Chapter 104: Start boiling salt
After Lang Lin brought back the gauze, Chu Ange began to teach everyone how to boil salt.
"Put four layers of gauze on this big stone pot, then pour the still sea water into it and filter it again." Chu Ange said.
"Put a big stone pot on fire. Make sure the fire is strong. Pour the filtered seawater into it and boil it. While it is boiling, put this big shell on top, with one side higher and the other lower. Place it at an angle like this. Put a container on the lower side to collect the water vapor dripping from it."
As Chu Ange spoke, he gestured at different locations so that Lang Lin and the others could understand more clearly what they should do.
"Put another large shell on a fire, then pour the collected steam into it and burn it slowly. When the water evaporates, what condenses is pure and flawless sea salt." Chu Ange said.
"Ange, why do we have to boil it twice? Can't we just boil the water in this big stone pot dry?" Lang Lin was puzzled. The water in the big stone pot had already been filtered after being left to stand. It was already very clean.
"Salt cooked with water that has been filtered again with steam tastes better and is crystal clear and looks particularly good." Chu Ange said.
"So you have to keep filtering seawater and add it into the big stone pot, and the fire in the big stone pot must not be turned off." Chu Ange said.
If the sea water stops and the water in the big stone pot boils dry, salt will condense, but that salt will still have some impurities.
Everyone comes to the seaside to cook their own salt, and if they are going to cook it, they cook the cleanest salt.
The salt that the sea people make directly from unfiltered seawater is also very delicious, but it is a bit bitter. Sometimes you can also find dead shrimps, small crabs, fine sand and broken shells in it.
Crystal clear salt... Langlin and the others had never heard of it, so they were all looking forward to it.
Before leaving, the priest told them to listen to Ange when they were outside and to do whatever Ange said.
Everyone started working enthusiastically.
Chu Ange watched everyone boil salt from the side, occasionally correcting anything that was wrong, until Lang Lin and the others had fully understood the salt boiling process, then he left with Long Chen.
Winter, snow and sea are a romantic combination. On the coast where the water and sky are one color, the sound of waves drowns out all the noise.
The beach is covered with white snow, the ice and snow blend with the sea water, the purity and vastness of nature meet, the snowflakes fall on the sea and disappear immediately.
Chu Ange and Long Chen walked hand in hand along the coast, leaving a trail of footprints, one large and one small, in the snow.
She tilted her head to look at him: "Are you cold?"
Snakes are cold-blooded animals and need to hibernate in winter.
Long Chen is a snake beastman. Will he also hibernate?
"Do you want to turn into a little snake and come into my arms?" Chu Ange said. Long Chen would be very cute if he turned into a little snake.
Long Chen froze while shaking his head, and nodded: "It's cold."
"Then you turn into a little snake, and I'll put you in my clothes so you won't be cold." Chu Ange looked at him expectantly.
It was such a cold day, he must be freezing, but he had to pretend that nothing was wrong.
Long Chen's gaze moved from Chu Ange's face to the position of her collar. His breathing stagnated slightly and his eyes narrowed slightly... He turned into a little snake and burrowed into her clothes. Wouldn't the ferocious possessiveness hidden under his skin reveal its true form at any moment?
"It's very warm inside my clothes. You won't want to hibernate if you hide inside." Chu Ange said.
"Do you think I want to hibernate?" Long Chen said, not inviting him.
"Don't snakes hibernate? It's so cold at the seaside." Chu Ange's eyes were clear and innocent.
Long Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I can't hibernate."
"real?"
"real."
"Great, then you accompany me to build a snowman." Chu Ange said. He had wanted to build a snowman for a long time, but was worried that Long Chen would be cold, so he never brought it up.
"What do you want to pile?" Long Chen asked.
Chu Ange thought for a moment and said, "I got it. You, I want to build a you."
Long Chen looked at her and smiled lovingly: "Okay."
"What about you?" Chu Ange asked.
Long Chen: "...Aren't they piled together?"
"It's so weird to pile yourself up. How about you pile up a me and I pile up a you, and put them together."
Long Chen thought this was a good idea: "Okay."
Long Chen rolled a snowball as tall as Ange, and then began to carve out his figure bit by bit...
After a while, the shape of a woman began to emerge.
Long Chen turned his head to see how Ange was making his snowman, and saw that she had rolled a long strip... Should you make the arms first when making a snowman? Kind of cute.
Then, Chu Ange rolled up the popsicle, rolled a round snowball and placed it on top, picked up two branches and inserted them on both sides, and drew a simple smiley face on the snowball with his fingers.
"It's done. I've stacked it, how about you?" Chu Ange clapped his hands, very satisfied.
Long Chen: “…”
Long Chen pointed at the two branches and asked, "What is this?"
"The hand, it's so obvious." Chu Ange said.
"…Then what is this long strip below?"
"Your tail."
Long Chen looked at the snowman that was half the height of An Ge, and was stunned for a moment before saying, "You made my...beast shape?"
"Yes, isn't it cute?" Chu Ange put her hands on her hips, waiting for praise.
Long Chen: "...cute."
"Let me see what you made of me." Chu Ange said, pushing Long Chen to the side, revealing the snowman behind him: "It doesn't matter if it's ugly..."
A lifelike snowman appears before your eyes.
Chu Ange was stunned and stared at her: "So beautiful, is this really me?"
"My skills are not good enough, and I haven't carved out half of your beauty." Long Chen said. Ange was lifelike, but the snowman was dead, not even one-tenth as beautiful as Ange.
"...I suspect you are implying something about me." Chu Ange glanced at the snowman with a snake tail and a round head.
"No. The way you made me look is also very cute. I like it very much." Long Chen said.
The snow fell heavily, carrying the salty smell of the sea breeze, gently falling on the beach and reefs, as if covering the sea with a layer of silver gauze.
The most beautiful snow and the gentlest sea, the collision of snow and sea, is the most magnificent sight that cannot be missed in this life!
The man held the girl's hand and strolled along the beach where snowflakes were falling. Every footprint was proof of their love.
Chu Ange stretched out her hand, and a snowflake fluttered into her palm, like a poem written in the water, disappearing as it was written.
"Let's go back." Chu Ange said.
I saw the sea I had never seen before.
I got to play in the snow, which I had never played in before.
It's time to go back and check on the progress of boiling salt.
When they returned to the beach where the salt was boiled, they saw Wolflin running towards them before they got close.
"Ange, we have cooked salt." Lang Lin's face was full of excitement.
"What beautiful salt, as white as snow, and not bitter at all." said Wolf Forest.
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