Put the scissors and needle and thread back into the bag, go back and wash the gauze bag, uncover the charcoal cover, put the charcoal outside to cool, crush it and put it into the gauze bag.
Spread it out over the mouth of the clay pot and secure the bag to the mouth of the pot with a rope.
Scoop it out and pour it into a gauze bag containing charcoal. The salt water flows through the charcoal in the gauze bag and into a large clay pot.
After filtering the brine, Yao Xiaoqing untied the gauze bag from the jar and took it out.
Add firewood and bring the salt water in the jar to a boil over high heat, then slowly simmer over low heat until all the water evaporates, leaving pure white rock salt in the jar.
Yao Xiaoqing poured the charcoal into the ash pile, scooped out some water, washed the gauze, and dried it in the bamboo shed. He thought: This gauze is a treasure, and there will never be anything like this again in this life.
When I returned to the stove, the salt water in the jar had boiled. Gradually, the water became less and less, revealing white salt grains.
She picked up a bamboo knife and scraped the salt that had reached the mouth of the jar into it, and murmured in a low voice: "If it can be exchanged for food, how many muttons can be exchanged for such salt in one bamboo tube? Alas! My strength does not allow it, what a pity!"
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Yao Hu stood up and moved around a bit. When he saw Yao Xiaoqing still standing in front of the jar, he smiled and said: "Xiao Qing, I see you have been tinkering here for most of the night. What does the salt look like?"
Yao Xiaoqing looked back at him and said with a smile: "It's not done yet! We still have to wait for the water to dry up."
"Salt still needs to be boiled in a jar?" Yao Hu approached curiously, lowered his head and saw the salt in the jar, dipped a little into his mouth, and looked up at her in surprise, "Xiao Qing, these are the cliffs.
Did you cook it with the food you picked up?"
"Yeah!" Yao Xiaoqing nodded somewhat proudly. In his previous life, he had read so many miscellaneous books in his spare time. In that era when you could buy whatever you wanted, there was no chance to practice it. Here, it has its place.
"Xiaoqing, Hua said you were unhappy. Did you miss your mother and two brothers today?"
Yao Xiaoqing hesitated and said: "Father, I met a savage while collecting medicine in the forest today. I killed him."
Yao Hu asked anxiously: "Is it hurt anywhere?"
Yao Xiaoqing felt warm in her heart, "Father, I have a weapon and I am not injured."
"Xiao Qing, don't be sad. If he dares to bully you, he should be killed." Yao Hu thought about it and warned him, "Don't go to the woods alone in the future. There may be savages in the mountains."
"I understand. Now we also have salt, so you don't have to worry about running out of food to exchange for salt."
"Xiao Qing is very powerful. The salt is as good as snow, and the salt from the Wuxian tribe is not as good. Father, thank you."
"You said so, no thank you!"
Yaohu heard that savages appeared in the forest, and wanted to repair the wall that Xiaoqing mentioned as soon as possible. He decided to go to the mountains tomorrow to get more food and come back. He would not exchange for salt in the future, so there would be no need to save so much food.
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Muba and Mao led their tribesmen to search for a long time at the foot of the mountain but could not find a cave, so they had to find a place leeward to live.
Grandma looked at the women who were busy collecting firewood and Muya sitting aside, and sighed.
She walked over and touched her head lovingly and said, "Mu Ya, you can't sit still like this anymore. You have to collect firewood, fruits and food with A Cao and the others."
"I don't know how. Grandma has never asked me to pick it up," Muya raised his head and glanced at her, "Grandma, can't we go back in the future?"
Big Eminem shed tears of sadness, "If you can't go back, Muba will take care of you."
Grandma thought: No matter what, Muya is the daughter of the leader of the Sishan tribe, so she cannot be taken to Qiushan to exchange for salt. She must talk to Muba and allocate Muya to Yaohu's son.
Muba, Qiang and Wolf sat together and watched the two old uncles packing the goats given by Yaohu.
Qiu turned to look at the two of them, "Muba, when we were in the tribe, we clearly heard from someone sent by the leader to inquire about the news that Yaohu and his son were unconscious and about to die. You see, he looks nothing like that today.
picture."
Muba thought for a moment, "He may have hidden the magic medicine that he got from the great witch, or he invited the great witch to offer sacrifices to the gods, so he recovered so quickly."
"It's impossible. Yaohu and his son were injured and couldn't wake up, so Huoli took over his position as leader. How could his daughter have any food? So she asked the witch to give him magic medicine to sacrifice to the gods."
The wolf paused for a moment and looked at the two of them, "Even if we ask the great witch, his magic medicine can't save the dying person. I still remember that our tribe used twenty sheep to ask the great witch to sacrifice to the gods for the injured warriors."
This time, the great witch offered sacrifices to the gods and gave him magic medicine, and the injured warrior went to see the gods."
The most powerful witch in this area is the shaman from the Qiushan Great Witch Tribe. If not him, who else could beg the gods to cure Yaohu and his son? Muba and Mao couldn't figure it out either.
Looking at the wolf's injured leg, Muba said: "Wolf, when we see the leader Yaohu, we ask him to take you to the witch who sacrificed to him to see if the injury on your leg can be cured?"
Spear glanced at the wolf panting beside him, worried that he wouldn't survive.
"Muba, I think even if the wolf's legs are healed, it will be difficult for the three of us to feed these tribesmen, and it will be even harder to avenge the tribesmen who died. I think the only way to take revenge is to join the tribe that also has a grudge against the giant bear.
Yaoshan tribe. Tell me what you think?"
Muba didn't expect that Mao also proposed to join Yaohu's tribe, so he hesitated and said, "Lang said that even if we join Yaohu's tribe, he may not be willing. I think so. Most of the dozen or so of them are young and strong.
Look at us..."
After listening to Mao's words, Mu Ba felt that he would not want such a tribe to join. Thinking that he actually proposed to Yao Hu to merge with his new tribe, he felt a little hot in the face.
The wolf said: "Muba, you have forgotten that we have five women who can be matched with the warriors of their tribe. You go to see him the next day and tell the Yaohu leader our ideas. He will definitely agree to let us join his new tribe.
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Seeing that both of them proposed to join Yaohu's tribe, Muba nodded readily, "Okay, I will ask him to join his tribe when I see him."
Two old uncles roasted the mutton and came over to tell them to eat it. The goat Yaohu sent was fat. Muba and Mao were given two front legs, the wolf and Damu were given the back legs, and the other tribesmen also got a piece.
mutton.
After traveling for so many days, everyone gathered around the fire and fell asleep after eating.
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As soon as the white fish bellies appeared on the horizon, Yaohu took all the young men with their backpacks on their backs and prepared to get a batch of rock salt back.
Yao Xiaoqing gave Yao Hu the snake medicine, climbing rope and engineer shovel, and told him: "Father, you'd better walk along the foot of the mountain and avoid the dense forest before going up the mountain. Stop hunting on the way. Go back quickly."
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After Yao Hu took it, he nodded and said: "Okay, don't run too far when you go out."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded in agreement, sent them out, and watched them go to the foot of the mountain to the north.