But said that Xia Hongsheng here, since leaving the school that day, went straight to Mingxiang Curie, found that Mingxiang Curie is now a non-stop flow of people, endless, the shopkeeper of Xia Hongsheng is naturally a sigh, the exclusive naming right completely Mingxiangju name to go out, now in just a few days, the customer who came to order tea has already collected the cost of the exclusive naming right, and the shopkeeper is already considering whether to ask the owner of the house, and add two more workshops to meet the speed of tea. The shopkeeper was already convinced of Xia Hongsheng's ability to do business, so as soon as Xia Hongsheng sent the sorted out things, the shopkeeper immediately sent someone to do it, and now it is ready according to what is written above.

Xia Hongsheng buried his head in the workshop, and there were several kinds of sugar in front of him that the shopkeeper bought according to his instructions, but they didn't look good, some looked like clods of soil, and some looked like mud. If you want to make rock candy, you must first make white sugar, otherwise, the rock candy will not be crystal clear like ice, but will turn yellow and turn into yellow-brown or yellow-red opaque crystals. But at present, Li Shimin has not sent people to India to learn how to boil sugar, so the Tang Dynasty still uses the method of drying sugar in the sun, and the sugar made is the same as sand, not to mention yellowing, and the sweetness is not so full.

Xia Hongsheng saw it once in the village where he taught, he was an old man who made sugar paintings, he didn't like the sugar he bought, he liked to make it himself, he just liked this kind of folk thing, so it was a novelty, so he followed it once, and remembered that it seemed to be poured down with muddy water. First, the sugarcane is squeezed out of the cane juice, then put it into a vat and boiled into a yellow-black syrup with fire, and then pour it into the funnel to solidify the sugar, and then pour the yellow muddy water into the funnel and pour it down, which can take away the impurities and leave the white sugar. But there is no sugarcane now, so Xia Hongsheng thought about boiling the sugar he bought, and what he got was not syrup, so he planned to try it.

Because Xia Hongsheng said that he wanted absolute secrecy and an absolutely reliable person, the shopkeeper sent his own son to help Xia Hongsheng. According to Xia Hongsheng's requirements, he set up an iron pot, poured all the sugar he bought into the pot and burned it slowly, the sugar slowly melted in the pot, exuding an attractive sweet smell, and after melting, the color turned black and yellow.

"Take some straw, and bring another tile, you don't need too much straw, you can plug the leak of the tile." Xia Hongsheng looked at the syrup boiling in the pot, turned around and said to the shopkeeper's son.

The shopkeeper's son seemed to have inherited the neatness of the shopkeeper, and soon came in with a tile slip and handed it to Xia Hongsheng, Xia Hongsheng took a look, the leak had been blocked with straw, and he also brought some hay in his hand and put it aside for backup.

The syrup in the pot became thicker and thicker as it boiled, and gradually turned into a thick black liquid. Xia Hongsheng didn't know what the heat should be, but he had seen the old man who made sugar paintings boil it once, and he remembered the general process, but the specific standards were not clear, and he needed to test it himself.

Xia Hongsheng asked the shopkeeper's son to put the tile chute on the water tank, and then the two of them lifted the pot together, and slowly poured the thick black and yellow syrup inside into the tile slip, which was plugged with straw under the tile slip, and the syrup was thick so that it would not leak out. At this point, it will come to an end for the time being, and you need to wait for the black sugar in the tile to crystallize in the leak of the tile. Wait until the black sugar crystallizes, you can remove the straw, and then pour it into the funnel from above with yellow mud water, the yellow mud water enters the black sugar, and leaks down along the tile, you can take away the impurities in the black sugar crystals, flow into the cylinder below, and leave hoarfrost in the funnel, which is white sugar. And in the tank below, it is still black sugar.

It seems that I heard the old man say that you can also pour yellow mud directly into the syrup to decolorize, the decolorization effect is better, and it is much faster. However, Xia Hongsheng can't be sure, so he will try it with a conservative method first, if it can really be successfully decolorized through guò yellow mud water, the next step is to use yellow mud directly mixed into the syrup to boil and filter, and decolorize.

"Okay, that's it for now, I guess it will take a while." Xia Hongsheng said to the shopkeeper's son: "Now try how to make flower tea, I remember that it is necessary to mix flowers and tea together and seal them in an urn, first boil and then bake, let's try it, if you can try it, the tea line will have a big entry, this kind of flower tea, both the meaning of tea, and the fragrance of flowers, is also good for the body, it is the most suitable for women to quote, think to come to those official eunuchs and ladies and ladies, will love this kind of flower tea very much." ”

The shopkeeper has already asked Xia Hongsheng to find petals, and it just so happens that the jasmine bloom has just arrived, and the newly bloomed jasmine flowers exude a faint fragrance, which is spread out in the big circle basket, exuding a fresh fragrance. The crockpot was also ready, but when it came time to put petals and tea leaves inside, Xia Hongsheng was embarrassed. I remember that there seems to be a proportion of flowers and tea together, but I can't remember how many percent of the tea leaves and how many percent of the petals should be put together.

I can't remember it carefully, because Xia Hongsheng doesn't know what that ratio is. Simply, just wrap the tea leaves with paper, and then spread a layer of tea leaves into the crockpot, thinking that there should be more tea than flowers, after all, flower tea and flower tea, or tea! It was covered with crockpots, and then handed to the shopkeeper's son, who asked him to seal the mouth of the crockpot. It took several crockpots to seal up the jasmine flowers. Xia Hongsheng and the shopkeeper's son put the clay pots into the kettle, added water to make a fire, and boiled them.

"Cook for a while, wait for a while to go to the fire, take out the crockpot and let it cool, and then take out those flowers, wrap them in paper and dry them, and it should be about the same." Xia Hongsheng clapped his hands, moved a horse and sat down, waiting to fish the crockpot out of the kettle.

Taking advantage of this moment, Xia Hongsheng thought carefully about his next plans. The tea shop has now also become famous by virtue of the naming rights of this poetry club, and now it has begun to have some fame. In the past few days, the shopkeeper has been trying his best to get the naming rights of the Dou Oiran in the future, if it is smooth, I believe that after the Dou Oiran, the reputation of this new tea will spread more widely, and Mingxiangju will also spread out with the spread of this new tea. Nowadays, Mingxiangju has mastered the tea-making technology of this new type of roasted tea, and it is a monopoly in this market. The market prospect of tea is certain, and it is impossible for something that has been passed down for thousands of years and loved for thousands of years not to be sold, that is certain. In the agreement between himself and the Xu family, no matter how large the scale of the tea business is, he will occupy fifty percent, and it will be a very considerable dividend in the future. Just wait for the money from the first dividend to arrive, and you can let your sister-in-law move to Luoyang City. With the money from the tea store as a basis, the sister-in-law's food stall can develop into a food city. Those big famous dishes, Xia Hongsheng doesn't have that skill, and he can't do them, even if he opens a restaurant, there is no town store, and the big dishes that can be put on the table are those dishes that are handed over to Yixiangju, and now their cooks have done better than their own. Xia Hongsheng knew in his heart that his advantage was in the variety of home-cooked snacks that had not yet appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, the snack city has become Xia Hongsheng's best choice.

If conditions permit, you can still cooperate with the Xu family, let them choose the right family, train by themselves, learn a snack, and then enter the snack city to occupy a window, these windows can also recruit cooks, let them make zuò and sell distinctive meals in it, and the snack city only needs to take a certain percentage from their income. There are many kinds of meals in the snack truck, and the price must be cheaper than in the restaurant and restaurant, and it is more inclined to daily meals, so there is no need to worry about fewer customers.

In this way, it is not far from the goal of eating and waiting for death!

Xia Hongsheng grinned, and when he thought that he was finally about to be able to live the life of his dreams, he was suddenly full of enthusiasm again, stood up from the maza, and said to the son of the shopkeeper next to him: "Go!" Let's stir up a bucket of yellow mud! ”

Soon, Xia Hongsheng and the shopkeeper's son carried a piece of yellow water from the outside into the workshop again, and put it next to the water tank, Xia Hongsheng picked up the tile slip and took a look, and saw that the leak had already solved a layer of black sand, stretched out his finger and dipped it, the syrup in the tile slip was about to condense at this moment, but it had not completely condensed into a hard lump. This is just right, if the condensation is too light, the leaking straw will be pulled out, and the syrup will be left along the leakage, and there will be no sugar, what kind of white sugar will be used. But it can't be condensed too much, otherwise it will be completely agglomerate, and the yellow mud water will not be able to penetrate, and it will not be able to take away impurities for decolorization.

Xia Hongsheng and the shopkeeper's son lifted the wooden bucket together, and slowly poured the yellow mud water in the wooden bucket along the tile, the yellow mud water entered the tile, slowly mixed into the syrup, and slowly seeped down the syrup, and the yellow-black impurities were wrapped in the yellow mud water and brought down, slowly seeping down, and flowed into the cylinder below from the leak.

Gradually, the black and yellow scum in the syrup in the tile slurry flowed out with the yellow mud water, and a thin layer of white powder began to appear on the tile, like the hoarfrost formed in autumn.

Xia Hongsheng stretched out his finger to wipe some of that kind of hoarfrost, put it in his mouth and tasted it, and a smile appeared on his face.