Chapter 11 Boil Salt
Before leaving the Jieli tent, Ye Huan brought the long sword that had been removed from his body.
"Since the man gave it to me, I'll keep it." Ye Huan looked at this long sword, "Come and don't be rude, you will always find a chance to return it." ”
Escaping death from the Jieli camp made Ye Huan understand many things, the most important of which is that weakness is not suitable for this world!
The only promise in this world has no effect here, but the heavy punches come quickly and effectively.
The two of them galloped on the vast snowfield, Ye Huan used the sun to identify the direction, and rushed all the way south.
According to this itinerary, it will not take long to reach the border of the Tang Dynasty, and it is most likely to enter the Tang Dynasty from Longyou Road.
Bumpy all the way, Ye Huan's buttocks were swollen, and he was originally moved by Xue Yantuo risking death to get his backpack back. But now this feeling is gone, and a man and a woman are squeezed into a horse, which is really torturous for him!
It is inevitable that the posture is ambiguous, and it is inevitable that the skin is blind, and Ye Huan's will is very seriously consumed along the way!
"I knew I should have asked Xue Yantuo for one more horse!" Ye Huan wiped off the nosebleed, and kept secretly scolding Xue Yantuo for being so uninteresting.
After a day's journey, when night came, Ye Huan and the madwoman stopped.
As soon as the brown horse carrying them stopped, it collapsed to the ground tiredly, foaming at the mouth, Ye Huan touched its mane, understanding that it had reached its limit.
"Can't go any further." Ye Huan said to the madwoman, "Let's set off early the day after tomorrow!" ”
The brown horse must be given a day to rest until he recovers.
The madwoman nodded.
Ye Huan found tender grass under the snow layer and fed it to the brown horse, and lit a fire in the most primitive way, took out a stainless steel pot from his backpack and put it on the flame, and put a pile of snow into the stainless steel pot to boil. While the pot was steaming, the madwoman helped take out the dry goods that Xue Yantuo had prepared for them from her backpack and boiled them.
When the dry goods were cooked crispy, and the smell of meat wafted out of the pot, the madwoman made two pairs of chopsticks out of wooden sticks.
A man and a woman, moonlit, on the snowy field, eating hot food around the fire, this scene is quite poetic.
"It's a pity that the taste is a little worse." Ye Huan patted his belly and said unsatisfied.
"If only there was a little salt!"
Ye Huan's eyes rolled, not knowing what he was thinking.
After dinner, Ye Huan added some firewood to the fire, and the two sat facing the fire, both looking at the burning flames, each with their own thoughts.
"Thank you!"
In the silence of the night, an ethereal and gentle female voice suddenly sounded, as if plucking a string.
Ye Huan raised his head in amazement and looked at the crazy woman, he was surprised again because of her, he didn't expect that she was not dumb!
"Can you talk?"
The madwoman nodded, not only could she speak, but she also had a nice voice.
"I pretended to be crazy, I pretended to be dumb, all to protect myself." The madwoman looked at Ye Huan with clear eyes.
Ye Huan could understand that in that situation, the madwoman's approach was the wisest, he had never seen such a strong woman.
"There were prairie people before, and it was inconvenient for me to speak." The madwoman was a little sorry.
"Don't care!" Ye Huan told her, "Then why don't you continue to pretend to be dumb?" No one found out you were pretending to be before! ”
When Ye Huan asked her this, the crazy woman became stumbling, and she spit out a few words in the middle of the sound: "Because you are trustworthy." ”
After saying this, she lowered her head as if she had done something ashamed, and her ears were red.
Seeing that the crazy woman was inexplicably shy, Ye Huan didn't know why, shouldn't he be trustworthy?
Silence ensued.
"Do you want to ask why I helped Xue Yantuo?" After a while, Ye Huan suddenly spoke, as early as when he was discussing things with Xue Yantuo, he could see what she wanted to say.
The madwoman could obviously speak, and she could obviously dissuade Ye Huan from helping Xue Yantuo, but she still chose to remain silent at that time.
"Xue Yantuo is also a grassland person!" Mad woman recovers from shyness.
"That's right! Jieli is also a steppe person. Ye Huan nodded, and he continued, "I know that you are worried that Xue Yantuo will become the second Jieli in the future, and you are still eyeing the northern border of my Tang Dynasty!" ”
The madwoman looked at him quietly, waiting for Ye Huan's next words.
"But that's for later!" Ye Huan said, "If you go outside, you must first settle inside, now that the Tang Dynasty has just been established, the Tang Dynasty is not stable!" ”
There were not only feudal kings who rebelled, but also eighteen anti-kings and seventy-two puffs of smoke and dust took the opportunity to stir up trouble and try to rekindle the flames of war. If it is attacked by the Turkic forces led by Jieli at this time, then the new dynasty at this time will be like duckweed on the water, swaying in the wind and rain!
Even the destruction of the country is possible!
This is a turbulent era, as a Tang man and Ye Huan, who wants to live well in the Tang Dynasty, he has to do something for the country.
"The reason why I did this is to let Xue Yantuo balance Jieli, and at this time, helping him is equivalent to helping the Tang Dynasty!"
Ye Huan told the madwoman about his considerations, and to his surprise, the madwoman looked at him with a look that was really so.
In history, it may have been a few years before Xue Yantuo and Jieli fell out, but now that Ye Huan has advanced this matter, the trajectory of history has unconsciously changed slightly!
Ye Huan shouldn't have appeared here, but it was because of his appearance that history changed.
Take this matter first, like a spark!
Sleepless all night, the next day Ye Huan took advantage of the brown horse's rest time and began to look for something around, and after half a day, he happily picked up a shiny stone.
"Su Yunlan, quickly take out my pot!" Ye Huan shouted madwoman.
Last night, Ye Huan learned her name.
Su Yunlan looked at Ye Huan in surprise, and quickly took out the stainless steel pot from her backpack, she was really puzzled: "What are you holding a stone for?" ”
Ye Huan smiled, planning to keep it secret from her first.
This stone is mixed with edges and corners, but the whole piece is shining with a beautiful light, Su Yunlan thought that Ye Huan had taken a fancy to its condition, and it was still okay to collect it.
But the next moment she was stunned, Ye Huan directly and brutally smashed it to pieces! Not only that, but he crushed and crushed until it was finely minced!
Su Yunlan shouted pity in her heart, but Ye Huan did such a thing with great interest.
Afterwards, Ye Huan put the fine powder into the pot, and after holding the snow and putting it inside, he actually began to light the fire and cook!
Su Yunlan began to realize that something was wrong, Ye Huan never did boring things, she began to carefully observe Ye Huan on the side, and tried to speculate on Ye Huan's behavior.
Ye Huan filtered the impurities once, Su Yunlan's eyes widened, and she looked at Ye Huan incredulously: "Why is such a big stone, after you fished it out of the boiling water, there are only these left?" ”
"Dissolve!" Ye Huan spit out two words and didn't explain too much.
Then, he took out some baking soda from his backpack and poured it into the boiling water, Su Yunlan was completely fascinated, and said in surprise: "The original clear water, why has the water become turbid again?" ”
"Precipitation!"
After Ye Huan filtered it again, he added firewood to the fire, the fire became bigger, and a whole pot of water was boiled until the evening before the water evaporated.
A layer of fine powder on the bottom of the pot appeared in front of the two of them!
Ye Huan tasted it, his brows furrowed slightly, and there was a slight bitterness.
"Is that all it takes?" Ye Huan thought.
Su Yunlan dipped some of it with her fingers and tasted it, and then she actually exclaimed, she looked at the pile of powder incredulously, and said, "It's actually salt?!" ”