Chapter 2006 The thickness of the crucible (1)

Dieppe means "deep" in Anglo-Saxon.

Although I don’t know why this name was chosen, because it is an excellent port and the gravel road has been built, this also means that there are more pedestrians on the road than before, and they have to slow down, just like those

The large carriage carrying goods moved forward slowly.

There were cheese, cotton, grain, wine, fruits and vegetables, as well as fish and sugar on the big carriage. Looking at the dazzling goods on the carriage, Georgiana felt the atmosphere of harvest, and the country people chatting with them were also very talkative.

Most of them work in Dieppe, where there are shipyards and docks. Men work in the docks and shipyards, and their wives and children do carding and spinning work at home. These are all done on a piece-rate basis, and they send the finished products to the port.

They can use the factory to supplement their family income and go to the city to buy some necessities. They complain that the current salt is getting less and less salty.

Napoleon imposed an additional tax on salt, but instead of sending tax collectors to each house to taste the saltiness of other people's dishes as before, he started paying taxes at the source by looking for salt merchants.

If the salt dealer increases the price, then everyone knows that the indirect tax is allocated to consumers, so they use the old method. Originally, salt is produced in the west, and there are people who work in the salt field and take unadulterated salt.

After returning home, they found that the salt they bought in the store was so bland that they almost lost their salty taste. However, they just complained a little. They could get some handmade coarse sea salt themselves, since there is no fence in the sea anyway.

Generally speaking, they still like peace. Peaceful days are much better than during the war, and there are many more types of food to choose from on the table than before.

Then we talked about using salt to make alkali. Although the country people didn't understand the specific principle, they knew that salt and sulfuric acid were used. There was also a factory in Saint-Denis, Paris, and many salt fields had to supply it.

It supplies.

The doctor who invented this technology once served the Duke of Orleans. During the Revolution, the Duke of Orleans was guillotined, the factory was confiscated, and the method of making alkali was made public. I don’t know what happened to him now.

"Do you know who they are talking about?" Georgiana asked the girls in the car, and they all looked confused.

Georgiana looked back at Farron's carriage, planning to ask him about it after the carriage stopped.

As soon as his mind wandered, the topics of those passers-by changed.

For these people, chemistry, like magic potions, requires a crucible. Legend has it that the archmage Ceridwen had a magical crucible that once belonged to Dagda and was later brought to Brita as Bronwen's dowry.

Yes, you just need to put the right things in it, and you can get unlimited inspiration and knowledge.

One of the archmage's sons, Avagddu, was born ugly. His mother Ceridwin decided to train his son to be a wise man to make up for his shortcomings in appearance, so under the guidance of the wizard Feryllt's works

, brewed this magic potion for him that can gain supreme wisdom.

However, the process of brewing this potion was very cumbersome, requiring a whole year, and requiring constant stirring, so the Archmage asked a young boy, Gwion, to help her watch the pot.

Guion worked diligently until one day, when the year was about to end, a small accident occurred. Three drops of the decoction from the crucible splashed onto his hand. Guion subconsciously licked the potion on his hand.

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However, the most precious thing in the whole pot of potion was the few drops that Guion licked. Without those few drops of potion, everything in the crucible was poison, so this ordinary boy suddenly had magical powers.

Guion had the ability to predict the future. He got into trouble and chose to run away immediately. When the Archmage came back, he discovered the abnormality in the potion and chased him out. Guion turned into a hare, and the Archmage turned into a greyhound;

Guion turned into a fish, and the Archmage turned into an otter; Guion turned into a bird, and the Archmage turned into an eagle. Later, the Archmage chased the exhausted Guion into a barn.

became a grain of corn, and Ceredwen became an old hen.

Among the mountain-like grains, Ceredwen found the one that Guion had transformed into and ate it. Unexpectedly, she became pregnant and even gave birth to the child. She knew that the father of the child was Guion.

He planned to kill him, but he didn't do it because the child was so cute, so he wrapped him in a leather package and threw him into the sea, leaving him to fend for himself.

There was a salmon fisherman named Elphin who was really poor and unlucky. One day a leather package bumped into their boat. He and his father opened it and found a baby lying inside.

The child was indeed cute, so the father and son decided to adopt him and named him Talisin. When he grew up, he became a famous poet and prophet around King Arthur.

Taliesin has a poem:

Before I took shape, I had many changes.

I was a sword, fine and mottled,

I was a tear in the air,

I was the darkest among the stars,

I was a word of words,

I was an original book.

"Which star is the dimmest among the stars, ma'am?" asked Philyl.

"If you are talking about the dimmest constellation that can be observed with the naked eye, it is Lynx." Georgiana said casually, "That constellation is all dark stars, so it is named Lynx, which means only people with sharp eyesight like lynxes

Only the same people can see this dim constellation."

Philyl nodded.

"How did you know?" Matilda asked.

Georgiana remembered her adventures in the Alps, so she made up a story and told it to them.

The girls were a little surprised, but did not take it seriously. After all, storytelling was a kind of entertainment in Bonaparte's court.

When life becomes stable, people begin to look forward to a bright future, just like the great mage Cedrewin. Even if their son is not good-looking, parents still hope that he will be wise and make up for his innate shortcomings.

There were really no decent towns on the way to Dieppe, not even an inn or a tavern, so they finally came across a guest house.

It was built for road construction workers. Brittany is vast and sparsely populated. The owner of this guest house had wandered around before. He was originally a boy from a poor family, and later worked as a vegetable farmer in a landlord's family. He and the landlord

My daughter is getting better.

The landlord sent his daughter to work as a seamstress in the hope that she would marry into a better family than a vegetable farmer. After the girl became pregnant, they ignored her parents' objections and got married. However, the owner of the guest house could not support his child, so he had to continue to wander around looking for work.

His wife and children were left in the care of his parents.

It wasn't until he heard that the road was going to be built that he decided to build a wooden guest house for these workers. In fact, because of the construction of the Saint-Martin Canal, some people also built guest houses and bathrooms for the canal workers, and they used soap from Marseille.

Farron is familiar with making soap. Without alkali, soap cannot be made. The alkali used in Marseille soap is extracted from plant ash, which is mild and non-irritating. In other production areas, alkali produced by chemical reaction is added. Marseille soap has good

The reputation is because Louis XIV once ordered that olive oil must be used instead of animal fat, and no other spices can be added, so Marseille soap is fragrance-free.

Later, Georgiana remembered the doctor she had heard on the road who had served the Duke of Orleans, and asked Farron about his whereabouts. Farron looked embarrassed.

Just then their lunch arrived, which was a traditional fish soup from Brittany. Because it was cooked in a large pot in the guest house, you could faintly see the fish bones that were not completely cooked in the milky white fish soup. It looked strange.

Not delicious.

Fortunately, the subsequent barbecue scallops and pork sausages tasted pretty good, and the vegetables provided by the vegetable farmers were very fresh. It was good to be able to eat these in the wasteland.

After lunch, she continued on the road. Maybe the smell of the fish soup was a bit strong at noon, so she felt a little nauseous after getting in the car.

Matilda looked at her expectantly.

She knew what Matilda expected. They had heard several pregnancy-related stories along the way.

But she wasn't sure whether she wanted to have children or not.

Children in this world do not have umbilical cords, although they have belly buttons like ordinary children after birth.

Besides the weird feeling, the most important thing was that she still hoped that Severus would come back to find her.

A woman who has children can no longer have anything to do with her ex, and that's what Lily did.

The owner of the guest house still has a conscience. Although he is a bit unlucky, he still knows how to find jobs to support his family. There are several girls in the guest house run by Georgiana who were abandoned after becoming pregnant, although they are not like Merope.

ugly.

Georgiana thought again of the girl who was brewing love potion in the dormitory. She didn't want to drug anyone, but she wanted to know what she liked best.

She subconsciously touched the bracelet on her wrist.

Sometimes you can't get the one you like the most, just like you can't date the most beautiful girl.

There are always some shortcomings in everyone's life, and she seems to understand a little bit what it feels like.
Chapter completed!