Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Chapter 38 38 Cooking Salt
Put the scissors and needles and threads back into the bag, go back and wash the gauze bag, uncover the lid with the charcoal open, put the charcoal arrows outside to cool, pour it into pieces and put it in the gauze bag.

Spread out over the mouth of the clay pot, and secure the bag to the mouth of the pot with string.

Scoop it up and pour it into a gauze bag filled with charcoal, and the brine flows through the charcoal in the gauze bag and into a large clay pot.

After the salt water was filtered, Yao Xiaoqing untied the gauze bag from the jar and took it off.

Tianchai boiled the salt water in the jar over high heat, then boiled it slowly over low heat until all the water evaporated, and what remained in the jar was pure white rock salt.

Yao Xiaoqing poured the charcoal into the ashes, scooped up some water to wash the gauze, and dried it in the bamboo shed.Thinking: this bit of gauze is a treasure, and it is impossible to have such a thing again in this lifetime.

Before returning to the stove, the salt water in the jar had been boiled, and gradually the water became less and less, exposing white salt grains.

She picked up the bamboo knife and scraped the salt that had overflowed to the mouth of the jar into it, muttering in a low voice: "If it can be exchanged for food, how many heads of mutton would one bamboo tube have to exchange for this kind of salt! Alas! It's a pity that the strength does not allow it! "

Yaohu stood up and moved around, saw Yao Xiaoqing still standing in front of the jar, and said with a smile: "Xiaoqing, I see you have been messing around here for most of the night, what kind of salt do you make?"

Yao Xiaoqing looked back at him, and said with a smile: "It's not cooked yet! We still have to wait for the water to dry up."

"Salt should be boiled in a jar?" Yaohu approached curiously, looked down at the salt in the jar, dipped a little into his mouth, and looked up at her in surprise, "Xiaoqing, these are the cliffs. Is it cooked out of the stuff you get from above?”

"Yeah!" Yao Xiaoqing nodded proudly. In the previous life, he read so many miscellaneous books when he had nothing to do. In the era when he could buy whatever he wanted, he had no chance to practice it at all. Here he has a place to use his skills.

"Xiaoqing, Hua said you are not happy, did you miss your mother and two elder brothers today?"

Yao Xiaoqing hesitated and said, "Father, I met a wild man when I was collecting medicine in the forest today, and I killed him."

Yaohu asked anxiously, "Where is the injury?"

Yao Xiaoqing's heart warmed, "Father, I have a weapon, and I am not injured."

"Xiao Qing, don't be sad, if he dares to bully you, he should be killed." Yao Hu thought about it and warned, "Don't go to the forest alone in the future, there may be savages in the mountains."

"Understood. Now we also have salt, so you don't have to worry about having no food in exchange for salt."

"Xiaoqing is very powerful, the salt is like snow, and the salt of the Wuxian tribe is no match. Father, thank you."

"You said it, no thanks!"

Yaohu heard that there were savages in the woods, so he wanted to quickly repair the fence that Xiaoqing said, and decided to go to the mountains tomorrow to get more food and come back. He would not trade for salt in the future, so he would not have to store so much food.

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Muba and Mao led their people to search for a long time at the foot of the mountain, but they couldn't find the cave, so they had to find a leeward place to live.

Big Ah Mu looked at the women who were busy collecting firewood, and Mu Ya who was sitting blankly by the side, and sighed.

She walked over and patted her head pityingly, and said, "Mu Ya, you can't sit still like this in the future, you have to collect firewood, fruits and food with Ah Cao and the others."

"I won't, my mother never asked me to pick it up," Muya looked up at her, "Elder Amu, can't we go back in the future?"

Da Amu burst into sad tears, "I can't go back, Muba will take care of you."

Big Ah Mu thought: No matter what, Muya is also the daughter of the leader of the Sishan tribe, so she cannot be taken to Qiushan to exchange for salt.I have to talk to Muba about assigning Muya to Yaohu's son.

Muba, Mao and Wolf sat together, watching the two old uncles pick up the goats Yaohu gave them.

Mao turned his head and looked at the two of them, "Mumba, when we were in the tribe, we obviously heard from the leader who sent someone to inquire about the news that Yaohu and his son were unconscious and were about to die. Look at him today. picture."

Muba thought for a while, "He may have hidden the magical medicine from the great witch, or invited the great witch to sacrifice to the gods, so he recovered so quickly."

"Impossible, Yaohu and his son were injured and still awake, so Huoli took his position as the leader. How can the women of his family have food to ask the great witch to give him magic medicine to sacrifice to the gods."

The wolf paused and looked at the two of them, "Even if you ask the great witch, his magic medicine can't save the dying people. I still remember that our tribe used twenty sheep to ask the big witch to sacrifice to the gods for the wounded warriors." Once, the great witch gave him a magic medicine after offering sacrifices to the gods, and the injured warrior still went to see the gods."

The most powerful witch in this area is the witch from the great witch tribe in Qiushan. If not him, who else could beg the gods to cure Yaohu and his son? Muba and Mao couldn't figure it out either.

Looking at the wolf's injured leg, Muba said: "Wolf, when we see the leader of Yaohu, we beg him to take you to the witch who sacrificed to him to see if he can heal the wound on your leg?"

Spear cast a sideways glance at the panting wolf, worried that he might not make it through.

"Mumba, I think even if the wolf's legs are healed, it's hard for the three of us to support these tribesmen, and it's even more difficult to avenge the dead tribesmen. I think the only way to get revenge is to join the tribe that also has hatred against the giant bear tribe." Yaoshan tribe. Tell me what you think?"

Muba didn't expect that Mao also proposed to join Yaohu's tribe, so he hesitated, "The wolf said, even if we join Yaohu's tribe, he might not be willing, I think so, most of them are young and strong. Look at us..."

After hearing Mao's words, Muba felt that he would not want such a tribe to join.Thinking that he proposed to Yaohu to merge with his new tribe, he felt a little hot in the face.

The wolf said: "Muba, you forgot that we have five women who can be paired with the warriors of their tribe. You go to see him the next day and tell the leader Yaohu what we think, and he will definitely agree to us joining his new tribe. "

Seeing that both of them proposed to join Yaohu's tribe, Muba nodded readily, "Okay, I will ask him to join his tribe when I see him."

Two old uncles roasted the mutton and came over to ask them to eat it.The goat sent by Yaohu was plump, and Muba and Mao were divided into two front legs, the wolf and Da'am were divided into back legs, and the rest of the tribe also shared a piece of mutton.

After traveling for so many days, everyone gathered around the fire and fell asleep after eating food.

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As soon as the sky turned white, Yaohu brought all the young and strong to carry a basket on their backs, ready to get a batch of rock salt back.

Yao Xiaoqing gave Yaohu the snake medicine, climbing rope and engineering shovel, and told him: "Father, you'd better walk along the foot of the mountain and avoid the dense forest before going up the mountain. Don't hunt on the way, go back quickly." .”

After Yaohu took it, he nodded and said, "Okay, don't run far when you go out."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded in response, sent them out, and watched them go to the foot of the mountain in the north.

(End of this chapter)