Chapter 6 Wine and Mung Bean Soup
The problem really lies in the long workers, after the two arrived at the salt mill, those long workers have not yet come, Bai Shan has already picked up a hoe to work in the salt field, Bai Jin also followed to take a look, it took so long for the salt field to dig a very small corner.
After waiting for a full hour, those talents came one after another, Bai Jin took a closer look, and most of the people invited by Bai Si were actually some local people who were splashy, and some people came drunk.
It's no wonder that Baishan is very tired to manage.
Bai Jin didn't say much, let Bai Shan find a reliable long-term worker, and after whispering to him for a while, he also carried a hoe and worked in the field like Bai Shan.
Bai Shan turned his head and saw Bai Jin rolling up his sleeves to reveal a white wrist, and directly picked up the hoe and jumped in barefoot.
He can't stop him at all, okay?
Bai Jin's body was weaker than she thought, even if she brought a huge straw hat to block the sun, she still felt a little dizzy from the sun, and her physical strength was quite unable to keep up.
Even though he said that he was doing what he could, Bai Jin still held out until noon, and only when he heard the sound of coaxing by the salt mill did he raise his head and wipe the sweat on his forehead.
The people outside the salt mill had already arrived with mung bean soup and sake, and there were seven or eight large vats, and when the lid on it was lifted, the aroma of wine and mung beans suddenly dispersed.
Those long-term workers have quite smart noses, and as soon as the smell comes out, they put down their work and look here.
Bai Jin took a deep breath and said loudly: "Today, our Baishan Fang owner specially sent wine and mung bean soup to relieve your fire. ”
"Got wine?"
As soon as they heard that they could drink, many people's eyes were straightened, and they put down the utensils in their hands one after another, Bai Jin saw that everyone's attention was attracted, so he continued: "But the owner of Baishan said that this mung bean soup and wine can not be drunk out of thin air, only those who are the first to finish the morning work can drink it, but you can rest assured that the mung bean soup is enough, but this wine - only a small barrel!" ”
Only a barrel of wine? Those people looked from a distance, and really saw seven or eight large barrels mixed with a small barrel, only half the size of those barrels, and it was estimated that seven or eight people drank it up without a single spoonful.
Everyone was moved, and they picked up the hoe and began to work, seeing that the efficiency was improving linearly, the amount of labor arranged by Baishan was actually not large, and someone with fast speed actually completed it in half an hour.
Bai Jin couldn't help but sigh, and sure enough, he still had to give these people a little motivation.
As more and more people completed the task, the shore was lively, Bai Jin saw that his thin body was not suitable for squeezing with these people, and he didn't know if this mung bean soup was enough, and he had no intention of drinking it.
Leaning against the big tree, Bai Shan handed her a bowl of mung bean soup.
Bai Jin raised his head, and Bai Shan was a little embarrassed: "It was Sister A's idea, why don't you drink a bowl of mung bean soup." ”
"Thank you." Bai Jin smiled, but took it unceremoniously, a bowl of cold mung bean soup in her stomach, she felt much more comfortable, rested under the shade of the tree for a while, and continued to work in the afternoon.
She deliberately only sent a barrel of sake over, firstly, to stimulate the enthusiasm of these people, and secondly, to send too much wine, Bai Jin was afraid that these people would be drunk in the afternoon.
However, Bai Jin's small body can withstand her tossing like this, but at the end of the day, Bai Huahua's skin was sunburned a lot, and after taking a bath, she was lying on the bed in pain, and her palms were worn out in many places, and they had begun to scab.
It was normal to look like this on the first day, and Bai Jin was like this when she followed Yun Heliang to the field for the first time, but she only worked for one morning at the time, so it didn't hurt so much.
Luo's was very distressed that she was sunburned like this, she found some herbs and pounded them together to make an earthwork for her to apply, the cold medicine was rubbed on her body, and she grinned, and Luo's began to nag about Baishan.
Bai Shan was also quite aggrieved, he obviously wanted to stop her, but he couldn't stop her at all.
Bai Jin also said: "Mother, I want to go down by myself." ”
Luo shook his head and said, "Then you won't make yourself like this, you just want to do it a little bit, you have to do it like this." ”
Bai Jin grinned and said, "Yes, yes, mother, I know it's wrong." ”
Although he shouted that he knew that he was wrong, he still went with Bai Shan the next day, and Luo Shi shook his head at home, and began to worry about Bai Jin's future marriage.
After working for many days, although Bai Jin couldn't sleep in the middle of the night every day, he obviously felt a lot better, and the tender skin on his hands gradually faded and had a thin layer of calluses. The medicine of Rock's concoction also has a miraculous effect, and she has not been dark at all in the past few days.
And the salt pans have finally been dug up.
Bai Jin stood on the high ground and looked at the huge salt pan dug below, and smiled with satisfaction.
The next is to build a slip, Baishan let people put 2-3 round soil bowls in the middle of the mud field in the excavated salt field, this soil bowl is to let Bai Si find someone to catch up, big enough, can accommodate 120-150 quintals of salty mud, and then bury a bamboo pipe in the middle of the bowl, connect the brine well tank outside the slip, in order to contain the salty brine.
It took several more days, and when this was done, the floodgates were opened and the salt pans were filled with water.
The sparkling waters of the lake in the salt pans are beautiful, and now that the temperature is gradually rising, the salt will be visible in a few days after this exposure.
Now that everything has gradually taken shape, Bai Jin doesn't have to follow Bai Shan to the salt mill every day, most of the time he does things at home, and the family buys a few chickens again, and Bai Jin feeds the chickens at home.
Bai Jin hadn't eaten meat for a while, and the corners of his mouth almost shed tears of anger when he looked at the corners of his mouth, but these still had to keep raw eggs, Bai Jin wanted to have a good meal of meat after selling salt this time!
Listen to Baishan come back every day to talk about the situation of the salt mill, the frying salt has produced a part of the salt, and then the lake water in the salt field is getting less and less, the bottom of the field has appeared a large area of white flowers of salt, has begun to pick up the mud slag, dig the raw mud pile around the bowl, accumulate seven or eight times, pick up the evenly spread mud field, expose it to the sun for several days, and pour it into the seawater to soak in salt.
Joy was quietly revealed from the corners of the Bai family's eyes, and Bai Shan even wondered if he could go to the academy if he worked hard for a while.
It was all too smooth, which made Bai Jin faintly uneasy.
At noon one day, Bai Shan went home and finished lunch and was about to go to Yanfang, but when he looked up, he saw layers of white clouds stacked on the horizon.
Isn't this a sign of rain?