Chapter 71 Put Away Your Sympathy (Please Collect and Recommend)
Luo Chong pointed to a very inconspicuous dark corner, where a millstone-sized stone was placed on the ground. The material and color of the stone almost blended in with the surrounding rock walls.
"Yes, chief, the cave entrance is under the stone."
"So this is it, damn, it's hidden very well, no wonder I didn't find it last time I came, why are you still standing there, move the stone away." Luo Chong glared at the three people, blaming them for not telling them about the salt mine when he first came.
The three people didn't dare to talk nonsense, and worked hard to move the big stone. With a series of friction sounds, a cave entrance slanting downward appeared on the ground. The entrance was very small, a naturally formed irregular flat circle. It was indeed as they said, only children under 5 years old could pass through.
Tsk, what can we do? If we want to mine a large amount of salt mines, we definitely can't let little brats do the work.
Luo Chong lit a torch, and lay on the ground, knocking and looking, carefully examining the rock material of the cave entrance to see if there was any possibility of using copper tools to dig the cave entrance.
"The symbiotic organization of quartz and granite, this thing is too hard, it's not easy to work with."
Just as Luo Chong was muttering to himself, under the reflection of the torch, a flash of light suddenly flashed across the cave ceiling, which immediately attracted his attention.
Luo Chong held up the torch and looked, and saw a lot of inverted cone-shaped minerals hanging on the cave ceiling above his head. Is this a stalactite?
It doesn't look like it, the color is wrong, this yellow-white translucent and reflective thing is salt?
Will salt naturally crystallize and hang upside down on the cave ceiling? Obviously not, then what is this yellow-white translucent thing.
Luo Chong pulled out a feather arrow and tried to shoot down some of the stone cones on the cave ceiling, but after trying twice, there was no effect, so he had to call Dali.
"Da Li, bring a fist-sized stone over here, and see if you can knock that thing off the cave ceiling."
"Okay, I'll try, I'm strong, hehe." Da Li, who was carrying the wolf corpse, ran over excitedly to help.
In the light of the torch in Luo Chong's hand, Da Li aimed at the cave ceiling and swung his arm to throw a stone.
Bang, crack, crack,
the fist-sized stone accurately hit a stone cone hanging on the cave ceiling, and it broke with a click, fell to the ground and shattered.
Da Li looked at the translucent crystal fragments all over the ground and asked excitedly: "Chief, is this salty stone? There are so many of them, we don't have to worry about running out of salt in the future."
Luo Chong obviously didn't believe that salt would grow on the cave ceiling. He picked up a small piece of crystal, smelled it first, and then put it in his mouth to taste it. In an instant, a bitter and astringent taste filled his mouth.
"Pooh, cough, cough, huh, pooh, this thing is not salty stone, it's not salty." Luo Chong said while spitting saliva.
This is not salt, this is obviously natural alkali.
Natural alkali is a kind of evaporative salt mineral, which is generally condensed from the gas evaporated from brine or salt mines. Generally, wherever there is salt, there must be alkali. This is why we all say the word "saline-alkali land", but there has never been a salt land or alkali land, because the two have always been symbiotic.
And from a chemical point of view, natural alkali (sodium carbonate) is also an inorganic salt. It is called alkali only because it is dissolved in water to produce hydroxide ions, which is a strong alkalinity. In fact, it is a salt.
Knowing that the thing on the top of the cave is not salt, Dali immediately lost interest and went back to his work, while Luo Chong made a new guess and immediately asked the three men in the original Xieding tribe: "Is there water in the cave below?"
"Well, there are many leaves on the tree, and there will be water in the cave when it blooms. When it is hot, the stone will sweat."
Damn, sweating, peat sweat, that is because there is a lot of rainfall in the summer and the groundwater is abundant. I don't know where it seeps from.
"Then how did you know there was salty stone down there? How do you usually collect it?" Luo Chong resisted the urge to scold him and continued to ask.
"Before, a child accidentally fell down there. We heard the sound and pulled him up with a rope. He brought this thing up with him. Since then, we collect it once before the water freezes and once after the ice melts."
"Okay, I get it. You guys can go and work too." Luo Chong nodded thoughtfully.
It seems that there is water in this cave in summer, so before, Bald and his people only collected salt twice in spring and autumn. However, the Han tribe would not do this, because Luo Chong was trying to open this cave.
Just as Luo Chong was thinking of a solution, Mu Tong, who had just finished cleaning the bodies of the gray wolves, came to report.
"Chief, all the gray wolves were killed, a total of 78, and there were 8 cubs, but they were still alive. Should we kill them?"
"There are still cubs? How old are they? Where are they? Take me to see them."
Mu Tong, a smart guy, knew that Luo Chong was good at raising various animals. When he saw the living cubs while cleaning, he immediately thought whether Luo Chong would want them. Maybe he could get some rewards at that time.
Sure enough, when he heard that there were still living cubs, Luo Chong immediately became interested and hurried over to check.
The eight wolf cubs were born to two female wolves. They were not big and looked like they were less than a week old. Their eyes were not open yet and they were about the size of a large mineral water bottle. They were nestled in the arms of two female wolves, sucking their milk greedily.
However, their mothers had died a long time ago. The thorn baits scattered on the ground revealed their cause of death. The cold corpses could not provide any milk at all. The wolf cubs were so anxious that they kept howling, but the sound was very weak. They might have been weaned for more than a day.
"These cubs are so pitiful. They lost their mothers at such a young age," a woman who had just given birth whispered.
Hearing this, Luo Chong glanced at the woman with a sharp look and said coldly: "There is no such thing as pity. This world is like this, the strong prey on the weak. If we don't kill them, then your child will be the one who has lost his mother.
Think about that night a few days ago. If we lost, now it would be a group of gray wolves standing in front of your child, considering how to eat him. Those beasts will not feel pity for your child."
Luo Chong's tone was a little cold. He was very angry. What kind of era is this? It's an era where either you eat me today or I eat you tomorrow. How can he have sympathy for these man-eating beasts?
The people who had felt sorry for the wolf cubs were also stunned. Yes, the leader was right. If they lost that night, would the gray wolves feel sorry for their children? Obviously, this was impossible.
The cave was a little quiet for a while, and Mu Tong quickly tried to smooth things over and said, "Leader, are these wolf cubs going to be killed too?"
"No, keep them, wrap them up with animal skins, we can raise them."
"But what should we feed these cubs with? They are still drinking milk?"
"Just feed them with broth. There is a reason why wolves are so strong. They have strong adaptability and can eat raw meat seven days after birth.
Now these cubs are still young and have not opened their eyes. If they open their eyes, they can only be killed. Wolves with open eyes cannot be fed." Luo Chong said lightly.
The tribesmen also nodded. Although they didn't know why the leader knew so much, it seemed that this was a matter of course.
Everyone didn't hesitate. They quickly wrapped up a few cubs and put them in the backpack and prepared to go home, but Luo Chong always felt as if something was missing.
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