The electronic voice was silent for a while, as if searching and scanning something, and after a long while, he replied, "Valid command, not dead for the time being, but if you wake up, you may die." ”

Chen Chao frowned and asked, "What is his situation now?" What is the cause of death? ”

"Hunger."

Looking at the little boy's bulging belly, he could clearly see the green tendons and blood vessels under the skin. The whole body has been thinned into skin and bones, and it is not half as heavy as Huang Yan in his arms.

Thinking of the people of the Xian tribe outside who had eaten one by one, and thinking of the incomparably precious linen clothes on their leaders, as well as the twenty or so stone basins, Chen Chao's heart once again surged with anger.

He longed for a thunderstorm to turn the tribe to ashes.

But Chen Chao thought about it, no, it's too cheap for them. I want to let them wake up at the end, and then let them watch everything about themselves being taken away, watching the tribes that were once plundered by them surpass them one by one, and they will lose their future forever.

Now that the salt is no longer picked, Chen Chao waited for the rain to stop and returned to the salty tribe to boil a pot of rice soup first, put a few pieces of salted meat and broken cabbage leaves. At his strong request just now, he used up some progress points bound to Huang Yan in exchange for a designated privilege.

And his choice was to wake up the boy.

But the little boy still didn't really wake up, because his current state was too bad, Chen Chao tried to feed him a little rice soup, fortunately, although he hadn't really woken up yet, the little boy could already start swallowing subconsciously.

Chen Chao took off the animal skin from his body again, wrapped it around the little boy's body, and took the little boy back to the salt mine because he was not worried about being left alone, and considering that it was best to feed him some rice soup every once in a while.

So Chen Chao picked salt while taking care of the little boy.

In fact, the mined salt is not directly edible, and it has to be carefully processed. Now fine processing is not possible, but it is still possible to steam and cook and do a preliminary extraction.

In fact, the salt in this place should be called mine salt, Chen Chao observed, the salt mine is mainly salt stone (salty stone) produced by shallow landmarks, about the size of a fist, accompanied by underground natural brine.

The raw material sources of salt can be divided into 4 categories: sea salt, lake salt, well salt and mineral salt. The salt obtained from drying seawater is called "sea salt"; The salt produced by mining modern salt lake mines is called "lake salt";

The salt prepared by using the sinking method to absorb the superficial or underground natural brine is called "well salt"; The salt obtained from the mining of ancient rock salt deposits is called "mineral salt". Because rock salt deposits sometimes coexist with natural brine salt mines, coupled with the advent of the drilling water solution method for mining rock salt deposits, there is also a combined name of "well salt" and "mineral salt" - "well salt", or generally known as "mineral salt".

The salt mine of the Xian tribe is the well mine salt among them, but for the sake of memory, it is still called the salt mine.

Don't look at Chen Chao, he got a lot of them out in a short while, but when he processes it later, he may not be able to fit a bag of animal skins.

The Xian tribe probably didn't have a good grasp of the method of fine processing salt, because Chen Chao saw that all they carried in the hides were large particles of salt stones or salt crystals, all of which resembled a yellow-brown crystal.

In fact, the salt stone in this state is inedible, and the salt that has just been mined is actually poisonous.

The salt itself is not toxic, and there is no problem with the associated biological brine, and the salt can still be mined by its associated biological brine. However, its symbiotic ore also contains a lot of poisonous things, and the taste is extremely poor. In addition to saltiness, there are also various strange tastes.

I don't know how the salty tribe endured it, but seeing that most of them are used to marinate salted meat, it cannot be ruled out that it is precisely because of this that some of the problematic places are diluted.

Chen Chao looked at the little boy next to him, he hadn't woken up yet, he fed him some rice soup, and began to think about how to turn this pile of things on the ground into refined salt, at least into directly edible salt.

In ancient times, sea salt, lake salt, and well salt were generally made of brine as raw materials, or boiled by firewood, or exposed to the wind and sun, and salt could be obtained after the water evaporated.

As for meeting the standards of modern society, it is basically impossible. At present, it relies on the tools in hand, but the extraction method of well salt is mainly by boiling.

This time, Chen Chao plans to use the repeated crystallization method to dissolve the coarse salt mined in water first, and then filter it to remove impurities. Evaporate the aqueous solution and crystallize it or boil it in a pot and you'll be fine later.

After checking the principle and general process, the rest is simple. Chen Chao spent several more days processing the salt, which was enough to fill five animal skin bags.

After eating salted pork rice for several days, Chen Chao was a little tired, and at this time, he missed the fresh fish and wild boar stewed chestnut soup in the tribe.

Now that I have the salt I brought home, I think the taste will be even better. And he has been out for so many days, I don't know how the animal skins in the tribe are made, and if Yuan has paid attention to the problem that the pool will leak.

I don't know how the clay pot burned, if there is a broken clay pot, I hope One-Eye won't be too sad. The No. 2 rabbit house should already be able to live in people, I hope a little old man won't occupy it, after all, people have lived with a bunch of rabbits for a long time, and they will really get sick.

And the cave is so densely populated.

Has the army of straw ropes started, and have the women of the collection team continued to weave hemp nests and straw sandals?

At this moment, Chen Chao suddenly missed them a little.

Looking at the processed salt, the province should be enough for the tribe to eat this winter. What's more, there is also the salted meat that I brought, which is also full of salt. The province is also able to eat for a while.

Chen Chao searched all over the mountains to find vines suitable for weaving rattan baskets, and made two fine rattan baskets. One with your back in front and one in the back.

The one on the back was the one with the hides of the animals wrapped in rice and salt, and the top was covered with some Chinese cabbage, and the little cabbages were also wrapped in animal skins with dirt. The rattan basket in front of it contained the cabbage and the little boy.

Put the little boy in a rattan basket and stuff him with cabbage and bacon. The pot and bowl were casually placed on top of the boy's head, and the water-filled pig's urine bubble was tied to his waist with straw rope, and the stone axe was inserted on the other side of his waist.

The two spears were broken into short spears and stuck diagonally in the rattan basket behind them. The jerky brought from the tribe has long been eaten, and now the salted meat in the rattan basket is all the salted meat that is a specialty of the salty tribe.

The little boy hadn't woken up yet, but when Chen Chao fed him rice soup, in addition to swallowing it himself, he would occasionally make some murmuring sounds in his sleep.

His face is not as sallow as before, Chen Chao gave him a name, called Stone, mainly because he was rescued from the stone by himself, and at the same time hoped that his life could be as tenacious as a stone, the wind could not blow, the rain could not move, and he lived tenaciously in the world.

After checking it and confirming that there was nothing to bring, Chen Chao carried two large rattan baskets back and forth and embarked on the journey home.