After getting on the right track, the salt is refined very quickly.
When he got up the next day, there was already a thin layer of white crystals on the bottom of the pot. Song Xuan asked someone to fill the pot with water and let it continue to slowly evaporate.
Ten days later, there was half a pot of salt in each pot. The total of the five pots was still about 300 kilograms. If used normally, it would not be a problem for half a year.
It has been a long time since I came out this time, and even Wangcai is not as excited as he was at the beginning. He has been lying in the shade for the past few days without wanting to move at all.
Song Xuan also decided to return to the tribe tomorrow, but the first thing he had to do was to refine the salt ore in his hands.
After more than ten days of smashing rocks here, the work was very monotonous, and everyone was a little tired. So after hearing Song Xuan say that he could go back tomorrow, there was even a burst of cheers in the valley.
Everyone joined in the refining steps, and the speed suddenly increased a lot.
In order to speed up the evaporation, even the flame under the pot was made larger. It would not have much impact on the quality of the salt, so Song Xuan didn't care anymore.
However, Song Xuan found that the quality of the salt extracted this time seemed to be better than before. It looked obviously not so yellow, and it was even better than the salt traded from the wolf tribe.
Not only the quality, but also the output was higher. Although I didn't measure it carefully, the improvement was still obvious, especially since Song Xuan had been monitoring all the steps. This was not a small improvement, and he noticed it. come out.
It seems that the quality of the outer layer of ore is too inferior. This time, the ones mined are slightly closer to the inside. Although the mining is more difficult than before, it is still good in terms of quality and efficiency. It has improved a lot, and overall it is very worthwhile.
Before the sun set in the afternoon, everyone had finished all the work in hand.
Next, just wait for the water in the pot to completely evaporate.
What needs to be done now is to clean up the valley a little. Everyone has been living in a mess these past ten days, and the valley has been ruined into a mess.
Clean up a little, and then use this time to get some firewood back.
Since I saved a lot of firewood last year, I basically didn't go out to collect dry firewood this year. Since I have time, it's good to make preparations for the next refining.
Put the collected wood in the shed. As long as there is no bad weather for a long time, it should still be dry when you use it next time.
If you work more now, it will be easier on your next trip. Although there are forests all around, there is as much wood as you need, but dry firewood is not always available. It would be fine if the weather is suitable, but as long as it rains once After two rains, it is not so easy to collect enough dry firewood.
Bringing some salt, water and wood was indispensable. Fortunately, there were many people, and the two sheds were already full by dinner time.
The shed was also surrounded by wood. Although there was no grass and mud wall, the row of wood outside could block the wind and rain, and everyone also moved a lot of stones and piled them around. This was also It's considered reinforced.
In addition, all kinds of pottery and stoneware were also collected and put into a separate shed. This shed is the strongest. After all, if it collapses, the stoneware inside will be fine and difficult to be damaged, but the pottery will not be damaged. It's the same, even two pieces of wood that fall down can be smashed by him.
"walk home!"
It was hard to drag and carry things when you came, but you felt relaxed when you came back. Most people didn't have much supplies on them, basically just a small bag with about ten or twenty kilograms of salt.
When I woke up in the morning, the salt had been completely dried. Since there was still a lot of water in the pot during the night's rest, Song Xuan arranged for everyone to take turns watching it. In the middle of the night, he put out the fire below, relying on the remaining warmth. Just enough to dry it.
Although the five pots can be considered to be refining at the same time, the final output is not the same. The largest pot can contain about eighty or ninety kilograms of salt, but the least one is estimated to be only about fifty kilograms.
But on average, one pot weighs about seventy kilograms, and five pots weighs three hundred and fifty kilograms, which is a bit more than Song Xuan expected.
It's about thirty kilograms a day. Although the output is not much, it is completely enough in this era.
More than 20 people can get a tribe back in less than half a month of hard work. Salt is a very cost-effective thing for any tribe.
If the salt was to be exchanged, a tribe would definitely not be able to save enough food if it had not been busy for a month or two.
However, ordinary tribes do not use it like Teng She. Basically, it can only reach half of the usage of Teng She, which is already quite good. When Yangyang and others first came, they still lamented that the taste of Teng She tribe was a bit heavy.
The sheep tribe couldn't even fill their stomachs, so they exchanged more extra food for salt. They exchanged only a little every year, and they could barely taste it every time.
When I first came to Teng She, I naturally felt that the taste was a bit strong, but I got used to it very quickly. Even the salt used by the Teng She tribe was not much in Song Xuan's opinion, and it barely reached the daily limit of the human body. It's just what you need. If it weren't for the fact that there was some meat, it might even feel like it wasn't enough.
After not going back for so many days, Song Xuan also missed his rice.
Although the tribe has already planted a season of rice, Song Xuan is the only person who has participated in all steps from beginning to end. The others are mainly busy during planting and harvesting.
Before coming out this time, Song Xuan also observed that most of the seedlings had successfully survived, so he was so relieved to go out to mine salt. Fortunately, the weather has been pretty good recently, and it only rained a little for two days. It should be It won't have much impact on the rice fields. Before leaving, Song Xuan also told Shi Ban and the others that they must strictly control the amount of water in the rice fields, not too much or too little.
With a feeling of longing, everyone returned to the tribe after noon. Of course, this was mainly because they didn't bring much with them. Except for some things that had to be brought back and salt, everything else was left in the valley.
There are some tools that you can't think of every time. For example, I brought three shovels with me this time. If I didn't repair the house, I probably wouldn't bring them with me.
After pushing the boulder down the mountain, digging the ditch again had some effect. Song Xuan simply left it here. The ditch dug by everyone was still a little too fragile and would definitely need regular maintenance in the future. .
Instead of having to bring them with you every time you come here, why not just throw these handfuls here. Anyway, there are still some in the tribe, and if they are not here, if you forget to bring them, you will have to use them when you really need them. Once you get started, tools are naturally much easier to use than human hands.
After another upgrade this time, the salt refining system has basically been formed. Although the output is average, it is more than enough for Teng She's own use, and even the excess can be used to take care of the surrounding tribes.
When there is no need for so many people to go out hunting and gathering next year, we can confidently and boldly expand production capacity. Although the valley is not big, it still has considerable development potential. Song Xuan estimates that if it is fully utilized, it will satisfy the needs of the surrounding tribes. Consumption is not a problem at all, and this is still according to the standards used by Song Xuan.
But when the time comes, they will definitely have a head-on confrontation with the Wolf Tribe. Although the two sides haven't broken up yet, they are no longer as harmonious as when they first met.
"Angel, the salt this time is so white!"
"Yeah, it's almost the same as snow..."
"..."
As soon as the salt was taken out, everyone could see the difference between this time and the salt mined before. As for the salt being similar to snow, it was somewhat exaggerated. Mainly because it was a little dim in the room, but it could still be seen if it was taken outside. There is a little bit of greenish tint, but it is very light. It would not be obvious if there were not a lot of salt piled together.
The better the quality of the salt, the lighter the impurities in it. Although these primitive people do not pay much attention to it, in Song Xuan's opinion, it is still very necessary to improve the quality, otherwise not every pot of salt water will be used. It has to be filtered four or five times. Everyone has not eaten much good salt. Even if it was exchanged from the Karasuba Tribe, it is only a little better than the previous one.
And the amount is not much, but Song Xuan believes that if the people in the tribe eat the salt mined this time, they will definitely be able to feel the difference between the two if they taste the previous salt in a few months. Song Xuan has already tasted these salts. Although there is still a bitter taste, it is not obvious anymore.
"Duo, the salt is... made by us..."
Looking at the snow-white salt, Yan Shi couldn't help but ask Shi Duo beside him.
"Well, the angel found it~"
After hearing this, Yanshi, who originally admired Song Xuan very much, now admired him even more. However, what he didn't know was that the discovery of salt ore really had little to do with Song Xuan.
I have never participated in an exchange meeting before, so I don't know the origin of Yanba in my tribe. This blind date meeting was also dazzled by the blind date, and I didn't pay much attention to other things. I didn't know about Teng She until now It turns out there is salt in it too.
Only then did he realize that it was no wonder that Teng She was so generous with the use of salt. Everyone, no matter how big or small, had a small jar for salt, and once it was used up, he only had to tell Shi Yan.
If this was in the Zhu tribe, he would never dare to imagine that salt could be used like this. After all, in the Zhu tribe, salt could only be used by the leader.
But when he continued to ask about the origin of Yanba, Shi Duo couldn't answer him.
In the valley where the salt is mined, only twenty or thirty people know its location until now. Most of them are originally from Teng She, and everyone is tight-lipped about it. Except when Song Xuan asks everyone to mine it, at other times this The topic never even comes up in daily discussions.
Younger people like Shi Duo don't even know where they are. They only know that every time a divine envoy takes dozens or twenty people out, and they come back after ten days and a half month. There was a lot of white salt.
