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As they got closer and closer, they realized that not only the foot of the lake, but also the lake was covered with a layer of white stuff, all the way to the depths of the lake.
The water of this lake was so strange that Hua Chengtian, who had never seen such a scene, hesitated.
How could such a thing appear in normal water, and although there are animal traces here, there are really not many.
Looking at the thick things that resembled frost flowers by the river and at the foot of the mountain, a thought came to Hana Chengtian's mind irrepressibly.
Could this be the salt lake that Dad said, or that this mountain is a salt mine, which caused these white flowers to appear around the lake.
The more I look at Hua Chengtian, the more I feel like it.
If you don't verify it, you will know.
But looking at those things that are white and yellowish and resemble frost flowers, how to verify Hua Chengtian hesitated.
You can't just try it with your mouth, can you?
But if it weren't for what you guessed, would there be other dangers?
He just wanted to find the salt, but he wasn't prepared to put himself in danger.
After hesitating, his son handed him a hare flower Chengtian reacted, he was a fan of the entrant, and his brain was not open for a while.
He hadn't even thought of such a simple method.
Of course, the Qinggu Mountains are animals at most, and if there is a problem with the water, the rabbit will definitely not be able to live if it drinks it, and vice versa.
I just don't know if there are any fish living in this huge lake, and if there is, there is no need to experiment with animals in this huge way.
So I started to prepare with both hands, arranged for my nephews to fish, and if possible, I didn't have to worry about today's ingredients.
Each does his job, fishing for fishing, experimental for experimenting.
So Hua Chengtian drank several sips of lake water to the hare that was still panting in his hand, and the rest was to wait.
Half a cup of tea passed, a cup of tea passed, and soon, the time of a stick of incense passed, and the rabbit lived intact and well, and even the nephew they had some harvest, and they really caught two fat fish, which looked similar to carp, but were a little not too similar.
The whole body of the fish does not have a single scale, the body is almost spindle-shaped, and the head is blunt and round, but the mouth does not have the characteristic whiskers of carp.
Xu is no one to set foot here, caught two fish are not small, each is not shorter than half an adult's arm, look at the panic, just don't know how to taste.
However, it was enough for a few children to catch a fish, and they were ready to catch a few more jumps, and they had already forgotten what the original intention of fishing was.
Hua Chengtian didn't care about the children here, and after seeing that the rabbit still had no problems, he no longer hesitated to scoop a bowl of water and try it himself, so fast that Hua Yunao didn't have time to stop his father from waiting a little longer.
"Daddy?" Nervous, Hua Yunao looked at her father, and even took out the antidote in her arms, ready to feed her father as soon as there was a problem.
I saw Hua Chengtian wave his hand, his eyes burned and he looked at him and then turned into surprise, and then drank another sip of water, smacking it a few times and grinning.
"Son, we don't have to look for it anymore."
The excitement in her tone was easily felt by Hua Yunao.
"Dad, you mean......" Hua Yunao took the bowl in his hand and tasted it, and then looked at the large lake in front of him in surprise.
"Water...... is salty" and salty.
Immediately afterwards, the father and son looked at the nearly 100-meter-long lake in front of them with the same eager gaze.
Then, without hesitation, he picked up the yellowish-white particles on the ground and tried again.
Salty, very salty, salty and slightly bitter, the father and son who ate it directly spit out the particles that had not completely melted in their mouths.
All the white flowers are salt, no wonder there are many fewer traces of animals here, these are salt, unless the body needs it, otherwise it will not come to lick it.
Whether it is a salt mine or not, the salt lake can already be determined.
Either way, it's enough to make Hua Chengtian ecstatic.
Looking at the patches of white flowers on the shore of the lake, it doesn't matter whether there is a salt mine or not, these are enough to boil a large amount of salt, not to mention a village, even the entire Shanggu Town can't be used up.
Excitement is contagious, and soon Zeng Li's cousins also knew in their confusion that they had found the purpose of this trip, "salt".
Needless to say, he was so excited that he grilled all the fish he caught and ate a few fish with a different taste.
It is similar to carp, but it is more delicate and delicious than carp.
In the next time, Hua Chengtian, who completely settled down, took the child to get busy and began to boil salt.
Hua Chengtian and his son are very familiar with the process of boiling salt, and the tools are all ready-made, and they are all carried on their backs when they come, and the most exaggerated ones are even small stone mills.
Several nephews also said where to fight, completely obeyed their uncle's orders, and never said much.
It's no wonder why my uncle was able to take out so many things from his little basket.
I only took a few more glances when I took out the stone mill, but I was just envious of my uncle's strength, and I was not tired of carrying this thing on my back.
After five days of continuous treatment, the uncle and nephew boiled more than a dozen bags of snow salt, which was as white as snow.
Zeng Li and Liu Guang were initially shocked by these salts that were whiter than snow for a long time, and they couldn't believe that they had really boiled such exquisite salt.
Especially its taste without bitterness at all, the pure saltiness made several children fall into ecstasy for a while, always thinking that they were in a dream, and finally Hua Chengtian was kicked directly on the ground and felt the pain in his body before waking up like a dream.
And this surprise slowly became more and more calm as more and more salt was boiled day by day, and when I finally saw the bags of snow salt, I was able to do it without changing my face.
Seeing that the nephews have been able to completely calm down, Hua Chengtian's old father's heart is also a little comforted, but it should be reminded.
Especially about how to make snow salt, they have to keep silent, even to their own families, and if it doesn't spread out, it will be fatal.
These children are not the smartest, but there is one thing that Hua Chengtian likes the most, that is, obedience, especially his words as an uncle.
emphasized the harmfulness of this matter, looking at the pale faces and slamming heads of several children, Hua Chengtian was completely relieved.
The shadow he planted in the hearts of children will definitely form a reflex condition.
As for the fine salt that was deliberately filtered in two steps to be brought back to the valley, Hua Chengtian did not have a special placement, this kind of salt can be bought in the outside world as long as there is silver, but it is not too eye-catching.
In five days, thousands of catties of snow salt were boiled out, and many of them were secretly received by Hua Chengtian, leaving about a thousand catties of weight, with fine salt and coarse salt, and their uncles and nephews were barely able to take it back, but some of the special ores collected these days were going to be reduced again and again, and they didn't worry about losing them left and right in the valley.
It took nearly a month, but the ending was good, and the purpose of coming out this time was successfully completed, and the burden that Hua Chengtian pressed in his heart was loosened heavily.