After thinking about it, Shi said: "The Yunxi salt well has always been very mysterious, and the most obvious thing is that the salt in the salt well has become less and less in the past two years. ”

"Less?" Qian Yu looked at the stone strangely.

Shi nodded: "Yes, two years ago, every 100 catties of water in Yunxi Salt Well could boil ten catties of salt, but now it is not even three or four catties ......."

Stone's words startled Qian Yu: "So many? No wonder Qian Yu was surprised, you must know that the salinity of the sea water is only three thousandths, this place is 108,000 miles away from the sea, and it is not a large-scale salt mine distribution area, there is a saltwater well with a salinity comparable to that of seawater, which is definitely a miracle of nature.

"Many?" Shi smiled bitterly: "Hammer and I don't stop day and night, we only boil two hundred catties of water every day, eight catties of salt, one catty of salt for three catties of rice, a total of only twenty-four catties, there are sixty-three people in the village who live on this well, and each person can't even divide three or two meters a day." ”

Hearing the stone's words, Qian Yu was a little stunned: "Sixty-three people? No, I think it's just the three of you working here, but what about the others? ”

Shi sighed, because the salt production of Yunxi Salt Well has plummeted, and it can't support so many people, and everyone in the village who has some strength has run out to make a living, only the old people and children are left, and the stones and hammers are going to go out, but there are some heavy physical labor on the salt well that can't do without them, so they have no choice but to stay. Due to the limited production volume, it was not necessary to boil the salt so many people, and the old people and children just took turns to help.

Hearing this, Qian Yu was speechless to the extreme, no wonder He Sui got up early every day and was greedy for darkness, but he and He Gu could only drink gruel, it turned out that there were so many people to feed, but he didn't plan to say more on this issue: "It's normal for the production of Yunxi salt wells to decrease, right?" This thing is the same as a mine, it must be dug less and less, and if it digs more and more, then hell. You don't even understand this, do you? ”

"How so? This is just one of them. Shi said: "The most mysterious thing about Yunxi Salt Well is that in the process of boiling salt, the quality of the salt obtained is sometimes good and sometimes bad, and good salt can naturally be sold at a good price, but if the quality is not good, no one wants it, many people eat this salt and their whole body is blue, and the most serious one even vomits and dies." ”

"For this matter, the village did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to invite a wizard, this wizard spent a lot of mana, only to find out that the poisonous salt of Yunxi Salt Well is to anger the water god in Yunxi, he said that we are not pious enough to treat the water god, if we want to appease the anger of the god, we must use living sacrifices. He also said that wood can overcome water, and that care must be taken when cutting firewood, so as not to break and damage the cut firewood, so as to prevent the formation of poisonous salt. ”

After that, Uncle Buyi personally ordered that it was strictly forbidden to chop firewood and drag it anywhere. Strange to say, since then, there have been few salt poisoning incidents in Yunxi Salt Well. ”

It's true? Qian Yu's eyes widened suddenly, could it be that there are really immortals in this world? Xiao Hegu heard his sister talk about the sorcerer's sacrifice, and today he listened to the stone again, and his young heart was shocked again, he looked at Qian Yu, his face was full of fear: "Brother Yu, we offended the water god, the water god must be very angry, what should I do?" ”

Seeing Xiao Hegu's pale face, Qian Yu quickly calmed down, he quickly realized that something was wrong, if the gods were really so effective, the stone would never dare to stand here, and threatened to bargain with Buyi, you must know that for these ignorant villagers, the will of the gods is everything, and whoever dares to offend the gods will be the first to kill the offender.

Waiting for him to ask the doubts in his heart, Shi smiled bitterly: "It's your luck, if it was two years ago, don't talk about me, even if the county master is there, he won't be able to save you." It's just that the amount of salt produced from the salt well has plummeted in the past two years, no matter what method everyone uses, it is useless, and Uncle Buyi even fainted on the altar several times for this. Without salt, the food in the mouths of the people in the village is gone, and the devotion to the gods naturally fades, and the land in Yunxi is barren, except for this salt well, there is no other livelihood, and many people have to go to other places to make a living. ”

Qian Yu, who listened to the words of the stone, sighed in his heart, the immortal is ethereal, has great mana, and is the biggest support in the hearts of the villagers, but no matter how good the immortal is, if he makes himself hungry, he is not a good immortal, the biggest problem of Yunxi Yanjing is that the salt content is gradually decreasing, and this fundamental problem is not solved, let alone a mere immortal, even if the Jade Emperor is in person, it is useless.

Shi continued: "And after the firewood cutting order was issued, the output of firewood cut by the villagers was greatly reduced, and all the salt was boiled by firewood, without firewood, our time for boiling salt was also reduced, which was nothing two years ago, but now everyone can't eat enough, and they have begun to complain about this, and many people even think that it is better to boil some poisonous salt than to starve to death." ”

Qian Yu was stunned, the time to boil salt was greatly reduced? He felt as if he had grasped something, but it was vague. Seeing Qian Yu thoughtfully, a glimmer of hope rose in Xiao Hegu's heart, and he asked with a hopeful expression: "Brother Qian, do you have a way?" ”

Xiao Hegu's words interrupted Qian Yu's train of thought, he knew that it was not surprising that the salt boiled in the salt well was poisoned, in fact, natural coarse salt was poisonous, and it took a lot of cumbersome steps to accurately purify it, and each step of the mistake may produce poisonous salt. What he couldn't understand was how the quality of the salt in the same salt well could be good and bad. Could it really be a problem with firewood, this is too, right?

After thinking about it for a long time, he still didn't understand, so he had to shake his head helplessly: "I haven't even seen what Yunxi Yanjing looks like, how can I guess it." Science is a rigorous science, and if you want to understand it, you have to go through a long period of observation and testing, and there is no professional equipment here, even if I have a way, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice! ”

The "science" Xiao Hegu in Qian Yu's mouth didn't understand, but he understood one thing, even Qian Yu couldn't help it, he didn't expect him to have such great hopes for him, it turned out to be a parallel import. He sighed with a small face, and lay on the small bed like resignation, that look was really as pitiful as he was.

Compared with Xiao Hegu, Qian Yu did not lose his fighting spirit, he walked to the stone, and tried to ask more details about the Yunxi salt well, in order to find a solution to the problem, the stone also asked Qian Yu to answer, in fact, he did not have much hope, this is only psychological comfort, he has decided, if it really doesn't work, he will use force to rob Xiao Hegu, the village is full of old people and children, the only hammer with combat power is his good brother, he is very likely to succeed.

"Hesui, please rest assured, with me, I will never let people hurt the grain, I swear!" The stone secretly cheered himself up.

In this way, Qian Yu kept asking, and the stone took the trouble to explain, and before he knew it, it was the middle of the night, and finally the stone proposed to leave first, in order to save Xiao Hegu, he must have enough time to recuperate.

For many people, the night is just a matter of closing their eyes and opening them, but this is not the case for Qian Yu, at this moment his eyes are full of bloodshots, his face is haggard and pale, if the salt in the well water is really poisonous, it should not be eaten, how can it be good and bad, is someone deliberately sabotage? He really wanted to fall asleep like Xiao Hegu, but he was worried about his heart, how could he sleep?

Early the next morning, someone came to push the door, Qian Yu thought it was a stone, but he didn't expect it to be a cloth. Buyi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Qian Yu and Xiao Hegu lying there quietly, yesterday the stone went to him to theorize, and he also slept late in anger. When he woke up, he realized that something was wrong, he knew that the stone liked Hesui, and he was even ready to be a matchmaker, and now he wanted to sacrifice Xiaohegu to the gods, and it was difficult to ensure that the other party would not be selfish, so he took risks to save Xiaohegu, so he hurriedly ran over in a panic. Luckily, it's okay!

But when he saw the loose rope on Qian Yu's arm, his face became gloomy again, and just at this time the hammer also arrived, he gestured to the hammer, and the two cautiously walked to Qian Yu's side and held him down. As for Xiaohegu, a child naturally can't make any waves.

Qian Yu slept soundly, he thought about it all night last night to no avail, and he didn't fall asleep in a daze until dawn, but he didn't expect the good dream he had just come to be rudely interrupted, looking at the fierce expression of the hammer, he shouted dissatisfiedly: "Ouch...... This big brother, don't you know how to lighten it, you see that I am thin and have no two taels of meat, how can I escape, what about your demeanor, you must have grace! ”

The hammer ignored Qian Yu's words, and only retreated behind the cloth clothes until he was sure that he was tied up with all kinds of flowers and there was no possibility of escaping. Buyi looked at Qian Yu and snorted and asked, "Why is the rope on your body loose, did the stone put you on it?" ”

Looking at the cloth clothes with a face as black as the bottom of a pot, Qian Yu is not stupid, if he wants to get out of trouble now, the stone is the greatest hope, once he is confessed, everything is over: "You said that black-faced young man, I want him to let me go, so that I will run away early, and I will wait for you to arrest me?" ”

At this time, Xiao Hegu on the side also woke up, although Xiao Hegu was young, he was a clever ghost: "Brother Shi wants to let me go, but he is too cowardly, and he is naturally afraid of gods." And one person does one thing and one person does it, I offended the god of water and deserve to be punished! ”

"Then how did you get the rope open?" Buyi is very shrewd, so naturally he will not let go of this big loophole.

Qian Yu replied as a matter of course: "I broke free by myself, if you want to say that your level of tying the rope is really poor, and a person like me who is powerless can break free, it's really ...... I'm going to practice more in the future! You must want to ask me why I didn't run away, didn't I? Hey, I wanted to run away a long time ago, but unfortunately I didn't know the way, Xiao Hegu refused to go, there was no way, I could only stay with him. ”

These words were full of loopholes, and Bu Yi naturally didn't believe it, but he couldn't find evidence, so he had to put them aside for the time being. However, after this incident, he was a little worried about the long nights and dreams, and after weighing it, he decided to advance the work of worshipping the gods as much as possible.

Let the hammer inform all the villagers of Yunxi Village, he can finally breathe a sigh of relief, in broad daylight, under his nose, forgive these two guys for not playing any new tricks!