I rely on supernatural farming to support my family

Chapter 328 Saltpeter Ice-making Method

After the May Festival, the summer harvest will come soon. After three days of busy harvesting and planting, it is time for "part-time work".

The mountains have become more lush and lush, and there is no need to fight for wild food. The strong laborers are all taken out and go to forest farms, pastures, and mines to continue to earn work points.

Long-term workers earn work points, while short-term workers earn gross receipts.

Guo Shan was going to go out as usual, but his family didn't agree with him to work as a stone worker this time.

Guo Shan also had lingering fears, so he chose the forest farm.

The pasture is too far away, and he can't come back once in ten days and half a month, and he can't let go of his family.

Neither of his parents is in good health, so he doesn't feel at ease when they go up the mountain, and he can't let go of the housework.

At any rate, he went to the forest farm. He was really tired, so he could live there, and he would come back after a few 10 minutes of walking without getting tired.

Gu Anxun's educated youths are treated specially at this time, they don't need to go out to "work", and their work still revolves around Daliu Village.

Watching the land, feeding pigs, and fertilizing are divided into three waves.

The three female educated youths didn't want to see the dirty and tiring work. They had already fed enough to feed the pigs, and they were determined not to go to the fattening, which was dirty and tiring.

The easiest way to 'look' fell on them.

Gu Anxun and Qi Hongbin fed the pigs together.

Liu Wei'an and Wang Fuqiang retting together.

The two good people are a little bit afraid of pigs. Sometimes when pigs come out, they can only go to find someone and dare not catch them themselves.

When Gu Anxun and Qi Hongbin get together, they are a silent combination.

No one spoke, no one spoke, just worked in silence, neither of them felt embarrassed.

On the contrary, not interfering with each other made both of them feel very relaxed.

The women in the village can also go out to "work" if they wish.

However, it is much more difficult for women to go out. One is whether the family agrees or not, and the other is whether it is safe to go out.

Shen Yiyao didn't plan to let others go to work.

Once she was free, she planned to go to the mountains every day.

Occasionally, I can go around the town, or even go to the county to see more.

In midsummer, vegetables and fruits are in abundance, and Shen Yiyao can also start experimenting with his freeze-dried vegetable plan!
She has saved a lot of vegetables and fruits, but she didn't dare to start large-scale construction before.

As long as this thing is made in batches, it will never be hidden from the few people who come to eat every day.

Ice cubes are fine, but where do fruits and vegetables come from?It's still so fresh, she can't understand it.

So, she thought about it for a long time, but she suppressed it and didn't make a move.

Until the end of summer harvest and summer planting, no matter how busy it is, it will be the time of autumn harvest. During this period of time, everything is prosperous, and her things will not easily arouse suspicion.

To make a simple version of freeze-dried vegetables, the first thing to consider is freezing.

Shen Yiyao remembers that the first domestic refrigerator seemed to be produced in 56.

Nowadays, buying a refrigerator is more luxurious than a TV, and the freezer layer of the refrigerator is also very small, about the size of two shoe boxes.

Expensive and impractical.

Besides, Daliu Village has not been powered on yet.

In mountain villages where floods occur every year, road construction is always difficult, not to mention electrification.

Refrigerators were abandoned.

There is another method, which is more ancient and more practical.

In ancient times, big families basically had their own icehouses, most of which were underground.

The ice cubes in the ice room are mostly bought in shops.

The ice sold to cool off the summer heat and reduce dryness in these summers was first dug out from the river every three or nine days.

Later, after winter, the mold was filled with water and frozen.

Later, it was made by the saltpeter ice making method.

What Shen Yiyao wanted to use was the saltpeter ice-making method to make ice, and temporarily requisitioned the cellar to store ice cubes.

When saltpeter dissolves in water, it will absorb a lot of heat, which will lower the temperature of the water and even freeze it.

It is much simpler to only make ice cubes for cooling, and it does not need to be imported, and it does not need to be so troublesome as a large pot with a small pot.

You only need to get enough saltpeter, then fill the mold with water, put a lot of saltpeter, absorb the heat in the water, and turn the water into ice.

The saltpeter can be used repeatedly. After the ice cube is frozen solid, the saltpeter inside will be excreted.

Just scrape off the saltpetre and continue using it.

Thinking of saltpeter... Shen Yiyao couldn't help looking at Caishi Mountain.

It is very difficult to buy saltpeter directly. Saltpeter itself is one of the raw materials for making gunpowder and has been strictly controlled.

However, natural saltpeter can still be mined by yourself.

Having made up his mind, Shen Yiyao set off for Caishi Mountain at night.

She dug out a piece of noteworthy content from the memory of the original owner.

It was a few days before Shen's father went to work in the quarry mountain. When he was blowing up the mountain to get rocks, he accidentally found a large amount of saltpeter.

At that time, Shen's father speculated that there might be a large-scale saltpeter mine in that area, but unfortunately they dug down more than ten meters, and the saltpeter suddenly disappeared.

Because of such an oolong, Father Shen took it as a joke and told the original owner.

It was only told to the original owner.

Shen Yiyao once speculated that when Father Shen came here, what he was still investigating was the matter of the saltpeter mine?

But the person was gone long ago, what kind of mission he was here to perform, and the secrecy work was done so well, she couldn't see any clues at all.

On the bleak rocky mountain, except for stones or stones, there is no vegetation left.

There are still some wild flowers and weeds at the foot of the mountain, but after going up the steep slope, there are only gravels left.

When it comes to the "part-time job" season, every now and then there will be the sound of rumbling and exploding mountains.

The mountain was blasted, and new stones were exposed, and then it was time for the masons to work.

Shishan is dangerous, and the pay is the most generous during the slack season.

Even if there have been more than Shen's accidents here, there are still people who dare to sacrifice their lives for a living.

Shen Yiyao turned on his perception all the way, paused his steps up the mountain, and found that there was someone hiding in the dark.

Is it the caretaker?
There are no green plants on the mountain, which means she lacks eyes.

Fortunately, she was wearing dark clothes and hiding in the darkness, even if she got out of the cover of vegetation, she would not be spotted at a glance.

She retreated carefully, hid behind a tree, frowned slightly, a little distressed how to avoid those people and go up?
Shen Yiyao's hand subconsciously touched the tree trunk next to him, only to feel pain in his fingertips.

She paused, turned her head to look, her eyes lit up.

Arbor vine!
The thorny vine is also called Humulus, the stems, branches, and petioles all have barbed thorns, and it often grows on the edge of ditches, wasteland, ruins, and forest edges.

It can be seen everywhere in Daliu Village, even in the fields.

The vitality of this plant is very tenacious, and the most important thing is that it can extend far.

As long as she spawns, it's fine to let it climb from here to the top of the mountain.

Shen Yiyao looked at the thorny vine under her hand with bright eyes, she pinched off a section of it, and gently held it in her hand.

Soon, fresh and tender sprouts emerged from that section of the thorn vine.

Before the little sprout continued to grow outwards, whether it was intentional or unintentional, the soft little burr gently rubbed against Shen Yiyao's fingertips, like a little cub lovingly acting like a baby to its mother... …

(End of this chapter)