An Ning walked to a deserted place, transferred an adult male rabbit, an adult female rabbit, and six half-grown rabbits from the space, put all the rabbits into the backpack, covered the lid, tied it with a rope, and walked around the mountain again, and then slowly went down the mountain. When they got home, Gao asked in confusion, "Why did you come back so early today?"
An Ning smiled and said, "I'm lucky today. I caught a nest of rabbits."
Gao was a little surprised and said, "These rabbits are so dead, how did you catch them?"
An Ning made up a story: "Didn't my father teach me how to smoke rabbit? I went up the mountain today and happened to find a rabbit hole, so I followed the method my father taught me. I didn't expect that I actually caught a rabbit."
Gao nodded and said, "When your father comes back later, ask him to make you a cage. The rabbits in our cage just gave birth, so they can't be put together."
An Ning nodded and said, "Isn't my father back yet?"
Gao said, "Your father just came back and said he was going to the county town to get a land deed."
An Ning didn't really understand any of this, so she didn't ask any more questions. She put down the backpack and started fiddling with the stones she had picked up in the mountains that day.
An Ning knew the principle of rock salt extraction. Simply put, it is divided into six steps, including grinding, dissolving, filtering, concentration, crystallization and dehydration.
The first step is grinding, grinding the stone containing rock salt to make the particles of the stone containing rock salt smaller.
The second step is to add the ground powder to hot water to dissolve it and form a saline solution.
The third step is to filter out all the insoluble substances in the salt water.
The fourth step is concentration, which involves heating and evaporating the filtered brine solution to remove excess water and concentrate it into brine of a certain concentration.
The fifth step is crystallization, which can remove impurities and impure substances; the last step is dehydration, after which refined salt can be obtained.
But An Ning was stumped at the first step. How could she grind the stone into pieces? It seemed that it was time to buy a small stone mill. Now that she didn't have a stone mill, An Ning could only use a stupid method. She found a hammer at home and planned to break the big stone into pieces. But imagination is full, reality is skinny. An Ning's thin arms and legs became numb after a few hits.
An Ning didn't continue to make things difficult for himself. He put down the hammer, rubbed his numb arm, put away the stones, and returned to his room.
Just after resting in the room for a while, An Dashan came back excitedly. An Ning heard An Dashan and Gao talking in the yard and came out too.
Seeing An Dashan holding a piece of paper for Gao to read, An Ning asked, "Dad, has the land deed been processed?"
An Dashan nodded and walked into the house while saying, "Well, things went very smoothly today. I happened to meet the lawyer at the gate of the government office. When he learned that I was here to apply for a land deed, he directly asked the clerk in charge of this matter to do it for me, and even forfeited the bribe I was going to give. When the village chief saw that I actually knew the lawyer, he immediately looked at me differently."
An Ning imagined the scene at that time and found it very funny. Seeing that the land deed was also completed, An Ning asked: "Dad, when do we start building the new house?"
An Dashan thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait until the autumn harvest is over. By then everyone will be free, and we can ask the villagers to help, so that everyone can have some extra income."
An Ning originally wanted to ask An Dashan to find a professional to build the house. After listening to An Dashan's words, he felt that it made sense, but the villagers were not as good as professionals. So he said, "Dad, we can ask the villagers to help, but building a house is a big deal, and the villagers are not professional enough. We can ask professional builders to build the house, and then ask the villagers to help with the yard wall. What do you think?"
An Dashan thought it made sense, so he nodded and said, "Okay, let's do as you say. I'll go to the town tomorrow and find out which shop has better craftsmanship."
An Ning nodded and said, "Well, I'll go to town with you tomorrow. I also have some things to buy."
An Dashan nodded and said, "Okay, let's go early tomorrow and buy some materials for building the house."
An Ning also said: "By the way, let's order the furniture we need. Our old furniture is already broken and in tatters, so we don't need to move it into the new house."
Gao was used to being frugal, and she said with some concern: "I think all the furniture is still usable. Why don't you pick some and keep the better ones?"
An Dashan shook his head and said, "Just listen to Daya. Our family is rich now, and it doesn't cost much to make furniture."
Seeing that the father and daughter were determined, Gao no longer insisted and said, "Okay, let's do as you say!" After that, she turned and left the main room.
An Ning saw Gao go out, and said to An Dashan, "Dad, let's buy a carriage!"
An Dashan was startled and said, "Isn't it a bit too ostentatious that our family is buying a carriage and building a new house?"
An Ning thought for a moment and said, "Dad, the village chief also saw you and Master get acquainted today. Did he ask you anything?"
An Dashan thought for a moment and said, "He only asked me why I knew that master."
An Ning asked again: "Then what did you say?"
An Dashan said, "I thought my daughter's reputation would be ruined, so I said I helped the county magistrate with something a few days ago, and that's how I got to know you, my advisor."
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