Two days later, Tong Zhenye hurried to Jiuding Mountain, and when he saw Ren Baqian, he picked him up and shook him like he was catching a chicken.
"Master Ren, is what you said true? Can you really make salt?"
Tong Zhenye's rough face was full of excitement and nervousness, afraid that Ren Baqian would say "no".
"Put me down first..." Ren Baqian yelled, Tong Zhenye's claws were like iron tongs, and he was about to be dazzled with stars.
"Oh!" Tong Zhenye let go, and Ren Baqian fell directly to the ground, almost falling over.
"What kind of hatred and what kind of resentment?" Ren Baqian had a resentful expression on his face, and he was almost torn apart just now.
"Master Ren, is what you said before true?" Tong Zhenye asked anxiously.
"Can I still lie to you?" Ren Baqian rubbed his shoulder and said.
When Ren Baqian said on the radio station that salt could be made here, Dayao's official chat group fell silent, followed by voices of surprise and disbelief.
After Tong Zhenye heard the news, he rushed to Shifu, asked some questions first, and then rushed over in a hurry.
"Is there any salt?" Tong Zhenye asked.
"I'll do it when you come." Ren Baqian said. "Don't worry, I'm at least 80% sure."
"Such a big matter must be 100% sure." Tong Zhenye said in a deep voice.
"It's useless to talk about it, you'll know if you try it, have you brought what you want?"
"Bring it." Tong Zhenye asked someone to bring up two large buckets, which contained buffalo milk, but in Dayao's weather, it has already deteriorated.
There are also cauldrons, sieves, and coarse cloths.
Ren Baqian also ordered several large buckets to be brought out, which were the brine that had been brought back from two places in the past two days.
"Someone here to help." Ren Baqian greeted the students, and immediately several students ran out.
At this time, a large circle of people surrounded the open space in the middle of the village, all of whom were students, guards, and officials from the Ministry of Industry. On the contrary, all the mountain people in the village were squeezed out.
Most of them still don't know what happened, but Nagu said before that they seem to use those two kinds of poisonous water to make salt, but most of them don't believe it. Water is indeed salty, but it can also kill people.
But now it seems that another big official in the court has come.
"Write down the process." Ren Baqian reminded, and then asked people to pour black brine and yellow brine into a basin according to a certain ratio, and saw some small white crystals appearing at the bottom of the basin.
"The sulfuric acid radical in the black brine and the barium in the yellow brine will form insoluble barium sulfate when they meet together." Ren Baqian said to the students next to him. Although they haven't learned these things yet, this is also a rare experimental experience.
Asking someone to filter out the white crystals, Ren Baqian said to Tong Zhenye: "The barium sulfate should be kept in storage, so it can be used in other places in the future."
After that, it was fried salt. Ren Baqian ordered a fire to boil the brine, and then poured part of the buffalo milk into it. It is more reasonable to use soy milk, but soybeans are only planted in the southern part of Daxia, called Shu, and the output is not large.
But Dayao didn't have it at all.
After inquiring while on earth, I learned that dairy products can be used instead. The price is very expensive, but salt is even more expensive in Dayao.
"The protein in the milk can combine with the high-valent ions in the brine to form a precipitate that can be filtered out, and can absorb the residue..." Ren Baqian continued to introduce.
Although the surrounding students listened, they were completely clueless. I can't understand anything about protein, high-valent ions, and barium sulfate.
This is true for all students, especially for Tong Zhenye and other people from the Ministry of Industry.
But still try to record the process.
The decoction of salt has not yet yielded results, and the first smell of milk in the pot makes many people feel hungry.
"Have you brought rations? There is not enough food for so many people in the village." Ren Baqian reminded.
Tong Zhenye also brought dozens of people with him when he came, and now there are more than a hundred extra mouths in the village, and they are all of the kind who are not low in strength and have a great appetite.
You must know that the higher the strength of the ancient clan, the greater the appetite.
Although the hunting team had brought back some prey and the guards had caught some small animals, the food in the village was still not enough for so many people to consume.
Tong Zhenye glanced at Ren Baqian, he didn't need to remind him, Tong Zhenye knew the conditions of these villages in the mountains better than he did.
After that, everyone waited while eating, and there was always such a large circle of people in the middle of the village, but they changed from standing to sitting on the ground.
Those mountain people were watching from a distance not far away.
In the process of decocting salt, from time to time, a filter bag made of coarse cloth should be deep into the water to remove the condensed impurities. It has been boiled for four hours before stopping adding water to it. A layer of white crystals began to emerge from the walls.
"Is this the made salt?" Tong Zhenye, who had been watching for four hours in a row, was shocked, not only him, but also everyone else.
You must know that even though there are so few people at this time, there are only two pots, but what they can do is to affect tens of millions of people in Dayao.
"It's still a bit worse." Ren Baqian said, and after a while, when the water evaporated, someone scooped out all the white crystals in the pot, put them on a dense bamboo sieve, shook them, and then poured water down.
Most of the salt did not dissolve with the watering, and the remaining impurities in the salt were almost all dissolved in the water and flowed down.
"It's ready now?" Tong Zhenye looked at the layer of white crystals left on the bamboo sieve, his eyes lit up, as if he wanted to pounce on it and lick it.
Ren Baqian dipped a little bit into his mouth with his finger, then nodded: "Just dry these."
Without further ado, Tong Zhenye dipped his finger in the salt and put it into the water, and then he burst out laughing with ecstasy: "Finally, I, Dayao, don't have to suffer from the salt."
Not only him, but even the students cheered.
Dayao suffered from a lack of salt for decades, and it was because of the poisoning of salt that he was beaten down from the mountains and wiped out the entire country of Hao. But even so, Dayao still has no salt. For so many years, both the people at the bottom of the mountain and those on the mountain have suffered from the lack of salt.
Over the years, salt has long been one of the most important resources in Dayao people's hearts.
It is difficult for outsiders to understand the importance and desire of Dayao people for salt.
Although he didn't do anything other than fishing this time, he witnessed the production of salt from these brines with his own eyes, and he could understand the significance of this to Dayao.
It's like a poor person suddenly discovers a golden mountain.
Moreover, Ren Baqian is the head of the school, the more powerful Ren Baqian is, the more it proves that their choice is not wrong, and it means that they can learn more.
Those mountain people saw the people in the middle of the village cheering like crazy, and they also started commotion, because they heard what Tong Zhenye said just now.
But they still have doubts in their hearts, can this salt be eaten
You must know that the water in the black pool can poison people to death.
Seeing them cheering there, Ren Baqian also showed some smiles on his face. Anyway, I've done one more thing.
But it didn't take long for him to laugh, and he couldn't laugh anymore. Shi Gan and Du Laoliu grabbed his hands and feet and threw him up.
Ren Baqian's eyes widened, you are happy, you throw people to celebrate, I can understand, but who has seen people throw people as high as four or five floors
Ren Baqian felt as if he had been thrown into a height of more than ten meters, as if he was on an earthen plane, and let out a series of screams:
"My god, I'm afraid of heights!"
"Whoever throws me again, I will shoot him dead!"
A long and long sound resounded throughout the village.