Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Always Having Trouble with Pigs

After confirming it, Zhu Dan designed the structure, simulated it repeatedly, and hung the stars representing the detoxification pills in the night sky.

Of course, the specific amount needs to be fine-tuned according to Zheng Ge himself, but now that the ingredients have been determined, we have to hurry and find them.

This time when she left Xianyang, she took some materials with her.

The rest are in Lantian County.

Fortunately, everything is complete and nothing is missing.

However, Zhu Dan also knows that he won’t be so lucky every time. In order to facilitate alchemy in the future, he still needs to expand his influence and continue to open new maps.

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After waking up, Zhu Dan stretched and heard some outsiders discussing tofu, and realized that they had arrived in Lantian County.

He lifted the curtain and said to the guards on horseback, "There's no rush to go back to the Meng family. Let's go shopping. I want to buy some things."

"only."

"Young lady!" Zhu Dan had just stuck her head out of the carriage when a passing commoner recognized her.

Zhu Dan smiled and waved to him.

The Qianshou, who was extremely frightened and regretted his words as soon as they opened their mouths, felt relieved.

In the Qin Dynasty, the nobles did not take the people-friendly approach.

But the fact that the young lady was willing to teach them the tofu-making method without reservation was an extremely incredible thing.

More and more people recognized her, so Zhu Dan simply got off the carriage and said in a loud voice: "Fellow villagers, how is the tofu?"

"Good, very good."

"I heard you say before that you also wanted to sell tofu to the village. Would the elders accept it?"

The person being asked was surprised that Zhu Dan actually remembered him, and showed a flattered expression: "I like them both very much."

"Does anyone know how to eat fresh tofu?"

"My mother cooked the tofu and mixed it with sauce. It was delicious!"

"Wow, I haven't tried this yet. I'll try it when I get home." Zhu Dan, undoubtedly a very supportive person, gave him a thumbs-up. "I remember there's a dish of scallion and tofu that's also very good. You can try it."

The young man blushed.

Zhu Dan was very pleased. Compared to the last time she went shopping and saw people holding bean rice and eating with grimace, this time it was tofu instead, and there were many more smiles when she saw it.

Before long, the news that the young lady who taught people how to make tofu appeared on the street spread, and many people came running over.

Liu Yu's family was also among them. She was protecting her little granddaughter and did not dare to squeeze in. She only said from a distance: "Look, Cao'er, that's our family's great benefactor."

"I know. My grandmother learned how to make tofu from her. Many people come to our house to buy it." The child touched his hair, where there was a bright red rope.

Stone mills were big items these days, and only the richest headman's family in a village could afford one. In the past, they would rent the stone mills to others to grind wheat and make a few taels of money.

Now that I have a livelihood from selling tofu, I finally have hope for the future.

"Mother, I want to be as powerful as the young lady in the future." She leaned close to Liu Yu's ear and said in a small but firm voice.

Liu Yu smiled and replied, "Then Grandmother will wait to enjoy Cao'er's blessing."

Girl, not bad at all.

Zhu Dan had seen enough and done enough research, and finally decided to get down to business: purchasing materials.

She calculated the spiritual energy accumulated in her alchemy furnace and found that there were still hundreds of strands after treating Zheng Ge. As the tofu fermented, the spiritual energy accumulated increased every day.

Even though this was Zhu Dan's first time refining medicine in Daqin and she was unsure, such a sufficient quantity was enough for her to try.

The detoxification pill she designed was not complicated and was even less difficult to refine than the rejuvenation pill. In the past, it only took twenty or thirty strands to refine a furnace of rejuvenation pills.

So what Zhu Dan is worried about now is the incomplete materials.

Perhaps Brother Zheng listened to her nonsense and still thought he could refine the original elixir, but knowing the difference in spiritual energy between the world of cultivation and the Qin Dynasty, Zhu Dan did not dare to dream of such a thing.

It is a blessing to use the luck of the human race instead of spiritual energy to refine the elixir, but it is a fact that there is a shortage of spiritual energy in the outside world.

Without the nourishment of spiritual energy, how can those spiritual medicines that take thousands or even tens of thousands of years to grow?

Furthermore, there is a huge gap between the cultural systems of the two worlds. Even if there are identical plants, their names will not be the same. As for Zhu Dan, even if he sees it light up on the map, how long will it take to run over one by one?

In this world, it is impossible to fly thousands of miles in an instant on a tripod.

If only Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs himself, the efficiency would be too low.

So Zhu Dan came up with an idea: I want to compile a complete collection of materials about the Qin Dynasty and build an encyclopedia museum.

In the world of cultivation, alchemy materials are divided into spiritual herbs, monsters and others, usually minerals.

The same is true here, plants, animals and inorganic matter.

Collecting them all will not only facilitate subsequent alchemy, but also make it easier to invent and earn luck.

For example, in addition to brine, gypsum can also be used to make tofu, but he didn't find it in the pharmacy, which means that the doctors in the Qin Dynasty may not have discovered the medicinal use of gypsum.

Perhaps its value in other fields has been discovered, but Zhu Dan doesn't know what the people of Daqin call gypsum, and the people of Daqin don't know that some of the new words Zhu Dan uses are actually things they see in their daily lives.

The two thousand years of gap is difficult to bridge.

This is just like when Zhu Dan worked hard to build a database in the world of cultivation. It was a bit tedious in the early stages, but it was extremely beneficial in the end.

She had an idea and decided to do it no matter how difficult it was.

The tofu stall in the market should be kept open all the time. Since they are buying beans, they might as well buy some other things as well.

No, not only the tofu stall, but also the yard that is going to be used as a water mill.

She wants to offer a reward.

If you think you need something in the future, just post your portrait and countless people will collect it for you... What a wonderful future this is.

"Zhu Dan, we're at the shop." Monkie, no, it was Fusu's words that brought Zhu Dan back to her senses. She subconsciously glanced at the map.

Very good, someone has bought tofu and contributed spiritual energy to this shop, so it has been unlocked. At this time, the star connected to the detoxification pill on the map is lighting up with several spots of light.

Zhu Dan didn't waste any time and went straight to the point: "I want this, this... and the blue stone over there."

The shopkeeper recognized Zhu Dan and hesitated. If it were someone else, he would have sold it at a high price, but...

He said honestly, "Although this blue gem is beautiful, it can only be admired from a distance. Playing with it will make your hands itch and cause unbearable pain. Please think twice, young lady."

"Don't worry, I bought this stone to make elixirs," Zhu Dan explained. "It's poisonous. If you find a stone like this again, you must handle it with care. Ingestion or prolonged contact can harm your body."

Upon hearing this, the accompanying guards shot cold eyes at the shopkeeper, and Fusu also frowned.

Seeing this, Zhu Dan quickly said, "What are you doing? Many minerals are either toxic or radioactive. Radioactivity is even more terrifying than toxicity. Just being in the same room with them can cause harm to the body without the doctor noticing. By the time they discover it, it's too late. In the shortest time, it can kill someone in a day. There's a lot of knowledge involved."

The shopkeeper didn't mean to hurt anyone.

Therefore, museums must be established to popularize relevant knowledge and avoid some historical tragedies.

The shopkeeper's lips trembled as he looked at Zhu Dan with gratitude.

He didn't think the young lady would lie to him.

Zhu Dan actually didn't know that this blue stone was blue vitriol, which can be used to mix with Bordeaux mixture to kill insects and is a type of pesticide. She knew it was poisonous because she could identify it with Tangyuan.

This is an ingredient for the detoxification pill.

Zhu Dan was afraid that the quantity was not enough, so she told the shopkeeper that if he had another stone of the same kind, he should bring a letter to her at the Meng family villa, and then she paid the money and went to the next shop.

I walked and bought things along the way, and after visiting the shops, I went to the market.

Hu Hai watched Zhu Dan act recklessly, asking for this and that, and squandering the hundred gold coins given by his father. A sinister look flashed in his eyes.

He had already thought about how to complain to his father.

When he saw Zhu Dan walking straight into the dirty and messy market where only the common people went, and announcing that he would buy all the goods on a stall, Hu Hai finally couldn't help it and said sarcastically: "My father trusts you so much, and you are using these wastes to make elixirs for my father. What are your intentions?"

Fusu frowned, but before he could say anything, Zhu Dan sneered back, "Some people are trash themselves, so they see everything as trash. With such shallow knowledge, how dare you interfere with my alchemy?"

"You!" Hu Hai pointed at Zhu Dan, his face flushed with anger.

"What do you mean by 'you'? His Majesty said that I am the leader on this trip. Not only you, but even your brother Fusu must obey me!" Zhu Dan put his hands on his hips and said smugly, "You must do whatever I tell you to do!"

Hu Hai gasped for breath and clenched his fists. Fusu quickly stopped him and said, "Master Zhu has the guidance of the gods on how to make the elixir. How could we interfere? I just wonder if you would be lucky enough to come and watch?"

"Okay." Zhu Dan rolled her eyes at Hu Hai. She shouldn't have been so mean to a child, but after all, the other party was Hu Hai.

After visiting the market, Zhu Dan returned home with a lot of things.

Everything was arranged in the yard according to her instructions, filling up the huge yard and leaving only a small path for walking.

In fact, Zhu Dan has only accumulated two stars now, so why does he need so many materials?

Only a small part was needed for rejuvenation pills and detoxification pills, and most of them were unfamiliar to her and she planned to use them as samples for compiling a complete collection of materials.

Facing everyone's gaze, Zhu Dan smiled slightly and said, "Tangyuan."

A two-meter-high alchemy cauldron appeared out of thin air.

Fusu was filled with shock, Hu Hai sat down on the ground, the guards took a step back, the housekeeper and servants trembled, and some even knelt down.

Only Gongsun Liu shouted, "Senior Sister, is this the treasure the immortals bestowed upon you?"

"What a beautiful alchemy furnace! Are you going to start refining the elixir?"

Zhu Dan nodded nonchalantly, and when she saw the expectation and envy in the child's eyes, her heart moved.

Gongsun Liu at least called her senior sister, and if possible, she also wanted to teach her how to make elixirs, but the other party didn't have an alchemy furnace, so she couldn't get started.

But if you can't learn alchemy, you can learn physical chemistry.

Physics is the principle of all things; chemistry is the way of change and creation. If you cultivate it, it will be a great way to earn your own luck.

Speaking of chemistry, Zhu Dan immediately thought of the two things that time travelers like to deal with the most, soap and glass.

Soap can clean, disinfect, improve hygiene habits, and prevent diseases from entering the body through the mouth.

Glass is even more amazing. It can be used to make glass windows, glass greenhouses... and she has been suffering from the lack of mirrors for a long time.

Hehe, put the mirror out there, empty the pockets of the nobles of the six nations, and see where they get the money to rebel against Brother Zheng.

Of course, the nobles of the Qin Dynasty should not be let off either. This kind of luxury goods is the easiest to make money from, which is much better than confiscating their property.

With money, many things can be done, such as building libraries across the country, constructing roads and bridges, and providing compulsory education...all of these require national fiscal expenditures.

Indeed, Zheng Ge is very rich now and can easily give her a hundred gold coins, but no matter how much money is invested in infrastructure and development, it is not enough. Zhu Dan feels that she can start preparing for a rainy day from now on.

There is no need to hesitate which one to do first, of course, soap.

Glass is much more complicated, from small pieces of glass to large pieces of glass, from colored glass to colorless glass... There is no doubt that Zhu Dan does not know the techniques involved.

She could only point out a direction and let talented people study it.

Soap is different. The basic ingredients are just wood ash and lard.

I just want to raise pigs.

Thinking of this, Zhu Dan immediately asked the housekeeper to prepare lard.

The housekeeper is hard to describe.

Seeing his expression, Zhu Dan thought the kitchen might be out of lard, so she said, "Go to the market, buy a pig, and have the chef select the fat from the pig and boil it down to make lard. Put the best fat in one place, and the offal like intestines in the other. I'll do a comparison."

These two cannot be mixed.

Although pork is a cheap meat, the common people may not be able to eat it if they want to. Of course, the soap made from this high-quality lard has to be sold to the nobles at a high price.

"Oh, and you have to find me some more piglets, ten, twenty, or thirty days old. They don't have to be exactly ten days old, but they have to be close enough. Send them to the yard I bought and find someone who knows how to take care of them. I want to test how old the piglets are to avoid dying after being castrated."

Zhu Dan remembered that there were no systematic pig farms in Daqin, and he had to collect piglets from each family to get enough samples.

As for finding a village to contract the livestock for them to raise, Zhu Dan is not considering this at this stage.

She can afford the cost of the death of dozens of pigs, but the people of Qian cannot, so Zhu Dan must first summarize the experience of raising pigs, otherwise she would be cheating others.

The housekeeper's mouth twitched, and he didn't quite understand why Zhu Dan, a young lady, would have such a problem with pigs.

Just because he wanted to eat pork? But he could only agree: "Yes."