Chapter Twenty-Nine: Salt, Wonderful Thing
As the Heavenly Sin began to eat, everyone also took out their own dishes and chopsticks, desperately stuffing the hot broth into their mouths, and as for those pancakes and dried food, no one looked at them. So...... The speed is also extremely fast, and a large pot of broth bottoms out in an instant, followed by the second and third bites......
The soldiers of the forward battalion went crazy, and hurriedly surrounded Li Tou'er one by one, and said nonsense: "Li Tou'er, they are almost finished!" ”
"Li Tou'er, you have to think of a way!"
"Li Tou'er, you said that I will go over now, will they be driven out?"
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Li Tou'er is really crazy, his head has become at least two big, and he also wants to eat and eat the big pot of meat, but it's a pity...... He's got to have a face! What did you say at the beginning? I won't give them much food, but now I still want to eat other people's food? No matter how you look at it, you can't make sense of it.
However, he is also a little lucky, this incident can be big or small, in case of trouble, everyone is a big crime of killing their heads, but because of these pots of fragrant meat, it has been calmed down, which can not but be said to be a kind of 'luck'.
Driven crazy, Li Touer yelled: "Okay, okay! Grandma, I don't want my old face today, you wait! ”
Everyone immediately chimed in: "Yes, yes, Li Tou'er, go quickly, if it's too late, they will all be eaten!" ”
"That's it, look at these old hats are all thin and small, I didn't expect to eat so quickly!"
"It's a wolf's stomach!"
"What do you mean?"
"Oh, it's the thin body of a goat, but it has the appetite of a jackal...... How, this description? ”
“…… Get lost! ”
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Li Tou'er rubbed his hands and walked to Tiansin's side, walked in front of him, and after thinking of the rhetoric, after seeing Tiansin's smiling face, he directly held back, and he was hesitant for a long time, and he couldn't say a complete sentence at all.
Tiansin smiled, beckoned and said, "Come, bring a big bowl to Li Tou'er." I don't know if our rural practices are in line with their appetites. ”
The village chief personally made a bowl with a big bowl, personally brought it over and sent it to Li Tou'er's hands, Li Tou'er took the bowl with one hand, scratched the back of his head with the other and said embarrassedly: "Hurry up...... Don't say that, just smelling this smell, my boys are going crazy, don't you know that we only have a small amount of meat here every day, which is already considered a very high salary in the army, how can you be as full as you...... Oh yes, this ...... Not...... Little master, don't call me Li Tou'er, it's all those stinky boys screaming blindly, or you can call me Little Lizi! ”
Tiansin was slightly stunned after hearing this, he didn't feel anything wrong with the title of 'Little Plum', but he always felt a little ...... in his heart Awkward.
smiled bitterly and said, "Little Lizi...... Forget it, since you don't like me to call you Li Tou'er, then call you Lao Li. ”
After finishing speaking, Li Tou'er on the other side did not respond, he was talking to Heavenly Sin, but he couldn't stand the smell of the meat, and lowered his head to taste the taste of the broth, but after he took a small sip, he was stunned, and he didn't hear what Heavenly Sin was saying at all.
'One knife and two cuts' Cui Siyuan couldn't get used to it, and shouted coldly: "Our young gentleman is talking to you!" ”
Tiansin smiled and waved his hand, signaling Cui Siyuan not to get excited, and then called again: "Lao Li? Lao Li? ”
Li Tou'er reacted at this time, hurriedly bowed down to apologize, and then asked embarrassedly: "That...... That one...... It's ...... The taste of this broth ...... Could it be that you put salt?! Why does it taste a little wrong? ”
Heavenly Sin smiled and asked, "The taste is wrong?" So tell me, what kind of flavor should it be? ”
Li Tou'er rubbed the back of his head and said, "It should be...... Some burnt, bitter taste...... That's right......"
Tiansin nodded, and then asked, "You were arguing just now, saying that you lost something, and you lost it...... But this 'salt'? ”
Li Tou'er patted his thigh and said, "Isn't it!" What a precious thing salt is, he lost it as a little brute?! That is, we only have powder salt in our army, how can we see this kind of treasure in other places...... Not...... So you really have salt in this broth? Can...... Can you ......?"
After talking for a long time, there was no follow-up.
Heavenly Sin smiled and beckoned to Little Sin and took out the salt bag from his arms again and handed it to Heavenly Sin again.
Heavenly Sin said, "If you want to see it, I can let you see it." ”
Li Tou'er was excited to pick it up, but his movements froze again, looked left and right at the bag with the inner skin and outer cloth, and wondered: "Isn't it 'salty stone'?" You even have powdered salt? Sure enough, it's a nobleman from the West! But it's a waste for you to put so much at once......"
Salty stone, originally the sin didn't know what this thing was, until he followed Zhuo Yifan into the village, and saw that the people in the village would take a stone and throw it into the pot when cooking, cook it for a while and then take it out carefully, and hide it in a very 'safe' place. As for the salt in powdered form...... That only in the 'legend', is the rich and noble people can enjoy the thing, as for the village, this 'salty stone' is already a very rare thing, every year there are traders who go through here, the villagers with dozens of catties of grain in exchange for this piece, so it is particularly precious to use.
Heavenly Sin had already accepted this 'fact', but there was always a voice in his heart telling him that it was an incredible thing, and that salt ...... Definitely not something too precious. There was even an unclear 'message' floating back and forth in his mind.
So in the next few days, Tiansin was looking for something everywhere in the mountains and forests near the village, and even asked Zhuo Yifan to take him to fly up the mountain, observe the terrain of the entire area, and finally choose a place, only leading the two of them to go out early and return late, and after seven days, the two of them walked back from the mountains and forests with smiles on their faces.
No one in the village knew what they had done, but they knew that they must have done something earth-shattering, because when Xiaojian came back, he wrapped a large bag in a very torn cloth, weighing at least twenty or thirty pounds, and the package was ...... It's all a white powder they've never looked at. After tasting it, they know ...... It's definitely salt! Salt has never been seen before!
For these twenty or thirty catties of salt, the people in the village have the intention of killing people and grabbing treasures! However, the sin of heaven is also generous, and each family has sent less than one or two salts, don't look at these few, the villagers can be treasured as rare treasures, and they are not willing to use them when they eat, or use salty stones.
And it wasn't until the nine people suddenly came out and Heavenly Sin had to treat them to a meal that it was this kind of salt that was practical, but he didn't mention it. Whether it's the noodles or the minced meat, the ingredients are exquisite, and the most important thing is the salt.
Facing Li Tou'er's question, Tiansin smiled and said: "You know that I am from the West Country, and I am also a down-and-out nobleman, but you don't know why our nobles were persecuted by the Lord of the West Country, hehe, in fact, the main reason...... It's what I have in my hands right now. ”
Tiansin reached into the cloth bag, grabbed a handful of salt from it, spread it directly in his hand, placed it in front of Li Tou'er, and said, "Taste it, this is the real salt." ”
Li Tou'er was stunned for a moment, hurriedly put down the broth bowl, looked left and right at the hand of the heavenly sin, I really couldn't believe that this thing that looked like a snowflake could be pulled with 'salt', salt, it is the kind of black bitter and astringent, it is unpalatable if you put something, it is even more unpalatable if you don't put it, and it makes people have no strength.
He frowned curiously and carefully dipped his index finger a little, then reached into his mouth and licked it...... Well, salty, it doesn't taste like anything but salty......
Not...... Wait a minute!
Li Tou'er suddenly widened his eyes, staring blankly at the handful of salt, and his whole body couldn't help but tremble. Just salty? Not bitter? Not astringent? Just salty?!
Then he hurriedly grabbed the broth bowl on the ground and took a few bites...... Sure enough, in addition to the delicious flavor of the meat, the saltiness is moderate...... There is no other smell at all, the most important thing is that it is really salty and fragrant enough, strong enough! How can they put so much salt in their cooking?
The nine people glanced at each other in the back, they had long known that Xiao Jian would sprinkle salt into those pots every day when they ate, but they didn't dare to ask, and at the same time, they were also very happy about their decision! What is the secret treasure of the Ji family? Just by seeing that their own young monarch can make this kind of 'salt' that has never been seen before, the Ji family can already guarantee that it will be immortal, as long as they develop in this direction a little, their Ji family will become the most powerful salt merchant in the entire continent, the lord of the country? The lord of the kingdom has to look at their faces, or he won't sell you salt.
Tiansin looked at Li Tou'er's reflection and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. There is no doubt that this world is very powerful, but it is precisely because of the strength of human beings themselves that the technology of this world has become extremely backward. Science and technology are developed by human beings in order to survive, to pursue a better life, and to survive or win in battle. There are some scattered memories in his mind, in those memories, weak people because they want to go faster, so they invent machinery, want to travel thousands of miles a day, so they invent the steam engine, and even want to fly, and create the internal combustion engine, people's pursuit of the pace of non-stop, science and technology is not short of progress.
But here...... Want to go faster? Practice. Want to travel thousands of miles in a day? Practice. Want to take to the skies? Practice. Want to change your life for the better? It's still non-stop practicing! Cultivation is the pursuit of all people, the only means for everyone to try to get what they want, and the main theme of this world. In just two months of real contact with this world, Heavenly Sin has already thoroughly understood this world. Because it's too simple.
Li Tou'er finished the whole bowl of broth in one go, wiped his mouth, and said to the heavenly sin with some flattery: "That...... Not...... Or would I like them, and call you a young gentleman? ”
Heavenly Sin nodded.
Li Tou'er continued: "Young gentleman, this salt ...... This salt ...... Can I ......?"
Heavenly Sin shook his head and said, "I know you want to ask for some, but I'm sorry, I can't give it to you, I can let the little sword sprinkle some in your pot as well, but it can't go through your hands." ”
Li Tou'er was stunned and said, "This ...... Why is that? ”
Tiansin suddenly laughed, stood up, and was obviously much shorter than the other party, but he 'looked down' at the other party and said, "Why? Quite simply, can you guarantee that you will give this salt to your majesty? ”