Chapter 5 Sister Xiangmei who sent food

Lin Xiaogang wanted to ask who the person was, but Li Yuyan glanced at the woman and said lightly.

"She is my neighbor's sister next door to my mother's house. She has a good relationship since she was a child. Before she got married, she always likes to follow me and let me protect her."

Seeing the familiar person, a smile that seemed to be present and vaguely passed across Li Yuyan's face.

Only then did Lin Xiao realize that her "little wife" seemed to be born without laughing.

When Li Xiangmei heard Li Yuyan say that, her face was instantly flushed and shyly hit Li Yuyan's arm with her little pink fist, complaining:

"It's all my childhood. What do you mention it?!"

Li Xiangmei smiled at Lin Xiao, naturally took Li Yuyan's arm, pulled him into the inner room.

"Why do I feel like she smiled perfunctorily at me?"

Lin Xiao touched his nose, but didn't care.

Anyway, she is now thinking about how to make rock salt blocks into non-toxic edible salt.

Generally speaking, the procedure is not too complicated, that is, grind the rock salt into small pieces and dissolve it in pure water, heat it over fire until the salt solution boils.

Then continue heating in low heat until a large amount of white crystals appear in the container.

Then scrape the salt off the container with a spoon, dissolve it in pure water, and pour it into a container filled with activated carbon.

At this time, you have to pay attention. The top and bottom of activated carbon must be sealed with clean cotton gauze, so that you can use it to filter out the salt solution.

Finally, reheat these edible salt solutions and precipitate the salt.

In fact, the principle is very simple, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to make.

With the rock salt blocks, charcoal is missing now.

"The wood can be used as fuel in the first step, and the calcination time is just right when charcoal is needed!"

Lin Xiao had a sudden idea and took the machete in the yard and was about to go up the mountain to cut some suitable trees. He was walking out when the door of the inner room opened.

Li Xiangmei nodded to Lin Xiao, then handed Li Yuyan the basket slung on his arm, and then quickly left.

When Li Yuyan saw Lin Xiao holding a machete, he asked in confusion:

"What are you doing with a machete?"

"Go up the mountain to cut down trees!"

“The firewood at home is enough.”

"Those woods are not as dense as I have to choose some woods with high density."

Obviously Li Yuyan couldn't understand what "density" meant in Lin Xiao's mouth, so he scratched his head awkwardly:

"Then you have to eat enough before going there?"

After saying that, he lifted the cloth blocks from the basket that Li Xiangmei gave him just now, took out a bag of mixed grain cakes from it and handed them to Lin Xiao.

Seeing the mixed grain cakes, Lin Xiao's stomach was rumbling unscrupulously.

She picked up a piece of cake and started to chew:

"Well, the taste is good. Thank you Sister Xiangmei for your time."

"You... aren't you angry?"

Li Yuyan knew that scholars were so noble that they were very aloof, especially concerned about their face, and would rather starve to death than eat food given to them.

Lin Xiao is really different from ordinary scholars!

"You Sister Xiangmei is worried that you will suffer with me, so she specially brought some food. I am grateful that she is too late, so why are you angry?"

Lin Xiao continued to laugh while eating, "Apart from these cakes, what else is there in the basket your sister Xiangmei gave?"

“There are some of this.”

Lin Xiao looked at the dark things in Li Yuyan's hands and his smile became even brighter.

I really want to come with whatever I want, didn’t the charcoal come to my door by myself?

From Li Yuyan's mouth, Lin Xiao roughly learned about the basic situation in Li Xiangmei's home.

In the early years, she married Zhoujia Village, downstream of Linjia Village. Her man Zhou Dajun joined the army a few years ago and broke one of his legs to save a chief.

Although my legs were later connected, they became long and short legs since then. I couldn’t do a lot of work and could only chop firewood and burn charcoal at home to make a living.

The charcoal is expensive and is not the first choice for many people. Therefore, the couple lives a very difficult life.

Under such circumstances, Li Xiangmei was able to bring Li Yuyan a basket of charcoal and grain cakes, which shows that the relationship between the two sisters is unusual.

The two of them ate some mixed grain cakes. Li Yuyan was about to pick up the machete and walked out when Lin Xiao called out.

"Let's go, aren't you going to cut down trees?"

Li Yuyan looked at Lin Xiao in confusion.

Lin Xiao pointed to the charcoal in the basket and said:

"Your Sister Xiangmei is helping me in time, which just solves my urgent need."

"Now..."

"Rise the heat and fill the pot with water. I want to extract the refined salt!"

Li Yuyan looked at Lin Xiao with confidence, then looked at the salt stone piled in the corner of the yard, opened his mouth, and swallowed the words he said to himself.

If you force a person who does not hit the wall and does not look back, it will be a long life!

The Great Xia Dynasty used the method of making salt by sea water, and the core method of making salt was controlled by the royal family.

It is difficult for ordinary people to use salt stone to extract edible fine salt!

If you simply boil some water and petrochemical salt, you can make edible salt water, and it will not poison so many people who cannot afford salt!

Li Yuyan muttered while boiling water, and finally looked at Lin Xiao with a high look. After all, she was just an ordinary person with a whimsical imagination!

Soon, Lin Xiao came over with a dustpan, and the dustpan was covered with salt stones she had broken.

The salt stone was placed in high-temperature water and quickly turned into the water and disappeared.

"Yu Yan, continue to heat up on low heat and never stop."

About an hour later, the water in the pot was about to bottom out, and the iron pot was covered with yellow and white salt particles.

Lin Xiao kept stir-frying with a spatula in the candlelight. Li Yuyan looked at the salt in the pot and his eyes burst into shock.

"You made the salt?"

"It can only be said that it's half done."

Lin Xiao took out a piece of fabric from the bottom of the original owner's box. The original owner planned to restore his daughter one day to make a dress.

She cut it down and wrapped some of the charcoal that Li Xiangmei took in, then tied it tightly, which became a simple filter element.

Immediately afterwards, she pried a small hole in the bottom of the chopsticks and stuffed the charcoal bag in.

"Yu Yan, bring two basins!"

Li Yuyan did not dare to neglect the talented person who could make salt, so he hurriedly took over the only two wooden basins at home.

Lin Xiao shoveled the yellow and white salt particles in the pot into the wooden basin, then added water to dissolve it, and then scooped the salt water into the chopstick drum containing charcoal to purify the clean salt water.

Many impurities in the salt stone are left in the iron pot.

Half an hour later, Lin Xiao poured the purified salt water into the washed iron pot, and Li Yuyan continued to heat it up.

After about half an hour, the flawless edible salt was made!

Lin Xiao couldn't wait to taste it. It was salt eaten by later generations, and it had a little umami flavor.

"Yu Yan, try it."

While speaking, Lin Xiao twisted a little bit of salt with his fingers and applied it to Li Yuyan's mouth. The speed was so fast that he didn't give him a chance to refuse.

Li Yuyan hesitated for a moment, and licked his tongue with his determination to die, and his eyes lit up instantly:

"This is... salt?!"

Everyone should have stayed in a hotel outside, right?

In fact, there are taboos when staying in a hotel!

Do you know what they are?

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!