Tianyuan Shoufu is two and a half years old

Chapter 37 Salt Making (3)

"Auntie, we're here to see you—" Qin Shuyan, who was driving the car, also heard his aunt's loud voice, and shouted loudly after the ox cart stopped.

Qin Songlan, who was busy in the yard trying to keep her little grandson from moving things around, heard her nephew's voice, looked outside in surprise, and then saw her elder brother and sister-in-law, with a smile on her face.

"Oh, Zhongyuan, why are you here?" Qin Songlan asked happily, she hadn't seen her younger brother for about half a year, seeing him now made her feel a lot better.

"Sister, let's come and see you." Qin Zhongyuan said.

"Come in, come in, come in quickly." Qin Songlan happily greeted her younger brother to come in, even ignoring her mischievous little grandson who was more than three years old.

Qin Songlan stepped forward and took Mu Lian's hand, watching her younger brother and nephew carrying things down, she smiled happily and said, "Come on, just come, why are you bringing things here?"

Although Qin Songlan said that, she was still very happy in her heart. After all, her brother and sister-in-law thought of her, she was really comforted.

"Come to see you, sister, of course you have to bring something." Mu Lian said with a smile, "Sister, you also brought a lot of seafood back when you went back to your mother's house, of course we have to bring something when we come to see you gone."

Qin Songlan smiled and exchanged a few more greetings, and the little grandson, Xiao Mao, let Qin Shuyan play with him first. She looked at Qin Zhongyuan and said, "Why did you remember to come to see me today? Aren't you busy all the time?"

Qin Zhongyuan just put down all the things he brought, and after hearing what his sister said, he smiled and said, "Sister said that, can I come and see you if I'm fine?"

"Of course, but aren't you very busy recently?" Qin Songlan said.

"But what my sister said is also reasonable. I came here to talk to my sister about something." Qin Zhongyuan showed her the sweet potato vine and the insecticide, and introduced the functions of these two things one by one.

"Is this sweet potato vine planted directly like this? Can it be grown like this? It doesn't even have roots." Qin Songlan looked at the sweet potato vine in surprise.

"Yes, we planted it at home, as long as it is planted in the soil or placed in a place with water, it can live, but if you want it to grow well, you should plant it in the soil."

Qin Songlan nodded to show that she understood, and then looked at the insecticidal potion.

There are also leeches on their side. Of course, what she cares most about this insecticide is that it can kill aphids and some insects that eat crops. Although their family is fishing, they are still farming, so the insecticide The efficacy is really important to them.

After Qin Zhongyuan told Qin Songlan about sweet potato vines and insecticide, he secretly said to his sister, "I'm here this time, the most important thing is to tell you, sister."

"Sister, you have been married to Pingdong Fishing Village for more than [-] years. Do you know that seawater can be made into salt?" Qin Zhongyuan asked.

"Salt from seawater?" Qin Songlan's expression changed when she heard the words, and she looked at her younger brother and said, "How do you know about this?"

Seeing her like this, Qin Zhongyuan was a little surprised and said, "Sister, do you really know?"

Qin Songlan frowned slightly and said, "Some old people in the fishing village know about this, but everyone tacitly keeps silent, and only let their own people know."

"Then sister, do people in your fishing village know how to boil salt with sea water?" Qin Zhongyuan asked.

"Boil salt?" Qin Songlan looked at her younger brother in surprise, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter with boiling salt? Can you bring back sea water to cook? Can you cook salt?"

Qin Zhongyuan also looked at her in surprise and said, "Sister, you all know that seawater can make salt, why don't you know how to boil salt?"

Qin Songlan said, "We already know that seawater can turn into salt after being dried by the sun. After all, we live by the sea. Sometimes when we go to the beach to catch the sea, we will see salt on some reefs."

"Over the years, some people of course know that seawater can be turned into salt. But we didn't take the seawater back and boil it, so we didn't know it could be boiled into salt." Qin Songlan said.

Qin Zhongyuan nodded and said, "It turns out that sisters, you also know that sea water can be dried into salt."

"If that's the case, let me tell you about the drying of the salt, sister."

Qin Zhongyuan told Qin Songlan about the sea salt drying that Qin Muyu had told him in detail before, how the salt farm should be built, how the sea water should be dried, how to filter and so on.

Qin Songlan couldn't help sighing, "So there are so many things to pay attention to in drying the salt?"

"I have written down what you said. When your brother-in-law and those boys from my family come back, I will tell them to let them build a smaller salt drying field by themselves. Then we will try how to dry it first." .”

"As for what you said about telling Xiuyuan the recipe for drying the salt, I hope he can help bring it to the Holy Majesty, I also think this is better."

"Look at us small fishermen. Even if we know that seawater can be turned into salt, we can't spread the word. What if those big salt merchants find out? What if those aristocratic families find out?"

"So, we can only pretend that we don't know, and occasionally we really can't afford salt, and then go to collect the condensed salt by the sea." Qin Songlan said.

After hearing what his sister said, Qin Zhongyuan thought to himself, as expected, it was Mu Yu and his family who could see clearly, knowing that no power could not protect a good prescription.Therefore, they can only rely on these prescriptions to find the biggest backer.

Doesn't Qin Zhongyuan know how important the method of extracting oil and drying salt is to make money?he knows.

But just like what Chen Qiuxiang and Qin Muyu said, even if their little Qin family village has a clan member who is an official outside, it may not be able to protect them.

Qin Zhongyuan and Qin Songlan chatted for a while about the details of drying the salt, but Qin Songlan still planned to keep her brother and continue talking when her husband and children came back.

After that, Qin Songlan and Aunt Mulian chatted about clothes, children, gossip in the village and so on.

Qin Zhongyuan went to his sister's house. The insecticide workshop in Qinjiazhuang is still in operation, and the recruitment is very fair. It is enough for a family to send one person to work in the workshop.

Wang Qingzao's family is where he, the 15-year-old elder brother, went. His 12-year-old brother Dongzao and the youngest sister Hongzao stayed at home.

Similar to Wang Qingzao's family, every household in the Qin family village sends a person to work in the insecticide potion workshop, but the potion has not been sold yet, so the wages are converted from the potion.

After the households in the Qin family have converted enough potions, they will exchange the money from selling the potions or the soybeans they bought back into money to pay the workers in the workshop.

Most of the people working in the workshop are now men. Perhaps, like everyone’s limited thinking, the work is basically done by men. Now the workshop is basically full of men. If we build other workshops in the future Then continue to recruit women to work.

　happy New Year!
　　Happy Year of the Tiger!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)