Chapter 296: Chapter 296 Cunning Fox Chapter 296: Chapter 296 Cunning Fox In these chaotic tis, salt is even more valuable than gold!
La Man Uncle almost fell to the ground, his face filled with shock as he looked at Bai Junjun, “This…this much?”
“Uh?” Bai Junjun was a bit stunned. Was it really that much?
In fact, for the half-room of salt she had, this little pot wasn’t much at all.
She had intended to help those suffering from goiter and was worrying about how to give them salt when La Man Uncle ca asking for it.
So, Bai Junjun couldn’t help herself and gave too much.
This was embarrassing.
Bai Junjun was contemplating how to smooth things over when Li Wenli smiled and said, “The salt was found in a salt well that we ca across while drifting these past days; we scavenged so as we went downstream. It wasn’t much, just enough to be of use.”
La Man Uncle stared at the two of them in astonishnt, suddenly feeling he couldn’t treat them like ordinary children anymore.
Li Wenli then added, “However, giving fish to a man is ultimately not a solution. Once this bucket of salt is gone, everyone will be back to square one. Whom will they turn to for salt then?”
La Man Uncle suddenly felt extrely embarrassed. He, too, knew that asking children for sweets was indeed shaful.
Just as La Man Uncle was about to graciously decline, Li Wenli spoke again.
“I know a thod to refine salt. If La Man Uncle doesn’t mind, I can teach it to you.”
“!” La Man Uncle never expected Li Wenli to make such an offer!
But after being taken aback for quite a while, he finally grasped what the young man was proposing.
He… was offering to teach him how to refine salt?
Could it be that these children’s ancestors were salt rchants?
“This…this wouldn’t be right, would it?” La Man Uncle subconsciously refused.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to learn, but he was well aware of the significance of traditional skills to a family clan.
Many craftspeople had ancestral teachings which mandated that family skills and recipes must never be disclosed to outsiders, and when passing down skills, they would emphasize rules like teaching only one child rather than many, sons rather than daughters, and within the family rather than outside it.
Sothing as important as salt refining, yet the young man was offering the information so readily to an outsider.
Despite the young man’s good intentions, he could not feign ignorance and seize the secret recipe for himself.
Li Wenli, realizing what La Man Uncle was thinking, curved his lips into a smile, “If Uncle feels uneasy, we could make a trade.”
“Trade… a trade?” La Man Uncle was a bit slow to catch on.
“You teach any small living skill, and it can be considered an equivalent exchange for my salt refining recipe. I think it’s a fair deal.”
“!”
La Man Uncle was deeply moved; it took him a long while to laugh loudly and say, “Good! Then let’s make a trade. Don’t worry, I will not cheat you. The recipe I give you in exchange will certainly be of value equivalent to that of salt.”
“You’re too kind,” Li Wenli said as he cut another piece of at for La Man Uncle, signaling for him to not be frugal and to eat more.
La Man Uncle repeatedly refused, saying he still had so left and lifted his hand to continue nibbling at it.
Bai Junjun watched the turn of events in silence; it was her who had distributed the salt, and La Man Uncle should be thanking her.
Yet this sly Fox, with a few words, had sweet-talked La Man Uncle, and they had even agreed on a secret recipe exchange right in front of her!
Considering La Man Uncle’s character, could the thing he contributed be anything ordinary?
Bai Junjun felt frustrated, wondering if this guy had just cut in on her deal.
However, the two who reached an agreent were happily discussing the details of the exchange, completely ignoring the disheartened Bai Junjun.
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