People in the Tang Dynasty, Jian'an style

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The next day, Ruyue came to inform Li Wenbin that some of the things he had customized in Xishi had been delivered.

This is the serious matter. Li Wenbin brought Ruyue to the backyard and saw a huge pot on the ground. On the pot was a large cylindrical wooden barrel with a strange lid on it.

Ruyue asked curiously, "Young Master, what is this?"

"Oh, this thing is called a distiller. It is a device used to distill out the impurities in the wine."

"Oh, that's awesome."

People in the Tang Dynasty loved wine, but they usually drank newly brewed wine, because undistilled wine was too low in alcohol content, and the storage conditions were very harsh, and it would spoil if not careful.

Good wine that can be preserved for years or even decades has consumed countless manpower, material resources and financial resources. It is only taken out during major festivals or to entertain important guests.

After the wine is distilled, there is no such worry. Not only will the taste be sweeter, but the consumption can also be greatly reduced.

In fact, according to most people, now is not a suitable time to bring out distilled liquor.

It would be best to wait until Li Shimin ascends the throne and appoint himself as a vassal king in another place, and then do this.

However, after thinking about it for so many days, Li Wenbin felt that the risk of doing so was still very high.

In the Tang Dynasty, princes were not worth much. Even if they acquired a large amount of wealth through distilled liquor, they would not be able to keep the wealth without a matching identity and sufficient strength.

If they had waited until Wu Zetian came to power, the royal family members of the Tang Dynasty would have lived a life worse than pigs and dogs. By that time, they would have possessed enough wealth to drive people crazy, which would have been a way to their death.

After careful consideration, Li Wenbin decided to use some of his technology now to make friends with the powerful and build a community of interests - enemies may not be enemies forever, and friends may not be friends forever -

Only interests can bind everyone together tightly.

Just when he was about to start preparing to brew wine, a bright and proud little rooster appeared in front of Li Wenbin.

"What are you doing?"

Li Tai pretended to be very mature and pointed at Li Wenbin and asked.

Li Wenbin glanced at him and said nothing, but Li Tai became furious when he saw that he was ignored.

Li Tai clenched his fists and shouted angrily: "Li Wenbin, I am asking you a question."

Li Wenbin checked the distiller and nodded with satisfaction. The money had been paid, and the boss had indeed made the distiller very finely.

There was no gap between the iron pot and the wooden barrel, but there was a small hole in the upper middle part of the barrel, and a copper tube was inserted diagonally upward, with the upper end shaped like a spoon.

There are water outlet and water inlet holes on both sides of the lid of the wooden barrel. The bottom is an iron cone, and the tip of the cone faces the head of the spoon below.

When using it, just keep adding cold water to the short bucket, and then put the lees into the big pot and steam it.

Alcohol has a relatively low boiling point. When it encounters heat, it turns into gas and rises. When it encounters the cold bottom of the cone, it turns into liquid. Then it flows along the grain through the tip of the cone into the spoon below, and then flows through the copper tube to the outside of the barrel.

Seeing that Li Wenbin was busy with his work and didn't seem to answer his questions at all, Li Tai pointed at him and shouted to the two lackeys behind him: "You two, bring me this Li Wenbin who ignored me."

The two lackeys hesitated: "Your Majesty, this..."

Chapter 47: Better to give it a bargain

They also knew that Li Wenbin was very important to Li Shimin and Zhangsun Wugou recently. They were ordered to harm him. If the prince and princess knew about it...

At that time, the only one who would suffer would be himself, and Li Tai, who gave the order, would not be punished.

"You guys don't listen to me anymore?"

Seeing that the two lackeys did not dare to come forward, Li Tai was furious and felt that he had lost face in front of Li Wenbin - he had deliberately put on the prince's court robes to cause trouble.

But he didn't expect that instead of finding any trouble, he embarrassed himself.

"Don't be impatient. I'm busy. How come you don't have any foresight?"

Li Wenbin waved at Li Tai: "Do you want to know what I'm doing?"

"Humph, I don't bother to know."

"I'm making wine, come and take a closer look."

Li Tai hesitated, and finally dragged it over bit by bit: "You asked me to go over here, not me who wants to know."

"Okay, okay, you're young, I'll let you go."

Li Wenbin ordered people to add wine into the wine trough and then light a fire under the barrel.

After a while, the temperature of the lees in the pot gradually increased. The alcohol inside turned into gas due to the heat and rose up. Then it met the cold lid and condensed into liquid, which dripped into the copper spoon along the tip of the cone.

Soon, a thin stream of wine flowed out from the copper tube on the wall of the barrel and was caught by the wine jar that had been prepared below.

A "gurgle" sound suddenly sounded. Li Wenbin and Li Tai looked at each other, and then turned their heads to look at the same time.

The two of them saw that one of the lackeys was swallowing subconsciously, and the gurgling sound was heard again, and this time it came from the other lackey.

The lackey said intoxicatedly: "What a nice... fragrant wine."

Then he rolled his eyes and said, "Young Master, let me taste the wine for you."

As he said this, he went to get a long-handled spoon and wanted to scoop a spoonful from the wine barrel to taste it.

"Don't drink unless you want to die."

At the critical moment, Li Wenbin finally stopped him and said, "The liquid that just came out is extremely poisonous. If you drink this spoonful, you will spend the rest of your life lying in bed."

"We have to wait a while for the poison inside to dissipate before we can do it."

After receiving half a barrel of wine, Li Wenbin ordered someone to bring the wine jar. This time he could drink the wine with confidence.

Gou Tuijia couldn't wait to gulp down a bowl of the soup, and his fair face turned red in an instant.

The pungent smell of the wine made him feel like vomiting, but he was reluctant to drink such good wine. He kept his eyes bulging open for a long time, and then he took a long time to swallow the wine while trying to gather his breath and stamping his feet.

"Good wine, good wine! It's enough for me to drink such good wine in my life."

After saying this, the wine bowl in his hand fell to the ground, and then he fell on his back. When I looked at him again, he was already breathing alcohol and snoring in sleep.

"Take it away, take it away. It's really embarrassing for me."

Li Wenbin didn't expect that Li Tai brought two men with him, one of whom was a drunkard...

No, looking at the eager eyes of lackey B, the two men beside him are both drunkards!

Forget it, I’m in a good mood today. Li Wenbin sighed and gave him the wine, but told him to taste it slowly and not drink too much.

For a moment, the courtyard was filled with the aroma of wine, and even Li Tai felt a little eager to try it.

"You can't drink, you're too young." Li Wenbin didn't dare to force him to drink. If something happened, he would have several heads that would be enough for Changsun Wugou to chop off.

"Hey, I'm five years old, and I'm the King of Guards."

"You are no king at all. If you continue to act like a fool, I will tell mother."

Li Wenbin thought this little brat was really annoying, but he couldn't do anything to him.

His eyes rolled and he had an idea.

"Your Highness, let me tell you a story."

"Telling a story? Okay, okay." After all, they were just children, and they completely forgot about drinking when they heard the story.

"Have you heard of the Legend of the White Snake, Bai Suzhen, Xiaoqing, Xu Xian and Fahai?"

"No, you might as well tell me about it."

Li Wenbin told Li Tai the story of the Legend of the White Snake. Li Tai had never heard such a story before and soon became fascinated by it. He kept asking:

"Hey, why don't you continue? What happened next?"

"What happened after Bai Suzhen was imprisoned in Leifeng Pagoda? Did Xiaoqing rescue her sister Bai? Did Ning Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian's son Xu Shilin master the magic, defeat Fahai, and rescue Bai Suzhen?"

Li Wenbin glanced at Li Tai and said slowly:

"It is said that Bai Suzhen was imprisoned in Leifeng Pagoda and was not allowed to leave under any circumstances."

"I don't know how long it took, but there was a sudden noise in the tower, which startled Bai Suzhen..."

"Did Xu Xian rescue her?"

As if he had already guessed what would happen next, Li Tai's excited voice began to tremble.

Li Wenbin looked at Li Tai: "Do you want to know what happens next?"

"Think about it, think about it, tell me quickly."

Then Li Tai heard Li Wenbin continue to say: "Bai Suzhen opened her eyes and found Fahai standing in front of her bed, his eyes were red, as if he was possessed by an evil spirit."

"Fahai shouted: White Snake, I see you are lonely in your boudoir. Rather than living a life of widowhood here, it is better to let me have you." Then he pounced on Bai Suzhen..."

Li Tai was stunned. He could never have expected that things would turn out like this.

He felt that his pure heart had been greatly hurt.

He stared at Li Wenbin blankly for a long time, then suddenly shouted and ran away.

Let you be annoying here!

Dogleg B: “…”

No matter how he looked at it, he felt that Li Wenbin was playing a trick on his little prince, but he didn't know what to do.

"Take it and chase your little prince."

Just as lackey Yi was worried, Li Wenbin threw a five-jin wine jar to him and said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, thank you very much, young master. Thank you very much, young master!" The lackey B was overjoyed. He helped his companion up and went to chase Li Tai.

"My dear, you are so bad!"

Ruyue watched the whole process from the side and chuckled with her hands covering her mouth.

"Bad?" Li Wenbin said with a wicked smile, "Is there anything worse?"

As he said this, he took a sip of wine, then took Ruyue into his arms and passed her mouth to mouth.

After a long while, the two separated. Ruyue's face was already red as if it was on fire.

"Young Master, this is daytime. If someone sees me, I will die."

Having said that, the spring in Ruyue's eyes seemed to have turned into drops of water.

Li Wenbin was so excited when he saw this that he picked her up and ran straight into the room.

Ruyue was very shy, but she wrapped her arms tightly around his neck and refused to let go no matter what.

Chapter 48: Unexpected Unexpected

"Young master, young master, someone has something for you..." Just then, Jinxiu ran over, shouting.

She was stunned with an invitation in her hand, looked at Li Wenbin and Ruyue who were stunned outside, paused for a moment, then quietly left the yard and closed the door again.

“Oh my!” Ruyue was slightly embarrassed and tapped Li Wenbin’s arm, saying angrily, “Young Master, put me down!”

"She saw nothing."

"Jinxiu has already seen it!"

"If you don't believe me, go ask her what she just saw."

Li Wenbin didn't care. It was just a hug of his woman. Who would dare to object?

But he changed his mind and suddenly shouted, "Jinxiu, come in."

Jinxiu responded and came in. Then, Li Wenbin pulled her arm and she and Ruyue entered the room together.

As for the invitation...

Li Wenbin: Invitation?

What invitation?

How come I didn't know about this?

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At night, when the lights were on, Li Wenbin and Wu Lezhang had already arrived at the door of Laifeng Tower.

Laifenglou is located in Pingkangfang of Chang'an and is one of the largest brothels.

The consumption level is very high. Li Wenbin had only heard of it before but had never been there.