Poor family farming: the sick and weak scholar's wife is very sturdy

Chapter 17
After returning home, Li Yuyan angrily packed up the supplies that Lin Xiao had purchased.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He pointed at making salt and selling salt to prepare funds for revenge.

How could this woman tell others how to make salt at will? !
A woman's sixth sense is extremely strong.

Lin Xiao immediately saw that something was wrong with Li Yuyan.

"Yuyan, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

"I don't understand. Why do you tell them how to make salt?"

Li Yuyan was in a hurry and asked straight to the point.

"Hey, you misunderstood me about this."

"Misunderstand?"

"Yeah." Lin Xiao nodded and explained with a smile, "I only told them the first step. The salt produced by this step is not only bitter and astringent, but also poisonous, so it cannot be eaten."

Hearing Lin Xiao's words, Li Yuyan breathed a sigh of relief. He pointed to the barrel and asked:

"Then what is this barrel used for?"

"From tomorrow onwards, I will collect salt from the whole village after it has been petrified and fried. A catty of salt will cost three copper plates. After that, I will put all the salt into this big wooden barrel. What will you do next? knew."

"That way, we can make more salt, right?"

Li Yuyan admired the little girl in front of her disguised as a man even more.

How did she come up with this ghost idea?

It seems that you earn less, but in fact, the amount increases, and you earn more.

"Yuyan, I just said that you are a smart one, and you can see through it. By the way, what does Brother Zhou say?"

Li Yuyan took out half a penny from the back room: "Here, he asked me to give you this."

Lin Xiao glanced at the half hanging money, and said lightly: "Sure enough, if you want to get money quickly, you still have to expand production first."

Next, Li Yuyan and Lin Xiao reformed the newly bought large wooden barrel.

After busying for half an hour, the big wooden barrel was completely remodeled.

When Lin Xiao was about to take out the cotton cloth to wrap the charcoal, he realized that he had forgotten to buy cloth!
"Damn it, I'm going to get up early again tomorrow, I forgot to buy cloth."

"I'll go shopping tomorrow. I'm going fast. I'll be back in less than half a day. You can rest at home."

"Well, that's fine, thanks for your hard work!"

After all, Lin Xiao yawned and went to sleep in the study.

She is really tired today.

However, what she didn't know was that when she fell asleep, everyone in the village was busy.

Lin Xiaowu and Mazi felt very sorry for taking so much money from Lin Xiao.

So he volunteered to send the maltose and candied haws that Lin Xiao bought back to the villagers door to door, and told him about Lin Xiao's collection of salt.

A catty of inedible salt melted from salt petrochemicals can be sold for three copper coins. Isn't this the same as picking up for nothing?

Although the big guys don't know what Lin Xiao does with the inedible salt.

But they still took advantage of the night to go to the bottom of the abyss to pick up salt stones and go home to melt the salt water and fry the salt.

I am afraid that I will miss [-] million due to laziness!

Li Yuyan made breakfast at dawn and went to Jiuzhou Town with a basket.

Without Lin Xiao's company, he walked like the wind, and when he arrived in Jiuzhou Town, his genius was completely brightened.

He went non-stop to the cloth store to buy a few bolts of cotton cloth that Lin Xiao needed. When he passed by the grain and oil store, he was stopped by the manager of the grain and oil store.

"Oh, ma'am, I've found you, isn't your boss here?"

"Is something wrong?"

Li Yuyan looked vigilantly at the shopkeeper who was full of smiles, not knowing what he wanted to do!
"The salt you sent last time was sold out long ago. I don't know your surnames, let alone where you live. It's really hard to ask you for more salt to sell."

It turned out that he came to ask for goods.

Li Yuyan suddenly understood something in his heart.

He asked lightly, "How much salt do you need?"

The shopkeeper immediately stretched out five fingers: "Fifty catties, do you have it?"

Fifty catties of salt, that is 25 taels of silver.

Li Yuyan, eager to make money and revenge, agreed without thinking:

"Okay, after seven days, I will personally deliver the goods!"

After Li Yuyan left, while the shopkeeper was thinking about the price of the newly arrived salt, several soldiers in armor broke in.

"A few military masters, what instructions do you have for visiting the shop?"

The shopkeeper hurried up to meet them, and bowed to the soldiers tremblingly, for fear that he would offend the military lords by his negligence.

That's a terrible crime, and if you don't do it, your life will be lost!
"Is this salt from your store?"

A leading soldier threw a cloth bag to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper arched his back, opened the cloth bag carefully, squeezed a few grains of salt from the inside, put it in his mouth, tasted it, and said in fear:
"If you go back to Lord Jun, the salt is indeed from the villain's shop. I wonder if there is something wrong with the salt?"

At this time, the shopkeeper had already greeted the eighteen generations of Lin Xiao and Li Yuyan's ancestors in their hearts.

He regretted it very much, why did he accept the salt made by Lin Xiao in the first place!

Is that salt something ordinary people can make?

It's all right now, there must be a problem with the salt, otherwise, how could the military men come to the door to question in person? !

Thinking of this, the shopkeeper immediately knelt down with a plop, hugged the lead soldier's calf, crying with tears and snot in his nose:
"Master, please forgive me! It is true that this salt was sold in a small shop, but the salt was not made by a villain, but by a farmer who looked like a scholar, and he sold it to the villain at a low price. , the villain was blinded by lard for a moment, so...Mr. Jun, please spare me!"

When the leading soldier heard the shopkeeper's cry, he knew what he was doing. He pulled up the shopkeeper and said with a smile:
"I didn't say there's anything wrong with the salt. I just think the salt is good. I want to come over and buy more!"

"Ah...that's it..."

The shopkeeper was taken aback for a moment, and immediately heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a sneering smile:
"It turned out to be a misunderstanding. This salt, they will send another fifty catties of this salt after seven days. At that time, I will deliver it to you personally, Mr. Jun?"

"Fifty catties of salt can be produced in seven days?"

The lead soldier muttered to himself.

"Well, that's what the scholar's wife said."

"...Okay, seven days later, you will bring fifty catties of salt and the delivery person to another hospital in Kyushu, and your reward will be indispensable!"

"Yes!"

When the shopkeeper heard the words "Kyushu Bieyuan", his attitude immediately became more respectful and humble.

Kyushu Bieyuan, he knows, this is a Bieyuan in the suburbs, the owner is a great general, a proper big shot!
After leaving the grain and oil store, the leading soldier immediately walked to a carriage and told the people inside everything he had just inquired about.

After a long while, a pleasant male voice came from inside: "You don't have to be afraid of being late for a good meal, so wait a little longer!"

It was just after noon when Li Yuyan returned home, and the table in the back room was covered with inedible salt collected from the villagers.

Lin Xiao was cooking lunch in the kitchen. She didn't know how to use the stove, her face was covered in black ashes, and the kitchen was also made into a miasma, and she couldn't find a place to leave her feet!
"Yuyan, you are back!"

　The book continues from last time.

　　The man refused to listen to the persuasion, and had to go out for a stroll in the rainy day, and then encountered a very strange thing.

　　He saw a girl in white clothes with a red umbrella walking back and forth on the side of the road alone with bare feet, as if she was waiting for someone.

　　The red umbrella covered the girl's face. The man couldn't see what the girl looked like, but he could vaguely see that the girl's exposed arms and legs were extremely pale.

　　Yes, pale, bloodless white, the man has never seen a woman with such skin.

　　However, he still walked over curiously, wanting to see what the girl looked like.

　　then……

　　
　
(End of this chapter)