Chapter 18 My lady, don't be afraid that my general will invite you.
Chapter 18 Don’t be afraid, madam, my general has invited you.
When Lin Xiao saw Li Yuyan, it was like seeing a savior, and she immediately threw herself into his arms.
Li Yuyan was bewildered by this sudden move and was completely stunned.
Smelling the faint body fragrance wafting from Lin Xiao's body, his heartbeat couldn't help but speed up.
He took a deep breath, calmed down his confused and confused mood, gently pushed Lin Xiao away and said:
"I bought the cloth. Go and see if you can use it."
"Um!"
Lin Xiao jumped out of the kitchen.
As soon as Li Yuyan breathed a sigh of relief, Lin Xiao poked her head out of the door frame, her voice filled with a smile:
"Yu Yan, how about making soybean and pig's trotter soup for lunch?"
"Little greedy cat, soybeans are a kind of food, how can you take advantage of it?"
"It's not that I want to eat, it's that I want you to take a good supplement. Look at you, you are as big as an airport."
Only then did Li Yuyan notice Lin Xiao's inappropriate eyes. He turned around subconsciously and said with a guilty conscience:
"I don't like pig's trotter soup. I'm going to eat braised pork for lunch today."
With the first step, which is the most laborious for the villagers, it will be much easier for them to do the remaining steps.
It only took them one afternoon to make more than 20 kilograms of salt.
Mazi and his wife helped pour all the salt into the bamboo tubes sent by Zhang Xiaowu and his wife.
In this way, a simple salt production line is initially completed.
Lin Xiao learned from Li Yuyan that the owner of the town's grain and oil store ordered fifty kilograms of salt, and his smile was brighter than flowers.
She stepped on the stool and patted Li Yuyan's shoulder, saying seriously:
"Sisters, we are going to get rich this time!"
Lin Xiao was right, they were really going to get rich, and they were going to drive the whole village to become well-off.
When Aunt Wu saw her son and daughter-in-law bringing back salt that was whiter than snow from Lin Xiao, she immediately understood the secret of Lin Xiao's fortune.
"Xiao Linzi can actually make salt?"
"Isn't that right! He has really changed a lot since he got married."
Lin Xiaowu sighed.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would have been hard for him to believe that the frail and sickly man with eyes on the top of his head could not only make salt, but also save his mother from the mouth of a giant python.
"No wonder Xiao Linzi collects those poisonous rock salts all over the village...Son, how about we try to make it too? Xiao Linzi can do it, and I believe my son can do it too!"
Aunt Wu is full of crazy confidence in her son.
When Lin Xiaowu heard what Aunt Wu said, he was angry and annoyed. He winked at his wife, who immediately took out a handful of money from their house.
Aunt Wu looked at the sling of money and opened her mouth in disbelief:
"Son, how do you have so much money?!"
"Given it to Xiao Linzi!"
"He, he, he gave it?"
Aunt Wu asked stutteringly.
"Not only did he share the reward money from the government and the money from selling snake skins to us, but he also treated us to big meat noodles, bought maltose for you and candied haws for the children!"
Aunt Wu smashed it in her mouth, and the fragrance of maltose in her mouth was still lingering.
Lin Xiaowu continued: "Do you know why Xiao Linzi wants the whole village to collect salt and rock salt?"
Aunt Wu shook her head.
"The method of breaking open salt and then frying it to produce inedible rock salt is what Xiao Linzi asked us to teach the villagers."
Hearing this, Aunt Wu became even more puzzled, what on earth did Lin Xiao want to do?
Lin Xiaowu: "Xiao Linzi said that the process of making salt is too complicated and dangerous. If any step is wrong, not only will the toxins in the salt and rock salt not be removed, but the work will be annihilated!"
"So he doesn't recommend that the villagers try it on their own, but he hopes that the villagers can get rich together, so he teaches everyone the simplest first step."
Lin Xiaowu's words were like a hammer hitting Aunt Wu on the head, and she suddenly woke up:
"No wonder he asked for so many salt stones at that time. It turned out that he was making table salt!"
"Mom, Xiao Linzi is really nice. I am giving him a bamboo tube filled with salt. I will give him three coppers for sixteen, which is much better than me working my ass off hunting outside!"
Aunt Wu was shocked: "There are a lot of bamboos outside, isn't this money the same as picking it up for free?"
"That's right! Mom, we don't want to do that nasty thing of eating other people's food and smashing their pots!"
After listening to her son's words, Aunt Wu had an idea. Early the next morning, she gathered the women in the village and told her again what Lin Xiaowu had told her last night.
Coupled with the push from Ma Guihua and the village chief, the villagers all gave up the idea of making their own salt.
Some continued to provide Lin Xiao with inedible salt and rock salt.
Some bought some salt from Lin Xiao and carried poles to other villages to sell it door to door.
They think very clearly, even if they can make salt, they still have to sell it in the end?
Since the results are the same, why take the risk of making your own salt?
It would be better to just take the salt from Lin Xiao and sell it directly to make money faster!
For a time, Linjia Village was busier than during the busy farming season, and almost no one could be seen.
After the women finished their farm work, they boiled salt and rock salt, and then sold it to Lin Xiao to supplement their family income.
The men borrowed salt from Lin Xiao and went to other villages to sell it door to door.
The seven days came quickly, and Li Yuyan pushed a cart with fifty kilograms of salt and rushed to Jiuzhou Town.
After these days of observation, he felt that it would not be long before he had the capital to form a death squad, and then go to the palace to assassinate the current sage Li Yuquan and avenge his mother!
As soon as they arrived at the grain and oil store in Jiuzhou Town, the shopkeeper pushed the cart with Li Yuyan to Jiuzhou Villa in the suburbs on the pretext of collecting the bill.
It wasn't until he saw the four characters "Jiuzhou Villa" that Li Yuyan realized that he had been fooled by the shopkeeper!
Just as he was about to escape, the door to Jiuzhou Villa opened, and a man in casual clothes walked out.
This man was none other than Luo Ping, the leading soldier who went to the grain and oil store to place an order seven days ago.
When the shopkeeper saw him, he immediately nodded and bowed to him and said flatteringly:
"Master Jun, I brought you the salt you asked for."
As he spoke, he did not forget to pull Li Yuyan over and introduced to Luo Ping:
"Master Jun, this lady is the wife of a salt maker. If you have anything to ask, you can ask her directly."
Luo Ping nodded and winked at the guard. The guard immediately found a few people to push the salt into another courtyard and threw a bag of silver to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper weighed the money bag, bowed to Luo Ping with satisfaction, and then left quickly.
Li Yuyan lowered his head, hating how he had been tricked by a little shopkeeper.
Luo Ping bowed to Li Yuyan and said softly: "Madam, don't be afraid, my general has invited you."
Don’t give Li Yuyan a chance to refuse at all!
The general is a person who is many levels higher than the county magistrate. How can he, a "village woman", refuse an order from him?
Pick up last time.
The man boldly walked towards the girl holding the umbrella, wanting to get a glimpse of the girl's face.
However, when he got close to the girl, he felt that the air around him suddenly dropped several degrees, making it weirdly cold.
Some horror movies I watched in the past kept looping in my mind.
The man got scared and ran home.
That night he fell ill with a strange illness. All reports from the hospital were normal, but he just couldn't wake up.
Later, after his family asked the master to check on him, the man finally woke up.
When he woke up, the man was horrified. He said that in his dream, a barefooted woman in white holding a red umbrella had been pestering him and wouldn't let him leave!