Alien landlady

Chapter 107 Teacher-Student Talk
After greeting each other stiffly, Bai Tongtong calmed down, and turned to tell the cook who had washed her face and put on a clean apron to prepare four servings of milk biscuits with the same ingredients and the same recipe on the long table. The acidity of baking soda and the alkalinity of baking soda can chemically react during baking, making the finished biscuits crispy and delicious.

While the cook and the assistant were preparing the materials, Bai Tongtong put the small bottle of baking soda on the table, took out her loose-leaf book, turned to a new page, and wrote four identical experiments on it with a mechanical pencil. plan, the only difference is the amount of baking soda added.To put it bluntly, the purpose of this experiment is to find out the correct proportion of baking soda. Before she came to this world, she didn't know how to make baked goods, so she couldn't even guess it.

In order to speed up the progress, Bai Tongtong helped the cook to use a small tornado as a magic mixer to beat the ingredients. Her precise control did not cause any waste. The cook took a dry bowl, poured all the baking soda into the bowl, and used a measuring spoon Following Bai Tongtong's instructions, take different amounts and add them to the beaten batter, then sift in the flour and knead it into a dough, roll it out into a dough, and use four molds to cut out four different biscuit shapes.Bai Tongtong also wrote it down in the notes at the same time, so that they can be distinguished after the biscuits are baked.

After the baking tray was put into the oven, the atmosphere in the kitchen was temporarily relaxed. The butler stood up in time and said that the afternoon tea snacks that had just been made not long ago would taste bad if they were left behind. Madam stood up gracefully and turned to Bai Tongtong. He stretched out his hand and invited her to go back to the restaurant upstairs to rest together.

Bai Tongtong thanked softly with a smile on his face, took his wife's arm kindly, followed Trim behind him, and Ah Huang at his feet, and left the kitchen.

As soon as they left, the servants finally felt spiritually liberated and relaxed. Many of them said that they must have a few sips of wine to have the strength to prepare dinner.

Also waiting in the restaurant were the grand duke and young masters and ladies. They chatted while eating, listening to Bai Tongtong's report on the discovery in the salt field, and were full of interest in the possible products in the salt lake.

Half an hour later, the butler walked into the restaurant with the baked biscuits. According to the records in the notes, Bai Tongtong gave the biscuits to the people for tasting, collected their opinions, and found that they all agreed that the No. [-] biscuit tasted the best. Either the taste is strange or the improvement is not obvious.Bai Tongtong then copied down this ratio and asked the housekeeper to pass it on to the cook. In the past few days, he boldly tried to make various flavors of dim sum, and found a new recipe that is suitable for matching with baking soda.

Duke Kalljador immediately summoned his officials, first wrote an announcement to release the news of the discovery of natural soda ash in the salt lake, and then closed the door to discuss the next business method. The new nobles who got the new territory just because the new year is approaching, all Visiting relatives and friends in Fancheng for various social activities, all of them received letters to come to the castle for a meeting the next day before dark.

Before the announcement was released to the neighboring countries, it spread in the city that day, and suddenly became a lively topic. The new nobles couldn't bear it, and rushed to the castle to ask Bai Tongtong for the news.

In order to avoid this kind of harassment, Bai Tongtong arrested Trim to speak to the outside world, asking the new nobles to build the salt field in their own territory first, and it is best to reserve an expansion land for future use.After that, she didn't say more about it. The construction of a chemical plant next to the salt field is a supporting project, but the conditions for industrial production can't be just said.

The nobles received this express and hint, and turned around to find their own connections to prepare for the saltworks, determined to build their own territory properly.

The next day, the Duke of Tamir's announcement was officially released, announcing all major and major cities in the territory, in fact, it was meant for foreign businessmen in the city.

The merchants once again heard the news, especially the merchants in Kama City, and immediately gathered outside the gate of the Salt Fair to inquire about the trading rules of soda ash.

But at that time, the chairman of the Salt Association had already rushed to Fancheng early in the morning. When his subordinates came back to report yesterday, he wanted to let the soda ash transaction be managed by the Salt Association. You only do things for half a year in a year, so what do you do for the remaining half of the year?

Bai Tongtong in the castle turned a deaf ear to these follow-up matters, and let Trim stand in front of everything. She requisitioned his laboratory and made all the soda ash she brought back into baking soda for the cook to use casually. Close the door of the laboratory, fiddle with carnallite inside, separate various elements in it, rinse, filter, purify, melt, replace, redox.

In experiments that require heating, high-temperature magic fireballs can achieve very good results. She even used an earth-type defensive scroll just to do a few hydrogen deflagration experiments.In the end, not only the most desired potassium fertilizer was obtained, but also other solid and liquid products such as metal potassium, sodium and magnesium were obtained. The experimental records were written for twenty or thirty pages without knowing it.

Taking advantage of the properties of magnesium, Bai Tongtong made a few simple sky cannons, and set them off in the square after dark, and they all lifted off smoothly and exploded. Even though the blooming fireworks were not in good shape, she didn’t bother to correct them. The next few will be saved for New Year's Eve to cheer everyone up.

The cook has already distributed the extra baking soda to the cooks of the noble ladies under the instruction of the wife and to share the crispy new-style dim sum. The origin is also generously publicized, that is, soda ash is used as the raw material.

Bai Tongtong's successive demonstrations of skill made Tamir believe in her ability, convinced that she is the goddess of luck who can bring Tamir wealth, and there are even small statues with her theme on the street, Many people buy it home as a souvenir, and they must bring a cat. Without that cat, no matter how white the sculpture is, it won’t sell.

The merchants sent beautifully packaged and expensive gifts into the castle like a stream. Except for the ones given to Duke Kalljado’s family as a courtesy, most of them were for Bai Tongtong, and they tried their best to find out where she would go after the New Year, so that they could prepare gifts in advance. It was sent to her through the Magician's Guild, so many beautiful gift boxes were sent to the home of Principal Hart, the capital of Gulisi.

After the New Year, Bai Tongtong spent a few days traveling around various salt lakes under the wind and snow, and with the help of Ah Huang, he found two dry ancient salt lake beds in different locations. Hidden under the snow and dust are rich reserves of Carnallite deposits, you don’t have to worry about potash fertilizer raw materials in the future.

Now that the ore deposit has been discovered, Bai Tongtong no longer carelessly puts it in a cloth bag, Ah Huang sinks into the ground and digs out a small mountain of rocks for her, puts them all in the space bag, and then packs them in a space bag full of satisfaction. Returning to Fancheng with happiness, she asked the Grand Duke and his wife that she wanted to go back to Gulisi. Her reason was that it was time to go back and continue her classes.

Just after the new year, she went to see other people's salt lakes, avoided many social activities, and only said that there was soda ash when she came back. Tamir's famous pillar industry in the future will change from silver fox fur to alkali salt mining, and it will be an exclusive business. Neighboring countries have no competitors, unlike silver fox fur, which has to worry about fakes.

But in the eyes of the Grand Duke and his wife, their master really did not perform their duties as a master and entertain guests thoughtfully. The distinguished guests who finally came here have been working, and they have to go back after finishing their work. Seeing from Tamir and Gulis In terms of the close relationship between the two countries, the Tamir aristocratic circle will really be ridiculed by the nobles of Gulisi.

In this way, Bai Tongtong agreed to stay for another two days.

The past two days have not been idle at all. Bai Tongtong is exhausted from social activities, and she feels more exhausted than her continuous experiment all day long, especially since she doesn't know much about Tamir's customs and customs. When we were together, apart from jewelry, we still talked about jewelry, and there were very few topics to talk about. Most of the time, we just laughed silly, echoed a few words, and forgot what we talked about after the chat was over.

The Duke and Mrs. Carljado have good intentions. Socializing can help broaden the circle of people, but you also need to find the right person for chatting. If you don’t speculate, it’s too painful. In contrast, boring experiments are more interesting than socializing in her eyes. .

In a bad mood, she tossed Trim, holding his ear and warning him that if he wanted to become an accomplished magician in the future, he had better not spend his time on boring activities, especially since he was still a young child without inheritance rights.

Trim rubbed his reddened ears with one hand, and dragged Bai Tongtong into the laboratory with the other, asking her to teach him the technique of making baking soda from soda ash, otherwise the cooks would have no baking soda when she left. This is also a product that will make money in the future.

After watching Trim master the laboratory production process, Bai Tongtong promised to come up with a method suitable for mass production in the factory in the future, and then bid farewell to the Carjado family again and went back to Gulis.

Compared with Fancheng where it was so cold that day, Panshi City, the capital of the kingdom, is much warmer. Bai Tongtong didn't go back to the principal's house immediately, but went shopping first with great interest. A place that is too cold is indeed not suitable for human activities, except for a The white is still white, and if she goes again in winter, she has to prepare a pair of sunglasses for herself in advance.

After walking around the continuous shopping mall, I bought some personal daily necessities, and then took a leisurely ride to the magician community in a rented carriage.

The principal is reading in the study room, while his wife went to a sister party and did not come back at noon. She went back to the guest room and planned to change clothes to meet the principal's Bai Tongtong. When she entered the room, she thought she was in the wrong place. As long as the table is on or off the table, as long as it does not hinder walking, All kinds of gift boxes were neatly stacked, and the special mailing labels for the Magicians Guild stuck on them showed that they all came from Tamir.

When I was in Fancheng, I had already received enough offerings from merchants. I didn’t expect them to send so many to the principal’s house. Although I finally enjoyed the satisfaction of being offered offerings, now I feel too exaggerated.

In the end, Bai Tongtong, who ignored the gifts all over the floor, changed her clothes and rushed to the study room. Principal Hart already knew everything without her having to report what she did in Tamir.

"You know, Tamir's magicians all graduated from our school. They didn't hide anything from me. Tamir now has a huge treasure trove of resources, which once again affects the diplomatic relations between the two countries. You know when When greed arises in human nature, what will happen?" The study room with the fireplace was dry and warm, Principal Hart clamped the bookmark among the pages, put the book aside, and looked at his lover with some seriousness.

Although most magicians avoid political circles due to their own professional characteristics, as the principal of the Magic and Martial Arts Academy, some things are his daily work.

"Trim is still your student at school, so you don't have to plan so much?" Bai Tongtong stepped aside, and the butler pushed a small dining cart in to bring them new refreshments.

"Who can say what will happen in the future? What if something happens that even he can't control?"

Bai Tongtong pursed her lips, bent down and tidied up the coffee table, and asked the butler to put the large tea tray and dessert tray on one end of the coffee table, then she began to take out the sample bottle from the ring, and the bottle was covered with stickers. There are different substances in it, some are solid, some are liquid, and the quantity is so large that it covers the rest of the coffee table.

"These are what I harvested in Tamir. All the raw materials come from the salt lake. These are the things with practical application value. Soda ash is only the most basic raw material. The Tamil people who are worried about living a comfortable life in the future turn their faces and play resource threats. Don't worry, principal, the only role of such a country with a small land area and a small population is to serve as a source of resources for neighboring countries, and the small country has no capital to compete with the big countries. They finally know that the salt lake produces soda ash, very good, we have cheap Soda ash has been used." Bai Tongtong spread her hands, disapproving.

Principal Hart sat up in surprise, carefully took a few bottles in his hands and looked at them, "Are these the products of soda ash reprocessing?"

"More than that, the experiment has not been completed, and there are probably other things, but the original raw materials are all from salt lakes."

"I don't know many of them."

"Because the magic experiment is rarely used, and the workshop uses it more. I only learned about it when I went to customize stationery. Since there is soda ash in the salt lake, I will do some experiments to test it."

"But this bottle looks like it's made of metal." Principal Hart shook the bottle marked with metal magnesium, and looked up at Bai Tongtong with a smile. He didn't recognize the product name written on it.

Bai Tongtong understood that it was time to make up stories again.

"I never said what I used to do, right? I only said that I was a homeless person who escaped from the mudslide and came out as a mercenary to make a living."

"Yes, there is no record of such a tragic natural disaster in China. It is impossible for any local people to hide the tragedy of the complete destruction of a village."

"I admit that I am from a foreign country, and the place where the horrible mudslide occurred was a halite mine, because the long-term mining destroyed the vegetation on the mountain. After several days of continuous torrential rain, the landslide and mudslide finally took away everything " Bai Tongtong had a picture of her first arrival in this world in her mind to arouse her emotions, and she calmly told the story she made up, without any expression on her face. She knew what the principal's point was, and he just wanted someone who could explain it to the outside world. Reason, so don't act hysterical.

"Then what did you do in the mine at that time? It's impossible to rely on you as a guard, right? I know that there will be special soldiers protecting important mining areas." Seeing the sadness in Bai Tongtong's eyes, Principal Hart couldn't bear to ask again, But he wants to have an explanation to the outside world and deal with inquiries from others.

Bai Tongtong sniffed and pointed sideways at the bottles on the coffee table, "I and a few companions are responsible for doing this. This is my job. Fighting is a side job. After all, apart from generations of miners in the mine, every now and then There are also migrant workers, most of them are men, and they like to drink, tsk, you know."

"Ah." Principal Hart seemed to accept this statement, and he nodded, "No wonder you are so interested in Tamir's salt lake. Although there is no salt lake in our country, fortunately there are still a few salt wells and salt mines."

"Now everyone knows that there are properties in the salt lake, but no one knows how to extract and separate these properties. Trim only mastered the technology of making baking soda from soda ash, because this is the simplest, even if I don't teach it specifically He, he will find out by himself one day, so it is better for me to teach him. The advantage of Salt Lake is that it is cheap, not unique and irreplaceable. Put your heart back in your stomach, nothing will happen, if you really want to fall to your head I don't know what to do, just annex them." Bai Tongtong quickly got out of the situation like an excellent actor, squatted in front of the coffee table and poured tea, mixed a cup of milk tea according to the principal's taste and put it in his hand.

"After you successfully instigated a country to annex another country, is this an addiction? Do you want to do it again?"

Bai Tongtong licked his lips, made a cup of tea for himself, and sat back on the sofa to take a few sips, "The nobles in Tamir thought I was the kind of typical eccentric person who didn't like socializing, loved experimenting, and hated being interrupted at work. Magician, so after the New Year, I said to go and see their new salt lake, and investigate whether the products are the same. The salt lake owned by others only produces salt and nothing else. They thanked me very warmly for my thoughtfulness.”

"Good reason, then what?"

"Then, I slipped to the two neighboring neighbors' houses."

Principal Hart laughed so much that the cup in his hand was shaking, and the tea in the cup was swaying in circles.

"Yeah, whoever annexes who, who can say?" Bai Tongtong raised her eyebrows proudly, holding the cup in both hands and drinking tea, "Don't always think that they may threaten resources in the future, or it may be because they have exported soda ash. After a good life, it becomes content with the status quo and does not think about making progress. If it really becomes like this, there is no need to be afraid.”

"That's right, a comfortable life with no worries about food and drink is the easiest to wear down people's fighting spirit."

"If their neighbors find an opportunity to seize the territory, His Majesty can raise the banner of justice to help. After that, God doesn't know how the situation will develop."

"Hehehe, we can't let Trim know what we said today. He is a pure and good boy."

"Hmm, of course, he is a good boy who works hard and is spoiled at the same time."

Bai Tongtong and Principal Hart looked at each other and smiled, then sighed and shook their heads. Foreign students in the school sometimes encounter such unspeakable helplessness and embarrassment.

(End of this chapter)