Chapter 12 Snowflake Salt
After the green salt of more than one stone is melted by water, it is poured into a large vat and filtered again, and the role of charcoal is known to the world, but now who knows that the microporous structure and super adsorption ability of such a black can remove odors, pigments, colloids, and purify water quality.
In the courtyard, the large vat of bamboo pipes was still dripping salt water, Tie Zhu was guarding outside alone, and Su Ming and Su Zhe were waiting anxiously in the kitchen cauldron.
"Crystalline, starling! This salt... It seems to have turned white! Su Zhe looked at the slowly crystallized salt and said.
"You go fence the board, I'll get two sieves!" Su Ming said to get the sieve, Erweibao lives on salt, and this sieve for filtering salt naturally exists, but this procedure is a little troublesome, unless someone gives a high price and makes a special request, they will do it.
Su Ming found two suitable sieves, he returned to the kitchen, the salt at the bottom of the pot had crystallized, he scraped the salt out of the pot and put it on the cutting board, and poured new salt water into the pot to continue cooking.
"Starling, this salt has really turned white, and it is very white, there are no impurities at all!" Looking at the salt on the board, Su Zhe was excited, how could he not know what it meant to them to turn the salt white.
"Be quiet, this matter can't be spread out yet!" Su Ming said.
Su Zhe nodded, he walked around the kitchen excitedly, watching Su Ming crush the salt out of the pot, and then filter it with a large sieve, and then crush it again if it can't pass, and break all the salt over and over again.
All the salt has passed through the sieve, and Su Ming uses a fine sieve to pass the salt, the fine salt falls on the board, and the neatly sized salt particles appear in the fine sieve, and Su Ming pours the salt of the same size on the sieve into the white salt bag next to him.
"You're here to help! What are you doing in a daze? Su Ming saw Su Zhe looking at him in surprise, and couldn't help shouting.
"This is snowflake salt, starling, you actually got snowflake salt, no, I have to tell the eldest brother quickly, I can't let others know..."
"Tell what, big brother, won't you know when big brother comes back at night? Hurry up and get to work, aren't you doing this to let everyone know? Su Ming said as he swept the salt that was too small from the board with a small broom and put it back into the pot to cook.
"It's snowflake salt... Snowflake salt! Su Zhe came to Su Ming's side and said excitedly in his ear.
"I know ......"
"No, I have to tell the fifth brother to go!" Su Zhe said that he hurriedly ran out of the kitchen.
Su Ming shook his head when he saw the appearance of the thirteenth brother, the young man still couldn't hold his breath, he continued to stir the salt water in the pot, otherwise the bottom of the pot would be broken if it crystallized.
After a while, Su Qingping came back, he walked into the kitchen from the outside, saw the white salt bag placed under the board, opened it and took a look, and then took out some salt and put it directly in his mouth.
"Such white salt, there is really no smell at all, how did you do it, old eight." Su Qingping came to Su Ming's side and asked with wide eyes.
At this time, Su Zhe also came in out of breath, Su Ming pointed to the big vat in the courtyard, he would definitely not explain to Su Qingping why charcoal can make green salt fade color, and there is no smell at all.
"If you're okay, come and help, I've been busy for a long time!" Su Ming said lightly.
Su Qingping walked around the kitchen excitedly, as if he wanted to vent the excitement in his heart, but he couldn't say a word, he was already the father of the child, much calmer than Su Zheke.
"Come on, you say how to get it, I'll do it! You take a break. Su Qingping washed his hands and came to work. Su Ming handed over the work of sieving the salt to him, and Su Zhe was responsible for returning the fine salt to the pot and then cooking, and after a while, the second pot of salt crystallized.
In the evening, when they had been so busy, the four of them had already made a bag of exquisite snowflake salt, and at this time, Su Ren came back on horseback, and Su Qingping told Su Ren the news that Su Ming had made snowflake salt for the first time.
Su Ren was calm, but his frowning brow finally loosened a little. Let Su Zhe and Tie Zhu continue to make snowflake salt in the kitchen, and Su Ren called Su Ming and Su Qingping to the living room.
"The news that the eighth brother made the snowflake salt, we must keep it secret, and no one can tell it, if we let others know, we may be doomed." Su Ren Chen Sheng said to Su Qingping.
Su Qingping nodded, he naturally knew how important it was to have a way to make snowflake salt, the snowflake salt in this world was all mined from some high-quality salt wells, it was very rare, and generally only the palace and the real nobles could enjoy it, and the price of a pound in the market was more than one tael of silver, and it was still priceless.
The reason why snowflake salt has such a name is because it looks crystal clear and very beautiful, and there is no peculiar smell when eating, ordinary salt has some flavor even if it is much better, and some high-quality dishes in general restaurants must use snowflake salt.
"Today I went to the contact point of the Li family outside the Jinshan Acropolis, they have a very bad attitude, and outside the city are now discussing the matter of your escape from the Shen family, Eighth Brother." Su Ren looked at Su Ming and said.
"This Shen family is really going to kill the eighth brother, so he can't show up at will, and it is difficult for Songjiang Mansion to trade with us.
Fortunately, we now have a way to make snowflake salt, as long as we give us a little time, we can earn countless silver, and when the time comes, we are still afraid of his Shen family? Su Qingping said.
"It's not that simple, if we leak the news of Xuehua Salt, we don't have to deal with us from the Shen family, Jinshanwei Town will be the first to make us disappear, today I went to ask to see the commander, his attitude is very bad!" Su Ren frowned and said.
By now, Su Ren has a clear understanding of the rules of officialdom, that is, it has a relationship to promote and suppress has nothing to do with it, standing with the majority, there is no right or wrong in officialdom, and anything can be a bargaining chip.
Su Ming couldn't help but shake his head when he heard that the eldest brother still asked to see the commander of Jin Shanwei today, why do the commanders want to help you, how much do you have for a hundred households! Your guards came to me without food, because you think I should do justice to you?
"Every month, we have to hand over 30 stone of green salt to the thousands of households, and the output of our salt factory is so much, and if we increase it, we can only start a war with Qiyanbao to grab the salt pans, and now even if there is a way to make snowflake salt, in fact, we can't make much snowflake salt." After Su Ren said this, Su Qingping and Su Ming's excited hearts suddenly calmed down.
The salt farm must first guarantee the 30 stone green salt handed over to Jinshanwei Town, and they can only make snowflake salt if they have more. Although the price of this snowflake salt is several times that of green salt, they can't use snowflake salt to top green salt, so the output of the salt farm can't be increased, and the production method of this snowflake salt is actually of little significance to them.
"In short, the method of making snowflake salt must be kept secret, as far as the four of us and Tiezhu know, we can also tell Cao Chunrui, and no one else can reveal a word.
You have to be more careful in this transaction of snowflake salt, and then the fifth brother and the eighth brother, you will eat first, and then go back to the room to pay attention, eighth brother, you tell me the way, and I will do the work at night.
You will go to Hangzhou City tomorrow, sell the salt and buy more food, and come back, every year in May is a period of frequent pirate landings, we had better save more food. Su Ren said to the three brothers.
"That's... Tomorrow we will go to Hangzhou together, big brother, you can stay at home, we will go to the Hangzhou black market to sell salt, buy grain and go home, you make more rafts in the salt factory, ready to carry grain. Su Qingping said.
"There may not be less salt sold this time, I want to buy some crucibles and come back, and the rest of the money will be exchanged for food, if this time is successful, we will not be short of food for at least three months." Su Ming looked at the eldest brother and said.
It was already late at night, and the sister-in-law made dinner, and left a small half bowl of pork for her son, and all the rest was stewed for the Su Ren brothers to eat. Su Zhe has not eaten pork for a long time, one person has eaten two large bowls, and Tie Zhu is also blessed tonight, not to mention eating two large bowls of stewed pork, but also eating five nests.
When dinner was over, Su Ren saw that his three younger brothers had gone to bed, and he was busy in the kitchen and Tiezhu until Yin, and then made all the snowflake salt.
Seeing that Tie Zhu had gone home to sleep, Su Ren sat alone in the courtyard but did not feel sleepy at all.
The three younger brothers have grown up and can help him share things, and they are still young after all, and it is very risky to go to Hangzhou this time. After thinking for a long time, Su Ren went out of the courtyard, and he selected five of his most trustworthy men to go to their house and knock on the door, and only came back when it was almost dawn.
Su Ming woke up early in the morning, he looked at the 31 bullets he had accumulated, and thought of going out today, loading ten on his body, and at this time Su Zhe had already knocked on his door.
Su Zhe was very excited to go out of the door so far for the first time, and everyone was doing smuggling work this time, which made the young man's heart not excited.
After washing his face, Su Ming entered the kitchen, and his sister-in-law was already cooking breakfast, and the two bags were placed in the corner of the wall, and when Su Ming opened it, he saw that they were all snowflake salt, and the particles were of average size.
"The three of you go to wash up first, I don't worry about the three of you when I go out this time, I have already told Wei Hong and a few of them, this time the five of them will go with you.
You don't have to think about the safety of the fort, I divide this salt into eight parts, and I am not afraid of being found out on the way to eight packages, and after a while, each of the eight of you will take one and put it in the package, now you all eat first! The fear in Su Ren's heart was known only to him, and the pressure on his body made him have to take risks.
The three brothers ate breakfast in large gulps, Su Ren ate very slowly on the side, Qin held the child and kept holding crab sauce for Su Qingping, there is nothing good on the beach, the crab sauce made by the woman is the best food, and the children eat snacks are them.
After eating, it was not yet dawn when there was a knock on the door. Su Zhe was about to open the door but was stopped by his eldest brother, and Su Ren personally opened the door and brought Wei Hong and the five people in.
The five people led eight horses and stopped outside the door, the packages and kettles with dry food on their bodies were ready, and their knives had been camouflaged with long cloths and put together with the packages, Su Ming saw that 3 of these five people were all Wei Zhuang's small banners, and they were also the best people in martial arts.
Su Qingping also took out his knife and wrapped it in a long cloth, and Su Zhe did the same, they prepared their luggage and put the snowflake salt close to their bodies, and went out together to ride the horse.
"You should be careful outside, everything is dominated by the eighth brother, although the eighth brother is young, he has read books and has a flexible brain.
Don't be rash when you go out, if you encounter danger, it's important to protect yourself recently, fifth brother... Protect the eighth brother no matter what! Su Ren watched the eight people get on the horse and said to Su Qingping.
"Big brother, I know!" Su Qingping just replied simply, but Su Ming couldn't help but be moved when he heard it, only these family members care about him the most in this world, so he will do his best to protect them.