Chapter 80: A female mate chooses to farm (29)

Yang Darong was still confused when he was led to the private room of the restaurant by the guards.

“Excuse me, what do you guys want to do with me?”

Although the other party did not reveal their identity, looking at their clothes, Yang Darong knew that they must be noble people.

He bowed in fear.

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

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

Hearing that he was asking about the black bark tree sap, Yang Darong breathed a sigh of relief and spoke truthfully.

He had a cousin who worked in a logging shop in Baipu County. At the beginning of the year, someone sent him a message saying that the logging company was looking for short-term workers. He went there seeing that the wages were not low.

When I went there, I learned that the owner of the logging company owed a large debt and wanted to hire people to go to the deep mountains and old forests to cut down old huanghuali trees.

Going into the deep forest involves taking a big risk, so the high salary of one tael of silver was offered.

 I almost won’t be able to come back from this trip.

Yang Darong wiped a cold sweat after saying this, and he still feels scared.

"At that time, the younger one got separated from his cousin. He wanted to quickly go to the agreed place to wait for him, but he didn't want to step on a snake's nest. The snake was as thick as a bucket, and the younger one was so scared that he couldn't even look at the road and just ran as fast as he could. , the snake kept chasing the little one, and almost caught up with it. It was the white sap that saved the little one. The snake seemed to be 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, smeared it on his body, and escaped. After meeting up with his cousin, the younger one found that the white tree sap on his body was sticky. After drying, it was still a little elastic, which was much easier to use than rice paste.

After being handed over the task of logging, the younger brother and his cousin went into the deep forest again and brought back a few buckets of white sap. They wanted to use the white sap to fill the gaps in the bamboo buildings at home, hoping that there would be less rain during the rainy season. Let some leak in. Brother Sun is also kind-hearted. It's a rare encounter and he wanted to have a drink with the young one, but he didn't expect..."

Yang Darong shook his head. If he had known that this would cause this problem, he would never have gone to Sun Ming's house. It's a pity that money can't buy it. I already knew it.

Xu Yin nodded towards Yan Kejin.

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

 He winked at Yan Jiu, who took out a silver ingot worth ten taels.

 “Leading toll.”

Yang Darong’s face suddenly showed the joy of having lost something and gained something in the east.

“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 the 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. If you find one, buy it.

 At that time, a rubber plantation will be set up specifically to grow rubber, and a workshop will be built outside Linzi to do side business. All kinds of rubber products can be tried to be produced.

 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 is rich in seafood.

Here, Xu Yin finally had the fresh seafood that she had been craving for a long time, instead of the dried goods or pickled products seen in the Fucheng market.

 This made her want to visit Qin County, which is near the sea.

 Eating seafood is more enjoyable when facing the sea!

It is a pity that it is said to be an exclusive place for exile. In the entire Southern Barbarians, except for those who crossed the border to other continents, Shuqin County had the most exiles. Yan Kejin didn't agree and let it pass like this.

"If you want to go, wait until next time. When the cement road reaches Qin County, arrange more people to protect you." Xu Yin knew that this was the case. Fortunately, she guessed what he was thinking before coming, so she was disappointed, but not really. Extremely large.

“If you want to eat seafood, wait until the weather gets cooler and ask someone to bring more food.” Yan Kejin gave her an emerald shrimp ball made of fresh shrimp.

"How to transport it? Is there ice?" Xu Yin asked curiously.

“Well, it’s strange that the snow on the top of the mountain is so thick that it can turn into ice if you cut it off.”

　　　…”

 Is this too much of a mobilization of troops?

　　There is a sense of stupidity and ignorance as if a concubine riding in the world of mortals laughs, but no one knows it is a lychee.

 She didn’t want the Southern barbarians to compose similar poems.

“It would be great if we found a saltpeter mine. That thing can make ice.”

 “Saltpeter? What does it look like?” Yan Kejin raised an eyebrow, but did not ask how the princess knew about it. If she did ask, she probably used “what it read in miscellaneous books” to fool him.

Xu Yin thought for a while and described the form of natural saltpeter. It looks like ice but not ice, and looks like salt but 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 somewhere."

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

"Don't be in a hurry. Send someone to inquire later. Since there is such a thing in the world, you can always find out about it. It's just a matter of time."

Seeing that he was not in a hurry, Xu Yin probably thought that the snow on the top of the strange mountain was enough to cut ice, and it didn't matter if there was saltpeter or not.

Then he stepped back and whispered in his ear: "The use of saltpeter is not only to make ice, it can also make a very lethal weapon..."

 After hearing what she said, Yan Kejin immediately sent someone to look for her.

 Xu Yin: “…”

snort! man!

 …

 Afterwards, the group came to two small counties where cement roads were newly paved.

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

Xu Yin saw a mountain farmer selling lychees and asked if they were late-ripening lychees from the mountains. She suddenly remembered that the lychee production area in Lingnan seemed to be in the Qinbei area. Isn’t this Qinbei?

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

Yan Kejin glanced at her, lowered her head and bit it into her mouth, sucking lightly on her fingertips with her tongue.

Xu Yin quickly retracted her hand and glared at him.

 She was talking about serious things, what kind of yellow waste did this guy think of again?

Yan Kejin regretted that she could not seduce the princess. She leaned back in the chair with a lazy smile, played with the jade pendant on her waist and said:

“I saw it in the palace. This was among the tribute products from Baiyue and Minyue counties.”

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

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

 “Can? What is this?”

Xu Yin winked at him and said, "When we get back, I'll make it for you to try."

 Then I thought: in addition to glass packaging, cans can also be packaged in tin cans.

 (End of this chapter)