Chapter 183: The discovery of rock salt mines
The reason why my friends can follow me is because they have their own strengths.
Those children who have no specialties will feel ashamed and slowly retreat after following us for a while.
This is also impossible. The Sanguo Village was very difficult at the beginning, and it was often seen that it was eliminated from strength to strength.
Moreover, because we often go to the mountains to hunt, this is even more dangerous. If other children do not have the strength to follow us, they will easily lose their lives.
Xiaoqiang is the person with the strongest ability to observe animals among us, and he is also a person who has his own insights in complex environments. Whether in the mountains, woods or in the wilderness, he usually encounters any lost situation.
After a while, he determined his direction, stood up, pointed to a cave and said, "Go to the right."
It was Femisky and Jerokov who took the lead in. Although they were not very ferocious wild deer, they still did not dare to take it lightly, because in the darkness, anything could happen.
"Yuyou...Yuyou..."
There were indeed wild deer inside, because after walking in more than ten meters, I heard the sound of deer singing, and there were still many wild deer chirping, with the sound fluctuating.
Wild deer are very sensitive small animals. They are very timid. They are not only afraid of ferocious animals such as tigers and bears, but also afraid of humans. They often avoid them when they see them from a distance.
Often because they are very fast, it is said that the word "antelope hanging horns" specifically describes its rapid speed.
So when in the wilderness, unless it is a sudden attack, it is not easy for bears and wolves to catch them.
More than a dozen torches are still very effective. When the two people in the front could already see the wild deer's eyes, the torches illuminated the surrounding caves.
I saw about twenty wild deer standing on the wall of the cave with trembling body, looking at us nervously, and not daring to move at all.
"Wow! This time it's a big gain!"
"That's it! There are twenty-one, twenty-two...well. There are twenty-three wild deer in total!"
"I heard that wild venison is also delicious. Brother Bao, can we eat some later?"
"Idiot! You know how to eat it! Do you want these wild deer to watch our companions eat? It's too cruel, right?"
He scolded the abominable Goro. I walked forward a little, looked carefully, and smiled slightly: "These little guys seem to be a little hungry. Come on, put the things on them."
Yan Xiaohu and Quan Dayou hurriedly walked forward, untied the big pocket on their backs, poured out a lot of chopped hay and wheat bran from it, and piled it in front of the little guys.
The wild deer had no choice but to watch them step forward and put things on.
But once they smell the familiar smell, they immediately had a soft "yoyo" sound, and a few slightly smaller deer became a little restless.
We all retreated aside and emptyed the space around them. After a while, an adult wild deer first walked out of the group, tentatively licked the hay and wheat bran, and then looked up at us... This happened several times. We didn't move at all, and a louder deer chirped.
Almost instantly, a few young deer rushed over like flying, and together with their elders, everyone gathered in front of two small piles and ate the delicious food happily.
In this season when ice and snow cover the world, such delicious food is rare, so they can't help but eat without speeding up.
Now is the time to cultivate mutual trust, and we cannot move them, so we just stand far away and look at the surrounding situation bored.
"Hey, these hole walls are very smooth!"
Bo Hanqing leaned against the cave wall and accidentally discovered such a little secret.
With his reminder, we also noticed this, and then we even found that the ground was also very smooth.
"It's strange, is this natural? "The few people were curious and surrounded the ground and walls and began to think about it.
Everyone's actions are all influenced by me. Dad Lauren has asked me since I was a child to observe and think more about what I don't understand when encountering something I don't understand, and try to find out why it is unique.
Tucker even reached out his finger and scraped a little dirt on the wall, put it in his mouth and licked it.
“Salty!!”
He blurted out in surprise.
Everyone was stunned and quickly scraped off the soil like him and sucked it.
Sure enough, I tasted a bitter, salty and bitter taste in my mouth. The bitter taste is the earthy taste. If it is salty...
"Salt!?"
At least five people shouted out in unison, and the wild deer next to him was so scared that she ran back to the distance and looked at us timidly.
"Wait! Wait!" I raised my hand to stop everyone's noise, "Everyone is quiet! Let me think about what's going on!"
The big guy stopped talking quickly. After thinking about it, I bent down and scraped some soil on the smooth ground on the ground, put it in my mouth again, and immediately showed a strange look on my face, and I vomited out with a "pah".
Everyone was a little surprised. At my gesture, they also imitated me and started to eat the soil, and then they still vomited with a bitter expression like me.
“It’s too salty!!”
Everyone was spitting out disgustingly. The salty smell on the ground was ten times salty than the ones on the cave wall!
But I squatted on the ground and slowly pondered again.
The walls are salty, the ground is salty... It means that the hole is salty.
So does it mean that in this cave, there is what the master said, the underground rock and salt mines in Fushun and Rongxian areas of Sichuan Road?
If this is true, then I will send it!
What?
You said that the sea area is surrounded by Tokyo Island and Emi Island, with countless sea salt, so can’t be sold?
Have you tasted the salt brought from the sea?
That's bitter!
It also has an unpleasant smell of sea!
If we didn’t eat salt, we wouldn’t usually use sea salt.
Although rock salt is not the finest salt, it tastes much better than sea salt. If you deal with it again, pack it and sell it, it will definitely be a very good business!
However, it is not that easy to determine the rock salt mine.
How do I need to make a preliminary judgment on whether my judgment is true?
Thinking of this, I quickly ran out of the cave entrance.
When Femiski and Shiro Goro saw it, they quickly followed without thinking.
The remaining friends were also worried about my safety, so they hurriedly followed me out of the cave, and then watched me stop not far from the entrance of the cave.
When Shiro Goro beside him saw me, I squatted in front of the stream where they had just stepped on the ice, reached in, scooped a handful of clear water, and drank it into my mouth.
"Pooh!"
I vomited it for the third time.
"This is a salt stream!" I turned around and said loudly: "Silou Goro, and Huocha, Jerokov, please dig it back for me along this salt stream to see if its outlet is in the cave."
"yes!"
Several people quickly followed the gap, took shovels, and quickly broke through the ice.
They were all young men, and the friends next to them came to help. In just one stick of incense, the rough flow of the stream appeared in front of me.
Sure enough, at the end of the stream, it disappeared into a place below the cave, and it seemed that it flowed out from the underground of the cave.
Tang Benjixiu was excited and drank the light salt water, "Brother Bao... do you think this is the salt we usually eat?"
"Yes."
"That's great!" Tucker also clapped his hands: "If it's really a rock salt mine, then I will never have to buy salt from those travelers. I heard the second village chief say that as we use more and more salt, those travelers have already raised the price twice. In early spring after the New Year, their prices would have risen by 50%. If we hadn't had a strong foundation, we wouldn't even be able to afford salt."
In the past, when we were in Sanguo Village at the foot of Luoxi Mountain, most of us ate inferior sea salt brought by traveling merchants.
After arriving at Liuyin Harbour, half of us ate sea salt we steamed ourselves, while the other half ate fine salt we bought from the traveling merchants.
Sea salt is always mixed with a lot of debris and the taste is not very good, so most of them are just used for pickling food. When you really want to make dishes, it is necessary to use fine salt to work and eat comfortably.
There is no way.
I used to think it was good to eat inferior sea salt, but now I don’t even get used to the good sea salt I have made myself.
Once a person gets used to comfort, it is always difficult to return to the difficult environment of the past.
Of course, with a comfortable environment and blindly trying to maintain a simplicity of work, of course, it also has a bit of self-abuse.
You can grasp the degree of enjoyment and luxury, and pay attention to how to maintain strong fighting spirit. Generally speaking, it is enough.
Even if we are sure that there are rock and salt mines here, we cannot mine them according to our current manpower and tools.
So, when we returned to the cave, we still tied up the wild deer with ropes. Because the wild deer ate our food and was comfortable preparing to digest food, we did not encounter too much resistance. Because the cave was blocked by us, they had nowhere to escape.
Just like that, just after noon, we happily took the wild deer and embarked on the return journey.
In order to avoid the wild deer being too cold, we specially put on them a straw-made dress, which looked like a group of straw moving, which was very interesting.
The wild deer was originally very frightened, but due to our friendly behavior, the wild deer strung into a circle was a little calmer.
(Thank you Tianzhilove and Hu Daxian for your reward. The starting point system was in trouble in the morning and it was not updated in time. I am very sorry.)
Chapter completed!