Poor family farming: the sick and weak scholar's wife is very sturdy

Chapter 6 Selling Salt
"what about the taste?"

"It's thin and white, and not bitter. Bigong... is many times better than the salt we bought in Kyushu Town!"

"Ha~~~ I'm so tired, go to bed first, let's find a way to sell these salts tomorrow!"

Lin Xiao yawned long and walked back to the study with heavy steps.

Watching the back of Lin Xiao returning to the room, Li Yuyan had a qualitative change in this "little man".

To be able to make poisonous salt stones into salty table salt is definitely a talent with bright future!

Wouldn't it be even more powerful if Lin Xiao could be recruited?
At that time, revenge... surely will no longer be a distant dream!
……

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Lin Xiao and Li Yuyan set off for Jiuzhou Town again.

As soon as they went out, they met a group of women who were washing clothes by the river.

"Yo, where are the young couple going so early?"

The person who asked the question was a strong woman with dark skin.

Her name is Ma Guihua, and she is the daughter-in-law of the village chief. She is kind but meddles in other things.

All the women in the village looked up to her.

"Go for a walk around town."

Lin Xiao replied casually.

"You have the money to go to the town?" Ma Guihua smiled, "Besides, didn't you two already go to the town yesterday?"

"I love to take my daughter-in-law to the town to open my eyes, not only yesterday, but today, and every day in the future!"

After speaking, Lin Xiao took Li Yuyan's hand and left quickly, so she didn't bother to have too much entanglement with these gossip women.

"Don't get lost in the town!" Ma Guihua yelled from behind, "If you don't have money, don't slap your face swollen and pretend to be fat. When the time comes, you will sell your new wife without knowing it!"

When the other women heard the words and laughed, the flowers and branches trembled wildly, and each sound was louder than the other.

……

It was almost noon when Lin Xiao arrived in town, and Lin Xiao and Li Yuyan came to the grain and oil store without stopping.

"Is the shopkeeper there?"

Lin Xiao stood at the door and asked.

"Guest, I'm here! Do you have any orders for me?"

A very plain-looking young man in coarse cloth came over and asked.

In the Daxia Dynasty, which emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, the status of merchants was second only to that of lowly people, and they were very humble.

Especially traders like them who sell grain and oil are hardly looked down upon.

So he is polite to everyone, even if the person is very poor.

"Boss, have you seen this?"

Lin Xiao took out a small bag of salt and handed it to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper took a look, and asked suspiciously, "Is this...salt?"

Lin Xiao nodded: "Exactly!"

The shopkeeper twisted a few grains of salt in disbelief and put it in his mouth, the salty and freshness spread in his mouth instantly.

He has never tasted this taste!

"It's really salt." The shopkeeper looked at Lin Xiao in amazement and said, "Where did you get such good salt? I'm afraid it's not that the tribute salt is not of such high quality."

"I made it, do you need it here?"

Lin Xiao didn't take up the shopkeeper's words, but changed the subject and asked.

The shopkeeper narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at Lin Xiaolai carefully.

Although this man was wearing patched clothes, it couldn't conceal his innate scholarly temperament, which couldn't be imitated.

What's more, this person can actually make salt, and the grade of the salt produced is higher than that of tribute salt. The shopkeeper can't help but wonder who this person is!
What is more important is whether the supply of salt is sufficient and whether the price is affordable and fair.

"Sir, I don't know what the price of your salt is, and is the supply sufficient?"

The shopkeeper restrained his mind and asked.

Li Yuyan opened the basket and handed the earthen pot inside to the shopkeeper.

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Shopkeeper, this is the salt I made last night, about a catty, how about you just give me fifty copper coins?"

The shopkeeper was shocked when he heard this. Fifty copper coins a catty is a little more expensive than ordinary coarse salt. Rounding it up, isn't it equivalent to picking it up for nothing!

"I want all these salts, can you send another ten catties over tomorrow?"

"no problem!"

Li Yuyan carefully put fifty copper plates into the bamboo basket, his excitement beyond words.

Fifty copper coins, which he hadn't seen since he fled, turned out to be so valuable!
"Go, I'll take you to have a good meal!"

Lin Xiao dragged Li Yuyan to a noodle restaurant.

"Dude, two bowls of big meat noodles!"

Li Yuyan couldn't remember what big meat noodles were like.

"Eat more, we can make more money when we are full!"

Lin Xiao greeted.

Li Yuyan glanced angrily at the noodle bowl in front of him: "Yeah!"

The noodles made of fine noodles are springy and tender.

Sprinkle some salt samples that Lin Xiao showed the shopkeeper just now, and the taste soars!
What is this unprecedented delicacy!

Li Yuyan, who was raised in the imperial palace with fine clothes and fine food, was conquered by a bowl of ordinary big meat noodles in the town of Kyushu!
There is no other reason, the main reason is that no matter how fine the sea salt in the palace is, it always has a faint bitter taste, which is not as good as the refined salt made by Lin Xiao, which is not bitter but has a hint of umami.

He slumped, his dark face dripping with sweat.

"Here, I can't eat so much, so share it with you!"

"The head of the house..."

Watching Lin Xiao pull the noodles and big pork steak from the bowl into his own bowl, Li Yuyan was moved.

After eating the noodles, Lin Xiao took Li Yuyan to buy some daily necessities.

Fifty copper coins were suddenly reduced by thirty, Lin Xiao sighed, this amount of money is not enough to spend!
On the way back, Lin Xiao and Li Yuyan went to the bottom of the abyss to carry away fifty or sixty catties of salt rock.

……

The sun was slanting to the west, and the village women who did the farm work were sitting at the entrance of the village, and their parents were chatting briefly.

"Hey, Xiao Linzi and his daughter-in-law have gone to town and come back yet?"

Ma Guihua, the wife of the village head, asked others.

"did not see it."

"Shouldn't you be back?"

"I don't know. Could it be that he was smeared in the town and didn't come back so angry?"

"It's very possible that he is a scholar, so his temperament is naturally higher than others."

"If he gets angry and starts to fight, how can he be beaten for his small body?"

"His black widow and daughter-in-law can tell at a glance that they are not easy to mess with. With her around, Xiao Linzi can't suffer!"

"No matter how difficult it is to provoke, it's still a woman, isn't it? Naturally, a woman can't beat a man."

The village women gossip about each other, although the words are harsh, but there is also an element of concern.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, Lin Xiao and his wife hadn't come back yet, so they couldn't help feeling a little worried.

"You stay here, I'll go back and ask the head of the house to see if I want to go to the town to look for it."

Ma Guihua said anxiously.

"Look, it seems to be Xiao Linzi and his wife!"

A village woman pointed to the village not far away and shouted.

Under the setting sun, the two figures one in front of the other seem to be carrying heavy loads, and it is very difficult for them to walk.

"Not who they are!"

Ma Guihua muttered, her tone obviously relaxed.

"You said, what did they bring back?"

"Could it be a wild boar?"

Ma Guihua said, "Wild boar? Do they have the money to buy it?"

　Continuing from the last time, the taboos of staying in a hotel are as follows:
　　1. The choice of hotel room should be near the window as much as possible, so that the air can circulate and the sun can be seen, and the room will be full of yang.

　　2. Knock on the door before entering the room. Firstly, it is to prevent the hotel system from making mistakes, and to arrange for you to live in the room that is already occupied; secondly, to tell them that you are going to come in and live, and ask them to leave temporarily, so as not to bump into them.

　　3. Try not to choose the first and last room, the first, people come and go, too noisy; the last, inaccessible, too quiet.

　　4. Don't use the hotel's kettle to cook all weird things, it's not good, be obedient.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)