Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 2006 Thickness of the Crucible (1)

  Dieppe means "deep" in Anglo-Saxon.

Although I don’t know why this name was chosen, because it is a good port and the gravel road was built, it also means that there are more pedestrians on the road than before, and they have to slow down, just like those The wagon that transported goods moved forward as slowly as possible.

  There are cheese, cotton, grain, wine, fruits and vegetables on the carriage, as well as fish and sugar. Looking at the dazzling merchandise on the carriage, Georgiana feels the atmosphere of the harvest, and the country folks who chat with them are also very talkative.

Most of them work in Dieppe, where there are shipyards and docks. Men work at the docks and docks. Wives and children do carding and spinning at home. These are all piece-rate. They deliver the finished products to the port. Firstly, they can subsidize their households, and secondly they can go to the city to buy some necessities. They complain that the current salt is becoming less and less salty.

  Napoleon added a tax on salt, but he did not send tax collectors to every household to taste the saltiness of the dishes in other people's pots as before. Instead, he started from the source and went to the salt merchants to pay taxes.

  If the salt merchants increase the price, then everyone knows that the indirect tax is allocated to the consumers, so they use the old method. Originally, the salt was produced in the west, and some people worked in the salt field. After taking the unmixed salt and going home, a comparison found that the salt bought in the store was almost out of salt, but they also complained a few words, they can get some handmade coarse sea salt by themselves, anyway, there is no sea. Fence.

  Generally speaking, they still like peace. Peaceful days are much better than those during the war, and there are a lot more food choices on the table than before.

Then while chatting, I talked about the use of salt to make soda. Although the country folks don’t understand the specific principles, they know that salt and sulfuric acid are used. There is also a factory in Saint-Denis, Paris, and many saltworks have to give it. It is available.

  The doctor who invented this technology once served the Duke of Orleans. During the Revolution, the Duke of Orleans was guillotined, the factory was confiscated, and the method of making alkali was disclosed. Now I don’t know what happened.

  "Do you know who they are talking about?" Georgiana asked the girls in the car, and they all showed confused eyes.

  Georgiana looked back at Farron’s carriage, planning to ask him when the carriage stopped for a while.

  With such a distraction, the topic of those passers-by is biased.

  For these people, chemistry is like a potion, and they all need a crucible. Legend has it that the archmage Ceridwen had a magical crucible, which once belonged to Dagda, and was later brought to Brittany as Bronwen’s dowry. You only need to put the right things in it to get it. Infinite inspiration and knowledge.

The archmage was his son, Avagddu, who was very ugly at birth. His mother, Saidwin, decided to train her son to be a wise man to make up for his lack of appearance, so under the guidance of the wizard Feryllt's writings , Made this potion that can obtain supreme wisdom for him.

  However, the process of making this potion is cumbersome. It takes a whole year and requires constant stirring. So the archmage asked a young boy, Gwion, to help her look at the pot.

Gui Ang worked diligently and conscientiously. Knowing that the year was about to end, one day there was a small accident. Three drops of soup in the cauldron splashed on his hand, and Gui Ang subconsciously licked the potion in his hand. .

  However, the most precious thing in the whole pot of potion was the few drops that Guiang licked. Without those few drops of potion, the cauldron was full of poison, so this ordinary boy had magical powers at once.

  Guyang had the ability to predict the future. He got into trouble on his own and chose to run away immediately. After the archmage came back, he discovered the anomaly of the potion, and chased it out. Guyon became a hare, and the archmage became a greyhound; Guyon became a fish, and the archmaster became an otter; Guyon became a bird , The archmage turned into an eagle, and then the archmage chased the exhausted Guyon into a barn, Guyon turned into a grain, and Saidwin turned into an old hen.

  Among the mountain-like grains, Seridwin found the one that Guiang had changed, and ate it, but he did not expect to become pregnant because of it, and even gave birth. She knew that the child's father was Guiang, and planned to kill him, but because the child was so cute, she didn't take any action, so she wrapped him in a leather package and threw him into the sea, letting him fend for himself.

  There was a salmon fisherman named Elphin. He was really poor and bad luck. One day a leather package hit their boat. He and his father opened it together and found a baby lying inside.

  This child is really cute. The father and son decided to adopt him, and gave him a name called Taliesin. When he grew up, he was a famous poet and prophet around King Arthur.

  Talishin has a poem:

  Before I set my shape, I was ever-changing.

  I used to be a sword, fine and mottled,

  I was a tear in the sky,

  I was the darkest among the stars,

  I used to be a word of words,

  I used to be an original book.

   "That star is the darkest among the stars, ma'am?" Fylier asked.

"If you are talking about the darkest constellation that can be observed with your eyes, it is Lynx." Georgiana said casually, "That constellation is all dark stars, so the name Lynx means that only the eyesight is as sharp as a lynx. Only the same person can see this dim constellation."

  Filler nodded.

  "How did you know?" Matilda asked.

  Georgiana remembered her adventures in the Alps, so she casually made up a story and told them.

  The girls were a little surprised, but didn't take it seriously. After all, storytelling is a kind of entertainment for Bonaparte court.

  Life is stable, and people start to look forward to their future. Just like the archmage Sedrevan, even if the son is not good-looking, parents still hope that he will be wise to make up for his innate shortcomings.

  There is really no decent town on the way to Dieppe, not even a post or a tavern, and they finally met a guest house.

It was built for road builders. Brittany is very sparsely populated. The owner of this guest house has been wandering around before. He was originally a kid from a poor family, and later worked as a vegetable farmer in a landlord’s house. He and the landlord My daughter is getting better.

  The landlord sent his daughter to be a tailor, hoping that she could marry a better family than a vegetable farmer. After the girl became pregnant, they married regardless of the opposition of her parents. However, the owner of the guest house was unable to support his children, so he continued to wander around looking for work, leaving his wife and children to their parents to take care of.

  Until he heard that the road was going to be built, he decided to build a wooden guest house for these workers. In fact, because of the construction of the Saint-Martin Canal, some people built guest houses and bathrooms for the canal workers. They used soap from Marseilles.

Farron is familiar with making soap. It is impossible to make soap without alkali. The alkali used in Marseille soap is extracted from plant ash, which is mild and non-irritating, while other producing areas add chemically produced alkali. Marseille soap is good The word of mouth is because Louis XIV once issued an order that olive oil must be used instead of animal fat, and no other spices can be added, so Marseille soap is unscented.

  Later, Georgiana remembered the doctor who had served the Duke of Orleans, whom she had heard on the road, and asked Farron about the whereabouts of the other party, and Farron was embarrassed.

Just then their lunch came. It was a traditional Breton fish soup, because it was cooked in a big pot in the guest house, and the milky white fish soup could faintly see the fish bones that were not completely cooked. Not delicious.

  Fortunately, the subsequent barbecue scallops and pork sausages were good, and the vegetables provided by the vegetable farmers were very fresh. It is good that the wasteland can eat these.

  After lunch, she continued on the road. It may be that the fish soup smelled a bit heavy at noon. She always felt a little sick after getting in the car.

  Matilda looked at her expectantly.

  She knew what Matilda expected, and they had heard several stories about pregnancy along the way.

  But she is not sure whether she wants children or not.

  Children in this world do not have an umbilical cord, although they have a belly button on their belly just like ordinary children after they are born.

  Besides that weird feeling, the most important thing is that she is still hoping that Severus will come back to find her.

  A woman who has a child can no longer have any relationship with her ex. Lily does that.

The owner of the guest house still has a conscience. Although he is a little bit lucky, he still knows that he is looking for work to support his family. There are several girls in the guest house run by Georgiana who were abandoned after pregnancy, although they are not like Merope. ugly.

  Georgiana remembered the girl who was intoxicated in the dormitory again. She didn't want to administer the medicine, but wanted to know what she liked best.

  She subconsciously touched the bracelet on her wrist.

  Sometimes you can’t get the one you like the most, just like you can’t get the most beautiful girl.

  Everyone has some shortcomings in their lives. She seems to understand what that mood is.

  (End of this chapter)