A small peasant girl

Chapter 1024 A new way of making a living
"Girl, I don't know much about this." Xiaoying said truthfully, "But girl, you wait at the front intersection first, I'll go down and ask and I'll come back."

"En, that's fine." Wenzi nodded. She knew her twisted personality. If she didn't understand the scene in front of her, she might still have this mystery in her heart when she returned to town. Not good, "Xiaoying, no matter what they are selling, you can buy some back."

Xiaoying quickly jumped out of the car, and she found a seemingly talkative commoner standing in the front row, "My fellow, is it convenient for me to stand in your place?"

While Xiaoying was speaking, she took out a tael of silver from the purse she carried with her, and used it to buy the front seat of this fellow.

The fellow looked at the money that Xiaoying handed over, and immediately reached out to take it after knowing it, and said with a smile on his face and a naive attitude, "It's easy to say."

The fellow took the money handed over by Xiaoying, did not forget to take a bite of it, and looked at the tooth marks left on the money, and then happily stood at the end of the line and went to line up.

One person for another, this kind of "jumping in line" method, the people at the back don't care about anything, anyway, for them, the number of people at the front is the same.

With the pace of the team, Xiaoying approached the front of the store little by little. When her eyes saw the white thing that looked like table salt, her whole mouth formed a circle of 'oh'.

Salt is one of the important tax revenues of the government. The imperial court assigned special officials to distribute the right to sell salt to some merchants with rich families and strong backgrounds.

For this group of special merchants, most of the profits from buying and selling salt were used to bribe salt officials in exchange for the next opportunity to sell salt.

Salt seems to be very small, and the daily consumption of ordinary people is also small, but it is a necessity for survival. A normal person who lacks salt for a day will feel uncomfortable and cause unnecessary panic after a long time.

Xiaoying can be regarded as a respectable and prestigious maid in Wang's family. She doesn't need to do too much crude work at all, and she rarely cooks herself, so she doesn't really appreciate the importance of salt.

However, Xiaoying still wrote down Wenzi's instructions, asked the price of the salt, bought some salt, and hurried back in the direction of the carriage.

Xiaoying didn't dare to leave Wenzi for too long, although there were shadow guards installed by Xuanyuan Po around her, but if she encountered a psychopath like the female minister again, Xiaoying should really cry secretly.

"Girl, I'm back." Xiaoying stood outside first, and called softly inside, giving Wenzi some buffer time, then opened the curtain, and jumped into the carriage one by one.

"Xiaoying, do you know what they are queuing up to buy?" Driven by curiosity, Wenzi quickly asked Xiaoying who appeared in front of him.

"Girl, I really think it's some rare treasure, but it's just table salt. Look, these people are in a hurry." Xiaoying said with a light attitude, and then opened a small bag of table salt that she bought, and handed it to the In front of Wenzi, "Girl, take a closer look, aren't these the table salt we use to eat vegetables on weekdays?"

After Wenzi heard Xiaoying's words, the expression on her face seemed a little stiff. She was curious for a long time and the result she got was so simple and clear.

"This? I'm confused?" Looking at the salt in her hand, Wenzi's expression was not to mention disappointed. She thought it was a new thing, but was messed up by the ordinary daily necessities in front of her, and her mood was slightly depressed.

Xiaoying was also puzzled. On the way back, she spent some money and asked a local commoner, "Girl, I have already asked. Today is the annual Salt Day, and the price of salt is cheaper than usual. Halfway through, it attracted the attention of a large number of people, rushing to buy salt."

"Can it still be like this?" Wenzi was stunned. This kind of marketing method would not be outdated in the previous life. "Could it be to buy enough salt for a year, and then buy it next year?"

"Girl, don't tell me, you really guessed it." Xiaoying smiled, sorted out the news she had heard, and said, "Rich people don't care about this little money, but for the family Poorer people can save half of their expenses, and they are also happy."

"Fortunately, as long as the method is right, the salt can be kept for a long time." Wenzi can understand the poor family that Xiaoying said very well. She is also miserable from being hungry in the middle of the night and unable to sleep. Now she is out in a carriage with people around her Serving a well-off life.

"Girl, I have already asked. The salt in Ninghai Town is all brought from other places. The price it sells on weekdays is much higher than that in our town." There are not many concepts, just feel a little strange.

"Isn't Ninghai Town near the seaside? How could it be necessary to transport it from other places?" Wenzi subconsciously felt that places near the sea can use the method of drying seawater to develop table salt.

"Girl, this Ninghai Town is not like our town where there is a small salt mine. The food that the local people eat and the salt in it are all transported from faraway places.

"This? Didn't the seawater be dried to make salt?" Wenzi felt completely puzzled for a moment. In her impression, the cities by the sea were many times better than the inland areas.

"Girl, are you kidding me?" Xiaoying didn't even understand Wenzi's words, but she had never heard of the fact that salt can be extracted by drying sea water.

"Oh, that's why it's gone." Thinking of this, Wenzi suddenly couldn't help but burst out laughing, and the expression on her face was still turned into the color of a rainbow in joy.

"Girl, why do I listen to what you say? It smells like sour grapes." Xiaoying is also one of the people who knows Wenzi well. She knows when it is better to joke with Wenzi. Wenzi is annoying.

"Xiaoying, you said that if we can use the method of drying seawater to extract table salt and sell it to the common people at a lower price, do you think there will be any difference?"

"Girl, are you short of money again?" Xiaoying felt that Wenzi's thoughts were naive and unbelievable, and she couldn't just listen to them directly.

Wenzi could see from Xiaoying's laughing eyes that she didn't trust herself, that she could really use seawater to extract salt.

"Xiaoying, you're being naughty again." Wenzi put his thoughts in front of him all of a sudden, analyzing the relationship between salt and water bit by bit, so as to pave the way for him to open a salt manufacturing factory in the future.

At the same time, Wenzi thought to himself: If no one here really knows how to extract salt by drying sea water, that would be a great thing.

　Read chapter by chapter, it shouldn't be particularly enjoyable, right?It's all Yanhe's fault, o(╥﹏╥)o
　　
　
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