Chapter 16: Salt
Unsurprisingly, the time it took her to reach the beach was much shorter this time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Returning to the old place, her eyes when she looked at the sea changed a little, but a day or two seemed like a lifetime to her.
picked up a coconut and broke it, she solved half of the coconut water with coconut meat in one go, and put the remaining half directly into the space.
There are still so many fish, seashells, and crabs on the beach. After picking up a few large crabs, she had a whim, so she went to the shore and picked up a coconut to crack it, and poured the coconut water and coconut meat into a clean storage box and put it away.
Then she put a few crabs directly into the empty coconut shell and buckled them in half. I made a circle of mud, dug a pit and put it in, covered it with a thin layer of soil, and then built a fire directly on top of the pit.
While doing this, she laughed, wondering if this is an alternative called flower crab? Well, it's decided, and this one will be called "coconut crab" in the future.
She set up a simple stone stove at the fire, and skillfully put seashells, shrimp and other seafood to cook. After doing these children, I didn't forget the main purpose of my coming here - to dry salt.
There are two ways to extract salt from seawater: boiling salt or drying salt.
But coarse salt that has been dried directly in seawater is inedible - this basic common sense Tong Duoduo still knows. Coarse salt must be purified to become snow-white table salt.
She doesn't have a big pot to boil salt, she can only use conch and big shells, and she doesn't know how much salt she can get at one time? In comparison, it is estimated that the method of sun exposure is more reliable.
Now that he had made up his mind, Tong Duoduo began to look for a suitable place. Her goal was a large, flat stone that could be circled with stone and mud and sand, and poured sea water into it to dry.
It's not hard to find a place that meets her needs. Tong Duoduo quickly found a few places, circled several places with stones, sediment and water, and then filled the sea water with a storage box and filled it one by one. A simple small salt plant is finished.
After that, her lunch was ready. When I put out the fire and took out the coconut shell, I opened it, and a rich aroma of crab and coconut mixed together immediately came to my nose.
After Meimei finished eating a seafood feast, Tong Duoduo went to look at her several salt drying fields, she knew that these seawater would not crystallize for about a while, and it was estimated that she would have to wait.
She didn't take advantage of her free time, and the other main purpose of coming to the beach was to eat dried fish.
The method she knows is actually very simple.
As long as the fish is processed and washed, put it in the sea water to wash it again, and then hang it in a cool place to dry until it is almost dry, it is best to take the dried fish to the beach again and wash it in the sea water, so that the fish has a special taste after drying.
Seeing the sea fish on the beach, Tong Duoduo was full of energy. She used the large storage box to pick up several boxes full of fish, cleaned them in the sea, and then pulled vines on the shore to hang them on branches without the sun.
She was busy for a long time, and when she was thirsty, she drank coconut water and ate a few pieces of coconut meat. When you are hungry, you can eat coconut crab or coconut fish or coconut shellfish.
With the success of coconut crab, she "innovated" the lazy way of eating coconut fish and coconut shellfish, which is the collective name for all seafood except fish and crab.
After finishing the dried fish, she also dried a lot of dried shrimp and shellfish, and collected a lot of seaweed. It's a lot of fun.
With the experience of the past few days, Tong Duoduo observed the location of the sun in the lower sky, and felt that the time had reached the afternoon, and it was almost time to return.
She checked it and found that the dried salt had crystallized, so she quickly put it away, and the large storage box also contained two and a half boxes.
After collecting the salt, she collected the dried fish, shrimp, and shellfish, and most of the dried fish, seashells, and dried shrimp were only half-dry. When collecting dried fish, Tong Duoduo is connected to the vines and put them in the storage box.
When it was all over, she thought there was another procedure that would use seawater. And after you go back, you can continue to extract salt from seawater. She saw that there was still room for space, so she simply packed several large boxes of seawater.
It was not early, and it would be too late if she didn't return, and she was afraid that she would not have time to go back and spend the night outside, so she hurried all the way, and the speed was much faster than when she came.
As she passed by the waterfall, she saw that the sky was just beginning to darken slightly. So I ran to check the trap I had dug the morning.
Before she got close to Tong Duoduo, she found that the trap had collapsed, and she was overjoyed, and when she looked closely, there was a big tiger and an antelope whose neck was bitten off in the trap.
She was overjoyed. It's such a good sign for a good start, will it be bad in the future?
Unfortunately, there was no room in the space, but fortunately it was not far from home, so she ran back in a hurry to take out all the things in the space and put them away, and immediately ran back to the trap at the waterfall to collect the tiger and antelope.
The trap was re-arranged, and the lion's entrails were placed as bait. On the way back, she didn't forget to pick up branches.
When I got home, it was finally dark. Raising the fire, Tong Duoduo looked at the harvest of today's day, his heart was full of a sense of accomplishment, and his fatigue was reduced by half.
With salt, she really didn't want to eat bland and tasteless food, so she decided to use coarse salt to refine fine salt that could be eaten.
She took out a clean white T-shirt and tore it painlessly to replace the gauze for straining, then took out a bowl and filled half a bowl of water, threw in coarse salt to dissolve, and then strained several times until the water in the bowl became clear, then put it in the conch and put it on the fire to boil.
When she had done this, she set up another fire, took out a conch again, put a small piece of lion bone and seaweed in it, and boiled it with water.
Then she went to take a "warm bath" and washed the clothes she was wearing and hung them on the big rocks. She ran to see it first, and saw that the salt water in the conch had not yet dried up and crystallized, so she simply took out today's dried fish, dried shrimp, and dried seashells first, and hung up the ones that should be hung, and spread them on the big stones to dry.
After a period of busy work, I went to see that the salt had been cooked, although it was not much, but it was enough for a few days. Seeing the salt grains of white flowers in front of her, she suddenly wet her eyes.
I remember that my brother once said to her: Things are man-made, and there are few things in this world that can't be done. It just depends on whether you are willing to do it, and how determined you are?
It's only been a few days? She had unconsciously done so many things she thought she couldn't do.