Chapter 4 - Sugar and schnapps (1/2)

In a room in the governor's palace, there was a large table, there you can see a little boy sitting on a chair with cushions to match the height of the two adults in front of him.

”Father, mother, you should try this I'm sure you'll love it”

Flavio proceeded to place an open bag on the table white some white crystals

”Salt?” Their two parents said in unison as they watched the small white crystals very similar to salt.

Flavio waved his finger in denial ”it's not salt, Please try it and you will see what I mean”

Flavio's parents took a pinch of the white granules and tasted it.

”This is so sweet, What is it and How did you make it? ”Julia asked

”This is called Sugar. The process of making it is pretty simple, you only need a beetroot as raw material and after doing some small processes you can get sugar”

Vitelio looked at his son with a serious look ”Can this sugar be produced in large quantities?”

Flavio took from his side a small raw brown beet and the placed on the table

”This is the variety of beet with which you can get sugar, we need 7 beets to get 1kg of sugar. It can be more or less, depending on the size of the beet, if they need to be produced in large quantities the quality of the sugar depends a lot on the quality of the soil in this case we are fortunate that Lusitania is in a war zone where there is no winter that kills the crops.

I also want to ask you, father, to take me to the fields that belong to us. I intend to make a reform in the agricultural process that will allow us to double the amount of harvest we have, without destroying the fertility of the soil and increasing the amount of irrigation in the fields.

For that I need you to allow me to have access to the family fortune so that I can hire craftsmen and buy materials as needed for the project, don't worry about the income as sugar is just one of the products I can make for generating income”

Flavio saw his parents with love and shouted: ”Arabela bring the other goods please.”

The door opened and Arabela entered holding 2 jugs of wine with their respective glasses and two people behind her holding what appeared to be bread and a glass bottle with transparent liquid, placed the products on the table and proceeded to withdraw, closing the door behind them.

Flavio stretched his hands on the table ”Well dear parents Which one do you want to start with?”

Julia observed the bread and could distinguish a sweet smell coming from it and thus said ”I want to taste that bread”

Flavio took the bread and pulled a small chunk and delivered to his mother

Julia took a bite ”Delicious !!, It is pretty soft and sweet bread, with a very sharp flavor of butter I have never tasted anything like this in my life”

Flavio also gave a chunk of bread to his father

Vitelio took the piece of bread and first smelled it and then proceeded to squeeze it and feel the softness, took a small bite, and then eat it in just a few bites.

he thought.

”I am glad that you liked my dear parents, but I suppose that tasting the bread has made them thirsty? allow me to offer you some schnapps ”

Flavio took one of the wine jugs and served his parents in their glasses a transparent liquid with strong smell ”Go ahead take your drinks”

The two parents took their drinks and took a drink, Julia coughs with some effort and put their eyes in his glass

”This wine is so strong !! Do you want to kill your mother?” she said mock angrily.

Flavio looked at his mother coughing and could not contain himself from laughing ”Hahaha !!, no mother this is not wine this is schnapps, it is much stronger than the wine that you normally drink but do not worry here I have a prepared another type of schnapps that I'm sure you'll like ”

Flavio took his mother's cup and threw the contents on the ground, then took the other jug of wine and served again in her mother's glass ”Please try this mother, this time I'm sure you'll like it”

Julia looked at her son with eyes of doubt, she took the drink and took a small sip, her eyes widened and then she drank all the content of the cup ”This is too delicious, it tastes sweet but refreshing at the same time”