Put the scissors and needlework back in the bag, go back and scald the gauze bag, peel off the lid of the charcoal, put the charcoal arrows outside to cool, pour them into pieces, and put them in the gauze bag.

Spread out on the mouth of the clay pot and fix the bag to the mouth of the pot with a rope.

The scoop is poured into a gauze bag containing charcoal, and the brine flows through the charcoal in the gauze bag into a large clay pot.

After the salt water was filtered, Yao Xiaoqing untied the gauze bag from the jar and took it off.

Tian Chai boiled the brine in the jar over high heat, and then slowly boiled it over low heat until all the water evaporated, and what remained in the jar was white rock salt.

Yao Xiaoqing poured charcoal into the ash heap, scooped up some water, washed the gauze, and hung it in the bamboo shed. Thought: This gauze is a treasure, there will never be anything like this in this life.

Back in front of the stove, the brine in the jar had already boiled, and gradually the water became less and less, revealing the salt grains of white flowers.

She picked up the bamboo knife and scraped the salt that had reached the mouth of the jar into it, and muttered in a low voice: "If you can exchange it for food, how many heads of mutton will you have to exchange for such salt!" Alas! It's a pity that the strength doesn't allow it! ”

Yaohu stood up and moved, and when he saw Yao Xiaoqing still standing in front of the jar, he said with a smile: "Xiaoqing, I see that you have been tinkering here for most of the night, what kind of salt did you come out?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing glanced back at him and said with a smile: "It's not cooked yet!" Also wait for the water to boil dry. ”

"Salt still has to be boiled in a jar?" Yaohu approached curiously, looked down and saw the salt in the jar, dipped a little and put it in his mouth, and looked up at her in surprise, "Xiaoqing, these are the things that came down from the cliff to cook them?" ”

"Hmm!" Yao Xiaoqing nodded a little proudly, in his previous life, he had nothing to do and read so many miscellaneous books, in that era when he could buy whatever he wanted, he had no chance to practice at all, and there was a place for it here.

"Xiaoqing, Hua said that you are not happy, do you miss your mother and two brothers today?"

Yao Xiaoqing hesitated and said, "Father, I met a wild man when I was collecting medicine in the forest today, and I killed him. ”

Yaohu asked anxiously, "Where is the injury?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing's heart warmed, "Father, I have a weapon, and I am not injured." ”

"Xiaoqing, don't be sad, if he dares to bully you, he should be killed." Yaohu thought about it and advised, "Don't go to the forest alone in the future, there may be wild people in the mountains." ”

"Got it. Now we also have salted salt, so you don't have to worry about running out of food in exchange for salty salt. ”

"Xiaoqing is very powerful, the salty salt is like snow, and the salty salt of the Wuxian tribe can't be compared. Thank you, Father. ”

"You said it, no thanks!"

Yaohu heard that there were wild people in the forest, and thought that he would quickly repair the wall that Xiaoqing said, and decided to go to the mountains tomorrow to get more food and come back, and he would not exchange it for salty salt in the future, so he didn't need to save so much food.

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Mu Ba and Mao led their tribesmen to search for a long time at the foot of the mountain but did not find the cave, so they had to find a leeward place to live.

Big Eminem looked at the women who were busy collecting firewood, as well as the wooden buds who were sitting on the sidelines, and sighed.

She walked over and touched her head pityingly, and said, "Mu Ya, you can't sit still like this in the future, you have to collect firewood and pick fruits and food with Ah Cao." ”

"I won't, Grandma never let me pick it up," Mu Ya glanced up at her, "Big Eminem, won't we be able to go back in the future?" ”

Big Eminem's sad tears fell, "I can't go back, Muba will take care of you." ”

Da Eminem thought: No matter what, Mu Ya is also the daughter of the leader of the Yushan tribe, and she can't be taken to Qiushan to exchange for salt. I have to talk to Mu Ba and give Mu Ya to Yaohu's son.

Muba, spear and wolf sat together, watching the two old uncles clean up the goats sent by Yaohu.

Spear turned his head to look at the two of them, "Muba, when we were in the tribe, we obviously heard that the leader sent someone to inquire about the news said that Yaohu father and son were in a coma and were about to die, you see that he doesn't look like him at all today." ”

Mu Ba thought for a moment, "He may have hidden the magic medicine exchanged for the Great Witch, or invited the Great Witch to sacrifice to the gods, so he was so fast." ”

"Impossible, Yaohu and his son were injured and didn't wake up, and the fire beaver took the position of his leader. How could the women of his family have food to beg the great witch and give him divine medicine to sacrifice to the gods. ”

The wolf paused for a moment and looked at the two of them, "Even if you ask for the Great Witch, his magic medicine can't save the dying person." I still remember the time when our tribe used twenty sheep to ask for the Great Witch and sacrifice to the gods of the wounded warriors, and the Great Witch gave him magic medicine after sacrificing to the gods, and the wounded warriors still went to see the gods. ”

The most powerful witch in this area is the witch of the Qiushan Great Witch Tribe, if it weren't for him, who else could beg the gods to cure Yaohu's father and son, Mu Ba and Mao couldn't figure it out.

Looking at the wolf's injured leg, Muba said, "Wolf, when we see the leader of Yaohu, we beg him to take you to the witch who sacrificed to him to see if he can heal the wound on your leg?" ”

Spear glanced at the wolf, who was panting beside him, and was worried that he would not survive.

"Muba, I think even if the wolf's leg is healed, it will be difficult for the three of us to even feed these clansmen, and it will be even more difficult to avenge the dead clansmen. I think the only way to get revenge is to join the Yaoshan tribe, which also has a grudge against the giant bear tribe. Tell me what you think? ”

Mu Ba didn't expect Mao Ye to propose to join Yaohu's tribe, and hesitated, "The wolf said, even if we join Yaohu's tribe, he may not be willing, I think so, most of the dozen or so of them are young and strong." Look at our ......"

After listening to Mao's words, Mu Ba felt that he was unwilling to ask such a tribe to join. Thinking that he had actually proposed to Yaohu to merge with his new tribe, he felt that his face was a little hot.

The wolf said, "Muba, you have forgotten that we have five women who can be paired with the warriors of their tribe, and you go to him the next day and tell the leader of Yaohu what we think, and he will definitely agree to us joining his new tribe." ”

Seeing that both of them proposed to join Yaohu's tribe, Mu Ba nodded happily, "Okay, when I see him, I will propose to him to join his tribe." ”

The two old uncles roasted the mutton and came over to ask them to eat it. The goats sent by Yaohu were fat, Muba and Mao were divided into two front legs, the wolf and Da Eminem were given a piece of back, and the other clansmen were also given a piece of mutton.

After so many days of traveling, after eating food, they fell asleep around the fire.

****

As soon as the belly of the fish was white, Yaohu took all the young people with a basket on his back, ready to get a batch of rock salt back.

Yao Xiaoqing gave Yao Hu snake medicine, mountaineering rope and sapper shovel, and told him: "Father, you had better walk along the foot of the mountain, avoid the dense forest before going up the mountain, don't hunt on the road, go and return quickly." ”

After Yaohu took it, he nodded and said, "Okay, don't run far when you go out." ”

Yao Xiaoqing nodded in response, sent them out the door, and watched them go to the foot of the mountain to the north.