Seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea.

Salt, crystal clear, white and flawless.

Ordinary people don't know the hard work of making salt, but now Wang Chun, who was once high, has really experienced it.

After Commander Nalin captured him, he did not correct him on the spot, but was sent to work as a salt worker.

May and October are the peak months for salt harvesting in the salt works, and this is also the busiest time for salt workers.

Here, the production process of salt is mainly the "beach drying method", from tide acceptance, brine production, beach repair management, to salt formation and salt mining.

Although there is no high difficulty in production, every salt worker must be careful in every link, otherwise it will affect the yield and quality of the final raw salt.

If the early stage of raw salt production is a delicate job, then when it comes to the salt mining period, it is really a manual work.

When the salt is produced, the raw salt in each salt pond is generally about 100,000 catties.

The raw salt is collected by the salt workers with huge rakes and rakes, and the salt farmers then use wheelbarrows to push the raw salt onto the salt mounds.

At the end of the day, no matter who has to have a few big blisters on their hands, Wang Chun is even more miserable, his hands, feet and face are all blistered, and he is covered in blood.

During the salt mining period, everyone is most afraid of rain, because it is a beach to dry the salt, once the brine in the salt pond is washed by the rain, it will seriously affect the output and quality of the entire salt field, and the hard work of half a year will be in vain.

Therefore, the working hours of the salt workers during the salt mining period are all 12 hours, and once there is rain, the management of the salt field urges the salt workers to wake up, even if it is late at night, to take measures to prevent rainwater from entering the crystallization pond.

As soon as the sun came out, the salt workers hurried to pick up the salt.

"The wind is strong, the water is salty, the mud is stained with feet, and I can't see my feet on the barren beach!" Wang Chun was almost so busy vomiting blood that he scolded.

During the salt mining period, there is often a period of abundant sunshine and high evaporation, and the weather is hot and dry at this time, and the taste of salt workers picking up salt in the salt pond can be imagined.

Between work, a bald salt worker came up from the salt pond to rest, but he was sweating profusely but quickly put on thick clothes.

Wang Chun was surprised: "Brother, why are you doing this?" ”

The bald saltman glanced at him and said curiously, "New here?" ”

Wang Chun nodded.

"It's windy here, and if we like us, who are sweating profusely, let the wind blow, it's easy to get rheumatism and arthritis.

Brother, believe me, you will never want to try the feeling of a rheumatic attack, it can be difficult in your bones. The bald saltman sighed.

Wang Chun silently put on the tattered clothes he issued when he entered the salt field, and he didn't know what to make them, they were quite thick.

"Brother, this salt worker is so hard, your wages must be very high, right?" Wang Chun said with concern.

When he came, the official messenger told him that now it is jointly restructured by Jin Wuwei and the deputy envoy of Yanyun, and he can get contribution points if he works hard every month.

The contribution value can be exchanged for silver, and ten contribution points are worth one or two silver.

As for the criminals who come to serve, the contribution points can be used to atone for their sins, and as long as 50 contribution points can be exchanged for a confession ticket.

What kind of commutation coupons can be synthesized with ten repentance coupons later, and the chance of synthesis is nine out of nine, which means that it will definitely be synthesized.

Ten commutation coupons have a ninety percent chance of being combined into a good person fragment, and ten good person fragments can be combined into an acquittal plus a hundred taels of silver subsidy.

You knew what the name acquittal meant as soon as you heard it, so Wang Chun insisted on doing it.

"Wages?" The salt worker brother sneered: "Since Wang Chun came to our Yangzhou on that dog day, the salary has not been paid, and the floods, droughts, military expenses, and the emperor's birthday are all deducted from our wages."

That dog thing is happy, fragrant and spicy, have you ever thought about us? ”

Wang Chun: ......

You are not poor, you are not bitter, how can he be fat?

Now the question is, if the wages are not paid, there is still a chance to leave, isn't this a place where people should stay?

The salt worker rested for a while, poured a sip of cool boiled water, and continued to complain: "Now the new dog official Lin Ruhai, what kind of contribution system is he doing, and he also said that the contribution system can be exchanged for money.

I'll his grandma's!

When the time comes, you either need to queue up to make an appointment and wait for someone, or you don't have enough money, or you have to wait for someone else to change first.

Anyway, it's dragging, dragging it out until I'm dead, counting.

A bunch of dogs! ”

The salt workers scolded and were fearless.

Anyway, there is no one here, and if he doesn't admit it after scolding, is there still someone rushing to do his job?

Wang Chun thought about it, with his understanding of those officials, it could really be like this. Immediately, he was also filled with righteous indignation, and echoed and scolded: "Made, dog officer! ”

When the salt worker heard this, he laughed and patted Wang Chun's shoulder: "You kid, go to the road, go, keep doing it, damn it, if you do a good job, you don't add money, if you don't do it well, you will be fined!" ”

Wang Chun stretched out his hands, and his whole body was bloodied.

instantly felt that he was really not a human being before, and he also took a few hundred dollars of these bitter haha, is there still humanity?

I hope that Lin Ruhai is different from him and has a conscience!

Suddenly, a salt worker rushed in the distance.

"Brothers, the contribution value can be exchanged for silver, no need to pay taxes, no handling fees, no queue fees, just exchange, you can get silver on the spot!" The saltman almost jumped up and shouted with joy.

Suddenly, all the salt workers in the salt pond climbed out of it one by one, ragged and gray-headed, and rushed out to surround them.

From a distance, there seems to be a different kind of horror.

Then it's a matter of asking questions.

Wang Chun also squeezed inside, hoping to hear more good news.

"Brothers, didn't I hear some time ago that the entire Lianghuai salt official system took away half of the people, and I thought it was the same as before when I went today.

Who knows that although they still raise their eyes, they can exchange the contribution value of Rausch for money very quickly, and they don't have to pay any extra money! ”

"Moreover, the dog official also said that according to Lord Lin Ruhai's regulations, the salt pond I am responsible for produces a lot of salt and is of good quality, so I can get an extra 200 wen this month!"

"Obediently, two hundred Wen, you can buy a hundred sugar gourds for my baby!" A salter sighed.

"What are the brothers hesitating about, go to work, this new Lord Lin is the real Qingtian master, we must not live up to his good, don't change to a dog official like Wang Chun before!" The bald salter said loudly.

"Yes, yes, two hundred Wen, I heard that if the salt is dried well in the back, you can get two taels of silver more per month, and the ladies in the family will have meat to eat!" Wang Chun said loudly.

"Let's go!"

Three months later, Wang Chun lost a full twenty pounds, his hair was bald, and his whole person was also dark and senile, but ten repentance coupons were finally enough!

After all, he is a scholar, he is much smarter than ordinary people, and the main reason for making up the contribution value so quickly is to make some improvements to the existing salt making method.

In the past, the salt from the salt factory where he was located generally had a bitter taste, of course, these were for the people to eat, it didn't matter, although it was bitter and slightly toxic, it was also cheap.

However, the salt provided to the dignitaries and nobles requires special treatment: through several steps of frying salt, drenching brine, and re-drenching, a small amount of "snowflake crystal salt" with higher purity is produced.

He and Shangguan proposed to add a new step at the beginning of salt drying: "drying ash and planting salt", that is, spreading burned plant ash in the pavilion, soaking seawater to absorb salt.

The resulting brine is purer, the salt is purer, and there is hardly any bitterness.

Later, according to Lin Ruhai's new regulations, after trying, he will have a reward of a full five hundred contribution points.

Entering the official office, the clerk was leisurely leaning his legs on a chair, holding a copy of the imperial palace newspaper while reading and drinking tea.

Lie flat, this is life.

Wang Chun looked at it enviously and nodded: "My lord, I'm here to redeem the commutation coupon." ”

"Oh?" Su Fuchen was shocked.

It was the first time since this rule was promulgated that he had seen someone earn so many contribution points in such a short period of time.

You must know that this contribution value cannot be traded and cannot be exchanged for silver.

"Wait, what's your name, I'll check it for you."

Wang Chun looked left and right, and made sure that no one was able to whisper: "Wang Chun!" ”

"Wang Chun?" Su Fuchen said loudly, extremely surprised.

At this time, everyone in the official office looked at this place together, and when they saw the person in front of him, they looked at it and stopped care.

It seems that he is another poor relative of Wang Chun, and he still thinks he is still an elder in the salt industry.

Su Fuchen looked up and down, and only then was he frightened by Lord Lin Ruhai's methods.

Where is killing people compared to punishing the heart, a year ago, who would have guessed that now this Wang Chun has become like this.

It's really great!

"Where's the identity plate?" Su Fuchen suddenly felt arrogant and said in a deep voice.

Wang Chun needed sufficient evidence to convict him that day, he was the first to stand up, not only was the Su family released, the family property was returned, and even he got a vacancy as a supervisor.

Blood to earn!

Wang Chun hurriedly took off the stone plaque hanging around his neck and handed it over.

Although this stone tablet is an ordinary stone, it is a symbol of the identity of all salt people since Lin Ruhai took office.

That Lin Ruhai really got into the eyes of money.

And all the contributions, exchanges, and verifications are based on this stone card, and nothing else matters.

Su Fuchen took the stone tablet and pointed it at the sun, and under the sunlight, some strange symbolic shadows appeared under the stone tablet.

It turned out that someone had carved a very small and strange symbol on the small and thin stone with means on the stone plaque. Moreover, the stone has been soaked in a special liquid, so it will not break until you are idle.

In this way, the cost of stone plaques has been increased from ordinary stone to an appalling cost.

Su Fuchen hurriedly wrote down the symbol on the stone tablet: 914396, and then took out a ledger according to the law of this symbol, the ninth salt field, the fourteenth salt pool, number: 396, and found the corresponding person, it was indeed Wang Chun.

looked up and looked at the description of Wang Chun recorded in the account book: gentle and elegant, beautiful and handsome, Su Fuchen was silent.

It's not the same at all.

"Wang Chun, right?" Su Fuchen smiled.

"Yes, yes, sir!" Wang Chun tried to squeeze out a smile.

"Your current image is different from the record of my department, and you can't use the contribution under Wang Chun's name!" Su Fuchen said.

"Huh?" Wang Chun is anxious, I'm here, you say you can't use it?

However, as an official, he deeply understood the difficulty of this little official, and hurriedly laughed.

"My lord, look, in addition to exchanging coupons, I also have some extra contributions that can be exchanged for money, you work so hard, you have to work in such a hot weather, why don't you buy you some tea to drink?"

Su Fuchen smiled and was silent.

You're going to put this to the test of my supervisor?

Wang Chun was anxious for a moment, and then all kinds of good words and sycophants were slapped at Su Fuchen one after another.

Although he didn't know the prosecutor, he knew that these people liked to see how they were now.

That's human nature.

After a long time, Su Fuchen finally felt comfortable, squinted his eyes and said, "Lord Wang, it's useless for you to say anything."

You have to go back to your salt pond, find your salt pond supervisor, and at least four salt workers, seal with seals, and then wait for Lord Lin in Yangzhou to use the seal, and issue a new account book once a month to update your appearance identity information. ”

"Oh, warn you, each salt worker can only be guaranteed once a year!"

Wang Chun was dumbfounded.

It's just to redeem a contribution value, in a word, a record thing, why is it so complicated?

He suspected that either Lin Ruhai was fixing him, or the little cub in front of him was fixing him!

……

Yangzhou, Linfu.

Early in the morning, the chief eunuch Chen Fei led a group of Jin Wuwei to the gate of the Lin Mansion.

Lin Ruhai received the greeting post and hurriedly led his wife and children out to greet him: "Mr. Chen, you are in charge, you are not welcome!" ”

Manager Chen smiled and said, "Hey, Lord Lin, we are also familiar with each other, so there is no need to say these polite words."

Can your daughter rise? ”

As he spoke, Manager Chen pointed to the people he brought and said with a smile: "Our family is afraid that Lord Lin's family will be short of manpower, so we specially brought a lot of brothers to move things for the daughter." ”

Lin Ruhai was moved in his heart, this Manager Chen was the number one celebrity in front of the saint.

Outsiders say that he has an uncertain personality and is moody, and ordinary people are trembling even when they see him.

Now that they have been together for a long time, he found out that this manager Chen, not to mention anything else, is just one word: reliable!

"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, like the sea, thank you to Manager Chen." Lin Ruhai hugged his fists.

"Hahaha, doing things in the same dynasty, they are all a family." Mr. Chen was very happy.

He is the number one celebrity in front of the saint, and he is only a celebrity who can serve people. Whoever the saint likes, he has to like, and he is thinking about getting along with whomever he wants.

If the Holy One hates anyone, it is his enemy!

……

Inside the house, Jia Min is helping her daughter pack up the clothes she wears in various weathers, as well as some gadgets from her daughter's house, dolls, small clothes, and menstrual cloths that will be used in the near future.

"Xiao Yu'er, it's been this time, and Manager Chen is also waiting outside, why haven't you seen Lele yet?" Jia Min said anxiously.

In the kind of cannibalistic place in Beijing, even if her mother, eldest brother and Manager Chen agreed to take care of it, she was still not at ease at all.

If there was no Lele to follow, she would not let her daughter go alone.

Lin Daiyu smiled: "Mother, look at me!" Then, he turned to the snow goose and said, "Yan'er, bring a basin of warm water, I want to wash my feet." ”

When Xue Yan heard this, she also laughed and hurriedly prepared.

Jia Min looked confused, when did she have to wash her feet?

After a while, the snow geese came over with water, and Lin Daiyu sat on the edge of the bed, took off the white tights under her little skirt, and gently put her little feet into the basin.

The instep is white and smooth, the soles of the feet are pink and ruddy, the toes are small and exquisite, and the whole jade foot is full and can be held, which looks particularly cute.

Jia Min couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable, and wanted to touch it.

A yellow figure appeared in the "Meow~" window, and then.

"Bang~" smashed directly into the basin.

"Hee-hee, Lele, don't lick it, it's not washed yet!" Lin Daiyu said coquettishly.

Jia Min: ......

Good fellow, in addition to eating, drinking, and having fun, she seems to have discovered another strange fetish of Lele Xian.

Why did she suddenly feel that this little fairy was a little unreliable? In the future, let him accompany his daughter in Shangjing, it won't make his daughter very strange, right?

But thinking about her daughter's current nickname, Jia Min was also relieved.

How bad can it be?

"Meow!" The little yellow cat was very dissatisfied.

Nonsense, obviously he's back to catch mice!

This rat is so presumptuous, he dares to offend my family's shovel in public, look at my trick: suck!

"Ah~" There was a burst of frolicking, coquettishness, and exclamation in the room.

Obviously, the little yellow cat has met the enemy of life this time.

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