Chapter 014 Feeling Cold
When Zhao Yulin saw Chen Xiaomin fanning them and slapping the mosquitoes on her hands, he asked if there were any spices at home and went to get some to grind. He would make perfume for Chen Xiaomin to repel mosquitoes.
When Chen Xiaomin heard that Zhao Yulin wanted to make perfume for her, she was so happy that she immediately stood up and went to find Aunt Wu.
Zhao Yulin said that this wine is divided into first wine, middle wine and last wine. The first wine has a high alcohol content. The raw alcohol for making perfume is the freshly roasted first wine. With it, making perfume becomes easy.
He found the recipe for mosquito repellent floral water from the bookcase and asked Chen Xiaomin to prepare it according to the proportions and grind the spices into fine powder for later use.
After the third pot of hot wine came out, Zhao Yulin used a new wine pot to fill it with the ground spices, and directly took the hot wine to shake and stir it. Chen Xiaomin fanned him and kept asking him how he was.
Done yet?
Zhao Yulin smiled and said that it was enough to wait until tomorrow morning. Chen Xiaomin was so angry that his mouth was pouted up high, and he didn't even slap him.
Aunt Wu, who was standing by, laughed out loud as she watched.
Zhao Yulin said that this perfume can also be sold. When the raw materials are collected and made in the future, it can repel mosquitoes and leave a fragrance. Girls will definitely like it. A small porcelain bottle can be sold for five taels of silver. It is more profitable than liquor.
Chen Xiaomin refused to do it, saying that the perfume was made specially for her and she would not sell it and was not allowed to sell it.
Zhao Yulin smiled. He touched the wine jug and found it was already warm. He took out the cork and placed it on the upper wind vent. The rich scent of perfume immediately rushed out.
"It's done." Chen Zhongshun shouted excitedly
Chen Xiaomin grabbed the wine bottle and held it in his arms and said, "I won't give my perfume to anyone."
Zhao Yulin asked her with a smile: "Where's Aunt Wu? You don't give it to me either?"
He walked forward and slowly poured a little out and applied it on the back of Chen Xiaomin's hand. The cool, refreshing feeling immediately spread throughout the little girl's body. He handed the wine jug to Chen Xiaomin, and the little girl immediately ran to apply perfume to Aunt Wu.
Chen Zhongshun was watching from the side and felt very pleased, with a look of happiness on his face.
In the evening, after dinner, everyone sat under a tree and drank tea in front of the distillery. Zhao Yulin said that these technologies are a hundred years ahead and are absolutely unique in the world.
As the saying goes, an innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. Once the news spreads, you will inevitably be targeted, so it is better to be careful.
Everyone nodded heavily.
Three days later, the newly distilled liquor had reached over 1,000 kilograms, and Chen Zhongshun could no longer hold back and wanted to blend the liquor. Zhao Yulin said that the first liquor was too strong and contained poison, so he left him some alcohol to use as disinfectant for external injuries.
No matter what they did, Chen Xiaomin took Zhao Yulin to guard the distillery and told her stories.
Zhao Yulin looked at the girl's affection in front of him and felt that she was not forced by her father to serve him. Rather, she seemed like a burden forced upon her by Chen Zhongshun.
However, this girl's playful personality is very much to its liking, and it is quite happy to be with her.
Zhao Yulin took Chen Xiaomin to kill a chicken, and used the spices and ingredients in the house to make a beggar's chicken and took it to the stove to roast. When everyone finished their work and came back to sit down, the aroma of the beggar's chicken had already impatiently penetrated the soil that wrapped it.
Chen Zhongshun immediately brought over the newly blended wine for them to taste. Chen Xiaomin took out the beggar's chicken, cracked the seal, and unwrapped the lotus leaf . Everyone rushed to grab some.
Zhao Yulin took a sip of the wine and said it was OK. The alcohol content was at least 50 degrees and could be lowered a bit. For one thing, this was the first time that this strong alcoholic beverage was released and people who were used to drinking low-alcohol alcoholic beverages would need some adaptation time.
Secondly, the new wine sold this year would have to fetch at least 10,000 taels of silver, and at 5 taels per pound, at least 2,000 pounds would be needed. He saw that there was not much old wine left, and if he didn't add some mountain spring water, he was afraid that it would not be enough.
Zhao Yulin kept talking and everyone else was stunned, especially Chen Xiaomin. Her cute expression with the chicken leg in her mouth looked very much like the cute new actress Wang in later generations.
He was stunned for a moment and asked what happened?
Chen Zhongshun said slowly, "Are you really going to sell it for five taels of silver per catty?"
"Isn't it too expensive?" Qu Zhengyang said that the cost was less than 800 coins, so it would be enough to sell it for 5 strings of coins.
If these people knew the concept of garden bullets, they would probably be amazed that Zhao Yulin was so desperate for money that he was working on nuclear fusion. He just added a little water to the wine and asked people for ten taels of silver?
Zhao Yulin shook his head and said that the first release of the new wine was a one-time deal and he had to make enough money. Later, when he made the new blend, he would set the price at ten taels per pound after baking.
Those who heard him say this were stunned again.
At this moment, a dull rumbling sound of explosion came from the direction of the county town in the distance, and then the sky turned red. They rushed out of the yard one by one, climbed up the hill outside, and saw that a huge fire had started in the northwest corner of the county town.
Qu Zhengxiang said that apart from Wang’s distillery and granary, there were no large buildings there. Could it be that Wang’s distillery caught fire?
Chen Zhongshun said puzzledly: "This is strange. Even if the stove was on fire, how could it explode? Could it be that the Wang family's wine exploded?"
His words reminded Zhao Yulin. He said he didn't know whether the Wang family's wine would explode, but the Chen family's newly brewed wine would definitely explode, so it must be stored carefully.
As Zhao Yulin spoke, he scooped out half a bowl of first wine and placed it in the middle of the yard. He then went to the distillery to find a wooden stick, lit it and placed it on the wine bowl. Before the stick touched the wine bowl, there was a loud bang and the wine bowl immediately caught fire.
Everyone was stunned. Chen Zhongshun paused for a moment before saying, "Tomorrow, please ask Master Zhengyang to go back and find out what happened in the county town. Ask the porcelain workshop to make the wine jar ."
Zhao Yulin said that he would rush to draw the sample of the perfume bottle and take it back to make them together so that Chen Xiaomin's perfume could also make some money.
Chen Xiaomin was very happy to hear this, and asked her father to give her more money and ask Master Qu to bring back some more spices. Haha, this girl is so generous, she wants Zhao Yulin to make perfume for her again.
Zhao Yulin went into the room to draw a sample of a porcelain perfume bottle. Chen Xiaomin went in to help him grind the ink. With a young woman beside him, he felt like there were three mice in his heart and was going crazy. How could he draw well?
Zhao Yulin pushed Xiaomin out of the room, closed the door, and focused on his work.
The next morning, he got up to practice martial arts. The Chen family's kung fu had already started working. Qu Zhengyang asked him for the blueprints and rode his horse to the county town.
When Zhao Yulin saw Chen Xiaomin carrying water, he couldn't bear it, so he stepped forward, took the shoulder pole and asked her to lead the way. It turned out that the water used by the Chen family to make wine was spring water that seeped out of the rocks of Chiyanzi Mountain. No wonder it was unique. The two of them sat at the mouth of the rock to enjoy the scenery and wait for the spring to be filled.
He looked at Chen Xiaomin, who had an oval face and was almost as tall as him, and was lost in thought about her lover in the future. Chen Xiaomin bumped into him and asked what he was thinking about.
Zhao Yulin then came to her senses and said that she liked the boy because he was handsome and wanted to teach him to dance. The little girl was happy and immediately stood up to let her teach her. The two of them practiced waltz in a small open space. The dance, combined with Xiaomin's fluttering skirt, created an artistic effect.
The two of them were so engrossed in their practice that water overflowed from the bucket and flooded their feet before they remembered their business. The girl hugged him, patted him on the forehead, then walked away, shouting, "Go away."
Zhao Yulin touched his face to recall the feeling just now, while picking up the shoulder pole to fetch water.
Back in the yard, Chen Zhongshun said that the old wine would be distilled today, and he would brew new wine tomorrow and dismantle the two pots, but he was a little reluctant to do so.
Zhao Yulin smiled and said that if one really couldn't bear to do it, just remove the modified part so that no trace could be left.
In the yard, Chen Xiaomin was already calling him.
Zhao Yulin walked out of the distillery and saw the little girl standing under a tree in a new dress with a wide skirt. She asked him to dance again. The two of them danced together like shadows, stunning the old men.
After they stopped, Chen Xiaomin said that she never expected that the third young master of the Zhao family, who looked like a nerd, actually had some good ways to please girls.
Zhao Yulin's face turned red as he listened. He thought that this body must be that of a monk who was not interested in women, otherwise, how could he become a wolf in sheep's clothing in front of Chen Xiaomin.
In the evening, Qu Zhengyang came back and said that Wang's distillery had indeed caught fire and exploded, not only destroying the distillery and burning more than half of the granary, but also destroying several nearby homes and killing several people.
Zhao Yulin asked if they had found out what the reason was.
Qu Zhengyang shook his head and said it was possible. Some said that an explosion occurred when the Wang family was brewing wine, which ignited the burnt winery and granary. Others said that the Wang family secretly stored gunpowder in the burnt winery, and a huge explosion occurred after the wine was brewed, which ignited the new wine, causing a chain explosion.
However, the Wang family said that it was the evil villain Liu San who took revenge by setting fire to the burnt house and causing the tragedy, and they had already reported it to the police.
Zhao Yulin felt that the situation was complicated and he had to hurry up and deal with the matter here. Chen Zhongshun also frowned and said that he would not rest tonight, but would steam the new wine and go back tomorrow.
Everyone became busy and nervous.
The next day, the Chen family invited four large carts from the county town to take away all the new wine. Zhao Yulin saw that Aunt Wu and Chen Zhongshun had a close relationship, and said that it would be better to take Aunt Wu to the county town. It was not safe for a woman to stay by the river, so they could just find a servant to guard the old house.
Chen Zhongshun listened to him.
When he went out, he sent Aunt Wu and Xiaomin to the carriage, and he and Chen Zhongshun took the ox cart to the county town, returning to Baita in the evening.
Lu Youpeng and his team worked very quickly. They connected the welfare home and the white pagoda together to form a large courtyard, and built a gate next to the bamboo forest. Although it was just surrounded by a bamboo fence, it was at least a barrier.
Before he could even sit down, Lei Man came.
Zhao Yulin said that it was a good opportunity to teach Ma Ling'er how to make beggar's chicken. He told Ma Ling'er to kill a chicken and try it out. Ma Jin immediately went to help.
Lei Man sat down and drank a cup of tea and said that the explosion at Wang's kiln had frightened the whole city, tiles flew onto the tower, and cut the soldiers guarding the city. County Lieutenant Zhang led his troops to arrest people everywhere, and even ran to the dock to search.
Zhao Yulin had a serious expression on his face, thinking that this skinning man was really haunting him and was blaming everything on him.
Lei Man said that his two brothers went to the scene and saw that a two-meter-deep pit had been blown out in the Wang family's distillery. They suspected that the Wang family was refining gunpowder, as only gunpowder could have such a great power.
Zhao Yulin had never seen it, so it was difficult for him to draw any conclusions. However, after entering the city and smelling the thick smell of gunpowder, he felt that things must be complicated.
He asked Lei Man whether the news team had any results.
