Chapter 039 Bay-salt

A When Xiao Yun just came here, the body he inherited from the original owner was completely stunted because he can't keep up with nutrition. The upper and lower ribs on his chest were clearly visible, his hands and feet were as thin as sesame stems, and he was half a head shorter than the girl Fleece who was two years younger than him.

Now, Xiao Yun's height still hasn't caught up with the girl Fleece, but at any rate there is more meat on his body... The snow werewolf's genes have evolved towards the muscular brothers or sisters. The work done by eating meat for the past half year has succeeded in putting his gene function of the snow werewolf inside his body was brought into play. If it weren't for a bunch of muscles brothers or sisters around him, Xiao Yun could pat his chest and say that he was very healthy beauty.　　

In short, Xiao Yun, who has successfully nurtured his body and gained a healthy physique, now proposes that he will take the team to run to the south inland sea, and the people at least will not worry that he will die halfway and never return.

The team selection who have finalized the candidates and Xiao Yun repeatedly told the patriarch and tribes to remember the key points and basic points of the work in the tribe during his departure, and let the more brilliant and reliable manul Qiuqiu take care the tribe more... He also talked something to Sal in private, Xiao Yun just took the team out with feeling relieved.　　

As for Qingyan... Qingyan has to be taken away. He could see it, Qingyan, this guy is always get together with Dahe, and he absolutely doesn't believe that they are all right. If Qingyan is also a snow werewolf, then Xiao Yun would have nothing to say. How idle is he to take care of others' free love? But this guy is a black panther! Hrere is the reproductive isolation between the cats and snow werewolves ! Species are different, he has to do this great thing about breaking up affectionate couples!　　

A team of eight people left the tribe and headed south, wading across the river, past the grassland in the southwest that has not been used since last year, and then walking south for more than three hours.

A part of the jungle appeared at the end of the line of sight. It's said to go south along the jungle, but you can't really go next to it... This jungle has been growing freely and savagely for thousands of years, and the edges are like giant sawtooths. The roots are not smooth. If they really want to walk along the jungle, they have to go wrong way to go.

The sun gradually moves to the top of the sky, and the temperature rises to the hottest time of the day. The forest in the distance and the water vapor evaporated by the sun reflect the dazzling halo, and the grass leaves higher than people scratch Guolu's arms and legs from time to time. People walking on the grassland seem to be pressed on the ground by the dazzling sun. Fortunately, the vast world is not so depressing.

Xiao Yun took off his thin snake skin coat and put it into his own skin pocket. When the temperature rose to 20 degrees, no matter snow werewolves or rabbits and monkeys were shirtless, but he didn't have the habit of bare arms. Hongye threw the python shed skin he picked up on patrol to make him a cool snake fur coat, which was very popular in the minds of grassland residents, but they were all used to make leather pants, which was not so wasteful.

The seven people walking in front of Xiao Yun, including Qingyan, had already taken off their rattan sandals... The airtight leather pants are too sweaty. When they were on the road, there's sweat between their legs, that's a terrible feeling.

Hmm...although he understands the naked behavior of these guys, Xiao Yun, who is at the back, still has scorching eyes...Six white ass and one black ass dangling in front of his eyes. This scene is really a little unbearable for Xiao Yun.　　

Uncle Ashan was quite heart-warming. After running for a while, he turned his head and asked: "Ayun can still run? If you feel tired, I'll carry you." 　　

"Alright, no need." Xiao Yun refused decisively. At this temperature, the snow werewolf couldn't change into a wolf form and carry people, so he didn't want to lie on the naked back of the same sex.

"Then you have to keep up!"

Hongye, the two positions in front of him, turned her head back: "It's okay, we are all staring at the back, Ayun can't drop the team."

Xiao Yun silently stayed away from his eyes, it is true that the snow werewolf's female bare butt is no difference between the male, but this muscular sister without a piece of meat between her legs will still be his eyes...

Six hours after departure, the group entered a strange world that the soldiers on patrol had never set foot in. Fortunately, the soldiers all have the ability to discern directions. The requirement to go all the way to the south is not a problem even without a compass.

"The woods are getting more and more." Qingyan, who is best at recognizing roads, ran ahead, leading the team around a forest and then Qingyan slowed down a bit. "If there are all woods ahead, it may not be a good detour. Do you wear it from the forest?" 　　

"No, it's better to go around if you can." Xiao Yun thought for a while. The grassland residents do not have a high degree of understanding of the jungle, and it is not the home ground of the grassland residents, so they should not take risks in order to be greedy for shortcuts.　　

"In that case, we might have to go a lot more. The further south, the larger the area of the jungle." Qingyan said.　　

...This guy's crow beak is really effective, and another hour later, everyone was blocked by a large jungle that violently "invaded" the grassland.(Crow beak: mouth from which inauspicious words are uttered)

"Hoo Hoo... " Xiao Yun, panting heavily, looks up to the east of the road blocking jungle, and his eyelids jump. He can't see the end...

"It's not a question of the way. But... no one has a terrain map in this direction. Nobody knows whether to go through part of the jungle from this direction to the sea, but it's a big problem to go inside, maybe going deep in the jungle and completely staggering away from the inland sea..." Xiao Yun had a headache. He had thought that it would be difficult to open up wasteland on a new map, but he had never thought that the first day he went out would be troublesome.

The others all looked at him and waited for him to get their opinions. Xiao Yun hesitated and decided... to go around. After all, the jungle is really not the home field of the prairie inhabitants. Even if it takes more detours, it is safer to walk on the prairie that everyone is used to.　　

Rest in place, Qingyan went to find some wild fruits that he could find in summer, and everyone ate some dried meat and dried radishes brought from the tribe. After resting, Hongye and Yu went to the forest to break a tree and hugged them out, inserted them into the ground to make a signpost, and the group set off again.　　

This walk took two and a half days...On the evening of the third day, everyone walked out of the jungle that blocked the way, and the vast prairie that everyone was particularly familiar with once again appeared in the direction to the south.

Hmm... the scenery of this place is a little different from before, more similar to the geographical environment of the tauren tribe. There are more low mountains, rivers and streams are scattered among the bushes, and the woodland is denser, large and small. The swamps are more common.

"The terrain in this area is lower and the moisture is stronger." 　　

When passing around a wood that is soaked in mud in the lower half, a group of people found that the muddy, invisible mud in this wood was actually reflected by the sun. The colorful light drew out people who had never seen this kind of landscape exclaimed again and again--Xiao Yun knew the basic common sense of light refraction. This forest should be densely covered with anaerobic bacteria that have been soaked in mud for many years and fermented in the humus layer. , When the sun shines in from the side, there will be this spectacular light refraction scene. (People who have lived in the old residential area have probably seen the smelly water ditch illuminate the sunlight...) 　　

"If you can dig back the mud in this forest, what a natural fertilizer~" The people of the tribe were surprised. At that time, Xiao Yun sighed inwardly.

On the afternoon of the fifth day after departure, Xiao Yun felt the sea breeze's slightly salty, low-pressure and hot wind while crossing a continuous low mountain range—　　

"What a big river!" Ashante looked in surprise. From a distance, he raised his arm and pointed vigorously, "Look, that river can't see the end at all!" 　　

They are standing on the top of this mountain range. Although the height of the mountain range is low, it should be more than white. Farther in the jungle, at the end of the line of sight, is an endless wave that connects to the sky.　　

"It's not a river, then it should be the inner sea." Xiao Yun couldn't help being excited. "We found the sea, and that is the sea. There is endless salt in the sea!" 　　

Everyone was stunned and cheered...

"Ah!!!!!" 　　

An elf jumping between the treetops of the jungle suddenly slipped and fell forward. Fortunately, he was agile and quickly reached out and grabbed the vines on the tree to hang his body. This prevented a head from falling on the ground.　　

"Carl?" The companion in front paused and looked back suspiciously.　　

"Harlan, have you heard the howling of wolves?" The undecided Carl held the vine and looked around.　　

"Wolf howling can also scare you like this? Then you should go back and don't drag me down." Companion Harlan frowned and said unceremoniously.

"No, it's not an ordinary wolf howl, it's like the wolf howling of a snow wolf man." Kai explained quickly, "Do you remember the draft order issued by the Elf King 11 years ago? I participated in the recruitment and left our hometown for Northern King City--"　　

"Enough, Carl, I know you are the most glorious thing to participate in the battle of King City, you don't need to show it off again and again." Harlan said unhappily. "I don't want to show off, I really think the howling of the wolf is similar to the sound of the snow werewolf!" Kai dropped the vine, jumped more than four meters and landed beside his companion, trying hard to compare his hands. "The Snow Werewolves hit the king's city, and those monsters as powerful as the top monsters defeated the imperial army of the Elf King..." Harlan bounced her feet, jumped to stand on a branch six meters away, and turned her head in disgust. He glanced at his companion and said, "Okay, Kay, we are just here to rescue our people who were taken away by the human merchant ships. Our enemy is not the Snow Werewolf. If you are even afraid of humans, you can go back now." 　　

"Hi, I'm really not..." 　　

Carl hurried to catch up, but Harlan didn't mean to wait for him at all, and a few bounces left him behind.　　

From the top of the mountain outside the forest, the snow wolves happily moved stones and woods, put up high road signs in the most conspicuous position, and then rushed down the mountain happily and broke into the jungle they didn't like.

When viewed from the top of the mountain, the jungle of up to two kilometers deep took the snow wolves for more than an hour. Finally, they walked through the uncomfortable jungle and ran for more than half an hour before they came to the place where they could directly see the sea. On the cliffs-yes, there are no beaches and no soft sand. The border between the land and the ocean in this direction is a steep cliff tens of meters high. Even cats cannot climb this way.

The clansmen who were ready to cheer again were dumbfounded and looked at Xiao Yun with dull faces.

"...We looked along the cliffs, it's impossible to find all these cliffs... It should be because of the large terrain drop on the side close to the jungle, and it can't be like this in other places." Xiao Yun wiped his sweat and gave everyone else Children cheer up.　　

The land that is close to the sea, the more the drop is going west, the only way to go east is. The farther away from the jungle, the more flat the terrain, and after more than two hours, Xiao Yun finally saw a natural beach that fits his understanding of the sea—on the coastline with no end in sight, vegetation and seawater compete with each other. Between the territories, the white and soft sandy beach is shimmering in the afterglow of the sunset; the soft and moist sand is densely covered with the abundant seafood left behind after the tide goes down, and flocks of seabirds rise and fall on the beach with an elegant posture Doing the job of a predator.　　

"Ocean!" Xiao Yun opened his arms excitedly and roared to vent the pressure accumulated in his heart since he set foot on the road.

"Oh!...Ah!...Salt! Salt! Salt!

Snow werewolves less than half a second to destroy the emotion which Xiao Yun a rare brewing up, , ran to the beach.

"Wooooooow!----"

"..." Xiao Yun held his forehead with his hand, "Don't play, return here quickly. After taking a break, we have to take the time to make salt." 　　

"Oh." The snow werewolves who glanced at the sea and scared by the powerful of the sea, and came back honestly.

Before halfway away, Ayue suddenly jumped up and said, "Wow, there is something pinching my feet!" 　　

"You are all told to wrap your feet with animal skins, your feet are all exposed outside the rattan sandals... Ah, what is this? Hongye who wanted to help was startled.　　

"I don't know, what is this!" Ayue shook his foot desperately.　　

"Crab! Crab! Just step on it!" Xiao Yun was furious.

"Anyone still has such a big crab?" Ayue, who had her toe pinched, was still in shock, and even stretched out his finger to show the size, "Aren't they all just like this small size?" 　　

"Do you really hurt?" Xiao Yun shouted.

"Pain! Help me step on, Hongye!" 　　

"Then don't you jump around!" 　　

Xiao Yun didn't bother to pay attention to them, twitching the corner of his mouth and looking away... Then he saw a shiver guy hiding behind, Qingyan.

"A lot of water!" Qing Yan met with him and trembled in a frightened expression.　　

Xiao Yun: "..."　　

... Wait a moment. Pick a flat land in the vegetation-occupied area on the coast, unwrap the bag, set a pot on the fire, boil the dried meat with the fresh water taken from the jungle, and eat dried radishes, Xiao Yun led everyone leveled the salt-bath.

It takes a lot of manpower to cook salt, and it takes too much time to dry salt, so Xiao Yun plans to make salt at the same time with a two-pronged approach: use the hoe he brought out to dig out large salt fields, inject shallow seawater, let wind and sunlight help evaporate part of the water, and then Then boil the concentrated seawater-if it is purely boiled, the earthenware pot cannot withstand such a torment.　　

Planed the vegetation, cut logs from the jungle to ram the ground, and built two acres of salt pans all night long, and filled them with a layer of sea water, and everyone fell asleep after being tired. The next day I was awakened by the sun and the chirping birds. When I got up and looked at it, the seawater in the salt pan had evaporated a lot.　　

Evaporating brine in the sun to gain salt, the larger the contact surface between seawater and air, the larger the evaporation area, which can effectively shorten the evaporation cycle. However, Xiao Yun does not have modern convenient tools to rely on, so he can only adopt the most stupid manual method...Two relatively straight wooden sticks are tied into a T-shape. When the sun is at its highest, stand on the edge of the salt field and hold the long end. The "horizontal" stick slowly pushes the salt water in the salt pan, increasing the contact area between the flowing salt water and the air.

As for the others, they continue to level new salt pans and consolidate the bottom of the fields...　　

Xiao Yun has never seen what a calendar looks like when he came to this world. The nomadic prairie dwellers are not very particular about observing solar terms, the only farming nation tauren tribes have the awareness of attaching importance to climate change, but their main ethnic base is far from enough to create solar terms and establish the Gregorian calendar... So Xiao Yun can be said to have lived without knowing the years.

However, judging from the common sense of climate on the earth, this short period of only more than two months per year when the average daily maximum temperature can reach about 30 degrees, should be the hottest July and August of the year...　　

一There were only two months in the year where the temperature was like this. Xiao Yun naturally hoped to get more salt to go back, and he was very eager to make the people work hard to open up the salt pan—it wouldn't be wasted anyway, and it would still be available next year.

On the fifth day after the start of drying the salt, the two salt fields that were first opened up turned into a thicker and thicker saturated solution under the evaporation of the sun and wind. The curious tribesmen left their work and ran over to watch. Hongye reached out and got some solution. He licked his tongue, and suddenly showed a surprised expression: "It smells like salt, but it's a bit bitter." 　　

"Don't try it, it hasn't been filtered yet. The brine is poisonous." Xiao Yun startled and hurriedly drove this bang of a curious babies who wanted to taste the saltiness away from the salt pan.

The crystals obtained by direct drying of sea water cannot be said to be table salt directly. There are still other impurities in it. It can only be regarded as coarse salt and industrial salt, which has a heavier bitter taste. Long-term consumption is harmful to the body. If he wants to use it as table salt which has to be more filtered.

It's easy to filter the salt and brine... Xiao Yun took out the cloth (the finer linen cloth) from the patriarch, wrapped it in the charcoal taken out of the fire, stretched it on the opening of the pottery pot, and then dug the wood. The spoon scooped up the brine from the salt pan, poured it into a clay pot, and filtered it with charcoal wrapped in cloth.　　

The snow wolves have already opened twenty salt fields. At this moment, no one is willing to go. They all squatted around watching Xiao Yun's operation curiously. Yu was especially serious, her pale green pupils staring wide.

Xiao Yun was also willing to think more about being smarter. Seeing that everyone was so curious, he explained to everyone: "The salt in the sea water is edible if it is boiled directly into salt crystals, but the taste will be more bitter. This is because of the sea water. There are too many impurities in the salt...Of course, as far as the impurities are concerned, the green salt we bought with the human caravan will not be lost. It is all well salt that has not been processed in place. Tsk tsk."　　

"Use charcoal to filter the impurities like me in the salt brine cannot be said to be able to filter all the impurities, but it can effectively filter out most of the impurities, so that the salt obtained does not have the bitter taste." Xiao Yun removed the charcoal bag on the mouth of the clay pot, poured the filtered brine into a pottery bowl for everyone to see, "Look, is the color of this brine a bit lighter than that in the salt pan?" 　　

Six snow werewolves squatting side by side and a black panther looked together at the pottery bowl and then looked at the salt pan, they nodding movement was particularly uniform.

"Filter two more times." 　　

Xiao Yun shook off the linen, re-wrapped the charcoal and stretched it on top of another clay pot. After filtering this pot of salt brine three times, he passed it to Ashan and let him cook it into crystals.

When Ashan walked aside to start a fire with the clay pot, Yu showed a particularly tangled and struggling expression... He wanted to follow Ah Shan to see how the salt water turned into salt, but worried that he would not see it if he walked away. Ayun's next operation.　　

"Maomao, you go to help Ashan, I will filter the salt brine, and more people will cook the salt." Xiao Yun was a bit funny, pretending that he didn't find Yu's careful thoughts, pretending to be careless.　　

"..." Yu opened his mouth and closed it again. He wanted to say that he doesn't be called Maomao... but this is not the time to talk about it.　　

Ashan was afraid of burning the pottery pot into broken, so he slowly boiled it on a low fire until the sun slanted to the west. Only when the salt brine in the pottery pot evaporated water vapor off and turned into white salt crystals with a little green in it.

"It's really salt!" Ashan held the pottery pot and placed it on the sand carefully, dipped his finger in the salt and tasted it, and immediately smiled, "It's not bitter at all, it's better than the green salt that we used the curved horn cattle change!" "　　

Yu was not as simple and straightforward as Ashan was excited about getting salt. He dipped a bit of salt and tastes the taste like a pilgrimage, feeling the pure salty taste in his mouth, Yu suddenly felt hot in his eyes...　　

Xiao Yun's tribe was unable to keep the grassland after losing a large number of warriors, and only then went downhill. They really have no shortage of curved horn cattle that can exchange salt. But Yu is different...The Yu's tribe, which has lived in the southwestern edge of the grassland for decades, has never been rich in its ancestors. In order to ensure the salt in the tribe, it is really not easy for them over the years.

But now, just spend five or six days running to the beach, and another five or six days to boil the salt, and they can get the salt that has been stuck in the neck of their tribe long long time. Think about it every year to save the curved horn cattle . He's tribe didn't dare to slaughter curved horn cattle when they ware hungry. This huge gap really made Yu feel complicated.

Not long after Ashan was happy to get the salt, he began to check the pottery pot painfully, muttering "Don't burn it broken somewhere," and Yu made his mood even more complicated...Speaking of which, his tribe didn't seem to be taking the loss of pottery pots in exchange for salt, it's sad to think about it.

Ashan's worry is right. The pottery pot really cannot withstand long-term cooking. After boiling the salt brine in the two salt pans into half a leather bag of table salt, the six pottery pots that came out broke two...　　

Snow werewolves were heartache, Qingyan was also painful. Xiao Yun had no choice but to let them run around to find if there was a slate of the right size. Anyway, there were woods and enough firewood, so they could use the slate to 'roast' the salt.　　

Ashan and Qingyan went to the west to find, Hongye and Yu walked east together. The two of them walked along the vegetation on the coastline all the way, and they really made them discover a rocky beach in the place separated by the protruding sea cliffs. At the end of the rocky beach, they could see an amazing size cave.　　

"Maybe there has?" 　　

Hongye's eyes lit up, and he jumped down and ran to the rocky beach. I don't know if this land has experienced changes in the bottom crust such as earthquakes. The rocks on the rocky beach look like the formation of the cliffs and the collapse of the mountain. Under the impact and weathering of the sea, the part near the sea The stones were washed into a relatively round shape.

The two searched around in the rocky beach, and saw a lot of strange-shaped stones, a little thinner, barely slate, but not...　　

"Maybe we can find a bigger stone and use Ayun's method of roasting and flushing with cold water is divided into two halves in the middle. Hongye, do you think it is okay?"

Yu felt that there was no hope for finding ready-made slates, so he put forward an idea to ask Hongye's opinion. Turning around, only to find Hongye was staring at the direction of the cave with a puzzled face, as if she hadn't heard what he said.　　

"Hongye?" Yu called again.　　

"Ah." Hongye turned her head and beckoned to him, "Yu, you come with me to listen to it. I seemed to hear the voice of someone inside, and it disappeared again. I wonder if I heard it wrong?"