I stayed up late to write all this, and I revamped it all in the morning. I'm afraid there are still some typos, so I'm sorry.
——————————The fresh grilled fish and fish soup are ready, and the refreshing aroma of the food spreads with the sea breeze, making everyone on the beach salivate and taste the dried fish that Zhou Jiping had eaten before.
Fish is different. The freshly caught fish meat has a natural and refreshing smell, which makes everyone appetite.
But while eating, Zhou Jiping also thought of another problem, that is, it is okay for everyone to maintain this way of eating for a day or two. Once the time is too long, even if everyone’s appetite is not tired, it is certain that the intestines cannot bear it.
, I am afraid that most people will have diarrhea and constipation in the end. There is a scientific reason for this. The human body not only needs protein and meat, but also needs the help of plant fibers to digest well.
However, Zhou Jiping's worries were obviously unnecessary. When he told Kundala about his worries, Kundala smiled and told Zhou Jiping that Damon and his party would only stay at the seaside for three days at most, waiting for people to get enough salt.
After that, everyone will walk back, and the time before and after will not be too long
Salt, but facing this vast sea, where can we get enough salt?
Kundala saw Zhou Jiping's doubts. He pointed to the south and said, "It takes two meals to walk over there. It only takes half a day for Yangu to make it with Damon's current manpower and tools."
enough salt”
After eating a fish lunch instead of breakfast, Kundala arranged for a few tribal warriors to dry the dried fish, while other tribal warriors packed bags prepared to hold salt and headed south.
Sure enough, after walking on the soft beach for less than forty minutes, the Salt Valley that Kundala mentioned was arrived.
In the Dameng tribe, Zhou Jiping often saw a lot of new things, but today was the most new thing he saw and the one that shocked him the most.
Salt Valley - really the real Salt Valley. This was originally a valley formed by two mountains and a ditch. There is nothing strange about it. It happens that the entrance of Salt Valley is very close to the sea level. During the rainy season, there are strong winds and high tides on the sea.
, seawater will rush into the salt valley and the salt valley
The terrain here is lower than the sea level, so when the sea water recedes, a natural salt pool is formed in the salt valley. As the sea water gradually evaporates here, a large amount of sea salt precipitates from the sea water and is deposited at the bottom of the valley. Over time,
This forms a world of natural salt
The Salt Valley is very large, with at least three or four football fields. It can be seen that since the seawater poured in, the entire Salt Valley has turned into a world of white flowers, and the surrounding hillsides are truly barren.
It is not entirely correct to say that not a single blade of grass grows. Many seaweeds brought up by the sea water hang on the large salt crystals, using their dried remains to paint a different kind of scenery every year.
Standing at one end of the salt valley, Zhou Jiping could see all the way to the other end of the salt valley. Looking at the darkness there, it seemed that it was leading to a primitive forest. After asking Kondala, Zhou Jiping's guess was confirmed.
There is indeed a virgin forest at the other end of the valley, but to be precise, it should be a mangrove forest rich in salt and alkali. Below is a swamp where some forest animals collect salt. It is impossible for people to walk through there.
Kundala's words were true. During a period of time in the Salt Valley, Zhou Jiping saw many animals appearing on the edge of the mangrove forest in the distance, including a hippopotamus covered in red mud, a large buffalo, and a baboon picking up food...
…At both ends of the Salt Valley, humans and animals are busy working on the salt necessary for their lives, and have nothing to do with each other - this is indeed an interesting scenery.
In the Salt Valley, the experienced Damon warriors became cautious every time they raised their hands and took every step. The salt blocks in the ground were not as sharp as the rocks. Their fronts were sharper than the rocks. How many people walked in the Salt Valley?
, if you are careless, you may break the skin on your hands and feet, and if you are hit by the salt all over the ground, the feeling will be unbearable.
Getting salt is not a hassle. It is even easier than fishing with dolphins. Soldier Damon only needs to use the tools he brought with him to chip off the large salt blocks, smash them into smaller salt grains, and put them in his pocket.
Just don’t put too much salt in each pocket. After all, the way back is still very difficult. Carrying too many things to climb a mountain is also difficult and dangerous.
The tools used by soldiers to smash salt now are gears, connecting rods and other tools dismantled from Soyo's scrap cars. It is indeed much faster to smash salt blocks than using rocks before.
The salt bag was quickly filled. Soldier Damon picked up the salt bag and walked back to the beach where the fish was dried.
Calculating carefully, if each person carries 20 kilograms of salt, plus a few kilograms of dried fish per person, then each Damon warrior carries at least 25 kilograms of weight - this does not include the guns and knives carried by the Damon warriors.
, water hyacinth and other items, if the weight of these miscellaneous things is included, the weight carried by each Damon soldier is almost no lighter than the equipment of all the armed emergency marches of the domestic regular army.
"Why aren't fishing and salt collection together? Isn't this a waste of energy? After all, so many people carrying heavy objects and walking in the sun on the beach for forty minutes will sweat a lot."
On the way, Zhou Jiping, who was carrying a heavy bag of salt grains like everyone else, asked Duka next to him.
"That's because there are too many reefs in this area. Even dolphins are reluctant to swim near the salt valley. Moreover, this area has such terrain. Only the area where we fished today can be regarded as a relatively deep water.
"Place" Duka answered seriously, looking very cheerful.
How deep is the water? You can sail a boat if the water is deep? But without actual measurements by boatmen, how can we know the specific hydrological conditions? Zhou Jiping wondered in his heart, but did not ask the question in his heart.
In order to prevent the dried fish from going bad in the humid season, part of the salt that was just brought back was used to marinate the dried fish and dry the fish. The Damon warrior was so busy that he was sweating, but Zhou Jiping was already comfortably soaking in the sea water.
I just rushed back carrying salt bags all the way. Zhou Jiping also sweated a lot like everyone else.
As a chief, being able to share the joys and sorrows with ordinary soldiers in this way is enough to move the Damon soldiers. The next work is all about drying and pickling fish, and it is not Zhou Jiping's turn to do it at all, so in Kong
At Dara's urging, Zhou Jiping and a group of idle tribal warriors came to the beach and took a comfortable bath in the sea.
With no time limit, no need to consider safety issues, and the fatigue of traveling for several days, Zhou Jiping lay comfortably on an underwater reef, with only his head above the water, letting the sea water gently massage his whole body.
, his body was swaying with the waves of the waves... He actually fell asleep like this