At this moment, I finally understood why this child was so fond of buying coarse salt these days. Every time he entered the town, he would buy a few kilograms. It was useless for them to talk about it. It turned out that he had always had his own ideas.
"Dad needs a sieve, a small hammer, charcoal, a barrel, a funnel, linen cloth, an iron pot and a stone mill."
The tools needed to purify salt have been thoroughly figured out these days, and Hua Jin blurts them out without even thinking about them.
These are available at home, and they can be made up even if she is not available in the space.
Daddy needs to make a funnel-shaped wooden shelf now, and the family has prepared a lot of charcoal because the weather has turned cold.
These were not difficult for Hua Chengtian, and he made them in a short time.
While the three men were preparing the medicine, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who were making the medicine, were confused as they watched the two men and children at home messing around.
When she saw the old man taking out all the coarse salt in the house, Mrs. Hua finally couldn't help it.
"Old man, why are you rummaging through boxes and cabinets? What are you doing with so much salt?" Old Woman Hua stopped Old Man Hua and refused to let him take the salt unless he made it clear.
"Help purify it." The anxious old man only had time to reply, and he couldn't wait to flash past the old woman and came to the yard with the salt in her arms. According to her granddaughter's wishes, she smashed the salt into as small a piece as she wanted with a hammer. Particles.
"Isn't that what you said about purification, old man? What does purification mean? Isn't this salt good?"
Mrs. Hua was even more confused and followed her to the yard without understanding.
"Try it yourself." Old man Wang was busy smashing the salt and had no time to talk to the old woman. However, he took out the bag of salt that his granddaughter had never taken back from his arms and gave it to the old woman so that she could taste it herself.
Old Mrs. Hua took what the old man handed her in a daze, and then she saw the break and poured some into her hand.
Since the old man asked her to taste it herself, she would try it, but she wanted to see what tricks they were up to.
Then when he saw the thing in his hand, doubts flashed in his eyes. Even so, he pinched a handful and put it in his mouth. Then he was stunned, looking at the thing in his hand in disbelief, and then looked sharply at the old man.
Finally understood what the old man meant by purified salt?
So the old man, his son and granddaughter wanted to get such salt in her hands.
Old Mrs. Hua felt confused for a moment, as if the old man and her son were hysterical.
The government has nothing to do. Could this thing be made casually?
For a moment, he forgot how the old man had the salt in his hand.
"No...his father, you guys..."
"If you have any questions, please wait until we are done with our work. You will know in a moment." Old Man Hua was full of trust in his granddaughter. If his granddaughter said it was possible, then he could definitely do it. His wife knew what she meant when she opened her mouth and interrupted.
He is busy now and cannot be distracted.
Hua Laozi: "..."
She gritted her teeth and glanced at him, but she also knew that since the old man said that, he obviously wasn't going to tell her right now.
No matter how anxious I was, I could only wait. I casually put the salt bag in my hand on the wooden bag beside me and turned around to go back to the room. When I came out again, I had an iron lump in my hand, which was a weight.
Old Man Hua raised his eyebrows and looked at his wife with the corners of her mouth raised.
Mrs. Qi, who was boiling medicine in the kitchen, was also very curious about what her parents-in-law said, but she didn't come forward to see the medicine.
When the medicine was ready and Hua Chengtian drank it, Mrs. Qi and her mother-in-law, who had understood what had happened in shock, also joined in.
First, the crushed salt is placed on graphite and ground into powder. Then the collected salt powder is put into a bucket and water is added and stirred evenly. After it is fully dissolved, the bucket is covered with linen cloth and filtered several times in a row.
The next step is to detoxify the brine. The crushed charcoal is wrapped in linen and stuffed into the funnel wooden shelf that Hua Chengtian usually makes. Then the filtered solution is poured under the funnel shelf and re-implanted into the wooden barrel. After repeated repetitions, the dripping solution is no longer slightly turbid yellow with black in it.
To be honest, although I knew the steps and looked confident to my grandfather and father, I still had no idea what kind of flower brocade could be filtered out.
But looking at the obviously clean liquid, Hua Jin suddenly felt confident. When the liquid stuck to her fingertips and she put it in her mouth, her eyes lit up. The bitter taste in the salt water was gone.
The girl's expression made Hua Chengtian know that it was done and he hurriedly tasted it. Hua Old Man and Hua Old Lady Qi also put the liquid in their mouths and tasted it.
After tasting the salty salt water without the bitterness, Hua Chengtian and Hua Laohan immediately blushed with excitement.
"What do you think my daughter should do with the rest..." Hua Chengtian couldn't help but urge the child, and the old man nodded repeatedly and rolled up his sleeves, looking like he was ready for a big fight.
Hua Jin didn't dare to delay at this moment. Believe it or not, her father, who was in a state of excitement at the moment, would give her a one-finger flick skill. She quickly told her father the remaining and final steps.
The next thing is much simpler, just one person is guarding the stove, and the other is guarding the pot to boil the salt water until the remaining thick layer of salt crystals at the bottom of the pot is shoveled out and ground with a stone mill.
At this point, the purification of salt ends.
You will know you have succeeded when you look at the thick layer of white crystals on the bottom of the pot.
When the two brothers Hua Yunao and Hua Yunxiang came back from college, I found it strange that they didn’t smell the expected aroma of rice. Except for the little girl and mistress who opened the door for them, the grandparents were all standing at the table in the main room, stunned. Woolen cloth.
The two brothers looked at each other strangely.
"Little sister, what's wrong with them?" The two brothers looked at their sister.
"Brother and grandma, they are looking at the salt." Xiaosi spoke in front of his sister while eating a small mandarin orange in his hand. As soon as he spoke, a sweet and sour taste came out, attracting the attention of the two brothers.
"Xiao Si, what good food did you eat? Brothers are so good to you, so you can't eat alone!" Brother Hua narrowed his eyes.
"I didn't eat alone. This is my sister's reward." The frightened Xiao Si quickly stuffed the small satsuma orange in his hand into his mouth, fearing that the second brother would snatch the last one from him, so he hurriedly covered his small satchel.
This covert action succeeded in amusing the two brothers. Brother Hua deliberately moved forward and extended his hand to Xiaosi with ill intentions.
"Give the second brother a taste..."
"My sister rewarded me..." Xiaosi struggled but did not run away, with a tangled look on his face, but his hand holding the small satchel was loosened.
Looking at his brother's outstretched hand and pouting, he put his hand into his satchel and took out a small golden orange.
"Here, sister gave me three in total, so let's give one to the eldest brother and the second brother." The pain on his face as he spoke was really hilarious.
"It's true that my brothers' love for you is not in vain." Brother Hua flicked Xiaosi's forehead, and took away the small orange in Xiaosi's hand under Xiaosi's reluctant eyes.
After smelling it, it smelled really good. A strange color flashed in his eyes and he looked at the little girl.
They had never seen this kind of fruit in the town, but they had smelled it.
There are many students in the academy who come from well-off families. I have seen them eat it, but it is much bigger than this one, and it is not as sweet and rich as the one in their hands.
(End of chapter)
