In the night, Shen Changhai drove the carriage into the mountain, and finally stopped in front of an uninhabited mountain wall, got out of the car and lit a lantern, and then said to Shen Lan in the carriage: "Master, it's here." ”

Shen Lan walked out of the carriage, Shen Changhai held a lantern to illuminate her, the two slowly walked to a rock next to the mountain wall, walked around the rock, and saw a path behind the rock that allowed one person to pass, the trail was not long, about four or five meters, at the end of the trail was the entrance of a cave, Shen Changhai was taking Shen Lan towards the cave at this time.

The cave is not artificially excavated, but a naturally formed cave, I don't know how Yuan Hao found it, anyway, it is now used as a place for them to trade private salt, this cave is very large, although Shen Lan has been here once, but has not entered it, but has stayed in the big karst cave outside, because the outside cave is relatively spacious and flat, and Yuan Hao has taken people to repair, worried that the salt will be damp, the place where the salt is placed is placed on the wooden shelf, and there is a basket for salt on the side.

"Changhai, you go out and watch, just leave the lantern to me." The temperature in the cave was low, so although it was airtight, it was not hot, and after entering, I still felt a little cold, so Shen Lan commanded.

Shen Lan didn't explore this cave, but Shen Changhai did, knowing that there was only one entrance, thinking that there would be nothing in the cave, so he responded: "Yes, master." ”

After speaking, Shen Changhai found a high place to hang the lantern, turned around and carefully inspected it in the cave, and then walked towards the outside of the cave, and instructed before leading it out: "Master, I am outside." If something happens, you can just shout. ”

Shen Lan nodded, watching Shen Changhai leave, Shen Lan then began to work on the matter of drying salt, the original salt farm that dried salt was no longer usable, Shen Lan redeveloped a salt field in another place where no one would come, and then used mental power to introduce seawater, and then it was boring to wait, so Shen Lan had to pay attention to the eyes of the round beads in the palm of his hand, but it was very hard.

One night down. Shen Lan filled the baskets in the cave with salt. Since coming to this time, Shen Lan has never stayed up all night, and this is the first time she has not slept for a night when she came here, and the whole person is a little sluggish. Reached out and patted his face. Sober yourself up. Shen Lan turned around and walked towards the outside of the cave.

Out of the cave, the sun outside had already risen high, when Shen Lan came out. Shen Changhai hurriedly greeted him, "Master, it's already alright?" ”

Shen Lan nodded and replied, "It's all full, let's go back." ”

Shen Changhai helped Shen Lan into the carriage, although Shen Changhai stayed outside the cave all night, after all, it was not as hard as Shen Lan, and he could occasionally squint for a while, and he was a person who practiced martial arts, so naturally he was not as tired as Shen Lan appeared, but he placed Shen Lan in good spirits, and went to the seat in front of the carriage to catch the carriage.

got into the carriage and sat on the comfortable leather sofa chair, Shen Lan felt drowsy and fell asleep, the carriage that Shen Changhai drove outside was not fast, and before he knew it, Shen Lan fell asleep on the back of the chair, and when the carriage stopped, Shen Changhai got down from the carriage and went to call the door first, and then returned to the carriage and found that Shen Lan had not moved for so long, so he knocked on the door and shouted softly: "Madam, we are home." ”

Shen Lan, who had fallen asleep in the past, was dreaming at this time, so Shen Changhai knocked for a long time and didn't need to get off the carriage, Shen Changhai opened the door a little helplessly, and sure enough, he saw Shen Lan sleeping sweetly on the back of the chair, shook his head, and Shen Changhai gently pushed Shen Lan.

"Master, we're home." Shen Changhai called in a low voice.

"Huh? Oh, home? Opening her sour eyes, Shen Lan yawned and asked with a bit of exhaustion.

"Yes, I'll help you down." Shen Changhai said, then jumped out of the carriage, then turned to face the door and stretched out his hand, signaling Shen Lan to help him get out of the carriage.

Shen Lan got up slowly, helped Shen Changhai's men get out of the carriage, and then went to the door first, after all, Shen Changhai still had to stop the carriage, Shen Changhai had already called the door before, so as soon as Shen Lan entered the door, Xu greeted her, "Mrs. is back, do you want to prepare hot water to wash?" ”

Shen Lan nodded and responded, "Well, I'm preparing some food, I've been busy all night, and I'm hungry." ”

After staying up all night, Shen Lan was sleepy and hungry at the moment, but she also knew that if she went to sleep now, she would definitely have to sleep until the afternoon, so that there would be two meals that she couldn't eat, and it didn't matter if she was alone, after all, now that she was pregnant, she didn't eat her children and she had to eat, so Shen Lan planned to eat breakfast first before going to sleep, and then get up in the afternoon and eat again, and then have a supper in the evening.

"Yes, ma'am." Xu listened to the order, hurriedly went to the stove to scoop water, and by the way, told Wu to hurry up and prepare breakfast, seeing the haggard appearance of the master, Xu knew that Shen Lan was only afraid that she would stay up late, and she didn't know what she was going to do, and she had to stay up late.

After returning to the house, Xu Shi brought the washing water, Shen Lan rinsed her mouth with green salt, and washed her face with warm water, and finally felt better, and after a while, the meal was also served, it was white porridge and boiled eggs, and there were a few side dishes, Shen Lan sat down and took a bowl and drank porridge, and Xu helped peel the eggs.

After breakfast, Shen Lan said to Xu: "Mother Xu, you go out with me in two days, and there is no one in charge at home, you ask Mother Feng to send a message to my mother's house, and let my mother come to me the day after tomorrow, just say that I want to go out and let her come over to help me take care of the child for two days." ”

"Ma'am, where are we going?" Xu didn't know about Shen Lan's plan to go out, so he couldn't help but ask.

"Golden State Mansion." Shen Lan replied with a yawn.

Golden State Mansion? Xu was a little suspicious, what was his master going to Jinzhou Mansion for, the road was so far, and she was pregnant.

"Isn't it too far? Did Changhai go along? Xu asked.

"No, just the two of us, but you have to worry about safety, and Yuan Er will be in charge along the way." Shen Lan replied.

Xu nodded and replied, "Yes, the old slave will go to pack up later, does the wife need to prepare something?" ”

Shen Lan shook her head. He replied: "When we go out of the house, everything is simple, so we bring two sets of clothes for washing, and two copper basins for washing. ”

"What about dry food? Bring fried rice noodles and rinse them with water to eat. "It's easy to spoil food when you go out in the summer, so you can't bring anything that spoils.

In the past, Shen Lan didn't care, she had a space island, so she naturally didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, but now she can't, as soon as the Xu family mentioned this, Shen Lan nodded and said, "Okay." You prepare. And bring two more sheets. ”

"Yes." Xu Shi replied.

After the instructions were in place, Shen Lan also wanted to go to sleep, so she said, "I'll go to sleep, you don't need to call me for lunch." I'll get something to eat when I wake up in the afternoon. ”

Xu nodded to indicate that he understood. Shen Lan then came into the inner room to sleep. And Xu was busy cleaning up the outside.

In the afternoon, Shen Lan finally slept full, Xu Shi gave her water to wash her face, and told her that Feng had sent the message. Shen Zhao will bring three children over the day after tomorrow, and Xu also told Shen Lan that a shopkeeper surnamed Hua came to visit today, saying that he was the shopkeeper of Guiyunju, the largest restaurant in the county, and he came to visit Shen Lan, saying that he had something important to discuss.

Xu saw Shen Lan sleeping at that time, so he said that his master was not at home, if there was something, he could go to Shiweixuan to find Shen Changhai, although Shen Lan did not have a complete division of labor, but Xu knew that Shen Changsheng was the external housekeeper, mainly managing the outside business, and Shen Changhai was the internal housekeeper, who was in charge of the affairs of the house on weekdays, and now that Shen Changsheng was not there, everything outside here naturally fell on Shen Changhai, so Xu asked him to go to Shen Changhai to discuss it first.

Hearing Xu's return, Shen Lan nodded, while drinking the white fungus soup brought by Xu, she guessed the purpose of the Hua shopkeeper to come to the door, but thinking that Xu had already asked him to find Shen Changhai, then he would know what was going on after asking Shen Changhai at night, so when he thought about it, Shen Lan ate with peace of mind, and after a somewhat late lunch, Shen Lan played with the stone for a while, and the time passed unconsciously.

When Shen Changhai came back, it was already the beginning of the lanterns, and Shen Lan had also had dinner, so she didn't sleep at that time, after all, she slept too much during the day, and she was still sleeping at this time, so Shen Changhai knew that she hadn't slept, so she came over to do it.

There were yellow lanterns lit in the house, Shen Lan was wearing home clothes, and her hair was just casually tied with a silver hairpin, which was very casual.

"You're saying that the shopkeeper is here to buy the secret recipe for making ice?" After listening to Shen Changhai's words, Shen Lan came to such a conclusion, in fact, Shen Lan was not surprised that someone would come to buy the secret recipe, after all, ice making in summer is still a very legendary thing.

"Yes, master." Shen Changhai replied, in the past, it was not that no one had the idea of making this ice method, but no one was as ruthless as the shopkeeper Hua, so Shen Changhai came to discuss with Shen Lan.

"He said that the backstage of Guiyunju is the Hua family?" Shen Lan then asked, in fact, she didn't know much about the family, after all, she was not a local person, but looking at the way the other party said it so well, she really wanted to see what the family was like.

Shen Changhai nodded, Shen Changhai is not a local, and he doesn't know much about the local family, he originally fled from the north with his parents, but his parents and brothers died of illness one by one, starved to death, and finally his mother was ruthless, so she dragged him to the side of the road and planted a straw to sell, and he knelt on the side of the road for three days, no one was willing to pay for him, even if he didn't want money, no one was willing to take him back, he and his father and mother were almost desperate, and they could only wait to be starved to death, but Grandpa Guo came with his master.

The master not only bought him, but also gave his father and mother a lot of food, and from that day on, he was not hungry again, the master provided him with food and clothing, and also let him read and learn skills, so his life is the master's, no matter what the master wants him to do, he has no hesitation.

Shen Lan didn't have a way for a while, so she thought about it and said: "You first ask someone if this is the case, and we don't have to be afraid of him, after all, this is Yuan Jiaji, the territory of Black Tiger Mountain, and he doesn't dare to really do anything if he thinks about it, after all, the people of Black Tiger Mountain are not easy to mess with, and we have a good relationship with Black Tiger Mountain." ”

Although Song Wenxiang is now a small official, but after all, Yuanshui can't save the fire, and now the only people who can rely on the Yuan family are the brothers, thanks to her usually walking diligently with that side, and now she is in a cooperative relationship with Yuan Hao, but not counting these, Yuan Hao will not let her be bullied, in fact, if it is not for the betrayal of people in the space, she is not afraid of anyone at all, after all, the group of people she raised are all good at fists and feet, what is she afraid of when someone is around? But not now.

"Yes." Shen Changhai responded.

"If it's okay, you can go back and rest, you didn't sleep much last night, you have a busy day today, are you tired?" Although Shen Lan didn't see a tired look from Shen Changhai, she thought that he had accompanied her for one night last night and went to the store to work again today, so she must have been very tired, so she ordered.

"Thank you for your concern, the subordinate will retire." Shen Changhai thanked him, then bent over and turned around and walked out.

After Shen Changhai left, Shen Lan also went back to the house to sleep, as for saying that if the Hua family is really as strong as the shopkeeper Hua said, it is not impossible to sell the ice-making method to his family at that time, after all, this method is not a secret method, as long as you read a lot of books, you can always find clues, the reason why it has not spread, I think one is that the scholar is high, and he is unwilling to do the businessman's business, and the other reason may be because the cost of ice making is too high. Although Shen Lan asked Shen Changhai to re-boil the saltpeter water that had been made into ice to reuse saltpeter, after all, saltpeter would still be purified due to repeated extraction and reduce the amount.

And saltpeter can be used repeatedly This thing is not necessarily known to everyone, that is to say, some people may only use saltpeter once, so the cost is much higher, naturally it is not cost-effective, that is, in her shop, iced drinks are very expensive, not to mention booking a box, the cost of a box is not twenty taels of silver can not be booked, after all, you have to put two large plates of ice, even if you don't charge money, but the truth that wool comes out of the sheep will not change, so even if the ice basin is given for free, In fact, this money can be earned back from the meal, otherwise Shen Lan would not have eaten enough to make this ice basin to entertain guests.

As for the secret recipe to sell, Shen Lan also thought about it, and would only sell the saltpeter ice-making thing, as for the things that can be used repeatedly to reduce costs, Shen Lan is not going to say it, and if the people of the Hua family are too greedy, Shen Lan plans to beat the eggs and fly and directly teach the ice-making method, so that although the unique secret skill of ice-making is lost, the Hua family can't take any advantage, but Shen Lan can sell a lot of favors to others, so Shen Lan can always sleep with peace of mind. (To be continued......)

PS: Sincerely, the depositor