Tuesday 10 November 2020

Chapter 46: Go Home

 The electronic sound was silent for a while, as if searching and scanning something. After a long time, he replied, "Valid instructions, not dead for the time being, but if you wake up, you may die."

    Chen Chao frowned and asked. "What is his condition now? What is the cause of death?"

    "Hunger."

    Looking at the boy's swollen belly, he could clearly see the blue veins and blood vessels under the skin. The whole body has become thin and skinny, not half the weight of Huang Yan in his arms.

    Thinking of the salty tribes outside, all of them were fat and fat, and thinking of their leader wearing extremely precious linen clothes and the two dozen stone basins, Chen Chao's heart once again filled with anger. .

    He could not wait for a thunderstorm to turn this tribe into ashes.

    But Chen Chao changed his mind, no, it would be too cheap for them. I want them to wake up for the last time, and then let them watch their all being taken away, and watch the tribes that were plundered by them surpass them one by one, and they will lose their future forever.

    Now that the salt is gone, Chen Chao waited for Yu Ting to return to the salty tribe to boil a pot of rice soup, put a few pieces of bacon and broken cabbage leaves. Just now, at his strong request, he used up some of the progress points bound to Huang Yan to exchange for a designated privilege.

    And his choice is to wake up the boy.

    But the little boy still didn't really wake up, because his current state is too bad, Chen Chao tried to feed him a little rice soup. Fortunately, although he hasn't really recovered yet, the little boy can already start swallowing subconsciously.

    Chen Chao took off the animal skin again and wrapped it around the little boy. Because he was worried about being alone, and considering that it was best to feed him some rice soup every once in a while, he put the little boy again. Brought back the salt mine.

    So Chen Chao took care of the little boy while picking salt.

    In fact, the extracted salt cannot be eaten directly, it has to be finely processed. Fine processing is no longer possible, but it’s okay to cook it and do a preliminary extraction.

    In fact, the salt in this place should be called mine salt. Chen Chao observed that the salt mines were mainly salt rocks (salt rocks) produced in shallow landmarks, about the size of a fist, and accompanied by natural brine underground.

    The raw material sources of salt can be divided into four categories: sea salt, lake salt, well salt and mineral salt. The salt made by sun-dried with seawater as raw material is called "sea salt"; the salt made by mining modern salt lake mines is called "lake salt"; the salt made by

    sinking shallow ground or underground natural brine is called It is called "well salt"; the salt produced by mining ancient rock salt deposits is called "mineral salt". Because rock salt deposits sometimes coexist with natural brine salt mines, and the advent of the drilling water solution method for mining rock salt deposits, there is a collective term of "well salt" and "mineral salt"-"well salt", or "mineral salt" in general. .

    The salt mine of the Xian tribe is one of the mine salt, but for the convenience of memory, it is still called salt mine.

    Don't look at Chen Chao's making a lot of them in a short while, but if he will process them later, he may not be full of an animal skin bag.

    The Xian tribe should not have mastered the method of finely processing salt, because Chen Chao saw that they had large-grained salt stones or salt crystals in the animal skins, all resembling a yellow-brown crystal.

    In fact, the salt rock in this state cannot be eaten. The salt that has just been mined is actually poisonous. If you eat that salt, you can die of diarrhea.

    The salt itself is not poisonous, and there is no problem with the accompanying organism brine. The ability to mine salt still depends on its accompanying organism brine. But its symbiosis mine also contains many toxic things, and the taste is extremely poor. In addition to salty, there are various strange flavors.

    I don't know how the salty tribe endured it, but it seems that most of them are used to marinate the bacon. It is not ruled out that because of this, some of the problematic areas are diluted.

    Chen Chao looked at the little boy next to him. Before he woke up, he fed him some rice soup, and he began to wonder how to turn this pile of things on the ground into refined salt, at least to make it directly edible.

    In ancient times, sea salt, lake salt, and well salt were mostly made of bittern, or burned with firewood, or exposed to the sun, and the salt was obtained after the water evaporates.

    As for reaching the standards of modern society, that is basically impossible. At present, it depends on the tools at hand, but the extraction method of well salt is also mainly by boiling.

    This time, Chen Chao planned to use the repeated crystallization method to first dissolve the mined coarse salt in water, and then filter to remove impurities. Evaporate and crystallize the aqueous solution or boil it in a pot, and it will be ready later.

    After checking the principle and general process, the rest is simple. Chen Chao spent several more days processing the salt and packed five animal skin bags.

    After eating the bacon rice for several days, Chen Chao felt a little bored. At this time, he missed the tribe's fresh fish and wild pork stewed chestnut soup.

    Now that I have the salt I brought back, I think the taste can be improved. And I’ve been out for so many days, I don’t know how well the animal skins in the tribe are made, and whether Yuan has noticed the problem of water leakage in the pond.

    I don't know how the pottery pot is burning. If there is a broken pottery pot, I hope that one-eyed will not be too sad. Rabbit House No. 2 should also be able to live in. I hope that a certain old man will not occupy it all. After all, people who live with a bunch of rabbits for a long time will really get sick.

    And the caves are so densely populated.

    Has the grass rope army started work, and the women of the collection team continued to weave hemp nests and straw sandals.

    At this moment, Chen Chao suddenly missed them a bit.

    After looking at the processed salt, the province should have enough for the tribe this winter. What's more, the bacon that I brought with me is also full of salt. The province can also eat for a period of time.

    Chen Chao searched for vines suitable for weaving rattan baskets all over the mountains and weaving two dense rattan baskets. One is behind the front and the other is behind.

    The one on the back was covered with animal skins wrapped in rice and salt, and the top was covered with some Chinese cabbage. When I was young, the cabbages were all wrapped in animal skins with mud. The rattan basket in front contained Chinese cabbage and the little boy.

    Put the little boy in the rattan basket, and then stuff him with cabbage and bacon. The pots and bowls were casually covered on the top of the little boy's head, the pig urine bubble filled with water was tied to the waist with straw rope, and the stone axe was inserted on the other side of the waist.

    The two spears were folded into short spears and inserted diagonally into the rattan basket behind. The dried meat brought from the tribe has been eaten early, and now the bacon in the rattan baskets are all the specialty bacon of the salty tribe.

    The little boy was not awake yet, but when Chen Chao fed him the rice soup, in addition to swallowing himself, he occasionally made some murmurs in his sleep.

    His face was not as sallow as before. Chen Chao named him a stone, mainly because he was rescued from the stone by himself. At the same time, he also hoped that his life could be as tenacious as a stone, and the wind could not fall. , The rain can't move, lives tenaciously in the world.

    After checking and confirming that there was nothing to bring, Chen Chao just carried two large rattan baskets back and forth and embarked on the journey home.

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