Chapter 20: Making Fine Salt
I used to do some field work in my hometown, so growing wheat is not a difficult task for me.
I took the sapper shovel and continued to dig and loosen in the field, and then began to tidy up the mounds and began to dig trenches, about four centimeters deep in each trench, and the distance between the ditches was about six or seven centimeters, and then I selected the wheat seeds that the girls had sifted through under the firelight, and basically they were all fine products, so I planned to start sowing seeds evenly into the ditch, and then bury them, and water them with water from the mouth of the living spring.
This is the basics, but it should have been better to sprinkle some fertilizer to promote growth, but manure and the like are not easy to collect, so this plan is also abandoned, after all, it is strange that they don't think of me as a pervert when I mention this to the girls.
After getting this done, the dinner was ready, and when I was called to eat, I passed.
I saw that the sauce made from the petals and wild chestnuts of a certain fragrance was poured on the roasted wild vegetables and crab meat, and a pot of mountain jujube and fairy shell soup was also tasted.
"Welcome spring, come and eat more." Bai Lu was afraid that Yingchun would think that I was giving less, so she gave more of her share.
And Song Yingchun still had a stinky face, and he ate very reluctantly.
It stands to reason that I shouldn't be in charge of the sisters' affairs, but in this special period, if there are still people who are used to being squeamish, I think something will happen sooner or later.
"Song Bailu, you eat your own, don't get used to her, there's no need for this." I said.
Song Yingchun was originally holding back the fire in his stomach because I gave me less food, so he immediately slammed the earthen bowl and shouted: "My sister gave me food, you don't care?" Who are you? Do you want to nod your face? I'm telling you, it's not over! ”
After speaking, she turned around and went back to the house, but Song Bailu was very uncomfortable, and she got up to follow, and I said coldly: "Don't care! This is my command. ”
Of course, I know that Song Bailu cares about her sister, but she has to take care of me now, because I have made rules, and she is afraid of offending me, so she can only stay here.
At this time, Yun Wen got up, walked over, and comforted Song Yingchun a few words, but it was also a bloody dog who was scolded, and turned back.
The three of us ate depressedly in what should have been a pleasant meal.
The thing is still extremely refreshing, the crab meat is better than the first treatment, tender and juicy, coupled with the special cover of the pouring sauce, it is simply to make the taste buds refreshed, and the greasy mountain jujube fairy shell soup, it is just appropriate, a match made in heaven, let me eat that is called a enjoyment.
After dinner, Yun Wen silently put away the bowl and picked up the food scraps on the ground, while Bai Lu went to find Yingchun.
I came over to help Yun Wen do it together, she looked at me and said, "Zhou Bo, you should go and visit that Song Yingchun, peace is precious." ”
"Harmony is precious, that is in the civilized world, there is no such thing here, if you want to survive, you have to accept her temperament." I said.
The two of us washed the dishes together, and then I arranged the order of guarding, Song Bailu in order to avoid contradictions, mainly asked to keep two shifts in a row, I had nothing to do with her, and I thought that if I angered Song Yingchun's girl again, then we couldn't be at peace tonight, so I agreed.
Yun Wen's high fever has subsided, and Song Bailu really used her heart to change the medicine for the scar on her chest, Yun Wen checked it a little before going to bed, and the wound was indeed much smaller, so I was relieved.
After a day of hard work, I was very tired, I was afraid that I couldn't keep the first shift, so I asked Yunwen to guard the first shift first, and then let Song Bailu hand over, I didn't mention the matter of guarding two shifts, when it was the default shift of three shifts, Song Bailu also had a slight understanding, I kept the last shift.
Outside the fence at the moment, there were many beasts coveting the flesh of the fish here, their glowing green eyes flashing outside the fence, and they could hear the sound of their anxious pacing among the trees.
"Remember to blow the whistle immediately if something happens, and I will support you as soon as possible." I said.
The two girls nodded.
I entered the built earthen house, and Song Yingchun deliberately propped up the big character shape to prevent there was room to lie down, and I walked over and put my face close to her eyes, she swallowed saliva in shock, and I said: "If you continue to do this, I can only lie on you and think about it myself." ”
She coughed, withdrew her hands and body, lay on her side, and muttered, "Rascal." ”
I didn't bother to pay attention to her, tired from the day, and soon fell asleep on the bed piled up in the grass.
As soon as I slept until the sun rose slightly, Bai Lu asked me to get up and take my shift, and I got up.
I remember it was reported that people come out of the sea, so salt is very important for everyone, so I plan to get fine salt, the first is to marinate the dried fish, to preserve the food, and the second is to keep the salt in our bodies.
This is an extra guarantee for us who survive in the wild.
I brought a metal cup and a backpack, put some earthen bowls in the backpack, put charcoal in the earthen bowl, and brought a small plastic box of biscuits that I had been using, and took Yunwen with me by the way, so as not to make her angry with me, and by the way, Yunwen took the mud urn, which contained spring water, and walked along the old road, and when I arrived at the coast, compared with yesterday, the sea water receded a little.
Yun Wen came to the beach, stretched her waist, looked at the vast and boundless sky today, and finally smiled.
"You're finally smiling." I said.
"Well, I miss the white clouds in the sky, and I always feel that I can get closer to those here." Yun Wen said.
"We will wait for the rescue, you see that there have been foreigners here, so there will still be people who will find here and save us, and then you can continue to go back to the plane and be a goddess in the blue sky." I said.
She smiled and smiled very sweetly, and I also found that she was only so free and cheerful when she was not with the Song sisters.
"So, salt master, tell me, even if this sea water is dried, it can only be made into coarse salt, not edible, let alone salted, how can you turn it into fine salt for human consumption? What can I do for you? She said in a playful tone.
"Cheer me on." I laughed.
She laughed too...
I scooped seawater from nearby with a metal cup, fetched hay and firewood from nearby, put charcoal on the ground and blew and lit the hay, the fire gradually started, and then put a metal cup to bake the fire, and soon the seawater in the cup began to boil, and then slowly dried up to leave the coarse salt.
Pour the spring water into a metal cup, melt the coarse salt, pull off a piece of cloth on the clothes, then find coarse sand and fine sand, break a small hole in the earthen bowl, cover the gap with cloth, let Yun Wen pinch it tightly, and then a new section of wood, suffocate immediately after burning a half-through, form activated carbon, crush it, put in more than one-fifth of the bowl capacity of fine sand, then put one-fifth of the activated carbon, and then put two-fifths of the coarse sand.
After forming a simple filter, I poured the brine from the metal cup into the earthen bowl, and the brine passed through those filters, leaving it in the notched cloth of the bowl, which I picked up in a plastic box of biscuits.
The carbon adsorbs the debris, leaving only clean brine, but there are crystals, and I'm pouring filtered brine from a plastic box into a cleaned metal cup and drying it over a fire to make it a fine salt.
Yun Wen was stunned by my operation, and said, "Wow, you are really a genius for survival in the wild!" ”
I smiled, and then we continued to get more fine salt, and it smelled like we were back in the house full of firewood, rice, oil, and salt...