Before it was dark, everyone began to set up a pot stove, because Qian Yan said that it takes a lot of firewood to cook and refine salt, so except for a few who had great strength and good health to dig traps, everyone else went to pick up dry branches.

Fortunately, because of the lack of rain, although the forest is a little dark, it is not very humid, and the dead branches on the ground are very dry, so you can burn it directly.

The traps should also be dug a little deeper, they are to protect against those big beasts, too shallow to use.

Fortunately, the sand and gravel soil over there also contains salt, and the excavated soil does not need to be wasted, but it saves a process.

However, after digging deeper, the color of the taxi below is different from the one above.

Qian Yan thought that it should have been dug into another layer of soil, and it was estimated that the salt content was also less, so she asked them to pile up the taxis of another color on the other side and not mix them together.

After that, I will follow the steps in memory to teach everyone to filter, steam, remove impurities, and crystallize.

Of course, this is not a one-time success, she just explained all the steps first, and then let half of them go back to rest, and the rest continue to work here.

Anyway, there are only two clay pots, and it is useless to leave so many people, the steps of refining salt are not complicated, and it is almost the same to look at them once.

And I don't know if I can succeed the first time, there is no need to spend it here, and it will be the same when I come back tomorrow morning, and I can come here for breakfast by the way.

It wasn't dark yet, but it was already gray, so I lit the torches made of mutton fat before, and it got dark halfway through.

The remaining eight people continued to lay the trap, and it should be almost enough time to dig for another few more hours.

This is also thanks to the shovel and pointed gao that Chou brought back, which is too convenient to dig a hole, otherwise he would not be able to dig a trap so deep in a few days with just a twig.

Another thing is the geology here, although there are some stones on the surface, there is still more soil underneath, that is, occasionally a stone is encountered, and it is easy to dig out the pointed high.

Qian Yan kept recalling that there was nothing missing in the refining, how could they try to get the first batch of salt out tonight, and even if it failed, they could continue the experiment.

Fortunately, no wild beasts came over this night, probably because they had never stopped the fire here, and a few people were in full swing again, and the beast probably avoided it when it saw it from a distance.

By the time the day dawned, the first batch of salt was steamed, and she tasted it, with a bit of bitterness, but fortunately, at least it was close.

As for how to get rid of that bitter taste, she really didn't know, maybe there was some secret recipe.

Now this belongs to the wet refining of salt, and it is better to dry some of it, otherwise it is not easy to store.

If the weather is sunny tomorrow, it should take half a day.

When the day dawned, another wave of people came.

Because the pots are all here, it's not easy to cook if you want to, and it's inconvenient to cook there, so you can only bring the washed wild vegetables and wheat grains here, and there are some lamb stewed before, just boiled together.

Dumpling Yan accompanied Grandma Orchid and Yang Dashan's family, went to the left a few hundred meters away, washed out the two clay pots, and cooked the rice first.

People who are busy all night are tired, and after breakfast, they can go back there to rest, and they can continue to do it here.

The shift changers looked at the makeshift wooden shelves that had been erected next to them, with a layer of straw mats on top of them, and a thin layer of bark on which white and yellow crystals were dried.

"It's ...... Refined? ”

Yang Xuanzhu said excitedly.

Yang Erzhuang proudly pointed to a piece of bark and said, "Yes, Miss Xue is really amazing, this salt was practiced for the first time, then, this is the first pot to come out, and it has already dried." ”

"yes, it's really refined, and it looks the same as the salt you bought in town!"

As he spoke, he tapped it with his finger and put it in his mouth and tasted it, it was so salty!

Although a little bitter, it is not very heavy and can be ignored.

Qian Yan was a little unsure in her heart, she also put salt when she ate the wild vegetable porridge they made before, she didn't drink the bitter taste, I don't know what it will taste like when this is made.

Especially when Grandma Orchid used this salt directly for breakfast, she was even more apprehensive, if the cooked rice was bitter, it would be uncomfortable in the future.

If it's all the same, is it because you eat salt directly to have a bitter taste, and it is diluted when you put it in the meal? She hadn't eaten the salt directly, and she really didn't know if it was the same.

Of course not, Tilt Yan doesn't know, if you refine salt, there is another key step to get rid of the bitter and astringent taste in it, and that is to use soy milk.

It's just that they don't even have beans now, let alone soy milk.

When breakfast was ready, the most dangerous night in the mountains had passed, so they returned to the waterhole with confidence, and by the way, they took the rice of Liu Sanli Orchid and Yang Dawang's family, who were watching the luggage.

Seeing the sleeping position they found later, they nodded with satisfaction.

The place was in the middle of a mountain wall and a boulder, which kept out the wind and the view from both sides.

As long as you don't make too much noise, even if someone comes over there, you won't notice it at the first time.