Chapter 47 Blackwater Pool
A dou is a unit of measurement. One dou is about six kilograms, and a half dou is only three kilograms, or about three kilograms.
One pound of salt per pound is equivalent to the income of many ordinary people in a month, and this price is indeed expensive.
He remembered that some nutritionists on Earth said that a person should eat 5 grams of salt a day. One month is only three taels of salt, and a family of three is about one pound a month. This is very cheap for the earthlings, but it is an extremely expensive thing for Da Yao people.
Even the chefs in the Beast Garden put less salt when putting in it. Because in Dayao, meat is a dish and a staple food. On the one hand, the salt is expensive, and on the other hand, it is too salty to eat.
Judging from the food Ren Baqian ate in the Beast Garden, Da Yaoren eats about half of the salt that the Earthlings eat.
That is, the family of three eats half a kilogram of salt a month, which makes the ordinary family of Dayao barely bear but also a huge burden.
Like what happened in the shop, it is not the first time, nor the last time.
People must eat salt, but Dayao does not produce salt, so they can only let these merchants control it.
Similarly, Dayao Ren does not know how to make fur with nitrogen. If the fur is not sold, it will rot in a short time.
These things combined together made Dayao's foreign businessmen seem to have formed a tacit understanding, whether it is the price of purchasing fur or selling salt, it is almost the same, so that the maximum profit can be obtained.
Ren Baqian stood at the door of the shop and looked at the dispute inside, shook his head slightly. This was the consequence of the lack of materials and technology in the country.
"Let's go." Ren Baqian said.
I walked around the shop with my vine gourd and iron knife. I hadn't finished it and had nothing to see. I turned to the Chen shop again.
Chen Zisheng has been waiting for Ren Baqian these days but is eager to see him. He can't understand a word of the three books in his hand, which makes him feel anxious.
When he saw Ren Baqian's eyes lit up: "Mr. Ren, you are here. I will wait for you every day these days."
"I promised you, and I will definitely come to translate for you." Ren Baqian said.
After Chen Zisheng finished reading the patient in his hand, he asked his apprentice to sit here for him, pulled Ren Baqian to the inner room, and carefully took out three books from a box.
Ren Baqian picked up the "Miscellaneous Treatise on Phycophagocytic Diseases" and asked Chen Zisheng to prepare paper and pen records.
As Ren Baqian was reading there, Chen Zisheng quickly pulled his hands on the paper like chicken claws, and he could see that he could have a phantom.
Ren Baqian had to admire his speed of writing. When he looked at his handwriting, he admired even more.
I guess I can't even find a password deciphering expert.
Ren Baqian felt hungry after reading less than an hour, but it was not easy to come once. Seeing that Chen Zisheng had no idea of rest, he drank water hard. Drinking more water when he was hungry can fill his stomach.
After reading for an hour and a half, I saw Chen Zisheng's eyes straightened and his body was covered with sweat. Ren Baqian had to stop.
If copying this thing makes him tired after all, it would be a great sin.
After Ren Baqian stopped, Chen Zisheng immediately threw the pen, and his hands were trembling like chicken claws.
"I'm so tired." Chen Zisheng shouted and grabbed a can of water and poured it into his mouth.
Chen Zisheng raised his neck and poured water, and his right hand was still thrusting like a snoring wind. He still looked up and asked Su: "How many have you written?"
"It will take about eight times." Ren Baqian said after reading the thickness of the book.
Chen Zisheng gritted his teeth and shook his hands: "I'll let my apprentice come in and write."
"Forget it, I still have something to do, I will come again one day." Ren Baqian said.
When Chen Zisheng heard this, he seemed to put down his burden and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good, it's good."
It seems that the more than one hour just now really made him exhausted.
If Ren Baqian had to write for more than an hour, that is, for only three hours, he would probably have to shake better than him.
I took the vine gourd and iron knife leaning against the bed and had already fallen asleep. I just walked a few steps away from the medicine shop and heard someone beside me angrily saying: "Our animal skins have only been replaced with half a bucket of salt. It will take only a few days in the village, so I'd just snatch the shop tonight."
Ren Baqian was so happy when he heard this sound. It was really destined to be met again.
Turning his head and looking over, Nagu stood aside with a big man. Nagu looked soy sauce bottles could be hung on his mouth.
"Don't talk nonsense. Let's go back and see if you can catch more prey these days." The big man taught her a lesson with a bag, and the bag should be the salt exchanged for the two of them.
"It's a pity that the salt water in the mountains cannot be eaten, otherwise why don't you need to buy salt from them?"
"That's not salt water? That's poisonous water, and even animals don't eat it. Some people have eaten it before. Although it tastes salty, they will get bumps and vomit after eating it. If you eat it, you might as well stole their shop at night as you said." The big man snorted coldly.
Ren Baqian was about to walk past the two of them, but when he heard this, he was stunned and stopped directly.
"Two!" Ren Baqian turned his head and bowed to the two of them.
"Who are you?" The big man looked over with a fierce look on his face.
"Ah, what day are you that..." Nagu recognized Ren Baqian and came.
"I heard from you two just now that salt water is like, I wonder what it looks like?" Ren Baqian asked.
When the big man heard his question, he snorted coldly and ignored him. He was so angry that he had no place to scatter at that time.
"I am not from Yun, nor from Chen, nor from Daxia. I am currently working in the Beast Garden. The matter between the two and those merchants has nothing to do with me. Logically speaking, I should be considered a Dayao talent now." Ren Baqian saw the attitudes of the two, and knew the whole story without thinking about it, and immediately said with a smile.
"This is the manager of the Beast Garden." The iron knife behind him said.
The Beast Garden is an affiliation to the palace. When the two heard that they looked a little better after working in the Beast Garden, they turned their heads and looked up and down at Ren Baqian: "What do you ask about salt water? Someone has thought of a way to do that thing, and they can't eat it at all, and they don't even eat wild beasts on the mountain."
"If it is poisonous, it is really impossible to eat it, but maybe it can be refined and eliminated. You don't have to worry about eating salt." Ren Baqian said.
"Impossible." The big man said decisively.
"Don't bother, someone has thought about it long ago." Nagu also said. Her attitude towards Ren Baqian was much better than that of a big man. Perhaps it was because she bumped into Ren Baqian back then, so she felt that she was not so strange.
"Can you have to listen to the two people talking about salt water first to know?" Ren Baqian said.
"The water is from a pool on the mountain. The water is salty, bitter and smelly. We all call it the Black Water Pond." Nagu said.
"Is the water black? Is it the smell of smelly eggs?" Ren Baqian quickly asked.
Chapter completed!