Chapter 26 Filtration and Salt Making (Merry Christmas)
Only after the night, and before it was even a night, Wang Qian's emotionless voice sounded outside the door.
Under Lao Zhong's service, he put on his clothes and even had time to eat Feng Zhidai's horse face, and appeared in front of him.
"I said Lizi, can you hurry up? I've been waiting for you for almost half an hour. My father said that we must make the finished salt today, otherwise we will deal with me!"
"Don't you clean up your business?" Zhang Yiyi held the willow branch while holding the snow-white salt and didn't pay any attention to the gaze of Wang Qian, who was so distressed by him, brushed his teeth. After brushing his teeth, he cleaned his mouth with clean water before he arrived: "Aren't that just making some salt? Isn't it so bad! Wait for me to have some food first!"
Wang Qian's face immediately turned dark, and his big fists were rising blue veins. He was already trying his best to suppress his emotions. If Feng Ang hadn't told him that he really had the urge to pull away the lazy guy in front of him! It was already half a day, and the sun was almost coming out in front of him, and he was still rubbing. Don't this kid know how much salt he could boil out early?
I slowly drank a bowl of porridge, but I didn't touch the meal. The big dumplings of cooked vegetables sprinkled with a few pieces of salt, which made me feel disgusting. Compared to the kimchi I made in Haifeng, I was simply in the sky and underground.
When the pedestrians came to the beach, there were already a large group of soldiers sitting in groups waiting.
"Second Young Master, Wang Xiaowei..."
The veterans stood up and saluted everyone respectfully, and then waited for the order.
After looking at the big pot and piles of items listed next to him, Zhang Yi nodded. Without a discount on the wire, the large jar was definitely big enough that Sima Guang could not smash even if he picked up a stone. There were also linen cloths, and about ten pieces were neatly placed beside him. Even the wood in the jar was cut cypress, which shows that both Feng Ang and Wang Qian attach importance to this matter.
"I'm optimistic about the process. I'll only do it all and you will do it." Zhang Yi greeted two relatively strong veterans to start. He first hung the big jar on a cypress stand and then told them to make a small hole in the low jar.
"Why are you making a hole in the jar?" Feng Zhidai was very disdainful when he saw Zhang Yi's behavior of making a fortune. Although he didn't stop him, he still muttered.
"Do you understand filtration? It means filtering out the impurities in the sea water!..."
He talked endlessly and saw the people in front of him with confused expressions. Zhang Yi felt that his words were vain. He now felt that the people could be used to do so, but not to know them! How correct is this sentence, because it is really difficult to explain to them.
When you tell them that the holes in the bottom of the tank are so that the sea water can flow out from there, they will ask you why you don’t scoop the sea water directly into the iron pot... Zhang Yi was puzzled. If he could scoop the sea water directly into the pot and cook salt, he would still teach him?
Ignoring these uneducated guys, seeing the veteran opening a small hole of eggs under the jar as he asked, he laid the linen cloth three layers inside and three layers inside and outside, and then poured the cleaned pebbles into most of the jar and started laying the linen cloth. In the end, there was only a little space on the top of the jar and left for pouring water into it later.
"Let me use a stone to build a stone staircase suitable for you to pour water. You will add water to the stone staircase later!" Zhang Yi gestured and greeted the rest of the people to build up a few such large tanks next to him according to his actions.
There are many impurities in seawater, and just preliminary filtration cannot meet the requirements of being able to eat directly. What he needs to do now is to filter it several times to achieve the best filtration effect under limited conditions.
After just making a sample, Zhang Yi was so tired. It was indeed not the material for physical work. Seeing that the veterans were busy with energy, Zhang Yi felt that he should repair his body well in the next day. If this continues according to the current situation, he probably won’t be long before he becomes a waste meat.
In less than half an hour, five-mouthed large jars were laid up, and all of them were covered with stones and linens according to Zhang Yi's template.
"Can it work?" Feng Zhidi watched the veteran's door pouring sea water into the tank and then took the bucket and walked towards another tank. After repeated several times, he felt more and more unsure.
In his opinion, this is not salt making at all, but a child playing house. If it weren't for the snowflake salt taken out by Zhang Yi earlier, he would probably not be a question but a certainty.
Not only him, Wang Qian, and even the veterans who work, think it is unreliable. They can make snow-white salt by carrying sea water?
"What do you think?" Zhang Yi smiled at Feng Zhidai, then squatted down and lit the firewood under the iron pot, and said, "Some things you look simple, but in fact there are a lot of knowledge. With your current wisdom, you can't understand this point. For example, the filtering I just told you just now, you don't know what the purpose of doing this is!
For them, I just need to tell them how to do it, but you must know that the reason why I filter the sea water repeatedly is actually to remove what we don’t need. In the end, what I keep is sea water containing a lot of salt, and after steaming, you can get the salt we need!
Of course, even our repeated filtering is actually only edible. It will take a long way to go before it becomes the purest salt!”
Feng Zhidi cannot explain too much. If he explains too much, he needs to add chemistry knowledge. In this way, the little knowledge he has mastered will not only not help him, but it is very likely that he will get into a stubborn and will not be able to protect himself from now on and become a fool.
As for Wang Qian, it was much simpler. Since Zhang Yi dared to do this, he was definitely 100% sure. In addition to staring at Zhang Yi's every process without blinking, he even assigned the team members to watch. If there was a guy who had been brave enough to peek beside him, I believe that Changdao in the hands of those veterans would definitely cut off those people's heads without hesitation.
The sea water gradually turned from grayish white to colorless under constant filtration, and then it was poured into the iron pot. Seeing the solution swelling and bubbling in the pot, Zhang Yi finally had time to rest. All he had to do now was wait. After the moisture was completely steamed, something that surprised everyone would be exposed.
Chapter completed!