Chapter 659: Melting Snow with Salt
"This year's wheat cover is a three-layer quilt, and I will sleep with steamed buns next year!"
"Ruixue is a good year!"
The heavy snow soon covered the entire Guanzhong area, and hundreds of people couldn't help but rejoice when they saw this heavy snow.
After this heavy snowfall, the winter wheat has replenished water and is sure to grow well, and most of the pests in the fields have frozen to death, and the next year is sure to be a good harvest year.
"This heavy snowfall is indeed good for farmland, but for Mojia Village, I'm afraid it's not good news!" Lu Shuang looked at the blizzard sky and said with a sneer.
The snow was so great that the snow on the road was knee-deep, and this time even the brick road could not withstand it, and it was impossible to clear so much snow. Transportation throughout the Guanzhong region has been halted because of this blizzard.
And after this heavy snowfall, once it freezes, it is even more difficult to remove the snow.
"Time is extremely precious for Mojia Village, with the obstacle of the blizzard, Mojiazi has the ability to reach the sky, and the goods of Mojia Village cannot be transported to Chang'an City." Zheng Chang sneered.
The two of them were almost not blocked by Qin Huaiyu and the three of them the day before yesterday, and they fled in embarrassment, and directly became the laughing stock of Chang'an City, how could they not be excited when they saw the bad luck of Mojia Village now.
"God help me!" Lu Shuang laughed. In his opinion, this time Mojia Village must be weak.
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"I admit that the Mo family is a genius and has repeatedly created miracles, but after all, he is a person, can he still defeat God."
In Chang'an City, many people sighed. This rare snowstorm made the situation even worse in Mojia Village, and the brick road on which Mojia Village relied for its survival was blocked by heavy snow, which can be said to be fatal.
In fact, it is not only the worries of others, even the people in Mojia Village are also looking at the snowflakes in the sky is also cold, although Mojia Village also has farmland, but the joy of Ruixue Zhaofeng has long disappeared without a trace.
"Could it be that the sky is going to kill my Mojia Village!" Many Mo family disciples said in a trembling voice, and some even knelt directly in the heavy snow and cried loudly.
"Get out of the way, what is the death of my Mojia Village, there is the young master's secret skills, how can it be rare to live in my Mojia Village with just a snow." Li Yi suddenly shouted.
"Ahh The young master's secret skills! The children of the Mo family suddenly felt happy in their hearts and looked at Li Yi in disbelief.
I saw that behind Li Yi, there was a long convoy, looking at the heavy ruts, obviously full of heavy objects.
"Village chief, what are you ......" A villager looked at Li Yi puzzled.
"Snow removal, of course! You will continue to work, and tomorrow we will transport the goods to Chang'an City. Li Yi laughed.
With Li Yi's order, bags of snow-white particles were suddenly thrown from the carriage, quickly blended into the snow, and disappeared.
"This will remove the snow!" The villagers of the Mo family looked at the convoy that disappeared into the vast snow, and they couldn't touch their heads one by one.
"The young master said he could!"
More villagers were convinced, and immediately continued to work with confidence.
The snow is falling, and the busy brick road on weekdays has long been empty, and in the cold wind, the convoy of Mojia Village led by Li Yi is moving forward in the snow.
It's almost time to Chang'an City! Li Yi rubbed his fingers that were red from the cold, looked at the tall city wall in front of him, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Hurry up, we'll live in Chang'an City tonight." Li Yi looked at the heavy snow and said loudly.
"Haole, village chief!"
A group of Mo family children were suddenly shocked, and immediately stepped up the work in their hands to finish, Mojia Village has a place to live in Chang'an City, and if you live in Chang'an City tonight, you don't have to endure the cold to go back to Mojia Village.
"Mojia Village convoy?"
When the convoy of Mojia Village arrived at the South City Gate, many people who were running around in the snow couldn't help but be stunned when they saw the convoy of Mojia Village, and no one thought that the convoy of Mojia Village would arrive in Chang'an City at this time.
The idler who seemed to be wandering in the crowd, this person was Lu Shuang's eyeliner, who was specifically in front of the South City Gate to explore the situation in Mojia Village, and when he saw the convoy of Mojia Village, he couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly approached to observe.
"Why are they all empty?" The idler couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the empty convoys.
As the convoy slowly entered Chang'an City, the idler suddenly saw a large white particle thrown into the snow behind the carriage in the last carriage.
"This is ......" The idler hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look, and suddenly couldn't believe it.
"Salt!" Then there was an exclamation from a passerby, apparently he had also found the particles.
"Salt!" Many pedestrians were suddenly shocked in their hearts, although Daqing Salt lowered the price of salt in Datang, and salt was worth a lot of money in Datang, no one thought that Mojia Village would directly sprinkle it on the ground.
Suddenly, many people lay on the ground and began to collect salt in the snow, after all, for ordinary people, salt is extremely precious, and they are naturally unwilling to give up.
The sound behind naturally alarmed Li Yi, he turned his head to see the other party collecting the salt scattered on the ground, and suddenly remembered Merton's order, and suddenly exclaimed: "Stop, this salt can't be eaten!" ”
However, the people who were collecting salt heard Li Yi's shout, but the collection was even faster, and they didn't pay attention to Li Yi's warning.
"Since you don't want it in Mojia Village, don't you want us to eat!" Seeing this, the idler sneered.
"That's it, that's it!"
"Scatter ye on the ground, and what we find will be ours."
Many people retorted, and some people ignored Li Yi's dissuasion, took the salt and prepared to leave.
"These salts are poisonous! It is salt that cannot be eaten! Li Yi shouted loudly.
"Poisonous!" Everyone was suddenly startled, looking at the salt grains in their hands in disbelief, and suddenly hesitated in their hearts, but they were reluctant to let them give up the salt.
The idle man's eyes rolled and said: "Mojia Village is stingy, and it also deceives us that salt is poisonous." ”
Many people immediately looked at Li Yi with unkind eyes.
Li Yi helplessly explained: "This is raw salt, it is directly mined from the shore of the salt lake, it contains a lot of toxins, if you don't pay attention, eat too much, you will be poisoned, I don't believe you can taste it, is it very bitter." ”
Raw salt is also the industrial salt of later generations, which is often used for road snow in later generations, but it is also a very common industrial raw material.
"Raw salt!"
Where can ordinary people tell what the raw salt is, but when they taste it, their mouths are suddenly full of bitterness, and this is Li Yi's words, so he stupidly sprinkled the salt in his hand into the snow again.
"Then why did you scatter all these harmful things on the ground?" The idler's mouth was full of bitterness and indignation.
Li Yi said proudly: "Although these salts are inedible, they can turn snow, as long as these raw salts are sprinkled on the road, as long as they pass overnight, the brick road in the south of the city can be driven normally." ”
"Melted snow with salt!"
"It's open to traffic!"
The idler's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly turned around and went back to report.
The people at the south gate were unwilling to leave, Li Yiyou was not at ease, and the official road in the south of the city stared at it for a long time, until the salt grains slowly melted into the snow and could no longer be collected, so he returned to Chang'an City.
He didn't know that at this moment in Chang'an City, the news of Mojia Village's use of salt to turn snow had already spread, and now in Chang'an City, as long as it was about Mojia Village or Mojiazi's gossip, it would always spread throughout Chang'an City at the first time, even if it was blocked by heavy snow, it did not have the slightest impact on this gossip.
"Salt can melt snow, salt can also melt snow? Lao Tzu only knows that the Mo family used snow as a metaphor for salt! "It's clear that Merton's crooked poem advertising Snow Salt is still influential.
"Loser! Mo Jiazi is really a loser! ”
It is even more gossip that is passed on, and it is even more oil and vinegar, and the raw salt has directly turned into snow salt, so you don't have to think that this strange thing can only come from the hands of the Mo family. made many people heartbroken, and couldn't help but scold Morton for being a loser.
If the loser is put on anyone, I am afraid that it is the psychology of hating iron and steel, but once everyone talks about Merton, it is a different state of mind, and everyone knows that once the Mo family is a loser, it will not be soft, but after observing the behavior of the Merton loser, you will find that compared to the upcoming harvest, Merton's behavior is simply the most cost-effective business in the world.
On the grand event in the Western Regions, the Mo family spent a lot of money, and countless Hu merchants worked for Datang, which is equivalent to countless Bowanghou running around for Datang, and brought endless benefits to Datang.
The construction of the brick road in the south of the city was even more condemned by everyone as a loser, but it not only exempted Mojia Village from ten years of forced labor, but also allowed the Tang Dynasty to open the era of brick roads, and the whole world benefited from it.
And today, the Mo family once again took on the behavior of the loser, although it is said that these raw salts are as cheap as dirt in the salt lake, but after all, they are transported back from such a long distance, and the freight alone is not a small amount.