"Otherwise, will my sister be rude to me?"

Tang Sai'er opened her apricot eyes, so surprised and innocent cute, it was impossible to be completely angry with her.

Xiao Gu looked at her, and suddenly laughed, his eyes were crooked and playful, and he saw the girl's grace, "You are very skilled, I am not your opponent!" ”

Her voice softened, as if she was really joking at her little sister, but the content made Tang Sai'er unable to laugh anymore-

"I'll count three, if you don't stop, I'll immediately shout that there is a thief, bring people in, and everyone's jade will be burned!"

Tang Sai'er frowned slightly, thrust the long shovel in his hand into the muck, threw a shovel full of black muck and iron stone into the car, and complained: "I just dig some scorched earth and iron slag in this mass graveyard, you rich people are so stingy, you money is bigger than a grinding plate, if you don't give it, you won't give it, and you will accuse me of being a thief - alas, these days, the life of the poor is really sad!" ”

"I've never seen such a greedy poor man thinking of taking twelve thousand taels of gold to himself—"

Xiao Gu sneered slightly, staring at the muck and broken iron on Tang Sai'er's cart, his gaze was unfathomable, "Even if you are the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus Sect, you can't treat both black and white as fools!" ”

The two of them were arguing, and Lan Ning on the side only felt a cold sweat: in front of them were clearly two flowery girls talking and laughing Yan Yan, but in fact, they were secretly dangerous!

Tang Sai'er still had to prevaricate, Xiao Gu's face was stunned, and his smile became even more cold and beautiful, "I said, count three times-one,"

"Can't you talk about it?"

"Two 、——"

"This is a windfall of money from the government doing evil, and the rivers and lakes are mixed, each with his own ability-"

"Three!!"

Seeing that Xiao Gumian was about to become a thunderous rage, Tang Sai'er finally put down the shovel in despair, and asked Zhengse, "What do you want?" ”

"Half of those who see it."

Xiao Gu said calmly, but Tang Sai'er laughed angrily, "Twelve ladies, you are really majestic and domineering!" How much effort it took me to get the gold. You're going to get half of it when you slash - your face is worth too much, isn't it? ”

Xiao Gu was not angry, his dark eyes flashed with bright firelight, "How big is my face, should I let you see and understand - whether you want a literary competition or a martial arts competition, draw a debut!" ”

Tang Sai'er's eyes flashed wide, and she smiled like a little fox, "This is not the place to do it, and the White Lotus Sect doesn't want to have many disputes with you - there is only one thing: if you can tell me how the gold got into my hands, I will immediately not say a word and give in half!" ”

"That's it?"

Xiao Gu couldn't help but laugh. He opened his mouth slightly and said only one word, "Sour." ”

Tang Sai'er's face changed, and she secretly had a bad premonition in her heart, but she still opened her eyes wide, waiting for her next step.

"Actually, I've seen you since the beginning, the little girl with the fanged ghost face, your round light illusion is really impressive......"

Xiao Gu talked eloquently. The wind lamp in her hand illuminated her entire face, and she could vaguely see the splendid elegance under the ordinary facial features, "I heard that your family has a vinegar brewing workshop." Therefore, when you start, you will often sprinkle rice vinegar on the spot, indicating that you have already taken the lead. ”

How much does she know...... Tang Sai'er was relieved when she heard this inconsequential remark. But it is more vigilant and awe-inspiring.

"Actually, everyone guessed wrong, you sprinkled rice vinegar on the scene, not to mark your identity at all. It's to make the gold disappear! ”

This sentence was earth-shattering, and finally Tang Sai'er Huo Ran was moved!

She actually found out!

"From the very beginning, when the carriage stopped at the post house before it was handed over, you had already started - the acid you sprinkled was not actually rice vinegar at all, but 'green alum oil' burned with the high heat of the alchemy furnace!"

"The ancient alchemist Gu Gangzi recorded in the "Yellow Emperor Jiuding Shendan Sutra" that the 'refining stone gall extract essence method', and the refined 'green alum oil' can dissolve and corrode everything, including gold."

Tang Sai'er's eyes were fixed on Xiao Gu, and the look on her face was no longer proud, but complex focus - it seemed to regret her own failure, and she faintly looked forward to Xiao Gu's finishing, which really verified that she was not a high and a widow, but also a bosom friend.

"The amount you used at the beginning was not much, it could not completely dissolve the gold, but it was enough to make it deform and crumble into a clump and become dark and dull - after you found that it worked, you simply made it in large quantities, poured it in the iron pot in the kitchen at night, and let the gold react and become these 'scorched earth iron slags', and you used the vehicles that transported the cinders to transport them out - due to Luo Zhan's arrest and the bombing of Pingning Fang, although the cinders in your kitchen were also routinely checked, they were just hurriedly going through the motions."

"These real waste products, unlike those weapons and armor that Luo Zhan sold privately, will not be paid much attention to at all, so according to the rules of previous years, it fell into this Zhuangzi forest not far away - I inquired with the family members, this imperial merchant is picky and shrewd, bought the soldiers who dispose of the waste residue, and transported these waste residues in a steady stream, in order to fill these wild graves and want to build fruit groves."

"So, you just have to come here every night and dig up the scorched earth residue, and you can take the gold away without you knowing."

After Xiao Gu finished speaking in one breath, his eyes shining like stars looked at Tang Sai'er, "Your technique is indeed clever, but it's a pity that you can't be the only expert in the world." ”

Tang Sai'er clenched her fists when she heard this, and raised her eyes to look at her unconvinced—as soon as the eyes of the two touched slightly, sparks suddenly burst out.

However, she didn't get angry or frustrated, she just stared at Xiao Gu, and the curvature of the corners of her lips turned into naughtiness that refused to admit defeat, "It's useless to talk clearly, you said that there is gold in this pile of scorched earth, what evidence is there?" - Can you get gold back to normal? ”

"What's so hard about that?"

Xiao Gu smiled slightly, and took out a pot-bellied white porcelain bottle with a beeswax wood lid sealed on it, obviously prepared for it - Lan Ning clearly saw that this bottle came from Guangsheng's room.

She opened the bottle, and suddenly a pungent sour smell came along with the white smoke, and Tang Sai'er found that the smell was full of "green alum oil", but it was obviously much stronger.

Xiao Gu took the shovel on the soil, shook a handful of muck and threw it into the bottle, and then took out another piece of copper and threw it into it happily.

There was a gurgling sound in the white porcelain bottle, and the white mist began to boil and roll, and the sour taste was strong. When you inhale the end of your nose, you can't help but sneeze and cough - at the most intense time, there is even acid steaming out, and Xiao Guyi Ra Lanning avoided it.

After a long time, this boiling finally stopped, Xiao Gu poured out the acid, and suddenly the ground was scorched black - this acid actually corroded the ground!

The copper nugget inside was gone, and what appeared in front of the three of them was a brand-new, irregular gold nugget!

The surprise in Tang Sai'er's eyes reached its highest at this moment - the copper nugget was put into the "green alum oil" to react and replace the gold nugget. This is the undeclared secret in the scroll of the White Lotus Sect's scriptures and spells, and this woman actually understands it before she arrives in front of her!

"Have you also read my White Lotus Sect's Heavenly Scriptures?"

Facing her surprised and shocked questioning, Xiao Gu shook his head, "Every Miao family village has its own secret craft, and my mother is proficient in these bottles and cans of potions. ”

Once upon a time, the mother and daughter were confined in the deep inner house, unable to look beyond the sky of the square courtyard, and the mother was extremely bored. taught her all the skills of the Miao family.

Tang Sai'er was convinced so far, and there was no longer any difficulty, and said briskly: "Since there is such a means, you should divide half the night." I had already poached five carts last night, and the rest of the five carts are yours. ”

She was originally a half-grown girl, and the posture with which she said this was quite magnificent, but it was like a child learning to speak to an adult. With a wave of his hand, he thought he was authoritative, but Lan Ning snorted and laughed.

Tang Sai'er glanced at her and muttered, "Sister Lan Ning." You did that plan to save people, and I didn't even go to tell the whistle-you accepted my favor, and you were embarrassed to laugh at me! ”

Lan Ning hid her smile with her sleeves, and said to her seriously: "Yes, yes, it's me Meng Lang, I'm sorry." ”

While lowering his head, he still wanted to laugh - this child's bun face is really cute and adult-like.

Tang Sai'er threw away the shovel and the cart, and simply said: "The night is long, you can dig slowly, after digging one cart and four carts, wait for these waste residues to be moved back, and then slowly replace and restore with green alum oil." ”

She saw that the expressions of the two were bitter, and she was even more happy, and she was about to walk away with a grin, but she remembered something, stopped, and looked at Xiao Gu, "Has Xiao An successfully rescued Lu?" ”

Xiao Gu saw that her eyes were full of sincere concern, and replied truthfully: "She has arrived in Jinling safely, and she will probably have seen her biological mother." ”

"Xiao An, can you finally return to your mother?"

Tang Sai'er's eyes flashed with envy and gratification, but in the end, she smiled sweeter and more comfortable than ever, "That's good, Xiao An, that person, well-behaved and timid, if you don't have me by your side, I'm afraid that I will suffer - now that her mother is here, I can finally rest assured!" ”

She turned to leave, but heard Xiao Gu whisper, "Please stay." ”

Tang Sai'er's footsteps stopped, and he only heard Xiao Gu whisper: "I know that you are the holy daughter of the White Lotus Sect, and you are highly regarded by your sect. But now the court is powerful, the small people are like grass, and some people are killed, for those who are in power, they are just leeks in the ground, cutting a stubble and a stubble, but for their respective relatives, they have lost their support and have no way to live. Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, it is easy not to go into a confrontation with the government - this is what I say from the bottom of my heart, or please consider it. ”

When Xiao Gu said this, he also got rid of his usual cold and calm expression, but was sincere and came from the heart.

Tang Sai'er didn't look back, but asked softly: "You Jinlan will have a deep enmity with the imperial court, why do you want others to swallow your anger?" ”

"It is precisely because our whole family is ruined and there is nothing to love in life that we hope that other families can at least be reunited—even if they live humbly and sufferingly, there is always hope for a good life!"

Xiao Gu's words made Tang Sai'er stunned, and I don't know if she heard it, she just waved her hand behind her and left quickly.

Note: Alum oil is the name of the ancients for the production of concentrated sulfuric acid when refining pills, but it is mixed with other ingredients and has strong corrosive power. I'm treating it directly as an effect similar to aqua regia, and I can only say that the effect is there but not so obvious. Ask the chemists to put down the bricks and pat them lightly. (To be continued......)