Chapter 20: Making Fine Salt



I have done some farm work in my hometown, so planting wheat is not a difficult task for me.

I took the engineer shovel and continued to dig and loosen the ground. Then I started to organize the soil and dig trenches. Each trench was about four centimeters deep and the distance between each trench was about six to seven centimeters. Then, under the light of the fire, I picked out the wheat seeds that the girls had selected. Basically, they were all high-quality seeds, so I planned to start sowing the seeds evenly in the trenches, then bury them and water them with water from the spring.

This completes the basic operation, but it would have been better to spread some fertilizer to promote growth, but feces and the like are difficult to collect, so this plan was abandoned. After all, if I mentioned this to the girls, they would think I was a pervert.

After I finished this, dinner was ready over there and they called me to eat, so I went over.

I saw a sauce made from some kind of fragrant flower petals and wild chestnuts poured on the roasted wild vegetables and crab meat, and there was also a soil basin of wild jujube senbei soup that had been seasoned. Putting the two together made me almost hungry. It was really rare for Bai Lu to show such culinary skills under such limited conditions.

"Yingchun, come and eat more." Bailu was afraid that Yingchun would think that I gave her too little, so she gave her more.

But Song Yingchun still had a sour face and ate very reluctantly.

Logically speaking, I shouldn't interfere in the affairs of the two sisters, but now is a special period. If someone continues to indulge her delicate body, I think something will happen sooner or later.

"Song Bailu, just eat your own food. Don't spoil her. There's no need for that." I said.

Song Yingchun was already furious because I gave her less food. She immediately slammed the earthen bowl and shouted, "My sister gave me food, and you still care about it? Who are you? Do you have any shame? I'm telling you, this matter is not over!"

After saying that, she turned around and went back to the house. Song Bailu was very upset and stood up to follow her. I said coldly, "Don't worry about it! This is my order."

Of course I know that Song Bailu cares about her sister, but now she also has to consider me, because I set the rules and she is afraid of offending me, so she can only stay here.

At this time, Yunwen stood up, walked over, and comforted Song Yingchun with a few words, but she was also scolded and turned back.

The three of us ate in dejected mood during what should have been a pleasant meal.

The food is still very refreshing. The crab meat is better than the first time, tender and juicy. In addition, the special sauce is so refreshing that the taste buds are almost bursting. And the jujube senbei soup is just right, a match made in heaven. I really enjoyed eating it.

After dinner, Yunwen quietly put away the bowls and picked up the food scraps on the ground, while Bailu went to find Yingchun.

I came over to help Yunwen. She looked at me and said, "Zhou Bo, you should go visit Song Yingchun. Harmony is the most important thing."

"Peace is the most valuable thing in the civilized world. It doesn't work here. If she wants to survive, she has to control her temper," I said.

We washed the dishes together, and then I arranged the order of shifts. In order to avoid conflicts, Song Bailu asked to work two shifts in a row. I couldn't do anything about her, and also thought that if I angered Song Yingchun again, then none of us would have peace tonight, so I agreed.

Yunwen's high fever has subsided, and Song Bailu really took care of herself by changing the medicine on the wound on her chest. I checked it briefly before Yunwen went to bed, and the wound was indeed much smaller, so I felt relieved.

After a day of hard work, I was particularly tired and afraid that I could not work the first shift, so I let Yunwen work the first shift first and then let Song Bailu take over. I did not mention working two shifts, and it was assumed that I would take the third shift. Song Bailu also understood it a little, so I worked the last shift.

At this moment, outside the fence, there are many wild beasts coveting the fish and meat here. Their glowing green eyes are flashing outside the fence, and the sound of their anxious pacing can be heard among the bushes.

"Remember to blow the whistle immediately if anything happens, and I will provide support as soon as possible," I said.

The two girls nodded.

I entered the mud house. Song Yingchun deliberately stretched out her arms and legs to prevent me from lying down. I walked over and put my face close to her. She was so shocked that she drooled. I said, "If you continue like this, I will have no choice but to lie on top of you. Think about it yourself."

She coughed, withdrew her hands and body, lay on her side, and muttered in a low voice: "Rogue."

I was too lazy to pay attention to her. I was exhausted after a long day and quickly fell asleep lying on the grass.

I slept until the sun rose slightly. Bai Lu asked me to get up and take over, so I got up.

I waited until everyone got up, then I started my plan for today and went to the beach. I remembered that there were reports before that people came out of the sea, so salt is very important for everyone. So I planned to get some fine salt. The first purpose was to pickle fish and preserve food, and the second was to allow our bodies to retain appropriate amounts of salt.

This can provide an extra level of protection for those of us surviving in the wild.

I took a metal cup and a backpack with some earthen bowls filled with charcoal in the backpack, as well as a small plastic box of biscuits that I had always used. I also took Yunwen with me so that she wouldn't get angry with me, and asked Yunwen to carry a clay jar filled with spring water. We followed the old path and reached the coast. Compared to yesterday, the sea water had receded a little.

Yunwen came to the beach, stretched herself, looked at the vast sky today, and finally smiled.

"You finally smiled," I said.

"Yeah, I miss the white clouds in the sky so much. I always feel that I can be closer to them here." Yunwen said.

"We will wait for rescue. You see, there have been foreigners here before, so someone will find this place and rescue us. Then you can continue to return to the plane and be the goddess in the blue sky." I said.

She chuckled, and it was a very sweet laugh. I also discovered that she only seemed so free and cheerful when she was not with the Song sisters.

"So, salt-making expert, tell me, even if this sea water is dried, it can only be made into coarse salt, which cannot be eaten, let alone pickled. How can you turn it into fine salt that can be eaten by people? What can I do to help you?" she said in a playful tone.

"Come on for me." I smiled.

She smiled too...

I used a metal cup to scoop sea water from nearby, found some hay and firewood nearby, put the charcoal on the ground and blew it to ignite the hay. The fire gradually started, and then I put the metal cup on the fire. Soon the sea water in the cup began to boil, and then slowly burned dry, leaving only coarse salt.

Pour the spring water into a metal cup, melt the coarse salt, pull off a piece of cloth from the clothes, then find coarse sand and fine sand, knock a small hole in the earthen bowl, cover the gap with cloth, and let Yunwen hold the cloth tightly, then cut a new piece of wood, burn it halfway and then suffocate it immediately to form activated carbon, crush it, put in about one-fifth of the bowl's capacity of fine sand, then put in one-fifth of activated carbon, and then put in two-fifths of coarse sand.

After forming a simple filter, I poured the salt water in the metal cup over the earthen bowl. The salt water filtered through it and flowed out of the cloth in the notch of the bowl. I used a plastic cookie box to collect it.

The carbon absorbed the impurities, leaving only clean brine, but there were still crystals. I poured the filtered brine in the plastic box into a cleaned metal cup and dried it over fire to make fine salt.

Yunwen was amazed by my operation and said, "Wow, you are really a genius in surviving in the wild!"

I smiled, and then we continued to make more fine salt. The smell was like returning to the place where the house was filled with wealth, rice, oil, and salt...


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