Wolf King

Chapter 39: salt

When Xiao Yun first came through, the body he inherited from the original owner was completely a stunted bean sprout. The upper and lower ribs of the chest were clearly visible, his hands and feet were as thin as stalks, and his head was shorter than his two-year-old wool girl by half.

At present, Xiao Yun still hasn't caught up with the wool girl, but somehow there is a lot of meat on the body...The gene of the snow werewolf has evolved towards the muscle brother, and the labor of eating meat for the past six months has successfully put his body inside. The snow werewolf's genetic role has been brought into play. If it wasn't all surrounded by a bunch of muscle brothers, Xiao Yun could also pat his chest and said that he was very healthy and beautiful.

In short, Xiao Yun, who has successfully strengthened his body and raised his body to a healthy physique, proposed that he should take the team to the South Inland Sea. The tribe will not worry at least that he will die halfway and never come back.

The patriarch who has finalized the team and repeatedly told the housekeeper to remember the main points of the work in the tribe during his departure, and let the IQ ball more reliable. Look at the ball more...I also talked to Thrall in private. Only then did Xiao Yun take the team out with confidence.

As for Qingyan... Qingyan must take him away. He was able to see that Qingyan was nothing wrong with Dahe, saying that these two were fine and that he was unbelievable.

If Qingyan is also a snow werewolf, then Xiao Yun has nothing to say. How free is he to take care of other people's free love? But it’s a black panther! Reproductive isolation! The species are different, and they scratch their hair, so he has to do this great thing!

The team of eight people left the tribe and headed south, wading across the river, past the grasslands in the southwest that had not been used since last year, and walking south for more than three hours, a part of the jungle appeared at the end of sight.

It is said to go south along the jungle, but you can't really go next to it... this jungle has spread freely for thousands of years, and its edges are not smooth like giant jagged teeth. It really has to go along the jungle. Go wrong.

The sun gradually moved to the top of the sky, and the temperature rose to the hottest part of the day. The jungle in the distance, the water vapor evaporated by the sun refracted the dazzling halo, and the grass blades higher than people under the feet occasionally scraped the arms and legs of the dew; people walking on the grassland seemed to die by the dazzling sunlight Dead on the ground, fortunately, the vast world in front of me does not make people feel depressed.

Xiao Yun took off his thin snakeskin coat and stuffed it into the pocket of animal skin that he was carrying. After the temperature rose to twenty degrees Celsius, both the snow werewolf and the rabbit were up shirtless, but he really didn't have this shirtless habit, and Hongye threw the python molt picked up on patrol and made him cool. Snake leather clothing-this thing is still very popular among the grassland residents, but they are used to make leather pants, not as wasteful as him.

The seven people who walked in front of Xiao Yun, including Qingyan, had taken off only the rattan shoes... The air-tight animal hide pants were too sweaty. When the road was full of sweat between the legs, it felt very bad. .

Um... Although I understand the fruity behavior of this group of guys, Xiao Yun walking at the end is still not as hot as eyes...six white butts plus a black **** sway in front of the eyes, who is this sour taste who knows.

Uncle Ashan was quite heart-warming. After running for a while, he turned back and asked, "Ayun, can you still run? If you feel tired, just say, I will carry you."

"It's okay, no need." Xiao Yun refused decisively. At this temperature, the snow werewolf could not become a wolf, and he did not want to lie on the same-sex back.

"Then you have to keep up!"

The red leaves in the front two positions turned back: "It's okay, we all stared behind the dots, and Ayun couldn't drop the team."

Xiao Yun silently looked away. It is true that the female were naked and the buttocks of the snow werewolf are the same as the male, but the brother who lacked a piece of meat between his legs would still be blind if he looked at it more...

Six hours after departure, a group of people entered a strange world where the soldiers on patrol had never set foot in. Fortunately, the soldiers have the ability to discern the direction. This requirement of going all the way to the south is not a problem even if there is no compass.

"There are more and more trees in the forest." Qingyan, who is the best at recognizing the road, ran ahead and led the team around a forest. Qingyan slowed down a bit. "If there are all forests in front, it may not be easy to detour. Do you wear it from the forest?"

"No, it's better to get around." Xiao Yun thought for a moment. The grassland dwellers do not have a good understanding of the jungle. They are not the homeland of the grassland dwellers.

"In that case, we may have to walk a lot more. The further south, the larger the area of ​​the jungle." Qingyan Road.

......The crow mouth of the goods was still efficacious, and another hour later, the crowd was blocked by a large jungle of grassland that "whacked" the grassland.

"Hoo... Huo..." Xiao Yun, who was gasping, looked up to the east of the roadblock, and suddenly his eyelids jumped. Especially, he couldn't see the end...

"If it's around, it's really not a matter of walking a little bit more. But... no one has a topographic map in this direction. Who knows whether to go to the beach from this direction, do you need to go through part of the jungle? But the head It’s not a problem for Tie to go inside, maybe it’s going to go deep into the jungle and completely stray away from the Inland Sea..." Xiao Yun had a headache. He had thought that it would be difficult to open a new map of the wasteland, but he didn’t think about going out on the first day Trouble your face.

The others looked at him and waited for his opinion. Xiao Yun hesitated or decided... to go around. After all, the jungle is really not the home of the grassland residents. Even if it is more detours, it is safer to walk on the grassland that everyone is accustomed to.

Resting in place, Qingyan went to find some wild fruits that he could find in summer, and everyone ate some dried meat and dried radish brought out of the tribe. After the rest, Hongye and Yu went to the forest to break a tree, hug it, insert it on the ground to make a road sign, and the group set off again.

This walk was a full two and a half days...On the evening of the third day, everyone walked out of the jungle area blocking the road, and the vast prairie that everyone was familiar with again appeared in the direction of the south.

Um... the scenery in this place is a little different from the previous one. It is more similar to the geographical environment of the Tauren tribe. There are more low mountain bags, Chuanxi Jianquan is spread among the bushes, the woodland is more dense, large and small Swamps are more common.

"The terrain here is lower and the water is more intense."

When walking around a forest that was soaked in the lower half of the quagmire, a group of people found that the muddy ponds in the forest that were not visible at the end were actually illuminated by the sun, which surprised everyone who had never seen this kind of landscape. Hulianlian—Xiao Yun knows the basic knowledge of light refraction. This forest should be covered with anaerobic bacteria that have been soaked in the quagmire for many years and fermented by the humus layer. When the sunlight comes in from the side, this kind of spectacular The light refracts the scene. (People who have lived in old residential areas are estimated to have seen stinking ditch shining bright light to the sun...)

"It's so natural to be able to plan back the mud in this forest." When the tribes were amazed, Xiao Yun sighed inwardly.

On the afternoon of the fifth day after departure, when crossing a rolling low mountain range, Xiao Yun felt the breath of the sea breeze with the salty taste of sea waves and low-pressure hot wind——

"What a big river!" Asante looked afar in amazement, raised his arms and pointed hard, "Look, there is no end to that river!"

They stood at the top of the mountain at this moment. Although the height of the mountain is short, the white dome should be there. The farther below the dense jungle, at the end of the line of sight, is an endless wave connected to the sky.

"It's not a river, it should be the Inner Sea." Xiao Yun couldn't help being excited. "We found the seaside, that's the sea, and the sea is endless salt!"

Everyone froze for a while, then cheered...

"what!"

An elf jumping between the treetops of the jungle suddenly slipped on his feet and fell forward. Fortunately, he was flexible and quickly reached out to grab the vines on the tree and hang his body, so as to avoid planting one end on the ground.

"Kay?" The companion in front of him paused and looked back suspiciously.

"Haline, have you heard howling wolves?" The frightened Kaiser grabbed the vine and looked around.

"Wolves howling can scare you like this? Then you should go back, don't drag me down." Companion Hailin frowned and said unkindly.

"No, not ordinary wolf howl, much like the wolf howl of the snow werewolf." Kai quickly explained, "Do you remember the conscription order issued by the elven king eleven years ago, I participated in the recruitment and left our hometown to go Northern King City—"

"Enough, Kay, I know you are the most glorious thing to participate in the battle of the King City, you don't need to show it again and again." Hailin said displeasedly.

"I don't want to show off, I really think the wolf howling just like the snow werewolf's voice!" Kay dropped the vines, jumped more than four meters and settled beside his companions, trying to compare his hands with his hands. "The Snow Werewolf hit the King City, and the monsters as powerful as the top Warcraft defeated the elf king's army..."

Hailin bounced her feet, jumped to a branch six meters away and stood still, looking back at her companion in disgust: "Okay, Kay, we are just here to rescue our tribes who were taken away by human merchant ships, our enemies. There are no snow werewolves. If you are even afraid of humans, then you can go back now."

"Hi, I'm really not..."

Kay hurried to catch up, but Hailin didn't mean to wait for him, and a few bounces left him behind.

From the top of the mountain outside the forest, the snow wolves happily moved stones and wood, put up high road signs in the most conspicuous places, and then happily rushed down the mountain and broke into the jungle they did not like.

When viewed from the top of the mountain, the jungle up to two kilometers deep took more than an hour for the snow wolves. Finally, they wore out of the jungle that made them uncomfortable, and ran for more than half an hour. On the cliff-yes, there is no beach, no soft sand, the border between the land and the ocean in this direction is a steep cliff of tens of meters high, even cats can not climb this kind.

The tribes who were ready to cheer again were dumbfounded and looked at Xiao Yun with dull faces.

"...Let's look down the mountain cliff, it's impossible that it's all this cliff... It should be the relationship between the terrain near the jungle, and it can't be the same elsewhere." Xiao Yun wiped his sweat and gave it to everyone Encourage.

The land close to the sea, the greater the difference in the west, can only go east. The farther away from the jungle, the flatter the terrain becomes, and after more than two hours, Xiao Yun finally saw a natural beach that fits his knowledge of the seaside-on the coastline that can't see the end, the vegetation and the sea compete for each other Between the territories, the white and soft beach glowed with a faint glimmer under the setting sun; the soft and moist sand was covered with rich marine products left after the tide fell, and the flocks of seabirds rose and fell on the beach in an elegant manner Doing the job of a predator.

"The sea!" Xiao Yun opened his arms excitedly, venting the pressure that had been accumulated in his heart after stepping on the journey with a roar.

"Aoao Aoao Aoao Salt Salt Salt Salt!"

The snow wolves destroyed Xiao Yun's rare excitement in less than half a second, and each big white **** arched Xiao Yun and spread his feet to the beach.

"Ahhhhhhhh!--"

......Then the gang was pushed back again by a comeback attempt to recover the lost ground, and escaped a staggered helmet.

"..." Xiao Yun put his hand on his forehead. "Don't play anymore. We need to hurry up and get some salt while we take a break, and we will all return."

"Oh." The snow wolves who came down to the Mawei, who was under the sea, glanced with fear in the sea waves that slowly retreated, and walked back honestly.

Before going halfway, Ayue suddenly jumped up: "Aoao, something caught my foot!"

"I told you to take the animal skin and wrap your feet. Your feet are all exposed outside the rattan shoes... what is this?" The red leaf who wanted to help was startled.

"I don't know, what is this!" A Yue flicked her feet desperately.

"Crab! Crab! Just step on it!" Xiao Yun was angry.

"The crab is still so big?" Ayue, who had clipped her toes, was still in shock. She even showed her finger. "Isn't it only so big?"

"Do you feel pain in the end!" Xiao Yun shouted.

"Pain! Hongye will help me step on!"

"Then don't jump around!"

Xiao Yun was too lazy to take care of them, and looked away from the corner of his mouth... and then he saw Qingyan hiding shivering behind the old man.

"A lot of water!" Qing Yan glared at him with a terrified look.

Xiao Yun: "..."

……wait for a second.

Jumping on a flat ground in the vegetation-occupied area on the coast, unwrapping the bag, firing the earthenware pot, boiling the dried meat with fresh water taken from the jungle, and eating it with dried radish, Xiao Yun led Everyone leveled the salting ground.

It takes a lot of manpower to cook salt, and it takes too much time to dry salt, so Xiao Yun plans to make salt in two steps at the same time: use the **** to dig out a large salt field, inject shallow seawater, let the wind and sunlight help evaporate part of the water, and then Then use the concentrated sea water to cook-if it is purely boiled, the clay pot can't stand such a toss.

After shaving off the vegetation, cutting logs from the jungle and tamping the ground, the two acres of salt fields were worked out overnight. After pouring a layer of seawater into it, everyone fell tired and fell asleep. The next day, he was woken up by the sun and twittering birds, and when he got up to watch, the seawater in the salt fields had evaporated a lot.

Sun salt, the larger the contact surface of seawater and air, the larger the evaporation area, which can effectively shorten the evaporation cycle. However, Xiao Yun has no modern handy tools to rely on, and can only take the most stupid manual method... Two straight wooden sticks are tied into a T shape, and when the sun is at its maximum, standing on the side of the salt pan holding the long end, will The wooden stick of "One" slowly pushed the salt water in the salt field, which increased the contact area between the flowing salt water and the air.

As for the others, they will continue to level out the new salt fields and consolidate the fields...

Xiao Yun has never seen a calendar like this since he came to this world. The nomadic grassland residents are not very particular about observing solar terms. The only farming ethnic Tauren has the consciousness of attaching importance to climate change, but their main ethnic base It is far from enough to create solar terms and create a Gregorian calendar...So Xiao Yun can be described as living alive for years.

However, judging from the common sense of the climate on the earth, this short period of time with an average daily maximum temperature of only more than two months per year can reach about 30 degrees, it should be that the hottest July and August of each year do not run...

Only two months in a year can have such a temperature, Xiao Yun naturally hopes to get more salt back, so that the tribe can work hard to open the salt field-anyway, it can’t be wasted, and it can be used next year. .

On the fifth day after the salt drying began, the first two salt fields developed under the evaporation of sunlight and wind became a more viscous and thicker saturated solution. The curious tribes left their jobs and ran over to watch, and the red leaves reached out and dipped in the solution. Licking his tongue, he suddenly showed a surprised expression: "It tastes bitter, but it's a bit bitter."

"Don't try it out, it's not filtered yet, the brine is poisonous." Xiao Yun bluffed and hurriedly drove the gang of curious babies away from the salt field.

The crystals obtained by directly drying the water in seawater cannot be said to be directly salt, but there are still other impurities in it, which can only be regarded as coarse salt, industrial salt, and have a relatively heavy bitter taste. Long-term consumption is harmful to the body. If it is used as salt You have to filter it.

It is easy to filter the salt brine... Xiao Yun took out the cloth (the finer linen) from the patriarch A, wrapped it in charcoal taken out of the fire, stretched it over the mouth of the pot, and then dug the wood The spoon scoops up the salt brine in the salt field, pours it into a clay pot and filters it with charcoal wrapped in cloth.

The snow wolves have opened 20 salt fields. At this moment, no one wants to go, and they crouch beside them to watch Xiao Yun operate curiously. Yu especially took it seriously, a pair of pale green pupils stared at him.

Xiao Yun is also willing to make people think more and more clever. When everyone is so curious, he will explain to everyone: "The salt in sea water is cooked directly into salt crystals, which is also edible, but the taste will be more bitter, because the sea water There are too many impurities in the salt... Of course, as far as impurities are concerned, we don’t lose the green salt that we bought with the human caravan. It’s all about processing well salt that is not in place.

"I use charcoal to filter impurities in salt brine like me. It can't be said that all impurities can be filtered clean, but it can effectively filter out most of the impurities, so the salt obtained does not have that bitter taste." Xiao Yun moved away The charcoal pack on the mouth of the clay pot poured the filtered salt brine into the ceramic bowl for everyone to see, "Look, is the color of this salt brine lighter than that in the salt field?"

The six Snow Werewolves squatting side by side, plus a black panther, looked at the pottery bowl, and then the Yantian. Their nodding movements were particularly uniform.

"Filter twice more."

Xiao Yun shook the linen and rewrapped the charcoal and stretched it to another earthen pot. If he filtered this pot of salt and brine three times, he handed it to Ah Shan and let him cook it into crystals.

When Ah Shan walked aside holding the pottery to make a fire, Yu showed a struggling expression...He wanted to follow Ah Shan to see how the salt water turned into salt, but worried that he wouldn’t see if he walked away. Ayun's next operation.

"Maomao, go help Ashan. I will filter the salt brine next time. It's better to cook more salt." Xiao Yun was a little funny, pretending not to notice Yu's careful thought, and pretending not to care.

"..." Yu opened his mouth and closed it again. He wanted to say that I didn't call Maomao...but this is not the time to say this.

A Shan is afraid of burning the pottery pot, and slowly cook it on a low heat until the sun is slanting, and the salt and brine in the pottery pot will evaporate the water vapor and become a bit blue salt crystal in the white.

"It's really salt!" Ah Shan carefully held the pottery pot on the sand, tasted it with some salt on his finger, and immediately smiled, "It's not bitter at all, it's better than the green salt for the horns!" "

Yu is not as excited as he is to get salt simply and directly like Ashan. He dipped a bit of salt in a pilgrimage and tasted the taste, feeling the pure saltiness in his mouth. Yu suddenly felt hot eyes...

Xiao Yun's tribe lost a lot of warriors and couldn't keep the grassland before they went downhill. If we can say salt-horned cattle, they are really not lacking. But Yu is different... The tribe of Yu who lived on the southwestern side of the grassland for decades has never been wealthy. In order to ensure the salt in the tribe, they have really been very difficult these years.

But now, just spend five or six days to go to the beach, and another five or six days to dry salt and boil salt, you can get the salt that has been stuck in the neck of their tribes-think about how to save the horns every year. Hungry didn't dare to slaughter the cow. This huge drop really complicated Yu's mood.

A Shan was happy to get the salt. Soon after, he began to check the pottery pot distressedly, whispering that it should never be burnt out, etc., and he heard Yu feel more complicated... The cost of salt, it is really kind to think about it!

Ah Shan’s worry, it’s true that the earthenware pot can’t withstand long-term cooking. After boiling the salt brine in the two salt fields into a small half of the bag of salt, the six earthenware pots brought out are broken...

The snow wolves were heartbroken, and Qingyan also had a painful appearance. Xiao Yun had to let them run around to find if there was a stone slab of the right size. Anyway, there were enough trees and firewood around it. Come to "roast" the salt.

Ashan and Qingyan went to the west, and Hongye and Yujie went east. The two walked along the vegetation along the coastline and groped all the way. It really made them find a rocky beach at the place where the beach is separated by the protruding cliffs of the sea. At the end of the rocky beach, you can see an amazing size. Cave.

"Maybe there?"

Hongye's eyes lit up, jumped down quickly, and ran to the chaotic rocky beach. I don’t know if this place has experienced changes in the bottom crust, such as earthquakes. The rocks on the rocky beach look like they were formed by the collapse of the cliffs. Under the impact of the seawater, the part near the sea The stones were washed into a more rounded shape.

The two searched around the rocky beach, and they saw a lot of strange-shaped stones, but a little thinner, barely regarded as slate, but did not see...

"Otherwise we will find a bigger stone and use Ayun's method of roasting and flushing cold water to divide it into two halves from the middle. Can you say red leaves?"

Yu felt that there was no hope of finding a ready-made slate, so he made an idea to ask Hongye for advice, and turned his head, but found that Hongye was staring at the direction of the cave with doubt, as if he didn't hear what he said.

"Hongye?" Yu called again.

"Ah." Hongye turned back and waved at him. "Yu, you come and listen to me. I just heard the voice of the person inside, but it disappeared again. I don't know if I heard it wrong?"

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