Yipin Qiao Nongfei

Chapter 131
"Sweet...sweet, it's a bit like sugar, but...sugar doesn't look like this."

Wang Ming looked confused, and murmured: "Could it be made of honey? No, honey is not white either. My lord, please taste it quickly and see what it is."

What is the use of Prince Rong? He said, picked up a piece of glutinous rice cake, dipped it in sugar and put it in his mouth, tasted it carefully for a while, put down his chopsticks and said in doubt: "This is sugar, it is definitely not honey, it's just..."

He looked at the plate of white sugar, hesitated for a moment, then stroked his palms and said with a smile: "Yes, it must be sugar, I just don't know what method I used to make this sugar white as frost and snow, it looks much better than those brown sugar, malt sugar and black sugar." gone."

Fang Xuesong gave a thumbs up: "Brother-in-law is amazing! I didn't even have the slightest suspicion. You are right, this is sugar, white sugar."

"Sure enough, it is a rare thing that has never been seen in the world." Prince Rong laughed, thought for a while and said: "Where is this sold? Cedar, go and buy more. While there is no such thing in Beijing, I will sell it." I need to pack it up and give it away."

Fang Xuesong said with a smile: "Brother-in-law doesn't know yet, right? Now I have a sugar shop in Daxing County. This white sugar is a secret recipe that a friend sold me. I bought it for 1000 taels of silver. As long as you employ the right people, within three to five years, the sugar will be reduced." Don’t be afraid to spread it.”

Prince Rong frowned: "What friend? A new friend from Daxing County?"

"Yes." Fang Xuesong nodded with a smile, and Prince Rong smiled: "Could it be the girl you said can grow beets? Yes, how about beets? She really planted them?"

"Yes, it has been planted, but because there were few seeds in the first year of planting, only four thousand catties were planted. Well, two acres of land were planted, and four thousand catties were produced."

Prince Rong didn't care at first, but when he heard the last sentence, his eyeballs almost protruded: "How much? How many acres of land?"

Fang Xuesong stretched out two fingers: "Two acres of land, four thousand catties. How about it?"

Prince Rong took a deep breath, looked at the white sugar, and said softly after a long while: "Before you said that beets might replace sugar cane and be promoted in the northern provinces, I thought you were talking nonsense. Now it seems that such a The output seems to be better than that of sugarcane, in the future..."

He didn't go on, just dipped in sugar and ate a piece of glutinous rice cake silently, pondered for a while, and suddenly said seriously: "Xue Song, your friend does have some great strengths, especially since she is still a daughter. It's rare, you and your brother-in-law are telling the truth, are you really just friends with her? Does she have any unreasonable thoughts about you? "

Fang Xuesong smiled bitterly: "At present, I really can't see that she has any unreasonable thoughts about me."

Prince Rong was stunned for a moment, and then he said in relief: "From this point of view, you are a self-aware person. As you are, it is indeed not easy to cling to, but..."

He knocked on the table with his fingers, and after a moment of contemplation, he said softly: "It's a pity for such a talent, even as a daughter, to let her live among the people. You have gradually reached the age of marriage, and she is absolutely unacceptable as the main wife, but It's easy to be a concubine, but if you really like it, you can make her an aunt."

Fang Xuesong sighed in his heart, but he also knew that it was due to Su Wanqiu's talent that his brother-in-law could make such an arrangement.

Fang Xuesong didn't object, he knew it was useless to object now, it was absolutely impossible for Prince Rong to accept that he wanted to marry a village girl with only beets and sugar.

Fortunately, the third girl's talent is far more than that. She said earlier that she wanted to grow enoki mushrooms. Now, no one in the court doesn't like mushrooms, but for various reasons, they are even rarer than mountain treasures.In addition, who knows what talents she has that are different from ordinary people. As long as I don't mention the matter of marriage in the past two years, many of her talents will be stacked up in the future. .

These plans are all in mind, although Fang Xuesong is young, but the city is very deep, otherwise he would not be valued by Prince Rong.Rushing to disclose things without success will only cause countless troubles, so he will not dig a hole for himself.

The two talked a few more words, and suddenly someone outside reported that someone from the palace was coming, and Prince Xuan Rong had an audience.

Prince Rong smiled at Fang Xuesong: "Do you still have that white sugar? I happened to bring some into the palace to give Father a taste. His old man also likes sweets. Seeing this sugar is as soft as snow, why not love it?"

Fang Xuesong hurriedly said: "Yes. I brought [-] catties of white sugar with me when I came to Beijing this time, I left [-] catties in my house, and sent [-] catties to the palace. They are all outside at the moment, and my brother-in-law sent someone to pick them up." .”

"it is good."

Prince Rong nodded, patted Fang Xuesong on the shoulder and asked him to stay at the mansion to accompany the princess for dinner at noon, while he himself changed his clothes and took sugar with him to the palace.

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"This court test is not as simple as the county test. I have already said that I want you to go with your brother. It's the capital..."

It was dusk, the sisters-in-law of the Su family were cooking dinner for the family in the main room, and Su Wanchun was lighting a fire under the stove. Seeing Su Yunhai walking in and out with nothing to do, Yan couldn't help but mutter.

"Mother, it's not that I haven't been to the capital, I obviously lived there for half a month during the last government examination."

Su Yunhai interrupted his mother impatiently, only to hear Yan said angrily: "I know you have been there, that time was the government examination, this time is the hospital examination, even if you don't take the exam, you should see the world, who dares to say three times?" Why won't you be able to enter the examination room after the next year? With these preparations, I don't know how much trouble will be saved."

Su Yunhai was full of irritability, and he didn't dare to get angry at his mother in front of his sister-in-law, especially the tigress of the third sister was also squatting in front of another stove to light a fire.

"Okay, uncle, if the cow doesn't drink water and forcefully presses the head, the eldest brother will not go if he doesn't want to go. When the third brother comes back, let him know the general situation."

Su Wanqiu said leisurely, Su Yunhai immediately gave her a grateful look, and felt that the third sister was really understanding, although they were a bit fierce, but one thing to say, she was the most enlightened and most soothing in this family.

Su Wanchun was lighting a fire under Yan's stove. Hearing these discussions, she stared at the flames under the stove and murmured: "I don't know how Master Shen did in the exam this time? Could it be that he won another case?"

When mentioning his proud boss, Su Yunhai was really beaming and proud, and drank half a scoop of water with a smile: "I dare not say the first one, but the top three must be fine, after all, our boss's talent Mingna is the first in Daxing County, and now in the capital, it is probably considered a little famous."

Su Wanqiu rested his chin on his hand, and said with a smile: "That's amazing. If you really want to win the top case, you should be the junior three yuan. If you win the big three yuan in the provincial examination and palace examination in the future, wow! Is there any precedent for Xia Dynasty winning six yuan in a row?"

"Really not. Even if you add the previous dynasty, there are only one or two extras for thousands of years... However, it is too difficult to win six yuan in a row."

"Indeed, there are so many talented people in the world, Shen Yuanxi doesn't dare to say that he is the leader." Su Wanqiu nodded: "However, this time the hospital examination is actually similar to the people in the government examination, and he is still very likely to make another success, little Sanyuan It's also very good."

As soon as the words were finished, a voice outside the door called out: "Third Miss... oh no, is Master Yunhai there? Our young master sent me to announce the good news."

(End of this chapter)