Chapter 19 Secrets
In the afternoon, the sun was shining brightly and in the private backyard, Xiao Qin watched his son riding a bamboo horse to chase his playmates, and suddenly remembered the same behavior when he was a child.
At that time, he had no worries and wanted to play every day.
However, there are still worries, which are how to make your father happy, or to figure out what to do so that he can be praised by his father.
He has many brothers, so it is rare to see his father for a while a month. Every time he meets his father, he wants to show himself as much as possible and to please his father as much as possible.
Unfortunately, things went against my wishes every time.
Therefore, my father was always impatient with him and always had a stern face. The young Xiao Qin didn't know what to do, and my mother couldn't tell me why.
So, Xiao Qin was like a lost person in the dark night, unable to find the direction, and he was fumbled around and ran around, shaking his head and bleeding.
Until one day, someone lit a torch in the dark, pointing him in the direction of his progress.
From then on, Xiao Qin finally understood what he should do, no longer be upset by his brothers' intentional teasing, and knew how to 'beat' the other party.
When he became a relative and had children, he finally understood the various troubles of being a father.
He has a family, a concubine, and his children are divided into legitimate and illegitimate.
How many children are there, but he only has one person and one fatherly love. How can he share it with his children?
Whenever Xiao Qin feels troubled about family affairs and tired of accompanying his children, he always thinks of the child who was eager to appear in his father back then.
Seeing that his son was having fun, Xiao Qin did not disturb him. He looked at the two bowls of sugar water on the table and thoughtful.
A bowl of sugar water is made of honey, and a bowl of sugar water is made of sugar sugar. It tastes similar because other seasonings are added, so the smell of honey is covered.
Just by sweetness, how can I tell which one is honey and which one is sucrose?
People with a sensitive sense of taste may be able to tell it, but Xiao Qin couldn't do it, but when he was visiting the residence of Li Li in Hanshan, Xuzhou, the other party showed a spell.
Use a blue liquid, take an appropriate amount and pour it into the sugar water, so that the sugar water will turn light blue.
If the blue color continues to maintain, it means that the sugar water is made of sucrose; if the blue color turns dark red, it means that the sugar water is made of honey or malt sugar.
Therefore, using this blue liquid, it is possible to distinguish whether the sugar water is made of sucrose.
The reason why Li Li did this was very simple: just like before, he turned into a small trick and made everyone smile.
When a gathering of relatives and friends, it can be considered multiple topics.
Xiao Qin thought it was interesting at the time and planned to perform it for his children. Li Li told the secret of the blue liquid: it was made of liquid A and liquid B.
The A liquid is blue, just like the blue color of the "blue water" in which Poyang Le'an Water Copper is located, it is actually the same liquid.
Liquid B is a bit troublesome to prepare.
First, mix the lysate and hydrated lime water, stir, filter off the precipitate and leave water.
Put this water in a covered lid and expose it to the sun to reduce the amount of water, which is to "concentrate".
The water after multiple 'concentration' is slightly sticky and slippery, which is "alkali water".
Then mix some tartar and a certain amount of wine (the more acid, the better), and add the resulting solution to alkali water in a certain amount to prepare liquid B.
Liquid A and Liquid B are mixed in a certain proportion, and the resulting blue liquid can make the non-sucrose sugar water look red.
This color-developing potion is relatively simple to make and can also be used to distinguish between true and false honey.
For example, a gangster merchant uses two kilograms of honey to mix eight kilograms of sugar and sells it as ten kilograms of pure honey. If you taste the taste, you may not be able to tell it.
However, this honey mixed with a lot of sucrose is used to use color-making potion, and even if it can turn red, its color will be very light.
However, if the gangster uses malt sugar instead of sucrose to adulterate, it will be difficult to distinguish.
But the sweetness of malt sugar is not as high as sucrose. Experienced people may be able to distinguish between real and fake honey by tasting.
Xiao Qin remembered this interesting knowledge, and Li Li had to send some of it and bring it back to Jiankang.
I did my own experiment and found that the results were good.
According to the recipe provided by Li Li, he prepared some color-producing potions. After all, the "blue water" from Le'an in Poyang is still easy to get.
Xiao Qin asked his son to practice this "spell". After practicing it, he found an opportunity to show his grandfather something to his grandfather, and the effect was good.
Seeing that his father was very interested in this spell, Xiao Qin told him one by one the "secrets" he knew, and put a few cans of the color-making potion he prepared, and gave it to his father.
After a while, my father called him and asked him to prepare some alkaline water for later use.
Xiao Qin didn't know why his father needed so much alkaline water, but the alkaline water was simple to prepare, so he did some more.
Later I learned that my father had someone come back from Poyang with several tanks of blue water.
It seems that my father is really interested in this color-producing potion. Perhaps it is to prevent someone from using adulterated honey to deceive him, so he has to prepare so many ingredients.
Unexpectedly, this color-producing potion came in handy at a critical moment, saving my father's life and saving the lives of hundreds of people from the Poyang Palace.
Thinking of this, Xiao Qin was a little distracted and thoughts a lot.
Not long ago, his father was accused of instructing the eunuch to poison the imperial meal and plotting against evil.
This accusation was said by the poisoned eunuch. Fortunately, my father was quick to become aware and came up with a method to prove his innocence with a color-producing potion, successfully clearing the charges, and...
The false accused eunuch Wang Li had already hit the stone steps on the spot and died. Subsequently, the Nanjun Prince Xiao Dalian, who was suspected of poisoning, was arrested.
This case is quite a bit of a mystery. After more than ten days of trial, the case was revealed: Xiao Dalian, the king of Nanjun, was dissatisfied with the King of Poyang who was assisting in the administration, and suspected that the Lantern Festival incident last year was caused by the King of Poyang, so he instructed Wang Li to frame the King of Poyang.
Although Wang Li had committed suicide, the clues of the Nanjun Prince instructed Wang Li to act based on some sporadic physical evidence found.
So, the result came out: Today, Prince Nan was given suicide and his son was deposed as a commoner.
This case involves the royal family and civil and military officials, and there are other punishments.
Xiao Qin, who received the news, was filled with mixed feelings and a kind of uneasiness surged into his heart.
My father just knew how to use color-making method to distinguish sugar water, and reversed the crisis. Is this a coincidence or...
Or, my father was prepared for a long time and knew that Prince Nan was going to cause trouble, so...
Before, Xiao Qin heard some rumors, and heard that Prince Nan was dissatisfied with his father's regent, so he kept making excuses to attack. Xiao Qin did not dare to think deeply, and could not imagine what his guess would mean if it was true.
I dare not imagine what if the suspicion of the Prince of Nan (the Lantern Festival Incident) is true.
He had no ambitions or obsessions. He just wanted to live his life with his family and live his life.
Thinking of this, Xiao Qin pressed his anxiety and drank sugar water. However, as he drank, the thought came out again.
Part of the honey consumed in the royal palace comes from the beekeeping (beekeeping) in the manor under its name, and partly it is purchased from outside, but the supplier cannot adulterate it, so the father did not need to beware of fake honey.
No, I must have thought too much.
Chapter completed!