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Chapter 286 Salt Mining
Ren Ning drew a map while walking.

Looking at the walking track, they are not heading north in a straight line, but heading east in a large circle.

He looked up at Matthew who was walking ahead.

Under the golden finger, the color of the guide's body was emerald green.

It seemed that he was just following his previous signposts, not deliberately going around in circles.

Ren Ning ignored it.

The team walked for a full month and a half.

Unknowingly, Zhongtian began to get cold.Even in the dry desert, you can smell the breath of winter.

It was early in the morning, before everyone set off for a long time, their eyes suddenly brightened.

The salt lake appeared in front of my eyes.

Whoa!
After seeing the situation ahead, everyone was dumbfounded and forgot to move for a moment.

The salt lake in front of us covers a vast area, larger than the Pearl Oasis.

The difference from the oasis is that there are very few green plants around the salt lake, and the ground is replaced by white salt.

The surface of the lake in the middle is sparkling, reflecting the blue sky.

It is so refreshing that people can't tell where is the sky and where is the earth.

Ren Ning sighed silently.

This is simply a mirror of the sky in another world, and it is not polluted by many tourists and garbage.

After feeling over, he bent down to pick up the salt layer, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Matthew wasn't lying.

With this area and thickness, it is estimated that the salt in the salt lake could not be exhausted for hundreds of thousands of years.

Picking up some salt flowers on the ground, Ren Ning examined them carefully.

The salt is crystal clear, of high purity, and has a pleasing bright green color under the gold finger.

Carefully licked.

Well, very salty.

According to modern standards, these salt flowers are not refined salt, and they must not be eaten directly.For example, elements such as iodine must be added to it before it can be listed for sale.

But in ancient times when table salt was scarce, such salt was already high-quality salt.

As long as you bring it back, you can sell it directly to other people at a high price, even princes and nobles.

Matthew in previous years did the same.

popping.

Ren Ning clapped his hands haha.

"Brothers, have you seen enough? It's time to work. Hurry up and pretend to be salty."

They have been away from the grassland for a month and a half, and nearly half of the water and rations they carried have been consumed.

Now that the target has been found, it is time to turn back after installing the salt.

Haha.

Everyone came back to their senses, and responded with wide-eyed smiles.

"That's right! Don't be in a daze, everyone, hurry up and add salt."

"Pack the salt and go home to marinate the mutton or make a fortune."

……

Speaking of this era, because of the lack of salt, many foods are not easy to transport.

For example, when Xiliang attacked Yunchui to the east, they had to either dry the meat into jerky, or drive large and small piles of live animals as military rations.

Although live cattle and sheep taste better, in order to feed them, the amount of forage required is not a small amount.

Virtually brought heavy pressure to the logistics.

As for dried meat in the sun, it is fine in the dry grassland.If you enter a humid mountainous area, such as Luoxia Mountain, if you don't take it out to bask in the sun from time to time, it will soon become moldy and smelly, and you can't eat it anymore.

Therefore, if there is enough salt, all the meat shipped to the front line can be cured into jerky, and the logistics will save a lot of trouble...

Ren Ning didn't need to do anything about salt mining.

After looking at the sky, he gave a few orders and then rode Chase Feng to circle around the salt lake.

Sure enough, as Matthew said, apart from their footprints, there are no traces of other people visiting here.

The salt lake is huge, and when Ren Ning returned to the salt diggers, the sun had already set.

"How much salt did you pick?" he asked.

Lei Er patted the heavy box beside him.

"Everyone is very motivated. After working all day today, we have packed more than 100 boxes of high-quality salt. The kind without any impurities."

"Other boxes and bags will certainly be filled in three days' time, if nothing else."

That is to say, you can turn around and return to the Xiliang Prairie on the fourth day.

"Very good," Ren Ning asked about the remaining water and fodder. "We still have a lot of water and fodder. You can fill it slowly."

"But don't be too greedy! Never throw away the water and food on your hands to make more room for salt."

Second Lei and the others laughed loudly: "Naturally, this can be saved."

They are not Matthew, they are all soldiers who climbed out of the dead, not afraid of death but cherishing their lives.

Ren Ning nodded in satisfaction.

He spread out the map he had drawn along the way.

what!
Lei Er stopped chewing on the mutton, and looked at the map in Ren Ning's hand.

"Old Ren, judging from the trajectory on the map, we clearly went east around a bend after we entered the Desert of No Return."

As he said that, he didn't care about the meat in his mouth, and hurriedly wiped off the oil stains on his hands in the salt ground.

Swipe south along the map with your finger.

"It's easy. When we go back, the team can go directly to the south. Maybe we will reach the Xiliang Grassland in less than half a month."

"That's right. It is indeed like this on the map." Ren Ning nodded, "But to avoid accidents, we still have to explore the road first."

The desert is vast and boundless, and there are many dangers everywhere in it.

No one knows what will be encountered in the strange front.In addition, it is easy to be short of water and food, so you can't move forward indiscriminately when your head is hot.

Lei Er agrees: "You have to be cautious in unfamiliar places. Ben Lei's speed is fast, so let me do the job of exploring the road."

Ren Ning shook his head: "Let's go together, so we can take care of you."

Early the next morning.

Gu Datou and Lu Youtian came over after knowing Ren Ning's plan last night.

"Big head, Arita," Ren Ning held up two fingers, and said, "It's best to wait for us for two more days after you pack the salt. If you don't get the signal after two days, just return it the same way."

"Understood!" Gu Datou and the two nodded.

Ren Ning stopped talking nonsense, and after checking the water and rations on the mount with Lei Er, he went straight to the south, and disappeared in the vast desert not long after.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

After checking the team, Gu Datou sat on the salt pile and looked south with his binoculars.

Lu Youtian walked over.

"Don't worry, who is the general? He won't run around without full assurance. Information should come soon."

"That's the best!"

The two waited until noon.

Wow!

A colorful firework suddenly bloomed in the distant sky ahead.

flutter!
It took a long while to hear the seemingly invisible fireworks cracking.

Cloud Piercing Arrow!
Gu Datou and Lu Youtian looked at each other, both of them were full of surprise.

"Brothers, do you see that?"

They laughed and pointed to the fireworks in the southern sky, "The general found a new way back."

"Everyone is working!"

Whoa!

The long line was already ready, and the soldiers responded, turned their horses around and prepared to head south.

"Etc., etc."

The winter sun is not hot, but Matthew feels like he is sweating profusely at this time.

He is just the guide of this team, not the core person.In addition, Ren Ning often wandered around, and didn't always stay at the place where the salt was fetched.

If it hadn't been for Gu Datou's loud reminder just now, he would not have known that Ren Ning and Lei Er were no longer nearby.

Hurrying to the front of Gu Datou and the two, Matthew made a bitter face: "You two generals, the younger one has been walking in the desert of no return all year round, and he knows the horror of this place the most."

He suggested: "How about we go back the same way? Just in case!"

Haha!

After listening to the translation, Gu Datou raised his whip with a smile: "Don't worry about him, let's go!"

Hum Chi Hum Chi!

The horses led the way, followed by the long camels, and everyone set off on their way home.

(End of this chapter)