Chapter 35 Collecting Salt Mine! Xu Lun's Confidence!
"Chu Lan, why do you know so much?"
Sensing Chu Lan's confident tone, Shen Qingyue couldn't help but ask.
"Well..."
Chu Lan was also surprised that the knowledge she just absorbed today was used again.
However, he couldn't answer Shen Qingyue's question. After all, he couldn't just say he had just learned it.
"To be honest, I learned it when I was young and went hunting in the mountains with my grandfather."
Hearing this, the corners of Shen Qingyue's eyes twitched a few times.
What about the liar?
His grandfather died when Chu Lan was six or seven years old. Even if he really took Chu Lan to the mountains and learned something, more than ten years later, he would have forgotten everything.
However, Shen Qingyue was not prepared to expose Chu Lan, but instead looked at him with a smile.
"It's really hard to lie."
Chu Lan touched her chin and turned her gaze to the small piece of salt mine.
"There are many animals near the salt mine, so we must be careful."
Unlike humans who replenish salt through table salt, animals obtain it in various ways.
For example, carnivores drink the blood of their prey to replenish their energy.
Herbivores lick saline land or salt ore.
Therefore, it was discovered that the role of the salt mine is not only to produce salt, but also to wait for animals to come to replenish the salt.
Of course, where there are animals, there will be killing, and there may also be those ferocious predators here, waiting for an opportunity to stare at the prey in front of them.
After confirming that there were no animals around, the two came to the salt mine.
Maybe it's because of the light problem. When you look at the salt mine up close, it's not as white as before. Most of it looks light gray, and a small part looks white. But it's not snow white, it's more yellowish and milky white.
"There are many more impurities than expected."
Chu Lan frowned and said.
Although making salt from salt mines is good, it also depends on the purity of the finished salt.
Compared with making salt from seawater, the risk is much smaller. After all, there are some heavy metals in seawater that are harmful to humans.
However, if the impurities cannot be removed to a certain extent when the salt is produced from salt mines, it will still be harmful to the human body if consumed for a long time.
But Chu Lan has no choice. Salt is very important to humans. Without salt intake, humans will soon become weak, listless, and even have muscle twitches, which is very dangerous.
"Then do we still use it?"
There was a hint of sadness in Shen Qingyue's eyebrows.
She doesn't know as much as Chu Lan, but she is still very clear about the importance of salt.
"Of course, and today's task is to boil salt!"
Chu Lan's eyes were as bright as a torch and her tone was firm.
"Can......"
Shen Qingyue thought of food.
The remaining smoked rabbit meat is only enough for two meals. If you spend your time making salt today, you will probably be hungry tomorrow.
"I understand your concerns."
Before Shen Qingyue could speak, Chu Lan spoke first.
"After we filled our backpacks with salt ore, we went to the grass to set up traps."
"As for whether he can be caught, it depends on God's will."
Shen Qingyue nodded and relaxed inside.
For some reason, she had an inexplicable sense of trust in Chu Lan.
It seems that everything Chu Lan does can meet the original expectations.
But indeed, Chu Lan has not let her down so far.
Next is the work of collecting salt mines.
It seems very simple, but in fact it is very troublesome, especially when two people only have one engineering shovel.
Moreover, when shoveling salt mines, there will be bursts of noise, which can easily attract some animals.
Therefore, after the two of them combined, one person would definitely shovel the mine, while the other person would be responsible for walking around to prevent animal attacks.
For this reason, Chu Lan also spent some time using an engineer shovel to chip a wooden gun and used it as Shen Qingyue's weapon.
Although Shen Qingyue has never used it, she is still very satisfied.
"The length is just right!"
Shen Qingyue smiled.
As a disciple of traditional Chinese medicine, she has naturally learned self-defense techniques, and her best skill is the stick technique.
That's right.
She was going to use the spear as a stick.
As for why Chu Lan should go to extra trouble and spend all his energy sharpening the tip of his spear.
It is naturally used when giving an animal a killing blow.
Get a stick. No matter how powerful Shen Qingyue is, she can't solve the problem by killing animals.
After Shen Qingyue patrolled around with a spear, Chu Lan also started her own work.
Standing by the salt mine, Chu Lan stepped on the salt mine and shoveled hard at the white rock salt with the engineering shovel in her hand.
Bang!
A harsh sound sounded, and the white rock salt remained motionless, causing Chu Lan's mouth to tremble in pain.
Looking at the few grains of rock salt on the ground, Chu Lan's mouth twitched and she began to cry in her heart.
"No way, so hard?"
At the same time, Xu Lun and Wang Chen were hiding by the grass with excited faces. There was a hare grazing in front of them. Their ears were constantly swinging back and forth vigilantly, trying to hear all the strange noises around them.
"Brother Xu, if we catch this rabbit, we will be blessed."
Wang Chen's eyes widened, and he could only feel the uncontrollable secretion of saliva. Even if he took the rabbit out of his mind, it would not help.
"Don't worry, it's very alert now."
Xu Lun narrowed his eyes and whispered.
I have to say that this group is relatively lucky.
I met a badger yesterday and a hare today.
"Damn it, I didn't catch the badger yesterday. Although Wang Chen didn't say anything, I still noticed the contempt in his eyes."
Xu Lun thought in his mind.
Who is he? How can an expert in the field of survival in the Chinese wilderness be despised by an ordinary person?
He must perform well today. He still remembers that this is a global live broadcast. With his reputation, there will definitely be tens of millions of viewers watching the live broadcast, maybe even hundreds of millions.
He has some experience in catching hares, after all, he has caught them twice.
But it took a lot of effort at that time.
He is not as skilled in archery as Chu Lan, but he has the ability to throw.
He played hut and hit the mark nine times out of ten.
"If you're not really hungry, there's no need to go to such trouble."
Xu Lun thought to himself while staring.
In fact, he could make a simple trap to catch the hare, but that would take a long time, even a whole day.
They had replenished some protein in two days, but they had not touched any meat. For them, even if they were given a cow, they could eat it all.
"Come on, come on, turn around a little more!"
Xu Lun's waiting was not in vain. After eating for a while, the hare finally moved its body.
Xu Lun's plan was to throw the engineer shovel in his hand immediately when the hare turned its back to him. With his accuracy, he was sure he would hit the target, and then he would have a delicious meal of rabbit meat!
Thinking of this, Xu Lun held the engineer shovel tightly and began to adjust his breathing.
At this time, his teammate Wang Chen was very nervous. Although he was very greedy, after all, he couldn't catch it and couldn't help, so he could only leave the fate of his lunch in Xu Lun's hands.
Buzz~buzz~buzz~
Some mosquitoes were lingering around his ears, which made Wang Chen very annoyed.
"I'm so annoyed by those nasty mosquitoes!"
Wang Chen hated it in his heart.
Suddenly, a mosquito accidentally entered Wang Chen's nasal cavity.
Chapter completed!