Chapter 14 Saltpeter Powder

But then again, they were already fleeing the famine.

They walked to a deserted village, and they didn't plan to stop, but Cheng San, this guy, glanced at the houses in the depths and asked Shu Yan to stop.

He took a dagger and walked deeper into the village.

Shu Yan was not at ease, so he followed.

I saw that the houses here were very old, and they were all made of fired stone bricks, and as they grew older, there was a lot of white powder growing on the stone bricks.

I saw Cheng San scraping the powder off. Very carefully received it in the bag.

Shu Yan couldn't help but say: One sulfur, two nitrate, three charcoal? Is this going to be black powder?

Cheng San glanced at Shu Yan, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Cheng San: Does the godmother know that this is black powder?

Although Shu Yan didn't say anything, she was a little proud in her heart, she studied chemistry in college in her last life, although she didn't engage in related work in the end.

But she didn't come into this world to know nothing.

This Cheng San took out a fire fold that had long been broken from his arms, Shu Yan looked at Cheng San with some curiosity, Cheng San found an empty boundary, found some straw, and also found some charcoal fire from under the stove of some empty houses.

Shu Yan watched Cheng San roll those things, stuff them with fire, and then light them with flint and steel.

A brand new fire fold is ready.

Shu Yan couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Your hands-on ability is very strong, but it's a pity that you are fleeing now, if you can find a place, maybe you can make fertilizer." ”

Cheng San was stunned for a moment, and he looked at Shu Yan curiously.

Cheng San: "What is the fertilizer that the godmother is talking about?" What's delicious? ”

Shu Yan coughed lightly and held back the mocking words that came out of his mouth.

Shu Yan said: "It is different from the agricultural fertilizer that farmers apply to grow crops, it is a fertilizer with better effect, and it can be applied on a large scale." ”

Cheng San's eyes widened, and he touched his chin.

"If there really is such a thing, I will sell it to the landlord, then I will be rich, and I will be able to go back to the country and marry eighteen wives."

Shu Yan was a little helpless, she originally wanted to mention this kid, after all, this kid recognized herself as a godmother and wanted to take him to the road, but he was full of eighteen wives, which was really useless.

Shu Yan said: "Eighteen wives, you are not afraid of dying of exhaustion." ”

Cheng San's movements in his hands didn't stop, but he said: "Godmother, look at my body, the people who can survive in that place are basically born with good bodies, my body is very good, my family is starving to death, I didn't starve to death." ”

Cheng San's words were extremely plain, as if it wasn't something that happened to him.

Shu Yan looked sideways, and she asked in a low voice, "Then how did you grow up?" ”

Cheng Sandao: "After my father died, I entered the temple as a monk for a year, and then a pilgrim saw that I was good-looking, so he bought me as a servant at home, I lived in the pilgrim's house for three years, recognized and read, but the pilgrim was not a big family, and then there was a peasant uprising in that place, and the rebels killed his whole family,"

Shu Yan couldn't help frowning, this kid's life experience is really a bit rich, no wonder his personality background is so complicated.

Cheng San seemed to have opened the conversation.

Cheng San: "When the rebel leader saw that I was still young, he took me with him and taught me a lot of things, but the rebel leader Chen Sheng was killed, and I ate in prison for a few months, and the Han army killed me again, so I was forced to join the Han army. ”

This sentence made Shu Yan a little helpless, this kid will die if he doesn't shake his wit.

Shu Yan looked at the extremely complicated young man in front of him and asked an inexplicable question.

Shu Yan said: "Your name is really Cheng San? ”

Cheng San looked at Shu Yan fixedly, and he said, "Godmother can also call me Ah San, or Xiao Sansan." ”

Shu Yan said: "You give me death." ”

Cheng San had already dealt with what he wanted to do, he stood up and walked up to Shu Yan, much taller than Shu Yan.

Cheng San: "My name is this because I am the third person in our family, and everyone else is dead." ”

Shu Yan, she thought about a lot of messy things.

Later, when she was on the road, because she was always distracted and always wrestled, Cheng San let Shu Yan sit on the donkey.

Shu Yan sat on a tall donkey, and in the distance was the boundless wasteland, which was originally the richest area in the south of the Yangtze River, but under the extremely harsh land annexation and years of war, the grass on the ground had changed several stubbles.

Little Yu'an walked on the road and memorized poems very hard.

The spring breeze in the distance, the wild grass and wild flowers swaying with the wind, the sunset falling on the river in the distance, and the sound of the children's recitation of poems, it can be said that the scenery is not good.

But Shu Yan was cast a shadow in his heart.

Some time ago, she didn't think about it, she didn't think that God threw her a useless modern person to ancient times, and she also wore it on an old lady who had already married and had children.

What is the purpose of the hell.

Although Shu Yan is an atheist, since something has happened that science can't explain, it should always be explained.

She must have come to this world with some great mission.

Others usually experience love-hate entanglements, but she feels that she shouldn't have to go through it.

So what did she come to this world for?

Just when Shu Yan fell into deep contemplation, Cheng San suddenly screamed.

"Godmother, why don't you come down for a while? Don't be tired of donkeys. ”

Shu Yan jumped down neatly on his legs and feet, and then secretly slandered himself.

You can't come here to be a godmother.

They hurried to the middle of the night, this place was wild, and they could not find a place to shelter from the wind and rain, so they had to find a big tree and lay down their own bedding rolls, which became a temporary residence.

But as soon as he sat down, Shu Yan saw a bright bald scoop not far away.

Naturally, they are monks who sleep in the wilderness.

Cheng San hurriedly said to a few people: "I'll be eating later, lest the old bald donkey come over to fight the autumn wind." ”

Shu Yan couldn't help but sigh, being young is good, and he could actually see that it was an old monk.

But the old monk seemed to have ears to the wind, and stood up directly and trotted all the way towards a few people.

I saw that the old monk was wearing a shabby robe, his old face was like dead tree bark, and the flesh on his eyelids was about to fall off.

But this old monk is very familiar with the words: a few donors, I don't know if I can give the old man a meal.

The little fish took out the dried fish that had long since turned black directly from the bag.

Then he said with an innocent face: "Master, we only have dried fish." ”

The old monk clasped his hands together and said only one word Amitabha.

"Amitabha, the matter is urgent, the dried fish has passed through the belly, and the Buddha has left it in his heart."

In desperation, Shu Yan had no choice but to put the pot up, and then went to dig some wild vegetables nearby, boiled them together, and sent the old bald donkey away first.

But after the old monk finished eating the hard dried fish like slippers, he said with a smile on his face that it was very delicious.

Shu Yanxin said that this old monk is really thick-skinned and deserves to live a long time.