Chapter 41 Salt Mountain, Deer, Boiling Salt

The deliciousness of salt is still fresh in the memory of everyone in the tribe.

After eating salted food, I then ate grilled meat and fish without salt, and I only felt that the food that used to taste so good was now a little difficult to swallow.

It just so happened that yesterday they had good luck hunting and brought back more prey, so today, Senior Brother, they took their tools and went to Salt Mountain with Han Cheng.

Salt Mountain is the name given by Han Cheng to the salt mine.

Without a name, it's really inconvenient.

To go to Salt Mountain, you need to pass by the place where he found the rapeseed, and the rape flowers are still blooming brightly, although some of the only empty poles are left, and there are no flowers.

Han Cheng pointed to the yellow flowers and told the people in the tribe that it was another good thing he had found, and told them not to step on it.

Because they thought about the delicious salt, they didn't pay enough attention to the weed that Miko had spoken.

After all, they see a lot of weeds every day, and they don't think this kind of flowering weeds are rare.

Han Cheng followed the mark he remembered yesterday and walked all the way to the east.

Fortunately, he led the people in the tribe to find the location of Salt Mountain, not as unlucky as the fisherman in "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring".

Han Cheng couldn't help but smile when he thought about it, after all, the situation he encountered was different from that of the fisherman, there was only a group of deer here in Yanshan, and a group of people lived in the Peach Blossom Garden.

Humans are wary and will stalk and change markers, while deer will not.

Uncle Deer led his clan to still be here, leisurely basking in the sun and nibbling on the grass, and then licking his tongue on the stone wall when he was fine.

The eyes of the senior brother and the others in the tribe immediately brightened when they saw that there was such a large group of deer here, and they had become accustomed to hunting, and they even prepared to attack this group of deer with weapons without the command of the senior brother.

Han Cheng hurriedly stopped.

He has his own ideas for this herd of deer.

Han Cheng talked to the senior brother, and then gave the order that everyone should not disturb the deer.

Then he took this group of reluctant people to the south for a distance, and was about 100 meters away from the deer, looking at each other without disturbing each other.

Uncle Deer and his little brother were still wary of this group of uninvited guests at first, but after discovering that the leader was the useless 'two-legged beast' who had been bullied by him yesterday, and the rest were all guys who walked on two legs, and these guys did not lean towards themselves, they gradually relaxed their vigilance.

As their boss, after calming down his emotions, Uncle Lu even took elegant steps, and walked leisurely to this group of 'two-legged beasts' who kept smashing the stone wall used to practice their tongues with the attitude of a king.

Han Cheng hurriedly stopped the senior brother and the others who couldn't help but want to make another move when he saw Hunting Xinxi, and took some rape that he had pulled out on the way from the grass on the side that had eaten cauliflower and could not bear seeds, and handed them to Uncle Deer with a kingly demeanor.

These things were conceived by him last night and specially prepared today.

Ben thought that if this group of deer was still there, he would try to send them over, but he didn't expect that before he could act, the deer uncle who had seen the world had already come to collect protection money.

Faced with the rape handed over by Han Cheng, Uncle Lu was unceremonious, and ate it as soon as he opened his mouth.

After eating, it seemed that he was quite satisfied with Han Cheng's eye-catching behavior, and Uncle Lu made a sound, which could be regarded as approving the actions of these 'two-legged beasts' on its territory.

Then he returned to his people with graceful steps, raising his head high, looking like a victorious general.

With the addition of the elder brothers, who are strong and often fight wild beasts, things like smashing rocks can be carried out much more quickly.

The large pieces of rock salt that were smashed down were carried away, and the small pieces were carried away in the hides used to wrap the fruit in the fall.

Because it was about ten miles away from the place where the tribe was, and there was a fear that there would be danger of falling back and forth, when transporting rock salt to the tribe, they did not go alone, but after smashing enough rocks for half of the people to transport, they set off together, just as they did when they picked fruit and transported it to the tribe in the autumn.

These are all precious things that have been accumulated over a long period of life.

The efficiency of carrying it on the shoulder is very slow, but there is no way, there is no good tool at this time, so you can only use this stupid method.

But after such a day, on the bank of the small river in front of the cave, not too far from the place where the pottery was made, there were also piles of large and small rock salt, at least more than 1,000 catties.

This is not an exaggeration, after all, the rock salt is not too strong, and it is relatively easy to smash it down from the mountain.

And today, in addition to all the members of the hunting team, there are also seven or eight half-year-old children.

So many people get more than 1,000 catties of rock salt a day back, not much at all.

Today, there is no salt production, and it is all used to transport rock salt.

After all, there aren't many times when they don't have to go out hunting.

The matter of making salt can be done by Han Cheng and some of the children in the tribe, as well as the lame and a few women who are either weak or pregnant or with children.

And the task of smashing the rock salt down from the mountains seven or eight miles away and transporting it over is difficult for them, the old and weak, women and children.

The next day, the senior brother then led the people out hunting, and Han Cheng took the old man who made pottery to start making salt.

They actually wanted to stay, and they had a keen interest in how to get the delicious salt out of the stone.

But if they didn't hunt, there would be no food to eat tomorrow, so they had to go hunting.

Next to the small river, the great cause of boiling salt is in full swing, and Han Cheng divides labor according to the characteristics of everyone.

The black baby and the lame few people with relatively large strength are responsible for smashing the big stones into small stones, and then smashing the small stones into powder.

A few primitive women were not as strong as the lame black babies, and they were responsible for filtering the salt mines with pots and dry grass and charcoal.

Xiaomei, Xiaoli, and Xing, a few people with less strength, are responsible for burning the fire and boiling salt.

Han Cheng served as a technical guide on the side, and was responsible for getting the final boiled salt out of the clay pot and putting it into the jar after the miscellaneous pieces.

It is necessary to move the salt-making place to the river, after all, salt production requires a lot of water, and the required site is also large, if it is carried out in the cave, the already damp cave will be made more inhabitable.

As long as it is labor, there is no one who is not tired, and everyone is tired at the end of the day.

But when they saw the half jar of delicious salt, a heartfelt smile appeared on everyone's faces, with these delicious salts, even if they are tired, it is worth it!