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Chapter 44

When Ozuki came back from collecting salt soil, she saw the emperor's father sending Doctor Huang out.

Because he was worried that the camp would be attacked by snakes again at night, Xu Jingyang asked Doctor Huang for some medicine that could repel insects and snakes.

Ozuki thought to herself, the weather is getting colder, if someone hadn't intentionally put them in, there shouldn't be any more poisonous snakes in the future.

This time, Obscure Moon had someone re-build a big tent in the open space, which was specially used to boil earth salt.

Since they had already made brine once, Xu Jia and the others were able to do it this time with ease.

Obscure Moon held a small bench to supervise the work, Er Ya Niang fed Obscure Moon with some juicy and sweet berries from time to time.

Now in the eyes of Er Ya Niang, Little Obscure Moon is omnipotent, smart and quick-witted. Compared with the two idiots in her family, one is the bright moon in the sky and the other is the quack on the ground.

The rest of the Xu family look at Ozuki now, just like looking at a child prodigy, their eyes are full of joy and enthusiasm.

However, the most popular character among male dolls is Shen Yinxing, and they prefer to dance swords and guns with Chen Yinxing.

Today's lunch is grilled fish. After the fish is smoked with lemongrass, it has a unique fragrance.

Although the grilled fish tastes good, anyone will get tired of eating fish and shrimp for seven or eight days in a row.

Obscure Moon sighed and said, alas, cook salt quickly to make money, and eat rice as soon as possible.

After lunch, other people were busy making brine, while Ozuki collected the ash from the grilled fish.

Then she soaked the ashes in a basin of clear water and put them under the sun to dry.

"Huh? Sister Yue'er, what are you doing?" Erya, who was playing with mud, saw that Ozuki was busy, and wanted to run over to help.

Obscure Moon pointed to the basin, then smiled mysteriously and said, "I'm making a magic potion."

"By the way, Elder Sister Erya has the most skillful hands. Can you help us weave a spoon out of rattan? It will be useful later." Ozuki said, taking out a few collected rattan.

"Yeah, no problem." Hearing being praised for her dexterity, Erya happily ran away with the cane.

A few hours later, under the operation of several young men from the Xu family, the thick brine flowed down the flax bag into the wooden barrel.

The filtered salt brine was clear and clear, Ozuki dipped her fingers into it and dipped some salt water into her mouth.

Well, the saltiness is enough, and the third step can be carried out next.

This third step is to boil the salt, and it is also the hardest and most complicated step.

Pour the salt brine into a large iron pot and bring it to a boil, then immediately switch to firewood for slow cooking, which means that the fire is tight and the fire is slow, because the salt that is about to form will float away with the hot air.

Looking at the big iron pot that was already boiling, Ozuki nodded in satisfaction, then slowly poured a ladle of clarified ash water along the center of the pot.

When the boiling concentrated salt water encounters the ash water, fluffy white foam will appear in the pot instantly. At this time, it is necessary to immediately change to a slow fire, and then the saturated concentrated salt water will form particles during the slow cooking process. crystal salt.

Yue'er's operation made everyone very curious, Xu Jia pointed to the scoop of grass and gray water and asked, "Sister Yue'er, why do you want to add this at this time?"

Obscure Moon put the water ladle aside: "Because only by adding this ladle of plant ash water, the boiled earth salt will not eat dead people~"

This method has been tried by the Chinese nation for thousands of years. During this process, many people died of poisonous salt.

"Everyone remember, this step is the most critical step in the salt boiling process. The brine brine contains toxic substances such as magnesium chloride, calcium chloride and magnesium sulfate, so quicklime should be added to remove it, but there is no such thing here, so plant ash water is used instead. "Obscure Moon didn't care whether others could understand or not, she said it all at once.

"Oh" everyone nodded their heads, but they didn't understand much.

But who cares, just remember that this step needs to add plant ash and water.
In the back, Xu Wei, the Erya brother, was in charge of adding to the fire, and Xu Jia was in charge of stirring, stirring while cooking, and the others were ready to change hands at any time.

Time passed by, and with the cooking, a layer of white scale gradually formed on the bottom of the pot. This scale is also called water alkali, which will reduce the quality of salt and needs to be scooped off.

At this time, Ozuki took out the spoon that Erya wove out of rattan.

Erya's craftsmanship in weaving spoons is really beyond praise, the spoons are loosely woven, and there are loopholes everywhere.

But Ozuki looked very satisfied, because what she needed was a colander
After scooping up the scale with a colander, wait until the pot boils until it bubbles and the water evaporates to dryness. A layer of yellow crystals is attached to the inner wall of the iron pot.

Ozuki took out these crystals with a spatula and a colander, and spread them in a basket covered with cloth.

This yellowish white crystal is salt, and it doesn't look very good now.

Then, Ozuki fetched some water and lightly sprayed it on the crystal.

Clean water removes the dirt on the surface of the crystal and makes the color of the crystal white.

Afterwards, Ozuki grinded the dried crystals with small stones a few times, and after a while, the crystals were ground into grains of snow-white refined salt.

Obscure Moon grabbed a handful of snow-white salt grains with a salty taste, and rubbed them lightly on her fingertips.

Feeling the delicateness of the salt grains at her fingertips, she also felt a sense of accomplishment in her heart.

Hey~ It was quite a success the first time!
Next is the testing session.

In fact, adding plant ash water has already removed many harmful substances, but just to be on the safe side, Ozuki decided to test it.

Since there were no mice, Ozuki asked someone to catch a few mice to try.

Soon, the fish that had been smeared with refined salt was eaten up by the rats.

After several hours passed, the mice were still alive and well.

It seems that there is nothing wrong with the salt.

Looking at the white grains of salt in front of them, ecstasy and enthusiasm gradually appeared in everyone's eyes.

"Hahaha! I want to get rich! I want to get rich!" Everyone cheered.

You know, this pot of soil can boil two catties of salt, and one catty of salt can be sold for two taels of silver in Dayuan!

Moreover, this raw material does not require money, and it is inexhaustible.

Everyone looked at the salt pot again with almost fanatical eyes. This is not a pot of salt water, it is clearly a pot of money!
"Haha, I'm going to get rich! I'm going to get rich! Yue'er, you are really amazing!" Er Ya Niang hugged Miyue and kissed her fiercely.

Others also rushed up to throw Hazy Moon high, their excitement beyond words.

When everyone was cheering, the keen Shen Yinxing suddenly turned to look outside the tent.

"Shh!"

Shen Yinxing put a finger near his mouth, signaling for everyone to silence.

Seeing Shen Yinxing's actions, everyone knew that there was something different outside, and immediately fell silent.

Then, Shen Yinxing moved lightly to the side of the tent, then stretched out his hand and yanked open the curtain.

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