Chapter 24 Refining Reed Salt
In the evening, Ye Hesu didn't cook with much fanfare, she took the remaining few bamboo shoots and paddled her stomach a little.
Before going to bed, she carefully inspected the surrounding dangers to avoid lurking beasts and mutant creatures nearby, fortunately, this place is not too suitable for mutant creatures to survive, so Ye Hesu is still safe for the time being.
She lit a fire at the entrance of the cave and fell asleep.
There was nothing to say all night, and Ye Hesu slept quite soundly.
She woke up a few times during the night to check that there was no danger on the map, and then she slept peacefully until dawn.
After a brief wash, she brought another bamboo rat and an iron pot to the river, which was very lively today, probably because of the smell of blood yesterday, which attracted a lot of carnivores.
Including a big cat, the tiger.
Ye Hesu was speechless, so he could only run to the upper reaches of the river, slaughter the bamboo rats, and then throw the bamboo rats' internal organs on the river bank, also to attract the attention of those carnivores.
Sure enough, after a while, she saw the tiger on the map walking upstream along the river, and she hurriedly took the washed bamboo rat in a large circle and came to the place where the clay had been placed yesterday.
She first checked how well the reeds were being dried, "It's not too dry, it's almost enough to dry it for a day today." ”
Putting down the reeds, picking up the clay on his back, scooping up a pot of water, and quickly returning to the shelter.
Ye Hesu set up the pot, simply made a bamboo rat and fried bamboo shoots, took a bite, and shook his head with disgust, "It's too light, it's a waste of food to eat like this, it seems that the reed salt must be refined tonight." ”
After eating, she began to collect firewood nearby, and it took most of the day to collect a lot of firewood, and when the firewood was enough, she began to carry water again.
A few of the bamboos cut back before were specially made for holding water, although they were not too much, but they were barely enough to make a few more.
Ye Hesu ran back and forth four times before filling all the bamboo tubes, and when everything was ready, he began to refine the mud.
She put the clay on the big rocks and smashed them piece by piece.
After crushing, filter with folded layers of fishing nets to filter out all the impurities in the clay, so as to obtain a relatively fine pot of clay.
After that, the clay is muddled with clean water, and then quietly settled, and when the soil settles, and then the excess muddy water is poured out on it, a large piece of clay can be used to make pottery.
While waiting for the clay to settle, Ye Hesu began to refine the reed salt.
First of all, she first cut out a thigh-thick bamboo as a bamboo tube, pierced the bottom of the bamboo tube with a few holes, and then piled the sun-dried reeds on a large rock, lit a fire, burned, and after a while, the reeds burned out, and finally became a pile of ashes.
Ye Hesu carefully collected the reed ash and put it in a bamboo tube with holes, and then put a bamboo tube without a hole under the bamboo tube, and then slowly added water from above.
The water slowly blends with the ash and drowns into the bottom bamboo tube to form black grey water, which is then filtered through a bamboo tube filled with cotton.
As for where the cotton came from...
She unpacked the sleeping bag a bit and got a handful of cotton.
After secondary filtration, Ye Hesu got a small bamboo tube of reed ash water.
This time, she needed to use a large iron pot, and when she came to the big iron pot, she looked at the degree of clay precipitation, and the muddy water in the pot was no longer so muddy, and it was obvious that the clay had settled.
Ye Hesu smiled and said to the drone, "Now that the clay has settled, as long as the water on it is poured out, we can knead the pottery."
As she spoke, she tilted the pot so that the water in it flowed out from the edges, and when the water had been controlled, she pulled out the sticky clay from it and placed it on a large rock to dry.
"Dry it for a while, and then when the clay can be kneaded, you can pull the blank." Ye Hesu pointed to the clay and explained.
"Okay, now I'm going to rinse the iron pot and start refining the reed salt."
Wash the iron pot, put the fire on the shelf, put the reed ash water in the iron pot, and keep using bamboo strips to pry the reed ash water on the wall of the pot, and when the water evaporates clean, milky white crystals will form on the wall of the pot.
And these crystals are reed salts.
Ye Hesu carefully scraped out the reed salt, wrapped it in a palm leaf, and then still in the charcoal fire, letting the loose reed salt crystals solidify together to form a reed salt block.
The moment I saw Lu Yan, the netizens in the live broadcast room exploded, what kind of fairy operation is this?
Since yesterday, when Ye Hesu said that he wanted to refine salt, netizens were not optimistic, and they had never heard of anyone who could refine salt from reeds, which seemed to be a fantasy.
And there are many netizens who are so idle that they deliberately found a reed and chewed it, not to mention, the reed stalk is really a little salty, but this saltiness is basically negligible, so netizens don't believe that Ye Hesu can use reeds to refine salt.
Then, when they saw Ye Hesu scraping a small jar of reed salt from the wall of the pot, they were all silent.
"Perhaps, that's not salt?"
Some netizens said unrelentingly.
"Isn't it salt, why don't we do an experiment?"
At this moment, a self-proclaimed botanical expert jumped out.
"I can testify that reeds can indeed be refined into reed salt, and this reed salt is delicious, better than sea salt, but due to the advent of the end times, many of these ancient cultures have disappeared, I didn't expect to see it in a show of survival in the last days in my lifetime, I am so grateful to this contestant."
"Damn. Upstairs is a real-name certified expert, and it seems that Su Su's wave is stable again. ”
"666, Su Su knows so much, she knows even if she doesn't know how to be an expert, but I don't know where she learned it."
"+1 if you don't understand"
"Look, Su Su is going to pinch the pottery, and I don't know if she can succeed."
"A woman who can refine reed salt, I guess pottery should not be difficult for her."
"Upstairs this is not necessarily, the firing of pottery is very difficult, the size of the fire is very particular, a bad one and the risk of a fryer, if you are not particularly skilled in pottery, it is difficult to control this procedure, not to mention that it is still done under such difficult conditions, I think it should be impossible without the assistance of tools."
"What's so much to do, won't you know if it's okay after a while?"
"Come on, come on, do you want to gamble, I bet that Su Su can fire pottery, and bet on one hundred doomsday coins."
"I'm here too, I can't bet on it, three hundred doomsday coins."
"If you want to come, you will come big, and I will come with a thousand doomsday coins."
"Upstairs, my brother told you what is big, I'll come with five thousand doomsday coins."
"There are so many rich people, then I will also come with three thousand, bet on energy!"
Soon, the live broadcast room on the 15th became a gathering place for this group of netizens to gamble, which was originally just a joke, but I didn't expect to gamble more and more in the end, and finally the live broadcast room was warned by the platform.
But netizens have already made a fuss, so they set up another group chat in private...
I have to say that the appearance of Ye Hesu actually allowed this session of netizens to find a way to get rich.