Lady of the Lord From the East

Chapter 74

The bedroom Wei Wei used to live in was next to the hostess' bedroom. This was originally a room prepared for entertaining guests, but now that the guest has become the hostess, she naturally wants to change rooms.

Fortunately, the people in the castle didn't move her things when she was away, so the problem of changing rooms was naturally the first thing to do.

However, according to the nobility's etiquette, Wei Wei should move to the hostess' bedroom, but of course, Felix would not agree. He strongly demanded Wei Wei to live with him and not to sleep in separate rooms.

Wei Wei naturally didn't have the habit of getting married and living apart from her husband, so she waved her hand and moved most of her things into the hostess' bedroom, but all the daily necessities were put in the master's bedroom, and Felix Si also moved up from the original room downstairs, and the couple lived together.

Early the next morning, Wei Wei resisted the temptation to go back to sleep and got up to cook sugar.

The harvest period of sugar beet is in the middle and late October. It is a crop that can be stored for a long time in winter. Countries in western and southern Europe have a long history of sowing sugar beets. Their storage technology is naturally advanced enough. Wei Wei bought it from a merchant. Beets are specially stored until the coldest months and then sold for sale because vegetables are scarce in the cold winter and twelfth months, the income from selling is naturally higher.

So Wei Wei spent a lot of gold coins to buy those carts of beets. Originally, she didn't plan to use these beets to boil sugar but would buy them back, mainly to make rouge lipstick color powder.

There are also beets in the plants she grows, and the yield is actually quite good, but she has already planted very few plants, so naturally she will not receive too much.

Of course, her beets are sugar beets, with hypertrophic roots and high sugar content. They are very different from the beets used as vegetables in this period. If they are used to squeeze sugar, the ones she planted are more suitable, so originally she was also There are plans to squeeze those beets into sugar after the spring so that the cultivation of sugar beets can be promoted in Sardinson County. After all, wheat is still a staple food, and it is not a long-term solution to always use wheat to squeeze sugar.

But now that she has bought more beets, and there is no shortage of raw materials, she doesn't have to bother to open the cellar to get the beets and just use the new ones.

The method of extracting sugar from beets is also simple. Wei Wei went to the room that was used to make maltose in the past. After not cooking sugar recently, the place was empty. After knowing that the hostess wanted to use it, the servants cleaned it up overnight. When she came, several large pots in the house were washed clean, the stove was also full of firewood, and a few slaves who were originally responsible for boiling sugar stood aside waiting for her orders.

Wei Wei glanced at the older slaves and saw that they were dressed warmly enough. Although their complexions were not rosy enough to be healthy, she knew that they were doing pretty well, so she didn't pay too much attention to them.

The slaves are very grateful to the new hostess. The work of cooking sugar should not have been done by elderly slaves like them. All insiders feel that this is a job that needs to be kept secret. Naturally, Pie is more loyal. It is suitable for someone with more strength to come, but Wei Wei defies all opinions. She thinks that it does not require too much strength to boil sugar, and it can be handed over to the old slaves, and these old slaves have stayed in Sardinson Castle all their lives. , The family and life belong to the Count, so their loyalty will not be enough, and if they can live to this age, they naturally know what to say and what not to say. As long as they are ordered, these people will never reveal anything about their master. information is much safer than a servant who may be bought.