"Get up!"

Li Zhan came to his father's workshop in a bamboo room outside the courtyard. At this time, Li Dafu, Zhang Hei, Zhang Shun, Zhang Wen and Zhang Liang were all making wooden boxes.

Seeing Li Zhan come in, Li Dafu asked with a smile, and then started working again.

“How many wooden boxes can be made in a day?”

Li Zhan asked.

"How many do you need about three hundred Zhan'er?" Li Dafu stood up and looked at Li Zhan and asked.

"The more, the better. However, for the time being, we need two thousand firsts, and we need to make the business start to turn around." Li Zhan smiled, then greeted his uncle and cousins ​​and went out.

When he came outside, Li Zhan saw his grandfather bringing Li Sheng, Zhang Gong and Zhang Jian grinding saltpeter powder. What I want to explain here is that Li family grinding saltpeter powder has tools.

The tool is the stone mill. It was probably when the Warring States Period entered the historical stage. It is generally believed that stone mills had been widely used by the people by the Qin and Han Dynasties. The technology of grinding flour gradually matured, and delicious pasta such as noodles and steamed buns and bread were developed, so more and more Chinese people began to use wheat as their staple food.

At the same time, those Europeans were still using the most primitive methods to make bread.

One, two, three were all shirtless, and the muscles on his body really made Li Zhan feel ashamed. At this time, Li Zhan knew why his uncle's two sons came to push the stone and crush it. This muscle is a pity that he doesn't use to push the stone and crush it.

"Grandpa!"

He shouted softly, and Zhang Damao turned around and saw that it was Li Zhan. He immediately smiled and said, "Zhan'er woke up. Oh, he got up too early, why don't you sleep for a while?"

"Haha!" Looking at the sun that was almost noon, Li Zhan smiled and said, "I won't sleep anymore. Get up and take a look. How much stone powder have you crushed?"

"Look!" Zhang Damao took out an empty bag and said with a smile: "It's gone!"

"Thank you for your hard work!" Li Zhan greeted Li Sheng, Zhang Gong and Zhang Jian.

"Big brother, cousin!" Li Sheng, Zhang Gong, and Zhang Jian immediately responded to Li Zhan with a smile.

At this time, Zhang Damao smiled and said, "It's just that I'm crushing some stones. What's the hard work? Moreover, these stones are not hard at all. By the way, Zhan'er, I actually saw such stones on the mountain behind."

"Ah?" Li Zhan was stunned, and looked at Zhang Damao on the side and asked in surprise: "Grandpa, you can't read it wrong, right?"

"How could it be that there are really many mistakes? It's just that I didn't know what these were done before. If I knew, I'll bring you one for you to see." Zhang Damao seemed very confident.

Li Zhan was also surprised.

Because according to Li Zhan’s memory, the mountain Zhang Damao mentioned was the Wangshun Mountain in the future. This Wangshun Mountain was a national forest park in the later generations. Have you ever heard of a saltpeter mine?

But the fact that there is no future generations does not mean that there is no before. Maybe it was picked up in a certain dynasty?

Thinking of this, Li Zhan looked at his grandfather and said, "Grandpa, let's go into the mountain later."

Wangshun Mountain is located in the south of Qinling Mountain and the Ba River in the north, surrounded by blue water, and the scenery is charming. It is named after the twenty-four filial piety kings of Shundan, who buried his mother in this ancient China.

The poet Du Fu once wrote a poem: "The Lan Pass falls from thousands of streams, and the Jade Mountains are high and the two peaks are cold." Han Yu was demoted to Chaozhou and passed by Lan Pass and was blocked by heavy snow, leaving behind an eternal quatrain "Where is the home in the Qinling Mountains? The snow covers Lan Pass and the horses are not moving forward."

Li Zhan climbed once, but this time was completely different from the last time. This time it was even more beautiful because it was summer, with green shades, cool and pleasant fragrant trees, spring trees, money maple, turquoise, rowan and antelope, black bear, giant salamander, etc., so beautiful that it is really breathtaking!

Li Zhan regretted that there were no bows and arrows at his home, otherwise he would have been able to get some wild game back and follow his grandfather, and his younger brothers surrounded him in the middle.

After walking through a few woods and streams, Li Zhan enjoyed the scenery along the way. However, Li Zhan's younger brothers were always careful to protect Li Zhan. You should know that his grandfather had spoken before he came. As long as his cousin was injured, he would use a stick to kill you.

So no matter how beautiful the scenery is, they have no intention of seeing it.

"Zhan'er is right in front."

Zhang Damao in front of him smiled, followed him with Li Zhan and others over a stream, passed through a forest, and came to a flat belly of the mountain. Here, Li Zhan finally saw a large area of ​​saltpeter mine exposed on the surface.

"Is Zhan'er this?" Zhang Damao walked to Li Zhan and asked as if he was seeking credit.

"Yes!" Li Zhan said happily with a smile: "Grandpa, you are really amazing. I just need this! That's great. Our family will no longer worry about missing this in the future. How did you discover this, grandpa?"

"Haha, it's a coincidence. About a year ago, a pair of nobles came to Lantian to play and wanted to find someone to enter the mountain. Later, I was selected and gave me ten big money. When they were hunting, they came here accidentally and I followed them."

"It's really God helping me." Li Zhan giggled.

"That's natural Zhan'er, and the gods are the son of a god. Of course, God will protect you, too."

"Huh!" Just as Zhang Damao kept praising his grandson, our classmate Li Zhan let out a light "Huh" and he actually saw another exposed mineral on the other side.

After Li Zhan looked carefully, he shouted in surprise: "Ran Yan!"

Rock salt is stone salt. This thing is colorless and transparent. When it contains impurities, it is light gray, yellow, red, black, and has a glass luster. It is a typical mineral caused by chemical deposition. It is often deposited in salt lakes and coastal shallow lagoons of various geological ages under dry and hot climates. It is symbiotic or associated with potassium salt, light halite, gypsum, ankylossum, Glauber's salt, etc.

Just when Li Zhan wanted to rush over, Zhang Damao stopped Li Zhan and said, "Zhan'er, what are you doing?"

"Grandpa has salt."

"Salt?" Zhang Damao shook his head repeatedly and said, "The child is not salt. The stone looks like salt and has a little saltiness. However, eating that kind of salt will kill people.

You don’t know that last time, Ergou from Zhangjia Village died after eating this kind of stone.”

"Haha!" Looking at the grandfather who was worried about him, Li Zhan suddenly laughed. The laughter made Li Zhan's grandfather and younger brothers stunned.

However, Li Zhan said hehe, "Grandpa is just a rock mine, of course he can't eat it directly. There are many toxic substances in it. However, when I was in the fairy world, I learned how to use methods to get out the toxic substances in it.

After the toxic substances are gone, the salt left there is edible!"
Chapter completed!