When Huo Zhongru got up in the morning, he found that the little girl was lying on his chest at some point. No wonder he felt that his breathing was very difficult last night, and the little girl could really sleep. Judging from the wetness of Huo Zhongru's clothes, he must have peed several times.
, even then I didn’t wake up.
This baby is unsteady on its feet and crawls very fast.
Huo Zhongru planned to send her to the county government office today.
Huo Zhongru got up early, but there was no sign of Huo Guang. He scratched his disheveled hair and said, "It's weird, this kid never gets up early."
When he opened the door, he saw that Huo Guang was tinkering with something in the yard. When he walked in, he found that Huo Guang was boiling water, and there was a jar of salt from his home next to him. He picked it up and saw that it was all empty. Then he looked at A Guang.
Boil water, stirring constantly.
At this time, the salt has melted into the water and cannot be seen.
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"You are out of your mind. You use so much salt to boil water. You are a prodigal. You are a prodigal. This much salt will kill you." Huo Zhongru felt that he was boiling water.
Great powers began by boiling water, and human civilization began by boiling water.
"Father, please wait and see."
Huo Zhongru didn't know what Huo Guang was up to, but at this moment someone came from outside the hospital, someone sent by the county governor: "Mr. Huo, Mr. Huo." The visitor was unusually enthusiastic, and the news spread that Huo Zhongru was Huo Qubing's father.
"Who is your Excellency?"
"I am the steward of the county magistrate's mansion. The magistrate is busy handling matters for your promotion today and is unable to come, so he specially sent me here to deliver the deeds to these properties and shops to you."
After saying that, he asked someone to put down a package. It was heavy and contained bamboo slips of land deeds. Paper would not be made until Cai Lun came a few years later, but there was no paper at this time.
The county governor is very efficient in his work. Before, he was worried about not having any original capital, but this is what happened.
Huo Zhongru took the person and thanked him for a while, and the other person asked Huo Zhongru to support him more in the future.
Huo Zhongru, who was sending the person away, opened the package with a smile, opening it one by one and looking at it.
"Son, we will be rich people from now on. This store is good, this store is also good. Hehehehe, son, I will find you two good-looking maids to serve you. From now on, I will boil water to take a bath every day and let the maids wipe your body.
Let you enjoy it. In the future, my eldest grandson’s wet nurse will have to be found first. Widow Wang knows a wet nurse who is said to have a large milk supply..."
Huo Zhongru was thinking about a happy life, but he immediately remembered that Huo Guang used a jar of salt to boil water.
"You're a prodigal, no matter how big your family fortune is, you will lose it." He cursed again in annoyance.
Aguang ignored him and took out a piece of the best cloth, cut from the little girl's clothes. His own coarse cloth was too poor.
Using this piece of fine cloth as filter paper, the effect was average, so Aguang simply cut a large slit in the girl's golden silk clothes, and stacked them layer by layer, using quantity to improve quality and improve the filtering effect as much as possible.
"Why did you kid cut a big hole in the clothes on this girl's doll?"
"Father, it's summer now. Just take two pieces of our clothes and wrap her up. The kid next door will be fine if she has a bare bottom."
A Guang poured the heated solution little by little along the wooden stick onto the filter paper. Huo Zhongru couldn't understand, so he harassed him from the side: "You're stupid, you brat."
Aguang took the trouble to say: "Father, I am purifying salt."
"What is purification?"
"As long as white crystals like salt are purified to a certain level, they will become more refined and can be sold at a higher price."
When Aguang woke up in the morning, he looked at the salt at home. The salt in the small jar had many impurities visible to the naked eye. Some of these impurities were even deliberately added by the salt merchants to increase the weight.
In the barren era, the common people did not have high requirements for taste, and they could accept slight impurities. In other words, the heavier the salt, the more valuable it was. Moreover, there was no purification technology, so the quality of salt was very worrying.
Aguang currently does not have a chemical purification method, but through filtration technology, the quality of current salt can be greatly improved.
As the pure liquid slowly fell on the filter paper formed by layers of coarse cloth and silk, after collecting it, Aguang started to boil the solution again.
Gradually, as the liquid slowly evaporates, pure white crystals slowly precipitate.
The famous American chemist Heisenberg once said that art is crystallization.
After crushing, dissolving, filtering, and crystallizing, the coarse salt that was previously yellowish in color and contained impurities turned into fine, pure white salt after being worked on by Aguang's hands.
Another key point is that these salts that are purely obtained by drying contain magnesium chloride. It is not good to eat too much. It is called bitter brine. The salt with bitter brine has a bitter taste. This is why Huo Guang used to eat it in Sangjia Restaurant.
Everyone is used to the reason why food tastes bitter. People in this era do not have high pursuit of taste, and if they are not able to remove it, there is nothing they can do.
Huo Guang took a small basin of saturated salt solution, which is salt water that has been insoluble in salt, and rinsed the fine salt that had been refined previously.
Because the solubility of magnesium chloride is higher than that of salt, when washing with a saturated solution, magnesium chloride will dissolve into the washing liquid, but salt will not. This process is difficult to detect with the naked eye, but it can effectively remove magnesium chloride after several washings.
Huo Guang used to read the essential tips for time travel on various websites or short videos, just in case. Now that he has actually time traveled, this means that if you never forget it, there will be an echo.
In this day and age, who would have thought of using saturated salt solution to wash salt? Huo Zhongru at home is looking at Huo Guang like he is a fool.
Watching Huo Guang washing the salt with salt water, Huo Zhongru once again thought of asking a doctor to treat Huo Guang's head.
Isn't this a pure fool? Washing salt with salt water, what does he want to do?
Huo Zhongru held the jar of salt. He didn't care about the fine, pure white salt, but he was concerned that the salt in the jar was one-third less than before.
"You silly boy, you have lost so much over and over again. This is not a huge loss. Where has the other salt gone?"
Aguang was speechless and picked up the filter cloth he made: "The impurities are in the filter cloth laminated with coarse cloth and silk."
"Oh, what a prodigal, what a prodigal. I used the best silk and left out the salt."
"Father, please taste this salt."
Huo Zhongru doubtfully dipped his finger into some salt and tasted it: "It tastes better than the previous salt. It has no bitter taste and is less salty. Isn't this a waste of money? How can you eat it if it's salty? It's delicious."
It’s useless. I eat salt to work in the fields. What’s the use if it tastes weak?”
A Guang suddenly realized that from Huo Zhongru's point of view, ordinary people eat salt to have the strength to work. After all, they face the loess and their backs to the sky. They sweat a lot every day and need to supplement the salt. Everyone knows that eating salt will help.
Strength, more rice, and more salt are the real needs.
"Father, making money from ordinary people is a profiteer. Let's go make money from those rich people." A Guang proposed the idea.
"How to make money?"
"Father, do you know how to open a salt shop? Do you have any special requirements?"
"Special requirements? There shouldn't be any. As long as the shop is registered with the county magistrate's office, it's fine. But salt merchants are not so easy to do. The salt gang and big salt merchants control the resources. There is no backstage to cover them. You start
No one dares to buy it anymore. You saw what happened to the stupid boy who grabbed the salt yesterday, right? Let’s stop thinking about it.”
Aguang looked at Huo Zhongru and smiled slightly. Huo Zhongru slapped his forehead. Why did he still feel that he was a small family? There was no family as big as his in the county.
"Father, you will be promoted to the young master of the county immediately to take charge of financial affairs. My brother is the general Huo Qubing. I cannot walk sideways on the main street of the county, for fear of losing the face of my father and brother."
If I need any other backend, my father and brother are my backend. Not to mention selling salt, I can just sell anything else.
Huo Zhongru weighed the deed in his hand: "Let's go down the street and look at the shops. Find a good location. It seems good to open a salt shop for you."
The two of them were in high spirits, but Aguang suddenly felt bad and immediately said, "Father, let me pay my respects first."
"It's shit, it's shit, it's so elegantly said."
Just as Aguang rushed towards the place where he was pooping, the door to the courtyard was knocked open, and a dark-skinned young man stumbled in.