it has a long sweetness and a bitter and fragrant taste.

Gu Tangyu sipped a bowl leisurely, "It's a comfortable day."

Tang Hua looked at his elder brother's face, and hurriedly advised: "Drinking alcohol can hurt the liver, just taste it once in a while, don't drink too often."

"If you know it, I'll just talk about drinking frequently. How can we afford it with our family background?"

Tang Hua smiled.

The wine in the yard was steamed for three days in a row before getting the first shochu.

This is the first shochu, and Tang Hua plans to distill it again.

The remaining distiller's grains can't be thrown away. You can also add some water and steam it again to make a second course of shochu.

They have been busy for half a month, and Tang Hua couldn't stay here all the time, so he simply ordered his servants to be careful about steaming the wine, and went back to Huangzhuang by himself.

Gu Tangyu found it interesting to see them steaming the wine, and he didn't have anything to do, so he stayed and instructed them to steam the first shochu for the second time, the third time, and the second shochu.

The distiller's grains can't be thrown away either, it's good to keep some bran to mix with dishes, feed pigs, chickens and ducks, they also raise dozens of pigs and hundreds of chickens and ducks in the village, the distiller's grains can be used up completely.

It will be the end of March when all the wine is steamed.

They are going to harvest rapeseed soon, and these rapeseeds get rapeseed.

Vegetable stalks and leaves were all cut down in the field, and the young branches were fed back to pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks, and the old branches were used to see if they could be turned into green manure.

If the green manure cannot be turned into green manure, it will be picked up and put on the ridge of the field. After drying, it will be sent to be burned as firewood.

From the leaves to the stalks, every part is never discarded.

The rapeseeds are sent back to be dried. Fortunately, the weather has been good recently, and they can be dried in the sun after two days. After drying, they are fried for a while, wrapped with straw to make oil cakes, and then squeezed with a wooden pound.

They are now extracting oil, relying on strong men to tighten the large horizontal wooden pound bit by bit to squeeze the oil cakes, and then squeeze the oil out.

Rapeseed is easier to squeeze, and the oil yield can almost reach more than [-]%.

When all the rapeseed oil was squeezed out and hundreds of barrels of fragrant rapeseed oil were placed in front of them, everyone in Huangzhuang was excited from top to bottom.

Last year, we also harvested a large amount of cabbage, but vegetables are vegetables after all. No matter how much we harvest, it is not as exciting as food. Rapeseed oil is really food, which is an indispensable good for every household.

Tang Hua sent a batch to the palace as soon as he received the goods, and they always have to show their credit when they produce results.

In addition to sending them to the palace, he also wrote a memorial, carefully summarizing the steps they went through from planting to harvesting and the matters to be paid special attention to, as well as summarizing and reflecting.

The emperor knew that he was a person who did practical things, but he didn't expect him to achieve results so quickly, so he couldn't help saying hello a few times in comfort, and then sent the eunuch to reward him with some things.

Tang Hua happily accepted it, and the sign with the emperor's inscription was immediately hung on the gate of their village with drums and gongs.

At the same time, according to the old rules, he also had people kill two pigs, and another twenty chickens and ducks, so that his subordinates could have a good meal and enjoy themselves.

After finishing the rapeseed, Tang Hua will be busy again.

Large tracts of roses are beginning to bloom, and the wheat on the Zanhua side is at a critical stage of fruiting, and rice is about to start planting.

His official and private affairs are mixed together, and he is so busy every day that he does not touch the ground.

He asked someone to pluck the half-opened roses, and prepared to steam the rose dew.

This kind of rose dew will take a while to become fragrant. The first batch is steamed now, barely in time for the release of Xiangyun Sha in the middle and late summer, and it will be sold together with it at that time. I believe it will arouse the interest of many girls.

They have also opened five branches this year, and basically all of them have been opened, and there is only one finishing touch. The release of Xiangyunsha this summer is expected to be a good start.

Tanghua believes that all parties have certain expectations for their new store, and under such circumstances, he has to come up with something good to open people's eyes and make their reputation a hit.

The rose dew will be steamed over there, and the fields will be plowed and harrowed here to prepare rice.

Rice must be bred first, and a good field should be selected to be fertilized with enough base fertilizer. The seedlings should be bred first, and then the other field plows can be plowed, and then the rice can be transplanted there.

At that time, people were used to transplanting rice seedlings, but this time Tang Hua planned to throw rice seedlings away.

This needs to be trained first.

Ruan Shijie saw that he was busy day by day, and his heart ached so badly, he joked, "Don't you have so many subordinates? Why do you have to do everything yourself. Why? You refuse to delegate power?"

"I want to let it go, but I don't have anyone who can use it, and they won't be able to pick it up if I let it go." Tang Hua sighed, "The main reason is that many of these things are learned here, and they don't know anything. No, let them do it, they can't do it, and now it's more difficult for them to keep up with my rhythm."

Ruan Shijie patted his forehead, "Starting a business is more difficult."

"Yeah, I can only be busy with myself this year, and it might be better next year."

Tanghua ran for another day today, and was so tired that he fell asleep when he touched the bed, so he still hesitated all day, did not see his brother Ruan, and insisted on leaving a trace of clarity to come out to talk to Ruan Shijie.

Ruan Shijie saw that he couldn't even open his eyes, so he patted his shoulder lightly, "Go to sleep, we'll talk about it tomorrow."

Tang Hua said vaguely: "Forget it, let's talk. Are you going on a business trip next week? Maybe we won't see each other for another week or so."

"This time I'm just going to confirm some specific matters. It won't take that long. I'll be back in three days at most."

Tang Hua sighed silently, "Your business is getting bigger and bigger. I should be happy at first, but when I think about your frequent business trips this year, I can't be happy."

Ruan Shijie patted him on the shoulder again, and with their personalities, it was definitely impossible for them to say anything like quitting work.

Both of them bear the fate of countless people, and they can't help but give up.

Tang Hua felt his helplessness, put his arms around his waist, and concluded, "So if you can hug me, you should hug me for a while, or you may not be able to hug me in a few days."

Ruan Shi joked, "Why don't you try to open the door directly to the hotel where I'm staying?"

"Well, it's too far away, I don't think so, you have to sit for twelve hours by plane." After finishing this sentence, Jiang Hua was unwilling to reconcile, and muttered, "Forget it, I'd better try, in case What if it succeeds?"

Ruan Shijie smiled softly, "Yes, if it succeeds, we can be together wherever I go in the future."

"Okay, just try it!"