Chapter 465: Salt Earth

Ayin said, "What about you?"

Li Junge smiled proudly: "That handle has not been installed yet, I have made it multi-purpose, one side is sawtooth, the same hardness can be maintained, one side is the cutting edge, the bottom third is a large V flat grinding, for cutting, the first two-thirds of the front two-thirds reopened a cutting line, the angle is blunt than the back, it is used for chopping." ”

Ah Yin said with a smile: "Just say that you don't practice fake tricks! I'm hot up the strange crab here, you hurry up and put on the handle, and we'll try the knife after eating!"

Li Junge ran back again, picked a hardwood, a blade 40 centimeters small, but the handle was more than 20 centimeters long, one is to let the center of gravity be back and take care of cutting, and the other is to hold it with both hands when you need to chop.

Take the back of the knife and saw it from the middle of the handle, snap the blade in, try the feel matching, and make some fine-tuning, after reaching perfection, remove the blade, measure the position of the hole on the outside of the handle, and start to punch the handle with a pressure drill.

That's why the width of one of the drill bits is exactly the same as the diameter of the blade, so that the knife can fit perfectly after it is installed, and the handle and blade are fixed to the core.

Make a hole, put the blade in to adjust the position, scrape out three cylindrical bamboo nails and nail them, fix the blade and the handle firmly, and then take a knife to flatten the bamboo nails, and the long knife is assembled.

After eating, Li Junge put a scabbard on the long knife with the bark, touched the handle of the knife and said: "Treasure knife, treasure knife, how can this sheath match you, wait for me to have a chance to hunt a wild animal, and then change your clothes." ”

Ayin couldn't laugh anymore, and said: "In a blink of an eye, the treasure knife was returned, and it wasn't changed by a handsaw......

Li Junge rolled his eyes and said: "You don't understand, I don't blame you, the handsaw can be changed like this, in addition to craftsmanship and luck, it is really the ancestors who have a spirit, relying on these two knives, we can walk sideways on this island!"

Ayin laughed: "There are only a few of us on this island, you can walk sideways without a knife, and you can't get in the way of anyone......"

Forget it, talking to the girl about the sword is the blind man lighting the lamp in vain, the two entered a bamboo forest, Li Junge said: "Start small." ”

chose a bamboo tree with a thick arm, and slashed it at an angle of forty-five degrees with a knife in both hands, Li Junge almost didn't feel that the bamboo was cut in two.

Li Junge checked the edge of the knife and said, "It's too easy, next one." ”

Cutting all the way down like this, Ayin said: "Forget it, count you awesome! Let's drag the bamboo back, now that we have a knife, we can make some fine bamboo tools." ”

Li Junge looked at a large bamboo forest, and felt that he was not enjoying it, but he thought that the more he cut, the more work he had, and the oil over there had not yet been boiled, so he agreed with Ayin's statement, removed the bamboo from the branches, and carried a bundle back.

Back at the camp, Li Junge asked Ayin, "How many buckets of water have we poured on the mud balls?"

Ayin said: "I poured seven or eight buckets. ”

Li Junge said: "I poured more than ten barrels, this is twenty barrels, one bucket is ten catties, this is two hundred catties of seawater, hahaha, there are four catties of salty salt in the mud ball." ”

Ah Yin said: "Ah, this method is really fast!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "This is the wisdom of the ancient Shu ancestors, what is this, the artesian well, the salt brine under the underground rock layer must be raised, that one is even better, how do you say they know that there is salt brine hundreds of meters underground? It's really incredible......"

The two chatted and worked at the same time, and a new pot of oil boiled out, and Li Junge poured it into the bamboo tube again, and the first bamboo tube was filled.

Li Junge took a look: "Hahaha, here are five catties of oil." ”

Then he looked at the bamboo tube that had been quenched with the knife, and said to Ayin: "Can you still eat those coconut oils? There are also two or three catties there!"

Ayin said: "It doesn't matter if you can't eat it, if you can't eat it, leave it to me to make soap!"

Throwing a few stout bamboo poles and baking them on the bamboo leaf ditches on both sides of the dragon kiln, Li Junge began to use a knife and a wedge to cut bamboo slices and take bamboo skins.

This time, the efficiency is much higher, and the bamboo silk obtained is all the width of the little finger, which is very uniform.

Li Junge nodded with satisfaction: "This is my Li Jiagou's craft!"

Ah Yin smiled: "This is if you want to do a good job, you must sharpen your tools first, right?"

Li Junge began to weave the basket and said, "This basket is knitted, and it looks almost the same as that of Uncle Craftsman." ”

It took two hours to rearrange a new basket, completely in the style of Li Jiagou.

Li Junge carried the basket to the water tank, spread banana leaves on one inside, fished out all the coarse coconut oil on the surface of the water tank and put it in, and then poured the remaining coconut paste from the water tank into another new basket.

The mud stalks behind the mud balls of the dragon kiln will be spread with banana leaves, and Li Junge will carry the deppled coconut into the stream to wash it, squeeze out the water, and spread a layer on the dragon kiln.

Ayin boiled another pot of oil, Li Junge poured the oil, freed up the pot to boil the second pot, and then dug a pit in the ground, stepped on the bottom flat, buried most of the bucket into the soil, and then put a stone slab in the bucket to make a nest.

I sawed a thigh-thick piece of hardwood two meters long, chopped the middle with a knife to make a wooden pestle, and then roasted the wood with the wooden pestle.

After finishing these, Li Junge went to find four relatively straight tree trunks, spread them on the ground to form a square frame, dug a shallow ditch and put the trunks into it, and made a square furrow.

Pull out the weeds in the square furrow and step on the ground.

Ah Yin looked at Li Junge busy and asked, "Erpi, what are you doing here?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "This method comes from "Tiangong Kaiwu", called the ash pouring method, which can extract sea salt from salt soil, and it is also the method of Zhejiang salt households in the Ming Dynasty. ”

After doing this, Li Junge asked Ah Yin to stop pouring water on the mud balls, and went to take out the vacated basket and planed the remaining forty coconut meats.

With a machete, it was called a quick one, and it didn't take long to peel out all the coconuts and cut them in half.

Ah Yin said: "Erpi, after eating today's strange crab, you have to find something to eat tomorrow, otherwise, there will only be soaphorn rice left to eat." ”

Li Junge said with a smile: "That thing is not for eating, usually you are asked to use the soaphorn seeds and honey locust shells separately, just so that the seeds will come in handy for the past two days." ”

After speaking, he smashed his mouth and said: "I'll go and see the trap later, maybe it will take effect? It's really not good, the seaweed coconut will survive tomorrow, and you will have everything when you return home." ”

At this time, another pot of new oil came out, and Li Junge continued to fill the oil and filled the two large bamboo tubes, which was ten catties.

Li Junge said: "There are about forty coconuts left, and this number will almost be available tomorrow, hahaha, there is no worry about running out of oil to eat in the past dozens of days." ”

After eating, Li Junge peeled out the soaphorn seeds and soaked them in a basin.

Then start scooping the mud balls.

Scoop the mud balls into mud powder, let Ayin take a basket to load the mud powder, and spread it evenly in the square furrow.

The salt soil was spread in a five-centimeter-thick layer in the square furrow, and Li Junge asked Ayin to spread the sifted grass and wood ashes on it, and continued to refine the oil himself.

Ah Yin spread five centimeters of grass ash on the salt soil, and Li Junge asked Ah Yin to take over, and he would start spraying seawater on the plant ash.

After spraying a bucket of seawater, Li Junge felt that his tongue was almost no longer his own, so he quickly rinsed his mouth, and then used a bamboo shovel to flatten the ashes of the grass and trees.

After doing this, Li Junge began to burn the shells that Ayin had collected on the beach.

The two buckets on the other side poured half a bucket of seaweed ash into it, filled it with water and began to stir.

The big thin-eyed basket soaked in leaves in the stream was useless, so Li Junge dismantled it and made a funnel out of bamboo silk, on which was padded with shredded coconut brown silk to filter out the water soaked in seaweed ash.

This is the sodium carbonate solution.

When the shells are burned, the main component of the shells is calcium carbonate, which becomes calcium hydroxide, that is, quicklime, after firing.

Put the quicklime in the nest and lick it, sieve out the fine powder and stir it with stream water, in addition to the steaming, the calcium hydroxide solution is obtained.

Half of the seaweed ash solution and shell ash solution are stirred together, and in addition to generating a large amount of calcium carbonate precipitate, the remaining liquid becomes a sodium hydroxide solution.

Tossing back and forth between two buckets, an idle water tank, a brown silk funnel, and a pile of ashes, Li Junge finally got two barrels of important chemicals, sodium hydroxide solution and sodium carbonate solution, plus a pile of mortar mixed with raw hydrated lime.

After finishing these, Ayin's coconut oil was boiled again, Li Junge poured the oil into the big bamboo tube again, and the two walked hand in hand, taking advantage of the night to look at the scenery of the beach and play with the seawater.

In the live broadcast room, these two episodes made several guests explode.

Bell: "Jungle's operation is against the sky! He and Ingris actually made oil from coconuts!"

Lune: "yes, it's almost unthinkable, and it didn't take much effort on their part. ”

Nian: "Well, this is the daily operation of our Thai family, is it okay? My mother will do this too, coconut oil and tapioca flour are important agricultural products in our Thailand, and the fully ripe coconut meat contains 30% oil, so it is easy to get out of it......"

Bell: "Uh, okay, what about the knives? Converted the handsaw into knives, and two of them! There's tempering and oil quenching involved, has this Jungle ever worked in a steel mill before?"

Lune: "From the way he quenches the oil, I feel like it's the craft of a knife maker." ”

Nian: "Not only the knife, but he didn't even spare the screws on the handsaw, and he got a chisel and a pressure drill. ”

Bale: "And the knife is very sharp and powerful, you pay attention to the video of him chopping bamboo, while the other teams are still burning the fire at the bottom of the bamboo pole to get building materials, the Chinese team has made a qualitative leap." As long as Jungle is willing, he can cut all the bamboo wood that eight teams need in fifty days in one day!"

Lune: "There is also a mud ball that thickens the seawater, about this, our program team specifically consulted the physics professor of the university, and they were also very surprised by this method, the scientific principle is to use the loose pores in the mud ball to increase the evaporation area, so that the water vapor is quickly lost. The effect was amazing, and we speculated that by the time they stopped watering, there were no less than three kilograms of coarse salt in those two pyramids of mud balls!"

Bell: "Well, in fact, for survival, salt intake can come from animals and plants, and if you stick to it for 50 days, it's not particularly important. ”