Zhao Ce looked at what Zhao Youcai brought.

Inside is enough white rice to last for several days, and there are two small cloth bags on top of the rice.

A small cloth bag contained salt the size of a pigeon egg.

The other bag is a small bag of black and yellow candy.

Looking at these, Zhao Ce felt a little warm in his heart.

The moldy white rice in the rice vat in the kitchen was naturally brought by Zhao Youcai before.

All members of Zhao Youcai’s family, except Zhao Wenhua, who is studying in the city.

Others only eat white rice during the Chinese New Year.

But because Zhao Ce was a scholar, all he gave Zhao Ce was white rice.

And these sugar cubes and salt are even more valuable in rural areas.

When rural people talk about replenishing their health, they just drink a bowl of light sugar water.

No matter how rich you are, you will buy some meat for the scholars at home.

If you drink this small bag of sugar with water, you can drink it for a long time.

In short, the three items in this small bag are basically things that ordinary farmers cannot afford.

So Zhao Ce was very moved.

Recalling the many hurtful words he said to Zhao Youcai in the past, Zhao Ce thought, wait until he has a future.

I will definitely respect him well.

but......

Looking at these two small bags of salt and sugar cubes, an idea suddenly appeared in Zhao Ce's mind.

He thought of a way to make money quickly!

When it comes to the profit-making industry in ancient times, it is naturally the salt industry!

Rural people eat coarse salt.

Not to mention purifying coarse salt into refined salt, Zhao Ce knows how to make refined salt from salt ore dug out from salt mines.

But he knew how to do it, but he didn't dare to do this industry.

Now in the Ming Dynasty, salt is not allowed to be made privately.

Even if you make it yourself, there is no place to sell it.

If someone accidentally reports you, your life will be gone in a matter of minutes.

He is now a powerless little scholar, and no one can protect him.

So he still doesn't want to do this kind of thing.

But this candy bar has a lot to say about it!

Most of the sugar at this time was not in the clean crystal form like in later generations.

It contains a lot of impurities and is black and yellow in color.

And that kind of white sugar, or sugar with less impurities.

Even if you are from a wealthy family, you don't get it every day.

Because at this time, only a few people had mastered the technology of white sugar purification.

Zhao Ce remembered that he once read a piece of information on the Internet.

"Marco Polo's Travels" records: Several people from Babylon taught the Chinese to use wood ashes to refine sugar.

However, this method is because the adsorption effect of ordinary charcoal is not as good as that of later activated carbon.

So white sugar is not energy-producible.

Later, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, the sacred book "Tiangong Kaiwu" was published.

A method of purifying white sugar that is simpler, more effective and advanced than charcoal has only become popular.

That is - yellow mud water drenched with sugar method.

After this method was developed, we finally got the same white sugar as later generations.

Zhao Ce has naturally seen this method before.

But the yellow mud water drenched with sugar method, this afternoon, I can't do it myself.

Therefore, we can only temporarily use the relatively backward charcoal method.

Although this method is ancient, with today's production technology, it can purify almost the same white sugar, and it is estimated that it can be sold at a good price.

After thinking about it.

Zhao Ce took the bag and happily walked to the kitchen.

The diligent little girl had already tidied up the room and returned to the kitchen.

The little girl was standing in front of the large water tank that was as high as her chest, and seemed to be thinking about how to wash it.

She stretched out her calloused, somewhat dry little hands and grasped the edge of the water tank.

His little brows furrowed tightly.

"One, two, three, get up!"

After a while of operation, the large water tank did not move at all.

Su Cai'er took a few breaths, frowned, and squatted down.

There was a lot of dry mud stuck to the bottom of the water tank because no one had cleaned it for a long time.

She thought about it and felt that it was probably the mud that limited her performance.

He turned around and went into the kitchen and found a branch.

Squat down and start pulling the mud from the base of the water tank.

Just as I was poking, I heard my husband's footsteps.

She raised her sweaty little head and shouted to Zhao Ce who was walking behind her: "Husband."

Zhao Ce nodded and said, "Uncle just came over again and brought us some things."

"What are you doing?"

Su Caier pointed to the water tank.

"The water tank is too dirty. It needs to be cleaned and filled with water."

Zhao Ce looked at this thick water tank that he had seen in the countryside when he was a child, and thought that he should be able to do it.

He handed the thing in his hand to the little girl squatting on the ground.

"You take it in and I'll clean the water tank."

Su Caier looked at her husband holding the cloth bag with hands that had never worked before.

He refused: "I'll do it."

"My husband is a scholar, so don't do such rough work."

Then, Su Cai'er felt her hand holding the branch being grasped by a big warm hand.

Zhao Ce directly grabbed the little girl's little hand holding the branch and lifted her up from the ground.

He stuffed the cloth bag in his hand and said without refusal: "Take it."

"The things inside are valuable, take them in and put them away."

When Su Cai'er heard that the things inside were valuable, she hugged her tightly.

I also felt that my hands were a little dirty and the contents inside were soiled.

"Take it in and wash your hands before doing it."

Su Cai'er nodded quickly and entered the kitchen with the cloth bag.

Not caring about his legs and feet, he walked quickly to the patio to get water and wash his hands.

Looking back, I saw that my husband had lifted up the hem of his robe and tucked it into his belt.

Then he easily grabbed the edge of the large water tank and lifted the water tank up.

Huh?

So light?

I looked down and saw where the large water tank was placed. There was a circular mark at the bottom where it had been placed for many years, and there was a circle of soil outside.

There were many small reptiles inside, scurrying around because of the sudden light.

Zhao Ce didn't say anything offensive.
To be continued...