Chapter 49: Purification is a technical job
Xiaobao began to prepare the elixir for the day, but fortunately, the tools for purifying this thing were not complicated, and one of the trophies she obtained was a trial.
Still, there are some things she thinks too simply. It's just fifteen ingredients boiled together in a clay pot, which doesn't look like much, but in fact, the fifteen ingredients are boiled together and the taste is definitely not a good thing.
Among these materials are not only conventional materials such as medicinal materials, but also some biological materials, such as heart, liver and gallbladder, and even a dragon rock (a kind of rock rat dung, named because of its resemblance to a swimming dragon).
In fact, Xiaobao is not the kind of person who is poor and exquisite, she used to help her father deal with materials, and she has never seen any strange materials, even if it is a series of eyeballs soaked in the test tube, she can reach out and fish them out one by one without changing her face, so there is no pressure to move her hands on things like feces.
However, when the water boiled and the foul-smelling smell began to permeate the entire space, Xiaobao felt that nothing was good, and even if she tried her best to endure it, she felt like she wanted to vomit.
It's not that she can't stand this kind of taste, but people, she can't be idle, and when she is idle, it's easy to make up in her head, and then nothing is good.
Xiaobao didn't think it tasted like it at first, but she couldn't help but think about it when she stared at the steaming clay pot in a daze.
It stinks, so why does it stink so much?
It must be because the contents of this pot are mixed together.
So why does this stuff stink so badly when it comes together?
That must be the work of Nata rat droppings.
Why, then, did she ask about such a strong smell of rat poop?
Of course, it's the water vapor that is bubbling out.
So why does water vapor smell?
Of course, rat droppings were mixed with the water vapor, and then they were brought out and finally sucked into her nose.
Thinking of this, Xiaobao felt that he wanted to vomit. Then she told herself not to think about it, but she couldn't help but think about the last question.
And where did she get after she inhaled the smell of rat droppings?
Of course, it entered my body along the respiratory tract!!!!
Vomit!
Xiaobao was left alone, covered his mouth and retched, and then couldn't stay for a moment.
Xiaobao wants to leave this place full of rat feces, but this medicine still needs her to watch, as an alchemist, she can't back down and give up because of such a small thing, otherwise there will be more strange things for her to deal with in the future, and running away is definitely not a solution.
But the more she thought about it, the more she felt that she was itching all over her body.
No way, even if she had already told herself not to think about it, she still felt like she was surrounded by rat feces, as if she had jumped into a pile of fresh rat feces herself, which made her feel uncomfortable!
Of course, Tang Yuan couldn't understand the mood of his little master, he just looked at his little master with an uncomfortable look, thinking that she was not used to this taste, so he waved his little tentacles, and blinked in front of his master with big eyes and comforted.
"Lovely little master, this taste is only temporary, the little master will definitely be able to overcome it!"
Looking at Tang Yuan's little appearance of 'my little master is the most powerful', Xiaobao stubbornly stopped his ordinary feet and forcibly moved it back.
In the end, although her body was still stiff, and she even covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves, she still stayed here without moving.
When Tang Yuan saw his little master's appearance, he thought that his little master had accepted his praise and comfort, so he couldn't help but feel a little complacent, feeling that he was actually very useful.
As everyone knows, the reason why the little master of the family will stay stubbornly is not because its words play a comforting role, but in Xiaobao's ears, it has been heard as a hint or a request, asking her to stay here and press the task of 'overcoming'!
Fortunately, in the end, Xiaobao survived, especially at the end, when he was about to get out of the pot, the original foul smell suddenly turned into a kind of fresh aroma of plants and trees, and even a trace of sweet fragrance in it. Xiaobao couldn't help but take a deep breath through his sleeve, and then he couldn't help but be a little stiff, but he didn't dare to take a big breath.
However, even so, when Tang Yuan helped her put out the fire, her little face became red, and even her expression became a little dazed.
An anesthetic is an anesthetic, after all, Xiaobao is still young, even if it is this kind of non-star-level storage, the smell in the air will still have some effect, but this effect is not strong, plus Xiaobao was originally an alchemist, and this state of shaking only lasted for a while before recovering.
At this time, Tang Yuan was already starting to clean up the stench in the alchemy room, and Xiaobao was studying how to purify the medicine.
Xiaobao cooked a lot of medicinal juice this time, enough for her to practice a few times, so she didn't have stage fright at all, and after fiddling with this relatively rudimentary filtration equipment for a while, she began to prepare for purification.
The method of purifying the daily elixir is simple, the first step is to filter out the residue in the soup that has not yet melted.
This step may seem simple, but in reality, it is very tedious.
First cover the large bottle with a filter cloth, then start pouring the soup on it, after a few times, change a filter cloth, and when all the soup is filtered, change to a new bottle, and then cover it with a finer filter cloth.
The first filtration is just a rough filter, and even if she is careful, some small residues will still pass through the filter cloth and enter the bottle, so the second filtration is especially important, it needs to filter out the scum that sinks to the bottom, and the scum on the surface.
The second pass is followed by the third pass.
Although the soup looks very clean after the second pass, in fact, some finer impurities are still mixed in the soup and do not sink to the bottom, and the juice mixed in the soup is difficult to see clearly with the naked eye, so it is only filtered by distillation.
Set up the shelf, and after confirming that it was correct, Xiaobao lit the alcohol lamp, and then couldn't help but ask the rice balls.
"You said that you have to use distillation to filter anyway, so why didn't you use this method in the first place, and you wasted so much filter cloth."
The filter cloth is not a cheap thing, this kind of thing needs deep sterilization treatment, and the packaging is packaged in a single piece, and each piece of packaging is also aseptic, such a big thing, the price of the filter cloth produced by some regular manufacturers, a piece can even be worth the price of a special beaker, for this kind of disposable things is absolutely sky-high.
Xiaobao, who has been living tightly with his father, is still very distressed about money, so he complained to his own rice balls when no one lived, but he didn't want his own rice balls to say to himself seriously.
"Little master, the first two filters can't be saved. There are many reasons for this, the most important reason is that those impurities that can be seen by the naked eye actually contain some medicinal powers, although these medicinal powers are almost negligible, but when they are heated for the second time, they are easy to reflect with the original medicinal juice and some strange things happen, so those procedures are indispensable. ”
Xiaobao pursed his lips, and then stopped talking.
Well, if you can't save it, you can't save it, she just wants to know now when this distillation filtration method will be finished.
This waited for her for a long time.
When there was still a little bottom left in the beaker, Xiaobao decisively extinguished the alcohol lamp, then removed the entire rack and got the distilled concoction.
Nowadays, the potion is not as chaotic and viscous as before, and the whole is amber, but when it is swaying in the sun, there are layers of turquoise ripples.
The liquid is not attached to the wall and looks closer to the feeling of clear water.
Xiaobao looked at the bright place for a long time before making sure that this thing was finished, and then it was the next step to purify.
This purification is much simpler than filtration, but it is also much more difficult.
If the previous filtration was to filter out the residue and some irrelevant things, then the subsequent purification was to filter out the water in this medicinal soup!
Xiaobao pulled out a thread and pulled out a fiber bag from the bag.
The fiber coating is a milky white color hanging from the bottom of the thread, and the whole looks like a piece of white sugar, but in fact, if you touch it with your hands, it has a very soft feeling.
Of course, this kind of fiber bag cannot be touched by hand, this thing is the same as the filter cloth, and it needs to be sterilized.
The hanging thread hung above the beaker containing the liquid, slowly lowering the fiber pack a little above the horizontal line, and then hanging there without moving.
Absorbing water with a fiber pack is a technical task and requires a lot of patience.
This fiber packet cannot be put directly into the soup, as it will only make the soup cloudy.
Once the bag absorbs water, it will swell, and she needs to slowly pull the rope to adjust the height of the bag and make sure that the water in the bag does not drip back into the beaker.
After all, if it really dripped back, only one drop, then the beaker's medicinal juice would be completely ruined.