area51novel Chapter 379
Chapter 379
Su Chen didn't even blink his eyes the whole afternoon, watching Princess Changle knitting woolen gloves with great boredom.
He had to chat with her from time to time, and finally made it to two o'clock in the afternoon.
"Beauty, it's past two o'clock, I'll take you to school!"
"Yes!"
Princess Changle looked at the time and put away the wool, reminding her seriously.
"You have to help me keep an eye on it, don't let anyone take it away!"
Su Chen yawned and whispered, "Who wants your stuff!" He stood up and stretched his waist.
The two walked from the study to the outside of the manor through the living room. Zhang Long saw Su Chen was about to leave and immediately followed him, but was suddenly stopped by Zhao Hu.
Zhang Long looked at Zhao Hu with a puzzled look.
"You don't have any eyesight at all!" Zhao Hu said with contempt.
Every time Su Chen left the main hall of the manor, at least two of Zhang Long and the other four followed him.
Seeing Zhang Long's bewildered face, Zhao Hu nodded at Su Chen and Princess Changle, and Zhang Long finally reacted, "Zhao Hu, you are really good, I understand!"
After Su Chen and the others walked through the gate of the manor, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu slowly followed.
"Su Chen, you promised your father to send a cook to the palace, did you forget?" Princess Changle asked casually on the way.
"Oh, if you hadn't told me, I would have really forgotten! It's too late today, let's send Master Liu tomorrow. By the way, let him learn how to make boiled pork slices in the palace, so I don't have to teach it again."
Su Chen remembered this after Princess Changle reminded him.
Maybe Su Chen has been too busy recently, and no one can tell what he is busy with.
Just as Su Chen left the manor, the palace sent two large carts of sugarcane, some green and some purple.
A rough estimate is about 500 kilograms.
As they walked hand in hand, Princess Changle couldn't help but think of the scene when Su Chen teased her in the study at noon, and she regretted that she didn't play well at that time.
Because of shyness, she lost her composure and put herself at a disadvantage.
Princess Changle still knew Su Chen's character very well, and he would only take advantage of her verbally. As long as she was tougher and fought back, Su Chen would definitely run away.
"Hmph, next time I will make you look good!"
Princess Changle held Su Chen's hand and squeezed it unconsciously, secretly making up her mind to play well next time.
As long as she was not shy, Su Chen would not be able to grasp her weakness.
On the contrary, Su Chen would be more aggressive.
"Lizhi, what's wrong with you?" Su Chen noticed Princess Changle's strangeness and turned his head slightly to look at her.
Princess Changle smiled faintly. "Nothing, I'm at school."
About fifty steps away from the school gate, the two of them let go of their hands at the same time.
"Su Chen, go back!" Princess Changle walked into the school gate, turned around and waved to Su Chen.
Su Chen stood outside the school gate, considering whether to go in to play with Li Tai, but didn't notice Princess Changle waving at him.
After thinking about it, he decided to forget it. He came back to his senses and looked at Princess Changle, and found that the beauty was gone.
Immediately, Su Chen turned and left.
...
"Marquis!"
The voices of Zhang Long and Zhao Zhao came from behind Su Chen.
"Why are you here? It's just right, let's go to the construction site of the military factory to have a look."
Su Chen decided to go and see how the construction technology of the palace's general supervisor was different from that of folk craftsmen.
"Yes, Marquis!"
After walking for about 20 minutes, Su Chen and the other two arrived at the construction site.
The military factory built the wall and the building inside at the same time. The shape is similar to that of ordinary walls, with one pile per foot.
Su Chen walked closer and found that this wall was unusual. Later generations have only heard of 24-wall and 37-wall. The wall of this military factory is at least two and a half feet thick (about 75 cm).
"Su Chen!"
"Hello, Lord Su!"
Li Dejian and several people Su Chen did not know came over. They should be Li Dejian's colleagues in the Ministry of Works.
"Dejian, hello!"
Su Chen smiled and greeted them.
"Ladies and gentlemen, cement was invented by Su Chen. Isn't it better than glutinous rice paste?"
Li Dejian boasted to his colleagues that when they used to build bricks for key projects, they mostly used lime and glutinous rice paste mixed with other stone powder to fill the gaps.
In fact, Li Dejian did not know that the brick wall built with glutinous rice paste was no worse than that built with cement mortar.
The burial kiln found in the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Emperor Taizong in Jiuyi Mountain was a brick wall built with glutinous rice paste. It is still very hard after 1,400 years.
It can only be said that cement mortar wall construction is more convenient.
"We admire you!" The five of them bowed and saluted respectfully.
"Thank you for the compliment!" Su Chen returned the compliment and glared at Li Dejian.
"Su Chen, shall I take you for a walk?"
"Okay, how long will it take to build such a large wall?" Su Chen asked as they walked.
The area enclosed by the wall is indeed very large, but theyThere are many hands, and the construction of the stacking seems to take little time.
"The brick wall can be completed in ten days at most, and the internal buildings can be completed half a month after the completion of the wall." Li Dejian thought about it and gave an approximate deadline.
Su Chen nodded when he heard it, "Okay, I know! You go and do your work, I'll just take a look and leave."
"Okay! Call me anytime if you have anything." Li Dejian nodded and continued to supervise.
...
In the manor, the housekeeper sent two groups of servants to find Su Chen.
Su Chen did not tell Wang Xi how to deal with the sugarcane before, so Wang Xi did not dare to make the decision.
About half an hour later, Su Chen returned to the manor and saw the two carts of sugarcane as soon as he stepped into the manor.
"My Lord, you are finally back! How to deal with the sugarcane, please tell me!"
Wang Xi saw Su Chen from a distance and hurried forward to ask.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you. Sugarcane is used to squeeze into juice. After washing it, just follow the way you squeezed it before."
"Just use one cart first, and put the other cart of sugarcane into the warehouse."
Leave half for safety, in case it rots after washing.
The yellow mud water is used to make white sugar. The previous steps are the same as those for making brown sugar, which is to squeeze sugarcane juice out of sugar.
It's just that before boiling sugar, yellow mud water is used to precipitate impurities, so that the sugar juice becomes clear and finally heated and evaporated into white crystals, which is white sugar.
"Okay, Lord, I'll arrange someone right away!" Wang Xi got Su Chen's instructions and immediately went to arrange.
It was only a little after three o'clock when he looked at the time. Su Chen arranged someone to go to the school to call Li Tai back to the manor.
The method of refining white sugar has been handed over to him, so let Li Tai be responsible for refining white sugar.
Su Chen pulled a piece of purple sugar cane from the carriage, "Zhang Long, help me peel some sugar cane to quench my thirst."
"If you want to chew it, do it yourself. Peel the skin and bring it to my study. Remember, go to the kitchen and get a kitchen knife to peel it."
Su Chen didn't dare to chew the sugar cane that Zhang Long and his friends had peeled with a knife that had killed people.
"Okay, Lord!"
Then, Su Chen walked towards the study in the house.
He was a little sleepy now and planned to take a nap after chewing the sugar cane!
...