Xiaoyao Xiaojunhou

Chapter 665 Salt Refining
Zhu Xiuyuan temporarily let go of her and leaned over to examine the rock surface carefully.

In his previous life, although he had never touched seaweed with his own hands, nor had he seen seaweed before it was picked, he still remembered certain film and television works.

The thing attached to the rock surface, dark brown, is exactly the same as the one in the film and television works.

No surprise, this is nori!

Dong Shuzhen was also very happy. She turned her back to the sea, squatted down, gently stroked the seaweed with both hands, and laughed at herself: "I also said that seaweed grows in the sea, and I thought it would be eaten by fish..."

"After the tide comes in, don't they just soak in the sea water?"

Zhu Xiuyuan responded casually, took the copper basin and started picking seaweed.

Dong Shuzhen was stunned when she heard this, and then her face turned red.

She didn't say anything, lowered her head, and started picking seaweed.

They had no special tools and just picked with their bare hands. Fortunately, the amount they used was not large... After about a quarter of an hour, the large copper basin was about one-third full.

"That should be enough. Let's go back and cook early. I can't help but taste the seaweed soup." Zhu Xiuyuan smiled and stopped picking seaweed.

"Yeah." Dong Shuzhen nodded and stopped.

The two stood up. Dong Shuzhen held the copper basin and followed Zhu Xiuyuan. They walked around a huge rock and came to the other side.

Dong Shuzhen followed closely because of fear.

"oops!"

Suddenly, Zhu Xiuyuan stopped, lowered his head and looked at his shoes.

Dong Shuzhen was behind. Because she followed too closely, she almost ran into her head on.

"What's wrong, husband?" Dong Shuzhen breathed a sigh of relief and lowered her head to check Zhu Xiuyuan's foot.

Zhu Xiuyuan stepped into a wet beach and fell into it, more than two inches deep.

When he lifted his feet, streams of "spring water" emerged from the dented footprints.

A trickle of brown liquid quickly filled the entire footprint.

Dong Shuzhen held the copper basin in both hands. She lowered her head and looked at it carefully for a long time, but she didn't see any clue: "Husband, why is this sea water brown?"

When Dong Shuzhen asked the question, she didn't notice that Zhu Xiuyuan's face had fallen into a state of ecstasy, and the corners of his mouth were grinning to the base of his ears.

Dong Shuzhen didn't get a reply, and she felt strange when she saw her husband squatting down and staring at the footprints non-stop.

So she also squatted down.

Occasionally, I raised my eyes and caught a glimpse of Zhu Xiuyuan's ecstatic look.

Her face was stunned, and she didn't know why her husband was staring at her footprints in ecstasy.

Isn't it just a footprint? What's so strange about it?

Dong Shuzhen observed attentively for a while. This was just an ordinary footprint. There was nothing special about it except that it was larger than hers.

Then what is Zhu Xiuyuan doing!
Could it be that... my husband is crazy?
"Husband, what's wrong with you?"

Dong Shuzhen put down the copper basin, lowered her head, and moved her face closer to "intercept" Zhu Xiuyuan's line of sight, so that all Zhu Xiuyuan could see was her curious face.

"Madam, brine, this is brine!" Zhu Xiuyuan danced with excitement.

"Brine? What is this?" Dong Shuzhen became more and more confused.

Curious, Dong Shuzhen suddenly stretched out a small lotus foot and hung it above the footprint, as if she wanted to step down and compare the size with Zhu Xiuyuan's footprint.

"No!"

When Zhu Xiu saw this, his brows jumped, and he quickly stretched out a hand to hold Dong Shuzhen's feet to prevent her from stepping down.

"Uh..." Dong Shuzhen immediately withdrew her lotus feet and asked in confusion: "Why is my husband so excited when he sees this kind of brine, as if he saw gold and silver jewelry?"

"My lady doesn't know something."

Zhu Xiuyuan began to return to normal. He reached into the footprints with one hand, dipped his fingers in a little brown brine, then licked it lightly, and tasted it.

"This is naturally formed saturated brine, which can be used to boil salt. Compared with ordinary seawater, the brine is more efficient and faster, and the amount of salt produced is also higher!"

"Ah... bah bah... bah bah..."

Dong Shuzhen imitated his movements and also dipped a little bit of brine to taste. The result...

Her face was distorted, and she kept belching, as if she had died from poison. Her delicate body was shaking, and she looked very uncomfortable.

"Salt, isn't it? What kind of brine is this? I'm afraid it's not poisonous water. Can it really be used to boil salt?!"

Dong Shuzhen's facial features were still slightly distorted, her mouth was tightly pursed, and she squinted at the brine in Ni's footprints, with a look of disgust on her face.

Moreover, she wanted to spit into the footprints to express her disgust.

If she wasn't afraid that her husband wouldn't like it, she would have done this long ago.

Because this brine was really too bitter, she tasted a little just now and almost died at the age of seventeen.

"Yes, madam, you have also tasted it. Is there a strong salty taste among the bitterness? That is salt. I will find a way for my husband to extract the salt, so that we will not have to suffer from the lack of salt in the future. It’s so painful, hahahaha!”

The first step in modern and modern salt-making methods is to dry ordinary seawater into saturated brine.

Saturated brine is then dried, and then dried to obtain coarse salt.

After removing impurities from coarse salt, it becomes edible salt.

Now, Zhu Xiuyuan has created natural saturated brine, which eliminates the first step of drying and can be used directly to make coarse salt.

The salt content of ordinary seawater is very different from that of saturated brine. It is really very cumbersome to directly extract coarse salt from ordinary seawater, and the yield is pitifully small.

If you directly have saturated brine, the situation will be different...

Hearing what Zhu Xiuyuan said, Dong Shuzhen couldn't help but pursed her lips, frowned and tasted it carefully. It seemed... it really had a strong smell of salt!

However, the bitter taste is also very strong, and the brine in this state cannot be used at all.

But what Zhu Xiuyuan said immediately aroused Dong Shuzhen's interest: "Is it true? Husband, there is a way to extract salt from poison... brine?"

When Dong Shuzhen asked this question, scenes such as "alchemy furnace", "white-haired grandfather", "Taoist boy", and "explosion" could not help but appear in her little mind...

"Not bad..." Zhu Xiuyuan suddenly caught a glimpse of the copper basin, which was filled with one-third of the seaweed. So, he suppressed the excitement in his heart and said with a smile: "After we have lunch, we will start refining the salt. Can it be done?" , you will know when the time comes.”

"Okay, okay, I will act as your husband's Taoist boy in the afternoon, and we will 'refining salt' together!" Dong Shuzhen nodded repeatedly, and she regarded "refining salt" as a game.

"Tao Tong"?
"Salt refining"?
What is this all about?

However, since Zhu Xiuyuan was planning to refine salt, he didn't go into details. Faced with Dong Shuzhen's proposal, he just nodded slowly and agreed.

Dong Shuzhen was naturally overjoyed when she received the agreement. She picked up the copper basin and followed Zhu Xiuyuan's footsteps back to the cave.

Four hares are still used for roasting.

A pheasant is used to stew soup. The pot is made of copper and seasoned with seaweed. I think it should be a very delicious chicken soup.

Especially for Zhu Xiuyuan who was fed up with the white taste.

Zhu Xiuyuan and Dong Shuzhen were busy, talking and laughing, and seemed to be very happy and having fun.

This is so envious of Kou Wanwan who is lying on the couch and can't move around.

【Ask for a monthly ticket, ask for a recommendation ticket】

(End of this chapter)