Chapter 123 The Real Material

After hearing this, Lianyi was not angry and said bluntly:

"I am shouldering the mission assigned by the Beast God. I came to the Mermaid Tribe because I have better salt-making skills. The salt you make now is still too rough and has too strong astringency.

Furthermore, I also want to be lazy and want to use you mermaids to gather all the beast tribes. At the large gathering during the harvest season next year, you can bring me all the specialties and new discoveries of each tribe so that I can identify them one by one."

There was so much information in Lianyi's words that Li and Wu looked at each other and their expressions became much more serious, especially when it came to the method of making finer sea salt.

"Meng, take some and show it to Chief Carp."

He nodded vigorously, took out a small animal hide bag from the large animal hide package on the ground, and carefully scooped out some with a small wooden spoon.

Chief Carp walked over and asked the general to pour a small spoonful of fine white sea salt into his hands. He crushed it with his hands, then put some into his mouth. His brown eyes lit up, confirming that it was salt and that it did not have that bitter taste.

Then, like Meng, he carefully poured the salt in his palm into a white shell and let Wu see it. After trying it, Wu nodded. Although he was not as excited as Li, his purple eyes were also shining.

"God's messenger, will you really teach us this method of making salt?"

"Of course, with this refined sea salt, I hope you can lower the exchange standards for the coarse sea salt. Not all tribes in the Beast World can harvest enough every year. Even you mermaids will encounter natural enemies and dangers in the sea."

Lianyi spoke based on the facts.

"We understand what the envoy said. Five years ago, our mermaid tribe encountered a storm at sea, which submerged the island where we were staying. That year, we couldn't even produce sea salt."

Chief Li sighed and said that year was indeed dangerous. After the rainy season, the sea became uneasy and schools of various fish migrated there.

He and Wu were very alert. When they realized something was not right, they abandoned the island and took their people into the deep-sea reefs ahead of time. Even so, two of their people were lost. They didn't know where they were swept away, and they have not been found to this day.

"Indeed, it is not easy for all races to survive. The Beast God knows the difficulties of the orcs, so he sent me here."

Lian Yi said shamelessly.

"Yes! The request made by the envoy is very reasonable. We will do it. We are lucky to receive the blessing of the Beast God."

Chief Li said immediately.

The topic then turned to salt making. After listening to the tribe leader's explanation of the method for making sea salt, Lianyi found it to be simple and crude. It was just to gather seawater and expose it to the sun for a hot season, and then you would naturally get coarse sea salt. There was no precipitation, filtration, or secondary distillation involved.

After listening to this, Lianyi felt that there was still room for improvement, but at least she had the fine sea salt. The clan leader and the witch trusted her very much. The salt in that small animal skin bag was made from half a bag of coarse sea salt.

Lian Yi thought for a moment and said to Chief Carp:

"We are about to enter the cold season, which is not suitable for drying salt. However, you can take some of the dried salt and let Meng show you the secondary processing method. As for the method of making salt from scratch, I will tell you separately. You will also need to make some corresponding tools."

Li and Wu listened very carefully and nodded frequently. For things they didn't understand, they would ask in detail. As this concerned the future status of the entire mermaid race, they were very serious and cautious and did not want to make even the slightest mistake.

"As for the distillation equipment, you can make one yourself using stones. I will give you the drawings."

The witch immediately nodded and opened and closed his mouth. A moment later, Wei Lan came over with a roll of animal skin and respectfully handed it to Lianyi.

Wu presented something similar to a pen and a small shell of cuttlefish ink, which seemed to have been processed and did not smell so bad.

Lianyi saw that they were impatient, so she didn't delay and unfolded the animal skin scroll and started to draw. She even asked Wu about the size and proportion.

At this point, she felt that the animal world still had a long way to go in its development, and the standards of measurement in each tribe were different.

Seeing Lianyi busy, Tuanzi was not idle either. He ran over to join in the fun and discovered that his mother would always dip the black ink into the water and then draw something on the animal skin. He also stretched out his little paw, secretly dipped it in a little black ink, and happily printed his little paw on the animal skin roll.

After Lianyi finished painting, she saw Tuanzi's masterpiece. She didn't get angry, but just tapped his forehead and said:

“This is my signature.”

After that, whenever Lianyi wrote or drew something, Tuanzi would actively put his claw marks on it. He did not stop this childish behavior until he grew up and became sensible.

However, the animal skin scrolls that had his little paw prints on them eventually became precious treasures of the beast world. They were the kind that could not be obtained even if you begged for them. But they were Tuanzi's dark history. Every time it was mentioned, he would blush a little. It was really because he was too young at that time and did not know the importance of the things drawn by the mother beast. Those things promoted the development of the beast world.

Back to the present, Lianyi gave the painted animal skin scroll to Wu and left Meng on the island temporarily. She took Du and Tuanzi and left the island. But before leaving, she told the chief very frankly that she liked pearls of various colors and wanted to make some beads as decorations. The chief understood immediately and made arrangements immediately.

When the group returned to land, Lianyi harvested a bag of animal skins filled with pearls of different sizes and colors. These inedible things were not precious in the eyes of mermaids and they were available at any time, so they were given very generously.

In addition, there was a hide bag filled with various dried sea fish and sea plants, which were dried during the hot and bumper seasons this year. They were given to the messenger of God for her to taste.

Tuanzi wrinkled his nose in disgust and snuggled back into Lianyi's arms. However, Du really liked these sea fishes. They looked very delicious.

"God's messenger, the cold season is about to begin. Are we going to spend the cold season in the mermaid tribe?"

"Next year's harvest season gathering will most likely be held here. I'm too lazy to go, but I don't want to go to the mermaid island. The wind and waves are too strong, and it's not suitable for Tuanzi to grow up. He still needs to grow up on land. Let's find a place to live nearby and spend the winter season here."

Du nodded in agreement.

"Find a place with high terrain. The weather will clear up in the first ten days of the cold season. This is the last time for the orcs to prepare. We need to store more firewood."

The original body was afraid of the cold, so he had to store a lot of firewood every winter. Although Lianyi was not afraid of the cold, he had Tuanzi and Du, who had to hibernate, so he still had to prepare some necessary things.

"Just look around the makeshift cave we're living in now."

"yes!"

Du was now very accustomed to completing the various tasks assigned by Lianyi, so he transformed into a snake and dived into the woods. In the afternoon of the next day, he brought good news.

(End of this chapter)