V1.Chapter 14

After coming out of the Baiyu Building, Yu Feng was in a bad mood.

Baiyulou confiscated their meal money, they saved three taels of silver, and if they could go to the mountain again tomorrow, they would have twenty taels of silver, and they only had to sell fifteen taels of salt, and they would have just collected twenty taels.

This is what Yu Feng planned. Even so, he still felt that the price of fifteen taels was too high, but he underestimated the courage of this girl.

"Fifty-two...you...what do you think!"

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"Yeah, fifty taels, what do you think!" Bai Yulou, the shopkeeper also complained to Miss Bai, "Gong salt is not so expensive!"

Miss Bai glared at him angrily: "Then you bought it for me!"

The shopkeeper choked.

Tribute salt is something that only the palaces and palaces can eat. These merchants, let alone buying them, have nowhere to go.

Yu Wan went to the market to buy gauze and dozens of pounds of soybeans, and then returned to the village with Yu Feng with two buckets of salt.

After arriving home, Yu Wan plunged into the stove.

Only then did Yu Feng understand why she made him carry so much water and chop so much firewood.

Yu Wan first boiled a large pot of hot water and poured all the salt in the first wooden barrel into it: "Big brother, does the old house have a grinder? Can you help me grind the soybeans into soy milk?"

Yu Feng didn't ask why, and left without saying a word.

Ancient salt is unpalatable mainly because it contains too many impurities. As long as these impurities are removed, the taste can be raised to a new height. This is easy to say, but it is a time-consuming and labor-intensive technical task.

After Yu Wan boiled the salt, she filtered it once with gauze. At this time, the coarser impurities were filtered out, but there were more delicate ones, so another medium was needed.

Yu Wan poured the filtered brine (salt) water back into the pot.

"Soybean juice is here!" Yu Feng walked in with two buckets of soy juice.

Yu Wan poured the raw soy milk into the brine, and after a while, some dregs floated up, Yu Wan scooped out the tumbling dregs, poured in the raw soy milk again, and so on three or five times until no more dirt could be scooped out of the brine. , At this time, the color of the brine has become very clear, and the weight has been reduced by half.

Yu Feng stared at the brine in the pot and was stunned. He never knew that bean juice could still be used like this...

Yu Wan took a breath and said, "When the water in the pot evaporates, the salt will come out."

It was freezing cold, but fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead. Yu Feng's expression was a little complicated. He wanted to find something to wipe her sweat off, but he was not a delicate little girl and would carry a bag with him. handkerchief.

He pinched his sleeve, still, it's still clean...

Without waiting for him to move, Yu Wan put down the lid of the pot and opened her mouth: "Brother, take a look at it for me, I'll go get the iron egg back."

Yu Feng hurriedly put down his stiff arm: "Understood, you can go."

Yu Wan went to her uncle's house and brought back the sweaty little iron egg, gave him a bath, and wiped the Jiang family too. After the little iron egg fell asleep, Yu Wan continued to return. to the stove.

Miss Bai still had a lot of salt for her, and it couldn't be cooked in one pot.

Yu Feng stayed behind to fight, and the brothers and sisters worked hard until dawn, and they finally succeeded in purifying all the salt.

The two of them couldn't take a rest, and hurriedly rented an ox cart from the village and sent the salt to Baiyulou.

Bai Tang had been waiting in the lobby early. Fifty taels was not a small number. Yesterday, it was because of his father's absence that she made an assertion, but now her father is on her way back. If she knew she would take fifty taels. I bought a salt that I don't know how to make...

Bai Tang didn't dare to think about it anymore!

After the salt has been purified, the large and irregular pieces of blue-gray salt have turned into crystal-clear small salt grains, and the weight has shrunk by more than half.

The shopkeeper couldn't help frowning: "How come it has become so little? Is this salt?"

The cooks from Baiyulou also gathered around, and among them was Master Lu, who had met Yu Wan in the market.

Master Lu has never seen such salt.

However, he recognized Yu Wan, the little girl who even made fish soup wrong.

Would such a person know how to make salt?

He scoffed.

The rest of the cooks laughed too.

Only Bai Tang didn't smile.

Bai Tang is not a little businesswoman who has never seen the world. The world only knows that her father is a businessman, but she doesn't know that her mother was a lady in the capital. When she returned to Ning with her mother, she really saw the snow-like grains of salt with her own eyes. , I tasted it myself.

When Yu Wan put the grains of salt in front of her, she was so shocked that she was speechless.

Whether I was surprised to see Snowflake Salt again in my lifetime, or was it surprised that a village girl actually made Snowflake Salt, I don't know.

But the difference is just that the things are similar, and the taste may be different!

Bai Tang glanced arrogantly at Yu Wan: "I'm the one who said the ugly thing in front of me. If the taste doesn't satisfy me, I won't give you a copper plate!"

Yu Wan smiled lightly: "Okay."

"What's good? Carefully she's reneging on her debt." Yu Feng said lightly.

Bai Tang threw the knife over with a sharp eye: "Who is reneging on the bill?!"

Yu Feng was too lazy to talk to her.

Bai Tang gritted her teeth angrily, not for the sake of so many grains of salt, she is now blasting this nasty guy out!

The cook at Baiyulou used Yu Wan's salt to make a small home-cooked dish - braised pork with cabbage.

In the past, in order to suppress the astringency in the salt, they needed to put in a lot of sauce, and then add a little sugar to make it fresh. Today, they deliberately made things difficult for Yu Wan, so they only put salt, but no one expected that it would be fried. The cabbage is sweeter than ever before. This sweet taste penetrates into the pork belly and perfectly removes the greasy taste of the fat meat; , mouth full of oil.

Bai Tang originally thought, no matter how good the taste is, she has to pretend to be hard to swallow, so if she can lower the price with her, she will not be able to stop eating...

"Is Miss Bai still satisfied?" Yu Wan asked with frowning eyes as she looked at the plate that Bai Tang had eaten so much that there was no slag left.

Bai Tang touched his stomach and burped.

Uh... Now that you are not satisfied, is it too late?

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The brother and sister took the banknotes to the pharmacy.

How did the pharmacy guy expect the two of them to actually collect the money? He had already sent someone to report to the yamen, but he hurriedly asked an errand to chase that person back.

"I said, the origin of your silver note is not unknown, right?" the guy asked suspiciously.

It really doesn't blame him for being so careless, but the family started seeing him here two years ago, and he couldn't be more clear about their family's situation.

Yu Wan smiled: "Little brother, please rest assured, every money we make with our ability is clean."

She was so kind and pleasant, it made the man feel embarrassed.

The guy coughed lightly: "You wait, I'll pay you back the IOU."