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The work of skinning and deboning does not need to be done by himself, and Shichiro's handling of three snakes and a pheasant is as simple as everyday food.Ouyang specifically ordered not to pluck the feathers of the wild pheasant and leave it alone.

The bonfire was burning, and everyone was smiling, after being tired for nearly two days.God gave them this natural cave as a gift, which is not unreasonable.

Ouyang rubbed his nose, held up the torch and wandered around, waiting for Qilang to clean up the wild food by the way.

This cave is mixed with rock and soil, the soil is red and the stone is black, not like the loess and blue rock in Ouyang's image.Ouyang had seen this kind of geology in his previous life when he was performing overseas missions, but it was in the Middle East far away from his motherland.He stretched out his hands and twiddled some red soil, and there was a cool and sticky feeling between his fingers, like the kind of soil rich in minerals.I put my index finger covered with red clay on the tip of my tongue and licked it slightly. It tastes bitter and has an imperceptible salty taste.

salty?Ouyang's heart moved, he took out the military dagger and scraped the black rock a few times, put the scraped powder in his palm, and observed it by himself with the torch, most of it was rock powder, and there were a small part of shiny grain crystals.

What's this?Could it be?  …

Ouyang's heart skipped a beat, and he took two steps inward to avoid everyone's sight, and quickly took out his "golden finger" from a specially sewn cloth bag closest to his body - the one that was captured in the last mission in his previous life and passed on by his teammates An unnamed black mobile phone studied by Tang and Song Dynasties.

Ouyang tapped the protrusions on the two corners of the fuselage briskly with his fingers. With an imperceptible sound, the phone screen flipped open, and a small notebook was held on the palm of his hand.Ouyang quickly entered a few keywords in the fuzzy search bar of the database: "Black Rock—Red Earth—Salty", and in the blink of an eye, a long list of results was displayed on the screen.

"What a good thing!" Ouyang sighed secretly in his heart, and quickly browsed to find the information he wanted.

"No...this is not...not yet!" Ouyang quickly read a dozen messages, all of which were far from what he wanted, and had nothing to do with it.When I was about to give up, an information catalog with only the words "Bingzhou Moyan" jumped into my eyes.

"That's it!" Ouyang whispered, and hastily clicked on and browsed. In less than ten breaths, he had read the content of hundreds of words.His little heart beat twice quickly, and a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Eighth Brother, what are you doing there alone? You're still muttering." Ouyang was thinking, but Goro's voice came from behind him.Ouyang quickly turned off the phone and put it in his arms, turned his head and shouted: "Let me see this black rock, black and red, rare."

"Hey, what do you think, we don't often see this kind of rock and soil in Bingzhou. Brat, your second brother is going to clean up soon, you should prepare earlier, don't think about skipping work."

Ouyang chuckled: "I said, brother, don't you know how to work slowly and carefully? Just sit there and wait, you won't be so happy after a while!"

Speaking of which, he took off his helmet, scraped off half of the black rock surface and red soil with a military dagger, turned and walked towards the campfire.Everyone was puzzled when they saw him come back with a helmet full of rock powder and soil foam. Ge Ye squatted halfway and asked, "Eighth brother, this thing can't be eaten or drunk. Do you want to recall your childhood, playing with urine mud is not enough?" ?”

"I said third brother, why are you so curious? Don't talk nonsense, let me ask you, did we bring salt when we marched?"

Ever since Ouyang came to Datang, he hadn't really paid attention to what salt was put in his meals. He didn't have to cook every day, let alone buy salt. It's just that Ouyang had seen the salt shop run separately by government and merchants in Jinyang City. But never went in.

Ge Ye curled her lips and said, "People say, 'You don't know how expensive you are if you are not in charge of a family'. Now you are in front of a family of 60 people, and you don't know if there is any salt in our special brigade. Really...of course there is salt." Yes, it’s just that this action came suddenly, in our brigade, only me and the two fire chiefs brought the share issued by the army, here, let me show you.”

After finishing speaking, Ge Ye reached out and took out a small thing wrapped in oil paper from his bosom, put it on the palm of his hand and uncovered three layers, a thumb-sized yellow-brown crystal appeared in front of Ouyang's eyes.General Ge Ye fiddled with the yellow crystal in his hand twice and explained: "In our army, only officers above the team rank are given one piece a month, and the following is that every 10 people in the fire are only given one piece a month, and it is calculated separately during wartime. Bingzhou is considered good. Some camps in Yunzhou, Yanzhou, and Lingzhou along the border can only be replaced by vinegar cloth. You always know vinegar cloth, right? It is cloth soaked in vinegar and salt water. Once the food is cooked, it has a taste. This salt is a precious thing, which is much higher than the price of rice."

Ouyang was taken aback, recalling that in the early days of the Tang Dynasty, the state only controlled some important salt production areas, and the rest of the small salt farms and salt wells were tax-paying models.He walked up to Ge Ye in two steps, took the yellow object and looked at it carefully. There were many impurities in it, and some tiny broken stones were easily visible.Ouyang stabbed it lightly with a military dagger and put a little bit into his mouth, an indescribably bitter and salty taste came to his tongue, even a little nauseating.Ouyang thought to himself, even if this thing was dissolved in water when cooking, the taste would not be much better.

Everyone watched Ouyang Changyan's expression from the beginning to the end, and they were puzzled to see him winking and making eyes look terrible.You must know that a piece of salt as big as a thumb is considered a sought-after military material in the army, but his brigade commander is full of dislike.

"Bah, this is also called salt? I'm dying of bitterness, I'm dying of salt!" Ouyang quickly spit out the yellow crystal powder in his mouth, and vowed that he would never taste herbs like Li Shizhen again.

Ge Ye snatched the salt block from Ouyang's hand, wrapped it carefully, put it in his arms, and cursed with a smile: "You brat, don't waste it! I don't know how expensive this thing is? Say you are like a rich master who stretches out his clothes for his clothes and his food for his mouth." It’s not like, why does it seem like you’ve never seen salt before?”

Ouyang waved his hands and refused to explain further: "I'll let you know what salt is later."

He melted the black rock surface powder and red soil in the helmet with the snow water he had prepared, tore off a large piece of the tattered inner shirt, tightened the mask of the helmet, poured the cloudy liquid into another helmet, The fluid in the other helmet was slightly clearer.He rinsed the sackcloth again, folded several layers, added charcoal powder and filtered it again.The liquid in the helmet became clearer and more transparent.

After repeating this for four or five times, the water in the helmet was already clear, so he tied the helmet with a stick and put it on the fire, then turned the fire down and boiled it carefully.

The people next to him saw that Monk Zhang Er was puzzled, and once again expressed their doubts with their eyes.Ouyang raised his head and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the raw food packed by the second brother will be put there first, and I will make you some necessary materials for barbecue."

The six groups of people next to them were already roasting the stripped and washed food on the fire, but only the "elites" in their brigade were using their helmets to cook for some reason.

When the meat of the other groups had been roasted to five maturity, Ouyang finally took off the helmet and looked at the thick layer of fine white crystals on the bottom of the helmet with a smile. A hundred times more delicious.

He took down the slightly reddened helmet with a wooden stick and put it aside, quickly set up a barbecue grill, drew the three dressed snakes obliquely with a military dagger, and put them on the fire to start grilling. But he stretched out his hand and covered the pheasant that had been eviscerated and bled with snow water and red soil.

Everyone was puzzled again, if it wasn't for his skillful movements, it would really be like that.Otherwise, a group of people would have pressed up and beat him up.He was the commander of the brigade during training, but he was the smallest in the brigade when he was resting, and it was no big deal to hit him twice.

Ouyang dug a hole in the soil next to the fire with a barrier knife, just put the pheasant wrapped in mud in it, filled it with loose soil, and set a lot of wooden branches on it to ignite.He turned the three racks with both hands to cook the snake meat more evenly.

Time passed by, the snake meat turned from red to white, and then from white to yellow, and it was already mature.

At this time, the other six teams were already gnawing on the grilled meat, and the sound of chewing "baji, baji" was endless, and the people in those six groups were talking, laughing and eating happily.

Wu Lang looked around anxiously, then looked at his half-cooked food on the fire, frowned and said: "Eighth brother, if your second brother never tells lies, I really doubt whether you can roast or not, and everyone will eat it." Yes, we haven't baked yet, I'm so anxious to death!"

It's good if he didn't say those words, but when he said it, everyone couldn't help it, and the stomach shook like thunder.

Ouyang shook his head and smiled, took the helmet that had been completely cooled, and asked Goro for a piece of oiled paper, scraped off the white crystals at the bottom of the helmet and poured them into the paper, and weighed them in his hand, it looked like three or four taels.Twist a little with your fingers and put it in your mouth, the delicious salty taste flows into your stomach along with your saliva.Ouyang licked his lips, the salt he made himself was not as good as the edible salt in his previous life, but it was many times stronger than Ge Ye's yellow crystal.

He flipped the skewered wooden stick with one hand, picked up the homemade salt powder with one hand and two fingers, and evenly sprinkled a very shallow layer on the knife edges of the three snakes.Clap your hands to wrap the oil paper, and put the homemade salt into your arms.

After continuing to grill for less than a moment, Qilang stood up abruptly, looked at Ouyang Yu in disbelief, his nose twitching non-stop.Followed by Goro, Ge Ye, and even Qin Feng are a little crazy.Just because the smell of the grilling snake meat almost hooked their souls out, they looked at the golden-yellow grilled snake on the fire rack, smelled the fragrance in the air, and went "gudong, gudong" Swallow.

"Eighth brother, can you lend me your white thing?" Qilang's voice trembled slightly, a little excited.

Ouyang nodded with a smile, and handed Qilang the salt bag that he deliberately put in his arms.I saw Qilang carefully opened it and took a look, and imitated Ouyang, stretched out his fingers and twisted it into his mouth.

"Eighth brother, you, you! This, this..." Qilang was incoherent, completely shocked by the white powder in his hand, unable to speak.

Ouyang nodded with a smile but did not answer, and continued to turn over the grilled snake meat.

The rest of the people seemed to be watching a riddle, and were taken aback by Qilang's performance.Goro patted Qilang on the shoulder and said, "What's the matter with you? Speak well, what is this!?"

Qilang looked at Ouyang, then at Goro, then at everyone, and finally stared at the white powder in his hand and said, "Extreme sea salt!"