Chapter 36 Your Majesty, You Are Here Too

The big wooden box was pushed to the river by Li Yi and Li Chengqi.

Yao Chong followed behind on the ground, feeling too embarrassed to stand on top and be pushed.

The palace maid Tao Hong came over to hold an umbrella with Yao Chong. She could ignore others, but it would be a big deal if the prime minister caught typhoid fever.

"What good things does Li Yi have?" Yao Chong took the opportunity to ask the palace maid.

Taohong shook her head: "Yao Xiang, don't ask, I won't tell you."

"Why?" Yao Chong felt hurt. You, a palace maid, dare to talk to me like this?

"General Gao won't allow it, and Prime Minister Yao also knows that His Majesty values ​​Dongzhu Li." Taohong secretly threatened Yao Chong.

Yao Chong felt that he had been hurt even more. Why did no one dare to attack him when he came to Li Yi's Zhuangzi?

When we got to the river, the rain was still so heavy.

The waterwheel by the river was spinning leisurely, and the last harvested wheat was being threshed on the thresher.

Dozens of water droplets splashed, and the rain mixed with the wheat grains and went down.

It was the first time that Yao Chong saw a water-driven threshing machine. It was indeed much faster than the one in the palace.

Someone nearby had prepared poles and poles.

There are earthen baskets on both sides of the pole. Some wheat grains are beaten and immediately put in. People carry them to Li Yizhuangzi.

Under the pole is a large basket, one basket is placed, and one person is carrying it at the front and back.

"Brother Yi, how do you send things to Zhuangzi?" Li Chengqi was curious.

Yao Chong stood on the box again and listened. He didn't know what to do with the wheat that was wet by the rain.

Li Yi watched everyone working and introduced: "There are kilns on the farm, and some kilns are specially used for simmering charcoal."

"There is ashes after simmering the charcoal, and some stoves burn wood. Not all stoves burn stone charcoal."

"The charcoal will be kept on the farm and used to make...fertilizer."

"There are also dry, threshed wheat straws to feed the livestock."

"Take the wheat grains over, put the plant ashes at the bottom, and the wheat straw on top. Mix the wheat grains with salt first, and then spread them on top. This will keep it from getting moldy for a few days."

Li Yi almost told him about using plant ash to make soap.

"What should I do with the salt?" Li Chengqi asked what Yao Chong wanted to ask again.

"It went down as soon as it was sifted." Li Yi replied.

"Can you still eat salt?" Li Chengqi was concerned about this issue.

"You can eat it if you want." Li Yi nodded.

In fact, he didn't intend to eat the salt at all. After the saponification reaction of plant ash and oil, the soap was soft and had less foaming.

At this time, you need to add salt, and then the effect will be different.

Now that the glycerin is gone, there is still some salt left.

Otherwise, if you cook it with soap and plant ash, the soap that emerges will be soft. After it is dried and dehydrated, it will become harder, but it will not have many bubbles when washed, which is not fun.

Some of the salt is sifted out to make soap, and some of the salt is left on the wheat straw. Just feed the cows and horses with the wheat straw, and the cows and horses also eat salt.

"How much salt is appropriate?" Yao Chong is concerned about the proportion.

Since salt can still be eaten, he thought that more people would need to use this method to preserve wet wheat.

"Two hundred of ordinary wheat, plus three of salt." Li Yi opened his mouth and gave the ratio, two hundred to three.

Yao Chong secretly made a note to himself, so that’s it.

"What I'm talking about is that there is no water in the wheat grains. If there is water, you need to empty it first and use other things to absorb it, such as grainless wheat straw and plant ashes."

Li Yi saw that the old man wanted to learn, but he was afraid that the other party would learn wrongly, and the water would become salt water. Pickling wheat?

Yao Chong nodded and wrote it down again.

I plan to go to Sinong Temple one day to wander around, ask people, give some pointers, and let them see what I am capable of, Prime Minister Yao.

Li Chengqi obviously guessed Yao Chong's plan, so he gave him a look of contempt.

When it gets dark, the rain shows no sign of stopping.

After all the wheat has been harvested, the grains at the back that have been soaked by the rain are removed, and the grains at the front are covered with tarpaulin, while drainage ditches continue to be dug.

Someone from Zhuangzi went to deliver meals to the elderly people left behind in Zhangjia Village and told them that everyone was fine.

Others were taken to Zhuangzi, where they took hot baths and had meals.

Li Yi changed to a hundred thermometers, the kind held under the arm.

It took me fifty hours of my life to post it and tell everyone how to use it and measure body temperature.

He doesn't feel bad about his fifty-hour lifespan, because today's work has added three hundred and twenty hours to him.

Whoever's temperature exceeds 38 degrees will be given a pill.

The medicine does not kill the cold virus, it only 'supports treatment' and reduces the temperature.

In fact, just drink ginger syrup to sweat, and then pay attention to rest.

However, Li Yi was afraid that someone would have a fever and develop pneumonia, which would require him to treat him, which would be laborious.

People who had taken medicine for fever felt that their condition was fully restored, and now they dared to rush out and swim twice in the Ba River in the rain.

People who don’t have a fever are upset, why aren’t they hot? I really want to take medicine.

The people in Zhangjia Village finished their meal and went back in the rain.

Li Yi invited the old man and his eldest brother to take a bath. He had a small pool of his own.

The old man looked very embarrassed, and Li Chengqi went in without hesitation, and then stood up with a bang. It was too hot.

Li Yi held a bucket of cold water in each hand. He touched it in the pool and mixed it with cold water.

"Okay, let's just soak in it." Li Yi said comfortably after entering.

"Brother Yi, your soup is good. It's better than soaking in a wooden barrel. It has a lot of space." Li Chengqi praised.

Yao Chong agreed in his heart, it was indeed very good, almost like the hot spring soup.

Unfortunately, the hot springs were first used by the royal family and were rarely given to ministers.

When he saw the soap in the soap box next to him, he felt not so good again.

Because he saw Zhuangzi's farmers outside shouting to take a bath, each holding a similar box.

It shows that everyone has soap, and soap can be found everywhere in Zhuangzi.

There are several places for workers to wash their hands and eat.

If you think about it, you will know that the dealers have them, so the things are obviously worthless.

After taking a bath, Li Yi asked Li Chengqi: "Eating now?"

"Dongzhu Li, I heard that there is a canteen in your village, why don't we go there to eat." Yao Chong suggested.

Li Yi looked at the old man and agreed.

The three people went to the cafeteria holding umbrellas.

Li Yi was also carrying a steam boiler.

We went to find a corner seat and the three of us sat down.

Place the steam pot in the middle.

Li Yi asked two people to get food.

"Don't pack too much at once, it will be a pity to have leftovers." Li Yi told the old man.

Yao Chong went to pack the dishes, but his mood was bad again.

He saw many soy sauce pots. There was a small pot on the table in Zhuangzi's canteen. Soy sauce was so expensive outside.

There is also a pot with vinegar in it.

In other words, soy sauce can be eaten freely.

For a moment, he had the idea of ​​sneaking away a soy sauce pot.

Depressed, he sat back down and smelled the steam pot chicken no longer fragrant.

He wanted to criticize Li Yi, such as lowering the price of soy sauce and those hard-boiled round eggs.

"Uncle, uncle, Sanlang and I are here. They said you were in the cafeteria." Queen Wang's voice came at this moment.

Li Chengqi looked up.

Yao Chong turned his head and when he saw the person behind him, his hands trembled and his chopsticks clattered to the ground.

Queen Wang and Li Longji came in and saw Li Chengqi and Yao Chong at the same time.

"Ah, eldest brother is here, who is this?" Queen Wang pointed at Yao Chong and asked unkindly.

"Sister-in-law, my father-in-law is here to visit Zhuangzi today. It's raining heavily and he can't go back, so he has to stay overnight." Li Yi stood up and pulled up a chair.

Li Longji looked at Yao Chong and said, "Okay, father-in-law, let's eat together."

Yao Chong felt a strong murderous aura, a very deadly one.

"This chair and table are good." Yao Chong held back a sentence for a long time.