"Since you are also inquiring about the whereabouts of the water girl, once you have news, please go to Qinghe Town in time to inform me, and today Xu will not bother anymore and leave!" didn't get the news of Shui Qingrou, and Chen Xu didn't bother to stay any longer, because he felt that he didn't have any topics to talk about with this Shui Hong.

Chen ...... Please stay, sir! Shui Hong hurriedly said.

"What else?"

"Because Rou'er has been away from home, there is still more than 50,000 yuan left over from the production and sale of tea in the early stage, and a large number of books and tea tree fruits collected at the same time are stored in the warehouse, how should I dispose of these, sir?" Shui Hong asked a little apprehensively.

"Tea tree fruit!" Chen Xu became interested as soon as he heard it.

Tea tree fruit can be squeezed for oil, and the quality is very high, the nutritional value is comparable to olive oil, belongs to the highest grade of edible vegetable oil, but because of the problem of planting and yield, it has not been widely promoted.

In China, tea tree fruit oil can be said to be the earliest edible vegetable oil, the Western Han Dynasty has begun to be planted purposefully, and the most edible vegetable oil in later generations whether it is sesame oil, peanut oil or rapeseed oil, will be hundreds of years later, the Western Han Dynasty Zhang Qian sent to the Western Regions before bringing back sesame, peanuts, walnuts and other oil plants, and began a wide range of edible vegetable oil has been in the Wei and Jin dynasties, because most of the vegetable oil at the beginning was used for lighting or used to fight wars, the most common is to boil and pour down from the city wall, Then the enemy besieging the city will be scalded until the skin and flesh are opened, and then the camp will be attacked in the middle of the night to burn the enemy's grain and grass, which cannot be quickly extinguished after being ignited with oil.

And in Daqin, the only oil that can be eaten now is animal oil, which is high in cholesterol and tastes bad, and has a fishy taste, but even this unpalatable animal fat is extremely rare for ordinary poor people, and it cannot be eaten several times a year, so oil is an extremely luxurious thing for the poor.

Although Chen Xu's family is no longer short of oil to eat, but in later generations, he was used to eating vegetable oil, and he was about to vomit when he ate lard, and now he suddenly heard that a large number of tea tree fruits had been collected, and when he thought of the clear and translucent vegetable oil, he instantly had a feeling that his blood vessels were unblocked.

Tea tree oil, a good thing, finally I don't have to eat unpleasant lard anymore, it's okay to eat two meals a day or two, and now I have eaten it for half a year, and I want to die.

However, Chen Xu's idea can't be said, otherwise he will be beaten to death by the poor if he is not killed by lard, which is too cheap, because at present, more than 20 million poor people in Daqin have no oil to eat, and many poor people are still eating soil, and they will wake up with a smile when they can eat a mouthful of fat lard.

Under the leadership of Shui Hong, Chen Xu followed him to a warehouse, and sure enough, he saw dozens of sacks of tea tree fruits piled up in half of the room, and there were dozens of wooden boxes, all of which were filled with all kinds of blackened and yellowed bamboo and wood slips, and even bones and tortoise shells.

"So much?" Chen Xu was surprised.

"What Mr. Chen said is, indeed a lot, since the autumn, the caravan that comes back every time will bring back a lot of books and tea tree fruits, in fact, these things are extremely cheap, this tea tree fruit we buy a dollar three or five catties, but those tea-producing areas of the mountain people are still enthusiastic to collect, so just two months to get thousands of catties, and these bamboo and wood slips are also worthless things, some spent some money, some celebrities do not want to ask for money simply with tea in exchange, a tube of tea can be exchanged for several volumes, Although Hong has also read some books, many of them don't know the origin, so they have to be collected here, ready to wait for Rou'er to come back and send them to Mr. Shui Hong said respectfully.

"That's it, I just have some other things to transport back to Qinghe Town today, and you can arrange for someone to load these things in a carriage and arrange for the carriage and groom to transport them with me!" Chen Xu nodded and said.

"Okay~ Sir, wait a minute, I'll arrange it!" Shui Hong hurriedly agreed.

"I won't wait, you arrange for someone to go out from the north of the city after you are ready, and I will wait for you outside the city, how long will it take for you to arrange here?"

"Half an hour is enough!"

"Well, we'll meet in half an hour!" Chen Xu walked out of the warehouse, and Shui Hong came up and asked, "Sir, what should you do with those coins, and will you also transport them back to Qinghe Town?" ”

Chen Xu wiped his chin and thought for a while and said, "No, you can first help me send 10,000 yuan to a foot house in the city, which is the one around the corner of the garment store, and give the money to a person named Hu Kuan......

Just as the two were talking, a man in his thirties wearing a blue cloth shirt hurriedly walked over and saluted Shui Hong and said: "The head of the family, Shiro They just returned from Xianyang, saying that when they were passing through Zhongxiang, they found that when they were repairing the road, they dug out a kind of snow-white mud like paste, and those Qi slaves who built the road were able to eat, so the villagers around the country who were provoking them were competing to dig, Shiro also brought some back under curiosity, I think it can be used to make toothpaste, you see......"

"Edible mud soil? Don't talk nonsense, you haven't heard of it since ancient times! Although Shui Hong was very annoyed that his subordinates were disturbing his and Chen Xu's conversation, he was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and shook his head again and again.

And this sentence fell on Chen Xu's ears, but his body shook suddenly, and his eyes burst out with extreme surprise and exclaimed: "Guanyin soil!" ”

"Sir, what is Guanyin soil?" Shui Hong couldn't help but ask.

"Quick, take me to see it." Chen Xu excitedly pulled the middle-aged man away.

"The head of the house?" The middle-aged man hurriedly looked at Shui Hong inexplicably.

"Quick, don't delay, hurry up and take me and Mr. Chen to see!" Shui Hong also hurriedly said, although he didn't know why Chen Xu was so excited and excited, but as a disciple of the Immortal Family, Chen Xu's mind was what Shui Hong dared to beak and figure out.

The three of them hurriedly bypassed several houses to a large open space, only to see a large group of people around a few carriages watching and discussing, from time to time there were surprised and puzzled voices, noisy and lively.

"Get out of the way, the head of the house is here!" The middle-aged man shouted, and the slaves of the onlookers of the Shui family helpers instantly dispersed, revealing a carriage in the center, on which were stacked several sacks, one of which had been opened, and several helpers next to him still had white powder on their mouths and hands, and they were still chewing in their mouths.

"I've seen the head of the house!" A group of helpers and slaves hurried to salute.

"I've seen the second uncle!" A handsome young man of twenty-five or sixteen years of age also bowed.

Shui Hong turned a blind eye and said respectfully to Chen Xu: "Mr. Chen, please!"

Chen Xu strode to the side of the carriage in the extremely surprised eyes of a group of people, looked at the white and damp soil exposed inside, grabbed a handful with his hand and pinched it, it felt smooth and delicate, and he could clearly feel as soft as dough.

"How is Mr. Chen, is this Guanyin soil?" Shui Hong stood next to him and asked in a low voice.

Chen Xu silently took out a few more handfuls from his pocket again and observed them carefully, then turned his head and asked a guy who ate soil next to him: "How does it taste?" ”

"Bland, tasteless, slightly sticky, edible!" The helper hurriedly said.

"It's all this white soil?" Chen Xu pointed to a few sacks in the car and asked the young man named Shui Hong's second uncle.

Although the young man didn't know who the seemingly ordinary young man in front of him was, he saw that his second uncle was respectful, so he didn't dare to make a mistake, and saluted respectfully and said yes.

"Master of the Water Family, this should be Guanyin soil, but this kind of soil is inedible, eating for a long time will cause bloating and inability to defecate, and stones will form in the stomach and intestines, and finally be swollen to death......"

"But why didn't I feel bloated after I ate a lot just now?" A helper who ate soil next to him asked suspiciously.

"I advise you to go drink some and spit out all the dirt now." Chen Xu said lightly.

"Drink dung?" The faces of the group of people suddenly distorted.

"Hehe, it doesn't matter if you don't drink it, you won't be able to pull it out in a few days, and you'll know it's amazing!" Chen Xu laughed dryly.

"Tian Gui, take these people to fill the manure water!" Shui Hong waved his sleeves, and a few helpers who had eaten Guanyin soil just now almost cried, and followed the middle-aged man to drink dung water with soft legs and weak feet.

"Mr. Chen, we have never seen this kind of white soil, why are you so interested in eating it since you can't eat it?" Shui Hong asked puzzled.

"Although this kind of soil can't be eaten, but it has other uses, it's still too early to say, Zhongxiang County is only two hundred miles near Wancheng, the owner of the water family, you quickly arrange some people to collect this kind of soil, and at the same time publicize it to the villagers and the people who build roads, these soils really can't be eaten, and they will be swelled to death after eating too much for a few days!"

Shui Hong nodded again and again, but with a slightly embarrassed wry smile on his face, he said: "It's easy to collect soil, but I'm afraid it's difficult to make those rural people not eat, but I'll try my best to persuade them!" ”

Chen Xu could only nod silently.

He has not been able to confirm whether these soils are Guanyin soil, but through some statements of later generations and the current situation, at least more than eighty percent of the certainty can be determined, and there are many legends of eating Guanyin soil in the years of famine in later generations, and there are many records of eating too much and not being able to pull it out and being swollen to death, but it is indeed too difficult to make people believe before someone swells to death.

As the saying goes, seeing is believing, only when someone dies, it is estimated that no one will eat soil, this kind of thing Chen Xu can only let people use death and life as proof because he is powerless.

"Master Shui, help me send this soil to Qinghe Town as well!" After a long time, Chen Xu sighed weakly and said.

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