Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

Chapter 694 Steamed beef?

In the study room in the backyard of Prince Chan's Mansion.

When Zhang Wanshan and Ding Meihua came over, Gu Chan was sitting behind the desk drawing a blueprint.

Shen Yang stood beside her, looking confused, "Second Uncle, what are you drawing? Why can't I understand it at all?"

"It's strange that you can understand it." Gu Chan said as she painted.

"Is this a new weapon?" Shen Yang asked.

Gu Chan was too lazy to explain to him. She handed the finished blueprint to the grandparents sitting opposite and said, "Take a look at it first. If you can understand it, you will not be able to sit idle next time. You must start working immediately and print out this equipment for me before the wedding."

"Gu Chan, why does your painting look a bit like steaming something?"

"Yeah! What do you want to steam?"

Zhang Wanshan and Ding Meihua were indeed experienced blacksmiths. They only took a quick look at the drawings drawn by Gu Chan and recognized that this set of equipment was used to steam things.

But as for what to steam, they had no idea at all.

After all, in this ancient world, modern distillation technology did not exist, and equipment like the one Gu Chan drew, which was specifically used to distill rice wine, had never appeared before.

Today was the first time they saw it, so they naturally felt curious.

Gu Chan sat behind the desk and said, "Although our current rice wine is sweet and delicious, the alcohol content is too low and the quality is not pure. It doesn't taste strong at all, so I plan to design a simpler distillation equipment like this, specifically for distilling rice wine, and make some strong liquor for everyone to taste."

"Distillation equipment? This is the first time I've heard of it." Zhang Wanshan said in surprise.

Ding Meihua nodded without comment.

After carefully examining the blueprint in her hand for a long time, she said, "Gu Chan, your distillation equipment doesn't look difficult at all. If the two of us work together, it should only take one night to complete it."

"Grandma, that's why I came to you! I've always known that you two are excellent blacksmiths. You have to get me this equipment as soon as possible. At the wedding banquet, I will serve the distilled liquor to everyone. As long as this liquor becomes famous, we can use it to make a lot of money in Kyoto in the future." Gu Chan said shrewdly.

When Zhang Wanshan and Ding Meihua heard her words, they immediately became excited and started studying with shining eyes.

Gu Chan quickly sent people to clean up a yard and quickly bought various things needed for blacksmithing from outside. By dusk in the afternoon, the yard had turned into a small blacksmith shop.

Zhang Wanshan and Ding Meihua started to build the distillation equipment under the guidance of Gu Chan.

Shen Yang stood aside and watched the whole process, he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth. He couldn't even figure out where Gu Chan's wild ideas came from?

So, out of doubt, he couldn't help but pull Gu Chan to ask, "Second Uncle, what's in your mind? How come you can always think of things that others can't think of?"

"Bullshit! You are just too backward. If Zuo Yun were to see this little piece of junk, he would definitely look at it with disdain." Gu Chan said unhappily.

Shen Yang reached out and scratched his head, choking so much that he didn't know what to say.

Gu Chan waved her hand and said, "Okay, go back to the Ministry of War and do your work! You can't help much if you stay here."

"What about Lord Yu?" Shen Yang asked. "You don't have to worry about him. I have plenty of ways to deal with him. I really don't believe that I can't change his stubborn bad habits." Gu Chan said with a sly smile.

Shen Yang smiled helplessly, and could only calm down, say goodbye and leave.

After he left, Gu Chan continued to build the distillation equipment with her grandparents.

At night, the sound of clanging iron could be heard from Prince Chan's mansion. Gu Chan and the other two were working hard in the yard and were very happy.

At this moment, they seemed to have returned to the feeling of living in the village. Being in a very stressful place like Kyoto gave them a brief moment of relaxation and pleasure.

On the other side, inside the imperial study of the palace.

At this moment, the housekeeper of Prince Chan's mansion was standing in front of the imperial desk and reported, "My Lord, I don't know what has gone wrong with Gu Chan. After he came back in the afternoon, he set up a blacksmith shop in a small courtyard in the mansion. Then he brought his grandparents and started forging iron, and he has never stopped until now."

"What are they building?" Xuanyuan Long asked with a frown.

"I don't know and I can't understand it. I just heard him say it was steamed beef. Maybe he wanted to eat beef, so he wanted to make a big pot to steam a piece of beef!" said the housekeeper stupidly.

How could he know what distillation equipment was? In the afternoon, he hid outside the yard and eavesdropped, but he couldn't hear it clearly. He heard the word "distillation" as "steaming beef"!

Xuanyuan Long stroked his forehead with his hand and said, "This Gu Chan, there is really no day that I can rest assured. He just dealt with Yu Da's matter, and now he wants to steam beef in an iron pot. What on earth does he want to do?"

"My Lord, I heard that Gu Chan had forged a new weapon called the Red Cannon in the Jiangnan area before. Is it possible that he was using the steamed beef in an iron pot as an excuse to secretly forge a new weapon to deal with you?" the housekeeper reminded.

Xuanyuan Long immediately became cautious and ordered sternly, "Go back to Prince Chan's Mansion and keep an eye on him. Find out for me what he is making. At this critical moment, we cannot let him cause any more trouble for me."

"Yes, Your Highness." The butler responded hurriedly and left.

Xuanyuan Long sat behind the imperial desk and suddenly felt uneasy.

The key is that the unknown is the fearful thing. If he knew what Gu Chan was building, he wouldn't be so uneasy. Being suspicious by nature, how could he tolerate Gu Chan doing something under his nose?

That night, Xuanyuan Long tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

In contrast to him, Gu Chan was having a great time with his grandparents that night.

After the three of them worked hard all night, early the next morning, a well-sealed round iron pot, several iron pipes, and a distillation furnace, a set of simple distillation equipment, was finally completed and assembled by Gu Chan and stood in the yard.

Gu Chan looked at the masterpiece in front of her, laughed with satisfaction and said, "Well! Not bad, it's a bit rough, but it still looks like that. As expected, you two old blacksmiths, your iron casting skills are still good."

"Gu Chan, let's go and rest. We are old and have been up all night. We can't stand it anymore."

"Yeah! Not as good as when I was young. It's true that people can't refuse to accept old age!"

Zhang Wanshan and Ding Meihua sighed in succession.

Gu Chan quickly called two maids and helped them back to their room to rest.

After the two elders left, she started studying alone in the yard.