Many years ago, she was the cook of a large family in Qi Shouguo, and then the family committed a serious crime and she was exiled.

After a lot of hardships, she fled to the country of Weisha and sought a chance to survive.

So she has some understanding of Qi Shouguo's pickles and pickles.

Mother Qi: "Princess, although pickles are a very good dish in winter, you need a lot of fine salt to develop these, but we have so much fine salt from there?" ”

Su Ziyao paused: "No fine salt? Isn't Wei Sha Kingdom by the sea? How can there be no salt? ”

Mother Qi pinched the apron around her waist, looking a little hesitant:

"Although it is close to the sea, most of the salt sold by the government is coarse salt, and if you want to exchange it for fine salt, it will cost a lot of silver."

"Dali Temple is for that jar of fine salt, so it can't even afford white noodles......"

"It was originally to entertain distinguished guests, but I didn't expect it to ......"

Su Ziyao turned her head to look at the jar of salt that she had almost used, and her face was slightly embarrassed:

"You're not talking about the jar, is it......"

Mother Qi nodded: "Hmm...... It's almost used by the princess......"

Su Ziyao smiled helplessly: "Why didn't you tell me that fine salt is so expensive before?" ”

Mother Qi lowered her head: "The princess is a daughter, just use it, how dare we say anything......"

Su Ziyao: "What about coarse salt?" I hadn't seen coarse salt here. ”

Qi's mother and a few cooks immediately opened the cabinet, and there were several hemp bags inside, which were extremely solidly bundled, and there was a feeling of being both precious and very cheap.

The cheap is the sack, and the valuable thing is their cautious appearance.

Su Ziyao stepped forward and opened the sack.

As soon as she opened it, a smell of the sea hit her face, and her eyes were a little uncomfortable.

Su Ziyao turned her head sideways and coughed lightly a few times, and then looked carefully into the sack.

The salt crystals are very coarse, mixed with a lot of black debris, including stones, shriveled seaweed, and all kinds of unknown black substances.

In short, at a glance, it is very inferior.

It turns out that the salt circulating in Weisha is actually such an inferior coarse salt?

Su Ziyao got up and said to the people behind her, "Do you want to eat fine salt?" ”

The crowd was silent.

Isn't that nonsense?

Can afford fine salt, who would eat such coarse salt?

So in their opinion, Su Ziyao is asking them to show their loyalty.

"What is the princess talking about, why do we want to eat fine salt?"

"That's it, coarse salt is good, and we like to eat coarse salt."

"Only the status of a princess is worthy of eating fine salt, let's forget it."

“……”

These flattering words made Su Ziyao cry and laugh.

Su Ziyao: "I didn't mean that, I mean, I can make these coarse salts turn into fine salts." ”

"Then you'll all be able to eat fine salt."

Coarse salt turns into fine salt?

This...... They've never heard of it.

"Princess...... The princess doesn't make fun of us, how can there be any kung fu to turn coarse salt into fine salt? ”

Su Ziyao smiled: "Naturally, there is, and it's not too much trouble." ”

Everyone: "......"

The princess really jokes.

She looked around for a week, and finally fixed her eyes on a few stout men:

"You can help carry this coarse salt to the stove."

Help?

A few of the cooks were stunned in place.

I don't know why, it's all about starting, but when the words came out of Su Ziyao's mouth, it just made people feel comfortable.

They looked at Su Ziyao's petite and delicate face, and couldn't help but blush, so they lowered their heads and took out all the coarse salt from the cabinet and put it on the stove.

Everyone saw that Su Ziyao was serious, and their faces instantly became a little subtle.

"Scoop a few spoonfuls of coarse salt and put it in the pot, little four, let's make a fire." Su Ziyao said.

"Okay."

She stepped aside, scooped a few scoops of water with a spoon and put it in the pot.

"Princess, no!"

Coarse salt is not as expensive as fine salt, but it is not cheap.

If it's mixed with water, it's useless.

Everyone didn't expect Su Ziyao to come to this hand, and when they came back to their senses and wanted to stop it, it was too late.

I could only watch as the coarse salt melted clean in the water.

Everyone looked at Su Ziyao with resentment.

This loser......

"Princess, how can this salt touch the water? Isn't it all gone when you touch the water? ”

"How can I eat this salt when it's gone......"

As the cooks spoke, they quietly kept the coarse salt in their arms, and didn't let Su Ziyao put it in again.

If you let the Shaoqing of Dali Temple know that they have wasted so much coarse salt, you have to drive them away.

"Hey, it's a pity there's so much salt."

They sighed helplessly as they looked at the water in the pot.

Isn't this nonsense?

Su Ziyao did not answer, but said:

"Help me find some large pieces of fine gauze, which will be of great use against salt."

There's a use for a fart.

All they knew was that a few big spoonfuls of salt were gone.

That's their life!

Although she was dissatisfied with Su Ziyao's approach, she couldn't help but listen to her orders, so she quickly came over with two large pieces of gauze.

"Princess, is two pieces enough?"

Su Ziyao carefully looked at the density and thickness of the gauze: "Hmm...... Is there a thicker one? ”

"Thick?"

"Well, it's thick, but it's not silk."

"Okay."

After a while, they brought two more pieces of gauze: "Princess, this is already the thickest gauze in Dali Temple." ”

Su Ziyao glanced at the gauze, which was big and thick, and couldn't help but be happy:

"Well, that's what it is."

Xiao Si burned a very big fire, and the coarse salt quickly melted away.

She stirred the pot with a spoon a few times, and when she saw that there was no solid, she said:

"Little guy, you rest for a while, don't burn the fire."

She put the gauze in the basin and let a few people pull it, and she poured all the boiling water in the pot into it.

Because there is not much water, it is packed in one basin.

The salt water appears to be black, with various stains suspended on it.

After the gauze was filtered, she picked it up and twisted it aside.

By this time, the salt water had cleared up a lot.

She strained it with gauze a few more times, and when it looked clear and free of impurities, she nodded in satisfaction.

"Little four, burn the fire again and make the fire bigger."

She put the filtered brine in the pot again, closed the lid and sat aside.

Xiao Si was very skilled in boiling water, and soon the water in the pot was slowly boiled dry.

Su Ziyao got up and lifted the lid.

It doesn't matter if you don't lift it, this lift just makes everyone around you stunned.

The white crystals on the side of the pot are not ...... Fine salt?

"Fine salt, it's fine salt!"

Someone reached out and touched the salt on the edge of the pot, put it in his mouth and tasted it:

"It's really fine salt! There is such a clean fine salt, which is cleaner than the fine salt that I bought with a lot of money before! ”

"And the taste is very pure, there is not much seafood......"

Everyone stepped forward and tasted the fine salt carefully, and couldn't help but be stunned in place, looking at Su Ziyao with a wooden look.

At this time, Su Ziyao was tantamount to a god-like existence in their eyes.

After the water evaporated and dried, Su Ziyao scraped the salt to the middle with a shovel, stir-fried it a few times, and then poured it all into the jar, and a small jar of fine salt appeared in front of everyone.

On a big winter day, Xiao Si burned the fire so that his face was red and the tip of his nose was sweating.

Seeing that everyone was so shocked, he couldn't help but put down the tongs and got up to take a look.

When I saw a jar of fine salt, I couldn't help but be shocked:

"Princess...... The princess is so powerful, she even knows how to make fine salt. ”

The rest of the people who had just laughed at Su Ziyao's messing around couldn't help but smile awkwardly:

"Yes, I didn't expect that our princess is so powerful, if this method is passed on, then it will be okay? There's going to be a falling out outside. ”

"Princess, we were too cautious before, we actually thought you were making a fool, princess, you have a lot, but don't worry about us......"

"But how could the princess know that fine salt could appear in this way? Could it be that the gods told the princess? ”

"Also, the princess was born in the emperor's house, and with the blood of the true dragon, the gods must have it."

“……”

Su Ziyao smiled and shook her head:

"No, it's just that a long time ago, I saw this refining method in a book, and I wanted to give it a try today."

"I didn't expect it to be successful."

Xiao Si: "What you saw in the book?" ”

"It is said that there is a golden house in the book, but it turns out that there is really one."

Everyone laughed.

Qi's mother said: "Since there is salt, it will be easy to do, from tomorrow, I will teach everyone to develop pickles." ”

"But Princess, you just said Kimchi? I don't know what kimchi is? ”

Su Ziyao thought for a while: "Hmm...... How to say it, pickles are salty and fragrant, but kimchi is sour and spicy, two different flavors, but both are delicious. ”

Mother Qi: "The slave has never heard of kimchi before, so she won't ...... Does that princess know how to pickle pickles? ”

Su Ziyao thought for a while: "Hmm...... Yes, you've heard of it...... Lemon? ”

Lemon can enhance the flavor and also remove some bad flavors.

Everyone was stunned: "Lemon? What lemon? ”

Su Ziyao pursed her lips, in the memory of the original owner, there seemed to be such a thing as lemon.

It was something that was paid tribute by a small vassal state of the Wei Cha Kingdom.

Because it was sour, I didn't know how to eat it, so after the tribute, it was distributed to many nobles.

The second prince is one of the nobles who got the lemon.

It doesn't seem to be far from the last tribute, and if he hadn't thrown it away, he should still be usable.

She asked everyone to prepare chili peppers, jars, and other necessary things, and left.

And after she left, the rest of them began to refine fine salt in a frenzy.

So much so that at the end of the day, Xiaosi was so tired that he couldn't even straighten his waist.

Just when Su Ziyao was about to send a message to the second prince, the second prince had already sent the lemon over.

There's no need for her to waste a piece of paper.