Chapter 125: Salt out

After nearly a week of exposure, the test field has initially shown results.

Xia Fan walked barefoot into the lowest crystallization pool, and the warm

water suddenly passed his instep. Compared with the evaporation pond above,

the sea water here is extremely turbid, covered with foam, and reflecting

dazzling waves below.

This reflection is not from the sea water, but from a thin layer of white

crystals at the bottom of the pool.

Grandpa Li couldn't help bending down, poked his hand into the mud, and then

put it in his mouth, "Salty, so salty! This is really salt!"

Although I don't know why this salt can be soaked in water, the bitter and

salty taste is indeed a unique feature of sea salt. To be honest, when the

princess gave a sum of money to implement Xia Fan's idea, he was still

worried. It was not a question of money. After all, most of the labor was

borne by His Royal Highness's troops, and the actual expenditure was not that

much. What he worried was that if he failed, it would damage the prestige of

His Royal Highness.

Everyone trusts the princess, not the alchemist that the princess finds. If

Ning Wanjun fails because he believes too much in this person, then others

will inevitably have doubts that the princess knows others, and money can be

earned again, but prestige This intangible thing is difficult to make up for.

Now the salt is really exposed in the salt field, and a huge rock in Li

Gonggong's heart has finally been put down.

He didn't understand the technique, and didn't want to understand. As long as

there is salt in the salt pond, even if Xia Fan sprinkled it by himself, it is

better than failure.

People followed his heart, and even looked at Xia Fan a lot.

This guy... is pretty good.

"Xia Fan, why doesn't this salt melt?" Li lifted his tail and walked to Xia

Fan two steps lighter.

Xia Fan's gaze immediately shifted from Yan to the opponent's feet.

In the pool reflecting the blue sky and white clouds, a girl playing barefoot

in the water facing each other, looking at the sea, is a perfect picture in

itself.

What's so good about salt.

Is it comparable to a fox demon?

"Xia Fan?"

"Well, this..." Seeing the other party turned his head, he quickly turned his

eyes away, pretending to be serious, "Because water can't dissolve salt

indefinitely. When its salt content reaches the upper limit, no more salt is

added to it. It will melt. This is also the principle of sun-dried and boiled

salt-the less water, the less salt it can hold."

"But there is not much salt in the pool..."

"Indeed," Xia Fan replied carefully, "this pond is just to verify the

craftsmanship. The size of the pond itself is too small, plus it is the first

pond salt, so it is normal for it to be rare."

In addition, he also found many problems. For example, the height of the

evaporation pond and the crystallization pond can be lowered a lot, and it is

best to complete a cycle in three days; another example is that the dumping of

the water has to be stepped on by manpower. It is good to say that there are

few ponds. When the scale is up, the overturning efficiency will be a bit low.

, It is better to get a more convenient pumping device and so on.

But the pool has proven that this method can work, which is undoubtedly the

most important.

Li stepped on the pond twice curiously, "How will this salt be collected from

now on?"

"It's very simple, it's the same as drying rice." Xia Fan smiled, "When it has

accumulated a lot, just shovel it all the way with a wooden shovel."

The piles of white "salt mountains" piled in the pond have always been the

most spectacular scenery in the saltworks.

"Xia Fan, come here!" Suddenly, Ning Wanjun's voice came from behind.

The people around bowed their heads in greeting, "I have seen your Royal

Highness."

Xia Fan noticed a strange face beside him.

Li who also found this point quickly turned around and put his tail behind his

back.

"Introduce, this is the chief of the Ministry of Industry and Mechanical

Engineering, Mo Yun." Ning Wanjun said, "She knew me a long time ago, not an

outsider. This time she passed by Jinxia, so she will stay here. For a few

days."

"And he, who I said is the new commander's work, is also the author of the

book that you highly respect."

"Master Xia, admiring your name for a long time." Mo Yun arched his hands.

"With each other." Xia Fan also bowed his hands in return.

The other party was slightly taken aback.

"By the way, he doesn't know anything about bureaucratic etiquette, and it

happens that the Privy Council doesn't care about this, so don't care about

his strange behavior." Ning Wanjun smiled slightly.

It can be seen that the princess is in a good mood.

Xia Fan looked at the other party curiously-it can be said that Mo Yun is a

woman who absolutely does not conform to the aesthetics of this era. Not only

is she tall, she has slender knuckles, and her facial features are also

straight. If it is a man, it is naturally very suitable, but as a woman, the

evaluation will obviously not be much higher.

But in the era of Xia Fan, Mo Yun is undoubtedly a pretty girl with very

personal characteristics, with a taste of Western style, and the plum-red lip

gloss also proves that she does not want to regard herself as a man.

"Originally, there will be female officials in the Ministry of Engineering."

Xia Fan took the initiative to make the relationship, "I wonder what research

Mr. Mo usually does?"

"This involves Qi State secrets, please forgive me for the inconvenience to

disclose."

Unexpectedly, the other party would chat to death as soon as he spoke.

The princess was also a little surprised. She remembered that Mo Yun was not a

sociable person.

"Master Xia, I would like to ask, that book on arithmetic... really you wrote

it?"

Although he had known that the other party was young, Mo Yun was still

surprised when he saw it with his own eyes-this person named Xia Fan was too

young, and looked almost like a princess. How did you write such a rigorous

and logical arithmetic tutorial without the tempering of time and experience?

If you want to judge whether he is deceiving the world and stealing his name,

the breakthrough is undoubtedly in this book.

"No."

Xia Fan quickly replied.

Mo Yun and the princess were stunned, "No?"

"Yes, I can't make up so many things if I want me to make up. Memories alone

are enough headaches."

"Then who wrote this book?"

"If my master didn't come to Jinxia, I would definitely say that the master

taught me. It's a pity..." Xia Fan said helplessly, "I don't know, anyway, it

was printed on my head from the beginning."

If you really want to break it off, it will inevitably involve his origin, so

he simply pushed it all to the occult.

But what Xia Fan didn't expect was that the princess ~www.mtlnovel.com~

suddenly showed an unexpected look, "So that's it...this makes sense."

Wait, you really believe this?

Mo Yun found it incredible. If the other party insisted on saying that it was

written by herself, she could also find loopholes to make the other party

contradict herself, so that her Highness could discover the truth. But he just

put aside the matter in one bite, as if he didn't care about the honor of

"author" at all. You must know that as long as this book is spread, it must be

a famous work in history. To leave a good reputation?

What is even more difficult to understand is that the princess actually

believed it!

Now all her temptations got stuck in her throat.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little stiff, Ning Wanjun took the initiative

to change the subject, "By the way, how are the results of Yantian's test?"

"The situation is not bad. The first batch of salt has been precipitated, but

the amount is a little bit small. Are you going to check it out?"

"Of course," Ning Wanjun said enthusiastically, "this is the future of Jinxia

City."