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   It doesn't have the crispness in memory, let alone the sweetness.

  The current sugarcane is hard and hard, and the taste is not as good as that of later generations, and the sweetness is a bit poor.

  Feng Yong chewed it, spit out the dregs in a "peh peh peh", shook his head, "It's far away."

  When I was a child, there were two kinds of sugarcane grown in the village. One kind had a harder stalk and didn’t taste good when chewed, but it was high in sugar.

   One kind of sugarcane is more brittle and soft. Although the sugar content is slightly lower, the villagers like to eat it, so this kind of sugarcane is the most grown.

   But no matter which one it is, it is sweeter than the current one.

  Think about it too, the sugarcane of later generations are all fine varieties that have been cultivated and carefully selected from generation to generation, and they must be better than this original sugarcane.

  Originally, there was no difference in the purchase price of these two types of sugar cane.

   Later, in the face of the wave of state-owned enterprise reform, sugar factories also began to distinguish varieties of sugarcane.

The kind with hard poles has a high sugar yield and high quality sugar, so the purchase price is higher, so most of them are planted in the back of the village. Although the kind with soft poles is delicious, it is There are fewer and fewer races.

   Just this, Feng Yong and his friends cursed for a long time.

  Unexpectedly, another two years later, another rural reform came, and the county where Feng Yong was located was directly excluded from the scope of the sugar industry, and inexplicably became a jasmine tea plantation base.

   That is to say, no sugar cane will be harvested in the future...

   There are even unscrupulous profiteers who take advantage of the asymmetric information and take advantage of the opportunity to trick the peasant brothers and ask the peasant uncle to spend his hard-earned money to plant tea trees.

  Sugar cane starts to have a sweet taste until it is harvested and then planted in the second year after saving the seeds. Half a year is a rare snack! Does that mean it's gone?

  This is amazing!

   Not only Feng Yong and his friends were fooled, but even the people in the village were fooled.

  In the past, sugar factories purchased sugar cane and squeezed white sugar later, and each household was given a certain amount of white sugar compensation according to how much they bought.

  It’s all right now, no more sugar cane, where can I eat white sugar in the future?

purchase? Are you kidding? Where did the family get spare money to buy sugar at that time?

  But for a long time, I planted sugar cane every year, and I got used to eating sweets. The sweetness suddenly disappeared. How will I live in the future?

  People in the village talked a lot, and many were angry, but what can they do? I heard that the sugar factory is gone. Can you still force others to harvest sugar cane?

   How about saying that the working people are the creators of history?

  At this time, the old people in the village stood up and said that when there was no sugar factory before, wouldn’t the village survive the same?

  They don't accept it, we cook it ourselves.

  That’s right, it is to use the ancestral method to boil sugar.

  Families in the village who want to boil sugar all reserve a small piece of land to grow sugar cane. After harvesting it, they weigh it together, and then gather together to boil it. Finally, the boiled sugar is divided according to the sugar cane of each family.

  The sugar boiled by the soil method is not white sugar, but brown sugar cubes like bricks.

  This kind of brown sugar has accompanied Feng Yong’s memory for several years. Finally, because the living conditions improved, people in the village had money to buy white sugar. Gradually, no one grew sugar cane to cook sugar by themselves.

  But that kind of cube brown sugar, in Feng Yong's view, is much more delicious than white sugar.

This is not a lie, the brown sugar made by the local method will become a pure green food in ten or twenty years without any additives, no matter how much you eat it, it will not be greasy, but if you eat too much white sugar, you will always feel the taste buds There is a smell of industrial additives.

  It turns out that stone honey is sucrose!

  Feng Yong took another bite of sugar cane and sighed. Now this kind of sucrose is more unpalatable than white sugar. It is probably because the sugar boiling technology is not up to standard and there are too many impurities in it.

   "Brother, are you okay?"

  Zhao Guang walked over cautiously, stared at Feng Yong, and asked a question.

   "What can I do?" Feng Yong glanced at Zhao Guang inexplicably, and raised the sugar cane in his hand, "Do you want to eat?"

  Although the taste and taste are not comparable to later generations, in this era, sugar cane can be regarded as an extremely rare sweet.

   "How can this bamboo be eaten?"

  Zhao Guang laughed dryly. If it wasn't because he misunderstood his brother's hysteria yesterday, he should have restrained him by this time.

  Eat bamboo? What normal person would eat bamboo raw? Although it seems that my brother's teeth are very good, he can actually chew bamboo into pieces.

  At the same time, Zhao Guang looked at Guan Ji as if asking for help, a little panicked, with a questioning look in his eyes. Could there be something wrong with the thing called Shi Mi brought by my sister? I eat more than my brother!

   "I don't know, bumpkin, this is bamboo? Look clearly, this is sugar cane."

  Feng Yong cast a contemptuous glance at the poor child who had never eaten sugar cane.

   "Look, bamboo is hollow, sugarcane is solid, chew it, it's full of juice, it's sweet."

   "This sugarcane is really meant to be chewed and eaten," Guan Ji understood Zhao Guang's eyes, and explained immediately, "How did my brother know about it? Could it be that he has seen it before?"

   Watching my elder brother skillfully tear off the sugarcane skin with his mouth, and then took a bite of the sugarcane meat inside, it seems that he has eaten a lot before.

   "Of course I ate it," Feng Yong spit out another mouthful of scum, and noticed the strange eyes of Zhao Guang and Guan Ji, and suddenly understood, this is, seeing himself gnawing sugar cane, feeling a little lost?

   Even though he was thick-skinned, he couldn't help feeling a little feverish, "I've lost my composure, I've lost my composure, I haven't eaten this food for a long time, and I couldn't help it when I saw it."

   Feng Yong put down the sugar cane with some embarrassment while talking.

  Guan Ji gave a comprehensible smile, and quietly shifted the angle of a sugar cane on the table. One end of the sugar cane also had gnawing marks.

  At this moment, Zhao Guang picked up a sugar cane in surprise after hearing Feng Yong and Guan Ji's words, which happened to be the one that Guan Ji had moved, and said, "This bamboo-like thing, can you still eat it?"

   "That's natural. If Erlang doesn't believe it, he can try it."

   Feng Yong encouraged.

  Zhao Guang is eager to try.

   "I can't give you this one!" Guan Ji was in a hurry, so she pressed her hand over and handed another one, "Eat this one."

   That is to say, Zhao Guang had never seen this thing before, so he didn't notice the marks of someone biting it, and he didn't care at the moment. He just looked at Feng Yong, moved it to his mouth a few times, but couldn't say it.

   "Is this...or try again later?"

  Zhao Guang laughed dryly, and finally put down the sugar cane. The long-term etiquette education made him unable to pass the psychological barrier of gnawing sugar cane in public.

   "My little brother thinks that stone honey tastes better."

   If you dare not eat it, you dare not eat it. You have never even eaten sugar cane. How do you know that stone honey is more delicious?

  Feng Yong curled his lips and said, "It's far worse. This stone honey is far worse than the sucrose I've eaten before."

   "Sugar?"

  Guan Ji and Zhao Guang looked over together, Zhao Guang didn't understand for a while, but Guan Ji understood it all at once.

   "The sucrose that brother mentioned is also made from sugar cane?"

   "Yes." Feng Yong nodded, "The craftsmanship of making stone honey is not up to standard, the color is ugly, and even the taste is unpalatable, far worse than sucrose."

   "This sugarcane is only grown in the Jiaozhou area. I never thought that my brother has not only seen it, but also seen something more delicious than stone honey?"

  Guan Ji felt that making stone honey from sugarcane was extremely rare, since it was a tribute after all. Unexpectedly, there is such a thing as sucrose.

   "Sanniang likes desserts?"

  Zhao Guang had a big heart and didn't see Guan Ji's little moves, but Feng Yong did. He even saw Guan Ji's bite marks that he tried to hide as much as possible. His heart moved and he asked a question.

  Guan Ji's face flushed slightly, but she nodded generously and admitted: "Little sister likes to eat sweet food since she was a child."

  Feng Yong gave a "tsk", thinking that this hobby is really nothing in later generations, the street is full of desserts.

  But in this age, it is really difficult to gain favorability from this aspect.

   "It's a pity." Feng Yong sighed, "In fact, this sugarcane can be grown not only in Jiaozhou. Although it can't be grown in Hanzhong, it can still be grown in Shuzhong. The further south you go..."

   Speaking of this, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in my mind.

   Further south is Nanzhong.

  It is not cost-effective to grow food in South China, but to grow sugar cane...

  Nanzhong is just a piece of chicken rib for the current big man. Leave him alone, he dances too much, and if he fails, he may threaten the confidant of Jincheng Plain.

   Leave him alone, it’s really a waste of manpower and material resources, barren land, what’s the point?

   "Brother is joking. There is no time to grow grain in such a large field in central Sichuan. Who would dare to use it to grow sugarcane?"

  When there was no one on Guanji Road, he secretly gnawed on sugar cane, thinking that although it was delicious, but when he heard that Feng Yong wanted to use the land in the middle of Sichuan to grow sugar cane, he thought his brother was whimsical. This kind of idea is too ridiculous.

   "Shuzhong is naturally not good, but Nanzhong can give it a try."

  Feng Yong really felt that he couldn't bear the thought anymore, "Sanniang doesn't know that sugar cane cannot be grown in the north, but the further south you go, the better it will be grown."

  Market economy and economic crops are not understood by the ancients, but it is okay to talk about benefits.

   "Nanzhong needs to be pacified as soon as possible, but what happens after it is pacified? How to appease is a big problem. I think planting sugar cane is good."

Guan Ji only felt that the more she listened, the more confused she became, "I heard that Nanzhong has less flat land and more mountainous land. If it is used to grow sugarcane and there is no food to eat, won't it force Nanzhong to rebel? Besides, what's the use of planting sugarcane? ? Can’t we just eat sugar cane without food?”

   "Sugar cane is very useful." Feng Yong chuckled, "Exchange sugar cane for food. Besides, it is rainy in Nanzhong, so sugar cane can be grown even on the hillside."

   "With whom?"

"Of course it is me."

  Feng Yong pointed to himself, thinking that this sugarcane seems to be really tricky, exchanging grain for sugarcane, and then using sugarcane to squeeze sucrose, how many times more expensive is sucrose than that grain?

   There are tricks, there are really tricks!

   "Regardless of whether the prime minister allows my brother to mess around like this, it is for the sake of stabilizing the overall situation in Nanzhong. But how much grain can my brother exchange for sugar cane? What's the use of harvesting it?"

  Guan Ji looked at Feng Yong with concern, and really felt that something was wrong with him.

   "Sugar cane is very useful." Feng Yong repeated what he said just now, "At least the sucrose produced can make Sanniang eat enough." But this person started to slip his mouth again while talking.

   I could tell that this elder brother just said something serious but was out of shape. Guan Ji was annoyed and kicked Feng Yong again.

   This time, he used a lot of strength, which made Feng Yong grin in pain.

   "Hey, my brother remembered that there are still things in the house that haven't been packed, so let's go and pack them first."

  Zhao Guang secretly admired his elder brother for being so bold, but at the same time sighed that this tiger girl sister who refused to accept anyone seemed to be surrendered at last. My elder sister behaved like this, but my elder sister didn't show any signs of anger, and instead she had a rare portrait of her daughter.

  I felt that it was inappropriate for me to stay here any longer, so I left with an excuse.

  Leaving the room, I felt complacent, as I really had a wink.

   "Brother, why are you talking nonsense in front of Erlang?"

  Guan Ji saw Zhao Guang leaving without anyone else, but her face was blushing again, she stood up immediately, "If there is nothing wrong, my little sister will go back to the house first."

   "What nonsense? What I'm talking about is serious business." Feng Yong said solemnly, "This can be regarded as a major family and country matter. Sanniang sit down first and listen to me carefully."

  Guan Ji's eyes showed suspicion. It seems that Feng Yong's credit has been exhausted temporarily with her.

Hearing Feng Yong's words, he shook his head, "What my elder brother said, since it is a major matter for the family and the country, you should discuss it with Erlang and the others, or even write a letter with the prime minister. It's inappropriate for women to say this."

   As he spoke, he smiled slyly again, "Little sister has been walking day and night these days, and she is a little tired. She wants to go back and rest first."

  Feng Yong saw the smile of Guan Ji's rare little daughter twice in one day, and felt that she had suddenly changed into a different person.

   Seeing that Guan Ji was about to go out after mentioning her package, she immediately picked up a sugar cane on the table and said, "Won't Sanniang take this sugar cane away? Or let me eat it later?"

Guan Ji turned her head and saw that what Feng Yong was holding was the one she secretly gnawed on the road, and then looked at the half-smile of the man in front of her, her face turned red all of a sudden, and she snatched it like lightning. Come here, take the door away.

  Feng Yong picked up the unfinished sugar cane just now, took another bite, and at the same time sighed inwardly. I was not joking just now, exchanging sugar cane for food.

  Why don't you understand me? Really life is lonely as snow.

   Is the big man short of food now?

   It can only be said that it is temporarily missing.

  But the old demon Zhuge just finished Dujiangyan, and he already has the capital for the Southern Expedition.

  In the original history, Hanzhong has always been a barren land. That's how it is. Zhuge, the old demon, just relying on the area of ​​Jincheng, has been scraping together for a few years, and he can also save the capital for the Northern Expedition. It doesn't make sense to help develop this piece of Han family treasure in Hanzhong by myself, but there is not enough food, right?

  So, after two or three years in Hanzhong, grain will really be produced, and Nanzhong will be pacified at that time. It is not impossible to get some grain to exchange for sugar cane!

  Northern Expedition cost money and food. If you have food, if you can get money, I think Zhuge will not disagree.

  As for the exchanged sugar cane, how to make sucrose, isn't that something that can be done with eyes closed?

  Shimi is an egg! This thing is astringent and scumbag, but it can still be a tribute?

   Moreover, it is still liquid, and it is not even convenient to transport. It is destined to be a product that will be eliminated.

   At that time, I will make brown sugar that looks like a brick, and whoever is not convinced will smash it until he is convinced.

  Brick Brown Sugar asked you if you were afraid?

  Sucrose is considered a commodity even in later generations.

   All bulk commodities are money-making things for thieves.

  Well, I have to think about this matter carefully, no, I have to write it down in a small notebook first, so as not to forget it later.

   I thought that if I didn’t write about the salty-sweet dispute, nothing would happen. I never thought that you can argue about writing a candy. Well, I admit it was my fault for not writing clearly. Because I haven't eaten white sugar for a long time, I don't know if the taste is the same as before. But taking my childhood experience as an example, after eating white sugar, there will be an inexplicable feeling in my mouth, but I don’t have the lumpy brown sugar made from earth, and it feels better than white sugar. As for getting tired, it doesn’t mean eating all the time, but eating often. You guys are really foodies, you can even eat sugar without stopping? Is there anything in this world that you can't stop eating?

  

  

  (end of this chapter)