The harvest season is better said to be the fatal season.

Several wives in the family were intimidated by Zha Ji, but Liang Chuan felt that it was nothing more than that. When he actually took charge of the family's affairs, he wished he could kill himself, so that everything would be over.

So tired!

The first wave of women cutting sugar cane from the mountains went to the fields and immediately brought back the first bundle of sugar cane.

He Baozheng has already taken the initiative to help. Every winter is the off-season for his mosquito coils. At this time, all the mosquitoes are gone. Making mosquito coils is not easy. The skin on your hands can easily get chapped. It is better to wait until spring comes after the new year and start again.

Make new mosquito coils.

It is the off-season for mosquito repellent incense, but it is the peak season for the sugar cane harvest. He, his wife Wang and their daughter would come to Wangxiang House to help out at this time every year. The women in the family are really too busy.

A bundle of sugar cane arrived. Li Chuyi brought over some oxen from the academy, put a yoke on the oxen's back, and began to circle around the sugar reel.

Familiar scenes and familiar operations.

Liang Chuan, who has been away from home for many years, was surprised to find that several ladies were more skilled than him. Putting sugar cane into the sugar press, the sweet and fragrant sugar cane juice flowed out. After pressing a bundle of sugar cane several times, only one juice was squeezed out.

Buckets of sugarcane juice.

He Baozheng settled outside the sugar mill, handing over the money in one hand and the cane in the other. After receiving the money, he sent the sugar cane to the sugar mill to be pressed.

Li Chuyi was lighting a fire in the sugar mill, the chain stove was already on, pouring sugar water, and the first pot of sugarcane juice was rolling into the pot.

Liang Chuan thought to himself, this process has not changed, it was done back then, it's no big deal.

At the end of the day, Liang Chuan almost hid in Yi Niang's bed and cried loudly.

Where do you have time to sleep? The sugar cane in the sugarcane field is carried bundle after bundle to the entrance of the sugar house. Not to mention Liang Chuan, even He Baozheng, who is doing the settlement at the door, has no time to sleep. There are thousands of people, and one person can only use a cup of tea.

With so much effort, I can’t handle it at all!

It is said that the fire in the chain stove will never go out after being lit from this day on. It will keep burning until all the more than 8,000 acres of sugar cane fields are cut down. Liang Chuan went to the fields this year to take a sneak peek.

At a glance, the sugarcane fields are still endless as far as the eye can see, as if they haven’t been moved at all!

Now there are several women pressing sugar outside the sugar house, and Liang Chuan and Li Chuyi are constantly boiling sugar inside. The sugar house has continued to expand over the years, and the chain pots have several pots in a group, and five sets of chain pots have been built side by side.

pot.

In other words, the current efficiency is five times that of before, but the people are still the same as before. Counting Yang Xiu, Li Erhua, Ye Xiaochai and others, even if they have three heads and six arms, they cannot finish everything in one day.

The big spoon used to boil sugar, Liang Chuan, was like a boatman. He scooped it all day long. At the end of the day, Liang Chuan felt that his arms were thicker, and the muscle lines on them were a little obvious. The sugar juice became thicker and thicker when the pot was connected.

It’s really unreasonable for a woman to ask them to scoop it!

At midnight, when the sky was getting dark, there were still people in the sugarcane fields pulling sugar cane to the sugar mill! Looking at such hard-working mountain women comrades, Liang Chuan suddenly felt the urge to burst into tears.

Doesn't anyone feel tired?

The process of boiling sugar and making sugar is one of the important secrets held by Liang Chuan. In order to take away this secret recipe, Zhao Zonge did not hesitate to let the steward kidnap Zheng Ruoying to Bianjing. In the end, Zhao Zonge’s body was not found.

Get your wish.

In Fengshan, the sugar house will never be open when it is not boiling sugar. The only people who can enter the sugar house are a few ladies, Ye Xiaochai and several other servants who are absolutely loyal to Liang Chuan, as well as Li Chuyi, Lian He Baozheng and so on.

I don’t know where this sugar comes from.

If this secret recipe can be well preserved, the rate of making money can be compared to mountain mining, which is almost the same as a gold mountain.

Fengshan's sugar was not only famous in the Song Dynasty. The imperial court regarded the white sugar produced in Fengshan as a royal gift, and every year the imperial government came to Qingyuan to purchase it. The common people had sharp eyes, and the things used by officials and households were still inferior.

Word spreads from person to person, and every year as soon as Fengshan's candy leaves the factory, it is delivered to the Wanda Chamber of Commerce and Taobao stores in Qingyuan. If you don't make an appointment in advance, you usually can't get anything.

The price of white sugar and brown sugar has fluctuated every year in recent years, and the price has doubled several times. But just like the treasures, there is a price but no market. At this time of the year, not only the cane cutters will come to Fengshan to wait, but there are also many

Many businessmen would come to Fengshan, hoping to grab some high-quality freshly baked sugar.

The people of the Song Dynasty were very fond of white sugar, and outsiders also took a fancy to this kind of treasure. The Arabs in Persia also had the habit of drinking tea. They found that if this kind of brown sugar was added to the tea, the flavor would be more mellow!

And the role of sugar is not only because it is sweet. Smart Easterners discovered that this material is extremely effective in war. It can not only heal wounds and diseases, but also eat a little sugar-made food when you are hungry.

Makes you feel fuller!

This is simply food gold!

In the early days, overseas businessmen came to the Song Dynasty to buy whatever they wanted, whether tea or porcelain, and they were shipped back ship by ship. Now they don't want it anymore, they are interested in the sugar of the Song Dynasty!

This thing is too expensive, and sugar cane cannot be grown in Persia! Sugar cane is grown on Luzon Island, but they have no idea how sugar is made!

Every year when Qingyuan opens to the sea, the first batch of foreigners arrive in Qingyuan and grab the candies from Taobao stores. If they grab it, they will make money!

What a huge industrial chain, it supports not only the villagers in Fengshan, but also the mountain people in Xinghua Mountain, the businessmen in Qingyuan City, and countless foreigners overseas!

The clapper had just been struck at the second watch, and the running machine outside seemed to have suddenly stopped. Liang Chuan went out and saw that Yi Niang was lowering the yoke of the ox, and He Baozheng stretched himself and was about to stop the work at hand.

"Can you take a break?"

He Baozheng glanced at him and said: "Don't you look at what time it is now? Even if people don't rest, the cows have to rest! At this time, the dew begins to fall. If it continues, everyone will get rheumatism when they get old. Go back

Squint for a while, then you have to get up and work again at dawn!"

Li Chuyi said to Liang Chuan: "My boss, I will take the first shift today. You go to sleep for a while and get up later to take over from me!"

Liang Chuan nodded, and when he went out, he saw that a small area of ​​the sugarcane field in the distance had been shaved. Mountain women were laying bedding in the felled sugarcane field, with sugarcane leaves and sugarcane heads underneath!

Sleeping on the floor! At this time, Liang Chuan knows best how heavy Fengshan Lu is. Does this mean that the sky is the bed and the earth is the bed?

Liang Chuan looked at Yi Niang and said, "She... they just slept like this?"

Yi Niang replied helplessly: "There is no other way.

There are also hotels in the market, but half a day's wages are spent on that night. Who is willing to be so lavish? The people living in the countryside are sugarcane workers recruited by the villagers themselves. These people who cut sugarcane for our family have nowhere to go. The number of people

If there are too many, I...I can't do anything..."

Liang Chuan was so angry that he stamped his feet. Yi Niang was so busy that she no longer cared about the sugarcane farmers outside.

"Open our bamboo weaving workshop. You can sleep in it. There is a shelter on the pier so you won't be hit by the dew!"

Only then did Yi Niang react, and she was very upset. She worked with a few people to open the door of the bamboo weaving workshop, and even went to the sugarcane field to call for help!

Having a place that can protect you from the wind and rain is better than dining out and sleeping in the open air! An open Longshui Temple is so popular, and this bamboo weaving workshop is surrounded by fences on all sides, which is better and more comfortable than the Longshui Temple!

If you go to the villagers to rent a place like this, it will cost a lot of money. It's not that they don't want to go to a good place, it's actually that the mountain people who cut sugarcane want to save even a little money so that they can save some living expenses for their families.

The huge bamboo weaving workshop was suddenly filled with people. Seeing that these people had a place to rest, Liang Chuan could finally sleep.

In his sleep, Liang Chuan dreamed that he was eating those cloyingly sweet sugars. Several ladies couldn't get enough of them, and they were adding spoonfuls of sugar to their bowls. Men are afraid of diabetes when they get older, and they saw those sugars being poured into their bowls one by one.

Adding eggs and sugar water, Liang Chuan woke up immediately!

The shadow of Yi Niang was no longer around, only Xiao Xiaocheng was sleeping on the side with his arms stretched out. Looking out the window, it was still dark!

Liang Chuan walked out of the house. A wisp of green smoke rose from the sugar mill in the morning. The sound of an empty sugar reel slowly came. The old cow made a mooing sound from time to time, as if he was complaining about injustice. Although he was a cow, he couldn't be bullied like this.

What a beast! The candy shop actually started making sugar early!

Liang Chuan estimated that he had slept for less than three hours!

Walking out of the old house, people outside had already set up iron pots and started cooking. Many people had finished cutting a large bundle of sugar cane early and were carrying it to the sugar house.

Oh my god!

Capitalists don’t exploit workers like this!

Fortunately, the women around me are even more desperate than these mountain women, otherwise it would not be a good thing to hear about it.

Liang Chuan doesn't know how to smoke, but at this moment he is thinking that the road of sugar making is so damn hard. If he has a chance in the future, he will just buy cigarettes. If he has a cigarette at this time, he will definitely light it up and taste it to taste life.

, it’s so damn hard, after working for just one day, his arm feels like he’s been rowing a dragon boat for a day, as if it’s filled with lead and he can’t lift it!

Liang Chuan rushed into the sugar mill. Li Chuyi was already exhausted. Ye Xiaochai was helping him, Yang Xiu was helping, and Li Erhua was adding firewood. However, bucket after bucket of sugarcane juice kept coming in, and Liang Chuan felt as if he was suffocating.

Sugar is full of hate.

At this moment, he seemed to be able to understand why the people in Fengshan became so fast. Poverty is a force of life, so picking and choosing is not a force of life! Such a tiring job can still make money in other ways. Who would want to

Dive into this sugar shop and never see the light of day!
Chapter completed!