Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 467 Coconut Oil Soap

Chapter 460 Coconut Oil Soap
The video connection is connected.

A professor in a white coat placed a pile of experimental equipment in front of the laboratory table, and explained while operating: "We copied the salt production process of the Chinese team. The general process is as follows: the first step, through the potassium ions in the plant ash, Crystallize as much sodium salt in the soil as possible through replacement, and leave most of the calcium salt and magnesium salt in the saline soil;”

"In the second step, seaweed is burned to obtain sodium carbonate solution;"

"The third step is to burn shells to obtain calcium oxide;"

"The fourth step, adding water to calcium oxide to calcium hydroxide;"

"The fifth step, calcium hydroxide plus sodium carbonate to obtain sodium hydroxide;"

"The sixth step is to remove the residual magnesium ions in the saturated brine with sodium hydroxide;"

"The seventh step is to remove residual calcium ions by sodium carbonate;"

"The eighth step is to use the protein complexation that occurs when the soy milk encounters salt to remove the suspended solids and impurities in the suspension;"

"The ninth step is to crystallize out most of the sodium chloride by heating, leaving sodium sulfate and part of the sodium chloride solution."

Bell: "..."

Luen: "..."

Nian: "..."

Bell: "I'm a soldier...Run, do you understand?"

Lu En: "I generally classify things that I can't understand or understand, and I classify them as magic. Isn't it simple?"

Nian: "Uh, alright! In short, it's Jungle, the magician of the Chinese team, who extracted refined salt from seawater, er, and that solution. Congratulations to the Chinese team!"

……

After dinner, Li Junge and A Yin continued to boil various solutions, and obtained a catty of Glauber's salt, a catty of sodium hydroxide is caustic soda, and a catty of sodium carbonate is soda.

At the same time dry the lime slurry.

After a night of silence, A Yin woke up early the next morning, took out the bamboo tube from the insulation ditch, and cut it open. In the middle of the bamboo tube was a crystal clear light yellow, almost transparent substance, coconut soap.

Li Junge was stunned when he saw such a soap: "This one looks a bit tall..."

Ayin smiled and said, "Coconut oil, I have never used such a high-grade oil to make homemade soap. You can smell it, and it has a faint fragrance."

Li Junge held it in his hand and flipped through it lovingly: "It's really a good thing..."

A Yin said: "Take it all out and cut it into soap bars, otherwise it will become very hard."

After taking out all the soap, the color of the piece near the fire eye became very dark, and it was no longer transparent.

A Yin said angrily: "Oh, this piece failed!"

Li Junge smiled and said: "You can't judge success or failure by appearance. We are talking about use now, so you can say that this piece can still be used for washing clothes?"

A Yin smiled: "This is not a problem."

Li Junge laughed loudly: "Then this tube is for me!"

After breakfast, Li Junge went to dismantle the trap and release the other strange crab at the same time.

Then I came back to clean up the harvest of the seaside in the past few days, not to mention the buckets and baskets, syrup, coconut, oil, knives, drills, chisels, salt, soap, Glauber’s salt, baking soda, lime, these are the most important things.

There are so many things, it can be regarded as a rewarding experience.

After cleaning the venue and packing up things, the two of them prepared to go back to the camp in the mountains.

Before setting off, Li Junge pulled out the chimney of the dragon kiln, scraped off a bag of soot, built a shed with dried bamboo, covered the whole dragon kiln, put the salt pan in it, spread palm leaves, and covered it with soil Wrap it into a small soil bag, then cover it with palm leaves for waterproofing, dig a drainage ditch around the soil bag, try to protect it as much as possible, and continue to use it in case of need.

Regardless of other things, first use the two water tanks as baskets. Well, they were already baskets a few days ago. Pick up the most important things and carry them back to the camp first.

When he got home and put down his things, Li Junge climbed up to the roof and began laying grass to protect the ridge of the mud-stem roof without resting at all.

A Yin was not idle either. After putting things away, she took out a newly made basket, put a mat on one side, put a small wooden frame in the frame, built a small wooden ladder, and moved a few stones inside to hold down the weight. A tripping bucket began to trip the hemp pole to collect the pockmarks.

After Li Junge finished laying the roof, he went down and took the pockmarked hemp pole and tied it into a few big brooms with forked ends. He went to the well to pick up water four times, filled two water tanks, and took out a catfish to clean it up, right? Yin said: "Hey hey, now there is oil and salt, let's eat grilled fish tonight!"

After speaking, he picked up his back basket and went to dig a termite nest in the woods.

The termite nest was brought back in a basket, the mud was crushed, sieved, lime powder was sprinkled to adjust the pH value, hammered, kneaded, made into several embryo mud squares, and aged in resin barrels.

After washing hands, cut the catfish into pieces, season with wild onion, minced galangal, and salt.

Pour some oil into the bowl, tie a wild onion handle, cut off the curved part with a knife, and get a brush with which you can brush the oil.

Li Junge has seen too many of these little wisdom and tricks in life when he was with grandma.

Then boil a tank of water and call Ayin over to grill fish for dinner.

Ayin had already collected the hemp seeds, put the hemp sticks back, was sweeping the floor with a broom, came over and smiled and said, "Oh, this is too much time wasting, two people spend a meal here."

Li Junge said with a smile: "Today is the last day of the big holiday, let's have a good meal, don't delay, and we have to discuss things."

A Yin took the fish from Li Junge and grilled it, and said, "What are you discussing?"

Li Junge said: "Now that the tools are complete, let's discuss what to do first and then what to do."

A Yin thought for a while and said: "The hemp should be almost retting, it's time to wash, dry and comb."

Li Junge said: "Well, the pot is gone and needs to be redone. There are also kettles, soup pots, salt pots, oil pots..."

A Yin said: "There are too many things, it's time to make a shelf for storage."

Li Junge said: "Now that there are blades, the raw lacquer can be put away."

A Yin said: "Before the hemp is dried, you need to get out the comb for combing the hemp and the spindle."

Li Junge smiled and said, "Leave these to me."

This meal was so fragrant, the catfish was oiled and grilled, and it was fragrant. Ayin spread lemongrass and mint on the plate, put the grilled catfish pieces on the plate, and handed the bamboo sticks to Li Junge as chopsticks.

Li Junge looked at the bamboo stick and said: "These chopsticks are ugly enough, I will make decent chopsticks first."

After eating the grilled fish, Li Junge added some coriander root and dried mint leaves to the bamboo trough, and mixed some banana syrup into it, saying: "Eating grilled fish in summer is easy to get angry. Let's have some coriander root and mint tea to relieve the heat." .”

The bearded and mustaches who can see the filming look at each other, these two male and female!So particular about such an insignificant meal!

After dinner, Li Junge began to cut bamboo shreds with a knife. Now that he had a knife, some light and thin bamboo utensils could be put on the agenda.

For example, bamboo hats.

The weaving of the bamboo hat starts from the tip of the hat. Li Junge asked A Yin to watch from the side. He found two bamboo nails, tied them with bamboo silk, and drew two concentric circles on the ground.

The inner circle is the size of the head shape, and the outer circle is the outer diameter of the bamboo hat.

Pull out a half of a large coconut shell brought back from the sea, buckle it on the small circle, start with three bamboo strips, add bamboo strips slowly, first weave out the arc of the head, and then step on the strips on the ground, and bend the bamboo strips to weave each other.

The next thing is the mechanical operation. After Ayin learned it, Li Junge asked her to try to edit the plane part.

Then Li Junge went to do the same and made another one,
Weaving four head shapes on the ground, and leaving the rest to Ayin, Li Junge started making pottery.

The old way is to lay mats, cut the bottom with a compasses, and pile mud strips on the side of the pot.

With knives and old bamboo, Li Junge made a set of processing tools this time, ranging from mud hammers to bamboo knives of various types and curvatures. The pots he made were much more beautiful than the last time. , the bottom even has a regular and smooth arc.

While waiting for the edge of the pot to dry, Li Junge started making other pottery.

Including two soup pots and three pots, all of them are made by pasting method of making water cups, which is much faster than making pots.

Also use two thin mud pieces of different sizes to stick them together with mud, and cut out two concentric circles with a compass before they are completely dry. The lower part is larger and the upper part is smaller. The inside is slightly smaller, which is a cover with a groove along it.

Take the bamboo nails at both ends of the center of the cover and turn out four eyes, then put on the bamboo thread to weave a cross-button.

I also made a small muddy water cake on a square bamboo stick, and removed the middle of the bamboo stick to find a square hole, which was the spindle A Yin wanted.

After finishing everything, three or four hours have passed, and Ah Yin has finished weaving the four bamboo hats.

But it's only made up the shape, the bamboo strips are still stretched out in a mess, and bamboo leaves are needed to lock the edges.

After finishing these, Li Junge sent the pottery to the firepit to bake. After thinking for a while, he found a water tank, smeared lime mud on the inner layer, adjusted some caustic soda, poured it in after clarification, and found some waste bamboo that had been used before. For the meat, remove the joint head, cut it into filaments and soak it in.

Then I went to rest with Ah Yin.

……

The next morning, Li Junge got up early to polish the mud.

After thinking about it, I turned the pot and pot over, found the center of the circle, drew a circle with a compass made of bamboo nails, nailed the compass on the arc, and used the other foot to mark the arc. The compass is divided into six equal parts.

Then I made three small mud pieces, not high, only about [-] mm, and glued them to the small crosses drawn on the arc with mud, sticking one at a time, and the mud nails were distributed into a standard equilateral triangle.

Scrape the mud piece round, and treat the mud pot in the same way. After the mud foot is completely dry, start a fire to make pottery.

With these three shallow mud feet, even if the tabletop is uneven, it can be placed firmly.

Ayin also got up, took a big mallet, and went to the lake to wash the retting hemp skin.

During the process of firing pottery, Li Junge began to make storage racks.

Taking some dried moso bamboos, Li Junge used a ruler to draw on the moso bamboos, cut off the ones that should be cut, and saw the holes that should be sawed.

The kiln fire was removed in the middle, and then came back to take a mallet to build a shelf.

After the frame was set up, Li Junge placed the frame in the bamboo building, and the wooden sticks that had been cut in half when they were still alive were put on it, with the flat side facing up.

Then take four bamboo sticks to clamp the wooden sticks to expose the two ends of the shelf. The rattan sticks are tightly wrapped around the two ends of the bamboo sticks, and a stable platform is built.

A shelf with five layers of boards can hold a lot of things.

Put three buckets of aged mud on the bottom layer, and press the warehouse by the way.

The pottery is placed on the second and third floors.

The fourth and fifth floors are still empty, and Li Junge plans to use it to store pottery embryos in the future.

Clapping his hands in satisfaction, Li Junge went back to inspect the pottery.

Carefully take out the pottery, wipe off the sand, and Li Junge fetches water to scrub.

Looking at my handicraft, I feel more and more satisfied.

The mud spit out by termites is much finer than that dug by oneself.

After grinding it with straw, Li Junge was very satisfied, and he was a little bit reluctant to open the pot directly.

With an idea, Li Junge carried a bamboo shovel and ran to the woods at the foot of the mountain to dig out the taro plant.

The taro is quite big, a big head weighs one or two catties, and there are many small taro lumps around it.

(End of this chapter)