Chapter 6: Breaking Saltmaster

When Huo Zhongru got up in the morning, he found that the little girl was lying on his chest at some point, no wonder he felt that his breathing was very unsmooth last night, and the little girl could really sleep, looking at the wetness of Huo Zhongru's clothes, she should have urinated several times, but even then she didn't wake up.

This doll walks unsteadily, and crawls fast.

Huo Zhongru planned to send her to the county governor's mansion today.

Huo Zhongru, who got up early, didn't see any trace of Huo Guang, scratched his unkempt hair and said, "It's strange, this kid never gets up early." ”

When I opened the door, Huo Guang was in the yard and didn't know what to do, and when I walked in, I found that Huo Guang was boiling water, and there was a jar of salt in his house on the side.

At this time, the salt has melted into the water and cannot be seen.

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"Your brain is broken, you use so much salt to boil water, you are a loser, you are a loser, so much salt will kill you." Huo Zhongru felt that he was boiling water.

Great powers began by boiling water, and human civilization began with boiling water.

"Father, you can wait and see."

Huo Zhongru didn't know what Huo Guang was doing, and at this time, someone from outside the courtyard was a person sent by the county guard: "Mr. Huo, Mr. Huo." "The people who came were unusually enthusiastic, and the news that Huo Zhongru was Huo Quai's father spread.

"Your Excellency?"

"I am the steward of the county guard's mansion, and the county guard is busy with your promotion today, so I specially sent me over to send you the deeds of these fields and shops."

Saying that, let people put down a package, heavy, and there were all bamboo slips with land deeds, and it was not until a few years later that Cai Lun made paper, and there was no paper at this time.

The efficiency of the county guard is high, and I was worried that there was no original capital before, so this is not coming.

Huo Zhongru pulled people to thank them for a while, and the other party said that Huo Zhongru would carry more in the future.

The person who sent it away, Huo Zhongru opened the package with a smile and opened it one by one.

"Son, we will be rich in the future, this shop is good, this shop is also good, hey, hey, son, I will find you two good-looking maids to serve you, and boil water and bathe every day in the future, let the maid wipe your body, let you enjoy it, in the future, my eldest grandson's nurse will also have to look for it first, the widow Wang knows a nurse who is said to have a lot of milk..."

Huo Zhongru imagined a happy life, but immediately remembered that Huo Guang used a jar of salt to boil water.

"You are a loser, no matter how big the family business is, you have to lose." I was not angry and scolded again.

Ah Guang ignored him, and took out the best cloth, cut from the little girl's clothes, and his own coarse cloth was too bad.

Using this piece of muslin to make filter paper, the effect is average, Ah Guang simply cut the female doll's close-fitting gold and precious silk clothes into a big hole, stacked them layer by layer, and improved the quality with quantity, and improved the filtration effect as much as possible.

"Why did you kid cut all the clothes on other girls' dolls."

"Father, it's summer, just take two of our clothes and wrap them in her, it's okay if the child next door is bare-bottomed."

Ah Guang poured the burned solution into the filter paper little by little along the wooden stick, Huo Zhongru couldn't understand it, so he harassed next to him: "Stupid, stinky boy." ”

Ah Guang took the trouble to say, "Father, I'm refining salt." ”

"What do you mean by purification?"

"Salt, a white crystal, as long as it is purified to a certain extent, will become finer and can be sold at a higher price."

When Ah Guang got up in the morning, he looked at the salt at home, and the salt in this small jar was visible to the naked eye with a lot of impurities, and some of these impurities were even deliberately mixed by the salt merchants, because they could increase the weight.

In the barren era, the common people did not have high requirements for taste, and they could accept slight impurities, that is, the heavier the more valuable, and there was no purification technology, so the quality of salt was very worrisome.

There is no chemical purification method for the time being, but the quality of the current salt can be greatly improved through filtration technology.

As the coarse cloth and silk layers were layered on the filter paper, the pure liquid slowly fell down, and after collecting it, Ah Guang burned the fire again and began to burn the solution.

Gradually, as the liquid slowly evaporates, the pure white crystals slowly precipitate.

The famous American chemist Heisenberg once said that art is crystallization.

Crushed, dissolved, filtered, crystallized, the coarse salt with impurities that had previously been yellowed in color turned into fine and pure white fine salt after a single operation on Ah Guang's hands.

There is also the key that these salts that are purely dried contain magnesium chloride, which is not good to eat too much, it is called bitter brine, and the salt has a bitter taste with bitter brine, which is why Huo Guang felt bitter when he ate in Sangjia Restaurant before, everyone is used to it, and people in this era have not high pursuit of taste, and there is no way to remove it.

Huo Guang took a small basin of saturated salt solution, that is, put salt into the already insoluble brine, and rinse the fine salt that had been refined before.

Because the solubility of magnesium chloride is higher than that of salt, when washing with saturated solution, magnesium chloride will dissolve into the washing solution, while salt will not, this process is difficult to detect with the naked eye, but after several washes, magnesium chloride can be effectively removed.

Huo Guang used to often watch the necessary tips for crossing on various websites or small videos, just in case, but now that he has really crossed, this is called remembering that there will be repercussions.

In this era, who would have thought of such a ghost thing as washing salt with saturated salt solution, and now Huo Zhongru is looking at Huo Guang with the expression of a fool.

Watching Huo Guang wash salt with salt water, Huo Zhongru moved again to ask a doctor to treat Huo Guang's head.

Isn't this pure fool? Wash salt with salt water, does he want to dry?

Huo Zhongru held the jar of salt, he didn't care about the fine and pure white fine salt, but cared about the fact that compared with before, the salt in the jar was one-third less.

"Silly boy, you, there are so many things that have come and gone, it's not a loss, where has the rest of the salt gone."

Ah Guang was a little speechless and picked up the filter cloth he made: "The coarse cloth and silk laminated filter cloth are those impurities." ”

"Oh, ruined, ruined, ruined, using fine silk and making less salt."

"Father, taste this salt."

Huo Zhongru suspiciously dipped his fingers in some salt and tasted it: "The taste is better than the previous salt, there is no bitterness, the saltiness is lighter, this is not even more a loser, how to eat it when the saltiness is light, it is delicious and useful, I eat salt to work in the field, what is the use of the taste." ”

Ah Guang suddenly realized, from Huo Zhongru's point of view, the common people eat salt in order to have the strength to work, after all, facing the loess with their backs to the sky, the amount of sweat every day is very large, and they need to supplement the salt.

"Father, it's profiteers who make the money of the common people, let's go earn the money of those who have it." The idea that Ah Guang proposed.

"How do you earn it?"

"Father, do you know how to open a salt shop? Are there any special requirements? ”

"Special requests? That shouldn't be there, as long as there is a shop registered in the county magistrate's yamen, but the salt merchant is so easy to do, the salt gang, the big salt merchant has the resources, there is no backstage cover, no one dares to buy it when you open it, you saw the fate of the stupid boy who grabbed the salt yesterday, let's don't think about it. ”

Ah Guang looked at Huo Zhongru and smiled slightly, Huo Zhongru patted his head, how could he still think that he was a small family, there was no bigger door in this county than his family.

"Father, you are in charge of financial affairs in the county, my brother is the general Huo Quai, if you want to say that I can't walk sideways on the main street in the county, I'm afraid I will lose the face of my father and brother."

If you want any other backstage, my father and my brother are my backstage, not to mention selling salt, just selling others.

Huo Zhongru weighed the deed in his hand: "Let's go to the street and look at the shop, find a good location, and it seems good to open a salt shop for you." ”

The two of them were excited, but Ah Guang suddenly felt that was coming, and immediately said, "Father, I'll give you a gong first." ”

"is, it's so elegant."

Just as Ah Guang rushed to the location of the, the courtyard door was slammed open, and the dark-skinned youth stumbled in.