Chapter 80 As a fine female matchmaker chooses to farm (29)

  Yang Darong was still at a loss when the guards led him to the private room of the restaurant.

   "Excuse me, what do you guys want to do with the younger one?"

  Although the other party did not reveal their identities, Yang Darong knew that they must be noble people from the way they were dressed.

  He made a bow in trepidation.

  Yan Kejin leaned on the back of the chair, played with the sachet worn by Xu Yin's waist, and said lazily:

   "Don't be nervous, please come here, I want to ask where you got that bucket of white lotion? It doesn't look like a product of Yong County."

  When he heard that he was asking about the black bark sap, Yang Darong heaved a sigh of relief, and told the truth.

  He has a cousin who works in a logging company in Baipu County. At the beginning of the year, he sent a message saying that the logging company was looking for short-term workers, so he went there because the wages were not low.

   After I went there, I found out that the owner of the logging company owed a lot of debts and wanted to hire someone to cut old huanghuali trees in the deep mountains and old forests.

   It is a big risk to enter the deep forest, so the high salary of one tael of silver is paid.

   After this trip, I almost couldn’t come back.

  Yang Darong wiped off his cold sweat when he said this, and he still feels a wave of fear.

"At that time, the little one got separated from his cousin, and wanted to wait for him at the appointed place, but he didn't want to step on a snake nest. The snake was as thick as a bucket, and the little one was so scared that he couldn't care about the road and just ran as hard as he could , the snake kept chasing the little one, and was almost overtaken by it. It was the white sap that saved the little one. The snake seemed to be very afraid of this thing, and stayed away from the tree dripping with white sap.

  Seeing that it was afraid of this thing, the little one dug some with a shovel, wiped it on his body and escaped. After reuniting with my cousin, the little one found that the white sap on his body was sticky, and after drying, it was still a little elastic, which was much better than rice paste.

After handing in the lumberjack job, the younger one and his cousin went into the deep forest again, and brought back several barrels of white tree sap, intending to fill the bamboo buildings at home with this white tree sap, hoping that there would be less rain in the rainy season. Leak some in. Brother Sun is also kind, it's rare to meet him, and he wanted to have a drink with the little one, but I didn't expect..."

  Yang Darong shook his head. If he knew that this would cause trouble, he would never go to Sun Ming's house. It's a pity that money is hard to buy and I knew it earlier.

  Xu Yin nodded at Yan Kejin.

  Yan Kejin asked Yang Darong if he was free, and led his people to Baipu County.

  He winked at Yan Jiu, and Yan Jiu took out an ingot of ten taels of silver ingot.

   "Toll fee."

  Yang Darong's face suddenly showed the joy of what was lost and what was gained.

   "It's a small honor to be able to do something for a noble person."

  Yan Jiu followed Yang Darong to the deep forest of Baipu County that day.

  Before leaving, Xu Yin told him to buy that deep forest if possible.

   Rubber trees are very picky, and generally only grow in rainforest environments similar to the Amazon.

  Since there is a large rubber forest there, it means that it is a rainforest environment.

   There are not many places where you can find a rainforest environment in Yanhua, so if you encounter it, buy it.

   At that time, a rubber garden will be set up to grow rubber, and Linzi Waijian Workshop will be a sideline business, and various rubber products can be tried to produce.

  Yan Jiu took the order and left.

   King Jinnan continued to accompany the princess on a tour around Yong County.

  Yong County is less than two hundred miles away from Qin County, and it is rich in seafood.

  Here, Xu Yin finally ate the fresh seafood that she had been thinking about for a long time, instead of the dried or pickled products that she saw in the Fucheng market.

   This made her want to go to Qin County near the sea.

   It’s more enjoyable to eat seafood facing the sea!

  It's a pity that it is said that it is an exclusive place for exiles. In the entire Nanban, except for those who crossed the continent, Shuqin County has the most exiles. Yan Kejin disagreed and let it go.

   "If you want to go, wait until the next time, when the concrete road leads to Qin County, arrange more people to protect you."

  Xu Yin knew this was the case. Fortunately, she guessed what he was thinking before coming here, so there was some disappointment, but it was not particularly big.

   "I want to eat seafood. When the weather is cooler, people can bring more." Yan Kejin gave her an emerald shrimp ball made of fresh shrimp.

   "How? Is there any ice?" Xu Yin asked curiously.

   "Well, it's strange that the snow on the top of the mountain is so thick that if you chisel it off, it will turn into ice."

   "..."

   Isn't this too exciting to mobilize the crowd?

  There is a sense of stupidity and senselessness of "a concubine who rides the world of mortals laughs, but no one knows that it is a lychee".

  She doesn't want to be composed of similar poems by the people of the Nanman.

   "It would be great if I found a saltpeter mine, that thing can make ice."

   "Saltpeter? What does it look like?" Yan Kejin raised his eyebrows, and didn't ask how the princess knew about it. If she asked, she probably fooled him with "from a miscellaneous book".

  Xu Yin thought for a while, and described the form of natural saltpeter, like ice is not ice, like salt is not salt, when it encounters water, it will suddenly cool down and freeze the surrounding water.

  Yan Kejin pondered for a moment after hearing this: "I seem to have heard of this thing somewhere."

  Xu Yin couldn't help but be delighted: "Where did you hear it? Was it in Beijing or after coming to Nanman? It would be great if it was here!"

   "Don't worry, I will send someone to inquire later. Since there is such a thing in the world, I can always inquire about it, but it will only be a matter of time."

   Seeing him, Xu Yin was not in a hurry at all. He probably thought that the snow on the top of the mountain was enough to dig ice, and it didn't matter if there was saltpetre or not.

  Then retreated and whispered in his ear: "The use of saltpeter is not just to make ice, it can create a very lethal weapon..."

  After listening to her, Yan Kejin immediately sent someone to look for her.

  Xu Yin: "..."

snort! man!

  …

   After that, the group came to the two small counties where the concrete road was newly paved.

  This area is mostly hilly landform, with many mountains and few fertile fields. The life of the local people is more difficult than that of Yong County.

  Xu Yin saw a mountain farmer selling lychees, and asked if they were late-ripening lychees in the mountains, and suddenly remembered that the production area of ​​lychees in Lingnan seems to be in the Qinbei area. Isn't this Qinbei?

   "Did you ever eat this when you were in Beijing?" Xu Yin peeled one for Yan Kejin, and handed the white and plump flesh to his mouth, "It tastes very good, sweet and clean, don't you want to try it?"

  Yan Kejin glanced at her, lowered her head and bit her mouth, and the tip of her tongue lightly sucked on her fingertips.

  Xu Yin withdrew her hand abruptly and gave him an annoyed look.

  She was talking about serious business, what kind of yellow waste did this guy think of!

  Yan Kejin regretted not being able to seduce the princess, leaned back on the chair lazily with a smile, played with the jade pendant on her waist and said:

   "I've seen it in the palace. It's in the products of the tributes of Baiyue and Minyue counties."

  However, after being sent all the way to Beijing, no matter how delicious it is, it is not so fresh. He was not very interested in sweet things, so he stopped touching them after tasting them once or twice.

  Xu Yin has an idea: "Fresh lychees are sent to Beijing. Under the current conditions, it is indeed difficult to preserve the fresh taste, but they can be made into canned lychees."

   "Canned food? What is this?"

  Xu Yin winked at him: "Wait back, I'll make it for you to try."

   Then I thought: In addition to glass packaging, cans can actually be packed in tin cans.

  (end of this chapter)