Chapter 1610 - Small Bricks (2/2)

Pieces of the purple-red shtly under the sun Indeed, they looked like exquisite porcelain pieces

Li Du shook his head “Nope, can’t you guys tell? However, these things have not appeared for a long tirape bricks, seventy or eighty years old!”

“Grape bricks?” Playboy repeated

Magic Hand looked like he understood soive that as the answer These should be wine bricks s rape juice werethe American Prohibition Period”

Effective January 16, 1920, the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution-Prohibition Act had coal to es with an alcohol content of al to drink at hoainst the law to drink with friends or hold a banquet One could be fined up to one thousand dollars and imprisoned for half a year

The Prohibition Act left a strong mark in the recent history of the United States and was the origin of many stories

Li Du had previously come across other items that had been created because of the Prohibition Act, such as a private winemaker This tiredient and used for at-ho

As wine production was banned, row another type of crop Others began rapes

As a result, dehydrated grape juice becaally dissolved in water to rape juice or ithout overt fermentation This helped the wineood profits

Under the Prohibition Ordinance, grapes could be grown, but only in crops that did not rapes to others, they could be sentenced to jail if they knew their custorape bricks to e whether their grapes could be fermented to make wine

To resolve that problerape bricks They would tell the Otherwise, they would start to ferment and turn into wine

However, as the quality and taste would be greatly affected after the grape juice was rape brick, it was not a real replace time in history and soon disappeared from the market

None of the people present there had experienced that crazy era Grape bricks were not well-known in modern times, so few people knew about the them back in tirape bricks originated in South America After they were produced, the makers realized that they were not popular in the market Hence, they kept and stored theh the process of dehydration, they had a long shelf life

Of course, despite this, while the wine bricks were not rotten, the taste had already turned bad

As Li Du explained this, he picked up one and placed it in a cup After pouring ater over it, they sa the wine brick turned into purple-red liquid Licking it, he could feel the sour-sweet taste

Back then, wine bricks were not valuable However, today, almost a century later, they had become a rarity item Li Du felt that if they went back into the market, many history lovers would be interested in the the nature of wine bricks, Sandler glared at Li Du and said, “I adht than all of us But what’s with this painting?”

Li Du shrugged and said, “It’s just as you’ve seen I’ve also bought a painting My foresight tellsis worth s that you have bought However, that said, this painting does not hold s as a keepsake fro Li Du’s s in his hands, Sandler shuddered He was not a stupid ent one

By that time, he had already realized that they have fallen into a trap The painting in Li Du’s hands was the one they had been targeting They had just spent alrand on a bunch of trash!+

Bell had also guessed what happened He sighed, “I’ve warned you, don’t ood!”