Chapter 333: Turning Decay into Magical White Powder
There are many people in the cave, even if Qi Youliang and Huang Tong are in love, they don't dare to show affection when the relationship is not yet determined. As soon as they entered the cave, they remained silent tacitly, longing to leave each other for 108,000 miles, but their bodies were very honestly next to each other.
Seeing the two of them enter the cave and sit down without saying a word, Fan Qian, who was chopping meat with a machete, immediately raised his knife and jumped up, glared at them and asked, "What's the situation, didn't you go to Su Ze to admit your mistake, what about Su Ze?"
"Little Fanzi, the society is always coming!" With the cry of Qiuqiu, Su Ze and Li Shasha walked into the cave together.
Su Ze looked at the structure of the cave curiously, then looked at the big iron pot on top of the fire, and said thoughtfully: "Such a big pot should not have been brought by the students, and the grooves on the stone wall with torches are also relatively rounded, so it should be a certain year...... In this way, this should be the hut used by the summoners of Grey Elephant City to spend the night in the forest. ”
"Oh, don't talk about this!" Fan Qian grabbed the machete and rushed towards Su Ze, so frightened that Li Shasha hurriedly hid behind Su Ze. Seeing this, he hurriedly hid his right hand holding the machete behind his back, and then asked with a smile: "Su Ze, aren't you angry with your seniors and seniors?"
Su Ze glanced at Qi Youliang and Huang Tong, who were embarrassed and ambiguous, shook his head and said, "As the saying goes, it is better to demolish ten churches than to dismantle a pair of marriages." Just accumulate virtue and spare them. ”
"That's good, I know that you are not the kind of little person who cares about everything, and you should accumulate virtue ......" Fan Qian patted Su Ze's shoulder with his clean left hand as he spoke, and then he was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly turned around and pointed at Qi and Huang with a machete, and said murderously: "I said why do you two sing and harmonize, it turns out that you have already had an adulterous relationship! Confess honestly, otherwise I will kill you!"
"Alright, alright. Su Ze looked at the miserable one-horned rabbit on the stump next to the iron pot, snatched the machete in Fan Qian's hand casually, and said while walking towards the stake: "They suspect me once, I broke a fierce news from them, so I should be leveled." Senior Qi and Senior Sister Huang, if you really succeed, remember to thank me. ”
Su Ze handled the unicorn rabbit on the stump with his hands and feet, and finally made these pieces of meat no longer unappetizing. Li Shasha looked at the corpses of the four unicorn rabbits next to the stump, frowned and asked, "Didn't they catch a lot of prey, why are they as hungry as dogs when they hear you say 'bacon'?"
"It's not them, it's everyone. "The size of the unicorn rabbit is similar to that of an ordinary pet dog, and the meat of five unicorn rabbits is enough for Su Ze to last for nine people. Therefore, Su Ze replied casually while peeling and cutting the pieces with his hands and feet: "Although it is only the second day of entering the forest, except for you who follow me, everyone else should have been gnawing on the cake for two days." What do you think they would most like to eat on the evening of the second day?"
Hearing this, everyone stared at each other. Finally, Li Shasha tried to answer, "Meat?"
"Of course not. It was very rare, and this time Su Ze's tone was filled with a sense of pride. I saw him take out a glass bottle from his arms and hand it to Li Shasha, before he raised his chin and said, "This is salt." ”
"Salt?" Fan Qian and the others came to Li Shasha's side, looked at the white powder in the small bottle curiously, and muttered puzzledly: "What's so strange about salt?"
The Zekes Empire was close to the sea in the south and had a large area of saline-alkali land inland, and among the eight major city-states, seven of the city-states could supply themselves with salt and six could export salt, so this was a country with no shortage of salt. Otherwise, why would the villagers in the fishing village still rely on fishing to support their families, and they can get rich by drying salt with seawater. Because of this, the price of salt within the Zekers Empire was extremely low, and even though tons of salt were exported abroad every year, the inhabitants of the country still regarded salt as a cheap seasoning that was almost free.
Here, the poor and the poor will not lack a jar of salt in the kitchen. As everyone knows, in a distant country, the price of salt may be comparable to gold.
Thanks to such a high yield of salt, salt is a common thing for the inhabitants of the Zekes Empire. However, the more ordinary things are, the less likely they are to be taken seriously. Just as it is difficult for us to realize that we are breathing the oxygen we need for our livelihood every minute, the people of the Zex Empire should be the hardest people on the continent of Samene to realize the value of salt.
Clear and sweet spring water flowed out of the cracks in the inner wall of the cave, and when Su Ze had just entered the cave, he had already noticed the boiling water in the iron pot. At this moment, he drew his knife and cut off two pieces of rabbit meat and threw them into the pot, and while waiting for the rabbit meat to be cooked, he said to himself: "I used to notice when I was fighting wild beasts, and every time I was exhausted, my whole body was wet with sweat, just like jumping into the sea with my clothes on." And those beasts were gasping as hard as I was, and they had fur thicker than my clothes, but they didn't sweat a drop. ”
The rabbit meat thrown into the pot is very thin, and it can be eaten after a few seconds. Halfway through his words, Su Ze picked up the white rolled rabbit meat with a clean branch, stretched it out in front of Fan Qian, who was closest to him, and said calmly, "Taste it." ”
Fan Qian took the rabbit meat, smelled it, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it twice, and spit out all the rabbit meat in front of all his drooling companions, and then retched while spitting and saying, "What is this, can you eat this thing?" It is light piapia, fishy and sassy, as if there is a smell of mud and grass, and the salamander is much better than it!"
"Is it?Is the one-horned rabbit so unpalatable?" Listening to everyone's puzzled questions, Su Ze picked up a second piece of rabbit meat with a branch, sprinkled a little salt on it, and then handed it to Fan Qian, "Taste it." ”
"Taste it!" "Anyway, I've already eaten such unpalatable rabbit meat, and Fan Qian really wants to see what flowers can be turned out of salt. So he closed his eyes and heart, and stuffed the second piece of rabbit meat into his mouth...... After chewing twice, he opened his eyes and said in surprise: "It's delicious! It's fine, tender, and salty! If you don't taste it carefully, you won't be able to taste the earthy smell just now!"
"Right, salt is a magical thing. Su Ze put the rabbit meat cut from the stump into the pot one by one, and then sprinkled salt to taste while saying, "We sweat when we move, but the animals don't." Sweat is salty, there is salt in it, and sweating means that salt is lost from the body, so eating salt is especially important for us. ”
Now Fan Qian has a deep understanding of Su Ze's thoughts, if it is still bearable to gnaw white cakes for two days, then eating meat that has not been seasoned with salt is simply a kind of torture!
Why did those two teenagers drool when they heard "bacon"? Because in the impression of ordinary people, bacon is salty!
"Su Ze, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to survive tomorrow. "After getting along for so long, Fan Qian was grateful to Su Ze for the first time to the point of gastrointestinal peristalsis!
"People, if you have suffered a loss, you will have a long memory. Su Ze stirred the rabbit meat in the pot with a branch, and the slightly faint aroma of the meat instantly aroused everyone's appetite, "When I first roasted Shizun...... Well, I was impressed, it was a cub from a Black Rock Pig. The most important thing that people on the seaside lacked was salt, but I didn't put any salt at all, and then I realized that the tasteless pork was so unpalatable. Since then, I've always taken a bottle of salt with me wherever I go. Men, when you're away from home, you have to be kind to yourself. ”