Zhaojiazhuang was busy this summer because of Zhao Yuan's arrival, in addition to taking care of the farm work in the field, several mountains nearby and far away were almost run over by the people of Zhaojia Village.

This summer, Zhao Yuan's income is also a lot, the first more than 5,000 catties of processed mushrooms brought Zhao Yuan an income of almost 40 copper coins, although the mushrooms purchased every day are decreasing, but in more than two months, as Wanjia opened up channels outside of Shudi, mushroom sales have not stagnated at all, and Zhao Yuan has also earned more than 500 copper coins one after another.

Zhao Yuan has earned a lot of money The people of Zhaojia Village don't know, but everyone knows that they have made money, more than two months in a summer, more than ten copper coins, and less seven or eight copper coins, it can be seen from the smile on the face of the big guy that this year will be a good year.

Not only Zhaojiazhuang, but also the villagers of several surrounding villages later made more or less money, and for a while, almost everyone knew Zhao Yuan in five villages within a radius.

After being busy for more than two months, Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and after delivering the last batch of wild mushrooms, they were finally idle.

After having breakfast at Zhao Yuan's house, father-in-law Meng Ji and brother-in-law Meng Xun, who hardly went home, helped clean up and took Meng Xiaobao home. Zhao Yuan thought about it, discussed it with Meng Ying, and gave Meng's father and uncle a hundred copper coins, Meng's father also knew that his son-in-law had earned a lot of money this time, although he felt that Zhao Yuan had given too much, but after some refusal, he still put it away. It is not easy to turn down in two months. Meng Xiaobao has enough money to study, and he can also add a few acres of land to his family. When Meng's father and eldest brother left, they repeatedly told Zhao Yuan and the two of them to buy as much land as possible when they have money, which is a long-term plan.

After sending his father-in-law and eldest brother to the entrance of the village, Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying took the little girl home.

"Xiaoying, Luoluo, let's have a good rest these days and cook a big meal at night." Zhao Yuan said loudly.

"Uncle, I want to eat something delicious." Luoluo also said loudly.

After more than two months, the little guy can be regarded as getting out of the haze of losing his father, although it will still be very uncomfortable when Zhao Dazhu is mentioned, but it is much more lively than when Zhao Yuan first came, and the child's nature is slowly released.

The nutrition kept up, wearing Meng Ying's newly made clothes, the little girl was pink and very cute.

"Okay, Uncle will make something delicious for Luoluo, let's say, what does Luoluo want to eat?"

"I want to eat braised pork, and stewed beans in braised pork." The little girl thought for a while and said.

Since Zhao Yuan made a braised pork with an acceptable taste, Luoluo has never forgotten this dish, but he has been too busy for more than two months, and Zhao Yuan has not been able to make it a second time.

"Okay, let's eat braised pork today!" Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying looked at each other and smiled, and decided so happily.

In addition to chili peppers, other seasonings Zhao Yuan prepared very completely, the pork of this era is definitely a pure natural green food, and the braised pork tastes very good, Zhao Yuan also drooled secretly when he thought about it.

But this will only be morning, there is no hurry to cook, Zhao Yuan wants to toss another thing, that is, to make soap, that is, the new pancreas that Zhao Yuan mentioned to Wan Yunjun.

Zhao Yuan has a lot of knowledge in his mind, but the simplest is to make soap, the raw materials needed are only trona, other materials are very easy to obtain, and the production process is simple, there is no need for equipment that cannot be made under the current conditions, and the effect of the soap is also very good, and it is easy to sell.

With the channels of 10,000 families, Wan Yunjun has already helped Zhao Yuan prepare the raw materials he needs, quicklime, trona ore, a large amount of oil and finely ground salt powder, a large iron pot and some bottles and cans and other tools, now everything is ready, only Zhao Yuan is the shareholder style.

"Brother Yuan, what are these things sent by the Wan family for? Is it something you bought? In the hall, Meng Ying looked at Zhao Yuan and began to pound the large pile of things sent by Wan Yunjun, and didn't understand what this was going to do?

"Uncle, this oil stinks, isn't it for eating?" Zhao Luo saw the lid of a large bucket of grease that Zhao Yuan had uncovered, and smelled a strange smell.

"It's not for food, these are all collected by me from Wan Yunjun. I'm going to use these things to make a good thing, and you'll know when the time comes, Luoluo, you and your aunt stand far away, don't splash on your body. Zhao Yuan took out the bag full of alkali ore and prepared to dissolve and filter the alkali ore first to obtain a relatively pure sodium carbonate solution.

"Brother Yuan, what is this, it's so beautiful, it looks like crystal." Meng Ying looked at the trona ore that Zhao Yuan had poured into the basin and asked.

"This is not a crystal, it is a kind of trona ore, in order to get this thing, Wan Yunjun has taken a lot of work." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

Trona ore is generally in the salt lake sedimentary zone or arid land into salt frost shape, in these areas of Shudi, it is difficult to have such geological and weather conditions, these trona ore are transported from other places, before the alkali ore is only used as a medicine in pharmacies in small quantities.

"That's expensive, isn't it?" Meng Ying looked at the columnar alkali stone that Zhao Yuan poured out and asked.

"It's not expensive, it's very cheap compared to what I made."

"Brother Yuan, you know a lot, I'll help too, how to do it."

"That's okay, Xiaoying, you can help bring the cold boiled water I boiled in the morning."

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"It's amazing, uncle, what is this?" The little girl Zhao Luo watched Zhao Yuan operate and turned some stones and oil into some yellow things, which was really amazing.

After a busy time, from making caustic soda, to the saponification reaction of caustic soda and oil, salting out to stamping mold, pieces of soap were finally made, Zhao Yuan, who had complete knowledge in his mind, had a good grasp of the ratio of various materials, and the experiment was successful, and he could hand over to Wan Yunjun.

Yes, Zhao Yuan is not going to directly operate the soap workshop, but to invest in the formula and production process, and let Wanjia operate, with the current situation of Zhao Yuan and the cooperation with Wan Yunjun in the past two months, the best choice for this matter, after all, the interests involved in this are not comparable to small wild mushrooms.

"This is used for bathing and washing clothes, I call it soap, it can be washed very clean, Xiaoying, you know the pancreas, this thing is similar to the function of the pancreas, not only does it not smell, it will be more convenient to use, and the important thing is that it is cheaper than the pancreas. In the future, you can use this soap for bathing and washing clothes at home. ”

"Are we going to have this soap workshop in our family?" Meng Ying asked.

"No, first, it's more tiring to make this soap, and second, the interests involved are too great, I plan to hand over the production method of this soap to Wan Yunjun, and just take some shares in it." Zhao Yuan explained.

"Oh, our family has already made so much money, don't be too eye-catching because of this soap." Meng Ying said approvingly.

"That's what I think, Xiaoying, you can also think about this, and you've improved a lot." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

In the past two months, Meng Ying has traveled to the town several times with Zhao Yuan, and has met many people with Zhao Yuan, and her horizons have broadened a lot, and some things can be thought of in advance.

But the soap thing is put aside first, Zhao Yuan will not really be idle, when the old man goes home, he persuaded Zhao Yuan to buy some land, Zhao Yuan did think so, but his target was not the land in Zhaojiazhuang, but the downstream of the river because of the impact of the water to form a large wasteland full of pebbles.