Chapter 330: Exploring the Salt Drying Field
Listening to Mu Chonglan's thoughts, Su Chengmo nodded approvingly: "Okay." ”
Although she felt that the possibility of the latter was relatively small, she also understood that some things were inherently incredible, so the possibility proposed by Mu Chonglan was not completely impossible.
However, Su Chengmo felt that there were some things that should be said in advance, so he said to Mu Chonglan: "Miss, we have to disguise ourselves before we go over, and you have to promise me that you will listen to me when you get to the place, and you can't go deep into the enemy camp with high martial arts, everything must be for the sake of safety." ”
"Okay." Mu Chonglan nodded, she didn't expect to really find out anything, and asked Su Chengmo to take her, purely to try her luck, thinking that if her guess was correct, those people were really fake pirates, and she would be a great help to Xiao Xiantang.
Moreover, listening to Su Chengmo's meaning, it seems that he wants to teach her a little bit of detective kung fu by the way, after all, she is also a master, and everyone knows that she is crackling everywhere, and it is indeed not a problem.
Over there, Mu Chonglan and Su Chengmo discussed the matter of going to the salt drying field, and here Xiao Xiantang met with the officials of the county government one by one, including the post official and the monk and the two guild directors, and they all took a look, and it can be regarded as officially taking over Longtong County.
After Xiao Xiantang took the big seal, Dou Xingzu and Zuo Hong looked a little unnatural, obviously worried that Xiao Xiantang would thoroughly investigate the death of Sun Xian, the former county commander, or check the accounts to see the income and expenditure of the county government over the years.
However, they thought too much, Xiao Xiantang did not have the kindness to help Sun Xian investigate the cause of death, and he also knew the truth that when the water is clear, there are no fish, not to mention that when he saw the file yesterday, he saw the rigorous file, and he could already see the clues, and understood that it was impossible to see anything from the accounts of the county government.
Xiao Xiantang didn't check, but Dou Xingzu and Zuo Hong were worried, and finally took the initiative to take out the account books over the years and asked Xiao Xiantang to check them.
Under the enthusiasm and difficulty, Xiao Xiantang looked at it casually, asked a few words, and secretly said in his heart that this account book is really very beautiful, even far more beautiful than he expected, if there is no problem under the investigation of this account room, it can be recommended to Mu Chonglan to be a steward, so she has made up her mind to open the Zuixiao Lou and Jue Se Fang branch to Yanzhou, and it is definitely better to hire a flexible and experienced account office than to hire a person who does not know the roots.
"Ahh
"Miss, are you cold?" Su Chengmo asked nervously when he saw Mu Chonglan sneezing.
Mu Chonglan shook his head: "No, no, I'm fine." ”
"But ......"
"I think Xiao Xiantang should be scolding me." Mu Chonglan said with a smile.
"......" Hearing Mu Chonglan's words, Su Chengmo suddenly felt very speechless, she really didn't understand, like whether her own young lady and aunt were in love?
"Okay, don't think about this little thing, let's go in first, I watched them relax a lot on their patrols." Mu Chonglan pointed in the direction of the salt drying field, they didn't expect it at first, but after they came, they found that there were people patrolling back and forth here, so the two of them are now disguised as these salt drying field people, and even put on human skin masks in order to look more reliable.
"Okay." Su Chengmo nodded, although she glanced at the salt field from a distance and found that the terrain of the salt field was too empty, but she came here, and she definitely had no intention of retreating.
The reason why Yanzhou is called Yanzhou is because it is rich in salt mines, and in the boundary of Yanzhou, Longtong County is not the most extensive, but because it is close to the sea, the salt drying field is the largest one in Yanzhou.
After Mu Chonglan and Su Chengmo quietly sneaked into the salt field, Mu Chonglan looked at the almost endless salt field in front of him and smacked his tongue in surprise. "When I came here that day, I only took a look, and I thought it was just a piece, and at this time, I saw that this salt drying field was so big."
"Well, this is the largest salt drying field in Yanzhou, and it may also be the largest salt drying field in the entire Dasheng." Su Chengmo looked around and watched vigilantly, if someone had the intention of coming over, she would not hesitate to take Mu Chonglan away.
"What are they doing?" Mu Chonglan asked, pointing to a group of salt miners who were pouring seawater on stones.
Su Chengmo raised his hand quietly, pressed Mu Chonglan's hand, and then lowered his voice and said, "Don't point." ”
Mu Chonglan blinked, first puzzled why Su Chengmo said this, but when he found that someone was looking at them, Mu Chonglan reacted, and understood that his actions were too unusual, so that those people realized that they were not the salt miners here.
Fortunately, it was not the patrolling guards who noticed that the two of them were abnormal, but ordinary salt miners, so they just glanced at them, and then lowered their heads and continued to carry the sea.
The hard work of every day has made these salt miners not bother to ask too much about other people's affairs, and they have almost become walking corpses who go home on time every month.
Mu Chonglan and Su Chengmo cautiously changed positions to continue to investigate, and Mu Chonglan saw that the way of drying salt here was different from Fang Cai's side, so he asked Su Chengmo in a low voice.
Su Chengmo actually didn't understand the operation method very well, but compared to Mu Chonglan, who didn't know anything about drying salt, he still had some understanding, so he quickly explained to Mu Chonglan why the way of drying salt on the two sides was different.
It turns out that even the salt mines produced by the same salt drying field are divided into three, six, nine and so on, like the place that Mu Chonglan pointed out just now, it looks like he is pouring seawater on the stones, but in fact, the stones that are splashed with seawater are not ordinary stones, but special ones.
These salt miners arrange the collected rocks neatly, cut off the tops, deliberately leave a circle around the edges, and then smooth the middle of the stones to make a stone trough.
They seem to be pouring seawater on stones, but in fact they pour seawater into a stone trough and then rely on the sun to achieve the purpose of drying salt, and the water in their buckets is not seawater directly carried, but simply filtered seawater.
As for what they see now, it is the salt well to take the brine, and then pour the brine into the pot and boil it into salt with fire, but this salt boiling method does not produce much, and it also consumes a lot of firewood, so it is far less easy to use than the salt drying method.
And the reason why people know that they consume firewood a lot and people are still cooking, it is because the salt boiled in this way is far whiter than the salt that is sunburned, and the salt that is dried is very coarse and mixed with a lot of impurities, so even if the people buy it back, they mostly have to be melted with water before they can be used. I want to talk with more like-minded people about "The Rebirth of a Female Partner: The Husband is Blackening Every Day", and pay attention to "Youyue Literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find a confidant~