The system wants my local master gl

Song Yuyan's three siblings are actually offshoots of the Cixi Song family. Their great-grandfather and Song Xiping were brothers, but when Song Xiping was an official, the patriarch was a highly respected elder.

And Song Fu, who revived the Song family, happened to be the son of Song Zhiming, that is to say, Song Xiping's line was considered the direct line, and most of the resources in the family would be tilted towards them.Song Fu and Song Bing are the same, Song Yuyan calls their uncle in name, but the relationship is very weak.

So what happened to Song Yuyan's three brothers and sisters, the family would at best take care of them in accordance with the family rules, but would not try their best to help them, otherwise the Wu family would not have swept away the Song family's property so easily.

For most members of the clan, this is the family affair of Song Yuyan's father and uncle, even if they are members of the clan, it is not easy to intervene.

Maybe it's because he lost his father since he was a child, and the original owner didn't have a deep affection for the tribe. Later, he wandered around the streets, did not do business properly, and behaved badly, so he was condemned by many tribesmen.Every time the original owner received rations from the Hui nationality, she had to be criticized and educated. When she went back half a year ago, she was ridiculed for being like a beggar. She came back to beg for food.

That was the few remaining dignity of the original owner, which was trampled on, and out of anger, she didn't go back.

Song Bing actually didn't know much about these things, but his relationship with Song Yuyan was weak before, so he didn't pay much attention to them.Now he feels that Song Yuyan is not hopeless, so he wants to bring her back to the clan, so that the clan can know her change.

Song Yuyan thought for a moment, then agreed.

Although brown rice is not rice, if two buckets of brown rice are processed into fine rice, it is estimated that one bucket is four, but she, Song Yuban, and Song Yuzhuan receive one season, which is one stone and two buckets, which is 74 in modern units. Kilogram!

Although she has always believed that self-reliance is the only way out of life, but as a qualified young man of the new era, and also as an outstanding child of the Song family, she must be self-reliant while also displaying the fine style of diligence and thrift. It's the clan's welfare, if she doesn't want it, wouldn't it be a waste of the clan's efforts?

System: Are you sure you have such a high level of ideological awareness, and it's not just because of the "free picking mentality"?

Song Yuyan: My ideological awareness is so high that I have been praised and recognized by the organization.

system:……

There was no need to worry about running out of food for the next three months, Song Yuyan generously bought half a catty of red bayberries on the way home.

Right now, red bayberries are ripening one after another, but those famous red bayberries basically don't mature until May, and they are expensive, which is not affordable for low-income households like Song Yuyan.So what she bought were the relatively small red bayberries grown by the farmers themselves.

The three siblings of the Song family hadn't eaten fruit for a long time, and remembering that the only time they ate bayberry last year was to pick up the bayberry tree that was planted in front of the door and drop it, so they were chased away by that family.Seeing Song Yuyan come back with Yangmei, both Song Yuban and Song Yuzhuan swallowed subconsciously.

"Go and wash it before eating." Song Yuyan handed the bayberry to Song Yuban, and he ran into the kitchen to wash the bayberry, and then secretly stuffed one into his mouth while the two people outside the house were not paying attention.

The bayberry in the mouth was sour and sweet, and Song Yuban's sour face was wrinkled, but after just one taste, the taste was sweet again.

After he finished washing, Song Yuyan went back to weaving baskets, while Song Yuzhuan couldn't wait to grab the red bayberry from his hand and eat it. Similarly, he made strange expressions on his sore face.

"Bing'er, your face is so ugly, hahaha..." Seeing his sister's expression, Song Yuban immediately turned on the mocking mode mercilessly.

When he couldn't hold back his expression while eating red bayberries, Song Yuzhuan also countered with the most exaggerated laughter, "Brother is even uglier!"

These two little guys had to taunt each other once each of them ate one, and Song Yuyan in the room thought they were "smiling half-step crazy" after eating something.

But Song Yuzhuan still remembered her in his heart, so he grabbed some red bayberries and brought them to her mouth: "Brother, eat!"

It was the first time for Song Yuyan to enjoy the feeding service where her younger sister brought food to her mouth. Even though the bayberry in her mouth was sour and sweet, she didn't show any expression of being sour, and she didn't even raise her eyebrows.

Song Yuzhuan regretted not being able to laugh at her elder brother, so she took some red bayberry and ran to Tang's house to play with Tang Ye.

It's also fortunate that Song Yuyan didn't know that her younger sister had this idea, otherwise she wouldn't be so tasty to eat this bayberry.

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When Song Yuzhuan arrived at Tang's house, Tang Zhi and Tang Ye were both at home, but the two sisters had just finished selling vegetables in the morning and went out to weed and water the fields, so they were quite tired at the moment.Tang Ye had already fallen asleep in the room, and Tang Zhi was rarely at leisure, so he lay on the bamboo chair, shaking the cattail fan in his hand.

Suddenly, she heard a childish voice calling from outside the door, which sounded like cakes from Song Yuyan's family, so she went to open the door.Sure enough, Xiao Luobo raised his head, his eyes were shining brightly: "Sister Tang, where is Sister Ye Zi?"

"..." Tang Zhi, who didn't know when her sister changed her name, asked her funny, "She fell asleep, can I help you wake her up?"

Song Yuzhuan didn't have the self-consciousness of "not disturbing others' rest", so he nodded hurriedly.Tang Zhi asked her to enter the room and wait, then went to wake Tang Ye up.The latter heard that Song Xiaoluotou was looking for her, so he didn't stay in bed anymore, and got up happily.

Seeing that Song Yuzhuan came here specially to share the red bayberry with his younger sister, Tang Zhi couldn't help feeling dumbfounded. The younger sister never likes to play around with others. Apart from going to work with her in the fields on weekdays, she would only hide at home... ... When did the little girl play with the Song family's little luotou?

And although the Song family's little luobotou is cute and well-behaved when quiet, she also knows that sometimes Song Yuzhuan is like a little wild animal, and there is no reason to share anything that goes into her pocket.But today, she actually brought food to Tang Ye?

Could it be that after Song Yuyan changed his gender, Song Yuzhuan also changed?

Tang Zhi also laughed when he saw the two children's eyes were narrowed by the red bayberry, and they laughed inexplicably.

But with a smile, she suddenly thought of the pest infestation in the half-acre vegetable garden at home, and she sighed.

Song Yuzhuan had sharp eyes and asked Tang Ye: "Is it because no one plays with Sister Tang, so Sister Tang is unhappy?"

Tang Ye: "..." Not everyone will play with Little Luobotou like her.

"No, my sister sighed because there were too many bugs in the vegetable garden, which made the vegetables not grow very well." She explained, and after she finished speaking, she remembered that this seven-year-old child would not understand, so she stopped. said.

Song Yuzhuan was a little concerned: "Ah, there are so many bugs growing on the vegetables? Why are there so many bugs?"

Recently, the Song family can receive "extra" vegetables from the Tang family every now and then, so in Song Yuzhuan's heart, if the Tang family's vegetables grow bad, it means she has no vegetables to eat, so why not worry?

Tang Ye explained: "After the end of the cold spring, the weather warmed up, and the rainy days came, and those insect eggs began to hatch, so there were more insects..."

Song Yuzhuan: "?"

Well, she really doesn't understand, but it doesn't matter, she doesn't understand, her elder brother will definitely understand!

So she told Song Yuyan about it after she got home.

Song Yuyan wanted to say that she had never been in the field, let alone done farm work, so she seemed helpless.But she can't say these words, and she has received the favor of the Tang family, so she really can't put on an attitude that it has nothing to do with her, so she found a day when she came back from the Shi family to buy straw mats, and went along the way. Let's take a look at the Tang family's vegetable garden.

Tang Zhi is busy weeding and digging the soil in the vegetable garden, surrounded by busy farmers, so her figure is not outstanding, but because there is a fence around the vegetable garden of the Tang family, so here is a It seems a bit out of the crowd.

Song Yuyan looked around and saw a little bit of yellow spots on the originally emerald green vegetable leaves. If you look closely, you can find the holes left by insect bites.

Seeing Tang Zhi weeding weeds profusely with sweat, and bending down frequently to pick off some withered vegetable leaves, Song Yuyan sighed, "The children of the poor have long been in charge of their families."

"Why are you pitying others? Logically, you are worse than her now, aren't you?" the system asked.

"You are everywhere." Song Yuyan rolled his eyes, "Why do you think I am so miserable?"

Not hearing Song Yuyan's dislike at all, and automatically filtering Song Yuyan's accountability, the system said happily: "Well, I agreed to be your bosom friend and caring little padded jacket. Your best company and solution!"

Song Yuyan's mouth twitched, ignoring the system, but meditating on the chemistry knowledge she had learned.Because her university and graduate studies are majors in water conservancy and civil engineering, her understanding of physics far exceeds that of chemistry, and she has less exposure to chemistry-related knowledge. She also needs a little time to review it now.

When she was reviewing what she had learned in her head, Tang Zhi found her figure, and murmured in his heart--a person standing by the fence in broad daylight and watching him without saying a word, everyone would feel sad fear.

"Song Dalang, what are you doing here?" Tang Zhi walked up to Song Yuyan, took off his bamboo hat, and wiped his sweat with the sweat towel around his neck.

"Passing by, let's take a look at your vegetable garden." Song Yuyan told the truth.

Tang Zhi thought she was thinking about her own food again, so her eyes became vigilant and sharp.

Song Yuyan smiled helplessly: "Miss Tang, don't get me wrong. I heard from Binger that the fields of the Tang family seemed to be infested with insects recently, so I thought I could help a little, so I came over to have a look."

Tang Zhi said: "How can you help, obviously you have never been to the ground before."

Song Yuyan realized that he was underestimated by Tang Zhi, so he said: "Miss Tang, this is wrong. Before I was ten years old, I went to the ground."

Tang Zhi paused, remembering that before Song Yuyan's mother died and was adopted by his uncle, his family did have some fields.But the Song family's orphans and widows, of course, can't take care of so many fields, so they rent them out for others to plant, leaving only one or two mu for self-sufficiency.

Now she didn't doubt it anymore, but asked, "Then what can you do?"

Song Yuyan was searching for relevant knowledge points in his mind, and said, "Let me think about it."

When Tang Zhi heard the words, he thought she was just talking and couldn't help him, and he didn't take her words seriously.

On the way back, Song Yuyan suddenly remembered something when he saw the trees on the side of the road.She remembered seeing trees on the side of the road covered with white ash within more than one meter of the base. In fact, the white ash is quicklime water, which is mainly used to sterilize, prevent insects, kill insects, and prevent frost.

As for the main raw material of quicklime water, quicklime actually appeared as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it has been used in the construction of city walls and mausoleums. However, people in this period generally do not know that quicklime is actually good for plants.

She remembered that a teacher mentioned that some farmers would sprinkle quicklime on the fields, firstly to change the pH of the land, and secondly to kill diseases and insect pests.After changing the quality of the land, it can promote the growth of crops, so it can also be regarded as a kind of fertilizer.

In some Chinese medicine books, there is also the use of quicklime to kill insects and stop bleeding, but it is not "quicklime" recorded in the book, it is now commonly called "mineral ash".

Limestone is produced in most parts of the country, but in the south to prevent moisture, lime is widely used, so Mingzhou should be able to find lime kilns for calcining quicklime.

However, she felt that even if she told Tang Zhi like this, the other party would not believe it. After all, she had never seen anyone sprinkle these things in the field, so she planned to find the lime kiln first.

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After Song Yuyan finished making a batch of baskets, bamboo baskets and a few straw mats, they handed them over to Lin Yongming.Lin Yongming has cooperated with her several times. Based on the cooperation and trust of these times, he brought several orders to Song Yuyan.

"The Korean envoys who came to the DPRK last year are now going back to Korea. They brought some Korean merchants before, and they also want to buy some things to sell back before they leave. The construction period is only one month. Right now, every workshop is in a hurry, but it is expected to I'm too busy, so I want to ask for my help."

Song Yuyan said: "With your ability, you shouldn't have to worry about not having mats and bamboo baskets to collect."

Lin Yongming said: "This time is different from the previous ones. This time it is the Lou family in Fenghua who are looking for help. The Lou family has extremely high requirements for the objects produced in their workshops. I can't shoddy, and the Lou family will not Accepted. I am still very optimistic about the object from your hand, so I will look for you."

Song Yuyan had an impression of the Lou family in Fenghua. After all, Mingzhou is not a particularly rich place, and there are only a few famous and wealthy families.The Lou family is a wealthy family with strong financial resources in Mingzhou, and the head of the family, Lou Hao, is also the secretary of Fenghua County. Therefore, the Lou family has official power and financial resources, so they cannot be easily offended.

Song Yuyan had nothing to do with the Lou family, and didn't think about offending the other party. Instead, she asked about the number of Lin Yongming's orders, and found that it was actually not a lot. She could still weave so many in a month, so she responded. down.

Now that she accepted the order again, she had to find a way to find bamboo again.This time, she was not in a hurry to enter the mountain, but picked a day to find Bai Can at noon.

The rain was relatively heavy that day, and Song Yuyan estimated that Bai Can would not cut down trees in such a heavy rain, so if he was looking for him, he would probably be free.Sure enough, when she found Bai Can, a group of lumberjacks were sitting and drinking tea in a tea shed at the foot of the mountain.

"Song Dalang, why are you here?" Bai Can, with sharp eyes, saw Song Yuyan and asked with a grin.

"I'm here, of course I'm here to have a drink with Bai Goro. Last time I agreed to treat you to a drink. I thought it's raining today, so you should be free, so I came here."

Bai Can was slightly surprised. It was the first time he and Song Yuyan met, and he didn't know if there would be a next meeting. He didn't expect his casual words to be remembered in his heart and put into action. There is no reason to feel a little surging.

"Bai Wulang, do you have time to have a drink together?" Song Yuyan smiled slightly.

Bai Can slapped her thigh: "Of course there are, let's go!"

The people around heard this, and hurriedly shouted: "Hey, Bai Wulang, why don't you call us when you go to have a drink?"

"If you want to come, then come, but it has been agreed in advance, and the wine will be paid separately."

Someone laughed and scolded: "Hey, will I still take advantage of you? I don't think the rain will stop. Let's go and have a drink!"

With such a yell, seven or eight people followed immediately, and some people remained silent. They thought that if the rain stopped later, these people who went to drink were unlikely to come back, so no one followed them. It is a good thing to rush to work.

They are not workers hired by the lumber yard, they just sell the felled wood to the lumber yard at a price. Naturally, the supervisor of the lumber yard cannot interfere with their going or staying.

When the group arrived at a nearby small restaurant, they ordered a few catties of wine and some cheap snacks, chatting while eating.

Song Yuyan wasn't afraid to get along with them, and she wasn't too restrained. You must know that she used to deal with workers the most at the construction site.But at that time, due to various reasons, she couldn't integrate into it. Now, she is in the same position as these people, and has the memory of the original owner, so she doesn't seem out of place.

Some people started chattering after drinking, some discussed logging work, and some took the opportunity to inquire about Song Yuyan's identity. When they learned that she was just an ordinary person, they were a little surprised: "I don't think your conversation looks like you were born in a small family. family."

Everyone agreed, and Bai Can couldn't help but look at her a few more times, and found that it was indeed as others said, that Song Yuyan was different from them only in appearance.Their clothes are very old and dirty, but Song Yuyan's clothes are just very old; they smell of sweat, but Song Yuyan can't smell a trace of "masculinity".

There is also conversation, they all speak vulgar and direct words, but Song Yuyan doesn't know how to speak those vulgar words, but she is easy-going and understands what they are saying, so they don't reject her.

Song Yuyan smiled and said, "If I say that, I have to reflect on myself."

"Reflect on what?" Everyone was confused.

"You think my conversation is not ordinary, which means that I am a little reluctant to let go, and I am still holding on to airs. Shouldn't this be reflective?"

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, then laughed again.Bai Can said: "Song Dalang, don't underestimate yourself. We didn't think you were putting on airs, but instead thought you were very enthusiastic. Everyone thought you were easy to get along with!"

Song Yuyan said: "It's my fault, I'll punish myself with a bowl of wine!"

"One bowl is enough, three bowls!"

Song Yuyan was fortunate that the alcohol was not high in alcohol, and it was only three bowls, so he wouldn't get drunk.

But it turns out that she seems to have overestimated the drinking capacity of the original owner...

After everyone had dispersed, she said goodbye to Bai Can before returning home.On the way home, she felt that the alcohol had begun to play a role, her mind was a little empty, and her stomach was overwhelmed.

After finally getting back home, she vomited.She vomited, but her consciousness was still very clear, but her head was a little dizzy, and her eyes were also dizzy, so she rested while leaning on the courtyard wall.

The rain hit her bamboo hat and coir raincoat, and occasionally raindrops seeped through the gaps in the bamboo hat and dripped on her face, bringing her back to her senses.

"Song Dalang, what's wrong with you?"

While recovering, Tang Zhi's voice sounded not far away.

Song Yuyan's head was not so dizzy, and her eyes could see things clearly. Only then did she realize that Tang Zhi was standing in front of her door, keeping pushing the door with one hand, and turned sideways to watch her movements.It seemed that she was going to go home directly, but she couldn't help but want to see what happened to her.

Song Yuyan waved his hand: "It's okay."

She didn't expect that the original owner had the same drinking capacity as her except for the name.

Before she went to college, she didn't drink at all. The reason why she found that she had a poor capacity for alcohol was because she bought drunk with her broken-hearted roommate in college. Then she drank three glasses of beer and vomited on the way back to the dormitory.Since then, she has seldom drank alcohol.

After graduating and entering the workplace, because of the relationship between the elders in the family, there will be no one to persuade people to drink at the banquet. Often a glass of wine can be drunk from the beginning to the end.

Looking at Tang Zhi who was approaching, she felt that her behavior was a bit embarrassing - although she vomited in front of her house, but if she left it at her side, if her neighbors saw it, she would probably be ashamed and thrown to Jiutiao Street.

"Your face is so red." Tang Zhi frowned.

Song Yuyan touched his face and said with a smile: "It's okay, it will disappear in a while."

"Did you go to drink?" Tang Zhi finally smelled the smell of alcohol.

The alcohol content of the small wine is not high, and it will not have the strong smell of liquor, but there will still be a smell after all.

Song Yuyan didn't hide it, and said, "Well, I went to drink three bowls of wine."

"It's broad daylight, what kind of wine are you drinking?!" Tang Zhi criticized her, not soft-spoken.

Anyone who is impatient with Tang Zhi must blame her for meddling, but Song Yuyan is in a good mood and has a correct attitude, saying: "If I go at night, I may not be able to find my way back."

Tang Zhi glared at her: "The point is when to drink? It's not why you drink?"

Song Yuyan said: "I happen to have something to tell you, why don't you come in first, it's raining outside!"

Tang Zhi thought to himself, you still know it's raining, but you just stood outside for so long, and you don't know how long you've been drenched in the rain.

Song Yuyan's head was not so dizzy, and her steps were not sluggish, so she went back to the house, took off her bamboo hat and coir raincoat and hung it up, then asked Tang Zhi to sit down, and started talking about business.

In fact, she went to Bai Can, first to fulfill her promise, and second, to make friends with Bai Can and others, and ask him about some things by the way.

She hadn't forgotten about quicklime, and calcined lime necessarily required a lot of coal, followed by firewood or charcoal.Bai Can and the others cut wood to buy wood yards on weekdays, and they must have also come into contact with other organizations that need wood, such as merchants who make charcoal.

Sure enough, Bai Can and others knew it well, and even knew where there were lime kilns and what the market was like.

Quicklime is not a monopoly of the government, and Mingzhou has a lot of mineral resources. Some wealthy households also use quicklime to smear walls to prevent moisture and build mausoleums. The paper industry also needs quicklime, so there are lime kilns in the small Cixi, but There is no shop that sells quicklime. If you want to buy quicklime, you can only go to the lime kiln.

"Mine ash can kill diseases and insect pests, and can be used as fertilizer to make the soil more fertile..." Song Yuyan said.

Tang Zhi thought it was a fairy tale, and she waited for Song Yuyan to finish before asking, "Where did you hear that coal ash can kill insects?"

"In the medical books, my mother also said it before."

Tang Zhi: "..."

If Song Yuyan didn't mention her dead mother, she might have believed it.

But Song Yuyan specially invited someone to drink for this matter, and even vomited herself, which shows that she is serious.She was so serious that Tang Zhi also had to seriously think about the feasibility of this matter.

"Are you sure?" Tang Zhi asked.

Song Yuyan made a gesture: "Eighty percent, if it's not that you're not sure about the quality of the ash, then you're [-]% sure."

"Quality?" Tang Zhi couldn't understand.

"It's the good and bad of mine ash." Song Yuyan explained.

Tang Zhi seems to understand, but it doesn't matter, their family can still afford mineral ash, and for Song Yuyan's seriousness, she can buy some and come back to try.

"You and I don't know where there is a mine ash kiln, but my brother must know. I got drunk just to inquire about these places. Is it stupid?" Tang Zhi thought of Song Yuyan's uncomfortable appearance just now, slightly disgusted, but his tone was gentle a lot.

Song Yuyan told a little lie in order to prevent his character from collapsing so quickly: "Actually, if I paid for this wine, I would definitely not drink it. If you want my money, you want my life. "

Tang Zhi: "..."

Although the mood is hard to describe, she thinks that the behavior of drinking even though she can't drink for the sake of petty gain is quite in line with Song Yuyan's character. Song Yuyan usually takes advantage of others, how can he be willing to take advantage of others?

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When Song Yuyan went to Biezi Mountain to cut bamboo again, Tang Haogen just had a rest, so he went with her.However, his destination was not Biezi Mountain, but Sun Lake in Xiyu Township, fifteen miles southeast of the county.

Tang Haogen was sent by Tang Zhizhi to buy quicklime. Because the journey was relatively long, he borrowed an ox cart and took Song Yuyan along the way.

Generally, kilns for making porcelain and burning charcoal are located by lakes with dense forest resources, because it is convenient for kiln households to obtain local materials, such as Du Lake and Baiyang Lake sixty miles northwest of the county seat, and Shanglin Lake in Yuyao County. Yue kiln kiln site.

Sun Lake is no bigger than Du Lake and Baiyang Lake, and its main function is to irrigate farmland, so there are only a few scattered kilns around it, among which there are lime kilns for burning lime, also known as "mineral kilns".

On the way, Tang Haogen asked: "Song Dalang, how did you come up with the idea of ​​using mineral ash to kill insects?"

"I heard my mother mention it when I was young, and then I looked up medical books, so I remembered it."

Tang Haogen recalled the almost omnipotent woman that Song Yuyan said could farm, straw weave, and bamboo weave. He never thought that Song Yuyan would lie, so he believed it.

Afterwards, he recalled his years of studying at Song's Yi School, feeling deeply, and said to Song Yuyan: "You have studied for several years, and you know so much. Have you never thought about going back and continuing to study?"

This is the second person after Song Bing to persuade her to go back to study. Although Song Yuyan doesn't have to worry about her identity being exposed now, she still has no such plan, and said, "As far as the current situation of the Song family is concerned, don't say that I'm going back to Yi Xue to study. I can't even get out the pen and paper to buy Mengxue for Sun'er, so I still need to plan carefully about studying."

Tang Haogen rubbed his head, he just felt that Song Yuyan's prodigal son turned back, and his behavior became more and more gentlemanly, so he had such an idea.But she forgot that the current financial situation of the Song family is really not enough to support her to return to Yixue to study.

In fact, he felt that Song Yuyan was somewhat similar to himself. He also lost his parents when he was young. In order to make a living, he had to interrupt his studies and shoulder the important task of supporting his family.If he could, he would still like to study, get a tribute, be a Jinshi, and then stretch his ambitions. Unfortunately, he has to be a small official in the yamen, and he has to endure the slavery of the upper peak, and the eyes of the people...

Maybe that's why he has always been kind to Song Yuyan, and it's not all because he once studied at Song's Yi School.

Song Yuyan wanted to take this opportunity to inquire about the wine class quota. After all, she was not sure that the memory of the original owner was accurate, or whether there would be a butterfly effect after she traveled here.

She didn't ask directly, but said euphemistically: "When I was drinking with someone two days ago, I heard from the person in the wine shop that the imperial court seems to have some edict about alcohol tax to be promulgated recently?"

"It's a matter of liquor tax quotas. At the beginning of the month, the third department issued a document requesting all regions to submit the amount of liquor tax, saying that it was to set the inherent liquor tax."

"Then it's settled?"

"Well, but the Yamen has just received the news about this matter, and the official documents haven't even been issued yet. Did it get out so soon?"

"The wine shoppers are well-informed!" Song Yuyan said vaguely.

Tang Haogen was convinced, and whispered to Song Yuyan: "I think this may not be a good thing, and something may happen."

Song Yuyan had already guessed that this matter would probably be the same as in the previous life, and the memory of the original owner was correct, and the flapping wings of her butterfly seemed to have little effect.

"How to say?"

"It can be seen that they are quite dissatisfied with the court's move when dealing with wine supervisors on weekdays. It is estimated that the court will set a fixed liquor tax, and they must have other actions."

Song Yuyan found that Tang Haogen was quite prescient, but even he was powerless to change the government's decision, so she didn't speak.

Driven by an ox cart, they soon arrived at Biezi Mountain, and the two parted ways.However, Tang Haogen expected that Song Yuyan would have to carry a lot of bamboo back, and it would be more convenient to have an ox cart, so he made an appointment with Song Yuyan and waited at the foot of Biezi Mountain.

Song Yuyan came back to cut bamboo this time, and the effect of drinking with people last time appeared. First of all, more people greeted her, and when they learned that she was going to cut bamboo, some people offered to help.

But Song Yuyan declined them, because this time she brought a saw and hatchet, so she could do it herself.Just when she caught sight of a good giant bamboo, she was suddenly attracted by a piece of white not far away.

It is white covering a few trees, looking from a distance, it looks like the green vegetation on the modern roadside has been smeared with quicklime water.But Song Yuyan knew that it was impossible for this to happen in this era, and it was more likely that either those trees got sick, or...

Her eyes fell on the branches and leaves of those trees, and she suddenly felt confident in her heart.

"Song Dalang, how many stalks of giant bamboo are you cutting this time?" Bai Can spotted her and walked over, as if intending to help.

Song Yuyan didn't answer but pointed to the white patch and asked, "Bai Wulang, do you know what that is?"

Bai Can looked over, and said immediately, "It's a small white bug, there's not just this one tree in this mountain, there are several of them."

Song Yuyan couldn't contain her excitement, what did she find?That was the ash tree she had been looking for!

The reason why the ash tree has this name, as the name suggests, is because it is the tree that the ash worm likes to parasitize most. When the ash worm parasitizes, it will secrete some substances, and these secretions are the raw materials for making white wax!

It is not surprising that Bai Can does not know what this tree and these insects are called, because the most popular candle is still beeswax made of honey, also known as "yellow wax".However, due to the high production cost, it is generally only seen by wealthy families.

As for white wax, it appeared relatively late. Song Yuyan remembered that her grandfather said that it was generally believed to be made in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, white wax trees had not formed a large scale in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and no one had commercially cultivated white wax insects, so they made it. There are very few raw materials for white wax.

She went over to take a closer look, and found that there were many small sacs hanging on the ash tree, and after calculation, it was almost time for the awn seed, which is the time for the ash worm to lay eggs.And to wait for the white wax worms to secrete a sufficient amount of white wax, at least until August...

Song Yuyan quickly cooled down from the excitement of discovering the ash tree. August is too long. In these three months, these trees are very likely to be cut down by ignorant people.

"Song Dalang, why are you in a daze?" Bai Can called her several times.

Song Yuyan came back to her senses and smiled apologetically at him.But when she saw Bai Can, she had an idea in her heart, she smiled and said, "Bai Wulang, you are really lucky."

Bai Can was a little confused, so he asked, "How did I get lucky?"

"This tree is called an ash tree, and this worm is called an ash worm. When you hear this ash, what might you think of?"

Bai Can didn't realize it at first, he chewed the word "white wax" in his mouth, and soon understood, then his eyes widened: "Pewter wax?! Is this the kind of white candle?"

Song Yuyan nodded: "This is a vital material for making white wax. Just like the honey produced by bees can be used to make yellow wax, these white dung can also be used to make candles."

Bai Can is not unaware of how expensive a candle is. In his memory, all the houses around him use lamp oil as lighting fuel, and only those wealthy and wealthy families are willing to use candles.The candles in that shop were so expensive that they could only marvel.

Song Yuyan suddenly told him that this was the raw material for making white wax, which was tantamount to telling him that there was a golden mountain in front of him!

Thinking of this, his heart was also burning, but he quickly calmed down: "There is white wax, and no one will make it!"

Song Yuyan smiled and said, "I will."

Bai Can found that the thin young man in front of him had once again refreshed his cognition, even knowing how to make white wax, what else does this young man know? !

"You..." Bai Can really wanted to ask her where she learned these things, you must know that there is no place where white wax is made in this area of ​​Mingzhou!Many candles used by wealthy families are still beeswax.

"To be honest, I am a child of the Song family in Jinchuan Township. I have been fortunate enough to have read a few books and met people from all over the world, so..." Song Yuyan lied without changing his face.

Originally, she didn't like to lie, and she found that she might have been influenced by the original owner, and she was gone forever on the road of deceiving people.

However, she shamelessly comforted herself, this is a white lie, as long as the role of white wax worms can be discovered, the development of white wax worm breeding industry can be promoted, the development of social economy can be added to the lighting of common people and scholars, this will be great. It's a great thing that benefits the country and the people, so why should she care if she lied or not?

Bai Can believed it. Because of the Song family, he felt that with the ability of such a family, it was not surprising that he could collect many anecdotes from various places. No wonder Song Yuyan, who grew up under such conditions, knew so much!

He became excited again: "Then we...can we make white wax?"

Song Yuyan was just waiting for his words!

She shook her head regretfully: "I'm afraid not."

Bai Can asked, "Why not?"

Song Yuyan said: "Did Bai Wulang forget why he came here?"

Bai Can was speechless, he forgot that he came here to cut down trees, that is to say, there are still many people who don't know the value of this tree like him, if he hasn't heard Song Yuyan mention this before, he might also Cut down these trees without hesitation.

"This white wax worm will only produce wax in August, but now it is only laying eggs. If we wait another three months, it may be healed." Song Yuyan said again.

Bai Can thought for a while, and said, "Leave this to me! I guarantee that within these three months,