Chapter 175: Escape from the World of Beasts and Farming (3)
Chapter 175: Escape from the World of Beasts and Farming (3)
"Xiao Wei, please make me another meal, and I'll climb the tree to pick a bunch of berries for you." Hu Xi massaged Lin Qinghe's shoulders and back, and his big tail behind him kept shaking.
Lin Qinghe pointed at the thin stone slab and said, "Don't you already know how to make it? How many times have I fried meat?"
Ever since I made fried meat for Hu Xi last night, he has been eating it. The orcs in this world have a big appetite. Hu Xi has eaten 50 kilograms of meat in total.
Even so, he didn't die of fullness. The next day, he wanted Lin Qinghe to make him some fried meat.
"Brother, there is not much salt left at home." Lin Qinghe shook the little coarse salt left in a small stone cup.
The technology in the Orc world is immature, and the coarse salt granules are yellow, which shows that they have not been completely precipitated. When I ate it as a seasoning yesterday, it tasted bitter, astringent and salty.
"Oh, I ate too much yesterday. Today I will take some animal skins to exchange with the animals in the tribe." Hu Xi looked at the almost empty earthenware jar with heartache.
Salt is a necessity for the orcs, and it always tastes bitter and astringent, so everyone still trades with the Moo Moo Tribe that sells salt.
And because this kind of coarse salt is only available in the Moo Moo Tribe, the price is relatively high. It takes two complete animal hides and ten kilograms of meat to exchange for a small can of salt.
"Brother, I can make salt." Lin Qinghe reached out and grabbed Hu Xi who had just turned around.
The Fox Tribe is located near mountains and the sea, with the sea to the north, mountains to the south, and crisscrossing rivers to the east.
She can take sea water and extract refined salt, so that the Fox Tribe not only does not have to spend extra materials to exchange salt with the Moo Tribe, but can also be self-sufficient.
Hu Xi turned his head suspiciously and looked at Lin Qinghe, "You can make salt? Don't lie to me, I'm the smartest fox!"
"...Let's try it first. If it doesn't work, you can use the animal skins to exchange for salt." Lin Qinghe's eyes twitched, and he ignored Hu Xi's boasting.
Seeing that she didn't seem to be joking, Hu Xi couldn't help but mutter in his heart, he knew his own sister very well, how could a naive and lazy fox girl have the ability to make salt?
If they had this ability, the Moo Moo Tribe would have been unemployed long ago!
Although he had doubts in his heart, Hu Xi still indulged his sister in her mischief. He obediently went to get the stone pot, carried it in one hand, and walked behind Lin Qinghe, walking towards the beach not far away with her.
Anyway, if I can’t make it, I’ll just laugh at my sister, and then change it for some coarse salt in the afternoon.
I hunted three sheep and a wild boar a few days ago, enough for my family to eat for a few days.
The most primitive method of making sea salt is to "fry" or "boil". Frying is done in a pan and boiling is done in a pot. This is known as "boiling sea salt".
Lin Qinghe took out a porcelain bowl, a large piece of filter cloth, and an iron pot from the space. The stone pot that Hu Xi had taken was eliminated by her first. The thermal conductivity of stone is so poor that it would take a long time to cook the salt in a stone pot. How much firewood would be needed to make salt?
Hu Xi looked at the big black iron pot that suddenly appeared in front of him, and then looked at Lin Qinghe, "Where did you get this pot?"
"Brother, maybe God couldn't bear it anymore and gave me a pot." Lin Qinghe said calmly as he put the pot on the table.
"What about these? Is this also given to you by God because he couldn't bear it?" Hu Xi grabbed the filter cloth with one hand. What material is it?
He looked unconvinced, "How is that possible? Why doesn't God have mercy on me?"
"..." Lin Qinghe snatched the filter cloth and covered the iron pot with it. "Maybe it's because you're not handsome enough."
"Pull this piece of cloth and don't let it fall." Seeing Hu Xi's stiff face, she assigned him a task.
Make salt as early as possible and marinate the meat of the game so that it can be stored more easily and also help to survive the difficult winter that is coming.
Hu Xi obediently grabbed the cloth with both hands. Lin Qinghe took out a plastic bucket from the space, scooped half a bucket of water from the sea and poured it into the iron pot.
When Hu Xi saw Lin Qinghe lifting half a bucket of water with one hand, he looked incredulous, as if he had seen a ghost.
Oh my god, how did the fox girl become a strong man in just one day?
Before, she couldn’t even carry anything on her shoulders or with her hands!
After filtering the sea water three times repeatedly, Lin Qinghe took out a lighter from the space.
Hu Wei's body did not have any spiritual roots, so Lin Qinghe could not practice cultivation and naturally could not use spiritual fire. He could only light a fire and burn wood.
Fortunately, there is a vast forest stretching for thousands of miles near the mountain where the fox tribe lives, so they have no shortage of firewood. They just have to make several trips to chop wood and move the wood to the seaside.
Lin Qinghe kept watching the iron pot as it cooked and filtered. When the seawater was boiled to one eighth, white precipitates appeared intermittently at the bottom of the pot. This white stuff is called calcium sulfide and is not edible by humans.
Lin Qinghe filtered it again, and after filtering out all the white precipitates, what remained was highly concentrated salt water. She continued to add firewood to boil the salt, and when it started to bubble, she filtered it again. (It contained bitter magnesium oxide)
After filtering, a bowl of wet salt was obtained, and snow-white small particles appeared in front of Lin Qinghe and the others.
Hu Xi took advantage of Lin Qinghe's turning her head and secretly put some in her mouth.
"!!!" Very salty, and not bitter at all!
My sister really knows how to make salt! Hu Xi stared at Lin Qinghe with her fox eyes wide open, "How come you suddenly know how to do this?"
"Well, is it delicious? I'll use this to grill meat for you when we get back." Hu Xi's little movements naturally did not escape Lin Qinghe's consciousness. She lowered her head and touched the wet salt, then set the pan to fry the salt again.
The process of frying the salt to dry out the water was too laborious, so she simply put the small wooden spatula for frying salt into the hands of Hu Xi, whose eyes were shining, and said, "We'll leave after the salt water is dried up."
This porcelain bowl of salt is enough for two people to eat for a long time.
Hu Xi started stir-frying, and from time to time his eyes glanced at Lin Qinghe who was standing beside him supervising him.
Xiao Wei has become different from before, he thought.
Hu Xi couldn't tell exactly what was different, and he quickly glanced down at Lin Qinghe who was standing beside him. Xiao Wei still looked the same, but in his heart he felt that everything was different.
"I'm not her." When Hu Xi looked down at her for the tenth time, Lin Qinghe raised her eyes and met his suspicious gaze.
Hu Xi instantly became nervous, but he could feel that Lin Qinghe in front of him had no ill intentions.
"She will come back, but not now." Lin Qinghe saw that the salt in the pot was fried, so he took a porcelain bowl and put it in it.
Hearing Lin Qinghe's words, Hu Xi's fluttering tail slowly relaxed. He was just saying, how could his stupid Xiao Wei know so many weird things?
"Let's go." Now that he had confessed, Lin Qinghe would no longer call this orc who was more than a hundred years younger than him "brother", as it would be an unnecessary downgrade.
"Oh, okay." Hu Xi followed Lin Qinghe, who was walking in front, carrying the stone pot. He also wanted to help carry the iron pot and other things, but Lin Qinghe put them back into the space one by one, so he could only carry the stone pot.
"So when will you get out of my sister's body?"
"next year."
"Did my sister agree to your being here?"
"Yes."
"So what are you doing here?"
“……”I’m here to save your life.
The two walked all the way back home, and Lin Qinghe dragged out a dead sheep.
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