Chapter 10 Salt Production
Chenbei rushed back all the way, but in fact, the Triangle Green Sheep did not go very far. She has been wandering in a forest for more than ten days, so it is not particularly far from the Mang Tribe.
With Chenbei's speed, it only takes one day to arrive.
When Chen Bei returned from the place where he discovered the salt soil, it was already afternoon. He had already rushed one-third of the way. It was already dark and he had to spend the night in the mountains.
Early the next morning, he continued to rush back.
However, when we were halfway through, an unexpected situation occurred.
He met a hunting team from another tribe.
This hunting team has hundreds of people hunting a flock of wild deer.
There are five intermediate totem warriors in this hunting team, and the rest are all low-level totem warriors. As for the advanced totem warriors, I have never seen them.
Such hunting teams are already relatively strong among small tribes, and some small tribes don’t even have an intermediate totem warrior.
Chen Bei noticed that almost every one of these totem warriors had a snake on them, and their totem patterns were very similar to snakes.
Based on Chenbei's experience, this should be a tribe with snakes as the totem god, and the snakes on them are war pets and can help them fight.
Just like the insect tribe, most of the totem warriors in the insect tribe also have war pets, some are scorpions, some are centipedes, and in short, they are all kinds of insects.
Totem gives them the ability to communicate with these battle pets.
"It seems that the location of the Mang tribe is not as safe as it seems. I just don't know how far this tribe with the totem is a snake is from the Mang tribe."
Chenbei's happy mood was shrouded in a dark cloud, and tribes were usually not harmonious.
As long as there is a benefit, there will be disputes, and tribes are no exception.
Now the Mang tribe has finally had hope. Chen Bei doesn't want to destroy all the existing things just because of fighting with this strange tribe.
Must be strong as soon as possible!
Chen Bei felt a sense of urgency. Whether it was his personal or tribe, if he was strong enough, he would not have to worry about these problems at all.
Chen Bei hugged the salt soil in the animal skin bag tightly. This thing is a powerful tool for the tribe at present, and it must be used well.
Chen Bei did not alarm the hunting team. After observing, he left quietly and wanted to rush back to the tribe as soon as possible.
He rushed all the way and finally returned to the tribe in the afternoon.
Looking at the rows of simple houses and the tribes passing through them from afar, Chen Bei's heart was finally relieved.
Fortunately, nothing big happened to the tribe in the past ten days after he left.
Chen Bei walked into the tribe and met many people on the way. Everyone was very curious about his bulging animal skin bag. After all, Chen Bei had been away for more than ten days.
But no one dared to go up and ask because he was the leader.
Chen Bei returned to his wooden house and threw the two animal skin bags of salt and soil on the ground. He breathed a sigh of relief. The string that had been tensed also relaxed.
After taking a cold shower with pleasure, he changed into a clean animal leather jacket and lay on the bed. Now, he didn't want to move for a while, he just wanted to have a good rest.
Not long after, when he learned that Chen Bei had returned to the tribe, the elder Mu rushed over immediately.
"You guys just stay outside and don't let anyone get close to here. I have something to talk to the leader."
"Yes, elder."
The elder let two strong tribal warriors guard the door and then entered the wooden house by himself.
"Chief, I finally look forward to you back!"
The elder wanted to cry. He never expected that Chen Bei would be there for so long. During this period, he was worried that something would happen to the tribe.
Now, Chen Bei, who is the highest combat power of the tribe, is back.
Chen Bei got up from the bed covered with animal skins and said, "I am not in the tribe, thank you for the elders to work hard."
“This is what I should have done.”
Then, the elder asked carefully: "Chief, have you found the thing...?"
Chen Bei naturally knew what he was referring to. Chen Bei pointed to the two animal skin bags on the ground and said, "I found it, in the animal skin bag."
"real?"
When the elder heard this, he trembled with excitement. He knew very well what this meant.
The elder walked to the skin bag and used his trembling hands to untied the rope on the skin bag.
The white salt soil in my eyes has turned from blocks to powder after bumps along the way.
"Can this be eaten?"
The elder actually wanted to taste a little, but was afraid of being poisoned. His old bones could not withstand the tossing.
"Of course I can't eat it now, but after I use the method taught by the Totem God, it will be ready to eat it."
"Then do it quickly! Leader, this is a major event that concerns the entire tribe."
The elder couldn't wait to know the answer, so his tone was a little excited.
Chen Bei was a little helpless. He actually wanted to have a peaceful sleep and get up tomorrow.
But now it seems that if he falls asleep, the old man will probably suffer from insomnia all night.
Forget it, because he is so old and for the sake of the tribe, it is better to get it done before going to bed.
Chen Bei thought for a while and said, "I'll go outside and find something to come back."
"Okay, I'll be waiting for you here."
After Chen Bei left, the elder's eyes never left the two animal skin bags, his eyes were particularly gentle, just like when he was young, he saw the woman he liked.
Chenbei walked into the woods next to the tribe, and he knew there were several palm trees here.
Palm trees have layers of skin, also called zongzi hair, which can be used to make ropes and straw raincoats.
In my previous life, when Chenbei was young, I often saw adults wearing straw raincoats made of palm tree bark and working in the fields on rainy days.
Chenbei walked under the palm trees. Because the Mang tribe had just moved here, these palm trees had never been peeled off.
Chen Bei carefully used a stone knife to peel off the bark of the palm tree layer by layer, and cut off a lot of them.
Then, Chenbei returned to his residence with the pile of palm bark.
The elder saw Chen Bei holding the palm tree bark and was a little confused. What was he going to do?
Chen Bei did not sway his appetite and directly expressed his purpose.
“This is for filtering.”
"filter?"
The elder had never heard of this word, but he was not easy to ask, so he had to wait patiently to see what Chenbei was going to do.
There are two wooden barrels in Chenbei wooden house. Of course, they are not spliced with wooden boards, but they are directly hollowed out a section of trees, and two small holes were dug in the upper half of the tribe and tied ropes.
The wooden barrels are very primitive and not very good-looking, but in the tribe, there is no carpenter, so you can't ask too much, just use it.
Chenbei used a wooden barrel to make half a bucket of water, then poured part of the salt soil in the animal skin bag into the wooden barrel, and stirred it continuously with a stick until the salt soil dissolved.
He picked up a lot of charcoal from the fire pit, and all of them were broken. He put a layer of palm bark underneath, lay a layer of charcoal, covered with a layer of palm bark, and then covered with charcoal, and repeatedly covered five or six layers.
Chenbei tied the thick layers of palm bark with ropes on both sides, but pressed down in the middle to form a deep nest, which looked like the shape of a ship.
Afterwards, Chenbei put several layers of charcoal on the empty wooden barrels on the bark of the ship.
That's right, Chenbei wants to use it to filter out impurities in salt and soil.
The bark of the palm tree is very fine, just like a naturally woven cloth, with a good filtering effect.
Charcoal has a strong adsorption effect. When layered together, the final brine filtered will be relatively clean.
"I'm going to pour water, the elder is helping him."
Chen Bei picked up the barrel of dissolved salt, soil and water and slowly poured it on the bark of the boat-shaped palm tree.
The elder hurriedly helped him carefully, for fear of being knocked over.
The turbid salt and soil solution gradually becomes clear after layers of filtering. When it flows into the empty wooden barrel, it looks relatively clean.
The elder was stunned. He even thought that Chen Bei was using witchcraft to make the turbid water clear. In his opinion, this was really amazing.
Then, Chenbei filtered the salt water several times again until it was clear.
"Chief, why are there all water and salt?"
The elder did not forget the most important thing, and he felt a little confused. Due to his knowledge, he could not understand anything Chen Bei did.
"Elder, don't worry, the salt is in the water, I'll cook it out later."
There is a large stone pot in Chenbei wooden house. It is the only stone master in the Mang tribe. It took several days to find the fire-resistant stone.
When Chen Bei was really happy when he learned that there was a stone master among the more than 100 people.
In the tribal era without iron tools, stone tools and bone tools were the most important tools, and stone tools and bone tools were both rare talents.
Chenbei cleaned the stone pot, then poured the salt water into the pot, lit the fire, and the rest needed to be waited slowly.
The stone pot heats slowly. After a few hours, the water in the stone pot gradually decreases, and a layer of white crystal appears on the edge.
Chen Bei scraped off the white crystal, dipped it a little with his fingers, and put it in his mouth.
Salty, very salty, and has a little bitter taste.
Although it is not pure salt, this is already the best result in Chen Bei's poor knowledge reserve.
The elder who had been waiting for it had tasted it himself when he saw the leader taste it himself. Naturally, he couldn't help but taste it some by himself.
"That's right, it's salt, it's salt!"
"Blessed by the Totem God, our tribe has salt!"
Chapter completed!