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Zhao Shuangsi was familiar with the saltworks, and soon found a suitable place for Sun Jingwen.

He was not perfunctory at all. The borrowed family was a widow with a five or six-year-old daughter, which was indeed the most suitable.

Yang Ji'an felt relieved, thanked Zhao Shuangsi, and walked back with Huo Yan.

The evening wind was blowing, and the air was filled with the smell of the sea.

Yang Ji'an asked: "Have you thought about how to ask His Highness?"

Huo Yan bowed his head in silence.

Although he wanted to help the Zhao family, but now he is just a criminal slave with no money in his body.

If you want to help, you can only ask Lou Yu.

But...he didn't know how to speak.

The distance between him and Lou Yu is not only the distance between the prince and the slave.

He could intercede for the Zhao family, but why did Lou Yu agree to him?

He is now nothing more than a servant to be humiliated or driven.

Huo Yan has self-knowledge.

Seeing that he was silent, Yang Ji'an said again: "Why don't we directly report the whole story, Your Highness is frank, and will definitely not sit idly by!"

Huo Yan suddenly stopped and asked in a low voice: "Will he really agree?"

"Of course!"

Yang Ji'an's eyes widened, "Huo Yan, don't you still misunderstand His Highness?"

He was very puzzled: "After so many days, it's not enough for you to understand what His Highness is like?"

Huo Yan shook his head suspiciously.

Yang Ji'an worried: "Why don't you understand!"

Huo Yan was silent again.

He always felt that the present son was different from the previous one.

It seems that not only as they guessed, Shizi was just acting "ruthless and domineering" before.

When Prince Qing tortured him, there was pure malice in his eyes, and he could see clearly that the profound paranoia and madness were not pretended.

But today's son, although there is no malice in his eyes, there is indifference in his eyes.

This kind of indifference is not treating people coldly, but a kind of condescension that penetrates the world and overlooks all living beings.

Huo Yan trusted his intuition.

Compared with the previous prince who was ready to beat with a whip, this seemingly gentle and honest prince is even more dare not be underestimated.

Huo Yan has seen many people, but he has never seen such a contradictory young man.

He couldn't see through it, so he didn't dare to make a conclusion easily.

He couldn't guarantee that Lou Yu would indulge his self-assertion.

Yang Ji'an rolled his eyes and thought: It seems that there are still many misunderstandings between Huo Yan and His Highness, why don't he just give Huo Yan the opportunity to get involved!

In front of the barracks, Yang Ji'an suddenly bent down and covered his stomach: "My stomach hurts so much, I'll go to make it easier for you. You can go to His Highness alone. Don't forget, Aunt Zhao is waiting for your help!"

Before the voice fell, the person had already run away.

Huo Yan: "..."

In the barracks, Lou Yu suddenly sneezed and asked Feng Erbi: "Why haven't Huo Yan and Ji'an come back yet?"

Feng Erbi put on the cloak for him, "Slave, go and have a look."

He lifted the curtain and left the tent, and within a few steps, he saw Huo Yan not far away.

Feng Erbi walked over quickly: "Why are you alone?"

Huo Yan: "Yang Ji'an went to the toilet."

"Then what are you doing standing here?" Feng Erbi said, "Go in and report back when you come back, so that His Highness won't worry."

Huo Yan's brows were bleak, and he responded in a low voice.

The two entered the barracks together.

Lou Yu naturally handed Huo Yan a bowl of ginger soup: "It's windy and cold outside, this is freshly cooked."

Lights were on in the barracks.

The young son's eyebrows are gentle, adding a bit of tenderness in the flickering candlelight.

Huo Yan looked straight into the depths of his eyes, and didn't answer in a daze.

"What? The taste is too strong?" Lou Yu couldn't help laughing secretly at his youthful nature, and directly handed the bowl to him, "If you don't like it, you have to drink it."

Huo Yan lowered his eyes, and pressed his palm against the wall of the bowl. The ginger soup was warm, and the heat penetrated through the cold skin and gradually penetrated into the internal organs.

What Yang Ji'an said was right, the man in front of him was indeed kind and compassionate to the people.

He bowed his head and drank it neatly.

So gentle, yet so unattainable.

"If you have nothing to do, go back and rest." Lou Yu ordered, "We have to start work tomorrow, pay attention to recharge your batteries."

Huo Yan clasped the empty bowl, his eyes dark and deep.

"The doctor diagnosed Zhao Shuangsi's wife, and said that medicine can be cured."

Lou Yu replied subconsciously: "This is a good thing."

Why did Huo Yan say this suddenly?

"But the Zhao family is poor, and the medicine stones are expensive." Huo Yan stared at him, "If there is no money to buy medicine, Zhao Shuangsi's wife can only wait for death."

Lou Yu was stunned for a moment, and his smile faded: "So?"

Strong self-esteem caused trouble, and Huo Yan couldn't open his mouth to speak.

He has never asked anyone for a loan, let alone Lou Yu.

Cracking the edge of the bowl with his fingertips, he lowered his eyes and said with difficulty: "Can your Highness borrow ten taels of silver, I will definitely..."

"You will pay me back?" Lou Yu asked.

Huo Yan: "..."

Lou Yu looked at him: "Whether you can get the monthly money now is up to me. How will you pay back the ten taels of silver?"

"I can do things to make money." Huo Yan said bluntly.

Lou Yu was silent for a moment, then suddenly sighed softly: "Where do you put me when you say these words?"

Huo Yan was stunned.

Lou Yu ignored him, and turned to Feng Erbi: "Go and send twelve taels to the Zhao family."

Feng Er responded, and stared at Huo Yan.

Seeing him standing there stupidly, he said angrily: "Don't leave yet, are you blocking the door here?"

Huo Yan frowned, he faintly felt that he might have said something wrong, but he didn't know where he was wrong.

Is it an extremely offensive thing for him to ask Lou Yu to borrow ten taels of silver?

After leaving the barracks, Yang Ji'an sneaked over and asked with a smile, "What did your Highness say? You must agree!"

Feng Erbi snorted coldly, and said in a strange way: "Your Highness is as hard as iron, how could you agree?"

"How could it be?" Yang Ji'an didn't believe it at all, "Brother Erbi is joking!"

"Stop talking," Feng Erbi didn't bother to pay attention, "I'll go and deliver money to the Zhao family."

Is such a small matter worth being so embarrassing to someone?

What does he think of His Highness!

Yang Ji'an immediately sensed that something was wrong, watched Feng Erbi go away, and quickly asked Huo Yan: "What's going on?!"

Huo Yan said.

Yang Ji'an fell silent, patted him on the shoulder, "Go back to sleep."

"Why?" Huo Yan didn't understand.

Yang Ji'an lamented: "Your Highness must be sad."

"Speak clearly." Huo Yan frowned.

Yang Ji'an asked seriously: "In your eyes, is Your Highness that unreasonable?"

"No."

"But if you talk like that, you don't treat His Highness as one of your own."

Huo Yan's brows became tighter: "This matter has nothing to do with him, it's my own initiative, and it's only natural to borrow money."

"That's right." Yang Ji'an nodded, "So His Highness is not angry, just sad."

Huo Yan: "..."

Really, are you sad?

After returning to the residence, Huo Yan lay in the dark, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

Yang Ji'an was right, he did not regard Lou Yu as one of his own.

At least not yet.

The sea waves are bursting, and the moon is shining brightly.

Distraught, Huo Yan simply jumped up, left the camp quietly, and sneaked into the saltworks under the cover of night.

Wouldn't he be happier if he found out the hidden whistle of the salt field sooner?

The young man has a quick posture and light footsteps. He seems to be in no man's land in the salt field. He easily avoids the guards of the salt field and walks among the guard posts, all of which are deeply engraved in his mind.

Although this is dangerous, it is much faster than sneaking around during the day.

Huo Yan didn't take risks impulsively, he could have done it easily.

It's just that Lou Yu didn't know it, others didn't know it, and Huo Yan himself didn't intend to take the initiative to reveal it.

He didn't return to the camp until the moon went down.

In the early morning of the next day, Lou Yu summoned all the government soldiers, and according to his instructions, began to dig ditches and soil in a planned way.

The ambassador of the salt class watched for a long time. Seeing that they were fighting and the soil was flying, he couldn't help but came over to inquire.

"Your Highness, what trick did you use?"

Lou Yu glanced at him, "It's still in the experimental stage, so it's hard to say."

Seeing that he couldn't find anything to ask, the ambassador talked nonsense and left in despair.

After working for a long time, the pampered soldiers became tired, and the amount of work stagnated, so Lou Yu called Li Shu.

"Divide them into ten groups, and each group is responsible for the same amount of beach pools. The group that completes the task first will be rewarded with two taels per person, No.2 will be rewarded with one tael per person, and No.3 will be rewarded with five hundred coins. There is a punishment."

Li Shu was overjoyed, "This subordinate will do it now!"

After hearing the notice, all the government soldiers threw off their arms and began to work hard, as if they had been spayed with chicken blood.

Who doesn't want a reward?

Everyone chased each other and competed secretly, a scene of enthusiasm.

Lou Yu was very pleased to see this.

In this state, the time for digging the beach pool and the salt ditch was much earlier than Lou Yu expected.

After Lou Yu personally checked and accepted, he rewarded the top three. The soldiers who received the rewards were excited and shouted, Your Highness is wise.

After the completion of building and rectifying the beach, the only thing to do is to receive the tide.

The rise of the waves also rises and falls with the moon.

The sea tide rises and falls, usually twice a day.When the tide is high, the salt ditch around the beach pool is opened to absorb the tide, and when it is full, the tide water is poured into the high halogen platform.

The high halogen platform is the evaporation pool on the highest floor, which is used to make halogen.

The evaporation pool has seven layers.

On the first day, the seawater evaporates in the highest evaporation pool; on the second day, the water from the highest evaporation pool is brought into the secondary evaporation pool, and the high evaporation pool is refilled with tidal water; layer, and one layer was refilled with seawater.

By analogy day by day, the sun evaporates water to continuously increase the concentration of brine, and finally, the saturated brine is brought into the crystallization pool at the bottom, waiting for the salt to be analyzed.

This process seems simple, but in fact there is a technical difficulty - the concentration of brine is not easy to control.

If the control of brine concentration is unbalanced, there will be a situation with little salt or dryness and no halogen.

So need to test halogen.

This is ancient times, and there are no professional brine measuring tools.

Lou Yu could only think of lotus seeds.

Holding the prepared dried lotus seeds in his hand, he threw the lightest one into the third layer of brine under the crowd's onlookers.

Seeing the lotus seeds floating up and level with the water surface, he couldn't help but bend his lips, and ordered: "It can be introduced to the fourth floor."

Everyone didn't know why, especially the government soldiers.

After so many days of digging and digging, although they didn't say anything, everyone agreed that the prince was messing around.

Digging a pit on the Grange, or digging a pit on the beach is really confusing.

Digging a few ponds and basking in the seawater can really produce salt?Even if it can be exposed, how much can it be exposed?

Everyone complained until the tenth day.