68. Salt

This will finally understand why this kid is fond of buying coarse salt these days, every time he enters the town, he will buy a few catties, and it is useless for them to say it, it turns out that he has always had his own ideas.

"Daddy needs a sieve, a hammer, charcoal, a barrel, a funnel, a linen, an iron pot, and a stone mill."

The tools needed to purify salt have been pondered these days, and they blurted out almost without thinking about Huajin.

These are all in the house, and you can make them up even if you don't have her space.

It's a funnel-shaped wooden shelf that needs to be made by my father, and the charcoal is also prepared at home because the weather is getting colder.

These are not difficult for Hua Chengtian, and after a while, he made one.

When the three of them were preparing, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who were boiling the medicine were confused and watched the two men and children in the family tossing around together.

When she saw the old man take out all the coarse salt in the house, the old woman finally couldn't help it.

"Old man, what's wrong with you rummaging through the cabinets, and what are you doing with so much salt?" The old woman stopped the old man and didn't let him take the salt without making it clear.

"Help it purify" The anxious old man only had time to reply, and he couldn't wait to flash the old woman to the yard with the salt, and smashed the salt into as small particles as he wanted with a hammer according to his granddaughter's wishes.

"It's not the old man, what did you just say? What is purification, is this salt not good? ”

The old woman was even more confused, and followed her to the yard without understanding.

"You taste it yourself" Wang Laohan was busy throwing salt and didn't have time to say more to the old woman, but he took out the bag of salt that his granddaughter had never taken back from his arms, stuffed it into the old woman, and let her taste it herself.

The old woman took the things handed to her by the old man with a confused expression, and then saw that the breach was a little poured in her hand.

Since the old man let her taste it herself, she will taste it, but she wants to see what kind of fame they make.

Then when he saw the thing in his hand, doubts flashed in his eyes, but even so, he pinched a pinch and put it in his mouth, and then he was stunned, looked at the thing in his hand incredulously, and then looked at the old man fiercely.

Finally understood what the old man meant by purified salt?

So the old man and his son and granddaughter are trying to get the salt out of her hand.

The old woman felt confused for a while, and there was always a feeling that the old man and his son were hysterical.

The government can't help it, can this thing be made casually?

For a while, he forgot how the old man had the salt in his hand.

"It's not...... He's ...... you."

"The child has a question, and we'll ask it when we're done, and you'll know in a while." Hua Laohan is full of trust in his granddaughter, and his granddaughter said that if she can, she will definitely be able to, and her wife interrupted as soon as she opened her mouth.

He's busy right now, and he can't be distracted.

Old Woman: "......"

Gritted his teeth and glanced at him, but he also knew that since the old man said so, he was obviously not going to tell her at this time.

No matter how anxious he was, he could only wait, so he casually put the salt bag in his hand on the vultures on the side and turned around and went back to the room.

The old man raised his eyebrows and looked at his wife, and the corners of his mouth rose.

Although Qi, who was boiling medicine in the stove room, was also very curious about what his in-laws said, he didn't come forward to look at the medicine.

When the medicine was boiled, Hua Chengtian drank it, and the Qi family, who had learned about the matter in shock, joined in with his mother-in-law.

First of all, the crushed salt is put on the graphite and ground into powder, and then the collected salt powder is put into a bucket, mixed with water, and after it is fully dissolved, it is covered with a burlap bucket, and so on and filtered several times in a row.

Then the salt water is detoxified, the crushed charcoal is wrapped in linen cloth and stuffed into the wooden shelf of the funnel that Hua Chengtian usually makes, and then the filtered solution is poured under the funnel shelf and re-implanted in the wooden barrel, and after repeated times, the solution that drips down is no longer slightly turbid yellow and black.

To be honest, although I know the steps, and I look confident in my grandfather and father, there is no bottom to what kind of brocade I can really filter into.

But looking at the obviously clean liquid, Hua Jin suddenly became confident, and the sticky liquid stuck to her fingertips and put it in her mouth, her eyes lit up, and there was no bitter taste in the salt water.

The girl's expression Hua Chengtian knew that it was Cheng and hurriedly tasted it, as well as the old man and the old woman Qi Shi all put the liquid in their mouths like this and tasted it.

After tasting the saltwater without bitterness, only salty and salty, Hua Chengtian and Hua Laohan immediately blushed with excitement.

"What should the girl do the rest of the ......" Hua Chengtian couldn't help urging the child, and the old man nodded again and again, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to do a big job.

How dare Hua Jin rub it, believe it or not, her father, who is excited at the moment, will give her a finger flick, and quickly tell her father about the remaining and last step of boiling.

The next thing is much simpler, just one person guards the stove, one person guards the pot, boils the salt water clean, and leaves a thick layer of salt crystals at the bottom of the pot to shovel out and grind it with a stone mill.

At this point, the purification of the salt is complete.

Looking at the thick layer of white crystals at the bottom of the pot, Hua Jin knew that it had succeeded.

I thought it was strange that the two brothers, Hua Yun Ao and Hua Yun Xiang, came back from the academy, they didn't smell the expected smell of rice, except for the little sister and the fourth child who helped them open the door, the grandmother and father were all standing at the table in the hall and were stunned.

The two brothers looked at each other strangely.

"Little sister, what's wrong with them?" The brothers looked at their sister.

"Grandma, they're looking at the salt." Eating the little orange in his hand, Xiaosi opened his mouth in front of his sister, and as soon as he spoke, a sweet and sour taste came out, attracting the attention of the two brothers.

"Little Four, what good things do you eat? Brothers are so good to you, you can't eat alone! Second Brother Hua narrowed his eyes.

"I didn't eat alone, this is my sister's reward for me" The frightened Xiaosi hurriedly stuffed the little orange in his hand into his mouth, lest the second brother snatch him the last one, so he hurriedly covered his small satchel.

This kind of action of wanting to cover up successfully amused the two elder brothers, and the second brother Hua deliberately stretched out his hand to Xiao Si with a malicious attitude.

"Give the second brother a taste ......"

"It's my sister who rewarded me......" Xiao Si struggled but didn't run, his face was tangled, but the hand holding the small satchel was loose.

Seeing that my brother's outstretched hand pouted his lips, he still put his hand into the satchel and took out a small golden orange.

"Here, my sister gave me a total of three, so let's give one to the eldest brother and the second brother." The pain on his face when he spoke really made people laugh at how he looked at it.

"Even if the brothers didn't hurt you in vain" Second Brother Hua flicked the door of Xiao Si's head, and took away the little orange in Xiao Si's hand under Xiao Si's reluctant gaze.

Smelled it, it smelled really good, a different color flashed in his eyes, and he looked at the little sister.

They had never seen it in the town, but they had smelled it.

Many of the students in the academy are from well-to-do families, and I have seen them eat it, but it is much bigger than this, and it is not as sweet and rich as the taste in their hands.

(End of chapter)