Ma Cheng and Gu Xiying were both young people, so they were naturally very curious about this kind of thing. They went to midnight until the night, and used all postures, such as Guanyin sitting on lotus, old man pushing a cart, etc., and it was almost dawn before the two fell asleep.

The next day, Ma Cheng got up just after noon. Ma Cheng touched his numb waist and thought to himself that he was still young and must not indulge in such a lust. There are so many beauties in the future. If everyone makes him work so hard, he will still be unable to survive.

Chunlian, the maid from the tea room outside the door, heard something in the room, and hurried into the house to serve Ma Cheng in dressing.

Chunlian is still a big yellow girl. The first thing she saw was the naked body of an adult man. When she saw Ma Cheng’s unwritten things swaying in front of her, Chunlian was so shy that she was so ashamed.

Seeing Chunlian's appearance, Ma Cheng was so frightened that Ma Cheng shook his little brother and asked, "Chunlian, have you never seen it before! Don't look like this thing is soft now. If it becomes hard, it can make you want to die of ecstasy and finally spit out!"

Chunlian secretly scolded Ma Cheng for being shameless, but there was nothing he could do. He had to withstand this as a maid. Chunlian forced herself to put on her pants for Ma Cheng, and she had to endure Ma Cheng's furious hands and feet while wearing them.

After Ma Cheng put all his clothes on, Ma Cheng noticed that Gu Xiying on the bed was gone. What did this dead woman do if she was not in bed in the morning waiting for the master to come?

"Chunlian, where is Aunt Gu?"

Chunlian was harassed by Ma Cheng at this time, and Ma Cheng finally stopped touching her. Chunlian opened her mouth and said, "Second Master, Aunt Gu has already gotten up and is practicing martial arts in the yard!"

Practicing martial arts? Ma Cheng frowned and asked, "What time is it now?"

"Second Master, it's Si Shi'er, Aunt Gu has been getting up for a long time. Seeing that the second master has not gotten up, he told the maid not to wake up his second master!"

Damn, it's almost ten o'clock! Ma Cheng secretly scolded himself for being in a land of gentleness.

Ma Cheng, who had put on his clothes, left the door of the inner room and came to the door of the main room. He heard a gust of wind outside. He opened the curtain and saw Gu Xiying waving a wooden stick, practicing so well.

Gu Xiying was just practicing until she was excited. When she saw Ma Cheng coming out, she stopped and asked: "Master, you are up!"

Ma Cheng was so impressed that he saw Gu Xiying breaking his body yesterday and came out to practice martial arts today. On the other hand, he was just a little crazy last night, and his waist and legs hurt when he got up today. It seemed that he was really negligent in training.

Ma Cheng licked his face and asked, "Little sister, doesn't it hurt there?"

Gu Xiying was so ashamed to hear Ma Cheng's question. It would be fine if there was no one in the yard, but there was still a maid here now. The second master was just talking nonsense, which really made Gu Xiying too embarrassed.

Ma Cheng laughed when he saw Gu Xiying's appearance: "What's so shy about being all of you? From now on, the master's body will grow into you and Chunlian and you will sleep with the master together!"

Ma Cheng said this even Chunlian was ashamed of her, but she was still secretly happy in her heart. Chunlian was different from Gu Xiying. Chunlian was a tits vendor, and she didn't remember where her family was. So being able to get the second master to take over the house is the best destination. If she could give birth to a man and a half woman for the second master, she would have a guarantee in the future.

Ma Cheng is now the head of the family. There are two women who want to listen to his mercy. Ma Cheng is very happy and waves his hand and said, "Master is hungry, Chunlian, let the kitchen bring some food!"

Chunlian nodded and went out to ask the kitchen to prepare meals. Gu Xiying was no longer practicing martial arts at this time, and went back to the house with Ma Cheng to start washing.

After a while, the kitchen delivered the meals. It was almost noon. The kitchen delivered lunch, six kinds of stir-fry dishes, including meat and vegetable, and a small bucket of fragrant rice.

Ma Cheng did a lot of exercise last night. He smelled the aroma of the food and his index finger moved his finger. He picked up the bowls and chopsticks and wanted to eat. But Ma Cheng saw Gu Xiying standing aside. Ma Cheng asked curiously: "Little sister, why don't you sit down and eat?"

"Master, I will eat some leftovers from my family and Chunlian in a while. Master will use it first!"

Although Gu Xiying was favored by Ma Cheng, her identity was a concubine. In the Ming Dynasty, she should not be considered a concubine, and even a wife could not have a meal with the master.

Ma Cheng frowned when he heard Gu Xiying say this, "There are so many bad rules at home. The master stipulates that in the future, you should eat with the master when there are no outsiders at home. Do you know?"

Gu Xiying was very happy to hear Ma Cheng say this. She was already hungry after practicing all morning. Anyway, Gu Xiying is also a wild girl who has never studied. What family rules do you know? Now, when Ma Cheng says this, he doesn't make a false statement. He just put a bowl of fragrant rice and sat next to Ma Cheng to eat.

Both of them were hungry and the food was quickly eaten up. Chunlian packed up the dishes and sat in the room to drink tea.

At this moment, someone outside the yard shouted loudly: "Second Master, Second Master! Can the villain come in?"

When Ma Cheng heard that it was Gu Changwei's voice, why did he still report it? Ma Cheng stood at the door and said, "Gu San, come in when you come, pretend to be fake!"

The outside of the courtyard agreed, and Gu Changwei was coming when he pushed the door open. Gu Changwei was carrying a sack, and there were seven or eight servants behind him, carrying things on his back or against. Ma Cheng saw that it was what he told Gu Changwei yesterday, and it seemed that Gu San was doing it happily.

Gu Changwei ordered the servants to put all the things in the yard, and sent the servants out, and then came to Ma Cheng and said, "Second Master, what you told the villain yesterday is ready! Please take a look!"

Ma Cheng walked up to look at three large clay tanks, two iron pots, and a copper basin, a bag of charcoal and a bag of lime. Seeing that the iron pipes he had made were also made, Ma Cheng asked happily: "I didn't expect that the blacksmith in the city could make iron sheets, which was really not easy!"

Gu Changwei heard Ma Cheng say this and said, "Second Master, the villain drank with a few colleagues last night, and one of them happened to be in charge of the general manager. He had more than a dozen blacksmiths under him, and soon they beat out the iron tubes!"

After hearing Gu Changwei say this, Ma Cheng remembered that the craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty were part of the army, and the best blacksmiths were naturally in the army. His own son was the commander of the military region, so he naturally had good blacksmiths under his command.

Ma Cheng praised Gu Changwei when he heard what he said: "No, Gu San, you did a good job! By the way, did you buy the candy you prepared?"

"How dare you forget this villain!" Gu Changwei said after opening the seven or eight big bags piled up together and said, "Second Master, that's it!"

Ma Cheng leaned over and saw that there were bricks as black as bricks inside. When the bag opened, it smelled sweet.

Ma Cheng has only seen brown sugar, white sugar and rock sugar. He has never seen such black sugar bricks: "Is this sugar?"

Gu Changwei opened seven or eight bags one by one, the most were this dark brown sugar brick, with three or four cloth bags, and some other yellow sugar, with the least white sugar, and only one small paper bag.

"Second Master, in the morning, the villain walked all over the grocery store in the city. There are a lot of this kind of black sugar, and it is the cheapest. One hundred pounds are only five cents of silver, and yellow sugar is more expensive, one pound and a half cent of silver. This kind of white sugar is the most expensive!"

After Gu Changwei said that, he opened the paper bag and there was about half a pound of sugar inside. However, this sugar was not the pure white of later generations, but a little yellow in the white, which appeared a milky white under the sunlight.

"Second Master, this kind of sugar is the most expensive. These six taels of sugar are all in stock in the grocery store. The shopkeeper said that this kind of sugar is very good in Fengyang. Last month, their shop just bought 100 kilograms from Nanjing and bought them all in the past month. The shopkeeper still had to keep the half kilogram for his family to eat. The shopkeeper said that the purchase price from Nanjing costs eight cents per kilogram, and the total cost of these sugars is five cents."

When Gu Changwei talked about the price, he gritted his teeth. Such a little sugar costs five cents of silver. You should know that five cents of silver are enough to buy thirty kilograms of brown rice in Fengyang, which is enough for Gu Changwei to eat for a month!

Ma Cheng took the sugar bag, twisted it a little with his fingers and looked at it, smelled it again, and finally put it in his mouth and tasted it.

The color of this kind of sugar in the Ming Dynasty was average, and the number of filters was limited. At the same time, the sweetness of sugar was not as sweet as that of later generations, and it felt a bit like rock sugar.

At this time, Gu Xiying and Chunlian came out of the house. Just now, seven or eight servants came to the yard. The two girls hid in the house to avoid suspicion. Now that Gu Changwei was the only one in the yard, Gu Xiying dared to come out.

Gu Xiying saw the yellow sugar on the ground and said, "Brother, are you here to bring candy to your younger sister?" Gu Xiying came to Ma Cheng and saw the sugar in his hand, and was surprised: "Brother, you are crazy, how can you buy sugar? Just have yellow sugar to eat!"

Although Gu Xiying said that, she snatched the candy bag from Ma Cheng's hand and ran back to the house to rinse the candy water.

Ma Cheng said to Gu Xiying: "Don't eat too much, be careful of bleeding noses!"

Seeing that the sugar was stolen by the little sister, Gu Changwei secretly scolded her for being ignorant and didn't know how to leave some for her brother, sister-in-law and nephew at home?

Ma Cheng looked at the equipment on the ground and said, "Okay, Gu San, please help me with my second master in the afternoon! Let's make white sugar that is whiter than the sugar just now!"

Gu Changwei was shocked when he heard Ma Cheng say this and asked, "Second Master, can you really make sugar? The shopkeeper just said that these sugars were not produced by me in the Ming Dynasty, but were shipped from the ocean by the Western red-haired merchants, so the price is so expensive!"

When Ma Cheng heard Gu Changwei say this, he secretly scolded these local old men in the Ming Dynasty and had no confidence in his great motherland. This kind of sugar is called earthy sugar, and it is pure domestic sugar.

There was a record of growing sugarcane in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been large-scale sugar factories in Guangdong and Hainan. The sugar bought by Gu Changwei was produced in Fujian. This sugar production technology was very mature during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. However, because the invention was too late, it was not popular in Nanzhili. In addition, in order to sell it at a good price, Fujian merchants naturally raised the identity of sugar and said that it was imported from ocean.

The production skills of sugar in the Ming Dynasty were very simple. Ma Cheng went to a sugar factory for a trip in his later years and heard the tour guide introduce it. It was the method of pouring water through yellow mud. Although this method is simple, the yield is too low, and the color of the sugar produced is not pure. This is why the sugar Ma Cheng saw just now turned milky white.
Chapter completed!