Hu Tu put down the shovel, held it in his hand, and looked at him with a half-smile, "What? You still want to eat and drink for free?"

"Then... let's wait until the arrangements are settled. Don't miss out on this drink." Guard Lin looked at him aggrievedly.

Shui Zheran walked out of the room and said, "We are all friends, but we are still short of food? Come in, we happen to have game at home, let's chat while we eat."

They didn't enter the house. Shui Zheran brought out two square bamboo tables and put them together, set up a grill next to them, and quickly lit a charcoal fire and slowly roasted a wild sheep on the grill.

When Guard Lin saw Shui Zheran's favor, his favorable impression doubled immediately and he smiled and said, "Do you have any wine?"

Shui Zheran nodded, "You still have to run errands and drink some glutinous rice bar."

"Okay, as long as there is wine, it will be fine. The city and county are in such a mess now that you can't even smell the alcohol." Guard Lin followed Shui Zheran with a hint of flattery.

Shui Ling came back from outside with Hu Tu's two children. Each of them carried a large sugar cane. The sugar cane has now grown on half an acre of land and is now ready to be eaten.

Hu Tu's eyes lit up and he asked: "Is this Yuzhu?"

Shui Ling laughed, "We call it sugar cane. We squeeze the juice to make sugar, but it's also good to peel it and eat it directly. Children like it."

"Oh, we don't have this thing in our country. How did you grow it? Why didn't I see it?" Hu Tu went to the field and did not see sugar cane.

Shui Ling laughed and said, "How can you go to the sandy land by the river if you are so lazy? The place where I plant is remote and I am afraid of being harmed by others. It took me three years to cultivate just half an acre."

"Tsk, tsk, that's awesome. You can make good stuff quietly. If there are more of them in the future, our country will be able to produce snowflake candy, which will save a lot of money for the national treasury." Unexpectedly, Hu Tu is still a person who cares about national affairs.

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Just as Shui Ling was about to speak, she felt her body being pulled back violently. She turned around and saw the horses of those people coming to eat the sugar cane leaves. She simply took out her dagger and cut off the tender tips at the front, letting the horses eat it themselves.

go.

Hu Buyu looked at Ye Zi with regret and asked, "Can't Ye Zi make sugar?"

Shuiling laughed and said, "The leaves contain little sugar and livestock love to eat them. Remember, we won't do work that doesn't pay for the work."

"What do you mean by not using low-quality materials and low performance?" Hu Buyu asked confusedly.

Shuiling explained patiently, "There is no sugar in these leaves. If you insist on making them through the process of boiling sugar, you will get very little sugar, which is a waste of firewood and manpower."

"It's like you put in a lot of effort to cultivate the land, working on an acre of land, but in the end you find that the food grown on this land is only one percent, and the effort you put in is far from what you harvested."

Hu Buyu nodded, "I understand. When doing things in the future, you must consider whether they are equivalent. If they are not, don't do them."

Shui Ling suddenly discovered that Hu Buyu had a talent for doing business, but his status prevented him from doing business.

"You can't say that. Look at your father. He worked hard for the people and lost his official position. However, he has a clear conscience and is clean and honest. I hope you can learn from your father and become like your father in the future.

A good official." Shui Ling started to flatter him.

Hu Tu felt very relieved, but he also knew what was going on. He said humbly: "To be honest, I just did what I should do. If I am an official and do not make decisions for the people, it is better to go home and plant sweet potatoes."

Guard Lin was stunned by them, with deep admiration on his face, and he felt that those who said Hu Tu was selfish were slander.

He thought for a moment and asked: "Sir, if you have the opportunity, would you like to go to the capital?"

Hu Tu waved his hands repeatedly, "To be honest, here I am an official, a bit dignified, but what am I when I go to the capital? I am just an ant."

"Actually, I can't bear to leave here. The people here are simple and honest. If someone else were to be an official, I'd be afraid they would be bullied."

Guard Lin suddenly held up his hands and said with admiration: "No wonder your Excellency has not been promoted for ten years. You simply don't want to leave on purpose. I admire you."

Hu Tu, "..." was heartbroken.

Shui Ling almost burst out laughing, okay, this is a beautiful misunderstanding. She quickly took the children to deal with the sugar cane.

I only got three canes back, so I cut one to give to people outside for a taste, and squeezed the remaining juice to boil sugar. The two sugar canes weighed eight kilograms in total, and the boiled out brown sugar was less than eight taels.

Su Qin's face suddenly changed when he looked at Hong, looking a little disgusted.

Shuiling asked in confusion: "Mom, do you want sugar?"

Su Qin raised his forehead and said, "I thought of the ancient method of making sugar, and I felt a little uncomfortable."

"Huh?" Shui Ling thought for a moment, then grinned. The ancient white sugar was made by drenching it with yellow mud water. No wonder her mother disliked it.

Su Qin pinched a little brown sugar and put it into his mouth, sipped it and said, "I want to eat smoked chicken."

"How about rabbits? The chickens at home lay eggs very diligently." Shuiling thought that we should raise more chickens, otherwise there won't be enough food.

"Okay, it just so happened that your dad cleaned up eight of them yesterday and cooked them all for me. Eat them slowly." Su Qin almost drooled.

Shuiling was speechless, so she had to do it obediently. To make bacon, marinate the rabbit first, and then dry out the water. Then add brown sugar to the bottom of the pot and dry-cook it. Put the rabbit in the pot with a grate and cover it with a lid.

Smoke will appear after dry-burning brown sugar. Use this smoke to slowly smoke the meat into the meat. When the smoked rabbit is finished, its skin will be bright red and it will have a special smoke aroma.

As a result, when the pot was boiling, people outside smelled it. Guard Lin glared at Shui Zheran, "Brother, you are not kind. You hid something delicious."

Shui Zheran looked sideways and said, "This is my little girl making something. If you are not afraid of being poisoned by eating it, I will bring it to you to try."

"Bring it here, bring it here, it smells so good that it even makes you suffer from diarrhea." Guard Lin is a foodie.

Shui Zheran went into the house and brought out two rabbits, "That's it, any more."

Lin Weiwei's eyes lit up. The color looked delicious. He tore off a leg with his hands. He was a little uncomfortable with the first bite, but after the second bite, he felt it was so delicious that he could swallow it with his tongue.

When Hu Tu saw that he was silent, he pulled a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth. "Oh, how did you make this? It's so delicious. Why have I never eaten it before?"

Shui Zheran smiled faintly, "My little girl just got some brown sugar, so I'm going to try out the new method of bacon. Is it okay to eat it?"

"Okay, it's so delicious. It's the best thing to drink with wine." Guard Lin gnawed with satisfaction.

Hu Tu thought for a moment and asked, "Do you open a shop?"

Shui Zheran shook his head, "Don't open it, I don't have the time." As he spoke, his eyes fell on Hu Tu.

Although he is a county magistrate, he is not much richer than the common people, but it can give him a way to make money.
Chapter completed!