"Go up and have a look." Inside the cabin, Snow raised his head and gestured.

Mandarson on the side looked at the young man curled up on the bed board, tightened the hunting knife in his hand, and quietly touched forward.

Early this morning, Snow led Mandason and others to escort the mining team to the sulfur mine, and in the simple wooden house built earlier, Fu'o found a teenager. Snow walked into the room with a few people, and was very surprised. They could be sure that there was absolutely no one left in the hut at the time of leaving, and that the boy was clearly not a resident of Rooktown. It would not be surprising if some wild beast ran into the hut to rest in this endless mountain forest. But the sudden appearance of a human is very unusual.

The boy's clothes were torn by tree branches, and there were some scratches on his face. It seemed that he was tired enough, and Snow and the others broke into the house but failed to wake him up.

Mandason cautiously approached and patted the boy on the shoulder with his hunting knife.

The young man slowly opened his eyes, and when he saw Mandarson, his body was obviously shocked, and then he turned backwards and jumped off the bed, staring at Snow and the others in anger and fear, without saying a word.

"Don't be afraid, little brother." Snow clearly felt the boy's panic and fear, and hurriedly waved his hand to explain, "We are residents of Luke Town on the outskirts of the endless mountain forest, and we are not bad people who have come here to mine stones. ”

This young man is the fourth prince of the Riva Kingdom, he ran all the way, and after running all night, he happened to come to the wooden house built by Snow and others. Exhausted, Aida couldn't take care of much, and when he entered the house and saw that no one was there, he prepared to rest in the house, and who knew that as soon as he lay on the plank, he would sleep until now.

After carefully looking at the clothes of Snow and the others, Adya was relieved.

"Where are you from?" Snow asked, looking at Adya.

"I am a merchant from the country of Baosi, I was chased by robbers last night, and I had to run into the mountains and forests, and I happened to come to the wooden house, so I came in to rest rashly." Adya gave a general account of his situation, but he did not identify himself, only that his family was a merchant, and that he followed his father to transport goods to robbers on the way, and only he escaped by risking his life and escaping into the mountains and forests.

Snow frowned, there is only Luke Town on the periphery of the endless mountain forest, and merchants will not walk on the edge of the mountain forest at this time, and Adya's words are a bit flawed. But Snow didn't get to the bottom of it, since people didn't want to say it, then they must have their own troubles, and it didn't make sense for Snow to ask.

"Mandason, go inform Alina and set up some men to make dinner." Snow gave the order, turned his head to look at Adeya and said, "Since we met, it was fate." If you want, have dinner early tomorrow morning, and we will take you out of the mountains and forests together. ”

"Thank you so much." Aida nodded in thanks, he originally planned to escape from the mountains and forests, and then find a way to return to China, and with Snow and them, it was undoubtedly the best choice.

After dinner is ready, the big guys gather around to eat. Alina has a good impression of Adya, who knows etiquette, and everyone is very sympathetic to Adya's plight, and everyone shushes Adya as if they are taking care of their little brother. This made Aidya very moved, others used to treat him well, all because of his status as the fourth prince. As for Snow and others, this is completely out of inner concern.

After eating, Snow chooses a separate cabin for Adya. However, Snow also kept an eye on it, and instructed the patrol members to guard the camp well, focusing on Adya's room. After all, all this is Edya's empty words, and no one knows what kind of person he really is. Judging from what Adeya is wearing, even if he is really a businessman, it is a big family with deep pockets.

Snow now just wants to follow his good intentions, take Adeya out of this dangerous mountain forest, and then part ways with him.

Early the next morning, the mining team, under Snow's command, began its work. Sulfur ore is different from iron ore, and many details should be paid attention to when mining, and anti-poison and fire prevention must be done well, otherwise there will be major accidents.

There are a total of thirty-five people in the mining team, all of whom are mining experts hand-picked by Alina. Because the sulfur ore in the selected mining area is exposed, it is easy to mine, and it only takes a meal to fill dozens of back baskets with pieces of sulfur stone.

The big guy packed up and started the return journey. Under the dual protection of the patrol and Alina, the group arrived at the first resting spot they had chosen. The big guy put down the basket for a moment and began to build a wooden house, and made a fence and a torch to deter wild beasts. Adya had changed into a civilian costume by this time, and although his original clothes were expensive, they had been scratched by the branches. Follow Mandason to cut down trees and build houses, although his hands and feet are a little clumsy, but he is very diligent.

After all this work, it was already early evening, and Alina suggested that she rest for the night before leaving.

In this way, it was not until the evening of the third day that the group returned to the town of Ruke. Snow had the brimstone placed in the southern clearing, and then Randolph had the men grind it into powder and store it in dry clay pots.

After that, Snowy went to Abra non-stop, "How's things going?" ”

"Look." Abra took out a wooden barrel, put it on the ground, lifted the cloth on it, looked at Snow and smiled, "Are these the stones you want?" ”

Snow looked at the white crystals inside the barrel and was excited. These crystallizations were the saltpeter that Snow had dreamed of, one of the three major pieces of black flame.

In fact, the chemical composition of saltpeter is potassium nitrate. Saltpeter in nature is often formed by the decomposition of nitrogen-containing organic matter in the soil under the action of bacteria, oxidized into nitric acid, and then combined with potassium in the soil.

Therefore, they usually precipitate out in the form of skin shells or salt flowers, covering the ground and the foot of the wall, which is called ground frost. Especially in the corners near pigsties, stables, and toilets.

Although there are no pigs, horses, cattle and sheep in Luke Town, there are many toilets. The amount of excrement from hundreds of residents every day is huge, and for several years, more than a dozen toilets have been covered with base cream. So a few days ago, Snow had Abrass take someone to sweep up the clods of soil, put them in a bucket, and soak them in water. After filtration, the filtrate is boiled or dried to obtain saltpeter crystals.

Abra was a little reluctant, and it was understandable that no one would be willing to let anyone sweep these things around the toilet and boil them. But after Snow promised to give Abra a sword and a musket that was more powerful than gold and stone, Abra ran to the toilet in high spirits.

Now that the brimstone, saltpeter, and charcoal were all available, the gunpowder had fallen into Snow's palm.

"It's up to Cecili." Snow thought to himself, and turned to Cecily's blacksmith shop. Three days have passed, and I don't know if the little girl has made a musket.