Being fooled by fierce beasts to travel through the beginning is fleeing famine

Before it was dark, everyone started to set up pots and stoves, because Qingyan said that a lot of firewood was needed to cook and refine salt, so except for a few strong and healthy people who went to dig traps, everyone else went to pick up dry branches.

Fortunately, because of the lack of rain, although the forest is a bit dark, it is not very humid. The dead branches on the ground are very dry and can be directly used for fire.

The traps should also be dug deeper, they are to guard against those big beasts, too shallow is useless.

Fortunately, the gravel soil over there also contains salt, and the soil dug up does not need to be wasted, which saves a process.

However, after digging deeper, the color of the taxi below is different from that above.

Qingyan thought that it must have been dug into another soil layer, and the salt content was probably less, so she asked them to pile up taxis of another color on the other side, so as not to mix them together.

After that, I will teach you to filter, cook, remove impurities, and crystallize according to the steps in memory.

Of course, this is not something that can be done in one go. She just explained all the steps first, and then let half of the people go back to rest, and the rest continued to work here.

Anyway, there are only two clay pots, so it is useless to leave so many people behind. The steps of refining salt are not complicated, and it is almost enough to read it once.

And I don't know if I can succeed the first time, so there's no need to spend all of it here, it's the same when I come back tomorrow morning, and I can also come here for breakfast by the way.

"Is this...refined?"

"Yeah, this is really refined, it looks the same as the salt bought in the town!"

Fortunately, no wild beast came over that night. It may be that they have never stopped the fire here, and the few people were working hard. The wild beast probably avoided it when it saw it from a distance.

Especially when Grandma Lanhua and the others directly used this salt for breakfast, she was even more disturbed. If the cooked food was bitter, it would be uncomfortable in the future.

When it was daylight, another wave of people came over.

Yang Shuanzhu said excitedly.

If they are all the same, is it because you eat salt directly that you have a bitter taste, and it is diluted when you put it in the food?She hadn't eaten the salt here directly, so she really didn't know if it was the same.

The people who came to change shifts looked at the temporary wooden shelf next to it, with a layer of straw mats on it, and a thin layer of bark, on which white crystals with a little yellow were drying.

Although there is a bit of bitterness, it is not very heavy and can be ignored.

As for how to get rid of that bitter taste, she really doesn't know, maybe there are some secret recipes.

When it was daylight, the first batch of salt was steamed out. Qingyan tasted it, and it tasted a bit bitter, but it was okay, at least it was close.

Three of the remaining eight people continued to set up the trap, and it should be almost an hour after digging.

Qingyan was a little confused, she also put salt in the wild vegetable porridge they made before, but she didn't taste bitter, so she didn't know what it would taste like.

As he spoke, he pointed with his fingers and tasted it in his mouth. It was really salty!

If the weather is sunny tomorrow, it should take half a day.

Now this belongs to wet refining salt, it is better to dry some, otherwise it is not easy to store.

Of course not, Qingyan didn't know that when refining salt, there is another crucial step to get rid of the bitter taste inside, and that is to use soy milk.

It wasn't dark yet, but it was already getting gray, so I lit the torches made of suet fat earlier, so as to avoid getting dark on the way halfway.

Accompanied by Grandma Lanhua and Yang Dashan's family, Qingyan went to the left a few hundred meters away to wash out the two clay pots and cook the rice first.

Qingyan kept recalling whether there was anything missing in the refinement, how could we try to get the first batch of salt out tonight, even if it failed, we could continue the experiment.

Another thing is the geology here. Although there are some rocks on the surface, there is still a lot of soil underneath. That is to say, if you bump into a rock occasionally, it is easy to dig out with a sharp head.

People who have been busy all night are also very tired. After breakfast, they can go back there to rest, and they can continue to work here.

Because the pots are all here, it is not easy to cook. It is inconvenient to cook over there, so I can only bring the washed wild vegetables and wheat grains here. There is still some mutton stewed before, which happens to be boiled in Together.

This is also due to the shovel and pointed Gao that Chouchou brought back. Those things are so convenient for digging holes. Otherwise, it would not be possible to dig a trap that deep with only branches for a few days.

Yang Erzhuang pointed to a piece of bark proudly and said: "Yes, Miss Xue is really amazing. This salt was produced for the first time. Then, this is the first pot out of it, and it is already dry."

It's just that they don't even have beans now, let alone soy milk.

After breakfast was ready, the most dangerous night in the mountains was over, so Qingyan and the others went back to the water pool with peace of mind, and brought along the meals for Liu Sanli Lanhua and Yang Dawang's family who were looking after their luggage.

Seeing the sleeping place they found later, Qingyan and the others nodded in satisfaction.

This place is between the mountain wall and a boulder, which can block the wind and block the sight on both sides.

As long as it doesn't make too much noise, even if someone comes over there, they won't notice it immediately.