MTL - This Is My Primitive Tribe-Chapter 24 Coarse salt purification
March 30, afternoon.
Jiang Xuan, red peony and loach, returned to the Veng tribe with three bags of salt ore, as well as edible tubers such as round potatoes.
When they saw the ancient vines on the stone mountain, the bamboo forest, and the totem pattern on the huge rock in front of the bamboo house, they felt an inexplicable sense of relief in their hearts.
Jiang Xuan believes that this is the feeling of coming home.
"Chief, Chishao, Shiloach, you are finally back!"
Uncaria and Nanxing ran over excitedly. Those tourists who were reclaiming the wasteland were relieved to see the leader coming back.
After living here for a few days, tourists cherish the days when they have a house to live in and eat enough to eat.
If the leader has an accident, this good day may come to an end.
Jiang Xuan carried a bag of salt ore and said, "It took a little longer to go, so you are worried, let's talk about it when you go inside."
Jiang Xuan walked into the bamboo house, put down the animal skin bag, and took out a piece of salt ore from it.
Uncaria and Nan Xing both gathered around and looked at the stone curiously. Nan Xing asked, "Boss, is this salt?"
Jiang Xuan smiled and said, "This is salt, but it's poisonous, so I can't eat it now."
"Ah? Poisonous?" Nan Xing wanted to take a piece to taste, but he immediately retracted his half-stretched hand.
Jiang Xuandao: "Don't worry, I have a way to turn it into non-toxic salt. First, take the clay pot to the creek to wash it. After washing it, put it back in a pot of water."
"Okay, I'll go right away."
Nan Xing was excited and went to the creek to wash and fetch water with a clay pot.
Jiang Xuan walked out of the stone house and found some soft moss nearby.
These moss are thick and dense, and after washing, they can be used as filter cotton.
The experiment of purifying coarse salt was done by many people in Jiang Xuan's previous life, and the process was very simple, with only four steps:
Dissolve, filter, evaporate, crystallize.
One of the most important steps is filtration. As long as the impurities insoluble in water in the salt ore are filtered out, and then evaporated and crystallized, the purified salt can be eaten by people.
Of course, filtering alone cannot remove all the impurities in salt ore. After all, a small number of impurities are soluble in water.
If conditions permit, it is best to further purify it into refined salt.
Jiang Xuan has no conditions now, so he can only use the simplest method. With a little impurities, with the physique of the tribe, eating it will not be a big problem.
Jiang Xuan found a thick bamboo tube, then chiseled off the top section of the bamboo tube, and cut a hole in the bottom section.
Immediately afterwards, he spread a layer of washed moss on the bottom of the bamboo tube, then went to the fire pit and grabbed several handfuls of charcoal and put it into the bamboo tube.
Charcoal has adsorption, and charcoal filtration can remove relatively small impurities in salt ore.
On top of the charcoal, he spread another layer of moss, then added a layer of stones, then another layer of moss, then another layer of charcoal, and the top layer was topped with stones, and covered with moss to cap.
In the end, he used a lot of clean water, poured it into the filter, and briefly cleaned it.
A simple raw filter is ready!
After five layers of moss, two layers of charcoal, and two layers of stones, most of the impurities in the dissolved salt ore should be removed.
Chi Shao and the others stared at Jiang Xuannong, the original filter.
Although they don't know what the specific use is, they somehow feel that this thing is very powerful.
After Jiang Xuan made the original filter, Nan Xing had washed the two clay pots, and one of the pots was still filled with clean water.
"Boss, what can I do?"
Uncle Teng looked at Jiang Xuan expectantly, and he also wanted to participate.
Jiang Xuandao: "Find an animal hide and spread it on the ground, put a flat stone on it, and then smash the salt ore."
"Okay, I'll go right now."
Uncaria doesn't understand why this kind of stone is called salt ore, but it doesn't hinder his enthusiasm for work.
He found an animal skin and two stones, one flat was placed in the middle of the animal skin, and the other was used to smash salt ore.
Afterwards, Uncaria took a piece of salt ore out of the animal skin bag, placed it on a flat stone, and smashed the salt ore into pieces according to Jiang Xuan's instructions.
Jiang Xuan put the smashed salt ore into the empty clay pot, put about one-third of the pot's capacity, then started adding water, and kept stirring with a bamboo stick.
With Jiang Xuan's stirring, the salt crystals in the salt ore gradually melted, the water became very turbid, and there were a lot of water-insoluble sediments at the bottom.
Jiang Xuan left the pot for a while, and waited for the suspended particles in the water to fall before starting to filter.
He poured out the water in another clay pot, put it in place, and handed the original filter to Chishao.
"Sister, help me hold this bamboo tube firmly."
"it is good."
Chishao held the original filter in both hands and placed it above the empty clay pot.
Jiang Xuan picked up the clay pot containing salt water and poured water into the bamboo tube gently.
"pattering..."
With the injection of salt water, layers of moss, stones, and charcoal filter out most of the impurities, and the water that finally flows into the pot has become relatively clear, but the color is still a little reddish.
After Jiang Xuan finished pouring the salt water, he went to the creek to wash off a lot of sediment at the bottom of the clay pot, and then returned to the bamboo house to filter the salt water again.
After he filtered it three times, the brine he got was so clear that he could hardly see any color.
Jiang Xuan put the three-filtered salt water into the fire pit and boiled it on a stone.
This is a relatively long process and requires sufficient patience.
After the salt water boiled, Jiang Xuan stirred it from time to time, and smashed the remaining salt ore with others.
After they smashed a whole bag of salt ore, the water in the pot had obviously evaporated, and there were a small amount of white crystals above the inner wall of the pot.
Jiang Xuan found a bamboo shoot shell and carefully scraped off the crystals.
He squeezed a little salt crystal with his fingers~www.novelbuddy.com~ and put it on the tip of his tongue.
A relatively pure salty taste stimulated the taste buds on the tip of his tongue.
This salty taste is very close to real edible salt, with almost no bitterness and astringency of impurity salt.
Chi Shao and the three teenagers looked at Jiang Xuan eagerly, hoping to see something on his face.
"Very salty!"
This is the first sentence Jiang Xuan said.
"This is real salt, salt we can all eat!"
This is the second sentence Jiang Xuan said.
"Great!"
Nan Xing was the first to cheer. He was proud that he had personally participated in the process of making salt. The excitement was beyond words.
"Come, have a taste."
There was not much salt to crystallize, so Jiang Xuan gave each of them a little.
Chi Shao carefully put this bit of salt on the tip of her tongue, then closed her mouth and tasted the salt.
After a while, her eyes were slightly moist.
"It's really salt..."
In the past, the deer tribe also had salt, usually from the big tribe, in exchange for animal skins, animal bones and other things.
Not only is it expensive, but it is not pure at all, with a strong bitterness and astringency.
Originally thought that with a few of them, there might be no chance to eat salt in the future, but Jiang Xuan made better salt.
The three teenagers were in the same mood, they even licked their fingers clean.
Salt, something that every household in Jiang Xuan's previous life could afford, is extremely precious in this wild world.
It is a blessing to be able to eat salt.
It is a very happy thing to be able to eat relatively pure salt.
At this moment, the five people felt very happy.
