After eating two pieces of game, Li Yao felt that this dish did not have any taste, so he asked, "Old patriarch, why do I feel that the taste of this dish is very light!" ”

The old patriarch looked at the woman waiting beside him, and shouted: "You spoon, let you take out the refined salt at home and use it, why don't you use it, this is a great guest, can you eat the sin if you neglect it?" ”

Li Yao hurriedly persuaded: "Old patriarch, it's me who has too many things to do, and I don't get in the way of other people's affairs!" ”

Then he said to the crying woman, "I'm sorry, it's me who is not good, and you are being scolded!" ”

When the old patriarch saw that Li Yao apologized to a woman, he was angry and anxious, jumped up and slapped the woman, and scolded: "The great noble man spoke to you, and you are still standing here in a daze, standing and hugging the nest, get down!" ”

The woman cried, "There is only a little bit of refined salt left at home, and I thought that I would make you some soup next time, so I didn't finish it!" ”

The old patriarch said angrily: "Get down, take out the refined salt, and give it to the nobles to enjoy, I don't understand anything, why did I raise your daughter-in-law with a pig's brain!" ”

The woman went back to the house to get the refined salt in tears, and Li Yao comforted: "Old patriarch, don't be angry, I lost my words just now, don't worry!" ”

Li Yao remembered that each of his guards had a salt bowl made of fine salt, and Li Yao said, "You guys take out all the salt bowls!" ”

Several guards took out a cloth bag from their arms, took out a piece of salt lump from it, and handed it to Li Yao, Li Yao said: "Old patriarch, you take these salts first, if it's not enough, I'll send you some next time, in fact, it's not delicious if you put too much salt in this game!" ”

As she spoke, the woman took out a piece of muslin and gave it to the old patriarch.

The old patriarch looked at the salt that Li Yao handed him and said, "You are really living a life of immortals, the salt on the guards is so fine!" ”

The old patriarch opened the cloth bag, and there were a few coarse salts scattered in it, and the impurities in it could be seen, and said: "This is our refined salt, which was originally changed in the town, and it took ten pheasants to change two taels of refined salt, and after eating for several years, there are only a few left, Master Hou, you are a great nobleman, and the coarse tea and light rice here make you smile!" ”

Li Yao said with a smile: "Old patriarch, you really see the outside world like this, I am lost on the road, thanks to your hospitality we can recover our strength, how dare you ask for more!" ”

Li Yao asked, "Old Patriarch, how do you usually eat salt?" ”

The old patriarch sighed, he usually doesn't eat salt, if he is really bored, he will eat some bitter salt, but he can't eat more, and if he eats a little more, he will have diarrhea!

Bitter salt? Li Yao said, "Old patriarch, can you show me the bitter salt?" ”

The old patriarch shouted to the woman behind him, "Go and get out the salt shaker at home!" ”

The woman, fearing that she would be scolded by the old patriarch again, hurried back at a trot, and soon the salt shaker was brought over. Li Yao took the salt jar and looked at the small black particles inside, Li Yao reached out and took out one, and asked, "Old patriarch, this is the salt you usually eat?" ”

The old patriarch nodded and sighed: "The salt eaten by the poor makes you smile!" ”

Li Yao licked the small black particle, and immediately spit it out, and hurriedly drank the saliva and rinsed his mouth!

"So bitter!" Li Yao asked, "How did you endure such bitterness?" ”

The old patriarch smiled awkwardly: "Master Hou, you are a nobleman, you have never suffered hardship, but this bitter salt, we don't eat it often, we eat too much and have diarrhea!" ”

Li Yao knows that this bitter salt is also called bitter salt, but it is poisonous, eating too much can lead to blindness, fortunately, the people here know that they eat too much and have diarrhea, but they don't eat much, otherwise it won't take a few years, and these people will all be blind! ”

Li Yao asked, "Old Patriarch, I don't remember the salt wells of Yiguo very much?" Even the salt in the eastern capital is supplied by Yiguo, why do you still eat such salt? ”

The old patriarch sighed, the salt wells are all powerful people, and we poor people can only go up the mountain to dig some stones, and after breaking them, boil them in a cauldron, and then dry the water, and the rest is our bitter salt!

Li Yao said: "Old patriarch, you can't eat this salt, if you eat too much salt, you will go blind!" ”

The old patriarch nodded, I know, there are several elders in our village who are no longer visible, and they are all made of this salt, but the refined salt is too expensive, and we can't afford to eat it, so I put a small piece of this bitter salt every two days, and I should give myself a little strength!

Li Yao said, "Old Patriarch, how much bitter salt do you have?" Can you bring them all out for me? ”

Because I don't eat it often, it's not a lot, and there should be half a bag at home, Master Hou, you are a nobleman, and these salts are not for you to eat.

The old patriarch handed back the salt cloth bag that Li Yao had given him and said, "You have high-quality salt here, you better eat it slowly!" ”

Li Yao said with a smile: "Old patriarch, what are you talking about, I am not short of this bit of salt, and I want your bitter salt, not for eating, I think there is a way to purify these bitter salts, at least to the refined salt in your mouth!" ”

The old patriarch smiled: "Master Hou, don't be busy, if you can purify, we won't eat bitter salt, we have tested it with a dustpan or something, and the bitter salt is still bitter salt after drying!" ”

Li Yao said with a smile: "Old patriarch, you just believe me once, if you can succeed, then you will not be able to eat refined salt in the future, so that you will be more energetic in the future!" ”

I didn't have the heart to eat, so Li Yao called Fuchuan and Zhuang Xiaomeng to help him. said to Xiaomeng: "Xiaomeng, you go to the stove and get some burning black charcoal, Fuchuan, you go and cut a few bamboos!" ”

Old patriarch, go get a cauldron and boil your half bag of bitter salt, I'll be useful!"

Zhuang Xiaomeng came over with a brazier, the wood on it was still burning with fire, and Xiaomeng said, "Master Hou, is this okay?" ”

Li Yao said: "Yes, you put the brazier on the ground!" ”

Seeing the wood burned into black charcoal, Li Yao extinguished the fire on the carbon, and then took out the black charcoal, Li Yao smiled: "This thing is activated carbon, and the dregs in the filtered bitter salt are enough!" ”

Xiaomeng tilted his head and asked, "Master Hou, what is activated carbon!" ”

Li Yao touched Xiaomeng's head and said, "This is a fairy thing, it's very useful!" "Let's go, take the charcoal, let's go to Fuchuan!

Oh, Zhuang Xiaomeng agreed in a low voice, holding a few pieces of black charcoal, and followed Li Yao with a red face!

Fuchuan also came over with the cut bamboo, Li Yao took the bamboo, cut it into three bamboo knots, and then hollowed out the bamboo knots above, and the bamboo knots below leaked a small hole!

Li Yao looked around to see if there was anything that could wrap activated carbon, but he didn't find anything when he looked left and right, so he tore off a piece of his clothes, Li Yao's clothes were silk, and it was indeed a good choice to wrap activated carbon!

The old patriarch watched Li Yao tear his clothes, and even shouted that it was a pity, such a good clothes, how much salt was exchanged outside!

Mash the charcoal, wrap it in silk, and then stuff it into the bamboo joint, pound it tightly, Li Yao said, "This water purifier is finished, Fuchuan, you go and bring the bitter salt water!" ”

The bitter salt water poured down the bamboo, passed through the activated charcoal, and flowed out from the small hole, and the old patriarch exclaimed: "This water has indeed become much brighter!" ”

After working for a long time before filtering half a pot of bitter salt water, Li Yao said: "Old patriarch, as long as we boil this water dry, we should be able to get coarse salt!" ”

The old patriarch hurriedly set up the pot again, poured the filtered salt water into the pot, and saw that the water was getting less and less, and the white salt was boiled, and the old patriarch didn't care about the heat, he dipped a little salt from the pot and put it in his mouth, and suddenly his eyes flowed out, and he whimpered: "Refined salt, this is refined salt!" ”

Fu Chuan and Zhuang Xiaomeng's eyes also became respectful when they looked at Li Yao, and if they made something with their hands, they could come in handy, and they would definitely not lose anything to serve such a person!