Reborn Craftsman

Chapter 140 Saltpeter
"Run slower, Yaya!" the women's director even shouted.

"Understood, I'm in the sun-drying field, I want to give my sister an egg!" Yaya's voice came from outside.

"This child!" The female director shook her head.

"Is Yaya the granddaughter of Village Chief Wang?" Liu Xing asked casually while drinking sweet potato porridge.

"That's right! His father and Da Kui are logging in the mountains! Two yuan a day, not including food!" Director Zhang moved two chairs, handed one to Liu Xing, and kept the other for himself.

"Logging is very difficult! Only two yuan a day?" Liu Xing was stunned. If it was placed in Qingshi Village, no one would do it for five yuan a day.

After all, a wet fir tree weighs at least a few hundred catties, and even a thousand catties. If you cut down pine and other miscellaneous trees, the weight will be doubled.

"There is no way around this! Children need money to eat and study, and the elderly need money to see a doctor. If you don't do it, you may lose two yuan a day!" Director Zhang smiled helplessly, and the words in his words For her, only those who have been here know how sad she is.

Liu Xing is a reborn person, so he naturally knows the difficulties of the villagers. In order to avoid getting emotional, he even put aside the topic: "By the way, why did Ah Hu's parents die?"

"Save people, the grandfather who saved Xiaohu and several juniors from Dongyu Village were killed by wild boars in the end!" Director Zhang sneered, and she didn't explain in detail the reason why she was killed by wild boars, as if she didn't want to explain.

Liu Xing didn't ask too much, but just lamented that the fate of life is really impermanent. According to Director Zhang's words, Ahu's parents are the heroes of the village. But when Ahu encountered difficulties, Dongyu Village couldn't give them. Any help is appreciated.

Although poverty is one of the main reasons.

But it cannot be an excuse to escape.

This is the tragedy of Dongyu Village, and it is also the tragedy of this era.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing felt a little melancholy. If he hadn't been reborn, Qingshi Village in 1993 would not have been much better.

Seeing that the sweet potato porridge in the bowl was about to get cold, he immediately withdrew his thoughts and started eating.

Director Zhang also brought a bowl of porridge, and sat with Liu Xing at the gate of the bamboo building to eat, chatting about some trivial things in Dongyu Village.

When she was about to eat, Yaya picked up a few white crystalline stones and ran over: "Brother, I saw a very big wild boar just now, and I even hit it with this stone, hurry over Help, there will be wild pork to eat by noon!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Director Zhang immediately threw away the stone in Yaya's hand when he heard the words: "Wild boars can't be killed without a shotgun. Don't die by then!"

Liu Xing nodded in agreement: "It is said that there are no tigers and monkeys called kings in the mountains. In fact, they are wrong. Wild boars are the kings of the mountains. A full-grown wild boar weighs a thousand catties, and tigers have to detour!"

This is not to scare Yaya. Wild boars can weigh up to three or four thousand catties. They are called mobile "tanks" by Orion. If there is no high-quality shotgun or high-voltage electric shock tool, it is impossible to be in the wild. Kill the wild boar in a short time.

As for shotguns, in 93, they were legal in some remote villages, and they also had firearms licenses issued by the local government.

After all, relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water.

There is very little land on which people in the village can grow food. If they don't hunt, they will starve to death.

Director Zhang was a little worried about the children playing in the sun-drying field, so he put Yaya in Liu Xing's hands: "Help me take a look, I have to tell those troublemakers to pay attention, don't really get hurt by wild boars, then I can explain Sorry."

"Go!" Liu Xing smiled.

Seeing that Yaya wanted to pick up the crystalline stone thrown away by the female director, he quickly hugged Yaya, but the next second he was stunned: "Huh? Isn't this saltpeter?"

"That's right! Our Dongyu Village is full of them!" After the female director replied, she turned around and walked towards the east of the grain drying field.

"Brother, what is saltpeter?" Yaya asked curiously, tilting her head.

"Saltpeter is a good thing, but it's worthless!" Liu Xing picked up a crystalline stone on the ground, weighed it in his hand, and then a bold idea came out of his heart.

Seeing that Village Chief Wang would not come back this time, he immediately said to Yaya, "Do you know where there is saltpeter around?"

"There are a lot of them on the mountain behind the bamboo building!" Yaya stretched out her little finger and pointed.

"Take me to look for it. If you have materials, I'll treat you to popsicles!" Liu Xing led Yaya and walked to the mountain behind the bamboo building.

"Brother, is it that kind of icy popsicle?" Yaya raised her head and asked repeatedly.

"Yes! Have Yaya eaten?" Liu Xing asked casually.

"Well, I ate it once. Grandpa invited me to eat it. It was delicious, but it was too expensive. It cost ten cents a piece. I only saved five cents now, and it was not enough to buy one. " Yaya bit her index finger and said bouncing all the way.

Liu Xing felt distressed for some reason, he couldn't even afford a dime popsicle, how poor this Dongyu Village is!
Don't they know how to use this saltpeter to make popsicles?

The materials and craftsmanship are actually very simple.

If nothing else happened, he remembered that the use of saltpeter to make ice had already been explored in the late Tang Dynasty. It has been 93 years. Could it be that the craft has been lost?

With this doubt, Liu Xing threw the saltpeter in his hand into the ditch beside him. Seeing that the amount was not enough, he picked up some other pieces on the ground.

After waiting for a while, icicles appeared in the ditch, and then the ice melted.

Yaya looked at the fun, and immediately picked up several pieces of saltpeter from the mountain behind the track and threw them into the ditch.

There wasn't much water in the ditch, but it disappeared immediately after being thrown with saltpeter, turning into blurred ice cubes.

Liu Xing looked at it and smiled, then immediately picked up Yaya and walked towards the back hill of the bamboo building.

At a distance of only 200 meters, Liu Xing saw a cave with a height of one person. The cave was full of saltpeter mines. Because no one managed it, they were scattered everywhere.

Liu Xing walked over and pulled a piece of saltpeter the size of a fist with his hand. Its color and composition are quite pure. If it is used to make ice, the effect will be very good.

It's just that if you want to take it to the bamboo building to make ice, this saltpeter is not enough.

Seeing that he was idle, Liu Xing asked Yaya to find a load of dustpans, and then picked up a load with his bare hands and carried it into the bamboo building.

Director Zhang just came back at this time, seeing Liu Xing's actions, he couldn't help asking curiously: "Why did you pick up such a load of saltpeter?"

"Make popsicles for Yaya!" Liu Xing replied with a smile.

"Ah?" Director Zhang thought he had heard wrong.

"Yes! My brother made popsicles for me, very sweet ones!" Yaya said happily from the side.

"Impossible, how can this saltpeter make popsicles, if it can, those popsicle sellers in the town will lose their jobs!" the female director laughed.

(End of this chapter)