Before Caesar met Xu Zhen, he had been enslaved by his clan everywhere, wandering away from the grassland, and he was no stranger to the salt lake.

However, she has always been cold and silent, and she is too lazy to fight with Xu Zhen, but Li Mingda can't help but tease, she is deeply educated by orthodoxy, she is a strange person, and she is even more moved by the customs of foreign countries, and she has also heard of the salt lake, so she naturally can't see Xu Zhen's rare and strange posture.

"Trickster Xu, haven't you seen a salt lake? Don't look at these salt flowers beautifully, there are many miscellaneous poisons in them, the horses are fine if they eat them, if you eat them, be careful of rotten tongues! ”

Caesar couldn't help but laugh when he heard Li Mingda laughing at Xu Zhen, Li Mingda and her didn't look at each other well, and they didn't communicate much along the way, but they now found a common denominator, that is, they both agreed that Xu Zhen was a big liar.

Under the night, the salt lake is reflected, and Caesar, who exudes mature beauty everywhere, is really smiling and charming, Li Mingda was only amazed by the beauty of the orchid in front of him at this time, and Xu Zhen turned his head, but he was also scratched by the other party's bright color, and his heart was so ape that he hurriedly wanted to tap on Li Mingda's head to resolve the embarrassment, and as soon as he raised his hand, he saw the little girl glaring angrily, and her hand was raised in the air and did not dare to fall, so she was not embarrassed.

Humming and withdrawing his hand, Xu Zhen looked at the salt lake again, didn't dare to look back, and said with a little excitement and excitement: "You little girl knows a lot, in this lake, the white flowers are not salt flowers, but silver!" ”

Xu Zhen's words are not exaggerated, in the early Tang Dynasty, the method of sharing salt and iron liquor with the common people was adopted, and the state did not implement exclusive management, and the management of pond salt or set up salt tuns, or recruited private breeds, and there was no law on the disposal of illegal salt in the "Tang Law".

For modern people, the principle of salt extraction and refining is very simple, and it is taught in the middle school curriculum, and although there is also a method of boiling salt in the early Tang Dynasty, it cannot achieve high quality and high quantity, and the military grassroots and low-level people have no way to use high-quality salt, let alone these wild nomadic tribes outside the Saiwai.

As early as the beginning of entering the barracks, Xu Zhen discovered this problem, whether it was the sergeants of the Liangzhou camp or the herdsmen of the Sale tribe, the salt they used came from crude salt cloth and vinegar cloth (Note 1), and the boiled brine was bitter and unpalatable, which was really bad.

Once Xu Zhen extracts high-quality salt, not to mention how it will grow in the future, just talk about the current situation, relying on these salts, it will also have the original capital to win over other small tribes!

Xu Zhen is limited by his power and military strength, and he can't give Li Mingda a new life, let alone fight against the bullying of small characters like Hou Poyu, so he has always wanted to establish his own power.

If you want to build power, there is no other way to accumulate military merits in the army through wars and promote official positions, but if you take the tribesmen like Rouran and Sale for your own use, it is a real hard capital!

Thinking of this, Xu Zhenxin was so hot that he hurriedly gathered everyone together, simply set up the camp tent on the shore of the salt lake, and ordered people to burn charcoal for backup, take more fine sand, linen and other utensils used for filtration, and set up more than ten cauldrons on the spot, knock down the large pieces of salt stone in the salt lake, and then put them in the pot to boil after crushing.

The boiling time is time-consuming, the grassland brothers have another fire, slaughtered the fat sheep, and the good hunters have found a few yellow sheep, stuffed fresh thatch and wild onions into the belly, roasted the whole sheep, and the mare's milk wine and leather bags are passed to each other, and the work and entertainment are not wrong, and the atmosphere is extremely harmonious.

Xu Zhen was deeply infected by the atmosphere, more and more fond of these brothers, when the emotion, can't help but be heroic, after three or two sips of wine, the mind is completely open, can not stand the invitation of the grassland brothers, reluctantly open their throats to sing, think about it, pick a unique grassland flavor of the ballad, everyone sit quietly and listen, many of them have a lot of admiration.

"In that far away place, there is a good girl, people walk past her tent to look nostalgic, her little pink face is like the red sun, her beautiful eyes are like the moon shining at night, I want to wander in the grassland to guard against the sheep, every day look at the little pink face and the beautiful gold-rimmed clothes, I want to be a little sheep to follow her, I want to take a leather whip and constantly beat me lightly..."

Although his voice is not low, it has evoked many memories of the present world, touched the heartstrings, and is extremely moving!

Caesar is the same as many grassland girls, they were moved by Xu Zhen's singing, she struggled in her heart, and finally took out a short wooden pipe from the boots, stroked the three holes with her hand, the sound was like a spring breeze into the night, delicate and silent, and then slowly mixed into Xu Zhen's singing, like fish in the water playing on the surface of the water and falling flowers, like swifts in the wind following the clear clouds in the distant sky, and then lingering with each other, water milk (blending, listening to the dead silence of the audience, even rough men like Zhou Cang and Gao Heshu, are intoxicated!

Xu Zhen was completely integrated into his singing, and when he heard Caesar harmonizing with each other, he couldn't help but look sideways, but he could touch his beautiful eyes, and his heart was throbbing.

After singing the song, the Hu Ji gradually stopped, the aftermath was endless, and the surroundings were extremely quiet, only the firewood crackled, and the cauldron of salt water and bones were bubbling, as if cheering for the singer.

Caesar retracted her gaze in a panic, her mind was very complicated, since she was twelve years old, her hand had not touched the three holes of the beard, because her hands were used to hold knives and kill, tonight to play the old music, there was a pure feeling that the soul had been cleansed, and her heart was happy, and she had another opinion of Xu Zhen.

She is nearly thirty years old, whether in the grassland or the Tang Dynasty, she is a mature old girl, but she is naturally beautiful, and has a unique exotic charm, and there is no shortage of heroes to admire, Xu Zhen looks only in her early twenties, but acts unreasonably, sometimes calm and mellow like old wine, sometimes green as a young wolf, the two have a gap in front, and then forced to put his brand on the arm, the charming flirtation in the camp tent on the banks of the Saale River, unconsciously planted a taboo seed in her heart.

This time with Xu Zhen's singing music, it really has a unique taste in my heart.

Xu Zhen is not a junior brother in love, and he has no rejection of mature women, and even prefers the type of Caesar when he is in this world, but he doesn't want to force it anymore, let it be natural, and he is depressed about why no one applauds, whether he can't be hurt by the ancients today, and he doesn't want to be quiet After the silence, the cheers are like thunder, and many men even throw Xu Zhen one after another, and the scene is extremely lively.

There are many people who don't know Tang in the Sale tribe, and the melody is intoxicated, so they ask Yinzong and others about the meaning of the words, and the simple but beautiful lyrics are quite appropriate even if they are put in the Tang Dynasty, and the love affair between young boys and girls is exhausted, and the girls are all like, dancing enthusiastically around the son of Ahura, who is good at singing and mysterious.

Li Mingda's interest in singing and dancing is not as good as sword martial arts, but after listening to Xu Zhen's ballad and seeing Xu Zhen's eyebrows and flirtatious, he suddenly pursed his mouth, full of sourness, but secretly despised that being able to sing is not a skill, and when everyone drank and sang, she muttered to herself and wanted to regain Xu Zhen's tune.

In such a happy moment, more than ten cauldrons have been boiled with salt, Xu Zhen hurriedly beckoned people, commanded in an orderly manner, carried out the filtration operation, and continued to put the filtered brine into the cauldron to boil.

Everyone looked at the novelty, and admired and marveled at Xu Zhen's erudition, and it lived up to the name of the wise Yeerbo, the boiling process was very boring, Xu Zhen also let the rest of the people sleep and rest, and only about 20 people were left to take care of the cauldron.

After some singing, dancing, eating and drinking, everyone was happy and snored, and after a while, there was a sound of snoring, but Xu Zhen was relieved to make salt, and was still waiting by the fire.

He leaned on the unloaded saddle, kept his boots close to the fire to keep warm, took out a big coin, and habitually rolled it back and forth on the back of his hand, Caesar was guarding beside him, I don't know if it was due to his weakness, he was a little far away from Xu Zhen, and lowered his head and silently wiped his double blades.

She had no intention of looking up, but she saw Xu Zhen playing with the big money, and saw the big money dancing on Xu Zhen's fingertips like a psychic, and her eyes couldn't help but be attracted by death, so that Xu Zhen looked at her with a smile on the corner of her mouth, and she was completely unconscious.

"I'll teach you?"

When Caesar heard Xu Zhen speak, he immediately turned around, indicating that he was not interested, but the corner of his eye peeked at this side with interest.

Xu Zhen didn't poke it either, he smiled, flicked his thumb, and the big money flew up with a "ding", and he caught it steadily, held it in his palm, and then said to Caesar: "It's better to do this, let's make a bet, if you can guess that the big money is in my palm, I will return your free body, how about it?" ”

Caesar raised his head suddenly, his face was not too happy, but a little angry, to be honest, she was used to being Xu Zhen's slave, although she knew that Xu Zhen did not treat her as a slave, but Xu Zhen used this as a bargaining chip, which really made Caesar unhappy.

But she is also a strong person, just now she clearly saw the big money fall into Xu Zhen's right palm, with the experience of following the cliff master for many years, she deduced that the big money is definitely not in the right palm, so she sat on Xu Zhen's side and knocked the left palm held by Xu Zhen with the back of the knife.

"Are you sure?"

Caesar nodded firmly, and Xu Zhen spread out his left palm, empty!

In addition to the disappointment, the good feelings that Kaisa had just accumulated in his heart suddenly disappeared again, Xu Zhen was still the annoying Xu Zhen, the cunning Tang man!

Xu Zhen didn't care, he smiled, stretched out his right palm in front of Kaisa's eyes, and the thief smiled and said, "Do you want to gamble again?" ”

If it was an ordinary girl, she would definitely think that the big money would be in the right palm, and she shouldn't have lost it out of thin air, but Caesar had seen the methods of Master Moya, and replied angrily: "There is nothing in it, what kind of bet." ”

Xu Zhen was slightly stunned, but soon chuckled, his right palm swept in front of Kaisa's eyes, and his five fingers were opened, and there was really nothing!

"You win, there's really nothing in it."

Caesar was wondering what Xu Zhen was doing, the cauldron over there had already boiled out snow-white salt flowers, and the caretaker hurriedly asked Xu Zhen to go over to check, and Xu Zhen blinked narrowly at Caesar when he left.

Caesar carefully recalled Xu Zhen's actions just now, suddenly realized something, his face suddenly turned red, and he looked down to see that between the snowy peaks and ravines where his corset was tightly bound, a warm coin was tightly sandwiched in it!

Caesar's heart trembled, a little more nervous than the first time he held a knife to kill, and he took out the big money like a thief, thinking about throwing it into the fire, but in the end... Still is... Received a close-fitting pocket...

What a hated Tang man...

(Note 1: The cloth boiled with vinegar, when used, put the cloth into the water, the vinegar flavor will be diluted, a prop used as a condiment in ancient times, the ancient march and war, generally more salt cloth is used, the principle is the same.) ）