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Chapter 2006 The Thickness of the Crucible ([-])

Dieppe means "deep" in Anglo-Saxon.

Although I don't know why this name was chosen, but because it is an excellent port and the gravel road has been built, this also means that there are more pedestrians on the road than before, and they have to slow down, just like those Slowly moving forward like a large carriage carrying goods.

There were cheese, cotton, grain, wine, fruits and vegetables, fish and sugar in the big carriage. Looking at the dazzling array of goods on the cart, Georgiana felt the atmosphere of a good harvest, and the countrymen who chatted with them were also very talkative.

Most of them work in Dieppe, where there are shipyards and docks. The men work in the docks and shipyards, while the wives and children do carding and spinning at home. These are piecework, and they send the finished products to the port. Firstly, they can subsidize their family, and secondly, they can go to the city to buy some necessities. They complain that the salt taste is getting less and less salty now.

Napoleon raised the salt tax, but he did not send tax collectors to each household to test whether the dishes in other people's pots were salty as before. Instead, he started from the source and found salt merchants to pay taxes.

If the salt merchant raises the price, everyone knows that the indirect tax goes to the consumer, so they use the old method.Originally, table salt was produced in the west, and some people worked in the salt field.After taking the unadulterated salt back home, a comparison found that the salt bought in the store was almost tasteless, but they only complained a few times. They can get some handmade coarse sea salt, anyway, the sea does not have any taste. fence.

Generally speaking, they still like peace. The days of peace are much better than during the war, and there are many more types of food to choose from on the table than before.

Then we chatted and talked about the use of salt to make alkali. Although the country people don’t know the specific principle, they know that salt and sulfuric acid are used. There is also a factory in Saint-Denis in Paris, and many salt factories have to give It delivers.

The doctor who invented this technology once served the Duke of Orleans. During the Great Revolution, the Duke of Orleans was sent to the guillotine, the factory was confiscated, and the method of making alkali was also made public. I don’t know what happened now.

"Do you know who they're talking about?" Georgiana asked the girls in the car, all of whom looked puzzled.

Georgiana glanced back at Farron's carriage, planning to ask him after the carriage stopped.

With such a distracted effort, the topics of those passers-by were deviated.

For these people, chemistry, like potions, requires a crucible.Legend has it that the great mage Ceridwen had a magical crucible, which once belonged to Dagda, and was later brought to Brittany as Bronwen's dowry. You only need to put the right things in it, and you can get Unlimited inspiration and knowledge.

One of the archmages is his son Avagddu, who was ugly at birth. His mother Seredwin decided to train her son to be a wise man to make up for his lack of appearance, so under the guidance of the wizard Ferylt's writings, , brewed this kind of magic potion that can obtain supreme wisdom for him.

However, the process of brewing this potion is cumbersome, takes a whole year, and requires constant stirring, so the archmage asked a young boy, Gwion, to help her watch the pot.

Guion worked diligently, knowing that at the end of the year, there was a small accident one day, three drops of the soup in the crucible splashed on his hand, and Guion subconsciously licked the potion on his hand .

However, the most precious thing in the whole pot of potion was the few drops that Guion licked. Without those few drops, the cauldron was full of poison, so this ordinary boy suddenly had magical powers.

Guyon had the ability to predict the future, he got into trouble and chose to run away immediately.After the archmage came back, he found the abnormality of the potion and chased it out. Gion turned into a hare, the archmage became a greyhound; Gion became a fish, the archmage became an otter; Gion became a bird , the Archmage was transformed into an eagle, and later the Archmage chased the exhausted Guion into a barn, where Guion became a grain, and Cyridwyn became an old hen.

Among the mountain-like grains, Seredwin found the one that Guion had transformed into, and ate it, but he did not expect to become pregnant and even give birth.She knew that the child's father was Guion, and she planned to kill him, but she didn't do it because the child was so cute, so she wrapped him in a leather package and threw him into the sea, leaving him to fend for himself.

A poor and unlucky salmon fisherman named Elphin, one day a leather parcel hit their boat, and he and his father opened it together, and found a baby lying in it.

The child was really cute. The father and son decided to adopt him and named him Taliesin. When he grew up, he became a famous poet and prophet around King Arthur.

Taliesin has a poem:
Before I was shaped, I was ever-changing.

I was the sword, fine and mottled,
I was a tear in the air,

I was the darkest of the stars,
I was a word of words,

I was an original book.

"Is that the dimmest star of all the stars, ma'am?" Philyl asked.

"If you are talking about the darkest constellation that can be observed with the eyes, it is Lynx." Georgiana said casually, "That constellation is all dark stars, so it is named Lynx, which means that only the eyes are as sharp as a bobcat. Only the same people can see this dim constellation."

Phil nodded.

"How do you know?" Matilda asked.

Georgiana remembered her adventures in the Alps, so she made up a story and told them.

The girls were a little surprised, but they didn't take it seriously. After all, telling stories was also a kind of entertainment at Bonaparte's court.

When life is stable, people begin to look forward to the future, just like the great mage Sedravin, even if the son is not good-looking, the parents still hope that he will have wisdom to make up for his congenital deficiencies.

There were really no decent towns on the way to Dieppe, not even a post station or a tavern, and they finally came across a guest house.

It was built for road workers. Brittany is sparsely populated. The owner of this hostel used to be a wanderer. He was originally a boy from a poor family, and later worked as a vegetable farmer in a landlord's family. He and the landlord My daughter is fine.

The landlord sent his daughter to be a tailor in the hope that she would marry a better family than a vegetable farmer. After the girl became pregnant, they married regardless of their parents' opposition.But the owner of the hostel could not support his children, so he had to continue wandering around looking for work, leaving his wife and children to his parents to take care of.

It wasn't until he heard that the road was going to be built that he decided to build a wooden guest house for these workers.In fact, because of the construction of the Saint-Martin Canal, some people also built guest houses and bathrooms for the canal workers. They used soap from Marseilles.

Farron is familiar with making soap. Soap cannot be made without alkali. The alkali used in Marseille soap is extracted from plant ash, which is mild and non-irritating. In other production areas, alkali produced by chemical action is added. Marseille soap has good Word of mouth is because Louis XIV once issued an order that olive oil must be used instead of animal fat, and no other spices can be added, so Marseille soap is fragrance-free.

Later, Georgiana remembered the doctor who had served the Duke of Orleans, whom she had heard on the road, and asked Farron about the whereabouts of the other party, Farron showed embarrassment.

Just at this time, their lunch came. It was a traditional Breton dish of miscellaneous fish soup. Because it was cooked in a large pot at the guest house, fish bones that were not completely cooked could be faintly seen in the milky white fish soup. Not tasty.

Fortunately, the subsequent grilled scallops and pork sausages were not bad, and the vegetables provided by the vegetable farmers were very fresh. It is not bad to be able to eat these in the wasteland.

After lunch, she continued on the road. It may be that the fish soup smelled a little stronger at noon, and she always felt a little nauseous after getting in the car.

Matilda looked at her expectantly.

She knew what Matilda expected, and they had heard several pregnancy stories along the way.

But she wasn't sure if she wanted to have children or not.

Children in this world do not have umbilical cords, although they are born with navels on their stomachs just like ordinary children.

Besides that weird feeling, the most important thing was that she was still hoping that Severus would come back for her.

A woman who has a child can no longer be associated with an ex, and that's what Lily did.

The owner of the hostel still has a conscience. Although he was a bit unlucky, he still knew how to find a job to support his family. Several girls in the hostel run by Georgiana were abandoned after pregnancy, although they were not as good as Merope ugly.

Georgiana thought of the girl who boiled the love potion in the dormitory again. She didn't want to drug someone, but wanted to know what she liked best.

Subconsciously, she touched the bracelet on her wrist.

Sometimes you can't get the one you like the most, just like you can't get the most beautiful girl.

Everyone always has some regrets in their life, and she seems to understand what kind of mood it is.

(End of this chapter)