Chapter 150 The First Snow
Imperial Physician Feng wrote a prescription for the emperor, personally picked the medicine in the Imperial Hospital, boiled the medicine himself, and after it was boiled, he personally delivered it to the emperor and personally served the emperor to take the medicine.
Then he stayed by the emperor's bedside and only returned to the Imperial Hospital after watching the emperor fall into a deep sleep.
After returning to the Imperial Hospital and looking at the empty room, Doctor Feng almost beat his chest and stamped his feet. Who was this bastard? What was there to steal in the Imperial Hospital? There was no gold or silver or treasure, yet they stole all the books in the room.
At this time, Su Yue, who was far away in Yunwu Village, sneezed several times inexplicably. She rubbed her nose. Did she have a cold?
She has special abilities and never catches a cold or gets sick. Does that mean someone is thinking of her?
That must be the parents from Northwest City.
Little did she know that someone was scolding her.
Imperial Physician Feng walked around the room several times and sighed heavily. This place used to be where books were stored, but now it was empty. He wanted to check the books to see if there was any way to cure the emperor's illness, so that he could live a few more years.
Although the emperor is not a good one, the Xifeng Kingdom is in a turbulent time and it is not appropriate for a new emperor to take the throne.
With the new emperor taking the throne, the court will face another major change. The Xifeng Kingdom was already in turmoil, and after the major change, it is unknown whether the Xifeng Kingdom will collapse.
Alas! Imperial Physician Feng felt that as an imperial physician, he was worrying about the same things that the emperor should be worrying about. Was he thinking too much?
Imperial Physician Feng shook his head and sighed deeply in his heart, then hurried out of the Imperial Hospital and returned home.
It can be said that his family has been imperial physicians for generations, from the previous dynasty to the present, there should be more than a dozen generations, and there are countless books in the family.
After returning home, he locked himself in the study and searched through the books in his home. He also instructed the housekeeper to search for medical books among the people.
Su Yue and Murong Li, who were far away in Northwest County, were unaware of the emperor's situation. After Murong Li bought the people, he divided them into two groups. One group was placed in a cement workshop, and the other group was secretly sent to the beach.
He and Su Yue also split up. He stayed in the village to look after the workshop and put cement production on the agenda, as winter was approaching.
We learned from Village Chief Niu that once winter comes in Northwest County, it snows nine out of ten days a week, so before winter comes, we have to distribute cement to each household so that the villagers can reinforce their houses.
If there were any extra, Murong Li wanted to sell some in the county town first. This year, there was a severe drought, and most of the people's houses were cracked and became dangerous.
On Su Yue's side, they first built a house and a stove so that the people who cooked salt would have a place to live.
At the seaside, the temperature is lower than other places, so the house needs to be built faster.
With cement and bricks, it is quite quick to build a house for ten people.
Murong Li arranged secret guards to help build the house, and also built a stove at the same time.
In just ten days, a row of houses was built against the mountain, and ten uneven stoves were also built on the rocks.
Everything was ready. Su Yue picked one person from the ten people to be the leader. This person was called Wang Da, who could read a few words. Su Yue told him some details of boiling salt, and then taught the ten people to start boiling salt.
Boiling salt is very simple. They are only responsible for putting sea water into the pot and boiling it day and night. As long as the salt is boiled out, it is fine. There is no technical content at all.
Once the salt is cooked, leave the rest to her.
Ten people are happily boiling salt here. They feel that the work here is easy and simple. They have food and drinks here, and what's rare is that they can also eat seafood.
Rare seafood is eaten here by the sea. For those who don’t have any to eat, their lives are better than those of gods.
Moreover, they didn't have to chop firewood for cooking salt themselves, as Su Yue would provide it for them.
Leader Qin and his men no longer went up the mountain. The large amount of supplies they brought down could allow the people of Yunwu County to barely survive the winter, so they helped Murong Li.
A few days later, the cement workshop produced the first batch of cement. Murong Li told the news to Village Chief Niu, and Village Chief Niu handed the statistics to him.
As Village Chief Niu had guessed, every household in the village needed cement.
Don’t waste free cement.
Besides, they also need to build the road, as Village Chief Niu has clearly stated, so they want it even more. If the quantity is not controlled, they will want more.
So Murong Li asked Qin to lead the distribution to each family one by one.
Leader Qin transported the cement to the house where Su Yue used to live. They also knew that cement would solidify when it came into contact with water and could no longer be used, so villagers came to collect cement every day.
Ten days later, every household in the village received cement and was reinforcing their houses.
Those who are well-off are planning to tear down their houses and rebuild them, but thinking about the heavy snow that is coming this year, they will just reinforce them a little bit. It will not be too late to tear down and rebuild after the snow melts in the spring next year.
While each household was reinforcing its roads, Village Chief Niu also ordered each household to provide two strong laborers to start repairing the village roads.
Yunwu Village is very large, with many narrow paths running through it. Village chief Niu wants to repair several main roads and then extend them outward to the county town.
After Village Chief Niu beat the drums and gongs, the village was bustling with activity the next day.
Su Yue's first batch of salt was also produced. It was snow-white salt, weighing about 100 kilograms in total.
Su Yue handed the hundred pounds of salt to Murong Li, who handed it directly to the secret guard and sold the salt at Wuhu Trading Company.
In order to expand the market, Murong Li decided to wholesale the salt to salt merchants.
After all, salt merchants traveled far and wide, had a wider reach than his Wuhu Trading Company, and could open up the market faster.
When the salt merchants saw this snow-white salt, they realized it was much better than the salt on the market, but the price was also much higher. In the end, the salt merchants could not resist the temptation of the snow-white salt. Although the price was high, they believed that once this salt was put on the market, it would definitely sell well.
And they will definitely make a lot of money. This snow-white salt is not only not bitter, but also tastes good when used to make dishes. The people in Northwest County cannot afford this kind of salt, but people in other places can still afford it.
In the end, the salt was sold at a price of two hundred coins per catty.
Moreover, the salt merchants paid a deposit on the spot and ordered the next batch of salt.
Although these more than 100 kilograms were only sold for more than 20 taels of silver, for Su Yue, this was already a huge profit. She had no cost at all to make salt.
Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.
Half a month later, the wheat seedlings in the field were one inch tall, the main road of the village was built to the village entrance, Su Yue delivered 500 kilograms of the second batch of salt, and Northwest County also welcomed its first snow.
The sky was filled with flying snow, covering Yunwu Village overnight, and everything was white.
"Yuer."
Su Yue was awakened from her sleep by Murong Li's knock on the door.
Su Yue opened her hazy eyes, feeling dizzy and unable to open her eyelids.
(End of this chapter)
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