A dou is a unit of measurement. A dou is about six catties, and half a dou is three catties, which is about three taels of silver.
One catty of salt and one tael is equivalent to the monthly income of many ordinary people, and this price can indeed be called expensive.
He remembered that some nutritionists on the earth said that a normal person should consume 5 grams of salt per day. A month is three taels of salt, and a family of three is almost a catty a month. This is very cheap for the people on earth, but it is extremely expensive for the people of Dayao.
Even the cooks in the animal garden put less salt in it. Because in Dayao, meat is a vegetable and a staple food. On the one hand, the price of salt is high, and on the other hand, it is too salty to eat.
Judging from the food that Ren Baqian ate in the animal garden, Dayao people eat about half of the amount of salt that people on Earth eat.
That is to say, a family of three eats half a catty of salt a month, which makes Dayao's ordinary family barely able to bear, but it is also a huge burden.
It's not the first time, nor will it be the last time, what happened in the shop now.
People must eat salt, but Dayao does not produce salt, so they can only let these businessmen handle it.
In the same way, Dayao people don't know how to tan fur. If the fur is not sold, it will rot after a while.
Adding these things together, Dayao's foreign businessmen seem to have formed a tacit agreement, whether it is the price of fur purchases or the price of salt, they are almost the same, so as to obtain the maximum profit.
Standing at the door of the shop, Ren Baqian looked at the dispute inside and shook his head slightly. This is the result of the country's lack of supplies and technology.
"Let's go." Ren Baqian said.
He took the rattan gourd and the iron knife to the door of the shop and turned around. He didn't finish the inside and there was nothing to see, so he turned to the Chen's shop.
Chen Zisheng had been waiting for Ren Baqian for the past few days, but he couldn't understand a single word of the three books in his hand, which made him very anxious.
After seeing Ren Baqian, his eyes lit up: "Mr. Ren, you are here. I will wait for you every day these few days."
"I promise you, I will definitely come to translate for you." Ren Baqian smiled.
After Chen Zisheng finished reading for the patient in his hand, he asked his apprentice to sit here for him, dragged Ren Baqian to the back room, and carefully took out the three books from the first box.
Ren Baqian picked up "Miscellaneous Treatise on Febrile Diseases" and asked Chen Zisheng to prepare paper and pen to record.
As Ren Baqian was reading there, Chen Zisheng scrambled on the paper with his hands like chicken paws, almost appearing to be a phantom.
Ren Baqian couldn't help but admire his writing speed. Looking at his words again, I admire him even more.
It is estimated that finding an expert in password deciphering will not be able to decipher it.
Ren Baqian felt hungry after less than an hour of reading, but it was not easy to come once. Seeing that Chen Zisheng had no intention of resting, he drank water vigorously. If you are hungry, drink plenty of water to fill your stomach.
After reading for an hour and a half, seeing Chen Zisheng's eyes straightened and his body drenched in sweat, Ren Baqian had to stop.
It would be a great crime if copying this thing exhausted him.
When Ren Baqian stopped, Chen Zisheng immediately threw the pen away, his hands trembling like chicken feet.
"I'm exhausted." Chen Zisheng yelled, grabbed a jar of water and poured it into his mouth.
After Chen Zisheng poured water on his neck, his right hand was still twitching like a convulsion. He didn't forget to raise his head and ask Su, "How much have you written?"
"About eight more times." Ren Baqian said after reading the thickness of the book.
Chen Zisheng gritted his teeth and shook his hands: "I'll let my apprentice come in and write."
"Forget it, I still have something to do, come back someday." Ren Baqian said.
Hearing this, Chen Zisheng seemed to let go of a heavy burden, and he let out a long breath: "That's fine, that's fine."
It seemed that the hour or so just now had really exhausted him.
Ren Baqian estimated that if he allowed himself to write continuously for more than an hour, that is, like three hours, he would probably shake more than him.
He took the rattan gourd and the iron knife, which had fallen asleep on the bed, to the blacksmith's shop, and just a few steps out of the door of the medicine shop, he heard someone next to him say indignantly: "Our animal skins are only exchanged for a bucket and a half of salt. , it won’t last a few days in the stockade, so I just robbed the shop at night.”
When Ren Baqian heard this voice, he was delighted, it was really predestined to meet him again.
Turning his head to look over, that Nagu and a big man were standing by the side, Nagu's complexion was such that a soy sauce bottle was hanging on his mouth.
"Don't talk nonsense. Let's go back and see if we can hunt more prey these days." The big man taught her with a bag, which should be the salt exchanged by the two of them.
"It's a pity that the salt water in the mountains cannot be eaten, otherwise there is no use asking them to buy salt."
"Where is salt water? It's poisonous water. Even animals don't eat it. Some people have eaten it before. Although it has a salty taste, they will get lumps all over their bodies and vomit after eating it. If there is more, people will become unconscious or even die. If you want to eat that, you might as well rob their shop at night as you said." The big man snorted coldly.
Ren Baqian was about to walk past the two of them, but when he heard this, he was taken aback and stopped immediately.
"Two!" Ren Baqian turned his head and cupped his hands towards the two.
"Who are you?" The big man looked over with a fierce face.
"Ah, what day are you that..." Na Gu recognized Ren Baqian.
"I heard the two of you talking about salt water just now, but I don't know what it's like?" Ren Baqian asked.
The big man listened to his question, snorted coldly and ignored him at all. I was so angry at those shops just now, and now I have no place to vent it.
"I'm not from Yunguo, nor from Chenguo, nor from Daxia. I'm currently working in the Beast Garden. The matters between the two of you and those merchants have nothing to do with me. Logically speaking, I should be regarded as Dayao now. The person is right." Ren Baqian saw the attitude of the two, knew the reason without thinking, and said with a smile immediately.
"This is the steward of the beast garden." Tie Dao behind him said.
The Beast Garden is a subsidiary of the Imperial Palace, and the two of them looked a little better after hearing that they worked as errands in the Beast Garden. It can’t be eaten, not even wild animals on the mountain.”
"If it's poisonous, you really can't eat it, but maybe you can refine it to eliminate the toxin, so you don't have to worry about eating salt." Ren Baqian said.
"Impossible." The big man said decisively.
"Don't worry about it, someone has already thought about it." Na Gu also said at the same time, her attitude towards Ren Baqian is much better than that of the big man, maybe because she bumped into Ren Baqian at the beginning, so she didn't feel so strange .
"May I have to listen to the situation of the salt water from the two first before I know." Ren Baqian said.
"The water is from a pool on the mountain. The water is salty, bitter and smelly. We call it the black pool." Nagu said.
"The water is black? Does it smell like rotten eggs?" Ren Baqian hurriedly asked.
Nagu nodded. "It's dark and muddy, and nothing grows around. It does smell like rotten eggs."