I am chasing after others asking questions one by one. How can it be convenient for others to honestly take the initiative to answer questions?
Therefore, when he saw the shopkeepers and stewards all over the yard lining up to get to Xiao Han's place in the corner, even Ren Qing, who was standing aside, couldn't help but secretly marvel in his heart.
Xiao Han's brain doesn't know how to grow, he always has ways that others can't think of! If it were me, I probably wouldn't be able to come up with such a wicked... ahem, such a "smart" idea next year.
Ren Qing and several guards in disguise were secretly admiring him, but at this moment, Xiao Han felt as if his brain was spinning.
Without him, just because of these shopkeepers, none of them are easy to get along with!
Some of them really just want to provide information.
But more often than not, they want to be second-hand dealers, but they are afraid that Xiao Han will not want the things they collect, or they will not be able to meet the half-month deadline, so they are ready to inquire first.
So when faced with such a group of guys with different ideas and cunning foxes, Xiao Han was very alert. While dealing with them, he quickly analyzed the bits and pieces of information they provided. Useful stuff.
Half the morning passed in a blink of an eye. When the last shopkeeper left Xiao Han with an uncertain expression, Ren Qing, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, immediately followed him.
"How's it going?" Looking at Xiao Han, who was a little depressed, Ren Qing's eyes flickered and she asked him in a low voice.
"Hey, not so good!"
Xiao Han stood up from the stool and rubbed his butt vigorously. This broken stool was so hard that it almost knocked his butt off with it. The Feng family was so stingy that they didn't even provide a cushion.
"Not good? What do you mean?" Ren Qing frowned and asked nervously in a low voice.
Xiao Han spread his hands and whispered innocently: "That is to say, there were so many people here just now, but no one mentioned the Feng family!"
"So many people, no one mentioned the Feng family?!" Ren Qing's expression froze when he heard this, his eyes were filled with disbelief. After a while, he reluctantly asked again: "Could it be that the Feng family has its own sulfur mine, so Only then can you hide it from everyone without even noticing."
"How can this be?"
Xiao Han rolled his eyes at Ren Qing and said feebly: "Sulfur mine is not a stone, it is not found everywhere! As far as I know, this thing is generally only found in places with volcanoes, such as Sichuan, Sichuan, and Tubo. There is no shortage of mountains in Lingnan, but there are no volcanoes, so there is no sulfur produced here at all."
"That can't be said to be impossible!" Ren Qing took a deep breath and said to Xiao Han in a deep voice: "The Feng family in Lingnan is the only one, but that doesn't mean that the Feng family will always be trapped in Lingnan! Maybe they will secretly get one somewhere else Sulfur mines, such as the Sichuan and Sichuan you mentioned, are also very close to here. When the time comes, they will only be mined secretly, and won’t they be transported back here?”
"Brother, sulfur is not as simple as you think!" Xiao Han heard that Ren Qing still looked unwilling, and couldn't help but smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Let's not mention that its location is too obvious, and there is no way to hide it from others. ! Just saying that you want to mine that thing is not a simple matter! Generally, there is poisonous gas around it! If the Feng family wants to mine it secretly, they don’t dare to use too many people! If there is not too * **If we take a break from mining, then the only fate for these people is that they all die in the mines!"
"Then if the Feng family doesn't mine and only purchases secretly from elsewhere..." Ren Qing frowned. Before he could finish his sentence, he shook his head and denied it.
Because Ren Qing also knows: In today's world, if not all members of the Feng family are employed, then no matter how cautious and cautious the Feng family is, it is still possible to hide it from a few people, but if they want to hide it from everyone in Lingnan, then It's absolutely impossible!
The stewards of the big families and the shopkeepers of the big caravans present here are almost the most well-informed people in Lingnan. Even none of them has heard of this matter, so there is only one explanation. The Feng family has never purchased sulfur at all. !
"If the secret recipe was not stolen by the Feng family, then what do they need the saltpeter for? And they did it in a mysterious way?" Ren Qing sighed deeply, and his doubts about the Feng family began to waver.
Although Boss Chen said that the Feng family secretly ordered saltpeter from them was indeed a bit strange, but what if someone uses the saltpeter for other purposes?
"I just took the opportunity to ask about this..."
Seeing Ren Qing's disappointed look, Xiao Han also let out a faint breath and said, "But just like the 250 people named Chen, at most a few of them have heard of this deal, but for the Feng family, these things are They don’t know what the saltpeter is used for, maybe the Feng family is in the fur business and use that batch of saltpeter to make leather!”
"Treat-making?" Ren Qing glanced at Xiao Han expressionlessly, shook his head and said: "The hunters usually do it themselves! Especially here in Lingnan, the weather is hot and humid. If you wait for the hunter to pick it up, If you remove the skin and send it to the Feng family for tanning, the skin will probably rot and lose hair."
"If it's not saltpeter, what can it do? Use it as medicine?" Xiao Han rolled his eyes and murmured: "With so much saltpeter, if all of it is used as medicine, can this patient be saved?"
"Saltpeter, saltpeter..."
Just when the two of them were racking their brains to guess what the Feng family wanted the saltpeter for, Ren Qing suddenly had an idea. He raised his head and looked at Xiao Han and said, "Saltpeter can also make ice. Will the Feng family use it?" Make ice!”
The ice making that Ren Qing mentioned was originally invented by Xiao Han! But later, in order to cover up the Xiao family's large-scale purchase of saltpeter to make firearms, Xiao Da deliberately leaked the ice-making technique.
If the Feng family purchased so much saltpeter just to make ice, this reason would be barely justified.
"Hey... don't even think about this. People here don't know how to make ice."
Xiao Han rolled his eyelids and continued in a low voice: "Back then, the ice-making technique was only spread around Chang'an for a while, and at most there were a few in Hanzhong, and no one else knew about it!
Those who were lucky enough to get the prescription regarded it as a family heirloom! Don’t continue the rumor at all! I just casually asked a few shopkeepers, and they also knew that this kind of prescription existed. For this reason, I also found people who wanted to buy the prescription at a high price, but in the end, no one could buy it, even if the price was high. No matter how high it is, no one will sell it! "
