Chapter 29: Water Poisoning Incident 2
On Earth, drinking water may be distinguished as soft or hard water.
People who are accustomed to soft water may experience abdominal pain when drinking hard water.
The difference is the concentration of magnesium and calcium.
Perhaps the composition of the water in this region is different.
That's why they distill it in water bottles called water purifiers.
If so, I think the name distiller is correct, but it can't be helped because it's said that way.
In conclusion, this mess.
The nobles are mostly at fault.
The nobles are aware that the raw water here is of poor quality.
That's why they get sick to their stomachs.
But if you distill it, it's safe.
So if they distill the distilled water, it should be safer.
That's the perception
Extremely pure water is dangerous
In order for the body to absorb water, it needs electrolytes, or to put it simply, salt (sodium chloride, to be precise).
I was shown the oldest water purifier still in existence in the workshop of the blacksmith.
The water purifier was designed to leak a small amount of raw water and mix it with distilled water.
The people who made it were aware of the dangers of pure water.
However, the rights were transferred to the blacksmith nobles.
The nobles began to demand cleaner and purer water.
The cause of this incident was that neither the nobles nor the blacksmiths knew about the dangers of pure water.
By the way, the lord, Wince, and all the adventurers didn't know.
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"And many of the nobles took it upon themselves to carry out private executions."
Wince said.
"Well, the lord is going to use it to reduce the power of the nobles."
"Won't that cause chaos?"
"It's a lord's duty to achieve a goal so that it doesn't happen, right? I don't know what happens after that."
And by the way...
It seems that they will return part of the rights to the water purifier to the old blacksmith.
As for the old man, [It's an iron tool, right? If so, I'll be happy to hammer it for you].
He loves iron too much, doesn't he?
"But that pure water? Why is it a matter of life and death?"
"Ah, that? That's right..."
Is it something that can be easily understood by analogy?
"The fish sauce on the chicken."
"Yes?"
"What would happen if you put this in a cup of water?"
"Does the water in the cup turn black?"
"Correct. Then what if it's a big pond instead of a cup?"
"Wouldn't it be the same?"
"Something like that."
"............?"
I used a bad analogy, apparently.
"Ah, the important things in your body will flow with the pure water... can you understand?"
"Ah... I understand somehow."
If I had studied a little more, I could have come up with a better example.
Puns are just not my thing.
“Now then, shall we check on a request.”
"I guess so. Oh, by the way..."
"Yes?"
"That fish sauce is going to be sold as a stand-alone product in the future."
"Really? I'm glad to have more flavors in my repertoire. I used to eat only salt."
“Fish sauce is like salt, though.”
"A little bit of sweetness makes a difference."
"Do you like sweets?"
"Not particularly, but I like it."
"This is a story I heard at the administration..."
"Yes?"
“I heard there's something called reed juice in the royal capital?”
"Reed?"
"I heard it's so sweet, it makes your body melt."
Wait.
You don't mean to tell me that reed juice is squeezed sugarcane juice?
Not necessarily sugar cane, but something like it.
"How much does it cost?"
"They don't know that much. They just say it's very expensive."
Let's go to the royal capital sometime
If the reed juice is as I expected it, there should be sugar as well.
If that's the case, they must have made a sweetener.
Just a side note.
The standard sweetener in this world is honey.
Even Wince knows that honey is the only sweetener in the world.
Are sugar and its related products still underdeveloped?
And that honey cost 8 gold coins for about 250ml.
That's too expensive for me!
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