Elven settlers

Chapter 356 Salt Making
It seemed impossible to directly collect the naturally formed sea salt, so Rock decided to take the next best thing and bring some seawater back.

He unloaded two empty buckets with a capacity of ten liters from Geranium's body, then took off his boots, rolled up his trousers, stepped on the uneven gravel, and slowly walked into the sea water.

Geranium stood on the shore, tied a cane whip around Rock's waist as a safety rope, and kept an eye on the movement on the sea in the distance.

Once the situation changes, it will decisively pull Luo back and run away.

While walking in the sea, Rock lowered his head and observed the bottom of the sea through the blue and clear water.

When he saw a piece of dark green seaweed, his eyes immediately brightened.

This piece of seaweed is only about ten or twenty centimeters high, and when it grows on the seabed, it is quite a large piece, like a fluffy carpet.

Rock stepped on some slippery seaweed, walked a few more steps into the seaweed lawn, opened the lid of the bucket, and filled it with seawater.

The reason for filling seawater in places where aquatic plants are distributed is because seaweed can effectively absorb heavy metal elements in seawater.

Although Rock felt that the quality of seawater in the Pokémon World should be very good, he still chose a safer approach, even though it might be meaningless and just a waste of effort.

After all, it's never wrong to be cautious all the time in the wild.

After filling two barrels with a total of twenty liters of seawater, Rock returned to the shore.

Fortunately, there was no sign of the giant beast from the beginning to the end, but even so, he didn't dare to stay any longer. He hurriedly packed two buckets of seawater into Geranium's saddle bag, and then he took his boots and rode on Geranium. Run away quickly.

Rock and Geranium didn't stop until they crossed the hills in one breath and ran through two woods that they used to hide when they came. down.

"Hey?"

Seeing them running in a hurry, several black Luga immediately surrounded them, thinking that there were enemies behind them.

"It's okay, let's go, everyone."

Rock waved away the Heluga who wanted to protect him, then got off Geranium's back and began to put on his boots.

"How rich?"

At this moment, a curious woolly sheep suddenly ran over, squatted down and sniffed his other boot.

At first, Rock didn't pay attention, but he didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, this velvet sheep, who had nowhere to rest his curiosity, was about to stuff his shoelaces into his mouth, so he hurriedly stopped him.

"Go! This is not for you to eat."

Rock snatched back the boots and quickly put them on his feet.

He thought the woolly sheep had just left, but just as he put on his boots, he saw two short pink hands holding three plump acorns out in front of his eyes.

"Baa Kuo~"

Seeing that Rock was looking at it, the wooly sheep passed the acorn in his hand forward, signaling to exchange the acorn for his shoelace.

"It can't be changed, these are shoelaces, you can't eat them!"

Rock tied up his shoelaces and stamped his feet in front of the wooly sheep.

"Baa Kuo..."

Seeing this, the wooly sheep seemed to know that shoelaces were not a kind of food anymore, so he squinted his mouth regretfully, but still gave Rock an acorn, and then stuffed the remaining two shells into his own In his mouth, he began to eat with relish.

"Thank you, you can eat this too, I can't eat... eh!"

The taste of acorns was a bit bitter and unpalatable, so Rock hadn't paid much attention to this ubiquitous nut.

However, when he saw that the wooly sheep seemed to like eating acorns, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"That's right, I can store some acorns for the wooly sheep for the winter. Although I find this kind of food unpalatable, it still seems to be very nutritious."

The wooly sheep looked at Roque who suddenly muttered to himself, took the acorn from his hand lightly, stuffed it into his mouth, and ran away.

However, Rock no longer pays attention to this velvet sheep. He has found another food besides hay that can be stored for the sheep in the winter—acorns.

This season is the season when the acorns begin to mature, and it happens that the most tree species in Rock's pasture is oak trees, and it just so happens that his flock also likes to eat acorns.

Therefore, the acorns, which are highly nutritious and can be stored for a long time, are simply a combination of hay in winter, and are the perfect choice for food for Mare sheep and velvet sheep.

"Let King Nido and Queen Nido start collecting ripe acorns when we go back, heh~ Now there is one more reason to like oak trees."

Rock chuckled, stepped on Geranium's back, and continued to return to the camp.

After returning to the camp, Nido King and Nido Queen were also there, so Rock directly let them drag two trailers and go out with a shovel to collect acorns.

Then Rock went to the bacon field on the bank of the river to take a look at the bacon, and confirmed that the smoking work was proceeding step by step under Heluga's care, and then returned to the camp to start the salt making work.

He roughly understands the principle of salt making, which is to evaporate the water in seawater, and then the precipitated crystals are coarse salt with some impurities.

Of course, if some refining links are added in the middle, then refined salt will be produced.

Although Rock doesn't know much about the steps of refining salt and doesn't have the professional qualifications, he still plans to do some processing as much as possible, so that he can eat with more peace of mind.

He first made two simple filtration devices using birch bark, fine sand, crushed charcoal, and gravel according to the previous method of purifying water.

Then pour the [-] liters of seawater brought back into these two filter devices and filter them. The filter devices are placed vertically, and there is an empty bucket at the bottom to receive the filtered seawater.

After filtering twice, Rock asked Chenglong, who was found by Geranium, to purify the seawater with drops of life water, and then poured the purified seawater into the cooking pot, set it on the fire and boiled it up.

As the sea water in the pot boiled, layers of white crystals continued to precipitate around the pot. This was the salt that Rock was thinking of.

Judging from the white color, the quality of these salts seems to be okay, without too many impurities.

The fire of Luo Ke was very high, so the sea water boiled very quickly. By noon, the water in it was almost completely boiled away, leaving only a finger-thick layer of crystal salt grains in the pot, about [-] grams The left and right looks are completely enough for Rock to use for the past two days.

He collected all the salt grains in the pot into a clay pot, and let Helujia dry it slightly with a flame.

After the salt grains were completely dry, Rock dipped a little bit with his little finger, put it into his mouth and tasted it.

Salty, fresh, with a hint of bitterness, but the taste is not particularly strong, which shows that the purity of the salt is relatively high, which makes Rock feel relieved.

This morning's tossing was finally not in vain.

(End of this chapter)