The coldest days of winter have passed, and spring is coming.

Soon, the Spring Festival is coming soon. This is the largest festival here, which is similar to the Spring Festival and Christmas on Earth.

This festival not only represents the beginning of the year. Winter has passed, but also the meaning of life sprouting and praying for a good harvest. At this time, there will be grand celebrations in the town, and the old priests in the town pray for a good harvest to the God of Harvest.

To be honest, I don’t know which god of harvest is. This temple has never been magnificent and somewhat dilapidated. The surface of the stone temple is covered with traces of time, and it seems that it has always existed here, and there is no other change except for time.

Because there is nothing magical here, Kaichi used to think that there is no God. But since Im heard about the church, he has a sense of respect for the temple.

I don’t know if the old priest inside knows the history of the church. If I know, will there be any complaints about his trapped in this remote place and never even received a response from the gods. If I don’t know, then what made him willing to live this simple life?

There is no input to the temple, because the church is weak and the temple does not have much property. Except for some land that employs poor people to cultivate, they live by the occasional donation of believers.

Because there are mages on it, the church does not dare to do anything out of the ordinary. Don’t talk about development. It is better to maintain it. It is because there are mages on it. The nobles do not believe too much in the church and gods, and they are not very firm in the beliefs of the people at the bottom.

There was a saying in China a long time ago that the King of Chu was so thin that he starved to death in the palace. It can be seen that washing people with high positions will affect the practices of the lower class. Especially in this era, the lower class did not have much right to choose.

If the wizards and the top leaders of the country had not realized that the people needed faith and faith could consolidate their rule, Beisenzhou would not have known whether there would be clergy.

But these are not related to Kaichi's business, he just thinks about it when he is bored.

The weather is very good today, and the temperature during the day has reached more than 0 degrees. Im wants to take his disciples to cut sugar. There are no sugar-making herbs such as sugar can be made here. Most of the sugar is "imported" from the west of the mainland. It is colder here and is not suitable for sugar-making.

However, there is also sugar in the local area, mainly tree sugar. There is a type of maple tree called sugar trees. The juice of their branches contains a lot of sugar. After a gap is cut in the trunk, it is collected and boiled, it becomes tree sugar. Some of the quality is good and will not be boiled, but it only evaporates some moisture and sells it in the form of syrup, which makes the taste lighter.

The yield of sugar trees is not high, and after planting, it takes at least 20 years to grow before cutting branches to make sugar, so not many people will plant this to make sugar, which is too long.

So the sugar here is very expensive. Compared to salt, it is really a little cheaper than honey. The prices of both are calculated in silver coins.

Most sugar trees rely on wild, but if anyone can have a sugar forest, it is really a job. It can basically protect people from food and clothing for several generations.

Collecting the juice of sugar trees requires the winter. The trunk of sugar trees will store a large amount of starch, which will be converted into sugar in winter, which will be solid crystals in cold weather, and will be liquid when it is hot.

Therefore, the temperature is low in winter nights, but the temperature is high during the day. Generally, it is sunny.

Im found a small piece of sugar wood in the Lime Pine Valley - well, it actually grew into 6 or 7 in total, and only three trees could be harvested.

Im found a small piece of sugar forest in the Lime Pine Valley - well, it actually grew into a total of 6 or 7 trees, and only three trees could be harvested. The rest of the trees were too young to be harvested.

Around these 6 or 7 sugar trees, there are some newly grown small trees, which are about 2 or 3 years old. If you want to eat the sugar from these trees, you may have to wait until Jiayi’s child is born.

Each of the three trees is at least the size of a bucket, one of which is the thickest, and no one can hold it. Maybe the other candy trees are the descendants of this one.

Im drilled holes around the three trees. The holes were not big, about 5 or 6 cm deep, and drilled upwards diagonally, half of the person was tall to one person, and the two small trees drilled four holes, and the largest one had six eyes. After the drilling, Im inserted a metal groove into the hole, which was to cut the metal tube into two halves.

Under the metal trough, Im placed a wooden barrel to collect the sap that flowed out. The sap didn't flow out quickly, and it was drizzling, like a urination was unclean.

After the arrangement was completed, Im took them back and waited until the next day to collect the sap.

"Teacher, sugar is so expensive, why no one planted candy trees?" Jiayi couldn't help asking on the way back.

Im shook his head and sneered: "Not everyone has enough vision. It takes nearly 20 years for newly planted sugar trees to be harvested. Moreover, if you are not careful, too much sap will affect the growth of the trees and reduce the yield in the second year."

He paused, turned his head and said, "Who have you seen who will start preparing for the profits in 20 years now?"

After saying that, he continued to move forward.

Jiayi took a few quick steps to keep up: "There are always a few people who think about it for a long time, right?"

"I seem to have heard of one," said Flower, "It seems to be a lord in the east, an earl in the province of Lemze. Their family has planted sugar trees for generations, and has continued from generation to generation, planting sugar trees on several hills. They turned out to be just a viscount, and with these sugar trees, they gradually expanded their family business and became earls."

"Isn't this right?" Jiayi felt strange, "With such a successful example, no other lord followed suit?"

"Later, the empire had a war with its neighbors, and the troops of the neighbors fought to their territory. Although they did not capture the city, the sugar woods were burned by fire. The Count was so angry that he vomited blood, and then he was angry to death." Although Flower spoke quite plainly, Jia felt heartbroken when he thought about it.

If the code I wrote for several weeks was formatted by others, I might have to vomit blood, let alone the efforts of the Earl's family for generations.

No wonder other lords rarely learn from that count. If they were burned by someone else's fire, it would be enough to have heartache. But they always feel like they are choking.

Jiayi said to Flower: "Froul, you can actually plant some sugar trees. When your son grows up, he will have an industry. There are 100 trees a year. In 20 years, at least 3,500 trees can produce sugar. And you are a mage reserve now, and it is impossible for you to not even be able to save a piece of sugar trees."

"A small piece of sugar wood can't afford a mage." Im said with a smile, but said again, "But you can really try it, you won't lose money."

Flower thoughtful, but didn't speak.

The next morning, Im took Jiayi and the others to the sugar tree. About half a barrel of sap had accumulated in the wooden barrels under the tree. The sap was collected, and there were still a large number, with a large barrel, at least dozens of liters.

Back at the Moonlight House, Im introduced the sap into the pot and started cooking. Soon, a sweet smell spread, with a scent of maple wood.
Chapter completed!