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Chapter 26 Salt Making
Liuliu suddenly realized, "Oh, you are talking about the kind of salty stones, there are on the mountain on the other side of the cliff, we will go to the mountain over there to lick the stones every once in a while, otherwise we will have no energy."

Jiayin didn't know where the salt was extracted from, but from what Liuliu said, it should be about the same, right?

Walking over, the other party said to Youwei: "Uncle, where do you get the salt? Can you only buy it in the town?"

Fang Youwei said: "No, if we can find salt stones, we can boil the salt ourselves. Our salt is boiled by ourselves before."

Jiayin looked happy when he heard the news. Just now Liuliu was talking about Yanshi, which is great!

Hastily asked: "Then is there any salt stone in this mountain?"

Fang Youwei said uncertainly: "There should be. Where there are goats and wild donkeys, there should be salt stones. Otherwise, they would not survive here, and they would not be able to live without salt."

Jiayin took advantage of the situation and said to Youwei: "Uncle, why don't you take Liuliu to look for it? He must know where the salt is."

After thinking about it, Fang Youwei thought it made sense, so he didn't rest anymore, and directly dragged Liuliu to find Yanshi.

Liuliu had received Jiayin's order a long time ago, so he took Fang Youwei to the direction of Yanshi without his saying anything.

They went out from the col, went around to the back of the col, and all the way up, there was a big pool with no trees around it, just stones, like a big stone pot filled with water.

Fang Youwei looked at the direction of the pool, it should be the source of the creek in the mountain depression.

Liuliu walked along the mountain wall next to the water pool, and stopped in front of a large gap in the middle of the rock wall.

The gap was six or seven feet wide, Fang Youwei followed, and Liu Liu walked in directly.

Fang Youwei followed closely behind and walked for another half a mile when the front suddenly widened and they came to the other side of the rock wall.

The line of sight suddenly turned into looking down, and they were actually standing on the cliff!

Below is a lush forest, the surrounding mountains are clearly visible, and even the city walls surrounding the town can be faintly seen in the distance...

Fang Youwei was in a trance for a moment, and suddenly felt so small.

Before he could finish his emotion, Liuliu gave him a hug with his head.

Fang Youwei came back to his senses and looked at Liuliu, only to see Liuliu nodding his head on the ground next to him.

Fang Youwei looked over and saw a lot of white crystalline rocks scattered on the ground.

He was overjoyed, he didn't expect to find it so soon, took out the machete from the back basket, squatted down and picked up the thicker part of the crystal to pry it off, and put it in the cloth bag prepared in advance.

These salts have to be boiled before they can be used.

After prying for a while, the small cloth bag was filled up, and it only weighed about ten catties. It would be good if half of it was boiled out after going back home.

He decided to go back and boil these first. After all, the pork can't wait too long, and it will go bad if it is not marinated. He can come back tomorrow.

When they returned with a cloth bag of salt, Mrs. Li was quite surprised. She didn't expect to come back so soon, and then saw the rough particles in the bag, and knew that it should have just been knocked off the salt stone.

Mrs. Li hurried into the house and took out the iron pot, put it on the firepit, first crushed the salt in the wooden basin, poured water to dissolve it, and then put it into the pot for boiling.

While cooking, he said: "Now we have no way to make soy milk, we can't extract the milk, we can only mix it first, the salt will be a bit bitter, anyway, we are salted pork, the taste should not be too obvious when we eat it. Do it When we eat, we still have to use our previous salt."

After boiling, filter it with cotton cloth to filter out the impurities, then dry it, and repeat it again. Li Shi thinks it is almost the same, at least it looks no different from ordinary salt.

It took two days. Fortunately, the sun has been quite good these days, and whatever I want to dry in the sun can be dried in the middle of the day.

For fear of the pork being spoiled, the first batch of boiled salt was used to marinate it first, and when the second batch was made, a layer was spread on the pork, so that the storage time would be longer.

The marinated meat is hung to dry under the eaves.

When the stone house was built, not only two small windows were left for ventilation, but also an eave was erected, using a few sticks to weave thin branches and cover it with thatch, so that the rain would not float into the house.

The house happens to be sunny, and the meat can be dried by hanging there for a few days.

Afterwards, Fang Youwei went to get some salt a few more times, and they boiled a lot of it for salting meat.

(End of this chapter)