Chapter Twenty-Three: Leave Your Clothes Away
Seeing that the small-eyed bandits still didn't enter, Zhao Ruoxin said in her heart, she had to find a way to leave quickly, if she waited for the bald leader to come back from the battle, and then wanted to leave, then the chance would be slim! If the mountain people are defeated and the Chuyang army invades the mountains, then the sister will be miserable!
"Cut..."Zhao Ruoxin glared at the small-eyed bandit with disdain, in this hurry, she really came up with a solution in her mind, and said, "Isn't it just a hundred catties of refined salt, uncles and aunts, you come to testify for the little woman, if I get him a hundred catties of refined salt, what if he still doesn't let us go?" ”
Many of the surrounding mountain people were already standing on Zhao Ruoxin's side, and before the little brain case could speak, Aunt Zhang had already pulled a lot of people over and comforted: "Don't be afraid, girl, whether you can get salt or not today, my wife will protect you even if she is desperate..."
"It's, it's... Don't be afraid of him, little braincase, you turtle son, Lao Tzu watched you grow up when you were two inches long, what's wrong? Dare to play tricks in front of your second uncle, believe it or not, Lao Tzu broke your two dog legs..."
"Sister, don't be afraid, Yin Yin is here, you are Yin Yin's savior, Yin Yin will definitely not let you be bullied."
Zhang Yinyin, who was combing two twist whips, also walked weakly to Zhao Ruoxin's side.
Zhao Ruoxin glanced at the people who defended her, and somehow a trace of emotion rose in her heart, and a warm current rose from the bottom of her heart.
The simple, sincere, and grateful mountain people made Zhao Ruoxin suddenly think of the simplest truth that the grace of a drop of water should be reciprocated by a spring.
She raised her hand and motioned for everyone to stop, a delicate and fair cheek shining in the flickering firelight, those smart, always with a little simple eyes, but at the moment they were unusually strict and serious.
She said sincerely: "Let's tell you the truth, I, Zhao Ruoxin, am not the daughter of the King of Chuyang, let alone the county lord of the Chuyang Palace, I am just a maid who has been sold into the King of Chuyang since I was a child, I don't have a thousand taels of silver, and I can't take it out."
However, I, Zhao Ruoxin, can help you make salt, so that you will never have to be subject to the king of Chuyang from now on, Chuyang is yours, your home, in your own home, you still have to hide secretly in this mountain, there is no such reason in the world.
You don't have to spend all your savings on salt, you don't have to dream about what it's like to be salty, uncles and aunts don't have to be weak all day long, newborn children can grow up healthily, you have money, you can help the children buy a beautiful clothes, you can ask Mr. Teacher, let them read and write...
What do you say? Is it a good day like this? ”
Zhao Ruoxin's words obviously spoke to everyone's hearts, especially like Aunt Zhang, who was tortured because of lack of salt, and like Zhang Yinyin, because she didn't want to grow into an ugly monster with crooked melons and cracked dates, she didn't even want her life, and she had to drink the water from the poisonous salt well.
The fate of the girls in the mountains is very miserable, and the only little salt in the mountains always has to satisfy the boys first.
They understand too well how important salt is to them, eighteen years, they have persevered for eighteen years, and they don't know how long they can last.
Perhaps, tomorrow, when the last men in the stockade have fallen, they will finally agree to any request from Zhao Zhong.
No longer suffer from the lack of salt, let all the children grow up healthy and healthy, when the weather is cold, buy a beautiful dress for their children, this is the dream of all of them, a dream that has been done for 18 years.
The scene was unusually quiet, except for the squeak and burning of tung oil on the torches, and all the mountain people gathered on the field, including the stubborn little eyed mountain people, all cried, and all wept silently.
The little braincase was red with red eyes, and when everyone was still sobbing, he howled hoarsely: "If the girl can really solve our problem of lack of salt, it is equivalent to the regeneration of all our mountain people, the girl not only saved us, but also saved all the tribes of the entire Chuyang, my little braincase swears, as long as the girl helps us solve the problem of salt shortage, my little braincase can be disloyal to the big boss and not filial to my parents, but from now on, as long as anyone dares to touch the girl, you will be there, I had to have him step over the corpse of my little skull..."
"The little braincase is good, it's our Chuyang man, the leader is not here today, and the big leader is not here, but the old man is here today, if the girl can really teach us how to make salt, our entire mountain tribe must obey the girl's order, if anyone dares to get along with the girl, it is impossible to get along with our entire mountain tribe, even if he is the emperor, he must first step on the corpse of tens of thousands of hot-blooded men of our mountain people!"
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For a while, the sound of the mountain was everywhere, and the burning eyes stared straight at Zhao Ruoxin, eighteen years is really too long, too long, so long that there are too many people in the entire native tribe of Chuyang who have fallen because of salt, because of salt, they have shed too much blood, too many people have died, and they have lost more and more of their land.
Zhao Ruoxin stood proudly in front of the crowd, her clear and beautiful eyes scanned everyone, the corners of her mouth slightly curled up a gentle arc, her demeanor was calm and calm, without the slightest crampedness, that natural appearance, as if she was born to be worshiped by so many people.
Li Hezheng behind him was stupid, he had seen this calm and calm expression, it was the momentum of his father's command of the three armies, that was his mother's stepmother's Fengwei in the world, this is not about beauty, this is bearing, or the personality charm with great aura!
She? What kind of woman is she, she can actually make salt! Nine Emperor Brother's illness, can she also cure it?
Li Hezheng stared at Zhao Ruoxin tightly with a pair of eyes, he was afraid that he would not let go of any detail, this woman who had a jumpy temperament, this woman who never gave him up and came back twice desperately to save him, he couldn't help but sigh: "She! What a strange woman in the world! ”
Zhao Ruoxin didn't glance at Li Hezheng at all, and she didn't know that Li Hezheng was staring at her with a at the moment, but immediately started to arrange: "Little braincase, immediately organize people to prepare charcoal to make a fire, if there is lime in the village, if there is, take it out directly, if not, immediately pick up some limestone and come back."
In addition, this uncle, you prepare some fire paper, which is the kind of bamboo that is soaked in lime water, then hammered into slag, and then filtered into slurry, I think you only have these things in the mountains.
In addition, organize a few people to go to the poison salt well to get water, and bring all the pots and buckets in the village..."
After methodically ordering this, Zhao Ruoxin walked to Zhang Yinyin's side and said softly: "Sister see clearly, all the steps are indispensable, remember carefully, the salt in the mountains in the future depends on you!" ”
Zhang Yinyin was puzzled: "Is my sister leaving?" ”
"You can't let your sister stay in the mountains for the rest of your life to help you make salt, it's better to be taught to fish than to be taught to fish, does my sister understand this truth?"
"I don't understand, will my sister come back to see Yin Yin after she leaves?"
"Yes! Why not, when a city bigger than Chuyang City is built in the mountains, my sister will come back to see you. ”
"Ah! What a city! ”
"The world is very big, my sister will know when she goes out to take a look, there are many cities bigger than Chuyang, but in fact, Chuyang City is very small."
After chatting for a while, pulling Zhang Yinyin, and after someone brought the lime, Zhao Ruoxin threw the lime into the water from the salt well, and said: "The reason why my sister is poisoned is because the water in this salt well contains a lot of magnesium, which is the so-called poison."
Of course, there are many heavy metal elements in addition to magnesium, these things are harmful to the human body, lime dissolved in water will produce an alkaline compound called calcium hydroxide, and then it will react with magnesium and other heavy metal elements in the water to form a water-insoluble precipitate, no, that's the one, see, sticky suspended solids..."
Zhang Yinyin shook her head and said with a blank face: "Sister, Yinyin doesn't understand!" ”
Zhao Ruoxin chuckled: "It's okay, you just need to know that after the water is beaten, you must put lime first, and then fold it with pieces of fire paper, filter the water, filter out all the poisonous things, filter understand, that's it..."
Zhao Ruoxin taught Zhang Yinyin hand in hand, trying to explain all the principles in it to her clearly, Zhang Yinyin didn't understand and didn't have much persistence, but she just explained that there must be this process.
Time passed quickly in the minutes and seconds that she was so busy, and around the hour, the first pot of well salt in this world finally appeared in Zhao Ruoxin's hands!
It's not the mud-colored look, nor the lumpy green salt with mottled impurities, but the pure white!
After a busy half night, there was finally a result, and everyone gathered around excitedly.
"What's going on? Isn't all salt mud-colored? How could it be like this? ”
"No, the best salt I've ever seen is the kind with lumps and lots of black spots in between! But I've never seen this kind of pure white salt one by one. ”
Just when everyone was disagreeing, a gray-haired old man in the crowd shed tears, he held the grains of refined salt in his hand, couldn't help but stuff them into his mouth one by one, and couldn't cry: "The old man has seen it, the old man has seen it, this is refined salt, which is purer than the purest salt on the market!" ”
"Oh my God! Is this refined salt? ”
"Refined salt, refined salt, we have made refined salt!"
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Suddenly, all the people were boiling, and the first pot of salt, which was already small, was quickly stuffed into the mouths of this group of mountain people who had already been crazy about lack of salt.
However, just when the mountain people were boiling with excitement, no one noticed that Zhao Ruoxin had walked to Li Hezheng's side silently.
She said, "Look at what, let's go!" ”
"Just gone?" Li Hezheng was a little puzzled, but his eyes always stayed on Zhao Ruoxin, looking like he could never get enough.
"Or else? Waiting for them to take you as an ancestor? Or are you waiting for the Chu Yang Army to arrest us? ”
Zhao Ruoxin kicked Li Hezheng like an idiot very unceremoniously.
"Oh!" Li Hezheng was dizzy and followed Zhao Ruoxin into the night.
After walking for a long time, in the cold wind, Zhao Ruoxin walked up the mountain.
She looked back, and she could clearly see the people cheering and celebrating on the large venue in Wuling Village, she couldn't help but smile from the bottom of her heart, and she suddenly remembered a very good poem in her mind, which felt very appropriate to her current self.
She muttered softly: "After the matter, go to the clothes, hide your body and name." Well, that's a good feeling, too! ”
The two didn't go into the night, I don't know how long they walked, and they heard Li Hezheng in front of them say, "Do you know the way?" ”
"What?" Zhao Ruoxin was immediately angry when she heard this, and couldn't help kicking him again, "You don't know the way at all, what is the use of that sister trying all her best to save you?" ”
"Huh? Didn't you come to save me? ”
"Save you? Pull it all out, and don't pee what you look like? Will my sister come to save you? ”
"Hey, hey... It doesn't matter if you don't admit it, just now you said in front of so many people that you came to save me, I know, you girls are thin-skinned..."
Zhao Ruoxin: "......"
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