Gongsun Courtyard, surrounded by vermilion walls, and green tiles are flying.

Four hanging flower gatehouses, six pavilions and pavilions, eight verandahs and painted walls, the whole courtyard is full of flowers, showing luxury and grace.

Gongsun Li's youngest son had not been sick for the past two days, so he was in a good mood, teasing the birds and feeding the fish in the garden, followed by the housekeeper who followed suit.

"I let you do things, how are you doing?" During the questioning, Gongsun Li sprinkled a handful of fish food into the pool, causing the red carp in the water to rush and compete for food.

The housekeeper bent down and said: "Go home, it's all done, the family surnamed Xu is now settled in Erlitun on the outskirts of Changchun City, and has been allocated eighty acres of paddy fields." ”

Unexpectedly, when Gongsun Li heard this, he threw the fish food in his hand on the butler's face, and scolded: "What are you doing stupidly? Didn't I ask you to ventilate with your cousin and give them the worst lots, the worst fields! ”

"No, the head of the family is angry, the villain hasn't finished talking just now" The housekeeper wiped his face full of fish food, and hurriedly said: "Erlitun is a barren suburban wilderness, and the eighty acres of paddy fields are also bad land with no grass. ”

"Well, that's good." After listening to this, Gongsun Li proudly patted the fish food crumbs on his hands: "Since it is a wild place, there are some wild things such as poisonous snakes, poisonous scorpions, and wild wolves. ”

The housekeeper understood the meaning of Gongsun Li's words, and hurriedly said: "The master of the family is wise, and the little one will do it." ”

Looking at the departing figure of the housekeeper, Gongsun Li leaned on the railing and hummed a little song.

Hmph, it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and my grandson Li takes revenge, from morning to night!

And when the butler turned around, the flattery on his face disappeared instantly, and his face was as gloomy as frost.

....

At this time, Haoyue didn't know that Gongsun Li was going to poke and poke the ground secretly, and she was looking at her baby saline-alkali land with bright eyes.

Hee-hee, as the saying goes, grasshoppers are harvested when there is a drought, toads are harvested when there is a flood, and salt lumps are boiled without drought or waterlogging.

The salt in this white soil is very large, and it is like snow to the eye, which is suitable for boiling soil salt.

In addition, when salt is boiled, a white needle-like powder that is more widely used will be produced.

However, this white needle-like powder is not very needed at the moment, and it is a bit dangerous after being made.

"Yue'er, is the white soil here really able to boil out salt? When I was doing business in Yutianguan, I heard the older generation talk about boiling soil to get salt, but it seemed that the salt boiled out was poisonous salt, and people died as soon as they ate it. The second brother scratched his head and said.

"Yes, yes, we haven't done it before, what if we don't get through it and kill someone?" The second girl chimed in.

Haoyue patted her little chest and said: "That's the wrong way they boiled it, they didn't add the magic potion when they boiled the salt, my method is absolutely reliable, if you don't worry, after the salt is boiled, catch two mice and try it." ”

Hearing Haoyue's confident words, everyone dispelled their doubts and was full of enthusiasm.

You must know that this salt is two taels of silver a pound in Da Yuan, if it can really be boiled out, then the Xu family is equivalent to mastering the wealth code.

When the time comes, you will get rid of poverty and become rich overnight, and you will have all kinds of big houses, chickens, ducks, cows and sheep, fertile land, and dolls will be able to go to school, and young men will be able to marry daughters-in-law.

Haha, it's exciting to think about!

"Okay, okay, don't think too beautifully, Harazi is going to flow out, everyone hurry up and start work." Xu Jingyang rolled up his sleeves and walked out of the ridge with the appearance of a group of patrol inspectors.

"Fifth uncle, what are you doing on the ridge, come down and dig together." Xu Jia, who was already scraping the salt soil with a shovel, shouted.

Xu Jingyang: "Hmph, I'm an agricultural school captain, do you know what an agricultural school captain does?" It's the overseer and other work, don't speak, hurry up and work for me. ”

"Uhh

As a result, Xu Jingyang, who was showing off his martial arts, was kicked down by Shen Yinxing before he could get a few seconds.

Xu Jingyang, who fell into the field, immediately stood up after falling a fart, rubbed his waist and scolded: "Who dares to sneak attack me, it's so bold!" ”

Shen Yinxing, who was standing on the ridge, crossed his hands on his waist and scolded Xu Jingyang angrily: "Don't be lazy, you can also work hard for me!" ”

Seeing that the sneak attacker was Shen Yinxing, the arrogance on Xu Jingyang's body immediately subsided, shrank his head, and then obediently dug into the soil.

Seeing this, Haoyue covered her mouth and snickered on the side.

Hee-hee, I have to say, these two people are really good, the scheming emperor who likes to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger X is a short-tempered arrogant female general.

However, Xu Jingyang did not agree with Haoyue to describe him as a pig eating a tiger, in his words, he was a hidden dragon and avoided the edge for the time being.

Boiling soil and salt is actually a chore, and the work of working with the land is dirty and tiring.

Due to the lack of manpower in the Xu family, the half-grown children and women also had to work in the fields.

Haoyue held a small shovel in her hand, and put a small back basket next to it, and when the salt soil scraped off with the shovel was put into the back basket, and then let Xu Ajiu carry it back.

Two days ago, there had been a light rain in this place, and the salt and alkali in the field were soaked out by the rainwater, and then after the sun was basking again, a layer of salt and alkali shell as thin as a pancake appeared on the ground.

This pile of pancake crispy shells is salt soil, that is, the raw material for boiling soil salt.

The grayish-white saline-alkali crust is spread in the low-lying flat saline land, which looks like it is covered with a thin layer of ice from a distance.

Haoyue used a small shovel to break these crispy shells, and then shoveled them into the back basket.

As Haoyue kept shoveling the soil, gradually, a mountain of salt soil had been piled up in the back basket.

Looking at the fruits of her labor for most of the day, Haoyue felt a sense of accomplishment in her heart.

In some fields, the salt crust is not thick, and the salt soil foam of the white flowers can be swept off with a broom, but in fact, the salt content of the salt soil foam directly swept down is higher.

As soon as the salt soil is shoveled, it must be transported back immediately, because the salt soil is afraid of water, wind, and air.

As soon as the weather changes, the salt may immediately sink into the soil, so the salt soil that you pick up home cannot be directly placed on the ground, but has to be hung in a basket covered with straw.

The Xu family dug up the salt soil, and immediately transported it back, hanging it on a rope hanging in the tent.

When they returned to the camp, they were all so tired that they lay on the ground, but no one complained of being tired, and after only resting for a while, the people shouted: "The strength is to restore wealth, go and come again." ”

Then the crowd cheered up again and went down to the ground again to carry the salt soil.

In this situation, Haoyue popped out of her mouth: "It's really money in place, and people are wasted~"

When everyone came back from carrying salt soil again, they happened to meet the old Mengtou of Fire Persimmon Village.

In addition to Xujia Village, the villagers of Persimmon Village live in Erlitun, and the garrisons of the two villages are quite far away, and the fields allocated are not together.

Lao Meng was carrying his back, and when he saw that the Xu family's back basket was actually filled with salt soil, he felt very curious, so he hooked his neck and asked, "Huh?" Why did you bring this soil back? ”

"I want to get rid of the bad soil and cover it with new soil to see if I can grow crops." Xu Jingyang snorted.

"Oh, it's been in vain" Old Meng Tou shook his head and said, "The fields in our village have been planted with the herb seeds given by Dr. Huang, and when they grow up, Dr. Huang will bring someone to buy them." ”

Xu Jingyang also shook his head: "Growing medicinal herbs has to pay seventy percent of the tax, and you can't eat enough." ”

"That's no way, it's better than nothing, I think you don't have to toss around, hurry up and plant herbs." Lao Mengtou said as he walked, and at the end, he glanced at the salt soil basket that Xu Ajiu was carrying.

.....

Back at the camp, Haoyue was about to tell everyone about the next steps to take.

Before she could say anything, Xu Jingyang covered Haoyue's mouth: "Shhhhhh It's a secret, let the children go out, lest the children leak out later. ”

Thinking about it, this is also the truth, there are many people, and children are easy to be talked about, so Erya and Xu Laifu were driven away.

The second girl and the seventh aunt also walked out consciously, because they felt that their big mouths might be bad, and they still didn't know about it.

Seeing that the idlers and others were almost gone, Hao Yue spoke: "Next, it is to make salt and brine." ”

Xu Jia followed what Hao Yue said, and built a pool about two meters long and one meter wide with adobe bricks, and the inside was also pasted with clay to prevent infiltration.

Then another half-meter thick straw was laid under the pond, because it was afraid that the salt would seep into the soil, so the pond was suspended, and layers of straw and straw were laid underneath.

Then four or five baskets of salt soil were poured into the pool, and the water was stirred repeatedly, and this step was manual work, and it was necessary to stir it very evenly and thoroughly, and several young and strong young men took turns to stir the salt soil.

Seeing this, Xu Jingyang saw that the situation was not good, and immediately found a reason that someone needed to be sentry outside, and then slipped away.

slipped away so fast that Shen Yinxing didn't even catch him.

Looking at Xu Jingyang, who was leaving in a dashing manner, Shen Yinxing scolded: "Phew! It's a lazy stuff. ”

"The fifth uncle is right, someone really needs to be sentry outside, in case someone steals the school, it will be difficult to do." Xu Jia, an authentic baby, didn't feel that his fifth uncle was cheating and playing tricks at all.

If Xu Jingyang heard this, he would probably jump up and give Xu Jia a thumbs up: "What a good nephew of mine!" ”

After mixing the brine, Zhang Jia put a layer of linen cloth on the wooden barrel, and then began to pour the stirred salt water into the wooden barrel.

This layer of linen cloth bag is used for filtration, and the concentrated brine obtained after filtration is brine.

This brine is also the brine in the sentence "brine points tofu, one thing drops one thing", and a part of it can be used as tofu to eat.

Haoyue thought about it, it seems that there is no such food as tofu in this era.

It's a pity that there is no stone mill now, and there is no soybean, and there is no way to make tofu with just the brine.

Woo woo, I really want to eat mapo tofu, drink sweet tofu brain, and sizzling tofu.

Thinking about modern cuisine, Haoyue drools.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the first two steps of boiling soil salt had only been completed, and there were still many things to be done behind.

But thinking that everyone had been tired all day, Haoyue yawned, and then wanted everyone to go back to rest.

As a result, the second brother shook his head, saying that he was not tired and could continue to work, and several other young and strong young men also shook their heads.

From their excited eyes, Haoyue saw silver, a large mansion, a large piece of fertile land, and endless food.

Definitely, a group of strugglers forced .....

When will our unmotivated daddy be able to learn from them....

"Let's go back and rest, the energy during the day is definitely better than at night, the next steps are more cumbersome, if you run away a little, you may lose everything." Haoyue felt that overtime was completely unnecessary, and it was impossible for this salt water to run with long legs on its own.

Shen Yinxing, who was holding a stirring stick, walked over, shook his somewhat sore hand and said, "We entrepreneurs don't work overtime, we are working for ourselves all the time." ”

"Uh....." Haoyue was speechless after hearing this.

Why is this aunt on the head......

Haoyue squinted: "A-Niang, you have this awareness, it's too condescending to not go to a start-up company to become a CEO." ”

The gap between Shen Yinxing and Haoyue is still relatively shallow, and Shen Yinxing can understand what Haoyue says, and sometimes they can praise each other.

The young men next to them couldn't understand what they were saying, but they were no longer surprised.

"Yikes! It's so late, why are you doing it again? Xu Jingyang came back from a stroll outside, his hands in his sleeves, and he stretched out his head to look inside.

Seeing this idle lazy man, Shen Yinxing became angry, and simply turned his face away and stopped looking at him.

Xu Jia touched his head: "Hehe, fifth uncle, we are not tired, have you found any movement outside the sentry?" ”

After hearing this, Xu Jingyang's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he said: "Everything is as usual." ”

It made him feel like he was patrolling outside......

"Hey, hey, you guys hurry back, if you don't rest, Yue'er still has to rest." As he spoke, Xu Jingyang hugged Haoyue, who was already yawning.

"Hurry up, hurry up, I'm going to kill someone!" Xu Jingyang pushed the few young men who were lying in place and refused to leave to the outside of the tent.

The second brother who was kicked out of the door scratched his head when he looked at the closed tent, and then said to the brothers who were still unsatisfied: "Forget it, you can't become a fat man by eating a bite, you have to eat a bite of food, and you have to earn money little by little." ”

After saying that, a few people left, and made an appointment to come to knock on the door early tomorrow morning.

After they left, Shen Yinxing took Xu Ajiu to clean up the tent for a while, and then lay down on the straw cover to sleep.

When he went to bed at night, Xu Jingyang took Xu Ajiu to sleep on the side of the door, and Shen Yinxing slept in it with Haoyue in his arms.

Then Shen Yinxing also put a basin of water between himself and Xu Jingyang, meaning that he would not cross the line....

Xu Jingyang looked at Shen Yinxing's actions and felt ridiculous, they are all old husbands and wives, they all have babies, and they still care about these....

Oh, I don't know how many women wanted to climb my dragon bed back then.

After the belly slander, Xu Jingyang also turned his head over, leaving Shen Yinxing with the back of his head.

Soon after, snoring could be heard from the tent.

At the same time, on the grass outside the tent, poisonous snakes with triangular heads were crawling against the ground, like ghosts seeking their lives in the night.