My life skills in Daming Liver

Chapter 34 Refining
Su Ze took Lin Liangjun to the edge of his reed field.

It is still the season for reeds to grow. The withered and yellow reeds left over from last year are intertwined with the green reeds that have just grown this year, together with the fog that has not dissipated at the Haihe Estuary, forming a beautiful picture.

Su Ze pointed to Ashida and said:

"'The reeds are green, the white dew is frost', the reeds mentioned in the "Book of Songs" are the reeds. Do you understand the meaning of these two lines?"

Lin Liangjun nodded repeatedly, and the system immediately popped up a prompt:

[Teach students, enlightenment experience +1, Lv3, 11/100]

It's a pity that I didn't bring the other four radish heads, Su Ze turned off the reminder with some regret.

Su Ze walked into the reed field with a small radish head, and while harvesting the reeds that dried up last year, he looked for weeds like yellow croaker.

Everyone in Changningwei knew that this reed field belonged to Su Ze, and the people in Weili were very simple, and no one secretly cut the reeds in Su Ze's field.

Looking at the half-grown children who were buried in the mowing in the reed fields, and seeing the dry reeds that were almost cut in the entire reed field, Su Ze felt a little ashamed. Compared with the people of Changningwei, he was still too lazy.

Work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Life in the agricultural era is not leisurely picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, but endless farm work.

Eight or nine-year-old children have to help mow the grass at home. This is not the case in modern society where you can lie down and eat the old, and you can always have a bite to eat. Once the people stop in this era, they will starve to death without food and cannot burn. Fire freezes to death.

Take this reed field as an example, dry reeds are a very important output, and reed stalks are good fuel, which can be used to make fire and cook.

Cut off the dry reeds to make room for new reeds to grow, so that there will be more reeds in the coming year.

Agriculture is like this, asking for output from nature bit by bit.

And if you collect more fuel, you can burn more fire in winter, and you may survive the next winter.

What?You said you went up the mountain to cut down trees for the winter?

Not to mention the risk of going to the mountains to cut trees in this era, the mountains and swamps are all owned by the Ming court. If you cut trees without permission and the county knows, it may not be as simple as being fined by later generations.

Withdrawing their thoughts, Su Ze and Lin Liangjun continued to harvest reeds, and after a while they heard the cry of the little carrot head.

"Brother Aze! Yellow fish!"

Su Ze hurried over and saw a strange kind of grass.

The leaves of this grass are green, but have the same knotted woody stems as bamboo.

Su Ze immediately pinched off a few yellow croakers, put them carefully in his collar, and said to Lin Liangjun:

"Okay, let's go back."

After returning to the beach, the children had stirred the beach full of seawater the day before, and the seawater had evaporated a lot. Su Ze asked them to dig out the sea mud soaked in seawater and spread it on flat stones to dry.

Su Ze started carpentry work before the big pit was dug. He nailed some wood into a wooden frame, nailed it to the bottom of the wooden frame with bamboo slices horizontally, and laid reed poles vertically.

Su Ze put the wooden frame on the big pit, and stepped on it with his feet. After confirming that it was firm, he asked the little radish heads to carry the dried sea mud over.

Su Ze gave Lin Liangjun another wooden bucket and asked him to fetch seawater from the sea, then spread the sea mud on the wooden frame, and said to Lin Liangjun:
"Slowly pour sea water into the box."

The splashing seawater poured into the frame, and the filter device composed of reeds and sea mud flushed the dried salt in the sea mud and seawater into the big pit below.

Su Ze asked another child with the lightest weight to stand on the wooden frame to squeeze out the seawater in the sea mud.

After repeatedly washing the sea mud, Su Ze finally got a puddle of brine.

He took out the yellow croaker from his collar, pulled out the leaves of the weeds, and threw the wooden stems into the brine pit.

When Su Ze visited Yantian with his mentor for the first time, he was amazed at the wisdom of the ancient working people.

The stem of the yellow croaker is a primitive salinity meter, its density is equivalent to that of saturated brine, as long as the yellow croaker floats on the brine, it means that the salt content is saturated.

If the salinity is not enough, the yellow croaker will sink into the brine, and it will need to be exposed to the sun for a period of time until the salinity of the seawater evaporates to reach the standard.

This time Su Ze was lucky, the yellow croaker was floating on the brine, and the salinity reached the standard!

Su Ze quickly scooped up the brine with a ladle, and then carefully scooped it into the rock plate dug a few days ago.

After Su Ze was busy with all this, the rocks were full of ponds filled with brine, and the blue sky was printed backwards, as if pieces of blue crystals were all over the beach.

Su Ze raised his head to look at the sun, and now it was three poles high, which was when the sun was at its strongest.

It is only March now, and although the sun is not as hot as in summer, there is enough salt in the sun.

This is the ancient method of drying salt that Su Ze once read.

Store seawater, dry salt mud, collect sand, filter, dry salt, and collect salt.

Although every step is not difficult, compared with the mainstream method of boiling salt to make salt in this era, the benefits of drying salt method are too many.

It saves fuel and does not require brine. The only disadvantage is that there are too few stone plates for drying salt, and the efficiency is lower.

In the past few days, Su Ze has carved out a total of seven large stone plates. According to Su Ze's estimation, one large stone plate can produce about one kilogram of salt.

Sure enough, by two or three o'clock in the afternoon, some stone plates had already begun to have crystals.

Is this salt? !

The little radish head looked at the stone plate with some excitement, it can produce salt without cooking!Is this scholar so good?
Naturally, Su Ze would not explain the principle of drying salt to them, but quickly greeted the carrot heads and asked them to scrape off the precipitated salt crystals with bamboo slices.

When it was four o'clock in the afternoon, Su Ze estimated that according to the Ming Dynasty's two catties, a total of ten catties of salt was dried out today.

Lin Liangjun looked at the bluish-white salt, could it be refined salt?

He squeezed a pinch of salt into his mouth, then spat it out.

It's still bitter!

Although it is not as bitter as brine, there is still a slight bitter taste in the salt. There is no way to sell such salt as refined salt!
Now Lin Liangjun sat on the ground in disappointment. After working for so many days, she produced ten catties of coarse salt.

The rough salt bricks in the salt field at the night market that day were only worth a hundred renminbi for ten catties, and less than one tael of silver for ten days and a half a month.

Moreover, coarse salt is not easy to sell in Fujian, and it is not known whether the coarse salt can be sold. The more Lin Liangjun thought about it, the more he felt uncomfortable.

Su Ze also tasted it, and it still had a slightly bitter taste, but it met his requirements.

After carrying the prepared coarse salt back to the family temple and sending the radish heads home, Su Ze closed the gate of the family temple.

The next step is to purify the coarse salt to remove the most important part of the bitter taste!
There was a burst of bean fragrance from the backyard, and the busy and sweaty little radish head Lin Cainiang put down the pot and spoon, and said to Su Ze:

"Brother, I've cooked the soy milk you asked for!"

Lin Cainiang exited the kitchen obediently and said:

"I'm going to study, brother, you are busy."

Su Ze couldn't help feeling that the children of poor families had long been in charge of the family. Lin Cainiang knew that Su Ze was busy making money, so she naturally knew that such important things should not be snooped casually, so she ran away after finding a reason.

But Su Ze also knew the reason why Huai Bi was guilty. Some things were kept from them to protect everyone.

Su Ze poured the salt into the iron pot, then poured the mountain spring water that had settled overnight, stuffed the reed sticks into the stove, and melted the coarse salt that was so hard to dry in the sun.

Holding his breath, Su Ze scooped a large spoonful of soy milk into the brine. A large piece of thick foam appeared on the originally transparent salt water. Su Ze carefully skimmed off the foam with a spoon.

After skimming off the froth, Su Ze scooped up the soy milk and added it to the salt water, repeating until the froth stopped appearing after adding the soy milk.

At this time, Su Ze added reeds to the stove, and the cauldron boiled violently, and the water was gradually boiled dry, turning into snow-white salt foam.

Su Ze dipped some of it with his hands, and sure enough, the bitter taste was gone, and the coarse salt had turned into refined salt!
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