Chapter 198: The Working Princess
The color of coarse salt is not white, there is no refined salt good-looking, in modern times people think that coarse salt has the benefits of coarse salt, but in ancient times they did not think so, that the better the salt, the whiter, the color is poor, and the salt with more impurities is the worst, and because of the different processing methods, some coarse salt is poisonous and inedible, but even if it is coarse salt, it is not allowed to be transported to the grassland, even if it is a private salt dealer, it will sell coarse salt at a very high price, anyway, it is salt, as long as it is not poisonous, it will not be sold, if it is not for Yang Ze to buy it in the name of the government, That's just not enough to buy that much coarse salt.
Yang Ze listened to Fu Bingrong's words, snorted, and said, "Whoever wants to bluff people, I have other uses, go and do things!" ”
Fu Bingrong had no choice but to recruit people to grind coarse salt.
Yang Ze began to ponder how tea bricks were made again, for a person who had never even seen a tea brick, if he wanted to study a method, even if this method was simple, it would not work, and it would have to go through countless failures before he could make it.
In modern tea bricks, it needs to be autoclaved, and it also needs to be dried and other processes, but it is not simply pressed into a brick shape, but Yang Ze does not know these.
After pondering for a long time, Yang Ze really had no choice, his stomach was hungry, so he asked someone to bring food, planning to think about it when he was full, anyway, there was nothing else, just concentrate on this.
The servant brought the food and put it on the table, Yang Ze saw a large piece of cheese on the plate, he sighed, and said, "How can there be this, why didn't you see it a few days ago?" ”
This servant belongs to the Yan family, and he hurriedly replied: "It was my young master who bought it from the state, to say that this cheese is still authentic in the northwest, my young master tasted it, and felt that it was better than Chang'an's, and it was full of fragrance, so he bought a lot of it and gave it to the adults to try it!" ”
Yang looked at the cheese and suddenly smiled: "There is." I can't make tea bricks, but milk bricks can, isn't it cheese, it's very simple! ”
In fact, cheese is not easy to make, if you want to make it well, it is even more difficult, Yang Ze can't do it, but he can't do it, there are people in this place who can do it!
Yang Ze wants to make things, and he doesn't require high quality, as long as there is such a taste. What is authentic or not, I don't care at all, anyway, no one has ever drunk authentic, I don't know what the authentic taste is, he said what is good, the taste is pure, then what is the taste is pure!
Tea bricks are studied slowly, and it is too late, but milk tea can be made now. Yang Ze smiled: "Is there any goat's milk?" Get me some to try! ”
The servant hurried out, and came back after a long time, came in with a bowl of goat's milk, and said, "Your Excellency." This is fresh goat's milk, so hard to get, make adults wait for a long time! ”
Yang Ze had already finished eating at this time, how could he wait for half a day. Just to wait for a bowl of goat milk, seeing that there is not much goat milk, he shook his head and said, "Too little." Get more, at least one pot! ”
The servant had to go out again, but it was too difficult to find fresh goat's milk, and it was not easy to get together a wooden basin, and the servant wondered in his heart, what is the use of so much goat milk, what is the use of the adults, it is definitely impossible to drink it, is it to be used to wash the face? Obediently, this is too luxurious, and washing your face with goat's milk is so sticky and uncomfortable!
When the goat's milk was brought into the house, the servant asked, "What else do you need, sir?" Do you want milk? There are yaks in this place, but I don't know if they produce milk in this winter, so why don't you ask them and get some for you? ”
Yang Ze thought for a while and said, "This is not in a hurry, just have goat's milk, let's do it first, if I want it, you can find it again." ”
The housekeeper went out in a puzzled manner, and because he was not told to keep it secret, he told him about the goat's milk, and the people in the county government were all surprised and discussed.
This time there is goat's milk, but Yang Ze looked at the wooden basin with great interest for a long time, and as soon as the excitement passed, he made difficulties again, and he couldn't make cheese, if he wanted to make milk tea, he had to do it, it was easy to think about, if you really wanted to do it, it would be difficult!
Helpless, Yang Ze had no choice but to go out of the house, wanting the servants to find him someone who could make cheese, but after thinking about it, the eight characters have not been skimmed yet, it is not good to let others know first, after all, he still has to count on making money with new cheese!
He went out of the county government and arrived at the gate of the palace, although Li Yan's palace was too small, and he could see it when he stood at the door, but it was also a palace, he looked inside, and he didn't see Li Yan and his wife, but he saw Caicai sitting in the courtyard, holding a book and reading it!
Yang Ze entered the courtyard and said with a smile: "I really didn't see it, you are still a young woman in literature and art, what are you reading?" Is it the Analects or the Tao Te Ching? He casually made a joke.
But only to find out recently, the original dish is a picture album, is about Buddhism album, because Buddhism into the Central Plains, many good men and women are illiterate, so the monks made a picture album, tell the story of Buddhism, although in the printing is not very exquisite, but the interest is still very strong, but also can really attract people, when the people have an understanding of Buddhism, the people who believe in Buddhism will naturally increase.
Yang Ze nodded and said, "This book is to persuade people to be kind, very good!" ”
The pages of the album have turned yellow, I don't know how many years have passed, and I don't know how many times it has been turned over, it is already very tattered, and there are no books to read here.
Caicai raised her head, glanced at Yang Ze, snorted, lowered her head and read the book, obviously still angry with Yang Ze.
Yang Ze smiled: "If you want to read books, this is very easy, I have a lot of books there, and there are books like Legend Zhiwei, and the stories in them are very good!" ”
Caicai raised her head, looking very expectant, but her little face was full of stubbornness, Yang Ze said bad things about her Prince Charming, she was still very angry and refused to ask Yang Ze for anything.
Yang Ze squatted down and said, "Do you want a horse?" ”
"I don't want your stinky thing!" Nana said angrily. In fact, she wants it very much, if Yang Ze talks to her well and no longer speaks ill of Prince Charming, it is estimated that she will say yes, and the horse is not a stinky thing!
Yang Ze didn't talk to her well, and said with a smile: "Don't pull it down, fart and hit the bird!" I'm still distressed to give you a horse for nothing! ”
Nana closed the album and said angrily: "I knew you wouldn't give it, you stingy ghost!" ”
"Then do you want to work for me, and then make money and buy a horse from me?" Yang Ze said. Caicai, the princess, is really miserable, but if he can be a working girl, he is still willing to pay a little more.
Caicai was stunned for a moment, but she didn't lose her temper again, and said, "What is a part-time job?" ”
"Just work for me, and then I'll pay you, will you make cheese?"
Nana nodded, making cheese is not a difficult task, she, a princess in distress, really knows how to do it. She said, "That's a lot of hard work!" ”
Yang Ze said: "You make cheese for me, if it's done." I'll give you a horse, I didn't give it to you, you earned it yourself, and you don't owe me a favor, do you think that's good? ”
Nana's eyes lit up immediately, and she nodded vigorously to show her willingness. But as a working princess, she has no experience, so she forgot to ask. How to do it well, how long to do it, I didn't ask anything, I just agreed!
What a simple child. It's so easy to say yes! Yang Ze was very satisfied with her appearance, stood up, and beckoned, "Let's go, go to the county office." Let's make cheese. ”
Caicai followed Yang Ze into the house, saw the big pot of goat's milk on the table, and said, "Is this what you can do?" What about the bucket, I won't do it without a bucket, I won't make a basin! ”
"Do you want a bucket?" Yang Ze suddenly became happy and said: "No wonder I thought about it for a long time, and I didn't come up with a way to do it. Okay, you wait, I'll go find you a bucket! ”
Out of the house, Yang Ze called the servants again, and asked them to find a barrel specializing in making cheese, this is simple, it is not a rare thing to make cheese in this place in the northwest, there is a workshop in the city that specializes in this, the servant went to ask for a barrel, and it didn't take much effort, so he asked for a full set of equipment to come back.
Those who are difficult will not, and those who will will not be difficult. In ancient times, making cheese was not as complicated as in modern times, and it was about the same for temperature and fermentation, and there was not much attention to it, and people in these years did not pay much attention to hygiene, and even did not pay attention to the taste, as long as it could be eaten.
After seeing the cheese formed, Caicai wiped his sweat and said, "I have to leave it for a few days, it's cold now, and it's not easy to dry, so you can deal with it and eat it!" ”
Yang Ze said: "If you can't do it, then you don't have to, I want to add some ingredients to it, you don't think it's possible!" He took out the spices and showed them to the vegetables.
Caicai shook his head and said: "These things are very expensive, more expensive than cheese, isn't it a waste to put them in, how can there be cheese like this, I won't make it!" ”
Suddenly, she showed a dissatisfied expression and said, "You don't want to repay the debt, and deliberately give me a problem!" ”
Seeing her suspicions, Yang Ze hurriedly said: "No, no, I don't mean that, how can I rely on it!" He mixed all kinds of conditionings and mixed them into cheese, he didn't know how to make milk tea, anyway, even if he crossed the river by feeling the stones, he would make a sample first and slowly improve it.
Seeing that Yang Ze was busy, Cai Caiqi said, "What the hell are you doing here!" ”
Yang Ze made a few noises, took out the mixed cheese, went to the kitchen, found a small pot, mixed it with water, and boiled it. Caicai followed behind, watching him busy, he felt amazing, and he also felt that Yang Ze might be a little sick in his head, why put the finished cheese into the pot and melt it, isn't this an extra move!
The fragrance came out, and Caicai took a deep breath of the aroma, and said: "If you want to drink hot goat's milk, you can just cook it directly, you can also add seasonings to it, why bother so much, you are idle with nothing!" ”
"That's different!" Yang Ze came out of the pot with a bowl of milk tea, took a sip, and swallowed it vigorously, he really didn't dare to compliment this taste, it can be said with certainty that no one will like this thing he made, and his method is wrong seven or eight times out of ten!
Swallowing this sip of milk tea, Yang Ze praised it: "The taste is very special, it's really special, come, you can take a sip too!" He handed the remaining milk tea in the bowl to Caicai.
Just smelling the taste, it's quite fragrant, and I didn't think much about the dishes, I took the bowl and drank a big bite!
Yang Ze saw that she drank it, and said with a smile: "The taste is very special, haha, I said special, but I didn't say it was delicious......
Before he finished speaking, he saw Caicai pop and spray this special flavor of milk tea all over his face! (To be continued......)