Farmer’s Little Girl

  Chapter 2969 Yantian

He walked up and stared under the water surface, and he saw that it was different. It was different from a normal paddy field. It was a little white under the water surface, but it was not silt, but it was not like salt, Prince Edward. Looking at Bai Shan suspiciously, "Is salt underneath?"

Bai Shan only glanced at the sidewalk and said: "This is the first time the sea water is dried. It is estimated that it has only been in the water for two days. The performance is not obvious. Your Highness, let's go ahead. The crowded place over there seems to be collecting salt. ."

  The prince glanced forward, and there was indeed a crowd gathering in the distance, but he was not in a hurry to go over, and walked directly along the ridge.

  Looking at the past one field after another, looking at him and discovering the difference.

  Along the ridge, there is a wide ditch on the side, and there is water flowing slowly in it. The prince stepped forward and took a look.

   glanced at the ditch, then at the salt pan on the side, thoughtfully, "Is this sea water?"

"Yes," Bai Shan explained: "When the seawater is high tide, the seawater will be poured into the ditches. The ditches are connected to the first salt field in each row. When the salt crystals and bittern are exposed, we will sift it and wash it. Put it in the second field."

  The prince walked to a field, "Like this one?"

  This is a salt pan where you can see large salt crystals at the bottom. The water is almost dry, but there is still a shallow layer of water on it.

  The prince squatted down and stretched out his hand to fish out a handful of salt from the field. After some salt was caught in his hand, it slowly melted and slipped from his fingers...

   He twisted, sticking out his tongue and tasting the salt, it was very bitter, but it was salty.

  Guo Cishi and others, who followed the prince, looked in a trance. They have not recovered their senses until now. They have many questions in their hearts. First of all, what is this square piece of field for?

  Listening to Bai Shan means to bask in salt?

Didn’t   Tian grow it?

  Isn't salt to be boiled?

  The officials looked down at the Yantian at their feet, and were speechless for a while.

  The prince washed away the grains of salt from his hands in the salt pan, and Duke Wu quickly took out his veil to wipe his hands.

  The prince inadvertently wiped twice and looked at the last field in the row.

Bai Shan said immediately: "That is the second salt field where the salt crystals were exposed to the sun and then melted with water and then filtered and dried. It is also the last salt field. We have compared the salt that is filtered twice and the salt is not inferior to the salt that is boiled. ."

  Boiled salt in order to save firewood, they only filter it once, and the salt is bitter and darker than what they get out of the sun.

  The prince nodded slightly, and took people forward.

  Zhou Liwei was squatting on the edge of the salt field and rubbing the salt crystals that he pushed forward to check the quality. A long-time worker looked behind him several times to confirm that he was right, and quickly said: "Master Zhou, the county magistrate is here again."

   Zhou Liwei glanced back and couldn't see the person clearly, "Impossible, he just left yesterday."

  Chang Gong squinted his eyes and said, “It’s the county magistrate, that’s right!”

I have received notification from the soldiers that the inspector Luo, who is patrolling the mountainside, has dashed over with people. When passing by Yantian, he called Zhou Liwei: "It's the county magistrate that has come, and many high-ranking officials have been brought in. You are still stunned. What are you doing, hurry up to meet you."

  When the soldier found him, he said that among the people brought by the county magistrate, there was not only one wearing a red official robe, but also one wearing a purple robe, and the county magistrate followed behind the purple robe.

   Zhou Liwei heard it and immediately got up and followed Luo Xunqian to run there.

   After running for a long time, they finally met the Prince in the middle.

  Inspector Luo did not know the prince, thinking that there would be nothing wrong with saluting anyway, so he had to salute when he raised his hand. Zhou Liwei, who had already seen the face of the prince, couldn’t help screaming, "His Royal Highness?"

  Zhou’s family had never seen the emperor, but the prince and princess were fortunate to have met.

  Although I rarely see him, Zhou Liwei still tried his best to remember the face of the other party for such a noble character as the prince.

  Inspector Luo did not put down his raised hands, his knees softened, and he knelt on the ridge with a thump.

  Originally, Zhou Liwei, who had already planned to dig to the end, saw it, so he could only pull his trouser legs and knelt down, and together with Luo Xunjian, he gave the crown prince a head.

  The prince was very satisfied with their respect, and the smile on his face was a little bigger. He raised his hand and said, "Get up."

  He skipped Luo inspection and looked up and down Zhou Liwei. He felt that he was a bit familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was, so he asked, "Do you know loneliness?"

   Zhou Liwei subconsciously looked at Zhou Man behind the prince.

The prince    also looked back at Zhou Man, and suddenly realized, "Gu said, you are familiar, your eyes look very similar to Zhou Man's."

   Zhou Man said: "He is my second nephew."

  The prince nodded slightly and asked: "What is he doing in the salt field now?"

  Bai Shan replied: "Be in charge."

  He bluntly said: "The minister has limited energy, so let him help the minister."

  The prince nodded slightly, and asked Zhou Liwei, “Is it collecting salt over there? How much salt can be collected in a field, how many days can it be collected once, and how much manpower does it consume?”

  Zhou Liwei was a little nervous, but fortunately, he had asked these questions when his little uncle came, and his account book was good, so he could answer them one by one.

The prince    was already mentally prepared, so nothing could be seen on the face. The officials who listened all the way behind could not help but look at the salt fields on both sides of the ridge.

When they arrived at the salt harvesting place, the workers were pushing salt in the salt pan with short hexagrams. The wooden shovel was sharpened and was one meter wide. After putting it down, they pushed forward. The salt crystals in the salt pan were pushed together. , More and more, more and more, by the time the prince and them were pushed, there was already a small pile.

  Even the prince stayed for a while, not to mention the ministers behind him, they all opened their mouths wide.

  Guo Cishi's eyes turned red when he thought of something, and he turned his head to look at Bai Shan.

  Bai Shan stood behind the prince, waiting for them to recover.

  The prince squatted down and grabbed a handful of salt. He twisted it carefully, and the salt grains fell one by one. Not to mention, it was quite thin, at least thinner than ordinary salt on the market.

  The prince said to the people behind him: "Let's take a look too."

  Tang He and the others waited for the Prince's words, his voice fell off, and a few people squeezed up to touch the salt, squatting in rows, and taking up the entire salt field.

  The long-term workers looked a little at a loss, and when they saw Zhou Liwei beckoning them to continue, they turned around and continued to shovel salt, ignoring these ignorant officials.

   Yushi was a little bit unsure that the salt was exposed to the sun, so he looked at the salt pan behind him, and saw that there was water in it, and he saw no salt at all.

  No, it's not that I haven't seen it at all. This water is different from ordinary water at first glance, it seems to be a little white and muddy.

  He stretched out his finger to stir in the salt pan, put it in his mouth and felt it, it was salty...

   Yushi wandered between doubt and belief, and finally decided that seeing is believing, so he said to the prince: "His Royal Highness, the minister wants to stay in the salt field and take a look at this method of drying salt."

  He must not believe it unless he sees the salt coming out after the sea enters the fields.

  　See you at 11 pm

  (End of this chapter)