Chapter 44: Build a pot of silver

When Longyue came back from collecting salt and soil, she saw the emperor's father sending Dr. Huang out.

Because he was worried that the camp would be attacked by snakes again at night, Xu Jingyang asked Dr. Huang for some medicine that could deworm snakes.

Longyue thought to herself that the weather is getting colder. If someone hadn't deliberately put it on, there wouldn't be any more poisonous snakes in the future.

This time, Longyue asked someone to rebuild a large tent in the open space, which was specially used to make earthen salt.

Since I have made brine once, Xu Jia and others are very comfortable to do this this time.

Longyue held a small stool and supervised the worker. Eryaniang occasionally fed Longyue some watery sweet berries.

Now in Eryaniang's eyes, Xiaolongyue is simply omnipotent, smart and clever. Compared with the two fools in her family, one is the bright moon in the sky and the other is the gua gua on the ground.

The other people in the Xu family looked at Longyue now, just like looking at a prodigy, with joy and ecstasy in their eyes.

However, the most popular figure among boys is Chen Yinxing, who prefers to follow Chen Yinxing to dance with swords and guns.

Today's lunch is grilled fish. After the fish are smoked with lemongrass, it tastes unique.

Although the grilled fish tastes good, anyone will get tired of eating fish and shrimp after eating for seven or eight days.

Longyue sighed and said, "Oh, hurry up and make money and eat rice as soon as possible."

After lunch, the others were busy making salted brine, while Yokomori collected the wood ash produced when grilling fish.

Then she soaked the wood ash in a basin of clear water and brought it to the sun.

"Huh? Sister Yue'er, what are you doing?" Erya, who was playing with mud, saw Longyue busy, and wanted to come over to help.

Longyue pointed to the water basin, then smiled mysteriously and said, "I'm making magic potions."

"By the way, Sister Erya's hand is the most clever one. Can you help me weave a spoon with rattan? It will be useful." Longyue said, taking out a few collected rattans.

"Yeah, no problem." Hearing the praise of his skill, Erya happily ran away with the rattan.

A few hours later, after a few young men from the Xu family had a pause, the thick brine flowed down the sack and into the wooden barrel.

The filtered brine was clear and clear. Longyue put her fingers in and dipped them in some salt water and put them into her mouth.

Well, the saltiness is enough, and we can proceed to the third step next.

The third step is boiling salt, which is also the most difficult and complicated step.

Pour the brine into a large iron pot and boil it over high heat, and immediately use firewood to slowly burn it, which means tightening the heat and slowing it down, because you are afraid that the salt that is about to form will float away with the hot air.

Looking at the boiling large iron pot, Longyue nodded with satisfaction, and then slowly poured a scoop of clear wood ash water along the center of the pot.

When the boiling concentrated salt water encounters the ash water of plants, it instantly sprinkles in the pot. At this time, it should be changed to a slow fire immediately. Then, the saturated concentrated salt water will form granular crystal salt during the slow boiling process.

Yue'er's operation made everyone very curious. Xu Jia pointed to the scoop of grass and ash water and asked, "Sister Yue'er, why do you need to add this at this time?"

Longyue put the water scoop aside: "Because only by adding this scoop of wood ash water, the salt produced by boiling will not be eaten to death~"

This method has been tried by the Chinese nation for thousands of years. I don’t know how many people died of eating poisonous salt.

"Everyone remember that this step is the most critical step in the salt boiling process. The brine brine contains toxic substances such as magnesium chloride, calcium chloride magnesium sulfate, etc., so quicklime needs to be added to remove it, but there is not here, so I used wood ash water instead." Longyue said it all, regardless of whether others could understand it.

"Ohhh" everyone nodded like pounding garlic, but they didn't understand it much.

But no matter what, just remember to add wood ash water at this step.

Later, Erya brother Xu Wei was responsible for adding fire, Xu Jia was responsible for stirring, stirring while cooking, and others were ready to change hands at any time.

Time passes by minute by minute, and as it is boiled, a layer of white scale gradually appears on the bottom of the pot. This scale is also called water alkali, which will reduce the quality of the salt and need to be scooped off.

At this time, Longyue took out the spoon woven by Erya with rattan.

Erya’s skill in weaving spoons is really uncommon. The spoon is weaving loosely and there are loopholes everywhere.

But Longyue looked very satisfied because she needed a spoon

After removing the scale with a colander, wait until the pot is boiled until it is bubbled and the water evaporated to dryness, a layer of yellowed crystal is attached to the inner wall of the iron pot.

Yoko took out the crystals with a spatula and colander and spread them in a basket with cloth pieces.

This yellowed white crystal is salt, which is not very beautiful now.

Then, Longyue took some clean water and sprayed it gently on the crystals.

The clean water takes away the stains on the crystal surface, making the crystal whiter.

Then, Longyue grinds the dried crystals with a small stone mill for a few times. After a while, the crystals are ground into snow-white fine salts.

Longyue grabbed a handful of snow-white salt particles with fresh and salty smell and gently rubbed it on her fingertips.

Feeling the delicate salt grains at her fingertips, she also felt a sense of accomplishment in her heart.

Wow~ It was a very successful first time!

Next is the drug test.

In fact, adding wood ash water has already removed a lot of harmful substances, but for the sake of safety, Longyue decided to test it.

Since there were no jealous mice, Longyue asked someone to catch a few mice to try them.

Soon, the fish with fine salt was divided up by rats.

After a few hours, the mice were still alive.

It seems that there is no problem with this salt.

Looking at the white salt particles in front of them, ecstasy and heat gradually emerged in everyone's eyes.

"Hahaha! I'm going to make a fortune! I'm going to make a fortune!" Everyone cheered and excited.

You know, this pot of soil can make two pounds of salt, and one pound of salt can be sold for two ounces of silver in Dayuan!

Moreover, the raw materials are not expensive and cannot be used inexhaustible.

Everyone looked at the salt pot again and looked almost crazy. This was not a pot of salt water, it was clearly a pot of silver!

"Haha, I'm going to make a fortune! I'm going to make a fortune! Yue'er, you are so amazing!" Eryaniang hugged Longyue and kissed her fiercely.

Others also rushed up and threw the moon high, and their excitement was beyond words.

Just as everyone was cheering, the keen Shen Yinxing suddenly turned around and looked out of the tent.

"Shh!"

Shen Yinxing raised a finger to his mouth, signaling everyone to keep silent.

Seeing Shen Yinxing's actions, everyone realized that something was wrong outside and immediately became quiet.

Then, Shen Yinxing moved to the tent lightly, then reached out and suddenly lifted the door curtain.

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