Are we leaving now?
Luo Tianya was reluctant to leave. He said, "Why don't we dry more at once, so we don't have to come back to dry them after we've finished eating them?"
Sang Ning had no objections, except—
"There's no way to preserve it; salt can't get damp. We're not worried about the dry weather now, but what if it rains?"
"These are minor matters. We can just have Louis make a sealed container to store the salt when we get back."
"Let's ask Louis if he can do it."
When Sang Ning entered Louis's live stream, she was pleasantly surprised to find that their house was in the final stages of roof construction.
Sanning looked at the frame of the stone house and found that Elliott and the others were planning to make it into a triangular or tower-like shape. Due to the limitations of the live stream camera, it was not very clear what kind of shape it would be, and he could only get a general idea.
But regardless of the type, it's clear that it's not a flat top.
Louis, presumably conscripted, was standing on the ground, holding up stones and passing them upwards.
Because of the height, you can't see anything above; you can only see a pair of big feet hanging down naturally, and a pair of hands catching stones.
[Louis, we've successfully produced salt! We're planning to make a lot to take back. Could you make a sealed, moisture-proof container to store the salt?]
Special effects comments for the contestants appeared before Louis's eyes. He was stunned for a moment before exclaiming in disbelief, "It's done salting already? Wasn't the salt-making process supposed to be very complicated?"
[It's complicated, with five processes over four days. Sang Ning and the others haven't had much rest these past few days, busy with things like drying mud and sand, chiseling stones, building brine pools, irrigating with seawater, raking mud and sand, cutting vines, and weaving baskets.]
Before Sang Ning and his team could answer, the audience who had been watching them dry salt couldn't help but explain to Louis the process Sang Ning and his team had been going through over the past few days.
Then, after a moment of confusion, the viewers in the live stream entered Sang Ning's live stream in a daze, found the replay section on the side of the screen, and started watching the replay using a projector.
Louis ignored what the audience was doing; he was now filled with joy as he asked, "Does this mean we won't lack salt anymore?"
"We don't need any more."
Sang Ning replied, "You still haven't told me whether sealed containers can be made."
"Yes, but if you do that, you'll lose your pot lid."
Sang Ning was taken aback. "You want memory metal?"
"want."
She pondered for a moment and said, "You can requisition the pot lid, but remember to leave me some memory metal."
If you don't have a metal pot lid, you can use a wooden one. My dad said that when he was a child in the countryside, they used wooden pot lids.
It's just a piece of wood; at most, it will take some time and trees, no problem.
Louis: "...How big of a sealed container do you need?"
Sang Ning thought for a moment and asked him, "Could you make a sealed container that can hold more than 100 kilograms?"
"I can't do it."
Louis poured cold water on the idea, saying, "With the amount of shape memory metal and other materials, the limit for making a sealed container that can hold fifty pounds is the absolute maximum."
"No matter how big it is, there's not enough material."
Fifty catties is enough, but then there's no need to dry a second batch of salt.
If they dry them in the sun and then take them back home, there's nowhere to store them. If they get damp or moldy, all their hard work will be wasted.
However, Sang Ning couldn't just make her own decisions on this matter. She looked at Luo Tianya and the others and asked, "Is it still sunny now?"
Can the wooden barrel hold it?
"It can hold a lot, but I don't know if it will get damp in rainy weather."
"sun!"
The three of them said in unison, "Let's dry it first, then we can always trade the salt with other contestants for other things."
With three out of four people agreeing to share the photos, Sang Ning had no choice but to agree as well.
So they spent another four days drying more than 50 jin of salt before finally taking back a total of more than 100 jin of salt.
They spent eight days drying salt outside, and when they returned home around 3 p.m. on the ninth day, they found that the house was already built.
The rather large and dilapidated stone house, more than 12 meters long and 13 meters wide, was divided by Emmanuel and his men into three bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen.
The restroom is not indoors, but outdoors.
The stone house was large enough that windows were planned during the initial design phase. Since there was no glass available, Louis and his companions used a highly viscous fern sap to create a glass-like substance to serve as windows.
The effect is pretty good. Apart from the texture and feel being different from glass, the transparency and light transmission are exactly the same as glass windows.
If you're worried about being seen from the outside, it's easy; just lower the vines that act as curtains when you go to bed at night.
During the day, you can close the windows and open them to allow for ventilation.
Here, we must commend Louis for his skillful hands. He only asked what the holes left in the stone house were for, and Sang Ning simply explained the existence and manufacturing method of the old-fashioned wooden window frame to him, and he figured it out himself.
They also successfully installed wooden window frames, allowing the residents to freely open and close the windows.
After a nine-day separation, Sang Ning and his group looked at the house inside and out, while Louis and his group looked at and tasted the salt in the wicker baskets filled with snow-white salt.
Both sides were very excited.
Sang Ning and his companions were excited because they were finally no longer sleeping in sheds and didn't have to worry about rain.
Louis and his companions were excited because they no longer needed to worry about running out of salt.
"Quickly, let's put this salt into buckets, we can't let it get damp."
Louis excitedly ran to retrieve the sealed bucket he had made. It was a very ugly bucket, because it was made from readily available materials. Apart from the fact that they were all made of metal, they were all different colors.
This resulted in the bucket looking patched up, with one color here and another color there.
It's quite an eyesore.
But Louis and his men were used to it; making a sealed barrel with limited materials was already the limit. Aesthetics were no longer a consideration; practicality was the key.
So Elliott and the others didn't mind the bucket's appearance; instead, they worked together to carefully fill the two wicker baskets with salt.
The audience was stunned.
[This is way too careful and attentive! I don't think these guys treat their partners this gently and considerately.]
[What a load of rubbish about finding a partner! They're all single! But you're right, their overly cautious attitude is giving me the creeps; it's like they're treating salt like it's fragile.]
"You know nothing."
Louis glanced at the comments and retorted without thinking, "Since you have no worries about food, clothing, and entertainment, you naturally don't know how important salt is to intelligent life. It's not easy for us to get some salt."
"If you place an order on your online store, let alone a hundred pounds of salt, even ten thousand pounds of salt will be delivered to you by our express delivery service as soon as possible. From placing the order to delivery and signing for it, it will be completed within an hour and a half, and sometimes as fast as forty minutes."
“We are different. For such a small amount of salt, Sang Ning and the others left us and squatted on the beach for a full nine days.”
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