Heavenly Dao Formula Chapter 123: Salt out

After nearly a week of exposure, the experimental field has shown preliminary results.

Xia Fan walked barefoot into the lowest crystallization pool, and the warm water suddenly passed over the back of his instep. Compared to the evaporation pond above, the sea here is particularly turbid, covered with foam, and underneath it reflects dazzling waves.

This reflection is not from sea water, but from a thin layer of white crystals at the bottom of the pool.

Grandpa Li couldn't help bending down, poking his hand into the mud, and then putting 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 His Royal Highness put out a sum of money to implement Xia Fan's idea, he was still worried. It wasn't 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 undermine 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 people and can make more money after spending money. , But the intangible thing like prestige is hard to make up for.

Now that the salt is really exposed in the salt field, a huge boulder in Li Gonggong's heart has finally been put down.

He didn't understand the technique, and didn't want to understand it. As long as there is salt in the salt pond, even if Xia Fan sprinkled it by himself, it is better than failure.

People follow his heart, and even look at Xia Fan's appearance are pleasing to the eye 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 out to the sea, is a perfect picture in itself.

What's so nice about salt.

Can you compare 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, add it to it. The salt won’t 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 only for verifying the craftsmanship. The size of the pond is too small, plus it is the first pond salt, so it is normal for less."

Besides, he also found a lot of 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 fewer ponds. When the scale is up, the efficiency of the dumping 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 works, 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, just like drying grains." Xia Fan smiled. "When it has accumulated a lot, just use a wooden shovel to shovel it all the way."

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.

People all around bowed their heads to greet them, "I have seen her Royal Highness."

Xia Fan noticed a strange face beside him.

Li, who also noticed this point, quickly turned around and put his tail behind his back.

"Introduce, this is the head of the Ministry of Industry and Engineering, Mo Yun." Ning Wanjun said, "She knew me a long time ago, not an outsider. This time just passed by Jinxia, ​​so she will be here. Stay here for a few days."

"And he, who is what I said is engaged in by the new commander, is also the author of the book you admire most."

"Master Xia, have long admired the name." Mo Yun arched his hands.

"To 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. It just so happens that the Privy Council doesn't care about it, 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 is absolutely not in line with 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 think of herself as a man. .

"The Ministry of Industry will also have female officials." Xia Fan took the initiative to make a relationship, "I wonder what research does Master Mo usually do?"

"This involves Qi Guo secrets, please excuse 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...Is it really written by you?"

Although he knew that the other party was young for a long time, 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 are enough for a headache."

"Who wrote this book?"

"If my master did not come to Jinxia, ​​I would definitely say that the master taught me. It's a pity..." Xia Fan helplessly spread his hands, "I don't know, anyway, it was printed on my head from the beginning."

If you really want to break it, it will inevitably involve his origins, so he simply pushes it all to the occult.

But what Xia Fan didn't expect was that ~IndoMTL.com~ the princess suddenly showed an unexpected look, "So that's it...this makes sense."

Wait, do you really believe this?

Mo Yun finds it bizarre. If the other party insists on saying that she wrote, then she can also find loopholes to make the other party contradict herself, so that her Royal Highness can discover the truth. But he just set aside the matter with one mouthful, seeming to not care about the honor of the "author" at all. You must know that as long as the book is spread, it must be a famous work in history. In addition to power and money, officials don’t care about it. To leave a good reputation?

What's 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, do you want to check it out?"

"Of course," Ning Wanjun said happily, "this is the future of Jinxia City."