Chapter 187 Double surprise
With the experience I walked through the last time and the marks left, we finally arrived at this small valley after nearly half an hour of traveling through the jungle.
Of course, you dare not appear, bears and beasts, and they are not fools. When they meet hundreds of strong men, they will naturally hide as far as they want.
The cave is not small, but hundreds of people rushed in with torches at once, which made it seem a little congested.
Following my instructions, a group of craftsmen immediately started digging in the middle of the cave. In addition to being alerted around, Sanzha was also responsible for transporting the soil out.
Everyone was working enthusiastically, but Dad Lauren became interested in a hole next to the fork.
In fact, we have entered the entrance of the cave before. There is nothing inside, and even the walls and underground are not smooth, and the salt smell is not strong, which proves that the salt mine is not here because the wild deer doesn't go there.
However, Dad Lauren thought that there were many people coming to us anyway, so he rested while resting, so he mobilized the remaining half of the craftsmen to come over. With the help of Sanzhao, he started the excavation work like a cave next to him again.
"Ping Ping Pong..."
The sound of excavation was endless. I was injured very much, of course, but I was not stayed in this noisy environment and was driven out of the hole by Dad Lauren early.
"Master Bao!Master Bao!!"
I was squinting my eyes and savoring my intimacy with my sister last night, and suddenly I heard a howl like a pig slaughter.
I was so scared that I quickly jumped out of the sedan chair, "What's wrong? What's wrong?!"
"No...no!" An old man from three ** who came came panting, "Hurry...a big happy event! a big happy event!"
When I heard that it was this, I didn’t have any dangerous things that I had encountered when Dad Lauren was as imaginary as I could. I patted him on the shoulder hard: “Don’t worry, it depends on how you look like… Wang Laowu, you are still an old man from our Sanguo Village, why are you so unhappy?”
The strong man smiled embarrassedly, but did not forget the serious matter: "Young Master Bao, it's such a great joy to ask you to come in!"
This is the second time that Wang Laowu has said a great happy event. I didn’t feel curious, so I got up and walked inside.
After walking for about ten meters, I smelled an extremely strong and mellow fragrance, which suddenly rushed into my nose, making me feel very intoxicated and almost fainted on the ground.
After supporting the wall next to me, I slowly calmed down and looked up again.
The fragrance comes from the left side of the fork, strange. How could this smell of wine appear here?
I quickly stepped into the fork road, and the more I walked inside, the stronger the aroma of the wine, which was a world of difference compared to the inferior wines in my house. This pure smell that spreads in the air will make everyone fascinated.
The passage at the fork entrance was full of people, and their spirits were very excited. If I hadn't squeezed out a gap with force, I would have never been able to get into the innermost part.
There was a gap left inside. More than a dozen craftsmen stood carefully in a huge pit, slowly and gently smearing the surrounding soil with their hands, and then there were huge mud jars about half a person tall, which were moved from the pit to the open space next to them.
I counted and found ten large jars that I took out, one of which had been broken halfway. There was no liquid soaking out of it, but the rich aroma of wine was undoubtedly emitted from it.
Now everyone is continuing to dig slowly in the pit. Seeing the craftsmen excitedly erase the soil on the jar, there should be at least several more.
"Dad, what treasure did you discover?" I ran to Dad Lauren and asked in a low voice.
"I discovered a wine storage room... I heard from the craftsmen that it should be a place for storing good wines... For some reason, people at that time did not take it out..." Lao Lauren's father was flushed and clenched his fists, "I have heard that there are treasures of ancient people on these deserted islands, but I didn't expect to encounter them!"
"How many years have you been? There shouldn't be much, right?" I said in confusion and regret.
I used to see Ba Ye and the others hiding after brewing wine. After taking it out for half a year, there was no whole jar that had been buried at the beginning, at most only 80%.
So I learned that wine will evaporate with the years, and these wines are obviously buried for more than ten or eight years, and a little left is a drop in the bucket, not much.
"Idiot!" Dad Lauren lowered his voice, "Look at the size of this mud wine jar and the solidified wine ointment... This wine has been around for at least a hundred years. All the water has evaporated, leaving only this wine ointment that is more sticky than cold plaster. Add these wine ointments to a new wine, and it will become an extremely delicious old cellar! If you put it for eight hundred years, just one pound of wine ointment can you exchange for many estates! What wine is shit in front of it!"
"oh?!"
I was trembling with excitement all over my body, and I quickly lowered my voice and whispered in a low voice: "How many jars of fine wine can I make?"
"I don't know yet, I will only find out after testing." Dad Lauren said: "I just looked at it and there were at least ten kilograms of paste in the broken jar. This is a very impressive weight."
After thinking about it, my face almost burst into laughter, "Dad, I really don't know who is so generous and gave us such a big gift."
Dad Lauren was also very happy: "Didn't you notice it? These strong aromas of wine are actually the smell of wild fruits. When we came in summer, I saw a large forest not far away full of wild fruits. It is said that the taste was good after eating them... I guess it should be brewed by the natives here, but why they didn't take the wine away, so there was no need to go into it. Now it's ours."
"right!"
I said without hesitation: "We must send them to Liuyin Harbour safely. If we can mix delicious wine, then our cross-sea business plan next year will have a great chance of success!"
Dad Lauren also thought of this: "Don't worry, we brought enough ropes and asked them to carry them on a shoulder pole at that time. There is no dangerous place on the road and it will not be broken."
While we were talking, the excavation on both sides was still going further.
I don’t know if my birthday gift was postponed for one day, but in a blink of an eye, good news came from the other side.
When Dad Lauren and I rushed to the fork hole on the right, we were surprised to find that they had already dug a full meter depth. When a group of craftsmen saw us coming, they immediately dug a large piece of white rock from under their feet, handed it up one by one, and handed it to our hands.
"Taste it!"
Everyone laughed and cheered.
Dad Lauren was not vague, so he picked it up and licked it, and handed it to me.
I also followed Dad Lauren's appearance and licked on the heavy white rock.
Well……
So salty!
I quickly spit out "pop" and someone next to me handed over the bag containing water.
I just wanted to catch it, but Dad Lauren snatched it over: "Xiaobao, please feel the smell carefully."
Experience the taste?
Please!
Besides being very salty, what else do I need to experience?
Oh, wait...
Only salty!?
I suddenly took the white rock from the hands of the person next to me again.
It is actually a bit inaccurate when it is said to be a white rock. It is grayish-white all over and has a heavy weight. After breaking it off a piece and crushing it hard, you will get fine particles like sea sand.
I rinsed my mouth first, then tasted the tiny grayish-white particles.
“Salty!”
I made my debut subconsciously, but a smile appeared on my face at the same time.
The gray-white rocks are not rocks at all, but salt condenses together, and they look like rocks.
Now I finally understand why there is a name for rock salt ore. Isn’t it just a salt ore that looks like rock?
The untreated rock salt I have tasted now is not much worse than the fine salt we bought from the traveling merchants.
If the rock salt is dissolved into the water and filtered it slightly, wouldn’t it become a good salt that can be sold everywhere?
Thinking of this, I quickly leaned over to the deep cave entrance and shouted loudly to the bottom: "How many such rock salts are there underneath?"
"A lot! Starting from under our feet, whether it is the wall of the hole or the foot, there are all this kind of rock salt. We have dug a small hole, at least three meters away, and we still can't see the bottom!" The person below also roared and replied.
"In fact, it's more than that." Uncle Sanlang next to him couldn't help but responded excitedly: "From about five meters, rock salt appeared mixed with soil. The more you got below, the higher the purity. At about eight meters, these pure rock salts were everywhere... Two or three meters were dug in the extension of the front, back, left and right sides, and they were also pure rock salt."
"good!"
Dad Lauren clapped his hands, "Everyone comes up first, eat something and rest for a while, let's talk about what's next."
I spoke loudly from the side: "Congratulations to everyone. This action will bring great surprises to our Sanguo Village. Each of you will receive the corresponding gold and silver verdicts according to your own contribution, as well as various food coupons, and cash them immediately after you go back!"
"yeah!!"
The craftsmen cheered together.
Because they work in building houses and making tools, their daily treatment is already good, but now they hear that there are heavy rewards, so they are even more excited. Who doesn’t want to get more of it?
In contrast, the soldiers of the Three*** will not think too much, because the treatment of the Three*** has always been first-class, and these men are very simple and think that they have received so much, so they should do more things. As for rewards, there is no need to worry about it. Anyway, the village chief and others have never treated the Three** badly.
Chapter completed!