Chapter 194 The salt-boiling gang contracted the seaside
Yao Tao couldn't believe her eyes.
Boss, you can read so quickly?
She took a step forward, and Bai Lin turned around and showed her a problem on the tablet. "Do you know how to solve this problem?"
Yao Tao's horrified face.
Her math was taught by the physical education teacher. When Bai Lin asked her, who should she ask?
Bai Lin saw her frightened face and didn't embarrass her. "I have to go back tomorrow. Give this to me."
Boss wants a tablet?
No problem, she has plenty of them in her space anyway.
There is a generator in the basement of the experimental area, so charging is not a problem.
However, she couldn't let him take her tablet for free, so she had to bargain.
"Before you leave, I'll make you some dumplings. You've definitely never had them before." Yao Tao looked hesitant. "But... making dumplings requires a lot of preparation, and I originally wanted to go hunting tomorrow."
"I'll help you hunt." Bai Lin has never been able to resist food.
Who made this big guy so greedy?
Free tools are available!
"Then let's go to the beach first tomorrow. I need to store some sea water, and then we'll go to Area E. I want to hunt a few more deer." Yao Tao counted on her fingers, calculating tomorrow's itinerary.
She needs to store seawater because she wants to make sea salt.
Salt is used to pickle meat or fish for winter, and even to make pickles.
The salt stored in her space was all processed fine salt, and she didn't want to use this part of the stock.
They had stewed rabbit for dinner in the evening. The orange cat got half of the rabbit as he wished. He licked the small bowl of the rabbit until it was sparkling clean.
The next morning, Yao Tao and Bai Lin had breakfast, and Bai Lin used his ability to take Yao Tao to the beach.
The temperature was low at the seaside, and the wind made Yao Tao sneeze because of the cold.
"The water here is too shallow, let's go to the dock over there." Yao Tao and Bai Lin came to the dock.
They arrived early and there were only a few survivors on the beach. They took advantage of the low tide to see if they could pick up some fish washed ashore.
Only part of the meat of the mutated sea fish is edible, but picking up dead fish is much safer than going into the jungle to fight wild beasts.
Yao Tao noticed that a group of survivors had set up a large pot on the beach and were carrying buckets to pour sea water into the pot.
"What are they cooking?" Bai Lin was curious about what was cooking in the pot. "Why is there no fragrance?"
"They're not cooking food," Yao Tao explained. "They're cooking salt."
"Salt?"
"It's the thing I always put in my cooking." She simply took out the salt shaker from the space and poured a little into Bai Lin's palm.
Bai Lin licked it with his tongue, "Pfft!"
"This is salt. It's very salty, but it's indispensable for cooking." Yao Tao walked to a place where she would not be seen by other survivors and threw the bucket into the sea to fill it with water.
After filling it up, put the bucket into the space and take out an empty bucket to continue filling it.
After filling more than ten buckets, a survivor came over and Yao Tao quickly put the buckets into the space.
"Which resettlement site did you come from?" the man asked unkindly. "Have you registered?"
Yao Tao's bucket wasn't even full yet. "This piece of sea isn't owned by your family, why do you need to register it?"
The man's eyes were fierce. "We have the final say in this area now. If you want to take seawater, you need our permission. For every kilogram of seawater you take away, you must pay for a kilogram of meat or other supplies."
Yao Tao immediately understood what this person did.
In the previous life, there was such a group of people who specialized in the salt boiling business in the end times.
In the first year of the apocalypse, both seawater and freshwater could still be consumed normally. They used the boiled salt to exchange for various survival supplies at various settlements.
Boiling salt doesn't cost much, just a few large pots.
Firewood for burning is readily available and can be excluded from the cost.
They travel back and forth between various settlements during the day to trade, and it can be said that they make a lot of money.
In order to prevent this business from being taken away by others, they united to control the entire beach.
They usually don't care about the survivors who pick up dead fish, but they won't let them carry away sea water.
Anyone who wants to carry seawater away must pay for supplies, otherwise there is no hope of leaving alive.
The man waved the machete in his hand and said, "If you want to take seawater with you, go over there and have it weighed. There's a fee."
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