"Upgrading the tool? Xiao Linzi, I wonder how long it will take to upgrade the tool?"
The village chief was very worried, fearing that Lin Xiao would delay making salt because of upgrading tools.
After all, they had already made a lot of money this time just by selling the salt given by Lin Xiao.
Now the salt produced by Lin Xiao is as good as a golden egg in the eyes of the couple!
"I want to hand over the first half of the salt-making process to the villagers..."
"How can that be done!"
Before Lin Xiao could finish her words, she was interrupted by the village chief and Ma Guihua in unison.
If you leave the salt-making process to others, isn't it a disguised form of telling others how to make salt?
When the output increases, the price of salt will become very low. How else can they make money?!
"You have misunderstood me..."
Lin Xiao explained her thoughts seriously, and then the village chief suddenly realized:
"Xiao Linzi, do you mean to lead the whole village to make salt and become rich?"
"Yes, our Linjia Village is located in a remote place, and the land is not fertile. Even though there are mountains and water, due to the lack of resources, even wild beasts such as tigers are too disgusted to come here to look for food. Don't you want to see our Linjia Village?
Will the village stand up?"
"Of course I hope! But if you do this, aren't you afraid that they will steal your secret recipe for making salt?"
Leading the whole village to become rich was something he had never thought of as the village leader.
As a patient who had been ridiculed by the villagers for many years, he actually thought of this regardless of his past grudges, which made the village chief feel an unprecedented sense of shame.
If someone secretly learns the secret recipe again, wouldn't it completely chill Lin Xiao's heart?
"Don't worry, as long as I don't tell you this secret recipe, no one can learn it!"
Seeing Lin Xiao who was full of confidence, the village chief couldn't say anything else. He changed the subject and brought the topic to the Jiuzhou Town government office to receive the reward.
"Xiao Linzi, I have reported your killing of the giant python to the government. The government asked you to take the python skin to collect the reward. Who do you plan to take with you?"
Generally speaking, Lin Xiao only needs to go with the village chief to take the python skin to the government to receive the reward, and then pay the village chief some hard work money, and that will be settled.
But Lin Xiao went back to town not just to receive the reward from the government.
She wanted to find a knowledgeable person to sell the python skin for her, and then use the money to buy a big wooden barrel to expand her salt-making workshop.
"Can the village chief please call Xiao Hu, Brother Xiao Wu and Mazi to go together?"
Lin Xiaohu is the son of the village chief and must build a good relationship.
Not only because he is a candidate for village chief, but also because in the future the village chief will inevitably have to go to Jiuzhou City with Ma Guihua to deliver goods, and he will have to rely on him to mediate all matters in the village.
Lin Xiaowu is Aunt Wu's son. He is a simple and honest man. Although he does not have a son to follow his father's footsteps in blacksmithing, he is a hunter.
Every few months he would go to Jiuzhou Town to sell the animal skins he hunted from the hills of other villages.
The connections are familiar, and with him around, the python skin will definitely fetch a good price.
As for Mazi, he couldn't beat him with three sticks. The village chief was a little surprised. Why should he take him?
But this was Lin Xiao's decision, and it would be hard for him to get to the bottom of it. It would be bad if someone misunderstood that he wanted to share more of the money.
Lin Xiao stayed at the village chief's house for a while, and made an appointment to go to Jiuzhou Town on a cart to receive the reward tomorrow morning, and then returned home.
Li Yuyan has just made lunch.
"I'm going to Zhoujia Village tomorrow. Sister Xiangmei said that her boss has sold the salt and asked me to send some more over."
"Well, after dinner later, let's make some more salt. You can send it over tomorrow and bring more charcoal when you come back."
"OK."
"By the way, tomorrow I will go to Jiuzhou Town with the village chief and others to collect the bounty. Is there anything you need me to bring?"
Hearing this, Li Yuyan raised his head and glanced at Lin Xiao, who was putting rice in his mouth, and felt an inexplicable unhappiness in his heart.
I didn't know that Lin Xiao was a girl before, but it didn't matter.
But now that he knew it, he felt particularly disgusted with Lin Xiao being close to the opposite sex.
He knew this was a kind of pathological overbearing, but he just couldn't control himself.
"...It's nothing, I don't need anything at home."
After Li Yuyan said coldly, he left the dining table, picked up the hoe and went to the backyard to loosen the soil and weed.
"She...what happened today? Auntie is here?"
Before dawn the next day, the village chief took Lin Xiaohu, Lin Xiaowu and Mazi to Lin Xiao's house pushing a cart.
Li Yuyan got up earlier than them, and the rice porridge and side dishes to go with the meal were already placed on the table.
The village chief and others' eyes widened when they saw the snow-white rice porridge.
What kind of family conditions are these?
He actually used rice to make porridge!
Even the county magistrate doesn’t have such luxury, right?!
"Village chief, you and I will eat first. The head of the house is washing up and will be here soon."
The hostess had already spoken, and the others were no longer polite, so they quickly picked up their bowls and started to wolf down the food.
Rice porridge turns out to taste like this!
It's sweet and glutinous, and doesn't irritate the throat at all. It's many times better than the wheat kernel porridge they've eaten before!
Wheat kernels are something they are reluctant to eat only during the Chinese New Year.
When Lin Xiao washed up, there was only one bowl of rice porridge left that Li Yuyan had cooked.
The rest was drank up by several people.
"Oh, look at how ignorant we are, why did we drink up all the rice porridge that Xiao Linzi made!"
The village chief expressed regret, but his eyes were fixed on the rice porridge that Li Yuyan specially left for Lin Xiao.
The same was true for the other people. If they hadn't all eaten just now, their saliva would have slipped from the corners of their eyes.
"What's so delicious about rice porridge? I'll invite you to eat meat noodles in Jiuzhou Town at noon. The taste is amazing."
When they heard that there would be meat noodles for lunch, several people kept swallowing their saliva.
Big meat noodles, the village chief saw people eating them when he was in Jiuzhou City, and he got several copper coins for a bowl!
Filling their stomachs will give them motivation. A few people tied the python skin to the cart and arrived in Jiuzhou Town in just half a day.
Pedestrians on the road gave way when they saw the giant python skin on the cart.
First, seeing a python skin with a giant python head attached makes me feel scared.
The second is to show respect for the hero who killed the giant python.
This greatly satisfied the vanity of Lin Xiaohu and Lin Xiaowu, and their backs straightened unconsciously, as if they had killed this giant python!
Several people went straight to the government office, and all the people watching the excitement crowded at the door of the government office.
It was also the first time for the government officials to see such a huge python, and they couldn't help but let out bursts of exclamation when they measured the python's skin and head.
Although this giant python is only less than nine meters long, it is big enough that three adults can hold it!
If it hadn't been hacked to death, I'm afraid it would be the people nearby who would suffer!
Thinking of this, the government officials looked at Lin Xiao and the others with a bit more reverence.
Without embarrassing a few people, they cut off the giant python's head and handed the reward of fifty taels of silver to the village chief.
The older generation said, don’t run around when it rains, as it is easy to bump into unclean things.
There was a man who did not believe in evil and deliberately ran around on a rainy day.