Chapter 20
With refined salt, I can finally make soy sauce. The fermented soybeans have been dried and hardened.
Yu Sui brought out a large clay pot, and prepared soybeans, refined salt, and water in a ratio of 1:1:6. He boiled the water and dissolved the salt. After the salt water cooled, it was put into the clay pot together with the soybeans.
The last step was finally completed, and the soy sauce he had been longing for would be ready for consumption in just over a month.
The used activated carbon can be cleaned of stains on the outside and hung up in the sun. After drying, it can be reused. Otherwise, it is very troublesome to do it once.
In the valley of training. As the strongest warrior in the tribe, Qi is the one who is challenged the most in every training session, and he never tires of honing his fighting skills.
However, Qi only fought once today and then stopped accepting challenges from everyone. He nimbly jumped to the top of a mountain and searched for something along the mountain road.
It has always been other warriors who have been lazy, but this is the first time for Qi.
Especially the greedy Ashan, since Yu Sui started cooking, he often sneaked away early and was pressed to the ground and rubbed countless times by Qi.
They were so curious that they jumped up one by one. Chief Black Rock had been busy since the arrival of the dwarf tribe, and he completely handed the warriors over to Qi Lai to lead.
Now that Qi is busy with other things, no one can keep an eye on them.
They followed Qi, and seeing that Qi did not look back to scold them, they became bolder and called out to other companions.
Qi finally stopped and dug a piece of gray-white stone in front of him with his hands. After confirming, he turned around and waved to Xu and the others to come over.
"Qi, is this the stone you are looking for? It doesn't look like anything special." Xu picked up a gray stone and said in confusion.
"Yu Sui uses this stone to make sugar," Qi said calmly. He didn't know what cement was, so he didn't mention it.
"Oh, you found it for Xiao Yu Sui." Xu said jokingly. Suddenly he realized, "This stone can be made into candy?"
The other warriors also looked at these ordinary gray stones in disbelief. Some even reached out and licked the stones.
Of course, limestone cannot taste sweet, it is very astringent.
Qi's forehead twitched as he looked at these unreliable snow wolves. "This is a side dish. It's not sweet."
Although the gray stones were not edible, the Snow Wolf Warriors happily dug them up after hearing that they could be used to make sugar, until the large wooden basket that Qi brought was filled.
Xu and the others finally understood why Qi brought such a big wooden basket to training.
Thinking that these gray stones could be used to make sugar, everyone looked at it with a loving look.
After the soldiers finished their training, Qi pulled a large wooden basket to find Yu Sui.
Yu Sui was making pottery pots next to the half-built brick kiln by the dwarves.
When he was making soy sauce today, he felt that there were too few pottery jars at home, and he couldn't always occupy the two pottery jars in Lu's house. He remembered that he had seen that brick kilns could also be used to make pottery, so he simply made more pottery utensils.
The methods of refining pottery clay and brick clay are similar. After pounding the clay into place, Yu Sui had trouble making the mold.
He had learned how to make ceramic molds from a video before, and there was a tray underneath for rotation, so he made one himself out of wood, and put something underneath to ensure smooth rotation.
He just failed when he was making the mold. In other people's videos, the clay blocks were very easy to control, but in his hands, they were like wild horses that had broken free from their reins, flying all over his face as soon as they turned.
Yu Sui angrily shook off the mud on his face, picked up some more mud with a vicious look and continued.
He kneaded the mud into a simple oval shape, placed it on a wooden plate and began to cut the pottery blank.
He never succeeded in this simplest first step. Every time he was halfway through driving, mud would splash onto his face or body.
When Qi came over with the limestone, he saw Yu Sui, who looked like a tabby cat, sitting there playing in the mud with a sullen look on his face, while Hank and Xiaochu were squatting beside him, watching intently.
After great effort, Yu Sui finally made the simplest jar-shaped model, and carefully put it aside to wait for it to dry in the shade.
At this moment, he caught a glimpse of a tall figure out of the corner of his eye. Upon closer inspection, it was indeed Qi, and he was pulling a large wooden basket of limestone behind him.
The last time I saw Qi doing the same thing was when the two of them went out to pull coal, and they happened to be using this big wooden basket.
He smiled knowingly, ran over and raised his head and said, "Brother Qi, you dug limestone for me so quickly!"
Qi saw his cat-like face and couldn't help laughing, so he raised his hand and wiped his face.
Guessing that the mud on his face was not cleaned, Yu Sui quickly raised his head.
After cleaning the last bit of mud off Yu Sui's face, Qi keenly felt that someone was looking at him, and immediately looked over with sharp eyes.
It was that strange dwarf again, looking at him with strange eyes. Qi couldn't help but frown.
Yu Sui followed his gaze and saw Uncle Robert standing not far away.
His eyes lit up, and he arrived just in time. He enthusiastically extended his hand to Robert and shouted, "Uncle Robert, please help me turn this big wooden frame into a cart. The wooden frame is too hard to use."
After making it into a cart, it will save a lot of effort for Qi to pull things.
"Okay, it's no big deal!" Uncle Robert responded with a smile, his big beard covering his embarrassed expression.
But there were still several tons of limestone in the wooden basket, which needed to be unloaded before it could be refitted. Yu Sui reached out to grab the stones, and with his strength, he could unload them in a few more trips.
As soon as he took a step, Yu Sui was picked up by Qi and put aside. He then lifted up the wooden basket and asked, "Where should I put it?"
Yu Sui looked around and pointed to an open space, and Qi easily poured all the limestone onto the open space.
After Qi poured out the limestone, he wanted to leave, but the dwarf's look made him very uncomfortable.
Yu Sui ran up to him, grabbed his arm, motioned him to bend down, and whispered mysteriously in Qi's ear: "I'll come find you when I'm done here. I've prepared a big surprise for you."
Qi twitched his ears uncomfortably, nodded at the cub's expectant eyes, and left quickly.
Thinking of the white refined salt he made, Yu Sui thought proudly that he would definitely scare Uncle Heiyan and Aunt Lu.
Since he was going to make a cart for Yu Sui, Rob went back to the tent to get the tools.
On the way back, he met some werewolves who came to help. He couldn't help but find one of them and asked, "You werewolves... can you have same-sex partners?"
Qiu, who was held by him, was puzzled, "Of course, we are not like humans, with so many problems." After seeing the direction Rob came from, Qiu smiled knowingly.
"You saw Xiao Yu Sui and Qi, didn't you? Is Xiao Yu Sui chasing Qi again? He used to annoy Qi so much. These past few days, I saw him busy making bricks with you guys, and I thought he had given up."
Rob was shocked. Seeing that he didn't react, Qiu went on with his own business.
Leaving Rob petrified on the spot. He thought of the scenes he had seen in the past two days. No, you snow werewolves call this annoying? And Yu Sui is still a cub!
Devastated, Rob staggered away, then sleepwalked around picking up tools to modify the basket.
How to describe the extent of his shock? It's probably like a modern person suddenly seeing an adult man betrothed to a child bride, a boy at that.
I don’t understand, but I dare not disrespect.
Yu Sui finally found the technique to make pottery blanks. Although the ones he made were still a little ugly and not as exquisite as those he had seen before, they finally took shape.
He molded a few large clay bowls and plates, then tried making a large clay pot. Large lumps of mud were harder to manipulate, but after rolling them into a clay figure, he finally succeeded.
Although he was covered in dirt, he felt a sense of accomplishment when he looked at the clay figures he had successfully made.
It was getting late after they finished all this, so Yu Sui waved goodbye to the dwarves.
I went home to get the refined salt first, then carried Xiaochu and the bamboo tube to Qi's house.
At this time, Qi's family of three were at home. Heiyan and Lu were quite surprised to see him coming. Recently, Yu Sui stopped chasing Qi and rarely came to his house. The last time he came was to borrow food.
Qi looked at the bamboo tube in Yu Sui's arms and curled the corners of his lips slightly, "Is this the surprise you mentioned?"
Yu Sui opened the bamboo tube lid like he was presenting a treasure and stuffed it into Qi's arms. "Dangdangdang, guess what this is?"
He raised his face smugly, and Qi couldn't help but pinch it, but then he retracted his hand as if he was burned.
Midori secretly nudged Heiyan with his elbow and signaled him with his eyes to look at the two of them.
Heiyan turned his head after receiving his wife's hint, and his face flushed. He and Lu Ke were still around, and these two little brats, especially Qi, who had sworn that he hated Yu Sui before, was not embarrassed at all now.
He frowned and was about to interrupt the two of them when Qi tasted the white powder in the bamboo tube with his hand. His face changed and he walked over with the bamboo tube in his arms.
Heiyan took the bamboo tube in a daze, dipped his hand in the powder in the tube and put it into his mouth. Suddenly, he felt as if he was hit by a powerful lightning magic, and stood there in shock.
Green was confused and didn't know what the powder in the bamboo tube was that made the two of them change their expressions, so he tasted it as well.
She looked at her husband in shock, "Oh my God, is this refined salt?"
Heiyan regained his composure, looked at Yu Sui seriously, and asked, "Where did this come from? Yu Sui."
Yu Sui was a little uneasy. He didn't expect the three people to react so strongly.
The main reason was that he had lived in modern times for too long, and he could never understand how precious salt was among the Snow Werewolves.
"I...I make it myself, using coarse salt..." he answered carefully.
Heiyan nearly knocked over the bamboo tube he was holding in his arms. He hurriedly picked it up. This was precious refined salt. He doubted he had heard it correctly. "What? You refined it yourself?"
Yu Sui nodded. "Not only can crude salt be purified into refined salt in this way, but if you're near the sea, you can also use seawater directly."
In fact, refining refined salt from seawater is more complicated than this, but as the first skill of time travel, he thinks everyone who loves to read novels should know it.
Before one wave of troubles subsided, another wave arose. Before the three people from Heiyan could digest the information they had just received, they were hit again by what Yu Sui had just said.
"Sea water can be used to make refined salt?" His green eyes almost popped out.
Qi looked at Yu Sui seriously and said, "This matter is extremely important. Can your method really be used to refine seawater into refined salt?"
Purifying crude salt into refined salt is shocking enough, and using seawater is a fantasy that has never been heard of.
Considering that all the orcs' salt was exchanged with humans, Yu Sui was not angry about their questioning. After all, this was a very important matter in their eyes.
Even in the human world, the method of making salt is firmly controlled by the nobles. Only the nobles can consume refined salt, while the common people can only consume coarse salt, which is bitter and astringent.
"Of course, it's easier to make coarse salt than to purify refined salt." Yu Sui answered affirmatively.
To make crude salt directly from seawater, you just need to dry it or boil it. To purify refined salt, you also need to filter out impurities.
He knew the matter was of great importance, so he quickly said, "Except Xiaochu, no one else knows that I can purify refined salt."
Qi looked at Yu Sui approvingly, "This is the only way to ensure your safety. Even the dwarves can't guarantee that they are completely trustworthy in this matter."
"If we exchange this much refined salt with a human merchant group, I'm afraid all our furs won't be enough." Heiyan weighed the bamboo tube in his hand with emotion.
Lu looked at Yu Sui proudly, as if she was looking at her own child. She was right. After that period of mischief, Yu Sui became more and more sensible.
She has thought more than once that if Yu Sui's parents were still alive, they would be very pleased.
"But what if other tribes or the Golden Kingdom find out?" She thought of something else and said worriedly.
The elves have always been proud, have long lives and occupy a territory rich in resources. The wealthy elves would not fight over the method of making salt.
As for other races, it is not certain, especially the Golden Kingdom, which is huge and powerful. If they discover us, they will definitely come to plunder.
Everyone was silent for a moment. Yu Suiguang had hoped to develop the tribe, but he hadn't expected the hidden risks to be so great.
"In winter we will go to exchange food with the Minotaur. When we get close to the Minotaur tribe, we will split into two teams. I will take Yu Sui to the seaside, and when we bring back salt, it won't arouse suspicion." Qi said after thinking for a while.
Heiyan and Midori thought about it and decided that this was indeed feasible.
"Then I will take them to the Tauren tribe, and we will wait for you to come back there." Heiyan made the decision.
Yu Sui was relieved to see that they had come up with a plan. Seeing that everyone was worried, he decided to take Xiaochu home first.
Seeing that he was about to leave, Lu hurriedly put the refined salt in Heiyan's arms into Yu Sui's arms and asked him to take it back. Fearing that it was not safe, she also asked Qi to take him home.
Yu Sui couldn't imagine what could be unsafe in the tribe. Just as he was about to refuse, Qi had already walked out with him.
Forget it, it’s not far anyway. Yu Sui stopped struggling and walked home with Xiaochu and Qi.
Behind him, Heiyan was still looking at the bamboo tube of refined salt that he hadn't even warmed up yet, with reluctance. Just as he was about to sigh and wonder how such a good thing could have happened to him, he turned around and saw his partner's strange smile.
This expression reminded him of when Yu Sui first walked in, Qi pinched Yu Sui's face, and Lu had the same expression. Oh, what was he trying to say then? After being interrupted, he couldn't remember anything.
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