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[Chapter Fourteen] Shocked the crowd

After leaving Baiyulou, Yu Feng was in a bad mood.

Baiyulou confiscated their meals and saved three taels of silver. If they could go to the mountain again tomorrow, they would have two taels of silver. The salt only had to be sold for fifteen taels, and they just had twenty taels of silver.

Yu Feng planned this way. Even so, he still felt that the price of fifteen taels was too high, but he definitely underestimated the girl's courage.

"Fifty taels...you...what do you think!"

...

"Yes, fifty taels, what do you think!" Bai Yulou, the shopkeeper also complained to Miss Bai, "Traditional salt is not that expensive!"

Miss Bai glared at him angrily: "Then you bought it for me!"

The shopkeeper choked.

Gongshen is something that only the royal palace and the imperial palace can eat. They have no way to buy it, not to mention that they can buy it.

Yu Wan first went to the street market to buy gauze and dozens of kilograms of soybeans, and then returned to the village with Yu Feng with two large buckets of salt.

After arriving at home, Yu Wan plunged into the stove.

Only then did Yu Feng understand why she let him carry so much water and chop off so much firewood.

Yu Wan first boiled a large pot of hot water and poured all the salt from the first wooden bucket into it: "Brother, does the old house have a mill? Can you help me grind the soybeans into soy milk?"

Yu Feng didn't ask why, and went there without saying a word.

The unpalatable salt in ancient times was mainly because it contained too many impurities. Just remove these impurities and could raise the taste to a new level. This is easy to say, but it is a time-consuming and labor-consuming technical job.

After Yu Wan boiled the salt, she filtered it with gauze once. At this time, the rougher impurities were filtered out, but there were more delicate ones, so other media needed to be used.

Yu Wan poured the filtered brine (salt) water back into the pot.

"The bean juice is here!" Yu Feng walked in with two large buckets of soybean juice.

Yu Wan poured raw soy milk into the brine. After a while, some dregs floated up. Yu Wan scooped out the rolling dregs and poured them into the raw soy milk again. This was repeated three or five times until the dirty things could not be scooped out from the brine. At this time, the color of the brine had become very clear and the portion was half reduced.

Yu Feng was stunned at the brine in the pot. He never knew that bean juice could still be used like this...

Yu Wan took a breath slightly: "When the water in the pot is evaporated, the salt will come out."

It was cold and the ground was frozen, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead. Yu Feng's expression slighted a little complicated. He wanted to find something to wipe her sweat, but he was not a delicate little girl, and would carry a handkerchief with him.

He pinched his sleeves, and it was still pretty clean...

Without waiting for him to move, Yu Wan put down the lid of the pot and opened her mouth: "Brother, please take a look for me, I'll take the iron egg back."

Yu Feng hurriedly put down his stiff arm: "I understand, you go."

Yu Wan went to her uncle's house to bring back the little Tiedan who was sweating profusely, took a shower for him, and also wiped a bath for Jiang. After Xiao Tiedan fell asleep, Yu Wan continued to return to the stove.

Miss Bai still gave her a lot of salt, and she couldn't finish cooking in a pot.

Yu Feng stayed to help, and the brother and sister worked hard until dawn, and finally purified all the salt.

The two of them didn't bother to rest and hurriedly rented the ox cart from the village and sent the salt to Baiyulou.

Bai Tang waited in the lobby early. Fifty taels are not a small amount. Yesterday, she made a decision because her father was not around, but now her father is on the way back. If she knew that she had bought a salt that she could not make or not...

Bai Tang didn't dare to think about it anymore!

After the salt was purified, large and irregular blue-gray salts had turned into crystal clear small salt particles, and the amount was reduced by half.

The shopkeeper couldn't help but frown: "Why has it become so little? Is this salt?"

The chefs from Baiyulou also surrounded him, including Master Lu, who had met Yu Wan at the market.

Master Lu has never seen such salt before.

However, he recognized Yu Wan, the little girl who even made fish soup wrong.

Will such people know how to make salt?

He sneered.

The rest of the cook guy laughed too.

Only Bai Tang didn't laugh.

Bai Tang is not a little business girl who has never seen the world. People only know that her father is a businessman, but they don’t know that her mother was a lady from the capital. When she returned to her mother with her, she had truly seen and tasted the salt grains like snowflakes with her own eyes.

When Yu Wan put the salt grains in front of her, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak.

It is unknown whether it was shocked to see snowflake salt again in his lifetime, or whether a village girl actually made snowflake salt.

But it’s not all that the things are similar, and the taste may be a thousand miles apart!

Bai Tang glanced at Yu Wan arrogantly: "If I say ugly words ahead, if the taste doesn't satisfy me, I won't even give you a copper coin!"

Yu Wan smiled softly: "Okay."

"What's good? She's careful." Yu Feng said lightly.

Bai Tang threw his eyes at him: "Who is lying to the account?!"

Yu Feng was too lazy to talk to her.

Bai Tang was so angry that she gritted her teeth. It wasn't because of so many salt portions that she had knocked out this annoying guy now!

The chef from Baiyulou made a home-cooked side dish with Yu Wan's salt grains - braised pork with cabbage.

In the past, in order to suppress the astringent taste in salt, they needed to add a lot of sauce and add a little sugar to improve freshness. Today, they deliberately made things difficult for Yu Wan, so they only added salt. But no one expected that the fried cabbage was sweeter than ever before. This sweet taste invaded the pork belly and perfectly removed the greasy taste of fat; the lean meat was more tender, but it was not a bit of firewood. As soon as you suck it, it melted in your mouth and was full of oil.

Bai Tang originally thought that no matter how good the taste was, she would pretend to be difficult to swallow. In this way, she could suppress the price with her. But she couldn't stop eating it...

"Miss Bai is still satisfied?" Yu Wan asked with her eyebrows and eyes as she looked at the plate that was eaten by Bai Tang.

Bai Tang touched his stomach and burped.

Uh... I'm not satisfied now, is it still too late?

...

The brother and sister went to the pharmacy with silver notes.

The pharmacy staff did not expect that the two of them had really collected all the money? He had already sent someone to the yamen to report to the official position, so he hurriedly asked someone to run errands to chase the man back.

"I said, your silver notes don't have any unknown origin, right?" the guy asked suspiciously.

It’s really not his fault for being too careless, but this family started to see a doctor here two years ago. He knew the situation of their family. If he really had the ability to make money, he wouldn’t have been owed to this day.

Yu Wan smiled and said, "Little brother, please rest assured. Every money we make with our ability is clean."

She was so kind that she called the guy embarrassed.
Chapter completed!
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