Chapter 8 Salt Extraction
Seinfeld's happiness is largely due to He Lao Wu's promise to Wu Zheng that day, and Wu Zheng is her father-in-law, so with He Lao Wu's promise, this is undoubtedly another reliable helper for Seinfeld.
After Liu Wen heard about this, he also asked his son Liu Mang to send all the books in the family to Wu Zheng.
There are not many books, only half of the mahogany boxes are packed, but Wu Zheng has a clear understanding of the current world through these books.
For example, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty is now called Wu Heng, the year name is Zhengkang, this year is the eighteenth year of Zhengkang, history has turned a corner on Wu Sansi's body, but now the wheel of history seems to have turned back.
Now the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty is nearly half smaller than that of Wu Zetian's reign, and the Northern Song Dynasty that Wu Zheng knows is very similar, the difference is that the neighboring country to the west of the Great Zhou Dynasty is not Tubo but Tuyuhun, and Tibet was actually killed by Tuyuhun in this world.
To the north were the Uighurs and Tatars, and it is worth mentioning that the Tatars of this world actually succeeded in annexing the Korean Peninsula at this time, while the Uighurs annexed the entire northwestern capital of the Tang Dynasty.
Now the world that the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty know is probably like this, Wu Zheng looked at the map and really wondered if the person who drew the map made the wrong drawing, there is no place in the northwest that the Great Zhou Dynasty touched, and its territory is actually smaller than that of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Faced with such a map, Wu Zheng could only smile bitterly.
"Uncle."
An uncle woke Wu Zheng up from his wry smile, and looked up to see that it was Xiang'er.
"Xiang'er, you're too early! It's not time to tell a story today! ”
"Uncle Xiang'er didn't come to listen to the story, Xiang'er wanted to ......"
Looking at Xiang'er's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Wu Zheng smiled: "What do you think?" ”
"Xiang'er wants my aunt to take me to eat barbecue."
"Barbecue?"
Wu Zheng thought about it, he had come to Shenmu Village for so long, and it seemed that the number of times he had opened meat was really not a few times.
So he smiled and said, "I'm a little greedy when I hear you say this, but where is the barbecue?" ”
Xiang'er said: "Back mountain! Xiang'er just saw it upstairs, Shen San's guys beat a roe deer and were roasting it in the forest! It's fragrant, and Xiang'er smells it upstairs. ”
Wu Zheng smiled slightly, I have to say that this Xiang'er's eyesight is really good, the forest behind the village is also a mile away from this small building, and it can be seen after so long, not to mention, even the fragrance of barbecue can be smelled.
"It turned out that Shen San and them beat them, then you go to Shen San and they will have to go, what's the matter with looking for me?"
"You're my uncle! They may not give it to Xiang'er when she goes, but they will definitely give it to her uncle when she goes, won't Xiang'er have meat to eat at that time? ”
"Uh...... Is that okay too? ”
"Of course, you are the uncle of our Shenmu Village, they dare not give it."
"Oh well! Let's try it. ”
To be honest, as soon as Wu Zheng heard the word barbecue, he hadn't eaten meat for too long, and his mind couldn't help but make up for the picture of fragrant fat dripping on the golden barbecue, and sprinkled with a little cumin powder and chili noodles, even the gods couldn't stand the taste!
As a result, when they rushed to the woods, Shen San and the others really gave him and Xiang'er a piece, but looking at the barbecue in their hands, it was completely different from the picture they had just made up in their brains!
Such a good piece of roe deer meat was actually scorched by these goods, not to mention, it is still half-cooked, and there are no chili peppers and cumin, forget the chili peppers, there are no chili peppers in this era, but cumin ...... Forget it, let's not talk about it, although the thieves in Shenmu Village are also doing the work of robbing the road, they are all poor to death.
It's completely different from the big bowl of drinking and dividing the money in the movie.
Because there is a chicken village behind Shenmu Village, if you charge this toll too high, it will be difficult for people to pass the chicken village behind them, if all the caravans will lose money on this road, then who will dare to pass from here in the future?
But even so, there are still very few caravans passing through here, and Tian Dabiaozi of Jigong Village also thinks that Shenmu Village has divided his toll, so he wants to get rid of Shenmu Village at any time.
So if there is no chili pepper and cumin, Wu Zheng can understand, but if you don't even put salt, isn't it a little too much?
"Uncle, why don't you eat it?" Shen San asked.
Wu Zheng said: "Did you forget to put salt in the third brother Shen?" ”
Shen Sanyi patted his head and said, "I actually forgot about this, and I used this for your uncle." ”
After speaking, Shen San handed a stone bowl to Wu Zheng, and saw Wu Zheng holding the stone bowl in a daze, so he explained: "Uncle is like me, if you rub the meat in the stone nest, it will smell of salt." ”
Wu Zheng knew that this was probably a kind of brine salt, not to mention that if he ate too much brine like this, he would die, but Wu Zheng knew that the meat that had been rubbed in this stone nest must have a lot of strange smells that people could swallow and even knock their teeth in addition to the salt taste.
"Are you sure this thing is edible?" Wu Zheng said.
Shen San said with a smile: "That's not it, this stone nest is used as salt, our brothers in the village have eaten it for many years, of course, this taste is a little bitter and a little astringent when I first eat it, just get used to it." ”
"Uh...... Isn't there any salt on our village? Xiang'er ......"
Wu Zheng looked back and saw that the little maid had already eaten up the brine salt in the stone nest, and was pecking her fingers with the barbecue in her hand!
"Uncle, you called me?"
"Uh...... Xiang'er, is this what we usually eat? ”
"Of course not, we eat coarse salt that tastes much better than this."
Wu Zheng couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart, this taste is not good, you little girl is pecking her fingers, if this taste is good, wouldn't you eat all your fingers?
"So there is a shortage of salt in our stockade?" Wu Zheng said.
This Xiang'er didn't know, so Shen San said: "You don't know this uncle, our Shu Mountain is far away with a tael of green salt and a tael of gold, and it would be good for ordinary people to eat a little coarse salt during the New Year's Festival, not to mention that we are mountain thieves, how can the government sell us salt."
As for the coarse salt eaten by the big bosses, it is also bought from the smuggling salt dealers, and this smuggling salt is a killer business, this price! Naturally, it is more expensive than the ones on the market. ”
Hearing Shen San say this, Wu Zheng finally understood, no wonder the taste in that dish was a little weird every time he ate, but it was very light, so he didn't care about it before, just because the cook's skills were not good.
Now I know that it all turned out to be a matter of salt.
Wu Zheng took the stone bowl and said, "Where did this stone nest come from?" Do we have more here? ”
"That's a lot! We have it in the back mountain, uncle, are you used to eating this taste? ”
Wu Zheng smiled: "I'm not used to this taste, but whether our Shenmu Village can make a fortune depends on it." ”
"It!" Everyone was stunned for a moment, and they all stared at the stone bowl in Wu Zheng's hand, and then they all showed disdainful expressions.
Wu Zheng had long expected that they would react like this, so he was not surprised, and only listened to Shen Sandao: "Uncle, you don't want to sell this stone nest!" I think it's better to save it! Every household here has such a stone nest, and they all dig it in the mountains by themselves, who will spend money on this thing. ”
Wu Zheng smiled slightly and said: "This stone nest can't be sold for money, but if you can take out the salt in this stone nest, won't it be sold for money?" ”
"Take the salt out? Uncle, you shouldn't be joking! ”
"Do you think I'm joking?"
Everyone subconsciously looked at him twice, and it really didn't look like it, but who doesn't know that our uncle is a second fool! It's not uncommon to talk about you, you only know how to talk nonsense all day long.
"Xiang'er let's go, let's go dig a salt nest."
"Oh......"
Xiang'er stood up and patted the grass clippings on her skirt, and hurriedly followed.