Bucket is a unit of measurement, one bucket is about six catties, and half a bucket is three catties, about three taels of silver.

A pound of salt is equivalent to the monthly income of many ordinary people, and the price can indeed be called expensive.

He remembered that some nutritionists on the planet had said that a normal person should consume 5 grams of salt a day. It is three taels of salt a month, and a family of three is almost a catty a month. This is very cheap for earthlings, but it is extremely expensive for Dayao people.

Even the cooks in the animal garden put less salt in it. Because in Dayao, meat is a vegetable and a staple food, on the one hand, the price of salt is high, and on the other hand, it is too salty to eat.

Judging from the food that Ren Baqian ate in the Beast Garden, the amount of salt eaten by the Dayao people was about half that of the earthlings.

That is, a family of three eats half a catty of salt a month, which makes Dayao's ordinary family barely able to afford it. Still, salt tigers are indeed a great burden.

Like what is happening in the shop now, it's not the first time, and it's not the last.

People must eat salt, but Dayao does not produce salt, so he can only let these merchants handle it.

In the same way, Dayao people don't make fur, and if the fur is not sold, it will rot after a while.

Together, these things made Dayao's foreign merchants seem to have formed a tacit understanding, whether it is the price of buying furs or selling salt, they are almost the same, so as to obtain the maximum profit.

Ren Baqian stood at the door of the shop and looked at the dispute inside, shaking his head slightly, this is the consequence of the lack of national materials and technology.

"Let's go. Ren Baqian said.

With a rattan gourd and an iron knife, he went around the door of the shop, but the inside was not finished, and there was nothing to see, so he went to the Chen family's shop again.

Chen Zisheng has been waiting for Ren 8,000 in the past few days, but he can't read a word of the three books in his hand, which makes him feel anxious.

After seeing Ren Baqian, his eyes lit up: "Mr. Ren, you are here." I've been waiting for you every day. ”

"I promised you, I will definitely come to translate for you. Ren Baqian said with a smile.

Chen Zisheng finished reading the patient in his hand, so he asked the apprentice to sit here for him, took Ren Baqian to the back room, and carefully took out the three books from the first box.

Ren Baqian picked up "Miscellaneous Treatises on Typhoid Fever" from it and asked Chen Zisheng to prepare a pen and paper record.

As Ren Baqian read there, Chen Zisheng's hands were as fast as chicken paws on the paper, and he could see that he could have a phantom.

Ren Baqian looked at his speed of writing and had to admire. Looking at his words again, I admire him even more.

It is estimated that you will not be able to decipher it by a codebreaking expert.

Ren Baqian felt hungry after reading it for less than an hour, but it was not easy to come once, and seeing that Chen Zisheng had no idea of resting, he drank water hard. Drink plenty of water when you're hungry, and you can fill your stomach to some extent.

Finally, after reading for an hour and a half, seeing that Chen Zisheng's eyes were straight, and his body was also soaked with sweat, Ren Baqian had to stop.

It would be too much of a sin to make him tired of copying this thing.

Waiting for Ren Baqian to stop, Chen Zisheng immediately threw away the pen, and his hand trembled like a chicken's paw.

"I'm tired of the old man. Chen Zisheng shouted, grabbed a jar of water and poured it into his mouth.

Chen Zisheng raised his neck and finished pouring water, his right hand was still pumping straight as if he was convulsing, and he didn't forget to look up and ask Su Wen: "How much have you written?"

"About eight more times. Ren Baqian looked at the thickness of the book and said.

Chen Zisheng gritted his teeth and shook his hands: "I asked my apprentice to come in and write." ”

"Forget it, I still have something to do, I'll come back someday. Ren Baqian said.

When Chen Zisheng heard this, he seemed to let go of his burden, and sighed: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

It seems that the more than one hour just now really exhausted him.

Ren Baqian estimated that if he let himself write for more than an hour, that is, three hours, he would probably tremble more than him.

I went to the blacksmith shop with the rattan gourd and the iron knife that had fallen asleep on the bed, and just a few steps out of the medicine shop, I heard someone next to me say indignantly: "Our animal skins have only been exchanged for a bucket and a half of salt, and it won't take a few days in the stockade, so we just robbed the shop at night." ”

Ren Baqian is a joy when he hears this voice, this is really fateful, and he actually encountered it again.

Turning his head to look over, Nagu and a big man were standing aside, Nagu looked so pale that she could have a soy sauce bottle on her mouth.

"Don't talk nonsense. Let's go back and see if we can hunt more prey these days. The big man carried a bag and taught her that the bag should be the salt that the two of them had exchanged.

"It's a pity that you can't eat the salt water in the mountains, otherwise you don't need to buy salt from them. ”

"That's salt water? It's poisonous water, and even animals don't eat it. Some people have eaten it before, although it has a salty taste, but after eating it, they will get pimples all over their bodies, vomit, and some more people will fall into a coma or even die. If you eat that, you might as well rob them of their shop at night, as you said. Dahan snorted coldly.

Ren Baqian was about to walk past the two of them, but when he heard this, he was suddenly stunned and stopped directly.

"Two!" Ren Baqian turned his head and arched his hand at the two of them.

"Who are you?" the big man looked at with a fierce expression.

"Ah, what day are you the ......" Nagu recognized Ren Yaqian as coming.

"I heard the two of you just talk about salt water, I don't know what it is?" Ren Baqian asked.

Dahan listened to his question, snorted coldly and ignored him at all. I just got angry in those shops, and I have no place to sprinkle it at this time.

"I'm not from Yunguo, I'm not from Chen, I'm not from Daxia, I'm currently on an errand in the Beast Garden, and the matter between the two of them and those merchants has nothing to do with me. It stands to reason that I should be a great talent right now. Ren Baqian looked at the attitude of the two, and he didn't have to think about it to know the reason, so he immediately said with a smile.

"This is the steward of the beast garden. The iron knife behind him interjected.

The Beast Garden is an annex of the Imperial Palace, and the two of them looked a little better after hearing that they were on an errand in the Beast Garden, and turned their heads to look Ren Baqian up and down: "What do you ask about salt water? That thing has already been thought of a way, and it can't be eaten at all, not even the beasts on the mountain." ”

"If it's poisonous, you can't eat it, but maybe you can refine it and get rid of it, and you don't have to worry about eating salt. Ren Baqian said.

"No way. Dahan said categorically.

"Don't bother, someone has already thought about it. Nagu also said on the side, her attitude towards Ren Baqian is much better than that of Dahan, maybe because she bumped into Ren Baqian at the beginning, so she doesn't feel so strange.

"You'll have to listen to the two of you talk about the salt water situation first. Ren Baqian said.

"The water was in a pool on the mountain, and the water was salty and bitter and smelly, and we all called it the Black Pool. Nagu said.

"Is the water black?, does it smell like rotten eggs," Ren Baqian hurriedly asked.

Nagu nodded. "It's dark and muddy, and there's not anything around it. It does smell of rotten eggs. ”