Salt is the first of all flavors.

Many dishes don't need to be seasoned, just a few sprinkles of salt can add a lot of flavor immediately.

It's a pity that although the salt is good, the asking price is too expensive.

Even if southern Xinjiang is a sea salt production area, a small bag of mediocre coarse salt can be sold for 30 copper coins. It is still difficult for the untouchables to feed their hunger, so how can they have so much money left over to buy salt?

Many of the untouchables are yellow-skinned, languishing, and even convulsive at night, like walking corpses. In fact, it may not be the so-called "miasma", it is likely that the salt intake is insufficient on weekdays.

At this time, Xu Gang tasted those bitter salt crystals, and only felt that he had tasted the delicacy of the world.

Seeing that there was still a little bit on his fingers, he wanted to suck it clean, but after thinking about it, he spilled the salt back again.

Noticing this little action of his good brother, Qin He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"I said that I will definitely bring you rich, whether it is salt or money in the future, we will have as much as we want!" Qin He patted Xu Gang's shoulder vigorously.

"Brother Qin, I believe you!" Xu Gang replied vigorously.

He couldn't understand how the Qin River could refine salt from the bitter pool water, so he could only worship it as a god in his heart.

"I'll go fetch a few more buckets of bitter pool water!" Xu Gang was particularly motivated at this time.

"Okay, be careful along the way."

One of the two took water, and the other got up the pot to refine salt, and so on all night.

When the sky was white, the two of them had already saved a full pot of salt.

The salt is not clean white, but amber, and if you look closely, you can glimpse the black impurities inside.

Qin He knew that the current conditions were limited, and it was not easy to refine such a quality. In the future, when it is bigger, we will consider improving the process and removing impurities.

"Tomorrow we will have a few more stoves, so that we will soon be rich!" Xu Gang said excitedly.

Qin He nodded, but his brows couldn't stretch.

"Brother Qin, what's wrong with you?" Xu Gang asked suspiciously.

Qin He said solemnly: "Refining salt is only the first step, we have to turn salt into money, and there is another difficulty to overcome." ”

"What's the difficulty?"

"Ship!"

It is a well-known fact that selling smuggled salt is a felony and cannot be sold in the open.

But there is also a way to sell salt privately - in the past, it has been monopolized by the salt gang and the pirates.

These two groups of people have a lot of bloody conflicts in order to compete for profit, if Qin He and Xu Gang rashly go to the black market to sell salt, I am afraid that they will be in a different place that night!

After listening to Qin He's words, Xu Gang was stunned at first, and then became nervous.

"What then? We've worked so hard to get so much salt, we can't just smash it in our hands and eat it ourselves, right? ”

Qin He will choose to make salt, and naturally he has already thought of a way.

He is going to find a master with good eyes to cooperate, and give the salt to the other party for resale. In this way, although a part of the profit will be lost, the shipment is the fastest and the risk is the lowest.

Qin He solemnly stated his thoughts, and then asked Xu Gang's opinion. After all, when it comes to money, you must first put the words on the table and make it clear.

Xu Gang scratched his head after hearing this, "Brother Qin, if you have an idea, I will listen to you." ”

"Okay." Qin He nodded, "You pack up, let's bring a bag of salt to the blind man to cooperate." ”

The Blind Man is a well-known underlord in the area, who makes a living by buying stolen goods from untouchables at low prices and reselling them. He also has a notorious sister, the third aunt who specializes in the skin and meat business - this sister and brother are a perfect match for one selling women and the other for selling black goods.

At that moment, Xu Gang obeyed Qin He's instructions to separate a small bag of salt as a sample, and then hid the rest of the salt in a debris pile—he wanted to hide it in a more secret location, but Qin He stopped him. Their private salt looks like a pile of rubble, which no one notices when it is placed in the debris, and if it is hidden too deeply, it will be suspicious.

Xu Gang felt justified and admired Qin He more and more.

Seeing that the plan to make a fortune was close at hand, the two who hadn't slept all night were not tired at all, and after preparing everything, they went straight to find the blind man.

The blind man receives the goods in a dilapidated fox fairy temple on weekdays.

Qin Xu and the others hurried to the Fox Immortal Temple non-stop, and sure enough, they bumped into a rickety figure.

The man's back was like a hump, his legs were long and short, he had an iron crutch under his right arm, the left side of his face was full of burns, and his eyes were dark hollows.

The appearance is so terrifying, isn't it who is blind?

The blind man was accompanied by four or five companions with sticks at their waists, and when he saw Qin He and Xu Gang coming up, he stopped the two first.

Xu Gang was tall, so the person who came to block him involuntarily pressed his hand on the stick on his waist.

"Fourth Master Hu!" Qin He stopped and greeted politely, "You Liang'er, please order." ”

"Liang'er" means good goods, and it can also be used on women with outstanding appearances.

"Click" is to ask the other party to make an offer.

Hearing that there was something good, the blind man, who was holding a clay pot and carefully observing the texture, carefully put the jar down, and then glanced at the two of them.

"Brother Qin, I haven't seen you for a while." The blind man grinned.

Qin He's predecessor was a small character, with neither power nor ability, but he loved to talk about the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, so he left a good reputation.

The blind man waved his hand and motioned for Qin and Xu to come over.

"It's not the opening point yet." The blind man said.

There are also rules for buying and selling, Qin and Xu came too early, no wonder they were stopped.

"I can't see the sun this brightly, I hope the fourth master will forgive me." Qin He's attitude was respectful.

The blind man nodded. Today's Qin He knows how to count etiquette, which makes him a little surprised.

He asked his companion to take out the wooden table from the Fox Immortal Temple, and took out a piece of silk cloth from his arms, unfolded it and spread it on the table.

"Lift the lid." The blind man motioned for Qin He to take out the goods and put them on the table.

The reason why you have to go to the trouble of getting a table is because of the principle that "good goods are not enough" - if something falls in the middle of the handover or something else goes wrong, who is it?

Qin He also gave Xu Gang a look, and Xu Gang immediately took out the salt in his arms and poured it on the table.

Seeing this amber crystal, the blind man was stunned for a moment, and then his one-eyed eyes were round.

"It's—"

"Salt." The Qin River is no longer hidden.

The blind man had seen private salt before, but it was the first time he had seen such a color.

In order to show that it was not toxic, Qin He and Xu Gang each dipped a little salt crystal and put it in their mouths. The blind man hesitated slightly, touched a little with his finger where Qin He had touched, and gently touched his tongue.

"Phew!" The bitter taste in his mouth immediately made him vomit.

But the blind man immediately showed joy, and the ugly face, which was covered with burns and missing an eye, grinned horribly.

"How much salt do you have?" The blind man asked happily.

I didn't think that Qin He asked directly.

"How much do you dare to ask?"