The thugs on the ground eased their strength, dragging their injured bodies and fleeing one after another, the old man in the teahouse opposite looked at it and nodded slightly, stroked his beard, and whispered to the attendant beside him, and the attendant bowed and retreated.

Zhu Tong distributed the buns to everyone one by one, and at this moment a seven or eight-year-old child grabbed his trouser leg, Zhu Tong thought he wanted to have more, so he gave him two more buns, but the child still didn't let go, and grabbed Zhu Tong to death.

The owner of the bun shop looked at it and mocked on the side:

"See clearly, these things can't be treated as human beings at all, if you treat them well, they will have to inch in."

Zhu Tong ignored the boss's words, squatted down to help the child, and asked:

"Do you have any problems?"

"I... I.. My mother just starved to death, and I begged the kind lord to save my mother. ”

Zhu Tong followed his gaze, only to find that the black ball shrunk into a ball on the ground turned out to be a person, it seemed that it was almost only about twenty catties, and there were countless broken bones, the blood was only spilling a little, and there was not much blood left in the shriveled body.

Zhu Tong looked at the woman who had died, and his heart was sour,

"Your mother is gone, I'll give you some money to bury your mother." Zhu Tong took out the money and handed it to the child, got up and was about to leave, but was stopped by the child.

The child kowtowed to Zhu Tong a few times, and Zhu Tong saw that the child was pitiful, so he squatted down and helped him up and asked:

"What's your name, kid?"

"Uncle! My name is Ma Sanbao! The child looked up and said.

Zhu Tong's eyes lit up, isn't this Zheng He who went to the West? The original name was Ma Sanbao, but I didn't expect to meet me here, so I was naturally a little excited in my heart, and then helped the child wipe the dust off his face.

"That's it! Child, you go to bury your mother first, and after the burial, come to the east of the city to find me - Zhu Tong. ”

Ma Sanbao thanked him and left, which reminded Zhu Tong of his life experience and his deceased father-in-law, and he couldn't help but admire Sanbao even more.

"You've been cheated again! This guy often comes out to deceive people," said the owner of the bun shop, returning to the shop.

Zhu Tong didn't care about the words of the owner of the bun shop, but he felt that he was the real winner, and this kind of 'strange goods' opportunity was not encountered by everyone.

Just as he was taking care of the business at hand and was about to go home, the blacksmith stopped him at the top of his voice.

"Little boss! Your pot has been beaten, I see that you are still there, why don't you come over first and see if you are satisfied. ”

Zhu Tong thought to himself, just take a pot and go back to try it first, if there is no problem, he can start to make a fortune according to his plan, and then return to the iron shop with the owner of the iron shop.

At this time, a brand-new iron pot had been placed on the ground shiningly, Zhu Tong nodded with satisfaction, and said:

"Then ask the shopkeeper to send someone to help me move this pot home first."

......

After a while, Zhu Tong and others had already moved the iron pot home.

After Zhu Tong sent away the iron shop guys, he put the pot up, Jiang Pan also came out to help when he heard the movement, looked at his brother's actions in confusion, and couldn't help asking:

"Brother, what are you going to do here?"

Looking at his sister with a blank face, the corners of Zhu Tong's mouth curved, revealing a sly smile, and pretending to be mysterious:

"You'll find out later."

After that, he picked up the basket and went out, leaving his sister alone in the yard.

Zhu Tong came to the suburbs of Yanshan alone, carried a few pieces of salt ore and went straight home, the journey was very brisk, once people were full of hope, they would naturally shield against any pressure, so Zhu Tong did not feel very tired along the way.

About a quarter of an hour later, Zhu Tong returned home with the salt ore on his back, Jiang Pan hurriedly came over to help, and the brother and sister poured the brine into the pot, boiled it, and carefully put the salt ore into it.

"Is this okay?"

Jiang Pan stared at a pot of boiling water and kept stirring and asked.

Zhu Tong smiled lightly and did not answer, he knew that the reason why salt ore could not be refined in ancient times was because he had not mastered the process of brine, and he had prepared the brine the day before yesterday.

Soon the sun was close to the top of the mountain, the hot white gas just now had long disappeared, leaving only a layer of pure white round bottom at the bottom of the pot, Zhu Tong took the spoon and dug a spoonful, and took a closer look, the snow-white fine salt was scattered along the spoon wall.

Zhu Tong stretched out his tongue and licked it gently, sure enough, it was a hundred times stronger than the coarse salt eaten every day, Jiang Pan looked at all this curiously, and asked:

"How?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and put it in his mouth, and his whole expression changed in an instant.

"Brother, you are too godly! You can make such fine salt. ”

"Don't be stunned! Hurry up and pack up and get ready to continue practicing tomorrow. ”

Zhu Tong said as he packed the refined refined salt......

The next day, Zhu Tong hired several ox carts to move back thousands of catties of salt ore one after another, and at the same time, his sister kept boiling salt at home, and soon refined thousands of catties of refined salt.

Zhu Tong loaded the refined salt and transported it directly to the salt transportation division in the southern suburbs of Yingtianfu.

Soon Zhu Tong pulled three carts of refined salt to the Salt Transportation Division, and the officials came over to look at Zhu Tong and asked:

"Xiao Langjun is here to sell salt?"

"Return, yes!" Zhu Tong replied succinctly.

The official lifted the gauze covering the salt, and the whole person was stunned for a moment, and he looked at the car full of refined salt and was stunned but did not react.

"Is this refined salt?"

"Where are you from?"

The official asked two questions one after another, reached out and twisted a small pinch of salt into his mouth, nodded violently, and said.

"Good salt! Filigree! ”

Zhu Tong just smiled slightly, looked at the officials, and didn't say anything.

Seeing this, it was a little difficult for the officials to make decisions,

"Xiao Langjun, you wait here first, my family will come soon."

Before the words fell, he hurried back to the hall, and after a while, a green-robed official walked out of the official office,

The official took a closer look, he had never seen such fine salt since he took office, twisted a little and put it in his mouth, his expression was stunned, and it took a while to recover.

"Xiao Langjun, you have good salt!"

"Come, come, come! We talk in the official office. ”

The official said that he pulled Zhu Tong into the official office with one hand, and instructed his subordinates to make tea to entertain him, and after sitting down, the official looked at Zhu Tong, took a sip of tea, and said softly:

"Xiao Langjun, your salt official has received all the five documents."

This was also expected by Zhu Tong, but he didn't expect to give such a high price, and the usual market price was only three cents.

"Thank you, sir!" Zhu Tong arched his hand and said.

The official looked at Zhu Tong again and asked:

"I don't know how Xiao Langjun made this salt? Can you open the eyes of the official? ”

Zhu Tong also smiled slightly, but did not answer,

The official understood Zhu Tong's meaning, so he dispelled the idea of continuing to ask.

"Don't say it, if Xiao Langjun sells salt in the future, he can come to me."

"Hurry up and settle the salt money for Xiao Langjun!"

When the official heard this, he took four hundred taels of silver, handed it to Zhu Tong and said, "Xiao Langjun, please count it carefully." ”

Zhu Tong suppressed the joy in his heart, put away the silver and bowed:

"Master Xie, the grass people say goodbye!"