Chapter 22 Successful production of edible salt
The little sheep looked at the wind and clouds walking towards the sea, sighed, and said: "In this eternal chessboard, all living beings are chess pieces. I think that Bai Ze is known for seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, but he is also calculated, but yesterday's trip has been contaminated with cause and effect, let's go! There should be such a thing in my life! But I don't know that this son is so jealous of the god king, but there is a way to turn around?"
Bai Ze lay down on the beach again, watching the wind and clouds come back.
Returning with a tank of seawater, Fengyun saw at a glance the lamb lying on the shore waiting for his return. When he got closer, he put down the clay jar and asked with a smile, "Are you really not afraid of being eaten by me?"
The little sheep glanced up at him, but there was a trace of disdain in his eyes, Fengyun snorted, and scolded with a smile: "Such lame, believe it or not, I'll roast you now?"
The lamb ignored him and struggled to get up. Seeing its difficult appearance, Fengyun shook his head helplessly, and said: "The dish is like this, even if it is a monster, it doesn't have much lethality, right? Forget it, just keep a pet, it just so happens that I don't have a person to talk to, it's not bad to chat with you if you have nothing to do." With that, Fengyun reached out and picked it up, put it next to the fire, and then turned back and took the clay jar back.
He took one from the bark pot stacked in a row and put it in front of the lamb, Fengyun touched its head and said, "Drink!"
In the bark pot was the fresh water he had brought on his back, a total of fifteen pots, and the water in the clay jar was only enough to hold eight pots, and he drank three pots himself, and now he gave the lamb one pot to drink, and there were only five pots left.
The little lamb did not hesitate, lowered his head and drank the fresh water in the bark pot, as if he was not satisfied, and looked at the water in the remaining pots.
Fengyun panicked, stretched out his hand to block it, bent down and said, "It's not much, I'm not much." He straightened up and looked at the water again, shook his head and said, "Not much, not much, not much, not much." The lamb glanced at him and lay down to his side.
Seeing it like this, Fengyun said, "What do you mean by this?
Naturally, the little sheep would not answer him, Fengyun smiled, stretched out his foot and scratched it, and said, "Hey, seeing that you are so white, I will call you Xiaobai in the future." ”
Xiao Yang glanced back at him, not satisfied or dissatisfied, Fengyun scratched his head, and said: "It's a pity that I don't call Xiaoxin, if you don't speak, you will agree?" After speaking, he took the drill fire, sat next to the embers of the fire, and drilled the fire.
There are dried leaves brought over yesterday, and when they are crumpled into pieces, they are natural velvet, and the efficiency of drilling firearms is much higher than that of drilling with a bowstring. Xiao Bai looked at the drill firearm in his hand with interest, and did not show a look of surprise, but a little faint disdain, but Fengyun didn't see it.
Soon a fire was made, and the charcoal that had been half burned yesterday was re-added, and Fengyun turned around and took out two large oysters from the clay pot, as well as a few small abalones, which were his breakfast.
This time he didn't dare to eat it raw, so he cracked open the oyster shell and put the whole half of the meat on the fire, Fengyun smiled and said to Xiaobai, who was watching the excitement: "This is charcoal-grilled oysters, you can't eat them, I'll pull some grass for you to eat later." ”
The oysters are ripe quickly, and some seawater is ordered into them, which is the most natural delicacy, and they are picked out with branches and put aside to dry, and Fengyun can't wait to pick out the oyster meat to eat it with a sigh.
I haven't eaten salty for many days, and as soon as the oyster meat suddenly enters my mouth, Fengyun only feels that his mouth is full of sweetness, and he can't wait to lick the shell clean.
Soon, the two oysters were eaten clean, and Feng Yunyou smashed the baby abalone open, pulled out the abalone, removed the internal organs, threw it into the oyster shell, and put it back in the fire and burned it. 、
Without sharp weapons, it is difficult to deal with these things, and when picking the abalone meat, Fengyun injured his hand by the abalone shell again, and bleed a little, but it was not serious. Getting a knife as soon as possible must be put on the agenda, fortunately, after Fengyun obtained pottery skills, he already knew the method of making pottery knives, and this time he would go back and burn a few first, at least he couldn't use his hands to compare the hardness with the abalone shell.
A little injury couldn't affect Fengyun's appetite, and after cooking and eating all the abalone, Fengyun still didn't feel like it, but reason told him that he couldn't eat more, so he hurried and got down to business.
In order to get as much fresh water as possible, Fengyun ran back to the forest and got a number of large leaves, threaded them with thin branches, and placed them on the mouth of the clay jar, covering half of the jar like a pot lid. After adjusting the angle, the transpiring water vapor condenses into water droplets little by little, and falls down the leaves little by little. Fengyun tied a bark pot to the bottom of the leaves with a long branch, which was not very efficient, but it was still something out of nothing, allowing him to collect more fresh water.
Xiao Bai watched intently at Fengyun busy, and it seemed a little interested in his local method of extracting distilled water from leaves.
Seeing that it was interested, Fengyun smiled and asked, "Haven't you seen it?" This is junior high school physics!
Fengyun was bored with himself, but he was not annoyed, and said to himself: "You must be hungry, wait, I'll pull the weeds for you." So saying, he got up and walked into the woods with his flint axe.
When he got into the woods, Xiao Bai staggered to his feet, walked to the fire, looked down at the leaf cover on the clay jar, quickly understood the principle, and muttered: "Carving insect skills." And he lay back in his place.
After a while, Fengyun came back with a pile of dry firewood and blades of grass, and before he could put it down, he shouted at Xiaobai excitedly: "Xiaobai!
Xiao Bai looked back, but saw him walking over with a few cyan beans.
"Haha! I found a saponaria tree, and thought it was beans, but I didn't expect to take it off and look at the collection information and say that it was a saponaria, now it's good, it's used to wash your hair, take a bath, and brush your teeth. Fengyun was very happy, and threw the soaphorn he picked up into the fire and burned it.
Saponaria can be eaten, as long as it is not excessive, the side effects are minimal. After cooking, Fengyun picked them out and ate all the seeds inside, which can be regarded as supplementing with vitamin C.
Piling up the blades of grass next to Xiao Bai, Fengyun asked, "Which one do you like to eat?" I'll get it for you after eating. ”
Xiaobai lowered his head and sniffed, picking and chewing a few tender stems.
It's already mid-morning, and Fengyun doesn't care about it anymore and starts to go about his business.
The salt brine crystals boiled out yesterday were only half a bark pot, which was not enough at all, and today Fengyun had to continue to boil, and if he wanted to boil out enough salt to eat for a while, he had to stay here for several days.
Five days later, in the early morning, Fengyun was once again woken up by Ying Long, who was rising in the sea, and it was the time when the sun rose, and it was very punctual. It's no surprise to Ying Long Fengyun who appears on time every day, and he is now purely using it as an alarm clock. Sitting up and rubbing the corners of his eyes, he yawned and walked towards the beach.
When you don't have a toothbrush, salt is the best cleaning tool, and sea water is the natural mouthwash. After rummaging through the sea for a few oysters and catching a few shrimps, Fengyun walked towards the fire.
The shroud made of the twigs was useless, and no one looked at him anyway, so Fengyun simply returned to his naked state.
After running back and forth for several days to do physical work, Fengyun felt that he had lost a lot of weight, and his originally slightly chubby body now had some muscular outlines, and even the motor system score in the body's basic attribute evaluation score had risen by 0.5 to 7. He now felt a little stronger than before, at least in terms of strength. In the past, it was necessary to hold the clay pot on the shoulder with both hands, but now it can be easily carried back with only one hand, and the other hand can be free to carry some seafood back, and the efficiency is not a half-star improvement.
The salt brine crystals have already filled six bark pots, and Fengyun wants to fill all these bark pots, but he can't stand drinking too much distilled water without mineral elements!
After breakfast, instead of lighting a fire as usual, he poured a vat of seawater, poured all the salt and brine crystals from a bark pot into it, and began to stir it, and he prepared to make the brine.
As explained earlier, brine is actually a saturated salt solution, and he needs to make a vat of at least sodium chloride-saturated solution.
A whole pot of salt brine crystals was poured into the seawater, and soon began to dissolve, Fengyun stirred with branches, and after dissolving, gradually added more salt brine crystals until it was no longer soluble in water, and a vat of brine was ready.
These brine needs to be recycled and cannot be wasted. He heated a jar of brine and poured it into a pot of bark.
At this time, the concentration of sodium chloride in these brine tends to be saturated, but due to the temperature, the concentration of magnesium chloride and potassium chloride does not tend to be saturated, therefore, when these brine are used to pour salt brine crystals, the sodium chloride in salt brine crystals will not be dissolved in the brine, and magnesium chloride and potassium chloride will still be soluble in the brine.
A jar of water filled eight bark pots, while four of the remaining seven pots still contained salt brine crystals, and the remaining two were placed side by side by wind and clouds, with bark filters on top of them, which had been prepared for a long time.
The salt brine crystals are spread on the bark filter device, and poured with warm brine, the salt brine crystals gradually become transparent, and the crystal blocks gradually become smaller, and the wind and clouds are repeated until the crystal blocks no longer become smaller.
The bark filter is placed on top of the fire and slowly dried, and some white crystals slowly precipitate out and condense on the filter.
After waiting for a rough drying, Fengyun carefully scraped off the crystals on it and put them in an empty bark pot. I couldn't wait to reach out and twist a little and put it in my mouth, different from the salty taste of the seawater, a pure salty taste spread on the tongue, and Fengyun almost burst into tears.
He couldn't help but look up to the sky and exclaimed: "Lao Tzu has finally made edible salt!"
Xiao Bai had been looking at Fengyun intently when he started to move, and when the salt really precipitated, Xiao Bai's eyes couldn't hide his surprise, and his eyes looking at Fengyun were a little complicated.