Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 102: New wine is coming

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The sun is setting in the west, and the breeze is blowing.

Li Zexuan has visited the entire Plum Village alone. Of course, there is no bloody incident of getting lost in the middle and encountering a beautiful woman to guide him. After all, there are not so many beauties in this countryside. Han Yuxi is just a very special case.

Meicun is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the environment is extremely elegant. After walking around, Li Zexuan even thought of living in seclusion here. He shook his head and dismissed this unrealistic idea. Li Zexuan came to the entrance of the village and took away Liu Qingfeng. The statistical booklet made for the bankers returned to Hanjiazhuang.

After arriving at Hanjiazhuang, Li Zexuan asked Han Lizheng to inform some farmers and ask them to go to Meicun tomorrow to guide them in building chicken farms. Li Zexuan went back to Hanjiazhuang alone.

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Han family courtyard.

"Hong Ling, please quickly bring three people to wash the wild strawberries together."

"Okay, Sister Yuxi."

"Axiang, take four people to wash and cut these hawthorns into pieces."

"Sister Yu Xi, Axiang will go right now."

"Wenwen, go get some water, sugar and distiller's yeast."

"OK."

As soon as Li Zexuan entered the courtyard, he felt as if he had arrived in the land of girls. The courtyard was full of young and lively girls, making the air around him seem fresher.

This was the first time he saw Han Yuxi brewing wine in person. He saw her tying up her long hair with a hair tie and rolling up her sleeves, revealing two slender white jade-like arms. She was squeezing some Mix the good juice with some koji and sugar and pour it into the wine jar.

Her movements are so graceful, and every move is full of poetry and painting. While she is busy with the work in her hands, she directs the girls to perform their duties and work together. The yard seems to have become her battlefield, and she is this battlefield The female general on board.

Perhaps due to the hot weather, there were already some beads of sweat on Han Yuxi's nose, and some traces of sweat could be seen on the clothes on her back. Every time she bent over, the thin white dress , which outlines her beautiful figure.

Um, don't look at anything inappropriate, don't look at anything inappropriate. Li Zexuan quickly turned away and coughed twice. Only then did Han Yuxi and the other girls realize that Li Zexuan had already entered the door.

"I've met the lord!"

All the girls stopped what they were doing and bowed to Li Zexuan together.

Han Yuxi gave him a smile: "Master, you are back."

When Li Zexuan heard these words, he felt a little strange, as if his wife was greeting her husband who had just returned from afar. Shaking his head to get rid of the thoughts in his mind, he quickly smiled at the girls and said:

"Don't be too polite. Just get on with your work. Don't be delayed because of me."

After speaking, Li Zexuan walked straight towards Han Yuxi.

Although the other girls returned to their original positions and continued busy, their eyes secretly glanced here from time to time.

What girl is not pregnant? Li Zexuan is handsome and unrestrained, and he is in a high position. He is young and rich. It would be a lie for them to say that they are not interested.

But they all understand that in terms of beauty, all of them combined cannot compare to Han Yuxi. The way they look at Li Zexuan and Han Yuxi now is mostly gossip.

All the girls want to know whether Han Yuxi, the most beautiful girl in Hanjiazhuang and even the surrounding villages, can capture the heart of this young lord.

Of course, they really hope that Han Yuxi and Li Zexuan will finally get together, because by then, the young lord will be Hanjiazhuang's son-in-law, and Hanjiazhuang's life will be better in the future.

"Yu Xi, you've worked hard, come and wipe your sweat."

Li Zexuan tenderly handed over a handkerchief. He had never been accustomed to carrying this thing with him. He felt that only women would wear handkerchiefs.

But every time Xiao Xi packed his clothes, she would tie a washed handkerchief around his waist. If things went on like this, Li Zexuan didn't bother to correct it. He didn't expect to use it today.

He wanted to wipe Han Yuxi's sweat in person, but thinking that this was ancient times, it would be too presumptuous for him to do so. Not to mention ruining the reputation of his daughter's family, Han Yuxi would probably not care about him anymore in the future.

It has to be said that even though Li Zexuan was in a relationship in his previous life, he was still a novice when it came to figuring out women's thoughts. He still hasn't seen Han Yuxi's feelings for him.

Han Yuxi hesitated for a moment, took the handkerchief shyly, said thank you, gently wiped the sweat from her cheeks, and then said:

"Master, this is the last batch of mountain fruits. The batch of mountain fruit wine brewed before is ready to leave the cellar. When will it be delivered to you, Master?"

Li Zexuan pondered: "How much was the last batch of mountain fruit wine?"

Han Yuxi thought for a while and replied: "There are eighty jars in total, each jar weighs about forty kilograms."

Li Zexuan nodded and said: "Then tomorrow you ask your father to call a few young people to send all the last batch of mountain fruit wine to my house. Yu Xi, do you have free time tomorrow? After the wine is delivered, we will Let’s start bartending, do you want to come with us?”

Finally able to help the young master, Han Yuxi felt a little hopeful and quickly replied:

"Yes, young master, today's last batch of mountain juice and wine tune will be mixed and can be put into the cellar. There will be nothing to worry about later."

Li Zexuan said happily: "That's good."

At this moment, Lan'er and Tiedan came back. The little girl was covered in sweat, but her face was filled with happy laughter. Li Zexuan was speechless, the little girl's temper was getting more and more wild.

"Master!"

"elder brother!"

The two little guys said hello to Li Zexuan, and Li Zexuan nodded. Seeing that it was getting late, he said goodbye to Han Yuxi. Tiedan stayed, and Li Zexuan asked him to go to the city with Han Yuxi and the others tomorrow.

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As soon as he got home, Li Zexuan immediately went into his study. He wanted to draw a set of equipment for distilling liquor. A complete set of distillation equipment is divided into two parts: a still pot and a condenser.

Li Zexuan plans to build the distillation pot with pure copper. Firstly, copper has good thermal conductivity. Secondly, copper is a catalyst for certain esterification reactions. Thirdly, copper has good resistance to the acidity of the raw wine. Fourthly, copper has good thermal conductivity. Copper can cause butyric acid, caproic acid, capric acid, lauric acid, etc. to form insoluble copper salts and precipitate, so that these bad-odor acids can be removed.

As for the condenser part, Li Zexuan plans to use a clay pot to bake it. Because in this era, the technology of firing glass has not yet matured. Li Zexuan does know the general formula, but he has not had time to study it yet.

With the help of his super mental power, in less than half an hour, a complete set of distillation equipment was drawn, without missing a single detail.

Then he hurried to the workshop while the door was still closed and asked Fu Bo to help him make a set of distillation equipment before noon tomorrow. Fu Bo looked at the drawings and found that it was not difficult, so he agreed.

Li Zexuan breathed a sigh of relief and returned home. He happened to meet Wang Zhong and Sanbao returning from Dongshi. Wang Zhong immediately apologized and said:

"Master, I didn't buy many chicks today. This old slave has really neglected his duty and failed the master's trust."

Li Zexuan asked in surprise: "Why?"

Wang Zhong told Li Zexuan that the housekeeper of Cheng Mansion had taken many people to Dongshi in advance and cleared out all the chickens in less than a quarter of an hour.

Li Zexuan pondered for a moment and figured out the whole story. He shook his head and said with a smile:

"Uncle Wang, don't buy chicks for the next two days. Let Cheng Mansion buy them first. By the way, Meicun still needs 70,000 chicks. Uncle Wang, you can buy them all in the future. "

"But, young master..." Wang Zhong stretched out his hand and hesitated.

Li Zexuan waved his hand and said: "Uncle Wang, it's okay. Our family doesn't need the money. Just buy it a few days later."

Cheng Yaojin's guess was correct. The Li family really didn't need the money. Cheng Yaojin was willing to take advantage of Li Zexuan, which proved that he did not regard Li Zexuan as an outsider. Of course, Li Zexuan would not care about it.

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Well, some people are saying that there was no sugar in the Tang Dynasty. I need to explain here that there was actually sugar in the Tang Dynasty, but it was not the white sugar we use now. In the Tang Dynasty, sucrose was used, which was extracted from sugar cane. "New Tang Dynasty" "Book" records that Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty sent envoys to Magadha (India) to obtain sugar refining methods, which shows that Indian sugar refining techniques had been introduced to China in the Tang Dynasty. So book friends, please stop criticizing Xia Ke because of this!

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