Chapter 5 Changing Salt Fruits
These female orcs are relatively wealthy in their families, and there are male orcs in the family who can hunt, and the meat of the beast is not bad. They also want to exchange some of this fresh snack to go back to their relatives at home to try it, of course, they also like the taste of melon seeds, in this era of scarce seasonings, melon seeds can be regarded as a delicacy.
The female orcs asked if there were any more melon seeds, and they were willing to exchange things with Yuan Jing.
Yuan Jing was also not polite, and expressed her willingness to exchange with them, after all, she, the old, weak, sick and disabled who relied on the help of the clan were indeed not rich. At the same time, she told everyone that she needs animal meat and salt fruits at present, and if you want to exchange, you can go to her stone house to find her to exchange, and explained that she has prepared fewer melon seeds, and one person can exchange the amount of a stone bowl. The amount of the stone bowl is about the same as the amount of a pound in the previous life.
The reason why each person can only exchange a small amount of melon seeds is that Yuan Jing wants more orcs to experience the fun of eating melons. Only when more orcs experience the fun of eating melons, can Yuan Jing have more customers, so that Yuan Jing no longer has to worry about winter supplies.
Animal meat and salt fruit are the two materials that Yuan Jing needs the most at present, animal meat is Yuan Jing's main food, and salt is an important nutrient that needs to be ingested every day to maintain physical fitness.
So at present, the materials that Yuan Jing hopes to exchange most are animal meat and salt fruits.
Hearing that the orcs expressed their willingness to exchange animal meat and salt fruits for melon seeds, Yuan Jing felt that today's goal had basically been achieved.
Yuan Jing didn't continue to stay in the square. After greeting everyone, he went back to his stone house.
Seeing Yuan Jing leave from the square, the other female orcs also left from the square one after another.
After returning to the stone house, Yuan Jing packed two bags of five-pound melon seeds. She took a bag and gave it to Huhua's family. Huhua shirked it, and finally accepted the melon seeds, and at the end, he also took 60 catties of his own beast meat and gave it to Yuan Jing, Yuan Jing saw that he couldn't shirk it, so he accepted it. The Huhua family has helped her a lot, and she is grateful to the Huhua family from the bottom of her heart. I wanted to send them some melon seeds, but I didn't expect them to send her back animal meat. Yuan Jing could only sigh that the orcs here were so friendly. Favors and things are not enough.
She took another bag and gave it to the patriarch's family, and the patriarch's family also took good care of her, so she naturally had to learn to be grateful. The patriarch's house was at Hu Fei'er's house, and Hu Fei'er politely refused, but Yuan Jing couldn't resist it, and it took a long time for Hu Fei'er to accept the melon seeds. and sent Yuan Jing some wild fruits.
After sending two waves of melon seeds, Yuan Jing was too tired to do it.
When Yuan Jing returned to the stone house, there were already two female orcs standing at the door. They are here to exchange melon seeds. Yuan Jing hurriedly beckoned to the two female orcs: "Don't stand still, come and sit on the stone bench here." ”。
Seeing that the two orcs had brought a basket of salt fruits to exchange for melon seeds, Yuan Jing immediately went into the house with great interest and scooped out two bowls of melon seeds. It's almost time for lunch, and they're all rushing back for lunch.
Female orcs came over one after another to exchange melon seeds, and it was not until all the melon seeds were replaced that Yuan Jing stopped here.
Looking at the more than a dozen baskets of salt fruits and three hundred catties of animal meat in the storeroom, Yuan Jing was overjoyed.
Needless to say, animal meat is a must-have staple food, and there is no one.
Salt is the currency here. As long as you get enough salt yourself, you have a better chance of getting rare beast meat.
In the Divine Beast Continent, only the orcs of the Shark Clan, who are far away from the sea, have mastered the technology of salt making, and the salt is basically monopolized by the Shark Orcs. And orcs need to replenish a certain amount of salt every day to meet the body's demand for salt, so the price of salt is very high.
The salt fruit trees that grow salt fruit in the dark forest are more widely distributed, so the salt fruit is relatively easy to obtain, and the yield of salt fruit in the vicinity is also very high, the salt fruit bears fruit once a year, and the fruit period is about 20 days, the salt fruit is not stored for a long time, and it will begin to rot if it is not treated for a week. Since the method of extracting salt from salt fruits has not been mastered, the salt fruits in the dark forest have a consumption period of nearly 30 days.
For eleven months before and after the salt fruit consumption period, the orcs still had to replenish the salt in their bodies through salt or animal blood. Because of the salt fruit trees growing in the dark forest, the Tiger tribe needs to exchange salt with the merman orcs every year is much less. Therefore, the tiger tribe saves more animal skins every year, and the orcs of the tiger tribe also live a more nourishing life.
After Yuan Jing confirmed that no one had come to her side, she began to make table salt.
She didn't want to be seen, at least not now. Because she is really poor now, if she doesn't find a way to get enough supplies, she and the little cub in her belly may have to drink the northwest wind. If her life is secured, she will consider telling the orcs here how to make salt.
Yuan Jing first lit a small fire in the storage room on the left, and then put the salt fruit on the fire to dry, and boiled hot water in a stone pot next to the fire when roasting the salt fruit; After removing the first batch of dried salt fruits, Yuan Jing put the second batch of salt fruits on the fire to dry.
The roasted dried salt fruit was put into a stone basin by Yuan Jing and mashed to obtain the dried salt fruit powder; After that, Yuan Jing put the dried salt fruit powder into hot water to dissolve it to make a coarse salt solution.
In the gap between the dissolution of the dried salt and fruit powder, Yuan Jing took a stone basin that was wide at the top and narrow at the bottom to make a filter, and the filter was also simple to make. First make a hole at the bottom of the stone basin, these tools for drilling holes are available to the cheap orc husband, plus Yuan Jing has now become a female orc with great strength. In less than three minutes, a hole was carved out of the bottom of the stone basin.
Yuan Jing spread three layers of permeable animal skins at the opening of the stone basin. I also picked up a lot of black charcoal at the stove of the stove room, and spread a thick layer of black charcoal on the bottom of the stone basin. Finally, two layers of permeable animal skins were laid on top of the black charcoal to make a simple filter.
The coarse salt solution obtained by dissolving the dried salt fruit powder is poured into the filter and filtered to obtain a clear and colorless transparent brine solution, and finally the transparent brine solution is boiled dry to obtain snow-white and delicate table salt.
The salt that Yuan Jing made himself was much higher than the salt that his cheap orc husband had exchanged.
Yuan Jing, who has become a strange orc young woman, has really strong physical fitness. With a big belly, he made more than a dozen baskets of salt fruits into fine salt in half a day, and the salt obtained was nearly 100 catties.
It is roughly estimated that the salt content of salt fruit is more than 90%, and it is also because of the high salt content that Yuan Jing will make fine salt so quickly. It stands to reason that salt fruits with such a high salt content should be very easy to preserve and not perishable, but the salt fruits here are extremely perishable.
However, even the fact that Yuan Jing crossed over here would happen, and it was not uncommon for salt fruits to perish. No longer delve into the problem of rotting salt fruits.