The electronic voice was silent for a while, as if searching and scanning something, and it took a while to reply, "Valid commands, not dead yet, but you might die if you wake up."
Chen Chao frowned and asked, "What's his situation now? What's the cause of his death?"
"hunger."
Looking at the little boy's bulging belly, he could clearly see the veins and blood vessels under the skin. The whole body has become skinny and skinny, and it's not half as heavy as Huang Yan's in his arms.
Thinking of those salty tribesmen outside who had eaten so much fat, thinking of the incomparably precious linen clothes worn by their leaders, and those twenty stone basins, Chao Chen felt angry once again. .
He could not wait to bring down a thunderstorm and reduce the tribe to ashes.
But Chen Chao thought about it, no, this is too cheap for them. I want them to finally wake up, and then let them watch everything they have been taken away, and watch the tribes that were plundered by them surpass them one by one, and they will lose their future forever.
Now that the salt is no longer picked, Chen Chao waited for the rain to stop and returned to the Xian tribe to boil a pot of rice soup, put a few pieces of salt meat and crushed cabbage leaves. At his strong request just now, some progress points bound to Huang Yan were used up in exchange for a designated privilege.
And his choice is to wake up the boy.
But the little boy still didn't really wake up, because his current state was too bad, Super Chen tried to feed him a little rice soup, but fortunately, although he hadn't really woken up yet, the little boy was already able to subconsciously swallow.
Super Chen took off the animal skin again and wrapped it around the little boy. Because he was worried that he would be alone, and considering that it would be best to feed him some rice soup every once in a while, he took the little boy again. Brought back to the salt mine.
So Chen Chao took care of the little boy while collecting salt.
In fact, the mined salt cannot be eaten directly, but must be finely processed. Fine processing is not enough now, but it is still possible to cook and do a preliminary extraction.
In fact, the salt in this place should be called mine salt. Chen Chao observed it, and found that the salt mines mainly consist of salt stones (salt stones) produced in shallow landmarks, about the size of a fist, accompanied by underground natural brine.
The raw material sources of salt can be divided into 4 categories: sea salt, lake salt, well salt and mine salt. The salt obtained by drying seawater as raw material is called "sea salt"; the salt obtained by mining modern salt lake mines is called "lake salt";
The salt processed by drawing shallow surface or underground natural brine by sinking well is called "well salt"; the salt processed by mining ancient rock salt deposits is called "mine salt". Due to the coexistence of rock salt deposits and natural brine salt mines sometimes, and the advent of the water-soluble method of drilling rock salt deposits, there is also a collective name for "well salt" and "mine salt" - "well mine salt", or generally referred to as "mine salt".
The salt mine of the Xian tribe is the well mine salt, but for the convenience of memory, it is still called the salt mine.
Don't look at Chen Chao getting out a lot in a short while, but after processing it later, it may not be enough to fill an animal skin bag.
The salty tribe probably didn't know how to finely process salt, because Chen Chao saw that what they carried in the animal hides were all large grains of salt stones or salt crystals, which were all similar to a yellowish-brown crystal.
In fact, salt rocks in this state cannot be eaten. The salt that has just been mined is actually poisonous. If you eat that salt, you will die if you have diarrhea.
The salt itself is not poisonous, and there is no problem with the associated brine. The ability to mine salt still depends on its associated brine. But its symbiotic mine also contains many poisonous things, and the taste is extremely bad. In addition to salty, there are all kinds of strange taste.
I don't know how the salty tribe tolerated it, but seeing that most of them use it to make salted meat, it can't be ruled out that it is because of this that some of the problematic areas have been diluted.
Chen Chao looked at the little boy next to him. He was still awake, so he fed him some rice soup, and then began to think about how to turn this pile of things on the ground into refined salt, at least into salt that can be eaten directly.
In ancient times, sea salt, lake salt, and well salt were mostly made of brine, or burned with firewood, or exposed to the wind and sun, and the salt was obtained after the water evaporated.
As for meeting the standards of modern society, it is basically impossible. At present, it relies on the tools in hand, but the extraction method of well salt is mainly by boiling.
This time, Chao Chen planned to use the repeated crystallization method, first dissolving the mined coarse salt in water, and then filtering it to remove impurities. Evaporate the water solution to crystallize or boil it in a pot, and it will be fine in a while.
After checking the principle and general process, the rest is simple. Chen Chao spent several days processing the salt and filled five animal skin bags.
After eating bacon rice for several days, Chen Chao was a little bored. At this time, he missed the fresh fish and wild boar stewed chestnut soup in the tribe.
Now that I have the salt I brought back, the taste must be even better. And after being out for so many days, I don't know how the animal skins in the tribe are doing. Has Yuan ever noticed the problem of water leakage in the pond
I don't know how the clay pot is burning. If there is a broken pot, I hope Cyclops will not be too sad. No. 2 Rabbit House should be ready for people to live in. I hope a certain little old man will not occupy it all. After all, if people live with a bunch of rabbits for a long time, they will really get sick.
And the caves are so densely populated.
Has the army of rubbing straw ropes started work, and have the women in the collection team continued to weave hemp nests and straw sandals
At this moment, Super Chen suddenly missed them a little bit.
Looking at the processed salt, it should be enough for the tribe to eat this winter. What's more, there is also the bacon I brought myself, which is also full of salt. You can also eat sparingly for a while.
Chen Chao searched all over the mountains and fields for vines suitable for weaving rattan baskets, and weaved two fine rattan baskets. One is on the front and the other is on the back.
The one on the back was filled with animal skins wrapped with rice and salt, and some Chinese cabbages were covered on the top. When I was young, the small cabbages were all wrapped in animal skins with soil. The rattan basket in front contained Chinese cabbage and the little boy.
Put the little boy in a rattan basket, and then stuff Chinese cabbage and bacon around him. The pottery pot and bowl were casually placed on top of the little boy's head, the pig urine bubble filled with water was tied to the waist with a straw rope, and the stone ax was inserted on the other side of the waist.
The two spears were folded into short spears and inserted obliquely into the rattan basket behind him. The jerky brought from the tribe has long since been eaten, and now the bacon in the rattan basket is all the specialty bacon of the Xian tribe.
The little boy hadn't woken up yet, but when Super Chen fed him rice soup, besides swallowing it by himself, he would occasionally make some sleepy murmurs.
His complexion was not as sallow as before. Super Chen named him Stone, mainly because he was rescued from the stone by himself, and also hoped that his life would be as tenacious as a stone, and could not be blown down by the wind. , the rain does not move, and lives tenaciously in the world.
After checking and confirming that there was nothing more to bring, Super Chen carried two large rattan baskets back and forth, and embarked on the journey home.