Chapter 22 Salt Making
The protagonist of their topic, one beast, is rushing to the cave, and one person has just finished his study for the day and is preparing to say goodbye to the witch doctor and return to Shana's cave to prepare lunch. .
Su Yu had no idea that her choice to live in Shana Cave caused almost all the orcs in the tribe to regard this as a sign that she was attracted to Shana.
Even Xia Na himself, because of the "living together" for a few days, occasionally had expectations, hoping that he could become the beast accompanying Su Yu.
When Su Yu returned to the cave, Xia Na had prepared everything needed for lunch just like in the morning, and was just waiting for Su Yu to come back to light the fire and put the pot on the pot!
Seeing this, Su Yu couldn't help but find it a little funny, but she didn't say anything more and went straight into the cave, planning to put down the things in her hands first.
After entering the cave, Su Yu naturally discovered the things Xia Na put in the cave immediately, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
"Xia Na, Xia Na, did you get everything back in one morning? It's really surprising, thank you!" Su Yu ran out with a smile on her hands. There was also a handful of jieguo and a bean fruit inside.
Su Yu put the things in her hands on the cutting board, then went into the cave again and took a few thorn fruits.
When he came out, Xia Na had already washed the doudouguo and jiejieguo. Seeing that Su Yu was still holding the prickly pear fruit in his hand, he reached out and took it over and washed it too.
After doing everything, Xia Na gave Su Yu the seat in front of the stove, then moved a low wooden stool and sat next to it.
Seeing this, Su Yu stepped forward, took out a knife, and cut the thorn fruit and the knot fruit into two. Then he peeled off the peel of the beans and put the green beans into a small bowl on the cutting board.
Although Su Yu was certain that these three things corresponded to something from China through the witch doctor's explanation, Su Yu still tried them all before putting them into the pot.
When her guess was finally verified, the smile on Su Yu’s face never came back until after lunch!
I light the fire happily, blanch the stewed meat in the pot, take it out, wash the pot, change the water, and put it back into the pot to stew over high heat.
While waiting for the stew, Su Yu left Xia Na to watch the fire, ran into the cave again, and continued to see what she was thinking about.
Xia Na has poured out all the contents of the animal skin bag and put them in different wooden basins. The thorn fruit and fireweed are still lying with the roots and leaves as they were when they were picked.
The bean fruit vines are hanging down in the pots containing bean bean fruits, while the knotted trees are lying flat against the cave wall.
It was at this time that Su Yu had time to observe these three plants.
The fruit is like a cherry pepper. Su Yu saw it at the witch doctor when she was studying, although she didn't get to taste it at the time.
But only now did she know that the knotted trees that bear knotted fruits actually look like the bamboos of Blue Star. This is really a good thing!
Putting down the knotted tree, Su Yu looked at the Doudou fruit vine again.
In Blue Star China, Su Yu hadn't seen many vines, so she didn't know what the vines could do. If she had time later, she could study them carefully.
Next, there are the thorn fruits and fireweed with soil on the side.
Su Yu walked to the wooden basin of thornberry and fireweed in three or two steps, squatted down, picked up a thornberry and looked at it carefully. After looking at it for a while, he lowered his head and sniffed it again. I looked at it from a distance, then sniffed it, and finally pinched off a leaf, brought it to the entrance of the hole, and looked at it carefully.
So, Xia Na, who was guarding the fire, turned around and saw Su Yu holding a spinach plant in her hand and smiling brightly at the entrance of the cave. When Su Yu saw someone looking over, she grinned and said, "Xia Na, you are so awesome!" After saying that, she went back to the cave.
After guessing the "identity" of the thorn grass, Su Yu picked up the fire grass on the side and looked at it carefully. However, after watching it for a long time, Su Yu didn't guess its possible "identity", so she could only put it down temporarily and go out to cook.
The stew has been simmering for a while. Let it simmer for a while on low heat before it is ready.
Su Yu asked Xia Na to move most of the firewood under the stew pot to the stove of a small pot, overheat the fat slices, and start stir-frying.
The cooking speed is still very fast, and in a short while, a bowl of fried pork slices with full color, aroma and flavor will be out of the pot.
Handing a large bowl of roasted pork slices to Xia Na, Su Yu picked up the big bowl, filled Xia Na with a large bowl of stewed meat, and filled a small bowl for herself, and then came out of Xia Na At that time, he handed the big bowl to him.
After lunch, one person and one animal took a short rest and began to sort out the things in the cave.
The three fruits were moved into the food storage hole with the pots connected. As for the leaves of spinach grass, fireweed, bean fruit vines and knotty trees, Xia Na followed Su Yu's instructions. , and temporarily placed it near the entrance of the cave.
After packing up the newly harvested things, Su Yu asked Xia Na to take out a bag of the bitter fruits that he had picked previously.
The bitter fruit, which is about the size of your face, is still as fresh as when it was newly picked.
Su Yu took a few and asked Xia Na to transform into sharp claws, cut them into smaller pieces, and then put them into a medium-sized wooden basin. Then he asked Xia Na to hammer them with a solid wooden stick. Crush all the bitter fruit pieces.
The five bitter fruits were crushed, and there was a shallow layer of juice on the bottom of the basin, but not much.
Su Yu poured the bitter juice into a small stone pot, scooped out a small ladle of water, washed the pomace, squeezed out the water, and then poured the juice into the pot as before.
Light the fire and cover the pot. When the juice in the pot boils, start stirring continuously until a piece of white crystal slowly appears on the bottom of the stone pot. Su Yu knows that it is done!
Without waiting for the moisture in the crystals to dry completely, Su Yu put the crystals into a small, dry wooden basin, and then continued to repeat the first action - pressing the fruit!
Already knowing that the method was fine, Su Yu asked Xia Na to squeeze two more bitter fruits. Moreover, while Su was cooking, Xia Na was still pressing the fruits.
On this afternoon, one person and one animal worked together, and the two stone pots started working at the same time, and actually turned two bags of bitter fruits into crystal salt grains.
After hundreds of bitter fruits, only one basin of salt was made, which was only about ten kilograms by visual inspection. However, Su Yu was already very happy with this result.
"Xiao Yu'er, is this the salt you keep mentioning?" Xia Na looked at Su Yu, who was smiling like a flower, and asked in a good mood.
“Yeah, right!” Su Yu said happily, “If you don’t eat salt for a long time, your limbs will become weak, your digestion capacity will decrease, and it may also affect your nervous system. Moreover, without salt, The food has also become very boring. In short, salt is very important!” Su Yu laughed.
Today I am revising the previous chapters. The changes are not too many and will not affect you. You can continue to read further.
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