Shoufu's favored wife is sweet and sassy

Chapter 555, drying salt

A few people walked on a small road only a few hundred meters away from the beach. This road is very interesting.

On the side close to the sea, there are salt drying factories, shipyards, and docks that stretch for several miles. On the other side, fishermen who have just returned from the sea sell seafood along the street.

Both Ning Buhui and Xiaoan were attracted by the standard items sold by the vendors, while Xiaoqing was silently observing the nearby factory.

She saw a lot of huge brine pools by the sea, which were transported by workers with the seawater bit by bit. The barefoot and shirtless man was tanned and shiny in the hot sun, and his bent waist was hard. Supported by the support, the legs stamped on the beach step by step.

In front of the huge salt drying pond, people are like little ants, lined up in a long line, carrying them like a foolish old man moving a mountain.

This kind of labor is done from morning to night, and one meal at noon. The salary is [-] cents a day. There are also women and half-grown children in it. Most of them are responsible for lighting fires, drying stew and frying salt. The salary is halved, but it is much easier. .

Brine drying is to check the salt concentration of the water taken from the sea. When the concentration reaches a certain level, the water in the brine drying pool is lifted into the frying salt pool, and the fire is heated below until the water is evaporated to dryness, leaving only salt.

The man is responsible for splitting the whole tree into firewood, and the women and children are responsible for keeping the fire alive. On the top is a thatched shed, but it can barely cover the salt pot, and people are still exposed to the hot sun.

At this time, someone scraped the fried salt into a wheelbarrow and transported it to the warehouse.

Coarse salt with impurities is produced by loads of loads. Xiaoqing frowned. The salt produced in this way not only contains a small amount of sediment, but also contains impurities such as sodium sulfate and magnesium ions. Long-term consumption is not good for the body. Well, let’s not talk about it, just looking at the large amount of firewood transported around, we know that this kind of frying method has caused great damage to the vegetation.

The salt they usually eat is also coarse salt, which has a bitter taste in it, but after all, she is only a salt eater, not a salt maker, so she didn't think too much about it, and it was the first time she saw such a large-scale fried marinated salt , The amount is huge, but it is laborious, the fireworks all over the sky are extremely pungent, and the noise of the shipyard is a scene of bustling but also laborious.

"Sister, I'm hungry, let's go eat!"

In fact, it was only ten miles away from Ningfu, but it was already lunch time.

"Sister, I've never eaten outside before. Take me to eat, and I'll go home obediently after dinner."

Poor Jian'er, I haven't even eaten at the restaurants in front of my house, and I've never seen such an aggrieved young lady like her.

"Let's go, go to the city to see your local food."

It's just that Xiaoqing never expected that there is also a branch of Dongxinglou here!

It's no wonder that when it comes to Beidi, ordinary people may not know the Si family and the Qiu family, but no one does not know the Feng family. In fact, Feng's shops have opened in every town in Beidi, whether it is a cloth shop, a pawnshop, or a restaurant. In addition to the warehouse and grain store, but the warehouse and grain store have not yet opened here, speaking of it, Haihe Province is already the southernmost boundary of the Northland.

Ning Buhui's home is in Andong, across the river from Goryeo, and adjacent to the sea, so this is also a military fortress.

There are not only officers and soldiers stationed on the streets, but also Koreans who are clearly not from the same country, and they come to trade with bulging cargo boxes.

Coastal cities are good, and they are more developed than inland cities without much effort. The open doors allow countless people to come uninvited.

"Dongxing Building!"

Ning Buhui clapped his hands, delighted to see this familiar signboard here, and rushed in without waiting for Xiaoqing to speak:

"Boss, bring us all the delicious food and drink!"

"Nan, wait a moment, come right away!"

The local people spoke with a strong smell of sea oysters, and the root of the tongue was stiff. Xiaoqing laughed a little, and said that Ning Buhui had a bit of an accent, so it turned out to be here.

"What are you laughing at? People here talk like this. I'm fine. You'll know when you go back and hear what my father and the others are saying. You don't even understand!"

(End of this chapter)