Chapter 38: The Distant Sea
"With Yanji Wind here, you don't have to worry about the affairs of Xuefeng Building for the time being; Selling weight loss products has to wait for Hao Youqian to lose weight, otherwise it will not be convincing at all to ask him to advertise; As for the rest...... Let's start with building roads, and don't rush to improve paper and study printing. ”
Connected with the intelligent AI in his brain, Su Yin searched for the manufacturing method of cement.
Materials such as clay are not hard to find, but the hard part is where to find limestone.
The main ingredient of limestone is calcium carbonate, and if you want to obtain calcium carbonate......
"That's right, Shell! The main ingredient of shells is limestone! ”
If you can get a large number of shells, the limestone problem can be solved.
After returning to Suzhai, Su Yin found Feng Huo for the first time.
As the second master of the village, he is the most well-informed one.
Ask him if he might know where there will be a sea and a beach.
Putting down the work in his hand, Feng Huo asked, "Miss, is there anything wrong with me?" ”
"Second uncle, do you know where there is a beach and an ocean nearby?"
"The sea? What does the eldest lady want to do at the beach? ”
After a long series of muttering, Su Yin finally made it clear that the shell contained a certain chemical.
Of course, in front of Feng Huo, an ancient person, she still changed the chemical name of calcium carbonate on her own.
In order to make it easier to understand, she told Feng Huo that there was a very important ingredient in the shell, and extracting that ingredient could bring great benefits.
Thinking of the other uses of calcium carbonate, Su Yin involuntarily hooked the corners of his mouth.
In addition to pouring limestone, calcium carbonate can also be refined into caustic soda, soda ash and other items as downstream products.
Caustic soda can be used to make wood pulp, paper and soap, and soda ash can be used to make monosodium glutamate to enhance the taste of food.
No matter which product you make, it is a sure deal.
If it is used as an upstream product, calcium carbonate can also be used to make explosives.
If one day it starts to run out of money again, it would be good to toss out the explosives and sell them to the emperor of Ji State.
Thinking of the derived way to make a fortune, Su Yin smiled from ear to ear.
"Miss, what are you laughing at?"
"I didn't ...... It's nothing. Second uncle, tell me quickly, where is the sea where can you get shells? ”
"Words of the sea...... The eldest lady can ask Lao Zhou if he has time to take you. ”
"Uncle Zhou?"
"Yes, Lao Zhou and his mother-in-law were born by the sea when they were young, but later there were some changes, so they moved to Suzhai."
Listening to Feng Huo talk about Zhou Yan's wife, Su Yin's curiosity was aroused.
She has been living in Suzhai for a while, and every time she goes to Zhou Yan's house, she sees at most three people - Zhou Yan and his two sons.
Didn't Zhou Yan's wife come to Suzhai with him?
Driven by curiosity, Su Yin asked, "Second uncle, didn't Aunt Zhou follow Uncle Zhou to Suzhai?" ”
"At first, we all persuaded Lao Zhou to bring her mother-in-law over, but his mother-in-law just refused.
Saying that death will not leave her native place.
We couldn't resist her, so we had to bring back the mountains and boulders that we didn't know anything about.
It's also a shame that the child is so deceived, he gave two pieces of candy and followed us in a hurry.
Miss, don't look at me like that.
If Dashan and Dashi hadn't gone with us, the two children would have starved to death outside, and if they had been caught and sold.
After some time, Lao Zhou left the cottage to find his mother-in-law several times, but each time he returned empty-handed.
Some of us couldn't help but ask Lao Zhou about his mother-in-law, but Lao Zhou kept silent every time.
According to our guess, his mother-in-law was either robbed by a powerful son-in-law to be a concubine, or died outside.
Miss, don't take the initiative to ask Lao Zhou about Old Zhou's mother-in-law.
He's miserable enough, let's not go and expose his scars. ”
"Hmm."
Hearing Feng Huo say this, Su Yin instantly gave up her plan to let Zhou Yan take her to the beach.
What is the difference between letting the family go back to their hometown and reminiscing about the past, and taking the initiative to rub salt on his wounds?
Sighing, Su Yin continued to ask, "Second uncle, then who else knows the way to the beach?" ”
"It's gone." With his hands spread, Feng Huo said helplessly: "Lao Zhou is familiar with the seaside in the village, and most people have never even seen the sea." A few of us have been there a few times, but the interval is so long that we have already forgotten all about where we went. ”
“……”
The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and Su Yin felt a toothache.
If you want to go to the beach, you have to go to Uncle Zhou.
But if you want to take care of Uncle Zhou's emotions, you can't go to him.
The conflict came so suddenly, so Su Yin didn't know what to do.
Constantly grabbing his hair, Su Yin said irritably: "I'll think of a way, and the matter of going to the beach won't bother Uncle Zhou." ”
It's not that she didn't think about asking Hao Youqian about the sea.
But it didn't take long for this idea to be banished by her.
Find a loser who only knows how to visit the Qinglou and has never been outside to inquire about the news of the sea?
What's the difference between this and asking if a sow will go up a tree?
On the way to Xuefeng Tower, Su Yin casually pulled a few passers-by and inquired about the location of the sea.
Reality always likes to bring disappointments.
The people who were pulled all shook their heads and told Su Yin that they didn't know where there was the sea and the beach.
There were even people who said to Su Yin, "I know where there is a pond and a stream, but the sea you asked...... You can't find it within the range of Jinqiong Mansion City! We don't even have fishermen on our side, let alone the sea you're looking for. ”
Just as Su Yin was about to find another way, Zhou Yan came to the door.
patted Su Yin on the shoulder, and Zhou Yan said, "Miss, do you want to go to the beach?" ”
"Hmm." Su Yin nodded.
"Why don't you come to me? I'm familiar with the seaside. ”
Constantly clutching his clothes, Su Yin was silent.
Feng Huo told her that the seaside was where Uncle Zhou and Aunt Zhou grew up together, how could she be embarrassed to take Uncle Zhou back to that painful memory?
Seeing Su Yin's struggle, Zhou Yan asked, "Miss, the other masters won't say anything strange to you, right?" ”
"Strange words?"
"Ignore them, they're all made up to fool you."
"Flickering?"
"yes. Did they tell you about my mother-in-law? ”
Su Yin nodded.
"Well, that's what they came up with. I didn't do it for ...... I'm sad about my mother-in-law's affairs. That stinky woman, she left the child and ran away with someone, I want to smoke her to death before it's too late, where is the time to be sad for her? ”
"But I heard the second uncle say, Uncle Zhou, you went to find Aunt Zhou several times, and every time you came back, you had a gloomy face......"